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September 7, 2016 Vol. 35, No. 3 ONE DOLLAR

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The confessions of Ernest Hemingway New digital archive makes available hundreds of Hemingway letters and photos By TIMOTHY INKLEBARGER Staff Reporter

For Oak Park’s most famous native son, Ernest Hemingway, learning Latin in high school was an “awful struggle” and being “expelled from class” his freshman year was a daily occurrence. “Some of the causes of expulsion that I recollect were, eating oranges in class, 4 boys using identically the same theme, dropping a little glass gobule [sic] containing a vile liquid, and shooting craps with Paul Photos provided by Hacking Hemingway Archive

HEMINGWAY ONLINE: The Oak Park Public Library has released hundreds of documents online from the Ernest Hemingway collection. Hemingway’s childhood home (top left). Ernest and Marcelline Hemingway (above). Hemingway with an axe.

Haase,” he recalled in an essay titled “Confessions,” a hand-written account of his misdeeds at Oak Park and River Forest Township High School. His Latin teacher, Hemingway remembered, was “under the opinion that I was brilliant but lazy.” The young man — who would one day become famous for his novels, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Sun Also Rises and The Old Man and the Sea, among many other pubSee HEMINGWAY on page 10

In Oak Park teen’s death, a tale of two cities Elijah Sims’ murder underscores racial divide separating Austin and Oak Park By MICHAEL ROMAIN Staff Reporter

The recent shooting death of Oak Park and River Forest High School senior Elijah Sims, 16, has put in stark relief the contrast between the West Side of Chicago, where Sims was raised and grew up, and Oak Park, where the teenager’s

family moved two years ago. During numerous interviews held in the wake of Sims’ murder, many community leaders and elected officials on both sides of Austin Boulevard spoke of a tale of two communities and a divide that they say is reinforced by persistent See TWO COMMUNITIES on page 9

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Cut the cheese It’s been a decade-long journey for the restaurant formerly known as Marion Street Cheese Market – recently rebranded as Marion Street Market – but the high-end cheese joint located at 100 S. Marion St. is closing its doors for good on Sept. 6, according to a press release. “Overall, it has been a remarkable 10-year journey, starting as a tiny cheese shop with just a few employees evolving into a 5,000-square-foot business employing dozens and dozens of high-energy, enthusiastic local youth and adults over the years,” owners Mary Jo Schuler and Grant Slauterbeck wrote in the press release. The restaurant rebranded in 2014, getting a new menu, chef and renaming itself Marion Street Market. They said in the recent news release: “We built Marion Street Cheese Market around this core mission: ‘to celebrate culinary creativity by nourishing our

Dominican students pay it forward

Dominican was one of dozens of universities across the state affected by recent cuts to the state’s MAP Grant program earlier this year. Many students at the university rely on the college assistance program to pay tuition and other student fees. But as the new school

community with exceptional food and outstanding service – provided with sustainability in mind.’ In pursuit of this mission, we have enjoyed serving the community by distributing artisanal foods, elevating neighborhood vibrancy and by generating jobs as well as tax revenue.”

Timothy Inklebarger

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The Village of Oak Park held a swearing-in ceremony on Tuesday, Aug. 30, for incoming Oak Park Police Chief Anthony Ambrose. Ambrose succeeds Rick Tanksley, who retired at the end of August after spending 33 years on the police force, 16 as police chief.

year ramped up, most of the university’s student body was focused less on what had been taken away than on paying forward what they’ve have. Last weekend, the college’s faculty members and staff gathered on campus during DU Fest, the university’s annual start of the year kickoff that promotes various extracurricular activities across campus, to collect school supplies for students at St. Catherine-St. Lucy School in Oak Park and a school in Maywood. In all, the college collected about $1,000 worth of supplies, with each school getting half of that. The students dropped the supplies

off to both schools on Aug. 30. “The ability to give back, even as a college kid, is just so important,” said Gabby Johnson, the university’s women’s basketball head coach who helped organize the event. “School supplies are so important. Just $5 will make a kid’s year.”

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From left to right: Outgoing Oak Park Police Chief Rick Tanksley, incoming chief Anthony Ambrose and former chief Joe Mendrick. The photo was taken less than a week before Mendrick’s death. Read more about Mendrick in Publisher Dan Haley’s column on page 6.

