WednesdayJournal_081016

W E D N E S D A Y

August 10, 2016 Vol. 34, No. 52 ONE DOLLAR

JOURNAL of Oak Park and River Forest

Girls Little League wins state title

@O @OakPark

Sports, page 44

Former OPRF security monitor killed on birthday Everick Coleman, 43, worked at the high school for roughly a year

By MICHAEL ROMAIN Staff Reporter

A former Oak Park and River Forest High School security monitor has died after a shooting in Chicago’s University Village neighborhood.

Everick Coleman was fatally shot at around 2:20 a.m. on Aug. 7 — less than three hours into his 43rd birthday, Chicago police say.

According to media reports, Coleman’s former neighbors had thrown a party for him on Saturday evening. As a group of roughly 200 people stood outside, gunshots rang out. Coleman was hit in the head and chest and pronounced dead at the scene. A 40-year-old woman was EVERICK COLEMAN injured and taken to Stroger Hospital.

So far, police have no one in custody for the shooting.

“Everybody was having a nice time, we were enjoying ourselves, and it’s a shame it had to go from a birthday celebration to a funeral,” Coleman’s friend, Jimmy Dukes, told WGN TV. Records show that Coleman worked at OPRF for about a year, from early 2013 until he resigned in December 2014, but the outpouring of grief from OPRF students and employees following See SHOOTING on page 13

WILLIAM CAMARGO/Staff Photographer

Keeping it cool

Selma and Yusef Hav cool off at the Ridgeland Common pool during a 90-degree day on Thursday, Aug. 4 in Oak Park. For more photos, see page 15.

Developer: Need $100K from TIF Lease with restaurant already signed

By TIMOTHY INKLEBARGER Staff Reporter

The developers of the 21-story Vantage Oak Park building have requested that the village board approve paying them $100,000 in public funds to seal the deal on a lease for

a restaurant to open in their ground floor space at the corner of Lake and Forest.

But Wednesday Journal has learned that the lease for the restaurant at 150 Forest Ave. has already been signed with Cooper’s Hawk restaurant, a well-known restaurant chain that features its own brand of

wine.

The request for funds from the Downtown Tax Increment Finance District (TIF) to defray the cost of the restaurant buildout was discussed briefly in a village committee last week. The board then requested, See VANTAGE on page 13

SUMMER SPECIALS Mon: 1/2 priced wine bottles | Tues: $5 pickanna margaritas 144 S Oak Park Ave

708.358.9800

mayadelsol.com

2

Wednesday Journal, August 10, 2016

OAKPARK.COM | RIVERFOREST.COM

Every Story Deserves a Great Beginning.

Naturally.

The Alternative Birthing Center at West Suburban Medical Center gives mothers more choices –– from nitrous oxide for pain control to water births.

Our certified nurse midwives and staff provide a safe, highly personalized experience for your and your family. We also offer round-the-clock obstetrics and anesthesiology.

And should the need arise, neonatal experts from Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago are always available.

Begin your story your way at the Alternative Birthing Center.

To learn more, visit WestSubMC.com/NaturalBirth or call (866) 938-7256.

Client ID: WSMC Component: 10.25x11.33 Space Ad WSMC 10.25x11.33 Nayurally 10.25x11.33 Space Ad 012116.indd Project Number: WSMC012116 Colors: cmyk1

Flat Size: 10.75x11.83 Finished Size: 10.25x11.33

1/21/16 3:01 PM

Wednesday Journal, August 10, 2016

OAKPARK.COM | RIVERFOREST.COM

I N S I D E

3

R E P O R T

Oak Parker launches zombie comic book

It’s Caleb Thusat’s world, we’re all just living in it.

The Oak Park fiction writer, who moonlights as a distribution coordinator at Wednesday Journal, has just released his first self-published comic book, Alter-Life.

But Thusat’s not resting there; he just launched an online fundraiser for his next comic book, ZED, which he describes as a buddy road trip/zombie/ super-hero story.

“It’s kind of a fun take on the zombie genre,” Thusat said.

He said artist Katrina Kuntsmann, the artist for Alter-Life, is returning for the ZED project.

The fundraiser on Kickstarter.com aims to pull together $3,600 to mainly pay for the artist, mailing and shipping costs.

Thusat had great success earlier this year, when he raised a little less than $6,000 to fund Alter-Life, which he said will ultimately have five issues.

TIMOTHY INKLEBARGER/Staff

Caleb Thusat is at it again with his new online comic book project fundraiser. He recently self-published his first comic book, Alter-Life.

He said that half the battle in raising funds for his projects comes from being active on social media and getting his name out.

During his first Kickstarter campaign, Thusat recalls spending “30 days nonstop on the computer trying to promote myself.”

He said he’s received a warm recep-

Unity decals headed to local businesses

It’s been less than a month since more than 150 people marched through Oak Park and Forest Park on Madison Street to speak out against perceived discrimination from local businesses.

Now the group that has grown out of the march, calling themselves the Suburban Unity Alliance, has created decals for businesses in the area who have taken their Suburban Unity Pledge.

Anthony Clark, an OPRF teacher who organized the march, said in a telephone interview that 42 businesses, mainly in Oak Park, Forest Park and River Forest, have signed the pledge, which goes along with the commitment to put the Unity decal in their window.

He said nearly 500 individuals have signed the pledge, which is a commitment to denounce all forms of discrimination.

Clark said he paid for the printing of the decals out of his own pocket, and more are coming. The group distributed the decals on Saturday, Aug. 6.

Restaurants, bars and retail shops are among the businesses that have signed the pledge and agreed to put up the decals. Clark said most of the businesses are independently owned, noting that corporate businesses are likely to take

tion from the independent comic book community for “fully embracing anybody that comes into their world.”

The online fundraiser is at www.kickstarter.com.

More about ZED is available on Facebook at ZEDcomicbook.

Timothy Inklebarger

Hruby honored Paul Hruby, left, shakes hands with NHL legend Bobby Hull after receiving the 2016 Youth Sports MVP Award from the Dick Butkus Foundation.

Courtesy of Park District of Oak Park

more time to find out about the movement he and his colleagues have created.

He said the group has listed on their Facebook group page the businesses that have signed the pledge, but Suburban Unity Alliance has no interest in listing businesses that have not signed.

“We’re not here to make negative lists or boycott lists, but yes, there has been some pushback,” he said. “I was taken aback that any individual could find fault in being anti-discriminatory or pro-diversity.”

He said the majority of the businesses approached with the pledge request “have been extremely positive.”

Cathy Yen, executive director of the Oak Park-River Forest Chamber of Commerce, said in a telephone interview that she’s also beginning to hear from

her members about the pledge request.

“Most are favorably inclined and want to be supportive, and certainly everyone I’ve spoken to is supportive of the values Anthony is putting out there,” she said.

She noted that business people often are “cautious about signing anything before they see the fine print.”

Yen said the chamber is not providing a recommendation to businesses on whether or not to sign the pledge.

“Our role in the community is to provide information and never to make specific recommendations, but making sure people have the access to the information so they can make their own decision. We see our role as more of a connector,” she said.

Timothy Inklebarger

Diane Villagomez Forest Agency Account Manager ADVICE

CHOICE

EASE

708.383.9000 forestagency.com

4

Wednesday Journal, August 10, 2016

OAKPARK.COM | RIVERFOREST.COM

THESPIAN THERAPISTS The Therapy Players, billed as “Chicago’s Premier All-Psychologist Improv Troupe,” returns to Open Door Theater, 902 S. Ridgeland Ave., this Saturday, Aug. 13 (and also Saturday, Aug. 27) for “laughs even your insurance company can’t deny.” The troupe was founded as a way to actualize the old adage that laughter is the best therapy. The therapy session starts at 8 p.m. Tickets are $15. Call 708-386-5510 (voice mail) or visit www. opendoortheater.net.

August 10-16

BIG WEEK Fifth Annual Sculpture Walk

Twelve sculptures/art installations can be viewed in Mills Park, which surrounds Pleasant Home, 217 S. Home Ave. Self-guided walking tours through Sept. 5. Information and a map available at www.sculpturewalk@oak-park.us.

Battle of the sexes No, not Hillary vs. The Donald. But this one is just as confusing. “’Tis true there is taming, but of whom, and by whom? Two impossible outsiders wrestle their way into a hitherto un-hoped-for love match and the happiest (if oddest) ever-afters in Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew, a problematic comedy that has confounded artists, critics, and audiences for centuries. As our participation in the year-long celebration of Shakespeare 400, we bring you his most famous and furious battle of the sexes. Whether you think men are from Mars or Verona, and women from Venus or Padua, this breezy, bawdy, bittersweet, wondrous wooing will set your brains and hearts reeling. There’s a mighty sting in this tale.”

Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew can be seen Thursdays through Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 7 p.m. in Austin Gardens (except for the final week when they replace Sunday with Wednesday). You have until Aug. 27 to see it. For more, visit oakparkfestival.com.

Chambers music CALENDAR EVENTS ■ As you’ve likely noticed, our

Calendar has changed to Big Week.

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

Email calendar@wjinc.com.

Since she was a child, Annika Chambers from Houston, Texas wanted to become a singer, but enlisting in the Army and attaining a degree in radio and TV broadcasting took her on a slight detour. Since completing her 7½-year stint with the U.S. Army, she has played the Houston blues music scene, working with many of the wellknown talents in the area. In the fall of 2012, along with The House Rules Band, she entered the International Blues Competition and they made enough of an impression that two of the judges helped produce her first CD. Annika Chambers performs at 9 p.m., Friday, Aug. 12 at FitzGerald’s, 6615 W. Roosevelt, Berwyn.

Tickets ($10) are available at the club and TicketWeb http://www.ticketweb.com/snl/VenueListings.action?venueId=32814&pl=.

For more information on Annika Chambers, go to http://annikachambers.com.

For more information on FitzGerald’s, go to www. fitzgeraldsnightclub.com or call 708-788-2118.

Literate songwriter Pierce Pettis is an award-winning singer-songwriter whose music has been covered by the likes of Joan Baez, Garth Brooks and Susan Ashton. According to the publication Sing Out!, “Pettis doesn’t write mere songs, he writes literature. ... End to end the songwriting is brilliant.” He will perform a solo concert on Sunday, Aug. 14, at 7 p.m. (doors open at 6:30) at Cornerstone Anglican Church, 171 N. Cuyler Ave. in Oak Park. Tickets are $15, available through Eventbrite until Aug. 13 (go to www.eventbrite.com/e/pierce-pettis-in-oak-park-august-14-tickets-26361924225) or at the door.

Wednesday Journal, August 10, 2016

OAKPARK.COM | RIVERFOREST.COM

ART BEAT

I

‘Big Fish’ on a small stage

has become a legend in his own felt totally unprepared to see Surgmind. He’s a storyteller who’s ing Films & Theatrics’ new procharming to everyone but his duction of the Broadway musical own son. Ed comes home periBig Fish at Madison Street Theodically to tell the boy fantastic, ater. I had never seen the visually epic tales about his past. His son, flamboyant Tim Burton 2003 movie, Will, hates this. nor had I read the 1998 novel of magThough Lange is onstage almost ical realism by Daniel Webster upon non-stop, this indefatigable lead which it was based. Yet I was looking never overpowers his supporting forward to the escapism Thursday’s cast. He has a range and emotionopening night provided. At the very al openness that wins us over. least I would not end up tuning in Theater Critic The plot is rooted in the southto the Republican convention and ern tradition of spinning tall tales.

Trump’s acceptance speech.

Edward’s exaggerated stories, I’m happy to report that Big Fish, which border on implauwhich opened in an out-of-town trysible fantasy, perk up out at Chicago’s Oriental Theater his otherwise rather before heading to Broadway in ordinary life, but 2013, is a delightfully engaging, as the years march old-fashioned musical that celalong, they increasebrates love and family. ingly frustrate his There’s a lot going on at realist son, a justall times. I understand the the-facts journalist original production was really who has never fully dazzling and big, with giant set connected with his now pieces and elaborate special efailing father. The two have fects. But this mounting works beautifully. It’s a busy, melodic and warmPhoto by Surging Films and Theatrics a rift over his penchant for inventing and embelhearted show. Big Fish is touching BIG FISH: Katie Myers lishing his own life story. and thrilling. and Jake Lange.

The son wants a dad If you’ve not yet seen a Surging who is real and present.

Films & Theatrics production yet, this one is really amazing, taking on a huge, Portrayed by Seth E. Haman, Will makes us splashy Broadway show and making it work believe his extreme frustration and his love.

There are many wild, fantastic characin a storefront theater. This young company ters, including a traveling circus troupe, a is both creative and intrepid.

I do not recall ever seeing another musical sensuous mermaid and a closeted werewolf. in the rather intimate Studio space on the There is also a towering giant named Karl east end of Madison Street Theater. Yet I was (Billy Surges) and a lovely witch in a swamp impressed by director Billy Surges’ energetic, (Grace Kinstler). colorful staging. The production values have Lange is very strong in the exhausting no doubt been pared down by budget con- role of Edward, portraying him from high straints and the physical limitations of the school to mid-life and then old age. There is performance area. But Surges’ imagination no attempt at “aging” the parental figures and his large cast of 16 provide a real sense of (played by 30-ish actors) with make-up or spectacle. When the ensemble goes into one wardrobe, especially since the musical often of their lively dance sequences, you almost moves backward and forward.

Katie Myers is especially radiant as Ed’s feel like you’re in the number with them.

The score by Andrew Lippa is mostly spir- sympathetic, devoted wife Sandra. The dafited, though some of the numbers do blend fodil-bedazzled love of Ed’s life adores this blowhard fantasizer unconditionally. Myinto one another.

A father-son relationship provides the ers is especially strong singing the heartcore of the story. Jake Lange plays a hard- wrenching late ballad “I Don’t Need A Roof,” working Alabama traveling salesman an attempt to stop her dying husband from named Edward Bloom, a big fish in the worrying about their mortgage.

There are many exciting dance styles. The small bowl of his Alabama community, dancers are all talented but Grant Grace is in particular is spirited and fun to watch.

Ed’s wife and his pregnant daughter-in-law (played by Aiyanna Wade) both get that there are life lessons embedded in his tall tales.

■ Big Fish, a musical There’s a beautiful tear-jerking finale. All ■ Madison Street Theatre, 1010 around me, myself included, people were Madison St. sniffling and wiping their eyes. The opening ■ Aug. 10-14, Wed.-Sat. at 7:30 p.m., night performance, so lively, touching, and Sun. at 5 p.m. satisfying, received a standing ovation.

■ Contact 708-406-2491 for more And when I got home, Trump was still information talking.

DOUG

DEUCHLER

Musical on Madison

DEPOSIT CHECKS ANYTIME, ANYWHERE.

COMING IN E ARLY ER! SE P T E M B

Mobile deposit is here! With our mobile banking app, you can quickly and safely make deposits from your smartphone. You can also use the mobile app to check your balance, pay bills and transfer funds.

7348 West Madison Street 7331 West Roosevelt Road 708-222-2800 | forestparkbank.com

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2016

WWW.FLWRACES.COM RACE

5K Walk 5K Run 10K Run Youth Mile

BEFORE 9/1

AFTER 9/1

$30 $35 $35 $20

$40 $45 $45 $30

LAST CHANCE TO SIGN UP! FEES INCREASE $10

ON SEPTEMBER 1

5

6

Wednesday Journal, August 10, 2016

OAKPARK.COM | RIVERFOREST.COM

42nd Oak Park Avenue - Lake Arts & Craft Show SAT, AUG. 20, (11am - 7pm) SUN, AUG. 21, (9am - 5pm) SCOVILLE PARK OAK PARK AVE. & LAKE STREET OAK PARK Hosted by:

The Park District Of Oak Park

Exhibits - Art in Action Paintings • Photography • Pottery • Graphics Fiber Arts • Glassworks • Mixed Media Artwear • Jewelry • Wood Arts PLUS MUCH MORE!

Information:

AMERICAN SOCIETY OF ARTISTS 312/751-2500 • 847/991-4748

www.americansocietyofartists.org

T

It’s not the $100,000

he story topping our charts this week at OakPark.com — controversy over a TIF request from a downtown developer trying to lock in a major restaurant — isn’t about shady developers or naïve public officials.

I’d say it is about the public and its tax dollars being taken for granted by a village government and its agencies, which, in this instance, has tipped too far toward business-friendly while ignoring the imperative to make its case publicly when spending our money.

This is a moment for a course correction in the worthy effort to speed development efforts in a village where previously insane approval processes and a handful of no-nothing haranguers had ground forward progress toward zero.

I sure don’t want to go back to that.

But Oak Park deserves better than the misleading and too-quick effort to route $100,000 in Downtown TIF funds to the developer of the Vantage high-rise at Forest and Lake.

Here’s some background: From the start of this project — and the start goes back nearly a decade now — it has been planned that the first floor of the apartment high-rise, with about 12,000 square feet, would be retail or restaurant. The second floor was once discussed as retail, but in recent years it has been assumed that a large hospital system would build out medical offices there.

In the current market, retail has been next to impossible while restaurants fill most every vacancy in town. And so for months now it had been strongly rumored that Cooper’s Hawk, a very large restaurant format with a push on its own label of wines, was negotiating to lease the entire first floor of Vantage.

Three things: Seems Cooper’s Hawk really wanted its name kept quiet. Turns out retrofitting even a brand new building to accommodate a huge restaurant costs plenty.

And those in the know all saw this entity as a major player that would spin off tons of sales tax, liquor tax and property tax.

Here’s the problem. If Vantage and

Cooper’s Hawk wanted to privately negotiate their deal for another six months, that would have been fine. If either party wanted to make further concessions to the other to pay for grease traps and complicated ventilation, that would have been fine. But at some point several months back, Vantage asked the Oak Park Economic Development Corporation (OPEDC) to have the village chip in $100K to smooth the lease deal.

Seems that, months ago, after negotiating the “ask” down to that amount, OPEDC assured Vantage and assumed the village board would be OK with that gift. But with Cooper’s Hawk’s penchant for silence and the complicated nature of the lease talks, the deal didn’t surface at the public space of the village board until last week. And when it did, there were inconsistencies in explaining why the money was necessary.

The scant supporting documentation from OPEDC said the TIF funds were essential to finalizing the Cooper’s Hawk lease. Trouble is, all sides now agree, the fundamental lease agreement had been signed a week earlier.

In Oak Park, and just about everywhere TIFs exist, the public is TIF-weary and suspicious. And Oak Park does not have a good history of transparency on where TIF funds have gone over two decades.

Now officials are saying this deal isn’t done, that a full-blown discussion will take place and hard questions will be asked when the issue comes back to the board in September.

I could be persuaded to give Vantage the $100,000, or at least to advance it to them.

Overall, Vantage has been a fine partner on a project that has run far closer to a market-rate deal than a trio of other projects in our downtown area — Whiteco, the former Colt site, and Harlem and South.

But, OPEDC, be straightforward. Make the case. In advance.

There is a tough intersection between private deals and public money. And this time the village and OPEDC were not respectful enough of taxpayers.

DAN HALEY

H O W

T O

R E A C H

U S

Wednesday Journal, 141 S. Oak Park Ave., Oak Park, Illinois 60302 PHONE 708-524-8300 ■ FAX 708-524-0447 ■ ONLINE www.OakPark.com | www.RiverForest.com CIRCULATION Jill Wagner, 708-613-3340 circulation@oakpark.com DISPLAY ADVERTISING Dawn Ferencak, 708-613-3329 dawn@oakpark.com

CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING SALES Mary Ellen Nelligan, 708-613-3342 maryellen@oakpark.com NEWS/FEATURES Dan Haley, 708-613-3301 dhaley@wjinc.com

CALENDAR Carrie Bankes calendar@wjinc.com SPORTS/PARKS Marty Farmer, 708-613-3319 marty@oakpark.com

Wednesday Journal is published weekly by Wednesday Journal, Inc. POSTMASTER: Please send address changes to Wednesday Journal, 141 S. Oak Park Ave., Oak Park, IL 60302-2901. Periodical rate postage paid at Oak Park, Illinois (USPS No. 0010-138).

In-county subscription rate is $32 per year, $57 for two years. Annual out-of-county rate is $40. © 2016 Wednesday Journal, Inc.

Wednesday Journal, August 10, 2016

OAKPARK.COM | RIVERFOREST.COM

7

Surgeon on the firing line

John Barrett spent over two decades treating gunshot victims in Chicago

By TIMOTHY INKLEBARGER Staff Reporter

There are a number of practical concerns to consider when attempting to save the life of a gunshot victim, according to retired surgeon John Barrett of Oak Park.

First you have to figure out how many times the person’s been shot. With multiple gunshot wounds, which is more common at trauma centers these days, you have to determine the entrance and exit wounds, and are there any bullets still lodged in the body. Was the intestine hit by a bullet, leading to bleeding into the abdomen, causing the potential for infection?

“It makes management [of the situation] more difficult,” he said.

Barrett, 71, has unique insight into the work it takes to save the lives of gunshot victims. Now retired, he worked for 22 years at Cook County Hospital’s Trauma Unit, 20 years as the director of trauma services.

Barrett’s exposure to Chicago’s gun violence epidemic has inspired him to assume the mantle of gun control advocate.

Green beginning Barrett, who hails from Cork City, Ireland, said he became interested in treating gunshot trauma patients as a medical student in the late 1960s.

But in spite of “The Troubles” in his homeland, he knew the real action was across the Atlantic in the United States.

“I needed to come to America and a big city if I wanted to see a lot of gunshot wound victims,” he recalled.

His original intent was to take his training back to Ireland, but, “as the years passed, it became clear there was not enough gun violence in Ireland to specialize as a surgeon in the management of gunshot victims.”

Naturally, he took his skills to one of the epicenters of gunshot violence — the city of Chicago.

He started out at Cook County in 1980 and within two years was promoted to director of trauma services for the city’s first trauma unit. “There was never a period of time in Chicago that this was not a major problem,” he noted.

New weapons, greater damage Barrett said gunshot victims reached epidemic proportions in Chicago in the 1980s, but the severity of the wounds intensified in the ’90s as high-powered semi-automatic handguns became more popular.

In the ’80s, the .22-caliber revolver, sometimes referred to as the “Saturday Night Special,” was the most common gun used in Chicago shootings. “With a .22-caliber revolver, you squeeze and the case revolves around and you fire a second round,” he said, noting that the time it took for the revolver to reload substantially limited the number of times most victims were shot.

In the ’80s, practically all gunshot victims that came to the trauma unit were shot only once. About 5 percent were struck with more than one bullet, he said.

That changed in the ’90s, when semi-automatic guns allowed shooters to fire more rounds per second. By the 1990s, about a quarter of all gunshot victims at Cook County had been struck by multiple bullets.

The velocity of the bullets also increased, making gunshots

WILLIAM CAMARGO/Staff Photographer

VECTOR OF NON-VIOLENCE: Retired surgeon John Barrett, outside his Oak Park home, which displays a no-guns-allowed sign, is an advocate for common-sense gun regulation, inspired by his work in emergency rooms at Cook County Hospital. more deadly and destructive, Barrett said, describing them as similar to the kind of gunshots you’d see from a war zone.

The methods used to manage such wounds were the same as those surgeons used with soldiers wounded in Vietnam.

The multiple shots made it more difficult for surgeons to administer life-saving care.

From surgeon to advocate Barrett’s exposure to Chicago’s gun violence made him start thinking of the problem as a “recurrent disease” because so many of his young victims would return to the streets to again be subjected to violence.

“It’s a disease worse than cancer because if you go back into the same situation, you’ll be shot again,” he said. “I thought, ‘Something needs to be done.’”

In medical-speak, he said, the agent used to spread a disease is known as the “vector.” That’s how Barrett sees guns.

“The gun is the vector of violence; it’s the way the violence is spread.”

Barrett has advocated for decades for stronger gun control laws and was instrumental in helping organize a group of Oak Parkers in 2013 made up of both gun control and gun rights advocates.

The so-called Gun Rights and Responsibilities Group met for 11 months, but, “to make a long story short, it didn’t work,” he said.

The group ultimately couldn’t agree on support for universal background checks.

Oak Parker Ray Simpson, a gun rights advocate who met with the group, said criminals don’t care which laws you pass and more regulations just place an undue burden on law-abiding gun owners. He said the group generally agreed on denying gun ownership to felons and those suffering from mental illness, but they could not reach consensus on universal background checks.

Since then, Barrett, former village attorney Ray Heise, and approximately 10 others have formed Gun Responsibility Advocates (GRA), which states that great responsibilities must accompany gun rights.

Currently, licensed gun dealers are required to perform background checks on those purchasing guns in Illinois and other states, but not all states have background checks and a loophole allows unlicensed dealers to sell at gun shows and online without performing background checks on buyers.

Barrett said Oak Parkers overwhelmingly support universal background checks, noting that 92 percent of residents voted for it in an advisory referendum placed on the ballot in 2014.

Continuing the struggle Barrett said he and a handful of others in Oak Park have continued the uphill battle of bringing about common-sense gun legislation, but their numbers are slim and successes incremental.

One of the GRA’s initiatives is encouraging local businesses to place stickers in their windows forbidding concealed weapons.

“What we’re saying is if you put up the sign, you’re making a value statement,” he said. “The solution to gun violence is not more gun violence.”

He said his group convinced the Oak Park Board of Trustees to approve a resolution in June 2015 in support of universal background checks. They also partner with groups at the state level, such as the Illinois Coalition Against Handgun Violence, to educate lawmakers and other elected officials about the need for tighter regulations.

Oak Parker Harlene Ellen, an organizer with the Oak Park branch of gun control group Moms Demand Action, praised Barrett’s efforts and noted that recent events, such as the mass shooting at an Orlando nightclub in June that left 49 people dead and 53 wounded, makes such efforts imperative.

She said the Moms group has about 12 active members, and the commitment from residents like Barrett is critical for making a change.

“There are people who are standing up to the [National Rifle Association]; they’ve run roughshod while we were all asleep,” she said. “Now it’s time to get more people awake and fighting back.”

CONTACT: tim@oakpark.com

8

Wednesday Journal, August 10, 2016

OAKPARK.COM | RIVERFOREST.COM

Oak Park Dems channel spirit of ’08 at Clinton phone bank Volunteers see Obama-like enthusiasm

By MICHAEL ROMAIN Staff Reporter

Barbara Parker, who grew up within walking distance of the old Yankee Stadium in New York, knows more than most people about Donald Trump, whom she talked about with characteristic Bronx bluntness.

“I would not vote for the man. He’s a little off the charts,” she said last Sunday, while taking a break between phone calls at a Hillary Clinton for America phone banking event inside the Democratic Party of Oak Park’s (DPOP) North Avenue headquarters.

Parker had come all the way from Bolingbrook after receiving an email from the campaign about the Oak Park event.

“He says he’s a successful businessman, but he does it on the backs of other people,” she continued. “He doesn’t pay all his bills. His businesses have gone bankrupt. I think, if he’s elected, Donald will take us to the brink.”

Parker was among more than 150 volunteers — most middle-age and older women — who signed up for the Aug. 7 phone bank, which veteran campaign volunteer and Oak Park resident Bob Haisman, 71, said should debunk any notion of an enthusiasm gap among Clinton supporters.

“I don’t know what people are talking about,” said Haisman, as he sat near the entrance greeting and bidding farewell volunteers who darted in and out.

According to Haisman and other seasoned DPOP volunteers, the office hasn’t hummed like this since thenSen. Barack Obama campaigned in 2008.

“To be honest, back during Obama’s first run, we got spoiled,” said Haisman, who has volunteered on virtually every presidential campaign since John F. Kennedy’s.

He started at 14 years old, when he would follow behind his mother, a precinct captain. The former schoolteacher

MICHEAL ROMAIN/Staff

VOLUNTEERS OVERFLOWING: The Democratic Party of Oak Park’s North Ave. headquarters is filled to capacity during an Aug. 7 phone bank event for Hillary Clinton. Enthusiasm for the Democratic nominee is high, local campaign volunteers say. said he’s been an ardent Hillary supporter for 25 years, even though he campaigned for her opponent and eventual boss, in the 2008 Democratic primaries.

“When Obama was running, we’d hold an event, send out one email seeking 40 people and 80 would turn up,” said Haisman. “In 2012, people got jaded. Nobody would RSVP. We’d have to put out 12 emails. With this campaign, we put out one email and we were flooded.”

Haisman said it was a logistical nightmare. Volunteers had to be split into three separate shifts. Tents and tables were setup in the parking lot in back of DPOP’s facility.

“It’s a great problem to have,” said state Sen. Don Harmon (D-Oak Park), who, after scanning the busy room, guessed that at least 80 percent of the people working the phones were unfamiliar faces.

Harmon, along with other Oak Park Democratic leaders, said that the enthusiasm could be a mixture of people responding positively to Clinton and reacting in revulsion to the possibility of a President Donald Trump. President Obama’s surging approval ratings may be helping, too, he said.

“Obama plus Donald Trump equals Hillary Clinton,” said Harmon. “There’s a degree of honest enthusiasm for Secretary Clinton, but there’s clearly a degree of apprehension for the alternative, which has turned people from cheerleaders into activists.”

“We’ve got a good candidate we can get behind and the alternative is dismal,” said Karen Fisher, DPOP’s executive director. “I think a lot of us are embracing Hillary. I think the convention did wonders toward introducing her to the world and allowing a lot of us to see what she’s accomplished over the years, which wasn’t necessarily common knowledge.”

