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Imagine OPRF reveals two facilities concepts During June 27 meeting, board members chime in on idea of razing south campus

By MICHAEL ROMAIN Staff Reporter

Imagine OPRF, the working group formed last spring to create a long-term facilities plan for Oak Park and River Forest High School, has narrowed its focus to two preliminary design concepts.

Around a dozen members of the 40-member Imagine group were on hand during a special meeting on June 27 to present the concepts to, and field questions from, District 200 school board members — many of whom honed in on the idea, common to both concepts, of rebuilding OPRF’s south end to accommodate new physical education and athletics facilities.

The two concepts, called Burnt Orange and Navy Blue, are very similar. Both concepts share a series of major components that are based on “specific needs and opportunities” that were identified during the process of gathering research and public input, Imagine See IMAGINE OPRF on page 13

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ICE MELT: Ryan Brennan, a sophomore at OPRF High School, makes her statement last Saturday, during the Families Belong Together Rally at the Richard J. Daley Center in downtown Chicago.

Local residents join Families Belong Together rally Participants were among some 50,000 in Daley Plaza

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Joy Aronson, an Oak Park resident said she braved the heat index last Saturday with dozens of others from the near western suburbs for the Families Belong To-

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gether Rally in Daley Plaza because, “I was brought up to ‘Do unto others as you would have them do onto you’ by my family, and my Jewish faith. My grandparents came to this country looking for a better life, and I believe others should have the same opportunity.”

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‘America to Me’ trailer online Oak Parkers have gotten their first look at the forthcoming television series “America to Me,” which explores race and education at Oak Park and River Forest High School.

The trailer for the series by Academy Award-nominated director Steve James recently hit the internet, and can be seen via a link on the homepage of the film’s website at www.kartemquin.com/films/ america-to-me.

The series premieres on the STARZ network on Aug. 26.

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Vann Harris, left, talks with poet and community builder Kevin Coval about his book on June 27 at Oak Park Main Library.

History, remixed in poetry

Kevin Coval, the author of A People’s History of Chicago, was at the Oak Park Main Library, 834 Lake St., on June 27 to talk about his book of poems, which is the latest selection in the library’s One Book, One Oak Park program. Library officials said this is the first time the library has chosen a book of poetry for its community-wide summer reading.

According to the Survey of Public Participation in the Arts, a project by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Census Bureau, nearly 12 percent of the U.S. adult population in 2017, or 28 million people, read poetry within the last year, NPR recently reported. That’s up from about 7 percent in 2012.

Coval’s poetry, in particular, comes at the right time, Oak Park library officials explained, perhaps because of the fresh way he reimagines Chicago’s history.

Coval tells it through the lens of the people whom conventional history is most likely to have overlooked.

In one poem from the book, “The Father Is a Black Man,” about Jean Baptist Point Du Sable, the first permanent settler of Chicago and a man of color, Coval writes the following as something of an epigraph before he goes into free verse: “There is not a single street in the city of Chicago named in honor of the Black man who founded this city, not an alley … but John Kinzie, a white man, who came after DuSable, when DuSable was forced out or pushed out or whatever, he ended up with DuSable’s property, & Kinzie has a bridge, Kinzie has a street, Kinzie has a building, & all he did was buy DuSable’s house.”

That was followed by clever verses like this (note that DuSable was a fur trapper): the father had style and maybe some gators.

Michael Romain

The Oak Park Board of Trustees ended its relationship with the Divvy bikesharing program in early 2018, and now it appears the city of Evanston might not be far behind.

The news site, Evanston Now, reported last month that Divvy could be on the budgetary chopping block.

According to the article by Bill Smith, Divvy was the top item residents wanted cut from the budget in an online survey.

Of the 46 programs the city asked residents to rank in order of importance, Divvy, which has a net cost of $165,808, topped the list for elimination, according to the story.

In Oak Park, the program was costing the village about $26,665 a month.

Tim Inklebarger

River Forest woman chairs Chamber

The Illinois Chamber of Commerce has named Meghan Woltman as its new chairperson of the business advocacy organization’s board of directors. Woltman, who serves as vice president of government and community relations, succeeds Tony Reinhart, who served as head of the state chamber for two years.

Woltman and her husband live in River Forrest and have three children.

“It’s an honor to continue to work alongside some of Illinois’ brightest business leaders,” Todd Maisch, CEO and president of the Illinois Chamber of Commerce, said in a statement.

Woltman is the second woman to lead the board. She formerly served as vicechairperson of the Illinois Chamber of Commerce and has been a director on the board since 2011. She also sits on the Chicago Women in Government Relations board of directors.

Woltman earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees at St. Louis University.

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Bravo Performing Arts Academy: “Freaky Friday” and “Frozen, Jr.” Thursday and Friday, July 5 and 6, 7:30 p.m., and Saturday, July 7, 2:30 and 7:30 p.m., Madison Street Theater: In Freaky Friday, a mother and daughter’s world gets turned upside down when they switch bodies and live a day in the other’s life. See 6th to 8th graders perform in this funny new musical. $9; $7, students/seniors. Tickets: bravoperformingarts.org. 1010 Madison St., Oak Park.

Wednesday and Thursday, July 11 and 12, 7:30 p.m., Friday, July 13, 11 a.m. and 7:30 p.m., and Saturday, July 14, 2:30 p.m., Auditorium, Gwendolyn Brooks Middle School: Frozen, Jr. finds two princess sisters in a kingdom trapped in perpetual winter. One joins forces with a mountaineer and his reindeer sidekick to find Snow Queen Elsa and break her icy spell. Performed by middle school students. $12; $8, students/seniors. Tickets: bravoperformingarts.org. 325 S. Kenilworth Ave., Oak Park.

Monday, July 9, 7 p.m., Beer Shop: See Daniel Kraus with Maryse Meijer. Kraus is co-author of The Shape of Water (adapted into the movie that won the Best Film Oscar this year) and Trollhunters with Guillermo Del Toro and author of the bestselling Zebulon Finch series. Meijer is a shortstory writer from Chicago. Brought in partnership with The Book Table. 1026 North Blvd., Oak Park.

The Mystery Shop Show Wednesday, July 11, 3 to 4 p.m., Outside, River Forest Library: Kids of all ages – see an interactive mystery, storytelling show featuring twisted tall tales, funny fables, bittersweet legends, and spine-tinglers with delightful songs. Rain location: Roosevelt Middle School gym. Library: 735 Lathrop.

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Celebrate Hamilton-style Thursday, July 5, 6 to 9 p.m., Veterans Room, Main Library: Keep the Independence Day celebration going at “Hamiltunes: An American Sing-Along,” an all-ages, family-friendly Hamilton song fest.

Costumes encouraged. Free. More: oppl.org/ calendar. 834 Lake St., Oak Park.

Friday, July 6, 4 to 5:30 p.m., Veterans Room, Main Library: At “Hamilton: An American Dance Class,” join Ovation Academy in the “Room Where it Happens” for a “Non-Stop” dance party. Learn dance moves from the Broadway blockbuster; best for ages 7 to 14. Free. 834 Lake St., Oak Park.

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Free Youth Basketball Camp Register now; Camp Runs July 23 to 27, Gwendolyn Brooks Middle School: Oak Park boys and girls ages 8 to 14 – sign up for the Police Youth Basketball Camp. Activities include group instruction, team play, one-onone, full-court games, contests and awards. Register by downloading an application oak-park.us/police, or pick up a registration form at the Police Department: 123 Madison St. Brooks: 325 S. Kenilworth Ave.

20th Anniversary Open House Saturday, July 7, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., ABC Toon Town: All are welcome for games, food and fun at this educational daycare center that serves children ages six weeks to Pre-K. It is also a black-owned local business providing access to families throughout the area. 411 South Blvd., Oak Park.

Thursday, July 12, 6 to 8 p.m., Friday, July 13, 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Community Engagement Space, Main Library: The Oak Park Public Library was selected by the U.S. EPA and the Institute of Museum and Library Services to host a discussion on topics such as goals, issues, and opportunities regarding housing affordability; access to healthy food; and transportation access to the library and other community assets.

RSVP (by Monday, July 9): d.seleb@ oppl.org, 708-697-6911. More: oppl. org/calendar. 834 Lake St.

“42” Film Viewing and Discussion Saturday, July 7, 1 to 3:30 p.m., Veterans Room, Main Library: “In 1947, Jackie Robinson becomes the first African-American to play in Major League Baseball.”

Learn about the challenges he faced, racial integration of American professional baseball, and how Robinson wore the number 42 throughout his major-league career. 834 Lake St., Oak Park.

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“This is an affordable and approachable eering through the window, Expres- place for kids and family events,” Kelly said. sions Graphics is a studio and gallery “Non-members like the casual feel.”

The studio also has guest printmakers. in the Oak Park Arts District. Anyone is welcome to come in and view Finishing his residency is Jim Homes who ongoing art shows, such as the cur- taught collagraphy, a process where differrent “Her Voice” with works by female art- ent textures are glued down to form a comists, or take classes in the print and paper position and prints are created from that arts. For more serious artist members, the inked composition. Holmes created small space transforms into a working studio and hearts of differing textures, a large-scale a place to exchange ideas and interact with multicolored landscape, and monochromatic Chicago skylines. one another.

Palazzolo, a member on and off since 1990, “You get a rich experience here, having the community of artists at different levels feels she is still learning at the studio.

“Expressions offers new techniques, like and ages,” said studio member Marcia Palathe solar plates we are zzolo, of Oak Park, who working on with no taught color print phoacid required; we just tography for 34 years at use water,” she said.

Dominican University “And we learned monoand Elmhurst College prints with interestuntil she retired in 2014. ing textures [with the “There are as many guest artist].” ways of doing printThey have approximaking as there are mately 30 members, people. It’s nurturing but being a nonprofit of new artists and suphas its challenges. portive of older artists Schill said their landlike myself.” lord has been underExpressions Graphstanding with rent ics was founded in 1981 by current board vice ALEXA ROGALS/Staff Photographer during difficult years and Community Bank president Carol FrieEXPRESSIVE: Artwork by Anne Kelly is of Oak Park-River Fordle, 86, and two other est has stepped in to women to offer a space displayed at Expressions Graphics on help, such as providto do printmaking and Harrison Street in Oak Park. ing $500 in funds for teach the art. The cooperative has had six Oak Park locations, supplies for the summer interns.

The gallery portion of Expressions Graphwith three printing presses in its current Harrison Street space for more than 10 ics, which consists of the walls surrounding years. It is designated as a nonprofit and the working studio space, is currently exhibiting “Her Voice,” an all-female art show. run by volunteers.

Heading it up is Janet Schill, executive di- While many of the works are prints, memrector and board president. Along with five ber’s friends also exhibited, so there are colsummer interns (“They give me an hour; lages, paintings and drawings too.

Kelly won first place in the juried show I give them an hour”), she teaches classes, tidies the studio and is an artist. She orga- for her pair of caustic rust prints. Harrison nizes Expressions Graphics community Street neighbor artist Tia Etu won second outreach, too, bringing printmaking to Ac- place and has two non-print pieces in the colade Adult Day Care Services, A Day in show. Both Schilll and Palazzolo have works Our Village and Third Fridays in the Arts in this second annual show, which runs District. With Friedle’s involvement limited through July 28.

“It’s an opportunity for women to have a due to health issues, Schill has taken on forum,” Schill said. “Even today, we are still much more.

“I do this out of love,” she said. “Carol’s vi- not shown equally and since so many of our sion was to have a place to go and everyone’s members are women, it seemed appropriate.” welcome. We’ve done a good job with that.”

Expressions Graphics gallery hours are Classes for adults, children and teens range from papermaking and screen print- Tuesdays and Wednesdays, 7 to 8:30 p.m., ing to jewelry and fish printing. Gyotaku is a Fridays, noon to 3 p.m., Saturdays 1 to 4 technique “once used to record fishermen’s p.m., 29 Harrison St., Oak Park. $25, Supdaily catch but now is an art form,” accord- porting Membership; $65, Studio Membership. More/Classes: 708-447-9262, expressioning to the Expressions Graphics website.

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iscovery and evolution are key parts of who I am,” says Rich Klevgard sipping iced tea at his Oak Park dining room table.

Avid musician and front man for the local band, These Peaches, Klevgard, gave up his career as an information architect in 2001 to become a full-time dad to his two young sons.

Klevgard, who serves as the primary cook in his household, has always embraced creativity to get though his weekly meals, but now he and his wife, Diane, are on the verge of becoming empty-nesters.

Focusing on big-batch, meatbased cooking for two growing boys was a part of Klevgard’s daily routine for years, but the impending reprieve in this regular cooking gig freed the devoted dad to focus on food and himself in a whole new way.

A friend of Klevgard’s began talking up the vegan lifestyle and he quietly began contemplating adapting his own diet as he became more conscious of the ethical and environmental implications of eating a meat based diet.

Klevgard’s shift from merely contemplating a vegan lifestyle to fully committing to the choice came in a moment of pure self-awareness.

A light switched on.

“One day I just acknowledged that I had been in denial about my health for more than two decades,” says Klevgard, candidly.

He has been an insulin-dependent diabetic for 22 years and did not acknowledge the lifestyle changes he needed make as a result of his diagnosis.

“I found the idea of limitation depressing,” say Klevgard, “and depressed people want to eat all the wrong things.”

According to Klevgard, people don’t talk enough about the emotional toll a diabetes diagnosis can take on a person.

Eventually, he opened up about his feelings, shared his struggle and became more honest about the attention and care his health required.

And, just like that, Klevgard adopted a vegan lifestyle in January 2018.

Sure, he fantasizes about eating pizza with real cheese, cheated once with a few Cheetos and would consider adding a little bit of responsibly sourced fish into his diet down the road, but for now he is living as the best vegan he can be.

For Klevgard that means enjoying only plant-based protein. He excludes all meat, fish, dairy and eggs from his diet. Still, after six months, he doesn’t consider himself

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BETTER THAN ON A PLATE: “Oh man, I have a chicken on my shirt,” laughs Klevgard as he shows off his homemade seitan pate, “I’d better cover that up!” a true vegan, but simply committed to making the best choices he can for himself.

“I am not trying to evangelize or convert anyone,” says Klevgard. “I am just doing things my own way.”

Klevgard’s natural understanding of flavor and solid kitchen instincts earned him an annual slot as one of the local volunteer cooks/chefs at the Oak Park Regional Housing Center’s Rock the House event.

After several years, he earned a solid reputation for providing masculine meat-forward dishes, but this year brought his newly minted vegan cooking skills to the party.

He served up a memorable smoked portobello mushroom “poke” with homemade barbecue sauce over a black sticky-rice lentil cake garnished with chili-candied walnuts. It was a huge hit and Klevgard considers his sticky rice cake to be one of his go-to vegan dishes.

He was hooked.

Klevgard, who previously used his smoker to prepare large cuts of slow-cooked pork shoulder, sausages and brisket, says he focuses less on trying to replace meat in his diet than he thought he would. He plays with texture, color and flavor in creative ways to keep him interested in the kitchen.

Managing diabetes means Klevgard has to be especially mindful of keeping enough protein in his meals as possible and has become adept at creating balanced dishes.

“Homemade seitan has been the biggest surprise on my vegetarian culinary adventure,” says Klevgard.

Seitan is a versatile source of protein for vegans and vegetarians made from vital wheat gluten. A three-ounce serving of seitan contains a whopping 20 grams of protein and can be boiled, steamed or stir-fried.

As a child, Klevgard ate liverwurst and mustard on soda crackers as a snack or squished between white bread with raw onions for lunch. His seitan pate takes him right back to his childhood, but today his slow-boiled batch of seitan, studded with

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These nut and grain milks are coldmilled, making them more nutritious and creamy. Klevgard keeps cashew, walnut and almond milk on hand to enjoy with his homemade granola.

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Rich has become so familiar with the components of seitan he no longer needs a recipe, but suggests using an online recipe to give it a try for the first time.

chives and fennel seeds, serves as the star component of a vegan banh mi sandwich.

Klevgard had never made a banh mi before, but builds the Vietnamese inspired sandwich with confidence. He starts with a base of smoky sesame eggplant, tiger slaw (get the recipe at OakParkEats.com/blogs/ local-flavor-vegan-fare-at-the-family-table), carrot ribbons, chilies, arugula and cilantro.

He tops the colorful creation with thin slices of the seitan pate before garnishing the sandwich with homemade watermelon-cucumber pickles, green onion and a drizzle of his versatile tiger sauce. Side dishes of white beans and tofu pad thai salad round out the plate.

“I was so worried for so long I wouldn’t be able to enjoy the splendor of food the way I wanted to,” says Klevgard, holding up his vegan bahn mi, “but then I make something like this and I don’t feel like I am missing out at all. This sandwich totally made my day.”

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Lake and Lathrop proposal draws resident ire

By NONA TEPPER Staff Reporter

While most neighbors said they favored development of the long-talked about site at Lake Street and Lathrop Avenue in River Forest, property owners had plenty of questions regarding the parking, height and design of a proposed mixed-use development at a hearing before the Development Review Board on June 28.