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BIG WEEK LemonAid Sunday, Sept. 11 from 3 to 7 p.m., 700 block of Bonnie Brae, River Forest: Residents of Bonnie Brae invite the public to their 15th annual LemonAid charity c lemonade stand, aka Kids Helping Kids. The lemonade is provided by Whole Foods Market and the mini-burgers by Burger proov M Moovment ooo — plus popcorn, baked goods, live entertainment, and kkids activities. There may be no other lemonade stand quite like this in the country. Kids run the show and it always falls on or around the anniversary of 9/11. This year’s proceeds benefit the OP-RF Food Pantry and PING! (Providing Instruments for the NNext Generation). For more information, call Patty Henek, 708254-0627 or visit the website, 9-11lemonaid.com.

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Play and a pint

Sunday, Sept. 11 at 1 p.m., Magic Tree Bookstore, 141 N. Oak Park Ave.: Longtime Oak Park children’s performer Jim Gill will celebrate his latest CD release with a party and concert. RSVP and more info: 708-848-0770.

Wednesday, Sept. 7 at 7 p.m., Connolly’s backroom: Fresh off their successful summer productionss al of Pygmalion and Taming of the Shrew, Festival Theatre is picking up where they left off last April with a monthly reading series at Connolly’s Public House, 1109 South Blvd., Oak Park. They’re following last spring’s Playboy of the Western World by John Millington Synge with Educating Rita by Willy Russell. Performance starts at 7 p.m. Seating is first-come, first-served. Doors to the backroom open at 5 p.m. for early-bird seating and dining. $10 cover includes a CALENDAR EVENTS complimentary drink ticket. ■ 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 Thursday, Sept. 8 at 7:30 p.m., by noon of the Wednesday before it 16th St. Theater in Berwyn: needs to be published. We can’t publish Carroll Gardens is the first play of the new season at everything, but we’ll do our best to 16th Street Theater, 6420 16th St. in Berwyn. The feature the week’s highlights. production runs from Sept. 8 to Oct. 15. Showtimes are Thursdays and Fridays at 7:30 p.m., Saturdays at 4 Email calendar@wjinc.com. and 8 p.m. Info: www.16thstreettheater.org.

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Text and conTEXT Friday, Sept. 9 from 7-9 p.m., Oak Park Art League, 720 Chicago Avenue: The Oak Park Art League holds an opening reception this Friday night for its open-call, judged show titled, “conTEXTual,” which includes “2- and 3-dimensional work where text, readable or otherwise, is integral to the form, meaning or intent of the work of art.” The show runs through Friday, Oct. 6. For more information, call 708-386-9853 or visit www. oakparkartleague.org.

Library events Photo by Joe Mazza / brave lux

The Oak Park and River Forest public libraries are lively centers of shared learning, as indicated by the following: What do you see when you look at me? Women and aging – On Saturday, Sept. 10 from 2 to 4 p.m., Martha Holstein, author of Women Late in Life: Critical Perspectives on Gender and Age, will discuss “thorny issues related to gender and aging, including ageism, cultural

expectations, body image, caring at the end of life, chronic illness, Social Security, and caregiving.” Oak Park Public Library Veterans Room, 834 Lake St. Foreign film forum – On Saturday, Sept. 10 from 1 to 3 p.m., the River Forest Public Library hosts a screening and discussion of the film, The Seven Samurai (Part 1), as part of the Big Read program (Into the Beautiful North by Luis Alberto Urrea). Part 2 will be shown on Oct. 8. Snacks will be served. 735 Lathrop, River Forest. Call 708366-5205 or visit riverforestlibrary.org. Crossing Borders art exhibit – On Sunday, Sept. 11 from 3 to 5 p.m., a reception

will be held in the Oak Park Public Library gallery. Local artists have created work on the theme of immigration, in conjunction with the NEA Big Read program. The exhibit will run through Oct. 30 at 5 p.m. Screening of The Magnificent Seven – On Wednesday, Sept. 14 from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m., the NEA Big Read Film Festival kicks off with the film that inspires the main character of Into the Beautiful North to head north to the United States. Film historian Doug Deuchler introduces the 1960 western directed by John Sturges, starring Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen and Charles Bronson.

