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August 8, 2018 Vol. 38, No. 2 ONE DOLLAR

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Village sticks festivals with big fees

Supposed lost parking revenue means big cost for organizers By TIMOTHY INKLEBARGER Staff Reporter

Thursday Night Out, What’s Blooming on Harrison and the Microbrew Review are just a few of the street festivals that call Oak Parkers, along with those outside of the village, to gather for a little fun in the sun before the temperature starts to drop. But organizers are feeling a lot less festive this year after being hit with thousands of dollars in new fees by the village of Oak Park. The Oak Park Board of Trustees directed village staff last year to look into recouping some of the costs associated with the festivals, particular those resulting from lost parking revenue from metered spots and village-owned parking lots in the business districts that are shut down due to festivals. See FEES on page 13

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BUBBLING OVER: Dan Schedler, Around The Bend Brewery CEO, talks about how the beers are made at the Around The Bend Brewery in Chicago’s Pullman neighborhood.

Oak Park beers on the grow

Local operation expands, while another brewer from the village plans Chicago tap room By TIMOTHY INKLEBARGER Staff Reporter

It’s been a good couple of years for beer in Oak Park, with the opening of several microbreweries and the expansion of the village’s first beer operation Kinslahger Brew-

ing Company at 6806 Roosevelt Rd. Oak Parker’s also might have noticed in the last few years the introduction of beers by Around the Bend Beer Company at local watering holes like Kinderhook Tap and Bricks Wood Fired Pizza. While Around the Bend is made in the

Pullman neighborhood of Chicago, its owner, Dan Schedler, is an Oak Parker. We recently toured both Kinslahger and Around the Bend to learn that both operations are expanding. See BEER on page 12

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I N S I D E

R E P O R T

‘America to me’ is all the rage America to Me, the Steve James documentary series that focuses on the equity gap at Oak Park and River Forest High School, makes its TV premiere on the Starz channel on Aug. 26, but some Oak Parkers will have a look at the series even sooner than that. A community screening and conversation about the film will take place at 7 p.m. on Aug. 13, at the Lake Theatre, 1022 Lake St. in Oak Park. Tickets for the general public are no longer available, with district officials pointing out on the school’s Facebook page that “all were gone within an hour.” In addition to the screening, there will be live screenings, watch parties and discussions of the series held across Oak Park throughout the documentary’s 10week run on Starz. The Oak Park Public Library is giving out 115 tickets on a first-come, firstserved basis for a series of watch parties and discussions that it will hold at the

NYC political upset echoes in Oak Park

There’s at least one Oak Park connection to the improbable and meteoric rise of Alexandria OcasioCortez, the 28-year-old Democratic Socialist who upset powerful Congressman Joe Crowley in the Democratic primary in New York’s 14th congressional district. Some are calling OcasioCortez inspirational, some even call her dangerous, but Anthony Clark — the OPRF High School teacher, community activist and former congressional candidate — calls her “homie.” “Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is truly inspiring,” Clark said in a Facebook post. “I now believe that we can have politicians who truly represent and fight for the people they serve.” Both Clark and Ocasio-Cortez were candidates who ran with Brand New Congress and Justice Democrats, two organizations that were outgrowths of the presidential campaign of U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont. Since Ocasio-Cortez’s successful campaign, Clark has introduced her at political rallies. He even made a quick appearance on Fox News (you can get

main branch library, 834 Lake St., each Sunday the documentary airs. In addition, Live Café, in collaboration with the nonprofit Suburban Unity Alliance, will host a premiere viewing party and discussion at the café, 163 S. Oak Park Ave. in Oak Park, on Aug. 26. Registration is required. Live Café and SUA will host a series of additional viewing parties and discussions every other Monday at 7 p.m. from Sept. 10 through Nov. 5.

Potter-ville Henry Wright, 9, left, attempts to shoot the ball through the ring against Loyola University student Jessica Anger last Saturday, during a practice game of Quidditch at Scoville Park in Oak Park.

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a glimpse of him as he’s handing the microphone off to Ocasio-Cortez). Clark, who lost a March 20 Democratic primary race against Congressman Danny K. Davis (7th), did well for a first-time candidate running against a powerful incumbent. Clark garnered 26 percent of the total vote, but took 40 percent of the suburban vote. He’s vowed to run for the position again. Next time, Ocasio-Cortez may be handing the mic off to him.

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OPRF grad raps about struggles at Lolla

Oak Park and River Forest High School graduate Frederick McCulloch-Burton performed at Lollapalooza on Aug. 2, under his hip-hop stage name, Supa Bwe

(pronounced Supa Boy). Since graduating from OPRF in 2008, Supa has spent nearly a decade making music, working himself into an enviable spot in the Chicago hip-hop scene: He has collaborated with Chance the Rapper, Twista, Mick Jenkins and more. He self-released his first album, Finally Dead, in December 2017, and it peaked at number three on the iTunes store’s HipHop/Rap chart, right beneath Jay-Z’s 4:44 and Fabolous and Jadakiss’ collaborative Friday on Elm Street. Finally Dead boasted more than 15 million streams in under two months, “leading Supa Bwe to be the front-running talent out of Chicago,” the Lollapalooza website reads. Supa grew up in the Austin neighborhood on the West Side of the city, where he was raised by a British mother and a Chicagoan father. He moved to Oak Park when he was 14, and told the Chicago Reader that he felt ostracized there and often got into fights. “When I lived in the hood, I was carefree as [expletive] — I didn’t know I was black, I didn’t know I was poor, I didn’t know I was anything, I was just outside, rolling in dirt — I didn’t give a [expletive],” he told the Chicago Reader in April. “Then when I moved to the suburbs, different standards, beauty standards, and all that [expletive] started coming around. You start to care about

different [expletive] that you never really cared about before. It kind of chips away at who you are on the inside — I feel like I’m one of the people who came out of that [expletive] weird as hell. I have the voice in the back of my head that’s like, an adolescent, white suburban kid that’s just like, ‘Those are dirty-ass shoes, eww. Why do you fight so much? Eww.’ Just calling me ghetto.” His strained relationship with Oak Park is referenced in his song “Down Comes the Spaceman.” Follow his work at www.supabwe.com.

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BIG WEEK A Play + A Pint: “Little Gem” Sunday, Aug. 12, 2 to 4 p.m., Hamburger Mary’s: Enjoy a casual play reading by Oak Park Festival Theatre. This month, see a family of middle-class, Irish women tell their story, including a party girl, her salsa-dancing compulsive mother, and a grandmother exploring the meaning of pleasure as she looks after her ill husband. Doors open at noon for dining. $12, Adult Tastes includes beer/wine. Tickets/more: oakparkfestival.com, 708-3009396. 155 S. Oak Park Ave., Oak Park. on Tap

Night Stalkers Bats Friday, Aug. 10, 7:30 to 9 p.m., Trailside Museum: Use bat-detecting equipment to see what they are up to when night falls. Ages 10+ and adults. Free. Register: 708-366-6530. 738 Thatcher Ave., River Forest.

Tributosaurus becomes Bob Dylan Friday, Aug. 10, 9 p.m., Wire: See the band with Oak Park members that transforms into various artists. Doors open at 8 p.m. $25; $60, VIP reserved balcony seating. 21+. More: wireismusic.com. 6815 Roosevelt Rd., Berwyn.

Friday, Aug, 10, 7 to 9 p.m., Lawn, Cheney Mansion: Get a flavor for what the Oak Park Park District has “on tap” for adults of all ages this fall while enjoying a DJ, yard games, hot dogs, popcorn, beer and more. Raffle for pool/rink and fitness passes, FLW race entry, party for 12 guests, dance lesson and other prizes. Register: pdop.org. $7, pre-registration; $10, at the door (limited availability). 21+. 220 N. Euclid Ave., Oak Park.

Thursday Night Out Thursday, Aug. 9, 5 to 9 p.m., Downtown Oak Park: Enjoy food from more than 20 participating restaurants, live music, beer/wine for purchase, balloon animals (6 to 8 p.m.) and more. This week, live music by Hot Calypso & Soca and JoeSounds Steel Drum Trio. $20 booklets contain 4 dine-around tickets. Rain or shine. Info: downtownoakpark.net. Lake St. & Marion St.

Art Exhibitions Where We Are: Structures

Foods from the Homeland

Reception, Friday, Aug. 10, 7 to 9 p.m., Oak Park Art League: Artists explore their relationship to created spaces - structures inhabited, worked and played in. Through Sept. 7. More: oakparkartleague.org, 708-386-9853. 720 Chicago Ave., Oak Park.

Through Aug. 13, Narrow Gallery, Oak Park Arms: See new paintings by Nancy Fong. Info: 708-848-5251. 408 S. Oak Park Ave.

Cast Thy Bread Upon the Waters Through Aug. 31, Gallery, Oak Park Village Hall: The Oak Park Area Arts Council presents an exhibition by Vashti Varnado, a self-taught artist. Questions: 708-358-5692. 123 Madison St.

Concert for a Cure Wednesday, Aug. 8, 7 p.m., FitzGerald’s: Help in the fight to cure Type 1 Diabetes. Hear The Real Macaws, Rogers & Nienhaus, Noah Gabriel, Emily Wallace and Sara Politte. Doors open at 6 p.m. $20. More: fitzgeraldsnightclub.com. 6615 Roosevelt Rd., Berwyn.

Second Hand News: Fleetwood Mac Tribute Saturday, Aug. 11, 8:30 p.m., Patio, FitzGerald’s: Free summer show on the outside stage. Patio opens 6 p.m. More: fitzgeraldsnightclub.com. 6615 Roosevelt Rd., Berwyn.

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Fun Places We Loved

Thursday, Aug. 9, 7 to 8:30 p.m., River Forest Public Library: Steve Cooper presents rare footage of places that no longer exist, including Chicago landmarks (Aragon and Trianon Ballrooms, the Edgewater Beach Hotel, Riverview Park, Kiddie Land) and neighborhood bowling alleys, ballrooms, amusement parks and diners across America. Brought in partnership with River Forest Township. Questions: 708-366-5205. 735 Lathrop Ave.

“Louder Than a Bomb” Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2 to 4 p.m., Veterans Room, Main Library: Watch this documentary about Chicago high school teams competing in the World’s Largest Poetry Slam then discuss the film with Peter Kahn, OPRF’s Spoken Word Club sponsor. More: oppl. org/one-book. 834 Lake St., Oak Park.

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Free Summer Concert: Groove Witness Sunday, Aug. 12, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., Scoville Park: Stroll down to the park for family-friendly music. This week, hear jazzy blues and soul from a band with Oak Parkers. This waste-free event has stations set up for composting and recycling. Free. Northwest corner of Lake St. and Oak Park Ave.

School Uniform Drive Through Aug. 27, West Suburban Medical Center: Donate clothing to benefit the children of Ella Flagg Young Elementary School in Austin. Items needed for boys and girls: navy blue pants and skirts, white shirts and blouses, and white polos, sizes 6 to 18. Drop off at the Senior Center Desk in the hospital lobby. Questions: malvarad@WestLakeHosp.com, 708763-6025. 3 Erie Ct., Oak Park.

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ART BEAT

Sound and fury, signifying everything By DOUG DEUCHLER

poetry. Acting enables them to escape the confines of their oppressed condition. The characters imply this inner turmoil exists hen one hears the title, The Afri- for all blacks — that they are all actors. Brandon Greenhouse is dynamic and incan Company Presents Richard III, there is perhaps the expecta- tense as James Hewlett, the star performer in tion of an all-black production the production of Richard III. White audiences want him to go into “coon of the Shakeshow” dancing and forego speare play about the histothe Shakespearean solilory’s most famous deformed quies. He illustrates a caricaprince. Instead, only a few ture minstrel number, “Oposlines of that tragedy are sposum Up In A Gum Tree.” ken. This show is a historic Ariel Richardson does recreation of an overlooked well with the leading lady point in American culturrole and is in love with her al history about the first leading man, though he African-American theater does not seem to pick up on troupe in the United States this. This romantic subplot in the early 1820s. seems somewhat awkward. The production has been William Henry Brown, the Jeff recommended. co-founder and producer of The acting is brilliant and The African Company, is intense. Playwright Carlyle portrayed by Matty RobinBrown’s dialogue is strong Photo by Jhenai Mootz son. This gently stubborn and vivid. Director Ron boss went on to become a OJ Parson keeps the pace JEFF RECOMMENDED: Ariel pioneer playwright. balanced between forceful Richardson and Brandon The brief scene showing scenes and episodes of quiet Greenhouse in Oak Park members of the company dialogue. Festival Theatre’s production focusing on every adjective The African Grove Theof ‘The African Company and nuance in their reviews atre Troupe in Manhattan in is particularly amusing. 1822 was a home-grown com- Presents Richard III.’ Time and setting shifts pany of free black actors who packed houses. Initially they staged are sometimes blurry. Large cards indicatshows for fellow former slaves but were ing the location on an easel in front of the beginning to attract the attention of white stage are not visible to the entire audience. The script at times lacks consistent narratheater-goers as well. When they started achieving some critical and financial suc- tive drive. The plot is not always fully engagcess, a prestigious white company, the Park ing. There is also occasional redundancy. Theatre, sought to put them out of business. But the fact that this richly detailed work In lesser hands, perhaps, the conniv- opens up a long-lost era of American hising constable, played by Joel Ottenheimer, tory is exciting and significant. There is a great bit at the start of Act II might be an Irish stereotype as he uses his legal authority to shut down the black when the senior actor, Shakespeare, takes troupe as a public nuisance. He is not a leer- two male members of the audience — one ing villain. The character of Stephen Price, black and one white — onstage to illustrate an uptown Broadway impresario who sees what a griot does. He is a storyteller/historithe amateurs’ company as a rival, is solidly an. Here he softens and interprets the words portrayed by Jack Hickey. The actor delivers between the two men, facilitating better a good deal of exposition but makes it flow communication. I remember first coming in contact with the term “griot” in the 1970s and never becomes tedious. Papa Shakespeare, an older Caribbean when I read Alex Haley’s Roots. A perfect play for this fine company in man who carries a drum and has a poetic soul, played by Johnny Lee Davenport, this particular community, it’s an exciting makes a strong connection with his audi- adventure to discover a lost world, peopled ence. Velma Austin is particularly strong as with outstanding talent dramatizing an acSarah, the company’s matriarch, wardrobe tual historical episode. “The African Company Presents Richard mistress, and actress who plays the Queen III” runs through Sept. 1, Thursdays through in Richard III. These African-American performers, for- Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Sundays, 7 p.m.; plus mer slaves now free, hide their talent as they Wednesday, Aug. 29, 8 p.m. $32; $27, seniors; continue to work by day as maids and wait- $15, students; free, under 12. Tickets/more: ers in New York white society. Their true oakparkfestival.com; 708-300-9396. Austin feelings only come alive with Shakespeare’s Gardens, 167 Forest Ave., Oak Park.

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dds and ends with some a bit odder than others: Chief Ambrose: Tony Ambrose was never going to set a longevity record as Oak Park’s police chief. He came to the job late – 34 years into his tenure on the force. But it was the job he wanted and had earned. When Rick Tanksley, the longtime chief did retire in late 2016, Ambrose got the promotion. Cara Pavlicek, the village manager who made the call, certainly didn’t see Ambrose as a placeholder but likely she did see him as a transitional chief, a person who’d spend several years working to make more intuitively institutionalized his views on community policing and the need for cops to understand the intersection between mental health issues and policing. Instead a bum liver interceded and Ambrose was suddenly in the fight of his life. As his health worsened this spring he was fortunate to get the transplant he needed. When I last talked to him a few weeks back, he was his usual enthusiastic self, though fully aware of the long road ahead of him. He told me it would take the better part of a dedicated year for him to regain his stamina. He didn’t say it and I didn’t ask, but my conclusion then was that the chief knew leaving a police department with an interim leader for a year was not ideal, and he also knew the extraordinary energy it takes to be chief and was uncertain that he’d have that intensity. So the word Monday that Tony Ambrose will take his retirement before this month ends is not a surprise or a disappointment. This is a good man who has served his department with distinction and who has brought fundamental change to a department he grew up in, which isn’t an easy thing to do. Prejudging Imagine OPRF: The next phases of the master facilities planning process at Oak Park and River Forest High School are coming shortly. The two options packages — inevitably blue and

orange by name — are being folded into one proposal (with a couple of variations built in): The first broad cost options on some aspects of the proposal are being developed, another round of public input will be sought. And then, soon, the whole kit ’n’ caboodle will arrive at the school board’s feet. Sat last week with the two chairs of Imagine OPRF, Lynn Kamenitsa and Mike Poirier. Back in the day when this halfdecade long and ill-thoughtout facilities mish mash was haplessly reduced to do you want a big pool or a bigger pool, these two were on opposite sides. Now they are paired in the effort that should have been undertaken years back: Step back, big picture, 100-year-old building with shiny floors masking a facility where the last major investment was an addition built in 1967. This has been a large effort by a large group of dedicated volunteers. It encompasses a vast array of ideas from creating new common areas for students, remaking the cafeteria, moving the library, rethinking how classrooms are used, creating unified space for special education services, expanding facilities for all kinds of arts, trying to reduce the number of windowless classrooms buried in the building’s vast interior, debating the future of a structurally sound but obsolete field house and, of course, making a proposal for a swimming pool (or pools). Also taking shape now are plans for how to undertake what is a potentially massive project and set priorities and logical phases. Those priorities need to reflect construction realities — you can remake the cafeteria but you still need to feed kids nine months of the year — and financing options for a project that will be at least five years and likely 10 years in the execution. The challenges are many. One of them is to hold the attention of the villages that this is a master plan for a millionsquare-foot building and not let it devolve simplistically into a second round of a pool debate.

