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D200 creates new equity director position Officials say new post will give equity policy ‘teeth’ By MICHAEL ROMAIN Staff Reporter
During a regular meeting on Feb. 28, the Oak Park and River Forest High School Board of Education took a major step in its years-long effort to close the equity gap at the high school by unanimously approving creation of an executive director of equity and student success. The new position — high on the list of priorities for many education advocates in Oak Park — would be implemented during the 2019-20 school year, said Supt. Joylynn Pruitt-Adams. The superintendent said putting the position up for approval now is so it can be staffed in time for the implementation of the racial equity policy that the district is currently drafting. Pruitt-Adams said the position will not come at an additional cost to taxpayers. “In support of our strategic vision of becoming an ever-improving model of equity and excellence that will enable all students to achieve their full potential, we need an administrative position responsible for ensuring that all of the work throughout the district supports our commitment to racial equity,” PruittAdams said in a Feb. 28 memo, adding that See EQUITY DIRECTOR on page 15
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Jazz Thaw packed patrons into Little Gem Cafe and 10 other venues in Downtown Oak Park, March 2, for the annual jazz crawl event. The New Deal Gypsy Jazz Band plays a set for listeners and diners alike.
Pete’s could re-use auto building remnant Oak Park board directs developer to meet with preservationists
By TIMOTHY INKLEBARGER Staff Reporter
It might still get razed and shipped off to a landfill like everyday garbage, but the historic Foley-Rice car dealership building, slated for demolition on Madison Street,
got a second chance this week from the Oak Park Board of Trustees. The announcement from the board follows a unanimous vote by Oak Park’s citizen-led Historic Preservation Committee to recommend the board of trustees designate the building at 644 Madison St. a historic
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landmark. The building, which has been vacant for more than a decade, was designed by E.E. and Elmer Roberts and built in 1925 as a showroom for Hill Motor Sales Company, See PETE’S on page 16
Tuesday, March 12, 4 - 7 pm Julian Middle School Cafeteria Parents, find the perfect fit for your child at our Enrichment & Camp Fair! A FREE event!
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Oak Park native Lennon at Lake You might remember Thomas Lennon as Lt. Jim Dangle from the hit Comedy Central TV show “Reno 911!” or as Felix Unger from the CBS reboot of “The Odd Couple.” Now you can remember him as that guy you saw at Classic Cinemas Lake Theatre, 1022 Lake St., on Monday March 11, at 7:30 p.m. Lennon will discuss growing up in Oak Park and his time in Lala Land at the forum “From Harlem Avenue to Hollywood Boulevard: An Evening with Thomas Lennon.” The event will include clips from the actor’s career and an interview with Wednesday Journal’s very own theater critic Doug Deuchler. Lennon is currently promoting his middle-grade fantasy book titled “Ronan Boyle and the Bridge of Riddles,” which explores the life of a 14 year old who joins the police force and investigates crimes by “leprechauns and other wee folk.”
Thomas Lennon The event is sponsored by the Historical Society of Oak Park and River Forest. More information is available at www.oprfmuseum.org.
Timothy Inklebarger
4 Fenwick seniors Nat’l Merit semifinalists
Four seniors at Fenwick High School in Oak Park have qualified as semifinalists in this year’s National Merit Scholarship competition. The seniors scored among the top 1 percent of the roughly 1.5 million students who took the PSAT/NMSQT exams last year. About half of the 16,000 Merit semi-finalists will win scholarships. The four semifinalists from Fenwick, with their grade schools and cities of residence, are (in alphabetical order): ■ Avyn Alairys (Oak Park, Glen Westlake Middle School) ■ Michael Dillon (La Grange Park, St. Francis Xavier School) ■ Nathan Fisher (La Grange, St. Francis Xavier School) ■ Spencer Gallagher (Elmhurst, Visitation Grade School) The semifinalists will compete for roughly 7,500 National Merit Scholarships worth more than $31
million. Winners will be announced between April and July. “A semifinalist must have an outstanding academic record throughout high school, be endorsed and recommended by a high school official, write an essay and earn SAT scores that confirm the student’s earlier performance on the qualifying test,” according to a statement released
by Fenwick officials.
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Carnivore burgers get top honors
Chicago Tribune reporter, Nick Kindelsperger, tried more than 70 burgers in Chicago in search of the very best the city has to offer. The list, publish February 26th, features 25 noteworthy burgers; the coveted top slot went to the raclette smothered burger at Table, Donkey and Stick and
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The William Kurk Trio performs live music for attendees on March 2, during the Jazz Thaw at Bar Louie in downtown Oak Park. Jazz Thaw offered live music at 11 Downtown Oak Park restaurants. the much-lauded single cheeseburger from Au Cheval showed up at number 15, but Oak Park’s very own Carnivore, 1042 Pleasant St., managed to snag a spot on the city dominated list. Carnivore’s bacon burger came in at number 20 on Kindlesperger’s list. Carnivore, an artisan butcher shop, offers local, responsibly sourced, organic meats and fish as well as ready-to-eat items like house-smoked salmon, fishcakes, duck confit and scratch made terrines. They also offer a small and thoughtful lunch menu where folks in the know can get their hands on their top notch bacon burger. Carnivore butchers serve up a half-pound beef and bacon patty (yep, the bacon is in the burger) on a golden challah bun topped off with lettuce, tomato, onion, pickle, and mustard sauce for $13. Patrons can cheese it up for an additional $0.75. In addition to earning burger accolades this week, Carnivore was named among the 30 best suburban restaurants in the March issue of Chicago Magazine.
Melissa Elsmo
Correction In our Feb. 27 issue, we mistakenly named the number of open River Forest District 90 school board seats and the winner of an honorable mention in an environmental film contest. Four seats are
Welch to hold hearing on Westlake closing
Area lawmakers recently announced that they plan on delving deeper into the pending closure of Westlake Hospital, 1225 W. Lake St. in Melrose Park, during a formal hearing on the matter to be held this week. In a statement released March 4, state Rep. Emanuel “Chris” Welch (D-7th), who represents River Forest, and state Rep. Kathleen Willis (77th), along with members of the House Appropriations Human Services Committee, announced that they plan on holding the hearing to “examine the community impact of the potential closure.” The hearing is scheduled to take place Friday, March 8, 10 a.m., in room C-600 of the Bilandic Building, 160 N. LaSalle St. in Chicago.
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open on the D90 school board in the April election. Three are for four-year terms, and one is for a two-year vacancy. Lily Kleps, a third-grader at Lincoln Elementary School in River Forest, received an honorable mention for her film “What a Waste!” in the One Earth Film Festival.
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Trustee Benefit Concert: Under the Streetlamp Saturday, March 9, 5 p.m., Lund Auditorium, Dominican University: Hear hits from the American Radio Songbook including popular Motown and favorite rock & roll tunes performed by a group of high-energy crooners founded by leading cast members of Jersey Boys. $48, concert only; $350, concert and gala reception dinner. Proceeds benefit student scholarships. Tickets: events.dom.edu, 708-488-5000. Questions: 708-5246284. 7900 Division St., River Forest.
Public Art in Chicago Monday, March 11, 1:15 p.m., Nineteenth Century Club: Chicago is home to one of the largest public art collections in the country. Meet Ed McDevitt, executive director of Public Art Chicago, and learn how his organization is raising awareness of Chicago’s public art beyond the city. $15, requested donation. More: nineteenthcentury.org. 178 Forest Ave., Oak Park.
Compost Happens Wednesday, March 13, 1 p.m., Cheney Mansion: Join the Oak Park-River Forest Garden Club and Master Gardener Jackie Paine to explore the topic of compost. Social time and business meeting at noon. Free. More: gcoprf.org. 220 N. Euclid, Oak Park.
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BIG WEEK Wednesday, March 13, 6:30 p.m., Wire: Cheer on the top five finalists as they vie for $50,000 and pitch their Big Ideas to make the community a better place. Includes food and open bar. Doors open 5:30 p.m. Powered by the Entrepreneur Leaders in Philanthropy, a giving group of the OP-RF Community Foundation. $75. Tickets: tinyurl.com/BigIdea2019 or at the door. 6815 Roosevelt Rd., Berwyn.
Saturday, March 9, 2 to 4 p.m., Veterans Room, Main Library: Travel back in time as local actor Roberta Randall reflects on Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis’ troubled childhood, her time as a socialite and her marriages to John F. Kennedy and Aristotle Onassis. 834 Lake St., Oak Park.
From Harlem Avenue to Hollywood Boulevard
Saturday, March 9, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Oak Park Arts District: Support woman-owned businesses from art studios to vintage clothing stores to food establishments and more. Look for the yellow balloons/decorations and check out specials for the event. Info: facebook.com/ events/524338701386787/. On Harrison St. between Austin and Ridgeland.
Saturday, March 9, 1 to 3 p.m., Gwendolyn Brooks Middle School: See Special Olympics athletes join Oak Park police and firefighters on the basketball court to benefit charity. Also featuring carnival games, food, raffles and costumes. Doors open at 1 p.m.; game at 2 p.m. $5; $20, family. 325 S. Kenilworth Ave., Oak Park.
How To (Lovingly) Draw the Line: Boundaries in Family Relationships Sunday, March 10, 1:30 to 3 p.m., Small Meeting Room, Main Library: Knowing how and when to say “no” can be an important skill to foster strength, respect and mutuality in the closest relationships. Certified Life Coach Susan Borgstrom, a counselor for 20+ years, specializes in coaching on boundaries and positive psychology. Free. Brought by National Alliance for Mental Illness. Register: eventbrite.com/o/national-alliancefor-mental-illness-metro-suburban-affiliate-3180311428. 834 Lake St., Oak Park.
Big Idea Finalist Pitch Party
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Monday, March 11, 7:30 p.m., Lake Theatre: See 1988 OPRF grad Thomas Lennon, creator of Reno 911!, the new “Felix Unger” for the re-boot of The Odd Couple, co-writer of A Night at the Museum franchise and film actor. Following clips from Lennon’s career, Oak Park film/ theater critic Doug Deuchler will interview Lennon, about his TV and movie career and his early debuts on OPRF High School’s and local theater stages. Audience Q&A follows. Lennon will be signing his new book, Ronan Boyle and the Bridge of Riddles, a middle-grade adventure fantasy series, afterwards in the lobby. Books available for purchase. Presented by The Historical Society of Oak Park and River Forest. $25; $20, Historical Society members; $5, students. Proceeds benefit the Oak Park River Forest Museum. 1022 Lake St., Oak Park.
Irish Heritage Singers Sunday, March 10, 2 to 3 p.m., River Forest Library: Gear up for St. Patrick’s Day with the resident choir of the Irish American Heritage Center. Featuring pub favorites, folk songs, the poetry of Yeats, Gaelic revival works, U2 and more. Free. Brought in partnership with River Forest Township.
Education, Enrichment & Camp Fair Tuesday, March 12, 4 to 7 p.m., Percy Julian Middle School: Parents, meet representatives from area day camps, overnight camps, enrichment programs and educational organizations to learn more about programs and activities for your children this summer. Fun, games and activities for the kids. Brought by Wednesday Journal. 416 S. Ridgeland Ave., Oak Park.
21st Century Chorale: In Flight Wednesday, March 6, 7 p.m., Cliff Dwellers, and Sunday, March 10, 4 p.m., Columbus Park Refectory: First, hear an in-depth discussion with Artistic Director Martha Swisher. Performance features Holst’s Hymns from the Sanskrit Rig-Veda, Uusberg’s minimalist chants, the melodies of Gjeilo, Chen and more. Reception Follows. $15 - $40. Tickets/more: 21stcenturychorale.org/concertsevents. 200 S. Michigan Ave. and 5701 W. Jackson Blvd., Chicago.
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Going ‘All In’ for the planet, with urgency By MICHELLE DYBAL
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ilms exploring forest connectivity, geo-therapy, human impact, teenage environmental inventors and more are showing at locations across Chicagoland with the theme “All In.” Going “All In” for the planet may seem like a lofty goal, but One Earth Film Festival (OEFF) organizers say it’s a necessity. “‘All In’ says everyone anywhere can step up in the biggest and boldest ways possible to make a real difference in combating climate change, which we know is real and happening,” said Ana Garcia Doyle, One Earth Film Festival founding member and festival director. The film festival, which began in 2012 as a grassroots effort by Garcia Doyle and a handful of others in the Oak Park and River Forest area, has blossomed since 500 attendees viewed films at local venues. According to Cassandra West, festival publicist and core team member, a projected 6,000 attendees will view 28 films at 60 venues this year. In its early years, OEFF had showings in Oak Park, River Forest and the Austin neighborhood of Chicago. Now films are shown as far away as Aurora to the west, Grayslake to the north and Oak Lawn to the south, along with numerous Chicago-area neighborhoods. “Environmental challenges affect everyone,” West said.
“Every year we have broadened our reach as more people outside of our home base have actually approached us about bringing the festival to where they are.” The festival also works to reach new audiences. The intended audience for Inventing Tomorrow is teens and tweens, for example. It is showing Saturday at Thatcher Woods Pavilion. “Certainly, young audiences are important for us to reach,” West explained. “And we try to take the festival where resources are limited but environmental issues are real. This year, the festival has 14 screenings on Chicago’s South Side.” OEFF includes more than just movies. Many screenings are full-blown events. During Saturday’s showing of The Human Element at the Lake Theatre, film producer Olivia Ahnemann will appear in a live video Q&A with the audience after the film. Going “All In” also includes taking action: Some screenings include Action Fairs or other learning experiences for film-goers to implement afterwards. Dirt Rich, being shown at Triton College on Saturday, includes a Q&A “to learn about concrete action opportunities” with Katherine Moore Powell of the Field Museum. Also on hand will be the Deep Roots Project, Triton College Sustainability Center, Midwest Grows Green/Integrated Pest Management, West Cook Wild
Ones, and the Chicago Community Gardening Association for attendees “to engage with action and project ideas.” A family-friendly film, Call of the Forest: The Forgotten Wisdom of Trees, showing Sunday at Thatcher Woods Pavilion, includes an optional 30-minute forest walk prior to the film. While films can be viewed as entertainment or as art, in 2016, an impact assessment was conducted to see what affect OEFF was having. According to the report, “A primary mission of the One Earth Film Festival is to inspire the adoption of solution-oriented sustainable actions. … It found that OEFF was fulfilling this mission.” The report concluded that 97 percent of respondents, who had attended the OEFF and completed a survey, shared their experience in the six months following the festival, including more than half (52 percent) talking with a friend, family member or coworker about a film or idea from a festival film. The report also found that the festival inspired action. While 45 percent said attending reinforced sustainable practices they already had, 19 percent adopted new practices and 32 percent said they did both. Others said they took specific actions after attending the festival, including nearly half making more sustainable choices in their everyday lives, such as riding bikes instead of driving, conserving water or composting. See “Inventing Tomorrow,” Saturday, March 9, 4 to 6 p.m., free, Thatcher Woods Pavilion; “The Human Element,” Saturday, March 9, 10 a.m. to noon, $8, Lake Theatre, 1022 Lake St., Oak Park; “Dirt Rich,” Saturday, March 9, 2 to 4:30 p.m., free, R Building, Performing Arts Center, Triton College, 2000 Fifth Ave., River Grove; “Call of the Forest,” Sunday, March 10, 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., forest walk 9:30 a.m., free, Thatcher Woods Pavilion, 8030 Chicago Ave., River Forest. Tickets/ memberships/more films and events: oneearthfilmfest.org.
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Fostering, containing student protests
t is a fine line being walked this winter at OPRF High School as the school’s leaders acknowledge and proclaim the historic truth of systemic racism in this institution. Supt. Joylynn Pruitt-Adams and Jackie Moore, president of the school board, have given voice and urgency to multiple efforts to address racial equity and acknowledge the continuing impact of white privilege at our public high school. One key effort has been not only allowing but fostering student protest over baked-in inequity, over day-to-day diminishment of students of color in subtle and not subtle ways. Both Moore and Pruitt-Adams have directly engaged with students, many of them young women of color, listening to their frustration and upset, actively mentoring them in finding the most effective ways to express their reality and to make demands on a still reluctant system. And this has worked. You can see it in the founding of student efforts such as SAFE (Students Advocating for Equity) and BLU (Black Leaders Union). You can see it in the student-driven effort to create the curriculum for a new fall course on equity. A couple of months back, you could see it when Pruitt-Adams basically invited a group of protesting students to take over the stage at a well-attended forum following the America to Me series. When Moore stood in solidarity with those students on that stage. This past week, though, has brought new protests — a walkout and now a sit-in — also driven by OPRF students of color. The impetus for the Feb. 28 walkout was marking the seventh anniversary of the murder of Trayvon Martin in Florida and more generally police violence against minorities across America. The walkout, which numbered hundreds of OPRF students and added many more Percy Julian Middle School students on a march toward Oak Park’s village hall and police station, was intended by student organizers to be a surprise. In
a social media age it is tough to keep a secret, and school officials worked with police to assure safe passage for the march down Lake Street and Ridgeland Avenue. The protests continued this week after the superintendent suspended two OPRF staffers — teacher and activist Anthony Clark and administrative assistant Shoneice Reynolds — for allegedly working with protest leaders to secretly plan the initial walkout. The school says it is investigating the actions of Clark and Reynolds. Students believe the school is punishing the pair and demands their reinstatement. The timing got more complicated as the school board had set a “townhall meeting” for March 7 to talk with residents about racial equity and school safety. That has now been postponed. Pruitt-Adams, meanwhile, has had multiple conversations and meetings with Antoine Ford, the lead student organizer, attempting to focus on the message of the protest and effective methods of having impact. So far, those efforts have not taken. The superintendent, the board president, the special ed teacher/activist, the administrative assistant likely share some close version of the same goal: battle for equity while empowering students to play a key role. But they have different approaches and styles. Pruitt-Adams and Moore work one-on-one with students, guiding, advising. Clark, at core, is a community activist using political means and a strong social media following to stir action. He’s also on the payroll at OPRF and has to be bound by realistic expectations and limits on his interactions with students. Clark has teetered on this tightrope before. This is the fine line. It is critical that our young people give voice to their pain, that they take effective action. It is a positive that top school leaders support these students. But this week we are finding out that steering protest from the top won’t always work. And steering it from the faculty and staff level is problematic.
DAN HALEY
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Hearing planned for historic home demo in River Forest By NONA TEPPER Staff Reporter
A couple have applied to demolish a historic yet dilapidated home in River Forest. If approved, demolition of 1123 Franklin Ave. would represent the end for a third significant property in the village. “It gives a character and a substance to the village that is special and is uncommon,” Dave Franek, chairman of the Historic Preservation Committee, said of the village’s historic homes. “We are trying to maintain as much as possible of this small group of homes that do provide this atmosphere and add to the quality of life here in our community.” Last August, Mark and Sara Wienkes bought the home on Franklin from Old National Second Bank. Mark Wienkes did not respond to an interview request. When they bought the home, it showed “serious signs of loss of structural integrity,” according to an application submitted to the village. The application states that gutters clogged and water overflowed into the house’s foundation and basement. It said the home is without several windows, which allowed small animals and unlawful human inhabitants to enter. The roof — a grand slate fixture typical of the architect’s style — is “visibly sagging.”
