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April 4, 2018 Vol. 38, No. 37 ONE DOLLAR

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JOURNAL of Oak Park and River Forest

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How the ‘68 ‘ riots rocked Oak Park As the West Side burned, some residents feared the village would be next By MICHAEL ROMAIN Staff Reporter

Fifty years ago today — on April 4, 1968 — Martin Luther King Jr. was shot to death on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn. Within roughly an hour he was dead and the whole country knew it. By Saturday, April 6, the West Side of Chicago was destroyed, leaving some residents in Oak Park fearing that their community would be next to lie in ruins. Oak Park was not destroyed, but interviews with current residents who lived through that history and archival material, such as newspaper articles, books and government reports, show that the village was nonetheless deeply affected by the riots that happened in the wake of King’s death. Wyanetta Johnson, a nearly 50-year resident of Oak Park, was living on the city’s North Side at the time. After learning of King’s death, she went to cash a check, but couldn’t remember her name. “I was in such shock,” she recalled during a phone interview last week. “They kept looking at me and I kept asking myself, ‘What is my name?’ before I finally said what it was. The situation was mind-boggling.” The next morning, Friday, April 5, students at Marshall High in East Garfield Park, arrived with King’s image taped to their coats. Many students stayed home, anticipating trouble. See RIOTS on page 14

Photo by LARRY SMITH

ON THE SCENE: An Oak Park man was killed and some 20 people were displaced by a fire that broke out Easter Sunday morning in a 10-unit condo building at 327 Wisconsin Ave.

Oak Park man dies in Sunday fire About 20 residents vacate 10-unit condo building

By TIMOTHY INKLEBARGER Staff Reporter

An Oak Park man was killed and some 20 people were displaced by a fire that broke out Easter Sunday morning in a 10unit condo building at 327 Wisconsin Ave. Oak Park Deputy Fire Chief Peter Pilafas said firefighters responded to the call, which came in just after 9 a.m. on April 1.

“We arrived at the scene and had heavy fire coming out of the windows of the second-floor condo unit,” he said. “Fire department crews went in and found a male victim in the second floor condo. “Unfortunately, due to his condition, we were unable to revive him.” The Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office has not yet identified the victim or an official cause of death.

For Nicole Holmes, a resident of the building, the morning started off with a loud bang. She then heard “screaming and things falling over” coming from the unit where the fire originated, she said. “I opened the door and I could see smoke coming from the unit; I called 911,” she said. See FIRE on page 13

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WEST SUBURBAN MEDICAL CENTER

Programs & Activities April 2018 Ongoing

Thursday, April 5th and Thursday, April 19th 10:00 am – 12:30 pm

Aging & Disability Resource Program-Consultations Oak Park & River Forest Townships Senior Services River Forest Medical Campus (RFMC) 7411 Lake St., River Forest, IL Building A, Community Room Office 1104

Thursday, April 12th and Thursday, April 26th 10:00 am – 12:30 pm West Suburban Medical Center 3 Erie Court, Oak Park, IL2 First floor, Room 1062

Building Balance with Paul - Must Register Join Paul for exercise sessions geared to adults over 60.

Every Tuesday and Thursday - 8:30 am RFMC Class 1 River Forest Medical Campus Building A, Community Room-1100 Every Tuesday – 9:20 am RFMC Class 2 Modified exercise class (for those needing a less strenuous exercise routine) River Forest Medical Campus Building A, Community Room-1100 Every Tuesday -- 10:30 to 11:30 am WSMC Class A West Suburban Medical Center Room 285 Every Tuesday and Thursday – 1:00 pm RFMC Class 3 River Forest Medical Campus (RFMC) Building A, Community Room-1100 Every Tuesday and Thursday -- 2:30 to 3:30 pm WSMC Class B West Suburban Medical Center - Room 285 Registration is for classes in April and May. Registration closes April 15, no new registrations until June. Attendance will be taken. Those not registered should not attend the classes.

Community Yoga

Every Monday at 9 am Every Wednesday at 10:30 am Fridays – April 6th, 13th & 20th at 9 am Friday – April 27th at 12 pm River Forest Medical Campus Building A, Community Room-1100

Yoga for Cancer Survivors (ONLY)

Friday, April 6th and 20th — 10:15 am Tuesday, April 3rd, 5:00 – 6:00 pm Wednesday, April 11th and 25th -- 11:45 am River Forest Medical Campus Building A, Community Room-1100

Monday, April 2nd, 6:30 – 8:00 pm

Surgical Weight Loss Options Info Session River Forest Medical Campus Building A, Community Room-1100 (Please call 866-514-5904 to register)

Tuesday, April 3rd, 8:30 – 10:00 am

3 Point Diabetes Screening

(BMI, Glucose, Blood Pressure) WSMC, Diabetes Center, Lower Level, L-300

Tuesday, April 3rd

Yoga for Cancer Survivors, 5:00-6:00 pm Support Group Meeting, 6:30-8:00 pm Monday, April 16th, 6 – 7 pm

You’re Not Alone! Surgical Weight Loss Support Group Open Forum River Forest Medical Campus Building A, Community Room-1100 (Please call 866-938-7256 to register)

Tuesday, April 17th 11:30 am – 12:30 pm

Food For Thought: Healthy Vision for Life

Early detection of problems and treatment is the best way to maintain good vision at any age. Nearly half of American worry about losing their eye sight over their ability to walk or hear. River Forest Medical Campus Building A, Community Room 1100

Tuesday, April 17th, 2:00-3:00 pm

Free Blood Pressure Screenings Oak Park Public Library 834 Lake St., Oak Park, IL 60302 Small Meeting Room

Wednesday, April 18th, 10:00 – 11:00 am

Calm Through Coloring

Adult coloring books have become an exciting trend in stress relief. West Suburban Medical Center Room 274

Wednesday, April 18th, 3:30-4:30 pm

A Visit to your Doctor

Oak Park Public Library 834 Lake St., Oak Park, IL 60302 Small Meeting Room

Thursday, April 19th, 2:30 pm

Cancer Support Group

Tuesday, April 24th, 11:30 am – 12:30 pm

Learning Café Medicare SMP: Protecting your Medicare

The Senior Medicare Patrol (SMP) empowers and assists Medicare beneficiaries. West Suburban Medical Center Lower Level Classrooms A-D

Saturday, April 28th , 12 – 2 pm

Breast Cancer Support Group Sisters Embracing Life

If you are a cancer survivor join us at the monthly support group meeting and share your experience. West Suburban Medical Center Lower Level Classrooms A-B

Sunday, April 29th 11:00 am – 3:00 pm

Free Blood Pressure Screenings Health and Wellness Fair West Cook YMCA 255 S. Marion St., Oak Park, IL 60302

All programs are free unless otherwise noted* Please call to register at 866-938-7256

River Forest Medical Campus Building A, Community Room-1100

Thursday, April 19th, 6 - 8 pm

Look Good…Feel Better

American Cancer Society (Must be in active cancer treatment) River Forest Medical Campus Building A, Community Room-1100

3 Erie Court Oak Park, Illinois 60302 www.westsuburbanmc.com

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I N S I D E

R E P O R T

Activism in other arenas Holden Green, a 14-year-old freshman at Oak Park and River Forest, has, along with his two brothers, Harrison and Davis, has a rare primary immune disease called x-linked agammaglobulinemia (XLA). Because of the disease, Holden said, he and his brothers “can’t be in situations where there’s a sickness going around, and if we get sick it can be possibly fatal.” Recently, Holden entered the RareArtist contest, for artists with rare diseases, and won one of two prizes in the teen division. His winning photo, called “Old and New,” shows Maggie Daley Park in Chicago during the day — something of a testament to the young photographer’s willingness to get out into the world despite his physiological limitations. Earlier this month, Holden and other winners were honored in Washington, D.C., at a reception held in the Kennedy Caucus Room of the Russell Senate Building. The reception was held in conjunction with the Rare Disease Legislative Advocates Rare Disease Week on Capitol Hill. The week allows patients, families and other advocates to push for better treatment, research and diagnoses of rare diseases. “We were lucky enough to be on

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Holden Green, above, recently won the RareArtist contest for his photograph of Maggie Daley Park. Capitol Hill when the House and Senate were both in session,” said Holden’s mother, Sonia. “In a time when it is so critically important for teens to stand up and speak up, this was a great opportunity to get their voices heard.”

Michael Romain

A night at your museum

Oak Park River Forest Museum will host their first “Night At Your Museum” tonight (Wednesday), April 4 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Light refreshments will be offered. Oak Park River Forest Museum is located at 129 Lake St., at the corner of Lake and Lombard. Admission for members is free, regular rates apply to non-members. For more information, visit their website, oprfmuseum.org. Evening hours are scheduled for the first Wednesday night of each month, except for July and August. Regular daytime hours are Wednesday through Saturday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Ken Trainor

RF police chief chairs gang, drug task force

Riverside Police Chief Thomas Weitzel announced that he is stepping down

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Frank Lipo shows off some of the myriad items at the OPRF Museum. from his post as chairman of the West Suburban Enhanced Drug/Gang Enforcement (WEDGE) task force, effective April 3. Weitzel has led the special task force, which includes officers from Riverside,

North Riverside, Brookfield, Berwyn, Forest Park, Oak Park, Rivers Forest and Elmwood Park, since April 2010. The task force’s new chairman is River Forest Police Chief James O’Shea, who was sworn in as River Forest’s chief in

January. He formerly was the department’s deputy chief. “I have personally known Jim almost my whole career, and he is a true professional and has the leadership capabilities to lead the WEDGE task force to new initiatives throughout the years to come,” Weitzel said in a press THOMAS WEITZEL release. Riverside Police Chief WEDGE was the brainchild of its first chairman, former Berwyn Police Chief William Kushner, who is now the police chief in Des Plaines. The task force formed in 2006. In 2017, officers assigned to special WEDGE patrols made 36 felony and 33 misdemeanor arrests, including the apprehension of Rolando Walker, who is suspected of stabbing to death his girlfriend, a Berwyn resident, at her residence.

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Sustainability: How River Forest is Leading the Way Sunday, April 8, 2 to 3 p.m., River Forest Public Library: The River Forest Village Sustainability Commission, created in 2017, promotes and supports green living. Stop by to meet the seven residents on the commission, hear about the 2018 goals, ask questions and learn how to get involved. 735 Lathrop Ave., River Forest.

Opioid Help Line: 1-1833-2FINDHELP

Energy Efficiency: Simple Steps to Take

24 Hours a Day, Seven Days a Week: Anyone needing help with opioid use disorders, including loved ones of those affected, can get help by calling the hotline hosted by the Illinois Department of Human Services. Specialists answering the phone are trained to help connect callers with treatment services and recovery support services.

Tuesday, April 10, 7 to 8:30 p.m., Small Meeting Room, Main Library: Oak Park’s Environment & Energy Commission’s Tuesday talk brings ComEd’s Sergio Alzate and Erin Daughton to discuss the resources the utility company offers to help residents conserve energy and reduce costs. 834 Lake St., Oak Park.

April 4 - 11

BIG WEEK A Play + A Pint: “True West” Sunday, April 8, 2 to 4 p.m., Show Lounge, Hamburger Mary’s: Oak Park Festival Theatre presents Sam Shepard’s character study of the relationship between a screenwriter and his older brother, set in their mother’s home. A conflict between them creates a heated situation where each admits always wishing he were in the other’s shoes. Doors open two hours prior for early-bird seating and dining. $12, includes one OP Brewing Co. beer. Questions: 708-300-9396. Tickets: oakparkfestival.com. 155 S. Oak Park Ave., Oak Park.

Migrations: The Drums are Calling Us Home Saturday, April 7, 7 p.m., Lewis Lounge, Lewis Hall, Dominican University: Featured teller Mama Edie Armstrong has performed stories of peace and empowerment in Ghana, Benin, South Africa, Mexico, India and Trinidad, and is a Storytelling Ambassador of Peace and Social Justice. Includes an open mic. Free; donations appreciated. Inquire: 708-465-6305. 7900 W. Division, River Forest.

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Calendar has changed to Big Week. Fewer items, higher profile. If you would like your event to be featured here, please send a photo and details by noon of the Wednesday before it needs to be published. We can’t publish everything, but we’ll do our best to feature the week’s highlights. Email calendar@wjinc.com.

Henry Fogel Presents: Jana Pavlovska

Gadget Girls’ Filmmaker Risé Sanders Weir

The Agape Ringers in Concert

Thursday, April 5, 7:30 to 9:30 p.m., Nineteenth Century Club: Hear the award-winning Macedonian pianist perform Chopin Nocturnes and Schumann’s Kreisleriana. Enjoy interaction between Fogel and Pavlovska about the music during the show and mingle with them afterward. Doors open 6:30 p.m. Two tickets for the price of one. $35; $30, members; $20, students. Tickets/more: 708-386-2729, nineteenthcentury.org. 178 Forest Ave., Oak Park.

Saturday, April 7, 2:30 to 4:30 p.m., Veterans Room, Main Library: Teens can join the writer/producer/ director to see and discuss her film that explores campers completing their own designed and executed “gadgets.” GADgET (Girls Adventuring in Design, Engineering and Technology) Camp is on a mission to build self-confidence one drill bit at a time. More: oppl.org/calendar. 834 Lake St., Oak Park.

Sunday, April 8, 4 p.m., First Presbyterian Church: See Chicago’s premiere handbell ensemble. Freewill offering accepted. 7551 Quick Ave., River Forest.

Choral Gems from England Sunday, April 8, 4 p.m., Grace Lutheran Church: Chicago Choral Artists presents an a cappella program anchored by Mass in G Minor for Soli and Double Chorus by Ralph Vaughan Williams. Also included are motets and madrigals by William Byrd, John Dowland, Thomas Tallis and Charles Stanford. $25; $20, senior; $10, student. Tickets: chicagochoralartists.org, 773-658-9799 or at the door. 7300 Division St., River Forest.

Up in Smoke: What to Know About Teens & Vaping Wednesday, April 11, at 6:30 p.m., Staff Cafeteria, OPRF High School: Vaping is addictive and has health risks that affect mental health and brain development. Andy Duran, executive director of Linking Efforts Against Drugs (LEAD), discusses health concerns and how to talk with teens. Also, see, smell and touch common devices on the market. Co-sponsored by IMP.A.C.T. (Parents and Community Together to reduce youth alcohol and drug use), OPRFHS Parent Connection and River Forest Township. More: leadingefforts.org, impactoprf.org. 201 Scoville Ave., Oak Park.

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Spring Fashion Show

American English, Classic Cocktails and Jazz Friday, April 6, 9 p.m., FitzGerald’s: See American English, the Beatle’s tribute band who won Illinois Entertainer of the Year and voted “Best Tribute Band” three of the last four years by Chicagoland-area fans. Doors open at 7 p.m. $12; advance; $15, at door. Tickets/more: fitzgeraldsnightclub.com. Wednesdays, 8 p.m. The Sidebar at FitzGerald’s: Enjoy custom created, classic cocktails by Isaac Lyons, one of the creators of the “It’s a Wonderful Life” pop-up, who mixes them up with a modern twist every Wednesday. Sip along to the Sidebar Sessions Wednesday jazz series New Standard Quintet, April 4, or Pete Lerner/ Joe Rendon Latin Jazz Collective, April 11. Doors open at 7 p.m. $10, donation. Questions: 708-788-2118. 6615 Roosevelt Rd., Berwyn.

Hemingway Foundation Book Lecture: “The Hemingway Files” Thursday, April 5, 7 to 8:30 p.m., Veterans Room, Main Library: In his first novel, author H.K. Bush tells the story of three English literature professors whose imaginations are captured by literary letters and rare first editions, leading to tragedy in the wake of the Great Kobe Earthquake of 1995. Bush, is an English professor at St. Louis University. Brought in partnership with The Book Table and The Oak Park Public Library. Register: hemingwaybirthplace.com/events-programs-1. 834 Lake St., Oak Park..

Saturday, April 7, 7 p.m., and April 8, 3 p.m., Lund Auditorium, Dominican University: The Department of Fashion present “La Grande Garmentory,” the 2018 student fashion show, inspired by the Industrial Revolution. This year’s show captures the spirit of culture, religion, nature and art. It features more than 100 ready-to-wear to experimental pieces created by design students and organized by students in the fashion merchandising program. Special collection by alumna Tracey Janowitz, founder of Sweatyswag, is included. $15; $10, students. Tickets: events.dom. edu/2018-spring-fashion-show. 7900 W. Division St, River Forest.

Illinois Ocean Coalition - Blue Drinks Tuesday, April 10, 7 p.m., Buzz Café: Celebrate a connection to the ocean and meet Mitch McNeil, chair of the Chicago Chapter of Surfrider Foundation, who will discuss local waterquality issues and current legislation concerning the Great Lakes and oceans. Specialty drinks available; $2, suggested donation. More on the Illinois Ocean Coalition: facebook.com/illinoisoceancoalition, beachchairscientist@gmail.com. 905 S. Lombard Ave, Oak Park.

Good Life Race Sunday, April 8, 8 to 11:30 a.m., Oak Park & River Forest High School: The Oak Park Runners Club invites all ages to participate in one of five events: a women’s 5K run (9:10), a men’s 5K run (9:50), a 5K fitness walk (9:11), a onemile youth race for kid 5 to 12 (8:45) and a Junior Dash for kids five and under (10:30). Also, post-race food, free photos and health fair and expo (8 to 11:30). All proceeds benefit the Collaboration for Early Childhood and the OP-RF Food Pantry. $25 to $40. More/register: goodliferace.com, info@goodliferace.com. Volunteer: volunteer@goodliferace.com. 201 North Scoville Ave., Oak Park.

Building Tours Tours last about 45 minutes

April 14, 2018 10:00, 10:15, 10:30 & 10:45a.m.

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April 16, 2018 5:45, 6:00 & 6:15p.m. OPRF, 201 N. Scoville Ave. Welcome Center

Community Conversations Options April 16, 2018 — 7p.m. Based on research and community input, we have facilities options to share. What do you think?

Second community-led listening session, February 2018.

Refined Options May 19, 2018 9:30a.m.

Imagine OPRF, the community-based team creating a long-term facilities plan for the high school, is holding a series of community feedback sessions as options are considered and refined.

We’d like community feedback as we get close to making recommendations to the Board.

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Can Housing Center help Austin?

t’s only a half-block east from Austin Boulevard, but it was notable Tuesday when the Oak Park Regional Housing Center opened its new and first office in the Austin neighborhood. Under the auspices of its West Cook Homeownership Center, the housing center has a different mission in Austin but one predicated on the same values of integration and inclusion that have driven its pioneering work in Oak Park over 46 years. With Bethel New Life, an iconic West Side nonprofit, dropping its services for potential homeowners in Austin and Garfield Park, the West Cook Homeownership project of the housing center has stepped in. The goal, according to Athena Williams, a housing center staff member running this effort, is to find and then help current West Side residents take the step from renting to owning in their neighborhood. That effort involves both group training and two hours of individual financial counseling. Once prospective buyers are ready to begin looking for a house, West Cook’s plan is, in part, to connect them with other Austin-based nonprofits that are actively working to renovate and flip homes in the neighborhood. The West Side Health Authority, for example, has been actively working to create construction jobs on the West Side, to overhaul homes within close proximity, with a goal of building tight communities of neighbors. Rob Breymaier, executive director of the housing center, is enthusiastic about Austin, and what he calls, and wants you to call, the Greater West Side — everything from Garfield Park through Austin and into Oak Park and River Forest. “Austin has a ton of potential. It is a really good community facing a renaissance of sorts. People need to believe in that,” he says. He and Williams see all sorts of deepening ties in recent years between Oak Park and the West Side as individuals

and entities begin to build trust and figure out ways to work jointly. Breymaier is also direct in understanding the mixed response the Oak Park Housing Center can engender as it ventures into Austin. That’s the reason this effort carries the West Cook moniker, why it is led by a black woman who has long lived in Austin. “It matters that the area code is 773 and not 708,” says Breymaier. And it is why he talks about the housing center “leading from behind” on the West Side. “The word Oak Park is a limiting factor anywhere outside Oak Park. It becomes a hurdle,” he says. It is why the housing center is working in partnership with long-established West Side nonprofits, including West Side Health Authority, Austin Coming Together, the Leader’s Network and the 15th District police. “We need to say, ‘Here are services we can provide if the community wants them,’” says Breymaier. “Oak Parkers can do good in Austin but it has to start with respect” for the ongoing efforts of Austin’s existing leaders. That sensitivity has not always been offered by Oak Parkers who can come across in full “white savior” mode. And it explains why only slowly are walls of distrust lowering between leaders on both sides of the boulevard. “How do we trust one another? Take advantage of each other’s strengths and experience? We have to acknowledge that we have had a system that only intentionally works for some of us,” says Breymaier. For Williams, part of the path to greater trust is in organizations working together to expand home ownership in Austin among the people who have built the community. “I want people in Austin to become homeowners. I don’t want to see people displaced. I want to strengthen the traditional residents of Austin and help them buy homes,” she says.

