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Library Book Fair is back Now at main library after two-year COVID pause By STACEY SHERIDAN Staff Reporter

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Elected officials from Chicago and the west suburbs area greet well-wishers along the route during the inaugural West Villages Juneteenth Parade, on June 18, which passed through Oak Park, River Forest and Maywood. See story on pages 10 and 11.

After a two-year hiatus, the Friends of the Oak Park Public Library Book Fair is coming back – and in a new location. Mark your calendars for the first weekend of August and head to the Main Library, 834 Lake St., to snap up some amazing finds at incredibly low prices. “We’ve got 60,000 to 80,000 books, CDs and DVDs for sale,” said Russ Glidden, president of the Friends of the Oak Park Public Library board. The book fair is a popular fundraising event which benefits the Oak Park Public Library. It is sponsored by the Friends, a non-profit volunteer organization completely separate from OPPL that raises funds on its behalf. See BOOK FAIR on page 8

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Stray thoughts after a storm

his weekend, while reading the Finanroof. The man thanked God that there were no cial Times, I discovered the art of the injuries before wondering aloud what may have late, great Canadian-American artist, made God so mad. Philip Guston. Some minutes later, I got back into my car, I was particularly struck by one of his which I let idle as I rushed to do interviews most famous works, “The Studio,” in which a and because, half the time, I cannot bear the KKK hood appears to paint its self-portrait. A greenhouse heat of a sweltering car, not even little Googling and deeper looking reveals that for a minute. But whenever I return to the the painting is both social commentary and air-conditioned car, I feel like Guston’s hooded introspection. self-portrait. Guston (born Goldstein) is musing on the I tell myself I know better and should do betbanality of evil and, it turns out, his place in the ter. Most of the time, though, I don’t. I retreat world as a white painter privileged enough to, in to books, to words, to abstractions, to empty essence, muse on canvas while, outside, bodies gestures and anachronistic hopes and dreams. I are devoured. tend to my ambitions. I watch Netflix. I go to the In 1969, the year he painted “The Studio,” hundreds of mall. I want more stuff. Meanwhile, the world of this stuff ’s thousands had been slaughtered in the Vietnam War, and making continues to end and I am, partly, to blame, even if Fred Hampton was assassinated on the West Side. The infinitesimally. relative comfort and distance from all of this existential Guston, a Jew whose family migrated from Ukraine to pain tormented Guston, who wanted to do something Canada, knew the banality of this kind of evil as intimately about it. as Hannah Arendt and the contemporary political historian The art historians at Hauser & Wirth explain on the Coby Robin, who channels Arendt in Fear: The History of a gallery’s website that Guston transitioned from abstracPolitical Idea. tion to figurative painting in 1969 and 1970. His series of Robin writes that “it was the singular achievement of ” paintings featuring hooded figures were the Arendt’s Eichman in Jerusalem “to remind result. readers that the atrocities of the twentieth Guston’s “hooded figures are engaged not century grew out of the most mundane in acts of terror but in ordinary everyday considerations and familiar institutions: pursuits, smoking their cigars and going careerism and the workplace. ‘What for Eichabout the quotidian routines of American man was a job, with its daily routine, its ups life, as in the paintings ‘Riding Around’ and and downs, was for the Jews quite literally the ‘Blackboard’, as well as ‘Open Window II’ (all end of the world.’” 1969),” Hauser & Wirth explain. Nowadays, I see Eichmans everywhere, Guston once said that in the 1960s, “I was most pungently in myself and in all of the acfeeling split, schizophrenic,” due to the Vietcoutrements of modernity that have become nam War, “what was happening in America, extensions of me — my phone, my computer, GUS NOBLE the brutality of the world. What kind of a my TV, my car, my air-conditioner, my StarPresident and CEO of Caledonia man am I sitting at home, reading magazines, bucks iced coffee. All of it, in all of its boring, Senior Living and Memory Care going into a frustrated fury about everything apocalyptic entirety, its majestic mundanity, — and then going into my studio to adjust a staring at me like Guston’s canvas. And the red to a blue. … I wanted to be whole between best I can do is stare back. what I thought and what I felt.” Monday’s storm made global warming I read that line again — “I wanted to be tangible for me in a way I’ve never felt before whole between what I thought and what I felt” — and read it and knowing that things will only get worse from here on, I don’t quite know what to do. The grandeur of this tragedy again and again. would make racism seem petite, if racism were not, part That was on Sunday. Earlier in the week, on Monday, the and parcel, of the tragic whole. supercell storm blackened the sky over the west suburbs “We live in a world that has established itself beyond any and 95-mile-per-hour winds uprooted generations-old trees, justification,” writes the Invisible Committee. “Here, critidowned power lines and damaged parked cars. cism doesn’t work, any more than satire does. Neither one On Monday evening, about a half-hour after the storm, I has any impact. To limit oneself to denouncing discriminadrove to Bellwood and parked in a lot where the residents tions, oppressions, and injustices, and expect to harvest the of an 18-unit apartment building wandered around with fruits of that is to get one’s epochs wrong.” dazed and delirious faces because the wind had ripped off There is no longer a right and wrong side of history. As the apartment building’s roof, rendering about 30 people David Wallace-Wells reminded us in The Uninhabitable homeless. Earth, we’ve already left that world behind. What is history Down the street, an obviously drunken man dramatically on a planet that cannot grow enough food to sustain a complayed to a TV news camera, waving his arms and hollerplex civilization, let alone a culture? ing in front of a single-family home that also lost part of its

MICHAEL ROMAIN

“If something like that happens to one of us, it happens to all of us.”

“The Studio,” by Philp Guston There is, however, some light at the end of my foreboding. I found it in another work of art featured in a recent Financial Times article, Theaster Gates’ “Black Chapel”, an installation inside the pavilion at London’s Serpentine Gallery. The black chapel, made with the roofing material that characterizes Gates’ work (an homage to the artist’s craftsman father) and punctured with a hole at the top that lets in sunlight, was inspired by Rothko Chapel in Houston. “It was this idea that a place could be dedicated to the sacred,” Gates said, adding that Rothko’s Chapel, opened in 1971 — two years after Fred’s assassination — is a space that merges the everyday and the sacred, the secular and the spiritual (“the Black Panthers occupied the space along with avant-garde music”). I’m realizing that the Panthers, Fred especially, were, at bottom, all about radical commonality and human decency and human dignity and the will to fashion a self amid struggle, by any means necessary. It is a radically simple ethos that works for any epoch and can command any moment, even a storm. A few days ago, I interviewed Gus Noble, president and CEO of Caledonia Senior Living and Memory Care in North Riverside. One of his employees, a CNA, had been displaced after Monday’s storm ripped the roof off that Bellwood apartment building. Noble told her she could stay at Caledonia while she got back on her feet and shouldn’t worry about taking enough food from her workplace to feed her and her three children. He said the gesture reflects the facility’s ethos of mutual care. “If something like that happens to one of us,” Noble said, “it happens to all of us.” The world is dark, yes, but we still have the power to create light.

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Wednesday Journal, June 22, 2022

Future Perfect Thursday, June 23 through Sunday, June 26, Kehrein Center, Austin Future Perfect - a Modern Tale of Curiosity, an opera by the award-winning creative team of librettist Christine Steyer and composer David Shenton found a perfect home, a newly renovated center for “storytelling through music, theatre, and creative expression” in the Austin neighborhood, free parking lots close by. Tickets affordable for all: from $5 to $50 for VIPs. Thursday, June 23, and Friday, June 24 at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, June 25 at 7 p.m. and Sunday, June 26 at 4 p.m. Kehrein Center for the Arts, 5628 Washington Blvd.

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BIG WEEK June 22-29

Forest Park Pride Celebration Thursda June 23, 5 p.m., Thursday, Constitution Const Court The village of Forest For Park, in conjunction with the Forest Park Chamber of Commerce, is going to do this party up right! Hosted by Angel Lebare with music by DJ Melo, there will be an hour-long performance by famed drag queens LeBare, Britney Taylor, Fox E. Kim, Harlet Wench, Aleyna Couture, Mariela Duarte, and Monique Greene at 7 p.m. This will be preceded by a meet-and-greet at 5 p.m., with one queen at seven different businesses - Brown Cow, Twisted Cookie, Jimmy’s Place, Play It Again Sports, Team Blonde, MacDaddy, and Fiore. Take your pick!

Lady Gaga Laser Light Show Saturday, June 25, 8:30 p.m., Triton College The Cernan Earth & Space Center at Triton College will present a special light show based on the music of Stefani Germanotta, better known as the one and only Lady Gaga. A 45-minute show recommended for the whole family. $10 for adults, $5 for seniors (55 and over), $5 for children (2-17), free for Triton students, staff and faculty. 2000 Fifth Avenue, River Grove.

Sankofa Arts Festival Sunday, June 26, 2-4 p.m., Scoville Park The essence of excellence in the Black community is fully present, with performances by the Snake Doctors, Kuumba Kids Dance, Keli Stewart and Sydney Jackson, Just Cause Dancers, and Uneq’ka. Register now at //oppl.org/calendar. 800 Lake St., Oak Park.

Thursday, June 23, 3:30-5:30 p.m., Oak Park Public Library (Main Library Veterans Room) Today, this summertime kid-friendly matinee features Disney Nature: Oceans. Join us all summer long for kid-friendly movie screenings! Register now at oppl.org/ calendar. 834 Lake St., Oak Park.

The Essence of Being: Open Mic

In Ernie’s Footsteps: A Tour of Hemingway’s Oak Park Friday, June 24, 10 - 11:30 a.m., Hemingway Birthplace Museum This 90-minute outdoor tour explores Ernest Hemingway’s connections to Oak Park. Outdoor sites to be visited include the Birthplace Museum, Boyhood home, Oak Park & River Forest High School, Oak Park Public Library, Congregational Church and WW I War Memorial in Scoville Park - the territory “young Ernie” knew. Dr. Nancy Sindelar, author of Influencing Hemingway: The People and Places That Shaped His Life and Work, will be the tour guide. Includes one copy of Sindelar’s book (15 person maximum). 339 N. Oak Park Ave., Oak Park.

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Thursday, June 23, 6-8 p.m., Oak Park Public Library (Main Library Veterans Room) Come share your poems, your songs, and your thoughts as part of the essence of being at this open mic night. Register now at oppl.org/ calendar. 834 Lake St., Oak Park.

Sound Opinions Presents - It Was Fifty Years Ago Today ... Albums From 1972 Still Inspiring & Influencing Musicians 50 Years Later. Thursday, June 23, 7-8:30 p.m., virtually through Oak Park Public Library Greg Kot & Jim DeRogatis, hosts of the famed rock radio talk show Sound Opinions, will look back at the pivotal year 1972. Even though much time has passed, much of the music released during this year has continued to resound, rebound and reverberate straight through to today’s performers. Kot and DeRogatis will discuss this magic year in depth. Register now at //oppl.org/calendar.

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Electrical outage causes confusion at Oak Park pools Rumors of Rehm Pool ruckus actually occurred in Forest Park By STACEY SHERIDAN Staff Reporter

A “perfect storm” of independent coincidences and extreme heat left many Oak Park residents believing that the Park District of Oak Park had to close pools due to overcrowding this past week. Rumors swirled that overheated youths stormed the pool at Rehm Park. That did not happen. That did, however, happen at the Forest Park pool last Tuesday evening. About 40 to 50 kids pushed past the pool’s front entrance and 60 youths scaled the pool fences, following a mass invitation circulated on Snap Chat to meet there, according to a statement from Forest Park Mayor Rory Hoskins. While the two Oak Park pools did reach capacity each day of the heatwave, neither were closed. A relatively brief electrical outage that began late Wednesday at the main park district building on Madison Street seems to have caused Oak Parkers to confuse what happened in Forest Park as having occurred at Rehm pool. “It was kind of like a perfect storm,” said PDOP spokesperson Ann Marie Buczek. “The pool was already at capacity; it was a really hot day, and then whatever happened at Forest Park probably got people confused.”

The main building’s loss of power temporarily prevented pool staff from being able to admit swimmers without pool passes late Wednesday. The internet connection for all park district facilities runs through its main building. The electricity outage caused the internet to drop across the park district, rendering pool staff unable to accept credit card and cash admission payments. “We had no computer system and no way to run receipts,” said Buczek. “At that point, all we could do was check for passholders or pull passes electronically through people’s phones.” Pool operations were mostly in full swing last Wednesday for the park district. The main building’s electricity was not lost until about 4:30 or 5 p.m. that evening. From 5:30 p.m. on, only pool pass holders could be admitted as electricity was not anticipated to come back until after 6:30 p.m. Rehm pool closes each night at 7 p.m. The electricity has since been restored, so both pools have resumed acceptance of cash and credit card payments. The park district took to Twitter to spread the news, posting at noon, June 16 that both Rehm and Ridgeland Common pools were fully operational and functional. For those worried of potential overcrowding in Oak Park, both pools have capacity counters. When the pools hit capacity, as they regularly do in times of excessively high temperatures, the counter monitors the situation by implementing a one-in-oneout policy.

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Edith Krause still has things to figure out But staying busy, making others happy is central to living a century By JESSICA MACKINNON Contributing Reporter

According to Edith Krause, the keys to a good life are staying busy and trying to make others happy. She should know – she will turn 100 years old on Aug. 1, after a long and rewarding life. “The old gray horse may not be what she used to be — but you only live once, so enjoy it. I’ve been very fortunate and have enjoyed everything I’ve done. And I especially enjoy coffee,” Edith said during a conversation at the Buzz Café, 905 S. Lombard Ave., one of her favorite Oak Park haunts. Edith was born on a farm in Pound, a small town in northeast Wisconsin with less than 200 residents in the early decades of the 20th century. The youngest of four children of Swedish immigrants, she and her siblings stayed busy milking cows and doing other chores. With no electricity, they carried lanterns to the barn in the wee hours of the morning. They also had no phone. “I have a phone now, a flip phone with a camera that my son gave me. I’m still trying to figure it out,” she said. Edith attended one year of high school and then lit out for California to find work, taking a train with a friend and sleeping in the ladies restroom. She got a job in the aircraft industry, working on Boeing B-17s, which dropped more bombs than any other aircraft during World War 2, and Lockheed P38s. She was one of the real Rosie the Riveters, according to her son, Henry. Laid off after the war, she found a job as a waitress at a bus stop in Barstow, CA where she once waited on Clark Gable — who, according to Edith, was just as handsome as in the picture shows and nice as well. Edith eventually returned to the Midwest and stayed with a cousin in Rockford before making her way to Chicago. She met her husband at church and they first lived with his parents before moving to Oak Park and buying a home on South Taylor Avenue, where they raised four children. The family lived through the construction of the Eisenhower Expressway, which she thought was an exciting development for Chicago. “We were on the bubble — just close enough to see it being built, without losing our home. I felt bad for the folks

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HER CUP IS MORE THAN HALF FULL: Edith Krause (left), Buzz Café owner Laura Maychruk, and Edith’s son met for coffee and a centennial interview at the café where Edith had breakfast every Thursday for many years. One of her secrets to a long life? “Lots of coffee.”

“You only live once, so enjoy it.” EDITH KRAUSE

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who lost their homes. We have a yew bush in our front yard that came from one of the demolished homes,” she said. An ardent gardener, Edith was active for many years with the Oak Park Conservatory, where she met Josephine Bellalta. The two enjoyed breakfast — an egg sandwich, hash browns and lots of coffee — at the Buzz Café every Thursday morning for many years, until Josephine moved to Michigan two years ago. Josephine now orders Edith’s

breakfast every Thursday and has it delivered to her home — and then the two talk on the phone while they eat. Josephine admits that Edith has become a surrogate mother since her own mother died several years ago. “Edith is a strong, happy and pragmatic person. She is interesting and a real straight shooter. I like her ethics and belief system. She is politically conservative — but openminded. I convinced her not to vote for Trump,” Josephine said. In addition to the Oak Park Conservatory, Edith taught Bible lessons to young people at Calvary Memorial Church on Wednesday evenings until a few years ago. The church is hosting a 100th birthday party for her in early July. Since breaking her hip four years ago, Edith has started to slow down a bit — although she insists that she still walks up the 14 stairs to her bedroom every night without help. She enjoys going to the grocery with her son, Henry, and uses the cart handle to steady herself. She also enjoys cooking and takes pride in cutting up vegetables. “I like watching Jeopardy because I’m trying to improve myself and learn something new every day. There is still a lot I have to figure out,” she said.

Wednesday Journal, June 22, 2022

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West Sub hospital makes list of best maternity facilities Family Birthplace of West Suburban is one of 350 hospitals on list By STACEY SHERIDAN Staff Reporter

The Family Birthplace of West Suburban Medical Center has been recognized by Newsweek as one of the United States’ best maternity hospitals of 2022 – a distinction it was also awarded in 2021. West Suburban is one of 350 hospitals to receive this recognition this year. “We are proud and honored to again earn this outstanding national distinction for our Family Birthplace center at West Suburban,” West Suburban CEO Barbara Martin said in a news release. “We’ve built an outstanding reputation as one of the most innovative labor and delivery centers in the metropolitan area to guarantee expectant mothers the safest and most satisfying birth experiBARBARA MARTIN ence possible,” she West Suburban CEO wrote. In collaboration with data firm Statista, Newsweek evaluated maternity wards across the country based on three different data sources: a nationwide online survey where hospital managers and maternity healthcare providers were asked to recommend maternity hospitals; medical key performance indicator data related to maternity care, such as a hospital’s rate of births via cesarean section; and patient satisfaction data. This year, Newsweek categorized each of the 350 hospitals by performance, awarding five and four ribbons to each institution on the list. Out of the 350 maternity hospitals listed, 161 received a performance category of five ribbons and 189 received four ribbons. West Suburban received a four-ribbon designation in 2022. No such ribbon performance category system existed in 2021. West Suburban Medical Center has been in the news quite a bit of late, due to its im-

“We are proud and honored to again earn this outstanding national distinction.”

pending sale to Resilience Healthcare in a package deal that includes West Suburban’s River Forest campus, Chicago’s Weiss Hospital Memorial Hospital and Weiss’s medical office building. The Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board approved the sale of the two hospitals, currently owned by Pipeline Health System, on June 7. The state board’s approval is a critical step in the process of

changing ownership but not the final step, according to Pipeline spokesperson Jane Brust. “This is not a done deal; this is an ongoing process,” Brust told Wednesday Journal earlier this month. “The state review board approval this week was a huge step forward and we’re grateful that the board members acknowledge the importance of these hospitals to their communities.” West Suburban’s Family Birthplace ma-

ternity ward boasts 12 private birthing suites for labor, delivery and recovery with 20 private rooms for postpartum recovery, as well as a large midwifery program. The hospital partners with Lurie Children’s Hospital to connect premature infants and severely ill babies directly to the most advanced care. Lurie neonatologists are on staff at West Suburban Medical Center’s Level II Nursery, according to the news release.