“You can’t tout new investment and development always on what’s been done in the past, and what exists today, or things would never change and investment would never happen,” said John Houseal, who serves as planning consultant for the village.

Developer Lake and Lathrop LLC – comprising Sedgwick Development and Keystone Ventures – plans to build a five-story, mixed use development at the southwest corner of Lake Street and Lathrop Avenue, from 7601 to 7621 Lake St. The parcel also includes 423 Ashland Ave. They are proposing parking and commercial spaces on the ground floor -- which they’re hoping a restaurant, retail shops and bank branch would fill – topped by four floors that would include 32 two-, three- and four-bedroom condos. Additional parking is planned for the second floor.

“There’s nothing about this development

that is contrary to and objective of the comprehensive plan,” Houseal said, noting that he’d prefer not see a bank branch approved on the prominent corner of the development, since that would not generate sales tax revenue for the village.

Houseal also outlined a number of zoning variances the Development Review Board would need to approve if they were to take the application as-is.

Lake and Lathrop LLC is seeking a variance for height, since the proposed building rises 80 feet, above the village’s allowed maximum of 50 feet. If the village were to grant the variance, the new building would be the second-tallest building in River Forest, falling just two feet short of the condominium building at Lake and William streets.

Pat Belke, who lives in the 500 block of Lathrop Avenue, said she went door to door polling neighbors about the proposed height of the building and found hundreds of people worried it would cast a shadow across St. Luke Church and School.

“Are we really going to twist ourselves into a pretzel to accommodate a building, when the church has been there 100 years?” Belke asked.

A photometric plan, which reveals the level of illumination, shadow and glare proposed developments would yield, showed no significant shadow impact to St. Luke’s, Houseal said.

In addition to height, developers are also seeking 32 residential units on the site -- under village zoning code, 13 condos are allowed.

Developers are also seeking a parking variation, since the proposed 86 parking spaces fall one space short of the village’s mandate of 87, and their mix violates village code.

Lake and Lathrop LLC is proposing 32 parking spaces for retail parking and 54 parking spaces for residents. The village requires no commercial parking, but the code would require 80 spaces for residents and seven spaces for their guests.

Since the developer is also proposing outdoor dining, Houseal noted that he would have to check village code to see what, if any, regulations River Forest had regarding the practice.

Houseal believes this is the first development to ever propose outdoor dining on a public sidewalk, and many residents wondered if there would be enough space to accommodate tables, waiters and pedestrians, since the proposed development would be built to the lot line.

“There is no other building I know of in River Forest that is a … bland, drab box like this, so I wish you would show some respect for the village of River Forest and its residents and alternate the color of the façade and indent every other column,” said neighbor Daniel Lauber, who said he’s previously served as president of the American Plan-

ning Association.

Lauber passed out fliers to attendees, Development Review Board members and the developer, urging Lake and Lathrop LLC to change the design of the building. He also urged the Development Review Board to require the developer to reserve 15 percent of the units for affordable housing.

“There’s no shortage of expensive housing in River Forest, [but] there is a severe shortage of housing that the middle class, that our teachers, that our policemen, that our village staff, the village manager can afford,” he said, drawing a standing ovation from the some 75 attendees.

After nearly three hours, officials from the Development Review Board asked the developer to provide an additional shadow study, conduct an additional traffic study and provide specific information on possible retail tenants.

The Development Review Board will reconvene at 7:30 p.m. on July 26 at the Concordia University Chicago campus to make their final recommendation to the village board.

The review board’s recommendation will then be sent to village trustees, who will decide whether to approve or deny Lake and Lathrop LLC’s application.

Developers are hoping to start work on the site in August.

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Oak Parker aims to cover West Side with positivity Adam Alonso, CEO of BUILD, plans fun fest in Austin on Aug. 17

By MICHAEL ROMAIN Staff Reporter

An Oak Park resident, who heads up an Austin nonprofit called BUILD Chicago (short for Broad Urban Involvement & Leadership Development), is working with his organization to blanket a portion of the West Side with positivity next month when it hosts its Summer of Opportunity on Aug. 17.

BUILD, which focuses on gang intervention, youth development and violence prevention, recently partnered with LISC Chicago’s Hoops in the Hood summer initiative.

The event was rescheduled from June 22 due to weather.

Summer of Opportunity will include a mile-long parade, a barbecue, bounce houses, a climbing wall, art installations and the popular Hoops in the Hood basketball tournament, among other activities. BUILD Chicago officials said they expect 5,000 people to ADAM ALONSO attend.

BUILD executiive director “We’re going to be on Harrison Street, between Laramie and Lavergne avenues,” said Adam Alonso, BUILD’s executive director.

“We’re going to shut down Harrison Street and have a festival that day.”

Alonso said the organization worked with Austin’s15th District police department to identify areas that law enforcement officials would like them to focus on.

“The biggest thing is that this brings folks together,” Alonso said in a statement. “We want to provide these types of opportunities for our communities and young people.

This really helps for blocks to come out and for kids to be kids and for the community to help each other.”

Meghan Harte, executive director of LISC Chicago (Local Initiatives Support Corporation), a community development organization, said the Hoops in the Hood program has

“We have quite a few people from Oak Park who are volunteering with us on a lot of our events.”

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GAME ON: Young people participate in The Hoops in the Hood Program in Austin in years past. spread to 15 neighborhoods since LISC started it in 2006.

“The benefit of this program is that it is neighborhoodcreated and neighborhood-driven,” Harte said. “Each neighborhood has a slightly different approach in how they get people involved. That’s because it’s tailored to the community. Our goal is to expand it and make it year-round.”

Some advice for any Oak Park resident who wants to get involved across Austin Boulevard? Just come, bearing a skill and the will to genuinely engage, Alonso said.

“We have quite a few people from Oak Park who are volunteering with us on a lot of our events,” Alonso said, before talking about one Oak Park resident, a retired Exelon employee, who helped BUILD start a garden project that

includes a greenhouse.

“He built a niche that works,” Alonso said, “and he’s been a positive role model for our young people.”

Another moral of the story behind the BUILD and LISC partnership is that effective community outreach doesn’t necessarily have to be expensive.

Harte said that, in addition to being effective, the Hoops in the Hood program is also cost-efficient. The program spends around $100,000 to reach and influence 5,000 young people in 15 communities across the city.

“It’s the cheapest youth engagement you can do, and everybody loves it,” she said.

CONTACT: michael@oakpark.com

Police and fire pensions make gains

Actuarial changes, investment gains aid Oak Park retirement plans

By TIMOTHY INKLEBARGER Staff Reporter

Retirement plans for Oak Park police and firefighters had a good year in 2017, a result of good investments, a boost in tax funding and changes in actuarial assumptions, according to a report by the village’s auditor, Sikich LLP. Sikich partner Dan Berg said in the 2017 certified annual financial report that the police pension funded status increased 8 percentage points last year to 59 percent funded.

Oak Park’s firefighter pension fund made similar gains, increasing from a 37 percent funded to about 44 percent, according to the report.

The funded status is the percentage of funds available if all employees retired at the same time.

The unfunded liability – the amount needed to make the pension fund fully funded – for the police pension fund dropped from $89 million to $67 million in 2017, while the fire pension fund liability dropped from $80 million to $66 million.

The Oak Park Board of Trustees has been working to improve the funded status of the pension plans over the last few years by directing additional funding to the pension plans above the recommended contribution levels.

“There’s a lot of different variables that make up the change between the beginning

and ending balance, but in general the majority of the change was due to using different assumptions with the new actuary,” Steven Drazner, Oak Park’s chief financial officer, told the board of trustees on June 25. “Also, in the prior year the board opted to contribute an extra $1.5 million (in the 2017 budget) in the fire pension, so that also helped.”

Trustee Bob Tucker, who has pushed for improving the funded status of the plans, praised the improvement.

“I think we have to stand with the public safety employees because they’ve always been there for us,” he said in a telephone interview. “These are people who put their lives on the line.”

Oak Park Mayor Anan Abu-Taleb said the pension funded status is important because

it affects the village’s bond rating. “[I]t has affected how we borrow money and how we get valuated by Moody’s and others, and this is fantastic,” he said.

Trustee Jim Taglia noted that the pension funded status increase was the result of a number of factors.

“We actually reduced the unfunded liability by about $35 million this year, which is significant, and there are a number of reasons why, some of which are actuarial and … related to mortality tables,” he said.

“Also, the return on the fund has been very good; it was about 15 percent, on each one of those (funds).”

“All those things add up, and it made a $35 million difference. That is great news for the village.”

CONTACT: tim@oakpark.com

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Oak Park loses champion of the arts

Sabina Ott’s impact was felt as much at home as in the art world’s top galleries

Ott also became a regular in the annual Fourth of July parade in Oak Park. Paulett said that they went to the parade one year and loved it so much she joined in.

“The next year she got a permit and every year [after that] she would commission an artist,” he said.

By TIMOTHY INKLEBARGER In 2014, she incorporated the work of Lise Staff Reporter Haller Baggesen into the parade. Baggesen She was dubbed the “Artist Mother of Chi- had her work displayed at Terrain Exhibicago,” a moniker that initially bristled the tions that year, and her parade entry included a flower garden in the shape of an eleclate Oak Park resident Sabina Ott. tric guitar and red, white and blue tie-dyed The second-wave feminist, who shirts and banners. joined Columbia College in 2005 She said putting it in the paas chair of the Art and Design rade was an opportunity to celDepartment and had a reputaebrate the village’s progressive tion for encouraging young artculture. ists and bringing people together, “There were all of these wondered if the nickname difriends of mine who have kids minished her own work as an inwho dressed their kids in tieternationally known artist, her dye, so people were totally conhusband John Paulett said. fused, which is great. People “She wondered if this was saywould say, ‘What is it? They’re ing, ‘I am something less,’” Pauhippies!’ It was really funny,” lett said, noting that the label she told Wednesday Journal in took hold around the time Ott was designated artist of the year DUNCAN MCKENZIE 2014.

Ott encouraged art with her by the Chicago Tribune in 2016.

Chair of the Art and Art Hisstudents in the same way she did “Within weeks, she understood tory Department on her own block. Paulett said more and more that being the at Columbia College that Ott would bring in young nurturer of this art community artists to display their work at in no way diminished the fierce her shows. Two years ago she wonderful artist she was herself,” built an installation at a gallery in Hyde Paulett said.

Friends, family and artists the world over Park – a 40-foot-tall Styrofoam mountain are celebrating her life. Ott, 62, died last with a cave that people could walk through – and invited young artists to display their week after a four-year battle with cancer.

Ott earned a BFA and an MFA in painting work inside, Paulett said.

He said Ott always encourage emerging from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1979 and 1981, respectively, and was celebrated artists to sell their work.

“She would not tell young artists they are throughout the Chicago area.

Despite her notoriety as a world-class very good; she would pull out her pocketpainter and educator, Ott was known to book and buy a piece,” Paulett said.

News of Ott’s death prompted stories in many in Oak Park for the monthly art shows art journals across the country and accoshe curated on the front porch and lawn of lades from friends and colleagues. her Highland Avenue home.

“She demanded that you let your inner The Terrain Exhibitions gallery, launched in 2011, brought local artists from around weirdo out and your freak flag fly and be unrethe world to the modest bungalow across the pentantly who you are,” Duncan MacKenzie, street from Longfellow Elementary School. chair of the Art and Art History Department

“She demanded that you let your inner weirdo out and your freak flag fly and be unrepentantly who you are.”

River Forest man hit with pepper spray A River Forest man was assaulted in the 200 block of Erie at 10:43 p.m. on July 1. He was driving and was waved down by a woman who was described as 17 or 18 years old.

Then another woman approached the passenger side of his vehicle and sprayed him with pepper spray. The first offender was described as black

or Hispanic, 5-foot-5, slim and wearing a blue shirt, blue jeans and with brown or black long, straight hair.

The second offender was described as black, between the ages of 16 and 18, 5-foot-5, with a medium build and wearing a white shirt and with short, curly black hair.

CONTACT: tim@oakpark.com

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REMEMBERING OTT: Sabina Ott, above, at Terrain Exhibitions — a pop-up gallery on the front porch of her home — in 2014.

In 2016, at left, Ott displayed her installation “Who Cares for the Sky” at the Hyde Park Art Center.

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at Columbia College, said in a telephone interview. “In that space you would find a voice that is unique and valuable and singular and then you can contribute to that wider conversation with your own personality.”

Melissa Potter, an associate professor of art and art history at Columbia, said in a written statement that Ott was “a huge benefit” to students through “her willingness to give rigorous critique combined with her outstanding intelligence and commitment to knowledge.”

“She was a mentor, friend and feminist

whose guiding principle of generosity was revealed in all that she did,” Potter said.

Paulett said Ott “lived a great life and wanted to die a good death.”

“I was holding her hand when she died.

That’s what she wanted,” he said. “We should all live and die as well as Sabina Ott did.”

Visitation from 2 to 6 p.m. with a memorial service immediately following for Ott will be held on Saturday, July 28 at Drechsler Brown and Williams Funeral Home, 203 S. Marion St. in Oak Park.

CONTACT: tim@oakpark.com

River Forest police nab serial burglar

River Forest police arrested and charged a man they described as a “career burglar” for the same offense after an incident at about 6 a.m. on June 18 at St. Vincent Ferrer School.

Randy I. Berrier, 40, of Chicago was charged with felony burglary, after allegedly breaking into the school 1515 Lathrop Ave. and taking several items, including cash. An employee had just arrived at St. Vincent Ferrer School and reported seeing Berrier inside the school office area.

Berrier apparently fled the scene after being spotted, but Oak Park police reported seeing him boarding a bus at the intersection of Harlem and North avenues.

At a hearing subsequent to Berrier’s arrest, a Cook County judge set his bond at $40,000. Berrier is being held in the Cook County Jail, awaiting a July 6 hearing at the Maybrook courthouse.

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Task force to consider consolidation referendum

Merger of village and township will be topic at July 10 meeting

By TIMOTHY INKLEBARGER Staff Reporter

Oak Park’s Taxing Body Efficiency Task Force is in its fifth month of meetings and will soon discuss whether or not to include an advisory referendum on the November ballot, asking voters whether the village should further study consolidation with the township.

The seven-member task force, which is headed by former Village President David Pope, was formed earlier this year to find where cost savings could be found by consolidating services between taxing bodies, including the village, Oak Park’s school districts, park district, township and library.

That could include the oft-raised question over the years of whether the village should merge with the township or another taxing body, such as the library or park district.

Asked whether the task force had discussed the topic of consolidation with the township, Pope said in a telephone interview said it is “one item that has been raised.”

“We haven’t gotten into a ton of detail oth-

er than to talk about viability and feasibility That decision saved the city $780,000 in and also the fact that there would need to be the first year, according to a study put out some public support for structural changes in 2016, but Grover said in a telephone interthat would be recommended from a govern- view that it might be a different story in Oak mental perspective,” he said.

Park.

Jim Peters, who describes himself as the “My experience is that townships in Il“civilian member” of the task force, said he linois are apples and oranges,” she said, expects the task force to take up noting that services vary from the issue of consolidation of the township to township. township at its next meeting set She said some offer infrafor July 10 at 7 p.m. at Oak Park structure improvements such Village Hall, 123 Madison St. as road maintenance, while othPeters said the task force will ers are operate as social service discuss whether to put a referenagencies. dum on the ballot in November “No two are alike,” she said. asking the question of whether Oak Park Township offers a the various taxing bodies should variety of social services, such as lunch and transportation further explore consolidation. programs for senior citizens, Such a referendum would be substance abuse programs for advisory and not legally bindJANE GROVER youths and assistance with tax ing, meaning that the Oak Park Former alderman with the city assessments, among others.

Board of Trustees could choose of Evanston Grover said the consolidation whether or not to pursue the recof Evanston Township and the ommendation irrespective of the city required special legislation vote’s outcome.

Pope said the task force has invited guests in Springfield as well as a binding referento present their thoughts on various topics dum vote from the public.

Even prior to consolidation, Evanston’s including government consolidation.

Jane Grover, a former alderman with the township board and city council were made city of Evanston, gave a presentation about up of the same officials. Alderman there their consolidation of the township and city served in both roles, she said.

“In Evanston, I was elected as city aldergovernment in 2014.

“My experience is that townships in Illinois are apples and oranges. No two are alike.”

man but also [concurrently] as a township trustee, so I wore two hats. The city council would convene … and then reconvene as the township board,” Grover said. “That made it easier for us to get on the ballot the two referenda, because it didn’t require separate township approval.”

Such a decision might be different in Oak Park, where the village board of trustees and township board are two separately elected bodies.

Grover said some of the savings in the Evanston consolidation came from relocating employees from township offices to Evanston’s civic center and from salary savings and benefits expenses. She said the city of Evanston is experiencing millions in long-term savings from the consolidation.

“We became more efficient and saved money and improved services to residents who needed them,” she said. “So by those measures our … consolidation was a success, and I think that’s what the voters were hoping for.”