Some volunteers said their Clinton support is based less on their reactions to personalities of the candidates than their thoughts on their respective policy platforms. Before she spoke about Trump, Parker said that she supports Clinton because “I think she cares about women’s issues.”

“I’m in favor of Hillary Clinton and the direction she wants to take this country,” said Bob Innocenzi, 69. “I’m not that obsessed with Trump. I’m for overturning Citizens United, making the country better for working-class families and things like that.”

Greg Bales, the executive director of Hillary for Illinois and a former staffer for U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, said DPOP will be critical for ensuring that Illinois, a state that’s already blue, remains that way.

“The Oak Park Democratic Party is one of the strongest, if not the strongest, Democratic organizations in the state,” Bales said. “I think people are excited for Hillary and they’re going to do whatever it takes to get her elected.”

CONTACT: michael@oakpark.com

For River Forest PR exec, the Khans are the Real McCoys Rick Jasculca helped manage the Democratic Convention in Philly

By MICHAEL ROMAIN Staff Reporter

River Forest resident and communications veteran Rick Jasculca, who managed backstage operations for this year’s Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, said he noticed the quiet calm of Khizr and Ghazala Khan just moments before the Gold Star couple went onstage.

“What struck me about the Khans when they came backstage, right before they went on, was their solitude; they had a quiet dignity about them,” said Jasculca in a recent phone interview. “A lot of speakers were notably excited and nervous, which you’d expect to find from people not used to getting up and speaking before 25,000 and a live TV audience.”

The couple, he said, sat subdued amidst the backstage chaos and noise. They sat for

roughly 20 minutes waiting to go out, hardly saying a word. There were approximately 240 speakers at this year’s convention, many of them regular citizens, Jasculca said.

“Everything happens so quickly and you don’t spend lots of time listening to every story or speaker,” he said. “But I went to one of the TV monitors and listened to them and I was struck by the eloquence.”

Khizr Khan’s chastisement of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is widely considered one of the most moving speeches of the convention.

“Let me ask you, have you even read the United States Constitution?” Khan, whose son, Army Capt. Humayun Khan, was killed in 2004 while fighting in the Iraq War, asked Trump as he stood alongside his wife. He then pulled out his copy of the founding document from his suit jacket, provoking wild applause.

“When they finished speaking, I went to greet them and the first thing I saw was Mrs. Khan trembling, with tears rolling down her cheeks,” Jasculca recalled. “I took her by the arms and told her how much we were moved by the story of their son and thanked her for being there. Then Mr. Khan reached out to embrace me by the arms and we ended up hugging. I started crying, he started crying and, pretty soon, the three of us were standing back there crying.”

Jasculca said he was “dumbstruck” when Trump, responding to the Khans during an interview with George Stephanopoulos, suggested that Mrs. Khan may not have been allowed to speak because of their Muslim faith.

“I think Mrs. Khan had a lot to say,” said Jasculca, “and if anybody had looked at her during that convention speech, they would have [seen] all they needed to see and hear.”

Jasculca, the chairman and CEO of Jasculca Terman Strategic Communications, has been a constant presence in Democratic politics since at least the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago, where he was Eugene McCarthy’s national press coordinator. He has since served as a special consultant in the Carter and Clinton administrations.

He’s seen how political conventions have evolved over the years — from a major live event covered in detail, “gavel to gavel,” as if it were the Olympics, to an event that’s now become made-for-television.

“Even as late as 1992, the networks covered (everything),” he said. “Now the major networks and the non-cable networks only cover a couple of hours a night, so you have to put a lot into those few hours.”

CONTACT: michael@oakpark.com

Wednesday Journal, August 10, 2016

OAKPARK.COM | RIVERFOREST.COM

9

Park district ponders rec center funding

Officials exploring private donations, naming rights, bonds and more

By MARTY FARMER Staff Reporter

The Park District of Oak Park’s board is moving ahead cautiously with plans to build a community recreation center, settling on a 107,000-square-foot building costing between $41 million and $43 million, as the most feasible.

Now the park district has to find a way to pay for it.

“The capital component is obviously the biggest nut we have to crack,” said Jan Arnold, executive director of the park district.

During the next several months, Arnold will be busy trying to do just that by meeting with people to explore private sources of funding and even naming rights for a new community center, in addition to exploring internal funding and a public bond issue.

An extensive feasibility study, completed earlier this year, determined the kinds of programming village residents were looking for in a community center. And a report issued in July by Pros Consulting outlined

amenities the park district is targeting as well as the projected annual cost – about $2.4 million per year, not including any annual debt service to repay construction bonds -to run such an operation.

According to a report delivered to the board by the consultant, the community center would include three gymnasiums, a fitness center, an aquatics center, four group exercise studios, three meeting rooms, four classrooms, an activity lounge, two artsand-crafts studios, a child-sitting center, an indoor walking track and a café.

It would be staffed by a full-time roster of six full-time administrative employees and an unspecified number of part-timers.

Annual operations would be funded via a combination of membership passes, fees for recreation programs and building rentals.

The revenue projections provided by Pros Consulting assumed membership fees covering 65 percent of the total revenue and for the building to be programmed at a rate of about 50 percent.

Working with those assumptions, Pros Consulting estimated the community center could generate about $2.7 million in annual revenue, or about $300,000 more than annual expenditures.

But, the consulting firm’s cost assumptions also include an annual debt service

payment of $2.5 million, though that number could change depending on what other sources of funding the park district can identify.

“If the annual bond repayment is $2.5 million and we are making $300,000 a year, there’s a difference of $2.2 million dollars.

Where does that $2.2 million come from?”

Arnold said.

“That’s why the park board is still evaluating different options,” she added. “I’m gathering a lot of financial information.”

In addition to private sources of funding, Arnold said the park board will be looking at its capital improvement plan to see where any other money might be able to be freed up to cover the cost of a new community center.

Depending on the timing of construction – the park district likely is years away from committing to such a venture – revenue that now is used to pay the debt service on bonds issued to build the Gymnastics and Recreation Center, Ridgeland Common and the renovation of the Hedges Administrative Center could be freed up to pay the debt of a new bond issue.

According to Arnold, new park district programming has generated $2.5 million more in revenue annually, enough to pay the entire debt service for those previous initia-

tives.

The park district issued $30 million in bonds in three installments to fund those improvements. The first of those bond issues, representing $10 million in debt, expires in 2023.

“The reality is it depends on timing,” Arnold said. “The board has not narrowed down the timing of if and when they might do a [bond] referendum. I’m really optimistic we will be able to identify at least part of the dollars through private and internal funds.”

Although critical factors like the financing and location of a community recreation center are far from finalized, Arnold believes the addition of community recreation center would greatly benefit residents.

“I think having a community recreation center would be a great asset for Oak Park,” Arnold said. “It would provide a tremendous resource that currently doesn’t exist and amenities that appeal to all generations.

“We’re still gathering a lot information about a community recreation center. No architectural plans have been designed and no bid specs have been put together.

Bob Uphues contributed to this report.

Pool focus can’t drown out focus on equity: OPRF board Board members pushed back recently against some residents’ concerns that aquatics is dominating district’s attention

By MICHAEL ROMAIN Staff Reporter

As community discussion about Oak Park and River Forest High School’s swimming pools ramps up ahead of a likely Nov. 8 ballot referendum, District 200 board members have had to address concerns from residents who feel that the pools are drowning out discussion and action on other, more pressing issues.

At the Aug. 1 meeting where the school board voted on a plan to replace the high school’s two crumbling swimming pools with a new pool and new parking garage, Oak Park resident Percy Hines said the district has focused on the pool more than other areas like curriculum.

“I don’t want you to forget about all the other concerns of people in the community who want a pool, but not at (the expense of overlooking those other issues),” Hines said.

Carl Spight, an Oak Park activist and physics professor who has conducted in-depth research into the academic performance gap between black and white students at OPRF, echoed Hines.

“You need to think about the fact there are other possible issues that (deserve) your fo-

cus,” he said, citing social equity, excellence in education and the disparity in disciplinary rates between whites and minority students as examples of issues he doesn’t hear the board talking about.

Some residents pointed out the results of a recent phone survey of registered voters in Oak Park and River Forest showing that issues such as “equity of education for all,” the “achievement gap,” and school finances were considered among respondents more pressing than pool- and facilities-related issues.

According to the survey, conducted last month by the public polling firm Fako Research & Associates, only 12 percent of respondents cited pool- and facilities-related issues as most pressing to them. Issues like equity and the achievement gap were considered most pressing by 15 percent of respondents. Similarly, 15 percent of respondents considered finance- and tax-related issues most important to them.

Board members commissioned Fako to conduct the survey in order to give them some sense of where the public stood ahead of the Nov. 8 election, during which taxpayers will vote on whether to approve a referendum bond to partially fund the construction of a new swimming pool, parking

garage and numerous renovations throughout the existing campus.

So far, the plan costs an estimated $54 million, which is likely to decrease significantly as the board seeks to approve a slightly altered and less expensive version of that plan in the days ahead.

At the Aug. 1 meeting, however, the board pushed back against some residents’ opinion that the board’s recent focus on pool construction and facilities enhancement has been at the exclusion of other issues, such as equity — a topic that was central to the platforms of new board members Fred Arkin, Sara Dixon Spivy and Jennifer Cassell during last year’s elections.

“I think nothing can be more patently incorrect,” Spivy said of that assessment, noting that it overlooks much of the work board members do in private and discounts some of the district’s less heralded actions, such as a rare May 24 special meeting the board convened that was designed to focus exclusively on racial equity at OPRF. Spivy also urged community members to come to culture, climate and behavior committee meetings, formerly the parent teacher advisory committee, which has been reconstituted in order to evaluate, and

improve, the district’s code of conduct and its disciplinary procedures.

Several board members also argued that the issue of pool and facilities enhancements — deep discussion about which, they said, was inescapable due to the amount of money involved — are also, in part, matters of equity.

“The either/or is a very troubling thing to me,” said board member Jackie Moore. “I believe that the number of black students, in particular, that don’t have water safety skills, don’t know how to swim — we could provide (those skills) and we should provide that. That’s an issue of equity.”

Cassell said that girls having to walk across the field house wearing bathing suits en route to the West Pool is “unacceptable” and also “an equity issue.”

But even some board members who disparaged the assumption that pools and facilities were overtaking other issues conceded a certain exhaustion after years of tense community debate on the swimming pools.

“This pool project has taken an enormous amount of time,” board president Jeff Weissglass said, adding that he’s “gratified” the district is closing in on a decision.

CONTACT: michael@oakpark.com

10

Wednesday Journal, August 10, 2016

OAKPARK.COM | RIVERFOREST.COM

Madison St. TIF could be a River Forest reality

Public meetings set in September and October

By DEBORAH KADIN Contributing Reporter

The village of River Forest has set Nov. 14 as the day the board of trustees will formally create a tax increment financing (TIF) district along Madison Street, according to a new timeline unveiled Aug. 8.

According to that schedule, meetings of the joint review board meeting and a public hearing are slated for 6 p.m., Monday, Sept.

13 and 7 p.m., Monday, Oct. 24, respectively.

Both sessions are required by law and are open to the public.

All of the documents will be available on the village website, along with a new timeline of meetings and related activities.

The new schedule was part of a series of documents, including the revised TIF plan and the housing impact study, all of which will be made available on the village website. Letters went out to all River Forest residents advising them of the village’s intent to make the materials available, village administrator Eric Palm said.

The availability of those documents was addressed during the Aug. 8 board of trust-

ees meeting.

Had trustees stuck to the original script, a TIF most likely would have been created by now. However, they slammed the brakes on the process in late June directing staff to include language barring the use of eminent domain.

For the life of the TIF, the village cannot use eminent domain to acquire the 22 homes in the first blocks of Ashland, Forest, Keystone and Lathrop avenues. A future board wanting to use the right of eminent domain would require the village to give notice, convene a joint review board and conduct a public hearing, since it would be a substantial change, according to the language.

But the eminent domain question still lingers for the condominiums, townhomes and multi-unit buildings in the TIF area. The issue was not lost to Jessica Hartshorn, who expressed concerns that the use of eminent domain could have a disparate impact on people of color.

Approximately 20 percent of AfricanAmericans in River Forest live in the TIF area, Hartshorn told trustees on Aug. 8, according to her examination of U.S. Census data contained in the housing impact study.

Many live in multi-unit buildings in the proposed TIF, which stretches from Thatcher Avenue east to Lathrop Avenue. Hispanics

and other people of color also would be affected, she added.

“There need to be places where people of moderate income can live,” said Hartshorn, who lives near, but not within, the TIF boundaries. “There shouldn’t be any potential disparate effect on people of color.”

Hartshorn told Wednesday Journal following the meeting that she had discussed the issue with some of the residents who lived in the multi-unit buildings. They told her they were unaware of the TIF effort and that they had not received letters from the village informing them of the meetings. The letters, she said, may have gone to the landlord, not the tenants.

In a telephone interview after the meeting, Village President Catherine Adduci said she respected Hartshorn’s comments, saying, “It has never been the intent of the board or myself to displace any grouping of anybody out of River Forest. That’s what our commitment has always been. Residents wouldn’t allow us, nor would I allow us, to do something that isn’t right.”

She said in 1987, when the village created the Lake Street TIF, residents in a condominium building along Lake Street near Harlem were relocated one block west into a newer building. The land where that condominium sat is now part of the River Forest

Town Center; the newer condo building is on Clinton Place and Lake Street.

As to concerns over whether residents in multi-unit buildings received letters about the meetings, Adduci said that letters probably did go to the property owners and not the tenants.

She suggested that they sign up for the enewsletter, which links to a separate page related to the proposed TIF district. Adduci said that the village is looking at ways to inform tenants of the website or get letters to them by other means.

The document that Hartshorn examined is required for the formation of the TIF and presents a snapshot of residential property in a certain price range that was available at the time the study was conducted in July 2016.

There are more listings of replacement housing for rent in River Forest, but most are in Oak Park and Forest Park. Residents in April raised objections to the original, which identified rental or for-sale housing, primarily in Forest Park and south Oak Park, if homeowners were to be displaced

by TIF development.

For two years, River Forest has studied the feasibility of using the public financing method to spur commercial and mixed-use redevelopment along Madison Street.

Sponsored Content

A

District House: Filling a Niche in Oak Park

new condominium development in Oak Park is turning the condo market on its head and offering highend design the likes of which Oak Park has not seen before. In a village long lauded for its significant single family homes, the local condominium market has not always shared the vibrancy of that market. All that changes with the new five story development of District House at the corner of Euclid Avenue and Lake Street.

Cory Robertson of Ranquist Development notes that the condominium market in Oak Park has not kept pace with the single family home market for some time. “The single family home market in Oak Park is quite mature. Approximately 50% of the singlefamily housing stock in Oak Park is over $600,000 in value. Until this year, however, there have been almost no condos available over $400,000. The condo market until now has catered almost exclusively to first time buyers or those seeking vintage fixer-uppers.”

District House units will offer the space and amenities that many home buyers have come to expect in their homes.

The LEED certified building, designed in a collaboration between architects Miller Hull and Northworks, includes four residential floors of three bedroom plus den units, each

From city-dwellers looking to move to the suburbs to single family home owners looking to downsize and stay in the community to families looking for a bit more space, the design and the location will appeal to a wide range of buyers.

boasting ten to twelve foot ceilings, contemporary flat panel cabinetry and appliances by Bosch and Fisher & Paykel. For buyers looking for a bit of the outdoors, the building plans include large outdoor green spaces and green roof terrace.

Ranquist principal Zev Salomon says of the 1,700 to 2,000 square foot units, “We see these as an option for people who don’t want the big house anymore but want to stay in Oak Park.”

For some professionals with deep roots in the community the timing might be right to sell the large family home. A highend condominium development offers the ability to host Thanksgiving and offer spare bedrooms to kids home from college without the maintenance of a large house and yard. For city dwellers, the appeal is in the great location and competitive pricing.

District House units offer three bedrooms, two baths and a parking space per unit in walking distance to trains, schools, the farmer’s market, shops and restaurants: urban amenities without the Chicago price tag.

District House will offer room to spread out and topnotch design all in one of Oak Park’s most central locations.

According to Robertson, the location is key. “This location is important to all potential buyers. There is a sense of community here and access to all things that make Oak Park great. It really is the best location in the village.”

Wednesday Journal, August 10, 2016

OAKPARK.COM | RIVERFOREST.COM

Gov. Quinn back to grassroots

Former governor in Oak Park, promoting good-government

By TIMOTHY INKLEBARGER Staff Reporter

It was a normal afternoon at Erik’s Deli in Oak Park – normal in that Gov. Pat Quinn was there eating lunch.

Also normal in that the former governor was engrossed in a conversation with his two lunch mates about, you guessed it, Illinois politics.

Quinn was back to his old self, organizing and collecting petition signatures for two separate referendums for the city of Chicago – one would set term limits on the mayor’s office and the other would elect a consumer advocate “who would be elected at-large by the people of Chicago to advocate for taxpayers and consumers,” Quinn said.

“For anybody who lives in the city of Chicago, I think we need to make some fundamental changes,” said Quinn, a resident of Chicago’s Galewood neighborhood. “The only way to do that is by passing petitions, getting signatures and putting the referendum on the ballot.”

Quinn took a break from his afternoon lunch at Erik’s Deli, 107 N. Oak Park Ave., to answer a few impromptu questions.

Quinn said he’s a big fan of Erik’s, which he called “an institution in Oak Park” – he’s also partial to George’s Family Restaurant, 145 S. Oak Park Ave. The former governor said he’s been coming to Erik’s since he lived down the street at 216 N. Oak Park Ave., “about 35 years ago.”

“I think it’s a great community, Oak Park,” he said. “My brother John [with whom Quinn was dining on Thursday afternoon] and I both went to Fenwick High School.

John still teaches there after 36 years.”

Quinn said he started his grassroots political efforts about 40 years ago in Oak Park and was successful in establishing the Citizen Utility Board, a statewide consumer advocate for residential utility customers, and the so-called “cutback amendment,” which ended advance pay for state legislators.

“They used to take their whole year’s salary on their first day in office,” he said.

Asked about his political trajectory from grassroots organizer to the state’s top elected official and back again, Quinn joked, “It’s back to the future,” with a laugh.

Had it not been for the work of grassroots petitioning, he said he likely never would have reached the governor’s office in Springfield, noting that “Oak Park, River Forest and Chicago were all strong cities for us in gathering signatures.”

Asked whether he plans to run against Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner in the next election, Quinn hedged, but he didn’t say no.

“It’s hard to watch right now, just looking at what’s happened to the budget or lack of a budget,” he said. “The help for lots of vulnerable people in Illinois has been shredded by

ACTIVIST: It was a normal afternoon at Erik’s Deli in Oak Park - normal in that Pat Quinn was there eating lunch.

Also normal in that the former governor was engrossed in a conversation with his two lunch mates about, you guessed it, Illinois politics.

the current governor, and I think there are a lot of people who want to make a change.”

As far as the presidential election goes, you can guess who Quinn’s voting for.

“I’m with Hillary and Hillary is for us, and I think it’s very important that we elect Hillary Clinton president of the United States, and there’s only one way to do it – hard work and shoe leather,” he said. “We can’t take anything for granted. Part of it is getting people to vote. The more people that vote, I think the better chance to win.”

CONTACT: tim@oakpark.com

TIMOTHY INKLEBARGER/Staff

River Forest

FOOT CLINIC

7351 Lake St. (Just west of Panera Bread)

Do you wake up with heel pain?

H

11

Dr. Linda Lambert

eel pain is one of the most common conditions I treat" says Dr. Linda Lambert of the River Forest Foot Clinic. If you wake up having difficulty putting your feet on the floor, Dr. Lambert can help.

Heel pain or plantar fascitis is caused when the foot flattens out with weight bearing. Sometimes a heel spur forms where the plantar fascia attaches to the heel bone. A heel spur can be diagnosed with an in office x-ray.

There are many ways to treat heel pain without doing surgery. Rest, ice, antiinflammatory medication, supportive shoes and stretches help in most cases.

Custom made orthotic devices or cortisone injections may also be needed.

Call Dr. Lambert, you don't have to live with foot pain.

Aetna, AARP, Blue Cross PPO, United Healthcare, Healtspring, Humana, PHCS, Medicare Assignment & most other insurances accepted • CIGNA PPO

24 Years’ Experience • Se Habla Espanol • Free Parking

708.366.FOOT (3668)

12

Wednesday Journal, August 10, 2016

OAKPARK.COM | RIVERFOREST.COM

ARTFUL URBAN RESIDENCES IN THE HEART OF OAK PARK

Single-level 3 bedroom +den residences $559,900 –$889,900

Frank Vihtelic 708.386.1810__ fvihtelic@jamesonsir.com

DistrictHouseOakPark.com

Wednesday Journal, August 10, 2016

OAKPARK.COM | RIVERFOREST.COM

VANTAGE

TIF FOR THE TOWER: A view of Vantage, the 21-story apartment building in downtown Oak Park and reportedly the future home of Cooper’s Hawk restaurant.

TIF request from page 1

without public comment or mention of the restaurant, that village staff draft a proposal for the trustees to consider. The proposal will return to the full board for public discussion and a vote likely in September.

Trustee Adam Salzman said in a telephone interview that the TIF request is still “in mid-stream and not a done deal.” He said there still is plenty of time for the public to review the proposal. He noted that he specifically asked Village Manager Cara Pavlicek in the Contract Review Committee whether last Monday’s consent agenda item was the final vote on the issue and was informed that it was not.

He also said village trustees would ask questions about the lease when it comes before the full board for review.

“I can tell you I’m certain that Mayor Abu-Taleb and the six trustees will ask detailed and pointed questions in open session [about] why this particular incentive is required and what the status is of the lease agreement to which the incentive is intended to be applied,” Salzman said.

“This is not being given short shrift.”

Michael Glazier, a lead developer with Golub & Company LLC, acting as a representative of WDF-3 Wood Park Owner LLC — a joint venture between Golub and Wood Partners — said in a letter to the Oak Park Economic Development Corporation (OPEDC), which attracts and vets business development for the village, that without the TIF contribution, the deal would not go forward.

But the founder of Cooper’s Hawk restaurant, Tim McEnery, said the lease on the property is already signed.

Glazier wrote, “As part of our landlord concessions to tenant, which include not only free rent but also more than $900,000 in buildout allowance, which covers extraordinary mechanical, electrical and plumbing costs, we are requesting assistance from the village of Oak Park in the amount of $100,000 to help defray our design and engineering costs, leasing commissions and financing costs for this important lease.”

OPEDC responded with a letter recom-

SHOOTING

OPRF security guard from page 1 his death suggest that he made a deep impression.

Coleman, a divorced father of four adult daughters and two young grandsons, worked in real estate while also juggling part-time positions, such as his school monitor job at OPRF, according to a Chicago Tribune report.

13

WILLIAM CAMARGO/Staff Photographer

mending the village support the effort with a TIF contribution.

The OPEDC letter to the village states that the modifications needed include installation of a large grease trap and an extended ventilation system that would cost approximately $200,000. OPEDC also notes that “architectural, design and other related expenses directly related to these improvements are expected to total an additional $100,000.”

Glazier said in a telephone interview that the cost of the buildout for the restaurant is “higher than average.” While Cooper’s Hawk has signed a long-term lease, he added a caveat that the lease was “not fully executed.”

An interview later with McEnery, however, told a different story.

“We have a fully executed [10-year] lease,” McEnery said. He also noted that Cooper’s Hawk is investing $3.5 million in the restaurant.

The restaurant had “nothing to do with [the TIF request],” McEnery said, and Cooper’s Hawk “would never” request TIF funds.

“The landlord has used our name in bad faith,” he said. “We wouldn’t go in for

$100,000 just because we could.”

It’s not clear when negotiations began between Glazier and OPEDC on the deal, but the July 13 letter by Glazier submitted to the village board states that, “Without this requested assistance, the developer would not obtain an acceptable return to allow it to proceed with these improvements.”

The OPEDC executive board, on which Oak Park Mayor Anan Abu-Taleb serves as a member, held closed-door meetings on the proposal beginning as early as March.

OPEDC’s economic development manager, Viktor Schrader, reiterated in a telephone interview, Aug. 3, that the way it was presented to OPEDC, without the TIF funds, the deal would not go through.

Told about the signed lease on Friday, Schrader said, “I don’t think anybody’s trying to mislead anybody. From our standpoint, we got involved because the village support was needed in order to close [on the lease].”

Abu-Taleb said in a telephone interview Friday that the topic of contributing TIF funds to the developer to bring in Cooper’s Hawk was part of the negotiation with Glazier and WDF-3 Wood Park Owner.

“I’m sure they [originally] asked for a lot

more than $100,000,” Abu-Taleb said, noting that the developer likely went back and forth with OPEDC to secure a TIF payment as part of the deal.

He said it was not a concern whether the lease was already signed or not, even if it meant that the developer and the OPEDC were misrepresenting itself in public meetings.

“How do we know it wasn’t signed yesterday or the day before or an hour ago? I don’t know. I don’t really care,” he said.

Abu-Taleb said the important thing was not the timing of the lease but that the restaurant would bring new revenue to the village.

“We’re not going to give $100,000 without any contingencies,” he said. “There’s going to be a project there.”

Asked if he believed Glazier misled the board, Abu-Taleb said he did not believe he did.

“I view it that this issue has been going on for some time,” Abu-Taleb said. “If [Glazier] told the OPEDC that the lease wasn’t signed, I take him at face value.”

CONTACT: tim@oakpark.com

His mother, Ceola Coleman, told the Tribune that her son was born and raised on the West Side and nicknamed “Blue” by his father.

“People looked up to him,” Ceola said.

News of Coleman’s death spread swiftly across social media, with a Wednesday Journal article posted to Facebook generating more than 330 shares as of Monday night.

“Educational systems as a whole sorely lack positive black male role models,” wrote OPRF English teacher Anthony Clark, a former colleague of Coleman’s, in an Aug. 7 Facebook post.

“Oak Park and River Forest just lost one of their own! From what I knew of Mr. Coleman, he was a great person who modeled for the students and shared great relationships with his colleagues. Hurts my heart and my prayers go out to his family and friends.”

The online reaction even grabbed the attention of those who didn’t know Coleman personally.

“I don’t know this guy but many of my friends are feeling the loss of this great man,” wrote Trenace Carter. “Like I said, I don’t know him … the loss has bombarded my timeline. I wish I knew who he was!”

In addition to expressing shock at Coleman’s sudden death, many Facebook commenters also reacted to Chicago’s gun violence.

“My daughter said he was the kindest security person in the building,” wrote Frances Kraft, an OPRF parent. “Will we act if the violence in Chicago starts touching more of us and those we know personally?”

District 200 spokeswoman Karin Sullivan confirmed Coleman’s resignation from the district in an email on Monday morning.

The district, however, declined a request for comment.

CONTACT: michael@oakpark.com

14

Wednesday Journal, August 10, 2016

OAKPARK.COM | RIVERFOREST.COM

C R I M E

There’s a peach thief in our midst

It was a short item in the Oak Park Police Department’s summary report, but an outlier when it comes to crime in the village.

An Oak Park resident of the 100 block of South Harvey Avenue says their tree was robbed of its sweet peaches. The police report notes that – we’re guessing this is an approximation – 250 yellow Freestone peaches were snagged from the tree, in what appears to be an early evening or possibly late-night peach heist.

The theft was perpetrated sometime between 6 p.m. on July 31 and 5 p.m. the following day. Those peaches are estimated to run about a dollar apiece, so the loss was approximately $250, according to police.

Attempted theft An Oak Park resident was the target of an attempted theft in the 400 block of North Cuyler Avenue, at about 4 p.m. on Aug. 7.

The victim was walking with his black Raleigh Route bicycle when a man, about 45 or older, approached him and attempted to mount and ride away on the bike.

The victim grabbed him by the shirt, and they both fell to the ground. The offender then got up and walked away southbound in the alley. The offender was described as black male, about 6-foot tall, weighing about 170 to 180 pounds with balding short

gray/black hair, facial hair and wearing a tan or bronze plaid Polo shirt and blue jean shorts.

in the 100 block of North Scoville Avenue, sometime between 6:40 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. on Aug. 2. The estimated loss was $500.

Theft from motor vehicle

Theft

■ A catalytic converter was stolen from a 2001 silver Honda Accord while parked at the 1100 block of South Clinton Avenue. The thief struck sometime between 9 p.m. on July 21 and noon the next day. The estimated loss was $1,000.

A red purse containing cash, an iPhone 6S, debit and credit cards and an Illinois driver’s license, was stolen from the front porch of a residence in the 1100 block of South Oak Park Avenue sometime between 3:30 and 3:45 p.m. on Aug. 1.

Bicycle theft

Soliciting in the roadway arrest

■ An unattended, unsecure pink girls Avigo bicycle was stolen from a bike rack in the 200 block of North Cuyler Avenue sometime between 12:30 and 1 p.m. on Aug. 1.

■ A thief cut a cable locking to two bicycles together in the 100 block of South Harvey Avenue sometime between 9 p.m. on July 21 and 1:30 a.m. the next day. The two bikes stolen were a women’s white Specialized and a boys black and red Magna. The estimated loss was $620.

A 24-year-old Chicago man was arrested in the 800 block of South Harlem Avenue on Aug. 2 at 7:24 p.m. and charged with soliciting in the roadway.