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Back after two-year hiatus from page 1 The Friends have long hosted the book fair: 2021 would have technically been the 50th book fair. However, the book fair was cancelled the past two years due to COVID-19. Now that the book fair is back on schedule, Glidden is thrilled. “I can’t tell you how excited I am. It just feels so good because it’s something we’re doing for the community,” said Glidden. All the books at the fair come from donations, which are being accepted until July 22. Those looking to unstuff overstuffed bookshelves can drop off books, CDs and DVDs at the main library, which has boxes labeled by genre in the lobby community space. Donations too large to carry by hand are being accepted from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturdays at the library’s loading dock in the west alley between the library and First United Methodist Church. July 16 is the last Saturday to drop off large donations. Volunteers will be there each Saturday to assist in unloading donations, which are then sorted. “I come six days a week to sort the books for donations,” said Glidden. About 40,000 pieces have already been donated, according to Glidden. Not all are books either. The book fair is accepting donations of CDs and DVDs as well. Donations of VHS tapes, textbooks, magazines and Reader’s Digest Condensed Books will not be accepted. “Nobody wants to buy them, so we’re always stuck with them at the end of the sale,” Glidden said of Reader’s Digest abridged books.

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Marietta Walsh, of Oak Park, looks through books during the 47th annual Book Fair.

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IN SEARCH OF THE PERFECT READ: Book lovers scan titles in the OPRF High School cafeteria in 2017. This year’s book fair will be held at the Oak Park Public Library. The book fair kicks off Friday, Aug. 5, with selling hours beginning at 2 p.m. and ending at 6 p.m. The fair reopens at 9 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 6. Volunteers will close up shop that day at 5 p.m. The book fair is free to enter. Sunday is reserved for book fair volunteers and educators. Neither of those groups have to pay for their picks. Volunteers have between 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. to shop the fair, while educators have between 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Materials are free of cost to volunteers and educators on Sunday. Cash, credit card and checks are the accepted forms of payment on Friday and Saturday. Proceeds from the fair will go toward funding the library’s lecture series, as well as its computer classes, folk music series and film series. The book fair also benefits those who patronize it, offering access to materials at costs vastly lower than regular retail prices. “It’s a way for people to come in and buy books extremely cheaply, and that they couldn’t otherwise afford,” said Glidden. “It just gives you a really good feeling doing this and knowing that it’s benefiting the community.” DVDs cost one dollar at the book fair. A regular paperback goes for 50 cents while hardbacks are $2. The hardbacks are an especially good bargain, as shoppers can get cookbooks and coffee table books that would otherwise retail for much more. “We’ve got coffee table books, some very expensive, that cost like $80 or $90 and you can pick it up in good condition for $2,” said Glidden. “It’s really a great deal.” Come Aug. 5, the book fair will take place in three areas of the library. Shoppers can find adult and teen items on the second floor in the Veteran’s Room and the art gallery,

respectively. Kids items will be in the community space in the lobby, the same place where individual donations can be dropped off. The book fair was traditionally held in the cafeteria of Oak Park and River Forest High School, but the reconfiguration of the cafeteria necessitated the book fair be held in a new location, according to Glidden. The library felt like a natural fit. “It feels organic. It feels right to have it at the library,” he said. The cafeteria, however, offered slightly more wiggle room. This year’s book fair may have fewer items for sale than in the past due to space constraints, but book worms should fret not. If the fair is as popular as it has been in the past, there is a possibility that a follow-up fair will be held in the future. And the book fair is generally very popular, according to Glidden, especially the kids’ section. “People come in and walk out with boxes of books that they’ve bought,” he said. Glidden is not the only person excited about the book fair’s return. Some people have been volunteering at the book fair for 30 or 40 years. Other people look forward to it for the opportunity to clean out and then restock bookshelves. Teachers use the book fair to set up classrooms and non-profits buy materials to share with those they help. At the “Day in Our Village celebration,” people kept coming up to the Friends of the Oak Park Library booth to profess their excitement, Glidden told Wednesday Journal. “Some of the people gave me a kiss they were so happy we were back.”

Wednesday Journal, June 22, 2022

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Four villages align on climate collaboration to drive change

In Memoriam June 21, 1952 Patricia and Dominick Novielli

Oak Park, River Forest, Forest Park follow Broadview’s lead

The memorandum that got approved by the village council was substantially similar to what Hoskins presented on May 23. Each member community will establish a local sustainability working group to figure out By IGOR STUDENKOV how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions Staff Reporter and set targets and strategies for making the municipality more environmentally sustainForest Park became the first village to officially join the Cross-Community Climate able. The community representatives will Collaborative (C4) after its village council ap- meet monthly to develop regional strategies. proved the Memorandum of Understanding C4 will contract Gary, IN. based Urban Efficiency Group and Oak Park-based Seven Genon June 13. erations Ahead consultants to Under the memorandum, help with the planning. The Broadview, Forest Park, Oak memorandum sets the goal Park and River Forest will of 45% greenhouse gas emisagree to work together to imsions reductions by 2030 and plement environmentally sus100% reductions by 2050. tainable projects in their comThe villages frame C4 as a munities. For example, they way to achieve equity between would bid jointly for electric more well-off communities car charging stations, which like Oak Park and communithey would expect would save ties that struggle to attract inmoney through economies of vestment, such as Broadview. scale. Since the minority communiBroadview and Oak Park ties tend to be disproportionare currently slated to apately impacted by pollution, prove the memorandum a collaborative approach was during their respective vilC4 MEMORANDUM envisioned. lage board meetings, both of “C4 is designed to bring which will take place on June together BIPOC and non21, after this issue’s print minority communities across deadline. It is not clear when River Forest will vote on it, since one June income lines to share ideas, secure resources, meeting was cancelled and the agenda for a and drive large-scale projects within and June 27 meeting isn’t up as of June 20. The across communities that achieve agreed official joint signing ceremony is scheduled upon greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reducto take place at River Grove’s Triton College, tions, equity, and sustainability goals,” the document introduction stated. 2000 5th Ave., on June 23 at 1 p.m. During the June 13 meeting, Forest Park Forest Park Mayor Rory Hoskins first introduced the concept during the Forest Park Commissioner Jessica Voogd, who has conVillage Council’s May 23 meeting. As he said sistently advocated for the village to adopt enat the time, the C4 proposal was spearheaded vironmentally sustainable policies, said that, by Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson. while C4 wasn’t perfect, “perfect shouldn’t be Broadview, Oak Park and River Forest pre- the enemy of good.” “I just want to give a big thanks and recsented the plan at the West Central Municipal Conference four weeks earlier, inviting other ognize these women, Mayor Thompson, and [River Forest Village] President [Cathy] Admember municipalities to participate. The memorandum describes C4 as an duci and [Oak Park Village] President [Vicki] agreement between western Cook County Scaman for their leadership and action on suburbs, but otherwise doesn’t impose any this issue,” she said, adding that she looks membership requirements. forward to whatever the collaboration brings.

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Jewliza Hill with her daughter Laila Johnson, 10, of Forest Park, enjoy the Juneteenth post-parade event on Saturday, June 18.

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Members of the Proviso East Marching Band during Saturday’s Juneteenth Parade.

Inaugural Juneteenth parade unites west suburbs The holiday’s growing importance marked by suburbspanning parade, three-day bash and Speaker Welch’s Juneteenth Father’s Day BBQ By MICHAEL ROMAIN Staff Reporter

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Forest Park’s Just Cause Dancers perform, during the multi-village Juneteenth Parade through Forest Park, River Forest and ending at Proviso East High School in Maywood.

Back in 2008, when Forest Park Mayor Rory Hoskins (then a commissioner) hosted the very first Juneteenth Pool Party, the holiday’s staying power in the village was still an open question. “It’s unclear whether Forest Park will embrace Juneteenth in the coming years,”

wrote Forest Park Review columnist John Rice in an article praising the holiday, about which he learned from Hoskins. “Will we have a parade here and save the mayor a trip to South Shore? Will we have a formal observance, or quiet family barbecues?” Fourteen years later, Rice’s questions have been definitively answered and Hoskins, a native of Galveston, Texas,

Wednesday Journal, June 22, 2022

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A SIGN OF TIMES: Juneteenth as an official holiday. where Juneteenth originated, is looking more and more prescient. A year after Juneteenth was formally made a federal holiday in the United States, the annual commemoration is perhaps bigger than ever. For instance, the U.S. stock markets were closed Monday, June 20, to observe the holiday — the first time in history, according to the Wall Street Journal. More locally, the official Juneteenth flag flew above municipal buildings across the west suburbs, including in Forest Park and Broadview. Speaking of Broadview, the village that made Juneteenth a paid local holiday in 2020 hosted its biggest Juneteenth celebration ever over a period of three days this weekend, with the festivities culminating with a fireworks show on Sunday night. Meanwhile, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker joined Illinois House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch at Memorial Park in Hillside for the speaker’s inaugural Juneteenth Father’s Day barbecue. The moment that crystallized the holiday’s bridge-building importance this year happened Saturday, when the villages of Oak Park, River Forest, Forest Park and Maywood collaborated to pull off another historic first — a joint Juneteenth celebration culminating in the West Villages Juneteenth Parade. The parade commenced at Randolph and Brown in Forest Park, coursing west on Washington Boulevard. A float carrying a

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Forest Park Mayor Rory Hoskins waves to parade-goers froma a float.

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The Proviso East Marching Band. host of elected officials, including the mayors of the host suburbs — joined by Congressman Danny K. Davis and Cook County Assessor Fritz Kaegi — led the procession. The Proviso East Marching Band played music while young dancers from area suburbs strutted in the streets. The parade terminated at Proviso East High School in May-

wood, where numerous vendors were staged. “This has been a great opportunity for the four villages to get together and plan this event to bring more awareness and education to the communities,” said LaSondra Banks, Maywood’s community engagement manager who was on the parade’s planning committee.

Banks said the parade is the “first of many we’ll do annually,” adding that volunteering with the committee was a “labor of love.” Michelle Major, of Oak Park, volunteered to help put together the history exposition on the grounds of Proviso East, which helped frame Juneteenth’s historic importance. The holiday marks the June 19, 1865 announcement of Union Army Gen. Gordon Granger’s General Order No. 3, which proclaimed emancipation for the enslaved people in Texas. “I think the traveling museum was a great way to center the narrative about today,” Major said. “It not only tells the story that’s often known, but some little known facts and the Illinois connection, and the way white people can celebrate Juneteenth in an authentic way.” Jewliza Hill, a Forest Park resident, said she felt a responsibility to attend Saturday’s parade, if only for her daughter Laila Johnson’s sake. “Before this, I had not participated in a Juneteenth parade or festivities,” Hill said. “With everything that happened during the pandemic, I wanted to make sure I was present for this. I want my daughter to be able to know what’s going on in the world and to see our people and our culture.” Shanel Romain contributed to the reporting.

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Wednesday Journal, June 22, 2022

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Enjoy the sweet side of life at Candycopia Family-owned and 100 percent Oak Park, say owners By MELISSA ELSMO Oak Park Eats

Sweet dreams do come true! Oak Park residents, Patrick and Alycia Mason, along with their school aged daughters Addison and Campbell, proudly opened Candycopia in the historic Medical Arts building, 717 Lake St., on Saturday June 18. The Oak Park newcomer boasts an array of thoughtfully curated treats and a menu of 11 candy-topped ice cream creations. As a bonus, a bevy of eager high school aged employees bring the colorful space to life. “This feels like the beginning of a relationship,” said Patrick Mason. “We’ve felt support from afar and now we really have the chance to meet. We’ve wanted to be able to see everyone so it was really nice

to see people in the space besides us.” Situated just inside the front door of Candycopia, strikes an inclusive tone with a vibrant display of rainbow hued lollipops and candy to honor Pride Month – look for products from Sugarox, a proud LGBTQ+ owned company, to feature prominently in the display. Built in shelving filled with retro candies like Abba Zaba bars, wax bottles, Necco Wafers, and Clove chewing gum beckons visitors to make their way deeper into the festive storefront. After customers feel those vintage vibes, Candycopia revels in its mission to highlight harder to find makers of small-batch caramels, marshmallows, toffee and chocolate. Their goal is to make lesser-known small batch producers, like Lily’s Chilies, XO Marshmallows and Dallas Caramel Company, household names in Oak Park. A candy-focused ice cream menu elevates the in-store experience with employees offering sundaes topped with cotton candy, caramel corn and Pop Rocks among other sugary options. A bar boast-

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Patrick and Alycia Mason enthusiastically welcomed customers into Candycopia on Lake St.

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SUGAR, SUGAR: Owner Alycia Mason gives customers the candy jar tour, during the grand opening of Candycopia on Lake Street last Saturday. ing 100 gallon-sized apothecary jars filled with gummy candies sold by the pound is a delightfully fun addition to the shop. Rising OPRF junior and Candycopia employee, Marin Balaz, praised Candycopia’s hiring process while doling out custom combinations of gummy candy. “I think it’s great they have made hiring people my age a priority because it can be hard for us to find jobs,” said Balaz as she dropped juice filled bears into a bag. “And I love all candy — especially sour gummys, but I really appreciate that we offer a lot of small batch candies made by small businesses.” The Mason family received more than 100 applications from “well qualified” high school students looking to work at Candycopia. The owners want the shop to be a place where young people can find their first job. “There is something to the experience of growing up in Oak Park and being able to say your first job was at a candy store,” said Mason. “It is important that we represent the enthusiasm highschoolers have for what we are doing here. Everyone we hired has a can-do attitude and great smile; the rest will come easily.” In the months and weeks leading up to Candycopia’s grand opening the Masons sold treats from a candy cart to build anticipation for their brick-and-mortar debut. Making appearances at both the Beye School end of year party and Day in Our Village allowed the owners to inter-

act with their future customers. “We’ve received so much support. I’d say 29 of every 30 people who came to the cart told us how much they were looking forward to our opening.” said Patrick Mason. “It has been gratifying to have everyone who helped us get here come into the shop. It’s nice to have that proof of concept.” After hosting a few private soft opening days, Candycopia welcomed the community at large into the space featuring a festive teal, violet and magenta color palate. The product of a patchwork of community members, local designers and contractors, the Masons are proud to say Candycopia is a “100% Oak Park effort.” The family is pleased with the polished look and genuine neighborhood feel it brings to Lake Steet. For now, the Masons are focused on getting their team up to speed and meet community demand for their sweet treats and sundaes. In time they hope to build an even more robust inventory of items from woman and diverse-owned businesses. “We are all first timers here and we are not going to rest on our laurels,” said Mason. “Opening is step one and we are committed to learning and growing as we go.” Candycopia is open Monday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Saturday 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Sunday 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. The shop is conveniently located across the hall from a dentist’s office.

Wednesday Journal, June 22, 2022

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Celebrating Juneteenth with a cookout Hundreds gather at Taylor Park By MELISSA ELSMO Oak Park Eats

The smell of barbecue wafted through the air and Taylor Park bustled with people on Sunday, June 19 at a community organized Juneteenth cookout, co-sponsored by the Village of Oak Park. The holiday commemorates the date, June 19, 1865, when a U.S. Army general read orders in Galveston, Texas that the Civil War had ended, and all enslaved people were free. Taylor Park is located at Ridgeland and Division. To mark the occasion, children jumped in bounce houses as the Snake Doctors played in the nearby pavilion. Friends and

family gathered in large groups under the shade of park trees as throngs of picnic goers lined up for free barbecue from Robinson’s Ribs, 848 Madison St., in Oak Park. Vegan dishes were provided by Vegan World Café and Surf ’s Up Oak Park. “Equity is not easy, equity is earned. As communities, we have to choose to actively work every day to ensure each and every community member has a voice,” said Anthony Clark, founder of Suburban Unity Alliance. “Yesterday, the village came together and celebrated the voices of the Black community and I hope that today, tomorrow, and every day, we make that same choice, our voices are American, too. Thank you, community, for such a wonderful event.” The Juneteenth cookout “gold” sponsors include Wintrust Mortgage/Oak Park Bank a Wintrust Community Bank, Good Heart Work Smart Foundation, In-

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BARBE-QUEUE: A festive sense of community was on the menu at the Juneteenth Cookout in Taylor Park. ternational Mansion, Park District of Oak Park, Village of Oak Park, and Suburban Unity Alliance. Additional sponsorship came from The Nova Collective, One Earth Film Festival, Byline Bank Oak

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Wednesday Journal, June 22, 2022

Uber driver drives off with attempted carjacker

An Uber driver managed to thwart a carjacking in Oak Park over the weekend. The driver picked up four teenage males from an address near Congress Parkway in Chicago at 1 a.m., June 19, and then drove them to their destination in the 600 block of Lyman Avenue. Once they arrived, three of the men exited the vehicle, while the fourth grabbed the Uber driver’s hand and tried to force him out of his red 2021 Toyota Rav4. Instead of getting out of his car, the Uber driver drove off with the remaining passenger still in tow. He finally deposited the would-be carjacker near the intersection of Adams Street and Lyman Avenue. .

Attempted carjacking and burglary arrest

Chicago resident Sean Jones, 50, was arrested for an attempted vehicular hijacking and burglary that occurred around 8 p.m., June 16 in the 1000 block of South East Avenue; Jones allegedly approached the victim as the victim was parking in their garage, he then reportedly followed the victim as they drove to the front of the house. Jones reportedly threatened the victim’s spouse before fleeing the scene on foot and was located by Oak Park police shortly after.