The reason for this disrepair, the application states, is the property’s previous owner. In 2006, Dario Cioti, a property developer from River Forest, paid $2.85 million for the single-family Tudor home, which was designed in 1925 by the Buurma Brothers, two men from Holland who settled in Oak Park and built a number of homes in the area. “What they were known for was meticulous craftsmanship,” Franek said. The application states that the home has been vacant since January 2006 when Cioti “took possession and began demolition for a proposed remodel.” Cioti’s renovation left the home without several interior walls, finishes, and mechanical systems, the application said. His company went out of business in 2008 without finishing the work. In July 2014, George Chiarelli, of Alsip, bought the home for $500,000. The village issued Chiarelli more than $30,000 in fines for neglect and code violations. Six months later, a lien was placed on the home. The property was transferred to a bank, and “owning real estate is not a bank’s primary business,” Franek said. “When that happens, then there’s deferred maintenance,” he said. “[Banks are] not set up for maintenance; they don’t have the expertise. They get their fees for originating, processing and collecting loans, not through maintaining properties.”
After years of neglect, the Wienkes bought the home in August 2018, with plans to demolish it and build a smaller house on the property, Franek said. If approved, this would be the first Buurma Brothers home in Franek’s more than decade long memory to be demolished. When the Wienkes approached the Historical Preservation Commission about demolishing the home, Franek said members of the commission asked to tour the property so they could see for themselves its condition. Commission members confirmed that they would be covered under the village’s liability insurance if something were to go wrong. The Wienkes declined the offer. “That kind of leaves a gap in our understanding,” Franek said, calling the move “disappointing.” He said he is unsure what move the commission will make at the public hearing at 7 p.m. on March 14 at Concordia University Chicago. At the meeting, the commission could either vote to issue a certificate of appropriateness for demolition or postpone the vote until a later date. The Wienkes will also discuss their plan for the home. Franek said he was “sure” there will be public comment. “If a bank or a finance company had deferred maintenance over a period of time, I can fully understand neighbors’ desire to get that remedied so it’s in keeping with
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BUURMA BROS: Owners want to demolish Buurma Brothers home to build a smaller house. maintenance of the rest of the neighborhood,” he said. “At the same point in time, the best option may not be demolition but to restore it.” Franek said this is the third historic home in the village that could be demolished. In September 2015, a developer tore down the nearly 100-year-old Mars Mansion. In May 2018, a house at 747 William St. was razed. “This property has existed almost 100 years,” Franek said of 1123 Franklin. “It’s very distinctive; it’s a grand property. So when it’s taken down, it will leave a gap in the neighborhood.” CONTACT: ntepper@wjinc.com
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Bringing your dog to public places isn’t much different. When you see a family enjoying a meal at a sidewalk cafe with a dog that’s been relaxing quietly under the table the entire meal, you’re no doubt looking at parents and dog owners who’ve taught everyone in their household how to act when in public. Part of being a responsible dog owner is knowing that your dog has to Still, even if you do everything right, there’s a chance that your dog behave in public and making sure you put in the work to make it happen. may not always want to play well with others. You’ll need to respect their hesitation if they don’t want to play with the kids who live next door or the Behavior begins at home If you adopt a dog who has been through some rough times, you may dogs across the street. In some cases, your dog may not want to share his time with others. If he heads to his crate for a little me-time after spending notice some anxious behaviors, but for the most part, young dogs are 30 minutes getting his ears crushed by your nephew, give him his space. a blank canvas. Their fear of loud noises, people and individual objects may be natural at first, but that apprehension usually becomes learned behavior if it’s reinforced by the dog’s owners.
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Here are a few ways to establish a stable, walking demeanor that your dog will continue to use as she gets older. • Put your dog on a leash: The sidewalk on your block or the path through the park aren’t the places for a free-walking dog. You’re just asking for conflicts with neighbors or other dog owners since you don’t know when your dog is going to take off running after a squirrel or encounter a dog who isn’t as friendly as the owner claims. • Take a pass on the extendable leash: They might seem like they give your dog more room to roam, but really, they take away your control. You can’t pull back on a 20-foot leash if something happens. A nine-foot leash is best because you can control your dog while he or she still feels independent. • Teach your dog to heel: Your dog should walk alongside you with his shoulders at your legs. Try it out in your yard and up and down your block. It may seem obvious but it’s a trained behavior and it will pay off for years. • Trust your dog’s instincts: Watch her behavior around other people and other dogs and react to any outward signs of annoyance or aggression.
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are more dogs—and people—you’re missing out on the opportunity to train her to handle future public encounters. A take-charge approach can Jill Showalter owns Yuppie Puppy and Doggie Day Play in Oak Park. She ensure that those first walks help teach your dog if you establish patterns has personally tended to more than 100,000 dogs since 2007 and has and make your dog comfortable. But comfort doesn’t mean your dog shared stories and advice with numerous dog owners.
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OPRF students protest suspension of 2 employees
Students stage sit-ins to protest repercussions for Clark, Reynolds By MICHAEL ROMAIN Staff Reporter
Another protest demonstration erupted at Oak Park and River Forest High School on March 4 — the third demonstration in roughly a week. This time, students and community members spoke out against the reported suspension of two popular OPRF employees. According to reports that have been circulated by students, OPRF parents, and community members, special education teacher Anthony Clark and Shoneice Reynolds, an administrative assistant at the school, have been placed on administrative leave for their parts in helping students organize a walkout that took place on Feb. 26. When reached for comment on Feb. 4 confirming his suspension, Clark simply offered a quote by Martin Luther King: “The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character — that is the goal of true education.” In a statement sent to OPRF community members on March 3, District 200 Supt. Joylynn Pruitt-Adams explained that district officials were aware “that some students are planning another walkout during the school day tomorrow. We understand that they are frustrated
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CRISIS: District 200 Supt. Joylynn Pruitt-Adams, center, speaks with community leaders and parents on March 4 who stood in support of student activists staging sit-ins at OPRF to protest the suspensions of Clark and Reynolds. nounced that Clark and Reynolds were reinstated “effective immediately.” The students also wanted Pruitt-Adams to sign a document guaranteeing the teachers’ reinstatement. “If she doesn’t sign this, then the sit-in will last longer and escalate,” Ford said. “It’s annoying that when we have good teachers, they try to get rid of them.” Meraz said district officials “are so
quick to suspend our black teachers,” but when white teachers engage in racist acts, “they’re not as quick to suspend them.” Ford and other students have indicated that Clark and Reynolds may have been placed on leave due to their parts in helping to plan the Feb. 28 march that was designed See PROTEST on page 15
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and angry, and we are committed to partnering with them to hear and address their concerns.” Pruitt-Adams added that she and Principal Nate Rouse planned to reach out to students on March 4, asking for a meeting to discuss some of their concerns, but students “should understand, however, that we cannot and will not discuss any specifics related to personnel matters.” Antoine Ford, the student who was the lead organizer of the Feb. 26 walkout, said during an interview around 8 a.m. on Monday that he and some other students were planning to stage a peaceful sit-in starting second period. As he talked, a crowd of roughly 10 community members stood shivering outside of the main entrance in support of the student activists. By the end of the school day, a few dozen students could still be seen on a student leader’s Facebook livestream sitting on the floor of the common area near the school’s main entrance, some confronting Supt. Joylynn Pruitt-Adams in the roughly 11-minute video clip. “Mr. Clark is not just a teacher,” Ford said. “Mr. Clark is a mentor. He comes through for everybody. He does work outside of this building and in the community. For y’all to put him on leave … That’s not right.” Other students said Clark and Reynolds are the only “trusted adults” they believe they have at OPRF. Jocelyn Meraz, a sophomore at OPRF who helped plan Monday’s sit-in, said during an interview that morning that students would not move until the superintendent an-
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Past melts into present at Black History ‘wax museum’
Kindergarteners at Irving portrayed black historical figures By MICHAEL ROMAIN Staff Reporter
Natalia Higgs, 6, sported a gymnastic leotard and wore two medals around her neck on Friday morning at Irving Elementary, 1125 Cuyler Ave. This wasn’t show-and-tell. Higgs was the gold medal-winning gymnast Simone Biles for the day. Higgs and her classmates from teacher Mohogany Williams’ kindergarten class created their own Madame Tussauds-like Living Wax Museum to celebrate the contributions of African Americans to U.S. history during Black History Month. Williams said that she’s been doing the Living Wax Museum for about four years now, but this year was the first time she tried it with kindergarteners. “I thought, ‘What’s the best way for them to do research and learn about awesome contributors to this nation’s history that don’t often get highlighted or celebrated in the way they should,’” Williams said. “So, I thought this would be awesome for them to learn about someone they won’t have the op-
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LIVING BLACK HISTORY: Kindergarten teacher Mohogany Williams speaks with Natalia Higgs, who portrayed gymnast Simone Biles during Irving’s Living Wax Museum. portunity to learn about otherwise.” Williams said she taught students about the important black historical figures and
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“The students either got their first, second or third choices, so that there would be no duplicates and each student is presenting on someone new,” Williams said. Each student sat or stood in front of a presentation board plastered with photos of their historical figure. Barrett Buehrle, dressed in a dark suit and a light tie, was late South African president and civil rights leader Nelson Mandela. Ravyn Monroe, dressed in clothes intended to look like period pieces from the 19th century, was Molly Williams — the first known female firefighter in the country. At times, the historical divide separating the kindergarteners and the people they were portraying melted away. “My name is Ruby Bridges and I’m a civil rights activist,” said Anyla Watson. “I desegregated a school and [now] brown people and white people are friends together.” Glued to the lower left portion of Watson’s presentation board was an article with the headline: “What if Ruby Bridges Just Stayed Home?” When she attended the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans in 1959, Bridges had to be escorted by U.S. Marshals and protected from mobs. Ruby Bridges, like Anyla Watson, was in kindergarten. CONTACT: michael@oakpark.com
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Five finalists for Big Idea grant This year puts philanthropy group’s giving over $200,000 By TIMOTHY INKLEBARGER Staff Reporter
It’s time again for Big Ideas in Oak Park and River Forest. That’s because the Oak Park-River Forest Community Foundation’s Entrepreneur Leaders in Philanthropy is set to award its annual $50,000 Big Idea grant, which goes to organizations working to effect positive change in the community. This year is the fourth annual Big Idea grant, and Entrepreneur Leaders in Philanthropy has already awarded $167,000 for big ideas over the last three years, according to Community Foundation spokesperson Michelle Ptak. The group, made up of local business owners and community leaders, has selected five finalists for this year’s grant and is holding its annual awards ceremony on Wednesday, March 13 at 5:30 p.m. at Wire, 6815 Roosevelt Road, in Berwyn. The finalists include:
It’s Our Future This initiative by Oak Park-based Seven Generations Ahead, which promotes ecologically and environmentally sustainable communities, is designed to equip Oak Park and River Forest High School students with the tools to advocate for reducing climate change. Gary Cuneen, executive director of Seven Generations, said the “It’s Our Future” campaign includes a media workshop series that encourages students to produce radio shows, podcasts and other material to connect with their peers and with decision makers to effect change. The workshops will also connect teens with the global youth movement in other parts of the world working on sustainability issues. “I think it’s important for youth to be involved because they’re the ones who are going to bear the consequences of action or inaction,” Cuneen said. “It really is about their futures. They need to be educated. They need to be able to hold adults accountable on what is going to be a massive failure or a huge success.”
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This innovative daycare program was recently approved by the Oak Park Board of Trustees to open two classrooms at the Oak Park Arms senior living facility, 408 S. Oak Park Ave. The program by Jaime Moran and Pamela Lawrence pairs toddlers, age 3 to 5, with seniors in a mutually beneficial daycare setting that is set to launch later this year. Moran told Wednesday Journal that the program is still building out two classroom spaces at the facility and purchasing furniture and other equipment. “The grant money would be used for furnishing our classrooms, community outreach, starting a scholarship foundation for families who need help with tuition, and advertising [to get] our name out there,” Lawrence said, adding that she came up with the idea while visiting her mother in a nursing home with her young daughter. “When we would leave, they would want to know when we were coming back,” she said. Lawrence noted that such programs are increasingly common in Europe. “Seniors do feel a sense of isolation and depression and loneliness; we wanted to connect the seniors to the children,” she said.
Maram Makerspace Mary Anne Mohanraj has been working for the last couple of years to bring a maker space to Oak Park. The space would provide classes in writing, technology, cooking, crafts and others for students and fledgling entrepreneurs of all ages. Mohanraj has been holding the classes at various locations around Oak Park over the last year or so, and the Big Idea grant would go a long way toward securing a permanent home, she told Wednesday Journal in February. “We’re trying to build a sort of vibrant welcoming space where all members of the community can feel comfortable,” Mohanraj said, adding that it aims to help cultivate young makers and thought leaders to stay in the village, making Oak Park their base of operations.
STEAM Fuel Lab Steve Conner, founder and CEO of Oak
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BIG TIME: Steve and Sheila Conner (above) are finalists in this year’s Big Idea contest for their business STEAM Fuel Lab, which teaches kids science, technology, engineering and math. Excellence with Equity (below) were the winners of last year’s grant of $50,000.
Park-based HEPH Foundation, said his program has been in operation for about five years, working to encourage students to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). STEAM Fuel Lab works with students at OPRF High School and holds workshops and summer camps throughout the community to make STEM topics interesting for students. The curriculum takes an “entertainment approach” to education, Conner said, teaching kids how to fly drones, program electronic skateboards, and develop other technologies that make learning interesting. “It’s very much about teaching entrepreneurialism; many of the new jobs coming around in the next 10 to 20 years don’t even exist yet,” he said. Conner said the grant would help buy more computer workstations and tech kits for students and provide transportation to the workshops.
SHINE This program is an initiative by the Oak Park Education Foundation to provide access to “connect high-need K-8 Oak Park and River Forest students to available scholarship opportunities and ultimately demonstrate higher demand that will inspire more providers to expand scholarship offerings.” “This is getting everyone on the same page and removing barriers for families that qualify for scholarships,” Tracy Dell’Angela Barber, executive director of the education foundation, said in a telephone interview. The funding would be used to hire a part-time scholarship coordinator, who would work with families, manage scholarship applications for various programs and launch a website for users. After full implementation, she said, partners in the program could sustain SHINE through modest subscription fees. tim@oakpark.com
Village OKs Fenwick parking garage
Structure is part of larger master plan for private school By TIMOTHY INKLEBARGER Staff Reporter Image provided by Fenwick High School
NEW CAMPUS: The new garage is part of a larger redevelopment plan at Fenwick.
The Oak Park Board of Trustees unanimously approved a proposal by Fenwick High School to build a five-story, 350-space
parking garage on its campus. The school requested variances from the zoning code for height — the structure will stand 62 feet tall, although existing zoning allows 45 feet — and smaller setbacks from the street. Plan Commission Chairman David Mann said the school is “not cheaping out” but using granite and limestone on the structure to match the building materials with the school. “It’s going to take a lot of cars off the
streets of Oak Park,” he said. The parking structure is part of a larger master plan by Fenwick to reorient the entrance of the school to face Madison Street. The garage is expected to take about a year to build. The village also approved vacating a public alley adjacent to the site of the new structure, which will be used as an entrance to the garage. tim@oakpark.com
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A new home for Infant Welfare Children’s Clinic
Organization buys building near Austin. Will relocate by 2020 By TIMOTHY INKLEBARGER Staff Reporter
The Oak Park-River Forest Infant Welfare Society, a longtime community organization that aims to ensure the health and well-being of underserved children, took a major step toward securing a home of its own, recently purchasing a former U.S. Bank office building at 28 Madison. The 103-year-old nonprofit announced in late February that it has “quietly raised funds to support a building purchase, as we sought to control increasing rent costs, address limited space and pursue key initiatives outlined in our current strategic plan.” Peggy LeFleur, executive director, tells Wednesday Journal the organization has spent roughly the last 20 years at its rented location at 320 Lake St. The new location, a 14,250-square-foot, 2-story brick building, will enable the organization to expand, she said, offering more space for its community meetings and other programming it provides for clients in Oak Park, River Forest, Austin, Cicero and Berwyn.
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NEW HOME: The Infant Welfare Society has purchased the building at 28 Madison St., which will be converted and serve as the organization’s new headquarters She said the organization continues its fundraising efforts to pay for the buildout and development of new programming. They are shooting for a target date of late 2020 to relocate to the new space. “We’re incredibly grateful for the support of generous donors who enabled us to take this step,” she said in a press release. “This is more than a building and future home. It is a strategic asset that will allow us to evolve our vision of unlocking the potential of every child, by creating a Pediatric
Care Center that serves as a fully-integrated medical, dental and behavioral health home and further addresses health disparities through new and innovative programming.” The building, located at the northwest corner of Madison and Humphrey, includes a 38-space attached parking lot and nine metered parking spaces, along with more parking on Madison. Debbie Blanco, president of the nonprofit’s board of directors, said in the press release that the organization is “experiencing
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a resurgence of interest from women and men who want to help ensure that children in our community and surrounding areas are equipped to live happy and healthy lives.” “This building acquisition enables us to contemplate broader programming options leading to more opportunities for member and volunteer involvement. It’s an incredibly exciting time in our existence.” Blanco said. David King, president of David King & Associates, helped the organization find the new location. Oak Park Apartments is overseeing management of the property. LeFleur said the new building, which is about three times the space the organization now occupies, will help facilitate new programming for nutrition services, literacy and other healthcare services. The organization serves about 3,400 kids a year and accommodates about 10,500 visits. Their clients come from Cicero, Berwyn, Melrose Park and Austin, along with Oak Park, River Forest and other nearby communities, LeFleur said. “We’ve had a core of community oriented individuals that helped us buy this building outright,” she said. “It points to the fact that people are interested in our mission. It’s a big step for us.” tim@oakpark.com
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Harris hopes youth will be served in trustee race
Library board member focuses on youth, renters By TIMOTHY INKLEBARGER Staff Reporter
Christian Harris, 28, is the youngest candidate in a crowded race for Oak Park village trustee, but the candidate said his age is one of the things that informs his unique perspective as a decision maker. Despite his age, Harris is no novice to public life. He is a board member of The North Avenue District community group, a board member of the Oak Park River Forest Chamber of Commerce and, since 2017, has served on the Oak Park Library Board. Harris also works with Housing Opportunities and Maintenance for the Elderly, which works to help seniors stay in their homes and find affordable housing when needed. Harris also is an entrepreneur who is co-owner of Maid Pro, a cleaning service he runs with his mother. Harris said he ran for library board because of his desire to make a difference, following the election of President Donald Trump. “My passions are economic equality and educational equality, and the library deals with these issues every day,” he said. Harris, who lives in an apartment on North Avenue, said the current board needs greater diversity and does not adequately represent people of color or young people. The existing board is all white, except for Mayor Anan Abu-Taleb. He is campaigning, in part, on the idea of establishing
a unified referendum schedule, which would help the village’s various taxing bodies better coordinate for expensive referendums and capital projects. It has long been argued that the village, school boards and other taxing bodies inadequately communicate on spending, which results in large tax increases. “In order to slow the rate of tax increases, we must work more cohesively as six taxing bodies and increase our sales tax revenue,” Harris said in a recent survey of candidates. “As I’ve learned since being elected to the library board, all the taxing bodies tend to work in silos.” Harris has paired his campaign with running mates Joshua Klayman and Tim Thomas, all three of whom are endorsed Christian Harris by VOICE Oak Park, a political organization established in 2018. While the candidates are not on an official slate, they are appearing together at press conferences and other political events. Affordable housing is one of Harris’ top priorities, he said, noting that rents and home values in the village have increased in a way that is unsustainable. Harris said he supports the inclusionary zoning ordinance now being con-
sidered by the Oak Park Board of Trustees. He supports allowing developers to contribute fees in lieu of including affordable units in their buildings, but he said that is not ideal. Including affordable units in luxury apartment buildings would help create diverse developments, he said. “We have to start with what are our values,” he said. Harris said he also would focus on fixing parking issues in Oak Park, particularly the high cost of parking for renters. The village should consider implementing a sliding scale for residents who park in village-owned parking lots. Oak Park also should consider expanding on-street parking for renters, Harris said. It was a topic that was considered last year by the Oak Park Board of Trustees, when the Transportation Commission floated the idea of establishing a parking pilot project that would allow more on-street parking for renters. But that idea was quashed by the board after homeowners complained that renters would end up parking in front of their homes. “We need to look at larger parking reform,” Harris said. tim@oakpark.com
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U. of C. prof, VOICE founder runs for trustee
Klayman cut his political teeth fighting Oak Park luxury high-rise By TIMOTHY INKLEBARGER Staff Reporter
Joshua Klayman, 66, emerged as a force in Oak Park politics in 2017, when he became an outspoken advocate against the proposed luxury high-rise at the northwest corner of Lake Street and Forest Avenue. Klayman joined an ad hoc group called Oak Park Coalition for Appropriate Development to oppose the project by Albion Development. He supported candidates who said they would vote against the 18-story apartment building if elected. The group backed trustee candidates Deno Andrews and Dan Moroney over incumbent trustee candidates Glenn Brewer and Peter Barber, the only two African-American trustees on the board at the time. Andrews and Moroney, however, flipped their positions upon getting elected and supported the majority vote approving the tower. Getting involved in the issue “was a real eye opener” for Klayman, who said he realized the problem in village government “wasn’t just about that building … but
[about] openness and transparency and democracy in village government.” Klayman is a semi-retired professor at the University of Chicago, who teaches and researches the field of organizational change and management decision making. He also is a partner in the Oak Park-based management consulting company Humanly Possible Incorporated, which advises companies going through organizational change, Klayman said. The approval of the Albion Tower didn’t stop Klayman from continuing his push for more inclusive government and what he calls more reasonable development downtown. In May of 2018, Klayman and others founded a new community group called VOICE (Voice, Openness, Inclusion, Community, Environment) Oak Park, which has endorsed Klayman and two other trustee candidates – Tim Thomas and Christian Harris. VOICE has an email distribution list of about 100 people and a Facebook following of roughly 300, but the group does not have a formal membership roster, said Klayman, noting that the three candidates are not running as an official slate but are appearing together at election-related events and holding joint press conferences. In midJanuary, the three made a joint appearance at 835 Lake St., where developer Golub & Company intends to build a 28-story luxury apartment building.