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Brooks jazz students take on Monk, Dizzy

Young musicians to play with NIU orchestra on April 4 By MICHAEL ROMAIN Staff Reporter

Both Thelonious Monk, the jazz pianist and composer, and Dizzy Gillespie, the jazz trumpeter, bandleader, singer and composer, would have turned 100 last October. For their centennials, District 97 music instructor James Barnard decided to make 2017-18 all about the two towering jazz figures. During a recent interview, Barnard said roughly 90 percent of the music the Brooks Middle School jazz program has learned this academic year has been by Monk and Gillespie — who also happen to be among the most complex arrangers in all of jazz. “Their music is difficult,” Barnard said, “but we figure out ways to arrange their pieces so that they’re a little more accessible for younger players.” Members of the jazz program will perform a range of tunes — such as Monk’s “Stuffy Turkey” and Gillespie’s “Dizzy Atmosphere” — during the 11th Annual Brooks Jazz Night, at 7 p.m., on Wednesday, April 4, in the Brooks auditorium, 325 S. Kenilworth Ave. in Oak Park. Barnard said his jazz musicians, along with the vocal ensemble program, will perform alongside the Northern Illinois University Jazz Orchestra, under the direction of Reggie Thomas. Before the evening performance, Brooks students will participate in rehearsals, workshops and clinics with the

NIU musicians. According to U.S. News & World Report, NIU’s graduate jazz studies program is ranked among the 10 best in the country. The NIU Jazz Ensemble has performed with famed artists like Clark Terry, Tito Puente — and Dizzy Gillespie. “To have them come to our middle school is a big honor,” Barnard said. “They’ve been producing such high-caliber musicians for so many years.” Barnard said exposing his students to musicians like Gillespie and Monk — whose works are centered on improvisation and experimentation — will be beneficial for the kids as they develop their own musical style. “They love the variety of the music and the aspect of improvisation; being creative Courtesy Steve and Caden Scheuring that way really helps them out intellectually,” Barnard said. “We spend a lot of time on GETTING DIZZY: Members of the Brooks Middle School jazz program, pictured improvised solos, which allow them to know at an event earlier this year, will tackle pieces by Thelonious Monk and it’s OK to take risks, try out new things and Dizzy Gillespie during the 11th Annual Brooks Jazz Night. step outside their comfort zones.” Barnard added that he was pleased to ten to, but they really liked it.” see how quickly the students latched onto Monk and GilAdmission for the 7 p.m. concert at Brooks is $10 for adults lespie, given the artists’ reputations as relatively idiosyn- and $5 for students 16 and under. Tickets may be purchased cratic composers. online through the D97 Webstore and reserved at the door “I was really surprised by how the kids appreciated the at: oakpark.revtrak.net/Middle-Schools/BMS/BMS-Jazzmusic from the get-go,” he said. “I thought it would be a Night/#/list. tough sell and a stretch, considering the pop music they lisCONTACT: michael@oakpark.com

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District House nears completion Pilates studio will be one of two ground-level retail businesses By TIMOTHY INKLEBARGER Staff Reporter

It’s been a long road toward redevelopment of the corner lot at Lake Street and Euclid Avenue that once served as home to the beloved Tasty Dog fast-food restaurant, but Ranquist Development Group is close to completing its 28-unit luxury condo project known as District House. Last week, Bob Ranquist provided a tour of the building, which he says lower decks and rooftop decks, will be finished and occupied by depending on what floor the late May or early June. unit is located. Residents on Twenty-three of the units have ■ Video online the top floor of the five-story been sold, Ranquist said. building also have access to a “It’s going extremely well,” he VISIT OAKPARK.COM private rooftop deck, Ranquist said. “To be here with only five said. units left is pretty amazing.” All 28 have access to a shared rooftop deck He said the units range from 1,900 to 2,200 that provides views of downtown Chicago square feet and have three bedrooms, a den and along Lake Street. and 2.5 baths. Ranquist also is set to begin construction The two ground-floor retail spaces are expected to be up and running sometime in the of a second – albeit smaller – project in Oak fall, Ranquist said. One will be a Pilates stu- Park in the 200 block of Harrison Street. dio, and the other still is under negotiation, The so-called Flexhouse project – four townhouse projects that already have been preaccording to Ranquist. The District House condos have balconies, sold – will take about seven months to build, Ranquist said.

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The developer already has demolished an existing building on the site and will begin construction in the next couple of weeks. Ranquist Development Group is still looking for more opportunities in Oak Park. Asked why he’s so interested in the village, Ranquist replied: “Why not? Who wouldn’t want to build in Oak Park – it’s a cool town.” CONTACT: tim@oakpark.com

NEW NEIGHBORS: The 28-unit luxury condo building, District House, is set to open in the next few weeks, according to developer Bob Ranquist. A Pilates studio will occupy one of the two ground-level retail spaces. Aerial image provided by Ranquist Development Group.

OPRF tries juggling cost concerns and equity D200 board approves new staff positions, but cringes as expense creeps up

By MICHAEL ROMAIN Staff Reporter

Oak Park and River Forest High School District 200 school board members found themselves at a crossroads during a March 22 meeting, where they were asked by administration officials to authorize staff increases for programs critical to addressing the equity gap — in particular, the addition of a part-time racial equity coach. The request, however, comes as all seven board members are increasingly leery of the growing personnel costs that could add to Oak Park residents’ ever-rising tax burden. Increasingly, the board is also concerned there’s little concrete evidence showing how some of the proposed staff increases might actually improve student conditions and

outcomes. The board ended up approving the administration’s request for an additional 2.4 fulltime equivalent staff in four program areas — including in-school credit recovery, social emotional development, the district’s emotional adjustment classroom and racial equity coaching — while rejecting the request for a full-time counseling division head. The school board’s approval of the staff increases was made only after much handwringing, as some members questioned the process by which the administration weighs the need for additional personnel — a need that has been growing over the last four years. According to district data, the number of full-time equivalent positions went up by 19.5 percent in 2015-16, roughly 1 percent in 2016-17 and 10 percent in 2017-18. Full-time

staffing is projected to grow by 3 percent in the 2018-19 school year. The staffing increases are consistent with a steadily rising student population. In the 2015-16 school year, 3,318 students attended OPRF, both on- and off-campus. In the 201819 school year, the total student population is projected to grow to 3,500. From 2013 to 2017, total spending on salaries and benefits at OPRF grew by over 25 percent. “I’m actually very supportive of these programs,” said board member Craig Iseli, who voted against all five staffing requests, arguing that the staff increases need to be counterbalanced by potential cost-savings. “They’re all to the benefit of the students,” Iseli added, “but I also know there’s another stakeholder here. How do we afford

to add [staff] each year? Where are the choices around which programs we will take off to balance the [staff] we need to add.” Iseli said the district needs “to get to zero-sum” when measuring the addition of full-time positions, as opposed to making incremental additions each year. Those increments, board members said, can have the tendency to creep up unnoticed. “There’s growth by a thousand cuts. … This is growth by .1, .2 cuts,” said board member Matt Baron. Superintendent Joylyn Pruitt-Adams and Principal Nathaniel Rouse said that despite the incremental nature of measuring staff in levels, the administration does have conversations about cost-savings. Rouse said that the full-time staff increase for the 2018-19 school year is below what had

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Al Sye, former OPRF principal, dies at 67

Former administrator was still working on racial equity

Johnson said Sye’s experience at the helm of OPRF, in addition to his educational leadership elsewhere across the country, informed his present work, addressing the opportunity gap here in Oak Park. “He really did grow. At first, there were a lot of times we didn’t agree,” Johnson said of her days working with Sye in the 1990s. “But at the end of the day, we’d debate and come back to the table with a lot of love and respect. We ended up working closely together when he was part of the school system. I think he did a great job.” Sye was born to Albert II and Josephine Sye in Woodbury, New Jersey, but spent most of his childhood in nearby Glassboro. In high school, he was a standout wrestler, eventually going on to the University of Arizona, where he would win the Western Athletic Conference Wrestling Championship in 1972 and ’73. In ’72, he earned a place on the NCAA All-American wrestling team. By his senior year of college, he was ranked third in the nation and named a MidSeason All-American by Amateur Wrestling News. In 2001, he was inducted into the Arizona Sports Hall of Fame. For nearly 20 years, “Coach Sye” (as he was known by many) was a classroom teacher in social studies, health and physical education. He also coached wrestling and football. After earning his master’s in secondary education at the University of Arizona in 1985, Sye transitioned to administration, embarking on what eventually became a 20-year career as an associate principal, principal, assistant superintendent and high school instruction manager in multiple

states. Sye’s final wishes, said his son, were to be cremated and to have two memorial services — one in Glassboro and the other in Tucson, Arizona, where he wanted his ashes spread over a mountain overlooking that city. Sye is survived by his former wife and friend, Angelita Sye; three children, Belinda Marie Sye Draft, Albert George Sye IV and James Michael Sye; and five grandchildren. Some of those who worked with Sye on equity issues in Oak Park said they’re currently working to set up a scholarship fund in his name. CONTACT: michael@oakpark.com

The CARE leaders support teachers “in been projected. “We came in a little under the projected studying their professional practices and amount purposefully in an attempt to show improving them in ways that remove racial the board that we do have to make some dif- bias.” Pruitt-Adams said that “this is the year of ficult decisions,” Rouse said. training for the CARE leaders, so School board President Jackwe haven’t been able to see clearie Moore, who also echoed Isly the impact they’ll have in the eli’s concerns, emphasized the classroom.” need for data to show that the She said that next school year, programs in which the staff inwhen the coach starts to work creases occur are working. with CARE leaders, more hard Moore honed in on the racial data will be collected about the equity coach, which is an addiprogram’s effectiveness. tion to the district’s CollaboraIn advocating for the equity tive Action Research for Equity coach, Rouse said that he’s al(CARE) teams that were implemented this school year. SARA DIXONSPIVY ready seen some progress, particularly with how students talk “I’m still not clear what metD200 board member rics we’re using to determine efabout race. fectiveness,” she said. “It doesn’t happen overnight,” CARE teams comprise roughRouse said, before urging the ly 45 “administrators, teachers, counselors, board to stay the course on the equity work, and social workers [who] have been trained since the community seems to be at a “tipto become CARE leaders during the 2017-2018 ping point” in the area of racial equity. school year,” according to OPRF’s website. Board member Tom Cofsky, however, said

that the community is also at a tipping point on property taxes, with more and more residents complaining about spending levels — especially the schools. Cofksy added that, as an ever-growing student population has resulted in more programs, staff positions and, ultimately, costs for taxpayers, “We’ve got to be cognizant of what that burden is each and every day.” Cofsky, along with Iseli and Baron, voted against the racial equity coach position. Some board members wondered when the responsibility to taxpayers overwhelms the responsibility to students. Board member Sara Dixon-Spivy said that she ran for election to the board specifically because of the issue of racial equity. “How do we move forward?” she asked. “We can’t do the bunny hop all the time, which is what I think we’re doing around equity. We make some advancements and then we take a couple of hops back. At what point do we recognize the tax burden while still being able to fulfill the reason why I’m here?” CONTACT: michael@oakpark.com

By MICHAEL ROMAIN Staff Reporter

Albert George Sye III, 67, a former Oak Park and River Forest High School principal and education advocate, died on March 26, 2018. His death was confirmed on Tuesday by his son, Albert Sye IV, who said his father died at the University of Chicago Medical Center shortly after being diagnosed with stage IV colon cancer. At the time of his death, the elder Sye was an educational consultant and had been actively involved in trying to address the racial equity gap in Oak Park. “He had joined forces with us to make sure we got more teachers of color working in Oak Park,” said Wyanetta Johnson, a longtime Oak Park education advocate. “He was giving us the information that he had learned over the years. He brought a lot to the table and we really enjoyed having him be part of the conversation.” Sye was OPRF principal in 1995 during what police described “as the worst gang incident in Oak Park’s history,” according to a Chicago Tribune report published at the time. One Friday night in August that year, shots were reportedly fired by a teenage boy outside of Julian Middle School, where a basketball tournament was being held. No one was hit, but the incident prompted a brawl between rival gang members, with one young person ending up in intensive care.

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Resources dwindling, Women’s Exchange launches fundraiser By JOHN RICE

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It’s very fitting that the Oak Park Women’s Exchange (OPWE) is launching their fundraising campaign during March, Women’s History Month. The women’s exchange movement has been part of American history for almost 200 years. The OPWE, which is holding its Spring Market on May 5 at the Howard Mohr Community Center, 7640 Jackson Blvd. in Forest Park, has its own storied 44-year history. But that history is at risk. The OPWE in early February started a GoFundMe drive to save the exchange. “The Power of 5 Bucks” campaign (www.gofundme.com/saveopwe) asks supporters to donate the price of a cup of coffee to keep the doors of the nonprofit open. “Our goal is to raise $10,000 to meet operational expenses for the next two years,” said board member Deanne Alexander. Through March 30, the online fundraising campaign had collected a little more than $1,100. The funds are needed to pay rent, utilities and insurance at their Artisans & Crafters Unique Boutique storefront at 839 S. Oak Park Ave. in Oak Park. It’s no surprise that the OPWE is struggling financially. It is one of the last women’s exchanges surviving in the U.S. The women’s exchange movement started

in Philadelphia in used have 200 mem1832. Its mission was bers and could allow to help women gain artists to keep 80 perfinancial security by cent of their sales. giving them the opMembership has portunity to sell their dwindled to 37. To needlework and other meet expenses, the handcrafted products OPWE can only ofin a retail setting. fer the retailers It allowed women 50 to 60 percent of to work from home, their sales. This has while caring for their been a deal-breaker families. They could for many of them. avoid the danger and “Our membership monotony of factory declined,” AlexanSubmitted photos work. They also did der noted, “But our charitable work. One Featured in the upcoming OPWE fundraiser. operational expensof their first causes es haven’t.” was to make blankets There has also for soldiers and the poor. been a decline in sales that has hit all brick The OPWE continues this tradition, part- and mortar retailers. While consumers innering with Project Linus to provide quilts and creasingly shop on-line, they will not find blankets for veterans and children in need. the one-of-a-kind handcrafted items the “We have distributed 14,000 blankets to OPWE carries. These products include hospitals, Hephzibah and hurricane vic- pottery, jewelry, stained glass, children’s tims,” Alexander said. clothes, women’s clothing, quilts, toys, Members knit and sew these security soaps and candles. blankets at monthly “Make a Blanket Days.” The candles are made by Alexander’s daughThe OPWE also carries on the tradition of ter, Mary Alexander, who produces a line that empowering women financially. bears the scent and name of local communiHowever, due to market forces, the exchange ties, like Oak Park, River Forest and Forest is caught in a downward spiral. The OPWE Park. The soaps have been manufactured by

Alexander out of her home for 20 years. Her beer soap would be a good fit for Forest Parkers. Jsabelle Herdeg, a longtime former Forest Parker — her husband, Peter Herdeg, started Oktoberfest in Forest Park and both sing with the Harlem Mannerchor. Peter is also the organizer of German Fest — has been knitting doll clothes for the OPWE since 2002. A native of Switzerland, Herdeg’s specialty is creating ornate European costumes. Her traditional German outfits are especially popular. Like the other members, Herdeg works at the shop for eight hours each week. The OPWE is hoping to attract more members like Herdeg, who produce high-quality products. “New members bring in new customers,” Alexander said. “New art forms bring in new clientele.” Alexander sees some hopeful signs for the OPWE’s future. “We’re having a rebirth with young people, who appreciate handmade, one-of-akind products,” she said. “Our customers come from all over.” Another mission of the OPWE is to teach craft making. The exchange holds quarterly community functions to show residents how to do crafts. Herdeg will be working with kids and selling her wares at the OPWE’s Spring Market, on May 5.

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Bricks pizza opens in Hemingway District

Restaurant also plans food truck with wood-fired oven By TIMOTHY INKLEBARGER Staff Reporter

Oak Parkers, are you ready for some pizza? Well, there’s a new joint in town where the pizza is made fresh in wood-fired ovens, but that’s just a small part of what you’ll find at Bricks Wood-Fired Pizza Café, 128 N. Oak Park Ave. In addition to more than a dozen 12-inch specialty pizzas – customers also have the option of building their own pizza – the restaurant offers sandwiches, soup, salads and a selection of beer and wine. For Bricks co-owner Ric Gruber Jr., the business is a passion and for him and his family. He noted during a tour on opening day that his brother’s architecture company, Barker Nestor Inc., designed the restaurant. He said that Barker Nestor also designed the Oak Park restaurants Bar Louie, 1122 Lake St., and Firecakes Donuts, 104 N. Maple Ave. “We are incredibly passionate about pizza; this is not just a business or an investment. This is our lives; we live, eat and breathe pizza,” he said. “So everything we do here

is done with an incredible amount of care and thought.” Gruber noted that the front windows to the restaurant are retractable and will make Bricks open-air during the warm months. “This summer and this spring when it warms up, we’re going to have open-air seating in the front of the restaurant … and you’ll be able to see [Scoville Park] right from the windows, so that’s really nice,” he said. He said the Oak Park Bricks offers seating for roughly 54 people. “It’s one of our largest dining rooms,” he said. It’s the seventh restaurant for Bricks, but Gruber said they’re not limiting the restaurant to its storefront location. Other Bricks restaurants are located in the west and northwest suburbs. “Right now we’re building a pizza truck,” he said, adding that the mobile unit should be ready at the end of April. “We have a 20foot shipping container that’s going to go on top of a flatbed truck that’s being built out with one of those [wood-fired] ovens in it. Gruber said the food truck can be hired for private events and can also handle overflow at the restaurant for people who just want to be outside. “We’ll be able to serve gelato, Italian ice and make hot, fresh pizzas right out of our

OVEN READY: Owner Ric Gruber Jr. recently opened Brick’s Wood Fired Pizza on Oak Park Avenue.

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truck,” he said. The wood-fired ovens are, perhaps, the secret sauce to Bricks’ success. “This is the oldest way known to man to cook – by fire,” Gruber said. “It’s still, in our mind, the best way to cook.” He noted that the oven gets so hot that the pizza cooks in about 90 seconds. “You have speed, you have efficiency and you have skill that go into it,” he said. “In a conventional oven you’re not going to get any flavor from the actual oven that you’re

using. You only going to get that from a wood-burning or coal-fired oven.” He said the embers from the oak used to power the oven impart flavor. “You will get taste from the oak embers that will be infused in the brick of the floor of the oven and coming off the fire every day,” he said. Bricks opens at 11 a.m. six days a week and at noon on Sunday. The restaurant closes at 9 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 10 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, and 8 p.m. on Sunday.

Poke Burrito coming to Lake Street

Third location for restaurant specializing in sushi, Hawaiian cuisine By TIMOTHY INKLEBARGER Staff Reporter

First things first – what exactly is poke? Pronounced “poe” as in Edgar Allen, and “kay” as in, “OK, I would like a bowl of poke now.” All right, now that we don’t sound like a Hawaiian tourist, poke bowls usually include raw tuna marinated with sesame oil and soy sauce and served with fresh vegetables and rice. The new twist on a Hawaiian tradition puts the ingredients in a burrito-style seaweed wrap, kind of like a large piece of uncut sushi. They’re often referred to as sushi burritos. Jimmy Chen, owner of Poke Burrito, is bringing his third location to 1025 Lake St. sometime in May or June, he said in a telephone interview. Chen, a sushi chef who launched the sushi restaurant 153 Akira in Wilmette about a decade ago, said he has been working on the Poke Burrito concept for about three years now.