Burglary ■ Someone took a silver iPad with a gray cover and a book from a dark blue Hyundai Elantra with an open rear window between 9:45 p.m., June 12 and 9:45 a.m., June 13 in the 300 block of South Lombard Avenue. The estimated loss is $327. ■ An orange concrete saw, a yellow DEWALT electric chipping hammer and a red Honda portable generator were taken from an unlocked and unattended Chevrolet Silverado between 4:15 p.m. and 4:20 p.m., June 14 in the 200 block of North Elmwood Avenue. The estimated loss is $2,500. ■ Two men were caught on security camera forcing open the glass front door of True Discount Food Mart, 1155 Garfield St., then attempting without success to break open the ATM inside with a crowbar at 2:13 a.m., June 15. The two subjects fled the in a black sedan with unknown license plate numbers. The estimated damage is unknown at this time. ■ A yellow Gary Fisher mountain bicycle was taken from a garage with an un-

locked side door between 6:30 p.m., June 15 and 5:04 a.m., June 16 in the 400 block of South Kenilworth Avenue. The estimated loss is $500.

Theft ■ The catalytic converter was cut from a silver 2020 Mitsubishi Outlander parked in the 1100 block of Washington Boulevard between 11 p.m., June 12 and 6 a.m., June 13. ■ The catalytic converter was removed from a 2021 Nissan NV200 between noon, June 11 and 7:45 a.m., June 14 in the 100 block of Chicago Avenue. ■ Someone cut the catalytic converter out of a 2013 Kia Soul between 4 p.m., June 9 and 7 a.m., June 14 in the 400 block of South Harvey Avenue. ■ Someone opened an Amazon package, taking the clothes from inside the box, which was delivered to the lobby of a building between 9 p.m., June 14 and 10:15 a.m., June 15 in the first block of South Boulevard. The estimated loss is $50. ■ The catalytic converter was cut from a silver 2019 Mitsubishi parked in the 200 block of Lake Street between 9 p.m., June 14 and 12 p.m., June 16. ■ An unattended and unsecured black electric bicycle was taken from the 200 block of South Euclid Avenue around 11:30 a.m., June 16. The estimated loss is $750. ■ The catalytic converter was cut from a 2015 Toyota Prius parked in the 100 block of Forest Avenue between noon, June 12 and 7:45 p.m., June 16. ■ Someone took an unattended and unsecured black girl’s Nishiki mountain bicycle from a driveway in the 1200 block of Belleforte Avenue between 10:30 p.m. and 11 p.m., June 18. The estimated loss is valued at $300.

brown 2018 Kia Optima and then pried the steering column cover off in an attempt to steal the vehicle between 1 p.m., June 19 and 2:44 a.m., June 20 in the first block of Augusta Street. The value of the damage is unknown at this time.

These items, obtained from the Oak Park Police Department, came from reports, June 13-20, and represent a portion of the incidents

to which police responded. Anyone named in these reports has only been charged with a crime and cases have not yet been adjudicated. We report the race of a suspect only when a serious crime has been committed, the suspect is still at large, and police have provided us with a detailed physical description of the suspect as they seek the public’s help in making an arrest.

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What you get for the money: Turret edition

Wanting your home to be a ‘castle’ has lasting appeal By LACEY SIKORA

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alk around older suburbs like Oak Park and River Forest or in the historic heart of Chicago’s Austin neighborhood and you’re sure to spot them. Turrets adorn many Victorian or Queen Anne-style homes in the area. Turrets, or round towers, originally appeared on medieval castles as defense structures. Small, slit-like windows provided 360-degree views and a way to shoot arrows onto approaching enemies. Turrets for residential homes stateside became popular in the 1800s as homeowners sought to make true the sentiment that your home is your castle. In this application, the slit windows of castle turrets were replaced with large windows to allow in plenty of light. In today’s tight housing market, there are quite a few options for those looking for a home adorned with a rounded tower. From homes built in the Victorian-era to mid-20th century homes to a 2007-edition townhome, these listings show that turrets have lasting appeal. In Oak Park, 311 Wesley Ave. sports a threestory turret. The gray-sided home was built in 1897. Listed at $489,000, the five-bedroom, one-and-one-half bathroom home has more than 1,800 square feet of living space and has been loved long-term by a family. It has hardwood floors, a sunroom and a walk-up third floor. Property taxes are $13,077. A two-flat on the market in Oak Park also features a turret. The Victorian home at 427 Wisconsin Ave. was built in 1883 and features original hardwood floors, molding, hardware and fireplace surrounds. The second-floor unit has three bedrooms, and the first-floor unit as two. The building is being sold “as is” and is priced at $449,900. The property tax bill is $11,050. In the Regency Club at 196 N. Marion St., a newer townhome utilizes Old World style in the corner unit’s turret. Built in 2007, See TURRET on page 18

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Wednesday Journal, June 22, 2022

SPORTS Fenwick boys basketball goes 2-2 at RB Shootout

Young Friars display balance on offense By MELVIN TATE Contributing Reporter

As things stand right now, the Fenwick High School boys basketball team will not have any seniors on the roster for the 2022-23 season. But it’s something second-year coach Tony Young has dealt with before. “I coached a team at East St. Louis that had no seniors,” he said after the Friars went 2-2 at the 19th annual Riverside-Brookfield Summer Shootout, which features several of the Chicago area’s top high school players and programs competing in front of hundreds of college and university coaches, on June 17-19. “To have a group of which 80 percent hasn’t played varsity basketball, I have no complaints,” Young said. “We’ve got a group of kids that are learning the coaching and to

play with each other.” Rising sophomore Nathaniel Marshall is also encouraged with the growth the Friars have made. “We did good this weekend,” said Marshall, a two-sport athlete who will be a key defensive lineman for Fenwick’s defending IHSA Class 5A football team. “We’ve still got a lot to work on.” Fenwick edged past Belleville East 39-38 in its opening game June 17. Rising junior Brandale Steward led the Friars with 11 points while Marshall added 10. In the second game on June 17, Fenwick fell to Bolingbrook 68-59. Rising junior Germaine Benson had a team-high 15 points in the loss. The Friars also split their two games on June 18. They showed offensive balance as they rallied in the second half to defeat Rich Township 60-55. Rising junior Darshan Thomas had a team-high 10 points, rising sophomore J.T. Pettigrew nine points, Benson and Marshall eight apiece, and Steward seven.

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Fenwick’s Darshan Thomas lays in two of his team-high 10 points against Rich Township during the Friars’ 60-55 win over the Raptors on June 18 at the Riverside-Brookfield Summer Shootout in Riverside. In Fenwick’s final game, a 69-54 loss to Brother Rice, Thomas had a game-high 13 points, Benson 10 points, and Marshall 9. “We’ve had a lot of balance all summer. That’s going to be the big thing in becoming

a team,” Young said. “Sharing the basketball, looking out for each other, looking to set each other up, and making the right play. We don’t need a superstar, our strength is going to be our team.”

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By MELVIN TATE Contributing Reporter

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Sam Lewis (11), who was the second-leading scorer for OPRF in 2021-22, is the second Huskies player in two years to leave the program for Simeon of the Chicago Public League.

When the 2022-23 high school basketball season tips off in November, the Oak Park and River Forest High School boys team will have to make do without key rising senior Sam Lewis. Lewis, who was the Huskies’ second-leading scorer in 2021-22, has transferred to Chicago Public League power Simeon, according to Joe Henriksen of the City/Suburban Hoops Report. He’s the second

OPRF player in two years to join the Wolverines, following Isaiah Barnes in 2020. Without Lewis, head coach Phil Gary said the Huskies will try to take a more balanced approach to the upcoming season. “We’ll have more opportunities for guys to step up,” said Gary, entering his third season. Rising seniors Christian Marshall and Rodney Murphy along with rising junior Max Johnson should see their roles increased. Moreover, Gary said rising sophomore Alex Vincent, who has had a

strong offseason in club basketball, will be on the varsity in the coming year. “They’ve been very coachable; they want to be a part of this program,” he said of the team’s work this summer. “They’re having fun and playing together.” The Huskies will take part in the Ridgewood Shootout on June 24-26. Like the recent Riverside-Brookfield Summer Shootout, the event will feature several top Chicagoarea programs and players competing in front of hundreds of college coaches.

Wednesday Journal, June 22, 2022

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PUBLIC NOTICE Village of Oak Park, Illinois

Annual Treasurer’s Report of Cash Receipts and Disbursements For the Fiscal Year Ending December 31, 2021 Published in compliance with Chapter 65, Section 5/3.1-35-65 of the Illinois Compiled Statutes Receipts: General Fund; Property Tax Levy 17,793,275; Police Pension Levy 7,039,613; Fire Pension Levy 6,202,073; CANNABIS STATE EXCISE TAX ALLOTMENT 77,211; Use Tax Revenue 2,028,460; Retailers’ Occupation Tax Rev 5,763,223; Real EstateTransfer Tax 4,499,788; Exempt Real Estate Transaction 17,280; Hotel Motel Tax 175,111; Liquor Tax 671,330; Natural Gas Use Tax 459,427; Electric Utility Tax 1,607,464; Natural Gas Tax 926,349; Telecommunication TaxRev 617,589; VEHICLE TAX 1,249,746; Residential Rental License 3,108; Business Licenses 278,351; Liquor Licenses 115,864; Multi Family Dwelling License 71,467; Chauffeur License Revenue 100; Building Permits 2,561,262; Zoning Variance Application 16,225; Street Permits 78,348; Animal Licenses 23,010; Beekeeping 375; Building Permits Penalties 43,131; Grant Revenue 208,211; Grant or Loan Application Fees 922; State Aid Route Maintenance 84,673; RCFL OT Reimbursement 8,467; Drug Enforcement Agency Reimb 13,446; State Income Tax Revenue 6,873,287; Personal Prop Replacement Tax 2,368,815; ALLIED FSA DEP CARE CONTRIBUTIONS W/H 188; Ambulance Charges 2,260,382; 100% Sales Inspection Revenue 861; CTA Reimbursement 150,023; Sale of Liquid Gas 72,150; Charges for Repairs Parts 63,746; Reimbursement of Expenses 10,000; OPRFHS Event Reimbursement 22,143; Crossing Guard Reimbursement 255,649; Arrest Warrant Reimburse Reven 1,680; Police Evidence Revenue 1,461; Cable TV Franchise Fee 766,941; Cashier Difference 187; Copy Fees 70; Elevator Inspection Fees 20,336; Miscellaneous Revenue 64,560; MFT Tax Refund 8,128; Scrap Revenue 1,593; Special Events Revenue 37,510; Special Events Application Fee 2,000; Police Reports 10,936; Subpoena Fees 220; Recovered Damages 14,941; IMET RECOVERY 23,369; Alarm Fees 31,775; Pound Other Fees 4,985; Condo Inspection Fees 35,800; Environmental Services - VOP 5,550; PUBLIC ART INITIATIVE 10,000; Court Fines 62,045; DUI COURT FINES 2,376; Parking Fines 1,698,569; Non-Compliance Fines 57,010; Loan Interest 231; Interest Revenue 24,167; Rental of Property 7,105; TRANSFER FROM ARP FUND 6,246,170; TOTAL 73,851,857 TRAVEL, TRAINING & WELLNESS; Credit Card Points Revenue 25,641; TOTAL 25,641 FOREIGN FIRE INSURANCE; Foreign Fire Insurance Allot 130,187; Interest Revenue 207; TOTAL 130,394 Community Development Loan; Miscellaneous Revenue 640; Loan Interest 36; Interest Revenue 18; TOTAL 694 STATE RICO; Asset Seizures Forfeitures Revenue 31; TOTAL 1,725

1,694;

Interest

FEDERAL RICO; Asset Seizures Forfeitures 33,202; Interest Revenue 326; Gain/Loss on Sale of Property 19,224; TOTAL 52,752 FARMERS MARKET; Farmers Market Seasonal Fees 17,255; Sale Of Market Merchandise 1,274; Corn Roast Revenue 1,399; TOTAL 19,928

MOTOR FUEL TAX; Motor Fuel Tax Allotment 2,032,683; InterestRevenue 919; TOTAL 2,033,602 MADISON STREET TIF; Gain/Loss on Sale of Property -3,507,195; TOTAL -3,507,195

AFFORDABLE HOUSING; DEVELOPERS AH CONTRIBUTIONS 550,000; Transfer From General Fund 544,349; TOTAL 1,094,349 AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN GRANT; Grant Revenue 10,067,277; TOTAL 10,067,277 COOK COUNTY LEAD HAZARD GRANT; Miscellaneous Revenue 9,600; TOTAL 9,600

SSA#1; Property Tax Levy 443,987; Interest Revenue 287; TOTAL 444,274 Community Dev Block Grant; Grant Revenue 1,326,265; FEDERAL CARES ACT REVENUE 468,363; TOTAL 1,794,628 SSA#8; SSA#8 TAX LEVY 3,088; TOTAL 3,088

COOK COUNTY - WEST NILE VIRUS GRANT ; Grant Revenue 9,187; TOTAL 9,187 IDPH - CITIES READINESS INITIATIVE; Grant Revenue 34,726; TOTAL 34,726

CDBG - FARMERS MARKET INCENTIVES ; Grant Revenue 16,580; TOTAL 16,580 SHAWNASH - DOUBLE COUPON ; Grant Revenue 4,026; TOTAL 4,026 IDPH - BODY ART; Grant Revenue 4,275; TOTAL 4,275

IDHS - FAMILY CASE MANAGEMENT ; Grant Revenue 1,071; TOTAL 1,071

IDHS - HIGH RISK INFANT FOLLOW-UP; Grant Revenue 918; TOTAL 918 PHIMC - REGION 8 HIV PREVENTION; Grant Revenue 1,000; TOTAL 1,000

COVID-19 MASS VACCINATION GRANT; Grant Revenue 192,032; TOTAL 192,032 COVID-19 CONTACT TRACING; Grant Revenue 501,049; TOTAL 501,049

IDPH -VECTOR SURVEILLANCE & CONTROL; Grant Revenue 8,075; TOTAL 8,075 IDPH-LEAD CASE MANAGEMENT; Grant Revenue 21,575; TOTAL 21,575

IDPH - LOCAL HEALTH PROTECTION ; Grant Revenue 61,866; TOTAL 61,866 IDPH - MEDICAL RESERVE CORPS; Grant Revenue 1,457; TOTAL 1,457 IDPH-NARCAN; Grant Revenue 2,700; TOTAL 2,700

IDPH - PUBLIC HLTH EMRGNCY PREPAREDNESS; Grant Revenue 40,754; TOTAL 40,754 IDPH - ILLINOIS TOBACCO-FREE COMMUNITIES; Grant Revenue 7,375; TOTAL 7,375 Bullet Proof Vest Grant; Grant Revenue 3,987; TOTAL 3,987 Tobacco Enforcement Program; Grant Revenue 2,643; TOTAL 2,643

IL DEPT OF TRANSPORTATION GRNT; Grant Revenue 9,677; TOTAL 9,677

Sustainability Fund; Energy Efficiency Rebate 485,144; Environmental Services - VOP 171,045; Transfer From Solid Waste Fund 150,000; TOTAL 806,189 BUILDING IMPROVEMENT FUND; Grant Revenue 20,000; TOTAL 20,000

Equipment Replacement Fund; Transfer From CIP Fund 620,000; TOTAL 620,000

Fleet Replacement Fund; Transfer From Rico Fund 266,460; Transfer From CIP Fund 200,000; CAPITAL LEASE PROCEEDS 244,720; TOTAL 711,180 REBUILD ILLINOIS IDOT GRANT; Grant Revenue 1,139,655; TOTAL 1,139,655

GENERAL IMPROVEMENT FUND; Homerule Sales Tax 3,948,575; PACE Shelter Ad Revenue 2,540; CANNABIS TAX 337,604; Local Option Gasoline Tax 601,767; Grant Revenue 919; Sidewalk Repair Program 1,290; Infrastructure Maintenance Fee 123,512; Miscellaneous Revenue 99,000; Recovered Damages 150; TOTAL 5,115,356 Debt Service Fund; Property Tax Levy 4,355,828; Miscellaneous Revenue 2,661; Transfer From General Fund 500,000; Transfer From Solid Waste Fund 350,000; TOTAL 5,208,489 WATER/SEWER FUND; Grant Revenue 500,000; Miscellaneous Revenue 41,135; Scrap Revenue 2,676; Utility Sales 19,376,143; Meter Charges 115,967; Penalty Charges 80,640; TOTAL 20,116,561

Environmental Services Fund; Miscellaneous Revenue -2,000; Refuse Collection Fees 4,467,455; Yard Waste Stickers 131,204; Refuse Stickers 97,641; TOTAL 4,694,300 Earth Fest; Transfer From Other Funds 7,000; TOTAL 7,000

Parking Fund; Parking Permits 679,590; Landlord/Corp. Parking Permits 501,357; Onstreet Parking Permits 858,128; One-Time Overnight Permit 5; Onstreet Paystation Revenue 500,203; Discounted Employee Cards 2,583; Garage Fees 1,343,898; Parking Meter Collections 569,201; Garage Validation Revenue 32,618; PARKING ROW OBSTRUCTION FEES 360; Miscellaneous Revenue 19,691; Special Events Revenue 550; Recovered Damages 125; Interest Revenue 109; Transfer From General Fund 40,000; TRANSFER FROM ARP FUND 3,492,876; TOTAL 8,041,294

Self Insured Retention Fund; Transfer From General Fund 1,000,000; Transfer From Water Fund 670,000; Transfer From Parking Fund 300,000; TOTAL 1,970,000 Health Insurance Fund; MET LIFE ACCIDENT PREMIUMS WITHHELD 12,713; MET LIFE CRITICAL ILLNESS PREMIUMS W/H 8,445; MET L IFE HOPSITAL PREMIUMS WITHHELD 10,884; METLAW LEGAL PREMIUMS WITHHELD 11,240; HEALTH INSURANCE PREMIUMS WITHHELD 993,788; LIFE INSURANCE PREMIUMS WITHHELD 65,519; DEMNTAL INSURANCE PREMIUMS WITHHELD 206,273; VISION INSURANCE PREMIUMS WITHHELD 38,002; ALLIED FSA MED CONTRIBUTIONS W/H 258,040; ALLIED FSA DEP CARE CONTRIBUTIONS W/H 16,632; EMPLOYER LIFE INSURANCE CONTRIBUTION 27,922; Pensioneer Premium Payments 1,039,982; Outside Agencies Prem Payments 6,337; EMPLOYER HEALTH INSURANCE CONTRIBUTIONS 4,768,129; TOTAL 7,463,906