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The Book Table opens its new addition Oak Park bookstore grows back into original space By TIMOTHY INKLEBARGER Staff Reporter

The Book Table, Oak Park’s most visible bookstore, located at 1045 Lake St., has completed its expansion, reclaiming its original 2,800-square-foot storefront to the west. The update, which expands the footprint of the store by almost 50 percent, aimed to give more prominent placement to the store’s visual art books, including volumes on fine art, fashion, architecture, photography, film, music and television, Book Table co-owner Rachel Weaver said in a telephone interview. The new space has been open since late July and also features rare and hardcover classic editions of books as well as books of poetry, performing arts, drama, literary criticism, philosophy and cultural studies. Prior to the expansion, those books were in a corner of the store not so easily accessible by book-loving patrons, Weaver said.

“The decision that we made to put art books in that aesthetically open space just made sense,” she said. The open and airy new section is a stark contrast to the maze of sections in the original space that invites patrons to discover something new, she said. Weaver said the concept of The Book Table was to feature tables of books that were easy to peruse, but as their inventory grew, so did the store’s verticality. The added space gives the store some breathing room to get back to that original concept, Weaver said. “It allows us to spread out our sections a little better with more front covers of books jumping out at you that you might not notice in the proverbial need in a haystack when they’re packed together spine to spine,” she said. The Book Table also can now grow its selection of titles, which typically is around 70,000 books. Weaver took the opportunity to thank supporters of the store who contributed, through an online fundraiser, some $50,000 to help pay for the expansion. “We’re incredibly touched that the community was so excited and so engage in the process,” Weaver said. CONTACT: tim@oakpark.com

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ROOM TO READ: Plainfield residents Michael and Sarah Taylor peruse the expanded storefront at The Book Table, 1045 Lake St.

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Tyler Lumar case advances Attorney for family of late Oak Parker encouraged by partial dismissal By TIMOTHY INKLEBARGER Staff Reporter

A lawsuit filed by the mother of the late Oak Park resident, Tyler Lumar, will proceed in court, following the decision by Judge Virginia M. Kendall to only partially dismiss claims against several of the defendants. His family claims that Lumar, who died on April 18, was unlawfully arrested and detained by the Chicago Police Department in 2016. The lawsuit claims he was held in violation of his 4th Amendment rights protecting him against unreasonable search and seizure and falsely accused in Cook County lockup of being in possession of crack cocaine. While detained in Cook County Jail, Lumar attempted to take his own life and then spent over a year and a half on life support before dying as a result of his injuries in April of 2018. He was 24 years old. Lumar’s mother, Lisa Alcorn, sued the city of Chicago, the Chicago Police Department and a number of Cook County law enforcement agencies, claiming her son never should have been arrested. His initial arrest was due to a faulty arrest warrant out of Lee County for unpaid parking tickets — Lumar had missed one payment by a few days prior to his arrest but had made good on the payment. He also was illegally denied bond, the lawsuit claims. While in lockup, after being searched eight separate times by law enforcement officials, Lumar was accused by a Cook

County correctional officer of being in possession of crack cocaine. His attorney, Eileen O’Connor, says video surveillance proves that the drugs were not found on his person and were the possession of another detainee. While charges against many of the defendants in the case were dismissed, O’Connor was encouraged by Kendall’s decision to allow the claim that Lumar was unlawfully held by law enforcement officials. The lawsuit claims that he was held on a Class Z non-bondable offense, even though the warrant was for a Class A Misdemeanor charge. Kendall’s July 27 decision notes that the “warrant did not provide probable cause to continue detaining Lumar after the officers learned that the warrant was for a nonbondable offense and Lumar could secure his release by paying $50.” The decision states that “officers falsified the arrest report to show that Lumar’s bond information was not available and continued to detain him for a non-bondable offense” and that O’Connor sufficiently alleged Lumar was detained “without probable cause in violation of the 4th Amendment.” O’Connor said in a telephone interview that the decision is a “very strong win” for Lumar’s family because the case will now proceed to the discovery process, where witnesses are deposed and more information is gathered. “He had $130 on his person (at the time of his arrest) and could have bonded out and would have left that day,” she said. “Instead, they held him and claimed an administrative order prevented him from bonding out.” The discovery process will take about 6-9 months and the case likely won’t go to trial

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Tyler Lumar with his girlfriend, Casey Tencate, and their daughter. until 2019 or 2020. O’Connor said the video surveillance also will disprove the claim by the correctional officer that he saw Lumar in possession of the crack cocaine while in lockup.

“I’m more confident now that this case will proceed to trial because the judge has ruled my legal claims may go forward,” she said. CONTACT: tim@oakpark.com

Interim principal hired for Lincoln School

Theresa Silva replaces Lisa Carlos, who resigned in June By MICHAEL ROMAIN Staff Reporter

During a special meeting held Aug. 6, the Oak Park Elementary Schools District 97 Board of Education unanimously approved the appointment of Theresa Silva as interim principal at Lincoln Elementary School for the 2018-19 school year, D97 officials announced in a statement. Silva will temporarily replace Lisa Carlos, who resigned in June after roughly a year at the helm in order to be a principal with the Community Consolidated School District 62 in Des Plaines. District officials stated that Silva has more than 20 years of education experience, including 15 years as principal at school dis-

tricts in Joliet, Bellwood, Blue Island and Brookfield. Before she was hired at Lincoln Elementary in Oak Park, Silva was principal at Lincoln School in Brookfield, which is in Lyons-Brookfield District 103, for the 201718 school year. Her contract was not renewed. Silva has also been an assistant principal, a classroom teacher at the second-, third- and eighth-grade levels and a writing teacher. She has a bachelor’s degree in elementary education and a master’s degree in education administration, both from Saint Xavier University. “I want to congratulate Theresa on her appointment, and welcome her to our district,” stated D97 Superintendent Carol Kelley. “I believe that her extensive knowledge and experience will be instrumental in ensuring that the entire Lincoln community enjoys a positive, productive and successful

school year.” In the district’s statement, Silva said that she is “incredibly honored to have selected as the interim principal for Lincoln “[I] am eager to begin working with students, staff and families on the shared goals and plans for our school,” said Silva. “I am also thrilled to be leading what will be an important year for the Lincoln community that includes preparing for the expansion that is scheduled to take place next summer.” Kelley said that she anticipates that the search to find a permanent replacement for the Lincoln principal position will begin after the first of the year. “We will provide additional details about this search in the months ahead, including information about how the members of the school’s community can participate in the process,” Kelley said. CONTACT: michael@oakpark.com

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Friend lobbies for Val’s halla Way

Honorary street would be Oak Park’s second By TIMOTHY INKLEBARGER Staff Reporter

In the streets of Chicago you’ll find hundreds of honorary signs commemorating the lives of notable — and some not-so-notable — Chicagoans, but in Oak Park you’ll only find one: Dominic Meo Memorial Way at the corner of Pleasant Place and South Marion Street. The sign honoring the celebrated Oak Parker was installed in 1993 in remembrance of the man who led the Community Chest for years and was instrumental in getting Mills Park Tower, an subsidized-housing high-rise built. Oak Park is now poised to get its second memorial street sign with the death of beloved music purveyor Val Camilletti, 78, who owned and operated Val’s halla Records at 239 Harrison St. Bill McClung, former owner of the K9 Cookie Company, a boutique for dogs at 171 S. Oak Park Ave., which closed in 2012, became friends with Camilletti when her record store was located at 723½ South Blvd. McClung said he contacted the Oak Park Board of Trustees following Camilletti’s

death on July 24. His only response was from Trustee Deno Andrews, who is now pushing to have the honorary street sign put in place. McClung recalled his time getting to know Camilletti as fellow business owners and volunteers with the Oak Park Animal Care League. He said the outpouring of love for Camilletti throughout the village over the last few weeks gave him the idea for the street sign. “I thought we could do something more for her to be more complimentary to her,” he said. McClung suggested the honorary sign be placed near her old shop at the corner of South Boulevard and South Oak Park Avenue, but Andrews said the sign might make more sense at her current location in the Oak Park Arts District at 239 Harrison St. David Powers, a spokesman for the village of Oak Park, said in an email that there is no formal process in place for designating honorary streets, “so village board action would be required to do so.” Andrews said in a telephone interview that he has put in an official request to have the issue brought up by the board of trustees. “I think it will be cool,” he said. “Hopefully, there will be support from my colleagues.” CONTACT: tim@oakpark.com

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SIGNS OF VAL: Oak Parker Bill McClung is pushing to have a memorial sign created in memory of the late Val Camilletti. The only other memorial sign in Oak Park honors Dominick Meo, who was instrumental in getting Mills Park Tower built.

Triton gets $260K to shore up support programs Funding among ‘largest AmeriCorps investment’ in state history By MICHAEL ROMAIN Staff Reporter

In the upcoming school year, about two dozen people will work part-time offering tutoring and mentoring services at Triton College, thanks to a $260,000 state grant, Triton officials announced in a statement released last week. The part-time workers will all be members of AmeriCorps, a “network of national service programs, made up of three primary programs that each take a different approach to improving lives and fostering civic engagement,” according to the organization’s website. Members of AmeriCorps dedicate a certain amount of service hours to addressing “critical community needs like increasing academic achievement, mentoring youth, fighting poverty, sustaining national parks, preparing for disasters, and more.” In Triton’s case, 24 part-time AmeriCorps members will complete more than 900 service hours throughout the school year, school officials said.

The AmeriCorps members will work in a range of student service and mentoring programs, including a program called TRIUMPH (Triton Undergraduate Men Pursuing Higher Education), which is designed to support male students of color who attend the community college. The members will also help out with tutoring and mentoring programs formed from collaborations between Triton and various community organizations like the Oak Park Public Library and West 40. The state grant is administered by the Illinois Department of Public Health’s Serve Illinois Commission on Volunteerism and Community Service and consists of federal and local matching funds, according to a statement released by Triton last week. In addition to a stipend, the AmeriCorps members will receive additional financial assistance for education-related expenses, such as help paying tuition and student loans, once they complete their service hours, Triton official said. “This is an exciting opportunity for Triton College to expand on strategic plan items that we have not otherwise had the resources or the manpower to expand,” Deborah Baness King, Triton’s dean of academic success, explained in the statement. “The Triton College AmeriCorps State

Program will provide the human capital necessary to implement a comprehensive structure of support for our students that increases individualized services and connects students with a mentor/coach,” King added. According to Triton officials, Serve Illinois allocated more than $35 million in federal grant money to pay for 46 AmeriCorps service programs across the state. Triton is just one of four community colleges to receive funding. “This is the largest AmeriCorps investment Illinois has ever seen in the history of the program,” Serve Illinois Executive Director Scott McFarland explained in Triton’s statement. “Last year, AmeriCorps Illinois served nearly 400,000 Illinoisans, including more than 209,000 disadvantaged youth and nearly 40,000 veterans, active military and military family members,” he said. CONTACT: michael@oakpark.com

Correction The story “Oak Park earmarks $1M for affordable housing” in the Aug. 1 edition of Wednesday Journal incorrectly stated the source of the additional $210,000 headed to the village’s affordable housing fund. The correct source is Lexington Homes. We regret the error.

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A work of wonder Local artist, apprentices to install mural on side of Wonder Works children’s museum By MICHAEL ROMAIN Staff Reporter

A public mural is currently going up on the side of the Wonder Works children’s museum, 6445 W. North Ave. in Oak Park. The mural is the work of the Oak Park Area Arts Council’s annual Off the Wall apprentice program, which allows area young people an opportunity to get paid while learning artistic skills and creating public artwork. This year’s mural is a marine-inspired mosaic, the creation of which is being guided by Carolyn Elaine, a master artist who has worked with Off the Wall program participants for several years. According to Camille White, executive director of the Oak Park Area Arts Council, Elaine received a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency to attend a residency to learn cement work. Elaine trained the Off the Wall apprentices on creating bas relief for the mural, White said. A ribbon-cutting ceremony for the mural is scheduled to take place on Sunday, Aug. 12 at 12:30 p.m. CONTACT: michael@oakpark.com

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WONDER-FILLED: Off the Wall apprentices, including Zaria Gilmore, above, piece together a mosaic at Wonder Works on North Avenue. The ribbon-cutting will take place this Sunday at 12:30 p.m.

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Everything old is new again Oak Parker Tom Kunkel spreads the gospel of reclamation

During an interview in June, Kunkel, who lives in Oak Park, said there’s a growing Staff Reporter market for reclaimed and customized products that aren’t mass produced. The tables and bar inside of District “I think people are realizing that there’s Kitchen and Tap, 220 Harrison St. in Oak no reason to live off of the shelf,” he said, Park, are made from the wood of a Walnut “when you can build things to suit. By doing tree that grew right here in town. that, you can add a little artistry, a little bit A 20-foot bar inside of Lake Street of your own desire.” Brewing, a new brewpub at 1 Lake St. in The other aspect of Urban Pioneer Oak Park, was made from wood Group is the nonprofit outreach inside of a dealership located on component. The organization Chicago’s historic Motor Row regularly facilitates classes and —where Henry Ford started his workshops that offer instruction first store outside of Detroit. The on traditional building and doors in the brewpub come from cooking methods, such as the now-demolished Brian Boru smoking meat, curing salami Irish Pub in Forest Park. and making sausage by hand. A vanity recently installed “The purpose is to showcase in an Oak Park home was once old-world techniques and oldsiding for a barn and two wood world products,” Kunkel said. pallets pulled from the trash. “Part of what we do is to reclaim Ten tables inside of Circle culture.” Bowling Lanes in Forest Park Urban Pioneer Group recently were once bowling lanes. The partnered with a local Boy lights hanging over the service NTOM KUNKEL Scouts troop on a program that desk inside the bowling alley are Urban Pioneer Group entails the scouts earning merit old bowling pins. badges for learning traditional That’s just a sampling of the crafts, such as sign-making and work of Tom Kunkel’s Forest meat smoking. The scouts will Park-based Urban Pioneer also be able to sell the products Group — an organization he they make as a fundraising cofounded with his wife, Sheila, method. in order to demonstrate for people the value Kunkel said that reclamation is in his of reclamation. There are two aspects to Urban Pioneer DNA. His father, he said, “was always Group. One is the for-profit builders working with repairs in the home and component, which involves establishing a finding creative ways to repurpose things.” clientele of homeowners and businesses Kunkel’s fidelity to reclamation even willing to forego Pottery Barn or Ikea and extends to his hobbies. He’s barbecued competitively for roughly spend a little more money on furnishings built from recycled materials or locally a decade. The team, called the Oak Porkers, harvested trees. often make their tasty pork shoulder on

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“I think people are realizing that there’s no reason to live off of the shelf.”

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SMOKIN’: Tom Kunkel opens the top to one of the homemade grills he built on the roof of Urban Pioneer Group on Madison Street in downtown Forest Park.

a custom-made smoker rig built from a repurposed oil drum. “We like to think that we [barbecue] better than anybody else,” said Jeff Tikkanen, a longtime member of the Oak Porkers.