He opened his first Poke Burrito in Lincoln Square, 4301 N. Lincoln Ave., late last year and a second location in downtown Chicago, 423 S. Dearborn, within the last couple of weeks. “What makes us different is everything is customizable,” he said, noting that patrons can build their own poke bowls or burritos and add or remove ingredients from any of their five house creations. Poke Burrito also uses fresh fish, not frozen, Chen said. He said that the restaurant also has cooked dishes for those who aren’t so keen on eating raw fish. Poke Burrito also aims to serve beer and wine, he said. Oak Park is a “perfect fit” for Poke Burrito, Chen said, noting that he first began thinking of bringing the concept to the village a few years ago, when he helped Pete’s Fresh Market, 259 Lake St., with its sushi deli counter. “I helped them build the sushi concept at Pete’s nine stores,” he said. He first thought of bringing the poke concept to Chicago after taking a business trip to New York and seeing the popularity of poke there. He said poke also has taken off in Los Angeles. Oak Park’s Poke Burrito will probably operate from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m., like the other locations, but Chen said that might change

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Poke Burrito owner Jimmy Chen plans to open his new restaurant at 1025 Lake St. sometime in May or June. once he gets a better sense of the community. “When I was a sushi chef, I wanted to do something that was healthier and fit today’s trend,” he said. “The main thing is that the

food tastes very good and fresh.” David King, of the commercial real estate firm David King & Associates, represented the building owner in the lease transaction. CONTACT: tim@oakpark.com

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D200 extends architectural firm’s contract Perkins and Will to provide more services to Imagine OPRF for $112K

By MICHAEL ROMAIN Staff Reporter

The 41-person Imagine OPRF workgroup will have more help from the architectural firm the board selected last September to provide design services for the Imagine process. Last year, the board OK’d paying $21,000 to Perkins and Will to provide “insight into best practices for long-range facility planning” to leverage their “expertise and experience in current educational trends,” and to review existing reports, data and draw-

ings, among other functions, according to a memo drafted by Tod Altenburg, the district’s chief school business official. At the time, Altenburg stated, “it was noted that the contract could be amended if the Imagine process required services beyond the contract being presented.” During its March 22 meeting, the Oak Park and River Forest High School District 200 Board of Education unanimously approved to extend Perkins and Will’s contract in order for the firm to perform work for the next phase of the Imagine process, which

will include “creating conceptual designs of various options” that “are transparent and understandable to the public.” The firm will also perform community engagement work, replacing a consultant, Unicom-ARC, which had been hired last year for that function. Ending the contract with Unicom-ARC early, Altenburg said, “preserves $29,200 in the Imagine OPRF budget.” The total cost of the expanded Perkins and Will contract is $112,000, the memo states — $82,000 of which will be charged to the district beginning in June. The remaining

$30,000 will be billed after July 1, officials said. The contract also calls for Perkins and Will to be reimbursed for up to $9,000 in expenses. District officials said they’ll present conceptual drawings of the proposed renovations to the public on April 16, at 7 p.m., at OPRF’s south cafeteria, 201 N. Scoville Ave. Community members will be able to tour the high school on April 14 from 10 a.m. to 10:45 a.m., and April 16 from 5:45 p.m. to 6:15 p.m. CONTACT: michael@oakpark.com

FIRE

1 dead, 20 displaced from page 1 Holmes said that as the smoke got thicker residents began evacuating the building. That’s when she got out. She said she was allowed back into the building briefly on Sunday, noting that the walls had caved in at adjacent units and the basement of the building was flooded. Holmes did not know the tenants of the unit that caught fire, but she said it was occupied by an elderly woman and her son. Pilafas said in a telephone interview that there were no other injuries or casualties associated with the fire. Two other tenants who discussed the fire under the condition of anonymity also said they heard a loud bang prior to realizing there was a fire. One woman said she felt the floor shake when the explosion occurred. Pilafas said the incident is still under investigation and a cause has not been determined, but said the explosion-like sound might have been the result of a window blowing out in reaction to the super-heated gas and smoke caused by the fire. “Most of the fire damage was contained to the second floor, but it did get into the third floor,” he said, adding that the entire building suffered water and smoke damage. A single-family home directly south of the condo building also suffered some damage due to radiant heat caused by the fire. He said the blaze was extinguished in about 10 minutes – it took about 20 more minutes to extinguish various hot spots around the building. “Everybody was able to evacuate on their own due to the fact that the building had working smoke detectors,” he said. Forest Park firefighters assisted in extinguishing the fire and the Illinois State Fire Marshal and Oak Park Police Department are assisting in the investigation. “It’s really an unfortunate circumstance that someone died in this fire. We’re trying to find out the root cause,” Pilafas said. CONTACT: tim@oakpark.com

THE AFTERMATH: Damaged siding, top right, is seen on the home next door. The entrance to the unit, left, where the fire began in a condo building at 327 Wisconsin Ave. in Oak Park. Bottom left, the inside of the second floor unit where the fire began. ALEXA ROGALS/Staff Photographer

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RIOTS

Quelling fears from page 1 School administrators scrambled to plan makeshift memorial assemblies in King’s honor, but by 11 a.m. most of the students who showed up that morning had marched out of the doors and into the streets. Some stones were thrown, but most of the roughly 1,500 marchers — among them children as young as 7 years old — were peaceful. As they headed toward Austin High to meet likeminded peers, they sang “We Shall Overcome” and chanted “King is dead.” Warner Saunders, the director of the Better Boys Foundation and a witness to the demonstration, told Hank de Zutter, who was reporting for the now-defunct Chicago Daily News, that “nonviolence turned into violence” when the police attempted to exert some control over the demonstration somewhere between Garfield Park and Austin High. Scuffles broke out between the youth and the police, who fired shots into the air, de Zutter reported. Saunders, among others, said the police overreacted. One Farragut High junior told de Zutter that “it was a swell march until then,” but that “some of the militant souls decided they wanted more. They said the whites had killed nonviolence so they must want violence.” By 2 p.m., the vandalism had started in earnest. Chicago Police Superintendent James B. Conlisk called Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley and requested that he call out the National Guard. The police are “spread much too thin,” de Zutter reports. “Within minutes, Acting Governor Samuel Shapiro, called by the mayor, mobilized the Guard.” “Fear gripped the city,” de Zutter wrote. Workers carried guns to their places of employment, whites were “pulled from their cars, from buses, from stores they were trying to close.” West Side streets were “impassable.” The rioting was heaviest in the West Side area bordered by Damen, Madison, 16th Street and Kildare. By midnight many of the roughly 6,900 National Guardsmen and 5,000 federal troops authorized earlier by President Lyndon Johnson would be patrolling streets in that area as “weary firemen, unable to control the fires, with their hoses on fire or losing water pressure and their trucks running out of fuel, began to give up,” writes Janet L. Aub-Lughod in a 2007 book on urban riots. Edward Muldrow, owner of Del-Kar Pharmacy in North Lawndale, had left his home in Markham to protect his business during the mayhem. “My father being a black businessman in the community, the guys respected him for being straight up,” his son and Del-Kar’s current owner, Edwin Muldrow, said during a recent interview. Edward died last year at 88. “It was a Jewish, white-owned drugstore on every corner, from Kedzie to Kostner, and each was torched,” Muldrow said. “My father’s was the only one to remain. He had

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LESSON IN RESILIENCE: Edwin Muldrow stands outside of Del-Kar Pharmacy, 3726 W. 16th St. Del-Kar was one of the few stores that survived the riots following King’s assassination on April 4, 1968. Below, King outside of his North Lawndale apartment in 1966. come over that evening during the riots, but the Vice Lords told him, ‘Go home, we’re not going to let nothing happen to your store.’” Muldrow had developed relationships with the Conservative Vice Lords street gang, whose headquarters were nearby. By 1968, with the help of a white Dartmouth graduate, former Peace Corps volunteer and poverty researcher named David Dawley, the Conservative Vice Lords, seeking legitimacy, had gotten incorporated, started a string of small businesses and secured federal funding for various social outreach initiatives. When King moved into the rundown apartment at 1550 S. Hamlin Ave. in North Lawndale in 1966 — as part of his Chicago Campaign against housing segregation — he and his staff had ingratiated themselves with the gang’s leaders, hoping to steer them toward nonviolence. King hung out at the gang’s pool hall and bought his morning paper at Del-Kar. Bobbie Raymond, the founder of the Oak Park Housing Center, recalled in a recent phone interview that King’s fair housing efforts in Chicago changed her life and informed her sense of purpose. She was a volunteer at Warren Avenue Congregational Church in Chicago during King’s northern campaign. When he was assassinated in 1968, Raymond was enmeshed in efforts to get a fair housing ordinance passed in Oak Park. “At that time, it was a very threatening atmosphere, a very hostile atmosphere in Oak Park,” Raymond recalled. “Everybody in the real estate industry was opposed to the ordinance. You’d have realtors saying, ‘If you open up the community, it will be just like the West Side of Chicago. There were a lot of families leaving.” As smoke from the West Side fires bellowed in the distance, the rumors among Oak Park residents began to swirl, Raymond said. “People were saying that the mob was

going to come to Oak Park and break windows and all kinds of things,” she recalled. “People feared the riots would come here. When you’re at Oak Park and Lake, and you can see the smoke, you don’t know what will happen next. … They were very worried. And a lot of people had ties to the West Side.” As with Muldrow — who could recall when 16th Street was bustling with laundromats, beauty salons, barbershops, restaurants, retailers and nightclubs — Raymond said she remembers when Oak Park residents would spend money on the other side of Austin Boulevard. “As a child living in Oak Park, I’d go into Austin with my dad to buy live chickens,” she said. “There was also a very nice bakery, a fish store — all these stores that existed until racial change took place.” The riots only hastened the speed with which whites escaped into the suburbs or as far away from the inner city as possible. Oak Park, Raymond said, pushed back in its own way. The village adopted among the first

and most effective fair housing ordinances in May of that year. During the thick of the crisis, village leaders took incremental, but pro-active, measures that may have also worked to ward off the alarm and paranoia that might feed into racial hostility. On the Monday after King’s death, blacks and whites, “Protestant, Jewish, and Roman Catholic,” gathered during an ecumenical service at Rosary College (now Dominican University) in River Forest, according to an April 10, 1968 report in the Oak Leaves. Rev. Shelvin J. Hall, pastor of Friendship Baptist Church in North Lawndale, told the crowd of nearly 1,000 that “it’s not enough to help the slum dweller, the alcoholic, the addict, the dispossessed. … Convert the man on Lake Shore Drive who owns the slum.” A few weeks after the riots, Oak Park Village Manager Harris Stevens penned a column in the April 17, 1968 edition of the Oak Leaves “devoted to rumors and what your village government is doing to quell them.” No, there was not a “mob of Negroes” congregating at St. Catherine of Siena Church; rather, a “handful of Negroes were working together” at the church “loading trucks” with food and clothing to be driven to the “homeless in the riot-stricken area.” On Sunday, April 7, “three small fires occurred simultaneously in the village,” involving “a garage, a house and a collection of wastepaper,” leaving some people to jump to the “conclusion that the village was under siege.” Raymond said she “wasn’t afraid personally” that the village would be ruined along with the West Side. “I was more concerned about whether people would do the right thing in Oak Park,” she said, arguing that race relations have progressed since those dark days and nights in 1968. She cited the Fair Housing Ordinance and the banishment from the realm of decency of the kind of overt racism that Oak Park author Doug Deuchler experienced as a senior at Western Illinois University in downstate Macomb. Deuchler had been involved with voter registration efforts in Macomb and was a strong supporter of King’s. After the civil rights leader died, Deuchler said, he was determined to watch the funeral, so he headed to a “seedy, workingclass bar on the town square called ‘Shag’s, where there was a television up above the bar.” He bought himself a 25-cent can of beer from a “frowsy-looking woman in her 60s named Virginia” and took a seat. “I remember some of the locals who were there that afternoon saying rude things like, ‘Virginia, why the hell we gotta watch Martin Luther Coon?’ This went on for a while with them harassing Virginia to change the channel,” Deuchler recalled. “Finally, she had had it. She went to a drawer, pulled out a revolver, flashed it in the air and announced that she controlled the TV, we were to respect Dr. King, and if anyone wanted to ‘raise some mess’ they were welcome to leave. Several men did exit. All those who stayed were quiet and we watched the funeral.” CONTACT: michael@oakpark.com

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Carjacker arrested in Forest Park cemetary A male juvenile was arrested in a Forest Park police near Desplaines Avenue and the Eisenhower Expressway shortly after committing a carjacking at about 3 p.m. at 1030 Lake St. in Oak Park on April 1. Oak Park Police Commander Roger Grivetti said in a telephone interview that the juvenile pushed past the owner of the vehicle who had stepped out of the vehicle and drove off. No one was injured in the incident and no weapon was used, Grivetti said. According to a Forest Park police report that the carjacker fled the vehicle on foot near I-290 and the Forest Home Cemetery and was seen crossing from the north to the south side of Roosevelt Road and enter Aperion Care Forest Park, a retirement facility at 8200 Roosevelt Road. Police entered the building and a receptionist told them the man had requested a key to the bathroom. The carjacker was not found in the bathroom but was seen exiting the west side of the building. He was later located running in the Waldheim Cemetery, south of Roosevelt and west of Desplaines, and placed under arrest.

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Employees of Hertz rental car, 629 W. Madison St. in Oak Park, arrived at work at 7:30 a.m. on March 29 to find a smashed front door and 13 cars missing from the rear parking lot, according to Oak Park police. Eleven of the vehicles were recovered over the weekend: nine in Chicago, one in Oak Park and one in Broadview, according to Oak Park Village Spokesman David Powers. Police Commander Roger Grivetti said police still have not identified a motive. “They were obviously not being resold,” he said. Police said in a news release that the thieves broke through the glass front door sometime overnight, forced open a storage box that contained the keys to the rental cars and used them to steal the vehicles. Thieves then cut the lock to the security gate to the parking lot to gain access to the vehicles. The business closed at about 6:30 p.m. on March 28. Police did not have a combined value of the vehicles.

A Chicago resident was the victim of a bump-and-run carjacking in the 700 block of Van Buren Street at 1:25 p.m. on March 28. A small gray sedan struck a 2014 Ford Explorer from behind. A man exited the passenger side of the sedan as did the driver of the Explorer. The man then got into the Explorer and drove off after the driver exited the scene. No additional details were given. The carjacker was described as black, 30 to 35 years old, 6-foot-1 to 6-foot-3, with a heavy build and wearing a green hooded sweatshirt with the hood pulled up and gray pants. The estimated loss is $23,070, which is the value of the vehicle.

Gunman attempts to rob Oak Park juvenile A man brandishing a handgun attempted to rob an Oak Park child during an incident in the 500 block of North Taylor Avenue at 3:35 p.m. on March 23. The police report gave few details about the incident.

Two people, both described as black males estimated to be 19 or 20 years old and driving a white or silver sedan, pulled up next to the victim. The passenger in the vehicle, who wore a black hooded sweatshirt with the hood up, exited the vehicle, displayed a handgun and demanded the victim’s cellphone. The victim yelled and ran away without complying. The two offenders then returned to their vehicle and fled southbound on Taylor Avenue.

Woman robbed on Humphrey Ave. Oak Park police are searching for a man who robbed a woman in the 100 block of South Humphrey Avenue at 12:40 p.m. on March 24. According to police, the offender approached the woman, who was with her two children, asked her to step away from the children and then demanded money. The victim complied, handing over cash. The man then fled on foot northbound on Humphrey. The offender was described as black, 5-foot-9 to 6-feet tall, with a thin build, missing a front tooth and wearing a black hoodie and blue jeans.

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Bunny Slap Kids high-five the Easter Bunny during the annual Easter Egg Hunt hosted by the park district at Maple Park last Saturday. (Below) Candyfilled eggs filled many a basket.

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Hard times create opportunities

Price drops on historic Oak Park estate in foreclosure By LACEY SIKORA

Contributing Reporter

hen it was built in 1904, 620 N. Euclid Ave. in Oak Park was meant to be a showstopper of a mansion, and for much of its history, the home has remained one of Oak Park’s finest estate homes. Located in the heart of the Frank Lloyd Wright Prairie School of Architecture Historic District and clocking in at over 10,000

square feet, the home has the architectural pedigree and size to command attention. Designed by E. E. Roberts and situated on a 100-by-175-foot lot, the house includes a carriage house and third-floor ballroom. Recently, the home has hit some hard times, but a foreclosure and recent price change might make this the ultimate opportunity for a historic home lover to make this house a home again. The home was built for industrialist Henry See ESTATE on page 19

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SHOWSTOPPER: The E.E. Roberts-designed home at 620 N. Euclid was built in 1904 for industrialist Caleb Todd. It’s one of Roberts’ grandest residential designs in Oak Park.

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‘Like a castle’ from page 17 Caleb Todd and his wife Lizzie. According to Frank Lipo, executive director of the Oak Park River Forest Historical Society, after getting his start in the coffee business in his native Massachusetts, Todd moved to the Chicago area where he founded the Chicago Fire Proof Cover Company on Canal Street in the Loop. Along with his partners, Todd achieved significant financial success in the manufacture of products such as asbestos and fire proof paint. “As grand as the estate is now, when it was built, it was even more significant,” Lipo said. “The lot fronted 125 feet on Euclid Avenue and went all the way back to Linden Avenue. It was a massive parcel.” At the time he designed the home, Roberts was a 38-year-old local architect who had worked in Oak Park for 11 years. Over his career, he designed more than 200 homes in the area. Lipo says that this house is one of Roberts’ grander and larger homes. “It looks like a traditional Tudor in some respects on the outside, FRANK LIPO but on the inside, Executive director there is a lot of of the Oak Park River Forest arts-and-crafts Historical Society woodwork and high-end glass with motifs from nature,” Lipo said. The home features seven bedrooms, six full baths, two half baths, two elaborate staircases, five fireplaces and a wood-paneled dining room. “The house inside is absolutely fantastic,” Realtor Mark Ahmed, said of the home’s historic style. “To me, it looks like a castle.” The home has been featured on multiple Oak Park housewalks, and in 2005 was the site of the Oak Park Infant Welfare Society’s Showcase House, a now defunct event in which local interior designers redecorated a significant area home, with tour proceeds benefitting the IWS’s Children’s Clinic. The home’s second owners, Clarence and Kathryn Funk, would no doubt have approved of opening up the home to benefit local charities. Kathryn was widely credited as being one of the founding members and manager of the Economy Shop and also helped found the Oak Park Symphony Orchestra. Clarence was instrumental in

“When it was built, it was even more significant.”

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OLD AND NEW: The home’s dining room (top) retains the original built-in cabinetry and rich, dark-wood paneling and ceiling beams, while other rooms in the house, like the bathrooms (above left) and kitchen (above right) have been updated since 2000, when it sold for $970,000. Four years later, it sold for $1.7 million. fundraising for the Chicago Theological Institute. They lived in the home from 1913 until their deaths. Clarence died in 1930, and Kathryn died in 1941. When the home sold in 1943, the property was divided into two parcels, one fronting Euclid, with the house, and a lot fronting Linden.

Sales and tax history The sales and tax history of the home as reported on Zillow show the mercurial rise and fall of an Oak Park estate home in the real estate market since 2000. In June 2000, the home sold for $970,000, and just four years later sold for $1.7 million. Over that four-year period, the an-

nual property taxes increased from $17,632 to $25,227. The taxes continued to steadily rise, with a jump of 77.7 percent in 2006, when they rose to $44,833. By 2016, the property taxes were $66,249. In August 2017, the home was in foreclosure and listed by Coldwell Banker for $1.5 million. With no serious buyers in sight, the home was relisted with Mark Ahmed of Century 21 Affiliated in March of 2018, with a big price drop to $999,900. Ahmed says the high property taxes have played a role in the home’s inability to find a buyer, but does not think that should be a deterrent to someone who loves the house. “Definitely, the high tax amount is probably contributing to why it hasn’t sold yet.” Ahmed said. “When a property goes

into foreclosure, there is no one to appeal the taxes, and Cook County raises the taxes if you do not appeal.” Ahmed consulted with a firm specializing in property taxes who advised him that for a home this size, in this neighborhood, a more appropriate property tax bill after appeals and with a homeowner’s exemption would be in the $33,000 to $39,000 range. Lipo said that, historically, the house has had history of sitting on the market, beginning with Lizzie Todd listing the house in 1912, after her husband’s death in 1909. The house sold to the Funks in 1913. After Kathryn Funk died in 1941, the home was not sold until 1943. See ESTATE on page 22

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“In some ways, it has been difficult to sell because of its scale, and the property taxes have always been high here in Oak Park, where our taxes fund our good schools,” Lipo said. Lipo added that it is an unusual property among a select group in the area. “There are an elite number of homes here in Oak Park that are so grand,” he said. “It’s really set up in that entertaining style. There’s a grandeur to its rooms.” Ahmed thinks the neighborhood and enduring craftsmanship of the stately home will help it find a new family. He points out the block only has about 10 to 12 homes, each just as significant as this house. “It’s very private and beautiful,” Ahmed

said. “The surrounding houses are 10,000 square feet plus.” While the original woodwork, crown molding and built-ins remain, the home has been updated throughout. The kitchen and bathrooms have all been updated since 2000, and Ahmed points out that the master bathroom is as big as most American bedrooms. The third-floor ballroom has become an entertainment room with its own kitchenette, bathroom and two bedrooms. A coach house over the garage includes a full bathroom and kitchen as well, and the four-car garage and driveway leave plenty of room for parking. The home connects with the outdoors through multiple access points to terraces and walkouts to the spacious yard. “This house needs a special buyer,” Ahmed said. “These kind of homes don’t come around every year.”

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ational volunteer Week is April 15-21, 2018 and all over the nation, service projects will be performed and volunteers recognized for their commitment to service. Our community thrives thanks to many volunteers who support nonprofit and governmental activities, and as many of us know from personal experience, giving of oneself to another empowers the giver and recipient. Oak Park and River Forest are very giving communities in terms of volunteering with 85% of people giving their time compared to a national average of 25%, based on a 2015 study of charitable giving in Oak Park and River Forest (http:// www.liveandgivesurvey.com/ ). However, despite the availability of local volunteers, a 2016 assessment by the Oak Park- River Forest Community Foundation that

examined volunteer engagement needs for local nonprofits cited the need for additional support to recruit and coordinate volunteers. Working with an incredible group of local nonprofits, the Community Foundation developed the first Volunteer Meet and Match event in 2016. This annual event connects people seeking opportunities to volunteer with community organizations that need help. Last year’s event was a great success! 44 nonprofits discussed their mission, work and needs with more than 320 potential volunteers. The Coordinating Committee works hard before the event to ensure a good match for volunteers and nonprofits, and the number of volunteers recruited per organization last year ranged greatly, up to 20 volunteers per organization.

Match event takes place on April 18, 4-8 pm at the West Cook YMCA. 46 nonprofits that serve Oak Park, River Forest and surrounding communities are registered for the event and looking for volunteers. The event has been developed once again by the Community Foundation and a great Coordinating Committee consisting of individuals from West Cook YMCA, Housing Forward, Hunger Walkathon CROP Walk, Oak Park Public Library, Pro Bono Network, Symphony of Oak Park and River Forest and Ten Thousand Villages and Triton College. We are looking forward to another successful event this year! Are you looking for an opportunity to volunteer? Join us on April 18 4-8 pm at the West Cook YMCA for this year’s Volunteer Meet and Match event!