Criminal damage to motor vehicle The front passenger side door to a black Toyota RAV4 was damaged by a sharp object

Criminal trespass arrest An 18-year-old River Forest man and two male juveniles, both 15 from Oak Park, were arrested in the 200 block of North Cuyler Avenue at 9:33 p.m. on Aug. 2 for breaking into Beye Elementary School. The juveniles were released to their parents and the 18-year-old was released on bond.

Arson

Someone attempted to set a garage on fire in the 500 block of South Scoville Avenue

sometime during the overnight hours of Aug. 7-8. The offender used an accelerant on the overhead garage door in an attempt to set the garage afire, according to police.

The fire had already gone out by the time the damage was discovered. Oak Park Police Department detectives and the state fire marshal responded to the scene. The estimated damage is unknown.

These items, obtained from the Oak Park and River Forest police departments, came from reports, July 21 — Aug. 7, and represent a portion of the incidents to which police responded. Anyone named in these reports has only been charged with a crime and cases have not yet been adjudicated. We report the race of a suspect only when a serious crime has been committed, the suspect is still at large, and police have provided us with a detailed physical description of the suspect as they seek the public’s help in making an arrest.

— Compiled by Timothy Inklebarger

To run an obituary Please contact Ken Trainor by e-mail: ktrainor@wjinc.com, or fax: 708/524-0447 before Monday at noon.

Please include a photo if possible.

Dominican summer program targets struggling teens

3-week course focuses on raising reading levels

By MICHAEL ROMAIN Staff Reporter

“A lot of people are getting shot and killed for no reason,” said 13-year-old Keyandre Embrey. “I almost got shot around a year ago.”

The Chicago resident contemplated his city’s violence, and possible solutions to it, as part of an academic presentation he made at Dominican University in River Forest last month.

Embrey was one of 40 elementary school students in Dominican’s School of Education Reading Academy Program, a threeweek summer course that pairs students from the west suburbs and Chicago’s West Side with 23 undergraduates, graduate students and educators seeking reading specialist certification and other credentials.

“We have a program that provides 45 minutes each of reading, writing, research and technology,” said Penny Silvers, the program director and a professor in Dominican’s School of Education.

Silvers said the program is funded through a variety of grants. Students find the program by word-of-mouth or are recommended by their schools, some of which have formal partnerships with Dominican.

It isn’t unusual for high school-bound students to come into the program reading at third- and fourth-grade levels before improving a full grade level after the three weeks are over, Silvers said.

Elia Ellis said her son, 12-year-old Michael Allen, showed marked improvements in less than a month.

“He’s only been in here for three weeks, but he’s improved almost a full grade level in his reading,” said Ellis. “He’s just showing a lot more confidence and more enthusiasm.”

Scott DeCaluwe, a Berwyn teacher pursuing his master’s degree in education to become a reading specialist, attributes the program’s success to its intimacy.

“I think the one-on-one time, the ability to connect with teachers individually is very important,” DeCaluwe said. “This program allows us to see kids with diverse abilities and from different backgrounds. As teachers, we learn to adjust to the students’ particularities.”

Silvers said the summer program also makes students think critically about problems in the real world while cultivating a passion for learning and reading independently.

Each year, the students receive $50 gift cards to Barnes & Noble bookstore from the Kaplan Foundation, a social justice-oriented philanthropy based in Chicago. This year, Silvers said, the students took a bus to the store’s downtown location within DePaul University’s Loop Campus.

On July 29, during the program’s last day, Embrey and his colleagues showed an audience comprising fellow students, parents and teachers presentations they produced with video-editing software and a green screen.

The presentations delved into pressing real-world issues like gun violence, lead poisoning and cyberbullying.

Keyandre Embrey’s brother, Kavion, 12, said he’d like to see more “no-guns allowed” signs in establishments and fewer loaded guns in the hands of people seeking to do harm.

For Olivia Teller and Jacob Christian, 13-year-old students who attend school on the West Side of Chicago, the three-week

summer program allowed them to think about ways to end police brutality — a subject they know through experience.

“We’ve seen people go through it with the police,” said Teller, explaining the motivation to research and produce their roughly five-minute presentation. “And we wanted people to know that black lives do matter.”

“Some police think they’re above the law and don’t have to follow the rules,” said Christian. “Police should get more consequences. When they kill blacks, they stay on the job and still get paid. That’s not fair.”

The two students proposed more body cameras and more consistency among officers who wear them. Currently, they said, some cameras are worn inappropriately or are dysfunctional.

They also considered the fatal 2014 shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice in Cleveland by a police officer who mistook Rice’s toy gun for a real one.

“Even though he was holding a gun, he wasn’t trying to attack the cops,” said Christian. “He didn’t even know somebody had called the police. They could’ve checked the gun Tamir had, but the police needed more training to do that.”

CONTACT: michael@oakpark.com

Wednesday Journal, August 10, 2016

OAKPARK.COM | RIVERFOREST.COM

R I D G E L A N D

C O M M O N

S U M M E R

15

2 0 1 6

Air and water show

WILLIAM CAMARGO/Staff Photographer

Greta DeYoung leaps into the pool on a hot summer day at Ridgeland Common Pool last week. (Top left) Cora Brown, Nivaeh Henry and Correy Caffey show off their smiles. (Bottom left) Theo Zimmerman dodges the water spouts.

OPEN SUN. 11-12:30PM 230 S. Scoville, Oak Park New Listing! • 5BR, 3.5BA • $875,000

LASER AVAILABLE FOR FUNGAL NAILS • Mention this ad for FREE initial consultation (new patients only) • Medicare covers shoes for diabetics

Call Laura!

INCREDIBLE REHAB! Newer windows, HVAC, Electric, Rf, Kit, BAs etc. Kit with center island, applncs. Large fam rm.

Master Ste, walk-in closet, BA. 3rd flr + 5th BR, BA. Front/back porches, landscaped grounds. Walk to everything!

OPEN SUN. 1-2:30PM

1526 Clinton Pl, River Forest 4BR 3.5BA• $799,900

Call Laura!

Happy Feet... begin with gentle, friendly care for your feet

OPEN SUN. 3-4:30PM 7616 Vine St., River Forest 3BR, 2 Full BA • $619,000

Call Laura!

NEW LISTING! Mary M. DiSomma, D.P.M.

Ruth A. Chi, D.P.M.

Open Monday-Saturday Free Initial Exam for Laser Fungal Nails •

www.disomma.com 708-383-5554

Most Insurances & PPO’s Accepted Outpatient Foot Surgery Affiliated with Rush Oak Park Hospital

BUNGALOW with many upgrades, like new! Fabulous state-of-the-art designer kit and fam rm addition. Baths have been completely updated. Basement is fully finished.

David Gullo, Managing Broker

708.567.1375

GulloAssociates@gmail.com

1024 S. Highland, Oak Park 5BR 4.5BA • $799,000

Call Laura!

Louis J. Chi, D.P.M.

GORGEOUS STONE Georgian. Modern amenities! Fully renovated in 2014. Open layout on 1st flr perfect for family, entertaining. Sep office space. 2nd flr feat 4 BRs, laundry, balcony, master suite. Finished Bsmt has full BR.

Call Laura!

NEW CONSTRUCTION! Open layout with kit, fam. rm, and DR. Master Suite has shower, sep BA. 2nd Flr Lndry, Fnshd bsmnt 9’ ceilings, guest suite, storage, rec rm, flood protection.

Fnshd 3rd flr. Backyard patio. Deck over garage!

810 S Taylor Oak Park • $325,000 BEAUTIFULLY REHABBED BUNGALOW with stunning kitchen and baths --All SS Kitchen appliances, Granite counter tops, Slate tile floors. Newer Furnace and A/C, updated Electric and Plumbing, newer windows and much more! Completely finished basement has huge family room, bedroom and full bathroom! Huge Yard and Parking for 3 cars!

Nice quiet neighborhood close to 290 and walk-able to Blue Line CTA and Oak Park Arts District shops and restaurants!

Laura Maychruk 708.205.7044

LMaychruk@comcast.net

Margaret Jones 708.804.0368

FOR RENT!

Mark Finger 708.990.8115

LOCATION, LOCATION!! Beautifully updated spacious unit, freshly painted and floors refinished. Eat-in kitchen with pantry PLUS separate dining room. Tons of closets, storage and laundry in basement. Includes 2 garage spaces at back of building. Walk to schools, trains, parks, downtown OP etc... Don't miss this one!

905 South Lombard Ste. 2 Oak Park, IL 60304

230 S Kenilworth #2 Oak Park $2200/mo

W W W. G U L LO R E A L E S TAT E . CO M

16

Wednesday Journal, August 10, 2016

OAKPARK.COM | RIVERFOREST.COM

Corn in Oak Park and Ancient America

W Start

Finish

®

OAK PARK

e in the Midwest may think we invented corn; there’s so much of it around here come July and August. At the Oak Park Farmers Market, the corn stand is usually the busiest place in the Pilgrim Church parking lot.

Corn is one of the main reasons indigenous civilizations in ancient America were able to settle down and build the magnificent cities that still exist today, most now in ruins but still recognizable as cities. The best-known urban center in this part of North America is probably Mesa Verde, outside Cortez, Colorado; it is indeed an awe-inspiring space, made possible, in large part, by corn.

Along with beans and squash, corn was one of the “three sisters” that supported life in even seemingly inhospitable cliPhoto by David Hammond mates. Together, the three sisters support Mesa Verde one another: beans grow up the corn stalks, squash plants crowd out weeds around it was probably the damage to the environcorn stalks, and beans fix nitrogen in the ment that they did in the last 50 years of soil that can be used by corn in the followthe 1200s that helped contribute to their ing season. When eaten together, these demise. We should be looking at that, and three provide complementary proteins what you’d be looking at during that reinforce the amino acid that time is a denuded counquotient of each. As if to alert tryside. We’re doing the same. humans to their mutually benWe’re not learning that lesson.” eficial qualities, they taste very One of the things I found good when eaten together. most interesting about ColleThe people who lived at Mesa ran’s comments is that they Verde ate a lot of corn, which suggest that Native Americans provided much caloric energy were maybe not as in tune with per acre. This corn was usually the environment as we might ground on metates, stone-grindthink. Surely, they felt a deeper ing plates. The kernels were connection to the earth than crushed, stone on stone, which do we who live on concrete and inevitably led to small pieces of under electric lights, but they rock and other debris being instill felt the earth was there to cluded in the food. This is why be exploited without much heed the skeletons of these ancient Local Dining for consequences.

Mesa Verdeans give evidence & Food Blogger But everyone is getting more that by their 30s or so, they serious about stewardship of frequently had ruined teeth, the the land, even us newcomers. enamel ground off by tiny rocks I brought back some Bow & Arrow corn in the corn … and they ate a lot of corn. meal from the Ute Tribe. On the label of the Just about all pre-Columbian agriculcorn it explains that the Utes use “sustural communities in North America were tainable farming practices implemented built on the strength of the three sisters. through the use of state-of-the-art technolI was surprised that such abundance was ogy.” So that’s progress — and this corn possible in what seemed a largely desert meal made, by far, the finest corn bread in environment around the Four Corners memory. It was predictably excellent with where Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Anasazi beans. We would have liked some Mexico meet. Jim Colleran, an archaeolosquash with that, too, but it’s still a little gist who showed us around ancient Anaearly in the season. sazi/Ancestral Pueblo ruins in Colorado Though it’s tough to say that corn is still and Utah, told us it wasn’t always so. The the cornerstone of civilization — as we have grounds that now seem almost-deserts were so many nutritional options now — it’s still once fertile lands. They were over-planted a big part of summer in Oak Park, and it’s and deforested by the people who lived in probably the food we look forward to most Mesa Verde and elsewhere, and they were when the weather gets warmer. Corn can subsequently over-grazed by Navajo and be shipped in any time of year, but having European settlers in the region. it fresh off a just-picked ear, well, there’s “People think the Anasazi were very ennothing that compares. I go to the Farmers vironmentally aware,” said Colleran, “but Market every weekend, waiting for it.

DAVID

HAMMOND

OPEN HOUSE SUNDAY AUGUST 14 12-4PM 219 Lake Street 708.298.0002 Meet the Teachers!

FREE Mini Lessons Staff Jam and Show Team Performances!

Refreshments

15% off first THREE months if you sign up during the event.

New Students Only OAKPARK.SCHOOLOFROCK.COM

Wednesday Journal, August 10, 2016

17

Homes

NEED TO REACH US?

oakpark.com/real-estate editor Ken Trainor at 613-3310 ktrainor@wjinc.com

What could have been

O

A lean, green, visionary, underground pool

n Aug. 1, the OPRF High School board approved a plan to build a 40 meter x 25 yard pool and a higher parking garage on the current garage site, along with internal performing arts upgrades, at a cost not to exceed $45 million. The plan will go to referendum in November. There is much to recommend the plan, but OPRF had a chance for a better one. Here is the story and the schematic design drawings: In early May, Katharine Christmas, a knowledgeable aquatics mom, and Steve Gevinson, a District 200 board member, asked me to draw an accurate plan of the school campus to explore where there might be alternative sites for a new swimming pool building.

Katharine and Steve were not satisfied with any of the four options that had been produced to date and strongly felt there must be a better solution.

I asked local architect Frank Heitzman to join our “lean and green pool team.” Together we completed two viable alternative options — one located on the west fields and a second scheme locating the pool building under the baseball field.

Driven by the lack of available land on campus and siting challenges with the

existing schemes, we decided to explore an underground concept. This developed into an extremely efficient plan, immediately adjacent to the East Avenue mall, directly west of the school, providing uninterrupted access for the fire lane, and eliminating construction disruption within the high school building itself.

The mall separation also would provide relief from noise and dust inside the school during construction. As a bonus, the existing parking garage would live out its 25 more years of serviceable life. In addition, the constant temperature of the earth surrounding the underground pool building would serve as a heat sink providing it with low-cost heating and cooling 24/7/365. It would have been a marvelous example of how to make this energy-hungry building type become an energy saver, consistent with our community sustainability initiatives.

Some critics of this plan expressed concern that because the pool would be located below grade, it could leak. But underground buildings are common. For example, the vast majority of buildings in the Chicago area have functioning basements. Fenwick High School’s 12-lane pool is located almost completely below grade, accommodating

GARRET EAKIN

ARCHITECTURE

Pool interior perspective (top) and shaded main floor plan (above). swimming, diving and water polo. The Adler Planetarium’s west addition (Frank Heitzman was on the architects team.) was built totally underground, just steps from the Lake Michigan shoreline. The recent addition to the University of Chicago’s Regenstein Library is six stories below grade,

close to the lake and a high water table. All the schemes proposed by Legat, OPRF’s Architect of Record, contain basements. There are countless other examples in Chicago and elsewhere. Waterproofing subterranean See POOL DESIGN on page 25

18

Wednesday Journal, August 10, 2016

OAKPARK.COM | RIVERFOREST.COM

April Baker

In The Village, Realtors®

189 S. Oak Park Ave., Oak Park, IL 60302 (708) 386-1400 HomesintheVillage.com

Mike Becker

THIS WEEK’S FEATURED PROPERTIES 401 S GROVE AVE #1AA OPEN SUN 1-3 PM

804 N FOREST AVE OPEN SUN 1-3 PM

Roz Byrne

Tom Byrne

Joelle Venzera

Oak Park * $300,000 3BR, 2BA Call Joe x117

Oak Park • $429,000 3BR, 1.1BA Call Kerry x139

Oak Park • $399,000 4BR, 1.2BA Call Harry x116

Oak Park • $357,500 3BR, 1.1BA Call Jane x118

Forest Park • $325,000 4BR, 1.1BA Call Dorothy x124

Oak Park • $299,900 Multi unit Call Steve x121

Oak Park • $275,000 2BR, 2BA Call Roz x112

Oak Park • $269,800 3BR, 2BA Call Kyra x145 Kris Sagan

Laurie Christofano

Oak Park • $229,900 2BR, 1BA Call Marion x111

Oak Park • $200,000 2BR, 1BA Call Elissa x192

Marion Digre

Forest Park • $82,500 1BR, 1BA Call Kelly x113

Oak Park • $165,000 1BR, 1BA Call Mike x120

Morgan Digre

Dorothy Gillian

Carla Taylor

John Spillane

Kelly Gisburne

Kerry Delaney

Harry Walsh, Managing Broker

Ed Goodwin

Joe Langley

Dan Linzing

Gary Mancuso

by our office • View all properties listed erties listed • View thousands of prop throughout Chicagoland on of Luxury Homes • View the Remax Collecti erties • View Foreclosure Prop • View Open Houses ur neighborhood • View recent sales in yo

Haydee Rosa

Linda Rooney

Equal opportunity employers. 072477 - ©2008 RE/MAX International, Inc. All rights reserved.

Each RE/MAX® real estate office is independently owned and operated.

Jane McClelland

Keri Meacham

Alisha Mowbray

Steve Nasralla

Kyra Pych

Elissa Palermo

Wednesday Journal, August 10, 2016

OAKPARK.COM | RIVERFOREST.COM

19

SPONSORED CONTENT

Getting Down To Business

with the Oak Park - River Forest Chamber of Commerce August 8th, 2016

Summer is No Vacation for Local Business

T

By CATHY YEN, Executive Director

he hot, lazy days of summer are here. Life slows down as people relax, vacation and spend time with friends or family.

Business slows down too.

Facebook posts from the beaches of Michigan or Wisconsin compete with more elaborate holiday pictures. Day trippers enjoying Chicago’s many allures remind us of the restaurants, lakeshore, parks and festivals just a few miles east. Block parties and barbecues spring up to entertain those still in town.

While summer can feel busy as we jump from activity to activity, for our local businesses it can feel positively dead. The bustling spring turns into the hot empty streets of summer almost overnight. The end of July

and beginning of August are especially slow as families leave town between the end of summer school, camps and theater programs and the beginning of autumn’s back to school activities.

Now is a particularly difficult time for local businesses. Fewer people around means less revenue, putting pressure on already tight margins. This is not new. For decades, the Oak Park Bakery simply closes for three weeks this time of year, choosing to take a hiatus rather than an even bigger operational loss.

Some of our newer businesses are feeling the hot sting of summer for the first or second time. I have had a half-dozen conversations this past month with wide-eyed owners wondering where all the customers are.

Those more seasoned shopkeepers weather the slow period with stiff upper lips, lower inventory and skeleton staffs.

The merchants do a good job enticing the

few of us still in town to come in and look.

Special activities such as park festivals, sidewalk sales, Thursday Nights Out in Downtown Oak Park and festivals attract customers and build street vitality. Restaurants with outdoor dining have an advantage, at least when the temperatures stay below ninety, beyond which people prefer the air-conditioned interiors.

If you are not going to the lake house this weekend – or today after work for that matter – stop in and get to know a local business.

They are grateful for the support and have plenty of time to chat right now.

10TH 10TH 10TH 10TH ANNUAL 20 10TH ANNUAL PRESENTED

BY OAK ANNUAL PARK CYCLEANNUAL CLUB 10TH PRESENTED BY OAK PARK CYCLE CLUB BY OAK PARK CYCLE CLUB PRESENTED ANNUAL ANNUAL HTH 10TH UAL 10TH NNUAL ANNUAL

PRESENTED BY OAK PARK CYCLE CLUB PRESENTED BY OAK PARK CYCLE CLUB

Wednesday Journal, August 10, 2016

OAKPARK.COM | RIVERFOREST.COM

PRESENTED BY OAK PARK CYCLE CLUB

ANNUAL

SUNDAY, AUGUST 21, 2016 SUNDAY, AUGUST 21, 2016 SUNDAY, SUNDAY, AUGUST AUGUST 21,21, For information and online registration, go2016 to: 2016 SUNDAY, 21, Forand information andregistration, onlinego registration, For information For information online and2016 online registration, to:go to: go to: SUNDAY, AUGUST 21,AUGUST 2016 www.oakparkcycleclub.org

www.oakparkcycleclub.org www.oakparkcycleclub.org www.oakparkcycleclub.org SUNDAY, AUGUST 21,21, 2016 68Routes Mile Route 68 Mile 68and Mile Routes SUNDAY, AUGUST SUNDAY, AUGUST 21, 2016 www.oakparkcycleclub.org 10 (Architectural Tour 30, 50 102016 (Architectural 10 (Architectural Tour Tour Route), Route), 30,Route), 50 30,and 50 and www.oakparkcycleclub.org REGISTRATION : 6AM2016 TO 9AM DOWNTOWN OAK PARK SUNDAY, AUGUST 21, For information and online registration, go to: information and online registration, go to: For information and onlineFor registration, go to: 10 (Architectural Tour Route), 30, 50 and 68 Mile Routes

68 Mile Routes 10Route), (Architectural Tour Route), and For information and online registration, go to: For information and registration, go to: (Marion St. North Blvd.)

REGISTRATION :& 6AM TO 9AM DOWNTOWN OAK PAR REGISTRATION : 30, 6AM :50 TO 9AM TO 9AM DOWNTOWN DOWNTOWN OAKOAK PARK PARK 68online Mile Routes 10 (Architectural Tour 30,REGISTRATION 50 and For information and online registration, go6AM to: (Marion St. & Blvd.)

North (Marion (Marion St. &St.North & North Blvd.)

REGISTRATION : 6AM TOOAK 9AM DOWNTOWN OAK PARKBlvd.)

REGISTRATION : 6AM TO 9AM DOWNTOWN PARK 68 Mile Routes 10 (Architectural Tour Route), 30, 50 and (Marion St. & North Blvd.)

68 Mile Routes 68 Mile Routes 10 (Architectural Tour Route), 30, 50 and 10 (Architectural Tour Route), 50 and (Marion St. & North Blvd.)

68 Mile Routes 10 (Architectural Tour Route), 30,30, 50 and

www.oakparkcycleclub.org www.oakparkcycleclub.org www.oakparkcycleclub.org www.oakparkcycleclub.org

REGISTRATION : 6AM TO 9AM DOWNTOWN OAK PARK REGISTRATION : 6AMREGISTRATION TO 9AM DOWNTOWN OAK PARK REGISTRATION 6AM 9AM DOWNTOWN OAK PARK : :6AM TOTO 9AM DOWNTOWN OAK PARK (Marion St. & North Blvd.)

(Marion St. & North Blvd.)

(Marion North Blvd.)

(Marion St.St. && North Blvd.) liveinoakpark.com

liveinoakpark.com liveinoakpark.com liveinoakpark.com liveinoakpark.com

einoakpark.com liveinoakpark.com

liveinoakpark.com visitoakpark.com

visitoakpark.com liveinoakpark.com visitoakpark.com liveinoakpark.com

visitoakpark.com

visitoakpark.com visitoakpark.com visitoakpark.com

visitoakpark.com oakparkcycleclub.org

oakparkcycleclub.org visitoakpark.com oakparkcycleclub.org visitoakpark.com

oakparkcycleclub.org

oakparkcycleclub.org

oakparkcycleclub.org

oakparkcycleclub.org

oakparkcycleclu oakparkcycleclub.org oakparkcycleclub.org

Wednesday Journal, August 10, 2016

OAKPARK.COM | RIVERFOREST.COM

Serving Our Community For Over 70 Years

114 North Oak Park Avenue Oak Park, Illinois 60301

HOURS: MONDAYFRIDAY 9AM5PM SATURDAY 9AM4PM • SUNDAY 10AM2PM OPEN 13PM • 530 N. EAST AVE

708.524.1100

OAK PARK. INCREDIBLE HOME for the future!

Best of old & lots of new - C/A, newer BAs, huge OAK PARK. ENJOY LIFE IN FLW Historic Diskitchen. 4 BRs + lndry upstairs. Close to schools, trict. 5BRs, 1½BAs. Spacious LR w/FRPLC. Family trains & town! ..................................$1,150,000 rm. Great yard! ..................................$539,0000

www.gloor.com

RIVER FOREST. THE ULTIMATE HOUSE. Stunning Tudor on massive lot 200x188. Rehab of- RIVER FOREST. ATTRACTIVE CONDO in defers all the modern amenities. Make an appt today. sirable bldg 2BR, 2BA, den, in-unit laundry, 2 pkg ...........................................................$2,999,000 spaces. ........................................................ $449,000

OPEN HOUSES • SUNDAY, AUGUST 14, 2016 OAK PARK OPEN 13PM • 530 N. EAST AVE

CONDOS/TOWNHOUSES OAK PARK

INCREDIBLE HOME for the future! Best of old & lots of new - C/A, newer BAs, huge kitchen. 4 BRs + lndry upstairs. Close to schools, trains & town! ..........................................................................$1,150,000

OPEN 24PM • 939 N. OAK PARK AVE

OAK PARK. SUPER 1BR condo with den, beautiful kitchen, in-unit washer/dryer near the Green line. ...................................................... $180,000 OAK PARK JUST LISTED! RARE OPPORTUNITY to own this expanded brick bungalow. 4BRs, 2.1BAs. Beautiful stained & leaded glass windows, birch trim & drs, refin’d flrs. Lots of storage. C/A. ............................ $699,000 FANTASTIC ESTATE HOME w/meticulous renovation & expansion.

Huge 101x268 pvt yd. 1st flr FR, Cook’s kitchen, MBR ste, library, 6BR, 3.2BA, porches, decks. More! ....................................................$1,995,000 STUNNING ARTS & CRAFT style home w/warmth & charm+ beautiful updates, spacious rms, 5BR, 3BA, park-like yd, coach house w/office. ..........................................................................................................$1,175,000 CENTER OF VILLAGE! Landmark house! Custom chef’s kitchen, spalike BAs, inviting living spc - fam rm, parlor, media rm, screened porch, pvt yd. Motivated seller! ....................................................................$1,174,500 REDUCED! DESIGNER KITCHEN w/butler’s pantry, 6 BRs, 3½ BAs. Magnificent wdwk. Master suite w/new bath. .......................$850,000 SO MUCH TO LOVE! Prairie charm, Cook’s dream kit, Hdwd flrs, updates galore, decks, wonderfully deep yd, 4BR, 2.1BA w/MBR, in a perfect location! ..............................................................................$777,500 SPECTACULAR 4BR, 2.1BAs home. Grand staircase, art glass, WBFP, sunroom, updated kitchen. Much more. Got to see! ...............$720,000 CUSTOM DESIGNED brick home w/unique woods, cathedral ceiling, LR w/2 WBFPs. 4BR, 2.2BAs on a friendly blk. 2-car gar. .......$699,900 FALL IN LOVE w/this updated 4BR, 2BA home in DTOP. Lots of nat’l light. Designer kitchen. Rooftop deck. .......................................$659,000 SPACIOUS 4BR, 2½BA, 1st floor den & frplc, 3rd floor BR. New roof, garage & landscaping. ...................................................................$649,000 EXCLUSIVE 3BR, 2BA cottage/coach house w/large living rm, stone frplc, floor-to-ceiling windows opening to an enchanting private garden. ............................................................................................................$632,000 UNIQUE CLASSIC Prairie-style home. Updated kitchen, stately family rm w/floor-to-ceiling bookcases, skylights, WBFP. Nice Loc’n. ...........................................................................................................$599,000 SIDE ENTRANCE Colonial. 3BR, 1.1BA. Spacious rooms. Hdwd flrs, original woodwork. Brkfst rm & tandem. .................................$580,000 BUILT FOR ENTERTAINING. 600SF kitchen/family rm combo & a huge dble deck. 3BRs, 1.1 BAs. C/A. Newer roof. .....................$545,000 TIMELESS CLASSIC HOME with many updates. 4BR, 2BA. New kitchen, Nat’l wd & flrs, fam rm. Big yard. ..................................$529,700 WOW! FOUR BEDROOM, 2BA in Ridgeland Historic District. Cook’s kitchen, newer mechanicals. Close to everything! ...................$509,000 LARGE MASTER BEDROOM & beautiful beamed dining room highlight this Prairie home w/3 BRs. Central location. ............$499,900 ORIGINAL OAK PARK HOME. Tremendous space in this 5BR, 1½BA Gunderson. Beamed ceiling, stained glass, pocket drs, WBFP & hdwd floors. ................................................................................................$499,000 SURPRISE INSIDE! Fantastic spc in this deceptively lrg cottage offering 2BR, 2BA, wonderful lot, + deep, dry bsmt. Super loc’n, worth the investment! .....................................................................................$495,000

OPEN 122PM • SHOWROOM AT 139 S. OAK PARK NEW CONSTRUCTION! New standard of luxury! 1808-2200 SF units, 3 BRs, 2 indoor pkg spaces, spacious terraces, eco-efficient

GORGEOUS OAK PARK HOME near award-winning schools.

Chef’s kitchen, master ste, 4+1 BRs, 3.1BAs, finished bsmt. ................................................................................................................................................$875,000

LEED certified. Pricing starts at...................................................................$649,900

SPACIOUS PRAIRIE SCHOOL home built in ‘06 w/classic architectural design & contempo amenities. 4BRs, 4½BAs. Family rm.

SPECIAL! .............................................................................................................$1,265,000

mod amenities. 2BR, 2BA. Private deck. 2 deeded garage spcs.

RIVER FOREST OPEN 122PM • 628 WILLIAM

SMART, FRESH & EXCITING! 3BR, 1.1BA home in perfect loc’n.

Stylish décor. Updated kitchen. Deck. C/A. Lots more! ...........$489,000 NEED 5 BEDROOMS plus a recreation room on 3rd floor? Must see this huge Colonial in great location. ...................................................$489,900 SUNFILLED COLONIAL. 3BRs, 2 new full BAs + ½BA. Hdwd flrs.