“There’s lots of fun to be had,” Kunkel said of his reclamation lifestyle, which could be coming to another restaurant or home near you. CONTACT: michael@oakpark.com

Ambrose to retire as Oak Park police chief

Decision comes after lifesaving liver transplant By TIMOTHY INKLEBARGER Staff Reporter

Oak Park Police Chief Anthony Ambrose announced that he is retiring from his position at the end of August. The announcement comes after Ambrose took a leave of absence in late April when he was diagnosed with nonalcoholic steatohepatitus, more commonly known as NASH. That condition required Ambrose to get a liver transplant at the beginning of the summer. Ambrose, who has served more than three

tion while a permanent succesdecades in the department, said in sor is sought. a village press release that he aims Ambrose called Oak Park “a to focus his energy on his recovery. one in a million community” “It has been a good run,” he and said the outpouring of supsaid. “Being chief of the Oak port when his illness was anPark Police Department was the nounced was “overwhelming achievement of a goal I set when I but incredibly gratifying.” first put on the uniform more than “The support from the com34 years ago. munity was just awesome,” he “Choosing to retire was a tough decision. But I know in my heart ANTHONY AMBROSE said. “It is this level of citizen engagement and willingness to and head it is time for me to pass Oak Park Police Chief get involved that has made my the chief ’s stars on to a new gencareer here so rewarding. eration of leadership.” “All I ever wanted was a job where I could He succeeded Rick Tanksley in the position in September 2016. LaDon Reynolds make a difference and help people. Workhas served as acting chief in Ambrose’s ing here proved to be that and more. I don’t absence. Reynolds will continue in the posi- think I will ever be able to adequately ex-

press my thanks to the community for giving me the opportunity to serve.” He said his proudest achievement at the department was raising awareness about the need to improve understanding of mental health issues in Oak Park and beyond. “I have always believed that if you treat people with dignity and respect they will do the same to you,” Ambrose said. “I strived to instill this simple notion in the mindset of our police officers. I truly believe I succeeded and the community is better for it.” Ambrose joined the department in 1984 and rose through the ranks to become deputy chief in 2005. He became Oak Park’s 12th chief of police, following Tanksley’s retirement. CONTACT: tim@oakpark.com

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BEER

Oak Park brewers from page 1

Kinslahger quadruples Steve Loranz, co-owner of Kinslahger, said his operation quadrupled its brewing capacity last year. “We’ve upgraded and basically quadrupled our size, so now our brew house is a two-kettle brew house,” he said during a recent tour. “It’s 15 barrels instead of four, and we’ve got a much larger cellar, so it’s quite a bit packed in the back nowa■ Video online days. “We kind of have VISIT OAKPARK.COM to be careful when we’re walking around each other not to step on each other’s toes.” The beer is widely available in the Chicago now and locally available at places like Sugar Beer Food Co-op, Pete’s Fresh Market, Avenue Ale House, Scratch on Lake and Obsessed Kitchen and Bar. The brewing facility at 6806 Roosevelt Road has a 600-square-foot tasting room, where beer lovers can try a flight or just dive in with one of their flagship beers, Chicago Common and Prohibition Pilsner. The company noted in a press release last year that their lagers – it’s the company’s specialty – “undergo a cool fermentation followed by a cold conditioning period prior to packaging – resulting in a clean, rounded finish.”

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ON TAP: John Saller, above, head brewer, puts date labels on finished beers at the Around The Bend Beer Company in Chicago’s Pullman neighborhood. Justin Kirsch, below, assistant brewer, puts the finished cans into a box.

Around the Bend tap room coming The Chicago-based company is a little over three years old but already planning to open a tap room in spring of 2019 near Ashland Avenue and Hubbard Street in West Town neighborhood of Chicago, according to owner and founder Dan Schedler. The company is now brewing and canning their beers on the South Side of Chicago. Schedler explained that the company rents its space under an agreement with another beer company. The method is known as contract brewing or partner brewing, Schedler said. “It’s a way in the craft beer community has helped get a lot of breweries get started,” he said, noting that Half Acre and 3 Floyds also started out as contract brewers. “There’s a lot of breweries that started that way. Sam Adams started that way and still brews the preponderance of their beer on contract.” “So we’re in good company in terms of contract brewers.” Schedler said Around the Bend gets its name from the company’s philosophy of “trying to explore what’s possible with beer.” “We’re trying to push boundaries and do new things and different things. We feel like if you keep pushing boundaries and keep exploring, you never know what is around the bend,” he said.

“We’re trying to push boundaries and do new things and different things. DAN SCHEDLER

Owner of Around the Bend Beer Company

Their Villainous IPA, for example, uses four different yeast strains to add complexity to the beer. “It gives it a nice juicy start, but it still finishes off dry like a classic West Coast beer would, and then we dry hop the heck out of it with Centennial and Mosaic hops,” he said. “We don’t need to just brew another pale ale. There’s a million of them out there.” CONTACT: tim@oakpark.com

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Rare Bird headed to Harrison

Oak Park company produces artisanal preserves and more By TIMOTHY INKLEBARGER Staff Reporter

It’s an Oak Park business that’s operated largely off the radar and a storefront business nearly a decade in the making, but Rare Bird Preserves is poised to make its debut in the Oak Park Arts District in September. Owner Elizabeth Madden is putting the final touches on her new shop at 211 Harrison St., but she’s been operating in and around the village since 2009. Madden is not only the owner of Rare Bird Preserves – the company produces fruit preserves, curds, scone mixes and other delectable treats – she also is a cofounder of the River Forest Kitchen, a shared commercial kitchen that was taken over by Sugar Beet School House in 2017. Madden launched Rare Bird from her first shared commercial kitchen at 35 Chicago Ave., where she operated for the first five years of her business. She began her culinary work studying at The French Pastry School in Chicago and was immediately inspired by jams and preserves. “We did jams one day, and it clicked with me,” she

said in a telephone interview. Madden said she was excited by the way the school was making jams and preserves in a traditional way without the use of commercial-grade pectins. She explained that many pectins “require a lot of sugar” to activate the production of jams and preserves, but the school used a combination of French and British techniques that use copper kettles and natural ingredients like peels, pits and seeds of different fruits. Natural pectins are more common these days, Madden explained, but she pays close attention to the quality of the fruit she uses and where they are sourced. “We’re using different techniques than are used in industrial food production. Sometimes I get really excited about pectins and people’s eyes glaze over,” she said with a laugh. “It’s a combination of science and art, and that’s what’s interesting to me.” The new space on Harrison Street will serve as a kitchen and a storefront, but Rare Bird products have been available online and in stores for years already. “I’m really excited about it,” Madden said. “The shop is going to be a new venture for me.” The storefront will also serve as a classroom offering workshops on jams, jellies and preserves. More information is available on their website at www.rarebirdpreserves.com. CONTACT: tim@oakpark.com

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BIRD IN THE HAND: Rare Bird Preserves is opening its first storefront in the Oak Park Arts District in September.

FEES

Festivals from page 1 Downtown Oak Park, a special service area in downtown Oak Park, was sent an invoice for $6,300 for the reported loss of parking revenue resulting from its closure of Marion Street every Thursday from late May to the end of August. What’s Blooming on Harrison, which is held for a full weekend in May, was sent and invoice for $1,200 for the street closure. The list of invoices goes on, and organizers are pushing back. Shanon Williams, executive director of Downtown Oak Park, said she still has no idea where the fee came from. She said it is not properly authorized anywhere in the village code. She says she and others were blindsided by the big bills. “We got hit and others got hit harder than us,” she said, noting that festivals like What’s Blooming have very tight budgets to hold their events. “We’ve never been charged with any kind of parking [fees] at all,” she said, noting that previous boards encouraged the events to attract people to the shops in the downtown area. “Everything was made so that the street could be closed down for events. The direction [from previous boards] was to close it down for events and have as many as you can.” Williams said her group attracts thousands of people to the downtown area “and now we’re getting penalized for it.”

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FEES-PALOOZA: Street-festival organizers have been hit with big fees by the Village of Oak Park. It’s been explained that the fees are to offset the cost of the lost parking revenue, but Williams said each Thursday Night Out brings in 500 to 800 people. “They are parking somewhere,” she said in an email. Kim Humphrey, owner of Bead in Hand, 145 Harrison St., and an organizer for the What’s Blooming festival, said they’ve been holding the event since 1999 and have never been sent a bill. She said the fee especially makes no sense for the festival on Harrison because there is no metered parking in the area. Humphrey said that she was told that it was in the village ordinance and cannot be

waived, but added in an email: “It’s not in the special events ordinance.” “There is not one single statement in any of the special events documents – ordinance, application, fee schedule – that remotely suggests that these fees apply to them. But now that we’ve been billed for it, it’s official and can’t be removed. “This is ridiculous,” she wrote. Village trustees Bob Tucker and Jim Taglia have requested that the issue be reviewed at the village board’s next Finance Committee meeting, but Tucker said in a telephone interview that he was not aware the festivals would be charged such high fees when trustees approved recouping

some of the lost revenue last year. He said the fees were implemented by village staff and festival organizers believe they are too high and that they were not given advance notice that the increased fees were coming. “We fully appreciate they are operating on tight budgets,” Tucker said. “We thought those were legitimate concerns, and we want to be sympathetic to the people who attract people to downtown.” He said that the village board did not establish how much the fees would increase but was left to village staff. “I can understand some of the reaction from the business community,” he said. “I think those are fair arguments, and that’s why we need to dissect this.” Trustee Simone Boutet echoed Tucker’s comments, saying the fees were never approved by the board. “The staff is authorized to charge for barricades and police overtime and whatever it takes to clean up and manage for the events; we have never authorized for lost parking revenue,” she said. She argued that the Thursday Night out event likely brings in additional revenue from those parking in village-owned parking garages and other metered spots in the downtown area. Boutet noted that the new parking fee is being charged not through the special events ordinance but under the construction section of the village ordinance. “I would say it’s a misinterpretation of the ordinance,” she said. “I don’t want to be digging into other inapplicable codes to make things worse for people.” CONTACT: tim@oakpark.com

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Dominican University embraces ‘El Futuro’

Conference explores importance of ministering to growing Hispanic enrollment By TOM HOLMES Contributing Reporter

Last week, Dominican University held “El Futuro is Here,” a conference that focused on Hispanics, the ethnic cohort in the U.S. which accounted for 54 percent of the country’s population growth and the challenges and opportunities the Roman Catholic Church in this country is facing in its attempt to minister to this demographic. University President Donna Carroll noted that 40 percent of Dominican’s freshman class this year identifies as Hispanic and expressed what she believes to be the importance and urgency of the El Futuro conference. “This is a stunning moment for the church, for Catholic higher education and for Dominican University,” Carroll said. Esther Urostegui, a recent graduate of Dominican University, whose life was transformed by campus ministry there, delivered the homily during the opening prayer service on Tuesday. “I came to the U.S. when I was 14 years old, and I can remember so many moments feeling alone, hopeless and afraid,” Urostegui said. “When I started high school, I became an introvert because of my inability to communicate with others in English. I was terrified I was going to be made fun of. “Every time I come back to Dominican I feel like I am coming to my home. My professors not only cared about my academics,

they cared about my life.” In her talk on July 31, Dr. Carmen NankoFernandez’s spoke about thinking about faith and doing campus ministry “from the ground up,” that is by starting ministry from the “social location” of Hispanic people instead of from the top down with theology and doctrine. Nanko-Fernandez followed up on Urostegui’s story by explaining that when you ask Hispanic people living in the U.S. about their identity, they’ll often respond by saying they feel like they are “in two places with no place to stand.” She called it “hybridity” or “dancing with hyphens.” Are you Mexican or American? You speak Spanish with your parents but English the rest of the time. A sign of this hybridity is that speakers in the conference often used Spanish and English in the same sentence. Yasmin Vasquez-Moreno, who graduated from Dominican in May, fought back tears as she told her story about the impact of campus ministry at Dominican had on her. She shared what it was like to be in a campus ministry group where theological reflection began with the telling of each person’s story and how those kinds of experiences motivated her to now be doing graduate work in religion with the intention of returning to her South Side neighborhood to do ministry. Many of the speakers talked about accompaniment, about doing ministry en cojunto, i.e. with students instead of to them. Dr. John DeCostanza, the director of university ministry at Dominican, tried to flesh out the meaning of en cojunto by telling how he worked with the Muslim students on campus to create two spaces where they could practice salat, the prayers they say

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KICKER: Attendees group together and work on a project on Thursday, during the El Futuro Is Here conference in Parmer Hall at Dominican University in River Forest. five times a day. He said that Muslim students not only helped identify the spaces but also took the responsibility of providing their own prayer mats. He acknowledged that this way of doing ministry is a radical break from the patriarchal, top-down ways of the past. If theological reflection is to be bottom up, the conference speakers added, it must be cotidiano, or based on everyday experience. A program in its fourth year at Dominican which is gaining national attention is called

Ministry en lo Cotidiano (MLC), a program in which the 15 students currently involved work in internships with faith-based nonprofits like Catholic Charities or Arise Chicago. “All of these placements,” the MLC website explains, “seek to develop leadership and ministry capacity in Dominican University’s undergraduate population by providing an opportunity to experience service … In doing so, participants inevitably encounter their own shifting cultural identity and reinterpret that in the light of faith.”

C R I M E

Two robbed on CTA Blue Line

Two people, an Oak Park resident and a resident of Woodland, Wisconsin, were robbed by two armed men as they attempted to exit the CTA Blue Line train stop in the 700 block of South Austin Boulevard at 1:50 a.m. on July 31. The two victims were attempting to exit the train when two men blocked the doors and demanded money. One of the offenders “kept reaching for the right side of his waist”, according to the police report, leading the victims to believe he was armed. The offenders took about $40 and exited the train at the Harlem Avenue stop. The two offenders were described as black men in their 20s, about 6-foot tall, muscular and wearing all dark clothing. One of the men had shoulder-length black dreads and the other had short red hair in twists.

Robbery A Cicero resident was robbed in the 700

block of South Austin Boulevard at 8:28 a.m. on July 31. The victim was approached by a man who grabbed his iPhone, which contained credit cards and an Illinois ID. The offender then ran east. He was described as a 6-foot tall black man with a skinny build and dark complexion and wearing a charcoal gray sweater, a white shirt and jeans. The estimated loss is $910.

Theft ■ A black 2017 Nissan Murano SUV that was reported stolen out of Oak Park on July 24 was recovered in the 100 block of Garfield Street at 7:05 p.m. on July 28. ■ A 37-year-old Chicago man was arrested for retail theft and battery at Pete’s Fresh Market, 259 Lake St., at 9:46 p.m. on Aug. 1. ■ Someone stole two gray concrete flower pots from the 1100 block of Garfield Street, sometime between 4 p.m. on July 31 and 8 a.m. on Aug. 1. The estimated loss is $100.

Oak Park burglaries

■ A 2014 Jeep Cherokee was burglarized in the 200 block of Iowa Street, sometime between 5:30 p.m. on July 31 and 1:15 p.m. on Aug. 1. The burglar stole a silver Nikon camera, a red iPhone charger and cash. The burglar then entered the victim’s 2014 Volkswagen Tiguan and stole cash from the center console. The estimated loss is $55. ■ A Buick Encore was burglarized in the 500 block of North Cuyler Avenue, sometime between 6 p.m. on July 31 and 7:19 a.m. on Aug. 1. The burglar stole black sunglasses, a sunglasses case and Chick-fil-A coupons. The estimated loss is $30. ■ A 2002 Mercedes G500 was burglarized in the 900 block of Clarence Avenue at 3:47 p.m. on July 30. The offender used a pry tool to open the unlocked glove box and then stole an auto maintenance code reader. The offender then entered a Chevrolet Suburban

and fled. The estimated loss is $125. ■ A 2010 Toyota Corolla was vandalized and burglarized in the 1000 block of South Elmwood Avenue, sometime between 3 p.m. on July 29 and 3 a.m. on July 30. The offender stole cash from the vehicle and then let air out of a tire and put an unknown liquid substance into the gas tank. The estimated loss is unknown. ■ A 2015 Hyundai Sonata was burglarized in the 900 block of Home, Avenue sometime between 5 p.m. on July 29 and 7 a.m. on July 30. The burglar entered the vehicle by unknown means and stole a black Lenovo laptop computer and cash. The estimated loss is $650. ■ A garage was burglarized in the 600 block of South Cuyler Avenue at 1:02 p.m. on Aug. 2. The offender gained entrance through an unlocked side service door and entered two vehicles parked there, stealing cash and a LeapPad game device. The estimated loss is $32.

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Mag Mile spotlights access, inclusion If you’ve walked down Chicago’s Magnificent Mile recently, you may have spotted something you wouldn’t expect to see so far inland: Lighthouses. Fifty-one of them, rising 6-feet tall, painted and decorated by artists commissioned by nonprofit “The Chicago Lighthouse.” “We created this public art display to celebrate access and inclusion for people of disabilities,” said Lisa Birmingham, chief creative director. The River Forest resident said audio and walking tours are available for tourists, which highlight each artist and the organization. Some 50 artists with disabilities helped decorate the lighthouses, and more than 100 artists total worked on painting the sculptures. “Each one is unique and each artist brings their own experience to their lighthouse,” Birmingham said. “The disability could be anything from muscular dystrophy [to] people who are legally blind who have painted. We have those with autism, ADHD.” Though she does not have a disability, Birmingham took the opportunity to paint her own lighthouse too. Because she has a background in medical illustration — drawing various surgical procedures for textbooks, patient education pamphlets and more — she painted structures of the human eye on her statute, naming it “Eye Wonder,” in honor of her many friends and colleagues who are blind. She made it textural, too, so those who are without sight can feel the

structures of the eye. Birmingham’s and the other lighthouses will be on display on Michigan Avenue until Aug. 11, and are up for auction, Aug. 8-12. Those who wish to purchase a lighthouse, proceeds benefitting the nonprofit, should bid at Bidpal.net/Lighthouses. “They’re made to be outdoors,” she said. “You could even put it in a common space in your community.”