Elizabeth Chadri Program Director Oak Park-River Forest Community Foundation

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Kate Rieke, Volunteer Coordinator, Animal Care League

nimal Care League recruited 5 new volunteers and offered them opportunities that fit with their skills, e.g. one works at the Second Chance shop, one works in the front office assisting with a myriad of administrative duties, and one has become their photographer for several community events. The individuals who were recruited have 2 critical characteristics of good volunteers: Consistency and Reliability. All the new recruits have attended one of their monthly new

volunteer orientation sessions. Having volunteers staff their table at the 2017 Meet & Match event gave interested persons the opportunity to hear from a volunteer what might be expected and why they volunteer and this contributed towards successful recruitment last year. According to Kate Rieke, Volunteer Coordinator, the 2017 M & M was by far the most successful recruitment fair the Animal Care League have participated in! Looking forward to this year’s event.

Kate Rieke Volunteer Coordinator Animal Care League

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Volunteering at 10,000 Villages Vyll ‘s Story

he 2017 Volunteer Meet N Match used my listed skills and timetable with an organization which was a Vyll L – Volunteer at Ten good fit for me. I Thousand Villages have a penchant for admiring ethnic arts and crafts and collecting objects from foreign lands, especially souvenirs. Working at Ten Thousand Villages gave me

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Kathy Berousek, Volunteer Cluster Tutoring Program Kathy Berousek, Volunteer Cluster Tutoring Program

the chance to become involved with an honorable organization and made me aware of the makers and learn the stories behind every item, which mades my experience so meaningful. I learned to value and appreciate everything and everyone in the store. I am learning the tricks in business through my volunteer retail experience. Much thanks to my mentors. I get to assist the customers which is a nerve racking and pleasing ordeal!

Vyll is an energetic, upbeat, and fun person. She fits right in with the other volunteers who feel our fair trade store is helping others who desperately need it in other parts of the world. Her ability to bring a smile to people when she is with them is a very valuable asset. Kathy Gentile, Assistant Manager and Volunteer Coordinator, Ten Thousand Villages

hen I moved into Oak Park back in May 2017 after retiring from my job I was excited to learn about the Meet and Match that would be taking place in a few weeks. I read about it in a local magazine that I had found in the River Forest Library. At Kathy Berousek– Volunteer at Cluster Tutoring the Meet and Match in Oak Park Library I walked around and spoke the last to leave. Both Lena and her to representatives from different mother are very appreciative and organizations and picked up the loving towards me. I moved into Oak Park back in May 2017 after retiring from my job I was excited to learn about the Meet brochure and read them at home. When that the and Match that wouldIbewould taking place in asay few weeks. I read about it in abiggest local magazine that I had found in the River Forest Library. At the Meet and Match in Oak Park Library I walked around and spoke to representatives from different organizations and picked up the brochure andof read them at home. I knew I wanted to work with kids; personal benefit tutoring with knew I wanted to work with kids; I have a background in teaching so cluster was on the top of my list. When I I have a background in teaching Iwent Cluster is thethe joy filled relationship to the Cluster Orientation and heard speakers including Kara Kalnitz and past volunteers I knew this was the place for me. so cluster was on the top of my I have enjoyed these with Lena. past six months of working with a wonderful fourth grade girl who is very motivated to be best she can be. Lena's mother is very invested in her daughter's education. Lena is often one of the first list. When I went to the Cluster the Watching student children to come to tutoring in the evening and my usually the last to leave. Bothimprove Lena and her mother in are very appreciative and loving towards me. Orientation and heard the speakers her reading/writing skills -taking I would say that the biggest personal benefit of tutoring with Cluster is the joy filled relationship with Lena. including Kara Kalnitz and past Watching my student her time to read every word and improve in her reading/writing skills -taking her time to read every word and using her opposite hand to hold down the paper when she writes is resulting in improvement in her comprehension and writing legibility. using her opposite hand to hold volunteers I knew this was the place I can't think of any other comments about last year's Meet and Match. It was well attended and much info was for me. the paper when she writes taken away from down it. It was well organized. I have enjoyed these past six is resulting in improvement in months of working with a wonderful her comprehension and writing fourth grade girl who is very legibility. motivated to be the best she can be. I can’t think of any other Lena’s mother is very invested in her comments about last year’s Meet daughter’s education. Lena is often and Match. It was well attended and one of the first children to come to much info was taken away from it. It tutoring in the evening and usually was well organized.

Volunteer Meet&Match 2018 How Volunteer Meet & Match works: Participating Organizations Accion in Chicago African American Christian Foundation Animal Care League Arbor West Neighbors Austin Coming Together By The Hand Club Expressions Graphics Friends of the Oak Park Conservatory Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park Hephzibah Children’s Association Housing Forward Hunger Walkathon West CROP Walk IMPACT Life Span Misericordia Home NAMI METRO SUBURBAN New Moms Oak Park Education Foundation Oak Park Public Library Oak Park River Forest Food Pantry Oak Park River Forest Museum Oak Park Township Senior Services

Oak-Leyden Developmental Services Opportunity Knocks Park District of Oak Park PING! Providing Instruments for the Next Generation Pleasant Home Foundation Pro Bono Network River Forest Citizen Corps (CERT/MRC) River Forest Township Rush Oak Park Hospital Sarah’s Inn Symphony of Oak Park and River Forest Ten Thousand Villages Oak Park The Economy Shop Triton College UCP Seguin West Cook YMCA Wonder Works Children’s Museum and more…

Volunteer Meet and Match connects individual interests and skills with nonprofits that need help. How does this work?

•N onprofits provide information about their causes and skill requirements online. Potential volunteers also sign up and provide info about the causes they care for and their skills. • Meet & Match staff matches volunteers with nonprofits before the event. • Volunteers arrive on the day of the event and receive a map showing where different organizations are located as well as their causes and skill requirements. • Pre-registered volunteers will get a list of recommended matches with nonprofits. • Volunteers and nonprofits meet to discuss their interests.

•N onprofits will share information about their work and impact on the community. •V olunteers will share information about their interests and expertise and offer their time and skills to make a difference in their community.

Discussions will be based on: •D escription of the mission and impact of the nonprofits. olunteer job descriptions prepared by •V the nonprofits. • List of skills or qualifications prepared by the volunteers

New for this year! This year’s move to the YMCA allows for: •M ore space and all nonprofits in one room

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Volunteering at 10,000 Villages Clare ‘s Story

retired in August of 2016 after working as a registered nurse for 44 years. I gave myself 6 Clare Mason – Volunteer at months to just Ten Thousand Villages do nothing, then figured out I better find something to do. I received a flyer for the 2017 Volunteer Fair at the Oak Park Library and found it to be a good opportunity to get information. The fair was laid out with interests in mind and I connected with a few organizations that interested me.I attended a volunteer information session at Ten Thousand Villages. I had shopped at

the store and wanted to know more. Being a fair trade organization and helping families in third world countries make a living was important to me. The staff and volunteers that I met at the information session were welcoming and informative. The time commitment was something I could easily make. I have enjoyed meeting new people and especially enjoyed the holiday season when the pace in the store really picked up. I got a good orientation to my responsibilities and it was a big day when I could check in merchandise on my own. Everyone in the store is always friendly and helpful.

Volunteering at 10,000 Villages Delacy’s Story

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motivated me to volunteer at Ten Thousand Villages was my familiarity Delacy – Volunteer at Ten Thousand Villages with the stores from years ago, visiting ones in other cities. So I was excited when you opened the Oak park store, a few blocks from me. It

took me years to volunteer because I was working 3 days a week and did not have time. I now work only one or two days per week so I have been able to volunteer. Having lived and traveled in developing countries, helping the people raised their standard of living is important to me. The Meet N Match made it easier for me to take the step.

Delacy is a character! She is a great listener and works with our customers very well. She fits in well with our customers as she has been one for so long. Have one of our dedicated customers decide to become a volunteer is quite a compliment for us! Luckily we were at the Volunteer Meet N Match for her to find us. Kathy Gentile, Assistant Manager and Volunteer Coordinator, Ten Thousand Villages

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Volunteering at the Pro-Bono Network Sue Piha’s Story

n 2017, I preregistered for the Volunteer Meet and Match. Because I listed my skills and interests before the program date, I received a list of organizations Sue Piha – Volunteer at to check out. Pro-Bono Network That was a good thing, because I otherwise might have felt overwhelmed by the roar of conversations, huge crowd, and many tables, and backed away. I had not heard of the Pro Bono Network before, but it seemed a great fit. I had worked in law-related jobs, and could appreciate the need for free legal services

in our area. I was glad, too, that they needed skills I had developed during my career. It can be hard to find volunteer work beyond the envelope-stuffing skill level. I am grateful for the sense of contribution I experience when I help an organization doing important work. I encourage others to sign up and attend the next Volunteer Meet and Match event at the YMCA, 255 Marion, on April 18 from 4-8 pm.l.

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Organization Listings Housing Forward The mission of Housing Forward is to transition people from housing crisis to housing stability. By emphasizing prevention, supportive services, employment readiness and supportive housing, we are able to offer a comprehensive, long-term solution that moves clients into housing quickly and keeps them there. This housing-first approach to homelessness is more efficient, more fiscally responsible and less traumatic to clients who are typically facing extraordinary hardship. It is also beneficial to the communities being served who do not have to bear the costs of homelessness in the form of expanded social services, health care and public safety costs. We offer an attractive return on your investment — measured in terms of human lives and futures. To donate, please visit housingforward.org/give, or contact Janet Gow, Director of Development & Communications, at 708.338.1724 ext. 262.

How Volunteers Can Help: Volunteers are needed for Housing Forward’s 16th Annual Progressive Dinner on Monday, April 23. Guests enjoy a 3 course meal at 3 different restaurants along Oak Park Avenue. Volunteer positions include registration, raffle ticket sales and general support with 4 hour shifts beginning at 4pm, 5pm and 6pm. Contact Amanda Rochon at arochon@housingforward.org or 708-338-1724 x230 for more information.

Housing Forward Headquarters 1851 S. 9th Avenue Maywood, IL 60153 708-338-1724 Oak Park Office 6634 W. Roosevelt Road, 2nd Flr Oak Park, IL 60304 708-338-1724 housingforward.org

Leadership Lab Leadership Lab, a program of the Oak ParkRiver Forest Community Foundation, brings together committed citizens and emerging and current leaders, to build and practice transferable, valuable leadership skills, and to explore and assess the strengths and opportunities in our community, in a unique, hands-on curriculum. Leadership Lab 1049 Lake Street, Suite 204 Oak Park, IL 60301 708-848-1560 oprfcf.org/leadership-la

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Oak Park Food Pantry For nearly 40 years, Oak Park River Forest Food Pantry has been committed to providing hunger relief programs and services to our community. Last year we provided over 15,000 families with healthy food, nutrition education, and help connecting to public benefits. Volunteers are crucial to every aspect of our services. Volunteers help with rescuing surplus foods from grocery stores and cafeterias, to administrative tasks, delivering groceries to homebound seniors, stocking shelves, assisting clients and so much more. Oak Park and River Forest Food Pantry 848 Lake Street Oak Park, IL 60301 (708) 386-1324 oprffoodpantry.org

Rotary Club of Oak Park River Forest We are members of the largest humanitarian organization in the world. We volunteer and provide support locally in our community, as well as around the world. We have been taking on the big issues in the world for a century: polio eradication, literacy, clean water, domestic violence. Join us! Rotary Club of Oak Park River Forest PO Box 654 Oak Park IL 60303 www.oprfrotary.org Local Action-Global Impact

Join 1200 Volunteers Working to End Homelessness Housing Forward has been leading and transforming the delivery of shelter, prevention and supportive housing services in west suburban Cook County since 1992.

Current Opportunities AmeriCorps Program

Are you a recent grad, young professional, or simply someone looking for a professional opportunity to give back while learning about a new career field? AmeriCorps is a great way to: • Gain valuable experience while earning a living stipend • Propel yourself into a future social services or non-profit career • Deliver vital programs to make a significant change in the lives of those we serve • Earn an educational award

Qualifications apply for AmeriCorps positions.

PADS Shelter

Seeking Volunteer Teams to support new Sunday night PADS Shelter beginning April 8. • Breakfast, Lunch or Dinner Provider (for 20 people) • Evening Team - 6:30pm to 10:30pm • Overnight Team - 10:30pm to 2:00am or 2:00am to 5:30am • Morning Team - 5:00am to 7:30am * Minimum of 2-4 people teams needed for meal groups and overnight shifts.

Volunteers will be asked to attend an orientation session.

For more details visit: www.housingforward.org/get-involved Or email: tdaniel@housingforward.org tel: 708.338.1724 ext. 220

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Molly Bridgid Easton • 4th • Irving

Annika Pauline • 5th • Holmes

Caroline Mann • 5th • Beye

Ava Fischer • 5th • Mann

Samuel Ko • 5th • Mann

Isabela Murphy • 5th • Hatch

Isabella Keberlein • 4th • St. Luke

Ava Albukerk • 5th • Hatch

Lily Cain • 5th • Longfellow

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Every year, fourth and fifth grade students in Oak Park, River Forest and Forest Park use their creative talents to write, draw and design ads for our local businesses. On the following 24 pages you’ll find amazing examples of some of the cutest, funniest and surprising advertising you’ll ever see.

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Courtney Moore • 4th • Longfellow

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Emily Churchouse • 5th • Longfellow

Audrey Loeper • 5th • Longfellow

Jessica Li • 5th • Lincoln

Poppy Booth • 5th • Longfellow

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Gabriella Gagliano • 5 • Roosevelt

Lucy Liskiewitz • 4 • Hatch

Samantha Menconi • 5 • Roosevelt

Ben Wefel • 5 • Mann

Maria Hendricks • 4 • St Luke

Sam Maugeri • 5 • Beye

David Maas • 5 • Hatch

Natalie Goldstein • 5 • Roosevelt.

Tallulah Fox-Robertson • 5 • Hatch

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Jane Souders • 5th • Irving

Ava Audar • 4th • Ascension

Alexander Vanaria • 4th • Ascension

Joe Knackstedt • 5th • Roosevelt

Olivia Vogel • 5th • Ascension

Carmen • 4th • Ascension

Bobby Tansey • 5th • Roosevelt

Anastasia Weiner • 4th

Jack Panichelli • 5th • Longfellow

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Meredith Carmichael • 4th • Longfellow

Zandel Stripe • 5th • Holmes

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Luke Fougare • 5th • Longfellow

Shiv Opal • 5th • Holmes

Dylan Elder • 4th • Longfellow

Avery Simon • 5th • Roosevelt

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Isabella Erpelo • 5th • Beye

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Josie Badrinath • 5th • Roosevelt

Keegan Knight • 4th • Longfellow

David Schiff • 4th • Hatch

Ayanna Rivera • 5th • Longfellow

Maytal Meir • 5th • Roosevelt

Peter Farren • 5th • Holmes

Maria Polyakov • 5th • Roosevelt

Zach Wild • 5th • Lincoln

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Maribel Telek-Lundal • 5th • Hatch

Caleb Roberts • 5th • Mann

Henry Wehman • 5th • Hatch

121 N. Marion St. Oak Park • 708-848-4572 Store hours: Mon-Wed-Fri 10-7, Sat 10-6, Sun 12-5

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Isabel Stickney • 5th • Holmes

Jocelyn Miller • 5th • Longfellow

Olivia Liebl • 4th • Longfellow

Julia Mattiace • 5th • Longfellow

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For more information, and to register, go to: mathnasium.com/oakparkriverforest • 1101 Chicago Ave., Oak Park, IL 60302 oakparkriverforest@mathnasium.com

Call today to schedule a FREE TRIAL SESSION to see if Mathnasium is the right fit for you and your family.

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Catherine Schmiedeler • 5th • Ascension

Sophia Lynn • 5th • Roosevelt

William Lerner • 5th • Ascension

Rafael • 5th • Longfellow

Julia Chang • 5th • Holmes

Sara Alhmaidi • 5th • Holmes

Jenny Keane • 5th • Roosevelt

Talia Lichterman • 5th • Roosevelt

Kiran Fry • 5th • Irving

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4th Grade Winners

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Sam Petersen

Mia Ring

Ailey Patel

Field Stevenson School

Longfellow School

Mann School

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Isabelle Harper

Finley Egan

Leah Scholvin

Beye School

Hatch School

Roosevelt School

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Mary Brunick

Michayla Marks

Hatch School

Ascension School

Longfellow School

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Finnbarr Munley

Lucy Madrigal

Rachel Sang

Longellow School

Holmes School

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Hannah Mangan • 4th • Longfellow

Tommy Howz • 4th • Longfellow

Drew Kohler • 5th • Longfellow

Logan • 5th • Ascension

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Inspiring faith, learning and leadership. Gracie B. • 4th • Ascension

Cassidy Sturgeon • 5th • Roosevelt

Madden Lamb • 5th • Mann

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Ari Bonney • 4th • Ascension

Ava Deutsch • 5th • Longfellow

Eva Elder • 4th • Longfellow

Genesis Galloway • 5th • Longfellow

Grace Samatas • 4th • St. Luke

Henry Vijuk • 4th • Ascension

Jack Loftus • 5th • Ascension

Keira Martis • 4th • Ascension

Lucy Pohl • 4th • Longfellow

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Daniel Pattie • 5th • Roosevelt

Jillian Louie • 4th • Longfellow

Logan Kelley • 5th • Holmes

Rosemary Ondria • 5th • Longfellow

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Finnbarr Munley • 5th • Longfellow

Michayla Marks • 4th • Longfellow

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Robert A. Lovero • 4th • Ascension

Maisie Hoerster • 4th • Longfellow

Gus Leman • 4th • Longfellow

Kate Boveri • 5th • Longfellow

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James Nolan • 4th • Ascension

Christian Coburn • 5th

Margaret Price • 4th • Ascension

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Emily Hover • 5th • Mann

Henry Ohlhoff • 4th • Mann

Isaac Cornell • 5th • Hatch

Joe Stenger • 5th • Longfellow

Justin Hunter • 5th • Beye

Liam Maldonado-Cruz • 4th • Longfellow

Michael Readling • 5th • Beye

Pablo Pareja • 5th • Lincoln

Spencer Baus • 5th • Hatch

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Lucy Madrigal • 5th • Holmes

Naiya Stewart-Bakin • 5th • Holmes

Talia Adams • 4th • Longfellow

Owen Huffman • 5th • Ascension

Maria Martinez • 4th • Longfellow

London Almeida • 5th • Ascension

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Vincent Czomkowski • 5th • Roosevelt

Sophia Missman • 5th • Roosevelt

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Anna Doherty • 5th • Roosevelt

Nayeli Rashbrook • 4th • Longfellow

Emma Redmond • 5th • Roosevelt

Alex Bukalski • 5th • Lincoln

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Katherine Obed • 4th • Mann

Julia Max • 4th • Mann

Tylar Mayberry • 5th • Hatch

Katherine Obed • 4th • Mann

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Our Amazing Artists! Ascension 4th Ari Bonney Mary Brunick Annamaria BiBenedetto Liliana Garcia Carmen Gross Matthew Halper Gabrielle Hinton Maximilian Holland Gael Jimenez Robert Lovero Morrison Luban Finnegan Marron Isabela Martinez Alexander Michels Rosemarie Nowicki Gabriela Ortiz Margaret Price Quentin Stephens Henry Vijuk Marshall Waysok Aisia Wiggins Madailein Williams Alessia Zompanti Ava Andon Gracie Brennan Patrick Callaghan Liam Campbell Destiney Cobbins Emerson Diebold John Franklin Myles Hill Estefania Jimenez Paulo Levrouw Carlos Lopez Roan Malaga Keira Martis James Nolan Ayanna O’Connor Laila O’Connor Jackson O’Donnell Arianna Pantoja Gracie Quiroga Paul Stepansky Alexander Vanaria Katerina Vitale Anastasia Weiner

Ascension 5th Samuel Allaire Emma Brennan Ella Callero Mia Cancino Gianna Delfiacco Edmund Griffin Sarah Kwasny Marco Lemoncello Jack Loftus Rylee Loftus Jayde Martinez Nicholas Meyer Jorge Mireles Ricardo Mondragon Kelsey O’Brien Nicole Roman Tamia Short Mitchell Speer Samantha Steinhofer Grace Treese Victor Vanek Narella Vazquez London Almeida Gabriella Amunategui Kenya Bates Margaret Brown Molly Fahey Margaret Gibbs Owen Huffman Rowan Irvine-Stindt William Lerner Logan Loftus Maya Mossell Morgan Myles James Nacke

Luke Nowicki Declan Papanicholas Gianna Parrilli Henry Racine Izcalli Rodriguez Catherine Schmiedeler Giada Spencer Dean Vijuk Olivia Vogel

Beye 5th Kiara Behensky Audrey Benzkofer Ariana Boyer Julia Brown Khalaya Casper-Coleman William Coleman IV William Cote Evangeline Cregler Malini Datta-Nemana Alex Dolipschi Claire Dormanen Alyssa Duncan Frederic Dunk Darwin Edwards Isabella Erpelo Odin Gallup Gabrielle Garmon Hannah Gordon Anika Gupta Isabelle Harper Mary Harris Mateo Heidkamp Pimentel Kaleiyah Henderson Brielle Holloway Justin Hunter James Hurt Rory Hurt Fred Jackson IV Terrence Jackson Jr Quinn Janssen-Singh Nathaniel Johnson Robert Johnson Veronica Jurgus Henry Knoepke Victor Kramer Gabriel Lebeau Debineh Makonnen Caroline Mann Frida Maugeri Samson Maugeri June McMahon Henry Milan Adam Moroney Will Mullen Abigail Najera J’zya Parker Eva Patenaude Jane Pearson Leah Pollock Jayden Puckett Michael Readling Mykah Riley Xantal Rozman-Puig Juliet Saydah Caleb Schulz Claudia Schutte Liam Schweitzer Jordon Scott Ryan Scott Sasha Sieck Genevieve Simkowski Paulina Simkowski Scarlett Simkowski Kayla Sims Joshua Singer Chace Smith Quinn Testore Samira Tolliver Sebastian Vega Tyler Washington Annabelle Yotti Andrew Zhou