At that press conference, Klayman criticized the Oak Park Economic Development Corporation (OPEDC), a quasi-governmental business development entity in partnership with the village to recruit new development to Oak Park, calling the group a “closed-door branch of village government with the village president, the village manager and a trustee on their board.” Oak Park should refocus its economic development efforts and work to diversify its tax base, he said, so less of the tax burden falls to property owners. The village is “banking too much on brickand-mortar retail,” he said, noting that storefronts “are not the wave of the future.” Oak Park should instead lure mediumsized companies to base their headquarters in Oak Park. The village also should work to establish a tech-business incubator. Klayman said he supports limiting the tax levy at or below the Consumer Price Index, which has floated between 1.5 percent and 3 percent for the last couple of years. He would push to establish a new approach to budgeting that would direct Village Manager Cara Pavlicek to bring the board a budget that increases taxes no higher than around 3 percent annually. “You start with a number and say that’s the amount we’re going to spend and, given that, what are our priorities?”
Joshua Klayman Klayman pointed out that the village has as many as “89 community groups” and said he would focus on equity and outreach to residents in marginalized communities to seek their input. “Let’s go out and ask the African-American community, ‘Do you have a different perspective on this?’ Let’s ask the Spanishspeaking community, actively go out and find the perspectives of other people,” he said. tim@oakpark.com
Union organizer sets sights on Oak Park trustee seat
Thomas sees lack of diversity on current board By TIMOTHY INKLEBARGER Staff Reporter
It’s his first run for public office in Oak Park, but Tim Thomas, who faces 10 opponents in the race for Oak Park trustee, is no stranger to politics. Thomas, 41, a global production assistance coordinator for Ford Motor Company, has been involved in the labor movement for nearly two decades, organizing with the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) in the early 2000s. He became political director of the Nursing Home Workers Union SEIU, where he was eventually elected secretary treasurer. Thomas became an organizer with the United Automobile Workers union (UAW) in 2011, when he began work at Ford. There is a lack of diversity on the current board, he said. All of the current members are white, aside from Mayor Anan Abu-Taleb, with no black or LGBTQ representation, and those perspectives are critical. As a black man, a renter and a member of the LGBTQ community, Thomas said he will bring a fresh viewpoint to the board.
“I do believe that would help me represent a constituency that is not often seen or heard,” he said. “I’ve lived those experiences.” Thomas would push to keep the property tax levy flat from previous years to give homeowners relief. He acknowledged that the move could result in cuts and measurable service reductions but called it “a beginning place.” Candidates in the past have given “lip service” to reducing spending but have “done nothing to fix it. We have to think differently,” he said. He would push for lawmakers in Springfield to overturn a law preventing municipalities from approving rent control laws. This would allow local officials to enact an ordinance that would stabilize rental prices. “Our community is not affordable for the everyday working person to stay and be able to survive,” he said, adding that an advisory referendum would show state officials that there is support for such an initiative in Oak Park. On affordable housing, Thomas is not impressed with the inclusionary zoning ordinance currently being discussed by the Oak Park Board of Trustees. “It’s disappointing that it’s taken so long to get there,” he said. “Now, all of a sudden at
the 11th hour right before an election, we’re adamantly moving on affordable housing.” Thomas said he is “cynical about the timing of it” and concerned that the effort to require developers to include affordable units in their buildings, or pay a fee in lieu of units, is not going to “deliver meaningful affordable housing for the people who actually need it.” He is not running on an official slate but has teamed up with two other candidates, Joshua Klayman and Christian Harris, in the race for trustee. There are three open atlarge seats in the election set for April 2. The three are running as candidates endorsed by VOICE Oak Park, a political group that formed in 2018 as an outgrowth of individuals working to oppose the construction luxury high-rise buildings in downtown Oak Park. Thomas said he is not against development in the village, but Oak Park government needs to do better listening to taxpayers. “They missed the mark in listening to what folks really want and need,” he said. He criticized the village’s reliance on the Oak Park Economic Development Corporation, a quasi-governmental entity hired by the village to attract development to Oak Park. OPEDC, which has a board that includes the mayor, one trustee picked by the
Tim Thomas mayor and the village manager, among others, has been criticized for not allowing residents to attend their closed-door meetings on development projects. “They’re not subject to open meetings laws, and I want that to change,” Thomas said. “If they’re not willing to open their meetings and have transparency in their organization, then we don’t need to continue to fund them.” tim@oakpark.com
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Women’s, children’s clothing shoplifted
Two incidents of shoplifting, which took place in the 400 block of North Harlem Avenue just hours apart, resulted in a total estimated loss of $1,370 in women’s and children’s clothing. The first incident took place at 10:20 a.m., when three women entered a retail shop and stole an estimated $700 in women’s jeans and children’s clothing. They exited the shop and left in a silver vehicle that headed westbound on Westgate then northbound on Harlem. A shop in the same block (police did not specify if it was the same store) was the target of a female shoplifter on the same day. The thief made off with an estimated $670 worth of toddlers’ clothing sometime between 5:30 and 6:46 p.m. The police report noted that the offender left eastbound through the parking lot of clothing retailer Old Navy, but did not say if she was in a vehicle or on foot.
EQUITY DIRECTOR A new position from page 1 the equity director will report directly to her and “work collaboratively with the District Cabinet to help implement equitable practices in all phases of our organization.” The measure drew measured praise from the audience of parents and advocates in the room, many of them from a variety of organizations created to advocate for racial equity in Oak Park schools, including the Committee for Equity and Excellence in Education (CEEE); African-American Parents for Purposeful Leadership in Education (APPLE); and the Suburban Unity Alliance. “This is a great day in a journey, for some, of many years,” said Mark Christensen, who said he spoke on behalf of those organizations. “This is not, however, the end of the journey, but another critical and necessary step in the implementation of a racial equity and justice policy to be presented to the board in the next few weeks,” he said. John Duffy, head of CEEE, urged the board to apply the commitments laid out in the Talent Management Plan ap-
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■ Someone stole the license plate from an Oak Park resident’s vehicle parked in the 100 block of Washington Boulevard, sometime between 8 p.m. on Feb. 23 and 10:54 a.m. on Feb. 28. The estimated loss is $26. ■ A Berwyn resident was the victim of theft at a store in the 6200 block of Roosevelt Road at 10:30 a.m. on Feb. 28. The thief took the victim’s black Samsung Galaxy S2 from the victim’s shopping cart. The estimated loss is $180. ■ A business in the 1100 block of Lake Street was the victim of shoplifting at 8:11 a.m. on Feb. 25. The offender used a cutting tool to cut the cable on a security device for a Galaxy Samsung S9 cellphone on display in a store. The offender left the establishment, entered a dark green Pontiac sedan, and departed. The estimated loss is $850.
An Oak Park resident was the victim of battery in the 6900 block of North Avenue at 7 a.m. on Feb. 28. The offender struck the victim on the upper right arm. No additional information was provided.
A 50-year-old man from the 1800 block of South 22nd Avenue, Maywood, was arrested at 6:06 p.m. on Feb. 26 and charged with failure to report an accident with injury from an incident that took place on Nov. 29 in the area of 900 Garfield Street. No additional information was provided. These items, obtained from the Oak Park and River Forest police departments, came from reports, Feb. 25-March 1, and represent a portion of the incidents to which police responded. Anyone named in these reports has only been charged with a crime and cases have not yet been adjudicated. We report the race of a suspect only when a serious crime has been committed, the suspect is still at large, and police have provided us with a detailed physical description of the suspect as they seek the public’s help in making an arrest.
proved last year. The plan is a comprehensive HR strategy designed to recruit, hire and retain more minority teachers at OPRF. Duffy, who read the plan’s commitments to board members, said district officials should “develop a profile of the ideal candidate that is aligned to the district’s vision, culture, and performance evaluation expectations” before starting the recruitment process for the position. He added that the management plan calls for community input in the development of a candidate profile and an interview panel comprising “parents, division head, teachers, staff members, and building and district team members.” Melanie McQueen, president of APPLE, said she researched similar positions in companies and school districts around the country, including Kraft, UPS, and the Washington D.C. school district. McQueen said she found “the commonality of power, zero tolerance for ignorance, and swift action,” adding that OPRF’s equity administrator has to have “power, authority, responsibility, and accountability,” in order to be effective. Telecia Moore, APPLE’s vice president, said she hopes the new equity director is “forthcoming,” “transparent with students,” and can “collaborate
Criminal damage ■ A butterfly chair, which police described as an art object, was damaged in the 700 block of Van Buren, sometime between midnight on Feb. 24 and 3 p.m. on Feb. 27. The estimated damage is $2,500. ■ A projectile was used to damage the hood of a 2014 Toyota RAV4 in the 200 block of South Lombard, sometime between noon on Feb. 26 and noon on Feb. 27. The estimated loss due to damage is $1,400.
and communicate effectively.” Most board members echoed those sentiments. Board member Craig Iseli, channeling McQueen, said he has “reservations with creating positions unless these positions have ‘power, authority and responsibility,’ and that the administrator “has to execute this role.” Board member Fred Arkin said the “devil is in the details” and “crafting a job description is critical,” before pointing out that despite the new position, “equity work won’t be focused on one person — this [will still be] a building- and communitywide effort.” Board member Sara Spivy said, “We’ve been talking about this for years and I think it’s high time” that the position be created, while board member Jennifer Cassell said she hopes “we don’t see this person’s role as solely to do equity work.” When board member Matt Baron asked her about timing, Pruitt-Adams said, “July 1 is when the 12-month position starts.” Board President Jackie Moore said the equity director position will “put teeth” into the racial equity policy that the district is currently drafting and that the board could approve in the coming weeks. CONTACT: michael@oakpark.com
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Ripple effects from page 8 to commemorate the death of Trayvon Martin and other African Americans who have died by police violence. Ford said he got the idea for the march after Julian Principal Todd Fitzgerald did not allow him the opportunity to stage a 3-minute re-enactment of Martin’s shooting death at the middle school where he started a social justice club. During the Feb. 28 demonstration — which involved OPRF students walking out of school at 10 a.m. before meeting up with Julian students and heading to the police station — Fitzgerald explained his decision to Ford and other students. “I didn’t feel comfortable having a reenactment of a young boy being murdered here in our school, in a middle school,” Fitzgerald said. “In sharing that with the social justice club, we then had some conversations over some other options.” In an interview the Sunday before the walkout, Ford said he had originally intended for the walkout demonstration to be kept secret from administration officials and police, adding that he didn’t want the protest against the racism he feels is rampant in the schools and police department to be co-opted by those authorities. Although administration officials have not commented directly on Clark and Reynolds, Supt. Pruitt-Adams told students on Monday that there is an ongoing investigation.
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“No one has been charged with anything,” Pruitt-Adams said in one of the Facebook videos. “It is strictly an investigation.” The superintendent said the administration is “committed to bringing this to a resolution as soon as we possibly can” and that she’ll update students on Wednesday. That investigation is likely designed to explore the extent of Clark’s and Reynolds’ participation in the planning of the walkout, which both employees attended. Ford said on Monday morning that he had no help from either teacher. Meanwhile, some community members created a change.org petition on March 3 demanding that the District 200 school board “immediately reinstate the teacher and staff member who were suspended after Tuesday’s student-led walkout.” The petition chastises the administration’s “response of control, contain and punish,” adding that “teachers and mentors engaged in this profoundly important work should be lifted up, not made into scapegoats for institutions afraid to show true leadership” and that the “suspensions will have a devastating, chilling effect on teachers’ efforts to address racial equity issues and must be resolved immediately.” As of Monday evening, the petition had garnered 139 out of its goal of 200 signatures. The district has postponed a planned town hall on racial equity and school safety originally scheduled for March 7 at 6:30 p.m., in the south cafeteria at OPRF, 201 N. Scoville Ave. CONTACT: michael@oakpark.com
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which originally specialized in Packard model vehicles. It is notable for its terra cotta features and the decorative faces that line the building’s exterior, depicting men driving and/or working on cars. The effort to declare the building historically significant comes just as development company Jupiter Realty begins plans to demolish the structure to make way for a Pete’s Fresh Market grocery store. The board of trustees requested that the developer meet with historic preservation advocates Frank Lipo and Frank Heitzman, who submitted the request for the building to be declared historically significant, and thus preventing its demolition. The board agreed to give Jerry Ong, a principal at Chicago-based Jupiter Realty, and the preservationists about a week to discuss ways the building could be incorporated into the grocery store. The board was originally scheduled to vote on whether to concur with the Historic Preservation Commission’s decision, which is unlikely without consent from the developer. That’s because the village has been working to lure a tenant like Pete’s to the site for years and just signed an agreement with Jupiter last December to build the grocery store, along with a senior living facility on the other side of Madison. The village has committed millions in public funds to the project from the Madi-
used or returned to the various taxing bodies associated with the TIF. Lipo told the board that the Historic Preservation Commission has always considered the building historically significant but deferred on moving to landmark the building in the past because it would be against the owner’s consent. He said the plan to use TIF funds for the Jupiter project is reason enough for heightened scrutiny of the project. Heitzman urged the board to consider saving the building in some way, noting that there are a range of options the developer could choose to reuse the building. Trustees voiced some reluctance to consider saving the building, although they agreed to give preservationists time to figure out a plan for reuse. Trustee Simone Boutet called the building “scary,” noting that the condition of the structure makes it appear like it’s already in “demolition by neglect.” Trustee Deno Andrews said the building should have been declared historic 10 years ago. Sticking Jupiter with a costly adaptive reuse project would amount to “reneging” on the village’s deal with the developer, Andrews said. Jupiter’s Ong said he was willing to try to find a solution but noted that reusing the facade of the building might require dismantling the exterior, removing it, building the new structure and reassembling the facade. He did not give an estimate of how much such a project might cost, but Ong said it would be “fairly expensive.” tim@oakpark.com
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EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING PARENTING TIPS INSIDE
A YEAR-LONG SERIES FOCUSING ON COMMUNICATING OUR PRIORITIES FOR CHILDREN
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Making sense of the world
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uccess in life hinges upon our ability to navigate academic and social situations. From early on in life, this involves a particular set of skills called executive function skills, commonly referred to as the “air traffic controller” abilities of human interaction. Executive function skills help us to make sense of the world around us. They include: the ability to exercise patience; to follow instructions; to retain items in short term memory; resist the temptation to do things that we know are “wrong”; to focus on a task; and to take turns. Children aren’t born with these skills. They need to be taught them. The moment a child finds herself needing to navigate the world around her, we know that she will need executive function skills to succeed. Children who master these skills are more likely to do well. Children who don’t master these skills are more likely to struggle. What, then, could be more important?
CREATIVE FOCUS: Addy Millar uses a double brush to paint on a canvas in a preschool classroom at First United Church Nursery School.
Foundation for life
— John Borrero Executive Director Collaboration for Early Childhood The Collaboration works with parents and teachers in the community to develop their capacity to support children in their development. We also screen children for possible development issues that could prevent children from learning the skills that they need to succeed.
Executive functioning begins in early childhood By LACEY SIKORA
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typical pre-school day might look like a lot of fun and games for the under five set: a teacher leads a small group in Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes; children tell stories and play dress up; a cooking demonstration
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yields a tasty snack. Joan White, director of Oak Park’s First United Preschool for 41 years, says Church Nursery School is a lot of fun, and there are a lot of games involved in the few hours children meet each week, but she points out that all of those common preschool activities are doing a lot to prepare young children for success throughout their
lives by providing a key introduction to age-appropriate executive functioning skills. “People think about kindergarten readiness in terms of counting or alphabet sets, but all sorts of studies show that social-emotional skills, executive functioning skills and gross motor skills are best for children of this age,” says White.