Police Pension Fund; Property Tax Levy 7,017,838; Pension Payroll Deductions 1,115,252; Interest Revenue 5,126,950; Net Change In FV of Invest 6,386,004; TOTAL 19,646,044 FIREFGHTERS’ PENSION FUND; Property Tax Levy 6,181,452; Pension Payroll Deductions 657,818; Interest Revenue 1,878,892; Net Change In FV of Invest 5,339,151; TOTAL 14,057,313

Gen Long Term Debt Acc Group; CAPITAL LEASE PROCEEDS -244,720; TOTAL -244,720 PAYROLL: 0.01 TO 24,999.99 ABU-TALEB, ANAN; ACEVEDO, ANGELA ; AMBUTAS, AUDRE; ANDREWS, DENO; ANTOS, RANDALL; AUSMANN, STEVE; BAHENA, ANITA; BALLARD, WILLIAM; BALTHAZAR, ERIC; BENSON-BAKER, DOROTHY; BERKES, NICHOLAS; BOOKER, KIARA; BOUTET, SIMONE; BUCHANAN, SUSAN; BURGESS, COLIN; CAMERON, DAVID; CARBONNEAU, THOMAS; CILEK, TIMOTHY; COLIGAN , NICK ; CONTE, PHILIPP; COTE II, JEROME; DE JESUSVASQUEZ, MELISSA ; DUSELL, CHRISTINE; ENYIA, CHIBUIKE; FADDEN, KEVIN; FINLEY, AARON; FLANAGAN, ABIGAIL; GIGELE, MICHAEL ; GLOODT, JACOB; GORDON, DONALD ; GRAFF, ROBERT; GREENWOOD, MARC; HANSEN, CYNTHIA; HELMS, ERICA; HENKELMAN, MICHAEL; HIEGEL, KELLY ; HOLDMAN, NATHAN; INGRAM, KIMBALL; JOHNSON, TYRA; JONES, JENNIFER; JUDAH, JADEER; KEENAN, CHRISTOPHER; KLEINHENZ, KIERAN; KOHLER, MATTHEW; L’HEUREUX, MICHAEL; LAFLEUR, GARRETT; LEIN, ANTHONY; LEONE, LOUIS; MARINIER, RYAN; MARINO, EUGENE ; MATHENY, VANESSA ; MAXWELL, AUSTIN; MCINERNEY, DANIEL; MCMORRIS, AMBER; MERCADO, BRETT ; MILOSOVIC, JOE; MONTINO, MICHAEL; MORONEY, DANIEL; MURPHY, ROBERT; NATIONS, STEVEN; NIEMAS, TOBIASZ; OSBACK, EMILY; OSTRAND, GREGORY; PALJETAK, PAUL; PARAKKAT, RAVI; PEDRAZA, ARLENE ; PENDERGRASS, MICHAEL; PETERS, ALEXANDRA; PRZYBYLSKI, RONALD; REHSE, ROBERT; ROBINSON, LUCIA; ROSEN , JONATHAN ; RUSSELL, CAMERON ; SABOR, BRIDGET; SADLER, DUSTYN; SANCHEZ, MATEO; SAUCEDO, DIANA; SCHICKER, MICHAEL; SCHULTZ, JOSEPH; SEMELKA, SARA ; SHELTON, RYAN; SMITH, ADAM; SPAGNOLI, DAVID; STACHURA, MARCELLA; STEFFEN, TIMOTHY; TAGLIA, JAMES; THOMPSON, TAKESHI; TOTH, ROBERT; WALKERPEDDAKOTLA, ARTI; WEIDNER, JOHN; WHEATEN, KEISHA; WHITE, MARK; WILLIAMS, CHARLOTTE; WOLF, SUSAN PAYROLL: 25,000.00 TO 49,999.99 AVGOUSTAKIS, ELAINE; BELLINI, GIORGIO; BENNETT, GIA; BONDIE, MARCELLA; BONGAT, RONALD; BOSTON, DE ANGELA; CAMPAGNA, DANIEL ; CARTAGENA, TATYANA; CASSIDY, KEVIN; CRICHLOW, MIZPAH; CURRY, JAMEELAH; CURRY, KARLOS; DEBERRY, CHARLES; DILLARD, JEWEL; DONOVAN, MARK; DORRIS, SHONTAE; FARMER, BRENDAN; GAONKAR, GAURAV; GOODLOW, VALENCIA; GORTOWSKI, SHAYLEEN; JOAQUIN, ANTHONY; KOPERNIAK, MICHAEL; MACIAS, JOSE; MCDONALD, CATHY; MCFARLAND, KIMBERLY; MEAD, BRAD; MORALES, YERALDI; MUENCH, ANNA; NESBITT, RACHEL; PATTERSON-MOSS, TINESHIA; PEARSON III, IVORY; PENA, ROGELIO; PEREZ, JUAN; PHA, TOU; RAYA, DAISY; REDKVA, CINTHYA; ROBINSON, DANIELLE; ROJAS, JORDAN; SCAMAN, VICTORIA; SHORTY, TARSHANDA; SKODA, DAWN; TONGUE, CHRISTOPHER; WATKINS, VALERIE; WOOLFORD, KEYWANE; WRIGHTSIMMONS, DORIS

PAYROLL: 50,000.00 TO 74,999.99 ADEDIRAN, CASSANDRA; ADEPOJU, ABDULRASAQ; ALMONACI, ROCIO; ANDERSON, DANIEL; AVINGER, MARY; BLANCK, BENJAMIN; BONIN, KATHLEEN; BRELAND, DERRICK; BROWN, TINA; BRYANT, VINCENT; DE LA MORA, VANESSA; DENNIS, JOSHUA; DEVILLER, LINDA; DEVINE PORFIRIO, ALANA; DEXTER, STACY; DIAZ, NANCY; DOMINGUEZ, RITA; DURR, JACQUELINE; DWYER, MARK; FAHEY, ANDREW; GHOLSTON, DIANNA; GOLUBEVA, OLGA; HARDAWAY, ALEJANDRO; HARGROVE, QUINN; HEDRICH, GINGER; JACOB, KATHLEEN; JACOBSEN, ERIK; JOHNSON, TRENIA; JOHNSON JR, DENNIS; JONES, GRANT; KANE, PAUL; KEANE, SEAN; KIM, CHRISTOPHER; KINDRED, MARY; KUTZ, BYRON; LAGIOIA, VINCENT; LANCASTER, ANNIE; LING, DAVID; MANCE, ANDREA; MCSHEFFREY, NEIL; MENESES, DEBORAH; MEYER, DOUGLAS; MICHAELS, MARILYN; MONTERUBIO, KENNETH; MORRIS, JOYLAND; OUCHERIAH, PAIGE; PAULENAS, ANDRIUS; PERRY, HEATHER; PRIMER, SAMUEL; RANDALL, CHRISTINE; REBELES, BRIAN; ROZHON, HENRY; RYAN, STANA; SAFFORD, CHARO; SARROS, JAMES; SCHAEFFER, RUTH; SCHELL, ANGELA; SCHICK, MELISSA; SCHRAMER, AUSTIN; SCHWAB, RONALD; SHANKLIN, HALSTON; SOCHACKI, JASON; SOMERVILLE, MACEO; STANISLAVSKI, DIANE; THOMPSON, MARK ; TREXLER, SUSAN; URIOSTEGUI, ELIDA; VAZQUEZ, ABNER; WATERS, CHRISTINA; WILLIAMS, SHAWNYA; WILLIAMS, ANGELA; WOLDEMICHAEL, RAHEL; YONG, SUSANNAH; ZIEGLER, JASON PAYROLL: 75,000.00 TO 99,999.99 AGNEW, MARYNDA; ALONSO, ASHLEY; BARBAHEN, MARGARET; BILLS, MICHAEL; BLANKENSHIP, BENNETT; BOBADILLA, DIANA; BROWN, DAVID; BROWN, JAMARRO; BRUCE, MICHAEL; CHAPPLE, THERESA; CHERVINKO, STEVEN; DAWSON, ELLIOT; DURAJ, CONRAD; EBSEN, THOMAS; ELZIE, SHANIECE; FAILOR, GRAHAM; FRANK, LOGAN; FULTON, THOMAS; GLENN, THOMAS; GUTIERREZ, ALFREDO; HANLEY, DANIEL ; HARTL JR., OTTO; HENDRICKS, CAMERON; HENRY, WILLIAM; HOWELL, KAITLIN; JIMENEZ JR, JAVIER; JORDAN, KYLE; JULIANO, JILL; KAMYKOWSKI, GLENN; KARLOVITZ, JEFFREY; KASMIERSKI, JACOB; KILIKEVICIUS, TOMAS; KIM, LEE; KORNATOWSKI, SUZANNE; KREML, JOSEPH; KURASZ, MICHAEL; LEMMENES, JONATHAN; LEWIS, KEITH; LOGAN, VANETTA; MACKEY, CAMERON ; MARCHESE, PETER; MARINO, EUGENE; MCNABB, JOSHUA; MILLER, CHARLES; MURPHY, KELLIE; PASSARELLA, RICKY; REDDINS, ALLAN; RODRIGUEZ, JESUS; ROKNICH, CASSANDRA; SABALIAUSKAS, VICTOR; SCHAUER, CHRISTOPHER; SCULLY, MICHAEL; SEAT, KEITH; SILVA, DONICIO; STURDIVANT, PAUL; TAMAS-ORLANDEA, DELIA; VAUGHAN, ANDREW; VIVO, VICTOR; YOUSUF, MOIN PAYROLL: 100,000.00 TO 124,999.99 AGHAJAN, ROBERT; ALVAREZ, ANDRES; ANDERSON, ROBERT; BARRERA, MIGUEL; BARRIENTOS, VICTORIO; BRIMMER, JESSICA; BRINKMAN, SCOTT; BRUESCH, BRIAN; BRUNO, STANISLAO; BURGESS, COLIN; CARBONNEAU, THOMAS; CARVER, DAWN; CONTE, PHILIPP; CROWLEY, KEN; CUNZALO JR, LEONARD; CUTAIA, STEVEN; DOELL, ZACKARY; DULSKI, MICHAEL; DUNN, WILLIAM; FAILOR, CRAIG; FARNON, WILLIAM; FENSKE, MICHAEL; FERRIER, ZACHARY; FLORES, ALEJANDRO; FOYTIK, RONALD; continued on next page

Wednesday Journal, June 22, 2022

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PUBLIC NOTICE Village of Oak Park, Illinois

Payments ≥ $2,500 in the Aggregate For the Fiscal Year Ending December 31, 2021 FREELAIN, RASUL; FRYE, JONATHAN; GHANMA, DANIEL; GRABOWSKI, JAKE; GUY, STEVEN; GUZA, TIMOTHY; HARTLEY, BRETT; HARVEY, ANTHONY; HERNANDEZ, ERIC; HOLDMAN, NATHAN; HUMMONS, JOHN; HUSKA, DANIEL; JACKSON, RASHEDA; JUDAH, JADEER; KANIECKI, BRIAN; KASS, ANTHONY; KEENAN, CHRISTOPHER; KELLY, MICHAEL; KERLEY, PAUL; KRAMER, JOHN; L’HEUREUX, MICHAEL; LAMBERT, MICHAEL; LARSON, JONATHON; LEINER, DANIEL; LEITL, NATHANIEL; LOCKE, ERIC; LOVE, TRACCYE; LYNG, SCOTT; MARCHESE, KORTNEY; MAYER, PATRICK; MCCARTHY, KEVIN; MELTON, CEDRIC; MERCADO, BRETT; MILLER, IAN; MILOSOVIC, JOE; MOONEY-SIMKUS, CHRISTINE; MORRIS, JONATHAN; MURGUIA, RUBEN; MURPHY, RAPHAEL; MURPHY, MICHAEL; NASH, JOSEPH; NG, BENZ; OSTRAND, GREGORY; PADILLA JR, PABLO; PENDERGRASS, MICHAEL; POSHEK, JEFFREY; POWERS, DAVID; PRATHER-RODGERS, JAMES; PRIOR, JEFFREY; RADTKE, TONI; RICCHIO, ANTHONY; RUMORO, JOHN; RUMORO, MICHAEL; SADLER, DUSTYN; SCHEJBAL, JOSEPH; SCHROCK, MATTHEW; SMITH, ADAM; SMITH, THEODORE; STANFORD, ALVIN; STEFANIK, DAVID; STEFFEN, TIMOTHY; SUTAITE, KAMILE; THOMAS, KORRY; TROIK, DUSTIN; TWOREK, KENNETH; UNZICKER, TIMOTHY; VALENTINE, JAMES; VELASQUEZ, ORLANDO; VERGE II, DERRICK; ZAYYAD, AHMAD

PAYROLL: 125,000.00 AND OVER ANTOS, RANDALL; AUSMANN, STEVE; BAUDO, PAUL; BERTELS, JOSHUA; BYINGTON, ZACHARY; CAMERON, DAVID; CASTANEDA, JOEL; CILEK, TIMOTHY; COLLINS, KEVIN; COOK, KRISTIN; COTE II, JEROME; CURTIN, JOHN; DAVIS, CAMERON; DEUCHLER, SAMANTHA; DONAIRE, LEONARD; DRANSOFF, THOMAS; DRAZNER, STEVEN; EPISCOPO, ANGELO; EURKAITIS, CHRISTOPHER; FADDEN, KEVIN; GLOODT, JACOB; GREET, MICHAEL; GROSSMAN, TAMMIE; HAAG, JACOB; HENKELMAN, MICHAEL; HERZOG, JEFFREY; JACOBSON, DAVE; JOHNSON, SHATONYA; KOBYLESKI, RONALD; KOHLER, MATTHEW; LAFLEUR, GARRETT; LEIN, ANTHONY; LINGENFELTER, STEVEN; MARINIER, RYAN; MASON, BRENT; MAZUR, THOMAS; MCINERNEY, DANIEL; MCKENNA, JOHN; MCKENNA, WILLIAM; MCVEY, CHARLES; MONTY, ROBERT; MORAN, JOSEPH; MURPHY, ROBERT; NEPOMUCENO, ALVIN; NIKISCHER, JOHN; O’CONNOR, MICHAEL; PANTALEO JR, JOSEPH; PAVLICEK, CARA; RALLIDIS, MICHAEL; REHSE, ROBERT; REYNOLDS, LADON; RUIZ JR., MANUEL; RYGH, WILLIAM; SANCHEZ, MATEO; SANCHEZ, PATRICK; SCHICKER, MICHAEL; SHELLEY, LISA; SILVA, DANIEL; SPAGNOLI, DAVID; SPROULE, ROBERT; STEPHANIDES, PAUL; STEWART, SCHONELLA; TCHANG, KIRA; TERRY, JOSEPH; TOTH, ROBERT; TOWLER, WILLIAM; VELEZ, NICHOLAS; WEIDNER, JOHN; WIELEBNICKI, JOHN TOTAL PAYROLL: 33,013,299.91

LIABILITY AUTOMOBILE MECHANICS LOCAL 701 8,258; CREDITBOX.COM, L.L.C. 268; DEBT PAID UPFRONT BY VILLAGE 848; EFTPS 5,828,739; FIRE FIGHTERS LOCAL 95 75,140; FIREMEN PENSION 657,818; FIRSTMARK SERVICES 1,215; FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE LODGE #8 91,956; ICMA 1,262,473; ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE 1,628; ILLINOIS F.O.P. 3,936; ILLINOIS STATE DISBURSEMENT UNIT 86,823; ILLINOIS STATE TAXES 1,314,236; IRS ACS SUPPORT 5,303; LOCAL UNION

#9 IBEW 1,381; LOCAL UNION NO. 705 6,075; NATIONWIDE IAFF 457 24,501; NCPERS-GROUP LIFE INS. 1,264; PEP FIRE CONTRIBUTION 47,906; POLICE PEHP 15,986; POLICE PENSION 1,115,252; SEIU LOCAL 73 5,432; TOTAL 10,556,438 EXPENDITURES AND EXPENSES 1000 S. AUSTIN BLVD., LLC 8,109; 1SOURCE MECHANICAL, INC. 61,460; 4 IMPRINT 4,283; 447 CLUB FITNESS, INC. 5,000; 6226 ROOSEVELT, LLC 5,000; A & B LANDSCAPING & TREE SERVICE IN 334,301; A C PAVEMENT STRIPING COMPANY 87,145; A5 GROUP, INC 26,494; ABT ELECTRONICS & APPLIANCES 6,824; ACCENT BARRIERS INC 2,995; ACS ENTERPRISES 6,165; ADAPT PHARMA INC 5,400; ADVANCED AUTO PARTS 3,037; ADVANCED SECURITY SOLUTIONS 559,190; AED SUPERSTORE 2,606; AEROCLAVE 15,438; AFTERMATH, INC. 3,470; AHIMSA YOGA STUDIO, INC. 6,049; AILERON COMMUNICATIONS, INC 20,266; AIMCO - 100 FOREST PLACE 10,400; AIR INVESTMENTS, LLC 16,064; AIR ONE EQUIPMENT INC. 15,361; AIRE-DEB CORP. 5,448; AJILON PROFESSIONAL STAFFING 7,921; AL MART BEDDING INC 5,000; AL PIEMONTE FORD 6,140; ALARM DETECTION SYSTEMS INC. 33,887; ALEX FINN 4,024; ALL TRAFFIC SOLUTIONS 6,020; ALLIED GARAGE DOOR INC. 29,511; ALLSTATE INSURANCE COMPANY 6,125; ALTAMANU, INC. 12,464; ALTORFER INDUSTRIES, INC. 7,624; AMALGAMATED BANK OF CHICAGO 8,747,812; AMAZON.COM 72,460; AMBER CULLEN AND GARY CULLEN 3,500; AMERICAN LEGAL PUBLISHING 3,916; AMERICAN RESPONSE VEHICLE 283,489; AMERICAN WATER WORKS ASSOCIATION 4,079; ANCEL, GLINK, DIAMOND, BUSH, 6,854; ANCHOR MECHANICAL INC 6,190; ANDERSON ELEVATOR CO 45,691; ANDY FRAIN SERVICES 134,530; ANIMAL CARE LEAGUE 100,000; ANTHONY PETER HAIR SALON, LTD 5,000; ANTHONY RIVER AND DEBORAH KAPP 3,400; ANTHONY SANSONE 3,500; AQUA FIORI INC. 6,272; ARAMARK 4,119; ARTHUR SPOONER 3,500; AT&T CWO ATTN: GENE FERRY 139,039; AUDREY ROSENBLATT AND BENJAMIN BOTT 3,500; AUTOMATIC CONTROL SERVICES 14,540; AVALON PETROLEUM 179,987; AVENUE NAIL SPA, INC 5,000; AVENUE NAIL SPA, INC. 2,500; AVI SYSTEMS, INC. 11,504; AWWA - ILLINOIS SECTION 2,630; AXON ENTERPRISE, INC. 15,688; AYRES ASSOCIATES, INC. 4,200; BACI SALON, INC. 5,000; BAR CODE INTEGRATORS, INC. 17,316; BAXTER & WOODMAN, INC. 12,906; BEE LINER LEAN SERVICES, INC. 22,150; BENTLEY SYSTEMS, INC. 9,779; BEST BUY BUSINESS ADVANTAGE ACCOUNT 8,905; BEVERLY SINGLETON 2,810; BEYOND HUNGER 97,633; BLU PETROLEUM, INC. 64,732; BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD ILLINOIS 3,169; BLUE CROSS/BLUE SHIELD OF ILLINOIS 7,410,148; BMC SOFTWARE, INC. 3,023; BOSS BURRITO INC 10,000; BOTANY BAY CHEMICAL COMPANY 9,977; BREAKTHROUGH TECHNOLOGIES, LLC 9,000; BRIAN PORTER 26,840; BRISTOL HOSE & FITTING 3,297; BROOKE REAVEY AND CARL URNESS 3,500; BRUNNER, SUSAN 23,635; BS&A SOFTWARE 51,235; BYRD’S BARBER LOUNGE, LLC. 15,000; C & J HOME IMPROVEMENTS 53,600; C.D.E BODY SHOP II, INC 32,987; CALL ONE 101,925; CALVARY MEMORIAL CHURCH 3,000; CANON FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC. 9,965; CARBON DAY AUTOMOTIVE 2,704; CARDINAL COLORGROUP 26,388; CARGILL, INC. 112,862; CASE LOTS INC. 21,017; CDS OFFICE TECHNOLOGIES 158,081; CDW GOVERNMENT, INC. 64,309; CELLTECH, LLC 3,200; CENTER FOR NEIGHBORHOOD