Hatch 4th Aiden Burch David Conroy Teresa Delgado Harrison Frederick Ryan Hanson- Taruc Christian Kellogg Liliana Kminek Tyler Lacey Lucy Liskiewitz Maurice Neeley Jr Charlotte Shindeldecker Ainsley Teague Jayne Terretta Ryan Wells Diandra York Margaret Zeigler Eugene Allen Owen Baffa Jackson Baker Lily Bellmar Bella Brown Liam Calvert Sebastian Hilton Sara Issel Elizabeth Jacobs-Pupino Kathryn Kjarsgaard Alexander Lee Jude Miller Mena Ollins Frances Pakulski David Schiff Walter Shannon Olive Tepfer Ryan Burns Jahyda Campbell Owen Carstens Ana Castillo Benjamin Cazeau Tyler Edmondson Sofia Fitzgerald Saadia Gayton Stella Ludwig Justin Ormsby Marco Padro Luciana Ramirez Natalie Schiff Lilian Shaulis Owen Stevens Madeleine Webster

Hatch 5th Mayan Alwaeli Niaom’e Barnes Spencer Baus Haley Cohen Finley Egan Tallulah Fox-Robertson Ren Goodfriend Alexander Gossett Matthew Green Mahalia Hodge Daniella Horna-Baxter Lila Jackson Koji Lemke Tylar Mayberry Olive Merrill Isabella Murphy Bennett Parker Anna Topel Henry Wehman Ava Albukerk Campbell Beasley Paola Campuzano Grayson Comeaux Alexander Danielski Micah Hauser Amaya Henderson Isaac Cornell Eleanor Klem Gabriel Leal Brett Linzing David Maas Myles Millhouse

Brian Riggs David Santana Maureen Stathopoulos Alison Stelmach Olivia Tsitivich

Nguyen-Simon Nguyen Lucy Norman Josephine Pfeiffer Jasmine Shirley Langston Short Sydney Shrader Nolan Smith Maribel Telek-Lundal Christiana Wright Maxwell Wright-Crite

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Angelina Alaimo Amani Bader Abigail Busa Madison Chomiczewski John Cox Ryann Dawson Stephen Ebenezer Frances FioRito Kornelka Halicki Conor Hanley Rosemary Hicks Nicole Jasinski Christiana Kappe Michael Lewis Aidan McConnell Nora Mulligan Audrey Plummer Kaitlyn Regan Leland Sheahan Isabelle Shefani Maggie Stumbris Violeta Vilchis Daniel Wheeler Maria Bartalis Isabella Corral Kate Cox Maddy Cox Blake Davidson Michael Fraghia Johnna Giuffre Jayden Gonzalez Salma Guillen Cori Hardiman Maria Hendricks Avery Hovey Isabella Keberlein Maggie Keith Sophia Leonardi Katie McCarthy Charlie Montero Jack Ortiz Lilli Planek Matthew Reyes Grace Samatas Raphiel Stewart Matthew Zeh

St. Lukes 5th Ninos Ameer Tommy Colony Desta Devereux Mia Duque Daniel Goodwin Angelina Jankovich Max Lopez Savion Johnson Mollie Meehan Dutch Navigato Chloe Nio Lily Nottestad Anthony Scudiero Jonathan Svete Brian Timpone Emiliano Arteaga Emma Maria Bassett Maximus Cintron Luca Gattone Rosemary Gleason Luke Hickey Natalie Jasinski Jimmy Maloney Jack Paris

Zain Abidi Imad Abu-Ghallous Charlotte Ainsworth Elaf Al Enezy Francesca Alesi Sara Alhumaidi Layan Alkharashi Jana Alsolami Anas Alsulami Olivia Baty Maya Berry Haifa Bin Othman Hayden Bogehegn Jacob Bottorff Lily Brecknock Deo Campbell Kaden Chandler-Bryant Julia Chang Shaniyah Charles-Meeks Ishani Chattopadhyay Emani Christion Naimah Coleman Sadie Collins Reginald Crawley Broderick Daunis Sophie Drennan Delilah Dyer Weston Elmer Peter Farren Ella Foster Nykoma Gandara Tatianna Garner Daniel Govorunov Sadie Guralnick Alexander Harks Sadie Hunnewell Logan Kelley Emma Kelly Jasmine Kennedy-Rose Joshua Killion Yeowon Kim Elizabeth Kochendorfer Joseph Leshnock Vivienne Lisak Joshua Lopez Marian Lumm Clara Lyons Lucy Madrigal Elbert Mahone Eleanor Matoka Rylie Metzler Montri Molina Christopher Jos Murphy Ana Nitzoy Madeline Nixon Mary Olszowka Shiv Opal Anna Panza Cameron Pate Annika Pauline Armon Petties Violet Plotkin Emily Renteria Sarah Root Heidi Rozhold Ameena Saadiq Sofia Sanchez Rachel Sang Charles Scott Graham Shabino Aiden Sheibany Jonathan Simmons Nevaeh Smith Naiya Stewart-Baskin Isabel Stickney Rigby Stokes Benjamin Streiffer

Zander Stripe Amirah Teague Isiah Thomas Jamari Thomas Ella Ungaretti Aneesah Uqdah Madeline Vizzone William Weber Phoebe Whalen Kaviarasi Whyte

Field Stevenson 4th Sam Petersen Ginny Redmond Morgan Watson Danijah Mitchell Kimora Buckles Eliakim Elem Dante Gordon Naomi Allen Nart Ramadani Madilyn Hunt Jaylen Quintana Elijah Quintana Claudia Sanchez Carlos Rivera Freddy Valdez Antonio Gasse Bianca Lara Christian Murillo Francisco Servin Kelvin Davis Janiyah Russell-Moon Josh Gomez Jonathan Hayes Kariea Dobbs Aaliyah Mabry Deya Calderon Erick Ortega Jaiden Smith

Irving 4th Julia Fluecke Sofia Ramos Ava Lega Alyssa Walker Alexis Henderson Lorraine Kearney Otto Huber Tess Carr Mia Pinc Molly Bridgid Easton Sofia Hernandez Zion Lucas Nile Banks Maggie Smith Charlie Coppelman Benjamin Ahring

Irving 5th Anthony Abbinanti Jane Souders Kiran Fry Thomas Hann Sadie Parkinson Peter O’Keefe Zaria Larnell Solomon Westmeyer Octavian Calin-Jageman Pearl Lacey Lucy Vander Griend Vivian Banghart Abby Cockerill Eleanor Skalla Joey Egan Ryan Wozniak Kaspian Murray

Mann 4th Shae Adelstein Matthew Bigham, Jr Grace Conry Charlotte Crosby Caitlyn Daniel Hudson Davis Kaitlyn Dill Malaya Finn

Julian Garcia-Bariel Chloe Jablecka Logan Johnson Sophia Kim Chris Korrison Jeremy Lane Ben Lazzara Grace Moroney Rowan Neville Evie Nohalty Matthew Proskey Warren Pugh Sydney Rutkowski Lilly Wright Hyacinth Bauman-Goldberg Elsa Berg Allyn Biag Collin Bornhorst Francesco Buy Caitlyn Coates William Faust Lyla Fielding Kian Gharavi Anaiah Hall Ben Hilgart Cooper Jones Adrian Levy Julia Luke Sabrina Rahman Kate Raihle Liam Roche Dominique Santos Gwen Watters Sander Adelstein Ella Biag Evelyn Cultra Mark Dickel Leila Ellis Alden Field Ben Gerbosi Aaric Harmston Violet Korzatkowski Maxine Kreiter Trevor Lane Julia Max Clare Moroney Ana Sofia Mrotzek Paloma Najera Guinnevere Neville Katherine Obed Matthew Price, Jr Susana Raisbeck Van Strimaitis Owen Yang Gwen Dannenberg Will Enlow Asia Fulbright Javi Grillo-Puentes Andrew Janssen Mia Kircher Griffin Lane Matthew Lee Evan Max Vivien May Delilah Nichols-Goeke Henry Ohlhoff Ailey Patel Sam Phelan George Ping Carolyn Rainey

30th

Jonathan Schiff-Lewin Sanaa Shaw Katarina Stambolic Sienna Tulian Ada Young James Yount

Mann 5th Myles Armstrong Carolina Bostedt Anna Bullock Christina Cleveland Ajax Deary Robby Gault Henry Gillman Luke Hurtado Joey Kahn Sam Ko Kaden Krumrei Stuart Lippincott Kenneth Meyer Linnea Nam Kennedy O’Carroll Dominic Trotta Liam Tuhey Luke Valentine Callie Walsh Ben Wefel Dylan Bomar Eli Colegrove Mac Dawson Hannah Demes Hannah Desmarais Ava Fischer Danny Gordon Mary Gullo Maeve Marzec Liam McMillion Molly Medland Charlie Newman Teagan O’Carroll Caleb Roberts Chris Smith II Aidan Underwood Kendall Wallace Brody Weaver Abby Weiss Addison Bliss Bella Brauc Lukas Brauc Evan Colegrove Indigo Field Jameson Foreman Adam Gambill Drew Harris Sean Healey Emily Hover Rebecca Kirk Madden Lamb Lucca Linarez Laro Martinez-Santos Maddie McMillan Olivia Musachia Eli Stein Luca Trotta Paloma Turner Alex Ventura-DeWolfe Spencer Bell Molly Chambers Esmee Chow

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Evan Richardson Carolina Rios Waylon Ritter Ayanna Rivera Justin Robinson Emmett Romeus Capri Scatton Caris Scatton Benjamin Schmollinger Colton Sheffert Desiree Smith Yishai Sosa Gabrielle Speller Andre Stanton Joseph Stenger John Summers Sam Taylor Harper Thompson Alexander Vincent Grace Walton Kahrmelo Weaver Maya Wilbourne Galen Willhoft Tewabech Woodson Benjamen Wright Lily Zinthefer

Roosevelt 5th graders Daniela Arezina Noble Ashe Chelsea Austin Josephine Badrinath Cole Baird Katherine Berni Audrey Bostwick Caleb Bowman Xander Brandis Chloe Broaddus Lauren Bromet Reese Brotman Blaire Brown Christopher Brown Jasper Burrows Nora Butterly Maia Cagnina Shaylynn Cain Matthew Carolan Norman Carroll Eamonn Cassidy Seanna Cast Lea Caulliez Marin Chalmers Logan Clancy Calvin Claps Sofia Contreras Marshall Cronin Tymo Cune Vincent Czarnkowski John D’Agostino Jack deBeers Lourdes Deogracias Claire Detmer Juana di Sabato Hans Diaz-Falth Anna Doherty Hailie Donald Michaela Draeger

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Nathan Moskoff Robert Mundt Sadie Murphy Ethan Niewoehner Thomas Nix Catherine O’Brien James O’Brien Samantha Older Daniel Pattie Arden Perry Hannah Phelan Thomas Pogue Maria Polyakov Manu Rajagopal Emma Redmond James Regenstein Sherlock Roberts Gabriel Ruby Owen Ruby Madeleine Ruggiero David Salamoun Haley Sarsany Leah Scholvin Phoebe Shorney Avery Simon Gabriella Simon Hannah Simon Kerala Smith Rian Smith Zoe Solberg Beau Spillane Eiam Staples Emma Steadman Cassidy Sturgeon Robert Tansey Jake Tarara Ava Thompson Cameron Tolliver Caroline Vietzen Warren Vitale Stella Walker Taylor Wehrman Mark Yungerman

Lincoln Oak Park Lynn Mizgala August Emma Thomas Merit Namaste-Rose Mateo Jacoby Pablo Pareja Mariana Alex Bukalski Lynn Mizgala Mateo Mendoza Ben Simon

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Weichert Realtors Nickel Group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$310,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 514 S. Harvey Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Beyond Properties Realty Group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$409,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2 720 S. Ridgeland Ave, Oak Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Baird & Warner Oak Park/River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$420,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 1037 Thomas Ave, Forest Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Beyond Properties Realty Group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$422,900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12:30-2:30 827 S. Cuyler Ave, Oak Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re/Max In The Village . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$425,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2 316 Lathrop Ave, River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . @properties. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$425,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2 537 S. Oak Park Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Weichert Realtors Nickel Group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$427,900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2 1125 Circle, Forest Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . @properties. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$429,500 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 635 N. Ridgeland Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Coldwell Banker Residential . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$445,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2 625 Clarence Ave, Oak Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Weichert Realtors Nickel Group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$455,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2 528 Wenonah Ave, Oak Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re/Max In The Village . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$459,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12:30-2 940 Gunderson Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re/Max In The Village . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$469,800 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2 814 Gunderson Ave, Oak Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . @properties. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$500,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2 1023 Bonnie Brae Pl, River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Coldwell Banker Residential . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$549,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2:30-4 735 Home Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re/Max In The Village . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$569,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2:30-4 843 Home Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re/Max In The Village . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$589,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 517 S. Elmwood Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Weichert Realtors Nickel Group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$595,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-1 533 S. Kenilworth Ave, Oak Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Baird & Warner Oak Park/River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$595,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2 545 S. Oak Park Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Weichert Realtors Nickel Group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$598,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-1 1446 Clinton Pl, River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$609,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 1167 S. Humphrey Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Weichert Realtors Nickel Group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$639,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12:30-2:30 626 N. Kenilworth Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Baird & Warner Oak Park/River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$640,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-3:30 1000 Marion St, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$649,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 925 Columbian Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re/Max In The Village . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$663,800 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2 536 Gunderson Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . United Real Estate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$729,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-3 730 N. Grove Ave, Oak Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Weichert Realtors Nickel Group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$750,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2 1112 Thomas Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Weichert Realtors Nickel Group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$750,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2 202 S. Harvey Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Coldwell Banker Residential . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$779,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-4 221 Wesley Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . @properties. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$795,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 916 Hayes Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Beyond Properties Realty Group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$800,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-1 1122 N. Grove Ave, Oak Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$819,500 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 219 S. Grove Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Weichert Realtors Nickel Group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$835,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2 1206 Lathrop Ave, River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$848,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 532 N. Oak Park Ave, Oak Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$854,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 633 William St, River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Weichert Realtors Nickel Group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$860,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 223 Thatcher Ave, River Forest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$885,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-12:30 213 N. Taylor Ave, Oak Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$927,500 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 618 Thatcher Ave, River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Weichert Realtors Nickel Group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$995,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-1 210 S. Euclid Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Coldwell Banker Residential . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$999,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2 159 N. Taylor Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Baird & Warner Oak Park/River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$999,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-4 1339 Ashland Ave, River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$999,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 229 N. Ridgeland Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Baird & Warner Oak Park/River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,000,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-4 818 Clinton Pl, River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,045,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-4 202 S. Euclid Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Baird & Warner Oak Park/River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,300,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-4 630 N. East Ave, Oak Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Baird & Warner Oak Park/River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,359,900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-4 923 Ashland Ave, River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Baird & Warner Oak Park/River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,399,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-4 309 Linden Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Baird & Warner Oak Park/River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,450,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-4 1030 Forest Ave, River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . @properties. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,475,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-4 922 Lathrop Ave, River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,499,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 703 N. East Ave, Oak Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Baird & Warner Oak Park/River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,499,900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-4 638 N. Kenilworth Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,875,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-4 829 Home Avenue, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Coldwell Banker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $519,900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Open Sun 12-3 230 N. Oak Park Ave. UNIT 3K, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Baird & Warner Oak Park/River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$134,900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-1:30 201 S. Maple Ave. UNIT 108, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Beyond Properties Realty Group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$135,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2 130 Home Ave. UNIT 3D, Oak Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Coldwell Banker Residential . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$149,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12:30-1:30 428 Wesley Ave. UNIT G, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Weichert Realtors Nickel Group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$185,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2 427 S. Taylor St. UNIT 2N, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$200,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 431 S. Harvey Ave. UNIT B, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Beyond Properties Realty Group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$315,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:30-3 1133 W. Chicago Ave. UNIT 2SW, Oak Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Baird & Warner Oak Park/River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$699,900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2 15 Forest Ave. UNIT 19, River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . @properties. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$554,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Sat. 11-1 15 Forest Ave. UNIT 19, River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . @properties. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$554,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-1 621 S. Lombard Ave, Oak Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Baird & Warner Oak Park/River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$629,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11-2 233 N. Elmwood Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Coldwell Banker Residential . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$875,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3

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A G I N G

A quantum leap to what’s true Relationship is the fundamental truth of this world of appearance.

Rabindranath Tagore

Whenever we recall a given object or experience, we do not get an exact reproduction but an interpretation, a newly constructed version of the original.

Daniel Tammet

Embracing the Wide Sky

any of us, if not most, frequently live for appearances’ sake. But successes, like memories, are not always what they appear to be. Indeed, our “appearances” can be illusory and even unimportant. Our last third of life gives us the opportunity to live, or to be — or at the very least to be aware of — what is really important. One of the things I am learning about as I age is the importance of relationships and the relative unimportance of appearances. I just might be a good example of the theory of gerotranscendance. (You remember gerotranscendance, right?) Reality does not always fit our theories. The flat Earth became a sphere, and Newtonian physics has been overtaken by the seemingly unfathomable quantum physics. Dark matter plus dark energy make up 95 percent of the total mass-energy of the universe and we cannot even see it! So much for appearances. Over and over again, we look back in history, with a condescending smirk, at those who preceded us, chuckling to ourselves at how wrong they were about what we now know to be the “absolute” truth. When will we learn that we, too, are on the same sublimely imperfect journey as our predecessors? What we “know” is often pretty far from the truth. So how about a little humility? What if — in the words of Dr. Bill Thomas — everything we thought we knew about aging is wrong? Our impatience and disdain for “old people” is both an example of internalized age-ism and an example of what I call “quantum self-hate,” not just because it is only a matter of time before we ourselves act like those “old people” (in one way or another), but more fundamentally because of the intercon-

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Newsprint tariffs will hurt, not help, American jobs

rade laws and, ultimately, imposing tariffs are designed to protect American interests and jobs. That’s a concept everyone can agree on. But what happens when those laws and tariffs have the opposite effect? That’s an issue that’s playing out in D.C. with the Department of Commerce and the International Trade Commission. A lone newsprint mill in Washington state, owned by a New York hedge fund, brought a complaint to the International Trade Commission alleging unfair trade practices against Canadian producers of newsprint. Most likely the paper on which you are reading this was produced in Canada. This year the Department of Commerce has imposed two preliminary tariffs that have increased the price of newsprint for some newspapers by more than 30 percent. This summer, both agencies will explore whether this temporary tariff should become permanent. If this happens, trade laws that are intended to protect American jobs and interests will have the opposite effect. For newspapers, staff and newsprint are the largest expenses. Faced with those kinds of increases, newspaper publishers throughout Illinois and the rest of the coun-

try will have to make hard decisions that will ultimately impact the coverage of local issues and the staff that report on those issues. There isn’t enough newsprint produced in the U.S. to meet the demand of the industry, and given the fact that newsprint consumption has dropped by more than 75 percent since 2000, no U.S. producer is going to invest in starting a newsprint mill. Mills cost hundreds of millions of dollars to build and take years to come into full production. If these tariffs are made permanent, the New York hedge fund wins as it now has increased the value of its asset, and the federal government wins as tariffs collected go to the Department of Commerce. Sadly, the country will lose as local newspaper employees will be impacted, and those people, events and issues that newspapers report on will lose as well. If you agree, contact your federal elected officials to let them know that this is wrong, and that one company must not be allowed to use trade laws to its advantage while adversely impacting local communities throughout Illinois and the rest of the country. Sam R. Fisher is president and CEO of the Illinois Press Association.