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ART BEAT

Kids who think in music By MIKE GROSSO

Contributing Author

hen I was a teenager, my dad stood over my bed and played the banjo. He wanted me to do chores, and I wanted to sleep. He won. It was problem-solving at its finest, and easier than arguing with a kid who hated dusting the house. I describe my mom to fellow Oak Parkers as the white-haired lady with the upright bass at the Farmers Market. Nine times out of 10 they know exactly who she is. Retired nurses who play instruments taller than they are tend to get noticed. The point here is that I come from a musical family. Parents love to tell their kids they can be whatever they want to be, but often choke on their words when their child wants to be a musician. My parents’ response, on the other hand, was to give me my first guitar lesson. I never went to music school (that was my brother’s path), but if I had, my parents wouldn’t have demanded the ever popular “backup plan,” which is a pretty clever way to tell your kids you expect them to fail. I went into elementary education and wrote children’s novels instead, and it took me years to land a job because I was submitting my resume to candidate pools that numbered in the thousands. Not once during that awful shuffling of the job search deck did anyone tell me I needed a backup plan. I get it. Making a living in music is hard. But is that really the message we want to send? “Kids, it’s hard to be an artist, so it’s not worth doing. Do something easy instead, like astrophysics.” All careers are hard if you do them well. Some are more lucrative than others, but apparently I missed the memo on how to be rich and miserable. Maybe that’s why I love writing and teaching, and am fond of the phrase: “You can be anything you want to be, but you’d better work your heart out for it.” That’s why I wrote I AM DRUMS. I wrote the first two pages three separate times — in the first-person voice of an 11-year-old girl who tapped on her desk in school and wished for a headphone jack in her head so other people could plug in and listen to the things she didn’t know how to say. I gave it to my wife, and asked what I always ask: “Is this terrible?” She confirmed it was not. “Keep going,” she said. “I want to know more about her.” So I kept going. I learned that her name was Sam, and she could barely contain the music inside of her. She heard rhythms in her head all day long. She loved drums more than anything, but her dad had recently lost his job and didn’t want his daughter to have an “expensive hobby.” She made her own

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drum set out of books and newspapers, but her school’s music program — her only opportunity to study music — was a victim of budget cuts. I AM DRUMS became the story of a kid with a musical fire that nobody could put out. She’s forced to learn the drums in secret, raising money and finding private lessons without her parents — who most certainly would have wanted a backup plan — finding out. It sold to Egmont USA with a pending release date of September 2015. Everything was great until Egmont shut its U.S. doors, orphaning I AM DRUMS and a whole host of other books slated for release. The entire staff, including my fellow band geek editor who loved Sam just as much as I did, was out of a job the following week. Back to square one. No publisher. No book set to hit shelves. Sam wouldn’t have given up, so I didn’t either. My agent put I AM DRUMS back on submission, and it landed safely at Clarion Books, a Houghton Mifflin Harcourt imprint that is definitely not going anywhere. I couldn’t be happier with where I’ve landed. On Sept. 6, when I AM DRUMS finally hits shelves, I will officially be a teacher and a children’s author. The worst of these jobs is still greater than the best of any other. I still don’t have a backup plan.

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The quiet, astounding Joe Mendrick

oe Mendrick died over the Labor Day weekend. Late Sunday or early Monday. Suddenly and at home we are told. Details to follow. Mendrick was Oak Park’s police chief for a decade — 1991-2001. He also served twice as acting chief during the 1980s after a pair of chiefs hired from outside the department to bring reforms and improvements either wore out or flamed out. When he got the nod permanently, I had my doubts, which I expressed plainly to him and in the paper. I thought he was the ultimate insider and that necessary changes to the department were unlikely. He proved me wrong, substantially, regularly wrong. It was Chief Mendrick who really launched community policing in the village. Newly installed Chief Anthony Ambrose told me Tuesday that Mendrick also brought police officers into our schools for the first time. I remembered that on a department with a number of black officers but none in command roles, it was Mendrick who went to the Chicago Police Department to hire Edward Buckney, the first black deputy chief, and Ambrose said, he quickly promoted future chief Rick Tanksley and Keenan Williams to posts as commanders. “When we talk about diversity, Chief Mendrick was ahead of his time. He was one who never liked the limelight,” said Ambrose. Slow-talking, always a little sleepy-eyed, Chief Mendrick did more than the brash outsiders to bring this department into a new day.