More information about the Taxing Body Efficiencies Task Force is available on the village’s website at www.oak-park.us/yourgovernment/village-board/taxing-body-efficiency-task-force/.

The task force is soliciting comments from the public, which can be left on the website.

CONTACT: tim@oakpark.com

Forest preserves roll out dockless bikeshare program

Stations slated for Miller Meadow, forest preserve HQ in River Forest

By BOB UPHUES Editor

Interested in cycling along the bike paths comprising Cook County Forest Preserve District’s trail network but don’t have a bike or don’t want to lug one along?

There an app for that. And a bike, as well.

Last week, the Cook County Forest Preserve District rolled out a new dockless bike-sharing pilot program to make it easier for people to enjoy bicycling the more than 300 miles of trails in the system.

“Not everyone who comes to the forest preserves owns a bike, so this is a great opportunity for Cook County residents and visitors,” said Cook County Forest Preserve District President Toni Preckwinkle in a press release.

“Expanding our bikeshare program is a great way to get more people to enjoy the outdoors and our beautiful trails.”

Among the first of the roughly 25 dockless bike stations to go live last week was a location in the parking lot of the Cermak Woods, whose entrance is on Ogden Avenue just east of Gage Avenue in Lyons.

In the coming weeks, the rest of the 50 stations – giving access to 500 bikes – will be activated throughout the forest preserve system, including nearby locations in the parking lot of Miller Meadow, on First Avenue, across the street from Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, and at

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HOP ON: The Cook County Forest Preserve District rolled out the first of its dockless bike stations last week, including one at the Cermak Woods in Lyons (above). The pilot program will eventually include 500 bikes and 50 stations across the county. the Cook County Forest Preserve District headquarters at 536 N. Harlem Ave. (at Lake Street) in River Forest.

Other dockless bike stations will be located along the Salt Creek Trail, starting at the parking lot of the Brookfield Woods, on 31st Street just west of McCormick Avenue; in the parking lot of the 26th Street Woods, between Harrison and Morgan avenues in LaGrange Park; and in the lot at

the Brezina Woods Picnic Grove, whose entrance is on LaGrange Road between Cermak Road and Scotdale Road in LaGrange Park.

There will also be two dockless stations in Bemis Woods – one in Bemis North and one in Bemis South – in Western Springs west of Wolf Road.

The dockless bike rental idea isn’t exactly new to the Cook County Forest Preserve District, but it’s not surprising you hadn’t run into it around here. Back in 2015, the forest preserve district partnered with Bike and Roll Chicago to set up a half-dozen bike share stations in far-flung locations mainly in northern suburbs and Chicago’s far north side. The system supported just 50 bikes and the bikes were docked at stations.

Bike and Roll Chicago, which is still a partner as the system expands, is charged with maintaining the fleet of blue bicycles, which are emblazoned with the words “Bike the Preserves.”

And the addition of a new partner – a mobile app called HOPR – the forest preserve district is able to ditch the docks and allow people to download the app onto the smartphones or tablets and use it to unlock and re-park bikes at any of the hubs in the system.

Users can opt to pay $2.50 for a 30-minute trip (plus 10 cents per each additional minute) or by a $60 seasonal membership for 90 minutes of ride time (plus 10 cents per additional minute) per day through November.

The app can be downloaded from the App Store on your smartphone, and information is available at gohopr.com/ chicagoland.

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Park district says no to landscaping for D97 schools

Costs for staff and new equipment not feasible, commissioners agree

By IGOR STUDENKOV Contributing Reporter

Two months after Oak Park Elementary School District 97 asked the Park District of Oak Park whether it would be willing to provide landscaping services for its schools, the park district’s board of commissioners decided against it.

Executive Director Jan Arnold said during the park board’s June 21 meeting, it ultimately came down to cost. Between the start-up costs, hiring new staff and other ex-

RALLY

Stronger together from page 1 visa, she went through regular channels to become a U.S. citizen.

What bothers Bachner is not only what she calls the “cruelty” of separating children from their parents but also what she believes is the incompetent way it has been carried out.

“Many of these children,” she said, “don’t know how to contact their parents now that the administration has changed its policy.

Some are babies who can’t even say their parents’ names. None of this was thought out — so many unintended or intended consequences. And it’s the children who are being destroyed.”

Oak Parker Peter Neuman’s forebears came from Poland, but his motivation for joining a crowd that numbered, in the estimation of the Chicago Tribune, over 50,000 was about human rights.

“I felt a need,” he explained, “to participate in the Families Belong Together rally to make a statement about a policy toward asylum seekers that I view as cruel and immoral. Taking part for me was to send a message to our leaders in Washington that I and my fellow protesters expect that all people are to be treated with dignity, respect and compassion, especially innocent children.”

Participating in the rally was not just a one-off protest for Bachner. The 39-year-old, who works in marketing, is co-leader of a local iteration of a national movement called Indivisible, whose website states, “Our mission is to fuel a progressive grassroots network of local groups to resist the Trump

penses, Arnold said it would be the equivalent of starting a company from scratch.

The park board agreed that, even if the school district was willing to cover those costs, it wasn’t a commitment the park district was prepared to make.

But the park commissioners agreed that the park district would be willing to help District 97 put together a Request for Proposal that would allow it to find a private contractor.

As previously reported by Wednesday Journal, District 97 reached out to the park district about landscaping services, because school officials and members of some parent-teacher organizations were impressed with the kind of work the park district was doing on its properties. They wanted something similar at the 11 school district prop-

erties.

When Arnold originally brought the matter to the park board in April, commissioners were divided. Proponents felt collaboration between municipal entities would be well-received by the community, while others argued that private companies would do the job just as well, and also wondered what the benefit would be to the park district. At the time the board directed the staff to research the idea more fully.

During the park board’s June 21 meeting, Arnold said that start-up costs alone would be more than $100,000, with the district spending additional $138,000 the first year to lay some groundwork for landscaping improvements and $224,000 annually after that. Having to hire full-time staff and buying new equipment was the major driver of

expenses, Arnold said.

“Based on that analysis, the staff doesn’t believe it would be feasible in terms of startup costs,” she said.

Instead, on June 21 park board members restated their support, first expressed in April, for helping District 97 find a private company to do the work.

Commissioner Sandy Lentz suggested that the park district work with District 97 to figure out exactly what kind of landscaping services they needed and formulate a Request for Proposals to reflect it.

Since a private company wouldn’t have to deal with start-up costs, Lentz said, it would be cheaper for the school district, too.

The rest of the commissioners agreed, asking Arnold to relay that message to District 97.

Agenda.”

Bachner said Indivisible Oak Park Area emphasizes “area” because its members come from River Forest, Elmwood Park, Berwyn, Galewood and Forest Park as well as Oak Park (their email address is indivisibleoakpark@gmail.com).

The “organic” group meets regularly, Bachner said. A typical meeting begins with writing post cards to government officials and ends with a talk by a speaker or a candidate for public office on a critical issue. Indivisible Oak Park has met regularly with Illinois senators Richard Durbin and Tammy Duckworth to talk about issues important to the community and with Rep. Danny Davis to discuss affordable housing.

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FAMILIES UNITED: Sabrina Telles-Brennan, of Oak Park, listens to speakers during Saturday’s rally. (Left) A family offers a response to Melania Trump’s now infamous jacket.

She is also a board member of PASO — Proyecto de Accion de los Suburios del Oeste or West Suburban Action Project — an advocacy organization, headquartered

in Melrose Park, that works on immigrant rights issues among others.

The depth of Bachner’s involvement in advocacy, and the credibility she has earned, is evident in the fact that she was chosen to be one of the dozen or so speakers addressing the throng at Daley Plaza.

Aronson said she attended the rally “to be an ally to the families who are seeking asylum, and speak out against how they are being treated,” but she received as much as she gave. “It was exciting being together with so many people who care about this situation,” she said. “Seeing the signs and standing together gave me energy, and helped me feel less isolated.”

For Bachner, the day became an affirmation of the advocacy work she has been doing for the past two years. “It was a really emotional day for me,” she recalled, “because I saw hundreds of people arriving

early as marshals or voter registrars who last year were just part of the crowd. It was gratifying to see them taking the next step and becoming more active in supporting these migrants who have left everything in their pursuit of a better life.”

When asked if the rally will have any effect on changing public policy, Neuman replied, “I do believe protests can make a difference by showing that citizens in opposition to the actions of our government have solidarity and resolve. Nothing, however, can change policy more than getting out to vote in November.”

Aronson said, “I don’t think one event, or this event, will make a drastic change immediately, but I do think that showing up, standing together, and speaking out, instead of being an outraged or numb observer, is a positive direction.”

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Julian mural honors chemist and community

Middle school installation, honoring namesake, nears completion

By MICHAEL ROMAIN Staff Reporter

Last year, participants in Oak Park Education Foundation’s BASE Camp summer program, guided by the nationally prominent muralist Tracy Van Duinen, installed a testimonial to the late poet laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Gwendolyn Brooks in the form of a mural on a west corner of the middle school that bears her name.

This year, Van Duinen worked with BASE Camp participants, Oak Park elementary and high school students, and community members to extend a similar honor to the namesake of Percy Julian Middle School, 416 S. Ridgeland Ave. Julian, a pioneering African-American research chemist and businessman, was also a local civil rights leader. When he moved here in around 1950, his family was one of the first black families to set down roots in Oak Park. Before moving in, though, the Julians’ home was famously fire-bombed twice. The chemist, armed with a shotgun, and his son kept watch over their home,

sometimes from a nearby tree.

The mural, which rises to tree-like heights on the northwest corner of the school, takes the form of a molecular structure and incorporates features of Julian’s research, such as his groundbreaking synthesis of the soybean molecule.

Van Duinen said the scientific theme anchored the artwork, which also riffs on themes found throughout the chemist’s personal life and work — his persistence despite having his home attacked and his ability to employ other black scientists through his lab, among other things.

A large blue circle just off the ground on the bottom right-hand corner of the mural, is made of dozens of 2-inch and 4-inch blue tiles, which community members could purchase for $50 and $100, respectively, and carved with tributes to loved ones.

“We raised $10,350 — all in $50 and $100 tiles,” said Tracy Dell’Angela Barber, executive director of the Oak Park Education Foundation, noting that the fundraising helped offset the cost of BASE CAMP and the mural installation.

Many of the tiles, Barber said, are dedicated to Julian teachers.

“We were really thrilled that people would use this as an opportunity to pay tribute to teachers they value,” she said.

For Van Duinen, the Julian mural marks

COMING SOON: A mural dedicated to Percy Julian on the northwest side of the middle school that bears his name should be complete in three weeks. A dedication is scheduled for August.

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the second outdoor mural he’s helped create and install in Oak Park (a third mural that the artist spearheaded is located inside OPRF High School).

Van Duinen, who teaches art at OPRF, has installed murals throughout the country, but there’s something special about installing murals in Oak Park, he said.

“I think the unique thing here is the active nature of the community,” he said. “They really want to be involved. It’s not like other communities don’t, but in other places I’ve really had to search the community and plan things myself.

“Here, especially with the Julian project, the school itself and the parent groups reached out to us when they heard about the mural. For a community artist, that’s a great thing.”

Van Duinen said the Julian mural is mostly complete. Some parts still need to be grouted and there’s still a bit of touching up to do. He expects the mural to be totally finished in about three weeks. A community dedication for the artwork is planned for some time in August.

CONTACT: michael@oakpark.com

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Chicago teen charged with Oak Park carjacking

Oak Park police have charged a 14-yearold Chicago boy with hijacking a vehicle at gunpoint in the 700 block of Wesley Avenue on June 25.

The teenager, who was not named, was charged with aggravated vehicular hijacking after he reportedly was identified by the victim.

He was arrested in Berwyn on June 26, along with another juvenile, and was transferred to the Cook County Juvenile Detention Center in Chicago. The other juvenile was not positively identified by the victim, according to police.

The carjacking took place at 4 p.m. on June 25. A man was reading a newspaper in his vehicle when he was approached from the rear by two males, both described as teenagers, one of whom had a gun.

The man was ordered out of his vehicle.

One of the teenagers drove off in the victim’s 2012 Honda Accord and the other drove off in a green or gold SUV.

IMAGINE OPRF Two proposals from page 1 members explained in a board document.

Those needs and opportunities fell into six general categories, which included: ■ The need to reorganize, reconfigure and renovate student learning spaces to meet a changing educational landscape ■ The need to make the space at OPRF more efficient ■ The opportunity to foster more community connections and to make the campus more welcoming with facilities improvements ■ The opportunity to improve equity through facilities improvements; among others.

■ The need to foster equity “along several dimensions” through facilities changes.

■ The need to upgrade the condition of the facilities in certain parts of campus that negatively impact students and staff.

“Both concepts show a rebuilt south end that does not touch the current parking garage,” said Lynn Kamenitsa, an Imagine co-chair.

In the Navy Blue concept, the swimming pool and multipurpose, multi-court gymnasium would be located on a lower level, with a first-floor entrance that provides direct access to spectator seating. In the Burnt Orange concept, the pool and gymnasium are both located on the first-floor.

The concepts would both feature 25-yard by 40-yard pools with a 6-foot bulkhead, which can be utilized to divide the pool space into different areas for multiple uses. The new 2-story fieldhouse common to both concepts would cover the entire width of the building and feature five courts, a climbing wall and a

Disorderly conduct

A 16-year-old Bellwood male was arrested in the 1000 block of Randolph at 3:06 p.m.

Two Oak Park juveniles were robbed by two men in their 20s in the 100 block of Lake Street at 1:07 p.m. on July 1. The two robbers, both described as black and in their 20s, pulled up in a blue Ford sedan and two men exited the vehicle. The first offender approached the first

victim and asked for the time and requested to use his phone. The second offender then grabbed the second victim from behind. The first offender then took the second victim’s iPhone and took an iPhone from the first victim’s pocket. The two then ran eastbound on Lake Street. The first offender was described as 6 feet tall with dreadlocks and wearing a black T-shirt and red pants. The second offender was 5 feet 10 with a heavy build and wearing a white tank top and light-colored jeans. The estimated loss is $1,150.

About three hours later, another juvenile Oak Park resident was robbed by a man with a similar description — a black male in his 20s with a thin build, black dreadlocks — wearing a white tank top and driving a blue 2006 Ford Fusion. Police report that the man approached the victim at 3:08 p.m. in the 200 block of South Marion Street and took the victim’s Motorola DX2 cellphone. The estimated loss is $299.99.

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200-meter track, among other features.

Kamenitsa said that the rebuilt south end ensures more efficient use of the space, reduces overcrowding and creates flexibility for the school’s future needs while accommodating its current needs.

“All of that is very difficult to accomplish with the existing structures, because some of them were built [nearly a century ago],” she said at the June 27 meeting. “What you have is a bunch of small, structurally interdependent units, so it’s really hard to open them up to create the large, flexible spaces that today’s construction techniques will allow.”

The idea of completely rebuilding the south campus, however, gave some board members pause.

“It’s daunting to think about removing the field house and rebuilding,” said board member Fred Arkin. “That’s a big concept to overcome.”

Board member Sara Spivy said that she wanted more detailed information from Imagine members about why they opted for demolition. Members Craig Iseli and Matt Baron both emphasized the need for calculating costs and financial tradeoffs while thinking about ideas like demolition and rebuilding roughly a third of the campus.

“We don’t have unlimited resources to do everything we want,” Iseli said.

Baron wanted to know how the rebuilding of the south campus would be phased in over time in order to minimize disruption.

Terry Fielden, with International Contractors Inc., and an advisor to the Imagine group, said that “there’s going to be quite a bit of planning involved before you start this out … It’s a very, very complex thing.”

Imagine members said that the two concepts would both create common spaces throughout campus for students to study, socialize and collaborate — an idea that generated the most enthusiasm among board members.

The primary commons space would be accessible through the main entrance on Scoville Avenue, between the auditorium and the Little Theater.

“We think some of the most important investments in the new facilities we’re proposing will be those that promote a sense of welcoming and ownership because those investments, while benefitting all students, will disproportionately benefit groups of marginalized and underserved students,” said Imagine co-chair Mike Poirier, during the special meeting. “This is one of the principal objectives behind the consolidation of common functions at the center core of the building.”

Board member Jennifer Cassell said that she was “most excited about the student common space,” adding that “over the last few years you’ve heard a real desire from students for that.”

Both concepts call for relocating the library and tutoring center toward the center of the building, off of the commons, so that students can access the space more easily than before, during and after school.

The spaces would be redesigned “to accommodate group and collaborative work as well as silent individual work,” the memo states, and moving them near the commons would make the spaces more accessible for students during lunch periods and “enable them to remain open longer without the additional security personnel that would be required in their current locations.”

In the Navy Blue concept, the library and tutoring center would be located on the second floor, just above the first-floor kitchen/ cafeteria space. In the Burnt Orange concept, they’d be located just above the Little Theater.

Both concepts would entail the cafeteria and food service facilities getting significant renovation and equipment upgrades.

“In listening sessions and survey responses, students indicated that the cafeterias were

a particular source of stress, anxiety, and discomfort, and that they wanted more options like the one provided by the balcony in the current Student Center,” the memo states.