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Spring 1968

ifty years ago, April 1968, Oak Park was on edge. To many it certainly felt like a precipice. Austin was already upended by incomprehensibly rapid white flight. Historically, Oak Park was a middle and upper-middle class white community. Austin was a city neighborhood long filled with Irish and Greek, German and Italian families. Now Oak Park and Austin had moved to new terrain. Over the 20 years following World War II, the West Side, moving block-by-block from east to west, had resegregated. Whites fled, and a burgeoning black population arriving from the South was shoehorned into their place. The racial change was stunning, devastating any semblance of community, and it was permitted, encouraged, and, largely controlled by a cynical white power base in government, real estate and banking. By the late 1960s, racial change was coursing through Austin — south to north — and there was an expectation by many that the city limit at Austin Boulevard was entirely permeable, that Oak Park would soon resegregate. It was in that moment, hard to describe for its fears and intensity, that Oak Park’s village government, and later its public schools, took dramatic and very controversial steps to test out possible paths toward the radical notion that a community could be racially integrated. Not in Mike Royko’s definition of integration as the brief period marked from when the first black person moved in until the last white moved out, but in a long-term, genuine way. And so in April 1968 Oak Park’s Community Relations Commission and then its village board took up consideration of a local Open Housing ordinance. The federal government had just passed such a law as part of Lyndon Johnson’s astounding Civil Rights victories. But the idea of a single suburban community passing Open Housing, effectively betting on integration, was unheard of, untested. A series of public meetings that spring laid bare all of Oak Park’s fear and racism, all of its bold hopes and self-interest. Meetings overflowed at the old Village Hall at Lake Street and Euclid (now an apartment complex) and were shifted to the auditorium at OPRF High School. Demands were heard for a referendum on Open Housing. Trustees, knowing it would certainly be defeated, resisted and directly passed the measure. It was the first of many remarkable initiatives on fostering integration — everything from backing the Housing Center and its efforts to maintain demand by white people to come to Oak Park, while steering potential residents to avoid anticipated resegregation east of Ridgeland, to banning “for sale” signs, creating two junior highs and redrawing enrollment boundaries to racially balance the schools. And it was early in that month that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis. On Thursday, April 4, early evening, the Lorraine Motel, there in support of striking black sanitation workers, Dr. King was killed while on the motel’s balcony. In our Austin Weekly News, Editor Michael Romain resurrects a West Side timeline as black residents move over the course of 12 hours from shock and reflection to confrontation with an unprepared and unsympathetic Chicago Police Department. By early afternoon Friday, core commercial strips on the West Side, Madison Street and Roosevelt Road, are being looted and burned. In Oak Park, smoke from the West Side is plain to those gathered on front porches, the worries and fears over race are made more immediate, ties to West Side businesses frequented by Oak Parkers are severed and the connection is cemented that Oak Park’s future of integration is only possible with aggressive separation from Austin, with Austin Boulevard becoming a physical and psychological barrier between these two sister communities. Now it is a half century later. Oak Park’s integration is real, imperfect and always fragile as race still divides in America and confounds us. Austin, despite often debilitating violence, has grown deep new roots as an African American community with vitality and purpose. Here we are. Finally, on levels personal and institutional, connections are again being fostered between these two great neighbors. Does Oak Park have the will to humbly offer resources within Austin? Does Austin have the self-confidence to trust such offers of partnership? This is the moment.

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afternoon from a concerned parent. Plumes of black smoke rose on each side of the Eisenhower Expressway because a good part of the West Side was ifty years ago today, Harriette on fire. As we passed under the bridge Robinet, like most mothers of at Pulaski, we narrowly missed being that era, was home with the hit by a shopping cart full of bottles, kids. Her husband, McLouis, dropped from above. Other classmates better known as Mac, was took the Green Line home and were teaching at UIC. No different, really, instructed to lie on the floor of the train from most other days. for fear of snipers. My parents were Except April 4, 1968 was no ordinary tense and worried that night. One can day. Several hundred miles to the south only imagine what it was like for newly in Memphis, Dr. Martin Luther King arrived black families. Jr. had just been murdered. Here’s what it was like: Harriette felt The shocking news had a special helpless and wanted to do something, so impact on Harriette because the she took their American flag and put it Robinets were one of about a dozen up outside. Then she got busy around the house. A African American families who had recently few hours later when she glanced out the window, moved to Oak Park, a largely white, moderately almost every house on the block was flying the Republican suburb immediately west of Chicago. stars and stripes. Until the day the Robinets moved into their Growing up here, I always thought of Oak Park house on the 200 block of South Elmwood Avenue as special. Hemingway, Frank Lloyd Wright and in October of 1965, Harriette had never set eyes all that. But it wasn’t until on it. The house had been Harriette told me this story purchased by a “straw buyer” that I knew for sure. Now — a white Presbyterian whenever I tell her story, I minister and his wife — conclude with, “That’s Oak because real estate firms Park.” at that time wouldn’t help But that’s not the end of the black couples find a house story. and most white homeowners A month after King’s death, wouldn’t sell to them. The on May 6, 1968, the Oak Park minister and his wife, Don Board of Trustees approved and Joyce Beisswenger, were the nation’s first Fair Housing among a growing number of Ordinance. In the ensuing Oak Parkers who embraced half century, thanks to a notion called “Open intentional efforts and a lot Housing.” After purchasing of firm resolve on the part the house, they immediately of many people, Oak Park sold it, sight unseen, to the became a national model for Robinets, who at the time sustained, stable diversity — were living in an apartment FILE 2011 and remains so to this day. in Chicago. Harriette and Mac Robinet, DOOPers But that’s not the end of the In those days, when a extraordinaire story either. black family took possession The Robinets still live of a house in Oak Park, on the 200 block of South it was called a “move-in,” Elmwood. They’re the old guard now. The anchors. which required preparation and strategy. Police Mac is retired after a distinguished career as a Chief Fremont Nestor and Village Manager scientist at Argonne Labs. Harriette became an Harris Stevens took the lead in communicating award-winning author of historical fiction for with neighbors in advance. Move-ins always took young people with numerous novels to her credit. place mid-week, mid-day, when fewer people were Most mornings, you can find the couple walking around. Patrol cars were stationed on the block for to and from St. Edmund Church where they attend some time afterward, just to be on the safe side. Mass. The Robinets moved in without incident and, And on one Thursday each month, they still get though a little awkward, most of the neighbors together for lunch with some of those who flew were welcoming. But not everyone. The the flag so they wouldn’t feel so alone. If you walk atmosphere remained tense for some time. by Winberie’s, you might see them through the Harriette documented their experience in a front window, laughing and swapping stories. Redbook Magazine article titled, “I’m a Mother — Fifty years after they helped make Oak Park a Not a Pioneer,” part of the publication’s ongoing better, more tolerant place, the Robinets are still “Young Mothers” series. It was published in here. February 1968. Two months later, Dr. King was And they’re still here partly because of that day assassinated. 50 years ago when her neighbors demonstrated, in Home alone with three kids, the only black the clearest terms, that Oak Parkers were capable family on the block, one of the first and few in the of rising above their biases and fears to become village, Harriette couldn’t help feeling vulnerable one people. as the world around her erupted in violence. Or as Harriette puts it, “That’s when I knew I I can attest to that. Attending high school in was home.” downtown Chicago, I got a ride home the following This first ran on April 4, 2012. It has been slightly updated:

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Rainy Saturdays contributed to my education

n rainy Saturdays, I was able to read, work on model airplanes, and clean the basement. My grandparents owned bound volumes of McClure’s Magazine dating back to the 1880s. They were stored in the basement. In these magazines, I was able to read true stories of great explorers like Livingstone and Park who traveled to the deepest parts of Africa. I was introduced to other explorers who traveled to Asia and South America, and also to the inhabitants of these continents. My grandmother kept National Geographics as far back as the 1920s. These, too, were shelved in the basement. I owe a great deal of my geographic education to those magazines. My grandfather owned the complete set of Matthew Brady photographs and commentaries from the Civil War. These were on shelves next to the National Geographics. I read these magazines many times over the years between 1950 and 1961. My grandfather had the opportunity to hear firsthand accounts of this war from his grandfather, who had served in the cavalry during the conflict. There was a small library area in our living room where I found some novels, as well as a large number of non-fiction books. This was a great place to read on rainy Saturdays. The books that held the most interest for me were the complete set of Funk and Wagnall’s Encyclopedia. Over a period of 10 years, I spent many rainy Saturdays as well as other days reading these volumes. Working on model airplanes was another great way to spend rainy weekends. I had access to my Uncle Gene’s huge tool collection,

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which was part of the workshop he had built in the basement in the late 1940s. I started by putting together simple planes propelled by a rubber band. Generally, they flew well so I was inspired to graduate to building more complex planes. What I thought I could do and what happened were two different stories. Gene’s tools helped me build planes, but I was not so good at aeronautics as the planes I built crashed shortly after takeoff. Rainy Saturdays gave me a chance to work on my baseball card collection as well. I bought cards at either the hobby shop on Westgate or Zehender’s Pharmacy at Chicago and Marion. I had a fine collection of rookie cards, superstar cards, and Hall of Fame cards, which I kept in plastic sheets in a three ring notebook. On rainy Saturdays, orders also came down from the top to clean the basement. Of course, I received the same orders even when Saturdays were bright, sunny and made for other things. The job entailed not only sweeping and mopping the entire basement, which included the laundry room, the main section, the storage room, the furnace room, and the wood shop area, but about once a month, I was politely asked to wash the eight basement windows as well. These windows were quite large. Even though I used a lot of elbow grease, my mother and grandmother could always find places I missed. So as you see, rainy Saturdays were both mentally and physically stimulating for me. 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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Help us stop hunger by donating to the Crop Walk We’ve all passed that homeless person on the street or reached for your wallet or in your pocket for change. Well, that is what I am asking you today but on a larger scale. My goal this year is $15,000 — ambitious but for a very good cause. Twenty-five percent of Crop Walk funds go to help our neighbors here in Oak Park and around the western suburbs, through our PADS program (Housing Forward) which gives shelter and food and helps people get jobs and through the food pantry here in Oak Park and seven more pantries around the western suburbs, one located in Austin. The other 75 percent goes to our neighbors around the world. Our purpose is to open up two aquifers (for this they need a pump) in two different locations

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so that they could irrigate fields and plant food for themselves. A group of these farmers would then go to another village to help that village with their farming. This process would continue until we stamp out hunger. We can help here today and giving to the Crop Walk helps for a lifetime. You can donate online at the address provided below (make out checks to CWS-Church World Services) or catch me around town. Please visit my personal page: https://www.crophungerwalk.org/oakparkil/dougwyman God bless,

Doug Wyman Oak Park

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Toxic herbicide poisons us

any of us are aware of industry-funded efforts over many years to cast doubt on the independent, academy-centered science that has established the health and environmental risks of smoking, second-hand tobacco smoke, particulate-matter air pollution, and climate change. Over the past three years, a new campaign has been mounted to sow confusion around the use of pesticides — in particular glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup herbicides. This antibiotic poison is, according to a Reuters report, the world’s most widely used weedkiller, deployed in agriculture, forestry and domestic gardening. In March 2015, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), the specialized cancer research agency of the World Health Organization (WHO), declared glyphosate to be a “probable human carcinogen.” Their decision was based on a years-long review of peer-reviewed epidemiological studies on the subject by an international panel of toxicologists and biostatisticians. The finding was immediately challenged by Monsanto and attacked by industry-sponsored NGOs such as CropLife International, the lobbying organization for the agrochemical industry. Soon thereafter, the IARC finding was contradicted by the European Food Safety Agency, which declared that the evidence did not support IARC’s conclusion. Arguments over what constitutes valid evidence have become vitriolic, as would be expected

given the high stakes involved. In the wake of the IARC finding, more than 375 lawsuits are pending against Monsanto in U.S. District Court in San Francisco, filed by people alleging that exposure to Roundup herbicide caused them or their loved ones to develop non-Hodgkin lymphoma, and that Monsanto covered up the risks. The plaintiff ’s primary expert, Dr. Christopher Portier, has come under withering attack, alleging conflicts of interest and incompetence in an effort to discredit him for his role in both the lawsuit and the original IARC finding. Similar tactics succeeded in delaying health initiatives to reduce smoking for decades. But the discovery process for the San Francisco lawsuit is now resulting in the public release of internal Monsanto documents, which promise to expose the company’s tactics early on, and could potentially lead to a real debate on the regulation of pesticides and toxins in the United States. You can follow these developments on the website of GoGreen Oak Park. And on April 12, you can attend a public lecture at Trinity High School in River Forest by Dr. Thierry Vrain, a retired genetic engineer who will discuss the latest science on glyphosate and human and environmental health. For details and registration information, visit www.gogreenoakpark.org.

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Why Ethnic Fest? The Annual Ethnic Festival and World Languages Day has been an integral part of District 97 for almost 40 years. While the Multicultural Center/Department has developed materials, lessons and presentations that teach our staff and students about the great diversity that makes up humanity (race, gender, gender identity, LGBT, people with disabilities, religions and other belief systems, etc.), the Ethnic Festival has been used to highlight the wonderful cultural differences that make us who we are as well. These characteristics and qualities span those issues (which are not culturally specific). It gives us a chance to see aspects of root cultures from around the world that have helped shape our language, traditions, clothing, foods, music, and so much more. Our national motto is E pluribus unum (out of many, one). Ethnic Festival and World Languages Day highlights those aspects of America’s heritage, but does not purport to be everything. Ethnic Fest gives our community a chance to see and/or participate in cultural dances; to taste ethnic cuisines; and learn about the games, art and music of traditional cultures from around the world with people from those cultures. It gives our neighbors who are from those cultures the chance to celebrate and share their heritages as part of the greater “American” culture with their neighbors and friends. This helps promote respect and appreciation for all community members. At the same time, all groups supporting diversity are invited and welcome to participate in the parade and to sponsor activities at Ethnic Fest, promoting cultural understanding, respect for diversity and having fun together. The Ethnic Festival and World Languages Day will take place on Saturday, May 5, beginning with the Ethnic Fest Parade at 10 a.m., followed by festivities at Julian Middle School.

Lynn Allen

Former director, Multicultural Education Department Oak Park Elementary School District 97

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Ramblers awaken maroon and gold memories

went in for a check-up recently and everything looked normal, except for my blood sample, which showed traces of maroon and gold. My doctor told me not to be alarmed, that it probably runs in my family. That would make sense because three of us graduated from St. Ignatius and three from Loyola. In fact, my family has a personal connection to the Ramblers’ championship team. I have to thank the current squad for bringing back those maroon and golden memories of 1963. Back then, my brother Edward was an undergrad at the Lakeshore campus. He became a reporter for the school newspaper, solely for the purpose of scoring free tickets to the basketball games. The highscoring Ramblers were electrifying the nation, with their fast breaks and suffocating defense. In the final game of the season, Edward received an interesting proposition. Two middle-aged African American men offered him free transportation to Louisville and lodging if Edward could get tickets for them to the Final Four. They were making the large assumption that the Ramblers would get that far. When the time came, Edward and a fellow reporter were whisked to Louisville in a Cadillac. They stayed in the black section of town during the tournament. Back home, we were thrilled that Edward was covering the action. It made the championship game against Cincinnati even more exciting. I can still picture us huddling around our blackand-white TV in the basement, watching Loyola’s stunning comeback. It was the one and only time I saw my dad jump. There was at least an inch of daylight under his dress shoes. He was a true believer but few were giving Loyola a chance

against the Bearcats, including the university. After their heart-stopping overtime victory, Loyola had no celebration planned for the players. Edward was hanging out with the national champions. He sat on the lap of one of the players, like a tiny journalistic mascot. The players ended their “festivities” by chasing a horse down a country road. The game was over but my family wouldn’t let it go. We bought an LP record of Red Rush calling the last two minutes of the game and we wore it out. At the time, we didn’t have a clue about the racial, or political aspects of the championship. I was 9 years old and didn’t care what color my sports heroes were. Still don’t. But as the years went by, the 1963 tournament only grew in historical significance. This year felt like a throwback to that simpler time. The 2018 team bore a strong resemblance to the ’63 team. They used teamwork and fundamentals to beat taller, more “talented” teams. They seemed to embody the Jesuit attitude toward education. The Jesuits taught us that education wasn’t a utilitarian means to an end, that a degree wasn’t just for getting a good-paying job. They taught us that school should be a timeout from chasing the buck. So unlike the high-powered “one and done” college teams, the Ramblers weren’t seeking a ticket to a pro contract. They set an example of character that is sorely needed today in college basketball — just as the championship team set an example of racial tolerance that was desperately needed in 1963. I thoroughly enjoyed the Rambler’s run this year. The same day as their miracle win over Miami, I mailed my manuscript to Ignatius Press. I’m counting on the fact that we share the same blood type.

JOHN RICE

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BLESOFF from page 37 nectedness of everything — we literally are the “old people,” driving slowly or holding up the supermarket line. But we are all made of stardust. Everything that ever existed is composed of exploded stellar material. Aging can help us grasp that we are all members of Team Sapien. Aging is the wedge to help increase our understanding of just how complex reality is, the wedge to help increase our grasp of global, indeed universal, teamwork. Will we take advantage of the glimpses into empathy that aging offers us? Don’t forget that Celebrating Seniors week is coming up April 26 through May 3. Lots of informative and educational stuff happening all around town, including a free IONS Conscious Aging Workshop demonstration that I am leading on May 1 at the Yoga Centre, 266 Lake St., Oak Park from 3 to 4 p.m. Stop by and say hi. 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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Putting kids at risk About a year ago, I asked the village of Oak Park to put up a crosswalk sign on a busy intersection by my house. The intersection could be quite dangerous and because I cross it a few times a week and have small children, I felt more safety measures needed to be added. After a few months of calls, emails to the village, and even an editorial op-ed ed piece in Wednesday Journal, the he crosswalk was installed. I was thrilled. My first step in the cause for safety was taken because I felt safety was a topic everyone in Oak Park could agree upon. Apparently, not everyone agrees rees with the safety cause. The elementary school district rict has proposed eliminating bus service for elementary and middle ddle schools in Oak Park. This is highly ghly concerning because this signifinificantly puts students and carpoolpoolers at a safety risk. More children dren will be walking to school, and many parents will be carpooling. From om my experience with proposing one crosswalk sign, I have legitimate ate concerns that there may be more re intersections without proper sigignage that many students will be

crossing and that many carpoolers will be ignoring. No alternatives have been suggested by District 97, but after speaking with some fellow Oak Park parents and residents, I compiled a list of alternatives to share: ■ Carpool with families that I do not know. know ■ Ask the New York Stock Exchange if they can open about 30 chan minutes later so I can take my chilminu dren to school without missing the opening bell. open ■ Have my 5-year-old child walk on Harlem Avenue at 6:55 a.m. H ■ Fire my nanny of two years so I one who can come earlier to can find f take my child to school. ■ Ask my employer if I can come work 45 minutes later for the duto w ration of my career. rati ■ Buy another car. ■ Hire more crossing guards (but they need $15/hour minimum). ■ Find a realtor. Obviously , there are many more Ob suggestions, but I think the point is sugge that th this will not only be inconvenient for parents, it will also have an impact on the community. p

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Preserve our system of checks and balances

am writing again with an emotional plea that you contact your congressman, and any other members of Congress, to remind them that they are part of the three equal branches of our government. They have the same power and authority as the president. As such, let us urge them to be the check on any further outrageous judgements or behavior by President Trump. It is apparent that our president’s personal problems, Mueller’s extensive investigation of Russia’s interference in our elections (and the President’s involvement in the Russian activity), plus resistance to his wishes, have totally unnerved him. This obvious frustration has caused him to dismiss associates and cabinet appointees with whom he did not agree. Unfortunately, the President’s replacements are for the most part merely “yes men.” An exception to this group is “War Hawk” John Bolton whom he selected to head National Security. Bolton is an experienced, imposing leader who has been crusading for quite some time for a preemptive war with Iran and North Korea. This position feeds into Trump’s view and his fiery rhetoric favoring power by strong military action. Congress has been complacent and has permitted the President to set his own agenda, and make his own decisions without questioning. This sets a dangerous precedent. Also troublesome, is our third branch of government, the judiciary, which has relinquished its authority. They have allowed the President to set laws that are questionable as to their constitutionality. President Trump’s recent appointment to the Supreme Court solidifies the bias. When similar unbalance of power, took place in Germany it took only “151 days to change that nation from a democracy to a

totalitarian dictatorship.” This statement was hung in the Berlin museum constructed on the site of the Berlin Gestapo headquarters. In Germany there was repeated criticism of the Justice Dept. that finally led to the Gestapo. Jews and gypsies were the scapegoats, the enemies of the nation, just as Trump has proclaimed that immigrants, Muslims, and Mexicans are “bad” people. Germany’s news media was accused of being prejudiced against the Third Reich, which led to a single Hitler-approved public information center. Our President trusts only Fox News, all else is “fake news,” but what frightens me most is the war talk. Haven’t we had enough of war? I personally dealt with the horror of World War II and then lived to observe oh so many young people die in the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Iraq War, and the continuing Afghanistan War. We don’t require the violence of war to establish pride in our nation. Look what happened when Germany tried to be the power over all the world! Trump America has many similarities to prewar Germany, but our differences are far more significant. Two-thirds of our population does not agree with Trump’s drive for power and white supremacy. I am sure we Americans would challenge the President if he seeks war to increase his power. I realize we all have our prejudices and are often gullible to appealing persuasions, but the majority of our nation is passionate about our democracy and about protecting it. Let us all become involved to keep our nation proud and safe under our Constitution and urging Congress to preserve the checks and balances of our three branches of government. Harriet Hausman is a longtime resident of River Forest.

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Headline gave pause over ‘cause’

No. The Ramblers are not a cause celebré [Win or lose, Ramblers a cause celebré, John Hubbuch, Viewpoints, March 28]. They are not a controversy. They are not the subject of public debate, nor are they a legal issue. Their accomplishments should be celebrated, but they are not a cause.

Alan Peres

Oak Park Editor’s note: John Hubbuch was not guilty of the inaccurate use of “cause cele-

bré.” It was his nitwit editor. We stand corrected (and changed the headline online), though we would quibble with the notion that the Ramblers’ NCAA run was not a “cause.” It was definitely a cause. The effect was a lot of hooting and hollering and more good feeling about college basketball than many of us have experienced in many years. And we strongly agree that Loyola’s accomplishments are cause for celebration.