me were the well-meaning remarks that an Oak Park kid should steer clear of Austin entirely. And it brought me back to my much different and very much the same childhood in Oak Park where the other half of most families lived right next door in Austin. There was the summer night in the mid-1960s when, for reasons I don’t recall, the Haley kids were invited to join the Cullen kids and visit Grandma Cullen. She was a gracious old Irish woman, dressed better than the norm, always looked fresh from the beauty shop. And she lived in a handsome three-story apartment building at Jackson and Central. I didn’t know much about apartments. We were single-family all the way over on South Taylor. But Mrs. Cullen’s apartment was huge, lovely and filled with windows overlooking beautiful Columbus Park. We didn’t know it then, but Austin was about at the end of its long Irish, Italian, Greek era. Outrageous racial change was less than a half decade away, with a massive abandonment by these seemingly deeply-rooted families who buckled under fears stoked by a greedy and immoral real estate industry, whose Democratic machine, Catholic Church and social leadership failed them entirely. The result from 1969 through the 1970s was a wholesale remaking of Austin. Middle- and working-class whites were gone. Middle-, working- and lower-income African Americans arrived, often in overpriced houses they could not afford. Retail and institutional anchors, including banks and grocers and funeral homes, fled after the King riots just to the east. Then, just as before where an Italian family saw Oak Park as the step-up community, many new black Austin families saw Oak Park as the step up to decent schools, safer streets. Sacrifices were made, apartments in Oak Park were secured, kids were enrolled in District 97 and District 200 schools. And just as before, the connection between Oak Park and Austin was real, familial and positive. While white Oak Parkers built a physical and psychological wall between the two communities, for many black families it was just that short pull back and forth. This is something we need to keep in mind as we remember Elijah Sims and as we work harder to build wider connections in what is, by any definition, a dangerous time in our neighboring community.

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Young Elijah and the Oak Park-Austin connection It was just a week ago that Elijah Sims, an OPRF senior, was murdered in Austin. Since then he has been mourned and eulogized, his short life celebrated and much commented on. A few comments on Facebook were of the hectoring stereotype variety. He must have been a gang member, must have been dealing drugs to be on the street in Austin at 10 p.m. — that despite the unusually clear declarations from Chicago police that Sims and his companion were absolutely not gang affiliated. Then there were comments from locals who recognized him from his job at Pete’s Fresh Market, one from an Oak Park woman who said that Sims had gone out of his way to help her at the store just a few days earlier. But the comments that stood out to

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ABANDONED HOME: Jay and Robin Arbetman say the home next to theirs has been vacant since 2014 and poses a danger to the neighborhood.

Residents push Oak Park to fix ‘zombie property’ By TIMOTHY INKLEBARGER Staff Reporter

The single-family home just south of Oak Parkers Jay and Robin Arbetman has been empty since 2014 and suffers from overgrown trees and weeds, a collapsing fence and occasional squatters. That’s just a few of the problems with the residence at 637 S. Humphrey Ave., according to Jay Arbetman, who tells Wednesday Journal he’s been trying to get the Village of Oak Park to do something about the vacant building since early 2015. Arbetman said he’s called Oak Park police multiple times since 2014, when the building was vacated by its previous owners, to report squatters – mainly kids, he says – who periodically break the lock off the back door to enter the house. “[Police have] been here half a dozen times [over the last couple of year],” he said. “They would arrive and the locks are broken.” He said some police who have arrived have expressed concern with entering the house because the back porch and floor inside the residence appear unstable. The prevalence of so-called “zombie properties” is largely a result of buildings, both residential and commercial, that were abandoned following the world financial crisis of 2008. Those buildings go empty but get stuck in the foreclosure process for years, leaving the property to deteriorate and become an eyesore, or worse, to the neighborhood. Arbetman said that in addition to people entering the house, the ceilings inside the structure are caving in and “a terrible odor” is emitting from the building. He argues that the building poses a threat to his adjacent home, noting that a recent storm caused an overgrown tree to fall onto his property, punching a hole into the roof of his garage. The Arbetmans worry that the building

could easily catch on fire and spread to their own home. They continued their efforts to have the village take action in the spring, when they were directed to Drew Williams-Clark, neighborhood services manager for the village. Williams-Clark declined to discuss the specifics of the Arbetmans’ situation, but said in a telephone interview that the village strengthened its vacant building ordinance in November, shortening the amount of time a building can unoccupied before it can be declared vacant from two years to six months. The new ordinance also allows Oak Park’s building inspectors “to declare buildings vacant that have more than one property maintenance violations that has not been addressed,” according to a village memo. Williams-Clark said that although Oak Park does have some problem vacant buildings, there are probably no more than 100 commercial and residential vacant buildings village-wide. “The reality is the real estate market in Oak Park is hot,” he said. He said the village is going through the process of inspecting the vacant home on Humphrey. Inspections cost $500 and the mortgagee also is required to pay a $200 registration fee if the building is declared vacant. The village can issue citations and fines, the amounts of which are determined by an administrative law judge, if the inspection results in building-code violations, Williams-Clark said. If the village can legally prove that the building poses a potential safety risk, then they can pay the cost of the necessary improvements and place a high-priority lien on the property, meaning whomever ultimately purchases the building will have to pay the those costs. “The vacant building ordinance and highpriority liens are the two tools we have in the toolbox,” he said.