White defines executive functioning as learning to manage self-regulation, which combines social, emotional and intellectual abilities. She points out that science shows these abilities are affected by the frontal lobe, which is not fully developed until people are in their 20s, but critical brain growth in
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No surprise, middle years toughest for executive functioning
By LACEY SIKORA
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he tween and early teen years are universally acknowledged as challenging. With changing bodies, fluid friend groups, multiple extracurricular activities and higher expectations at school, the middle years can be tough to navigate. Add in challenges with executive functioning skills, and you often find a recipe for difficulties at home and school. Kids with an extreme deficit of executive functioning skills might need outside help for treating executive functioning disorder, and other kids might just need some gentle reminders at home. Shawna Seaton-George is a speech language pathologist in private practice who says her work naturally connects with executive functioning skills as language ties in with how kids organize their thoughts and actions. She sees a generational shift in the mastery of executive functioning skills that becomes more pronounced once kids hit the middle school years. “Part of what we’re seeing is that when kids are younger, in the elemen-
tary school age, they don’t have the same responsibilities that they did 25 years ago. They don’t do the same chores around the house and don’t go out and play solo in the neighborhood. There’s not as much back and forth between school and home, and executive functioning skills become confusing territory for everyone: parents, teachers and kids.” When the skills aren’t built into the school day in kindergarten through fifth grade, Seaton-George notes that by the time kids get to middle school, with bigger demands, they might not have the foundational structure in executive functioning to deal with the high demand environment. Mary Beth Hausken, parent and long-time Oak Park Education Foundation volunteer, says she sees an increased need for executive functioning skills just as students near the end of elementary school. “By fourth grade, kids are typically able readers, and expectations start escalating at that point. Homework ramps up; tests and projects begin to require planning. By sixth grade, students are expected to know the executive functioning skills already and expected to be able to stay
STEP IT UP: Dr. Shawna Seaton-George, a speech therapist, says middle school is when a lack of executive functioning skills becomes more apparent in some students. (ALEXA ROGALS/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)
PLANNING A ROBOT: Extracurriculars such as the Vex Robotics program teach students executive functioning skills. (Courtesy of Oak Park Education Foundation) organized. The expectations today are much higher than when we were growing up.” During the middle years, Hausken says that many parents need to be actively involved in helping their kids acquire and sharpen executive functioning skills, which can be a process that takes time. “The secret is, you start off telling your child explicitly what to do and then move them to where they come up with their own solution. Then, move them to the last place of where they do it on their own without a prompt. Over time, your goal is to move the child from a place of dependence to independence.” With her own three children, now grown, Hausken observed that even within the same family, the grasp of executive functioning skills varied widely, and she says that research indicates that ease of mastering executive functioning skills is not tied to intelligence. All children will occasionally need a nudge in the right direction, and it can be difficult for parents to know when to seek help or try a new approach in helping their teen grasp executive functioning skills. Seaton-George em-
phasizes that struggling with executive ample, when you open the fridge and functioning skills is not a deficit; the realize you’re out of something, you skills are something that continue to be can say, “We’re out of these things. developed throughout a lifetime. She Let’s make a list. I can go to the store does say, “If it’s having a significant im- on the way home tomorrow.” pact on your abilHausken, who ity to function, it’s jumpstarted the probably someOPEF’s Vex Robot“Over time, your thing that you ics Program, also need to look at.” says that programs goal is to move the While each like it or other exchild from a place family’s approach tracurriculars can should be tailored play a key role for of dependence to to their unique iskids struggling with independence.” sues, Hausken executive functionidentifies a few ing skills and says key areas that are parents should not — Mary Beth Hausken often a source of take away outside Oak Park Education stress for families activities for chilFoundation volunteer of middle school dren who might children and ofbe struggling at fers tips for famischool. lies struggling with common issues. “Kids with executive functioning disBoth Seaton-George and Hausken order struggle enough. A lot of these advocate modelling appropriate be- kids have talents that may not be used havior for your kids. Seaton-George at school. Part of each day, kids should recommends that clients talk out loud have something that makes them feel about their own experiences. “Mod- successful and happy. Bring balance to elling our adult strategies and talking a child’s day so that part of the day they about them out loud can help. For ex- feel capable and full of happiness.”
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The key to building life skills? Great expectations By MICHAEL ROMAIN Staff Reporter
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n a sense, Hannah Gorin, a nursing major in her senior year at Marquette University in Wisconsin, is back where she was four years ago — on a life-altering deadline. Currently, the 21-year-old spends a lot of her time pouring over the details of applications; this time, however, instead of college, the time-sensitive documents are keys to a career. “I have an application for a nursing job that opens on Friday, so I’m definitely on a timeline right now,” she said during an interview in February. “I’m mostly looking for jobs in pediatric nurse residency programs.” Gorin, a graduate of Oak Park and River Forest High School, said that the executive functioning skills she developed at her alma mater — the ability to initiate tasks, to organize her responsibilities and her time, to plan and prioritize, and to evaluate her progress, among other critical skills — are particularly useful now as she heads into the workforce. Matt Kirkpatrick, the interim assistant principal for student learning at Oak Park and River Forest High School, said that the high school implemented its Academic Learning Program several years ago to provide students “who are capable of course content mastery, but need development” in critical life skills like self-man-
agement, self-awareness and responsible decision-making. “Lessons in all these areas with specific emphasis on how they relate to academic success help students unlock their potential to succeed in their current and future content based courses,” Kirkpatrick said. But for students, like Gorin, who succeed academically and still need to cultivate those executive functioning skills? The incubator comes in many forms — some more basic than others. Gorin said that while she was at OPRF, she kept the habit of writing down all of her assignments in a notebook. She added that being active in extracurricular activities helped her develop the critical skills that she’s putting to work now in her job search. “I was a track-and-field athlete in high school and in college, so that definitely plays a role in my ability to be on top of the things I need to do,” she said. “Sports definitely helped me gain other life skills.” Melanie Weiss, the manager of the OPRFHS Scholarship Foundation, stressed the importance of the foundation’s rigorous application process as a tool for sharpening those executive functioning skills. “It’s important for students to understand that, in life, you have deadlines and obligations,” she said. Weiss said that each year the foundation gives out an average of $100,000 in partial academic scholarships to roughly 60
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students. Gorin was a recipient of the scholarship, along with Jack Devitt, a 2015 graduate of OPRF who received the Patrick Luby Memorial Scholarship — one of roughly four dozen scholarships under the foundation’s umbrella. “As someone who tended to take a more relaxed approach to planning for school work, being forced to be schedule-oriented in order to receive the scholarship I was pursuing was challenging,” Devitt said. “The deadlines were really strict and I knew that I had to be on top of my game if I wanted to be selected.” Weiss said that one requirement for receiving a scholarship serves as a particularly effective tool for sharpening executive functioning skills. “The students who receive scholarships have to write thank you notes,” she said. “It’s important that they know the value of writing thank you notes. It’s kind of a lost art, because it requires a lot of steps. You have to get the paper and envelope, mail it out. It’s not a text. People appreciate the extra effort.” Over the years, something of a consensus has formed among OPRF officials that in order to increase all students’ executive functioning skills — despite income level, race, gender and other factors — they have to be brought into spaces where students have to rise to high expectations and rigorous processes. The work is ongoing. In the meantime, individual students looking to responsibly navigate through high school, college and into careers might take some pointers from Gorin. Her advice? Take advantage of the support systems that exist and make a hobby out of keeping a to-do list and holding yourself to it. “We have a career services center at Marquette that help us with resumes and one of my instructors looked over mine and critiqued it,” she said. “I’d also say write down due dates, because then you can see them and know they’re coming up. But most importantly, make sure that whatever you’re applying yourself to is something you’re passionate about, because that will make it a lot easier for you to want to achieve your goal.”
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Strategies for dealing with Executive Function Disorder:
Disorganized backpack/ losing things
• They should only carry what they absolutely need Clean out backpack every week (preferably before the weekend so there’s no surprises!) Store all completed paperwork in a file drawer or file cube at home • Use Word or a Google doc for as much paperwork as possible (Google doc advantage: can print another copy at school if they forget it) • If losing math papers, take a cell phone photo of work in case they have to re-create it. • Copy any essentials that they need (e.g. chemistry reference guide) and keep one at home • Will the teacher let them email the work to them in addition to bringing a hard copy? (This will ensure teacher gets it/knows they did it while they practice turning it in.) ■
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Getting homework done in a timely manner • Create a homework station • Use a Time Timer ® • Break up homework into chunks; have them tell you what their plan is • Allow 5-minute breaks about every 20-30 minutes, depending on age of child • Using a sour hard candy or munching on healthy snack can help them stay focused.
Forgetting what you need for school • Carry backpack to wherever homework is done. Put homework and books back in backpack when you’re done. • Pack backpack the night before. This should include any sports bags, instruments, etc. Put it all by the exit door. • Use planner to confirm they have materials • If really struggling, can create a packing checklist
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Messy Math • Turn notebook paper sideways to help line up columns • Print ¼” or ½” grid paper for math homework (found online)
“Stop nagging me” — white board in central location, like kitchen • After first verbal reminder, parent writes reminder on white board • When child does it, they check it off so parent knows it was done and doesn’t need to ask about it • Encourage student to also write down things to remember as well
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FOUNDATION continued from page 17 the area occurs in early childhood. John Borrero, executive director of the Collaboration for Early Childhood in Oak Park, says that preschool is the time to lay the foundation for learning executive functioning skills. “Toddlers are just about themselves and their immediate emotions. At three, language and nuanced emotions start to develop more. So much happens between three and four. As we understand brain development more and more, we realize this is the age that these executive skills develop.” For children entering school for the first time at age two or three, White says one of the foundations for executive functioning is predictability. “It starts with consistent routines, schedules and expectations. This provides a sense of safety to a child. Adults in the classroom model problem solving and provide management opportunities for children to exercise their choices.” There are many activities that support executive functioning in early GETTING RECOGNIZED: Students raise their hand to get the attention of Hannah O’Connor, a childhood, according to White and teacher at First United Church Nursery School. (ALEXA ROGALS/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER) she points to three key areas. Focused Many of the typical preschool activiattention means being able to filter out distractions, resist impulsive ac- ties may look like fun and games, but tions and follow routines. A two-year- White says they actually help children old might be able to focus attention learn important executive functioning for two minutes, but a five-year-old skills. Obstacle courses, yoga poses, finger play, games with rules, dramatic might be able to foplay, story time, cus for five to 10. a singing songs and Working memw with directions all ory is another im“The problem provide opportuportant skill that n nities to learn exrequires a child to we have is when e ecutive functionkeep knowledge other things ing skills. White and use it for a ssays, “It’s nothing later activity. This interfere: living in an n new, but undermight manifest in environment with s standing why it’s dramatic play. For important and instance, a child toxic stress, or not w why it’s valuable who has recently having good health. helps a teacher be GETTING ORGANIZED: Sam Smith and Parker Herholdt play had a check-up at with magnets in a preschool classroom at First United Church intentional.” the doctor might … This is when we Borrero recog- Nursery School. (ALEXA ROGALS/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER) bring some of that n nizes the imporsee problems start understanding to ttance of good home. This is when we see problems He points out the importance of playing doctor to develop.” pre-school op- start to develop.” preschool for all children and adds with classmates at ttions and says all — John Borrero With all supports in place, a three- that an inability to master early childschool later in the cchildren are born year-old would be learning how to hood executive functioning skills by week. Collaboration for w with the capacity follow directions, how to concentrate kindergarten and first grade can lead A third important Early Childhood t to learn executive for periods of about five minutes or to a lifetime label. “If you misbehave, executive functionffunctioning skills, how to share toys. “Compare that and get in trouble, then you hear the ing skill is mental b but not all children to a kid who regularly doesn’t eat message ‘You’re a problem.’ This beflexibility: being have an environ- breakfast or who experiences conflict comes a cycle that is hard to escape.” able to keep a variety of things in your ment that supports age-appropriate in the morning at home or has housIn Oak Park and River Forest, 75 mind and being able to adjust to fit different circumstances. White points acquisition of executive functioning ing insecurity or who saw violence in percent of children entering kinderto common pre-school activities like skills. “The problem we have is when the neighborhood. That child may garten have had some preschool, and freeze dance or Simon Says as exam- other things interfere: living in an en- not be able to focus. It will impact his Borrero advocates for more children ples of activities which foster mental vironment with toxic stress or not hav- relationships with his teachers and beginning at age two. The Collaboing good health or other issues in the peers,” says Borrero. flexibility alongside impulse control. ration for Early Childhood focuses on
Signs of Executive Function Disorder • Difficulty organizing and remembering materials for assignments and class. • Messy desk, backpack, locker • Not hearing or forgetting directions and assignments • Late, missing or incomplete homework • Problems remembering or noticing details • Tendency to lose things • Tendency to forget what they meant to do • Sometimes thinking they’d done something when they hadn’t • Difficulty planning papers/projects • Difficulty judging the passage of time • Difficulty getting started on a task • Difficulty shifting attention from one task to another • Tending to use the same solution again, even if it didn’t work well in the first place
getting children involved in the many vibrant early childhood options available locally, and Borrero says their work does not end at the school door. “We need to look at the entire environment of the child -- we need to come together to support development. This is why we’re a collaboration. We need to have everyone at the table: parents, pediatricians, schools, and occupational therapists. Early childhood education is not the only thing, but it is the foundation. It’s more than one person’s work. It’s a lot of people coming together.”
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and often included living spaces as well. Frank Lipo, executive director of the Oak Park River Forest Historical Society, says it is not uncommon today to see some of these structures used as apartments or work-fromhome offices, and notes that some of the larger structures have been separated from their original homes to become standalone single-family homes. “It was not uncommon if you have a house built in the 1920s to get a shift with genera-
tions,” Lipo said. “I think part of that is a tax thing. Around here, we have high taxes. With a secondary structure or a large side yard, at some point, as people got older and wanted to stay in their homes, they might have sold off that second structure or the side lot to get some extra income.” Lipo points out that some of the more prominent estate coach houses-turned-single-famiSee COACH HOUSE on page 23
NEW LIFE: Originally the coach house for the stately home directly across the driveway, 616 Iowa St. in Oak Park (above) has been renovated to both reflect its past use on the exterior while offering contemporary living inside.
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COACH HOUSE No expense spared from page 21 ly homes include the former carriage house to the Hales Mansion at the corner of Oak Park Avenue and Chicago Avenue and an E. E. Roberts-designed barn converted to a home on Elizabeth Court. “In the estate section, some of these structures were large enough to be an entire house and included kitchens,” Lipo said. That is the case with 616 Iowa St. in Oak Park, a coach-house turned single familyhome directly behind a larger estate house on East Avenue. New to the market, the three- bedroom, two-and-a-half-bathroom home originally included a garage for the estate home, with living space above. Realtor Margaret McSheehy of Historic Homes Realty, who is listing the house for $790,000, says the story she heard is that one of the original owners’ daughters lived in the coach house. The main house and the coach house were designed in 1911 by Oak Park architect Thornton Herr. Lipo notes that Herr was an Oak Park-raised architect, who graduated from Oak Park and River Forest High School and whose father was the editor of a small local newspaper called the Oak Park Reporter. Herr designed the main house for John Nelson and ily room that opens off of the completelyhis wife, Anna. Nelson owned a business remodeled kitchen. In order to keep the selling horse blankets. In 1916, the Nelsons exterior of the historic home intact, they sold the house to William and Elizabeth retained original garage windows that Hoch. William was a Sears exnow flank the fireplace. A ecutive and he and Elizabeth new two-car garage was conwere charter members and structed at the end of the pribenefactors of St. Giles Church, vate driveway to the home. according to Lipo. In the kitchen, custom Like the main house in front, cherry cabinetry makes the 616 Iowa St. features a brick most of the nooks and cranexterior and red tile roof. A nies in the home. A wine stordecorative wood trim painted age area graces the butler’s in shades of green and cream pantry, which leads to the dinencircles the exterior, and the FRANK LIPO ing room with a wood-beamed house boasts 32 original art Executive director of the Oak Park ceiling. glass windows. River Forest Historical Society The renovation of the secMcSheehy notes that the enond floor included a new tire two-story house has been large master bathroom with renovated. separate bathtub and shower “At one point, it was in disreand two sinks. In the hall bepair,” she said. “Previous owntween the bedrooms, custom ers used the best contractors to linen storage was added. The second and do a thorough restoration. They spared no third bedrooms share a hall bathroom. expense.” McSheehy said that the house has its own Those owners took the garage space on private driveway and garage but benefits the first floor and turned it into a famfrom its proximity to the original house to
“The whole thing has become sort of a trend again.”
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OLD AND NEW: The coach house retains its tile roof and 32 art glass windows (above left), but inside the space has been completely remodeled with an open plan kitchen/dining/ family room area (above and top), new second-floor master bathroom suite and two additional bedrooms that share a bath. the west due to the iron fencing surrounding both houses. “There are not many gated houses in Oak Park,” McSheehy said. “It’s great for security and great for dog owners.” While many estate properties were subdivided in the past, Lipo says he sees the pendulum swinging back again now. “The funny thing is, the whole thing
has become sort of a trend again. Now, we see bigger garages going up,” Lipo said. “There’s been a rediscovery of this idea lately. It used to be a barn, a garage or housing for servants. It’s sort of coming full circle. It’s evolved into something for elderly parents to live in or a work-fromhome office. It’s kind of an interesting life cycle.”
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431 S. East Ave. UNIT 1N, Oak Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Baird & Warner Oak Park/River Forest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $172,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 3436 N. Narragansett Ave. UNIT 1, Chicago. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Baird & Warner Oak Park/River Forest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $225,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 3110 N. 78th Ave, Elmwood Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff Realty Group . . . . $262,900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11:30-1:30 1139 S. Lombard Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re/Max In The Village . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $341,800 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-1 639 N. Lombard Ave, Oak Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $432,500 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 1230 N. Euclid Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff Realty Group . . . . $435,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2 543 S. Lyman Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re/Max In The Village . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $439,800 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:30-3 438 Lenox St, Oak Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $469,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3
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838 N. Kenilworth Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . @properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $469,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 819 Linden Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Coldwell Banker Residential. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $525,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 847 Home Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Baird & Warner Oak Park/River Forest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $549,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 842 N. Elmwood Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . @properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $564,900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 1207 N. Elmwood Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Baird & Warner Oak Park/River Forest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $579,900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:30-3 936 Forest Ave, River Forest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff Realty Group . . . . $589,500 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 405 Herrick Rd, Riverside . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Beyond Properties Realty Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $625,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:30-3:30 142 S. Scoville Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $639,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 2881 Landwehr Rd, Northbrook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Baird & Warner Oak Park/River Forest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $639,900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 945 N. Elmwood Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Baird & Warner Oak Park/River Forest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $649,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-1 1132 Fair Oaks Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $689,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 837 N. Kenilworth Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Baird & Warner Oak Park/River Forest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $735,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 511 Monroe Ave, River Forest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $850,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 423 N. Kenilworth Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Coldwell Banker Residential. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $899,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12:30-2:30 1415 Thatcher Ave, River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . @properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $939,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 703 N. East Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Baird & Warner Oak Park/River Forest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,220,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 923 Ashland Ave, River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,225,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 638 N. Kenilworth Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,545,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 924 Ashland Ave, River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $2,490,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3
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926 Ashland Ave, River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $2,490,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3
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210 N. Oak Park Ave. UNIT 1GG, Oak Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Baird & Warner Oak Park/River Forest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $144,900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 1608 N. England, Chicago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff Realty Group . . . . $220,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2 415 S. Ridgeland Ave. UNIT 2, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Baird & Warner Oak Park/River Forest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $256,500 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 245 S. East Ave. UNIT 2, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re/Max In The Village . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $259,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3
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15 Forest Ave. UNIT 19, River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . @properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $554,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Sat. 11-1 15 Forest Ave. UNIT 19, River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . @properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $554,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-1
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A G I N G
At the intersection of all inequities Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
Howard Thurman
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ver the past year there has been a lot of talk in our towns about equity. And rightfully so. The documentary America to Me helped focus a muchneeded and well-deserved spotlight on the race aspect of the equity issue. I want to raise another important aspect — age equity. I am not pitting racism and ageism against each other. They intersect, and raising awareness about and fighting against one can help fight against the other, as well as against sexism or homophobia or ableism or any form of prejudice. In our youth-obsessed society, old is bad — older people are routinely treated like worn-out machines and then we become invisible. And the most invisible among us are older women of color, located firmly at the intersection of ageism, sexism and racism. Age equity means that everyone has opportunities, recognition, respect and fair treatment, regardless of their age. Ageism is stereotyping and discriminating against individuals or groups on the basis of their age. This may be casual or systemic, internalized or cultural. The term “ageism” was coined in 1969 by Robert Neil Butler to describe discrimination against older people. Butler defined ageism as a combination of three connected elements: 1. prejudicial attitudes toward older people, old age, and the aging process; 2. discriminatory practices against older people; and 3. institutional practices and policies that perpetuate stereotypes about older people. By 2030, 30 percent of Oak Park residents will be over 50 years of age, a sharp increase, which is only the tip of the iceberg. Let’s identify and eliminate ageism in Oak Park — from village hall to community institutions to local businesses to nonprofits to our own neighborhoods. One example of doing just that occurred last Monday evening, when Arbor West Neighbors (AWN) hosted a very successful campaign discussion about aging, held at the OP-RF Township Senior Services Center. Ten candidates for Oak Park trustee were in attendance along with 50 interested voters. The candidates got to listen and talk about an important issue which, until that point, had been missing from this campaign season.