Both concepts would also locate spaces that are similar in function near each other.

Spaces for the daycare and academic child development lab, building and district administrative offices and for Special Education will be consolidated and located near the first-floor entryway.

Both concepts feature plans to reorganize, renovate and re-allocate classroom space throughout the north end of OPRF, with similar subjects, such as math and science, clustered in the same area. Both concepts also feature classroom spaces with “vastly improved” daylighting.

One of the biggest differences between the Navy Blue and Burnt Orange concepts is the location of the performing arts spaces. In the Navy Blue concept, performing arts spaces are located right off of the commons, adjacent to the auditorium. In the Burnt Orange concept, they’re located at the west end of the south campus, which is currently dedicated to physical education and athletics spaces.

Both concepts, however, call for the performing arts facilities to be updated and expanded.

Poirier said that there will be another meeting in mid-August, where Imagine members will present a single concept to board members and start some preliminary discussions about how much the long-term facilities plan will cost. He said that the public will have another opportunity to provide feedback at another community engagement meeting planned for some time in the fall.

“When we come back in August with a draft of a full facilities master plan it will be a combination of the best elements from Orange and Blue,” said Kamenitsa.

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A Palos Heights woman was the victim of disorderly conduct in the 1000 block of South Lombard Avenue about 3:59 a.m. on June 29, when three males, all described as about 18 years old, approached her in her parked vehicle. One of the men began pulling on the locked driver’s door handle but was unsuccessful in getting in. They all fled on foot eastbound through the north Roosevelt Road alley. All three were described as black. One was about 5-foot-10 with a thin build and wore a plain T-shirt. The second was described as thin and wore camo pants and a black hooded sweatshirt. No description was given for the third man.

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on June 29 and charged with possession of a stolen motor vehicle, no valid driver’s license, and leaving the scene of an accident.

Assault A Minneapolis man reported that a man in a white, mid-sized sedan pointed a silver handgun at him in the 1000 block of South Ridgeland Avenue at 8:11 p.m. on June 30. The sedan, which was occupied by three other men, all four of whom were described as in their 20s, was traveling southbound on Ridgeland.

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e met Fred Rogers through Paul Obis. More on that. And for a few of our early years here at Wednesday Journal we shared a giant, expensive CompuGraphic typesetting machine with Vegetarian Times.

That was the magazine Paul and Clare, his first wife, started in their apartment on Austin Boulevard in Oak Park way back in 1974. Magazine isn’t quite right.

Paul described it as a photocopied newsletter that he’d deliver to a small number of subscribers.

That changed, though, as Vegetarian Times rather quickly became the voice of vegetarians across America, reflecting in the perfect moment the intersection of health, animal ethics, and, in a notable way, celebrity.

Well Paul died a week ago in California.

He was just 66. His wife Janeen called with the not unexpected news. Paul had Lewy body dementia, a not uncommon but certainly very hard illness.

Janeen called her husband a provider and a force for humanity. She said he was forward thinking, creative and intellectually energetic. He was, she said, brilliant, eccentric, a sweet gentle soul and a humanitarian.

Those are apt words to describe the man I knew so many years ago. A conversation with Paul would go on for a long while and in many unexpected directions. But it was always interesting.

Paul and Clare sold the magazine at least a couple of times.

After the first sale, they stayed on as publisher and food editor respectively. That kept them across the hall in our longtime offices on Oak Park Avenue.

If I remember this right, Paul got the chance to buy back his magazine and he took it. But this time he brought along a minority investor, Fred Rogers, not surprisingly a vegetarian.

Mister Rogers was a silent but not uninterested partner and that led to his visit to Oak Park about 1987. Clare came across to tell us that Fred Rogers would be in the building that afternoon and that any of us with small kids who wanted to meet him should gather up after school.

We, of course, brought our young son Ben. By 3:30, there were a good number of thrilled parents and amazed adults in the

Paul Obis hall. And as the current crop of filmmakers and documentary producers have found, Fred Rogers was as kind and caring as a man can be. For something so unsurprising, he was a revelation.

Paul and Clare and Fred sold the magazine yet again, this time for a considerable sum. Paul was out of publishing though I never had a conversation with him when he didn’t have a plan to get back in the game.

Paul and Clare had six sons: Nick (Jess), Quentin (Maryam), Paul W., Kevin (Beth), Timothy (Anastasia) and Gregory.

Clare Barrett — she took back her family name — died in 2015.

Also young at 64. Clare wrote a food column for the Journal for many years, was the winner and possibly only entrant in our vegetarian rib-tasting contest.

Charlie Robinson was gracious as our judge.

Here’s another story as I remember Paul telling it — and another obit for Paul tells a different version. Clare, always up for fun, was riding a scooter near their Forest Avenue home, wiped out, and really did damage, as in gruesome, to her leg. Their church community turned out big with endless meals, many of them animal-based. Paul said it felt ungracious not to eat the food. So he did and concluded after decades of tofu and veggies “that I really liked meat.”

Donations to the National Vegetarian Museum are requested.

A conversation

with Paul would go on for a long while and in many unexpected directions. But it was always interesting.

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n Chicago and the suburbs, spring and summer is prime time for real estate, with the first half of the year the busiest season for homes sales. Here in the near west suburbs, inventory is up and sale prices are down, but houses are selling.

A snapshot of the current market shows us what the professionals say is happening in our market for the first half of 2018.

For John Lawrence, owner and managing broker of Weichert Realtors Nickels Group, the typically hot spring and early summer selling season had a different feel this year.

“In the spring JOHN LAWRENCE when $300,000 to Weichert Realty Nickels Group $500,000 homes in Oak Park are flying off the shelves with multiple offers, we feel like the market is good. That didn’t happen this year,” Lawrence said. “The market has a very uneasy feel, and a lot of people were saying the market was way down, but the data doesn’t back it up.”

Lawrence said that single-family homes are selling and says average market time was the same 79 days for single family homes from Jan. 1 through June 10, 2017 and for the same period in 2018.

But, when Lawrence parses the data, he does see some differences in those averages.

“Last year, there was a combination of homes that flew and those that sat,” he said. “This year, more properties are sitting a bit longer.”

Longer market time Michael Nowicki of Ideal Location Oak Park says that homes are taking longer to sell and buyers are interested in a lower price point.

“Over the years, Oak Park’s sweet spot has been $400,000 to $600,000,” Nowicki said. “Now it seems to be $350,000 to $525,000. I’ve seen plenty of houses that would have sold in days in 2016 and 2017 now sitting for 45 days.”

Nowicki also sees a change in high-end properties.

“Our higher-end market has slowed tremendously,” he said. “Market time has increased, and the number of buyers in this price MICHAEL NOWICKI range seems to have Ideal Location Oak Park decreased. Don’t get me wrong, buyers are still out there; it just requires more patience to sell higher-end homes.”

The numbers back him up. In the first half of 2017, homes in the $900,000 to $999,000 range had an average market time of 93 days, and homes in the $800,000 to $899,000

range averaged 70 days on the market. For 2018, those numbers were 221 days and 95 days, respectively.

The outlier is average market time for homes between $1 million and $2 million, which fell from 2017 to 2018. In the first half of 2017, two Oak Park homes in that category sold with an average market time of 194 days. In the first half of 2018, five $1 millionplus homes sold in an average market time of 116 days.

While the market time decreased and the number of highest-end sales increased over this period in 2017, an examination of the five closed sales reveals that three of the five originally had been listed for sale one to three years prior to selling.

Lawrence said that once a home has been off the Multiple Listing Service for at least 90 days, its market time starts over when the sellers relist. He also pointed out most of the sellers of those homes came down in price from their original list prices saying, “Most of them sold for just over one million.”

For Lawrence, one of the bigger differences this year is the number of properties on the market. In 2017 at this time, there were 162 single family homes on the market in Oak Park. This year, there are 209. He states, “That’s why the market feels like it does,” Lawrence said. “Buyers have more choices.”

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“Higher tax bills change the affordability at every price point,” he said. “If it’s not in line with what you expect at that price, people will push back on price.”

Lawrence notes that overall, River Forest and Forest Park have much smaller housing inventories than Oak Park, so sales numbers in those villages can swing widely with the opening of a new development or the sale of a handful of expensive properties.

“Their numbers for this year are on pace with last year,” Lawrence said. “The numbers sold are relatively low, but they are holding steady.”

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Tax ‘tipping point’ Lawrence pointed to a few reasons why there might be more homes for sale this year, including a highly publicized violent crime wave that swept through all of the western suburbs just before the spring market.

He also says that property taxes are a big part of the equation in Oak Park today.

“Anecdotally, there is the tax situation,” Lawrence said.

“We’ve always said, ‘What is the tipping point?’ I think we’ve reached it.”

Steve Scheuring of Baird and Warner agrees.

“We used to have buyers who would come and look at a STEVE SCHEURING $500,000 house with Baird and Warner $8,000 to $10,000 in taxes,” Scheuring said. “The taxes were high, but considering Chicago Public Schools and private school tuition, they were cool with that. Now, with that same house having taxes of $15,000$16,000, the buyer is no longer cool with that.

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Condo crunch We’ve reached a saturation point.”

Nowicki says his clients are definitely influenced by taxes.

“Seeing affordable houses with unaffordable taxes has been a hard pill to swallow,” Nowicki said. “The realization that property taxes affect how much house you can afford has been frustrating for them. Prices are down, and taxes seem to be why.”

For Lawrence, these concerns might be playing out in the difference between median list price and median sales price, which has dropped roughly 2 percent.

“Basically, the extra competition is causing sellers to make larger price reductions this year compared to last year when a home doesn’t sell right away, and then the buyers

are able to negotiate harder, knocking an additional 1 percent off the asking price,” Lawrence said. “The sky is not falling, but if tax bills go up any further, I think the sky will fall.”

From Jan. 1 to June 10, 2017, the median single-family home sales price in Oak Park was $470,000. In 2018, that number has dropped to $460,000. Lawrence thinks that the number of homes on the market give buyers the incentive to negotiate prices more and notes that taxes play a role here as well.

Stating that buyers tend to consider monthly expenses as a combination of mortgage payments and taxes, Lawrence says that tax bills contribute a lot to a buyer’s purchase power.

Attached housing sales in River Forest and Forest Park have remained on pace from 2017, but Oak Park has seen a large drop in condominium sales. Lawrence says closed sales for condos are down 20 percent from this time last year, and the median closed sale price has dropped from $176,000 to $165,000. He points to taxes and assessments figuring into those numbers.

“The issue may be who buys condos? Millennials, people coming out of school,” Lawrence said. “We hear about high studentloan debt and household formation lagging, so that might play into it as well.”

The local market may not be going gangbusters, but homes are selling at all price points.

“Oak Park is still a desirable community at the end of the day,” Lawrence said.

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Art glass windows, French doors, wood trim, hardwood floors. Fin bsmt, enclosed porch. ..................................................................................................................................................$624,900 THIS IS YOUR PERFECT HOME! Brick, three generous sized bedroom Georgian on a corner lot. Updated kitchen, 1st Fl fam rm, fin bsmt, and laundry/storage room. ....... ..................................................................................................................................................$599,000 BEAUTIFUL 3 LEVEL SINGLE FAMILY offers 3800+ sq/ft of living! Open concept on first floor. Second floor features 4 BRs & sunroom overlooking backyard.......... ..................................................................................................................................................$595,000 REMARKABLE REHAB OPPORTUNITY on an oversized lot. Three bedrooms, 2-1/2 baths, this home features a Fireplace, two Family Rooms, Study, Full Basement. ..... ..................................................................................................................................................$499,950

UNPRECEDENTED ESTATE in the Frank Lloyd Wright Historical district of OP! Meticulously renovated property offers exquisite details and refined finishes. A showcase home! ..................................................................................................................................$1,750,000 TRULY CLASSIC OP RED BRICK COLONIAL with 4-5 BRs, 4 full and 2 half baths. Third floor features rec room/BR. Garage with fabulous coach house above............ ...............................................................................................................................................$1,295,000 MAGNIFICENT & RARELY AVAILABLE this Federal style home is one of Oak Park’s finest. Lovingly restored and maintained. Great condition!.........................$1,125,100 COMFORT & CONTENTMENT LIVING in gracious A.L. Gardner House. Many improvements include a total kitchen redo and finished 3rd floor family room. ..$921,000 STUNNING & DISTINCTIVE QUEEN ANNE VICTORIAN with exquisite woodwork and molding, designer lighting, generous sized rooms........................$885,000 LARGE ENGLISH COUNTRY TUDOR HOME with 5 BRs, 3-1/2 BAs in the heart of OP’s Historic District. Impressive home blends both old and new, with natural woodwork.............................................................................................................................$799,000 STATELY BRICK CENTER-ENTRANCE COLONIAL. WB fireplace, high ceilings, crown molding, architectural details, leaded glass windows, hardwood throughout. ..................................................................................................................................................$798,500 WONDERFUL HOME offers a combination of original features and updated modern conveniences in this five bedroom, 2 full, 2 half bath home. .....................................$769,700 WELL MAINTAINED LANDSCAPED PROPERTY features Great Architecture, Trim, and an Amazing Foyer on 1st floor. 2nd level includes Master Suite, 3 addl BRs, laundry...............................................................................................................$749,000 MOVE-IN READY! Enjoy the well thought out design of this 5 BR, 4 BA home! Open floor plan, kitchen/fam room combo, finished bsmt..................................................$629,000 LARGE BUNGALOW with beautiful slate entry, amazing art glass windows, hardwood floors & stunning period lighting throughout! .................................................$575,000 PRICE REDUCED CLASSIC QUEEN ANNE HOME with 3 bedrooms, 3-1/2 baths includes sun room, family room, updated kitchen, great closet space, fin rec room, custom deck..........................................................................................................................$555,000 A TRUE OP BEAUTY! Enjoy the deep park-like lot in Northwest Oak Park. Well maintained 1905 Farmhouse with 3 BR, 1-1/2 baths. In great condition! .............$479,900 NEWLY RENOVATED HOME with open floor plan, natural wood floors, wood burning fireplace, mudroom, three season enclosed porch. Finished bsmt, 2 car garage... ..................................................................................................................................................$449,999 BRICK TRI-LEVEL HOME nestled in the heart of the Oak Park’s Gunderson Historic district. Family room in LL plus Sub-basement. Cherry wood floors throughout.$435,000 BEAUTIFULLY RENOVATED, maintained and decorated three BR, two BA home with impeccable oak floors and natural light. Too many updates and improvements to list! ............................................................................................................................................$377,000

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Four large bedrooms. Large basement offers additional living space.

2-car attached garage. Tons of storage with lots of natural light throughout. ............................................................................$845,000

RIVER FOREST HOMES

BURMA BUILT BUHRKE HOUSE combines Tudor revival & chateau style architecture elements. Gorgeous décor and impeccable attention to detail in both house and landscaped grounds.................................................................................................$2,399,000 REMARKABLE TUDOR with four levels of living space, 6 BRs, 7-1/2 BAs. Winding staircase to 2nd floor, French doors to DR, elaborate library, family room, game room. ..... ...............................................................................................................................................$1,895,000 BEAUTIFUL RIVER FOREST ESTATE features a detailed stone and brick exterior leading to a timeless Interior. includes a two story marble foyer, spiral staircase and 5 fireplaces.............................................................................................................................$1,895,000 SPECTACULAR HOME offers modern/elegant architectural design, tasteful decor and impeccable attention to detail throughout, featuring 4 BRs, and 5 full baths. .............. ...............................................................................................................................................$1,675,000 EXPERT DESIGN RENOVATION! The very best in contemporary design, finishes and mechanicals alongside restored leaded glass doors and hdwd floors.........$1,499,000 PREPARE TO BE IMPRESSED with this STUNNING 5 BR brick home that was renovated from top to bottom. Offers endless amounts of quality upgrades. .$1,440,000 LEGENDARY 1883 ITALIANATE VILLA available for the first time in 37 years!

Meticulously preserved original features AND unparalleled Guest House! One of a kind! ... ...............................................................................................................................................$1,395,000 CLASSIC, ELEGANT HOME with exceptional design & open floor plan. Special features include a dramatic double door entry, gracious foyer, limestone mantle, open great room..........................................................................................................................$1,375,000

ELEGANT BRICK HOME lives large in Northern OP. Great architectural details of yesteryear with today’s amenities. Fabulous and elegant brick home on a corner lot. 3 bedrooms, 2.1 bath . Hardwood floors, updated eat in kitchen, C/A, large finished basement. Must see! ...........................................................................................$539,900

FOREST PARK HOMES METICULOUSLY MAINTAINED NEW CONSTRUCTION. Open plan, 10 ft ceilings, hdwd flrs, cust details, crwn mldng to dr handles. .....$464,000

ELMWOOD PARK HOMES PRICE REDUCED LARGE BRICK COLONIAL beautifully renovated from top to bottom! Updates include wd flrs, plumbing, electrical, applncs, siding, roof. .....$429,000

CONDOS/TOWNHOMES/2 FLATS NEW LISTING RIVER FOREST 2BR 1BA. .......................................................$110,000 OAK PARK 3BR, 3BA Open floor plan on main level.............................................$420,000 OAK PARK 3BR, 2BA. In unit washer & dryer. ........................................................$264,900 OAK PARK 2BR, 1BA. Top floor unit...........................................................................$159,500 NEW LISTING OAK PARK 1BR, 1BA..................................................................$129,900 OAK PARK 1BR, 1BA. In-unit washer/dryer. ...........................................................$125,000 OAK PARK 1BR, 1BA. Open kitchen layout..............................................................$109,000 FOREST PARK 2BR, 2-1/2 BA. Custom crown molding.....................................$329,000 FOREST PARK 1BR, 1BA. In building gym/community room...........................$199,000 FOREST PARK 2BR, 2BA. Heated garage space....................................................$189,500 FOREST PARK 1BR, 1BA. Covered parking, balcony. ...........................................$113,900

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By CATHY YEN Executive Director had plans to write about something much different this week.