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LemonAid proceeds to support PING By DEBORAH KADIN Contributing Reporter

Some 17 years ago, parents and teachers at Irving Elementary School in Oak Park noticed that the band and orchestra programs at their school did not reflect the community they lived in. They wondered if one barrier to participation was that some students just might not have been able to afford the cost of musical instruments. Their work led to the formation of Providing Instruments for the Next Generation, or PING, a community initiative that opens the world of music to low-income fourththrough 12th-graders in Oak Park and River Forest public schools. PING and the Oak Park River Forest Food Pantry will be the beneficiaries of the 15th Annual LemonAid, a charity fundraiser in River Forest started in 2002 in memory of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. LemonAid has raised about $180,000 since that time, money that has benefited more than a dozen organizations. This year’s event will be from 3 to 7 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 11, in the 700 block of Bonnie Brae, between Chicago Avenue and Oak Street. Several different PING groups will perform between 4 and 5 p.m. “All of … our children have gone through the music programs in Oak Park and River Forest. We have seen the value of [music] in our own kids; all kids should have the opportunity if they want it,” said Judy Weik, an Oak Park resident who serves as president of the organization’s board of directors. Students who qualify for free and reducedlunch programs are eligible to take part in PING. They also must be enrolled in instrumental music programs in at their school. PING loans students an instrument for the school year for $20 per family. A total of 125 students were in the program last year; as many as 70 renewed in the spring. More than 200 instruments – saxophones, celli, violins, trombones, flutes and percussion -- are in the organization’s inventory, which is built largely through individual donations. PING also partners with Austin Music, which offers supplies and repairs at a discount. A mentoring program enables sixththrough eighth-graders to get twice-monthly instruction on their instrument from advanced Oak Park and River Forest High School musicians who play the same instrument. PING has allowed Donna Callender’s three children to have a breadth and depth of musical opportunities. They can watch their siblings play in ensembles, attend music summer camp and witness different musical performances. Callender, an Oak Parker who teaches traditional West African and Caribbean dance, said she knows that in teaching arts through education, she sees a difference in learning

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Perahje Cannon and his mentor, Max Lazarus, at the end-of-year Showcase. patterns and temperament in children. She has seen it in her own children. Her biggest reward has been how playing an instrument has helped her older son, Hasani Cannon, grow in self-confidence. She loves that they are able to have these wonderful life experiences, and these experiences will be theirs for the rest of their lives. “This is an investment in our children and giving them opportunities that they never would have been able to receive,” she said. Since he was little, Hasani, a 16-year-old junior at OPRF, wanted to play the African drums that are used in his mother’s performances. Since he started with PING in fourth grade, his interest in music has only grown and broadened. A percussionist in the marching band and wind symphony, Hasani said he has branched out to learn different instruments and has been able to immerse himself in the cultures of the percussion instruments he has learned. Music, he said, has helped him intellectually and he’s also given a lot of thought to the way music affects people, in the way they act and speak, walk and talk and just the way they “put themselves out there.” Music has this great ability to bringing people together.” For Perahje Cannon, a 14-year-old freshman at OPRF who plays the alto saxophone in the jazz band, music has offered him the chance to branch out into different instruments as well. But it’s also allowed him to give some thought to how he wants to complete his academic, musical and his life goals. He has begun to consider giving back to Blue Lake by becoming a counselor. “It’s changed my life,” said Perahje, who would like to become a producer and recording artist. “I’ve made so many friends from music and gained so many opportunities from music. It allows me to keep exploring music and instruments. Without [PING], I’d not be into music as much as I am. I’d never given [music] a thought if PING wasn’t in the picture. It’s been eye-opening.” For more information, email the organization at pingoprf@gmail.com, or call 708-5243001, ext. 2995