Nona Tepper

Having their cake, liking it too

‘I

hate cake,” said Chef Jason Hedin of Chicago’s Hubbard Inn (www. hubbardinn.com/). “I don’t like butter cream, or marzipan, or any of that stuff that looks great but tastes terrible. I think it goes back to our childhood, when we’d go to a birthday party and the mom would have bought some awful sheet cake. No wonder many of us don’t like cake.” I don’t like cake. On my birthday, I ask for key lime pie, not cake. Still, Hedin made one of the best cakes I’ve ever had. Oak Parker Ernest Hemingway was the inspiration for parts of Hedin’s menu. At Hubbard Inn, we started with oysters, about which Hemingway wrote one of his most memorable passages: As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.

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Lisa’s Lighthouse

Instead of white wine, I had a daiquiri, about which the great man wrote: This frozen daiquiri, so well beaten as it is, looks like the sea where the wave falls away from the bow of a ship when she is doing 30

knots.

Islands in the Stream

We had some entrees, like a lacquered duck, that represented, Hedin told us, “the more European side of Hemingway.” We almost took a pass on dessert until he convinced us we should try it, and I’m so glad we did. The Basque cake at Hubbard Inn, Hedin told us, is the culmination of different recipes he’s made over the years. “I’ve got a nontraditional take on it,” he explained, “by placing a layer of vanilla pastry cream and chocolate ganache between the layers of cake, and finishing the top layer with cinnamon sugar and lemon zest. It’s garnished with a simple vanilla Chantilly.” Chantilly is a lightly whipped cream that provides the kind of lightness unobtainable with the more common, and sometimes sickeningly lardy-tasting, butter cream, which Hedin says, “leaves your mouth coated so you can’t really taste anything.” The Basque cake, of course, though unmentioned in the works of Hemingway, reflects the Oak Park author’s Spanish connection. The Basque country comes up in several of the author’s works, most notably in The Sun Also Rises. “Most cake is boring,” says Hedin. His Basque cake is not.

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olunteer opportunities abound in the Chicago area, but few offer as rarefied environment as the Frank Lloyd Wright Trust. Interpreters lead tours and perform a variety of other tasks under the roofss of five Wright-designed sites and often spend nd time in some of Oak Park and River Forest’s st’s most architecturally significant homes during uring the annual Wright Plus Housewalk. As the Trust prepares for a fall training session for volunteers, Volunteer Resources Manager Linda BonifasGuzman notes that going through the comprehensive ehensive program often brings volunteers into the fold for a long-term relationship with the Trust. The Trust operates public tours and programs at five Chicago area historic sites: Wright’s Home and Studio and Unity Temple (1905-08) in Oak Park, the Frederick C. Robie House in Hyde Park, The Rookery Light Court in the Loop and the Emil Bach House in Rogers Park. According to Bonifas-Guzman, the two sites with the greatest need for volunteers are the Home and Studio and the Robie House. Typically, she holds training sessions twice a year, in the spring and fall, and also holds special training sessions when See VOLUNTEERS on page 19

Founding volunteer Jack Lesniak (middle) tends bar at the Wright Plus Homeowners Dinner. Interpreter Julie Carpenter (above) leads guided interior tour of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Home & Studio (top).

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Interpreting Wright from page 17 sites are re-opened after a period of restoration, such as the recent years-long effort to restore Oak Park’s Unity Temple. Because the Robie House is currently undergoing restoration, she notes that training in the Robie House will not take place this fall but encourages visitors to take advantage of this unique time to see the home. “Right now, we’re exactly at the halfway point in the restoration,” Bonifas-Guzman said. “They’ve done the front half of the house, and in August are opening up the living room and some of the premier rooms. We anticipate completion in February, and right now is a great time to come in and see the restoration in progress.”

Training process The volunteer training process entails several weeks of training during which each future interpreter creates a personalized tour with help from an experienced mentor. Volunteer Felix Diaz, who started with the Trust in 2013, notes that the title of interpreter was deliberately chosen. He says that each tour is personalized and reflects the interpreter’s personal take on the space. “Everyone makes their own tour,” Diaz said. “You could come to the Home and Studio multiple times and always get a different tour.” Bonifas-Guzman says that serv-

Interpreter Pat Cannon (above) leads a guided tour of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Home and Studio. At right, 2018 Volunteer of the Year award winners Mark Scott, Linda Bonifas-Guzman and Sue Blaine. Below, the top 10 hour-earning volunteers celebrate during an excursion to Wrigley Field. ing as interpreters is the main role for volunteers at the Home and Studio and that roughly 200 volunteer at the Oak Park site, with roughly 350 interpreters spread among all five sites. The Home and Studio is closed only five days a year, and during the busy season -- typically April

through October -- tours are often only 10 to 20 minutes apart. Other sites’ tours are more spaced out, depending on demand. The Home and Studio offers a variety of tours, with the most popular tour being a one-hour option. Other tours include an audioguide tour, a neighborhood tour,

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a combination tour of the Home and Studio and Unity Temple, a Pedal Oak Park tour on bicycles, and a Wright Around Chicago tour aboard a bus. Many of the volunteer interpreters also help with the duties during the Wright Plus Housewalk, and Bonifas-Guzman says their numbers have to be augmented to handle the scope of the event. “The numbers vary by year, depending largely on how many houses we have and how far flung they are,” Bonifas-Guzman said. When the walk included homes in Riverside, the volunteer force exceeded 650, with over 100 volunteers serving at the Avery Coonley Estate. When the walk is more centrally located, as it was in 2018, the

Trust needs about 500 volunteers to make the weekend a success.

The volunteer community Bonifas-Guzman, who herself started out as a volunteer, praises the unique community that exists among the Trust volunteers. “The love of architecture, Frank Lloyd Wright, history or decorative arts are often the common thread that brings people here, and once they get bitten by the bug, they tend to stay,” Bonifas-Guzman said. “People who like Frank Lloyd Wright are like rabid sports fans. They will travel around the world to feed that interest.” See VOLUNTEERS on page 21

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VOLUNTEERS Community from page 19 For Lauren Witkowski, a childhood love of the Prairie Style moved her to become an interpreter at the Robie House in 2016. “Growing up, my dad would take us on family vacations to see the White Sox and Frank Lloyd Wright homes,” Witkowski said. “He studied architecture and designed our own home in the Prairie Style.” She and her husband recently purchased their own Prairie Style home in Brookfield, and she enjoys sharing her passion with others. “It gives me a lot of pleasure to explain the Robie House, Chicago and Frank Lloyd Wright to visitors,” Witkowski said. Oak Parker Amie Deluca fostered a connection to her new hometown when she began volunteering at the Home and Studio shortly after moving to the area in 2009. Through her work as an interpreter, day leader and Wright Plus organizer, she says the group has become a source of friendships and a way to get integrated into her new community. Longtime volunteer Vicki Kwarciany has worn a number of hats in her 21 years as a volunteer with the Trust. As an interpreter and day leader at the Home and Studio to leadership roles in Wright Plus, she has found the community as vital to the volunteering as the mission. “Yes, I love the topic and the activity, but the fellow volunteers are why I stay,” Kwarciany said. “We started out with a common interest and built real friendships.” Diaz echoes her comments. An architect, he began volunteering when he moved to the Chicago area from Las Vegas and didn’t have a large community of family

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Clockwise from top: Interpreter Jim Peters takes a moment to pose with guests after leading the first tour of Unity Temple after its restoration; Wright Plus volunteer Vicky Kwarciany (left) and an unidentified volunteer at the annual Wright Plus volunteer after party; Volunteers gather in the courtyard of the Home and Studio for the annual volunteer appreciation party; Founding Frank Lloyd Wright Trust members Ann Marohn and Jack Lesniak outside the newly restored Unity Temple. and friends. When he and his husband took a tour at the Home and Studio, Diaz was inspired to begin volunteering. He says the tour groups provide instant inspiration. “People come from all over the world, and I love to see them become excited about Wright,” Diaz said. “Another great part about

this is that the organization itself has become like an instant family for me.”

Getting involved Enrollment for volunteer training sessions starting in September is underway for interpreters to lead tours at the Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio, Wright’s design laboratory and birthplace of Wright’s Prairie style of architecture. Interpreter training is a concentrated program that involves online study, class lectures and workshops leading to certification. Interested individuals must qualify for enrollment during an informational orientation where they will also learn about opportunities for training to be interpreters at Robie House and Unity Temple. Training takes place Thursday evenings and two Saturdays, Sept. 25 through Oct. 11 at the Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio, 951 Chicago Ave., Oak Park. More information and the volunteer application are available at www.flwright.org/volunteer.

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August 8, 2018

Celebrating Over 55 Years of Montessori Excellence

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ounded in 1961, Alcuin Montessori School offers a cross-curricular learning environment balancing academic and emotional intelligence. We partner with parents and provide • Junior and Senior Elementary, 8:30 a.m. to ounded in 1961, Alcuin Montessori students the tools to become highly-skilled independent thinkers with a passion for School offers a cross-curricular learning knowledge. Our programs are designed to help each3:15 childp.m. become confident, curious, selfenvironment balancing academic and disciplined and motivated. • Middle School, 8:45 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. emotional intelligence. We partner with At Alcuin, classrooms operate on the principle of freedom within School limits. Children, under the • Before/After Care parents and students tools to pace with materials of their choosing. Each student guidance of provide a teacher, work atthe their own • Art become highly-skilled thinkers may work alone or withindependent others; different levels of ability are expected and welcomed within with a passion for knowledge. Our programs • Musical Theater each classroom. Education occurs in multi-aged classrooms where children of various stages are designed to help of development learneach fromchild and become with each other. • Spanish confi dent, curious, self-disciplined and Our programs for ages 0-14 include: Families currently attending Alcuin come motivated. * Parent/Infant - Fridays, 8:45 to 10:30 a.m. from Oak Park, as well as Berwyn, Broadview, At* Alcuin, classrooms operate on the 8:30 to 11:30 Three to Five Day Toddler/Parent, a.m. Brookfi eld, Chicago, Cicero, Elmhurst, Forest principle of freedom within limits. Children, Park, River Forest, Riverside, River Grove and * Primary, 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. under the guidance of a teacher, work at their more. Full-Day 8:30choosing. a.m. to 3:00 p.m. own* pace withKindergarten, materials of their Wep.m. welcome all prospective parents to join * Junior and Senior a.m. to 3:15 Each student may workElementary, alone or with8:30 others; us for our monthly informational Coffees. We different levels of ability expected * Middle School, 8:45are a.m. to 3:45and p.m. will start with some good coffee, a short video welcomed within each classroom. Education * Before/After School Care on Montessori education and then take an occurs in multi-aged classrooms where * Art in-depth look into all of our classrooms. At children of various stages of development * Musical Theater the end of the tour we hold a question and learn from and with each other. answer session, and explain our admissions * Spanish Our programs for ages 0-14 include: process. Tours throughout the school Families currently attending Alcuin come from Oak Park, as wellare as held Berwyn, Broadview, • Parent/Infant Fridays, 8:45 to 10:30 a.m. year on Thursdays (9:00-11:00 a.m.) the Brookfield, Chicago, Cicero, Elmhurst, Forest Park, River Forest, Riverside, River Groveatand main Alcuin campus. Visit Alcuin.org for tour more. • Three to Five Day Toddler/Parent, 8:30 to To enroll in a tours please e-mail a.m.all prospective parents to join us for dates. We11:30 welcome our monthly informational Coffees. We our will Director education of Advancement at avalera@alcuin.org start with some good coffee, a short video on Montessori and then take an in-depth • Primary, 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. or call look into all of our classrooms. At the end of the tour we708.366.1882. hold a question and answer session, • Full-Day 8:30 a.m. to 3:00are held throughout the school year on Thursdays and explain Kindergarten, our admissions process. Tours p.m. (9:00-11:00 a.m.) at the main Alcuin campus. Visit Alcuin.org for tour dates. To enroll in a tours please e-mail our Director of Advancement at avalera@alcuin.org or call 708.366.1882.

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St. Angela School offers counseling services; before & after school care; a focus on literacy; extracurricular athletic programs, art, music, computer and Spanish classes. Tuition assistance is available for those who qualify.

Summer hours until August 9: Monday - Thursday, 8 to 2 Regular hours: Monday - Friday 8 to 3 School begins August 20.

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Memory’s pilot pulls quite a stunt

am 69 years old. For all of my life I have believed that my mother got married to a stunt pilot who met her at his performance at the Mercer County Fair in Harrodsburg, Kentucky when she was a teenager sometime in the 1930s. Predictably perhaps, the marriage lasted less than a year and ended badly with physical abuse. Some years later, my mother married my dad and had three children, including me, and we all lived happily ever after, except my mom died in 1982 at the age of 62. Understandably, neither my mom nor my dad were very forthcoming about my mother’s first mulligan marriage. I guess I picked up bits and pieces of overheard conversations. Eventually, of course, everybody with any personal knowledge of my mother’s early life died too. Recently, my middle son Nick told me he wants to sit down with me and tape memories of my life and that of my parents. I was initially flattered, but I do admit to wondering if he is concerned that perhaps he better get something down now before I forget it. Or die. Kind of makes sense in a melancholic way. So I’ve been thinking about my mom’s life before I knew her. The more I thought about it, the idea that my shy, sweet mom would fly off with a wife-beating stunt pilot just didn’t make sense. So I asked both my brother and sister if they knew about her avian elopement. They were aware of a first marriage, but none of the implausible details. So I called my cousin Donna who has lived all her life in Harrodsburg. Her mother, Mary, was a best friend growing up with my mom. She would surely know the true story. I called her, and related to her my version of mom’s story. Eventually after she stopped laughing, she told me that mom and one Elward Whiteneck (if only it could have been Redneck) were seniors at Mayo High School and, upon graduation, the lovebirds snuck off to Indiana to get married. Elward was a handsome man. They returned to Harrodsburg where they lived for four or five years until Elwood’s philandering caused mother to divorce him. There was no fair, no stunt pilot, no flying off into the sunset to get hitched and no physical beatings. As the Brits say, I was gobstopped. How could this memory be so wrong? A tangled mess of misheard and misremembered conversations filtered through a child’s brain, and, conflated with other stories and novels I had read, must have spun together in my brain’s centrifuge to create this fantastic story of my mother’s sordid past.

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ak Park.com, powered by Wednesday Journal, has reported that a Nov. 6 advisory referendum will ask Oak Parkers if the village should further study consolidating village government with three other taxing bodies — Oak Park Township, the Park District of Oak Park and the Oak Park Public Library. The advisory referendum rationale is to determine if consolidation could result in efficiencies and economies of scale and the elimination of redundancies that would lead to property tax reduction for the residents of Oak Park. While I absolutely support intergovernmental conversation, collaboration, and actions designed to improve the quality of life in Oak Park and to provide the best and most costeffective village services, this referendum does not address the key issue related to long-term property tax relief in Oak Park and across the state. That is the continuous failure of the Illinois General Assembly to honor its commitment stated in the Article X, Section 1, of the Illinois Constitution: “The State has the primary responsibility for financing the system of public education.” I am certain that our local legislators will strenuously object to my use and application of that quote. They will parse the meaning of the word “primary” and tell you it does not mean “majority.” However, even a cursory review of dictionary definitions of “primary” will reveal that, as it is used in the Illinois Constitution, the word is not synonymous with “majority.” So that is an exercise in dissembling and political spin, in direct opposition to the intentions of those who wrote that language during the 1970 Illinois Constitutional Convention to ensure that state

government is constitutionally mandated to and always reminded that “The State has the primary responsibility for financing the system of public education.” As Chicago Sun Times journalist Phil Kadner wrote, “That’s clear language. The goal is to educate every child in this state to their fullest potential, and it is the state’s primary responsibility to fund that system of education.” (1) A Chicago Tribune article on March 26, 2015 offered, “The state, by constitutional mandate, has the primary responsibility for funding its public schools but has never come close to covering even 50 percent of the cost. In recent years, the state’s contribution has dipped below 30 percent, forcing local school districts to raise their property tax levy or cut programs.” (2) Data from National Center for Education studies revealed that, in school year 2014-15, Illinois ranked dead last in the percentage of public school revenue coming from state sources at 25%, while the national state average is 46.8%. (3) An Oak Park resident’s local property tax bill would almost be cut in half if the Illinois General Assembly were as truly committed to funding public education with state revenues like Iowa, Indiana, and Michigan — all well over 50%. The Illinois General Assembly and the governor talk about property tax freezes, schemes to redistribute property taxes from a community like Oak Park to other communities, and their undying love and support for public education. They will talk about data like statewide, per-pupil spending to avoid what most needs to be talked about: Why they choose not to honor Constitutional mandate for the

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Festivals get steamed

hen you are charged with cutting a million bucks out of a municipal budget, sometimes you get tangled in the weeds. You have to nick a load of programs and/or find ways to grab off new revenue from many sources to reach that sort of target. Oak Park’s village government staff received that direction as it crafted this year’s budget and tax-fretting trustees wanted a lesser tax hike. The goal was achieved. But most every budget cut has a constituency and when it comes to independent local businesses they are not shy about speaking up. It happened last month when local business associations discovered their pretty paltry $15,000 matching fund for holiday decorations across the village had evaporated. It was restored by trustees after a small uprising. Now a more notable hullaballoo is gathering force as business districts, including downtown Oak Park and the Harrison Street Arts District, are being billed for the first time ever for a theoretical loss to the village of parking revenues when business groups mount events. That sound you hear is the village board caving. Rightly caving. The village government loves when business district’s sponsor feel-good, business building events. In downtown those include the summer-long Thursday Night Out which draws 500-800 people a week. Also, the local craft beer festival. Both are held largely on a one-block stretch of Marion Street. That street was remade a decade ago for the specific purpose of being closed off regularly to host such events. The Arts District, meanwhile, has been holding its What’s Blooming event since 1999. Recently, downtown received an unexpected invoice for $6,300 to compensate for lost street parking revenue. As its director rightly points out, those visitors parked somewhere in downtown, likely in the underused, villageowned parking garages. Meanwhile, Harrison Street does not currently have parking meters along its main strip. That did not prevent an invoice for $1,200 in lost parking revenues. What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate. No way the Arts District has $1,200 sitting around to send to village hall. Even the reasonably wellfunded downtown special service area has a budget that does not include random bills for thousands of dollars. Multiple trustees are already asking for more details from staff before they inevitably capitulate. The sooner the better.