MARC BLESOFF
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Why Oak Park needs racial equity policies
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here’s good news in Oak Park. Our school districts will soon adopt new racial equity policies. The new polices affirm and codify our responsibility to provide all students with the opportunities they need to succeed. Excellent schools for some will no longer cut it. Providing excellent and equitable schools to all is our mission imperative. The new policies recognize that our school systems are prone to perpetuating inequities in their budgeting, hiring, contracting, procurement, policy-making, service delivery, and strategic planning. Understanding implicit bias reveals that unless you’re consciously and actively part of the solution, you’re probably unconsciously and passively part of the problem. While our school districts are poised to leap forward, efforts at the village government level have been stalled. The Community Relations Commission provided the Board of Trustees a forward-thinking set of recommendations on governing for racial equity, based on successful models implemented in cities and counties around the country. But the recommendations have languished for two years with virtually no action from the board or administration. It’s time to jumpstart these efforts with real leadership and serious action. If we’re not clear about the benefits, it’s easy to become narrowly focused on the costs. Equity is not a commodity, and we’re not shopping around for the cheapest deal. There’s a huge human cost to not investing in equity. Equity involves system-wide transformation in services, behaviors, opportunities, and outcomes. Our village values safety and sustainability by making decisions and investments to turn these values into realities. If we’re fully committed to the value of equity, we can find a similar viable way forward.
TERRY
KELLEHER One View
Equity is not a zero-sum game — meaning we can only meet more people’s needs at the expense of others. Actually, when you don’t use an equity lens in decision-making, that’s a recipe for uneven development, opportunity gaps, and social stratification. Equity recognizes our interconnections and strives to meet targeted needs while benefiting
everyone. And equity does not involve a quick fix, like one-anddone training. It’s a whole new way of doing business. It involves centering racial equity in decision-making, engaging stakeholders who’ve been historically marginalized, investing in professional development, routinely using racial equity tools and impact assessments, developing and implementing racial equity action plans, and continually evaluating and improving practice. Longstanding racial disparities and segregated classrooms do not reflect our values, as too many students fall through the cracks. Inequitable and exclusive development does not improve our community character when the benefits and burdens are not fully assessed or evenly shared. And too many residents, facing real financial hardships, are excluded and neglected at decision-making tables. Racial equity policies provide a systematic and strategic framework for change. But policy adoption is only a first step. Sufficient investment and effective implementation will make the real difference. Let’s seize this opportunity to build the inclusive and equitable village we envision, where all can benefit and thrive. Terry Keleher is an Oak Park resident, parent, and activist. He is also the director of Strategic Innovation at Race Forward, a national nonprofit racial justice organization, that works in partnership with the Government Alliance on Race and Equity.
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A community center fieldhouse
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ith the master facilities plan at OPRF High School now submitted, with an ambitious initial roster of education and classroom-focused capital improvements chosen, funded and ready to be bid, it is an interesting moment for the concept of a collaboration between the Park District of Oak Park and OPRF on a community center to resurface. And resurface it did at a recent school board meeting as Vic Guarino, a park commissioner and current candidate for the District 200 school board, raised the broad topic. This concept, driven by the park district in Oak Park, was shelved a year back when the River Forest Park District dropped out of discussions and OPRF delayed any further discussion as its own complicated facilities plan was already underway. So now we have two potential taxpayer funded entities doing an early dance with the vague but much anticipated prospect of private donations playing a notable part in funding this community center. With the wise decision by the OPRF administration and school board to indefinitely postpone necessary overhauls or rebuilding of the fieldhouse portion of the OPRF campus, here’s our early thought: The only logical place for a community center is on the site of the fieldhouse. That building — its pools, its locker rooms, its public spaces — is obsolete. It needs a wrecking ball. Investing tens of millions into it, and solely to serve high school students, doesn’t make common sense. It also doesn’t make sense for the high school to spend tax dollars on an off-site community center while its fieldhouse is a wreck. The current fieldhouse, wedged at the south end of the school building and just north of the parking garage, is taxpayer-owned so no other Oak Park property would need to come off the tax rolls for a different, less convenient site. And it is virtually contiguous to the park district’s gem at Ridgeland Common. Finally, if adequate public access can be built into such a facility — the indoor pool, track, gym — it would have the added benefit of connecting the school to the community, inviting locals without high school-age children to share in an institution we have all built and take pride in.
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he One Earth Film Festival is about halfway through its 10day 2019 season. This local invention is thriving and growing organically in ways that are remarkable and delightful. Launched by Green Community Connections, a broader local Earth stewardship effort, the film festival keeps adding venues for its growing roster of films. We love the connections being made in city neighborhoods where the passion for our planet is strong and urgent. We love the Young Filmmakers Contest which just keeps drawing more entries from a wider geography — not to overlook the three River Forest students who placed in this year’s competition. We love the increasing attendance across venues. And, homers that we are, we love that it all started in Oak Park and River Forest. The Big Idea is back. Now in its fourth year, this powerful entrepreneurial experiment comes out of the Oak Park-River Forest Community Foundation. A group of local entrepreneurs, Wednesday Journal among them, donates $2,500 each year to raise a cool $50,000. That pot of money is then gifted to the winner of the upcoming March 13 Pitch Party. The aspiring entrants have now been pared to five finalists spanning issues of education, sustainability, cross-generation connection, and the maker movement. The excitement is palpable as finalists make their pitch to the judges and the crowd at Wire. When the evening ends, one social entrepreneur will have the seed money to grow their Big Idea.
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A wedding for the ages
he last time Jack Kernan got hallways, beaming. married was January of 1949. The groom wore a suitcoat and tie. That worked out well. He and PatThe bride looked elegant in a white top sy lived in Oak Park and raised streaked with silver lamae. Jokes about their family in St. Catherine Jack “robbing the cradle” aside (Kate Parish. They were a devoted couple. is a young-looking 84), they made quite Even as Patsy slid toward senility, Jack a handsome couple. A friend of the brought her everywhere, including Schwaighart family, Rev. John Clemens, visiting my folks as they came to the presided over Mass. Of all the words end of their lives. that might apply to Fr. Clemens, “excesSix years after Patsy died, 10 days sive formality” would not be among after Valentine’s Day, and a week after them. He served notice that we would he turned 94, “Muddy” (as we’ve known not be standing on ceremony. In fact, he him all our lives — something about an told us to remain seated, walkers and affinity for infield puddles during his wheelchairs being much in evidence. softball days) decided to give matri“The important thing today is not mony another try. the rubric,” he said. “It’s that we’re Isn’t that romantic? celebrating.” Especially considering we feared the worst. The Song of Ruth and St. Paul’s Letter to the He was invited to a family reunion in January Corinthians set the tone. Everyone was patient and and didn’t respond. I emailed him. No response. At kind. the reunion, I looked up and there he was. Beginning his homily, Clemens said, “This is “Muddy,” I said, “we were afraid you died!” silly. I’m the most single person in the place. I’ve “No,” he said. “I’m getting married!” never been married. If you don’t know what it’s If we were floored, imagine how his family felt. like, there’s nothing I can say that will help you.” At 94, you expect to be But he did find a few taking care of an aging things to say: parent, not struggling “Married love is to keep up with him. the greatest reflection “Muddy, that’s fanof God in the world. tastic,” I said after my When I see people in jaw bounced back from love, I see God in their the floor. “I’m so happy eyes. for you!” “All this happiness, He was already and even you aren’t happy enough for the the happiest. I think both of us. Patsy and Al are the “I feel like a kid,” happiest, wherever he said, and prothey are. You’ve found ceeded to talk about someone else to love, Kate Schwaighart in to complete that love. glowing terms, how Now you start again, they lived in the same backed by the love that retirement facilcame from the people ity, Casa San Carlo in you were married to BECOMING ONE: Jack Kernan and Kate Schwaighart Northlake, and had before. long conversations, start a new life. “Look at these mostly on that obsopeople in love. God is lete social instrument love. All of us owe a known as “the telephone.” They got to know each debt of gratitude to Jack and Kate.” other and to know Muddy is to love him. The same Then he led them through the vows, slightly apparently applies to Kate. edited. “The part about wanting children,” he said, They live in the same building. They could see “I’ll take that out.” Then again, he said smiling, each other as often as they want. “Maybe you do. I don’t know.” They wanted more. After each sentence, Jack said, “I do,” but folWhich is how I came to be at Casa San Carlo on lowing “Do you promise to love, honor and cherish Sunday afternoon, Feb. 24, for the wedding of the her all the days of your life?” he responded with a century in St. Joseph’s Chapel. firm, “You bet.” Getting off the elevator, a sign directed us to the Then the rings and finally the kiss. left (“The vows are here”), to the right (“The party’s And what a kiss it was. A kiss to remind us that our capacity to love is never extinguished and can there”) and an arrow underneath pointing in both flame up again as easily as shining from shook foil, directions (“Love is everywhere”). as Gerard Manley Hopkins once wrote. A kiss to The Casa San Carlo staff was thrilled and pulled teach us that no matter how many years of living out all the stops. They even delayed dinner, and in a our aging hearts carry, the wellspring of joy never facility like this, that’s a big deal. Balloons proruns dry and remains within reach of the openclaimed “Love is in the air!” and spelled out “I DO.” hearted. A kiss to prove it’s never too late to fall in St. Joseph’s Chapel had to be the happiest place love again. in the entire metro area that day. Smiles, kisses A kiss to begin building a life together, one preand hugs were epidemic among the 250 or so in cious new day at a time. attendance. Staff members stood in the adjacent
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Let’s have an honest conversation about property taxes In her Feb. 19 One View, “Oak Park’s Urgency: Reining in Excessive Taxation,” village trustee candidate Bridgett Baron makes the argument that Oak Park’s high property taxes keep Oak Park’s housing values low. To bolster her argument, she included a chart to show that since 2005, the tax levy has risen by nearly 70 percent while home values are up by only 2.6 percent. Would you be surprised to learn that, in fact, since 2012 property tax rates are up by only 5 percent while property values are up by almost 30 percent? I’ve provided a chart so you can see for yourself. Both charts are “true,” yet both fail to illustrate the whole picture. It is certainly true that for someone who purchased a home in Oak Park at almost the top of the housing bubble, Ms. Baron’s chart might roughly show the relationship between the value of their house and the village’s total tax levy. It is just as true that my chart roughly shows the relationship between home values and tax rates for someone who
bought their home in 2012. So what do these charts tell us about property taxes in Oak Park? Mostly, it tells us that charts like these are not a good way to look at them. No simple visualization can adequately show the complex relationship between housing values, assessed taxes, and municipal spending. But no matter how you look at it, our property taxes are high, and appear poised to rise higher, perhaps unsustainably so. An honest discussion about how to solve this issue can only occur if we use an honest approach to evaluate our tax burden, how that burden is distributed, and whether Oak Park’s spending plans align with its economy and its values. To Ms. Baron and all candidates for office with the village and other local taxing bodies, I urge you: Don’t try to dumb it down for us; we’re not dummies.
Jason Rothstein Oak Park
Krause’s critique is flawed
Last week, Alan Krause wrote that Oak Park village trustee candidate Bridgett Baron’s “whole campaign is untenable” because she is focused on reining in excessive taxation and that “anyone interested in property tax relief would run for the boards of District 97 or District 200, which is where 63.5% of our taxes are spent.” [Baron is blowing smoke on taxes, Viewpoints, Feb. 27]. This is ridiculous for two reasons. First, village government has a huge financial footprint — its total budget is over $150 million, more than either school district — and can make decisions that sizably impact its levy. It can make choices to reduce spending and make decisions to increase revenue by, say, attracting commercial development (something the schools cannot do). Second, with overall Oak Park property taxes sky high and growing too fast, it’s the responsibility of ev-
ery government in town to look hard at their expenses and services to ensure Oak Park can be affordable for everyone. I’m not sure why anyone, if they actually care about reducing the property tax burden, would attack a candidate running for any board who has made this issue the cornerstone of their campaign. Frankly, I wish more candidates in the current village and school elections were like Bridgett and Cory Wesley and truly committed to tackling the property tax issue here. They have my enthusiastic support. I invite Mr. Krause, and anyone else interested in real ideas for getting property taxes under control, to check out www. BridgettBaron.com, especially her essay, “Why village board candidates should face the closest scrutiny.”
Brian Souders
Oak Park
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BACK IN THE DAY: The Foley-Rice building at 644 Madison St. was built in 1925 as a showroom for Packard dealer Hill Motor Sales Company. The building could be torn down to make way for a grocery store.
Pete’s should save the Packard facade
I totally disagree with Dan Haley’s opinion about leveling the Packard dealership [Packard or Pete’s? News, Feb. 20]. Saving the shell of the property would be very doable and beneficial to our community, especially if public monies and/or TIF dollars are used. Any developer that receives this subsidy should
be required to save the facade, like Walgreens did and the Sugar Beet building at Grove and Madison. Pete’s Market already re-used a building; it was formerly Dominick’s Foods. As for the property being shuttered for decades, a very large portion of that time was during the “Great Recession.” Our com-
Remembering Wallace Broecker
I was so happy to see your short piece on Wally Broecker [Scientist who coined ‘global warming’ dies, Inside Report, Feb. 20]. I had the honor to work with Wally over the years. My boss, Gary Comer, met him in 2004 after he successfully transited the Northwest Passage on his own and wondered what was wrong! This week, we have been reflecting on that time and thinking about how much hope we had in 2004 — that we could actually have an impact. For a short period in the early aughts, Mr. Comer funded more scientific research than the government. I am so happy (and lucky) to live in a place like Oak Park, where climate change and science are real, but still I feel we can work to do more. I invite you to share some memories of Wally and how, later in life, he worked to support the next generation of scientists: http://www.comerfamilyfoundation.org/articles/remembering-wally-broecker
Alison McKinzie
Creative director Comer Family Foundation
D97 needs to sign up
In response to the letter in Wednesday Journal from Feb. 20 lamenting that the District 97 offices no longer receive copies of the paper in the lobby, I had a thought about a solution to this problem: Some people get Wednesday Journal every week by subscribing to it.
Don Anderson Oak Park
munity deserves better-looking and betterdesigned developments than (I’m going to use older examples that people have gotten used to) Mills Tower, the former District 97 building on Madison, and many properties along North Avenue. Saving this facade is part of our collective
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heritage and tradition, and whoever develops this site while keeping the facade will probably win a lot of awards for mixed use and repurposing. Think of the press coverage.
Peter Morava Oak Park
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Does our first name match who we are?
have often wondered about the first name given to a person, whether it describes that person. I found a list of first names in the Collins American Gem Dictionary and matched the meaning given to some people I have known to see if the name given to the person actually described the person. Aaron means “enlightened,” but the Aaron I knew did not fit this definition. His mind was directed at bullying smaller kids and causing chaos in the classroom. He and his family left Oak Park at the end of eighth grade after his bullying tactics failed, and he became a laughing stock. Alan, meanwhile, was not a harmonious person because he caused unrest among people with his negative attitude. He ended up friendless, and he and his family moved from Oak Park after seventh grade. I always felt sorry for him. In a past column I mentioned how bright Albert was. During the years I knew him, I was always amazed by his vast store of knowledge and his willingness to share that knowledge. Charles was one of my best friends throughout grade school. He was a noble-spirited person who always saw the good in other people and stood for truth and moral behavior. My cousin Linda’s aunt, Clair, was an illustrious person. She left her home in Nebraska to go to New York City to earn a master’s degree at Columbia and return to Nebraska where she enjoyed an outstanding career as an English teacher. Edward was a happy friend to the people in our neighborhood. He gladly helped anyone in need and always left people feeling good because of his unfailing good humor. Eric, however, was not a brave person. In fact he depended
on stealth and lying to gain his ends. His end came when he lied about stealing money from his teacher’s desk and he was expelled from school. My Great Aunt Jane was truly a gift of God. She and her husband lived on Oak Street in Chicago, and when I was a boy, she treated me like the child she never had. She took me to many wonderful places and made certain I was always loved. Peter was an ornery kid who loved to intimidate other children. He was not a rock of strength but a guy who consistently upset every kid who came in contact with him. He wilted like a dying flower, however, when one of the kids he tried to scare stood up to him. It wasn’t long before other kids stood up to him. He and his family moved out of Oak Park at the end of eighth grade. I met the noble Arthur in 1958 through a mutual friend. Arthur’s goal was to become a public defender so he could help the downtrodden. He did become a public defender in Des Moines, thereby realizing his dream Theodore was a born leader, whether it was in sports or in the classroom. He was a biology major in college and became a surgeon in Boston. I do not believe that most parents use a list in order to choose their child’s first name, but if they do, will it make any difference to the life the child will lead? I don’t think so. What do you think? John Stanger is a lifelong resident of Oak Park, a 1957 graduate of OPRF High School, married with three grown children and five grandchildren, and a retired English professor (Elmhurst College). Living two miles from where he grew up, he hasn’t gotten far in 78 years.
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Massie will be a good steward of tax dollars
We enthusiastically support Amanda Massie for the OPRF High School Board of Education. Amanda will bring a unique perspective to the District 200 board. As part of an interracial couple with two biracial sons, she has personal experience with the unique challenges faced by students of color. Additionally she has the perspective of having lived and sent her sons to schools in Virginia and California, in addition to Oak Park. She and her family moved to Oak Park in 1997 where her sons attended Oak Park public schools. A job transfer for her husbands’ career with United Parcel Service took them to
Los Angeles after six years here. But in 2012, when deciding where to settle for their final relocation, Amanda and Noel chose Oak Park because of all the communities they lived in, Oak Park displayed the ideals in which they believe: diversity, tolerance, inclusion, and community. We got to know Amanda over the past three years while participating together in the D200 petition drive for the pool and facilities referendum and involvement with OPRF Pragmatic Solutions. Many issues that emerged during her activism were expressed subsequently in the documentary: America to Me. It seemed to us, and Amanda too, that too
much time is devoted to issues distracting from the primary mission of our high school: academic success for all our kids. We need a representative on the board who will insist that our high school returns to that core mission. Amanda is committed to this. She is equally committed to judicious and costeffective spending — spending to address the needs, not the wants, of the high school and our communities. She is committed to being a responsible steward of our precious tax dollars.
Bruce Kleinman Maureen Kleinman
Oak Park
Massie will bring passion and vision to D200 Amanda Massie has been a good friend since we met at Whittier Elementary School in the late ’90s (where our kids attended). Although she later relocated for work, Amanda always considered Oak Park her home and continued to support her friends/community. Regardless of locale, improving education has been Amanda’s passion — actively participating and supporting local schools, includ-
ing raising funds and sponsoring events for their benefit. Finally, when the opportunity came to return to Oak Park seven years ago, she embraced it (and in true Amanda style, restored a turn-of-the-century Victorian to its former glory). Hopefully, what I’ve communicated is that Amanda has a passion and vision for how to build a better community and ensure a brighter future for our children.
She is not afraid to take difficult positions in support of fairness and equity, and most crucially, will put in the hard work to achieve the best solution possible. Amanda Massie represents the kind of critically-minded, passionate voice we need on the Oak Park and River Forest High School District 200 board.