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TWO COMMUNITIES Separate, unequal from page 1 racial inequalities. “I live in Austin, a few blocks from here,” said Rev. Marshall Hatch, who pastors a church on the West Side, during a Sept. 1 press conference convened by Cook County Commissioner Richard Boykin (1st District) inside of the Quincy Community Center in Austin. “Four blocks west is Oak Park, [where they’re] literally undergoing a construction boom in condos,” said Hatch before a throng of local journalists and TV camera crews. “It’s amazing. If [Sims] had been standing four blocks from here, he would be alive, and that’s what’s so alarming about what geography means. The only people saying money and resources don’t matter are people with resources.” Sims had been standing outside with friends last Monday night on the corner of Quincy Street and South Lotus Avenue in Austin when he was shot by an unidentified assailant. He died a day later on Aug. 30. A 15-year-old who was also shot is reportedly in stable condition. On Aug. 31, hundreds of people converged in Scoville Park, flanked east and west by those cranes and new condos Hatch referenced, for a candlelight vigil for Sims on what would have been the teenager’s 17th birthday. The Austin preacher could’ve pointed out more development to deepen the contrast. Half a mile east lies the Ridgeland Common Recreational Complex bathed in light, two years removed from a roughly $23 million makeover. It features an outdoor aquatic center, an NHL regulation-size ice rink and synthetic turf fields. The Quincy Community Center, by comparison, is operated out of Mary Brown’s backyard, inside of her garage, which is down the street from where Sims was shot. Brown said she established the center in 2010 to provide area young people with a safe space, a literal refuge from the violence of a community where economic development is more often described in terms of loss. According to numerous reports, August was the deadliest month in Chicago in two decades — 76 people killed and more than 370 wounded. This year, at least 2,700 people have been shot in Chicago — the overwhelming majority of them African Americans on the West and South sides. “In a world-class city like Chicago, there is no reason to have Third World conditions where unemployment rivals that of the Great Depression,” said Boykin, who lives in Oak Park and represents a significant portion of the West Side and the western suburbs, adding that there has been a dearth of economic development on the West Side for 50 years. Boykin and other speakers checked off numerous businesses that have closed,

GRIEVING: Friends of OPRF student Elijah Sims, who was murdered while in nearby Austin last week, during an Aug. 31 vigil in Oak Park on what would’ve been Sims’ 17th birthday. Below left, Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. embraces Sims’ mother, Sharita Galloway, during a Sept. 1 press conference in Austin on the same block where her son was killed. WILLIAM CAMARGO/Staff Photographer

including a Nabisco plant on the Southwest Side that once employed hundreds of people in communities like Austin in jobs that paid livable wages. More than 270 workers at the plant were laid off in March. Some of those jobs will end up in Mexico. “The victims of this violence disproportionately come from communities that face crushing economic and social challenges,” said Boykin, who announced that he would be co-hosting, along with the Rev. Jesse Jackson’s Operation PUSH and other organizations, a series of town halls on the violence throughout the West and South sides. “For example, in West Garfield Park, per capita income is $10,951 and 40.3 percent of residents are living below the poverty line,” Boykin noted. “The unemployment rate in West Garfield Park is 25.2 percent.” “Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction,” said Jackson, who attended the Sept. 1 press conference. “There’s not enough food and access to health care. Worse than the crisis is that there’s no apparent plan to stop it. There’s no apparent plan for reconstruction.” Numerous Oak Park residents who were

interviewed also pointed out the invisible divide separating their community and that of their neighbors to the east. “Oak Parkers live in a community that has a metaphorical wall built around it,” said OPRF teacher Anthony Clark, who, like Sims, moved with his family to Oak Park when he was younger. He now heads up the Suburban Unity Alliance, a nonprofit he formed to help root out various forms of discrimination in the suburbs. “This community has operated for too long under the notion that we are immune to the plight of our urban neighbors,” said Clark, whose niece was fatally shot in Austin last August. “Oak Parkers shouldn’t feel guilty for having the ability to live in such a community; however, I believe living in such a community should come with a philanthropic desire to help those within our community as well as [outside of it] to have better experiences,” he said. John Colucci, an Oak Park middle school teacher and River Forest native, echoed some of Clark’s points. “It’s sobering to say our students can hang out at block parties and not worry