Wd cab kitchen w/pantry. C/A. Deck. Great house. .................$489,000 BEST VALUE in town. Move right in to freshly painted & carpeted 3BR, 2.1BA. Awesome bsmt & great location. Tons of space. Fall in love! ........................................................................................................... $409,000 CHARMING, CLASSIC 2-story w/open front porch, hdwd flrs, nat’l wdwk & art glass. 3BRs, 1.1 BAs, 1st flr fam rm. C/A. Lots more! ....................................................................................................................$405,000 NEWLY PAINTED & REHABBED. 3BRs, 2BAs include master, hdwd flrs, SS appliances & more. Great location. ........................................$385,000 THREE BEDROOMS, 2BAs. Huge living room, eat-in kitchen, finished basement. 2014: roof, boiler & hot water heater! ....................$239,000 ATTENTION REHABBERS! 3BR, 1.1 BA farmhouse style home on large corner lot. Lots of potential. .......................................................$225,000

RIVER FOREST NEW CONSTRUCTION! Elegant “Coastal” style home w/open frt porch. 3 levels of finished luxury. 4BRs, 4½BAs, 2nd flr lndry & lots more. .................................................................................................................$1,290,000 PERFECT ATTENTION TO DETAIL. 5BR, 2.1BA home w/coach house. Chef’s kitchen w/over-the-top amenities. Family rm. Much more! ......................................................................................................... $1,165,000 PRIME LOCATION, glamorous architecture & spacious rooms. 4 bedroom, 3.1 bath beauty. A must see! .....................................$839,000 QUEEN ANNE Victorian w/open frt porch on lrg lot! 6BRs, 2.2BAs. Stunning foyer w/frplc & striking staircase w/balcony. Much more! ............................................................................................................$685,000 FOUR BEDROOMS & 3 baths. Unique & contemporary. Hdwd flrs & natural wdwk. Large, private yd. .................................................$625,000 FANTASTIC RANCH w/open floor plan. 3 BRs, 2.2BAs. WBFP. Large MBR ste. 1st flr lndry. C/A. Att garage. .......................................$624,900 IMMACULATE & UPDATED 2-story brick home on deep lot.

3BRs, 2.1BAs. Remodeled kitchen. New MBA w/Jacuzzi. C/A. Lovely! ....................................................................................................................$609,000 WONDERFUL RANCH on the Street of Dreams. 2/3 BRs, huge LR/DR, WBFP, eat-in kitchen, nice yard & garage. ........................................$399,000

FOREST PARK READY, SET, MOVE RIGHT INTO this 5BR, 3BA home with C/A. An excellent bargain................................................................................... $225,000

EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY

OPEN 13PM • 721 ONTARIO ST., #302 FAB UNIT, FAB LOCATION! Great architectural details & ........................................................................................................................................$495,000

NEW REHAB 4BRs, 2 BAs. New roof, kitchen, BAs & furnace. Oak flrs.

Great location. ................................................................................$399,000 INVITING DUTCH COLONIAL. 3BRs, 2BAs. Lots of updates!

Refinished hdwd flrs. New tear-off roof. Great loc’n. ..............$324,900 WONDERFUL UPDATED home close to park & transportation. Make it yours! ............................................................................................$295,000

OTHER AREA HOMES ELMWOOD PARK. NEW LISTING! WELLMAINTAINED 2-story - 3BR, 2BA with great yard. ........................................... $229,000 CHICAGO. UNBEATABLE LOCATION! 2BR, 2BA boasts lots of amenities such as a deck, upgraded decorative windows, 2015 roof & more. ........................................................................................................$342,500 DOWNERS GROVE. DARLING 2BR, 1BA home sitting on a 50 x 296 lot has potential. Close to train, school & shops. .......................$349,900 ELMWOOD PARK. WANT TURNKEY? 3 BR, 1.5 BA on great lot.

This is the home for you! .............................................................. $342,000 HICKORY HILLS. WELLKEPT brick raised ranch 3+ BR 1½BA, hdwd flrs, full finished English basement. Park-like yard. .......$244,700

PERFECT LOCATION. Freshly painted vintage 1 BR condo with 2 parking spaces...........................................................................................$95,000 QUIET 1BR CORNER UNIT with central air. Updated kitchen. 1 parking space.............................................................................................$89,000 WELLLOCATED, SPACIOUS 1BR, 1BA condo. Low taxes & assmt, garage pkg, storage, lite & bright unit! Updated kitchen & BA!.......$81,900

CONDOS/TOWNHOUSES RIVER FOREST BEAUTIFUL 2BR, 2BA condo with a view. Elevator bldg. Lrg kitchen, updated BA’s, great closet spc & storage. Pkg. .........................$179,000

CONDOS/TOWNHOUSES FOREST PARK WHERE THE ACTION IS. Beautiful 2BR, 2BA w/open flr plan. SS applncs, in-unit lndry, storage & great amenities. .................$286,500 NEW A/C & stainless steel appliances. 1BR corner unit among the treetops. Storage. Parking. .............................................................$88,000

INCOME

RENTALS

RIVER FOREST. RARE OPPORTUNITY for the “Sandwich” generation! Have your parents or adult children close so you can help, but they can live independent. ................................................................... $799,000 FOREST PARK. GRAND VICTORIAN 2FLAT. Location, space & many updates. 2/3 BRs. C/A. Fenced yd. Plenty of parking ...........$345,000

OAK PARK. THREE BEDOOM, 1.1BA house in a close to everything location. Upd’d kitchen w/SS applncs. 2-car garage. ................................................................................................$2,650/mo

COMMERCIAL FOREST PARK. VERY STABLE TENANTS. 9 parking spaces.

Hardwood floors throughout & great window space.....................$595,000

VACANT LAND OAK PARK. LOCATED IN CENTRAL OP, this vacant property is yours with immediate possession possible. Make an offer! ..........$399,000

CONDOS/TOWNHOUSES OAK PARK SOHO TOWNHOUSE! NEW CONSTRUCTION! 3BR, 3½BA w/ hdwd flrs, balcony, rooftop deck & 2-car garage. Fab loc’n in the ‘Heart of Oak Park!’ Call for details. .......................................................................$615,000 TOP FLOOR 2BR condo is waiting for its next owner. Large rms, in-unit W/D, balcony. Well-run & rentable. ................................................... $160,000 ATTRACTIVE 2 BR garden unit with 1 parking space, in-unit laundry.

C/A. Great location. .................................................................................$159,000 UPDATED 2 BEDROOM, 2 Bath condo in the heart of Oak Park w/ parking. .............................................................................................$154,500

EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY

OAK PARK. ONE BEDROOM, 1 bath condo in well-managed building. Generous room sizes.

Great storage.............................................. $112,000 APARTMENTS OAK PARK. NEW RENTAL! FAB 1ST FLOOR UNIT in 2-flat.

Gorgeous unit w/updated kitchen & BA. 2BRs, storage, 2 pkg spcs & backyard. ..........................................................................$2,000/mo FOREST PARK. BRIGHT, CLEAN & HUGE 2nd flr apt. Wellmaintained bldg. Updated BA. Patio, pkg, C/A. Great location ................................................................................................ $1,600/mo

COMMERCIAL RENTALS OAK PARK. OFFICE SPACES in lovely Art Deco bldg. 2 Elevators. Entry handicap equipped. Tenants pay electric. Public pkg. Call! Rent ranges from .........................$2,616/mo to $898/mo WESTMONT. CLASSIC STORE FRONT/walk in office on busy street. 2 blocks from Metra train. In-suite restrooms and kitchen.

Great exposure. ....................................................................$1,525/mo

Call for a FREE Market Analysis today!

HOMES

CONDOS OAK PARK. VINTAGE 1BR CONDO. 2 parking spaces. Coin lndry. Convenient location. ................................................$1,150/mo FOREST PARK. WELLMAINTAINED 1 large BR, 1BA, Large LR combo. Newer windows & carpet. Balcony. Parking. $975/mo

ONLY

5

LEFT!

We Need Your Home!

Housing stock is low...

This is the time to sell.

DESIGN SHOWROOM OPEN SUNDAY • 12-2PM Located at 139 S. Oak Park Avenue, Oak Park

A New Standard of Luxury in Oak Park.

• • • • • • •

11 spacious, deluxe residences Close to vibrant downtown Oak Park 3 bedroom units 2 indoor parking spaces 1808-2969 sq. ft. units Spacious terraces Eco-efficient- LEED certified

Starting at $649,900

21

22

Wednesday Journal, August 10, 2016

OAKPARK.COM | RIVERFOREST.COM

Your local face of real estate since 1933.

OPEN HOUSE • SUN. 1:30-3 1510 PARK AVE

River Forest

$779,900

Over 3500 square feet in this 4 bed, 3.1 bath home.

Formal living room with wood-burning fireplace, enormous family room with gas fireplace which - gutted and redesigned in 2001! Newer kitchen, outstanding master suite, with new spa like bathroom updated 2016, lower level recreation room and MUCH MORE! Patricia McGowan - ID# 09152164

OPEN HOUSE • SUN. 2:30-4 451 LENOX ST

Oak Park

$569,900

Enormous 4 bed, 2.1 bath with enormous living room, intricate cove moldings, king size dining room which opens to cozy den, large, updated, eat in kitchen, large recreation room has mahogany paneling, built-in 50’s furniture, a built in buffet made of ribbon cut mahogany, and a 50’s style bar!

Patricia McGowan - ID#09248515

Oak Park

$739,900

Recent 5 bed, 4 bath rehabbed home features hardwood floors, kitchen with cherry cabinets, granite counters, wine cooler and peninsula, family room, coved ceilings and art glass. Delightful master suite with gas fireplace, 3rd floor retreat, patio with pergola, open front porch, 4 car Gar plus extra parking pad Patricia McGowan - ID# 09280420

Oak Park

$459,000

Fresh and clean and ready to move in! This 3 bedroom, 1.5 bath home has wood burning fireplace in living room and lower level family room, gleaming hardwood floors, nicely finished family room in basement, 3 season enclosed porch overlooks nice deck and generous yard and side drive to 1 car garage

Peggy Letchos – ID# 09291192

NEW LISTING

$395,000

Amazing brick 4 bed, 3.1 bath home built in 2007 features newer amenities and a very functional layout. So many things to fall in love with - Enormous kitchen with island, very generous room sizes, the master suite, functional layout, ample space to entertain indoors or outdoors and SO MUCH MORE! James Salazar – ID# 09288898

OPEN HOUSE • SUN. 1-4 1403 HARVEY AVE

Oak Park

Oak Park

$250,000

Expansive 3 bed, 2 bath corner unit with impressive grand foyer, fireplace in living room with built-in bookcases, sizable alcove for music nook or office, with adjoining front sun room, formal dining room with built-ins and beamed ceiling. Rear of unit has guest quarters with full bath. Plenty of living space!

Meredith Conn/Lisa Andreoli – ID# 09300944

NEW PRICE

$734,500

Opportunity to develop in Oak Park. The corner of Madison St and Lyman Ave with over 17,400 cars passing daily.

17,856 SF (124 x 144), Zoned B1-2, Great for new residential or commercial. Located in the Madison Street TIF District.

Theresa Jurgus – ID# 08949997

Oak Park

FEATURE PROPERTY OPEN SUNDAY • 1-3PM 518 N EAST AVE

$598,000

Traditional 4 bed, 1.1 bath 4-Square located in the Frank Lloyd Wright Historic District. Grand entrance, exquisite tiled decorative fireplace, a nice huge kitchen opens to breakfast area and family room, back deck, 3rd floor office/bedroom, finished lower level, front screened porch. Central AC and 2 car garage Steve Scheuring - ID# 09271933

MIXED USE

OPEN HOUSE • SUN. 1-3 835 MARION ST

NEW PRICE

Berwyn

NEW PRICE

OPEN HOUSE • SUN. 12:30-2 1013 S EUCLID AVE

NEW PRICE

Oak Park

Maywood

$399,000

Property includes one building which features two store fronts and eight apartments. Tenants pay utilities. Parking lot north of building owned

by Village. There is public parking east of property and convenient Metra stop across the street.

Vivian Jones – ID# 09276935

Oak Park

NEW LISTING

OPEN HOUSE • SUN. 1-3 2021 N 77TH CT

Westchester

$235,000

Well-maintained 3 bed, 1.1 bath Cape Cod on a large corner lot features hardwood floors, updated windows throughout, crown molding, separate dining room, eat-in kitchen with oak cabinetry, huge finished basement with family room, covered patio is perfect for outdoor dining and entertaining and huge 2.5 car garage.

Bethanny Alexander - ID# 09283321

Oak Park

$219,000

Beautifully renovated 2 bed, 1 bath in amazing Art Deco building. Spacious unit with great kitchen, office/den and bath rebuilt from the studs! In-unit laundry, living with built-ins, Juliet balcony, coved ceilings, barrel vaulted formal dining room and much more!!

David Stanger – ID # 09303858

NEW PRICE

NEW LISTING

$398,000

Beautiful newly renovated 4 bed, 2.1 bath Farmhouse is located in the heart featuring a grand entry foyer, large living room with enough space for multiple conversation areas, formal dining, new high-end kitchen, huge family room opens to back deck, new HVAC and large 2+ car garage. Truly a spectacular home!

Steve Scheuring - ID# 09169482

$1,350,000

Style and elegance greet you at the Charles Erwin house by James Van Keuren. One of Oak Park’s best known homes, this amazing home features large, sun-filled rooms,11 ft ceilings, oak and mahogany woodwork, beamed ceilings, huge Chef’s kitchen, 5 spacious bedrooms, 3.5 baths, and oversized lot with in-ground pool surrounded by mature trees creating your own private oasis. Lovingly restored and updated with 2 additions, this wonderful example of luxury living was featured during Frank Lloyd Wright’s 2005 house-walk and continues to lend to Oak Park’s architectural magnificence.

Mary Carlin – ID# 09303082

F E AT U R E D N E W CO N S T R U C T I O N OPEN SUNDAY • 12-2PM 319 CHESTNUT LANE, OAK PARK

50%

SOLD

NEW LISTING

Oak Park Berwyn

$180,000

Terrific 2 bedroom brick Georgian with wonderful fenced in yard! Updated kitchen and bath, fresh paint throughout, and refinished hardwood floors on the main level, large closets, pretty deck with playset and a big yard! Basement has high ceilings; great for storage. 2 car detached garage.

Mary Carlin – ID# 09252889

River Forest

$169,000

Spacious 2 bed, 2 bath condo awaiting new homeowners!! Well run building close to shopping and trains. Newer windows, and sliding glass doors, hardwood floors, delightful balcony perfect for herb or flower pot garden.

Building has all the amenities for care free living!

Cheryl Holtz - ID# 09303816

Oak Park

$168,000

Vintage meets modern in this top floor, 3 bedroom home! Treetop views from the elegant living room, beautiful hardwood floors throughout, sunny and bright spaces, an updated kitchen and a beautiful back porch are some of the highlights that make you want to call this place home!

Bobbi Schaper Eastman – ID# 09263355

Oak Park

$140,000

2 bedroom condo with 3 custom fit air conditioning units. Large rooms with dining space off generous galley kitchen, ample closets, extra storage space and laundry. Covered parking space in gated lot with rare guest parking! Low taxes plus assessments include water and heat!

Meredith Conn/Lisa Andreoli – ID# 09300918

Starting At: $529,900

The Oak Park Oasis, 22, 4-level townhomes with a fresh new approach to townhome living.

Sleek and modern with a downtown flair, featuring versatile 3 or 4 bedroom layouts, 3.5 baths, open kitchens with large center island, balcony off kitchen for grilling, 1st floor office/bedroom that features an en-suite full bath, beautiful master suite, 4th level has cozy loft space - plumbed for wet bar, large private roof deck and 2 car attached garage. Many great cabinet selections with quartz closets, marble bathrooms, oak flooring, and stainless steel appliances! Buy now and pick your finishes! Great center-of-town location! Delivery Spring 2016! Call for details.

Patricia McGowan – ID# 09154664

Call us today to use the local knowledge and skill of our agents paired with the broad reach and power of Baird & Warner.

1037 CHICAGO AVENUE, OAK PARK I 708.697.5900 | BAIRDWARNER.COM

Wednesday Journal, August 10, 2016

OAKPARK.COM | RIVERFOREST.COM

sponsored content

NEW LISTING

PRICE REDUCTION

915 Keystone Ave, River Forest Beautiful Colonial Revival. Totally renovated 6bd/4.2 bath home with attached garage and separate guest quarters. $1,850,000

1416 Ashland Ave, River Forest Grand French inspired stone 5 bd/4.3 bath estate on extra large lot. Large bedrooms and an open floor plan. $1,599,000

PRICE REDUCTION

PRICE REDUCTION

1142 Franklin Ave, River Forest Custom modern 6000sf, 4bd/4.5 bath home. Dramatic design and unique detailing throughout. $1,650,000

847 Clinton Pl, River Forest Beautifully designed center entrance brick colonial, gourmet kit, 4 bd, 3.5 baths walk to train. $1,195,000

23

John Matthews, Sales Manager for Baird & Warner’s Oak Park/River Forest Office is pleased to announce

July’s Top Producers!

B

ethanny Alexander, a broker with the Oak Park/River Forest office has been named Top Producer for Highest Volume in the month of July. Bethanny ranks in the top 5% of Realtors and is a 5 Star Award recipient. When asked for a quote, Sales Manager John Matthews stated “Bethanny is very service oriented and has an extensive marketing background. That’s one of many reasons why clients love working with her.” You can reach Bethanny by visiting her website at bethannyalexander.bairdwarner.com or give her a call at 708.697.5904.

C

atherine Simon-Vobornik, a broker with the Oak Park/River Forest office has been named Top Producer for Most Homes Sold in the month of July. Catherine is a multiple 5 Star Award recipient and ranks in the top 5% of agents. “If you want an agent who is honest and hardworking, definitely call Catherine.” said John Matthews, Sales Manager for the Oak Park/River Forest office. To learn more about Catherine call her direct at 708.697.5942 or visit her website catherinesimon.bairdwarner.com.

T

okela Brown, a broker with the Oak Park/ River Forest office has been named Top Producer for Most New Listings in the month of July. Tokela, an experienced agent who recently joined the Oak Park/River Forest office, has taken full advantage of Baird & Warner’s superior marketing tools. Sales Manager John Matthews was quoted saying “Tokela’s work ethic and Baird & Warner’s marketing tools are a winning combination.” To contact Tokela, visit her website at tokelabrown.bairdwarner.com or call her direct at 708.697.5921 Thanks to these Top Producers and our entire Baird & Warner team which has sold the most homes in the Oak Park, River Forest and Forest Park areas in 2016! Baird & Warner has been offering real estate services to the local market since 1933 and has serviced the Greater Chicago Metropolitan market since 1855. For more information about the services offered by Baird & Warner, visit their website at bairdwarner. com or call 708.697.5900.

JUST SOLD

410 Kenilworth Ave, Oak Park Architecturally significant Arts & Crafts 6bd/3.1 bath home located on one of the best blocks. $1,389,000

KATHY & TONY IWERSEN 708.772.8040 708.772.8041 tonyiwersen@atproperties.com

Walking Distance to Downtown Oak Park and Trains!

You can live in this huge, beautiful, updated Victorian for as little as $2,936/month (principal, interest, taxes) when you rent out the renovated coach house for $2,200/month.

Only $899,000!

Call or text April Kibler for a viewing

773.972.2344

24

Wednesday Journal, August 10, 2016

OAKPARK.COM | RIVERFOREST.COM

OAK PARK OPEN SUNDAY 12-2PM

OPEN SUNDAY 12-2PM

FOREST PARK

OPEN SUNDAY 1-3PM

OPEN SUNDAY 2-4PM

OPEN SUNDAY 12-2PM

NEW LISTING!

1407 Lathrop Ave 4BR, 2.1BA $849,000

1005 Washington Blvd 3BR, 2BA $234,900

1112 N. Humphrey Ave 3BR, 1.1BA $319,500

711 Belleforte Ave 4BR + 1BSMT, 3.1BA $884,900

OAK PARK

3D

NEW PRICE!

NEW PRICE!

410 Lenox St 5BR, 3BA $375,000

1137 S. Harvey Ave 4BR, 4.1BA $750,000

3D

3D

3D

1050 N. Humphrey Ave 2BR, 1BA $239,000

3D

NEW PRICE!

1115 Thomas Ave 4BR, 3BA $499,900

1051 Dunlop Ave 4BR, 2.1BA $414,900

3D

506 S. Elmwood Ave 5BR, 2.1BA $519,000

1223 Woodbine Ave 3BR, 2.1BA $579,900

3D

NEW PRICE!

NEW PRICE!

1030 Columbian Ave 4BR, 1.1BA $450,000

709 Gunderson Ave 3BR, 1BA $295,000

RIVER FOREST 3D

3D

NEW LISTING!

734 Woodbine Ave 4BR, 2.1BA $619,900

3D

131 Ashland Ave 847 N. East Ave 4BR + 1BSMT, 3.1BA 3BR + 1BSMT, 3.1BA $724,900 $749,000 Townhomes & Condos

3D 1021 Lincoln Trl - 3BR, 3.1BA $435,000 612 Harrison St - 1BR, 1BA $89,900 240 S. Oak Park Ave - 2BR, 1BA $209,900 7753 Van Buren St - 2BR, 2BA $254,900

1110 Troost Ave 4BR, 2BA $309,000

NEW LISTING!

3D

3D

FOREST PARK

613 Ferdinand Ave 3BR, 1BA $255,000

3D

3D

1115 S. Harvey Ave 3BR, 1.1BA $369,000

1127 N. East Ave 4BR, 2.1BA $860,000

NEW LISTING!

931 N. Elmwood Ave 3BR + 1BSMT, 3.2BA $875,000

3D

3D

OAK PARK

OAK PARK

OPEN SUNDAY 12-2PM

3D

1208 N. East Ave 3BR, 2.1BA $567,000

614 Fair Oaks Ave 3BR, 2.1BA $629,900

1105 Wisconsin Ave 5BR, 3.2BA $724,500

7231 Jackson Blvd 2 Flat + PKG $269,900

OPEN SUNDAY 12-2PM

32 Elgin Ave - 1BR, 1BA $105,000

1206 Lathrop Ave 4BR + 1BSMT, 4BA $1,089,000

1435 Park Ave 4BR, 4.1BA $749,000

Go to

WeichertRNG.com

to view 3D 3D Tours and see what else is on the market!

222 N. Grove Ave - 2BR, 2BA $225,000

101 N. Oak Park Ave, Oak Park, IL 60301 • 708-848-5550 www.weichertnickelgroup.com

Follow Weichert

Wednesday Journal, August 10, 2016

OAKPARK.COM | RIVERFOREST.COM

25

1

POOL DESIGN

ILLUSTRATIONS: 1) Section through pool and bleachers.

2) Exterior perspective from the mall of the glass entrance.

3) Pool interior perspective.

2

A missed opportunity from page 17 structures is not technically difficult — it has been done frequently with success for over a century.

Our design team questioned the excessive building area specified for the discarded design for a 50-meter pool that would have been located on the parking garage site. We challenged the redundant pairs of locker rooms, oversized coaches’ offices, superfluous classrooms, colossal concession areas and excessive mechanical space. At an estimated cost of $710+ per square foot, one could easily see how every wasted square foot adds up and unnecessarily drives up the cost.

The challenge was to provide an efficient, high-quality pool that would meet the high school’s aquatics standards.

We believe that the underground scheme shown in the accompanying design drawings would have met those standards at a cost of $35 million or

less, versus Legat’s Plan C pool at $53.5 million, saving nearly $20 million. We regret that the Green Team’s design did not get a full vetting or consideration from the citizens of Oak Park. It is irresponsible not to consider and innova-

tive green design that saves substantially.

Architecturally, it is an exciting design.

The above ground entry structure is minimal but compelling, visually marking the entrance and exits with three bold glass pavilions immediately adjacent to the baseball playing fields. The curved turf roof recalls the aquatic fluidity of the sport as it is “peeled” from the baseball field’s flat playing surface. This metaphorical symbol expresses its use. At night the dramatic glass lobby and stair halls would be illuminated like lanterns guiding students, parents and visitors to the competitions from the north or south

3

edges of the mall.

The symmetrical plan focuses on an architectural stair, centered on an unanticipated three-story architectural space wrapping around the elevator shaft, leading down to the spectators’ bleachers (450 seats) lit from above. Sunlight filters through this level, diffusing the light to ensure no glare is admitted to inhibit the athlete’s performance. The floor plan is nearly square, the most compact shape for building and the least amount of volume to build, heat and cool.

The tiled 25yard x 40 meter pool would have been submerged 35 feet below natural grade, making it highly insulated by the earth, including 12 inches on the green roof. The bold curving shape of the lobby recalls the form of the classic breaststroke or the monumental catenary arch at Dulles Airport by master architect Eero Saarinen.

When we studied various options, this dynamic shape became an exciting counterpoint to an otherwise static plan. Alternatively, one could read the design as the movement of swimmers in competition.

Maybe the theme of both story and design is “expect the unexpected,” and maybe someday somehow an underground option will emerge again.

Garret Eakin is an architect, journalist, and adjunct professor at the School of the Art Institute.

26

Wednesday Journal, August 10, 2016

OAKPARK.COM | RIVERFOREST.COM

Sunday, August 14, 2016

SINGLE FAMILY HOMES

ADDRESS

REALTY CO.

TOWNHOMES

CONDOS

ADDRESS

MULTIFAMILY

LISTING PRICE

TIME

1403 Harvey Ave, Berwyn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Baird & Warner Oak Park/River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$180,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-4 1357 Highridge Pkwy, Westchester. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Baird & Warner Oak Park/River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$235,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 1008 S. Highland Ave, Oak Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$255,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 916 Hirsch St, Melrose Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Weichert Realtors Nickel Group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$269,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2 2136 N. 76th Ave, Elmwood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Baird & Warner Oak Park/River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$307,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:30-3 1112 N. Humphrey Ave, Oak Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Weichert Realtors Nickel Group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$319,500 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 419 N. Humphrey Ave, Oak Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$409,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 1051 Dunlop Ave, Forest Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Weichert Realtors Nickel Group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$414,900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 1812 N. 79th Ave, Elmwood Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$419,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 2626 N. 75th Ave, Elmwood Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$419,900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10:30-12:30 5532 Ridgewood, Western Springs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Beyond Properties Realty Group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$424,500 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 838 N. Harlem Ave, River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$429,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12:30-2:30 804 N. Forest Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re/Max In The Village . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$429,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 835 N. Marion St, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Baird & Warner Oak Park/River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$459,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 1115 Thomas Ave, Forest Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Weichert Realtors Nickel Group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$499,900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2 451 Lenox St, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Baird & Warner Oak Park/River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$569,900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2:30-4 620 S. Kenilworth, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Beyond Properties Realty Group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$574,100 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2 1125 Edmer Ave, Oak Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$625,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2 722 Hayes Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$634,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 801 Jackson Ave, River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$649,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2 123 Ashland Ave, River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$664,500 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-4 1013 S. Euclid Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Baird & Warner Oak Park/River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$739,900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12:30-2 320 S. Grove Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$743,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 847 N. East Ave, Oak Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Weichert Realtors Nickel Group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$749,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2 1510 Park Ave, River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Baird & Warner Oak Park/River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$779,900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:30-3 1407 Lathrop Ave, River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Weichert Realtors Nickel Group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$849,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2 939 N. Oak Park Ave, Oak Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gloor Realty Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$875,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-4 711 N. Belleforte Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Weichert Realtors Nickel Group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$884,900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-4 1005 N. Kenilworth, Oak Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Beyond Properties Realty Group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,095,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 530 N. East, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gloor Realty Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,150,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 518 N. East Ave, Oak Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Baird & Warner Oak Park/River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,350,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3

REALTY CO.

LISTING PRICE

TIME

329 S. Oak Park St. UNIT 3N, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$225,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-1:45 1005 Washington Blvd. UNIT 2B, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Weichert Realtors Nickel Group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$234,900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2 401 S. Grove Ave. UNIT 1AA, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re/Max In The Village . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$300,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 721 Ontario 302, Oak Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gloor Realty Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$495,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 Showroom at 139 S. Oak Park Ave., Oak Park, IL, Oak Park. . . . . . . . . . Gloor Realty Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$649,900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2 Showroom at 139 S. Oak Park Ave., Oak Park, IL, Oak Park. . . . . . . . . . Gloor Realty Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$664,900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2 Showroom at 139 S. Oak Park Ave., Oak Park, IL, Oak Park. . . . . . . . . . Gloor Realty Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$684,900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2 Showroom at 139 S. Oak Park Ave., Oak Park, IL, Oak Park. . . . . . . . . . Gloor Realty Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$684,900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2

ADDRESS

REALTY CO.

LISTING PRICE

TIME

319 Chestnut Ln, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Baird & Warner Oak Park/River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$554,900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2

ADDRESS

REALTY CO.

LISTING PRICE

This Directory brought to you by mrgloans.com

Conventional, FHA, and Jumbo mortgages Free Pre-approvals

Find a new job in our great classified section!

TIME

7231 Jackson Blvd, Forest Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Weichert Realtors Nickel Group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$269,900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2 628 William, River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gloor Realty Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,265,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2

Providing financing for homes in Oak Park and surrounding communities since 1989.

Need a new dress code at work?

7544 W. North Avenue Elmwood Park, IL 708.452.5151

Mortgage Resource Group is an Illinois Residential Mortgage Licensee.

NMLS # 207793 License # 1031

Classified.