My short list of topics going into the weekend was promising. The Fourth of July inspires thoughts of opportunity and the independence small business provides.

David King just celebrated twenty-five years in business. Poke Burrito opened to lines out the door, indicating a local market for trendy food in Downtown Oak Park that we might not have foreseen a few years ago. I brought back a few thoughts on international microcredit systems from a conference I intended. Mid-year dues renewal notices are going out this week, prompting me to remind folks about our Chamber’s value proposition.

Lots to write about.

And then I got the text.

On Saturday morning my brother-in-law collapsed in Des Moines while on a crosscountry camping trip with my sister. I was in Iowa by dinner, in time to hear the doctor proclaim the heart surgery a success, but warn of a long rehab time.

As I write this Sunday morning from a Days Inn, my sister is on the phone keeping east coast relatives apprised. We’ll head to the hospital shortly. I expect much sitting around as we await updates and stare cluelessly at beeping monitors. My role is to help my sister, stay calm, get my nephews from the airport, pack my sister’s camping equipment and take care of whatever other odd jobs arise.

In the long pauses between errands, I’ll have plenty of downtime. I know I can count on my Chamber team to take over for me at the office, but I’m grateful for some workrelated distraction. I will check a few emails,

reschedule meetings and do a bit of work on our member database. Sometimes it is nice to have tasks that feel within your control especially when life is out of control.

Which brings me to my only real business point this week. Be prepared. Have an awesome team. Document processes so others can step in. Know what you can do remotely and store files on the cloud. Small business management requires a flexibility that we don’t appreciate until we need it.

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Teaching gerontology in high school Knowing what must be done does away with fear.

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Rosa Parks

ur demographics are changing — we’ve added more longevity to our species since 1900 than all of history prior. Almost everybody is behind the curve on this — institutions, government and individuals. So how do we make a dent in our overwhelmingly youthoriented society?

Recently I was in a meeting with Sandy Pastore, director of the Oswego Senior Center. Sandy is working on a project that will adjust the Illinois high school curriculum so as to include gerontology.

My friend George scoffs at this idea. He asks, “Why do we want to teach high school kids about old people?” with a grimace on his face, as if older people have cooties. EEEWW. Many high schools have early childhood education programs. The idea is to introduce high school students to careers in childhood education, social work, pediatrics or to influence their understanding of the arts or literature.

Early childhood classes in high school are acceptable to George because, in our culture, young = good. Not so for gerontology classes because — right, you guessed it — in our culture old = bad.

The number of older people in our country is on the rise: In 2010, there were 40.3 million people age 65 and above, comprising 13% of our overall population. (This total is 12 times the number it was in 1900 when this group constituted only 4.1% of the population.) By 2050, projections indicate the population over 65 will be 20.9% of the population.

One reason we need to introduce gerontology into our high school curriculum is that the aging of our population is changing where future jobs are. The numbers speak for themselves.

For example, consider these two trends: First, one of the top employment sectors for males in the U.S. is driving or servicing vehicles. Given the development of self-driving cars and robotics, the number of jobs available in this sector is expected to decline over the next 30 years. (Last Thursday, Kroger, the largest U.S. supermarket chain by sales and stores, announced it is developing the world’s first driverless grocery deliveries.)

Second, given the increasing longevity we are experiencing, geriatric-related jobs are expected to increase dramatically over this same time frame.

So let’s do our high school students (i.e. our grandchildren) a favor and include gerontology in their curriculum. This will help prepare them for the employment terrain of their lifetimes — geriatric social work and health care (geriatricians, geriatric psychologists and psychiatrists, nurses,

MARC BLESOFF

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Patriots must challenge this president

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ow fortunate we are to live in this beautiful and peaceful community!

As I relax on my porch, I can hear the rustling of the trees, and the sweet sounds of birds chattering. My dear family and friends, and the kindness of people, form a lovely life picture. Many small and large gestures add to my pleasurable existence. For example, my news delivery people place my newspaper in the entrance (saving me from searching in the bushes), my mail-lady is a dear woman who is always solicitous of my welfare, and then there are my often-needed workmen who are especially helpful and always desire to please me. (We share morning coffee, too).

When I am outdoors, hobbling along with my cane, folks just walking by frequently offer to help me. That is our community! I have the benefit of being an American, and I treasure our democracy. I live an enviable existence with love and kindness surrounding me.

Therefore, it is painful to realize that these values are at stake under President Trump. Our Constitution, its rules, regulations and guidelines for our nation, have been dismissed by this President. He has proudly stated his “accomplishments,” which are either rollbacks or reverses of progress previously made in our environment, air and water studies, and health care. Social services and public education have suffered, or are threatened by, a loss of funding. Judicial and civil rights issues have been ignored. And we no longer have our national alliances, an Iranian peace pact, or trade stability.

In my estimation, President Trump’s greatest disservices have been his racist views and hate rhetoric. His “zero tolerance policy” is the basis for the recent draco-

nian plan of separating migrant parents and their children seeking asylum from the violence present in their homelands. Although our president repeatedly called the Mexican immigrants “dope traffickers, murderers, and rapists,” most of these families came here hoping for a safe home for their families.

To their shock, they were treated and jailed like criminals, and their children were taken from them!

President Trump finally stopped the horrendous policy he instituted, but now, because of the lack of pre-planning, the documentation was so inadequate that reunification of children and parents seems almost impossible.

Trump’s racism against the brown and black races — Muslims, Mexicans, South and Central Americans, etc. — is truly un-American. The President’s personal decision-making and authoritarian views have brutalized many of our foreign friendships and our country’s leaders. He is changing our democracy to a dictatorship!

We cannot tolerate this happening to our nation. We can no longer remain uninvolved, indifferent, or reluctant to oppose the President’s policies. True patriotism requires us to be watchful of our government’s activities.

Please join me in challenging our President’s behavior by contacting our congressmen. They possess the power to control and force a directional change for our nation’s future. Our contacts will encourage and empower them.

We will then be able to demonstrate to the world that we are indeed a democracy guided by our Constitution — and that, as a nation, we are diverse, we believe in justice, and we are (like this community) caring, peaceful, and kind.

Harriet Hausman is a longtime resident of River Forest.

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nd now into the always interesting mix of students at District 97 comes a suddenly increasing number of Hispanic students. After a decade of just very small increases to a total of just 6 percent of the student population, the Hispanic enrollment has doubled in just two years to 13 percent.

That’s a real number and with it some unique challenges and opportunities for the Oak Park public elementary schools. Obviously not all students of Hispanic origin require added English language services. But there is a rising number and the district will have to provide those services.

The new teacher contract, signed just this summer, specifically and for the first time, addresses this growing demographic shift. The contract calls for the district administration to work with the Oak Park Teachers Association to make plans for appropriate staffing levels.

The district is also in the midst of reviewing its current English language curriculum to make sure it measures up. The district will also begin looking for grant dollars to subsidize these costs.

This is the sort of proactive response to a new educational initiative that we’d expect from our public schools.

Watching the increasing number of Hispanic families in Austin, in Proviso, in Berwyn, the only surprise is that the upturn in Oak Park’s schools has been so long in coming.

Imagine becoming real After months of steady work, serious inquiry and a lot of poking around in a big building, the ambitious efforts of the Imagine OPRF volunteers have resulted in two concepts for a major renovation of Oak Park and River Forest High School.

The plans focus on wholesale remaking of interior athletic facilities, including the swimming pools, expansion and repositioning of arts programs, creation of new common areas for students to gather, and updating of classroom facilities to foster collaboration and greater educational equity.

The Imagine committee, based on input from the school board and community, will now work to consolidate the two plans and to begin cost estimates on what is being proposed to the board by late summer.

The challenge here is to not prejudge what has been a thoughtful and expansive review of the facilities needs of this institution for decades to come. This is big-picture planning for a changing educational system and an old structure.

As always, the infernal pool seems to be the focal point of already heated social media conversation in town. That’s unfortunate as the scope of this project is so much more than replacing worn-out pools. Beyond that, in towns swamped by high taxes, OPRF will need to figure out what it can spend, and with its outrageous cash reserve how it will pay for these projects. There are also questions to be considered regarding the enrollment burst, long predicted but not yet materializing. Preparing for a notably higher enrollment was one of the spurs to this entire planning process.

OPRF is going to have to do many things at once. Reduce overspending that has been mounting in terms of staffing.

Bringing contentious faculty contract talks to a conclusion that is not budget-busting. Make real the commitment to equity. Approve a facilities plan that is ambitious but not over-grand. And, in these processes, create enough trust in the community to allow it to happen.

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Cure for incivility? Shut the Trump up

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arinating in the news in New York City, I’m often sick with despair. An authoritarian president of dubious legitimacy and depraved character is poised to remake America for generations with a second Supreme Court pick. The federal government is a festival of kleptocratic impunity. Kids the same age as my own are ripped from their migrant parents.”

That’s how New York Times opinion columnist Michelle Goldberg framed the situation in a recent column. Was last week’s news more of the same?

Not at all, she said, citing election victories by democratic socialists, most notably, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in New York City, and three other women candidates in Pennsylvania.

The young, Goldberg says, particularly women, are rebuilding the Democratic Party from the bottom up. Instead of a blue wave, it looks more like a blue groundswell.

So despite several weeks of bad news about separating families on our southern border and Supreme Court decisions giving comfort and cover to those who discriminate, there is hope on this July 4th with just four months left till the midterm elections.

Counterattacking conservatives, meanwhile, are trying to put the focus on liberals who promote the shaming and shunning of Trump and his supporters. How can liberals justify acts of incivility, they ask, such as the Red Hen restaurant owner in Virginia who told Trump’s press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, to leave her restaurant (at the request of her staff), and Congresswoman Maxine Waters, who called for more acts of shaming directed toward this administration.

It’s far more effective, of course, to win elections, but not all of us are running for office, and opposition takes many forms.

Without a doubt, Trump is shameful in almost everything he says and does. Therefore, anyone who voted for him and continues to support him shares in that shame. Keep in mind that silence, too, is a form of support. Silence gives consent.

Not speaking out about shameful statements and actions, then, is likewise shameful. With Donald Trump, more than any other public figure, you don’t get the luxury of sitting on the fence and saying, “Oh, those politicians are all the same.”

No, they’re not. No one else even comes close.

Maxine Waters’ call for shaming and shunning bears no resemblance to Donald Trump’s policy of separating children from their parents. Red Hen’s owner asking Huckabee Sanders to leave her restaurant is not the same as the Supreme Court approving a bakery owner’s right to dis-

criminate against same-sex customers based on his “religious beliefs,” thereby sanctioning all discrimination in the name of faith, even when that faith’s deity preached the exact opposite of discrimination. And it’s also not the same as the Supreme Court sanctioning religious discrimination against Muslims through Trump’s travel ban.

It is not our place to tell people sitting on the fence that they need to get off the fence and take a side.

It is our responsibility, however, to inform them that by remaining on the fence, they have already taken a side, Trump’s side, and ask them if that’s really what they want.

Shaming is a tricky business. Let those without sin cast the first stone and all that. It’s easy to overreach. Overused, shaming turns into ineffectual scolding, so it should only be used in rare cases. Separating children from their families is definitely one of those cases.

Shunning, on the other hand, is the ultimate form of passive aggression. We should never declare a fellow human being beyond redemption.

Even Trump. Shunning is a form of violence, and liberals who want to stay on the “high road” must never resort to violence.

In the case of Huckabee Sanders, I would have told her she was welcome to eat at my establishment, but that the verifiable lies she tells on a regular basis to promote Donald Trump’s agenda are shameful — and assure her this is not just some political disagreement. I would tell her that I hold her in contempt of the truth, just like her boss. I would say, “You are an integral part of the communications mechanism that furthers inhumane policies like the travel ban against Muslims and separating children from their parents, which is hard to understand since you’re a parent yourself. But you’re welcome to stay here. Instead of finding another restaurant to patronize, I suggest you find another line of work.”

If she took offense and chose to leave, I would point out that she was “self-deporting.”

Meanwhile, if the conservatives who are busy shaming and shunning Red Hen and Maxine Waters were to ask me how I can justify liberal incivility, I would say, “As soon as I hear you criticize Donald Trump for separating children from their parents, as soon as you condemn his decency-destroying Twitter tirades and criticize his policies that amount to thinly disguised discrimination, then I would be happy to have a conversation about liberals occasionally straying from the high road and being merely “impolite.”

In other words, with all due respect and sincerity, I would ask them to “Shut the Trump up.”

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C O R R E C T I O N A recent letter to the editor, “Green initiatives should include high-rises” [Viewpoints, June 20], was accompanied by a rendering of the planned Albion high-rise at Lake and Forest. Andrew Yule, vice president of development for Albion, noted that the new structure will be a LEED certified building. He also noted that Vantage, the high-rise across the street, is Green Globes certified.

Wednesday Journal regrets the misleading choice of illustration.

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Academic excellence, fiscal stability in D90

t a time when school districts across Illinois are struggling financially and academically, River Forest residents are rightly interested in how District 90 uses taxpayer resources. The district has a long-standing commitment to sound fiscal stewardship, transparency, and academic excellence. Because of this, D90 has built notable financial reserves that serve two crucial purposes: ■ First, it ensures the fiscal capacity to continue providing students with an excellent education — despite a decade-long trend of decreased funding from the state.

■ Second, it shields taxpayers from highly fluctuating tax rates and the long-term financial stresses facing D90, which are partly driven by the state’s decision to shift educational pension costs to the district.

D90’s foresight in creating these reserves is already benefiting our taxpayers and students. Other districts may have to cover the new pension costs by reducing classroom investments or raising local property taxes.

D90 does not face this predicament due to our intentional use of long-range financial projections as a tool to manage operations.

In fact, sound fiscal management has enabled the district to avoid going to referendum to ask for an increase in the Education Tax Fund since March 2006, when voters overwhelmingly approved the tax increase.

During the 12 years that have followed, the school board has taken every opportunity to minimize taxpayer costs while maintaining the capacity to provide an excellent education to students. For example, the board approved a smaller-than-authorized tax levy in 2008, and then actually cut the tax levy in 2012. Both actions provided tax relief to residents. Starting next year, the district’s long-range projections show that our educational costs will exceed total revenue. Still, D90 does not plan to seek a referendum in the foreseeable future, nor disinvest in

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our children’s education, because of the reserve prudently established to cover this predicted exigency.

Further proof of the district’s sound fiscal management includes our faculty contracts. In 2011, the district and the River Forest Education Association (RFEA) agreed for the first time to tie teacher compensation directly to the Consumer Price Index (CPI) while introducing a tiered health insurance structure that significantly reduced costs. The most recent three-year contract in 2017 continues to link salary increases to the CPI while providing cost-competitive health insurance that nonetheless delivers a high-quality benefit to teachers. This contract enables the district to attract and retain the high-caliber faculty that is the bedrock of our academic excellence.

D90’s responsible fiscal stewardship has been recognized by independent third parties. In 2017 Moody’s Investor Services upgraded the district’s bond rating from Aa2 to Aa1. This high credit rating is the result of several factors, including the district’s strong financial operations, reserves, and healthy cash position.

Under current education funding dynamics, River Forest taxpayers continue to invest heavily in the district by providing more than 90 percent of our revenue.

This enables D90 to provide an award-winning education to students, which is a crucial factor for many homebuyers in our village. Local taxpayer support powers the district’s tradition of excellence, which is at the heart of our mission: to inspire a love of learning and ensure educational excellence for every child.

To learn more, we encourage you to view the financial information on our website (district90.org/about/ finances), particularly the Resident Friendly Financial Report (2008-2017).

Ralph Martire is president of the board of education and Dr. Ed Condon is superintendent of River Forest School District 90.

RALPH MARTIRE & ED CONDON One View

Civility and ‘being nice’ aren’t the same thing Civility is the bearing or attitude of responsible and engaged citizenship in a democracy. Civility, when practiced in a healthy democracy, doesn’t bury real issues — it can expose exploitation or oppression.