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Fifty years after Dr. King

ifty years ago today when Dr. King was killed, I was an exchange student at Tuskegee Institute, a historically black college in Alabama — 3,000 black students plus eight of us who were white. When I returned to St. Olaf College — 2,000 whites and eight blacks in 1968 — a friend asked me what I had learned during the four months I had been imbedded in an all-black college. At the time I was ashamed to say that I didn’t know. His response was, “Then you wasted your time.” I was embarrassed because I didn’t have any penetrating insights into the “race problem,” nor had I come up with any grand solutions. I had learned some things, of course. I had taken a course on African History and knew that the three main tribes in Nigeria were Hausas, Yorubas and Ibos. I knew that the speech Booker T Washington gave in 1895 came to be known as the “Atlanta Compromise.” I even knew that the “T” in Washington’s name wasn’t an abbreviation for anything. He just wanted a middle initial. I even read The Autobiography of Malcolm X, cover to cover. I had learned a lot of facts, but facts were not what my friend at St. Olaf was asking for. He was asking for the diagnosis needed to come up with a cure; the penetrating analysis that would produce the solution. Have you noticed that after each school shooting of children or the police killing of Stephon Clark or the massacre in Las Vegas, everyone asks, “Why did it happen?” so they can determine how to “never let it happen again.” Is it mental illness or inadequate training of police officers or racism or economic disparity or the absence of fathers in families or toxic chemicals in the food we eat or people not going to church on Sunday or … So when my friend asked me “why” and I couldn’t answer, I felt a little stupid.

All I had was lots of stories. I told my friends about feeling very alone and insecure on my first day on campus, and how a student named Emmanuel Harris took me under his wing and quickly became my best friend. I recalled how students at Tuskegee seemed more sad and confused, as was I, on hearing the news of Dr. King’s death. There was no talk of “burn, baby, burn.” The contrast between the riots in Chicago and the “wakelike” sadness at Tuskegee was striking. I told them about my roommate Thomas Tokabong, who was from Botswana, his girlfriend Nellie, and how all the African students formed their own little tribe and didn’t “mix” much with the other students who had the same color skin as they did. I recalled how after dinner in the cafeteria, some of the young men would hang out on the library steps singing songs like “Collard greens, my lord, them good old collard greens” in four part harmony. I remembered the day Stokely Carmichael spoke in the gym about black power. Stokely was angry and so were the students in the first two rows, but most of the audience listened politely and sometimes nodded in agreement with what he said, but there was no sit-in staged in the administration building following his speech. Emmanuel and I went to the gym together and when we walked in the door, the “ushers” who were wearing army jackets, shades and berets said, “White folks sit under the balcony.” It was the only time I ever had to, so to speak, “sit in the back of the bus.” On hearing that, Emmanuel said to me, “I’m sitting with you.” If I learned anything profound from my time at Tuskegee it was that I knew less than I thought I did; that life was more complicated than I had realized; that not all “Negroes” were the same; that the variety within a

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tribe is as great as the differences between tribes. Fifty years down life’s road, I’m not embarrassed to tell that story, and I’ve become suspicious of any simple answers to anything. Arm classroom teachers? Spend more money on schools in poor communities? Provide in-service “bias training” to teachers? Make America great again? Just be nice to everyone? Each proposal has its merits, of course, but somehow I think that this year there’s a message in the juxtaposition of the 50th anniversary of King’s death and Holy Week. Consider the question, “Is the glass half full or half empty?” Fifty years later, are we a more perfect union when it comes to race or are we worse off ? To put that question in perspective, it’s been 2,000 years, more or less, since Jesus’ death and resurrection — two millennia! Has the human race gotten better or worse? As far as my life goes, it doesn’t really matter. Whether things have gotten better or worse, I still wake up every morning and have to discern what God wants me to do that day. I, of course, listen to the news and try to figure out which candidate can make incremental changes, and resist reacting to their grandiose promises with cynicism. Instead, I somehow have to keep my eye on the prize while understanding that we’ll never get to that promised land King talked about the night before he was killed—at least not this side of heaven. Consider the question of suffering: King would have a training session the day before a march or sit-in for the participants. He would ask them if they were willing to suffer the blows of billy clubs and the slurs of onlookers because of what they were doing and not retaliate in kind. If they said no, he would tell them to not get involved. For King, how you worked for a goal was as important as the goal itself. Sounds a lot like the Good Friday story, doesn’t it? Finally, every time anyone has tried to transform the Christian gospel into a legislative program, it always winds up filling the glass half way at best. Did the Civil Rights laws passed in 1964 transform our country into a more perfect union? We have to keep trying, but when you get up tomorrow morning and try to figure out “what God wants you to do today” maybe at the top of your list should be to “take a trip to Tuskegee,” i.e. go somewhere or to someone out of your comfort zone, read the metaphorical book instead of just the dust cover, and do what you can to move the ball forward a yard or two, with humility, understanding deep in your soul that neither you nor anyone else this side of heaven is going to change this world into a perfect union.

Jim Zari, 96

Past employee of Wednesday Journal James L. Zari, 96, of Berwyn, died on March 31, 2018. A former employee of Wednesday Journal publications, he was the husband of the late Helen Zari (nee Gish) and the father of Deborah Zari. According to his JIM ZARI daughter, Deb, “Jim Zari was a tough man with a big heart. He never backed down from anyone, ever. He would do anything to help anyone. A couple of years ago, his 93-year-old, next-door neighbor had a flat tire, but couldn’t change it because of his age, so my 95-year-old father changed it for him. “In his late teens, he belonged to a motorcycle gang in Chicago until one of his friends was killed in a wreck. He never rode again. “He owned the Cicero Liquor House in the late ’40s/early ’50s. Bartended in the late ’50s/ early ’60s at a well-known jazz club on Pershing Rd. in Stickney called The Red Arrow Tavern and later at The Deer Lodge in Berwyn until the owner sold it to the FitzGeralds. “As the oldest resident on the 2900 block of Maple Avenue in Berwyn, he was referred to as “King of the Block.” He was as tough in dying as he was in living.” Visitation will be held on Thursday, April 5 from 10 a.m. until the time of funeral service, 11 a.m., at Adolf Funeral Home & Cremation Services Ltd., 2921 S. Harlem Ave. in Berwyn. Interment will be private. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to St. Leonard Church, 3318 Clarence Ave., Berwyn 60402. Additional information is available at www.adolfservices.com.

Connie HendersonDamon, 69 Veteran, health care educator

Connie Henderson-Damon, 69, a longtime resident of Oak Park, died on March 22, 2018 from ovarian cancer. Connie Henderson-Damon is survived by her husband, Christopher Damon; her daughter, Laura; six aunts and uncles; 24 cousins and their families; her nephew, Joe Henderson and his family; her in-laws, John and Betsy Damon and Patricia Damon; and her niece, Beth Damon and her family. She was preceded in death by her parents, William O. Henderson and Lenora Bair Henderson. A memorial service will be held at 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, April 7 at First United Church of Oak Park, with interment at Dexter Cemetery. Memorial gifts may be made to the First United Church of Oak Park, 848 Lake St., Oak Park 60301; and the Historical Society of OPRF, 129 Lake St., Oak Park 60302.

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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

www.livingwd.org www.billwinston.org

West Suburban Temple Har Zion

1040 N. Harlem Avenue River Forest Meet our Rabbi, Adir Glick Pray, learn, and celebrate with our caring, progressive, egalitarian community. Interfaith families are welcome. Accredited Early Childhood Program Religious School for K thru 12 Daily Morning Minyan Weekly Shabbat Services Friday 6:30pm & Saturday 10:00am Affiliated with United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism 708.366.9000 www.wsthz.org

Lutheran-Missouri Synod

Christ Lutheran Church

607 Harvard Street (at East Av.) Oak Park, Illinois Rev. Robert M. Niehus, Pastor Sunday Bible Class: 9:15 am Sunday School: 9:10 Sunday Worship Services: 8:00 and 10:30 am Church Office: 708/386-3306 www.christlutheranoakpark.org

Fair Oaks

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

Celebrating Our Earth Family Day April 15

Join Oak Park Friends Meeting at the Oak Park Art League, 720 Chicago Ave. Worship 10am Potluck and intergenerational program to follow. 708-445-8201 www.oakparkfriends.org

Roman Catholic

Ascension Catholic Church

Lutheran-Missouri Synod

St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church

305 Circle Ave, Forest Park Sunday Worship 8:30am & 11:00am Adult Bible Class & Sunday School 10:00am Wheelchair Access to Sanctuary Leonard Payton, Pastor Roney Riley, Assistant Pastor 708-366-3226 www.stjohnforestpark.org

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–Friday 6:30am Church Office: 708-366-0839 CCD: 708-366-3553 www.stbern.com Pastor: Fr. Stanislaw Kuca

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.

Traditional Catholic

The Traditional Catholic Latin Mass

Our Lady Immaculate Church 410 Washington Blvd Oak Park. 708-524-2408 Mass Times: Sat. 8:00am Sun. 7:30 & 10:00am Operated by Society of St. Pius X. Confessions 1 hr. before each mass

Third Unitarian Church 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

To place a listing in the Religion Guide, call Mary Ellen: 708/613-3342

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

10AM Sunday Forum 11AM Service Rev. Colleen Vahey thirdunitarianchurch.org (773) 626-9385 301 N. Mayfield, Chicago Committed to justice, not to a creed Upcoming Religious Holidays

Apr 6 Holy Friday Orthodox Christian 8 Pascha - Easter- Orthodox Christian 12 Yom HaShoah Jewish 13 Lailat al Miraj Islam 14 Baisakhi (Vaisakhi) Sikh 19 Yom Ha’Atzmaut Jewish 21 First Day of Ridvan Baha’i 23 St. George’s Day Christian 29 Ninth Day of Ridvan Baha’i Visakha Puja - Buddha Day Buddhist 30 St. James the Great Day Orthodox Christian 30-May 2 Theravadin New Year Buddhist

Wednesday Journal, April 4, 2018

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2018 SUMMER SEASONAL STUDENT EMPLOYMENT The Village of Oak Park has openings for the 2018 Summer Seasonal Student Employment. Opportunities are in the Engineering, Water & Sewer, Streets Division, and Fleet & Forestry Divisions. Interested applicants must be 18 years old and actively enrolled in a post-secondary academic program. 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.

BILLING & ADMIN SUPPORT Intermodal Logistics Company, located in central downtown Oak Park, seeking a full-time Billing and Administrative Support professional. The ideal candidate must be detail oriented and possess a willingness to learn new skills in our growing organization.

PART TIME EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS AND RESPONSE MANAGER The Village of Oak Park is seeking qualified candidates for the position of part-time Emergency Preparedness and Response Manager in the Health Department. This position will coordinate disaster response, crisis management and medical countermeasure dispensing/distribution activities for the Village of Oak Park, provide disaster preparedness training, and prepare emergency plans and procedures for natural (e.g., floods, earthquakes), wartime, or technological (e.g., nuclear power plant emergencies, hazardous materials spills, biological releases) or disasters. This single class position is also responsible for the complex administrative duties required for state, federal and local response processes and grant management. Applicants are encouraged to visit the Village of Oak Park’s website http://www.oakpark.us/jobs. Interested and qualified applicants must complete a Village of Oak Park application no later than April 19, 2018.

FREE TALK ON ANXIETY Emotional Peace in Turbulent Times: Tools for Dealing with Anxiety. Thurs. April 12, 2018, 7-8:30pm, Oak Park Public Library, 2nd floor. Understand your nervous system during anxiety, insomnia, panic attacks. Learn to consciously soothe the nervous system into calm and peace. Presenter: Terri Hager, LCSW, Oak Park psychotherapist specializing in Anxiety, Grief, Medical Issues, LGBT Issues, and Parents of LGBT children. www.therapyforpeace.com

ANIMAL CONTROL OFFICER The Village of Oak Park is seeking qualified candidates for the position of Animal Control Officer in the Health Department. This position will perform a variety of duties involved in enforcing Village ordinances governing the care and keeping of animals in the Village; and to impound, care for and assist with redemption of animals as appropriate. 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 April 11, 2018. AUTO PARTS PART-TIME DRIVER & INVENTORY NAPA Auto Parts Stores looking for dependable and dedicated employees for part-time Driver and Inventory Worker openings. Most important is a friendly demeanor, good attitude, and ability to work with people. Availability right now. If interested, call Cesar or Jim at 708-447-4980. CLEANING PERSON Cleaning Person Wanted for small Brookfield home, light cleaning, 2 hours a week, nice couple with dog. Call 708-341-4077 Compliance Officer is sought by Nanhua USA LLC in Chicago, Illinois. The candidate should have at least a Juris Doctor, license to practice law in Illinois and six months of experience as a law clerk or attorney. Send resume to ao.sun@nanhua-usa.com.

Sprout Some Extra Cash with a spring garage sale. Call our Classified Dept. to advertise: 708/613-3342

Primary Responsibilities Include: * Ability to perform complex billing processes * Light phone work, filing, order supplies Proficiencies: * Microsoft Word & Excel Training will be provided. Logistics industry and /or Quick Books knowledge is a plus. Compensation is commensurate with experience. Qualified candidates can email resume and cover letter to humanresources@icl-na.com DATA ENTRY/CUSTOMER SVC. Local business needs a Data Entry/ Customer Service Specialist. We will train you in the specifics of our operation, but you must be well organized, friendly, great with data and willing to learn. Start at $14/hr with benefits. Respond with resume and cover letter to datainputjob@ yahoo.com DRIVER PART TIME Local company looking for part time parts driver/receiving clerk. Must be drug free & have valid DL. Must be able to lift 75Lbs. Hours will be 9am to 3pm. $12/hr Email resume HR@ sievertelectric.com No Phone Calls FARMERS’ MARKET MANAGER The Village of Oak Park is seeking qualified candidates for the position of Seasonal Part-time Farmers’ Market Assistant in the Health Department. This position will provide administrative support to the Farmers’ Market Manager to allow growers and producers of food to sell directly to the public within established guidelines. This position requires work in inclement weather conditions; some heavy lifting of up to 50 pounds; walking or standing for sustained periods of time. Applicants are encouraged to visit the Village of Oak Park’s website at http:// www.oak-park.us/ jobs. Interested and qualified applicants must complete a Village of Oak Park application no later than April 11, 2018.

Join the McAdam Landscaping Family!! Join the McAdam Landscaping Family!! Full-time Office Receptionist: Family-owned since 1979, McAdam Landscaping is seeking a full-time receptionist with at least one year of experience. Excellent problem-solving, customer service, telephone, computer, and overall communication skills. Candidate should be adept at prioritizing tasks and working well in a team environment. Please submit your resume, work history and references to Lena at lena@mcadamlandscape.com. Lena can also be reached at 708-771-2299.

SAL’S POWER WASHING PART-TIME, FULL-TIME Seeking to fill 3-5 Fleet Washing positions. Positions Require: —Clean Appearance —Drug-Free —Valid Driver’s License —Clean Driving Record —Ability to Speak English CALL 708-351-5236

HELP WANTED PARKING ENFORCEMENT OFFICER FOREST PARK, IL The Forest Park Police Department, seeks a Part-Time Parking Enforcement Officer. Eligible candidates will be required to pass an aptitude test and an extensive background check. Qualifications include high school diploma (or equivalent), a valid driver’s license, knowledge of basic parking regulations, and good verbal and written skills. EVENING AND OVERNIGHT HOURS ARE MANDATORY. Open until filled. Applications are available at Village Hall, 517 Desplaines Ave. or at www.forestpark.net and should be returned Attn: Vanessa Moritz, Village Clerk, Village of Forest Park, 517 Des Plaines Avenue, Forest Park, IL 60130. Email: vmoritz@forestpark.net.

Firefighter/Paramedic River Forest, Illinois

Village of River Forest 400 Park Avenue River Forest, IL 60305 Phone: 708-366-8500 Fax: 708-366-3702 www.vrf.us The Village of River Forest will hold a written examination on Saturday, April 28, 2018 to establish an eligibility list for the position of Full-time Firefighter/ Paramedic. Qualifications: • Applicants must be at least 21 years of age at the time of application and under 35 years unless exempt from such age limitation as provided in the Fire and Police Commissioners Act. Proof of birth date will be required at the time of application. • Applicants must be citizens of the U.S. and/or an alien admitted for permanent residents or lawfully admitted for temporary residence and who produces evidence of intention to become a U.S. citizen. • Applicants must possess a high school diploma or equivalent • Licensed Paramedic (or documentation showing applicant is in the process of obtaining a license) • Applicants must provide a CPAT+ (Ladder Climb Exercise) Certification dated between April 16, 2017 and April 16, 2018 from a licensed administrator in Illinois.

Information Packets with Preliminary Applications and additional information are available for pickup at the Village of River Forest Village Hall or can be downloaded at www.vrf.us/ firefighter Important Dates: Applications Due: April 16, 2018, 4:30 p.m. - Application must be returned to the River Forest Village Hall with all supporting and required documentation in an 8.5” x 11” envelope. Orientation: April 24, 2018, 6:30 p.m. Check-in, 7:00 p.m. Mandatory Orientation – Dominican University, Aula Auditorium, Priory Campus, 7200 W. Division St., River Forest, IL 60305 Written Examination: April 28, 2018, 8:30 a.m. Check-in, 9:00 a.m. Written Examination – Dominican University, Parmer Hall Classroom 108, Main Campus, 7900 W. Division St., River Forest, IL 60305 Oral Interview: Monday, May 7, 2018, 6:00-10 p.m., Tuesday, May 8, 2018 , 6:00-10 pm at the River Forest Village Hall ,Board Room, Second Floor, 400 Park Ave., River Forest, IL 60305

Published in Wednesday Journal 04/04/18

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1 BEDROOM APT 1ST FLOOR 1 bedroom apt includes dishwasher, fridge, gas stove & small corner enclosed outdoor porch. Rent is $1,119 includes water & heat. Pets allowed! 8 min walk to Jewel Osco, 10 min walk to CTA Greenline, 10 min drive to downtown Oak Park & 12 min walk to the Ridgeland Common Recreation Complex Dog Park! On the first floor which makes moving a lot easier but not so near the ground where you have to worry about safety. Great place to call home!

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Lots of vintage kitsch, housewares, garden, construction materials, tools. Some MCM pieces. Lots of eclectic goodies! Riverside

MOVING SALE 180 E QUINCY SAT 4/7 & SUN 4/8 9AM TO 3PM

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PUBLIC NOTICE PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME In the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, County Department, County Division. In the matter of the petition of Shirley Jones Suber for change of name to Shirley Jean Jones, Case #2018CONC000319. Notice is given you, the public, that on March 21, 2018, I have filed a Petition For Change of Name in this Court, asking the Court to change my present name of Shirley Jones Suber to the name of Shirley Jean Jones. This case will be heard in courtroom 1707 at 50 W. Washington Street, Chicago, Illinois on Wednesday, June 6, 2018 at 10:30 a.m.. Published in Forest Park Review 3/28, 4/4, 4/11/2018

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The project includes the replacement of curb and gutter, sidewalk and driveway aprons, hot-mix asphalt surface removal, frame/lid adjustment, resurfacing, and other associated work. The bidding documents are available for download starting Tuesday, March 27, 2018 at: http://vrf.us/bids Bids must be submitted by Thursday, April 12, 2018 at 10:00 a.m. at: Public Works Department, 2nd Floor Village of River Forest 400 Park Avenue River Forest, IL 60305 The bid proposals will be publicly opened and read at that time. Proposals will be considered not only on the basis of cost, but also on past performance, experience and ability to perform the work. No bid shall be withdrawn after the opening of the Proposals without the consent of the President and Board of Trustees of the Village of River Forest for a period of thirty (30) days after the scheduled time of the bid opening. The Village of River Forest reserves the right in receiving these bids to waive technicalities and reject any or all bids. Published in Wednesday Journal 4/4/2018

LEGAL NOTICE Chertkow and Chertkow (22019) Attorneys for Petitioner 1525 East 53rd Street Chicago, Illinois 60615 STATE OF ILLINOIS) COUNTY OF COOK )ss Circuit Court of Cook County, County Department, Domestic Relations Division. In re the marriage of Dioscelina Landeros, Petitioner and Jorge Luis Hernandez Vega, Respondent, Case No. 2018D-002506. The requisite affidavit for publication having been filed, notice is hereby given to you, the above named Respondent, that a Petition has been filed in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, by the Petitioner, for Dissolution of Marriage and for other relief; and that said suit is now pending. Now, therefore, unless you, the said Respondent, file your response to said Petition or otherwise make your appearance therein, in the Office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, Room 802, Richard J. Daley Center, 50 West Washington Street, in the City of Chicago, Illinois, on or before May 8, 2018, default may be entered against you at any time after that day, and a judgment for Dissolution of Marriage entered in accordance with the prayer of said Petition. DOROTHY A. BROWN, Clerk. Published in Wednesday Journal 4/4, 4/11, 4/18/2018

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The Village of Riverside Open House Public Information Meeting Notice for Riverside Road/Bloomingbank Road Improvements (Metra Pedestrian Access Improvement Project) The Village of Riverside invites you to attend the Open House Public Information Meeting for the Phase I Engineering and Environmental Study for the proposed streetscape and resurfacing of Bloomingbank Road/Riverside Road from Burling Road to the BNSF Railroad. The proposed improvements consist of streetscape and resurfacing of Bloomingbank Road in front of the Train Depot and Riverside Road from Burling Road to the BNSF Railroad. Additional improvements include minor geometric modifications, pedestrian crossing enhancements, curb bump-outs, curb line modifications, and parking modifications. There will be a reorganization of parking in front of the Train Depot with the existing number of spaces being maintained. The purpose of this meeting is to present the proposed improvement plans, and provide an opportunity for public comment. The details of the Open House Public Meeting are as follows: Date: Thursday, April 12, 2018 Time: 4:30 pm to 6:30 pm Location: Riverside Township Hall -Room 4 27 Riverside Rd. Riverside, IL 60546 The meeting will be conducted in an open house format, meaning interested persons can attend at any time between 4:30 pm and 6:30 pm. Attendees will have the opportunity to view exhibits and submit comments. Village representatives and project consultants will be present to discuss the project and answer questions. For additional information, please contact: Sonya Abt Community Development Director Village of Riverside 27 Riverside Road Riverside, IL 60546 Phone: 708-447-1241 Published in RBLandmark 3/28, 4/4/2018