Helen Schmucker Oak Park
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Drawbacks of new construction for low income As Oak Park trustees consider how best to provide low income/affordable housing, I offer these cautionary observations. I used to manage a portfolio of low/ moderate income apartment projects and concluded that new construction is generally not the best way to provide low-income housing. New construction is very expensive. It is generally not economically possible to build highquality housing for low-income people. Therefore, newlyconstructed low-income housing quickly becomes an increasingly expensive maintenance problem. The projects lose more and more money, and so more and more maintenance gets deferred. In addition, a stigma is generally attached to those living in buildings reserved for low-income tenants. Residents of these buildings experience this stigma. They don’t get a firsthand chance to know more economically successful people and aspire to similar success. Moreover, middle class people generally do not want to live near these buildings, fearing crime and declining property values. This makes it politically much more difficult to construct them. There are good reasons why the Chicago Housing Authority no longer builds low-income housing and has turned to mixed-income projects. Please don’t repeat their mistakes. Use the developer money to subsidize rents in existing buildings or include affordable units in new construction.
Judith Alexander Oak Park
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When you’re choosin’, vote for Susan
Our village board election is less than a month away. I hope you will get to know Susan Buchanan. The kind of person I want on our village board is someone who is intelligent, practical and sensible, someone who can weigh the sometimes opposing forces of culture, diversity, economic prosperity and environmental sustainability to make tough decisions. I met Susan in 1991 while playing in the Oak Park-River Forest Symphony Orchestra. Now Susan plays fiddle with the Farmers Market Band. She is also a doctor who began her career in Humboldt Park while many of us were figuring out how to make more money. Susan and her husband have lived in Oak
Park for over 20 years, raising their son in our community, churches and public schools. She wears many hats at the University of Illinois Chicago, both seeing patients, working with corporations on health and wellness oversight, and actively being involved in community environmental matters and policies. Susan is a listener and a team player. In her career, she digests loads of information to come up with solutions and next steps. I know Susan will do a superb job on behalf of all of us through our villages policies, budgets and economic development decisions. So when you’re choosin’, vote for Susan!
Julie O’Shea
Oak Park
One View about white women was divisive
I read ShaRhonda Knott Dawson’s viewpoint and had to respond [White women in Oak Park are not in danger, Viewpoints, Feb. 27]. Her inferences and suppositions without evidence appear to be an unsupported and divisive position. Taking Oak Park Police Chief LaDon Reynolds’ quote and associating it with white women is an unfounded stretch. Nowhere in his quote does he state that it is directed to a specific gender, race, age, etc. He is merely stating that Oak Park is a safe place to live. For those of us who actually live here, we should applaud that. Additionally, it is also a stretch for her to
posit that the 66,286 calls come from white women. I didn’t see, nor could I find, any demographic breakdown of call origination in the Wednesday Journal article or on the village website. Individuals making those calls could be citizens who care about their community, the safety and welfare of their neighbors and request information or report non-criminal situations. Not a bad thing to be doing. It could be a contributing factor as to why Oak Park is a very safe place to live, work and raise a family.
Mark Schlosser
Oak Park
A WWII vet responds
Mr. Alan Brouilette’s letter (July 18, 2018) compels me to write. I am over 95 years old, a WWII vet (’43-‘46), and a member of the Oak Park Friends Meeting (Quakers) since 1970. There were some 16 million of us in uniform. Now about 600,000 remain. We are apparently dying off at the rate of 1,200 per day. I am very much handicapped, but I do not appreciate his (a parent’s) sarcasm that the so-called “Greatest Generation” is “incapacitated, possibly from an overdose of patting themselves on the back.” I cannot speak for other WWII vets, I do not belong to any vets organizations, but I do not pat myself on my back. Military service then seemed to me a necessary response to Nazism and Fascism. My continuing regret is that the victory did not bring about the widespread peace many of us expected or hoped for. Some may call us naïve. But if people continue to tear themselves apart by violent means, do we want
to continue on this path to a possible WWIII? Let me add this about my and ensuing generations: I, for one, and my wife of 88, have never whined about our children, three daughters, or grandchildren, one in the states and two in France, Mr. Brouilette. If people of one generation whine about their children — why aren’t they like us? — such people are blinkered, smug. Many parents and grandparents, like my wife and myself, are simply hopeful that our offspring will lead useful lives, and we give them what encouragement we can with our love.
John Shipley
Oak Park Editor’s note: In last week’s letter [Remembering the OP Community Organization, Viewpoints, Feb. 27], John Shipley referred to a woman who was active in Austin preventing redlining. Bobbie Raymond wrote in to say she believes that person was Gail Cincotta.
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Village trustees must be progressive, accountable We have 11 candidates for village trustee. Assuming we want change, 10 non-incumbents. One of these candidates has secured numerous procedural advantages by running as a candidate of the Democratic Party even though he has not been endorsed by the Democratic Party of Oak Park. That leaves nine candidates for three positions. How to choose? The public statements of many of these nine candidates sound very similar: 1) greater democracy and transparency, 2) equity, 3) economic diversity and property taxes, and 4) appropriate development and the environment. A key problem with local politics is that a small share of residents have the time and interest to pay much attention. For this reason, developers and businesses with vested interests are often able to take over local governments. Unfortunately, we have seen the consequences of this in Oak Park over the last decade or more after an earlier period of local activism that defied this trend and created the Oak Park that many of us know and love. The VMA model of good government with vetting of candidates that worked fairly well for many years was co-opted.
However, the recent post-VMA model of simply voting for candidates on the basis of their public positions with no community vetting process has also not worked as two recently elected trustees, Moroney and Andrews, flipped on the key public commitments to oppose Albion that got them elected. In response, a large group of community activists established VOICE (Voice, Openness, Inclusion, Community, and the Environment). VOICE developed an explicitly progressive set of four principles (roughly 1-4 above) and offered to consider endorsing any prospective candidate who agreed to be accountable to voters and to VOICE in following these principles. Five candidates applied for an endorsement process that started with vetting committee interviews and recommendations and culminated in a public meeting with a question-and-answer session and final vote by the membership. VOICE’s three endorsed candidates are: Tim Thomas, Christian Harris, and Joshua Klayman. A woman candidate applied for the VOICE endorsement but did not want to sign the statement of accountability. I urge Oak Park voters to vote for these VOICE-endorsed candidates.
Ron Baiman
A member of the 2018 VOICE Vetting Committee
Baron is the right candidate at a crucial time
We love Oak Park. We live, work, and invest here because Oak Park is such a wonderful community. It is easy to be fully vested in Oak Park. We sincerely appreciate the part of our community that makes it a habit of helping others. There are many companies, charities, groups, and individuals who go above and beyond in their efforts to improve the lives of the less fortunate. Thank you! As we review the positions and platforms of candidates for Oak Park Village Board, the focus on serving people in need appears to be a major emphasis. This is what we expect from our leaders in such a terrific and caring community. However, there seems to be a lack of balance of compassion with an equally strong sense of overall fiscal responsibility in the current candidates. It feels good to say you want to help others. But most candidates seem to look for the easy solution, take more of your money
to do it. Don’t they know they are hurting many others by overtaxing? The real estate taxes in our community have already spiraled out of control. We are at a point where home values are negatively affected due to the high tax burden. We often hear from people about staying in Oak Park only until their kids graduate. Everyone says they love the people in our village but many feel as if they have to leave due to the taxes; they can’t afford to stay. This is one of the many reasons why we wholeheartedly support Bridgett Baron for Oak Park village trustee. We have known Bridgett and her husband, Matt, for over 15 years, ever since we were all younger parents of infant twins. In addition to being smart, kind, and fair-minded, Bridgett’s passion for fiscal responsibility is exactly what Oak Park needs. She’s the right candidate at a crucial time in our village.
Steve & Laurie Berggren Oak Park
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Gerry W. Voll, 87, of Oak Park, formerly of Wheaton, died on Feb. 21, 2019. Born on April 23, 1931, he was a 1949 graduate of Proviso High School and served with the U.S. Coast Guard during the Korean War. He worked for Illinois Bell (later AT&T) for over 35 years until his retirement in 1990. He loved woodworking, fishing and spending time outdoors. He GERRY VOLL was a dedicated Packers fan. Gerry Voll was the husband of Linda K. Voll for over 42 years; the father of James (Sandy) Voll, Cheryl Vacval, Nancy (Robert) Brunn, and Sarah Voll; papa of James and Emily Voll, Lauren (Dave) Gray and Taylor Vacval, and Robert, Lexie and Nicholas Brunn; the greatgrandfather of Oliver and Sawyer Gray and Adalynn Voll; and the brother of the late Norene (the late Donald) Wadolny. Memorial visitation will be held on Saturday, March 9 from 2 p.m. until the time of service, 4 p.m. at Drechsler, Brown & Williams Funeral Home, 203 S. Marion St., Oak Park.
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BLESOFF from page 35 Kudos again to the village of River Forest for becoming just the fifth government body in Illinois to earn “Dementia Friendly” certification. Last week the River Forest Village Board passed a resolution recognizing that certification. This is an important step forward for how River Forest citizens with dementia are treated, how their caregivers are supported, and how their community stigma is reduced. Finally, I stopped in on the Memory Café last week, just to see for myself what this innovative community endeavor looked like. It looks pretty good! Held at Township Senior Services, 130 S. Oak Park Ave. on the third Tuesday of the month from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m., the Memory Café is a good stop for anyone, not just our neighbors who have some type of memory issue. The coffee’s hot and the people are real. What more can you ask for? It’s a pioneering example of what life in our towns will be looking like more and more as those intersectional invisibilities become unsustainable. Marc Blesoff is a former Oak Park village trustee, co-founder of the Windmills softball organization, co-creator of Sunday Night Dinner, a retired criminal defense attorney, and a novice beekeeper. He currently facilitates Conscious Aging Workshops and Wise Aging Workshops in the Chicago area.
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RELIGION GUIDE Presbyterian
Check First.
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
ELCA, Lutheran
Good Shepherd
Worshiping at 820 Ontario, Oak Park IL (First Baptist Church) 9:00 a.m.—Education Hour 10:30 a.m.—Worship
All are welcome. goodshepherdlc.org 708-848-4741
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.
Sunday Service 7AM, 9AM & 11:15AM 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
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
744 Fair Oaks Ave. Oak Park 386-4920 Sunday Schedule Christian Education for All Ages 9:00am Worship Service 10:00am
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
www.unitedlutheranchurch.org
708/386-1576
(708) 697-5000 LIVE Webcast - 11:15AM Service
Fair Oaks
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
Grace Lutheran School
Preschool - 8th Grade Bill Koehne, Principal 366-6900, graceriverforest.org Lutheran-Missouri Synod
St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church
305 Circle Ave, Forest Park Sunday Worship, 9:30am Christian Education Hour 8:30am Wednesday Worship 7:00pm Wheelchair Access to Sanctuary Leonard Payton, Pastor Roney Riley, Assistant Pastor 708-366-3226 www.stjohnforestpark.org Methodist
First United Methodist Church of Oak Park
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. Katherine Thomas Paisley, Pastor Professionally Staffed Nursery Fellowship Time after Worship
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
Rev. James Hurlbert, Pastor
Roman Catholic
St. Edmund Catholic Church
188 South Oak Park Ave. Saturday Mass: 5:30 p.m. Sunday Masses: 9:00 & 11:00 a.m., 5:30 p.m. Weekday Mass: 8:30 a.m. M–F Holy Day Masses: As Announced Reconciliation: Saturday 4:15 p.m. Parish Office: 708-848-4417 Religious Ed Phone: 708-848-7220
St. Giles Family Mass Community
We welcome all to attend Sunday Mass at 10 a.m. on the St. Giles Parish campus on the second floor of the school gym, the southernmost building in the school complex at 1034 North Linden Avenue. Established in 1970, we are a laybased community within St. Giles Roman Catholic Parish. Our Mass is family-friendly. We encourage liturgically active toddlers. Children from 3 to 13 and young adults play meaningful parts in each Sunday liturgy. Together with the parish, we offer Catechesis of the Good Shepherd, a Montessori-based religious education program for children in grades K-8. For more information, go to http://www.stgilesparish.org/ family-mass-community or call Bob Wielgos at 708-288-2196.
Third Unitarian Church 10AM Sunday Forum 11AM Service Rev. Colleen Vahey thirdunitarianchurch.org (773) 626-9385 301 N. Mayfield, Chicago Committed to justice, not to a creed
Roman Catholic
St. Bernardine Catholic Church Harrison & Elgin, Forest Park
CELEBRATING OUR 107TH 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–Thursday 6:30am Church Office: 708-366-0839 CCD: 708-366-3553 www.stbern.com Pastor: Fr. Stanislaw Kuca
Upcoming Religious Holidays
Mar 6 Ash Wednesday, Lent begins Christianity 11 Lent begins Clean Orthodox Christian 20-21 Purim Judaism Holi Hinduism Naw-Rúz (New Year) Bahá’í, Zoroastrian
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LEGAL NOTICE
LEGAL NOTICE
2017 Annual TO PROPERTY OWNERS Tax Sale Schedule Cook County Annual Tax Sale Notice to
Property Owners, Annual Tax Sale Schedule, and Delinquent Real Estate Tax List
This legal notice includes a list of properties of real estate on which 2017 property taxes (due in 2018) are delinquent and subject to sale as of February 13, 2019. NOTE: This list may include some properties on which the taxes were paid after the list’s preparation on February 13, 2019. It is the property owner’s responsibility to verify the current status of payment. This list does not include all the properties in Cook County that are delinquent and subject to sale. For a complete listing of the properties in your neighborhood that are subject to sale, please visit www.cookcountytreasurer.com. Under Illinois law, the Cook County Treasurer’s Office must offer properties having delinquent real estate taxes and special assessments for sale. IF YOUR PROPERTY IS LISTED IN THIS NOTICE FOR SALE OF DELINQUENT REAL ESTATE TAXES, IT IS IMPORTANT FOR YOU TO TAKE ACTION SO THAT YOUR TAXES ARE NOT SOLD. The tax sale is scheduled to begin FRIDAY, MAY 3, 2019. The sale of taxes will result in a lien against the property that will add, at a minimum, hundreds of dollars in fees to the amount currently due. Sale of the tax and continued failure by the owner to redeem (pay) may result in the owner’s loss of legal title to the property. Prior to sale, delinquent taxes may be paid online from your bank account or credit card by visiting cookcountytreasurer.com. Personal, company, and business checks will be accepted only through April 12, 2019. After April 12, 2019, all payments must be made by certified check, cashier’s check, money order, cash, or credit card. Please note that under Illinois law, the Treasurer’s Office cannot accept payments of delinquent taxes tendered after the close of the business day immediately preceding the date on which such taxes are to be offered for sale. For questions about submitting a payment or to verify the precise delinquent amount, you may contact the Cook County Treasurer’s Office by phone at (312) 443-5100 or by e-mail through our website at www.cookcountytreasurer.com (click on “CONTACT US BY EMAIL”).
SALE BEGINS FRIDAY MAY 3, 2019, AT 8:30 A.M. THE TAX SALE HOURS OF OPERATION ARE 8:30 A.M. TO 5:00 P.M. (CHICAGO LOCAL TIME) EACH SCHEDULED DAY. THE DATES OF SALE AND THE DAILY SALE HOURS MAY BE EXTENDED AS NEEDED. TAX BUYER REGISTRATION WILL TAKE PLACE BETWEEN MARCH 8 AND APRIL 23, 2019. FOR REGISTRATION INFORMATION, VISIT WWW.COOKTAXSALE.COM OR CONTACT THE TREASURER’S OFFICE. SALE DATE
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TOWNSHIP/CITY
May 3, 2019
001 TO 147 Barrington, Berwyn, Bloom, Bremen, Calumet, Cicero, Elk Grove, Evanston, Hanover, Lemont, Leyden, Lyons, Maine, New Trier, Niles, Northfield, Norwood Park, Oak Park, Orland
May 6, 2019
148 TO 270 Palatine, Palos, Proviso, Rich, River Forest, Riverside, Schaumburg, Stickney, Thornton, Wheeling, Worth, Hyde Park
May 7, 2019
271 TO 464 Hyde Park, Jefferson, Lake
May 8, 2019
465 TO 601 Lake, Lake View, North Chicago, Rogers Park, South Chicago, West Chicago
COOK COUNTY DELINQUENT REAL ESTATE TAX LIST OFFICE OF THE TREASURER AND EX-OFFICIO COLLECTOR OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS. Advertisement and Notice by Collector of Cook County of Application for Judgment and Order of Sale of Delinquent Lands and Lots for General Taxes for the years indicated, for order of sales thereof, as provided by law. COUNTY OF COOK, STATE OF ILLINOIS March 6-7, 2019 NOTICE is hereby given that the said Collector of Cook County, Illinois, will apply to the County Division of the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois on Monday, April 1, 2019, for judgment against all lands and lots, hereinafter described as being delinquent, upon which taxes (together with any accrued interest and costs) remain due and unpaid, for an order for sale of said lands and lots for satisfaction thereof, fixing the correct amount due. Final entry of said order will be sought on Monday, April 29, 2019. NOTICE is further given that beginning on the 3rd day of May, 2019, A.D., at the hour of 8:30 A.M., all said lands and lots, hereinafter described for sale for which an order shall be made, or has been made and not executed as noted, will be subject to public sale at 118 N. Clark St, Room 112 (Ran-
dolph Street entrance), in Chicago, Illinois, for the amount of taxes, interest and costs due thereon, respectively. The following is a list of the delinquent properties in Cook County upon which the taxes or any part thereof for the 2017 tax year remain due and unpaid; the name(s) of the owners, if known; the property location; the total amount due on 2017 tax warrants (excluding delinquent special assessments separately advertised); and the year or years for which the taxes are due. In lieu of legal description, each parcel of land or lot is designated by a property index number (PIN). Comparison of the 14-digit PIN with the legal description of any parcel may be made by referring to the cross-indices in the various Cook County offices. The Cook County Collector does not guarantee the accuracy of common street addresses or property classification codes at the time of sale. Tax buyers should verify all common street addresses, PINs, classifications, and ownership by personal inspection and investigation of said properties and legal descriptions prior to purchasing general taxes offered at the sale. NO TAX BUYER WILL BE PERMITTED TO OBTAIN A TAX DEED WITH RESPECT TO ANY PROPERTY OWNED BY A TAXING DISTRICT OR OTHER UNIT OF GOVERNMENT. WHEN AN ORDER TO VACATE THE TAX SALE OF ANY SUCH PROPERTY IS ENTERED, THE FINAL RESULT MAY BE A REFUND WITHOUT INTEREST.