Things we like ■ Speaking of the Arts District, it only took 35 years of pain, but things are really humming now. New construction at Harrison and Lombard is well along with both work/live townhouses and retail coming right up. An old barrel-roofed warehouse space is being renovated for new uses. And several new food-focused businesses are opening. This great and convenient neighborhood is finally getting the creative love it deserves. Mostly these are private sector initiatives with small spruce-up investments by the village government. ■ In a moment of national shame at the way the Trump administration has consciously, callously assaulted Hispanic families at our southern border, we can proudly look at the example of Dominican University as a model for inclusion. With a freshman class that is 40 percent Hispanic, this Catholic institution is practicing its faith in real time, in real life. ■ The VMA held its own celebration last week as it marked its end as a positive political force in Oak Park over most of its six decades. Hard to overstate the good this political entity played in the village — from good government to fair housing, from gay rights to economic development. In a fair-minded assessment, though, Bob Kane, a one-time VMA president, acknowledged the group had worn down. “We needed to be vocal about the next cause and we were not.” The group he said, entered “legend” status which is a hard place from which to make change. Does not for a moment diminish its historic place. And its closing only reminds us of the need for leadership that is bold, inclusive and understands complexity.

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he two-party system has prevailed for 160 years — since 1861 when the first Republican was elected. Ever wonder who’s ahead in our longestrunning national rivalry? What’s your guess? A dead heat? I’m afraid not. The advantage decidedly goes to the elephants. Ever since I discovered baseball cards, I’ve enjoyed browsing the numbers. That now extends to politics, our national blood sport. I wrote a column on this some years back, but most weren’t paying attention to politics then. Pretty much everyone is paying attention these days, and with a crucial midterm election less than 100 days away, I thought you might find the numbers interesting. Since Abraham Lincoln put the Republican Party on the map in 1861, our presidential elections have been pretty much a two-horse race. Yes, Andrew Johnson technically belonged to the made-up “National Union Party” when he took over for the assassinated Lincoln, but he was originally a Democratic senator from Tennessee, so we’ll include him with the Democrats — as embarrassing as that might be for the donkeys. Seems he wasn’t much of a president. And, yes, Teddy Roosevelt, after distinguishing himself as a Republican, decided to run again in 1912 as a “Bull Moose,” but once an elephant, always an elephant. He lost, so the point is moot. By 2020, when the current resident, or his successor, complete what will be known as “The Term of Shame,” Republicans will have held the White House for 92 years compared to 68 for the Democrats. That’s a 57-43 winning percentage, reminiscent of the Yankees during their heyday. In the past 160 years, there have been 18 Republican presidents (three assassinations and a death in office inflated the number) as opposed to just 10 Democrats (one assassination, one died in office after three terms, and Cleveland was elected twice to non-consecutive terms). Breaking that down into 40-year chunks gives a clearer sense of the GOP’s dominance. From 1861 to 1901, Republicans held the White House for 28 years, Democrats for 12, the latter deservedly banished to the political wilderness for their support of slavery. From 1901 to 1941, Republicans prevailed, 24-16. From 1941 to 1981, because the Depression banished the Republicans, deservedly, to the wilderness, Democrats enjoyed their only advantage, 24-16. And beginning with the Reagan revolution in 1981 (just seven years removed from Richard Nixon’s disgrace), Americans forgot about Watergate and the Depression and returned Republicans to prominence, 24-16, bringing us up to 2020. A Republican president led this country through its greatest crisis — the Civil War — and a Democrat guided us through our second and third greatest crises: the Depression and World War II. A Democrat was in charge during World War I (Wilson), during our greatest periods of post-war prosperity (Kennedy, Johnson and, more recently, Clinton), and a Democrat

(Obama) managed to prevent the Great Recession from sliding into another Great Depression and sparked the economic upturn that Trump is now trying to take credit for. Two Republicans (Reagan and the first Bush) were in charge when the Cold War ended and the Soviet Union was transformed into the rogue state known as Russia. The dissolution of the U.S. (by undermining Americans’ faith in their own government) is an ongoing project, but the incapable hands of George W. Bush and Donald Trump, aided and abetted by Russia, have accelerated the process. But that’s just the presidency. What about the legislative branch? The record is mixed. Democrats controlled the House of Representatives for 44 Congresses vs. 35 for the Republicans (each Congress lasts two years), but Republicans held the Senate, 42 to 35. Twice the parties were tied. Democrats held the edge in the House primarily because the Depression taught American voters a hard lesson about Republican incompetence. From 1861-1933, Republicans controlled the House 23 times compared to 13 for the Democrats. From 1981 to the present, they controlled it 10 times to the Democrats’ 9. During and following the Depression and World War II, Democrats ruled 22-2. More recently, Republicans held the White House and Congress leading up to the Great Recession in 2008-9, yet just two years later voters handed the country’s purse back to them. The hard lessons went unlearned. In the last 160 years, four presidential candidates who lost the popular vote were installed as president via the electoral college — two out of three in this century thus far (bad trend), plus Rutherford Hayes in 1876 and Benjamin Harrison in 1888. All were Republicans; none will ever be found in the top half of the lists of presidents ranked by historians and political scientists. All of this raises the question, “Why have the Republicans been the default setting for so many American voters for so long?” The two best Republican presidents, Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt, were actively progressive. They did not conform to the passive/aggressive conservative model that exists today and neither would be welcome in the current Republican Party. Given how little faith today’s Republicans profess in the concept of good governance, how much hostility they express toward government generally, and how poorly they have governed overall, you would think voters would favor Democrats, who actually have a track record of relatively competent governance, especially in some of our most difficult times. I suspect it can be explained in terms of unconscious biases, which are, unfortunately, self-defeating. If we ever want this country to move forward, the trend has to be flipped. Beginning in 2018, we need to start electing more Democrats and fewer Republicans — It’s time to banish them once again to the political wilderness.

KEN

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Save money: we don’t need to vote on it What is the justification for spending tax dollars to ask voters whether the village should study ways to save money? [Consolidation vote headed to the ballot, News, Aug. 1]. Duh. Of course we’re all in favor of studying ways to save money. Here’s a money-saving idea: Don’t put it on the ballot. Just study it and if an actual plan is formulated that saves money and requires voter approval, put the ac-

tual plan to a vote. Whatever the results of this proposed vote, which will be essentially meaningless, you can be sure the result will be mischaracterized to serve someone’s purpose — like, say, “Voters overwhelmingly support consolidating government units.”

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the state: honor your mandate in the Illinois Constitution and use the taxpayers’ hard-earned tax dollars to take primary responsibility for funding public education in Illinois. I have never created a hash tag, but I am certain my talented fellow Oak Parkers could create an effective one that admonishes the G.A. and compels them to commit 51%+ to state level public education funding. When the inevitable local and state level pushback and language parsing legislators’ responses to this One View are presented, I encourage you to take out your local property tax bill and look at the percentages supporting our public-school systems in Oak Park, districts 97 and 200. Now imagine (or calculate) your total property taxes if those two taxing body percentages were reduced by at least 1/3 to 1/2. However, that will only happen when Springfield legislators are given no choice but to honor Article X, Section 1 and the oath they swore to uphold. ■ https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/lets-understand-why-illinois-has-the-highest-property-taxes/ ■ http://www.chicagotribune.com/ct-sta-kadner-sudies-st-0327-20150326-column.html# ■ https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator_cma. asp Jim Gates, an Oak Park resident, is a retired District 97 instructor and a former D97 school board president.

Fulfill your promise from page 29 state government to be the primary funding source for public education. While I strongly support discussions between taxing bodies to identify efficiencies and redundancies, I do fear a rush to judgment and action by village leadership to combine taxing bodies without the requisite time, study, due diligence, and, all-important, the village-wide resident input such a momentous action requires. Before the village even considers undoing structures that have provided Oak Park decades of high-quality youth and senior services, and nationally recognized and awardwinning park district and library services, village leadership should look 198 miles south to all branches of state government. As Oak Park is often in the vanguard of change, I suggest it once again assume that mantle of leadership and launch a statewide campaign with a stark and strong message to our local legislators and legislators across

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Recalling another immigration ‘crisis’

ccording to the U.S. Bureau of Statistics (specifically on the subject of immigration) and despite President Trump’s claims that we are accepting an over-abundance of immigrants (especially from Mexico, Central and South America), the facts are that the numbers of immigrants coming to the U.S. has steadily gone down and we have an actual need for immigrants to fulfill low-level work roles that are undesirable for our work force who refuse these jobs. The migrants seeking asylum in

our country, meanwhile, should not be detained as criminals. They need compassion not jail, and certainly should keep their families together. When there was a large migration of Cubans into Florida, the immigration red tape went smoothly and their asylum status allowed them an easy settlement here. Many families sent children (unaccompanied) to the U.S. in hopes that the parents would soon follow. There was strict documentation and immigration authorities cooperated with churches,

synagogues, temples, and family service organizations to plan for housing and foster care for these children. My knowledge of this process comes from experience, as our family applied to offer a foster home for one of these children. Our experience was unique in that we were requested to foster two children, age 9 and 11, brother and sister. Agencies and immigration authorities back then would not separate siblings, in direct contrast to Trump separation policy. The other unique nature of our experience is that

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the children stayed with us almost a year instead of the usual few months anticipated for the parents’ arrival. These children were fully knowledgeable of the reason they were sent ahead and were aware it was in their best interest to leave Cuba. Their acclimation to our home and family, although we tried to make them comfortable and welcome, was nonetheless traumatic for them. Their father called every Sunday and spoke to them at length, and we hired a Spanish student from Rosary College (now Dominican University) to help their English. Twice a month, an immigration social worker would visit unannounced to interview the children. Another contrast to Trump’s policy, there was a follow-up to every placement to assure the authorities that the children were well cared for. These children became strong and close family members — and we are still close! Therefore, it is understandable that I suffer because of the present situation of separating families. This has never been done before in this country (the Nazis separated siblings and parents from their children). The U.S. has always been known as a refuge for families escaping from violence or the prejudices of other nations. To my knowledge, our immigration policy has always accepted asylum seekers with proof of need, and that policy is not observed by the Trump administration. It has been said, “Repeat a lie long enough and people will accept it as truth.” In a recent poll, 65% of our population believe that immigrants are a danger to our nation although the facts prove otherwise. Immigrants have a record of much less crime than our own citizens. Unfortunately, this fear-mongering by President Trump is essentially racist against Muslims, Mexicans, South and Central Americans, brown- and blackskinned people. Sadly, the Supreme Court recently voted to allow his “travel ban” for security purposes. Note that 13 of the 15 9/11 attackers were Saudi Arabian, but that country is not on the security risk list because Mr. Trump has business dealings with that country. As an optimist, I believe that the rules and regulations of our Constitution and our three, equal branches of government, meant to check and balance each other, will prevail. Harriet Hausman is a longtime resident of River Forest.

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An ode to the VMA

n 1963 my wife Barbara and I moved to Oak Park and we met Dominic Mayo, who was then the CEO of United Way, also known as the Community Chest. His favorite line was, “Every generation must build its own courthouse.” So here’s my ode to the VMA (Village Manager Association): Born 1952, retired 2018 – 66 years Lots of good memories, laughs, and tears Let’s reflect, reminisce, socialize, and appreciate Cause we’ve done a lot to congratulate Now let’s see, what did we do? What I’m about to tell you is certainly true. 1940 to ’52 We had alderman with patronage and corruption. Outside interests, party factionalism, alcoholism, nothing got done. A small group discussed the problem and the changes that needed to take place. And all the obstacles they were going to face. Instead of Republicans or Democrats, you know, We wanted a completely different show. Let’s ask Oak Parkers for complete reform. The citizens said yes, and it was born. A professional village manager governed by

a citizen board, A president, six trustees, and clerk. Praise the Lord. So here is the village manager association. The VMA Made up of Republicans, Democrats, and independents you say? Yes, any Oak Parker who wants good government can belong To the selection committee, no fee, no flag, no song. Seven people plus clerk were selected And put them before citizens to get them elected. From 1953 to 2011 The VMA thought we were in heaven. Total of 90 seats and we won 88. Ninety percent and we thought that was great. But the years 2013, ’15, and ’17, total seats 11. We lost five, we were no longer in heaven. Times have changed, and let’s be candid. The VMA’s tired, so it disbanded. And now we’re celebrating good things we’ve done. The changes we’ve made, and new policies we’ve won, Over time, thanks to hundreds of different souls. Each with different skills, and also different roles.

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I’d like to mention those who went before us now. And are no longer with us — and give them a bow. We’re riding on their shoulders for all they have done. And all the battles they’ve fought and battles they’ve won. Here are their names: Christiansen, Brown, Campbell, Hanley, Westcott, Cullicott, Fixman, Hansen, Wentzel, and Shea. This crew took care of renewing the village I’d say. ■ New zoning, anti-blight ■ Massive sewer program ■ Streets and alleys redone ■ Oak Park ResCorp to rehab properties ■ Fences over the expressway ■ Just to mention a few. Donaker, Gearen, Thomas, and McClure Callahan, Hoppe, Philbin, Fallon, there’s more McLean, Slaughter, and McMahon. People who said, “Yes we can.” 1968, ordinance adopted, Fair Housing ■ No for sale signs allowed ■ Licensing and inspection of multifamily dwellings ■ Housing Center collaborates with village, what a great crowd ■ Official Community Relations Department, Sherlynn Reid, we heard from her, yes indeed. ■ Developing a comprehensive plan ■ Mills Tower for senior citizens

■ Racial diversity statement, “Yes We Can” ■ Ordinance requires lease for tenants ■ $1.5 million housing bond supports multifamily rehab ■ Relocating village hall to Madison and Lombard ■ Equity assurance against loss of home value, village will pick up the tab ■ Oak Park puts in mall, then takes it out, villagers ask, what’s this all about? ■ Furlong, Staczack, Schultz, Ebner, Kostopulos ■ The rest are still alive, ■ But we say thanks, for these great five ■ Racial diversity task force ■ Add sexual orientation to protected clause ■ Historic preservation ordinance implemented ■ Protection of solid waste disposal – Let’s take a pause ■ Holly Court garage complete ■ Add more police and local cop beat ■ Attract more developers to build downtown Give a smile and drop the frown. Now on to Madison Street Hope this gets done without much heat. And we say to all of you here, Thanks for all you’ve done and never fear. The next generation will build their own courthouse, you see, And they may even ask for help from you and me. Congratulations, VMA, for 66 great years.

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Calling all senior singers of color Faithful readers: I’m repeating parts of a column I wrote a year ago, and adding a plea for singers of color to join the Encore Chorus. After all, Oak Park and River Forest are committed to diversity and so are we.

o … walk, run, swim, do yoga, stretch, lift weights, eat fish, do yoga, eat yogurt, do yoga while eating yogurt, eat chocolate, drink coffee, have sex, do yoga, don’t watch too much TV, drink red wine, sleep more, sleep less, do yoga. And, of course, wear sunscreen (advice originally from the Chicago Tribune’s Mary Schmich and attributed to Kurt Vonnegut). But they don’t tell you to sing. With others. I’m telling you now, and research from the National Institutes of Health agrees. Encore choruses for older adults started in the Washington D.C. area following an NIH study that older people do well in an environment that includes the fine arts under the direction of a professional. The idea is expanding. Our superman Encore Illinois Director Jonathan Miller, in partnership with Northwestern University, has started a Good Memories Encore Chorale for those with early dementia and their caregivers. I freaking love the Encore Chorale. It’s for people 55 and over and there are no tryouts!