Civility means having a well-crafted argument about a public issue, and being capable of communicating the argument, informally or formally, in a way that can be understood by other citizens. It’s about being a competent, effective, mature citizen. It includes understanding enough about other peoples’ positions, biases, backgrounds, agendas and communication styles in order to get one’s own argument across effectively. It also challenges one to listen, to learn from others, and to reshape one’s argument when needed.

A “civil” argument, however, can be quite provocative.

It can also provide meaning and focus to activism. The argument can be backed by a public demonstration with people marching in support of it. It might make the criticism that a public official is lying about his positions or motives, as long as one has the evidence to prove that claim. Civility can include all of the above, and more.

That’s very different from the rants, name-calling, lying, and misrepresentation of others’ views that are com-

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mon in today’s political climate. Just this week, we saw the President, who trades in tirades and insults, distorting civility further by blaming others for its disappearance.

But let’s not confuse civility with being “nice.” Being nice might reflect one’s genuine affection or admiration for another, or it can provide a veneer masking a power play or hidden agenda. Sometimes civility can also be nice, but civility doesn’t depend on being nice.

As far as justice is concerned, in a democracy you don’t in the end get justice without civility. Without civility, you get what we have today: rants, name-calling, and insults met by more rants, name-calling, and insults … a lot more noise than justice.

Racial justice in our society is lacking. It’s true that white privilege can be — and often is — masked by phony niceness and the veneer of politeness. But to suggest, as do some activists, that all white people who advocate civility are merely using it to mask their privilege shows a lack of understanding of civility.

Moreover, such a simplistic generalization can inspire its own stream of rants and name-calling.

Rich Kordesh

Former Oak Park resident

Editor and Publisher Dan Haley Senior Editor Bob Uphues Associate Publisher Dawn Ferencak Staff Reporters Michael Romain, Timothy Inklebarger, Nona Tepper Viewpoints Ken Trainor Sports/Staff reporter Marty Farmer Columnists Jack Crowe, Doug Deuchler, John Hubbuch, May Kay O’Grady, Kwame Salter, John Stanger, Stan West, Michelle Mbekeani-Wiley, Cassandra West, Doris Davenport Staff Photographer Alexa Rogals Editorial Design Manager Claire Innes Editorial Designers Jacquinete Baldwin, Javier Govea Business Manager Joyce Minich IT Manager/Web Developer Mike Risher Director Social Media Strategy & Communications Jackie McGoey Advertising Production Manager Philip Soell Advertising Design Manager Andrew Mead Advertising Designers Debbie Becker, Mark Moroney Advertising Director Dawn Ferencak Advertising Sales Marc Stopeck, Bill Wossow Inside Sales Representative Mary Ellen Nelligan Event Coordinator Carmen Rivera Media Assistant Megan Dickel Circulation Manager Jill Wagner Distribution Coordinator David Oromaner Credit Manager Laurie Myers Front Desk Carolyn Henning, Maria Murzyn Chairman Emeritus Robert K. Downs

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Summer cruising in Bob’s convertible

hen I met Bob Ault in the summer of 1956, he owned a blue, 1954 Chevrolet Bel Aire convertible. This stick-shift car had options such as fender skirts, fullwheel hub caps, whitewall tires, and two-tone all-vinyl trim.

Bob also had an “Oogah” horn attached to the driver’s side of his car, so when he saw an attractive girl, he would squeeze the ball on the horn. It was a rare occasion when the said girl did not turn around and look at the car. Usually the girl would smile and wave, but once in a while, a girl would give Bob a dirty look.

Bob had a cigarette holder device under the dashboard in which he would place a smoked down butt, pull the trigger on the device, and shoot the butt into the street.

In the summers of 1956-61, Bob and four of us guys would drive around the local area, and each guy would chip in for gas, which cost 23 cents a gallon.

We usually cruised five or six nights a week, but we did have destinations.

Our favorite hangout was Circle Lanes in Forest Park. We belonged to a bowling league that met once a week, but we practiced two nights a week.

I don’t think the practices did much good because we ended up in last place the two summers we were in the league.

In 1958 the five of us, and five other guys we had met, joined a softball league that played at Ridgeland Common. Our team played twice a week and practiced twice a week, but we could never do better than .500.

Our favorite destination after playing

softball was Pat’s Pizzeria on Madison near Ridgeland.

We were steady customers for over three years.

When the summer of 1961 arrived, we decided we wanted to do more than just play softball, so even though we still played a few times a week, we spent many of our evenings either at Russell’s, the pee-wee golf course, or Skip’s Drive-In. Another place we liked was a bar on Chicago Avenue just east of Austin.

We would go there sometimes after playing softball, and most of us would have one beer [we were all 21], but a couple of the guys overdid the drinking and caused some damage to Bob’s car.

Phil, for instance, burned a hole in the carpet of the car when a lighted ash from his cigarette fell on the floor, and Dick dropped a lighted match on the back seat of the car, which, of course, burned a hole in the upholstery.

After these incidents and the fact that two of the guys didn’t always pay the required gas fee and two others had steady girlfriends, the cruising in Bob’s car came to an end in late July of 1961.

I lost track of most of these guys after the cruising ended. Two went into the service, one guy moved to California, and one got married, but I’ll never forget the summers when we rode to our destinations in Bob’s convertible.

John Stanger is a lifelong resident of Oak Park, a 1957 graduate of OPRF High School, married with three grown children and five grandchildren, and a retired English professor (Elmhurst College). Living two miles from where he grew up, he hasn’t gotten far in 78 years.

BLESOFF

connect with others.

Teaching gerontology to high school students can, as Sandy Pastore says, “positively change their perceptions of age and ability through understanding how individuals are adaptive and resilient throughout life.”

That’s a legacy we should all strive to leave.

Marc Blesoff is a former Oak Park village trustee, co-founder of the Windmills softball organization, co-creator of Sunday Night Dinner, a retired criminal defense attorney, and a novice beekeeper.

He currently facilitates Conscious Aging Workshops and Wise Aging Workshops in the Chicago area.

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Besides a better prepared workforce, teaching high school students about the “older people” elephant in the room can help those younger people develop a healthier outlook on their own aging. Also, it will create a workforce that better understands cultural and ethnic diversity and how to build rapport and

O B I T U A R I E S

George Tsatsos, 93 George C. Tsatsos, M.D., 93, served in the U.S. Army 97th Signal Battalion during World War II, then attended Indiana University on the GI Bill, earning undergraduate and medical degrees. He became an orthopedic surgeon who practiced from Gottlieb, Westlake, and Oak Park Hospitals in the western suburbs for over 40 years.

Born to Charles George and Irene (Antonaki) in Hammond, Indiana, he was preceded in death by Aphrodite (nee Lekousi), his wife of 35 years, in 1995.

George Tsatsos was the father of Irene (Alan Tollefson), Charles (Ann Marie), Helen (Jon Langford), Eustacia (Brian) Joseph, Mary Tsatsos (Miguel Ochoa), and Dorothy Tsatsos; the grandfather of 12; brother of the late Helen (Mike) Kapnas, the late Thomas (Marva), and John (Hatsue); and the uncle of many nieces and nephews. In 1998 he married Kally Rembos.

George actively supported the cultural

Ruth Hamilton

Poet, actor, journalist, sparkling wit Ruth Hulburt Hamilton died in Evanston on June 26, 2018. Born in Kirksville, Missouri in 1921, she lived most of her life as a devoted Oak Parker. When she graduated from Oak Park and River Forest High, she decided to study acting. In her year at the Goodman School of Drama she was cast as a thorn bush in Sleeping Beauty. The director criticized her in rehearsal, saying she was not brambling properly. She then attended Pomona ColRUTH HAMILTON lege and later graduated with a degree in English Literature from Rosary College (now Dominican University) in River Forest.

In 1943 she married Allen Beye Hamilton.

During her long and happy marriage, she wrote poems, several of which were published in the Ladies Home Journal. Her poem, “Song for a Fifth Child,” has been cherished through the decades by generations of mothers.

In addition to raising five children, she had many vocations, acting in community-theater productions, working at Oak Park High, and writing profiles of actors that appeared in the Chicago Daily News and many others newspapers. Her pieces had her signature sparkle, wit, and generosity. She wrote such a charming letter to Lynne Fontanne that the actress, who with her husband Alfred Lunt had long since stopped giving interviews, granted her an audience.

Ruth spent the last 10 years of her life at the Presbyterian Home in Evanston. Among her many gifts was her great capacity for happiness, a gift that touched everyone she met. She will be

treasures of the city of Chicago, in particular the Chicago Symphony and the Lyric Opera.

He benefited greatly from his patients, and strove to be honest, trustworthy, and loyal to them.

Family and friends met on June 28 for visitation and a funeral service at Holy Apostles Greek Orthodox Church in Westchester, followed by interment at Elmwood Cemetery.

Arrangements were handled by Nicholas M. Pishos Funeral Director.

The family suggests memorial contributions be made to the Sierra Club or to Boys Town of Omaha, Nebraska.

Cheri Coffman, 64

Cheri Lynn Coffman, 64, died suddenly on June 22, 2018. She will be missed by her mother, Carolyn; her siblings, Don, Ted and Suzette; seven nieces and nephews; and her many friends.

A celebration of her life will be announced at a later date. remembered particularly for her profound joy by her friends; relations; her children Duncan, Bruce, Jeremy, and Jane; her son-in-law Bob Willard; and her grandchildren Allen and Duncan Riddell, and Ben and Hannah Willard. Her daughter Sarah and her husband predeceased her.

In lieu of flowers, please send contributions to the Employee Fund, The Geneva Foundation of Presbyterian Homes, or The Songs

by Heart Foundation. Services were held on June 29 at the Elliot Chapel on the Presbyterian Home campus.

Song for a Fifth Child Mother, oh mother, come shake out your cloth!

Empty the dustpan, poison the moth, Hang out the washing and butter the bread, Sew on a button and make up a bed.

Where is the mother whose house is so shocking?

She’s up in the nursery, blissfully rocking!

Oh, I’ve grown as shiftless as Little Boy Blue (Lullaby, rockaby, lullaby, loo).

Dishes are waiting and bills are past due (Pat-a-cake, darling, and peek, peekaboo).

The shopping’s not done and there’s nothing for stew And out in the yard there’s a hullabaloo But I’m playing Kanga and this is my Roo. Look! Aren’t her eyes the most wonderful hue?

(Lullaby, rockaby, lullaby loo.)

Oh, cleaning and scrubbing will wait till tomorrow, But children grow up, as I’ve learned to my sorrow.

So quiet down, cobwebs. Dust, go to sleep.

I’m rocking my baby. Babies don’t keep.

Ruth Hulburt Hamilton

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324 N. Oak Park Avenue 708-383-4983 www.firstUMCoakpark.org Sunday School for all Ages, 9am Sunday Worship, 10am Children’s Chapel during Worship Rev. Katherine Thomas Paisley, Pastor Professionally Staffed Nursery Fellowship Time after Worship

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7300 W. Division, River Forest David R. Lyle, Senior Pastor David W. Wegner, Assoc. Pastor Lauren Dow Wegner, Assoc. Pastor Sunday Worship, 8:30 & 11:00 a.m.

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OAK PARK MEETING OF FRIENDS (Quakers) Meeting For Worship Sundays at 10:00 a.m. at Oak Park Art League 720 Chicago Ave., Oak Park Please call 708-445-8201 www.oakparkfriends.org

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

Christ Lutheran Church

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

St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church

305 Circle Ave, Forest Park Sunday Worship, 9:30am Adult Bible Class, 10:45am Wheelchair Access to Sanctuary Leonard Payton, Pastor Roney Riley, Assistant Pastor 708-366-3226 www.stjohnforestpark.org

St. Bernardine Catholic Church Harrison & Elgin, Forest Park

CELEBRATING OUR 107TH YEAR! Sat. Masses: 8:30am & 5:00pm SUNDAY MASSES: 8:00am & 10:30am 10:30 Mass-Daycare for all ages CCD Sun. 9am-10:15am Reconciliation: Sat. 9am & 4pm Weekday Masses: Monday–Friday 6:30am Church Office: 708-366-0839 CCD: 708-366-3553 www.stbern.com Pastor: Fr. Stanislaw Kuca

St. Giles Family Mass Community

We welcome all to attend Sunday Mass at 10 a.m. on the St. Giles Parish campus on the second floor of the school gym, the southernmost building in the school complex at 1034 North Linden Avenue.

Established in 1970, we are a laybased community within St. Giles Roman Catholic Parish.

Our Mass is family-friendly.

We encourage liturgically active toddlers. Children from 3 to 13 and young adults play meaningful parts in each Sunday liturgy.

Together with the parish, we offer Catechesis of the Good Shepherd, a Montessori-based religious education program for children in grades K-8.

For more information, go to http://www.stgilesparish.org/ family-mass-community or call Bob Wielgos at 708-288-2196.

Traditional Catholic

808 S. East Ave. 708/848-2703 www.ascensionoakpark.com Worship: Saturday Mass 5:00 pm Sunday Masses 7:30, 9:00, 11 am, 5:00 pm Sacrament of Reconciliation 4 pm Saturday Taize Prayer 7:30 pm First Fridays Feb.– Dec. & Jan. 1

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St. Edmund Catholic Church

188 South Oak Park Ave. Saturday Mass: 5:30 p.m.

Sunday Masses: 9:00 & 11:00 a.m.

Weekday Mass: 8:30 a.m. M–F Holy Day Masses: As Announced Reconciliation: Saturday 4:15 p.m.

Parish Office: 708-848-4417 Religious Ed Phone: 708-848-7220

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

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SYSTEMS ANALYST The Village of Oak Park is seeking qualified candidates for the position of Systems Analyst in the Information Technology Department.

Applicant will need to be knowledgeable and capable to apply the principles and techniques of various program- ming languages, database, computer programming, on-line programming and programming documentation. Additional skillsets include systems analysis and design techniques, such as database normalization, business analysis, workflow procedure, modular programming, stored procedures, and interface with operating system.

Our technology environment consists of MS-SQL & Tools, Superion OneSolution CAD/RMS, CityView Permit, Licensing & Inspections, ERSI ArcGIS, Laserfiche and web software (Java, HTML, Adobe ColdFusion and Drupal). http://www. oak-park.us/ . Interested and qualified applicants must complete a Village of Oak Park application (First review of applications will be on July 23, 2018).

PART-TIME CASHIER The Village of Oak Park is seeking qualified candidates for the position of Part-Time Cashier in the Finance Department. This position will perform all clerical tasks related to the cash receipt function. Collect process and deposit payments made to the Village received directly from customers, via mail, or lockbox or from other internal departments. 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 no later than July 13, 2018.

PUBLIC HEALTH NURSE The Village of Oak Park is seeking qualified candidates for the position of Public Health Nurse in the Health Department. This position is responsible for the management of Family Case Management and grant deliverables and will serve as back-up for a variety of tasks including health education and promotion, disseminating information, making referrals, and counseling as well as managing caseloads, and performing a variety of tasks relative to assigned area of responsibility. Applicants are encouraged to visit the Village of Oak Park’s website http:// www.oakpark.us/. Interested and qualified applicants must complete a Village of Oak Park application no later than July 13, 2018.

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We need Personal Assistants to provide non-medical support & assistance for our age 50+ clients’ needs as they live their best lives in their own homes. A successful Personal Assistant provides quality personal service with a smile & is able to adapt to the needs of the client, is organized & efficient while working independently.

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SUBURBAN REAL ESTATE NEW CONCEPT FOR MAYWOOD

In this quiet residential neighborhood

902 S. 3RD AVENUE (2 blks W of 1st Ave & 1 blk N of Madison)

Reserve your own affordable 2 or 3 BR condo unit of 1000+ sq ft of living space being built on this historic site. You’ll benefit from a unique 12-year tax freeze and lower monthly living expenses from energy saving systems/appliances, and you can help design your own individual unit. Plans also include building 5 new townhomes onsite.

For details Call 708-383-9223.

SUBURBAN RENTALS OAK PARK HOME FOR RENT Single Family Home for rent in OP Historic District Mann School District Single Family Home in Central Oak Park in the Horace Mann school district on a quiet double block.

This home has 3 Bedrooms plus a bonus room that can be used as an office or child’s playroom, 2 full Bathrooms, full Basement, nice yard and 2 car Garage. Gourmet Kitchen, Fireplace, Central A/C. $3,000/ month.

Call Bill at (708) 341-2178 for showing. Immediate availability.

FOREST PARK 2BR APT Spacious 7RM, 2BR 1BA. 1400 SF, 1st floor of 2-flat. Living rm, Dining rm, Office & Den. Shared laundry in bsmt. Finished wood floors throughout. Ample closets. Convenient to Blue & Green Lines. Near 290 & Madison St. shopping. 1 pkg space & water incl. Tenants pay util. No smoking & No pets. 1 1/2 mo. sec. dep & credit check. $1550 per month. Call Evelyn 708-527-5405.

SUBURBAN RENTALS RIVER FOREST 2BR 2BA 2 Bedrooms, 2 Baths, 2 Walk-in Closets, pantry, hardwood floors, storage, laundry, parking, heat & water incl. $1300.00/mo.