TECHNOLOGY 23,780; CERNIGLIA CO 1,822,358; CFA SOFTWARE 2,995; CFE-TAGMAN 3,416; CHARLENE S. JONES-FOSTER 3,490; CHASTAIN & ASSOCIATES, LLC 170,709; CHEM-WISE ECOLOGICAL PEST MNGMNT 6,715; CHICAGO COMMUNICATIONS, LLC 3,808; CHICAGO PARTS & SOUND LLC 19,664; CHICAGO SALT COMPANY, INC. 12,308; CHICAGOLAND AGENCY SERVICES 4,320; CHRIS GLADFELTER 3,500; CHRISTINA TOWNSEND MICHAEL TOWNSEND 3,500; CHRISTINE MALAGOLI 3,730; CHRISTOPHER B BURKE ENGINEERING LTD 39,391; CHRISTOPHER K CARROLL 3,225; CINTAS #769 10,909; CISYNC, LLC 11,747; CITRON HYGIENE US CORP 3,454; CITY ESCAPE GARDEN & DESIGN LLC 231,016; CITY OF CHICAGO 7,247,295; CITY OF CHICAGO - DEPT OF FINANCE 250,000; CLARK BAIRD SMITH LLP 58,308; CLARK DIETZ, INC. 29,383; CLARK STREET REAL ESTATE, LLC 4,074; CLASSIC GRAPHICS INDUSTRIES 8,382; CLINTON PROPERTY, LLC. 5,200; COLLEEN BERG AND SCOTT BERG 3,500; COMCAST 15,142; COMED (6111) 61,375; COMED (6112) 351,957; COMED MAYWOOD OFFICES 431,643; COMMERCIAL TIRE SERVICES INC. 25,262; COMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICES 7,500; COMPASS MINERALS 66,319; CONSTANCE R. COLLINS 3,500; CONSTANT CONTACT 3,936; CONSTRUCTION BY CAMCO 254,893; CONSULTING ENGINEERING, INC 14,416; COOK COUNTY COLLECTOR 140,520; COOK COUNTY TREASURER 93,406; COOPERS HAWK WINERY & RESTAURANT 2,500; CORE & MAIN LP 37,042; COTG 6,568; COZY CORNER PNG, LLC 5,000; CRASH CHAMPIONS 4,139; CRE PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT LLC 2,592; CROSS FUNCTION, LLC 5,000; CUCINA PARADISO 2,500; CUMMINS INC. 12,124; CURRIE MOTORS FRANKFORT, INC. 265,689; DANIEL BELLESTRI 3,095; DANIEL HEFNER 3,500; DANIEL MACADAM AND ELLA FARMER 3,500; DARLEY & CO, W. S. 14,028; DATA TICKET, INC. 63,755; DATASOURCE, INC./GLOBAL PARTNERS, L 3,271; DAVIS BANCORP, INC. 25,699; DAVIS TREE CARE & LANDSCAPE INC. 255,214; DELL MARKETING LP (USA) 5,046; DELTA DENTAL-RISK 257,953; DIRECTIONAL CONSTRUCTION SERVICES 10,000; DOREEN NICHOLS 2,592; DOWNTOWN OAK PARK 706,130; DRESSEL’S ACE HARDWARE 8,373; DTN, LLC 2,952; DUPAGE MATERIALS COMPANY 5,514; DUSAN & MARKO KATIC 2,753; DYNAMIC LINKS, INC. 5,000; DYNATOUCH CORPORATION 51,682; EASTGATE CAFE 5,000; EBONIQUE LOFTON, BENJAMIN & SHAPIRO 20,000; ECOCAFEM GROUP, CO. 2,500; ECOKARAT JEWELRY 7,143; EDWIN HANCOCK ENGINEERING COMPANY 11,613; EGGEN CONSULTING GROUP, INC. 130,625; ELECTRONIC HUB LLC. 5,000; ELITE CLEANERS 5,000; ELITE RECOGNITION SERVICES 3,499; ELMHURST CHICAGO STONE 17,749; EMBOSSED SIGN SERVICE 3,384; EMC FIRE 4,650; ENGLER, CALLAWAY, BAASTEN & SRAGA, 29,177; EQUIPMENT MANAGEMENT CO 30,350; ERA-VALDIVIA CONTRACTORS, INC. 223,391; ESO SOLUTIONS, INC. 11,825; ESRI INC. 7,881; ESSENTIAL SKINCARE INC. 3,502; ESTEBAN LINAREZ 6,377; EVAN ROTH AND NADINE ROTH 3,300; EVEREST SNOW MANAGEMENT, INC 28,417; EXQUISITE MOVEMENTS, LLC 5,000; EYE RITE, LTD. 5,000; F.E. MORAN INC, MECHANICAL SERVICES 6,491; FACEBOOK, INC. 10,500; FACTORY MOTOR PARTS CO.

8,742; FENCE CONNECTION 3,600; FERGUSON INDUSTRIES INC 4,479; FERGUSON WATERWORKS #2516 222,104; FFF ENTERPRISES 3,395; FIMA AFRICAN HAIR BRAIDING 5,000; FIRE SERVICE, INC. 11,142; FIRST RESPONDERS WELLNESS CENTER 15,430; FIS 21,879; FLEET SAFETY SUPPLY 31,976; FLEETPRIDE 3,755; FOLDED LEAF SCHOOL OF YOGA 10,000; FOUR GOOD, INC. 2,500; FRANCIS VERALDI AND CATHERINE STARR 3,500; FRANCZEK, RADELET 19,666; FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT TRUST 8,000; FREELAIN, RASUL 80,000; FREEWAY FORD STERLING TRUCK SALES I 4,632; FS.COM 4,030; FUTURE LEADERS LEARNING CENTER, INC 10,000; FUTURITY 19, INC. 10,000; G & M TRUCKING, INC 15,261; G.A. PAVING CONSTRUCTION CO., INC. 253,692; GALLAGHER MATERIALS, INC. 24,319; GARFIELD FAMILY DENTISTRY 5,000; GARFIELD FAMILY DENTISTRY, P.C. 2,500; GASAWAY DISTRIBUTORS INC. 2,692; GEORGE K’S RESTAURANT 2,500; GEORGE K’S RESTAURANT, INC. 10,000; GIAMMONA, JOSEPH 8,896; GILBERT J. GROSSI 26,762; GINO’S HEATING & PLUMBING INC 25,138; GIS BENEFITS 10,940; GIS CONSORTIUM 2,538; GLITTER NAIL SALON, INC. 10,000; GLOBAL MAINTENANCE SOLUTIONS LLC 540,207; GOVCONNECTION, INC. 19,478; GOVHR USA, LLC 16,212; GOVTEMPSUSA LLC 14,805; GRAEF 34,000; GRAF TREE CARE 20,298; GRAINGER 29,928; GRAND APPLIANCE & TV 4,279; GRANICUS, INC. 24,540; GRANITE TELECOMMUNCATIONS, LLC 15,125; GRANT JONES 2,773; GREAT LAKES CONCRETE, LLC 3,067; GREENPLAN MANAGEMENT 11,210; GREGORY ALDIN & MARIAN CARDWELL 2,782; GROWING COMMUNITY MEDIA, NFP 16,991; GUGLY, INC. 15,114; GUGLY, INC. DBA PIONEER PROPERTY AD 5,000; H & H ELECTRIC CO. 70,161; HARRIS COMPUTER SYSTEMS 172,349; HARVARD PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT 3,999; HARVEY MADISON DEVELOPMENT LLC 27,138; HASTINGS AIR ENERGY CONTROL 6,352; HAWK CHRYSLER, DODGE, JEEP 15,995; HEALTH INSPECTION PROFESSIONALS 40,230; HECKER & COMPANY, INC. 40,080; HENK REAL ESTATE LLC. 10,000; HENRY SCHEIN INC. 6,251; HENRY SCHEIN, INC. 28,753; HEPHZIBAH CHILDREN’S ASSOCIATION 29,000; HFS BUREAU OF FISCAL OPERATION-GEMT 252,281; HILTON GARDEN 2,624; HILTON HOTELS & RESORTS 3,556; HINCKLEY SPRINGS 13,509; HINSDALE NURSERIES 5,181; HIRERIGHT 3,020; HOME DEPOT (BROADVIEW) 7,970; HOUSE OF MELANIN LLC. 5,000; HOUSING FORWARD 263,780; HR GREEN, INC. 930,253; HUNTINGTON NATIONAL BANK 94,858; ICMA MEMBERSHIP PAYMENTS 4,555; IDES 8,303; IHC CONSTRUCTION COMPANIES, LLC 22,758; ILLINI POWER PRODUCTS COMPANY. 5,158; ILLINOIS ARBORIST ASSOCIATION 2,975; ILLINOIS DEPT OF PUBLIC HEALTH 6,307; ILLINOIS FIRE CHIEFS ASSOCIATION 5,300; ILLINOIS MUNICIPAL LEAGUE 5,070; ILLINOIS STATE POLICE 7,740; ILLINOIS WORKERS COMPENSATION COMMI 7,949; I’M HOT SAUCE D.B.A. MULATA KITCHEN 10,000; IMRF 2,562,823; INDUSTRIAL/ ORGANIZATIONAL SOLUTIONS 34,578; INNOVATIVE AV SYSTEMS 11,710; INSIGHT PUBLIC SECTOR, INC. 6,055; INTERIORS FOR BUSINESS, INC. 34,994; INTERNAL IMAGING, LLC 2,500; INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS INFORMATION 8,620; INTERNATIONAL CODE COUNCIL 4,667; INTERSTATE BATTERIES OF NORTH CHGO 11,176; INTERSTATE BILLING SERVICE, INC.

14,296; INTERSTATE POWER SYSTEMS, INC 3,858; INTRINSIC LANDSCAPING 2,979; IRON MOUNTAIN 10,270; IRVIN TRACTOR6,468; IT SAVVY LLC 25,372; IT’S A SIGN, INC. 5,000; J.G. UNIFORMS 12,009; JAWID INCOPORATED 10,000; JAWID, INC. 5,000; JC HEAVY EQUIPMENT REPAIR & WELDING 3,839; JENNIFER TOWBIN AND DORIAN GUERRA 3,500; JESS BERLANGA 3,500; JIM CHEN RESTAURANT GROUP, LLC 5,775; JINNY’S CLEANERS 5,000; JOHN R LESNIAK & MARY ELLEN LESNIAK 3,500; JOSEPH THOMPSON 3,500; JULIE, INC. 4,708; KAREN S. BORGSTADT 3,500; KATHLEEN MONTY 60,400; KATRINA BALLADO 3,500; KC OAK PARK, LLC 2,500; KENNETH KLEMM 4,244; KENNETH ZIMMER AND HZLARY ZIMMER 3,500; KENNY STOVER 6,671; K-FIVE CONSTRUCTION 521,363; KING TRANSMISSION COMPANY 5,116; KLEIN, THORPE & JENKINS 56,066; KLEMM, KENNETH 12,282; KRISTIN NYSTEDT THOMAS SHALLENBERGE 3,418; KRONOS SAASHR, INC. 39,561; KRONOS, INC. 23,588; KYLE DOLAN 3,500; LA NOTTE VENTURES INC. DBA LA NOTTE 13,340; LAB REP COMPANY 6,627; L’ALBERELO, INC 2,500; LANDMARK MEDIA SOLUTIONS, LLC 6,750; LAUTERBACH & AMEN, LLP 13,800; LEAD INSPECTORS USA INC. 3,000; LEADSONLINE 8,627; LEARNING OAK, INC. 7,000; LEXINGTON HOMES, LLC 4,230; LEXIPO LLC 7,057; LEXIPOL, LLC 22,787; LEXISNEXIS /RELX, INC 5,530; LIGHTLE ENTERPRISES OF OHIO 4,963; LINDAHL BROTHERS, INC. 188,703; LINDCO EQUIPMENT SALES, INC. 2,594; LINDHOLM ROOFING 2,875; LIQUID ENGINEERING CORPORATION 29,750; LJC DEVELOPMENT, LLC. DBA LEA FRENC 5,000; LOVE, TRACCYE 2,568; MABAS DIV. XI 10,000; MACQUEEN EMERGENCY 2,561; MADD LOVE BEAUTY, LLC 4,946; MARIANNE NICODEM 3,415; MARIS, LLC 6,250; MARISA KAISER 3,855; MARK BOWGREN 3,500; MARK PFEIFFER AND CYNTHIA D RICCOLO 3,500; MARKS TRAVEL SERVICE, INC. 10,000; MASCARA, INC. DBA MASCARA LASH CO. 5,000; MASTER DESIGN BUILD, LLC 286,827; MC SQUARED ENERGY 61,222; MCADAM 82,938; MCDONALD’S 2,526; MCGRATH CONSULTING GROUP, INC. 5,000; MCREF OAK PARK, LLC 34,209; MCSHANE HIIBBITTS INC 3,500; MEADE ELECTRIC COMPANY INC. 19,188; MEDICOVA LLC. DBA RUSTICO 10,000; MEGAN WHOLEY 3,500; MELISSA VILLANUEVA 5,000; MENARDSMELROSE PARK 13,250; MES - ILLINOIS DEPOSITORY ACCT 45,780; MESIROW INSURANCE SERVICES INC. 461,589; METLIFE 38,531; METRO MORTUARY TRANSPORT, INC. 11,880; MEV OAK PARK LLC 16,679; MGP, INC 99,886; MICHAEL NITTI 7,995; MID AMERICAN WATER INC. 38,493; MIDWEST METER INC. 5,802; MINUTEMAN PRESS 14,259; MJA PLUMBING & SEWER CO. 26,576; MONICA’S SKINCARE BOUTIQUE 5,000; MORA OAK PARK LLC DBA MORA ASIAN KI 15,000; MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, INC. 24,461; MR. CLEAN AND SONS, LLC. MAIDPRO 10,000; MUTUAL OF OMAHA 110,731; MYS INC. 39,210; NACOLE 3,235; NAMI - METRO SUBURBAN INC. 11,000; NATIONAL POWER RODDING CORP. 7,763; NETRIX, LLC 16,675; NEW MOMS, INC. 18,353; NICOR GAS 6,048; NILES ON MARION CONDO ASSC 5,454; NORTH EAST MULTI-REGIONAL 17,360; NORTH LAWNDALE HIVE, LLC 3,296; NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY 10,150; NYHAN, BAMBRICK,KINZIE & LOWRY, P.C 40,388; OAK BROOK MECHANICAL SERVICES INC. 27,281; OAK LEYDEN DEVELOPMENT SERVICES 3,947; OAK PARK & RIVER FOREST DAY NURSERY 2,694; continued on next page

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OAKPARK.COM | RIVERFOREST.COM