In print. Online. oakpark.com/Classified

Wednesday Journal, August 10, 2016

OAKPARK.COM | RIVERFOREST.COM

Generations of Excellence since 1958

708.771.8040 • 7375 W. North Ave., River Forest Donna Barnhisel Cibula 7375 West North AvenueJoe Dan Bogojevich Don Citrano Anne Brennan Julie Cliggett Illinois 60305 Karen Byrne Alisa Coghill Kevin Calkins JoLyn Crawford 708.771.8040 Tom Carraher Andy Gagliardo Maria Cullerton

MANAGING BROKER/OWNERS River Forest,

Pat Cesario

Tom Poulos

Karen Doty

Julie Downey Kurt Fielder Yvonne Fiszer-Steele Ramona Fox Chris Garvey Lisa Grimes Dan Halperin Sharon Halperin

Greg Jaroszewski Vee Jaroszewski Joanne Kelly Michael Kinnare Sherree Krisco Jack Lattner Susan Maienza Vince McFadden

Charlotte Messina Kathleen Minaghan Colleen Navigato Rosa Pitassi Katie Possley Michael Roche Sue Ponzio-Pappas Jenny Ruland

Laurel Saltzman Rob Sarvis Meg Sullivan Laurie Shapiro Tom Sullivan Debbie Watts George Wohlford Nancy Wohlford

123 ASHLAND • RIVER FOREST OPEN SUNDAY 2-4

722 HAYES • OAK PARK OPEN SUNDAY 1-3

1008 S HIGHLAND • OAK PARK OPEN SUNDAY 1-3

419 N HUMPHREY • OAK PARK OPEN SUNDAY 1-3

N E W L IS T I NG!

NE W LI S TI NG!

NE W LI S TI N G!

P R I C E R E D U C E D!

CHARMING, SPACIOUS QUEEN ANNE BUNGALOW in pristine condition. Art glass windows, French doors, wood trim, hardwood floors. Granite kitchen, breakfast nook. Family room and 1st floor bedroom. 3 bedrooms on 2nd floor. Finished basement, enclosed porch, 2 car garage. .............................................. $664,500

QUALITY BUILT, BEAUTIFUL RENOVATION with 2nd floor addition - 4BR, 2-1/2 Baths with Master Suite. Chef’s kitchen with new S/S appliances, granite counter tops. Exceptional open floor plan. Finished LL. Fenced yard professionally landscaped. Two car detached garage. ...................................................................$634,999

BEAUTIFUL THREE BEDROOM BUNGALOW with large rooms, double living area and nice location. Oak floors, well maintained, freshly painted and easy to move into! Short walk to Schools, Rehm Park Pool, Oak Park Arts District and Blue Line. .................................................................................................$255,000

CLASSIC OAK PARK HOME ready to move right in. Spacious LR with brick fireplace, formal DR and hardwood floors throughout.

Updated kitchen, 3 nicely sized BRs on the 2nd fl and enclosed porch off the back. Finished fam rm in bsmt, enclosed backyard. ................................................................................................ $409,000

707 CLINTON PL • RIVER FOREST

ADDITIONAL OPEN HOUSES SUNDAY, AUGUST 14, 2016 801 JACKSON • RIVER FOREST OPEN SUNDAY 12-2

N E W L IS T I NG! BEAUTIFUL CENTER ENTRANCE COLONIAL with three bedrooms including a MBR with walk in closet. Spacious Living Room with fireplace opens to a screened porch. Paver brick driveway, wood fence, electric gate, 2 car garage. Full Basement with great ceiling height..........................................................................$624,900

RIVER FOREST HOMES

A ONE OF A KIND HOME! Impeccable restoration of original home with a fabulous addition surrounded by lush professional landscaping. Gorgeous decor & architectural detail throughout, yet warmly welcoming, house is perfect for intimate or grand scale entertaining..................$3,750,000 BURMA BUILT BUHRKE HOUSE combines Tudor revival & chateau style architecture elements. Gorgeous décor and impeccable attention to detail and care found in house and landscaped grounds, extends to fabulous in ground pool and patios. Perfect for entertaining. .........$2,649,000 HANDSOME AND BEAUTIFULLY MAINTAINED traditional brick home for those who appreciate tradition and elegance. Distinctive home offers 5BRs, 2 full/2 half baths. Professionally landscaped fenced yard with in-ground pool and spa. Ample storage in basement. ......$1,489,000 VERY SPECIAL HOME with four full floors of living! Each room has been thought out to the very last detail. Lighting fixtures add ambiance to every room. The kitchen and family room are conveniently located overlooking a beautifully landscaped yard. ........................................$1,449,000 GEORGOUS FRENCH NORMANDY with 5 bedrooms, 5 full & 5 half baths sits on a 75 foot corner lot. Gleaming hardwood floors and fireplace in LR, simply stunning eat-in kitchen with adjoining family room. Lower level rec room with gas fireplace. Beautifully landscaped grounds. ..............................................................................................................................................................$1,189,000 GREAT FORTRESS FOR ENTERTAINING! Large Colonial, all large rooms, with 6 BRs, 4 full/2 half baths. Eat-in kitchen with island. Fam Rm with built-in’s, surround sound, gas fplc. Very private large master BR with full bath and heated floors. Fin Rec Room, 4 car garage. ....$1,149,000 BEAUTIFUL STYLISH UPDATED HOME with 4 BRs, 3.2 BAs on four floors of living space.

Includes LR w/ frpl, new high end kitchen, Breakfast Rm, 1st FL office. LL has Fam Rm, Rec Room, Laundry, Wine Cellar and Full Bath. 2 car garage with extra storage and rooftop deck...$1,099,000 PRICE REDUCED! MAGNIFICENT 3-STORY HOME with a bright and open floor plan, grand sized rooms, gracious foyer with spectacular staircase, amazing millwork, inlaid floors and high ceilings. First floor family room overlooks fenced in yard. Three car garage with walk up storage/loft area. ....................................................................................................................................$1,074,000

CHARMING, SUN-FILLED DUTCH COLONIAL on beautiful corner lot.

Formal living room with fireplace, separate dining, sunroom, family room eat-in kitchen and office all on the first floor. 4 bedrooms on the 2nd floor with spacious master bedroom suite + bath. ..................................$649,000

BEAUTIFUL, SPACIOUS, MOVE-IN READY VICTORIAN. Enjoy an inviting open front porch, rich oak floors, beautiful natural woodwork, pocket doors between LR and DR, and stunning, original leaded glass windows. Eatin kitchen, expansive finished basement. Two garages. ...................$225,000

838 N HARLEM • RIVER FOREST OPEN SUNDAY 12-2

2626 N 75TH • ELMWOOD PARK OPEN SUNDAY 10:30-12:30

BEAUTIFUL, MOVE-IN READY REHAB in River Forest. Large open kitchen with all brand new SS. New 3/4 inch Brazilian Koa wood floors throughout. Designer baths. Wood burning fireplace. Master suite. Full basement. Great backyard with covered patio. Close to great schools! ...$429,000

GEORGIAN STYLE HOME boasting three levels of living space. Solid brick home sits on double lot. Basement has eight foot ceilings and is finished with bedroom and family room. Home has all new stainless steel appliances. 2.5 car detached garage with driveway and alley access. .....................$419,900

1125 EDMER • OAK PARK OPEN SUNDAY 12-2

1812 N 79TH • ELMWOOD PARK OPEN SUNDAY 1-3

CLASSIC CHICAGO STYLE BUNGALOW with modern day updates, art glass windows and plantation shutters. Remodeled kitchen, 1st FL private back office. Mudroom off back door. MBR has remodeled full bath and fabulous built-ins. Professionally landscaped. .........................................$625,000 STUNNING BRICK MEDITERRANEAN COLONIAL, superbly maintained, both inside and out! Grand foyer features a soaring ceiling and formal dual staircase, totally unique. Hardwood floors throughout. Basement rec room. Spectacularly landscaped lot and private patio. .$999,000 COMPLETELY RENOVATED 4 bedroom home is move-in ready. First floor features a spacious open floor plan. Large, high end kitchen. Full finished bsmt consists of a family room, a wet bar and a bonus room with its own bath. Deep backyard with a large patio and fire pit. .................$989,000 SO MANY IMPROVEMENTS in this 5 bedroom, 4 full, 5 half bath Victorian. Classic charm w/ original woodwork, bullseye trim & soaring ceilings combined w/ modern amenities including the stone fireplace in the 1st FL family room. Four car garage, beautiful grounds. ...................$989,000 STUNNING RENOVATION of 5 bedroom, 3 full and 1 half bathroom Georgian with attached two car garage. LR, DR, bedroom, office, fam rm and kit flow beautifully on the first floor. The basement boasts a fifth bedroom, full bath, finished recreation room and workout area. $899,000 ATTRACTIVE COLONIAL in the heart of town! Professionally designed home with hardwood floors throughout, and crown molding. Freshly painted. Located on larger lot. Large screened porch graces the back of home that overlooks 1/3 of an acre. Walk to everything..........................$673,000 WELL MAINTAINED center entrance brick & stone colonial with 4 BRs/4BAs. Spacious first floor family room. Travertine marble entry with winding staircase. Refinished hardwood floors.

Two fireplaces. 2nd floor office. Finished LL with plenty of storage and pantry areas. .......$664,000 CRAFSTMAN STYLE BUNGALOW features 3BRs, 3BAs, a large LR with custom built-ins, cove moldings, and refurbished fireplace. Gourmet eat-in kitchen, finished basement w/4th BR, full BA. Pofessionally landscaped yard features a new brick paver patio, one car garage. .$624,000 BRIGHT WINDOW-FILLED VICTORIAN FARMHOUSE on almost half an acre of land.

Spacious LR, hardwood floors, bookcases framing fireplace, DR with built-in china cabinet, bay and picture windows in kitchen. 4 Bedrooms, 2-1/2 Baths. Huge fenced in backyard. ..............$589,000

622 CARPENTER • OAK PARK

329 S OAK PARK UNIT 3N • OAK PARK OPEN SUNDAY 12-1:45

MANOR BRICK COLONIAL HOME sits on an over sized lot w/ mature, professional landscaping. Expansive family room with hardwwod floors and vaulted ceiling, generous sized bedrooms with ample closet space, finished basement with separate laundry room. Many updates! ................... $419,000

OAK PARK HOMES UNPRECEDENTED ESTATE in the Frank Lloyd Wright Historical district of Oak Park! This meticulously renovated 5 BR, 5 full / 2 half bath property offers exquisite details and refined finishes that boast timeless materials and over the top custom millwork. This is a showcase home! .............................................................................................................................................................$2,525,000 CLASSIC BRICK COLONIAL has it all! Move right in to this 4BR, 2BA home. Tastefully decorated, updated gourmet kitchen that opens to family room, and hand turned French doors that open to DR. Addl fam room on lower level. Great house for entertaining! ............................$865,000 SO MUCH TO SEE, LOVE & ADMIRE in this renovated 4BR/3.5BA American Four Square.

You will love the renovated the 3rd floor w/a MSTR suite featuring a high end bath, plus an office.

Other features include a new back porch retreat, Fin LL Rec Room, 3 plus car garage. ......$799,000 BEAUTIFUL, SPACIOUS, MOVE-IN READY VICTORIAN. Enjoy an inviting open front porch, rich oak floors, beautiful natural woodwork, pocket doors between LR and DR, and stunning, original leaded glass windows. Eat-in kitchen, expansive finished basement. Two garages. .................................................................................................................................................................$743,000 ATTRACTIVE BRICK COLONIAL HOME recently painted and hardwood floors redone, offers the modern updates you want! Huge Liv Room with Fireplace, open and updated kitchen floor plan, 1st fl office, four BRs. Attached 2 car garage, LL Family Room, Laundry and Storage. ................................................................................................................................................................$724,500 QUINTENSSENTIAL OAK PARK HOME! This 3BR, 1-1/2 BA home offers lots of space to grow. Enter thru the substantial light filled Living Room, proceed to the Dining Room with coved moldings. 1st floor family room located right off the kitchen. Generous sized bedrooms. $499,900

N E W L I S T I N G! LOOKING FOR THAT FIXER UPPER in the heart of Oak Park?

Look no further. Nice two story, 3 bedroom, 1-1/2 bath on a great block. Home features hardwood floors underneath, newer windows, side drive, enclosed porch, vinyl siding. This is the perfect home for that handy person..................................................................$199,000 CHARMING, BEAUTIFULLY MAINTAINED 4 bedroom, 2 bath home. Tasteful updated décor blends seamlessly with original details which include natural wood and art glass windows.

Cooks kitchen, family room, spacious finished basement, three car garage. ........................$499,000 GREAT CHARM in this lovely 2 bedroom, 2 bath home on a quiet street. Why own a condo when you can own a cute house with a backyard. Hardwood floors, Enclosed front porch, Side drive. Walk to everything: Transportation, shops and restaurants.................................................................$219,000

FOREST PARK HOMES JUST MOVE IN!! Meticulously maintained new construction built in 2006. Open floor plan features 10 foot ceilings, hardwood floors, and many custom details from crown molding to door handles. High end kitchen. 4 generously sized BRs. Open basement ready to finish...........$489,000

CONDOS/TOWNHOMES/2 FLATS RIVER FOREST 2 Flat...................................................................................................................$519,000 RIVER FOREST 1BR, 1BA. Entertainment area.........................................................................$99,000 OAK PARK 3BR, 3-1/2 BA. Large corner unit. ..........................................................................$489,000 OAK PARK 3BR, 2.2 BR. Fantastic space! ..................................................................................$424,000 OAK PARK 1BR, 1BA. Fabulous woodwork!...............................................................................$84,500 NEW LISTING! FOREST PARK 2BR, 2BA. ........................................................................$295,900 FOREST PARK 3BR, 3-1/2 BA. Open kitchen/dining. ...........................................................$269,000 FOREST PARK 2BR, 2BA. Large balcony. .................................................................................$178,000 NEW LISTING! FOREST PARK 1BR, 1BA.............................................................................$95,000 ELMWOOD PARK 4BR, 2-1/2 BA. New designer kitchen....................................................$199,000

For more listings & photos go to GagliardoRealty.com

27

28

Wednesday Journal, August 10, 2016

OAKPARK.COM | RIVERFOREST.COM

1139 N GROVE AVE., OAK PARK

1139NGROVE.INFO

615 N OAK PARK AVE., OAK PARK

615NOAKPARKAVE.INFO

Chicago luxury development team Pero Hess Custom Homes welcomes

This beautifully maintained and spacious 2.5 story home is a classic

you to this sophisticated rehab & renovation. $875,000

american Foursquare gem! $799,000

GREER HASEMAN

greer.gps@atproperties.com

MICHELE STRIMAITIS

1032NFORESTAVENUE.INFO

1410 BONNIE BRAE PLACE, RIVER FOREST

•

708.848.0200

•

1032 N FOREST AVE., OAK PARK

• 708.848.0200

•

mstrimaitis@atproperties.com

1410BONNIEBRAE.INFO

Classic brick tudor wonderfully located on a tree lined street with park

Fabulous River Forest home filled with charm and classic details.

views steps away from Lindberg Field. $795,000

Steps to Priory Park. $599,000

MICHELE STRIMAITIS

• 708.848.0200

•

mstrimaitis@atproperties.com

ELIZABETH BADRINATH

•

708.848.0200

•

lizb@atproperties.com

Stop looking, start finding® atproperties.com

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS IS FRIDAY 5 P.M. Call Viewpoints editor Ken Trainor at 613-3310 ktrainor@wjinc.com

I

Opening the mind, closing the divide

t seems such a long time from the halcyon days of November and December of 2008, following the election of Barack Obama as the first African-American president of the United States.

Many of us were genuinely hopeful that maybe his appeal to our better natures just might reverse the sclerotic, hateful partisanship of our political system. Racism in that bright shining time seemed on the wane.

Today, that warm glow of hope has faded to a darker, fearful pessimism. Some pundits hint that Obama’s election has somehow contributed to making race relations worse. The prospect of a racial harmony has been replaced by the specter of a race war. We have to choose whether black, blue or all lives matter more. Your politics is defined by how you answer that absurd question.

How did this happen? Who can we blame? It is easy to blame the usual suspects. There’s the media, represented by the extremes of Fox and MSNBC, which provide competing Manichean views of the world. And there’s the two political parties who seek to exploit our racial prejudices in order to keep the campaign coffers flowing so that the same pols can keep the same divisions in place, thereby keeping themselves in office.

I have become convinced that the only way race relations will change is if the minds of individuals change. No laws, movements or politicians will cause that change. The only meaningful change will come from changing the minds and hearts of the individual.

Perhaps schools and churches can facilitate the metamorphosis.

The black motorist will need to understand that sometimes the white cop who pulled him over really did so because he didn’t use his turn signal. The white cop will need to understand why the black driver may think he got pulled over for driving while black.

The white applicant will need to understand that sometimes the reason the black applicant got the job was because he was better qualified. The black employee who got fired because he was frequently late to work was not let go just because he was black. All of us need to try to attribute the best motives to our fellow man — not the worst. It’s called charity.

Each of us will need to try to quit looking at the world through a racial construct. There is racism, no doubt, but the daily interactions at home, school and work usually aren’t about race. Some white people just don’t like hip-hop. Some black people just don’t like country music.

All of this is pretty obvious, I suppose. It isn’t easy to change how you look at the world.

That’s why it might take a long time.

JOHN

HUBBUCH

Wednesday Journal, August 10, 2016

VIEWPOINTS

T

29

Happy 100th birthday to Dana Guest p.31

Meeting the challenges of these troubling times

scores of complex cultural, lifestyle and rahese are very troubling times for cial tensions that arise naturally when such people concerned with racial justice a variety of people and viewpoints share a and harmony. Fortunately for those mere 4.5 square miles of real estate. of us who call Oak Park home, our The Community Relations Department community has long been a leader and Community Relations Commission in programs and services created specifihave continued the efforts to ensure that cally to foster diversity and inclusion. In all Oak Park residents are treated equally fact, Oak Park first embraced these heady regardless of race, color, ethnicity, age, religion, sex, goals in 1963 with the creation of the Community Relasexual orientation, physical or mental disability, and tions Commission, the body I am proud to chair today. economic class. Key to our approach is the understandFor most, 1968 marks the beginning of Oak Park’s ing that ordinances and policies are just words on emergence as a national leader in the pursuit of a paper that alone can do little to resolve specific issues diverse and inclusive community. This is when Oak between living, thinking people. Real resolution rePark’s Human Rights/Fair Housing Ordinance, one of quires the understanding that comes from cultural and the first in the nation, was adopted. This single piece social interaction at the human level. of local law would formally set the village on the path Since 2011, the of promoting real Community Relaracial harmony tions Commission that we are still has sponsored following today a unique proand others strive to gram that brings emulate. together residents Visionary local of various ethnic leaders of the era backgrounds, who and village officials have never met, to took another discuss and debate important step the tough issues in 1971 by creatthat we face as a ing and funding community today, the Community such as racism, Relations Departwhite privilege, ment. This new gender equality department, unlike and sexual orienany ever created Cedric Melton and Sherlynn Reid tation to name but within a municipal a few. Called “Dinner & Dialogue,” this program uses government, was charged with not just talking about the time-honored tradition of sharing a meal to foster diversity, but doing something about it. I am pleased honest, difficult discussions on many issues that tend to report that the Community Relations Department to divide people in the community. Real talk happens first under Kris Ronnow, then under Sherlynn Reid, here and participants who arrive as strangers leave and now under the direction of Cedric Melton is still as acquaintances and, hopefully, with a better underhard at work today. standing of each other.

Of course, many things have changed. The definiOur efforts have not gone unnoticed in other tion of diversity has grown far beyond race to include communities. Most recently in Valparaiso, Indiana, many other classes of citizens who can and have facing racial unrest and waning confidence in the local fallen victim to discrimination, prejudice and misgovernment to resolve this problem, community leadtreatment. While continuing to embrace the original ers looked to Oak Park for guidance. Cedric and I spent goals of fostering racial justice and harmony, the department has ushered in a modern program of mediation, cultural education and diplomacy to resolve See MEETING CHALLENGES on page 32

TOM

ZAPLER One View

30

Wednesday Journal, August 10, 2016

O U R

F

V I E W S

The pool: Plan B.2

inally, the school board at Oak Park and River Forest High School has chosen a plan to replace the obsolete swimming pools at the school.

It is Plan B — the knock-down-the- parking-garage-and-build-a-newparking-garage-and-a-pool-on-the-same-piece-of-land plan.

Two important caveats here: ■ Before long there is going to be a Plan B.2 that will reportedly take several million off the current price tag of $54 million. That is the plan that the board will actually accept and base its November referendum wording on.

■ While the pool has been dominating this endless and ridiculous process, there are costly additional educational upgrades built into this giant price tag — a large increase in classrooms for performing arts and other classroom upgrades and a redo of the boys’ gym locker room. That should not be overlooked in the raucous campaign certain to come.

Here’s what we like about the current plan: It’s a plan. It is the official position of the school. It will lead to a property tax-hike referendum in November and citizens will be able to vote.

Win or lose, Oak Park and River Forest voters had to ultimately get to this point and the outcome will be clarifying.

As we long have, the Journal supports the approximate split of paying for a necessary new pool facility by spending down the school’s excessive cash reserve but also by taxing future users of the pool through a voterapproved bond issue. It makes no sense for current taxpayers to pay outof-pocket for an asset that will be in use for a half-century and hopefully more. Future taxpayers should also pay, so financing a good portion of this costly project is the responsible path.

We also believe that an expensive plan — this would be Plan A — to simply rebuild the two currently obsolete and nearing the century mark pools is shortsighted.

While there is a highly and effectively organized citizen opposition to the newly adopted plan, we’d urge voters to have an open mind during the coming campaign. Let the high school make its argument.

Unless you are in that vocal minority that fundamentally opposes any new pool on the grounds that swimming is an expensive hobby sport for socalled elites, unless you have reached the more reasonable conclusion that property taxes in the villages have simply reached a level that is unsustainable, then listen to proponents and opponents equally.

The process of getting to this point has been gruesome. All the good that the previous school board did a few years back in abating a portion of property taxes over two years as a way to reduce the crazy-high reserve has been squandered by perpetual missteps in coming to an actual decision of a plan.

Now, though, there is a plan. There will be a vote. And that is as good an outcome as this process could cough up.

And a community center

After multiple years of study, debate, detours and confusion, the OPRF school board was nearly ready a year back to decide where to put its swimming pool. It had been a totally open, transparent, if messy, public process.

There had been limited public interest, many poorly attended meetings and, yes, dozens of news stories and editorials in this newspaper. But then, suddenly, the issue exploded onto the public’s radar and there were petition drives and relaunched processes, and a fair amount of heat and distrust.

We note this only as an introduction to the incremental process now moving well along at the Park District of Oak Park. The park district seems intent on constructing a $30 million Community Recreation Center at some to-be-disclosed location in town.

Again, there have been public surveys and public meetings. Now there is an executive summary detailing programs to be included — pools, walking tracks, weight rooms and more — models for membership, potential staffing levels and even the proposed hours of operation.

Park officials will say this is all just prudent planning to determine if this is a good and sustainable concept. We’d say it is time for taxpayers to start paying attention and for existing competitors, including the YMCA, hospital-based health clubs and for-profit fitness facilities, to focus on this plan.

V I E W P O I N T S

@ @OakParkSports

Potty training and Papa training

‘W

well and good and miraculous in their e’re on day two with own way. But potty training is a bigger no accidents!” Kristen turning point. A declaration of indeemailed last weekpendence. Something that registers in end from “Potty Boot Camp,” which her the psyche, that changes them forever. homefront has been renamed until Their first major responsibility: to further notice. It took about 10 days to monitor themselves and get to the reach this moment of triumph. potty, the first of many yokes they will The boys (my twin 2-year-old grandshoulder, willingly or not, in the years sons for those of you just tuning in ahead. But it’s more than a burden. to these occasional dispatches) have There is also pride. Self-worth. I’m a reached one of life’s major markers: big boy now.

Living without diapers, or, as their Fortunately, there’s plenty of little caregivers like to put it, working withboy left. I’ll be talking to Bryce and out a net. all of a sudden a pair of arms wrap Until now, Tyler and Bryce have around my neck. That’s my cue. Time taken much for granted. The diaper for Tyler’s Papa-back ride. They’ve contained whatever was happening down below reached the roughhousing and imaginative-play and the only ones who had to contend with it stage, so the demands of Papa-hood have grown were the diaper-changers. What a deal! Only they more physical. At the moment that’s risky, with didn’t know how good they had it till the diapers no diaper between them and the back of my disappeared. Now they’re getting acquainted with shirt, but you can’t be a Papa if you aren’t ready No. 1 and No. 2. Intimately acquainted. Each day to handle a little extra laundry. You take chances is a new adventure in potty training. you wouldn’t dream of risking with anyone else.

It can be traumatic. Bryce came into the kitchen Things you laugh off. Things you’re more than the other day crying, willing to embrace.

“Mama, poop on the floor!”

As Papa, I shed my God only knows how that aversive reactions. But got there, he probably never my caution. As long thought. Maybe it dropped as Tyler has his arms out of the sky. Their trainaround my neck, all is safe ing potties have suddenly and secure. But my hands become the most imporstay locked on his legs tant pieces of furniture in because when his attention the living room, the focal is diverted, his arms tend point of their young lives. to follow. He may fall over In case your memories backward, but he’s not goare fuzzy, the critical feaing anywhere. ture of the training potty They love their routines. (for boys) is the “guard,” The wagon walk around an upright piece of the neighborhood, pointplastic, necessary because ing out the sights (I walk, boys pee straight ahead at they ride, though somethis age. And the stream times they help me pull), carries a good long way, blowing bubbles at them which I discovered during while they sit in their high a recent visit. All they chairs eating, reading have to do is turn to talk books as we snuggle up on to you just as the geyser the couch, filling the birdgoes off and hoo boy! feeder and watching for Bryce and Tyler Mom rotates rapidly winged visitors, hovering through her collection of strategically on the playshorts (easy on, easy off, easy to change, summer ground as they develop mastery of the equipment, being a good time to take this on). But until they sitting on the sidewalk and watching my car pull get a handle on the mysterious inner workings away when I leave. of their physiology, she and the boys are pretty Each life stage is different, some more comfortmuch anchored to the nearest potty. able than others. At the moment, they’re getting And the constant reminders. What they hear acquainted with the discomfort of major change. more than anything else these days is, “Do you They’re learning there’s more to life than their have to go?” I’m sure they’re thinking, “How the comfort zone. A hard lesson, but good for them. hell do I know?” But eventually, miraculously, And with each stage they leave something behind they do. They learn how to control the muscles that we aren’t quite ready to let go. inside that will give them what human beings But that’s life, as they will hear early and often. throughout the centuries have come to crave over Today, as it happens, I’ll be out there babysitting, almost everything else in life: some measure of and they will wake up, as they do most mornings, control. excited about another day. They remind me to This is their first real graduation — from start each day in my own bed with fewer sighs diapers to “big boy pants” — their first great and more deep breaths. Looking back less and achievement in life. Crawling, cutting teeth, walkforward more. ing, solid food, sleeping through the night. All Another day of Papa training ahead.

KEN

TRAINOR

V I E W P O I N T S

Wednesday Journal, August 10, 2016

A testimonial to my mother

W E D N E S D A Y

JOURNAL of Oak Park and River Forest

O

n Friday, July 29, 2016, my mother, Dana Guest, celebrated her 100th birthday with friends and neighbors at Mills Park Tower in Oak Park with a festive party they held for her in their residential building. “Fabulous,” my mother described the event with a big smile, looking at familiar faces in the community room filled with balloons and flowers and good wishes for continuing her healthy life for many years to come. I observed my mother’s loving spirit as she welcomed her guests with hugs and kisses and her expressed gratitude toward so many people for embracing her on this milestone birthday.

All my life, I have witnessed my mother’s vivacity, energy, skill, and talent in extending herself to people in and outside our home, making them feel welcomed and loved. Today was the same as always. I consider myself fortunate to still experience her exuberance and joy in making others feel special just as she, in return, felt special today by this unique community of giving individuals.

It was plainly joyful for all of us.

My mother was born on this month and day in 1916 in Melbourne, Australia, the youngest daughter of four girls. Her mother was a native of New Zealand, and her father was born in Des Moines, Iowa. Her parents had the girls learn violin, viola and cello at young ages. Considered child prodigies, they were soon performing on vaudeville stages throughout Australia beginning in the early 1920s as “The Four Little Kellys” and soon became stars on the Tivoli Theatre circuit. She recalls wonderful

Editor and Publisher Dan Haley Senior Editor Bob Uphues Associate Publisher Dawn Ferencak Staff Reporters Michael Romain, Timothy Inklebarger Viewpoints/ Real Estate Editor Ken Trainor Sports/Staff reporter Marty Farmer

ROBYN GUEST

One View

Calendar Editor Carrie Bankes Columnists Jack Crowe, Doug Deuchler, John Hubbuch, May Kay O’Grady, Kwame Salter, John Stanger, Stan West Provided

SPECIAL GUEST: Dana Guest with her daughter, Robyn, at the 100th birthday party at Mills Tower in July. memories of these days, and has photos of their performances displayed in her apartment. My mother often retells this personal history to me, and I continue my commitment to writing about them in a dedicated notebook about her life.