I’m a decent alto when my asthma is in check, and I can carry a tune pretty well. When I first joined, my ability to read music was pretty limited. I’d never sung four-part harmony before, but I’m getting better with the coaching we get in the group from our lovely and upbeat director Linda Crabtree-Powell. The music for each season is selected in advance. You get copies of the music at the first session and a disc to take home with each song sung in all parts and then in your part only! The songs are also online. There have been times at practices when we’ve gone over a passage many times and then put it all together and I’ve thought, “Damn, that’s beautiful.” The fall season of the Oak Park and River Forest Encore Chorale begins on Sept. 4. We’ve been wildly successful in two short years. We’ve outgrown our practice space at Trinity High School and are moving to the Nineteenth Century Club at Forest and Ontario in Oak Park. Our local concerts in December and May at Concordia University and Good Shepherd Church have been wonderful, and our joint concerts with the other six Chicago-area Encore choruses have been, well, astonishing, at least to me. When more than 220 of us from all over Chicagoland performed at the

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The OP-RF Encore Chorale has everything except singers of color. historic Fourth Presbyterian Church last spring, I was singing with tears in my eyes, so happy to be a part of that beautiful sound. (Too many superlatives? Can’t help it.) It would be terrific if we had more singers of color — a different glow, if you will. If you sing in a church choir, our Tuesday practices should not interfere. You can come for one free session to see how you like it. It’s great. If you’re interested, I’d register soon. A lot of people who came to our spring concerts

OPRF’s $152M facilities plan

n May 17, 2016, Oak Park and River Forest High School’s architect of record, Legat, presented the school board with three Long Term Facility Plans (LTFPs). The most expensive one, Option 3, was priced at $152 million, with $90 million earmarked to totally demolish and rebuild the south end of the building and historic Field House, largely for physical education and athletics. Legat called Option 3 the most “invasive” plan. Phase I would likely take three years to demolish and rebuild a third of the school’s building. In the board discussion, the thenpresident commented that members looked “shell-shocked” over the disruption challenges inherent with Option 3, and a few members underscored that the building was structurally sound and well maintained, not in need of demolition. One member stressed that the need was only to reconfigure space, not demolish it. At the June 14, 2016 meeting, the board unanimously rejected the $152 million plan without discussion. Five members of the 2016 school board sit on the current board.

The 2016 plan is relevant today as the Imagine OPRF Work Group is set to unveil its final conceptual LTFP this month. Both Option 3 and Imagine’s plan, a compilation of its two concepts presented in June, include the disruptive total demolition and rebuild of the south end of the building and Field House. Both plans include huge pools and a 200-meter running track. While some of the plans’ components differ, they are both extensive and touch nearly every corner of the building. As such, the Imagine plan’s price tag will likely be in the neighborhood of the rejected $152 million plan. Imagine’s FAQ (frequently asked questions) page from May 2018, posted on the website, fails to acknowledge the existence of Option 3, falsely stating that no previous plan included a pool as part of a newly constructed PE/Athletics facility. The FAQ page contains other questionable statements and largely reads as a promotional piece for a big pool. It fails to fully articulate and provide documentation why a third of the school building must be demolished and rebuilt. Stating that space is inefficient does

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not equate to total demolition. In response to why OPRF doesn’t allow students to test out of swimming, the FAQ says few students could pass its aquatics safety firm’s proficiency test, which includes swimming 500 yards without stopping. That’s 400 yards more than the Boy Scouts’ swim test. Scouts who pass the test are cleared for all aquatic activities anywhere in a lake. It’s time to revisit OPRF’s self-imposed, mandatory swimming requirement. The FAQ page states that 16 regional schools have built stretch pools since 1996, yet doesn’t include how many demolished buildings to accommodate them, probably none. That’s the reality for OPRF. It can’t build an oversized pool without demolishing a building or taking away green space. There are, however, two pragmatic pool solutions: a standard-size high school competition pool within the building or a covered 50-meter pool partnership at Ridgeland Commons, each priced under $20 million. Dori Bernstein, Marty Bernstein, Kitty Conklin, Jack Davidson, Bruce Kleinman, Maureen Kleinman, Mike Nevins, Lisa Pearah, Monica Sheehan, Doug Springer, and Leslie Sutphen are members of OPRF Pragmatic Solutions.

said they couldn’t wait to join. The next session of the OP-RF Encore Chorale begins on Tuesday, Sept. 4, at the Nineteenth Century Club on the corner of Forest and Ontario. For more information or to register, visit encoreillinois.org, email encoreillinois@ gmail.com or call 312-342-7227. The Oak Park/River Forest Chorale is sponsored by River Forest Township, Trinity High School, Concordia University Chicago’s Center for Gerontology and the Nineteenth Century Club.

HUBBUCH from page 29 I’m still struggling with just how I could be so wrong about a thing so essential. How many of my other memories actually happened, or were they just the debris of broken mental synapses? Did I hit a home run at the only game my grandfather ever saw me play? Did I shoot that sparrow with my Daisy and then cry? Did my dad shoot two snakes from the boat I was riding in on Turkey Fork on a hot sweltering summer day when I was 10? Did I pee my pants in second grade? Was I wearing a stupid clown costume when a lady told me I was too old to be trick-or-treating? We remember our lives as stories that we are forever revising but never publishing. There is a central plot, but the details are subject to constant editorial revision. There was a truth, but it can only be recovered by a random song or the taste of a dessert. I now believe that my mom did not fly off into the sunset with a handsome stunt pilot, but rather merely married her high school sweetheart who ran around on her. It makes me a little bit sad. Speak, memory.

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Marsha Robinet, 49 Social worker

Marsha Ann Robinet, 49, a 16-year resident of Forest Park and a former 33-year resident of Oak Park, died on July 26, 2018 at Rush University Medical Center. Born on Jan. 22, 1969 in Chicago, she was raised in Oak Park and graduated from William Beye Elementary and Oak Park and River Forest High School. She received her B.S. from Northern Illinois University and her M.A. in social work from Aurora University. She was a social worker at Loyola University Medical Center for the MARSHA ROBINET past two years. She had a life full of adventures with friends and family and was blessed to have been part of the Elmwood Avenue Gals who just recently took a trip to North Carolina. She was part of a ukulele group and was known to serenade the people she loved with song. Marsha. She was adored by her family and friends and had a profound, positive impact on the lives she touched. She was a precious daughter, a remarkable sister, a generous aunt, and a cherished friend. Marsha is survived by her birth mother, Roz (John) Knox; her adoptive parents, McLouis and Harriette Robinet; her siblings, Stephen Robinet, Philip Robinet, Jonathan Robinet, Rita Hall and Linda Robinet; and her nieces and nephews, Alison, Michael, Kaitlin and Conrad. Visitation will be held on Aug. 11 from 10 a.m. until time of Mass, 12 p.m., at Oak Park’s St. Edmund Church, 188 S. Oak Park Ave., followed by private interment. In lieu of flowers, donations to the Oak Park Community Foundation Songs for Peace and Justice and/or Catholic Charities are appreciated. Additional information is available at www. drechslerbrownwilliams.com or 708-383-3191.

Paul Cagnina, 61

Athlete, Chicago Board trader, realtor Paul Cagnina, 61, died on Aug. 2, 2018. Born on Oct. 25, 1956, he was a warrior to some, a hero to others. Losing was never an option. A superior athlete, he is fondly remembered from the days of the Oak Park Bronco League where the local boys went to Pennsylvania to win the PONY World Series in 1969. A champion wrestler for the OPRF Huskies, he was also a favorite at Trinity High School, especially Rose and Barbie and all those great friends. After college, he became a trailblazer at the Chicago Board of Trade, leading many and spending more than 20 years as a successful exchange member. Five children and four grandchildren later, his greatest friend and partner, April Moon, led him into a real estate career. His independent company was aptly named, “Your Home Realty.” Ever unique, he continued to make his mark on all who loved

him. His warrior spirit fought cancer and, indeed, defied the odds. Additional information is available at Salerno’s Galewood Chapels, 773-889-1700.

Jimmy Dooley, 22

Member of the Dooley Brothers band James A. “Jimmy” Dooley, 22, died on Aug. 4, 2018, after a brief but heroic battle with a neurological illness. Born in Chicago, Jimmy and his family moved to River Forest in 2001, living in the Dooley home that has been in the family since 1909. He attended St. Luke Parish School, as had his father, uncles, and his sister Claire and, as a proud Bearcat, he participated in school sports and choirs until his 2010 graduation. Then, he traded his Bearcat blue and JIMMY DOOLEY gold for OPRF blue and orange, representing the Huskies in team volleyball and basketball. After graduating from OPRF in 2014, he headed to Roosevelt University in Chicago to pursue a degree in media studies and was one semester away from graduating when he died. He was passionate about many things, most notably music and performing. He had blossomed into an excellent and artistic guitarist, always exploring. His voice was pure and charismatic. He composed many beautiful songs, which he performed solo and with his groups, Blue Lagoon and Yard Sale. He was also a four-year member of the Dooleys (the Dooley Brothers), a band comprising his father Jim, Uncle Mike, and cousin Mick, performing at many venues in the Chicagoland area. He was noted for his quick wit and spontaneous banter, which he swapped onstage with his father. An enthusiastic basketball and volleyball coach at St. Luke School, he had a special connection with the students and parents. He was also a long-time court crew worker at the River Forest Tennis Club and appreciated the people he met there. He co-hosted the Roosevelt University radio show “RU Positive,” covering current events, student interests, and musical cuts. His smile was infectious, his laugh was contagious and he had a kind and generous spirit. As someone noted, “Everyone’s got their Jimmy story.” He could get a laugh out of a brick wall. With his graceful yet lanky walk he always seemed to be setting off on some great adventure. He was an inspiration to everyone he met. Jimmy Dooley is survived by his parents, Jim and Anna Pries Dooley; his sister, Claire (“two peas in a pod”); his grandmother, Winnie Una Pries; his uncles, Tom (Nancy), Dennis (Kirste), Bill (Judy) and Mike (Trish) Dooley; his cousin, Maureen Dooley; and many other cousins on both sides of his family, including the daughters of his late uncle Joe (Kate) Dooley. Visitation will take place on Thursday, Aug. 9, from 3 to 8 p.m. at St. Luke Church, 7600 Lake

St. in River Forest, followed by a funeral Mass at the church on Friday, Aug. 10 at 10 a.m. Members of the community have generously set-up a GoFundMe page to help with his medical and funeral expenses, and the family is deeply grateful. Arrangements were handled by Drechsler, Brown & Williams Funeral Home.

Jacqueline Silveri, 80 Dominican U. trustee and Brookfield Zoo supporter

Jacqueline “Jackie” M. Silveri, 80, of River Forest, died on July 25, 2018 at Kindred Hospital in Northlake. She received her B.A. in History at Dominican University and served on the Board of Trustees from 2001-2009. She also served, from 2004-2009, on the Brookfield Zoo Women’s Board, supporting conservation and education programs. She and her late husband were members of the Oak Park Country Club since 1975, and she loved to golf, bridge, and participate in social and charity events. Jackie Silveri is survived by her siblings, Dorothy Matusiewicz and Lester Shaffer; her godchilJACQUELINE SILVERI dren, Wylie (Carissa), Sam and Eric Shaffer; many nieces and nephews; and she was a “great-aunt” to many and the rock of the Shaffer family. She was preceded in death by the love of her life and husband of 38 years, Gene Silveri. Visitation is planned for Saturday, Aug. 11 at 9:30 a.m. at Ascension Church, 808 S. East Ave. in Oak Park followed by a memorial Mass at 10:30 a.m. In lieu of flowers, donations to Misericordia or to Brookfield Zoo’s Conservation and Education Program are appreciated. Arrangements were handled by Drechsler, Brown & Williams Funeral Home.

John Schejbal, 77 Vietnam vet, River Forest EMT

John Emmett Schejbal, 77, of Eddyville, Kentucky, formerly of Brookfield and Oak Park, died on July 12, 2018 at his home. Born on Aug. 16, 1940 to James and Theodata (nee Monahan) Schejbal of Oak Park, he attended Fenwick High School and later started to work for Coca Cola. He served with the U.S. 5th Army in Vietnam, Spec-4 rank and was discharged in 1969 when his tour of duty was complete. In 1971, he began his career as a firefighter for the River Forest Fire Department, JOHN SCHEJBAL continued his education, and became an EMT. He retired from the River Forest Fire Department in the early 1990s. He had a passion for cars and rebuilding engines, old and new, and opened Brookfield Engine Rebuilders in 1976, which continued until 1992. In his later years, he retired from the cold winters in Chicago and relocated to Eddyville in 2005. There, he enjoyed lake life, his boat, visits from his children and grandchildren, and drove a school bus for Lyon County. John is survived by his wife of 15 years, Jeri McMahon Schejbal; his children, Jeff (Tammy Miller) Schejbal, Karen (Mike) Albertini, John (Michelle) Krogh and Ken (Chrissy) Schejbal; his grandchildren, Jeffrey, Bailey, Zackary, Tyler, Ryan, Allison, Jack and Johnny; his siblings, Virginia (Charles) Poidomonte, Joanne (Harry) O’Brien, James (Beatrice) Schejbal, and Kathleen (late Robert) Schulenberg; and his many nieces, great-nieces, nephews and great-nephews. Visitation will be held on Wednesday, Aug. 8 from 3 until 9 p.m. at North Riverside’s Kuratko-Nosek Funeral Home, 2447 S. Desplaines Ave., with a memorial service at 8 p.m. Online condolences may be offered to the family at www.KuratkoNosek.com.

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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

Roman Catholic

Ascension Catholic Church

Grace Lutheran School

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

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

Rev. James Hurlbert, Pastor

Roman Catholic

St. Edmund Catholic Church

188 South Oak Park Ave. Saturday Mass: 5:30 p.m. Sunday Masses: 9:00 & 11:00 a.m. 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

Roman Catholic

St. Bernardine Catholic Church Harrison & Elgin, Forest Park

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

St. Giles Family Mass Community

We welcome all to attend Sunday Mass at 10 a.m. on the St. Giles Parish campus on the second floor of the school gym, the southernmost building in the school complex at 1034 North Linden Avenue. Established in 1970, we are a laybased community within St. Giles Roman Catholic Parish. Our Mass is family-friendly. We encourage liturgically active toddlers. Children from 3 to 13 and young adults play meaningful parts in each Sunday liturgy. Together with the parish, we offer Catechesis of the Good Shepherd, a Montessori-based religious education program for children in grades K-8. For more information, go to http://www.stgilesparish.org/ family-mass-community or call Bob Wielgos at 708-288-2196.

Traditional Catholic

The Traditional Catholic Latin Mass

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

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

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

Aug 15 Assumption of Blessed Virgin Mary Catholic Christian Dormition of the Theotokos Orthodox Christian 22-25 Eid al Adha Islam 29 Beheading of St. John the Baptist Christian Raksha Bandhan Hindu Sep 1 Religious year begins Orthodox Christian 3 Krishna Janmashtami Hindu 8 Nativity of Virgin Mary Christian 10-11 Rosh Hashannah Jewish 12 Hijra - New Year Islam 13 Ganesh Chaturthi Hindu

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with the Oak Park - River Forest Chamber of Commerce August 5th, 2018

“Nobody Told Me” in the Age of Information

By CATHY YEN Executive Director

ree market economic theory assumes all stakeholders are rational actors that share the same information, have full mobility and can attract resources on the strength of expected return on investment. Of course, that is all very simplistic. In the real world, there’s marketing, connections, inherent skill sets, inability to pick up and move, government, inefficient capital markets and all sorts of barriers to perfect competition. The Chamber of Commerce helps local business people bridge many of these inefficiencies, especially through professional development programs and opportunities for networking and connections. Spreading information is one of the most important, but most challenging, things we do.

“I didn’t know” and “Nobody told me” are the two most common phrases we hear from local business owners. There are many reasons for that. First, there is so much information out there - with a constant onslaught of new “critical” items. It is overwhelming and easy to miss things. Not only is there new technology available seemingly every day, but the local environment is in a constant state of flux. It is tough to keep up. Communication itself is changing, too. There are so many more ways to disseminate information: post on a website, post on social media, send an email, call, visit, mail a flyer, tell a representative or - one of our local favorites - announce at a meeting. More often than not, “Nobody told me” isn’t quite accurate. More likely, the information you need wasn’t provided via your own preferred media consumption vehicle.

a single newsletter emailed to members. It contains links to news stories, events, roundup of municipal meetings, highlights and other need-to-know items. This week we took the next step towards promoting free market information: we began sending the newsletter to all business people, regardless of membership. We believe in an informed and inclusive business community and we hope this will get us a bit closer to that “theoretical” state. We’ll augment the weekly email with links on our website and social media posts to reach more people. Interested in receiving the newsletter? Sign up at oprfchamber.org.

At the Chamber, we do our best each week to curate relevant business information into

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REACHES SIX SUBURBAN COMMUNITIES: OAK PARK, RIVER FOREST, FOREST PARK, BROOKFIELD, RIVERSIDE, NORTH RIVERSIDE, AND PARTS OF CHICAGO

Please Check Your Ad: The publisher will not be responsible for more than one incorrect insertion. Wednesday Journal Classified must be notified before the second insertion. The newspaper reserves the right to edit or reject any advertisement.