PUBLIC NOTICE Village of Oak Park, Illinois

Payments ≥ $2,500 in the Aggregate For the Fiscal Year Ending December 31, 2021 OAK PARK & RIVER FOREST HIGH SCHOOL 6,446; OAK PARK AREA ARTS COUNCIL 157,667; OAK PARK ARTS DISTRICT 2,590; OAK PARK DISCOUNT MERCHANDISE, INC. 5,000; OAK PARK ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP. 492,373; OAK PARK LAND II, LLC 18,380; OAK PARK LIBRARY 250,096; OAK PARK MONTESSORI 2,500; OAK PARK REGIONAL HOUSING CTR 713,736; OAK PARK RESIDENCE CORPORATION 144,509; OAK PARK RIVER FOREST DAY NURSERY 4,200; OAK PARK RIVER FOREST INFANT 27,000; OAK PARK TEMPLE 3,118; OAK-LEYDEN DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES 3,000; OAKPARK RIVERFOREST INFANT WELFARE 2,845; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH CENTERS 42,456; OCTET CO. 3,202; OFFICE FURNITURE CENTER 2,548; O’HARE TOWING SERVICE 10,743; ON TIME EMBROIDERY 33,256; ONE STOP COMICS 5,000; ON-TARGET SOLUTIONS GROUP, INC. 4,025; O’REILLY AUTO PARTS 8,807; OSBURN ASSOCIATES, INC 8,009; PACE SYSTEMS, INC. 7,050; PASSPORT LABS, INC. 30,421; PASSPORT PARKING, LLC 30,000; PATRICE STEURER 67,600; PATRICIA NAKAYAMA 3,500; PCC COMMUNITY WELLNESS CENTER 15,104; PCS MOBILE/ROUTE 1 11,538; PEDIATRICS UNLIMITED, LLC 5,000; PENTEGRA SYSTEMS 51,544; PERMIDT ENGINEERING LTD. 3,500; PERSPECTIVES, LTD. 11,529; PEST MANAGEMENT SERVICES 32,493; PETERSON ENVIRONMENTAL, LTD 8,200; PILGRIM CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH 5,249; PJD ELECTRICAL SALES, INC. 14,819; PMA COMPANIES, INC. 943,831; POLLARDWATER.COM 7,469; POOR PHILS, INC 2,500; POWERDMS, INC. 9,225; PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLL 7,400; PRI MANAGEMENT GROUP 2,654; PROVANTAGE SALES 4,560; PULSE DESIGN, INC. 2,725; PUMPKIN MOON 5,080; PUREE FOODS, INC. 5,000; PWS ENVIRONMENTAL, INC 91,815; QUADIENT LEASING USA, INC 10,074; QUIMEX 2,773; R & L MAINTENANCE 67,339; R. E. WALSH & ASSOCIATES, INC 24,063; R. SMITS & SONS FARM, LLC 4,413; RAVE WIRELESS, INC. 6,869; RAY O’HERRON CO. INC. 2,998; RCN TECHNOLOGIES 2,925; REDICO, LLC 280,753; RELADYNE 4,814; RELIABLE FIRE EQUIPMENT CO. 6,833; RENEWABLE ENERGY GROUP 7,424; REVCON TECHNOLOGY GROUP, INC. 104,046; REYNOLDS, LADON 2,875; RHONDA SALLEE RAMOS 15,803; ROBBINS SCHWARTZ NICHOLAS LIFTON 65,905; ROBERTSON DURIC 95,000; ROGUE FITNESS 2,551; ROMEOVILLE FIRE ACADEMY 10,725; ROYAL HEALTH CARE S.C. 5,000; ROYAL HEALTHCARE S.C. 5,000; ROZALADO & CO. 168,930; RRV MOTORCARS 188,314; RUMORO,JOHN 4,800; RUSSO’S POWER EQUIPMENT 4,028; SALES ENTERPRISE 5,432; SANDRA ROSS SALON, LTD. 10,000; SARAH’S INN 11,833; SCHROEDER & SCHROEDER, INC. 208,113; SCHROEDER ASPHALT SERVICES, INC. 477,326; SCOTT KOSTNER 4,513;

SCRATCH ‘N SNIFF 5,000; SCRATCH PROPERTIES 5,000; SECRETARY OF STATE-DEPT OF POLICE 5,043; SEPS, INC 4,552; SERVICE SPRING 7,515; SHABLAMITY, LLC. 5,000; SHI INTERNATIONAL CORP. 14,694; SICALCO, LTD. 4,837; SIEMENS BUILDING TECHNOLOGIES INC. 16,565; SIGN OUTLET STORE 3,245; SIKICH LLP 80,177; SIMPSON, M.E. CO., INC. 42,718; SISTER 2 SISTER HAIR DIMENSION 5,000; SITE DESIGN GROUP, LTD 7,719; SLEEP NUMBER CORP 6,785; SMITH ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS INC 5,005; SNI SOLUTIONS 21,317; SOLARIUM 5,000; SOS TECHNOLOGIES 4,550; SOUTHERN COMPUTER WAREHOUSE 49,901; SPARK HIRE, INC 5,836; SPROUT & SPRUCE LLC. 5,000; STANDARD EQUIPMENT COMPANY 3,327; STANTEC CONSULTING SERVICES, INC. 8,418; STATE CHEMICAL 4,899; STATE FARM INSURANCE 2,905; STATE FARM SUBROGATION 5,614; STENSTROM PETROLEUM SALES & SERVICE 7,670; STERLITE SOFTWARE USA, INC. 5,000; STERNBERG LANTERNS, INC. 12,085; STREICHER’S 69,464; STRYKER 9,851; SUBURBAN ACCENTS 7,450; SUBURBAN LABORATORIES 15,833; SUBURBAN TREE CONSORTIUM 164,799; SUGAR FIXE 5,000; SUPER YOO CLEANERS 5,000; SUPERIOR ROAD STRIPING, INC. 49,294; SURE-CLOSE INC. 2,925; SURMIN, RONALD 28,639; SWALLOW CONSTRUCTION CORP. 2,373,769; SWELL, LLC. 5,541; TALON COMMUNICATIONS INC 8,500; TANPHI WELLNESS INC 2,500; TARGET SOLUTIONS LEARNING, LLC 8,039; TASTY, INC. DBA HEMMINWAY’S BISTRO 10,000; TAYLOE GLASS COMPANY 10,757; TELCOM INNOVATIONS GROUP, LLC 18,351; TERMINAL SUPPLY CO 4,441; TERRA

ENGINEERING LTD 140,452; TETRA TECH, INC. 13,958; TEUTEBERG INC. 4,350; THE ACTORS GARDEN, LLC. 5,000; THE HEARING PLACE 5,000; THE PRINTING STORE INC. 2,861; THE RACQUET CLUB OF OPRF 2,500; THE WRITE PEOPLE, LTD DBA THE WRITE 5,000; THERESA CHAPPLE-MCGRUDER 6,183; THIRD MILLENNIUM 16,663; THOMAS ENGINEERING GROUP 32,682; THOMPSON ELEVATOR INSPECTION 27,414; THOMSON REUTERS - WEST PAYMENT CENT 4,622; THRIVE COUNSELING CENTER 162,429; TILES IN STYLE, LLC 38,000; TKB ASSOCIATES, INC 18,394; TOP ROOFING 9,250; TORRENCE HAMMOND AND LISA HAMMOND 3,500; TOTAL PARKING SOLUTIONS 92,997; TRAFFIC CONTROL & PROTECTION 28,795; TRAFFIC CONTROL CORPORATION 74,013; TRANSYSTEMS CORPORATION 1,115,715; TREASURER, STATE OF ILLINOIS (IDOT 5,862,844; TREESTUFF.COM 4,569; TRI MARK MARLINN 2,865; TRIGGI CONSTRUCTION 58,083; TRINE CONSTRUCTION 434,074; TWOREK, KENNETH 13,621; UCP SEGUIN OF GREATER CHICAGO 40,778; UL LLC 5,315; ULINE 10,229; UNDERGROUND PIPE & VALVE CO. 28,058; UNIQUE PLUMBING CO. 67,867; UNITED RENTALS 14,572; UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE 17,011; US BANK - CORPORATE REAL ESTATE 6,504; USA BLUE BOOK 13,153; USPS - MAIL PERMIT #1894 19,483; USPS - MAIL PERMIT #26 24,995; UTILITY DYNAMICS CORPORATION 7,310; V3 COMPANIES 17,450; VASTSKY EDUCATIONAL ENTERPRISES,LLC 7,500; VÉLAN SOLUTIONS, LLC 2,688; VERIZON CONNECT NWF, INC. 15,030; VERIZON WIRELESS 98,582 VICTORY ITALIAN OAK PARK, LLC 2,500; VILLAGE OF OAK PARK (WATER

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A conservative’s Fr. McGivern’s leadership will be missed take on local issues ST. EDMUND STAFF &

n May 26, an Oak Park and River Forest High School administrator gave an update on new approaches to grading at a school board meeting. “Equitable grading practices” is one approach among others being considered by a team of administrators and teachers. Following the meeting, the administrator was quoted as saying, “all students learn at different paces.” If the school’s administration believes this to be true, isn’t that counterintuitive to the elimination of honors and Advanced Placement (AP) courses for the freshman class? Tuition relief for parents of children, pre-K through high school, is stalled in Springfield. This pro-choice plan allows parents to choose the best school for their children and be funded by local and state education dollars. Unfortunately, the proposal does not have the support of the party in control of education reform in Springfield — the public teachers union. On Jan. 1, 2023, “cash bail” will be abolished in Illinois under a Springfield criminal rights bill passed with the support of all state officials representing Oak Park. A victim rights bill that would consider the threat and danger an individual poses to another person or the community, if released, is stalled in Springfield because it does not have the support of the same officials. On June 7, the San Francisco District Attorney was recalled by 61% of voters for not confronting serious quality-oflife crimes in that city. Cook County is at this juncture, but Illinois law does not allow citizens the ability to recall a state’s attorney. Oak Park shootings and carjackings are now commonplace. Oak Park voters overwhelmingly rejected an April 2021 referendum to defund the village’s police department — No 68%, Yes 32%. Last reported, the Oak Park Police Department has 13 patrol officer vacancies and two commander spots open. Oak Park police understaffing reduces criminal deterrence in our community. Is this a backdoor referendum by village hall to defund the police department, contrary to the mandate from the electorate? One hundred percent of the cannabis sales tax, along with additional fines collected from those convicted of a crime, should be designated for increased community policing and support of mental health services in Oak Park. The Oak Park library board has eliminated a long-

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ev. John McGivern, who unpublicized. He has kept many has faithfully served the St. of his charitable acts quiet, but Edmund Catholic Parish knowledge of them circulates. community for the past 18 Arguably the most visible years, will close out his term achievement of his tenure is the as pastor there on June 30, 2022. He complete renovation of the parish has been a beloved, collaborative, rectory. Originally built in 1910, strong-yet-humble leader at St. Edit underwent a full renovation in mund since 2004 and has touched the lives not only of 1962. Shortly after he took residence, it was discovhis parishioners but of Oak Park and the surroundered that the building had severe mold and mildew ing communities as well. issues; leaking, antiquated plumbing; and significant By his example, Fr. John has led a parish that structural weaknesses. Fr. John began a nearly 10welcomes everyone, from strangers to longtime payear fundraising campaign in order to restore the recrishioners, guiding them through tory to a functional office space for trials and triumphs, challenges the parish and a healthy residence and celebrations. He has listened, for its pastor. In 2018, demolition led, challenged himself and others, began on the interior of the buildpivoted, prioritized, fundraised, ing and after months of reconstrucand made very difficult pastoral tion, he was able to move into the and administrative decisions, and residence again and the parish he has accomplished it all with offices opened in the new space. grace, gratitude, reason, wisdom, In 2021, he was asked by the humility, and humor. Archdiocese of Chicago to become Among Fr. John’s many accomadministrator to St. Catherine of plishments was his unwavering Siena-St. Lucy Parish after their support of Catholic education. pastor was reassigned. He accepted When he assumed the role of pasthe challenge and guided both tor, he encountered a parish school parishes through the final stages that was in significant financial of the Renew My Church (RMC) trouble. He was taxed by the difJOHN MCGIVERN process of reorganization. ficult task of closing the school, Though he will be moving on, although the closing turned out he has remained committed to the to be short-lived. He was able to organize a talented RMC process, and warmly welcomes Fr. Rex Pillai as team who put together a comprehensive marketing pastor of the newly established parish formed by the plan that included a unique partnership with Domini- unification of St. Edmund and Ascension. can University. Most priests enter the vocation with a deep comFr. John’s hard work was rewarded after Cardinal mitment to service. It is rare to see a pastor highly George gave him a chance to reopen the school with a skilled at both the pastoral side and the financial new vision. Although the school ultimately closed in operations of a parish, yet these were areas where Fr. 2016, for 13 years under his leadership, children of all John excelled. St. Edmund faced financial challenges, socio-economic backgrounds, ethnicities, and races especially early on in his tenure. With his vision for learned not only about academics, but about our the future, fundraising efforts, budgeting expertise Catholic faith. For a man who did not grow up in a and overall management skills, he made sure that the diverse setting, he was especially proud of what this parish remains vibrant and viable in order to carry little school came to symbolize. out its mission of serving the community. Through donations from the St. Edmund family, May God abundantly bless Fr. John McGivern and local charities have also benefitted from Fr. John’s strengthen him as he transitions to a new chapter in leadership and generosity. Among them are Beyond his personal and pastoral life. His spiritual guidance, Hunger (formerly Oak Park Food Pantry), Houssteady leadership, countless kindnesses, and unfaling Forward (formerly PADS), the Community of tering loyalty to his congregation will be missed by a Congregations, Sarah’s Inn, and A House in Austin. grateful community. His other acts of kindness and generosity are inFr. John McGivern’s celebratory Mass and reception numerable and have mostly gone undocumented and will take place this Sunday, June 26.

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Shared efforts, shared values

wo stories this week reflecting the power and the grace of collaboration among local villages that have not previously been aligned. On page one we celebrate the growth of Juneteenth as a new national holiday but one with a strong local history in Forest Park where Mayor Rory Hoskins, a native of Galveston, Texas, has championed its recognition for 14 years with the annual Juneteenth Pool Party. This year the Juneteenth recognition grew exponentially with four towns — Forest Park, Broadview, Oak Park and River Forest — jointly planning a West Villages Parade, Oak Park celebrating with a barbeque in Taylor Park, House Speaker Chris Welch hosting a Juneteenth Fathers’ Day barbeque, and Broadview capping off a three-day Juneteenth weekend with fireworks. We also report this week on these same four villages signing on to the Cross-Community Climate Collaborative (C4). This critical work will focus shared local efforts on reducing greenhouse gas emissions and working together on other environmental projects. This proposal was spearheaded by Katrina Thompson, the go-getter mayor of Broadview. And rightly, it reflects and acknowledges the equity issues that climate change imposes, particularly on communities of color and with lesser investment and incomes. Our future is shared. From learning the lessons Juneteenth can teach us to taking on local responsibility for our climate, we will do better when we work together.

Mike’s Place worries We rightly think of Oak Park as the King of Cul-de-sacs. Try getting into Oak Park off Austin Boulevard or North Avenue and you will be blocked at nearly every turn. We can debate the reasoning for those roadblocks, but they are effective at blocking access to the village. Meanwhile, on Oak Park’s southern border along Roosevelt Road, it is Berwyn that has installed cul-de-sacs on every one-way street heading into that city. You can’t get out of Berwyn on a side street but you can only enter at an intersection with a stoplight. This comes to mind right now because of the Memorial Day shootout on Roosevelt Road and into south Oak Park as rowdy drinkers exited Mike’s Place, the long problematic bar on the Berwyn side of the street at Cuyler. Customers at Mike’s can’t easily park in Berwyn because of the cul-de-sacs, so instead they park in Oak Park with its ready access. We’re not fans of cul-de-sacs and, 50 years in, we see the divisive impact those barriers have caused between Austin and Oak Park. But as Oak Park police and their counterparts in Berwyn pledge to meet to discuss enforcement tactics outside Mike’s Place, finding a way to keep those customers out of Oak Park has to be considered.

A ban on gas-powered leaf blowers An engaged but divided Oak Park Village Board last week took the more cautious step of ordering a feasibility study rather than following a commission’s recommendation of an outright ban on polluting and noisy gas-powered leaf blowers in the village. There seems to be agreement on such a ban but questions remain on how it would be enforced and how to mitigate the impact on landscaping companies which rely on the devices. Our complaint, though, is with citizens who mock this village board discussion as irrelevant and a distraction from real village issues. Finding ways on the local level to tackle climate issues is essential. Leaf blowers are a legitimate target for regulation and we support the village board’s intense focus on climate change.

What democracy depends on

fter last week’s column (“First get mad, then get to work”) a few readers asked, “What can we do?” The familiar litany includes: Vote, inform (yourself and others), donate, write postcards, knock on doors, join a phone bank, assist voter registration efforts, spread the word on social media, call out misinformation and disinformation, protest, become an election worker, and last but not least, write letters to our Viewpoints section. All are important. Here are a few more: ■ Read Stacey Abrams’ book Our Time is Now, about countering voter suppression. ■ Put up lawn signs that say: “Back Biden” and “Save democracy. Vote Democratic.” We need to get creative with our signage. ■ Vote — it bears repeating — and encourage others to vote. Doesn’t matter if you live in a Blue state; turnout is what matters. The higher the turnout, the clearer the message to the anti-democratic forces (and naysayers): “We’re motivated, we’re mobilized, and we have strength in numbers.” ■ Speak up. Appeal directly to the center-right people in your life: “Help us save democracy. Please vote only for those who are working to preserve and defend democracy. Please vote against those who are so keen to undermine it.” ■ Develop an “elevator speech” and use it when the opportunity arises. Here’s mine: Elections now are different from those that came before 2020. It’s no longer Republicans vs. Democrats. It’s between those who support the Insurrection and overturning legal, clean elections and those who don’t. Anyone who supports an insurrectionist, also supports his insurrection. In this election, one party wants to rule, the other wants to govern. One focuses on short-term reward, the other on long-term benefit. One fosters superiority, the other seeks equity. One promotes self-interest, the other aims for the common good. One will destroy this planet while the other will find a way for future generations to live on it. One worships at the altar of an individual, the other at the altar of social responsibility. One path will lead to ruin, the other to a better country. One has sworn an oath to defend the Chief Insurrectionist. The other has sworn an oath to defend the Constitution. Both are imperfect. One has given up. The other is trying. One hasn’t got a clue, but the other has a vision. Which will you choose? Which would your children and grandchildren choose?

Will you reward the Party of Insurrection with your vote? But it’s not just about what we do. It’s also about what we don’t do: ■ Don’t badmouth Biden. He’s done an excellent job as president thus far (infrastructure, the pandemic, Ukraine, a strong economy, a new Supreme Court justice). Considering the catastrophe he inherited from the criminal incompetent who preceded him, he’s done an extraordinary job, especially given the razor-thin majority he has to work with in Congress. We should highlight and praise his record, not downplay it. Unfortunately, the pro-democracy coalition I proudly belong to is the most self-defeating group I’ve ever seen. We just came off an amazingly successful election, setting records with vote count (81 million plus) and turnout (66.2%), soundly defeating an incumbent 51-46%, and (barely) winning a Senate majority by electing both candidates in Georgia, of all places. You’d think we’d be encouraged. Instead we’re talking about who should replace Biden in 2024. There’s no one out there, currently, who can do what Biden is doing. And he doesn’t make that many gaffes. ■ Don’t reinforce the notion that the Democrats will get clobbered in the midterm elections. You’re only giving aid and comfort to the anti-democratic forces. It’s bad enough that the mainstream media constantly parrots that refrain (including, sad to say, NPR). You’re helping to create a self-fulfilling prophecy. Knock it off. ■ Don’t panic. Don’t get paralyzed. Don’t be silent. Don’t give up. ■ And above all else, don’t be a lousy citizen. This country already has an over-supply of lousy citizens. A good citizen is active, not passive. Good citizens love democracy enough to recognize when it is threatened, learn how it is threatened, and then find creative, non-violent ways to defend and preserve it. You wouldn’t be reading this if you weren’t already good citizens. What we need to “do” is find ways to become better citizens — we can always be better citizens. This is about government of the people, by the people, for the people, which must not perish from the Earth, as Abraham Lincoln, an authentic Republican, once said. It’s about saving democracy. If you believe anything, believe this: Right now our democracy depends on us being better citizens.