Since those early beginnings, my mother went on to live a wonderful, adventuresome life with my father, Clifford Guest, as they toured the world while he performed on stages and television programs as a ventriloquist. When my father passed away in 2002, she went back to Australia for a visit, then moved to Oak Park so she could be closer to me.

My mother is happy in her new home in Oak Park as she continues to get to know multiple generations of other family and friends, testimony that new beginnings are possible at any age. How lovely it is for me to continue to share this special time with her.

With love always from your daughter, Robyn.

The Madison Street project is a big risk In 1996, Madison Street residents were told that the village had a plan and the money from TIF (tax increment finance), to refurbish Madison from Austin to Harlem.

The announcement was a big deal in the 20th Century.

Auto dealers and auto service businesses, the major businesses on Madison, had fled to the western suburbs. The refurbishment was a dream for many of the home and business owners who had faced declines in incomes and property value. The dream never came true. Village plans collapsed in 2006, 2009, and 2013. Each collapse led to vacancies, property value declines, closures of businesses, and another round of the stagnation of home and business. Each failure wasted money and time.

The current village board has initiated a project to restore the refurbishment. The project is not without problems. First, the village has already spent more than $30 million on Madison; second, the village has limited funds for the project.

The board plans to use unsecured financing for the stages needed to complete the entire project. The first stage is Oak Park Avenue to East Avenue. The four blocks would be used to create a “Road Diet” (street reduction from four to two) and a “Curve” (continuous bending line) that would form a new avenue and will have new buildings for retail use.

The cost of the first stage would be secured by the village. The second and third stage have not been funded. It is anticipated that the second stage will be Scoville to Austin (11 blocks), and the third stage would be the Oak Park Avenue to Harlem segment (eight blocks). Both stages would be funded by village tax revenues that will come from the Oak Park Avenue to East Avenue property taxes and retail sales. That is, 80% of the entire project will not be secured when the first stage is finished.

The village’s historical record for completion of projects on Madison is poor at best, and the village wants to attempt a Vegas-style double down on the Madison project. First, the Road Diet and Curve are significant risks as retail success on Madison is doubtful. Second, the village is banking on the use of the village’s budget to finance a risky project.

The bet is that the high-rises will drive substantial income to the village’s budget coffer. Maybe! Any large development failure would close the Madison project, and continue the destruction of the village’s infrastructure.

Village budget funds are low, it’s future income uncertain, and the taxpayers are risk-averse. This is a very bad deal!

John Butch Murtagh Oak Park

Staff Photographer William Camargo Editorial Design Manager Claire Innes Editorial Designers Jacquinete Baldwin, Javier Govea Business Manager Joyce Minich IT Manager/Web Developer Mike Risher Advertising Production Manager Philip Soell Advertising Design Manager Andrew Mead Advertising Designers Debbie Becker, Mark Moroney Advertising Director Dawn Ferencak Display Advertising Sales Marc Stopeck, Joe Chomiczewski Media Coordinator Kristen Benford Inside Sales Representative Mary Ellen Nelligan Circulation Manager Jill Wagner Comptroller Edward Panschar Credit Manager Laurie Myers Collections Charlie Kelly Front Desk Carolyn Henning, Maria Murzyn Chairman Emeritus Robert K. Downs

About Viewpoints Our mission is to lead educated conversation about the people, government, schools, businesses and culture of Oak Park and River Forest. As we share the consensus of Wednesday Journal’s editorial board on local matters, we hope our voice will help focus your thinking and, when need be, fire you to action.

In a healthy conversation about community concerns, your voice is also vital. We welcome your views, on any topic of community interest, as essays and as letters to the editor. Noted here are our stipulations for filing.

Please understand our verification process and circumstances that would lead us not to print a letter or essay. We will call to check that what we received with your signature is something you sent. If we can’t make that verification, we will not print what was sent. When, in addition to opinion, a letter or essay includes information presented as fact, we will check the reference. If we cannot confirm a detail, we may not print the letter or essay.

If you have questions, call Viewpoints editor Ken Trainor at 708-613-3310 or email him at ktrainor@wjinc.com.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR ■ 250-word limit ■ Must include first and last names, municipality in which you live, phone number (for verification only)

‘ONE VIEW’ ESSAY ■ 500-word limit ■ One-sentence footnote about yourself, your connection to the topic ■ Signature details as at left

Email Ken Trainor at ktrainor@wjinc.com or mail to Wednesday Journal, Viewpoints, 141 S. Oak Park Ave., Oak Park, IL 60302

31

32

V I E W P O I N T S

Wednesday Journal, August 10, 2016

W

Thanks for choosing the best pool plan

e are pleased that the District 200 school board has voted to go forward with a vibrant plan for investing in the future of excellence at Oak Park and River Forest High School. The decision to build a new 40-meter pool, a new parking garage, and performing arts classroom spaces represents an exciting step forward for our students and communities.

By building one larger pool, this plan addresses the needs of P.E. and the seven aquatics teams at the high school. As we saw in Athletic Director Stelzer’s testimony to the board on July 28, one 40-meter pool has significant efficiencies over two smaller pools in ways that are qualitatively important. It allows for consolidation of support facilities.

It is more efficient for P.E. classes and their instructors. It better supports existing aquatics in a way that will help students with their athletic achievement (for example, a chance for JV teams to practice alongside, and learn from, varsity teams). Importantly, it supports athletes in balancing athletics with academics as practices can end earlier. A 40-meter pool is more comparable to our peer institutions, such as York and Lyons Township in our own conference.

This plan also meets the needs of vibrant and growing performing arts programs already straining for space. Performing arts enrollment is up by 27% and growing such that almost 1,100 students are enrolled in 37 sections of performing arts classes. That equates to one-third of the school’s population! Long Term Facilities Plan (LTFP) B will help create spaces for five curricular bands with 80 students, a 130-student marching band, chorus and three orchestras. These

represent great investments in OPRF’s future.

While some would ask why the parking garage should be torn down and re-built in LTFP B, we argue that the existing garage is taking up too much space on our space-limited campus. That a previous board built a garage with a footprint too big for our campus shouldn’t determine the next 50 years of the building’s future. While it is important to meet the parking and transportation needs of the school and its surrounding neighborhood, the garage shouldn’t drive the decisions that guide academics and extracurriculars for our students. Especially when we can still provide for parking needs with a new garage that also accommodates the critical larger needs of the school. LTFP B creates flexibility and opportunity in the south end of the building now and for the next 50 years, a valuable asset for adapting to changing educational needs.

Because the referendum question is about more than just replacing failing pools, we are changing our name to Vote Yes D200 Referendum Committee. Anyone interested in joining our efforts to work to educate citizens of River Forest & Oak Park about the state of OPRF High School facilities, and how/why this plan is needed, are invited to join us.

Please email us at voteyesd200@gmail.com.

We thank the board for their decision to act on LTFP B. We also look forward to work by the board and administration to further refine the project cost and financing and their efforts to expand community use of the planned pool facilities.

MEETING CHALLENGES

people expressing concern over their ability to afford to stay here or an inability to relate to their neighbor.

This is why the Community Relations Department and Community Relations Commission intend to follow the lead of those visionaries of the 1960s and tap the community’s most valuable resource to take the next step on the path to ensuring diversity and inclusion. Of course, that resource is the citizens of our community who have proven time and time again to be the source of the ideas and beliefs that have set Oak Park apart from others when it comes to such important social issues.

We hope to soon host a community gathering to discuss what more the village can do to address the issues of today’s troubling times. If you are interested in participating, please email cmelton@oak-park.us.

Tom Zapler is chair of the Oak Park Community Relations Commission.

VOTE YES D200 REFERENDUM COMMITTEE One View

from page 29 two days there interacting not only with local leaders, but participating in community meetings where emotions were raw and the need for change real. Since our visit, Valparaiso passed its first ever Human Rights Ordinance, modeled after Oak Park’s historic document. The city also is planning to hire a community relations professional with a role and duties similar to those of Cedric’s.

Clearly, Oak Park’s vision and commitment to inclusion and harmony, started all those years ago, has endured and others have followed our lead. But we also recognize that there is much more to be done right here in our own community. Elected officials, staff, commissioners, Cedric and I feel called to action by the events of the day that have

Wayne Franklin, Matt Kosterman, Ellen Pimentel, Mary Roberts, Peter Ryan, Karen StewardNolan Vote Yes D200 Referendum Committee

OAKPARK.COM | RIVERFOREST.COM

More reasons to raise the mayor’s salary!

Over the last few months, I have become an even greater supporter of our Grand Poobah President and Mayor (GPPM), Mr. Abu-Taleb. Through his leadership, Oak Park’s diversity is now at risk, housing prices for the less affluent, young people and seniors are skyrocketing while threatening our citizens’ ability to remain in Oak Park.

Affordable housing is not a required part of every new building’s plans.

On the job front, our government, and the private sector, nailed down the Bank of America as a new tenant in the iconic, historic Marshall Field building. This was a terrific catch as BOA has guaranteed 10 new jobs. If five of these employees leave their lunch at home, and eat in Oak Park, our revenue stream will increase, thus adding much needed tax dollars to our coffers.

Please note that Harken Insurance is also a tenant of the building and together they will drive foot traffic.

Lake Street with its ever-growing number of eateries and shops is the GPPM’s greatest accomplishment. As I watched cars crawling down Lake Street, I saw the next possibility of curbside and in-the-street kiosks/ vendors. With the traffic slow, sales could be made right there! The no-car horn, no-road rage zone would promote a safe family shopping experience.

Finally! There is a justification for increasing the salary levels of the trustees and the GPPM. With reduced attention to diversity, increased housing costs, job growth and limitless possibilities for new revenue streams, any increase would be well worth it.

Perhaps by reducing pension payments, they can redirect funds to the new I Can’t Believe How Good We Have It in Oak Park Lets Raise the Salaries for the Trustees and GPPM Fund.

The 2.5% of fair market rule

who can afford the house can afford the taxes.

Folks who can’t afford the taxes can’t afford the house.

Yes, there is probably fat and waste in some taxing districts. The bigger issue is our fractionated system of government which assures that no one has bottom-line authority to control taxes and that every taxing district can blame the others for perceived excesses. Your remedy is at the ballot box, and only at the ballot box. There are, in fact, taxing authorities that are serious about cost containment and prioritizing.

District 97 comes to mind, as does the village of Oak Park (unless the irresponsibly expensive Ike-cap project goes forward). As for the rest — OPRF High School comes to mind — either show up and vote or kiss that 2.5% rule of thumb goodbye.

In 1977, when I purchased my first home in Oak Park, lawyer friends in the real estate tax appeals area told me to expect my real estate taxes to run around 2.5% of the fair market value of my property. So they did, and they still do. I appeal the valuation most triennia, but the annual tax bill still runs in the area of 2.5% of value.

Based on that, my inclination is to demur from the common perception that taxes on Oak Park homes are too high and people can’t afford them. OP taxes have always been stiff due to the lack of an industrial and commercial tax base, but the taxes are no more burdensome than they were 40 years ago. Folks

Your logic is faulty To Mr. Simpson [Why I am supporting Donald Trump, Viewpoints, July 20]: Your main argument is invalid because of erroneous logic. The purpose of a company versus a government have differing objectives. A company’s main goal is to maximize profit by maximizing prices and minimizing costs, consistent with their quality and price objectives, and to target market segment.

The responsibility of government is to ensure the safety and freedom of their citizenry through the order of laws (at least in the U.S.).

Over time, the breadth and complexity of both institutions have grown enormously.

Governments have usually responded to events and circumstances that exposed

Robert Milstein Oak Park

Bob Stigger Oak Park

weaknesses by enacting new laws and regulations designed to correct those weaknesses.

I take issue with your assertion that Mr. Trump would be the only president to bring in a team of the best qualified people, and that if they fail he would be the only one ever to get rid of them. This is a lesson our government has learned many times over and continues to exercise those principles today.

I also take issue with your assertion that Mr. Trump’s past history of bankruptcies and some fraudulent activities are to be brushed aside as meaningless while you castigate Ms. Clinton for zero accomplishments and 30 years of dishonesty.

You do a disservice, sir, to the noble tradition of civil discourse in politics when you couch everything in sweeping statements that are not fully supported by the facts.

Ed Panschar

Former Oak Parker

V I E W P O I N T S

OAKPARK.COM | RIVERFOREST.COM

Advertisement

Learning from and with each other

F

ounded in 1961, Alcuin Montessori School offers a cross-curricular learning environment balancing academic and emotional intelligence. We partner with parents and provide students the tools to become highly-skilled independent thinkers with a passion for knowledge. Our programs are designed to help each child become confident, curious, self-disciplined and motivated.

At Alcuin, classrooms operate on the principle of freedom within limits. Children, under the guidance of a teacher, work at their own pace with materials of their choosing. Each student may work alone or with others; different levels of ability are expected and welcomed within each classroom. Education occurs in multi-aged classrooms where children of various stages of development learn from and with each other.

Our programs for ages 0-14 include: * Parent/Infant - Fridays, 8:45 to 10:30 a.m. * Three to Five Day Toddler/Parent, 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. * Primary, 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. * Full-Day Kindergarten, 8:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. * Junior and Senior Elementary, 8:30 a.m. to 3:15 p.m. * Middle School, 8:45 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. * Before/After School Care * Art * Musical Theater * Spanish Families currently attending Alcuin come from Oak Park, as well as Berwyn, Broadview, Brookfield, Chicago, Cicero, Elmhurst, Forest Park, River Forest, Riverside, River Grove and more.

We welcome all prospective parents to join us for our monthly informational Coffees. We will start with some good coffee, a short video on Montessori education and then take an in-depth look into all of our classrooms. At the end of the tour we hold a question and answer session, and explain our admissions process. Tours are held throughout the school year on Thursdays (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.

Wednesday Journal, August 10, 2016

33

34

V I E W P O I N T S

Wednesday Journal, August 10, 2016

OAKPARK.COM | RIVERFOREST.COM

D O O P E R ’ S

NOTICE OF NON-DISCRIMINATORY POLICY AS TO STUDENTS Concordia University Chicago, River Forest, Illinois, admits students of any race, color, national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students of the University. While it does give preference to members of the Lutheran faith, it does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national and ethnic origin in administration of its educational policies, admissions policies and loan programs and athletic and other University-administered programs.

Develop a passion for learning through play.

After School Code Play Learn Classes FALL REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN!

PLUS, Code Play Learn Birthday Parties Make Birthday Minecraft Mods OR build electronic creations every kid can bring home.

For registration and information about all our programs visit

www.codeplaylearn.com

708-374-8286 30 Chicago Ave, Oak Park, IL 60302

How to Keep in Touch with Us in 3 Steps

1

2

3

Sign up for Twitter!

Follow us on Twitter

Get your daily dose of your local news straight from home!

twitter.com/OakPark

M E M O R I E S

Backyard games on summer evenings

W

hen I was growing up, we played horseshoes, badminton, croquet and bounce-or-fly in our backyard during the summer months.

These games were not played by kids only, but my grandfather and my uncle Gene also played croquet, horseshoes and bounce-or-fly.

My grandfather, Gene and I played croquet once or twice a week in the evening after supper. We set up the field in a diamond pattern. It was a rare occasion when either Gene or I beat my grandfather who was dubbed “Master of the Mallet.” Not only would he knock the ball through the wicket, but he made it a point to knock our spheres away from the wicket.

My grandfather usually beat us in horseshoes, too. We played with iron horseshoes and the distance between stakes was 35 feet. He would normally get four or five ringers, and this would clinch the game for him because ringers are worth three points and the game goes to 21.

Badminton was played by the kids.

Our neighbor, Jim Grissom, played tennis at OPRF High School, so he and his sister Cynthia — also a high school tennis player — would come over to play doubles with me and one of my friends.

Jim was a fantastic player, mainly because he was lean and very quick. It was almost impossible for one of us to hit a birdie that he could not return.

Cynthia was not as fast as Jim, so we concentrated on hitting the birdie in her direction. We did not fare well here either because Cynthia was 6 feet tall, had a great vertical leap and arm reach, and could return a birdie with power.

The game I liked best was bounce-

or-fly. Two or three times a week after supper, my grandfather, Gene, one or two neighborhood guys and I would put on mitts and spread out across the area in front of the garage.

My grandfather would bat the 12-inch softball by tossing it up and hitting it, and the rest of us would try to catch the ball either on the fly or on the first bounce.

The game was physical because guys crashed into each other trying to make a catch, skidded or fell on the cement driveway, or slammed into the garage doors.

Gene quit after the third week when he suffered a sprained wrist.

We played this game for one summer because everyone except my pal Charlie and I had quit due to the minor injuries they received playing bounce-or-fly.

Whenever the guys played ball in our backyard and a garage door window was broken by a player, he had to pay for the window and also put it in. A lot of guys learned a useful trade.

When my grandfather broke a window one evening, I laughed because I thought that he would have to climb the step ladder in order to replace it. Well, the joke was on me. He paid for it, but he told me that I would have to put it in because I should have caught the ball.

The backyard games came to an end in the summer of 1956 because my pals and I had summer jobs, and we spent our free time either bowling or playing softball.

These games were fun, but some things must end as time marches on.

John Stanger is a lifelong resident of Oak Park, a 1957 graduate of OPRF High School, married with three grown children and five grandchildren, and a retired English professor (Elmhurst College). Living two miles from where he grew up, he hasn’t gotten far in 76 years.

JOHN

STANGER

We cannot thank you enough I just wanted to let everyone know that the owner of the dog that bit my mother was found by a neighbor [After dog bite, trying to locate owner and dog, Viewpoints, Aug. 3]. He had been looking in the vicinity and found them and called police. We are extremely grateful for his actions and my mom is finally out of the hospital after eight

days.

This is very poignant, as this man recently lost his dog due to illness. We cannot thank him enough.

Also, please remind people they need to check the laws regarding having animals registered and vaccinated.

Nancy Greco

Forest Park

Wednesday Journal, August 10, 2016

OAKPARK.COM | RIVERFOREST.COM

35

V I E W P O I N T S

How about a bus tour of our trees?

Dear Mayor Abu-Taleb: Here’s a potential source of financing from the tourist trade: Since Oak Park has been designated the first city Arboretum and since the Forestry Division has planted and takes cares of 100 species of trees in the parkways and in the various parks all over the village, you could spearhead a tree tour by bus around the village.

Who needs the Morton Arboretum? The Tree Tour Bus could take people, even residents, around while a knowledgeable person from Forestry could talk about the different species. Also, tourists would find out in detail about the different neighborhoods in the village and how nice it is to live here in Oak Park.

Of course, all these nature lovers would pay a decent fee for such an opportunity. I’m not sure how much money such an endeavor could rake in after expenses, so maybe it would not be feasible but it could have side benefits: Tourists could shop in Oak Park before going home and eat in some of our restaurants.

Money, money, money for the new swimming pool and parking garage!

Joanne Selden

Oak Park

Send letters Ken Trainor, Wednesday Journal 141 S. Oak Park Ave., Oak Park, IL 60302 E-mail: ktrainor@wjinc.com Fax: 708-524-0047 Please include name, address and daytime phone number for verification.

Miss a week…

...miss a lot.

Answer Book 2016

W E D N E S D A Y

JOURNAL

AL JOURN D A Y N E S W E D

AB2016_CV1.indd 1

ver rk and Ri of Oak Pa

May 14, 2014

40 Vol. 34, No. R ONE DOLLA

6/8/16 1:07 PM

If you don’t have a subscription to Wednesday Journal, you’re missing a lot.

Each week Wednesday Journal covers local news, local people, local sports and the local ads you want to see. Village hall, police, OPRF, the elementary schools, business, religion, we have Oak Park and River Forest covered.

Forest

d lve delaye Faulty va ghters firefi

and resiboard meeting told the Ebsen Village Hall on of at a suppression the dents day that e out on Mon which brok porch the front nd the fire, half of Ave. at arou south ed due Clinton at 814 also was delay engine ER a fire INKLEBARG a.m., of 4 THY of the failure

By TIMO Staff Writer on one y to the hose valve that the fault wood water n, a He said tested and has es. latio load venti engin larly and a is regu Natural ced. so valve ame home e material been replathe fire was iballoon-fr flammabl cond since were, ly ideal said ghters of of high Ebsen created opporch that firefi interior escalation on the home intense to do any the rapid oyed one othtions for “unable 17 that destr ged two on page a fire ely dama of Clinton See FIRE and sever 800 block Oak to the according n. ers on May 4, Ebse Avenue Chief Tom Fire Park

ditions’ in ’Worst conAve. fire Clinton

Share thed roa

der Fifth-gra ompson Chase Th as an is amused police Oak Park crosses officer section an inter safety on a bike Whitcourse at entary tier Elem MonSchool on Active day. The ation Transport idprov Alliance for ed the bikes safety bike the class.

zero o about Muchpopadup in Oak ParkplaforteChicagoan

Garret Eakin for local archion raising the bar techture

May 14, 2014

By DEB QUANTO

CK

MCCAREY Contribu ting Writer

assu which three d stop. about ets woul quiet for BARGER unfairTHY INKLE All was suddenly the started

By TIMO Staff Writer when tickets the years, parking from a local issued this time became ago ly – but .

Feddor luck five fi years un- again of Oak Park Tom had zero ge of sorts ly 200 in ed near ts from villa or said he’s the village celebrity received ts Fedd after he parking ticke his Illihelp from of the ticke ng for vehily getti ming the flow deserved of Chicago ls of is simp stem and modenot his 2006 the city se plate that makes are n’s for that he says rds show that nois licen zero. ber Chicagoa cles r. Reco the num ar-old e Rove news outpage 11 The 43-yefeatured in ne Rang on pa Tribu ZERO was See Chicago plight quick as the pting lets such BC, prom MSN and

W Homes

p. B11

F

So why are you waiting—subscribe today!

ago, of Chic Troubles with zero licensen from the citythat the tickactio red him

Three easy ways to subscribe: 1) call (708) 524-8300 2) visit OakPark.com/subscribe 3) mail in the form below.

PEN!

O Patio is

Powered by the Oak

Park Area

All Wright walk marks milestone ye Celebrating the 40th anniversar ar y of the

taff orty years DAVID oldPIERINI/S pher is fairly house, particu Photogra young for larly in a many of our homes Oak Park where ever, in hit 100-plu terms of s.

Wright the Frank HowLloyd cant. That’s Home (& Studio) , 40 the It’s a milestoage of the Wright is signifiTrust.

CEO/presiden ne, says Celeste Adams, cant numbe t. Seventeen is also a r. May 17 signifiHousew is the 40th alk; June Wright Plus 17 is the zation’s nonprofit Founders organiDay; and the day in July 17 marks opened for 1974 when the Home & its first tour.

Studio And there — the 1889 is one other happy coincidence Ave. celebraHome & Studio at 951 Chicag cant years. tes 125 archite o cturally signifi“Our 40th anniversary the next is the beginn generation ing of to celebra of te all those the Trust and a way we are today,” who have made it what And what Adams said. four decade they have made it over the past three s is … bigger. In last fact, just years, in the she said, grown to the Trust oversee five Frank touring/educa has tion/restoratio Lloyd Wright Chicago area. n sites in the “The Home Lloyd Wright & Studio is the Isabel Robert oldest s House (Frank site in the a museu world, and Frank m,” Lloyd Wright is now Society this represe Adams noted. , 1908) bus tour “For me, nts 40 years friends all group of passion excursion attende of welcom and talent ate archite d by a ing new buffs, and ing with to the Trust cts, local determ each and buildhistory the wonder passing year on “Elsie Jacobs ined commu nity activist the talents ful volunte en got to to take there. We s. of talking about have just ers who are already becaus back [the Home trying site, flwrigh launched & Studio] e at the building with techno t.org, and are doing a new web- John Thorpe time it was for , local preserv sale,” recalle logy, so I more things and Wright, d foundin ation we’re able hope, like Frank g Lloyd of the Home member and former architect to capture of a younge the attenti & r audien president spire all on Wright Trust). Studio Foundation people with ce and continu (now the nal sites.”

Back then, these wonder e to inMrs. ful, origi- husban d had owned Clyde Nooker , whose 1940s, was the structu Mrs. Nooker looking re since and the corsage Wright’s for The mighty clients, circa a buyer. They the grass were of the office, 1956, for sparked a remode this positiv roots movement library, ling kitchen fortunes e change that had opened part began in in of the buildin and bath and 1972, during Oak Park’s since 1966 for g to the public tours. a Histori cal See ALL WRIGHT on pa page B3 B3

144 s. oak

Association ol.com of Realtors www.mayadels 00 | 58.98 | 708.3

park ave.

Wright Trust

Courtesy of Frank

Lloyd Wright

*Sign up today to receive Breaking News email updates!

Trust. Photographe

r: James Caulfi eld

Arthur thur B. Heurtle THE M Heurtley Ho H tley H y Hous OST LO usee (Frank (Frank Lloyd (F Courtesy of Frank Lloyd Wright Llo Lloyd Wright CAL RE Wri W rightt,, 1902) righ Trust. Photographe r: James Caulfi AL EST eld ATE IN PRINT AND O NLINE

W E D N E S D A Y

OAKK PARK PARK 4BR,

2 BA . . . . . . ..

See page B5 . $367,000

OAKK PARK4B PPARK4BR, R,

2.1BA . . . . . ..

See page B5 . $609,000

June 1, 2016 Vol. 34, No. 42 ONE DOLLAR

JOURNAL 3BA . . . . . . ..

See page B6 . $644,000

OAKK PARK PARK 8 BR,

3.1 BA . . . . . .

See page B6 . $900,000

4BR, 3BA . . . ...

See page B6 . .$615,000

of Oak Park and River Forest

@O @OakPark

WILLIAM CAMARGO/Staff Photographer

An American Ramadan

River Forest couple says don’t make assumptions about Muslims

By TOM HOLMES Syed Mohuddin (a.k.a. Mohi) Ahmed and his wife Nausheen Akhter will begin keeping the month of Ramadan on June 5. The River Forest residents will fast, going without food or drink, from sunrise

to sunset, every day for four weeks.

Nausheen sounds very much like a Jew on Yom Kippur or a Christian during Lent when she describes what Muslims are striving for during Ramadan.

“What people may not know,” she said, “is that the purpose of Ramadan is to bring you closer spiritually to your Cre-

ator, to develop patience, gratitude and to perfect one’s character. When fasting, a Muslim is supposed to be on their best behavior, avoid anger, bad language, lies, etc. Many people give up bad habits, for example smoking. It is a time of introspection and self-reflection on how to bet-

Name _______________________________________________________ Address ______________________________________________________

By TIMOTHY INKLEBARGER

City _____________________ Zip ________ Phone __________________

Oak Park police officers will soon be equipped with an anti-opioid overdose drug known as Narcan, confirmed Oak Park Deputy Police Chief Tony Ambrose.

A state law that went into effect in January mandates that all Illinois police departments begin carrying the drug in an effort to prevent overdoses from heroin and opioid-based prescription drugs.

Ambrose said in a telephone interview that the OPPD is working with the Oak Park Fire Department to receive training and grant funding for the Narcan program.

Oak Park Deputy Fire Chief Peter Pilafas said in a telephone interview that fire department paramedics have been trained to administer Narcan for some time and used it an average of four times a month in 2014 and 2015.

Pilafas applied on May 20 for the grant, which will cover 100 percent of the costs for the OPPD program, and it was approved three days later.

He said now police and fire department officials will attend a training seminar to instruct police officers on how to administer the drug.

Earlier this year, Oak Park Township Supervi-

See RAMADAN on page 12

Father ’ s Day | Sunday

See NARCAN on page 13

6/19

brunch 9a-2:30p dinner 5-9pm Reservations: 708.358.9800 or mayadelsol.com

www.OakPark.com

Enclosed is my payment of ¨$32 for 12 months

Oak Park Fire Department already administers Narcan roughly once a week Staff Reporter

A day of remembrance

Getting the latest news updates dates Purchasing photos Searching past issues Searching Classified ads

Special pullout section

Oak Park police to carry anti-overdose drug

Contributing Reporter

today!

RIVER FOREST

Participants wave at the crowd during the annual Memorial Day Parade in River Forest on May 30. For more photos, page 10.

You’re just one click away from...

Start delivery of

OAKK PARK PARK 8BR,

*Email _______________________________________________________ Visa/MC/Discover # ____________________________ Exp Date__________ Signature ____________________________________________________ Mail to: Circulation Dept., 141 S. Oak Park, IL 60302 Offer valid for new subscribers in Cook County only. Expires 8/31/16

Gamboney & Son Funeral Directors

We are there for you in your time of need.

All services handled with dignity and personalized care. ~ Traditional or Alternative ~

Robert P. and Joseph R. Gamboney Cell: 708.420.5108 • Res: 708.848.5667 We are affiliated with Peterson-Bassi Chapels at 6938 W. North Ave, as well as other chapels throughout Chicagoland.

36

Wednesday Journal, August 10, 2016

OAKPARK.COM | RIVERFOREST.COM

Religion Guide Methodist

Check First.

First United Methodist Church of Oak Park

First Congregational Church of Maywood

400 N. Fifth Avenue (1 block north of Lake St.) Come join us for Sunday Morning Worship at 11 am Pastor Elliot Wimbush will be preaching the message.

Refreshments and fellowship follow the service.

708-344-6150 firstchurchofmaywood.org When you're looking for a place to worship the Lord, Check First.