DELINQUENT PROPERTY TAX LIST as of February 13, 2019 TAX PAYER NAME
PROPERTY ADDRESS
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TAX DUE
OAK PARK - RESIDENTIAL 1223 N HARVEY AVE 1219 N LOMBARD AVE 1231 N TAYLOR AVE 6 LE MOYNE PKY 1428 N AUSTIN BLVD 1043 MAPLETON AVE 2 DIVISION ST 831 N HUMPHREY AVE 7 DIVISION ST 1030 N AUSTIN BLVD 1032 N AUSTIN BLVD 208 IOWA ST 213 W AUGUSTA BLVD 51 AUGUSTA ST 300 CHICAGO AVE 511 N HARVEY AVE 536 N TAYLOR AVE 830 N AUSTIN BLVD 514 N HUMPHREY AVE 828 N AUSTIN BLVD 824 N AUSTIN BLVD 824 N AUSTIN BLVD 1234 N KENILWORTH AVE 1224 N KENILWORTH AVE 1443 N HARLEM AVE 1409 N HARLEM AVE 1339 N HARLEM AVE 1301 N HARLEM AVE 1331 N HARLEM AVE 1341 N HARLEM AVE 1018 N KENILWORTH AVE 1018 N GROVE AVE 1217 N HARLEM AVE 1217 N HARLEM AVE 936 FOREST AVE 6539 NORTH AVE 1234 ROSSELL AVE 1133 ROSSELL AVE 913 LINDEN AVE 933 DIVISION ST 827 N GROVE AVE 1047 N HARLEM AVE 1037 N HARLEM AVE 1120 PAULINA ST 636 BELLEFORTE AVE
138 138 138 138 138 138 138 138 138 138 138 138 138 138 138 138 138 138 138 138 138 138 139 139 139 139 139 139 139 139 139 139 139 139 139 139 139 139 139 140 140 140 140 140 140
16-05-101-022-0000 16-05-102-021-0000 16-05-104-016-0000 16-05-106-031-0000 16-05-113-019-0000 16-05-115-013-0000 16-05-127-042-0000 16-05-306-025-0000 16-05-307-035-1002 16-05-314-031-1004 16-05-314-031-1007 16-05-317-036-0000 16-05-317-040-0000 16-05-319-004-0000 16-05-321-034-1003 16-05-322-026-0000 16-05-325-004-0000 16-05-326-018-0000 16-05-326-033-0000 16-05-326-034-1005 16-05-326-035-1008 16-05-326-035-1010 16-06-105-014-0000 16-06-105-016-0000 16-06-107-037-0000 16-06-107-073-0000 16-06-113-035-1007 16-06-113-037-1013 16-06-113-038-1007 16-06-113-039-1012 16-06-118-008-0000 16-06-119-008-0000 16-06-120-029-0000 16-06-120-044-1002 16-06-123-019-0000 16-06-204-010-0000 16-06-207-012-0000 16-06-214-015-0000 16-06-225-022-0000 16-06-303-017-0000 16-06-305-020-0000 16-06-307-034-1018 16-06-307-034-1030 16-06-316-016-0000 16-06-319-005-0000
PROPERTY ADDRESS
VOL
PIN
850 N OAK PARK AVE 704 FAIR OAKS AVE 535 FAIR OAKS AVE 515 N RIDGELAND AVE 412 N MARION ST 917 CHICAGO AVE 433 N OAK PARK AVE 1148 ONTARIO ST 515 N HARLEM AVE 222 N MARION ST 219 N OAK PARK AVE 1103 HOLLEY CT 921 ONTARIO ST 938 NORTH BLVD 938 NORTH BLVD 922 NORTH BLVD 922 NORTH BLVD 817 LAKE ST 228 N OAK PARK AVE 155 LINDEN AVE 175 LINDEN AVE 644 LAKE ST 644 LAKE ST 163 N RIDGELAND AVE 104 WRIGHT LN 200 HOME AVE 337 S MAPLE AVE 317 WISCONSIN AVE 1008 WASHINGTON BLVD 1025 RANDOLPH ST 1036 WASHINGTON BLVD 938 WASHINGTON BLVD 415 S MAPLE AVE 415 S MAPLE AVE 405 S MAPLE AVE 438 S MAPLE AVE 417 WISCONSIN AVE 1041 SUSAN COLLINS L 420 HOME AVE 428 S KENILWORTH AVE 420 S KENILWORTH AVE 408 S GROVE AVE 141 WESLEY AVE 605 SOUTH BLVD 110 S EAST AVE 116 S EAST AVE 113 S SCOVILLE AVE
140 16-06-400-001-0000 140 16-06-411-009-0000 140 16-06-422-012-0000 140 16-06-424-021-0000 141 16-07-102-035-1009 141 16-07-103-044-0000 141 16-07-105-037-0000 141 16-07-109-015-1006 141 16-07-109-016-1007 141 16-07-111-012-1041 141 16-07-117-010-1030 141 16-07-119-025-1032 141 16-07-121-042-0000 141 16-07-128-032-1001 141 16-07-128-032-1009 141 16-07-128-033-1034 141 16-07-128-033-1060 141 16-07-129-034-1019 141 16-07-212-010-1093 141 16-07-219-016-0000 141 16-07-219-027-1002 141 16-07-219-028-1001 141 16-07-219-028-1007 141 16-07-223-015-0000 141 16-07-225-070-0000 141 16-07-310-027-1011 141 16-07-314-023-1002 141 16-07-315-027-1005 141 16-07-316-049-1011 141 16-07-316-052-1012 141 16-07-316-053-1023 141 16-07-317-027-1017 141 16-07-321-020-1001 141 16-07-321-020-1007 141 16-07-321-021-1007 141 16-07-322-038-1002 141 16-07-322-061-1034 141 16-07-323-055-1020 141 16-07-324-033-1011 141 16-07-326-005-0000 141 16-07-326-025-1003 141 16-07-327-020-1014 142 16-07-401-026-0000 142 16-07-402-049-0000 142 16-07-403-043-1005 142 16-07-403-043-1052 142 16-07-403-045-1012
TAX TYPE TAX YEAR
TAX DUE
OAK PARK - RESIDENTIAL
TOWNSHIP OF OAK PARK ZENOBIA FERRELL ERIN E FRUTH HELENA BATHER PALAJI BROTHERS & POLL SAMUEL A HARTZOG CONSTANCE M RAKITAN JOY PETTIGREW ARTHUR R FOGG VERELL LYON VANESSA RANKINS GLENDYN BECK JOHNSON JULIANNE KOSTOLANSKY MARHTA A POGUE REVOCAB JEANINE L SMITH JUAREZ & GONZALEZ J D PRINCEWILL CHRISTOPHER J HANSON DANIEL LOISI ACE PROPERTY GROUP LLC DOROTHY REID DENISE M GLAB NATASHA PALMER CHARLIE ROBINSON JOHN D TRILIK MARIE LOUISE SETTEM SHARON D DESHAZER MARCUS D ROYAL ANNA M ALMADA TILISHA HARRISON SYRITHA JOHNSON JOSEPH BARCIA J & N KERSTEN WALSH MONIQUE MANDERSON KAREN TELLEZ IRVING R GOLDEN TONY VILLASENOR ANNE LUCIER SHEILA ESSIG ROBERT SOTO K & J KONECKI A C CRAWFORD ENEA LAKO ENEA LAKO MARK CAPPELLI RICHARD MANETTI
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$1,361.01 $260.64 $1,511.65 $1,678.09 $171.16 $1,626.69 $741.72 $19,744.18 $836.20 $1,777.33 $8,043.46 $2,291.54 $3,971.95 $6,806.15 $5,471.14 $4,893.35 $1,000.00 $14,398.79 $8,774.61 $2,570.72 $10,365.96 $114.62 $249.18 $11,088.93 $3,476.73 $5,655.77 $701.66 $2,414.79 $1,992.39 $3,453.95 $311.91 $7,746.46 $4,355.63 $7,093.74 $17,150.79 $4,949.16 $511.78 $7,773.82 $6,000.00 $1,286.59 $10,663.83 $7,422.61 $6,168.74 $4,830.95 $7,056.39 $3,303.60 $2,966.32 $3,575.69 $5,410.24 $9,751.58 $2,211.81 $2,483.14 $14,626.27 $5,092.94 $554.28 $2,779.52 $245.28 $642.95 $8,460.88 $8,380.42 $6,300.40 $8,293.05 $4,766.20 $2,461.24 $2,765.16 $179.45 $770.24 $10,719.55 $9,516.91 $1,174.97 $1,498.00 $1,862.48 $13,415.22 $7,970.96 $5,376.59 $1,584.28 $2,368.63 $258.88 $283.36 $281.37 $277.61 $277.61 $4,878.59
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2017 2017 2017 2017 2017 2017 2017 2017
$13,060.27 $18,711.13 $18,711.13 $18,711.13 $6,236.45 $35,532.50 $11,090.52 $4,250.76
OAK PARK - COMMERCIAL/INDUSTRIAL ROBERT & MARCELLA GRAY 1120 CLUB LLC 1120 CLUB LLC 1120 CLUB LLC 1120 CLUB LLC AJAY BHATIA STEVE FOLEY CADILLAC STEVE FOLEY CADILLAC
PROPERTY ADDRESS
VOL
PIN
TAX TYPE TAX YEAR
TAX DUE
658 MADISON ST 656 MADISON ST 652 MADISON ST 646 MADISON ST 640 MADISON ST 165 N LOMBARD AVE 416 N AUSTIN BLVD 301 SOUTH BLVD 238 MADISON ST 6336 ROOSEVELT RD 6136 ROOSEVELT RD 901 MADISON ST 711 MADISON ST 917 S OAK PARK AVE 917 S OAK PARK AVE
142 142 142 142 142 142 142 142 142 143 143 144 144 145 145
16-07-419-019-0000 16-07-419-020-0000 16-07-419-021-0000 16-07-419-022-0000 16-07-419-023-0000 16-08-120-015-0000 16-08-123-027-0000 16-08-300-009-0000 16-08-319-026-0000 16-17-324-036-0000 16-17-328-034-0000 16-18-105-012-0000 16-18-201-032-0000 16-18-307-035-1001 16-18-307-035-1002
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$4,873.11 $4,873.11 $8,499.69 $66,166.90 $132,109.84 $12,352.77 $14,592.90 $9,130.22 $10,025.64 $25,628.41 $11,336.95 $11,868.04 $206,427.89 $10,362.15 $9,700.87
603 LAKE ST 1011 W SOUTH BLVD
141 141
16-07-225-064-0000 16-07-302-041-0000
0 0
2017 2017
$4,256.85 $1,528.51
OAK PARK - COMMERCIAL/INDUSTRIAL
OAK PARK - RESIDENTIAL ROGER A LUPEI LAURA MURRAY ARTHUR OGORZALEK TAXPAYER OF PATRICIA G NICHOLS CLAUDIA BERMAN JOHN QUINTANA WILLA SPENCER JOHN LONGINOTTI RICHARD A KOCUREK TRUS JAMESA HARPER DANA SHEPPARD L CAMERON CHAPMAN CHICAGO CONTRUCTION TM MARIA R ORTIZ CATHERINE JOHNSON VALERIE G TAYLOR D BRENT POPE HESLEY MARGUERITE & D KENNETH PINKINS CARLOS WM BEDROSSIAN JESSIE G ROYSTER YVETTE SPENCER SELECT DEVELOPMENT LLP SCOTT KOTALIK YORDANA MIHAYLOVA MARICHU GASTALA LAVINIA HUSBANDS TODD MCEWAN PAUL PUNKE FOX PARTNERS L.P. YVES HUGHES KALEKYE MUSAY TERRY HOLLEY NEW WAY INVEST AN IL C ECHELON RTY INVESTRP RESHMA & ALICE DESAI THE GOTHAM INVEST ORPO FESTUS SEGBAWU CLADY G FARKASCHEK GARY G KUPCZAK CLIFFORD T OSBORN THERESA LOCELSO 1138 LOMBARD LLC JOHN A KEARNEY JULIA SCOTT ROBERT P BAPES PETER BATJES JR BILLIE DOVE OWENS MANEESAK PIMSARN EMILY J TELLERS CLEMENT J KAYES EUGENIA PHILLIPS JOSEPH SHAW BLL DEVELOPMENT LAURA VILLALOBOS VELEGAR PERAMBAKAM RALPH LOZANO LINDA S TRILIK INVESTQUEST PARTNERS H LINDA ANNE MILES M MAYER & E IZOTOV NILES CONSTRUCTION NILES CONSTRUCTION J LEONARD CALDEIRA J LEONARD CALDEIRA DEBRA GEBIEN FRANK P MUCHIA ZEEGAR PROP SERIES 4 ETHAN & MADIGAN KENT DENISE A KRANZ ROSE LEE CLIFFORD T OSBORN PATIENCE CLARK KEYS ALDO & LIZ ZANINOTTO AGUEDA KIBIR VIP REAL ESTATE LTD VIP REAL ESTATE LTD LOURDES MARTINEZ LOURDES MARTINEZ CURTIS & A START VIP REAL ESTATE LTD MEL KRUMDICK
TAX PAYER NAME
6549 NORTH AVE 1116 LAKE ST 1116 LAKE ST 1116 LAKE ST 1116 LAKE ST 107 N OAK PARK AVE 666 MADISON ST 660 MADISON ST
16-06-204-005-0000 16-07-119-035-1002 16-07-119-035-1003 16-07-119-035-1004 16-07-119-035-1005 16-07-129-036-1003 16-07-419-017-0000 16-07-419-018-0000
STEVE FOLEY CADILLAC STEVE FOLEY CADILLAC STEVE FOLEY CADILLAC STEVE FOLEY CADILLAC STEVE FOLEY CADILLAC ROSHAN MAWANI AUSTIN OAKPARK REAL ES TOM KOULOURIS SUN TOK KIM LARRY DANTONIO F M ALL INC MEV OAK PARK LLC STEVE FOLEY CADILLAC GAD GROUP TECHNOLOGY DACIA MED PROF CORP
OAK PARK - VACANT LAND TAXPAYER OF ARTHUR GUREVICH
Published by order of
MARIA PAPPAS County Collector of Cook County, Illinois
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COMMUNITY RELATIONS INTERN The Village of Oak Park is seeking qualified candidates for the position of Community Relations Intern in the Community Relations Department. This is a seasonal position will provide assistance to the Community Relations Department provides intake and referral services for residents to community resources, assists in investigations of landlord/ tenant complaints, etc. Applicants are encouraged to visit the Village of Oak Park’s website http:// www.oakpark.us/. Interested and qualified applicants must complete a Village of Oak Park application no later than March 22, 2019.
ENGINEERING TECHNICIAN The Village of Oak Park is seeking qualified candidates for the position of Engineering Technician I in the Public Works Department. This employee performs technical engineering support tasks; prepares preliminary designs through final plans and technical drafts; makes complex calculations for various public works projects; and performs a variety of field inspections. Applicants are encouraged to visit the Village of Oak Park’s website http://www. oak-park.us/jobs. Interested and qualified applicants must complete a Village of Oak Park application no later than March 11, 2019.
HELP WANTED /EDUCATION Skills Tutoring Center in Riverside has part-time positions open for tutors and for light office work. Background checks are required. Please contact Bridget 708-447-8200 or skillstutoringcenter@gmail.com
PART-TIME COMMUNITY SERVICE COORDINATOR The Village of Oak Park is seeking qualified candidates for the position of Part-Time Community Service Coordinator in the Adjudication Department. This person monitors individuals who have been ordered to provide community service in the Village, coordinates with organizations that provide community service opportunities, etc. Applicants are encouraged to visit the Village of Oak Park’s website http://www.oakpark.us/. Interested and qualified applicants must complete a Village of Oak Park application no later than March 22, 2019.
AUSTIN CLEAN ROOM With fridge, micro. Nr Oak Park, Super Walmart, Food 4 Less, bus, & Metra. $116/wk and up. 773-637-5957
DRIVER Part Time Belmont Village Senior Living-Oak Park Fridays & Saturdays 8a to 5p; $12/hr As the Driver you will transport residents on outings via the Belmont Village Oak Park vehicle. IL Driver’s License with a clean driving record and exceptional customer service skills required. Apply in person: 1035 Madison Street-Oak Park, IL or Online: www.belmontvillagejobs.com.
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH INTERN The Village of Oak Park is seeking qualified candidates for the position of Environmental Health Intern in the Health Department. This fulltime seasonal position will provide assistance to the Environmental Health Practitioners in the inspection and local businesses, homes and other establishments to enforce state and local laws and ordinances related to public Health safety; to respond and resolve citizen complaints regarding nuisances and reported epidemics. . Applicants are encouraged to visit the Village of Oak Park’s website http://www.oakpark.us/. Interested and qualified applicants must complete a Village of Oak Park application no later than April 5, 2019.
ACCOUNTING CLERK Responsibilities: Qualifications: • Accounting duties • Previous experience in accounting, finance, or other related fields • Process invoices accurately and timely • High level of accuracy in data entry skills • Check the accuracy of business transactions • Ability to prioritize and multitask • Perform data entry and adminis• Strong organizational skills trative duties • Deadline and detail-oriented • Preparation of payable checks • Proficient in Microsoft Excel • Posting of checks and ACH • Proficient in QuickBooks payments Benefits: • Create, edit and update spreadMedical, Vision, Dental, Life Insursheets in excel ance, Short-term and Long-term • Daily, weekly and monthly disability and retirement plans. reporting Candidates will be tested on all skillset. Qualified Candidates should send their resumes and salary requirements to job.post.chicago@gmail.com BOOKKEEPER Responsibilities: Qualifications: • Bookkeeping duties • 2+ years Previous experience in accounting, finance, or other • Obtain primary financial data for related fields accounting records • Fundamental knowledge of • Process invoices accurately and GAAP timely • High level of accuracy in data • Check the accuracy of business entry skills transactions • Ability to prioritize and multitask • Perform data entry and administrative duties • Strong organizational skills • Preparation of payable checks • Deadline and detail-oriented • Auditing as needed • Proficient in Microsoft Excel • Posting of checks • Proficient in QuickBooks • Create, edit and update spreadBenefits: sheets in excel Medical, Vision, Dental, Life Insur• Create and manage Purchase ance, Short-term and Long-term Orders disability and retirement plans. • Daily, weekly and monthly reporting Candidates will be tested on all skillset. Qualified Candidates should send their resumes and salary requirements to job.post.chicago@gmail.com
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VILLAGE OF RIVERSIDE SEASONAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY The Riverside Department of Public Works is seeking applicants for part-time, seasonal employment from approximately April through September. Duties are primarily outdoors and include landscape, streets, building and water/sewer maintenance and other duties as assigned. Hours of work are Monday through Friday 7:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Applicants must be at least 18 years old, possess a valid Illinois Driver’s License and a high school diploma or equivalent. Applicants will be subject to a criminal background check, pre-employment physical and drug/ alcohol screen. Applications will be received until all positions are filled. Applications are available for download from the Village web site–www.riverside.il.us or can be obtained at Riverside Village Hall, 27 Riverside Road, Riverside, IL 60546. Completed applications should be submitted to Riverside Village Hall. The Village of Riverside is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
CITY RENTALS AUSTIN VILLAGE APARTMENT 5937 W MIDWAY PKWY Clean 1BR apt, 1/2 blk from OP Green Line & shops. 3rd flr. $785/ mo. Heat not included. 708-383-9223 DELUXE GARDEN APT 5955 W HURON Large 2BR, 4 room apt. Newly decorated. Near West Suburban Hospital. Near all public trans. Rent includes all util. plus laundry facilities avail. $1050/mo. Call 773-6378677 for appt. Wednesday Classified 3 Great Papers, 6 Communities To Place Your Ad, Call: 708/613-3333
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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
SPACE FOR RENT OAK PARK SPACE FOR RENT
Massage rooms for rent. Looking for Licensed Massage Therapist & Licensed Esthetician. Must have state licensed & carry own liability insurance. $500 a month. 312-203-1276.