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Local candidates you might have missed

Judicial Slating Committee, I’m particularly he 2022 Primary Election is just proud of our recent record of supporting around the corner — June 28 this well-qualified judges who reflect the diversiyear, later than in past years due to ty of the entire county. Tom Nowinski joins the delay in the census data. Early 11 other endorsed Democratic candidates voting has already begun, and you’re running countywide and all have been found hearing plenty from candidates on televiqualified by all of the bar associations. You sion, your streaming services, and in your can find more information about all the mailbox. candidates at https://www.cookcountydems.com/2022I hope to cut through the clutter a bit and call your candidates. attention to two local candidates running for an imporThe judicial subcircuits were created almost 30 years tant but oft-overlooked office — Cook County Circuit ago by the General Assembly to foster diversity on the Court judge. bench and to encourage Tom Nowinski, of unconventional candidates. Oak Park, is running for While the bar associations a countywide judicial often get it right — and they position. Tom is a longtime certainly did in evaluating neighbor, local volunteer our countywide candidates in his church, and coaches — they can sometimes Oak Park youth sports. In be too rigid in evaluating his almost 20 years as an non-traditional candidates. attorney, he has served our Chris Taliaferro has balcommunity as an assisanced a lifetime of public tant state’s attorney, labor service with a significant counsel for multiple elected family law practice. While officials in Cook County, and family law lawyers may chief of staff to the clerk of be in court less often than the Circuit Court. He’s imPROVIDED state’s attorneys, they are mensely qualified to serve State Senate President Don Harmon with judicial better prepared to serve on the bench. Chris Taliaferro, of Galecandidates Chris Taliaferro, left, and Tom Nowinski. as judge in the family and domestic law courts. I’m wood, is running for judge confident that Chris Taliain the 11th Subcircuit — a ferro will be an excellent judge. portion of Cook County that includes all of Oak Park, No matter who you choose to support, please vote. Galewood, some of Austin, and several neighboring Early voting is open at Oak Park Village Hall, and again, suburbs and city neighborhoods. Chris is a military vet Election Day this year is Tuesday, June 28. and former police officer, who represents Galewood and Don Harmon of Oak Park is the Illinois Senate Austin in the City Council. He’s been a great neighbor. president. As chair of the Cook County Democratic Party

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Highly recommended judicial candidates Confused about the upcoming Cook County judicial election? Here is a list of most highly recommended candidates. This list is compiled from the recommendations of 17 local bar associations, plus Injustice Watch, a local nonprofit that monitors judges and other civil rights matters. Whichever candidate had the highest total rating from all 17 bar associations and Injustice Watch made the list. Please feel free to share the list with your social network. You can see the recommendations of each bar association at https:// www.voteforjudges.org. Judicial Elections - Primary, June 28 Hall vacancy - Debra B. Walker Harris vacancy - Raymond W. Mitchell

Brennan vacancy - Lisa Michelle Taylor Callahan vacancy - Tracie Porter Cannon vacancy - Diana Lopez Hyman vacancy - Thomas E. Nowinski Ingram vacancy - Elizabeth “Beth” Ryan Leeming vacancy - Rena Marie Van Tine Lynch vacancy - Paul Joyce McGury vacancy - Ruth Isabel Gudino O’Brien vacancy - Araceli Reyes De La Cruz Sullivan vacancy - Thomas More Donnelly 11th Subcircuit - Aileen Bhandari

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Wednesday Journal, June 22, 2022

Illinois must stop practicing ‘equity theft’

ronically, “solidly blue” Illinois is one of the few states left that still engages in the Jim Crow-era practice of discriminatory and unconstitutional “equity theft.” This is how it works and, incredibly enough in this day and age, the practice is actually condoned by Illinois statutes. If you, the homeowner, fail to pay any portion of your real estate taxes, then no matter how small the default, and no matter what the reason, your taxes will be “sold” to a real estate tax buyer, often a Wall Street investor, who then will have the right to collect punitively high rates of interest, and may ultimately foreclose on your home, evict you and your family, and take sole title and ownership of your home, without paying you a penny for any hard-earned equity in your property. For example, if you owned a home worth $200,000, had no mortgage and owed back taxes of $2,000, a tax buyer could buy your taxes for a small sum, paid to Cook County, and if you did not pay the taxes plus exorbitant interest and penalties within a short period of time, foreclose on your home, require you to vacate the premises, rendering you homeless, take full title to your property, and then sell it for its true market value, reaping a six-figure profit, all because of an outmoded Illinois statute that has long outlived its usefulness. Predictably, this practice victimizes those who are most vulnerable in our society — the elderly, the infirm, those suffering from dementia, and, most particularly, minority communities. Recent analyses published by NPR affiliate WBEZ have illustrated the racial imbalances that Illinois law promotes. AARP, among other respected organizations, has condemned the practice of equity theft. It is long past time for Illinois to end its racially discriminatory and unfair practice of confiscating the entirety of people’s homes, depriving them and their families of what is, for most people, the principal component of their net worth, simply because age, infirmity or illness have prevented the homeowners from paying small amounts of real estate taxes. Recently in Michigan, which used to employ a system similar to Illinois’, a home worth tens of thousands of dollars was lost to the government for non-payment of $8 in back taxes. You read that right — $8. The Michigan Supreme Court declared that this was an unconstitutional “taking” of private property without compensation. Illinois’ system would allow the same result and it, like Michigan’s, is unconstitutional. It should end, and end now. Just last fall, lest anyone think “it can’t happen here,” Wednesday Journal ran the story of how Faith Julian, daughter of the noted scientist Percy Julian, after whom Julian Middle School is named, came close to losing her home on East Avenue due to the harsh and unforgiving nature of Illinois’ tax system. We should demand that the Illinois system of equity theft be replaced with one of the systems employed by sister states to collect unpaid real estate taxes without punishing homeowners by confiscating their precious home equity. Charles Watkins is an Oak Park resident.

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Don’t let anger turn into a wild fire

I read your opinion piece on anger as a motivator for political action, with your reminder of how prescient Howard Beale (played by posthumous Academy Award best actor Peter Finch) was in the 1975 movie Network [First, get mad, then get to work, Ken Trainor, Viewpoints, June 15]. We didn’t know then that the fictional broadcaster Beale (“I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore.”) would lead nearly a half century later to a genre of real TV broadcasters who fulminate on the right and the left, from Tucker Carlson on Fox News to Keith Olbermann, formerly at MSNBC.

Anger can be a motivator for political action as you point out, but it can also be a wild fire that burns out of control. (See January 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol and looting on State Street in Chicago by a minority of George Floyd protesters). The via negativa of anger leads nowhere. The harder work, which requires personal transformation, is Martin Luther King’s focus on understanding the anger of the other without being consumed by our own anger. King wrote about encounters with white officials during the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955. “I was weighed

down by a terrible sense of guilt, remembering that on two or three occasions I had allowed myself to become angry and indignant. … You must be willing to suffer the anger of the opponent, and yet not return anger. You must not become bitter. No matter how emotional your opponents are, you must be calm.” Wise words as our post-Trump presidency world hurtles toward the 2024 presidential election with “Stop the Steal” election-truth-deniers now on the ballot in much of our divided country.

Jack Crowe Oak Park

Danny Davis, the people’s congressman I’m an Oak Park High School student and I am voting for Danny Davis. People are often surprised when I tell them that I’m a Danny Davis supporter. They assume that, being a young person, I would automatically vote for and identify with the younger candidate. In reality, I support Danny Davis because he is the best candidate. It’s not just that he has voted progressively nearly all of the 15,331 times he cast a vote in Washington; it’s not just that Danny Davis is one of the most respected members of Congress and leverages his hard-earned seniority for our district; it’s that Danny Davis gets results.

He has been getting results since his first term in 1997 up until two weeks ago when he watched President Joe Biden sign into law a bill Congressman Davis introduced restoring education benefits to veterans. Both candidates in this upcoming primary claim to be leading advocates for Medicare for all, gun violence prevention, and criminal justice reform. But which one actually takes action? Challenger Kina Collins may say she is an advocate for all of those things, but what has she actually done? Danny Davis is more than just talk; he walks the walk and gets things done.

The Second Chance Act he introduced has given upward of $700 million to programs helping previous offenders re-enter society since 2009. The Earned Income Tax Credit and the Child Tax Credit he fought for at the height of the deadly COVID-19 pandemic gave the most vulnerable thousands of dollars they desperately needed. When the people of the 7th District need something done Congressman Davis is there for them. Not only is he experienced, he is effective. Danny Davis is the people’s congressman.

Electrification has a downside

First, the electricity must come from somewhere. In Illinois, it comes from generators that are powered by coal, natural gas and nuclear power. Coal is a dirty fuel. It can and should be replaced. We’re years away from any new nuclear power plants so that leaves us with natural gas as a power provider. You can probably see where I’m going with this. We can electrify our buildings with energy that comes from gas — the very product from which we’re trying to distance ourselves. Decrease our use at the site only to increase it at the source. The equation always balances. Second, I have doubts about Commonwealth Edison’s ability to deliver the infrastructure necessary to make electrification possible.

Perhaps it is my experience on the park board during the coal-tar remediation of Barrie Park from 1999-2005 that saddle me with these doubts. The foot-dragging behavior of the utilities and their hapless vice president (at the time), Frank Clark, makes me question the ability of Com Ed to help make any easy transition to an all-electric village within reach. Our time might be better spent tightening up our existing buildings. Adding insulation (properly vented) and weather stripping isn’t very glamorous but may offer better rewards.

Electrification is a topic that has been bouncing around the village for the past year or so, sort of a hot potato. The basic idea is that eliminating natural gas from our buildings will help decrease the release of greenhouse gases into the Earth’s atmosphere. Replacing gas-fired heating plants with electric-powered units will be a means to that end. That means no more new gas-fired heating boilers or furnaces in our homes or offices. But there are problems.

Jacob Drews

OPRF High School student

Tim Kelly

Chair, Building Codes Advisory Commission Village of Oak Park

Wednesday Journal, June 22, 2022

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My friend, Buddy Golden

home between bowl games e all know speon New Year’s Day. We joined cial folks who Buddy and Gloria when they impact our lives, decided to become health nuts, and I have been using only specific culinary blessed with ingredients and organic foods. family members and close However, I must admit when friends who have influenced we took many an evening stroll and even changed my life. in River Forest we would top One of these special people our excursions with Johnnie’s was Ben (Buddy) Golden, who Italian lemon ice, forgetting recently passed away. our diets. He and his dear wife, I remember many times Gloria, shared so much in Gloria and I would have to common with my husband re-direct our travels, whether Marty and me that we Buddy or Marty was driving. They would often teased we could finish each other’s be so deep in conversation on the way sentences. There have been rough times that they’d be unaware of where we were. and fun times. We experienced our babies It was worthy of a good laugh when we growing up, raising their own families, found ourselves lost or backing out of a and sharing their problems and joy with one-way street. One of my most pleasurus. We faced changes in life circumstancable memories was of the days we spent es, businesses, and homes, too. We always on the porch of their Michigan summer had spirited, though in agreement, politihome. It was perched on a hill in the treecal discussions, and we enjoyed sports, tops, overlooking the lake, the ideal place music, and theater together. Most of all, to try to solve the world’s problems. we have shared love of people, Buddy had an amazing all cultures, a strong faith, and perspective on what was iman appreciation of nature. portant in life, which included Buddy followed in his family a balance of responsibilities footsteps and became a pharand a sense of humor. When macist. His true passion was our first grandchild was photography, and he expressed born early morning on Nov. his creativity through this 15, 1975, Marty and I wanted medium, which he perfected. to immediately share the The images he interpreted in news with Buddy and Gloria. his photo lens displayed more Buddy’s early-dawn response BUDDY GOLDEN than just human beings. He was, “That’s great news, but captured their personalities, tell that daughter of yours her and even their souls. His interfuture babies should be born at more reaesting photos of inanimate objects, such sonable hours.” Over the years, we shared as old doors or staircases, almost brought more laughs than tears, and our relationthem to life. His frightening photos of the ship remained close no matter where we foreboding gates surrounding one of the traveled or moved. Holocaust prisons conjured in one’s mind Our friendship remained so strong the hell that existed there. because both Marty and Buddy shared It was his depth of thought and love mutual standards by which we lived. They of people that he expressed in these left legacies of good deeds, respect for masterful images. His photographs were all peoples, and true caring for others. I exhibited, and his sensitive books which will always be grateful to Buddy for his received high acclaim, were featured warm friendship, his wise advice, and his at universities, libraries, and galleries delightful sense of humor. I know a part throughout the country. His Chicago of him will always be with me, as my dear exhibit took place at the Cultural Center. Marty has been. Their hope and belief I have so many sweet memories of our in the best of humanity will keep me times together. We had amusing tradioptimistic about the future of our nation tions, such as dining on Chinese food at and its people. Christmas and spaghetti dinners at our

HARRIET HAUSMAN

O B I T U A R I E S

Timothy Moore, 82

Active with charitable organizations Timothy J. Moore, 82, formerly of Wheaton and Oak Park, died at home in Bloomingdale on June 4, 2022. A graduate of Fenwick High School, class of 1957, and Notre Dame University, he was involved in numerous charitable organizations and will be greatly missed by all who loved him. 2 Timothy 4:7 sums up his life: I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I

have kept the faith. Tim is survived by his wife, Jennifer; his daughter, Brooke (Greg Heavey); his son, Bryan (Megan); and his grandsons, Evan and Gory. Also surviving are four siblings, Daniel (Patricia), Kathleen (Charles), Michael (the late Patricia), and Mary Helen, and many nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents, Daniel and Irma Moore and his siblings, George (Dorothey and the late Jeneane), Patricia (Dennis Walle), Nancy (the late Ramon), and James (Ann). Services will be private.

Voting for judges really does matter Dear Friends, Judicial decisions greatly impact our lives. Please see the following well-vetted assessment of judicial candidates. As you will note, there are a number of judges rated “NQ” = not qualified, and many listed as “NR” = not rated (because they did not participate in the ratings process) Note: Election Day is June 28. Early voting and vote-by-mail has begun.

The Alliance of Bar Association for Judicial Screening assessments of candidates for judge in Cook County and for Illinois Appellate or Supreme Court candidates if there are any. Here’s that link: https://voteforjudges.org/wp-content/ uploads/2022/06/2022-Primary-Ratings6.1.pdf

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returned the check to the library, so taxpayers are only paying for the second consultant]. Will it be EXEloo or Portland Loo in case you missed the recent village board discussion on the addition of public toilets in downtown Oak Park. What is known, the cost upward of $500K with annual maintenance of $12K, will not be covered by the users. The final decision will come after it is determined how to fund the project. The annual cost of an ADA-accessible PortaPotty rental is $13,416 or slightly more than the maintenance cost of village hall’s proposed royal flush. Oak Park taxpayers have opined they’re getting fleeced on this proposal. I have to agree. Richard Willis is a former Oak Park Township trustee and Community Mental Health board member.

Taxpayers fleeced? from page 23 standing requirement that the executive director have a master’s degree in library science. How much will the board similarly reduce their salary? What’s not lower — the cost of the second firm hired to assist in the search. The first firm specialized in recruiting library leaders at a cost of $18,500 but departed due to a difference of opinion about the criteria for the job. The board then hired a connected firm for $28,000 with no experience in library science — all at the expense of the taxpayers. [Editor’s note: The original consultant

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C O R R E C T I O N

Bill Sieck’s One View [What will we write on Page 6? Viewpoints, June 15] contained a factual error — 58,281 Americans died in the Vietnam War, in which a total of 3.4 million people died. Thanks to the alert reader who flagged this. We regret the error.

Wednesday Journal, June 22, 2022

Growing Community Media

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HELP WANTED • NETWORK SPECIALIST Class specifications are intended to present a descriptive list of the range of duties performed by employees in the class. Specifications are not intended to reflect all duties performed within the job. DEFINITION To perform various network/system administration, computer support, and operational activities for the Village including computer system setup, configuration, and testing. SUPERVISION RECEIVED AND EXERCISED Reports directly to the Information Technology Services Director. EXAMPLE OF DUTIES: Essential and other important duties and responsibilities may include, but are not limited to, the following: Essential duties and responsibilities 1. Ensure that best in class customer service is provided to both internal and external customers and also embrace, support, and promote the Village’s core values, beliefs and culture. 2. Configure, test, and deploy network systems, such as, firewalls, routers, switches, wireless equipment, network servers and storage arrays. 3. Configure, test, and deploy system servers, such as, file, print, Internet, e-mail, database, and application servers. 4. Configure, test, and monitor server and end-user systems for security, such as, user accounts, login scripts, file access privileges, and group policy management. 5. Configure, test, and deploy end-user systems, such as, workstations, laptops, mobile devices, printers, and software. 6. Test, configure, deploy, and support security systems, such as, facility access system, video & audio system. 7. Monitor and auditing of networks, systems, and user activities to ensure security and efficiency of systems. Create scripts and reports of detail activities for regular review. 8. Perform and participate in disaster recovery activities, such as, backup procedures, data recovery, and system recovery planning. 9. Assist end-users with computer problems or queries. Troubleshoot systems as needed and meet with users to analyze specific system needs. 10. Ensure the uniformity, reliability and security of system resources including network, hardware,

software and other forms of systems and data. 11. Prepare, create and update user/technical procedure documentations and provide computer training. 12. Assemble, test, and install network, telecommunication and data equipment and cabling. 13. Participate in research and recommendation of technology solutions. Other important responsibilities and duties 1. Train users in the area of existing, new or modified computer systems and procedures. 2. Participate in the preparation of various activity reports. 3. Travel and support remote facilities and partner agencies. 4. Operate, administer and manage the Village and Public Safety computer systems, including E-911 center, in-vehicle computer systems. 5. Prepare clear and logical reports and program documentation of procedures, processes, and configurations. 6. Complete projects on a timely and efficient manner. 7. Communicate effectively both orally and in writing. 8. Establish and maintain effective working relationships with those contacted in the course of work. 9. Perform related duties and responsibilities as required. QUALIFICATIONS Knowledge of: Principals and procedures of computer systems, such as, data communication, hierarchical structure, backups, testing and critical analysis. Hardware and software configuration of. computers, servers and mobile devices, including computing environment of Windows Server and Desktop OS and applications, Unix/Linux OS, VMware, iOS/Android. Network protocols, security, configuration and administration, including firewalls, routers, switches and wireless technology. Cabling and wiring, including CAT5/6, fiber network, telephone, serial communication, termination, and punch-down. Telecommunications theory and technology, including VoiP, serial communication, wireless protocols, PBX, analog, fax, voicemail and auto-attendant. Principles and methods of computer programming, coding and testing, including power shell, command scripting, macros, and

VB scripts. Modern office procedures, methods and computer equipment. Technical writing, office productivity tools and database packages. Ability to: Maintain physical condition appropriate to the performance of assigned duties and responsibilities, which may include the following: - Walking, standing or sitting for extended periods of time - Operating assigned equipment - Lift 50 pounds of equipment, supplies, and materials without assistance - Working in and around computer equipped vehicles Maintain effective audio-visual discrimination and perception needed for: - Making observations - Communicating with others - Reading and writing - Operating assigned equipment and vehicles Maintain mental capacity allowing for effective interaction and communication with others. Maintain reasonable and predictable attendance. Work overtime as operations require. Experience and Training Guidelines Experience: Three years of network/system administration in the public or private sector, maintaining a minimum of 75 Client Workstation computers. AND Training: Possession of a Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university with major coursework in computer science or a related field. Certifications in Microsoft Server Administration, Networking, Applications and Cisco Networking. Possession of a valid Illinois Driver License is required at the time of appointment. Vaccination against COVID-19 strongly preferred. WORKING CONDITIONS Work in a computer environment; sustained posture in a seated position for prolonged periods of time; continuous exposure to computer screens; work in and around computerized vehicles outdoor and garage facility; lifting heavy equipment, communication cabling and wiring into walls and ceilings.