You’re Invited to A Church for All Nations A Church Without Walls SERVICE LOCATION Forest Park Plaza 7600 W. Roosevelt Road Forest Park, IL 60130

William S. Winston Pastor (708) 697-5000 Sunday Service 7AM, 9AM & 11:15AM

LIVE Webcast - 11:15AM Service Believer’s Walk of Faith Broadcast Schedule (Times in Central Standard Time) Television DAYSTAR (M-F)

3:30-4:00pm

Nationwide

WJYS-TV (M-F)

6:30-7:00am

Chicago, IL.

WCIU-TV (Sun.)

10:30-11:00am

Chicago, IL.

Word Network

10:30-11:00am

Nationwide

(M-F)

www.livingwd.org www.billwinston.org

West Suburban Temple Har Zion

1040 N. Harlem Avenue River Forest Meet our new Rabbi, Adir Glick Pray, learn, and celebrate with our caring, progressive, egalitarian community.

Interfaith families are welcome.

Accredited Early Childhood Program Religious School for K thru 12 Daily Morning Minyan Weekly Shabbat Services Friday 6:30pm & Saturday 10:00am Affiliated with United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism 708.366.9000 www.wsthz.org

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

Fair Oaks

Lutheran—ELCA

United Lutheran Church 1 5LGJHODQG *UHHQ¿ HOG Oak Park Holy Communion with nursery care and Children’s Chapel each Sunday at 9:30 a.m.

Dennis Bushkofsky, Pastor Handicapped Accessible www.unitedlutheranchurch.org 708/386-1576 Lutheran-Independent

Grace Lutheran Church

7300 W. Division, River Forest David R. Lyle, Senior Pastor Phyllis N. Kersten Interim Associate Pastor Sunday Worship, 8:30 & 11:00 a.m.

Sunday School/Adult Ed. 9:45 a.m.

Childcare Available

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

744 Fair Oaks Ave. Oak Park 386-4920

Rev. Daniel deBeer – Interim Pastor Sunday Worship Service – 9:30 a.m.

Child care provided – 4 years or younger

386-4920 fairoakspres.org

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

Roman Catholic

Ascension Catholic Church

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 708-366-3226 www.stjohnforestpark.org

St. Bernardine Catholic Church Harrison & Elgin, Forest Park

CELEBRATING OUR 105TH 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 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 Forum, 11am Service Jennifer Nordstrom, minister

thirdunitarianchurch.org

Grace Lutheran School

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

Roman Catholic

808 S. East Ave. 708/848-2703 www.ascensionoakpark.com Worship: Saturday Mass 5:00 pm Sunday Masses 7:30, 9:00, 11 am, 5:00 pm Sacrament of Reconciliation 4 pm Saturday Taize Prayer 7:30 pm First Fridays Feb.– Dec. & Jan. 1 Holy Hour 6:00 pm Third Thursdays

Rev. James Hurlbert, Pastor

Roman Catholic

St. Edmund Catholic Church

188 South Oak Park Av. Saturday Masses: 8:30 a.m. & 5:30 p.m.

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

Weekday Mass: 8:30 a.m.

Holy Day Masses: As Announced Reconciliation: Saturday 4:15 p.m.

Parish Office: 708-848-4417 School Phone: 708-386-5131

(773) 626-9385 301 N. Mayfield, Chicago, near Austin and Lake Unity

UNITY CHURCH OF OAK PARK 405 North Euclid Ave.

The Light of God surrounds you.

Sunday Services 9 am & 11 am Youth Education 11 am 708-848-0960 — unityoakpark.org

Upcoming Religious Holidays

Aug 14 Tish’a B’av Jewish 15 Assumption of Blessed Virgin Mary Catholic Christian Dormition of the Theotokos Orthodox Christian 18 Raksha Bandhan Hindu 25 Krishna Janmashtami Hindu 29 Beheading of St. John the Baptist Christian

Wednesday Journal, August 10, 2016

OAKPARK.COM | RIVERFOREST.COM

37

Sponsored Content

Altenheim: A Culture of Caring

T

the body. Here you will enjoy lectures and presentations, musical performances, exercise classes, scenic trips, crafts, restaurant outings, movies, bingo, a monthly birthday party and more. Our Altenheim coach and drivers also provide weekly trips to local grocery stores and other shopping destinations.

Additional amenities include easy access to public transportation, assigned parking, ample storage space, elevators, building laundry facilities, front door intercoms, Phillips Lifeline emergency call systems, well-appointed lounges, elegant dining room and parlor, card room, large art studio, inhouse beauty salon/barber shop, sun rooms, furnished garden patio, landscaped grounds, and an always interesting community newsletter. We also have a quaint library with computer terminals and WiFi. For those wanting to extend their living space and mingle with others, the Arborwood and Briarwood community rooms offer opportunities for socializing and large flat screen TV viewing. For those who crave to be outdoors, our patio is the site for Memorial Day and 4th of July BBQs and also serves as a pretty spot to sit with family and friends or read a book. Would you like to see for yourself? Call and schedule a tour today.

Ev

e f nd th m O ha in l r Pa u yO

Er Ev Oa yt k hi E O r P n ak y ar g Pa on k rk E

he Altenheim, an architecturally charming and historical landmark situated on the western edge of Forest Park, Illinois, is a not-for-profit apartment rental community for persons 55 years-of-age and older. From the beginning, the Altenheim has been a home and not merely a place to live. And, while much has changed in society over the past 130 years, the Altenheim’s culture of caring and respect has remained the same. Our dedication to the mission of providing affordable, quality housing is as strong and true today as it was in 1885.

Each of our 56 apartments is bright and cheerful with high ceilings and large windows that invite lovely ambient light. Many of those studio, 1-bedroom, and 2-bedroom apartments overlook the magnificent Arborwood and Briarwood facades, our beautifully landscaped grounds, or our spacious garden patio.

At the Altenheim, you will find something going on every weekday. Our monthly Calendar of Events reflects the diverse interests of the people who make their home here. We recognize that everyone has talent, passions, and something meaningful to contribute. Programs and events appearing on our Social Calendar stimulate and entertain the mind, uplift the spirit, and strengthen

And at the Altenheim, you’ll be able to protect it with rent that is reasonable.

But the Altenheim is so much more… it is surrounded with beautiful grounds and wildlife, seniors who look out for one another and apartment selections and activities to suit your lifestyle.

You’ll be as happy as a lark here; come visit us to find out why.

Serving Seniors with Distinction for 130 Years.

A Senior Living Apartment Community

7824 West Madison Street Forest Park, IL 60130 708.366.2206 www.thealtenheim.com

Check out the mobile version of

Find out what’s happening, when it happens!

Sign up for FREE Breaking News Emails at: OakPark.com

38

Wednesday Journal, August 10, 2016

OAKPARK.COM | RIVERFOREST.COM New local ads this week

YOUR WEEKLY AD

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

WEDNESDAY

CLASSIFIED

HOURS: 9:00 A.M.– 5:00 P.M. MON–FRI

Deadline is Tuesday at 9:30 a.m.

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.

Place your ad online anytime at: www.OakPark.com/ClassiďŹ ed/

BY PHONE: (708) 613-3333 | BY FAX: (708) 524-0447 | BY E-MAIL: CLASSIFIEDS@OAKPARK.COM | CLASSIFIEDS@RIVERFOREST.COM HELP WANTED

HELP WANTED

ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT Spanish speaking administrative assistant for Oak Park Physician.

Send resume to pgrantmd@yahoo.com.

2 years experience.

Senior Director of Strategy & Business Development needed by sr. living co. based in Chicago, IL to provide analytical support on strategic bus. dvlpmt initiatives. Lead the dvlpmt & execution of various corp. strategic growth initiatives incl branding & mktg analytics, sales force effectiveness & pricing. Work to enhance the fin’l & operational performance of the co.’s more than 200 sr. living communities using hospitality industry metrics.

Spearhead annual forecast & budget. Must have Master’s deg in Hospitality Mgmt & 2 yrs rltd exp as an Analyst in the hospitality industry.

Send resume to: #YZ2016, Attn: L. Tolentino, Assisted Living Concepts, LLC dba Enlivant, 330 N. Wabash Ave, Ste 3700, Chicago, IL 60611

BARISTA/CASHIER NEEDED Flur bakery is in search of a responsible individual to join our front-ofhouse staff in our Riverside location (this is a part time, year-round position; currently no open seasonal positions are available). We are looking for someone determined to get things done quickly and accurately, while creating a positive work environment. Barista experience preferred.

Please call 708.442.6801 with any questions or email your resume to olivia@flurllc.com.

Business Analyst for Fine Art Service provider located in Chicago, IL. 4 yrs. experience in the job offered or related field. Send resume to Pam Dowd, Terry Dowd, Inc., 2233 S. Throop St., Chicago, IL 60608.

ELECTRICIAN’S HELPER PART-TIME Part-time Electrician’s Helper. Some experience required. Must have own transportation and some tools.

Call 708-738-3848.

SUBURBAN REAL ESTATE CONDO IN RIVER FOREST 3000 sq ft unit on top floor looking east to the city. 3 bedroom, 21/2 bath. Built in 2005. Two deeded parking spots in heated garage.

16 units in the association with the majority long time River Forest residents who have retired to one floor of living in a luxury unit. Windsor on Lathrop Condominiums.

411 Lathrop 5E. $850,000.

Call 708-280-2190.

SUBURBAN RENTALS

M&M property management, inc.

t XXX NNQSPQNHU DPN 649 Madison Street, Oak Park Oak Park: Studios, 1 & 2 BR from $650-$2000 Forest Park: 1 & 2 BR from $725-$1,000

DOWLING

APARTMENTS, INC. 400 Lathrop, #202, River Forest IL 60305

FOREST PARK

315 Des Plaines # 101 Two Bedroom, 1½ Bath with Garage All new Kitchen & carpet Rent $1100 avail August

OAK PARK

856 Washington #3 Vintage 2 Bedroom Condo Updated $1350

SUBURBAN REAL ESTATE

SUBURBAN RENTALS

Elmwood Park For Sale By Owner

FOREST PARK 3 BR Beautiful 3 BR apt in 2 flat. A/C in unit, W/D on site. Close to transportation, Blue line and Green line.

Heat & water incl. $1600/mo. Credit check req’d.

Call 973-309-6159.

Luxury, modern smart townhouse.

4 BR, 2.5 BA, oversized 2 car garage. No Assessments/ Association. Must See. $429,000.

Call (773)599-4818.

No Agents Please

HISTORIC MAYWOOD MANOR

902 S. 3RD AVENUE (behind Aldi) Tired of renting? Why not consider buying an affordable 2BR condo w/ 1000 sq ft of living space on this historic site at less than market rents?

Savings are built in from a unique 12 year tax freeze plus lower utility costs from energy saving systems and appliances. Onsite pkg, exterior lighting and enhanced security systems included. Be among the first to benefit from this unique project in which the buyer can have input into the individual unit(s).

Call 708-383-9223.

SUBURBAN RENTALS

OAK PARK–519 N. HUMPHREY 3BR, 2nd floor of 2-flat. Hardwood floors. Big,fenced yard. Quiet culde-sac with good schools. $1390/mo. Section 8 okay.

Call 312-927-4725.

OAK PARK 2 BR Oak Park 2 BR apt. Hardwood Floors. Parking & heat included. $1350/mo. Call 708-912-0908.

OAK PARK - 519 N. HUMPHREY 3BR, 2nd floor of 2-flat. Hardwood floors. Big,fenced yard. Quiet culde-sac with good schools. $1390/ mo. Section 8 okay.

Call 312-927-4725.

OAK PARK FOREST PARK Studio, 1, and 2 BDRM. Heated.

Dining room. Parking available.

Walk to El. $625-$1250.

www.oakrent.com

FOREST PARK: STUDIO. Immediate occupancy, all utilities included. $635/mo.

708-921-2600.

FOREST PARK CONDO

1013 S DesPlaines Newly renovated! 1BR, 1BA w/ walkout balcony in secure elevator bldg. Parking and laundry onsite.

Close to CTA Blue Line and I290. $825/mo. + Security & Credit ck.

Call 708-571-6729

CITY RENTALS AUSTIN VILLAGE 5939 W. Midway Parkway Remodeled 2 BR. Half block from Oak Park, Green Line & shops.

1st Floor. $895/month. Heat not included.

708-383-9223 or 773-676-6805.

classifieds@OakPark.com classifieds@RiverForest.com

SUBURBAN RENTALS

GLA PROPERTY MANAGEMENT, INC. LaVerne Collins Managing broker

Office located at: 320 S. Wisconsin Ave. Oak Park

708-763-9927 www.glapropertymanagement.com

Properties may be broker owned.

Call us for a complete list of rentals available.

Apartment listings updated daily at:

Call Owen Dowling: 708-771-3000 owen@dowlingproperties.com

You have jobs. We have readers!

Find the best employees with Wednesday Classifieds!

Call: 708/613-3333 708/613-3333

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.

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

OFFICE SPACE FOR RENT * RIVER FOREST 7777 Lake St. - 3 & 4 room suites * RIVER FOREST 7756 Madison St. - STORE 926 sq. ft. * OAK PARK 6955 North Ave. - 3 & 6 room office suites $675 to $1200 * OAK PARK 6142-44 Roosevelt Rd. - 4 & 5 room office suites * OAK PARK 115 N. Marion St. - 2 room office $573

Strand & Browne 708/488-0011

SMALL OFFICE, OAK PARK

Therapy offices available August 1st.

Secure Building; Free Parking; Flexible Leasing; Nicely Furnished; Friendly Colleagues; Waiting Room; Conference Room Available; Free Wifi; Well Maintained; Ideal for new practice/2nd location. 708.383.0729

SMALL OFFICE OAK PARK

Oak Park small office for rent in an established professional building perfect for any type of professional business. The office is 418 sq. ft., two rooms,and the price includes all utilities, one parking spot. Rent is $600.00 per month. Contact TIM @ 312-286-7353 to view or more information. Available NOW.

SPACE FOR RENT

CHURCH FOR RENT BEAUTIFUL CHURCH FOR RENT

in OAK PARK. Perfect for a congregation.

Other potential uses. Corner of Scoville & Adams. rentalinquiry542@gmail.com 708-848-5460

CRAFTS & VENDORS

CRAFTERS NEEDED Christ Episcopal Church Fall Bazaar Sat Nov 12 • 9:00am-2:00pm 515 Franklin Av, River Forest $35 per table Light Lunch Provided Call Julie at 708-366-7730

ď Żď šď Żď šď Żď šď Ż ď šď Żď šď Żď šď Żď š ď Żď šď Żď šď Żď šď Ż

Brookfield

GARAGE SALE 9116 SHERMAN AVE. FRI 8/12 9AM-3PM SAT 8/13 9AM-3PM SUN 8/14 9AM-3PM

Record albums, CD’s, Ladies and boys clothing, toys, Household Items, misc.

Chicago

GARAGE SALE 1839 N NAGLE SAT 8/13 & SUN 8/14 8AM TO 4PM

Everything must go!!!

Electronics, Waterford Crystal, Porcelain dishes, Clothing, Massage Equipment, Humidifier, Rocking Chair, Art, Pictures, some Furniture, Children’s items, Computer equipment, TV. Forest Park

PATIO/YARD SALE 140 MARENGO AVE SAT 8/13 10AM TO 4PM

All unit sale at condo bldg! Costume jewelry, books, cookbooks, household items, clothing and much more!

Maywood

ESTATE SALES Riverside

HUGE ESTATE SALE 756 ARLINGTON RD FRI 8/12 & SAT 8/13 9AM TO 4PM

Furniture; Household; Collectibles; Flat screen TVs; Electronics; Golf clubs; Skis & accessories; Kid’s bouncers, seats & more; Snowblower; Grill; Adult tricycle & wheelchair. Pictures on Estatesales. net.

Sale by Creative House Services

GARAGE/YARD SALES Brookfield

YARD SALE 4221 DUBOIS BLVD FRI 8/12 9AM-6PM SAT 8/13 9AM-6PM SUN 8/14 9AM-3PM

Over 40 years preschool teacher selling: A:Art Ideas & Supplies B: Big & Small educational posters (over 100) C: Cute prop boxes, entrichment ideas, & multiple files on all types of preschool subjects.

SUNDAY 1/2 PRICE SALE!

OAK PARK SPACE

Suitable for not-for-profit. Varied uses possible such as school, office spaces, community services center, clinic, etc. Please call 773-968-3061

GARAGE/YARD SALES

Have a summer garage sale!

Call to advertise 773/626-6332

GARAGE/YARD SALE 405 S 8TH AVE SAT 8/13 10AM TO 5PM

Gently used household items; Curtains & Draperies; Children’s Toys & Clothes; Name Brand Women’s Clothes and Shoes; Much More!!

Oak Park

GARAGE SALE 143 S CUYLER SAT 8/13 8AM TO NOON

Family of twins ready to purge: cribs, pack-n-plays, gates, car seats, lots of boys 2T-3T clothes/ shoes (summer and winter), indoor and outdoor toys, halloween costumes, etc–all in excellent condition.

Also men/women clothes, bedding, window treatments, books, kitchen ware, rugs, and more, It is worth your time to stop!

No Early Birds Oak Park

YARD SALE 438 N.HARVEY AVE SAT 8/13 8:30AM-12PM

Tons of girl’s clothes 24 mos-3T; Small Furniture; Jewelry; Magic Bullet; Star Wars Legos. Much more!

NO EARLY BIRDS! LEMONADE STAND! RAIN DATE SUNDAY 8/20 Oak Park

GARAGE SALE 911 FOREST FRI 8/12 10AM-1PM SAT 8/13 9AM-3PM

Toys, Books, Barbies, American Girl Doll stuff, household items, kitchen items, much miscellaneous.

Wednesday Journal, August 10, 2016

OAKPARK.COM | RIVERFOREST.COM

CLASSIFIED GARAGE/YARD SALES Oak Park

MOVING SALE! 723 WOODBINE AVENUE SAT 8/13 9AM TO 3PM

Furniture, Household items, jewelry.

Garden tools, planters. Garage & basement stuff. Aluminum ladders, radial arm saw, electrical items. Air compressor, saw horses, Kennedy rolling tool chest, pipe threader, router & table. Before you go to the hardware store, stop by here.

No early sales please.

Oak Park

GARAGE SALE FUNDRAISER 125 FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT LN (EAST AVE & LAKE ST)

SAT 8/18 8AM TO 3PM

Funds being raised to send OP Junior to 2017 Global Leadershp Summit in Germany/Italy Woman’s, men’s and children clothing, shoes and coats. Baby items including bassinet, clothes and toys, kitchen and electronic items including juicer, toaster and tablet. Office and school supplies including keyboards, calculators and book bags. Come out there’s something for everyone

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

PETS While you’re away, your pets are okay . . . at home

cat calls

Oak Park’s Original Pet Care Service – Since 1986

Daily dog exercising Complete pet care in your home )PVTF TJUUJOH t 1MBOU DBSF Bonded References

524-1030

Selling your home by owner?

Call to advertise: 708-613-3333

CEMENT

(708) 613-3333 • FAX: (708) 524-0447 • E-MAIL: CLASSIFIEDS@OAKPARK.COM | CLASSIFIEDS@RIVERFOREST.COM

AIR CONDITIONING/ HEAT AIR CONDITIONING AND APPLIANCE EXPERT Air Conditioning Automotive A/C Refrigerators Ranges • Ovens Washer • Dryers Hot Water Heaters Rodding Sewers Lic/Bonded 25 yrs experience

FREE SERVICE CALL WITH REPAIR AND SENIOR/VETERAN DISCOUNT.

708-785-2619 or 773-585-5000

CARPET CLEANING K & P CARPET & UPHOLSTERY CLEANING Evening appointments avail.

Dries 50% quicker.

We use eco friendly products.

ASK ABOUT OUR SPECIALS 708-681-2140

CLEANING Pam’s A+ Cleaning Service

A cleaner day is just a phone call away. For a detailed cleaning please call 708-937-9110

CONSTRUCTION

ELECTRICAL

Rite-Way

Construction

Construction

Remodeling & New Construction GCCRENTERPRISES.COM (773)727-3330

CEMENT

MAGANA

C O N C R E T E C O N S T RU C T I O N “QUALITY IS OUR FOUNDATION� ESTABLISHED IN 1987

COMMERCIAL ˜ INDUSTRIAL ˜ RESIDENTIAL

708.442.7720 '5,9(:$<6 Â&#x2021; )281'$7,216 Â&#x2021; 3$7,26 67(36 Â&#x2021; &85% *877(56 Â&#x2021; 6,'(:$/.6 612: 3/2:,1* Â&#x2021; 67$03(' &2/25(' $**5(*$7( &21&5(7(

GARAGE/GARAGE DOOR

Electric Door Openers

theriteway123@gmail.com

(708) 652-9415

708.253.5531 Ceiling Fans Installed

ELECTRICAL

A&A ELECTRIC Let an American Veteran do your work

We fix any electrical problem & specialize in Condo work Fast Emergency Service

Residential â&#x20AC;˘ Commercial â&#x20AC;˘ Industrial

Ceiling Free Home Evaluations

Fans Lic. â&#x20AC;˘ Bonded â&#x20AC;˘ Ins. Installed Low Rates â&#x20AC;˘ Free Est.

Home Re-wiring New Plugs & Switches Added New circuit breaker boxes Code violations corrected.

Serv. upgrades,100-200 amp Garage & A/C lines installed Sr. Discounts â&#x20AC;˘ 30 Yrs. Exp

708-409-0988 â&#x20AC;˘ 708-738-3848 Servicing Oak Park and all surrounding suburbs

FOUR SEASONS ELECTRIC COOL YOUR ROOMS WITH CEILING FANS

VARIETY of electrical work Re-wiring of old houses

*Services*

Reasonable Pricing & Free Estimates No Job Too Big or Too Small

Lic * Bonded * Ins * 24 hrs

708-445-0447 / 708-785-0446 Electricians serving the greater Oak Park area. Licensed, Bonded & Insuredâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Reasonable Pricing & Free Estimates. Kineticâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s proud to say you have never experienced service like this! 15 years experience and dedication.

No job too big or small!

(708) 639-5271

FLOORS HARDWOOD FLOORS BY PERFECT IMAGE FLOORING We refinish, repair & install hardwood floors. We also install laminate wood floors.

Free Estimates

708-442-5968 Cell 708-906-0621

www.perfectimagefloors.com

KLIS FLOORING INC.

New hardwood flooring installation & pergo. Sanding, re-finishing, staining. Low prices, insured.

Call: 773-671-4996 www.klisflooring.com

Attention: Home Improvement Pros REACH THE PEOPLE MAKING THE DECISIONSâ&#x20AC;Ś advertise in WEDNESDAY CLASSIFIED. Call 708/613-3342

HAULING BASEMENT CLEANING Appliances & Furniture Removal Pickup & Delivery. 708-848-9404

LANDSCAPING

Our 70th Year

kitchensâ&#x20AC;&#x160;-â&#x20AC;&#x160;bathsâ&#x20AC;&#x160;-â&#x20AC;&#x160;basements roofing-siding-windows-doors interiorâ&#x20AC;&#x160;&â&#x20AC;&#x160;exteriorâ&#x20AC;&#x160;paintingâ&#x20AC;&#x160; foundationâ&#x20AC;&#x160;repair buildingâ&#x20AC;&#x160;maintenanceâ&#x20AC;&#x160;-â&#x20AC;&#x160;cleanâ&#x20AC;&#x160;outs

FREE ESTIMATES LICENSED, BONDED & INSURED

39

Garage Doors &

BRUCE LAWN SERVICE

Spring Clean-Up Aerating, Slit Seeding Bush Trimming, Lawn Maintenance Senior Discount brucelawns.com

Sales & Service Free Estimates

www.forestdoor.com

708-243-0571

HANDYMAN

MASONRY

CURT'S HANDYMAN SERVICE

EXEL MASONRY INC.

Drywall Repair â&#x20AC;˘ Painting Fans Installed â&#x20AC;˘ Carpentry Trim Gutter Cleaning â&#x20AC;˘ Window Repair

FREE ESTIMATES Excellent References No Job Too Small

Tuckpointing ~ Masonry Bricks & Blocks Chimney Repair & Rebuilding Lintels Repair Concrete

708-650-2900

Lic., Ins. & Bonded

708-488-9411

PAINTING & DECORATING

%,%#42)#!, (!.$9-!. 3%26)#%3 !LL 4YPES OF (OME 2EPAIRS 2EPAIRS )NSTALLATIONS 0ROFESSIONAL 1UALITY 7ORK !T 2EASONABLE 0RICES 0ROMPT 3ERVICE 3MALL *OBS A 3PECIALTY

+$1'<0$1 &2175$&725

:H GR TXDOLW\ ZRUN DW DIIRUGDEOH SULFHV

:D\QH

ALEX

PAINTING & DECORATING

Exterior and Interior All Work Guaranteed 35 Years Experience Call 708-567-4680

708-296-2060

HANDYMAN Roofing Repairs Concrete Repairs â&#x20AC;˘ Drywall All types of handiwork Call For Free Estimates

773-732-2263 Ask for John

PUBLIC NOTICES

R. Soriano Landscaping

PUBLIC NOTICE OF THE SALE OF REAL ESTATE OWNED BY THE VILLAGE OF RIVER FOREST PURSUANT TO 65 ILCS 5/11-76-2

Tree Removal, Trimming & Topping Insured â&#x20AC;˘ Free Estimates

(708) 244-1326

TUCKPOINTING

RITE WAY BRICK RESTORATION

â&#x20AC;˘ Tuckpointing â&#x20AC;˘ Expert Chimney Rebuilds & Repairs â&#x20AC;˘ Masonry & Brickwork â&#x20AC;˘ Building Cleaning & Graffiti Removal â&#x20AC;˘ Lintel Repairs â&#x20AC;˘ Interior & Exterior Foundation Repairs Our 25th Anniversary Over 30 yrs. Exp. Licensed, Insured & Bonded

708-354-2501 www.ritewaybrick.net

WINDOWS

CLASSIC PAINTING

Fast & Neat Painting/Taping/Plaster Repair Low Cost 708.749.0011

BROKEN SASH CORDS?

PLASTERINGâ&#x20AC;&#x201C; STUCCOING

Mikeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Home Repair Drywall H Painting H Tile Plumbing H Electric H Floors Windows H Doors H Siding Ask Us What We Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Do

TREE SERVICE

McNulty Plastering & Stucco Co.

Small & big work. Free estimates.

Complete Plaster, Stucco & Re-Coating Services

CALL THE WINDOW MAN!

FAST RELIABLE SERVICE

(708) 452-8929

708/386-2951 t ANYTIME Work Guaranteed

Licensed, Bonded, Insured, & EPA Certified Expert craftsmanship for over 50 years

Lost & Found and To Be Given Away ads run free in Wednesday Classified. To place your ad, call 708-613-3342

PLUMBING

PLUMBING

A-All American

Plumbing & Sewer Service FREE ESTIMATES Service in 1 Hour in Most Cases

All Work Guaranteed Lowest Prices Guaranteed FREE Video Inspection with Sewer Rodding /P +PC 5PP -BSHF t /P +PC 5PP 4NBMM Family Owned & Operated

t Lic. #0967

Licensed

Insured

Ralph Grande Elmwood Park 708-452-8929

Serving Oak Park, River Forest, Forest Park & Riverside Since 1974

PUBLIC NOTICES 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. FILE NO. D16147451 on July 19, 2016. Under the Assumed Name of STEPHANUS GREEFF CONSULTING with the business located at: 300 SCOTTSWOOD RD, RIVERSIDE, IL 60546. The true name(s) and residence address of the owner(s) is: STEPHANUS GREEFF, 300 SCOTTSWOOD RD, RIVERSIDE, IL 60546.

Published in RB Landmark 7/27, 8/3, 8/10/2016

Starting a New Business?

Publish your assumed name legal notice here. 708/613-3342

Notice is hereby given that the Village of River Forest, Illinois, is accepting sealed bids for the sale, under bid, of the fee simple interest by quit claim deed, in as-is whereis condition, with no representations or warranties whatsoever, in certain vacant real property commonly known as part of 117 Ashland Avenue, River Forest, Illinois. The legal description of the property for sale is: THE EAST 9 FEET OF LOT 16 IN BLOCK 6 IN RESUBDIVISION OF BLOCKS 3 & 6 AND THE NORTH 450 FEET OF BLOOK 7 IN HENRY FIELDâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S SUBDIVISION OF THE EAST 1/2 OF THE SOUTHWEST 1/4 OF SECTION 12, TOWNSHIP 39 NORTH, RANGE 12, EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, IN COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS PIN:15-12-317-035-0000 The deadline to submit bids proposals to the Village is 12:00 p.m. on September 12, 2016, and such proposals shall be submitted to: Village of River Forest, Eric Palm, Village Administrator, 400 Park Avenue, River Forest, Illinois 60305.

All submitted bids must be for the acquisition of all the property described herein and shall specify the net cash consideration for the purchase of the property, in as-is where-is condition, with no representations or warranties whatsoever, by quit claim deed from the Village to the successful bidder, if any. The minimum bid price for the property is Ten Dollars ($10). The bids shall propose to consolidate the property for tax purposes with the adjacent 117 Ashland Avenue, River Forest, Illinois parcel, PIN 15-12-317-034-0000. All sealed bids will be opened and considered for approval at the regular meeting of the Villageâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s President and Board of Trustees on September 12, 2016 at 7:00 p.m., at the River Forest Village Hall, 400 Park Avenue, River Forest, Illinois 60305.

The President and Board of Trustees may accept any bid determined to be in the best interest of the Village, and reserve the right to reject any and all bids, and to waive any informalities or irregularities in the bidding.