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AUSTIN AREA CHILDCARE WORKER/FOOD PREP HANDLER Full or Part Time Childcare Worker/ Food Prep handler wanted in Austin Area. Call Mrs. Jackson (847)361-1646

Data Entry Clerk/Customer Service Representative/AP&AR

PART-TIME COMMUNICATIONS COORDINATOR Hephzibah Children’s Association is accepting applications for a part time Communications Coordinator to provide external communications to donors, media, working partners and the public. The coordinator will manage all print and digital publications, the Hephzibah website and all social media platforms as well as provide administrative support to the Director of Development

SAL’S POWER WASHING PART-TIME, FULL-TIME Seeking to fill 3-5 Fleet Washing positions. Positions Require: —Clean Appearance —Drug-Free —Valid Driver’s License —Clean Driving Record —Ability to Speak English $10.00 PER HOUR STARTING PAY CALL 708-351-5236

AUTO PARTS PART-TIME DRIVER & INVENTORY NAPA Auto Parts Stores looking for dependable and dedicated employees for part-time Driver and Inventory Worker openings. Most important is a friendly demeanor, good attitude, and ability to work with people. Availability right now. If interested, call Cesar or Jim at 708-447-4980. CROSSING GUARD The Forest Park Police Department is seeking qualified individuals for the position of Crossing Guard. This position requires flexible hours during days when schools are in session. A background investigation and drug screening will be conducted prior to consideration for the position. Applications available at Village Hall, 517 Desplaines Avenue or on-line at www.forestpark.net and should be returned to Vanessa Moritz, HR Director, at Village Hall. For additional information, contact Dora Murphy at 708-615-6223 or write dmurphy@forestpark.net. Applications accepted until position is filled. EOE. CROSSING GUARD–Riverside $12.15 hr. Requires working in all weather conditions 4 hrs./day; hours are split as guard is needed morning & afternoon Applications are at Riverside Police Dept. 31 Riverside Rd. Riverside, IL 60546 (708) 447-2127-Sgt. Pontrelli fpontrelli@riverside.il.us Buying? Selling? Renting? Hiring? Wednesday Classified 708-613-3333

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Small local company located in Forest Park has an opening for a Data Entry/Customer Service Representative. We are looking for an energetic self-starter with an analytical mind, detail-oriented, advanced customer service skills and a positive professional attitude. This position requires: 2+ years customer service role or environment, strong interpersonal skills, ability to multi-task, flexible attitude, general AP/AR, payroll and payment processing knowledge, and various data entry skills. We offer full benefits, paid vacation and holidays. Please submit your cover letter and resume to datainputjob@yahoo.com PAID-ON-CALL FIREFIGHTER POSITION The Village of Riverside Fire Department is seeking Individuals for the position of Paid-on-call Firefighter; This is not a full-time position. Applicants must be: * In good physical condition *Reside within 1.5 miles of the boundaries of the Village of Riverside at time of appointment *Be 18 years of age at the time of application *Possess a high school diploma or GED. *Possess a valid driver’s license with a good driving record Applications for employment are available on-line at: http://riverside.il.us/Jobs

Requirements include: *Bachelor’s degree in communications or related field. *Excellent written and verbal communication skills *Demonstrated Proficiency with website management and social networking platforms *Excellent computer skills including all Microsoft office products and Adobe Creative Suite *Familiarity with Chicago metropolitan area news outlets and philanthropic community desired *Excellent organization, prioritization, and time management skills *Sensitivity and responsiveness to the cultural differences in the staff and client populations Send resume to mjjoyce@hephzibahhome.org Equal Opportunity Employer

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 REAL ESTATE

SHADOW LAKES

Applications must be returned to: Village of Riverside Village Hall 27 Riverside Rd. Riverside IL 60546

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Applications must be returned by September 1, 2018 at 4pm

Come on in and find a year-round Recreation and great fishing community.

The Village of Riverside is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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Wednesday Journal, Inc., is looking for an energetic self-starter for the parttime position of Distribution Coordinator. This person is responsible for data entry, coordinating drivers for pickup of both weekly and monthly publications, management of our warehouse space, fielding customer service calls and attending community events. This position requires: strong customer service and problem-solving skills, some college preferred, basic computer skills (Windows), a valid driver’s license, reliable and insured vehicle and the ability to lift 20-30 pound publication bundles. This position is 20-25 hours per week including Tuesday evenings. Paid vacation and holidays. Send resume to circulation@oakpark.com.

Starting a new business?

Publish Your Assumed Name Legal Notice here. Call 708/613-3342 to advertise.

OPEN HOUSE Sunday, August 12th, 2018 12:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.

SUBURBAN RENTALS FOREST PARK FURNISHED 1BR COACH HOUSE Furnished, one bedrooms coach youse for rent in Forest Park. $700 per month and $700 sec. deposit, due on rental date. Utilities not included. Month to month lease, washer & drier in basement. One block to Ed’s Way and three blocks to park and mall. Call Pat at 708-771-9154. OAK PARK 2BR Oak Park–2 Bedrooms, LR, DR, hardwood floors, tile bath, heat included. $1,250 + 1 mo security. Call 708-717-3975 OAK PARK 2 BR GARDEN APT 2BR 1BA Garden Apt near Longfellow School. Freshly decorated with hdwd floors, tiled bath and beautiful backyard. Includes heat, private parking, washer/dryer on premises. $1300 plus 1 mo. security. Background check required. Call 847-561-2699 OAK PARK 3 BR Oak Park–3 Bedrooms, LR, DR, hardwood floors, tile bath, heat included. $1,450-$1,550 + 1 mo security. Call 708-717-3975

CITY RENTALS WEST GARFIELD CLEAN 2 BR APT LR & DR. Heat & appliances included. $900 per month. Deposit & Background Check Required. 312-590-2951

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

PARKING SPACES/ GARAGE BROOKFIELD 2 CAR GARAGE Brookfield 2 car garage for rent vicinity 31st and Sunnyside $250.00 Call Norine 708-785-9121

Rake in some extra cash with a fall garage sale. Call our Classified Dept. to advertise: 708/613-3342

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M&M property management, inc.

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OAK PARK CLASSIC CHURCH FOR RENT

Includes Sanctuary, Fellowship Hall, Kitchen, Midweek Service/ Bible Study, Office Options. 708-848-9776

GARAGE/YARD SALES Oak Park

FRONT YARD SALE! 438 N HARVEY

(corner of Chicago Ave & Harvey, across from 7-11)

SAT 8/25 8:30AM TO 12PM RAIN DATE SUN 8/26

4/5T girl clothes and shoes, big boy clothes and shoes, toys, games, kids bike, bookshelf, XBox One games, housewares, cookware, women’s clothes size small, children’s books, some furniture, costumes, Dungeon and Dragons game books and pieces, Magic the Gathering cards, tons more! All priced to sell, we don’t want to bring anything back inside! Oak Park

SOUTHEAST OP YARD SALE 1100 HIGHLAND AVE SAT 8/11 9AM TO 12PM

This empty nest is too full, so our purge is your splurge!. Household goods, lamps, leg brace, cookbooks, clothing, toys, Precious Moments, jewelry, books, and much more. Everything is priced to sell. No early birds, please! River Forest

GARAGE SALE 624 LATHROP AVE SAT 8/11 9AM TO 3:30PM

Outdoor & indoor furniture, electronics, CDs, books, shelves, clothing, housewares, area rugs, LOTS of stuff!

ITEMS FOR SALE BAVARIAN CHINA 12 5-piece place settings of Bavarian china with Greek key borders. 708-488-8755

Exit 236 off Interstate 55 to Coal City Rd. Eastbound on Coal City Rd., exit on Novy Rd. South. Use Gate 3.

We are– Will County’s Best-Kept Secret!

CHURCH FOR RENT

Find your new apartment this Saturday from 10 am – 4pm at 35 Chicago Avenue. Or call us toll free at 1-888-328-8457 for an appointment.

CARPENTER TOOLS Several professional carpenter tools for sale for a carpenter who does rough framing or trim carpentry. Negotiable on price compared to the market value. Call for a tool you require. Call Bill at 312 388-4454 HEAVY WROUGHT IRON SETTEE & COCKTAIL TABLE White. $69.00 Call 708-488-8755.

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PUBLIC NOTICES LEGAL NOTICE Donald Rendler-Kaplan & Associates (24594) Attorney for Petitioner 831 N. Ashland Ave. Chicago, Illinoi2 60622 STATE OF ILLINOIS) COUNTY OF COOK )ss Circuit Court of Cook County, County Department, Domestic Relations Division. In re the marriage of Salomon Yepez, Petitioner and Sorayda Fuentes, Respondent, Case No. 2018D-002415. 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 28, 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 7/25, 8/1, 8/8/2018

LEGAL NOTICE Notice is hereby given that Forest Park Public Schools, District No. 91 in Forest Park, Illinois will be destroying all temporary special education records for students who graduated/transferred from the school district between 2011â&#x20AC;&#x201C;2012 and 2012â&#x20AC;&#x201C;2013. Students over the ages of 18 or custodial parents interested in obtaining copies of these records may do so by contacting Katie Bell 708-366-5703. BEFORE: September 7, 2018

Lic. #0967

Published in Forest Park Review 8/8/2018

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LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING VILLAGE OF BROOKFIELD PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION AUGUST 23, 2018 AT 7:00 P.M.

PUBLIC NOTICE Notice is hereby given, pursuant to â&#x20AC;&#x153;An Act in relation to the use of an Assumed Business Name in the conduct or transaction of Business in the State,â&#x20AC;? as amended, that a certification was registered by the undersigned with the County Clerk of Cook County. Registration Number: D18154938 on July 10, 2018. Under the Assumed Business Name of THE OTHERSIDE LANDSCAPING COMPANY with the business located at: 8500 88TH AVE, JUSTICE, IL 60458. The true and real full name(s) and residence address of the owner(s)/partner(s) is: THOMAS RUSNAK, 8500 88TH AVE JUSTICE, IL 60458

NOTICE is hereby given that the Village of Brookfield Planning and Zoning Commission will conduct a public hearing on Thursday, August 23, 2018 at 7:00 p.m. in the Edward Barcal Hall located at 8820 Brookfield Avenue, Brookfield, Illinois to hear the Application of the Village of Brookfield which is seeking certain text amendments to the allowed uses set forth in Section 62.30 entitled â&#x20AC;&#x153;Other Use Categoryâ&#x20AC;? of Article I entitled â&#x20AC;&#x153;In Generalâ&#x20AC;? of Chapter 62 entitled â&#x20AC;&#x153;Zoningâ&#x20AC;? of the Village Code of Brookfield, Illinois to prohibit certain uses. The public is invited to attend the public hearing and present oral and/ or written comments. The application 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. 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 8/8/2018

LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING VILLAGE OF BROOKFIELD PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION AUGUST 23, 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, August 23, 2018 at 7:00 p.m. in the Edward Barcal Hall located at 8820 Brookfield Avenue, Brookfield, Illinois to hear the application of the Village of Brookfield which is seeking certain text amendments to define new construction and require new construction to comply with all current codes, ordinances and standards as forth in Section 62.2 entitled â&#x20AC;&#x153;Definitionsâ&#x20AC;? and Section 62-5 entitled â&#x20AC;&#x153;Scope of regulationsâ&#x20AC;? of Article I entitled â&#x20AC;&#x153;In Generalâ&#x20AC;? of Chapter 62 entitled â&#x20AC;&#x153;Zoningâ&#x20AC;? of the Village Code of Brookfield, Illinois to prohibit certain uses. The public is invited to attend the public hearing and present oral and/ or written comments. The application 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. 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 8/8/2018

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PUBLIC NOTICE Notice is hereby given, pursuant to â&#x20AC;&#x153;An Act in relation to the use of an Assumed Business Name in the conduct or transaction of Business in the State,â&#x20AC;? as amended, that a certification was registered by the undersigned with the County Clerk of Cook County. Registration Number: D18155074 on July 26, 2018. Under the Assumed Business Name of PL CAPITAL with the business located at: 1035 S ELMWOOD AVE, OAK PARK, IL 60304. The true and real full name(s) and residence address of the owner(s)/partner(s) is: PAUL LANDERMAN 1035 S ELMWOOD AVE OAK PARK, IL 60304 Published in Wednesday Journal 8/1, 8/8, 8/15/2018

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLNOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT, PROBATE DIVISION Estate of MARIE C. CICHON, Deceased No. 2018 P813 That the Order Admitting Will to Probate and Appointing Representative in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois was granted on February 28, 2018 for the Estate of Marie C. Cichon, Deceased and that DONALD BENISCHEK was appointed as the Independent Executor and letters of office have issued and states under the penalties of perjury that: 1. Marie C. Cichon died December 26, 2017, leaving a will dated July 7, 2009. 2. The approximate value of the estate in this state is: Personal $1,000, Real: $200,000, Annual Income from Real Estate $0. 3. The names and post office addresses of the testatorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s heirs and legatees are set forth on Exhibit A made a part of this petition. 4. The testator nominated as executor of the following, qualified and willing to act: Donald Benischek, 25555 Sunnyside, Westchester, IL 60154. 5. The name and post office address of the personal fiduciary designated to act during independent administration for each heir or legatee who is a minor or disabled person are shown on Exhibit A, a part of this petition. 6. This ad also requests that any unknown heirs make themselves known to the attorney herein. 7. This ad will serve as a notice to creditors that they have 6 months from the date of filing of this petition to submit their claims. Petitioner asks that the will be admitted to probate and that letters testamentary issue. Atty Name: Matt Leuck Attorney for Petitioner 84 E. Burlington, 2W Riverside, IL 60546 708-447-3166 Atty No. 11017 Published in Landmark 8/1, 8/8, 8/15/2018

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PUBLIC NOTICE Notice is hereby given, pursuant to “An Act in relation to the use of an Assumed Business Name in the conduct or transaction of Business in the State,” as amended, that a certification was registered by the undersigned with the County Clerk of Cook County. Registration Number: D18155109 on August 1, 2018. Under the Assumed Business Name of JIM BERNARD DESIGN with the business located at: 430 LENOX ST., OAK PARK, IL 60302. The true and real full name(s) and residence address of the owner(s)/partner(s) is: JAMES PAUL BERNARD 430 LENOX STREET, OAK PARK, IL 60302

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLNOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT, PROBATE DIVISION Estate of HOWARD OZER, Deceased No. 2018 P2834 That the Order Admitting Will to Probate and Appointing Representative in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois was granted on Apil 28, 2018 for the Estate of Howard Ozer, Deceased and that TRINA OZER was appointed as the Independent Executor and letters of office have issued and states under the penalties of perjury that: 1. Howard Ozer died April 6, 2017, leaving a will dated July 13, 2014. 2. The approximate value of the estate in this state is: Personal $100,000, Real: $200,000, Annual Income from Real Estate $0. 3. The names and post office addresses of the testator’s heirs and legatees are set forth on Exhibit A made a part of this petition. 4. The testator nominated as executor of the following, qualified and willing to act: Trina Ozer, 84 E. Burlington, Riverside, IL 60546. 5. The name and post office address of the personal fiduciary designated to act during independent administration for each heir or legatee who is a minor or disabled person are shown on Exhibit A, a part of this petition. 6. This ad also requests that any unknown heirs make themselves known to the attorney herein. 7. This ad will serve as a notice to creditors that they have 6 months from the date of filing of this petition to submit their claims. Petitioner asks that the will be admitted to probate and that letters testamentary issue. Atty Name: Matt Leuck Attorney for Petitioner 84 E. Burlington, 2W Riverside, IL 60546 708-447-3166 Atty No. 11017 Published in Landmark 8/1, 8/8, 8/15/2018

PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN by the Board of Education of School District No. 91, in the County of Cook, State of Illinois, the tentative budget for said School District for the Fiscal Year 2019 will be available for public inspection at the District Office, 424 DesPlaines Avenue, Forest Park, Illinois, after 8:00 a.m. on Wednesday, August 8, 2018. Notice is hereby given that a public hearing on said budget will be held at 6:30 p.m. on the 13th day of September, 2018, at the District Office, 424 DesPlaines Avenue, Forest Park, in this School District No. 91. Dated this 3rd day of August, 2018 Board of Education School District No. 91 County of Cook State of Illinois Blake Harvey Secretary Published in Forest Park Review 8/8/2018

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PUBLIC NOTICE Notice is hereby given, pursuant to “An Act in relation to the use of an Assumed Business Name in the conduct or transaction of Business in the State,” as amended, that a certification was registered by the undersigned with the County Clerk of Cook County. Registration Number: D18155126 on August 2, 2018. Under the Assumed Business Name of ALTGELD APPRAISAL with the business located at: 844 S. KENILWORTH AVE., OAK PARK, IL 60304. The true and real full name(s) and residence address of the owner(s)/ partner(s) is: THOMAS RODGERS 844 S. KENILWORTH AVEL, OAK PARK, IL 60304. Published in Wednesday Journal 8/8, 8/15, 8/22/2018