Call 708-657-4226

CITY RENTALS AUSTIN/ROOSEVELT 2 BR Austin/Roosevelt, close to Blue Line, expressway, 5 rooms, 2 BR, enclosed back porch, $1050 and utilities (security deposit), 708-2188463 or auntymj@att.net

ROOMS FOR RENT AUSTIN CLEAN ROOM With fridge, micro.

Nr Oak Park, Super Walmart, Food 4 Less, bus, & Metra. $116/wk and up.

773-637-5957 Large Sunny Room with fridge & microwave. Near Green line, bus, Oak Park, 24 hour desk, parking lot. $101.00 week & up. New Mgmt.

773-378-8888

CHURCH FOR RENT OAK PARK CLASSIC CHURCH FOR RENT

Includes Sanctuary, Fellowship Hall, Kitchen, Midweek Service/ Bible Study, Office Options.

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GARAGE/YARD SALES Forest Park

HUGE 25TH ANNIVERSARY DOWNSIZING SALE! PART 2 547 MARENGO AVE FRI - SAT - SUN 7/6 7/7 7/8 9AM TO 5PM

Don’t Miss This Sale!

Something for everyone! Many quality items. Collectibles: China, Glass, Silver; Some furniture; Luggage; Some art; Kitchen appliances & gadgets; Some garden supplies; Several newer air conditioners; Some tools; Too Much To List! No early birds.

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GARAGE SALE 427 THOMAS SAT 7/7 9AM TO 12PM

Furniture, household items, golf clubs/balls, wood entry bench, clothing, beanie babies & more.

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GARAGE SALE 1123 SCHNEIDER AVE SAT 7/7 9AM TO 2PM

Wide selection of items – 28 ft. ladder, yard tools and equipment, clothes, household items and more.

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GARAGE SALE 947 FOREST AVE SAT 7/7 8AM TO 12PM

Toys, books, videos, clothes, bike, Wii games, leotards, Barbie castle & house, and much more.

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MULTI-FAMILY GARAGE SALE 500-600 BLKS S EUCLID FRI–SAT–SUN JULY 6-8 9AM TO 3PM

One person’s trash is another person’s treasure, especially if treats are included.

Books, CDs, VHS cassettes, dishes, clothing for all ages, hats, purses, grills and much, much more.

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HUGE FAMILY GARAGE SALE 622 N FOREST SAT 6/7 8AM TO 2PM

Toys, clothing, furniture, household items, books, antique work bench, swing set and more.

Oak Park

MULTI-FAMILY ALLEY SALE 400 BLK N LOMBARD SAT 7/7 8AM TO 3PM

Nice furniture, clothes & shoes, games/toys, books, sports gear, household items, antiques, bikes, commercial sewing machine.

Don’t miss it!

ITEMS FOR SALE BAVARIAN CHINA 12 5-piece place settings of Bavarian china with Greek key borders.

708-488-8755 HEAVY WROUGHT IRON SETTEE & COCKTAIL TABLE White. $69.00 Call 708-488-8755.

PROFESSIONAL CARPENTER’S TOOLS 2 32ft Ladders 1 16ft Aluminum Plank Mechanic’s tools Call Bill at 312.388.4454

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ITEMS FOR SALE ROOMBA DISCOVERY VACUUM $99.00 708-488-8755 SOFA/LOVESEAT plus complimentary coffee table & end tables. $450 or best reasonable offer. Furniture is in good condition.

Selling due to relocation Cash Only Only interested parties need respond to: angelabrown5355@gmail.com.

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

LOST & FOUND FOREST PARK FOUND TOOL BOX Found 6/21 in alley between Circle Avenue and Marengo–northeast side of town: medium size heavy tool box/case with items inside. If you can identify the brand name on the box/case and the contents, contact franklinmarengo@gmail.com.

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT, COUNTY DIVISION IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT, COUNTY DIVISION IN THE MATTER OF THE VILLAGE OF BROOKFIELD, COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS, SPECIAL ASSESSMENT FOR ALLEY IMPROVEMENTS IN THE 3500 BLOCK BETWEEN FOREST AVENUE AND PRAIRIE AVENUE

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VILLAGE OF BROOKFIELD 2018 COSA 000002 SPECIAL ASSESSMENT NO. 361

SPECIAL ASSESSMENT NOTICE Notice is hereby given to all persons interested that the Board of Trustees of the Village of Brookfield, Cook County, Illinois, having ordered the construction of an alley consisting of the excavation of the alley right-of-way, construction of a Portland cement concrete pavement sixteen feet (16â&#x20AC;&#x2122;) in width together with the installation of storm water drainage facilities, miscellaneous grading and landscaping along the edges of the new pavement and other necessary related work on and along the public alley located the 3500 block between Forest Avenue and Prairie Avenue and legally described as: BLOCK 405 OF GROSSDALE, A SUBDIVISION IN THE SOUTHEAST 1/4 OF SECTION 34, TOWNSHIP 39 NORTH, RANGE 12 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, IN COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS, in accordance with the Ordinance for said improvement being on file in the office of the Village Clerk of the Village of Brookfield, having applied to the Circuit Court of Cook County for an assessment of the costs of the improvement, according to benefits, and an assessment therefor having been made and returned to that court, that said Assessment is payable in ten (10) installments bearing interest at the rate of six percent (6%) per annum. The final hearing thereon will be had on the 20th day of July 2018, at 10:00 a.m. or as soon thereafter as the business of the court will permit before the Honorable Robert W. Bertucci in room 1704 of the Richard J. Daley Center, 50 W. Washington Street, Chicago, Illinois. All persons desiring may file objections in that court before that day and may appear on the hearing and make their defense.

DATED this 25th day of June 2018.

VILLAGE OF BROOKFIELD By:

JAMES R. MANN, Officer Levying Assessment

By:

KIT P. KETCHMARK, President Board of Local Improvements

Published in RBLandmark 6/27, 7/4/18

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING VILLAGE OF BROOKFIELD PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION JULY 26th, 2018 AT 7:00 P.M.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING VILLAGE OF BROOKFIELD PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION JULY 26th, 2018 AT 7:00 P.M.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING VILLAGE OF BROOKFIELD PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION JULY 26th, 2018 AT 7:00 P.M.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Village of Brookfield Planning and Zoning Commission will conduct a public hearing on Thursday, July 26th, 2018 at 7:00 p.m. in the Edward Barcal Hall located at 8820 Brookfield Avenue, Brookfield, Illinois to consider an application filed for variations of Chapter 62-Zoning of the Code of Ordinances, Village of Brookfield, Illinois. The proposed variations are regarding a property located at 4540 Prairie, Brookfield, Illinois (PIN 18-03-427-059).

NOTICE is hereby given that the Village of Brookfield Planning and Zoning Commission will conduct a public hearing on Thursday, July 26th, 2018 at 7:00 p.m. in the Edward Barcal Hall located at 8820 Brookfield Avenue, Brookfield, Illinois to consider an application filed for a variation of Chapter 62-Zoning of the Code of Ordinances, Village of Brookfield, Illinois. The proposed variation is regarding a property located at 4605 Dubois Boulevard, Brookfield, Illinois (PINs 18-03-324-004, 005, and 047).

NOTICE is hereby given that the Village of Brookfield Planning and Zoning Commission will conduct a public hearing on Thursday, July 26th, 2018 at 7:00 p.m. in the Edward Barcal Hall located at 8820 Brookfield Avenue, Brookfield, Illinois to consider an application filed for variations of Chapter 62-Zoning of the Code of Ordinances, Village of Brookfield, Illinois. The proposed variations are regarding a property located at 3940 Sunnyside, Brookfield, Illinois (PINs 18-03-202-041, -042 and -043).

Legal Description: Lot 5 in Bishopâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and Richardsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Resubdivision of Part of Auspitz and Oakes Brookfield Park, according to the plat thereof recorded April 27, 1925 as document no. 8882205 in the Recorderâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Office in Cook County, Illinois in Section 3, Township 38 North, Range 12 East of the Third Principal Meridian, according to the plat thereof recorded October 24, 1969 as document no. 20995312 in Cook County, Illinois.

The public is invited to attend the public hearing and present oral and/ or written comments.

The application including the proposed variations may be viewed at the Village of Brookfield Village Hall during normal business hours.

Written comments may be provided prior to the public hearing to: Village of Brookfield, Planning and Zoning Commission c/o Nicholas Greifer, 8820 Brookfield Avenue, Brookfield, IL 60513. Please reference PZC Case 18-10.

Individuals with disabilities requiring a reasonable accommodation in order to participate in any meeting should contact the Village of Brookfield (708) 485-7344 prior to the meeting. Wheelchair access is available through the front (South) entrance of Village Hall.

By Order of Chuck Grund, Planning and Zoning Commission Chairman.

Published in RB Landmark 7/4/2018

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Legal Description: Lot 45 and 46 and the South 15 feet of Lot 47 in Block 25 in West Grossdale, a Subdivision in the West ½ of the West ½ of Section 3, Township 38 North, Range 12 East of the Third Principal Meridian, in Cook County, Illinois.

The public is invited to attend the public hearing and present oral and/ or written comments.

The application including the proposed variations may be viewed at the Village of Brookfield Village Hall during normal business hours.

Written comments may be provided prior to the public hearing to: Village of Brookfield, Planning and Zoning Commission c/o Nicholas Greifer, 8820 Brookfield Avenue, Brookfield, IL 60513. Please reference PZC Case 18-08.

Individuals with disabilities requiring a reasonable accommodation in order to participate in any meeting should contact the Village of Brookfield (708) 485-7344 prior to the meeting. Wheelchair access is available through the front (South) entrance of Village Hall.

By Order of Chuck Grund, Planning and Zoning Commission Chairman.

Published in RB Landmark 7/4/2018

Legal Description: Lots 29 and 30 in Block 70 in Gross Third Addition to Grossdale, in Section 3, Township 38 North, Range 12 East of the Third Principal Meridian, in Cook County, Illinois.

The public is invited to attend the public hearing and present oral and/ or written comments.

The application including the proposed variations may be viewed at the Village of Brookfield Village Hall during normal business hours.

Written comments may be provided prior to the public hearing to: Village of Brookfield, Planning and Zoning Commission c/o Nicholas Greifer, 8820 Brookfield Avenue, Brookfield, IL 60513. Please reference PZC Case 18-09.

Individuals with disabilities requiring a reasonable accommodation in order to participate in any meeting should contact the Village of Brookfield (708) 485-7344 prior to the meeting. Wheelchair access is available through the front (South) entrance of Village Hall.

By Order of Chuck Grund, Planning and Zoning Commission Chairman.

Published in RB Landmark 7/4/2018

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PUBLIC NOTICE BID ADVERTISEMENT

PUBLIC NOTICE PUBLIC HEARING VILLAGE OF NORTH RIVERSIDE

Notice is hereby given that the Village of Riverside will now be accepting sealed bid proposals for the Train Depot Platform Rehabilitation Project at the Village of Riverside, Department of Public Works, 3860 Columbus Blvd., Riverside, Illinois 60546 until 10:00 a.m., July 13, 2018 local time for the Train Depot Platform Rehabilitation Project at which time the bids will be publicly opened and read.

BID OPENING DATE: July 13 at 10:00 a.m.

DESCRIPTION: The proposed work is officially known as the Train Depot Platform Rehabilitation Project and further described as the following: This work consists of Removal and Reinstallation of existing Brick Pavers, Removal and Replacement of Existing Stair cases with ADA compliant features and Railings, Drainage Repairs, and Exposed Aggregate Sidewalk Installation to maintain the existing Trainstation Depot in the Village or Riverside.

BID SECURITY:10% Bid Bond or Cashier’s Check Prospective BIDDERS and suppliers may download contract documents from QuestCDN via the Christopher B. Burke Engineering, Ltd website http://cbbel.com/bidding-info/ or at www.questcdn.com under Login using QuestCDN# 5847852 for a non-refundable charge of $20.00.

A QuestCDN login will be required.

Contact QuestCDN.com at 952233-1632 or info@questcdn.com for assistance in membership registration and downloading this digital project information. A hard copy of the plans may also be viewed at the offices of the Christopher B. Burke Engineering, Ltd., 9575 W. Higgins Road, Rosemont, Illinois 60018.

Contractors must purchase bid

NOTICE OF AVAILABILITY OF THE PROPOSED APPROPRIATION FOR PUBLIC INSPECTION AND OF HOLDING A PUBLIC HEARING THEREIN Notice is hereby given that copies of the Proposed Appropriation for the Village of North Riverside for the Fiscal Year commencing May 1, 2018 to April 30, 2019 are available for public inspection during normal business hours at the Village Commons, 2401 South DesPlaines Avenue, North Riverside, Illinois or on the Village’s website at: www. northriverside-il.org.

PUBLIC NOTICES

LEGAL NOTICE Donald Rendler-Kaplan & Associates (24594) Attorney for Petitioner 831 N. Ashland Ave. Chicago, Illinoi2 60622 LEGAL NOTICE The Village of Oak Park will receive sealed bids at the Public Works Service Center, 201 South Boulevard, Oak Park, Illinois 60302, until 10:00 a.m. local time on Thursday, July 19th, 2018 for the following: Village of Oak Park Police Department Restroom Renovation Bid Number: 18-106

Notice is hereby given that a Public Appropriation Hearing shall be held by the Mayor and the Board of Trustees for the Village of North Riverside:

There will be a pre-bid walkthrough at Village Hall in the lower level PD lobby, 123 Madison St. on Wednesday, July 11th, 2018 at 9:00 a.m.

Date:Monday, July 23, 2018 Time:6:30 PM Place:Village Commons 2401 South DesPlaines Avenue North Riverside, Illinois

Bid forms may be obtained from the Public Works Customer Service Center by calling 708-3585700 or by stopping by the office located at 201 South Boulevard, Oak Park, Illinois between the hours of 7:30 a.m. and 4:00 p.m.

The Village of Oak Park reserves the right to issue proposal documents and specifications only to those vendors deemed qualified. No proposal documents will be issued after 4:00 p.m. on the working day preceding the date of proposal opening. For more information call the Public Works Service Center at 708.358.5700.

All interested persons may attend the meeting and shall have the right to present oral and written comments and suggestions regarding the proposed appropriation. After the public hearing and before final action is taken on the proposed annual appropriation ordinance, the Mayor and Board of Trustees may revise, alter, increase, or decrease any line item contained in the proposed annual appropriation ordinance.

Final action on the proposed annual appropriation ordinance will occur on July 23, 2018, at a special Village Board Meeting scheduled for immediately following the public hearing.

KATHY RANIERI VILLAGE CLERK NORTH RIVERSIDE, ILLINOIS Published in RB Landmark 7/4/2018

Published in RB Landmark 7/4/2018

THE VILLAGE OF OAK PARK Published in Wednesday Journal 7/4/2018

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT, COUNTY DIVISION IN THE MATTER OF THE VILLAGE OF BROOKFIELD, COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS, SPECIAL ASSESSMENT FOR ALLEY IMPROVEMENTS IN THE 4100 BLOCK BETWEEN DEYO AVENUE AND DUBOIS BOULEVARD

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VILLAGE OF BROOKFIELD 2018 COSA 000001 SPECIAL ASSESSMENT NO. 359

SPECIAL ASSESSMENT NOTICE Notice is hereby given to all persons interested that the Board of Trustees of the Village of Brookfield, Cook County, Illinois, having ordered the construction of an alley consisting of the excavation of the alley right-of-way, construction of a Portland cement concrete pavement within the alley right-of-way, installation of stormwater drainage facilities, replacement of existing garage aprons, restoration of disturbed landscaped areas adjacent to the alley right-of-way, and other related work as required for the construction of the local improvement, on and along the public alley located in the 4100 block between Deyo Avenue and DuBois Boulevard and legally described as: BLOCK 115 OF WEST GROSSDALE, BEING A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF THE WEST HALF OF THE WEST HALF OF SECTION 3, TOWNSHIP 38 NORTH, RANGE 12, EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, IN COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS, in accordance with the Ordinance for said improvement being on file in the office of the Village Clerk of the Village of Brookfield, having applied to the Circuit Court of Cook County for an assessment of the costs of the improvement, according to benefits, and an assessment therefor having been made and returned to that court, that said Assessment is payable in ten (10) installments bearing interest at the rate of six percent (6%) per annum. The final hearing thereon will be had on the 20th day of July 2018, at 10:00 a.m. or as soon thereafter as the business of the court will permit before the Honorable Robert W. Bertucci in room 1704 of the Richard J. Daley Center, 50 W. Washington Street, Chicago, Illinois. All persons desiring may file objections in that court before that day and may appear on the hearing and make their defense.

DATED this 25th day of June 2018.

VILLAGE OF BROOKFIELD By:

JAMES R. MANN, Officer Levying Assessment

By:

KIT P. KETCHMARK, President Board of Local Improvements

Published in RBLandmark 6/27, 7/4/18

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STATE OF ILLINOIS) COUNTY OF COOK )ss Circuit Court of Cook County, County Department, Domestic Relations Division.