Village of River Forest Village Administrator Eric Palm Published in Wednesday Journal 8/10, 8/17, 8/24/2016

LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING OF TENTATIVE BUDGET Notice is hereby given by the Board of Education of Riverside Brookfield High School District 208, Cook County, Illinois, that a tentative budget for said school district for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2016, will be on file and conveniently available at the school districtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s administrative offices at Riverside Brookfield High School District 208, 160 Ridgewood Road, Riverside, Illinois, from and after 8:00 a.m. on August 10, 2016.

Notice is hereby given that a public hearing on said tentative budget will be held at 7:00 p.m. on September 13, 2016, at Riverside Brookfield High School District 208, 160 Ridgewood Road, Riverside, Illinois.

Dated August 3, 2016.

Board of Education Riverside Brookfield High School District 208, Cook County, Illinois

by Mary Ann Nardi Secretary, Board of Education Published in Landmark 8/10/2016

40

Wednesday Journal, August 10, 2016

CLASSIFIED

OAKPARK.COM | RIVERFOREST.COM

(708) 613-3333 • FAX: (708) 524-0447 • E-MAIL: CLASSIFIEDS@OAKPARK.COM | CLASSIFIEDS@RIVERFOREST.COM

PUBLIC NOTICES

PUBLIC NOTICES

PUBLIC NOTICES

LEGAL NOTICE

PUBLIC NOTICE INVITATION FOR BID Oak Park Township Office HVAC Renovation

PUBLIC NOTICE

Notice is hereby given by the Board of Education of Oak Park District 97 in the County of Cook, State of Illinois, that its Tentative 2016-17 Budget, adopted at the July 26, 2016 meeting, will be on public display until Tuesday, September 13, 2016, when a Public Hearing will be conducted on said budget.

This Tentative 2016-17 Budget will be on file and conveniently available for public inspection in the office of the Secretary of the Board of Education–970 Madison Street–Oak Park, IL (60302) from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. commencing Monday, August 8, 2016 through Tuesday, September 13, 2016.

A Public Hearing on this tentative budget will be conducted on September 13, 2016 and final adoption of said 2016-17 budget at its September 27, 2016 meeting–both held at 7:00 p.m. in the Board of Education Meeting Room– 970 Madison Street–Oak Park, IL (60302).

Dated this 27th day of July, 2016.

Sheryl Mariner Board Secretary Published in Wednesday Journal 8/10/2016

LEGAL NOTICE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a public hearing will be held by the Community Design Commission, acting as the Design Review Commission, of the Village of Oak Park on Wednesday evening, August 24, 2016 at 7:00 p.m. in Room 101 of the Village Hall, 123 Madison St., Oak Park, Illinois on the following matter: Cal. No. 02-16-DRC: 259 Lake Street, Pete’s Fresh Market Eugene Grzynkowicz, on behalf of Pete’s Fresh Market, is requesting that variations be granted from the following section of the Sign Code of the Village of Oak Park, to permit the installation of a second wall sign along the east elevation of the building, where only one wall sign per establishment is allowed at the premises commonly known as 259 Lake Street, Oak Park, IL.; 1. Section 7.7.15 (D) (1) (b), which section requires that there shall only be one (1) wall sign per building elevation with street frontage; whereas the proposal would display two wall signs for Pete’s Fresh Market along the east elevation of the building; and 2. Section 7.7.15 (D) (1) (b), which section requires that the maximum size of a wall sign shall be established as one (1) square foot per linear foot of zoning lot frontage; whereas the combined total square footage of the two signs for Pete’s Fresh Market would exceed the maximum size allowed.

All papers in connection with the above matter are on file at the Village of Oak Park and available for examination by interested parties by contacting the Zoning Administrator at 708.358.5449.

DATED AT OAK PARK, ILLINOIS, this 10th Day of August, 2016 Published in Wednesday Journal 8/10/2016

Sealed proposals will be received

by Oak Park Township at 105 South Oak Park Avenue, Oak Park, Il, 60302 until 2:00 p.m. local time on Tuesday, August 30, 2016 at which time they will be publically opened and read aloud.

This project is for removal and replacement of the HVAC system for an existing one story building with a partial basement. Work includes selective demolition, removing and replacing existing acoustical tile ceiling to provide access to mechanical ductwork above ceiling, curbs for new rooftop units, patching existing single ply roofing and flashing, metal ships ladder to provide access from lower to higher roof level, plumbing, gas service, gas piping, gas fired HVAC rooftop package heating and air conditioning units, electrical work, and other work described in the Bid Documents.

A pre-bid meeting is scheduled for 9:00 a.m. on Wednesday, August 17, 2016 at 105 South Oak Park Avenue. Bidders are encouraged but not required to attend. Contact Heitzman Architects (708) 848-8844 or email to frank@heitzman.org to obtain bid documents in PDF format. Bids must be submitted in a sealed envelope and clearly marked with job being bid.

The Oak Park Township reserves the right to award the contract to its best interests, to reject any or all proposals, to waive informalities in bidding, and to hold the three lowest proposals for a period of sixty (60) days after bid due date.

This project is funded by the Oak Park Township and is subject to Illinois Prevailing Wage and Equal Opportunity requirements.

A Performance Bond will be required for the general contractor to whom the project is awarded.

Gavin W. Morgan, Manager Oak Park Township 105 S. Oak Park Avenue Oak Park, Illinois 60302 Phone: 708-383-8005 Published in Wednesday Journal 8/10/2016

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 filed by the undersigned with the County Clerk of Cook County. FILE NO. D16147605 on August 2, 2016. Under the Assumed Name of A TIME OUT FOR FUN with the business located at: 5800 S MARSHFIELD, CHICAGO, IL 60636. The true name(s) and residence address of the owner(s) is: SAMNIKA MCKAY, 5800 S MARSHFIELD, CHICAGO, IL 60636 Published in Wednesday Journal 8/10, 8/17, 8/24/2016.

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 filed by the undersigned with the County Clerk of Cook County. FILE NO. D16147604 on August 2, 2016. Under the Assumed Name of UNIQUE DIOR with the business located at: 5800 S MARSHFIELD, CHICAGO, IL 60636.The true name(s) and residence address of the owner(s) is: DEJA JACKSON 5444 W WALTON CHICAGO, IL 60651, SAMNIKA MCKAY 5800 S MARSHFIELD CHICAGO, IL 60636.

Published in Wednesday Journal 8/10, 8/17, 8/24/2016

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 filed by the undersigned with the County Clerk of Cook County. FILE NO. D16147542 on July 25, 2016. Under the Assumed Business Name of FLOWERING LOTUS RETREATS with the business located at: 922 MARION, OAK PARK, IL 60302. The true name(s) and residence address of the owner(s) is: LASHONDRA KYLE 922 N. MARION OAK PARK, IL 60302 Published in Wednesday Journal 7/27, 8/3, 8/10/2016.

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 filed by the undersigned with the County Clerk of Cook County. FILE NO. D16147525 on July 21, 2016. Under the Assumed Name of PASSION MADNESS with the business located at: 505 LAKE S, MAYWOOD IL 60153. The true name(s) and residence address of the owner(s) is: CHAKKERA C ELLIS 2031 N 19TH AVE MELROSE PARK, IL 60160.

Published in Wednesday Journal 8/3, 8/10, 8/17/2016

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 filed by the undersigned with the County Clerk of Cook County. FILE NO. D16147610 on August 3, 2016.

Under the Assumed Name of A AND S TRAINING SOLUTIONS with the business located at: 1007 S 10TH AVENUE, MAYWOOD, IL 60153.

The true name(s) and residence address of the owner(s) is: ARIAN L. WADE 1007 S 10TH AVENUE, MAYWOOD, IL 60153.

Published in Forest Park Review 8/10, 8/17, 8/24/2016

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 filed by the undersigned with the County Clerk of Cook County. FILE NO. D16147570 on July 27, 2016.

Under the Assumed Name of MIKE HAGINS SERVICES with the business located at: 929 CLINTON AVE, OAK PARK, IL 60304. The true name(s) and residence address of the owner(s) is: MIKE HAGINS, 929 CLINTON AVE OAK PARK, IL 60304 Published in Wednesday Journal 8/10, 8/17, 8/24/16

REAL ESTATE FOR SALE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT–CHANCERY DIVISION FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION (‘’FANNIE MAE’’), A CORPORATION ORGANIZED AND EXISTING UNDER THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff, -v.MICHAEL J. MILNER, EILEEN T. MILLER, HOUSEHOLD FINANCE CORPORATION III Defendants 15 CH 01986 1138 N. RIDGELAND AVE. Oak Park, IL 60302 NOTICE OF SALE

REAL ESTATE FOR SALE

REAL ESTATE FOR SALE

REAL ESTATE FOR SALE

REAL ESTATE FOR SALE

PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on May 31, 2016, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on September 9, 2016, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive–24th Floor, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 1138 N. RIDGELAND AVE., Oak Park, IL 60302 Property Index No. 16-05-108-001-0000 VOL. 138.

The real estate is improved with a single family residence. The judgment amount was $167,548.28. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours.

No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property.

Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required

by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/ 9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. For information, contact Plaintiff’s attorney: JOHNSON, BLUMBERG & ASSOCIATES, LLC, 230 W. Monroe Street, Suite #1125, Chicago, IL 60606, (312) 541-9710 Please refer to file number 15-1498. THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales. JOHNSON, BLUMBERG & ASSOCIATES, LLC 230 W. Monroe Street, Suite #1125 Chicago, IL 60606 (312) 541-9710 E-Mail: ilpleadings@johnsonblumberg.com Attorney File No. 15-1498 Attorney Code. 40342 Case Number: 15 CH 01986 TJSC#: 36-7027 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.

I696604

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 14-10-05049. THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales. CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100 BURR RIDGE, IL 60527 (630) 794-5300 E-Mail: pleadings@il.cslegal.com Attorney File No. 14-10-05049 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code.

21762 Case Number: 10 CH 014134 TJSC#: 36-8921 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.

I699466

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(g1). 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 14-09-35427. THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales. CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100 BURR RIDGE, IL 60527 (630) 794-5300 E-Mail: pleadings@il.cslegal.com Attorney File No. 14-09-35427 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code.

21762 Case Number: 09 CH 043760 TJSC#: 36-9100 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.

I699677

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT–CHANCERY DIVISION WELLS FARGO FINANCIAL ILLINOIS, INC. Plaintiff, -v.LAURA L. MARTINEZ A/K/A LAURA MARTINEZ, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Defendants 10 CH 014134 1409 HARLEM 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 July 23, 2012, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on August 23, 2016, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive–24th Floor, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 1409 HARLEM AVENUE, FOREST PARK, IL 60130 Property Index No. 15-24-212-023. The real estate is improved with a residence. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. Where a sale of real estate is made to satisfy a lien prior to that of the United States, the United States shall have one year from the date of sale within which to redeem, except that with respect to a lien arising under the internal revenue laws the period shall be 120 days or the period allowable for redemption under State law, whichever is longer, and in any case in which, under the provisions of section 505 of the Housing Act of 1950, as amended (12 U.S.C. 1701k), and subsection (d) of section 3720 of title 38 of the United States Code, the right to redeem does not arise, there shall be no right of redemption. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are 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(g1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT–CHANCERY DIVISION THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON F/K/A THE BANK OF NEW YORK, SUCCESSORIN-INTEREST TO JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A. AS TRUSTEE FOR STRUCTURED ASSET MORTGAGE INVESTMENTS II TRUST 2006-AR5, MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006-AR5 Plaintiff, -v.COLLEEN P. SALEH, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS, NMP PROPERTIES, INC. Defendants 09 CH 043760 1518 ASHLAND AVENUE RIVER FOREST, IL 60305 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on March 16, 2016, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on August 26, 2016, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive–24th Floor, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 1518 ASHLAND AVENUE, RIVER FOREST, IL 60305 Property Index No. 15-01-105-019. The real estate is improved with a residence. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours.

No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT–CHANCERY DIVISION WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A., AS TRUSTEE, ON BEHALF OF THE REGISTERED HOLDERS OF FIRST FRANKLIN MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST 2006-FFH1, ASSETBACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006-FFH1 Plaintiff, -v.TERRI RENIVA AKA TERRI A RENIVA, ELBERT D RENIVA AKA ELBERT RENIVA, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Defendants 10 CH 01542 731 BELLEFORTE AVENUE OAK PARK, IL 60302 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on June 10, 2015, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on September 8, 2016, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive–24th Floor, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 731 BELLEFORTE AVENUE, OAK PARK, IL 60302 Property Index No. 16-06-308-018-0000. The real estate is improved with a single family

Wednesday Journal, August 10, 2016

OAKPARK.COM | RIVERFOREST.COM

CLASSIFIED

41

(708) 613-3333 • FAX: (708) 524-0447 • E-MAIL: CLASSIFIEDS@OAKPARK.COM | CLASSIFIEDS@RIVERFOREST.COM

REAL ESTATE FOR SALE

REAL ESTATE FOR SALE

REAL ESTATE FOR SALE

REAL ESTATE FOR SALE

REAL ESTATE FOR SALE

REAL ESTATE FOR SALE

REAL ESTATE FOR SALE

home; 2 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, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. Where a sale of real estate is made to satisfy a lien prior to that of the United States, the United States shall have one year from the date of sale within which to redeem, except that with respect to a lien arising under the internal revenue laws the period shall be 120 days or the period allowable for redemption under State law, whichever is longer, and in any case in which, under the provisions of section 505 of the Housing Act of 1950, as amended (12 U.S.C. 1701k), and subsection (d) of section 3720 of title 38 of the United States Code, the right to redeem does not arise, there shall be no right of redemption. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are 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(g1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. For information: Visit our website at service.atty-pierce.com. between the hours of 3 and 5 pm. PIERCE & ASSOCIATES, Plaintiff’s Attorneys, One North Dearborn Street Suite 1300, CHICAGO, IL 60602. Tel No. (312) 476-5500. Please refer to file number 11299. 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. PIERCE & ASSOCIATES One North Dearborn Street Suite 1300 CHICAGO, IL 60602 (312) 4765500 E-Mail: pleadings@pierceservices.com Attorney File No. 11299 Attorney Code. 91220 Case Number: 10 CH 01542 TJSC#: 36-8887 I699435

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT–CHANCERY DIVISION U.S. BANK TRUST, N.A., AS TRUSTEE FOR LSF9 MASTER PARTICIPATION TRUST Plaintiff, -v.CHARO MENDOZA, LUIS GODINEZ, THE PARKVIEW OF FOREST PARK CONDOMINIUM Defendants 15 CH 02982 1101 Harlem Ave., Unit 201 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, 2016, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on September 2, 2016, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive–24th Floor, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 1101 Harlem Ave., Unit 201, Forest Park, IL 60130 Property Index No. 15-13-431-043-1005. The real estate is improved with a residential condominium. The judgment amount was $141,455.30. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted.

The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/ or wire transfer, is due within twentyfour (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information.

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

by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. For information, contact Plaintiff’s attorney: HEAVNER, BEYERS & MIHLAR, LLC, 111 East Main Street, DECATUR, IL 62523, (217) 4221719 If the sale is not confirmed

for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the purchase price paid.

The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee’s attorney. THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 606064650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales. HEAVNER, BEYERS & MIHLAR, LLC 111 East Main Street DECATUR, IL 62523 (217) 422-1719 Fax #: (217) 4221754 CookPleadings@hsbattys. com Attorney Code. 40387 Case Number: 15 CH 02982 TJSC#: 367581 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.

I699691

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(g1). 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 14-13-28377. THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales. CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100 BURR RIDGE, IL 60527 (630) 794-5300 E-Mail: pleadings@il.cslegal.com Attorney File No. 14-13-28377 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code.

21762 Case Number: 12 CH 016693 TJSC#: 36-8126 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.

I698275

Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive–24th Floor, 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. 15-24-215-034-0000. 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, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/ or wire transfer, is due within twentyfour (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information.

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

by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g1). 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 in-

formation: Visit our website at service.atty-pierce.com. between the hours of 3 and 5 pm. PIERCE & ASSOCIATES, Plaintiff’s Attorneys, One North Dearborn Street Suite 1300, CHICAGO, IL 60602. Tel No. (312) 476-5500. 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. PIERCE & ASSOCIATES One North Dearborn Street Suite 1300 CHICAGO, IL 60602 (312) 476-5500 E-Mail: pleadings@pierceservices. com Attorney File No. 8255 Attorney Code. 91220 Case Number: 15 CH 09899 TJSC#: 36-8129 I698560

residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property.

Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required

by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/ 9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g1). 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 14-15-01362. THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales. CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100 BURR RIDGE, IL 60527 (630) 794-5300 E-Mail: pleadings@il.cslegal.com Attorney File No. 14-15-01362 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code.

21762 Case Number: 15 CH 001759 TJSC#: 36-7964 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.

I699965

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT–CHANCERY DIVISION WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, NOT IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY BUT AS TRUSTEE OF ARLP SECURITIZATION TRUST SERIES 2015-1 Plaintiff, -v.CARL TRIGGS Defendants 12 CH 016693 132 S. HUMPHREY AVENUE OAK PARK, IL 60302 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on June 20, 2016, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on September 22, 2016, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive–24th Floor, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 132 S. HUMPHREY AVENUE, OAK PARK, IL 60302 Property Index No. 16-08-305-013-0000. 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, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/ or wire transfer, is due within twentyfour (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information.

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

by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest

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 September 23, 2016, at The

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT–CHANCERY DIVISION JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO CHASE HOME FINANCE LLC SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO CHASE MANHATTAN MORTGAGE CORPORATION Plaintiff, -v.LAURIE A. HAUGHEY A/K/A LAURIE HAUGHEY A/K/A LAURIE A. LAMBERT, DERMOT G. HAUGHEY A/K/A DERMOT HAUGHEY, JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NA, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants 15 CH 001759 829 S. HOME AVENUE OAK PARK, IL 60304 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on June 15, 2016, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on September 19, 2016, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive–24th Floor, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 829 S. HOME AVENUE, OAK PARK, IL 60304 Property Index No. 16-18129-028. 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, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours.

No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the

MORTGAGE DIRECTORY

MORTGAGE RATE DIRECTORY LENDER COMMUNITY BANK OF OAK PARK - RIVER FOREST

(708) 660-7006 1001 Lake St., Oak Park IL 60301 www.cboprf.com

AMOUNT

RATE/YR

80% 80% 80% 80% 80% 80%

3.500% / 30 yr. fixed 3.250% / 20 yr. fixed 2.750% / 15 yr. fixed 3.250% / 5 yr. ARM 3.375% / 7 yr. ARM 3.500% / 10 yr. ARM

POINTS/ APP. FEE 0%/$595 0%/$595 0%/$595 0%/$595 0%/$595 0%/$595

A.P.R.

3.545% 3.312% 2.830% 3.618% 3.620% 3.642%

· Approved IHDA Mortgage Program Lender · Financing available up to 97% LTV Construction Loans and Home Equity Lines of Credit available – call for terms.

Mortgage rates are accurate as of Monday afternoon. Due to the fluctuation of mortgage rates, the rates may vary before publication. Contact your mortgage lender for complete details. Mortgage rates vary in APR and other qualifying factors.

To Advertise your Mortgage Rates, call Mary Ellen Nelligan: 708/613-3342

42

S P O R T S

Wednesday Journal, August 10, 2016

OAKPARK.COM | RIVERFOREST.COM

Local Olympians have fun with Rio Games Lehman and Tyler talk Olympics on local radio show

By MARTY FARMER

S

Sports Editor

everal of my favorite moments watching sports have occurred during the Olympics As an impressionable 10-yearold with an awakened sense of patriotism, I watched in amazement as the United States men’s hockey team shocked the previously unflappable Soviet Union 4-3 in the semifinals of the 1980 Olympics. And for trivia buffs (just in case you forgot), the Americans finished off their “Miracle on Ice” run with a business-like 4-2 win against Finland in the final.

Eric Heiden also competed at those XIII Olympic Games in Lake Placid, New York.

The Madison, Wisconsin native won five gold medals and set four Olympic records and one world record.

He essentially introduced the average American sports fan to speed skating.

Heiden also joined the likes of Edwin Moses, Mary Lou Retton and Michael Phelps

.

in the “Marty Farmer Power Rankings of All-Time Favorite Olympians.”

But this past Sunday, however, Emery Lehman and Dani Tyler surpassed these legends in my top two spots. They graciously joined me on “The Doris Davenport Show” with Doug Wyman that night for an exclusive 1½-hour interview.

Lehman is an Oak Park native who competed in the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. Tyler grew up in River Forest and won gold in softball at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. They both graduated from Oak Park and River Forest High School.

Lehman’s meteoric rise in speed skating has been remarkable. He picked up the sport when he was 9 years old to improve his speed for hockey. Three years later, he won his first national title in speed skating.

One of the burgeoning stars in the European-dominated sport, he placed 10th in the 10,000 meters with a time of 13 minutes, 28.67 seconds and 16th in the 5,000 meters with a time of 6:29.94 at the 2014 Winter Olympics at the age of 18.

Courtesy Doris Davenport

(Left to right): Marty Farmer, Dani Tyler, Doris Davenport, Emery Lehman, Doug Wyman. Courtesy The Doris Davenport Show with Doug Wyman Currently training in Milwaukee with coach and two-time Olympian Jeff Klaiber, Lehman is on track to compete as the top American speed skater at the 2018 Winter Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea.

As for Tyler, her athletic career peaked in 1996 when she earned a gold medal with the USA Softball National Team. She’s also one of the greatest softball players ever at both Drake University and OPRF. At 41, Tyler remains an excellent all-around athlete who plays golf and runs marathons.

During an extensive Q&A, Doris, Doug and I peppered our Olympic guests with questions. They talked about growing up in Oak Park and River Forest, respectively, attending OPRF, family and coaching influences, their Olympic experiences and

thoughts on Rio 2016.

They’re both very bright, with Lehman studying civil engineering at Marquette and Tyler working as an accountant.

Along with Lehman and Tyler, OPRF boasts an impressive list of Olympians including Ellis Coleman (2012 wrestling), Robert Halperin (1960 yachting), Charlie Hoag (1952 gold medalist basketball), John Register (2000 Paralympics silver medalist long jump) and Becky Wilczak (luge).

Ken Sitzberger, a 1963 Fenwick grad, won the gold medal in the 3-meter springboard at the 1964 Summer Olympics.

After Sunday’s radio show, our evening together culminated with Tyler showing everybody in the studio her gold medal.

Lehman appreciated it more than any of us.

Search. e. o x pl r Espl o e ! c v r Di

WJHomes Search by City, Realtor, ZIP code, Price, BRs, BAs and street name See local property transfers No registration, no sign-ups, no hassle

|

|

Online In Print |

Printed weekly in Wednesday Journal Online at OakPark.com/Real-Estate

View this week’s open houses

Read articles on local real estate

One-click to share your favorite listings on Facebook

OAKPARK.COM | RIVERFOREST.COM

S P O R T S

Wednesday Journal, August 10, 2016

43

CHAMPS

Dominate state from page 44 son, drove in two runs to help put away LaGrange in a sub-state game, while Kuenster posted a .533 obp. Saltzman excelled in right field with several diving catches and gave the team a left-handed bat in the lineup.

Alexa Padula and Emma Brandt served as valuable utility players. Padula had a key two-RBI single to break open a regional quarterfinal against Kentucky.

Along with Grant, assistants Brian Kita and Joe Padula and pitching coach Bryan Hoffman made up the coaching staff.

“The parents did an awesome job of getting the girls to all of our practices and games,” Grant said. “The girls played great all summer especially in big games.

“I’d also like to thank [president of the RFYBS] Greg White, [vice-president of softball] Derek Briggs, and Marty Meehan.

The entire board dedicates so much time and energy to make sure all of the kids in the programs are equipped, prepared and ready for spring and summer fun.”

Boys 12U take second in state Like the girls team, the River Forest 12U boys squad capped off a successful summer campaign with a very tough loss. Playing at Keystone Park in front of an estimated crowd of 700 people, River Forest led Streator 5-1 in the state title game, but Streator stormed back in the late innings with five unanswered runs to claim a 6-5 victory.

After Streator took a 6-5 lead on a threerun homer in the bottom of the fifth inning, River Forest loaded the bases with one out in the sixth but failed to score.

“It was a great year, but we came up just short,” manager Louis Leonardi said. “We won state last year as 11s but the 12-yearold division is much more difficult. River Forest has won the 11U tournament three times but we have never won the 12s.

“We want to thank everyone for coming out and supporting our team. It was a great experience for the kids and the town.”

The 12U boys, also known as the River Forest Rebels, finished 23-5 for the summer and scored over 350 runs with a nine-run average margin of victory.

“The strengths of our teams were great hitting and deep pitching,” Leonardi said.

After cruising to district and sectional championships, River Forest found tougher competition on its home turf. Finishing

Visit us

online for the

latest in Sports news and events www.OakPark.com

Photo by Louis Leonardi

(Left to right) Front Row Kneeling: Jack Flagg, Martin Paris, Thomas Wangelin, Evan Eberle; (Left to right) Back Row Standing: Lou Leonardi, Tim Ward, Paul Fischer, Eric Henkes, Jack Willsey, Jack Dalton, Mike Gladden.

3-2 at Keystone, River Forest actually beat Streator twice before losing 6-5 in the final game.

Evan Eberle, Paul Fischer, Jack Dalton, Jack Willsey, Jack Flagg and Tim Ward all pitched well for River Forest.

Eberle, Mike Gladden, Ward and Flagg made up a formidable front end of the lineup, collectively driving in 22 runs with a .481 batting average and .569 on-base percentage at state. In an 18-15 slugfest against Hinsdale, Eberle and Gladden hit two home runs apiece to power River Forest to victory.

Defensively, catcher Thomas Wangelin and outfielders Lou Leonardi, Eric Henkes and Martin Paris led the team with several huge plays in the field.

The team’s run to the state finals was particularly impressive, considering the loss of cleanup hitter Willsey. He was knocked out of the tournament after being hit by a 65 mile-per-hour fastball in the Hinsdale game.

“The kids really rallied around Jack and hit the ball that night,” Leonardi said.

“Most of these kids have been playing together since they were 8 years old. They really support each other.”

check us out on facebook!

W E D N E S D A Y

JOURNAL of Oak Park and River Forest

Wednesday Journal is part of everyone’s favorite social networking community!

To find us, simply go to our web site at www.OakPark.com and find the “Find us on Facebook” link.

Be sure to click “Become a Fan” to receive updates about exclusive online content and important news.

44

Wednesday Journal, August 10, 2016

@ @OakParkSports

SPORTS

Local Olympians have fun with Rio Games 42

River Forest 12U girls win state title Kita, Hoffman anchor pitching staff; offense attack balanced

By MARTY FARMER

T

Sports Editor

he River Forest 12U girls softball team fell one game short of reaching the Little League Softball World Series in Portland, Oregon.

Despite that disappointment, the team turned in a historic season.

According to manager Mike Grant, the River Forest 12U girls went further than any boys or girls in the history of Little League play in the village.

“The girls have had some strong teams in the past [particularly in the 1980s] and another team did fairly well a couple of years ago,” said Grant, “but I don’t think any boys or girls team went as far we did this summer in the 65-plus years of Little League play in our village.”

The numbers back Grant up. Within state competition, River Forest dominated opponents with a 9-0 record and a 105-3 run-scoring advantage.

Battling eight other top teams in the Central Regional Regional Tournament for a lone World Series bid, River Forest split a pair of pool play games with a 4-0 loss against Indiana and 4-3 win over Wisconsin.

The team tacked on two impressive victories, 14-2 over Kentucky and 8-3 against Indiana.

In the championship game, Michigan defeated River Forest 5-1, powering the former to the Little League Softball World Series.

Overall, River Forest finished 12-2 in tournament

Photo by Jennifer Kita

Back Row - Brian Kita, Mike Grant; 2nd row - Lucy Goodwin, Alex Prouty, Cuora Sullivan, Grace O’Brien, Bailey Nicholoff, Maddi Grant, Jessica Hoffman, Joe Padula; 1st row - Ella Kuenster, Alyza Hernandez, Brinkley Kita, Alexa Padula, Natalie Saltzman (missing Emma Brandt) play during the summer.

Brinkley Kita and Jess Hoffman proved to be a pair of formidable aces in the pitcher’s circle for River Forest. Brinkley threw a perfect game to open the playoffs and never looked back en route to a 5-1 record, limiting opponents’ batting averages well below .100. Hoffman, who led the pitching staff with 54 strikeouts, tossed two no-hitters and two one-hit games.

Adding even more rotation depth, Alex Prouty threw a perfect game in the sub-state tournament. When not pitching, she excelled defensively at third base.

On offense, several hitters led the way, including first baseman Bailey Nicholoff (team-best .739 batting average), second baseman Maddi Grant (.625 batting average) and catcher Lucy Goodwin (.567 batting average, .636 on-base percentage).

Alyza Hernandez, the team’s fastest player, caused havoc on the base paths as either a starter or pinch-runner.

Grace O’Brien, Ella Kuenster and Natalie Saltzman showed their versatility as outifielders. O’Brien, who returns next seaSee CHAMPS on page 43

Find out what all of the buzz is about.

Sign up today for our Breaking News Emails.

Join the community at

RBLandmark.com • ForestParkReview.com • OakPark.com • RiverForest.com