OFFICE SPACE FOR RENT Forest Park
7740 Madison Street 1200 sq. ft. of built-out office space with parking in front. $1,750 per month
Strand & Browne 708-488-0011 THERAPY OFFICES FOR RENT
Therapy offices for rent in north Oak Park. Rehabbed building. Nicely furnished. Flexible leasing. Free parking; Free wifi; Secure building; Friendly colleagues providing referrals. Shared Waiting room; optional Conference room. Call or email with questions. Shown on Sundays. Lee 708.383.0729 drlmadden@ameritech.net
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ITEMS FOR SALE FUTON Black futon, excellent condition. Black metal frame. $35. 708-488-8755
WANTED TO BUY BUYING VINYL RECORDS! Hello, I am interested in buying your old 33 1/3’s, 45’s and 78’s and some cds/cassettes. I’m looking for soul, r&b, hip hop, reggae, latin, african, electro/disco/ house/techno, jazz, soundtracks, psych rock, garage, punk, indie, old school country (bluegrass, honky tonk, rockabilly). If interested in your records I will offer you a very fair price!!! Call Andy 773-241-0929. 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
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CLEANING Pam’s A+ Cleaning Service
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Roofing Repairs Concrete Repairs • Drywall All types of handiwork Call For Free Estimates
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Appliances & Furniture Removal Pickup & Delivery. 708-848-9404
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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: Y19000578 on February 13, 2019. Under the Assumed Business Name of LENDEZ with the business located at: 2429 S 2ND AVE, NORTH RIVERSIDE, IL 60546. The true and real full name(s) and residence address of the owner(s)/ partner(s) is: RICHARD ALVAREZ 2429 S 2ND AVE NORTH RIVERSIDE, IL 60546. Published in RB Landmark 2/20, 2/27, 3/6/2019
LEGAL NOTICE 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 Thursday evening, March 21, 2019 at 7:00 p.m. in Room 101 of the Village Hall, 123 Madison St., Oak Park, Illinois on the following matter: Cal. No. 01-19-DRC: 1133 South Boulevard, Lincoln Property Company Property Index Number 16-07-301-001-0000 The Applicant Lincoln Property Company is seeking variations from the following sections of the Sign Code of the Village of Oak Park, to permit the installation of two (2) projecting signs, one on the west elevation and one on the north elevation of the building, and two (2) wall signs, one on the north elevation and one on the south elevation of the building at the premises commonly known as 1133 South Boulevard, Oak Park, IL. 1. Section 7-7-15 (B) (1) (c), which section requires that the maximum area of a projecting signs located within the Corridor Commercial Sign Overlay District shall not exceed 32 square feet; whereas the proposal features two 85.25 square feet projecting signs, one of the west elevation and one on the north elevation of the building; and 2. Section 7.7.15 (B) (4), which section requires that the top of projecting signs shall not be higher than 20 feet above a thoroughfare; whereas the proposal features two projecting signs located approximately 50 feet above the thoroughfare; and 3. Section 7.7.15 (D) (5), which section requires that wall signs shall be located on the sign frieze or the sign band of the building immediately above the first floor window and below the second floor window sills in the case of a two-story building; whereas the proposal features two wall signs, one on the north elevation and one on the south elevation located above the second floor window sill; and 4. Section 7.7.15 (D) (1) (b), which section requires that wall signs shall only be located along building elevations with street frontage; whereas the proposal features a wall sign along the south elevation of the building that does not have street elevation. All papers in connection with the above matter are on file at the Village of Oak Park and available for examination by interested parties by contacting the Zoning Administrator at 708.358.5449. DATED AT OAK PARK, ILLINOIS, this 6th Day of March, 2019 Published in Wednesday Journal 3/6/2019
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PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO BIDDERS AND INVITATION FOR BIDS VILLAGE OF BROOKFIELD ROOF REPLACEMENT– BROOKFIELD DOWNTOWN METRA STATION RECEIPT OF BIDS: The Village 2019 at 11:00 a.m. Interested parof Brookfield, Illinois will receive ties may attend to tour the site. sealed proposals for the removal and replacement of the asphalt QUESTIONS, CHANGES, shingle roof on the Brookfield CLARIFICATION: Any questions Downtown Metra Station until 3:00 that arise must be made in writing P.M. Central Daylight Savings Time, and shall be directed by electronMarch 22, 2019, at the Office of the ic mail to Carl Muell, Director of Village Manager, 8820 Brookfield Public Works, and at the Village Avenue, Brookfield, Illinois 60513, of Brookfield, 4545 Eberly Avenue, immediately after which time bids Brookfield, Illinois 60513; Telephone will be opened and publicly read (708) 485-2540; Fax (708) 485aloud. The Brookfield Downtown 6575; Email–cmuell@brookfieldil. Metra Station is located at 8858 gov. Questions sent by email must Burlington Avenue, Brookfield, “carbon copy� (CC) Michael Bretz Illinois. and Nicholas Greifer of the Village of Brookfield, MBretz@brookfieldil. CONTRACT DOCUMENTS: gov and NGreifer@brookfieldil.gov. Specifications and bid forms may The written questions, along with be obtained from the Office of the the Village’s responses, shall be Village Manager, at 8820 Brookfield circulated to all known potential Avenue, Brookfield, Illinois 60513; bidders without identifying the party Telephone (708) 485-7344. No bidsubmitting the questions. ding documents will be issued after 4:30 P.M. on March 15, 2019. Bid The cut-off for receipt of emailed proposals must be submitted on questions shall be 3:00 P.M., the forms provided. Submission of Central Daylight Savings Time on a bid shall be conclusive assurMarch 15, 2019, in order to faciliance and warranty that the bidder tate preparation of any addenda. has examined the plans, the site No inquiry received after that time of the work and the local conwill be given consideration. Replies ditions affecting the contract and and/or addenda will be electroniunderstands all of the requirements cally mailed to all known potential for performance of the work. The contractors by 4:00 P.M., Central bidder will be responsible for all Daylight Savings Time on March errors in its proposal resulting from 18, 2018. Receipt of any addenda failure or neglect to conduct an must be acknowledged in writing in-depth examination. The Village as part of the Bidder’s Proposal. of Brookfield will, in no case, be Bidders shall be responsible for responsible for any costs, expensensuring that they have received es, losses or changes in anticiany and all addenda. pated profits resulting from such failure or neglect of the bidder. RIGHT TO REJECT BIDS: The The bidder shall not take advanVillage of Brookfield reserves the tage of any error or omission in right to waive technicalities and the plans or proposal. Sealed to reject any and all proposals for envelopes or packages containany reason. ing bids shall be addressed to the Village Manager and plainly AWARD OF CONTRACT: Unless marked “BID PROPOSAL FOR all bids are rejected, the contract ROOF REPLACEMENT–Brookfield award will be made to the lowest Downtown Metra Station� on the responsive responsible bidder that outside of the envelope. the Village of Brookfield in its sole PRE-BID MEETING: An optional discretion determines to be in the best interest of the village. pre-bid meeting will be held at the Brookfield Metra Station located at Village of Brookfield, Illinois 8858 Burlington Brookfield Avenue, Brookfield, Illinois on March 13, Tim Wiberg, Village Manager Published in RB Landmark 3/6/2019
REAL ESTATE FOR SALE LEGAL NOTICE The Village of Oak Park will receive sealed proposals at the Public Works Service Center, 201 South Boulevard, Oak Park, Illinois 60302, until 3:00 p.m. on Wednesday, March 20, 2019 for the following: PROPOSAL # 19-107 2019 Dumping of Spoils per ton Bid forms may be obtained at the Public Works Center at the address listed above between the hours of 7:30 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. or by calling 708-358-5700. Information is also available from Diane Stanislavski, dstanislavski@oakpark.us or on the Village’s website http://www.oak-park.us/yourgovernment/finance-department. The Village of Oak Park Published in Wednesday Journal 3/6/2019
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO WELLS FARGO BANK SOUTHWEST, N.A. F/K/A WACHOVIA MORTGAGE, FSB F/K/A WORLD SAVINGS BANK, FSB Plaintiff, -v.JOHN E. STROTH, VILLAGE OF OAK PARK, WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. Defendants 18 CH 05417 520 N. OAK PARK 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 January 3, 2019, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at
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Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 520 N. OAK PARK AVENUE, OAK PARK, IL 60302 Property Index No. 16-06-419-006. The real estate is improved with a residence. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial Sale fee for the Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS� condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g) (4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/ 18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. For information, examine the court file or contact Plaintiff’s attorney: CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C.,
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15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876 Please refer to file number 14-18-04360. 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. 14-18-04360 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 18 CH 05417 TJSC#: 39-187 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. I3112799
Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 205 S HARVEY AVE, OAK PARK, IL 60302 Property Index No. 16-08-307016-0000. 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 the Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property
Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g) (4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/ 18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. For information, examine the court file 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 14-17-18077. 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. 14-17-18077 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 18 CH 00566 TJSC#: 39-958 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. I3113082
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION CITIZENS BANK NA F/K/A RBS CITIZENS NA SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO CHARTER ONE BANK, F.S.B. Plaintiff, -v.EDNA R. MCCOY, CHICAGO TITLE LAND TRUST COMPANY SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE TO LASALLE BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE U/T/A DATED 10/17/1990 A/K/ A TRUST NO. 1182-CH, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants 18 CH 00566 205 S HARVEY 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 October 1, 2018, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on March 19, 2019, at The
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Fenwick can’t overcome Curie in regional final Friars finish with 18 wins and carry bright outlook into next season
By MARTY FARMER Sports Editor
First-year Fenwick boys basketball head coach Staunton Peck appreciated the good fortune of hosting a Class 4A regional this season. He said before the state playoffs began, “We host a regional here so I like our chances. Being at home in the playoffs always helps.” However, he also knew that the Fenwick Regional presented a pair of very difficult Chicago Public League opponents in nationally-ranked Curie (31-1) and well-regarded Kenwood. After holding off Kenwood in the regional semifinals, the Friars’ season came to an abrupt end via a 76-51 loss against Curie. Led by Kansas State recruit DaJuan Gordon, 6-foot-4 Ramean Hinton, and guards Trevon Hamilton and Damari Nixon, Curie’s athleticism, size and speed overwhelmed Fenwick in the regional championship game. Star sophomore Bryce Hopkins led Fenwick with 13 points and six rebounds, while senior guard Solomon Oraegbu contributed 12 points and three assists. “We knew going into the Curie game it wasn’t going to be easy, but we were very prepared and knew what to expect,” Fen-
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Fenwick senior Lucas Kolovitz (#10) dribbles towards the basket in a 76-51 loss against Curie in the Class 4A playoffs. wick freshman guard Trey Pettigrew said. “We started off strong, but Curie hit some big shots down the stretch. It slipped away from us toward the end.” Against Kenwood, Hopkins scored a game-high 29 points to power the Friars past the Broncos. Oraegbu contributed 18 points. Seryee Lewis and Artese Stapleton led
Kenwood with 16 points apiece. Under the direction of Peck, Fenwick (1814) produced a number of memorable moments this season, including a buzzer-beating win over OPRF, courtesy of a layup by Hopkins, as well as late-season victories over top 25 teams Brother Rice and St. Laurence. The Friars also finished fourth at the 58th
Proviso West Holiday Tournament with victories over Dunbar and Hillcrest. Fenwick turned in competitive efforts in close losses to Proviso West Sectional qualifiers Riverside-Brookfield and Whitney Young as well. In the aforementioned signature win against OPRF at the Chicago Elite Classic in early December, Hopkins recorded a doubledouble of 30 points and 13 rebounds as the Friars pulled out a 66-65 overtime victory at Wintrust Arena in Chicago. “My mindset was to keep on fighting,” Hopkins said after the game. “Last year, we lost to OPRF for the first time in six years. We had to remember that and keep on fighting. I’m going to remember this and keep on fighting so that I could do this again.” While Fenwick will lose Oraegbu, forward Lucas Kolovitz and guard Ryan Jackson to graduation, Hopkins, Pettigrew, Kaden Cobb and Sean Walsh return next season to lead the Friars. “Me and the other younger guys got a chance to play at a high level with our older teammates guiding the way this season,” Pettigrew said. “We’re excited for next year because now we have experience. We’re looking to put the work in during the offseason to come back stronger next season. We want to get back to the same position as this season, but come away with the win next year.”
Sports Trivia Night scores big for charity St. Giles Men’s Society Sports Trivia celebrates 11th year, raises another $40,000 By MATT BARON Contributor
What is the name of the collection of sports trivia savants who, for the fifth year in a row, won the St. Giles Men’s Society Sports Trivia contest on Saturday, March 2? Answer: “Popeye Jones Ugly Bros.” In the 11th annual edition of this hugely popular event, captain Mark Luptak, along with Ryan Luptak, Paul Goodman, Joe Goodman, Jeff Chierici and Mike McLenighan, ran circles around the rest of the field at Trinity High School in River Forest. Their 163 points (out of a possible 184) put an exclamation point on their dominance, which has extended to six titles in seven years. The runner-up, for the third consecutive year, was a group dubbed One True Team. Overall, 102 teams (up to six players per team) competed for bragging rights as they
were put to the test by the Sports Trivia Night Committee. That volunteer group is a collection of 15 St. Giles men who over the past year brainstormed more than 100 original questions worth 184 total points across a variety of categories to test trivia enthusiasts’ memories and mettle. Most importantly, it raised approximately $40,000 for an extremely worthy cause: Christ the King Jesuit College Preparatory School’s Corporate Work-Study program. Over the past three years, the event has generated about $120,000 for the program. According to the school’s web site, the program “allows students to earn the majority of the cost of their education by working five days a month at Chicago-area businesses, law firms, banks, hospitals and nonprofits. This model allows tuition payments to remain affordable while providing funding for a safe, faith-based environment with
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For the past five years, Popeye Jones Ugly Bros. have won the St. Giles Men’s Society Sports Trivia contest. They are (left to right) Jeff Chierici, Mike McLenighan, Ryan Luptak, Mark Luptak, Joe Goodman, and Paul Goodman. rigorous college prep academics.” Last year’s graduating class continued the school’s tradition of 100 percent college acceptance rate for every graduate since 2011, three years after the school was founded with 120 freshmen. For the third year in a row, all the grads were accepted into a fouryear university. The Sports Trivia event has a sterling philanthropic history of its own. For its first nine years, it was held at St. Giles, 1045 Columbian Ave. in Oak Park—the first
six years at McDonough Hall and the next three years in the gymnasium. But steady growth from an inaugural field of 14 teams has prompted the move to Trinity the past two years. Sponsorships, raffles, and silent auction tallies are still coming in, so this year’s final fund-raising tally has yet to be pinpointed. Keep an eye out for updates on that detail, as well as next year’s contest date and a summary of past years’ efforts at http://www. stgilessportstrivia.com.
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Conference champs from page 52 first quarter. The Dukes countered with a 19-4 run to start the second quarter that put them ahead to stay at 25-16. The Huskies scored the quarter’s final six points to cut the deficit to 25-22 at halftime. OPRF trimmed the York lead further to 28-26 within the first 75 seconds of the third quarter. That was as close as the Huskies would get however as the Dukes scored 13 of the next 17 points to take a double-digit lead at 41-30. York made five three-pointers, including three by Erik Cohn, to build a 4836 lead at the end of the third. Nick Kosich attributed the pivotal third quarter to the Dukes’ improved defense. “Honestly, we played better defense in the second half than we did the first,” Kosich said. ANTHONY ROBERTS “We focused on OPRF senior clogging up the gaps and helping out. Our defense was huge. It allowed us to have open looks on the other end, which we knocked down.” With a little under six minutes left in the game, OPRF senior Dan Francis nailed a three to pull the Huskies within 52-44. York promptly responded with a 13-1 run to essentially put the game away. Senior guard Dashon Enoch led the Huskies in scoring with 13 points. Senior guard Chase Robinson and sophomore forward Josh Smith added 12 points apiece, while senior Charlie Hoehne contributed four points and six rebounds. Foul trouble plagued OPRF senior forward Anthony Roberts, who finished with six points and five boards. The York trio of Sam Walsh and fellow seniors Cohn and Kosich played a large role in ending the Huskies’ season as Kosich and Walsh each scored a game-high 16 points and Cohn added 15 points on five three-pointers. Junior Jeff Grace chipped in 12 points. Cohn pulled down nine rebounds and Walsh finished with seven boards. “We’re excited,” Walsh said about the Dukes advancing to the sectional for the first time since 2016. “A lot of people doubt us, but we know we can compete.” Maloney praised his senior class for their efforts in leading OPRF (18-10) to three consecutive West Suburban Silver titles and winning 36 of 39 conference games the past three seasons. “It’s a very tight-knit group. I’m going to miss those guys,” he said. “Dashon is a
“The season was a lot of ups and downs for us.”
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(Above) Chase Robinson and (below) Anthony Roberts (#23) were all-conference players this season.
four-year varsity guy, Charlie three years, and Anthony two and a half. Chase grew up in our basketball camps, going back to fifth grade, and so when he joined us (after transferring from Marist prior to his junior year), it was like he’d been with us all the time. Those four have been tremendous in practices and games. “Danny Francis is another guy who bleeds orange and blue. They gave a lot and this loss doesn’t spoil all they did and the history they made. I just hope I gave the seniors as much as they gave me.” Aside from continued dominance in the West Suburban Silver, the Huskies enjoyed several other memorable moments during the season.
Highlights include a pair of wins over York and a victory over West Aurora at the Pontiac Holiday Tournament. However, the Huskies suffered several tough losses to Fenwick on a buzzer-beater at the Chicago Elite Classic, at St. Patrick, and to Evanston, Hillcrest, Proviso East and RiversideBrookfield (all top 25 teams). After a mediocre first half of the season, OPRF played much better after Christmas by winning 10 of 13 games. Roberts, Hoehne and Robinson earned all-conference recognition in the West Suburban Silver. “The season was a lot of ups and downs for us,” Roberts said during the regular season. “We lost games that we shouldn’t have
lost. We know we can play with any team and we are proud that we won conference for a third straight season.” Fortunately, OPRF has evolved into a program that reloads instead of rebuilds despite the loss of four key seniors. There are some promising players that will step into more prominent roles next season, including Smith and fellow sophomores Isaiah Barnes and Justin Cross, who was out with an injury. “Josh and Isaiah got a lot of quality minutes and have huge upside,” Maloney said. “Justin, who was close to coming back and is obviously someone we could’ve used tonight, also has a bright future. “Plus, we have other juniors who played well in junior-varsity action, our sophomores were 18-5, and our freshmen are tremendous,” Maloney added. “There’s a lot to build on, and hopefully some of these young guys will learn a lot and see what it takes to be serious and focused.” York (29-4) advances to the 4A Proviso West Sectional, where it will face Whitney Young in a semifinal on Wednesday, March 6. The other semifinal on Tuesday, March 5 features nationally-ranked Curie versus Metro Suburban Conference champ Riverside-Brookfield, with the winners meeting Friday, March 8 for the sectional title. All games tip off at 7 p.m. in Hillside.
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OPRF ousted by York in 4A regional final Senior-laden Huskies won third straight conference title, 18 games By MELVIN TATE
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t’s difficult for any high school basketball team to defeat a comparably matched conference opponent three times in one season. Oak Park and River Forest learned that lesson the hard way in a 74-56 loss at Class 4A regional host York in the championship game. Although the Huskies swept the Dukes in a pair of games during the regular season en route to winning their third straight conference title, York notched the victory that mattered the most Friday, March 1 in Elmhurst. “The credit goes to York,” OPRF coach Matt Maloney said. “They were prepared and ran their stuff really well. They’re a team that if you slip on one action or are a step late, they make you pay. Tonight, they made us pay from three-point range. We wanted to make them count by twos, not threes, but we weren’t able to do that. Every time we tried to make a run and get back into it, they’d hit a big shot.” Each team produced scoring runs in the early stages. After York scored the game’s first four points, OPRF used a 12-0 burst to take a 12-6 lead after the See HUSKIES on page 50
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