In re the marriage of Zdravkovic Dorde, Petitioner and Lucyanna Pagan, Respondent, Case No. 2018D-002229.

The requisite affidavit for publication having been filed, notice is hereby given to you, the above named Respondent, that a Petition has been filed in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, by the Petitioner, for Dissolution of Marriage and for other relief; and that said suit is now pending.

Now, therefore, unless you, the said Respondent, file your response to said Petition or otherwise make your appearance therein, in the Office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, Room 802, Richard J. Daley Center, 50 West Washington Street, in the City of Chicago, Illinois, on or before August 7, 2018, default may be entered against you at any time after that day, and a judgment for Dissolution of Marriage entered in accordance with the prayer of said Petition.

DOROTHY A. BROWN, Clerk.

Published in Wednesday Journal 7/4, 7/11, 7/18/2018

REAL ESTATE FOR SALE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION SUNTRUST MORTGAGE, INC. Plaintiff, -v.GREGORY GARMON Defendants 10 CH 42289 1170 SOUTH HUMPHREY AVENUE OAK PARK, IL 60304 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on August 19, 2016, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on August 9, 2018, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 1170 SOUTH HUMPHREY AVENUE, OAK PARK, IL 60304 Property Index No. 16-17-331-0070000.

The real estate is improved with a yellow brick two story single family home with a two car detached garage.

Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition.

The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

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Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale.

The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information.

If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required

by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4).

If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1).

IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales.

McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce, LLC, Plaintiff’s Attorneys, One North Dearborn Street, Suite 1200, Chicago, IL 60602. Tel No. (312) 346-9088. Please refer to file number 7999.

THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales.

McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce, LLC One North Dearborn Street, Suite 1200 Chicago, IL 60602 (312) 346-9088 E-Mail: pleadings@mccalla.com Attorney File No. 7999 Attorney Code. 61256 Case Number: 10 CH 42289 TJSC#: 38-5401 I3092197

GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on April 16, 2018, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on August 9, 2018, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 169 NORTH GROVE AVENUE, UNIT 5B, Oak Park, IL 60301 Property Index No. 16071220181018.

The real estate is improved with a single family residence.

Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition.

The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale.

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. Please refer to file number 262368.

THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales.

McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce, LLC One North Dearborn Street, Suite 1200 Chicago, IL 60602

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION DITECH FINANCIAL LLC Plaintiff, -v.RANDALL J DOUGE, ANGELA BRIMAGE, GROVES TOWERS CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION, THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK AS SUCCESSOR INDENTURE TRUSTEE TO JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NA. AS INDENTURE TRUSTEE FOR THE CWHEQ REVOLVING HOME EQUITY LOAN TRUST, SERIES 2005-H, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants 17 CH 10370 169 NORTH GROVE AVENUE, UNIT 5B Oak Park, IL 60301 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY

REAL ESTATE FOR SALE (312) 346-9088 E-Mail: pleadings@mccalla.com Attorney File No. 262368 Attorney Code. 61256 Case Number: 17 CH 10370 TJSC#: 38-5393 I3092204 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY, AS TRUSTEE FOR ARGENT SECURITIES INC., ASSET-BACKED PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2005-W5 Plaintiff, -v.NORMA LOONEY, REGINALD LOONEY Defendants 16 CH 002444 518 48TH AVENUE BELLWOOD, IL 60104 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on October 3, 2016, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on July 18, 2018, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 518 48TH AVENUE, BELLWOOD, IL 60104 Property Index No. 15-08-408-062.

The real estate is improved with a single family residence.

Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition.

The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale.

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

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and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales.

For information, examine the court file or contact Plaintiff’s attorney: CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876 Please refer to file number 14-16-01836.

THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales.

CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100 BURR RIDGE, IL 60527 (630) 794-5300 E-Mail: pleadings@il.cslegal.com Attorney File No. 14-16-01836 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 16 CH 002444 TJSC#: 38-4958 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.

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representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information.

If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required

by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4).

If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/ 18.5(g-1).

IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales.

For information, examine the court file or contact Plaintiff’s attorney: CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876 Please refer to file number 14-16-15747.

THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales.

CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100 BURR RIDGE, IL 60527 (630) 794-5300 E-Mail: pleadings@il.cslegal.com Attorney File No. 14-16-15747 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 16 CH 016226 TJSC#: 38-4968 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.

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Commonly known as 2600 WESTBROOK DRIVE, Franklin Park, IL 60131 Property Index No. 12-28-408-0060000.

The real estate is improved with a single family residence.

The judgment amount was $237,186.44.

Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition.

The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale.

The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information.

If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required

by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4).

If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/ 18.5(g-1).

IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales.

For information, contact The sales clerk, SHAPIRO KREISMAN & ASSOCIATES, LLC, 2121 WAUKEGAN RD., SUITE 301, Bannockburn, IL 60015, (847) 2911717 For information call between the hours of 1pm–3pm. Please refer to file number 17-082182.

THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales.

SHAPIRO KREISMAN & ASSOCIATES, LLC 2121 WAUKEGAN RD., SUITE 301 Bannockburn, IL 60015 (847) 291-1717 E-Mail: ILNotices@logs.com Attorney File No. 17-082182 Attorney Code. 42168 Case Number: 17 CH 2461 TJSC#: 38-4979 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.

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The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information.

If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required

by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4).

If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/ 18.5(g-1).

IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales.

For information, contact Plaintiff’s attorney: POTESTIVO & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 223 WEST JACKSON BLVD, STE 610, Chicago, IL 60606, (312) 263-0003 Please refer to file number 105566.

THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales.

POTESTIVO & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 223 WEST JACKSON BLVD, STE 610 Chicago, IL 60606 (312) 263-0003 E-Mail: ilpleadings@potestivolaw.com Attorney File No. 105566 Attorney Code. 43932 Case Number: 17 CH 05948 TJSC#: 38-3890 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff’s attorney is deemed to be a debt collector at-

tempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

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If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required

by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4).

If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/ 18.5(g-1).

IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales.

For information, contact The sales clerk, SHAPIRO KREISMAN & ASSOCIATES, LLC, 2121 WAUKEGAN RD., SUITE 301, Bannockburn, IL 60015, (847) 2911717 For information call between the hours of 1pm–3pm. Please refer to file number 17-084020.

THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales.

SHAPIRO KREISMAN & ASSOCIATES, LLC 2121 WAUKEGAN RD., SUITE 301 Bannockburn, IL 60015 (847) 291-1717 E-Mail: ILNotices@logs.com Attorney File No. 17-084020 Attorney Code. 42168 Case Number: 17 CH 12163 TJSC#: 38-3985 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.

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC Plaintiff, -v.SHERYL L. CARR TOURVILLE, RONALD TOURVILLE, PNC BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION Defendants 16 CH 016226 1447 MANCHESTER AVENUE WESTCHESTER, IL 60154 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on June 22, 2017, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on July 18, 2018, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 1447 MANCHESTER AVENUE, WESTCHESTER, IL 60154 Property Index No. 15-21-211-0400000.

The real estate is improved with a residence.

Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition.

The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale.

The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION MIDFIRST BANK Plaintiff, -v.GRAZYNA M. WASIK A/K/A GRAZYNA WASIK, ANNA PAWLIK Defendants 17 CH 2461 2600 WESTBROOK DRIVE Franklin Park, IL 60131 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on February 23, 2018, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on July 18, 2018, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate:

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION HSBC BANK USA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS INDENTURE TRUSTEE FOR PEOPLE’S CHOICE HOME LOAN SECURITIES TRUST SERIES 2005-2 Plaintiff, -v.BETTY KELLY A/K/A BETTY J. KELLY, LATHROP TOWER CONDOMINIUMS Defendants 17 CH 05948 314 LATHROP AVENUE, APARTMENT #205 Forest Park, IL 60130 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on May 1, 2018, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on August 2, 2018, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 314 LATHROP AVENUE, APARTMENT #205, Forest Park, IL 60130 Property Index No. 15-12-429-0581013.

The real estate is improved with a condominium.

The judgment amount was $113,814.90.

Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition.

The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale.

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC D/ B/A MR. COOPER Plaintiff, -v.JOSE GARCIA, GRACIELA GARCIA Defendants 17 CH 12163 10304 WEST PALMER AVENUE Melrose Park, IL 60164 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on May 2, 2018, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on August 3, 2018, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 10304 WEST PALMER AVENUE, Melrose Park, IL 60164 Property Index No. 12-33-112-0220000.

The real estate is improved with a single family residence.

The judgment amount was $205,773.88.

Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition.

The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale.

The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information.

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Innovative League from page 36 returned to the United Center—the very place where he first met his role models—for recording artist/actor Ice Cube’s annual BIG3 tournament. Fans filed in to see the likes of familiar faces, including Maggette, Carlos Boozer, Metta World Peace, Drew Gooden, Brian Scalabrine, Quentin Richardson and Nate Robinson. BIG3 coaches include NBA legends like Julius “Dr. J” Erving, George “Iceman” Gervin and Rick Barry. Fellow celebrities joined Ice Cube such as LL Cool J and actor Michael Rapaport.

“Being a Chicagoan and getting the chance to come really means a lot,” Maggette said. “I mean I remember the days of Michael Jordan playing in this building. To still have the chance to play here at a high level really shows what the BIG3 is trying to do.”

This time, however, the 6-foot-6 Maggette was on the other side of the ball where he scored 16 points pushing team Power to a 50-44 victory over 3’s Company. On Power, Maggette serves as team captain and his teammates include Glen Davis, Cuttino Mobley, Chris “Birdman” Andersen and Richardson.

Finishing off a 14-year, six-team career in the NBA in 2013, this is Maggette’s second consecutive appearance in the BIG3. In last year’s inaugural season, Maggette was good for a stellar performance in the first week, scoring 15 in his league debut. Maggette’s success, however, was cut short after suffering a crushing, season-ending Achilles injury.

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(Top left) LL Cool J, left, and Ice Cube talk between games on Friday, June 29, 2018, during the Big 3 games at the United Center in Chicago. (Left) Julius “Dr. J” Erving comes out to coach. (Above) Carlos Boozer looks up to take a shot.

After months of rehab, it was questionable whether Maggette would play, let alone produce strong performances on the court.

Maggette says the rehab process took a lot out of the competitive 38-year-old, but that it was made easier by the community of people who supported his recovery.

“It was nerve-wracking,” Maggette said. “I retired because of some injuries, but I had a few good trainers to help me through.”

Such setbacks didn’t seem to phase Maggette on Friday though, as he took charge early, earning 12 points by halftime and giving Power a comfortable lead.

Through his recovery, Maggette’s teammates lauded at his off-the-court precision and good health, attributing it to his speedy recovery.

“Corey takes care of his body so much even when we play,” Mobley said. “He definitiely doesn’t take the game for granted, I mean he teaches me how to take care of my body. He’s definitely a pro’s pro.”

As a player who wears his competitive nature on his sleeve, Maggette appeared locked in throughout the game’s second half, as he took charge when 3’s Company was threating late. In crunch time, a steadfast Maggette flawlessly sped down the court, putting in the game-winning shot.

Eager to remind the home crowd of his talent, Maggette allowed his experience to take over on the court.

Known for his calm and polite demeanor off the court, this is nothing out of the ordinary for the former star who has recently picked up a television gig as an analyst. Fol-

lowing the game, Maggette’s ebullient personality was on full display, laughing with teammates, taking photos with fans and greeting his loved ones at the end of the tunnel.

Maggete serves as a role model for local high school student athletes who now play on the same court he once did.

Beginning in 2006, Maggette established the “Corey Cares Foundation,” dedicated to giving back to the less fortunate. Additionally, he hosted the Corey Maggette Flight 50 Basketball Camp at Fenwick, where proceeds went to his foundation. Flight 50 went on to receive the award for “NBA Player’s Best Camp.”

Becoming a highly regarded NBA player just years out of high school, Maggette received star treatment. While players often lose touch with their communities for a variety of reasons, Maggette keeps coming back to the community that supported a kid who dreamed big.

“I could have made a ton of decisions, not to go to Fenwick, but this was the road,” Maggette said. “The road to Fenwick was able to get me to the NBA, to a successful career and most of all to my family.”

“It’s been such a blessing,” Maggette said. “I really tip my hat to Fenwick.”

Perhaps Maggette’s most symbolic tribute to his formative Friar days appears on his back. Since his time at Fenwick, Maggette has worn the jerseys of six different NBA teams, but each of those bearing the number 50 on his jersey, serving as a sentimental reminder of home.

Some players wear their hearts on their sleeves. Corey Maggette wears it on the number on his back.

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Rivalry revisited on gridiron OPRF and Fenwick freshmen football teams square off in 7-on-7 scrimmage

By ANDREW DONLAN Contributing Reporter

It wasn’t a Friday in autumn under the lights, but the Fenwick Friars and Oak Park River Forest Huskies did square off on a football field last week. On June 28, the two freshmen squads competed in a 7-on-7 scrimmage and a linemen challenge at OPRF. The offensive team would start at the opponent’s 40-yard-line and get ten plays to score as many times as possible. Each team was rewarded a point for either scoring on offense or forcing a turnover on defense.

Fenwick won the first two series, and OPRF took home the last three. The 7-on-7 format only includes skilled positions players—a quarterback, running backs, and wide receivers—and the play is over once an offensive player is touched by a defensive player with two hands.

It was the first external competition either of the teams faced this year; both teams had only had a few practices under their belts before the game. For some of the players, it was the first organized football scrimmage they’d ever played in.

“It’s a whole different pace than just playing against each other,” OPRF freshman coach Joe Conway said. “You can tell that there are a lot of guys still picking up the basics.”

Both teams visibly improved game by game, and all players played for each team by the end of the scrimmage. In the early going, Fenwick quarterback Kaden Cobb had his way with the OPRF defense. Cobb threw five touchdown passes in the first 20 plays of the scrimmage, rarely missing his wide receiver targets. “(Kaden) is a very talented kid and definitely a winner,” Fenwick coach Mark Vruno said. “We’re very fortune to have him and the sky is the limit for him.”

OPRF also has the luxury of having a talented player at the most important position.

Drew Kunkel was on the mark on the majority of his throws, but OPRF’s wide receivers struggled catching the ball early on.

Of course, with no rush to worry about, things were made easier for each team’s quarterbacks. Kunkel and Cobb showed incredible potential in their first live action of the season.

The crowd surely wasn’t as large as it

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A Fenwick offensive player runs with the ball on Thursday, June 28, during a freshmen football scrimmage at OPRF’s football stadium against host OPRF. would be for a varsity game in the fall, but just the idea of the crosstown rivals playing on the same field yielded a decent crowd for a 7-on-7 matchup in June.

Although Vruno and Conway expressed their desire for a varsity matchup in the regular season for the two teams in the future, Fenwick Athletic Director Scott Thies said that there were no plans for that to happen in the near future.

After the 7-on-7, the linemen got to have their fun, competing in relay races throwing medicine balls and drills where a lineman for each team would try to pull a tire and their opponent backwards five yards.

“I’d love to get back to the old days where we actually play each other in the regular season,” Coach Vruno said. “But it’s great to have these guys get out there and compete against their village rival anyway.”

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Maggette comes home with BIG3 Former Fenwick hoops star visits Chicago as a player in Ice Cube’s league

By EUGENE WHITE JR.

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n the winter of 1999, Orlando Magic rookie Corey Maggette traveled to Chicago for his debut against his hometown team, the Bulls.

After relocating to Florida from a brief stint at Duke University and previously his Bellwood home, Maggette’s return to the Windy City was met with recognition from NBA stars he only dreamed of playing with or against, including Scottie Pippen and the always flamboyant Charles Barkley.

Maggette, 38, grew up in Bellwood and graduated from Fenwick in 1998.

During his time at Fenwick, Maggette had a decorated basketball career, earning three Parade AllAmerican selections, 1998 McDonald’s All-American recognition and a Most Valuable Player Award at the Wendy’s Classic.

Maggette amassed 2,450 points and more than 1,000 rebounds as a fouryear varsity starter for the Friars.

He’s regarded as the greatest player in program history and his No. 50 jersey is retired at the school.

Off the court, his development has been substantial as well courtesy of his experience at Fenwick.

“In that process, you see so much love from the school,” Maggette said about Fenwick. “You see so much heart, you see so much accountability, and they push you to try to get to the next level.”

When Maggette wasn’t playing hoops, he joined the Friars’ track and field team. Picking up the sport on the side, Maggette eventually finished as a state finalist in the triple jump and long jump.

“Fenwick really gave me an opportunity for diversity,” Maggette said. “Coming from a predominantly African-American community, Fenwick really opened my eyes. It gave me a chance to intermingle and learn how to co-exist.”

On Friday evening, Maggette See BIG3 on page 34 Courtesy Getty Images/BIG3

Corey Maggette (#50) elevates for a lay up during a BIG3 game. The league, run by recording artist/actor Ice Cube, features former NBA players like Maggette. The 6-foot-6 forward graduated from Fenwick in 1998.

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