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 apply using the following link: https://secure.entertimeonline.com/ta/6141780.careers?ApplyToJob=218333253. For additional information on the position please visit the Village of Oak Park’s website http://www.oak-park.us/jobs. This position is open until filled.

BUSINESS LICENSE OFFICER

The Village of Oak Park is seeking qualiﬁed candidates for the position of Business License Ofﬁcer in the Development Customer Service Department. This person will perform a variety of technical duties in the processing and approval of business licenses and permits; and provide assistance and support to the Department. Applicants are encouraged to visit the Village of Oak Park’s website http://www.oak-park.us/jobs. First review of applications will be May 9, 2022.

PARKING ENFORCEMENT OFFICER

The Village of Oak Park is seeking qualified candidates for the position of Parking Enforcement Officer in the Police Department Field Services Division. This position will perform a variety of duties and responsibilities involved in the enforcement of Village parking regulations; and to provide general information and assistance to the public. Applicants are encouraged to visit the Village of Oak Park’s website http://www.oak-park.us/. Interested and qualified applicants must complete a Village of Oak Park application.

SEASONAL FARMERS’ MARKET ASSISTANT

The Village of Oak Park is seeking qualified candidates for the position of Seasonal 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.oakpark.us/jobs. Interested and qualified applicants must complete a Village of Oak Park application. Open until filled.

HELP WANTED • OAK PARK POLICE DEPARTMENT ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS Application Deadline is Thursday, June 23, 2022, at 4:00 p.m. How to Apply: • Purchase and complete your application at https:// iosolutions.com by the application deadline • Submit all supporting documentation by the application deadline

Written Exam Information: Your exam will be offered electronically, and you will take the exam in your own home. There will be multiple sessions offered and each will be proctored virtually. All sessions will be offered during business hours the week of July 25, 2022 – it is your responsibility to ensure you have the flexibility to test during these times.

Police Officer Minimum Requirements: • $40.00 non-refundable application fee

Salary and Benefits:

• At least 21 years of age and have not passed their 35th birthday by closing date for application

• Population: 54,500 Sworn Police Officers: 119

• U.S. Citizen who speaks and understands English

• Competitive benefits package includes: Two weeks paid vacation; Health, dental and vision insurance plans; Paid sick leave accrual; $50,000 Village-paid term life insurance; 13 paid holidays; Educational pay; Defined-benefit pension plan

• Possess at least 60 hours of college credit at a fully accredited college or university, and also possess a minimum grade average of “C” by application deadline • Possess a valid driver’s license • Successful completion of the POWER Test within one year prior to the application deadline

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PARKING ENFORCEMENT OFFICER FOREST PARK, IL

The Forest Park Police Department is seeking Part-Time Parking Enforcement Officer(s); Shifts to be filled are 8:00pm – Midnight or Midnight – 6:00am. The position is a rotating schedule assigned by the Supervisor – 4 days on and 4 days off which includes weekends and some holidays. 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. 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.

• Salary: $72,680.49

Please contact IOS Recruitment at (800)-343-HIRE or recruitment@iosolutions.com with questions regarding the application, required documents or testing.

Wednesday Journal, June 22, 2022

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OAK PARK BLOCK SALE 600 S. EAST AVE., SAT. 6/25 9AM-NOON

Multi-family sale with baby and kids stuff, kids/teens/adult clothing and shoes, furniture, misc. household, including kids bikes, window A/C units, washer dryer, heavy punching bags, papasan chair, queen mattress topper, comic books, and more. Something for everyone! Brookﬁeld

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FOREST PARK YARD SALE 621 ELGIN AVENUE SATURDAY, JUNE 25TH 9AM – 3PM

Wide assortment of household items (glassware, 2 5x7 rugs, etc.), linens, DVD’s, vases, books, games, baby/ toddler items (clothes, crib bedding, toys and books) and an assortment of tools and holiday décor and dinnerware. BLOCK SALE

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PUBLIC NOTICE Notice is hereby given, pursuant to “An Act in relation to the use of an Assumed Business Name in the conduct or transaction of Business in the State,” as amended, that a certiﬁcation was registered by the undersigned with the County Clerk of Cook County. Registration Number: Y22009192 on May 23, 2022 Under the Assumed Business Name of GRIEF AF with the business located at: 3712 168TH STREET, COUNTRY CLUB HILLS, IL 60478. The true and real full name(s) and residence address of the owner(s)/ partner(s) is: ERIN ANDERSON 3712 168TH STREET, COUNTRY CLUB HILLS, IL 60478 JANAE ANDERSON 3712 168TH STREET, COUNTRY CLUB HILLS, IL 60478

ADDRESS THE STATEMENT OF QUALIFICATIONS TO: Attention of the City Clerk’s Office, City Hall, 6700 W. 26th Street, Berwyn IL 60402, on or before the submittal date specified below. The SOQ shall be sealed and clearly marked on the front “Engineering Statement of Qualifications for Engineering Services”. FAXED OR EMAILED SOQ WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.

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PUBLIC NOTICE SECTION I REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS

PUBLIC NOTICE Notice is hereby given, pursuant to “An Act in relation to the use of an Assumed Business Name in the conduct or transaction of Business in the State,” as amended, that a certiﬁcation was registered by the undersigned with the County Clerk of Cook County. Registration Number: Y22009247 on June 6, 2022 Under the Assumed Business Name of STUDIO 4-5-6 with the business located at: 407 WISCONSIN AVE APT B, OAK PARK, IL 60302. The true and real full name(s) and residence address of the owner(s)/partner(s) is: RILEY CHATTIN 407 WISCONSIN AVE APT B OAK PARK, IL 60302, USA TAMMY NERENBERG 407 WISCONSIN AVE APT B OAK PARK, IL 60302, USA Published in Wednesday Journal June 8, 15, 22, 2022

PUBLIC NOTICES PUBLIC NOTICE OF COURT DATE FOR REQUEST FOR NAME CHANGE STATE OF ILLINOIS, CIRCUIT COURT COOK COUNTY. Request of Kennedie Lynann Carlson 20224002734. There will be a court date on my Request to change my name from: Kennedie Lynann Carlson to the new name of: Kennedie Carlson Gill The court date will be held: On 08/09/2022 at 11am at 1500 Maybrook Dr., Maywood, Cook County in Courtroom #0112 Published in Forest Park Review June 15, 22, 29, 2022

PUBLIC NOTICE SECTION I REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS NOTICE TO PROPOSERS: A Request for Qualifications (RFQ) packet is available at the City Clerk’s Office, City Hall, 6700 W. 26th Street, Berwyn, IL 60402, or at https://www.berwyn-il.gov/sites/all/ files/pdfs/RFPs/SOQ_PhaseI_Engineering_Services_34thStreet.pdf Sealed Statement of Qualifications (SOQ) will be received at the City Clerk’s Office, until the time and date specified below, for: PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERING SERVICES – PHASE I DESIGN ENGINEERING 34TH STREET UTILITY AND ROADWAY IMPROVEMENTS

THE STATEMENT OF QUALIFICATIONS IS DUE NO LATER THAN: 10:00 a.m., on June 30, 2022. Proposers shall submit four (4) copies of their SOQ. Published in Wednesday Journal June 15, 22, 29 2022

NOTICE TO PROPOSERS: A Request for Qualifications (RFQ) packet is available at the City Clerk’s Office, City Hall, 6700 W. 26th Street, Berwyn, IL 60402, or at https://www.berwyn-il.gov/sites/all/files/pdfs/RFPs/ SOQ_PhaseI_Engineering_Services_26thStreet.pdf Sealed Statement of Qualifications (SOQ) will be received at the City Clerk’s Office, until the time and date specified below, for: PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERING SERVICES – PHASE I DESIGN ENGINEERING ACCESS TO TRANSIT 26TH STREET UTILITY AND ROADWAY IMPROVEMENTS ADDRESS THE STATEMENT OF QUALIFICATIONS TO: Attention of the City Clerk’s Office, City Hall, 6700 W. 26th Street, Berwyn IL 60402, on or before the submittal date specified below. The SOQ shall be sealed and clearly marked on the front “Engineering Statement of Qualifications for Engineering Services”. FAXED OR EMAILED SOQ WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. THE STATEMENT OF QUALIFICATIONS IS DUE NO LATER THAN: 10:00 a.m., on June 30, 2022. Proposers shall submit four (4) copies of their SOQ. Published in Wednesday Journal June 15, 22, 29 2022

Public Notice ADVERTISEMENT OF BIDDING Request of bids for the Park District of Oak Park 228-230 Lot Restoration, 228-230 Madison St., Oak Park. Owner: Park District of Oak Park 218 Madison St, Oak Park, IL 60302 The Park District of Oak Park will accept sealed bids for the 228-230 Madison Lot Restoration, 228-230 Madison St., Oak Park. The project consists of removal of sidewalk, asphalt, curb and gutter; grading, new driveway approach, paving, sidewalk, masonry, drainage, pavers, striping, bike racks and more. The Park District of Oak Park will receive individual sealed Bids until 10:00 a.m. (Central time) on Wednesday, July 13th, at 218 Madison St., Oak Park, IL. The bidding documents and requirements will be available on the link below as of 5:00 pm Monday, June 27, 2022. A non- mandatory pre-bid walk-thru is scheduled for Friday, July 1st at 11:00 a.m. at the 228230 Madison St., Oak Park, IL 60302. Bid bonds will be required by bidding contractors. Copies of the bidding speciﬁcations are available via this link: https://rb.gy/yoqnmo

PUBLIC NOTICES For additional information, contact Chris Lindgren at chris.lindgren@ pdop.org or (708) 725-2050. Only the bids prepared in compliance with the bidding documents will be considered. This project must adhere to the Prevailing Wage Act of 2022. The Park District of Oak Park strongly encourages minority and women owned business ﬁrms to submit bids for this project. Park District of Oak Park By: Chris Wollmuth, Secretary Park District of Oak Park 218 Madison St. Oak Park, IL 60302 Published in Wednesday Journal June 22, 2022

PUBLIC NOTICE Notice of Availability of Audit Report of the Park District of Oak Park The Park District of Oak Park hereby provides public notice that an audit of its funds for the period January 1 through December 31, 2021 has been made by Lauterbach and Amen, and that a report of such audit dated May 18 th , 2022 has been ﬁled with the County Clerk of Cook County, in accordance with 30 ILCS 15/0.01 et seq. The full report of the audit is available for public inspection at 218 Madison Street, Oak Park, during regular business hours, 8:30 am to 5 pm Monday through Friday, except for holidays. Dated: June 22rd, 2022 By: Commissioner David Wick Treasurer, Board of Commissioners Park District of Oak Park Published in Wednesday Journal June 22, 2022

PUBLIC NOTICE Invitation to Comment on Communications Towers: Marquee Wireless has constructed four 25-1/2-foot tall SMARTCELL communications towers at Brookfield Zoo, 8400 West 31 st Street, Brookfield, Cook County, Illinois. One tower is located at the north entrance, one is in the East Mall near the Motor Safari Station, one is near the south entrance and the Hamill Family Play Zoo, one is located next to the Bison Prairie Grill on the west side. Marquee Wireless invites comments from any interested party on the impact the existing towers may have on any districts, sites, buildings, structures or objects significant in American history, archaeology, engineering, or culture that are listed or determined eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. Comments pertaining specifically to potential effects on historic resources may be submitted within 30 days from this publication to: Ben Youra, G2 Consulting Group, LLC, 1186 Heather Dr. in Lake Zurich, IL 60047, Phone: 847-353-8740, e-mail: byoura@g2consultinggroup.com This notice is provided in accordance with the regulations of the Federal Communications Commission, 47 C.F.R. Part 1, Subpart I and Appendices B and C. Published in RB Landmark June 22, 2022

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The Village of Oak Park will receive sealed proposals from qualified companies at the Public Works Center, 201 South Boulevard, Oak Park, Illinois 60302 Monday through Friday, 7:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. local time until 3:00 p.m. on Friday, July 8, 2022 for the following: Village of Oak Park Master Meter Testing Project Number: 22-122 Proposal documents may be obtained from the Village’s website at http://www.oak-park.us/bid. For questions, please call Public Works at (708) 358-5700 during the above hours. Published in Wednesday Journal June 22, 2022

Notice is hereby given that the Village of Oak Park Program Year (PY) 2022 Draft Action Plan is available for public review and comment during business hours Monday-Friday, effective June 22-July 22, 2022 at the Oak Park Village Hall, Development Customer Services Department, 123 Madison Street; on the Village Housing-Grants webpage; and at the Public Library, Main Branch, 834 Lake Street. Reasonable accommodations will be made for persons with disabilities and non-English speaking persons, as needed. Comprising year 3 of the Village PY 2020-24 Consolidated Plan for Housing & Community Development (Con Plan), the Draft

PY 2022 Action Plan contains goals and objectives for implementing the Village’s Con Plan, as well as a description of proposed projects to be undertaken in PY 2022 as part of the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development Community Development Block Grant Program for the period October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2023. Any comments concerning the Draft PY 2022 Action Plan can be submitted in writing to Vanessa Matheny, Grants Supervisor, at grants@oak-park.us, including at the virtual draft Action Plan Public Hearing to be held from 3:00-4:00 p.m. on July 11, 2022. Send a message to the email address to attend the virtual Hearing.

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CLASSIFIED REAL ESTATE FOR SALE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION CITIZENS BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION F/K/A RBS CITIZENS, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO CHARTER ONE BANK, F.S.B SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO HINSDALE FEDERAL BANK FOR SAVINGS Plaintiff, -v.CARL T. GROESBECK, LEIGHTON HOLDINGS, LTD., UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Defendants 16 CH 009347 331 N. TAYLOR AVENUE OAK PARK, IL 60302 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on March 19, 2019, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on July 18, 2022, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker, 1st Floor Suite 35R, Chicago, IL, 60606, sell at a public sale to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 331 N. TAYLOR AVENUE, OAK PARK, IL 60302 Property Index No. 16-08-109-0110000 The real estate is improved with a residence. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial Sale fee for the Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. 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

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REAL ESTATE FOR SALE 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, CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. Plaintiff’s Attorneys, 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL, 60527 (630) 7949876 THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales. CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100 BURR RIDGE IL, 60527 630-794-5300 E-Mail: pleadings@il.cslegal.com Attorney File No. 14-16-08522 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 16 CH 009347 TJSC#: 42-2162 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. Case # 16 CH 009347 I3196890 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION CROWD LENDING FUND ONE, LLC; Plaintiff, vs. 52ND AVE., LLC AN ILLINOIS LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY; FOSTER CHAMBERS; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS; Defendants, 21 CH 4378 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Tuesday, July 12, 2022 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. 16-18-420-033-0000.

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Commonly known as 1131 SOUTH ELMWOOD AVENUE, OAK PARK, ILLINOIS 60304. 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 Ms. Sheryl A. Fyock at Plaintiff’s Attorney, Latimer LeVay Fyock LLC, 55 West Monroe Street, Chicago, Illinois 60603. (312) 422-8000. 35146-03 INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION intercountyjudicialsales.com I3195856

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. MCCALLA RAYMER LEIBERT PIERCE, LLC Plaintiff’s Attorneys, One North Dearborn Street, Suite 1200, Chicago, IL, 60602. Tel No. (312) 346-9088. THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales. MCCALLA RAYMER LEIBERT PIERCE, LLC One North Dearborn Street, Suite 1200 Chicago IL, 60602 312-346-9088 E-Mail: pleadings@mccalla.com Attorney File No. 20-04687IL_613739 Attorney ARDC No. 61256 Attorney Code. 61256 Case Number: 18 CH 12736 TJSC#: 42-1079 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. Case # 18 CH 12736 I3195248

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION SELENE FINANCE LP Plaintiff, -v.LARSENIA HORTON, NEIL SMITH, ASSURANCE RESTORATION & CONSTRUTION, INC., PRAIRIE HOUSES OWNERS ASSOCIATION, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants 18 CH 12736 14 DIVISION STREET, # 14 OAK PARK, IL 60302 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on December 16, 2019, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on July 19, 2022, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker, 1st Floor Suite 35R, Chicago, IL, 60606, sell at a public sale to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 14 DIVISION STREET, # 14, OAK PARK, IL 60302 Property Index No. 16-05-127-0480000 The real estate is improved with a brown brick, three story townhouse, attached one car garage. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial Sale fee for the Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/ or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount

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