REAL ESTATE FOR SALE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION CASABLANCA LOFTS L.L.C. AND MICHAEL A. WIER; Plaintiff, vs. DOUGLAS W. LOHMAR, JR.; LOHMAR LAW OFFICES; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS; Defendants, 18 ch 118 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Tuesday, September 4, 2018, at the hour of 11 a.m. in their office at 120 West Madison Street, Suite 718A, Chicago, Illinois, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described mortgaged real estate: P.I.N. 16-06-214-004-0000. Commonly known as 1128 North Elmwood, Oak Park, IL 60302. The mortgaged real estate is a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: Bidders must present, at the time of sale, a cashier’s or certified check for 10% of the successful bid amount. The balance of the successful bid shall be paid within 24 hours, by similar funds. The property will NOT be open for inspection. PURSUANT TO 735 ILCS 5/12101, DEFENDANTS SHALL BE ALLOWED AN ADDITIONAL SIX MONTHS TO REDEEM FROM THE DATE OF SALE AND THE

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HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION UNDER SECTION 735 ILCS 5/12901 SHALL APPLY . For information call Mr. Lorne T. Saeks at Plaintiff’s Attorney, Much Shelist, P.C., 191 North Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60606-1615. (312) 521-2000. 445032 INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I3094063

60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 1427 NORTH HARLEM AVENUE UNIT C, OAK PARK, IL 60302 Property Index No. 16-06-107-1110000. The real estate is improved with a yellow brick, two story townhouse with no garage. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. 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 254198. 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. 254198 Attorney ARDC No. 61256 Attorney Code. 61256 Case Number: 16 CH 08210 TJSC#: 38-6066 I3094574

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION U.S. BANK N.A., AS TRUSTEE FOR THE REGISTERED HOLDERS OF THE STRUCTURED ASSET SECURITIES CORPORATION, STRUCTURED ASSET INVESTMENT LOAN TRUST, MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2003BC2 Plaintiff, -v.EMILY CAMPBELL-WARD, UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES OF VICTOR L. WARD, ILLINOIS HOUSING DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, STATE OF ILLINOIS, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS, WILLIAM P. BUTCHER, AS SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR VICTOR L. WARD (DECEASED) Defendants 16 CH 005753 2906 MADISON STREET 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 May 16, 2018, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on August 21, 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 2906 MADISON STREET, BELLWOOD, IL 60104 Property Index No. 15-16-201-0730000. The real estate is improved with a single family residence. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. Where a sale of real estate is made to satisfy a lien prior to that of the United States, the United States shall have one year from the date of sale within which to redeem, except that with respect to a lien arising under the internal revenue laws the period shall be 120 days or the period allowable for redemption under State law, whichever is longer, and in any case in which, under the provisions of section 505 of the Housing Act of 1950, as amended (12 U.S.C. 1701k), and subsection (d) of section 3720 of title 38 of the United States Code, the right to redeem does not arise, there shall be no right of redemption. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a

mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/ 18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. For information, 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 14-16-00406. 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. 14-16-00406 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 16 CH 005753 TJSC#: 38-5862 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. I3093832

entered in the above cause on June 24, 2014, Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will, on August 31, 2018 at 11:00 a.m. at 120 W. Madison, Suite 718, Chicago, Illinois, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described premises and real estate mentioned in said Judgment: Commonly known as 322 S. 47th Ave., Bellwood, IL 60104 Property Index Number: 15-08-229026-0000 The real estate is improved with a Single Family Residence. The Judgment amount was $184,268.61 Sale shall be under the following terms: The real estate described herein, with all improvements, fixtures and appurtenances is sold in “as is” condition. The subject property is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff. Premises will NOT be open for inspection, and Plaintiff makes no representations nor any warranties as to the condition of the property. There shall be no proration of taxes, assessments, water bills or any other bill that may accrue or has accrued in association with the property. The deposit required at the time of sale will be between 10% and 25% of the successful bid. The balance of the bid amount is required to be paid with in 24 hours of sale. All payments of the amount bid shall be in certified funds. The judgment amount is $184,268.61 with accruing post judgment interest and accruing costs. At any time, if the sale is set aside for any reason, the purchaser shall have no recourse or claims against the plaintiff’s attorney(s). Prospective bidders are to check the court file and verify all information herein and therein. Sale shall be subject to general taxes, special assessments, and any liens or encumbrances that have priority. For information contact Plaintiff’s attorney: Scott R. Barfuss 24 East Avenue Riverside, Illinois 60546 Telephone number: 708-788-4870 Attorney No. 56646 This is an attempt to collect a debt pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. I3093696

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION CAF BRIDGE LENDING, LLC, Plaintiff, vs. CITY OF CHICAGO, A MUNICIPAL CORPORATION; CHICAGO CONSTRUCTION TEAM, LLC; DARRIUS WALLS; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS. Defendants, 17 CH 7030 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Wednesday, September 5, 2018 at the hour of 11 a.m. in their office at 120 West Madison Street, Suite 718A, Chicago, Illinois, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described mortgaged real estate: Commonly known as 53 Chicago Ave, Oak Park, IL 60302. P.I.N. 16-08-104-004-0000. The mortgaged real estate is improved with a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection For information call Ms. Kimberly S. Reid at Plaintiff’s Attorney, Marinosci Law Group, PC, 134 North LaSalle Street, Chicago, Illinois 60602. (312) 940-8580. 17-01474 INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I3094079 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION MTGLQ INVESTORS, L.P. Plaintiff, -v.BRENDA BRADD-AMER A/K/A BRENDA J. BRADD AMER, A/K/A BRENDA JOYCE BRADDMCGRATH, MOHAMED MAHOUD AMER A/K/A MOHAMED MAHOUD AMER, A/K/A MOHAMED AMER, ILLINOIS HOUSING DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants 16 CH 08210 1427 NORTH HARLEM AVENUE UNIT C OAK PARK, IL 60302 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on May 8, 2018, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on August 27, 2018, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive, CHICAGO, IL,

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT, CHANCERY DIVISION FATHER & SONS HOME IMPROVEMENT II, INC. Plaintiff, v. PHILLIP THIGPEN, PAULA THIGPEN, M O RT G A G E ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS, Defendants. U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, Plaintiff, v. PHILLIP THIGPEN, PAULA R. R. THIGPEN, FATHER & SONS HOME IMPROVEMENT II, INCORPORATED, UNKNOWN OWNERS, AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS, Defendants. 10 CH 50690 consolidated with 12 CH 34116 322 47th Avenue BELLWOOD IL 60104 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Pursuant to a Judgment

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC D/ B/A MR. COOPER Plaintiff, -v.ANITA REDMOND A/K/A ANITA L. REDMOND, FOREST PLACE CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Defendants 17 CH 16244 310 LATHROP AVENUE, UNIT 303 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 June 1, 2018, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on September 5, 2018, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the

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highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 310 LATHROP AVENUE, UNIT 303, Forest Park, IL 60130 Property Index No. 15-12-429-0621101 and 15-12-429-062-1062. The real estate is improved with a condominium. The judgment amount was $98,372.90. 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. Where a sale of real estate is made to satisfy a lien prior to that of the United States, the United States shall have one year from the date of sale within which to redeem, except that with respect to a lien arising under the internal revenue laws the period shall be 120 days or the period allowable for redemption under State law, whichever is longer, and in any case in which, under the provisions of section 505 of the Housing Act of 1950, as amended (12 U.S.C. 1701k), and subsection (d) of section 3720 of title 38 of the United States Code, the right to redeem does not arise, there shall be no right of redemption. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/ 18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identifi-

cation 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 17-084976. 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. 17-084976 Attorney Code. 42168 Case Number: 17 CH 16244 TJSC#: 38-4751 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. I3090017

cial taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/ 18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. For information, examine the court file or contact Plaintiff’s attorney: CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876 Please refer to file number 14-16-08727. 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. 14-16-08727 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 11 CH 026295 TJSC#: 38-5960 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. I3094101

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK, AS TRUSTEE (CWALT 2004-2CB) Plaintiff, -v.CHARLES J. NOVAK, KATHLEEN A. NOVAK A/K/A KATHLEEN ANN NOVAK, BEERMANN SWERDLOVE LLP, CAPITAL ONE BANK (USA), N.A., FIRSTMERIT BANK, N.A. S/B/M TO MIDWEST BANK AND TRUST COMPANY, GERALDINE M. REDMOND, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants 15 CH 09899 1537 SOUTH ELGIN AVENUE 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 June 22, 2016, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on August 23, 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 1537 SOUTH ELGIN AVENUE, FOREST PARK, IL 60130 Property Index No. 15-24-215-0340000. The real estate is improved with a tan, vinyl siding, single family, with a two car detached garage. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition

of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/ 18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. 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 8255. 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. 8255 Attorney ARDC No. 61256 Attorney Code. 61256 Case Number: 15 CH 09899 TJSC#: 38-5959 I3093938

U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR SG MORTGAGE SECURITIES TRUST 2006-FRE2, ASSET BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006-FRE2 Plaintiff, -v.BRENDA JONES A/K/A BRENDA GIVENS A/K/A BRENDA L. JONES, LEE T. JONES A/K/A LEE TORICE JONES, CAPITAL ONE BANK (USA), N.A., THE LAW OFFICES OF BEVERLY A. PEKALA, P.C., CAPITAL ONE BANK (USA), N.A. F/K/A CAPITAL ONE BANK Defendants 16 CH 8669 4928 SAINT PAUL COURT Hillside, IL 60162 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on November 9, 2017, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on August 28, 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 4928 SAINT PAUL COURT, Hillside, IL 60162 Property Index No. 15-07-401-0300000. The real estate is improved with a single family residence. The judgment amount was $196,909.62. 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 16-079942. 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. 16-079942 Attorney Code. 42168 Case Number: 16 CH 8669 TJSC#: 38-6038 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. I3094391

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION MTGLQ INVESTORS, LP Plaintiff, -v.SALVADOR GUZMAN, RITA GUZMAN, CITIBANK, N.A. F/K/A CITIBANK, FSB AS MORTGAGEE UNDER DOCUMENT UNDER DOCUMENT 0521426004 Defendants 11 CH 026295 152 N. 22ND AVENUE MELROSE PARK, IL 60160 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on August 10, 2017, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on August 24, 2018, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 152 N. 22ND AVENUE, MELROSE PARK, IL 60160 Property Index No. 15-10-102-0410000, Property Index No. 15-10102-042-0000. The real estate is improved with a multi-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 spe-

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Balanced team from page 44 base hits at the NAFA tourney. “Samantha is in her third year with the Windmills,” Paul Steinhofer said. “She’s a classic first baseman with power. She had some big hits for us in the tournament.” Elyssa Hasapis hit a team-high .667 with 12 runs scored and a .933 slugging percentage, while Ava Solberg batted .533 with four extra base hits and seven stolen bases at the tourney. Both of them provided consistent offense toward the top of the order. “Elyssa is an incredible athlete,” Steinhofer said. “She is a power-hitting leadoff batter with blazing speed. She plays both catcher and shortstop very well. Ava is our No. 2 hitter. She’s very versatile. Ava can lay down a bunt, hit for power, use her speed and she’s also one of our top pitchers.” Defensively, outfielder Margaret Price made several glove gems in Minnesota. “Margaret Price was a defensive star in the outfield,” Steinhofer said. “She played both left and right field in various games. In the championship game, she threw a girl out at home from left field. Against the Rangers, there was a clean hit to right field but she charged the ball and threw the girl out at first.” Other contributors included utility player Julia Henderson, catcher/third baseman Julie Mattiace, pitcher Anna Topel, second baseman Sophia Leonardi, and outfielders Ali Gill and Georgia Godellas. Mattiace is a solid line drive hitter who also plays solid defense. Leonardi is known for good defense and a strong arm. Gill and Godellas are promising young players. Topel backs up Perez in the rotation. “Anna is developing nicely as a pitcher,” Steinhofer said. “She’s developing a lot of good pitches like her change-up and rise ball.” Gia Valentin contributed as an excellent two-way player for the Windmills. Her dad, Ovid, is a former OPRF and Creighton baseball player. Mike Solberg also coached Ovid when the latter was a boy. With the exception of two players, the team is composed of Oak Park or River Forest residents. Talent is abundant in the dugout as well

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River Forest 10U (Left to Right) Back Row: Coach Simon Keane, Manager Lou Leonardi, Coach Marty Meehan; Second Row (standing) Jenny Keane, Maddie Cox, Edie Carroll, Sophia Leonardi, Caroline Gruber, Mollie Meehan; First Row (on ground) – Ava Solberg, Isabella Vasquez, Gracyn Brigham, Kate Cox, Elyssa Hasapis, Julia Henderson, Ali Gill; Not pictured – Ali Kremidas. for the Windmills. Veteran coaches Mike Solberg and Bruce Morgan led the team to a 37-6-2 overall record and multiple tournament titles for the spring/summer season. Solberg’s granddaughter is Ava Solberg. The Windmills won the following tournaments: NAFA Illinois Gold Spring Kickoff, Big Bash Sports Spring Bash, NSA North State and the aforementioned North American Fastpitch Association Championship Tournament. They also placed second in the Game Day USA Super Regional in Lockport. “Mike and Bruce are an amazing combination in terms of coaching,” Steinhofer said. “They have so much experience and

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they teach kids the game so well. We had a blend of older and younger girls. The team was successful right away, winning its first 23 games in a row. The team was clicking on all cylinders, especially when Olivia came back.” Reflective of their season, the Windmills rolled through the competition during games at the NAFA National Championship. With 42 teams from the Great Lakes area competing in the tournament, the Windmills put away a pair of teams from Minnesota by a combined score of 21-0 in pool play. Advancing into the Gold Division of the winner’s bracket, the Windmills reeled off four more wins against teams from Wisconsin and Minnesota. The defending tournament champion Rosemount Irish (from Minnesota) finally snapped the Windmills’ winning streak at six games with a 3-2 win. In their third meeting of the tournament, the Windmills defeated the Irish 6-2 to secure the championship. For the tournament, the Windmills outscored their opponents 46-8, shut out four teams and finished 7-1. Looking ahead, several of these girls could be future players for the OPRF High School team. The Huskies won consecutive state championships in 2016 and 2017 and are a perennial state title contender under

coach Mel Kolbuscz. “Most of these girls will attend OPRF and play softball,” Steinhofer said. “The Windmills have been a pipeline for OPRF softball. Most of OPRF’s softball stars came from the Windmills.”

River Forest 10U softball takes second in state The River Forest 10-Under softball team finished as runner-up at the Illinois Little League State Tournament in South Elgin. River Forest reached the state finals by winning its district tournament in convincing fashion. The team advanced through a field of 10 teams at the state tournament to reach the semifinals. Starting pitcher Ava Solberg tossed a one-hitter as River Forest edged Peru 1-0 in the semifinals. River Forest lost to an experienced Beardstown 9-5 in the championship game. Overall, River Forest had a 7-1 record in the Little League Tournament. Solid pitching and defense and timely hitting fueled River Forest’s successful run in the playoffs. “I am proud of our girls as they were able to put together this performance after only playing together for about three weeks,” head coach Lou Leonardi said. “Some of these teams at state play together for months.”

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Windmills win national title Perez’s pitching, explosive offense pave way to NAFA championship

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he Beverly Bandits’ loss was the Oak Park Windmills 10-Under softball team’s gain. When star pitcher Olivia Perez decided to return to the Windmills after a brief stint with the heralded Bandits travel-team, the Windmills took off. “The Bandits go out and find some of the best players in the Midwest,” said Paul Steinhofer, who handles communications and scheduling for the Windmills. “Olivia was not really happy or having fun PAUL STEINHOFER with the Bandits, so Windmills Assistant she decided to come

“Olivia is an amazing pitcher.”

back and play with her friends on the Windmills.” With or without Perez, the Windmills are a formidable team. However, she proved her value when she pitched 34 innings with 73 strikeouts, 10 walks and a 0.87 earned-run in the North American Fastpitch Association Championship Tournament in Minnesota. Her virtuoso performance in the pitcher’s circle powered the Windmills to claim the coveted championship.

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10U Windmills (Left to Right) Back Row: Coach Bruce Morgan, Coach Mike Solberg; Second Row - Asst. Coach Eva Stees, Margaret Price, Julia Henderson, Gia Valentin, Samantha Steinhofer, Olivia Perez, Elyssa Hasapis, Julia Mattiace; First Row: Anna Topel, Ali Gill, Georgia Godellas, Ava Solberg, Sophia Leonardi. “Olivia is an amazing pitcher,” Steinhofer said. “She has a devastating fastball and nice change-up. I don’t think some of the teams at the national tournament have seen a fastball like Olivia’s. She can be a

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big-time pitcher at the high school level.” While pitching is always of paramount importance, the Windmills are a balanced team with star power throughout the lineup.

First baseman Samantha Steinhofer (Paul’s daughter) hits for power and average: .313 with eight RBIs and four extraSee CHAMPS on page 42

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