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION CITIMORTGAGE, INC. Plaintiff, -v.WALTER PEEK, ERICA A.E. PEEK, JOI-NOMATHEMBA O. PEEK, EQUABLE ASCENT FINANCIAL, LLC, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants 2017 CH 10351 622 S TAYLOR AVE OAK PARK, IL 60304 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on January 30, 2018, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on May 2, 2018, at The 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 622 S TAYLOR AVE, OAK PARK, IL 60304 Property Index No. 16-17-113-009. 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 in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. 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 14-17-10412. 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. 14-17-10412 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 2017 CH 10351 TJSC#: 38-1155 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. I3080041

to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/ 18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. For information, contact Plaintiff’s attorney: Michael W. Debre, CHUHAK & TECSON, P.C., 30 S. WACKER DRIVE, STE. 2600, CHICAGO, IL 60606, (312) 4449300 Please refer to file number MWD 23638.57231. 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. Michael W. Debre CHUHAK & TECSON, P.C. 30 S. WACKER DRIVE, STE. 2600 CHICAGO, IL 60606 (312) 444-9300 E-Mail: MDebre@chuhak.com Attorney File No. MWD 23638.57231 Attorney Code. 70693 Case Number: 12 CH 3947 TJSC#: 38-2190 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. I3081252

2016, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on May 11, 2018, at The 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 1170 SOUTH HUMPHREY AVENUE, OAK PARK, IL 60304 Property Index No. 16-17-331-0070000. The real estate is improved with a yellow brick two story single family home with a two car detached garage. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. 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: Visit our website at service.atty-pierce.com. between the hours of 3 and 5pm. McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce, LLC, Plaintiff’s Attorneys, One North Dearborn Street, Suite 1200, Chicago, IL 60602. Tel No. (312) 416-5500. Please refer to file number 7999. 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. McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce, LLC One North Dearborn Street, Suite 1200

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION SCHAUMBURG BANK & TRUST COMPANY, N.A, AS SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST TO THE FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION, LEGAL SUCCESSOR AND RECEIVER FOR THE BANK OF COMMERCE Plaintiff, -v.CHICAGO TITLE LAND TRUST COMPANY, SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE TO FIRSTAR BANK, N.A., AS TRUSTEE UNDER TRUST AGREEMENT DATED AUGUST 4, 2000 AND KNOWN AS TRUST NUMBER 7375, U.S. BANK, N.A. F/ K/A FIRSTAR BANK, N.A. TRUST NUMBER 7375, SETTLER’S HOUSING SERVICE, INC., BOARD OF MANAGERS OF THE ASTOR HOUSE II CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants 12 CH 3947 1111 N. HARLEM AVE. (UNIT 1B and P-1) 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 March 9, 2018, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on April 16, 2018, at The 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 1111 N. HARLEM AVE. (UNIT 1B and P-1), Oak Park, IL 60302 Property Index No. 16-06-300-0511003. The real estate is improved with a residential condominium. The judgment amount was $166,648.30. 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 in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. 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

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION SUNTRUST MORTGAGE, INC. Plaintiff, -v.GREGORY GARMON Defendants 10 CH 42289 1170 SOUTH HUMPHREY AVENUE OAK PARK, IL 60304 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on August 19,

REAL ESTATE FOR SALE Chicago, IL 60602 (312) 416-5500 E-Mail: pleadings@mccalla.com Attorney File No. 7999 Attorney Code. 61256 Case Number: 10 CH 42289 TJSC#: 38-2536 I3081805 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A. Plaintiff, -v.CLIFTON E. MCKINNIS, MARJORIE MCKINNIS, STATE OF ILLINOIS, VILLAGE OF MAYWOOD, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants 17 CH 004365 2106 S. 8TH AVENUE MAYWOOD, IL 60153 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on January 29, 2018, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on May 1, 2018, at The 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 2106 S. 8TH AVENUE, MAYWOOD, IL 60153 Property Index No. 15-14-324-0140000. 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 in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. 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

REAL ESTATE FOR SALE 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 14-17-03500. 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. 14-17-03500 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 17 CH 004365 TJSC#: 38-1153 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. I3079976 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION FLAGSTAR BANK, F.S.B. Plaintiff, -v.DONNA L NEWMAN-MILLER, SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT Defendants 17 CH 02190 1309 SOUTH 11TH AVENUE MAYWOOD, IL 60153 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on December 8, 2017, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on April 25, 2018, at The 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 1309 SOUTH 11TH AVENUE, MAYWOOD, IL 60153Property Index No. 15-15217-003-0000. The real estate is improved with a yellow vinyl siding, one story single family home, no garage. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. 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.

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The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/ 18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. For information: Visit our website at service.atty-pierce.com. between the hours of 3 and 5pm. McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce, LLC, Plaintiff’s Attorneys, One North Dearborn Street, Suite 1200, Chicago, IL 60602. Tel No. (312) 416-5500. Please refer to file number 261520. 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. McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce, LLC One North Dearborn Street, Suite 1200 Chicago, IL 60602 (312) 416-5500 E-Mail: pleadings@mccalla.com Attorney File No. 261520 Attorney Code. 61256 Case Number: 17 CH 02190 TJSC#: 38-2332 I3081155

Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on April 18, 2018, at The 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 444 E. END AVENUE, Hillside, IL 60162 Property Index No. 15-07-411-0420000. The real estate is improved with a single family residence. The judgment amount was $112,108.48. 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 in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/ 18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. For information, contact Plaintiff’s attorney: POTESTIVO & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 223 WEST JACKSON BLVD, STE 610, Chicago, IL 60606, (312) 263-0003 Please refer to file number C1520495. 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. POTESTIVO & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 223 WEST JACKSON BLVD, STE 610

Chicago, IL 60606 (312) 263-0003 E-Mail: ilpleadings@potestivolaw. com Attorney File No. C15-20495 Attorney Code. 43932 Case Number: 15 CH 11933 TJSC#: 38-2342 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. I3081138

Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on April 16, 2018, at The 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 928 22ND AVENUE, Bellwood, IL 60104 Property Index No. 15-15-107-0110000. The real estate is improved with a single family residence. The judgment amount was $228,776.11. 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 in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. Where a sale of real estate is made to satisfy a lien prior to that of the United States, the United States shall have one year from the date of sale within which to redeem, except that with respect to a lien arising under the internal revenue laws the period shall be 120 days or the period allowable for redemption under State law, whichever is longer, and in any case in which, under the provisions of section 505 of the Housing Act of 1950, as amended (12 U.S.C. 1701k), and subsection (d) of section 3720 of title 38 of the United States Code, the right to redeem does not arise, there shall be no right of redemption. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common

interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/ 18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. For information, contact The sales clerk, SHAPIRO KREISMAN & ASSOCIATES, LLC, 2121 WAUKEGAN RD., SUITE 301, Bannockburn, IL 60015, (847) 2911717 For information call between the hours of 1pm–3pm. Please refer to file number 15-077074. THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales. SHAPIRO KREISMAN & ASSOCIATES, LLC 2121 WAUKEGAN RD., SUITE 301 Bannockburn, IL 60015 (847) 291-1717 E-Mail: ILNotices@logs.com Attorney File No. 15-077074 Attorney Code. 42168 Case Number: 15 CH 15112 TJSC#: 38-2235 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. I3080682

C/O ATTORNEY GENERAL ATTN: CIVIL DIVISION, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA C/O UNITED STATES ATTORNEY, JOEL NATHAN, REBECCA G LUMKINS Defendants 15 CH 06824 817 SOUTH 18TH AVENUE MAYWOOD, IL 60153 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on January 23, 2018, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on April 24, 2018, at The 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 817 SOUTH 18TH AVENUE, MAYWOOD, IL 60153 Property Index No. 15-10-331-0060000. The real estate is improved with a single family 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 in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. Where a sale of real estate is made to satisfy a lien prior to that of the United States, the United States shall have one year from the date of sale within which to redeem, except that with respect to a lien arising under the internal revenue laws the period shall be 120 days or the period allowable for redemption under State law, whichever is longer, and in any case in which, under the provisions of section 505 of the Housing Act of 1950, as amended (12 U.S.C. 1701k), and subsection (d) of section 3720 of title 38 of the United States Code, the right to redeem does not arise, there shall be no right of redemption.

The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/ 18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. For information: Visit our website at service.atty-pierce.com. between the hours of 3 and 5pm. McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce, LLC, Plaintiff’s Attorneys, One North Dearborn Street, Suite 1200, Chicago, IL 60602. Tel No. (312) 416-5500. Please refer to file number 13516. 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. McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce, LLC One North Dearborn Street, Suite 1200 Chicago, IL 60602 (312) 416-5500 E-Mail: pleadings@mccalla.com Attorney File No. 13516 Attorney Code. 61256 Case Number: 15 CH 06824 TJSC#: 38-2176 I3080469

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR BNC MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST 2007-2 MORTGAGE PASS THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2007-2 Plaintiff, -v.RICHARD A. BARNES, SELENA R. BARNES, ILLINOIS HEALTHCARE AND FAMILY SERVICES Defendants 15 CH 11933 444 E. END AVENUE Hillside, IL 60162 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on August 25, 2016, an agent for The Judicial

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION NEW PENN FINANCIAL LLC DBA SHELLPOINT MORTGAGE SERVICING; Plaintiff, vs. ALEJANDRO ESPINOSA; PNC BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO NATIONAL CITY BANK; UNKNOWN OWNERS GENERALLY AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS; Defendants, 17 CH 10828 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause on January 22, 2018 Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Friday, April 27, 2018 at the hour of 11 a.m. in their office at 120 West Madison Street, Suite 718A, Chicago, Illinois, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described mortgaged real estate: P.I.N. 15-18-228-008-0000. Commonly known as 17 Howard Ave., Hillside, IL 60162. The mortgaged real estate is improved with a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection For information call Mr. Anthony Porto at Plaintiff’s Attorney, Kluever & Platt, L.L.C., 150 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60601. (312) 981-7385. INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I3080782 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION MIDFIRST BANK Plaintiff, -v.ANTHONY CARTER A/K/A ANTHONY A. CARTER, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, CITY OF CHICAGO, AN ILLINOIS MUNICIPAL CORPORATION, STATE OF ILLINOIS, COUNTY OF COOK Defendants 15 CH 15112 928 22ND AVENUE Bellwood, IL 60104 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on October 12, 2016, an agent for The Judicial

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION JAMES B. NUTTER & COMPANY Plaintiff, -v.SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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OPRF, Fenwick tennis eager to get to the net Wangelin, Smith stabilize Huskies’ lineup, while talented Gutierrez leads Friars

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Fenwick junior Carlos Gutierrez is a terrific singles player. He will be a state contender in Class 1A. By MARTY FARMER Sports Editor

According to Oak Park and River Forest High School boys tennis coach John Morlidge, it’s important for the Huskies to find the correct combinations. That’s a fairly common objective for any tennis coach, especially early in the season. Fortunately, Morlidge will have plenty of players to choose from in forming the best singles and doubles lineup. Sean Wangelin, Ian Smith, Elijah Carter and Ben Manola are the varsity returners. Wangelin, a three-year varsity player, and Smith will likely play No. 1 and No. 2 singles, respectively. Wangelin split four matches in sectional play last year to earn a state tourney berth, while Smith came close, losing to sectional champion Lennon Braeton (Lincoln Park) in the quarterfinals. “Ian played awesome and definitely deserved a better seed,” Morlidge said. Manola and Carter are returning state qualifiers with ample experience in doubles. Zach Zeigler, Ben Pickering, Addison Dick, Neil Ferarjo, Simon Petrick, and Jacob Skar are new additions to the varsity. Promising freshmen Mark Trinka and Aiden Klass could also contribute this spring. “Our team has a lot of depth but not any superstars as of yet,” Morlidge said. “Most of our kids want to play singles; however, you can often score more points at state in doubles.” The Huskies finished third in the West Suburban Conference Silver Division behind Hinsdale Central and Lyons Township last season. Hinsdale Central placed third and LTHS tied Hinsdale South for 14th in the Class 2A state tourney last year. OPRF won its own sectional and qualified five players for the state tournament in 2017. Playing indoors at the Tennis and Fitness Centre in Oak Park, the Huskies squeaked by

St. Ignatius 23-20 to win their sectional. OPRF’s state qualifiers were Wangelin in singles and the doubles pairs of Tom McNeil and Manola, and Ryan Murray and Carter.

Fenwick Like a pitching ace in baseball, it’s always nice to have a top singles players in tennis. Junior Carlos Gutierrez certainly fits that description for Fenwick. He went undefeated in conference matches and advanced to the state tournament for a second straight season in 2017. At state, Gutierrez won three matches to finish in the top 20. The Friars’ other state qualifiers Nico Halter, from Oak Park, and Mike Prabhu graduated last year. In addition to Gutierrez, senior Marty Nield and junior Brendan Kane are key varsity players this year. Junior Phil Sandor and sophomore Pierce Butler could see playing time in both singles and doubles. Seniors Liam Collins, Chris Sedlacek, Ethan Magrady, and Josh Simpson are varsity returners, while Liam Magrady, Jack Sandor, Matt Walsh and Mike Dillon are newcomers to the squad. Fenwick went 11-8 with a 5-2 record in the Chicago Catholic League last season. The Friars placed fifth in conference, third in a Class 1A sectional and tied for 11th in the 1A state tournament. Fenwick has beaten Providence 7-0 and De La Salle 3-2 in its two dual matches this season. “This is a great practice team right now,” Fenwick coach Gerard Sullivan said. “They are hard-working, focused, and high-energy players who have shown improvement. We will see what kind of a competition team they are over the next few weeks. How they take the inevitable knocks and bounce back will determine where we end up. A top-10 finish in 1A state is a safe and enticing target right now for this team.” The Friars will compete in the Rolling Meadows Invite on Saturday, April 7. Matches start at 8 a.m.

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Friars: 2A contender from page 52 in basketball during the winter, is a very good goalie with experience. “Two reasons for our team’s success this season are team chemistry and work ethic,” Stibich said. “Being able to trust each player is extremely important, along with being able to put your all in. We don’t play for ourselves; we play for each other.” Fenwick advanced to the championship game of the Windy City Ram Classic on March 25 at Toyota Park. Facing Stagg in the final, the teams battled to a scoreless draw. The Chargers earned the win by beating Fenwick 3-1 in penalty kicks during a shootout. Angelina Kosmas, Ally Mussallem and Maja Persa each converted a penalty kick for Stagg, while Shearer netted the Friars’ lone point. In the semifinals, Fenwick cruised to a 3-1 victory over Lincoln-Way Central. Hosty opened the scoring on a breakaway goal via a lead pass from Ehrhardt just a few minutes into the game. Nourse tacked on a pair of goals to give the Friars a 3-0 lead at halftime. Blaze had six saves in goal. In other games at the 32team event, Fenwick pounded Providence 5-2 in the quarterfinals. Hosty, Nourse, Reardon, Fredian and Kapsch each scored a goal. Sophomore midfielder Alessia Mollo, Nourse and Kapsch added an assist apiece. The Friars also defeated Homewood-Flossmoor 1-0 and Shepard 9-0 in the opening two rounds of play. LAUREN STIBICH “I was very pleased with Senior how we played at the Windy City Classic,” Miller said. “I think we have really hit the ground running. In the past few years, we would get to the quarterfinals or semifinals but always fall short of making it to Toyota Park. Coming out strong and finally pushing through [to the final] my senior year was special.” The Friars shook off their loss to Stagg by shutting out Mother McAuley 3-0 at the Priory on March 26. Stibich had a goal and an assist, while Nourse (goal), Hosty (goal) and Natalie Brennan (assist) also contributed. Blaze notched her fifth shutout this season. Fenwick has been particularly tough to beat at home on their new turf field which debuted in 2017. The school’s soccer and lacrosse teams play on the field. “I think a big factor for us was getting out of our gym and practicing on our new turf field, even with the snow we’ve gotten,” Nourse said. “The new turf field has allowed us to get to work right away.” Fenwick shifts its attention to the PepsiCo Showdown next. The Friars will play four games over the first two weeks of April before returning to regular games. The tournament serves as one of the top showcases in the Chicago area and a valuable gauge for the Friars regarding their midseason form. “For the rest of the season, I think we will be very competitive,” Nourse said. “I’m excited to see where we end up in the Chicago Catholic League and how far we’ll get in the state tournament.”

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Foster fulfills dream in Blackhawks’ win

Oak Park accountant had seven saves as Chicago’s emergency goalie By MARTY FARMER Sports Editor

March 29, 2018 will be a day Scott Foster never forgets. After turning in a typical work day as an accountant at Golub Capital, the 36-year-old Oak Park resident spent his evening improbably making his NHL debut as an emergency goalie for the Chicago Blackhawks at the United Center. Foster had seven saves for a 1.000 save percentage in 14 minutes of action during a 6-2 win against the Winnipeg Jets and their third-ranked NHL offense. For NHL Fantasy League members, take note that Foster has a better save percentage than Chicago’s starting netminder Corey Crawford. “A few hours ago I was sitting on my computer typing on the 10-key, and now I’m standing in front of you guys, just finished 14 and a half minutes of NHL hockey,” Foster told the media after the game. “From my perspective, this is a dream regardless. This is something that no one can ever take away from me, it’s something I can go home and

tell my kids.” Nicknamed “Fozzy” by his hockey rec league buddies, Foster had his number called by the Blackhawks due to a glut of injured goalkeepers, including Crawford, Anton Forsberg and Collin Delia. “The initial shock happened when I had to dress,” Foster said. “You just kind of block out after that.” Crawford has been on the injured reserve list since December, while Forsberg and Delia were injured during warmups and the third period, respectively, during the game against Winnipeg. Foster suited up just minutes before the game once he was informed of Forsberg’s injury. After Delia went down in the third period with cramping, Foster’s dream became reality as he entered the game wearing jersey number 90. He didn’t allow a goal and stopped multiple shots, notably from Jets’ star Paul Stasny and former Blackhawks player Dustin Byfuglien. Prior to his NHL appearance, Foster played college hockey at Western Michigan

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GREAT SCOTT!: Scott Foster, a 36-year-old accountant from Oak Park, made his NHL debut as an emergency goalie for the Chicago Blackhawks on Thursday, March 29 at the United Center. He had seven saves in 14 minutes as the Blackhawks defeated Winnipeg 6-2. University from 2002-2006. He had a 20-22-6 record with a .975 save percentage and 3.44 goals against average while playing for the Broncos. He also played for the Petrolia Jets of the Western Ontario Hockey League. Currently, he plays in a rec league at Johnny’s Icehouse located just a few blocks from the United Center. Foster, who attends about 15 games a sea-

son, typically spends his time at the United Center eating snacks and watching the Blackhawks from the 300 level press box in the upper reaches of the Madhouse on Madison. On one special occasion, however, his location was between the pipes of the Blackhawks’ net as 20,000-plus fans chanted his name in the closing seconds of an unforgettable game.

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Fenwick girls soccer off to fast start Friars have dominated their opponents by a 26-3 scoring advantage

Fenwick midfielder Anissa Nourse is a dual threat offensively with great scoring and passing ability. She’s drawing interest from many college soccer programs. Courtesy Twitter/@Fenwick AD

By MARTY FARMER

Sports Editor

n seven games this spring, the Fenwick High School girls soccer team has a 6-1 record and has outscored its opponents, 26-3. The Friars are off to a very encouraging start, considering the team finished 8-7-1 and lost to York 3-0 in a Class 3A regional final last season. Fenwick also moves down to Class 2A this spring which should improve the team’s postseason chances. Records and projections aside, optimism is mostly warranted due to the Friars’ abundance of returning players.

Senior goalkeeper McKenzie Blaze, senior midfielders Lauren Stibich and Kaylie Fredian, senior forward Morgan Hosty, junior midfielder Anissa Nourse, and junior forward Mary Kate Kapsch lead a balanced Fenwick squad. Familiarity has bred success. “Having so many upperclassmen has allowed us to have a quicker start than many teams,” Stibich said. “We have a great base with so many leaders. All we’re doing this year is building upon our base.” Defensively, the Friars have a strong backline featuring Shannon Ehrhardt, Tess Shannon, Lauren Miller, Alyssa Ruiz and Marguax Shearer. Midfielders Regan Holquist

and Anna Waring complement Stibich, Fredian and Nourse. Known for her speed, sophomore Lily Reardon plays forward along with Hosty. “Going into our games, we hype each other up and also focus on what is ahead of us,” Waring said. “I believe our selflessness with the ball definitely contributes to our success. We trust each other with the ball.” The Illinois-bound Stibich, Nourse and Hosty are all prolific playmakers and scorers. Nourse has been scoring and assisting on goals at a steady rate. Blaze, who also starred See SOCCER on page 50