about being shot or losing their best friends from senseless acts,” Colucci said. “It’s a privilege we have and we need to recognize that privilege.” Jeffrey Leef, a River Forest radiologist and Republican nominee for the 7th District Congressional seat currently held by U.S. Rep. Danny K. Davis, cited Chicago’s highly segregated nature as a contributing factor to the gun violence, which he noted shouldn’t be considered an isolated phenomenon to residents living west of Austin Blvd. “There has to be somebody to start a conversation of not just getting guns off the street,” Leef said. “You have to go to the core of the problem and ask why is there this anger in the impoverished communities? Chicago is so unique with the number of segregated towns and communities that are all-white and all-black. What’s led to this? I don’t view [Chicago’s gun violence crisis] as something coming closer and closer to me. It’s just wrong [wherever it is].” To some OPRF parents and students, Sims’ murder made Chicago’s violence resonate on an almost visceral level, making real what some people may only perceive as headlines on the nightly news. “[Sims’s death] just hit me,” said Amy Renzulli, owner of the performing arts organization School of Rock Oak Park. “I’m around teenagers all day long, so I kind of feel like a mother to all of them,” she said. “My parents were activists for equality and desegregation when I was a child, so I’ve always cared about these issues. I think Oak Park is a wonderful place, always has been, but we can’t rest. We have to participate in fighting for things that are fair for everyone.” “I have a lot of friends who cried when they heard [about Sims’ death] and they’d never met him,” said OPRF junior Lauren Flowers, 16, who attended Sims’ vigil. “Everybody’s just really upset,” said Flowers, adding that her uncle was shot to death on Chicago’s South Side. “I think in Oak Park, we’re very sheltered and a lot of people don’t realize what’s happening right across Austin, but now, since more people are coming from the West Side, it’s happening closer to home.” For Charles Donaldson, an OPRF student who was friends with Sims, the problem involves more than geography; it’s also a problem of being an African American male — on either side of Austin Boulevard. “This city, this state, this country is still a walking war zone for black boys and if they can’t make you a soldier, they’ll have no problem turning you into a casualty,” Donaldson said during a spoken word performance at his friend’s vigil. “They’ll have no problem turning your name into a hashtag,” he said at a soulful, sing-song staccato pace. “And we’re tired of being told not to be upset, to cheer up, to not be mad. We’re not black and angry; we’re hunted and scared.” CONTACT: michael@oakpark.com

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Oak Park archive goes digital from page 1 lished works — also struggled to abide by the state of Michigan’s fish and game laws. Following Hemingway’s sophomore year, his father was so pleased with young Ernest receiving a 90 percent in his zoology class that “he let myself and another equally shady character hike up through Michigan during the summer and was forced to wire money to keep us from the clutches of the law,” Hemingway wrote. “$14.75 and costs satisfied the justice of the peace and we learned that it is foolish to leave game shot out of season in an open boat. Since then I have been very cautious and the calaboose has known me no more.” That same summer, Hemingway also learned “French cuss words,” “illegal ways of catching trout,” and “knowledge of the habits of every game warden in Charlevoix, Emmett and Sheboygan counties,” he wrote. Hemingway admits it all and more in the paper, which is part of the “Hacking Hemingway: Cracking the Code to the Vault” digital archive, recently made available online through the Illinois Digital Archives. Insight into Hemingway’s life as a young man — as well as that of the Hemingway family — abounds in hundreds of never-

OAKPARK.COM | RIVERFOREST.COM before-seen photos, letters and works of artwork from the Oak Park Public Library’s Hemingway collection and documents from the Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park. Leigh Tarullo, curator of special collections at Oak Park Public Library, said the new digital archive, which contains 349 documents, is dedicated primarily to Hemingway’s formative years in the early 1900s. “They grew up just down the street [from the Main Library] in Oak Park, so we wanted to focus on Ernest and [sister] Marcelline and kind of what Oak Park rk was like when they were growing up,” Tarullo said during a recent tour of the Hemingway collection, which is housed on the third floor of thee main library. The archive was made possible through an $86,900 grant from Illinois Secretary of State and State Librarian Jesse White. The library partnered with the Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park and Elementary School District 97 on the “Hacking Hemingway”” project, which aims to provide de the material to middle-school hool students and teachers to “offer ffer a unique look at Hemingway, his local ties, and his literary contributions.” The documents available through the archive include hundreds of photos — the

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Ernest Hemingway class photo (left). Hemingway holding woodchuck E he shot in 1914 (above). archive is a treasure trove archi of images of Oak Park in the ima early 1900s 190 — as well as artwork, classroom notes and short stories written by Marcelline and class papers by Ernest.

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Easy, Ernest In his OPRF High School essay, “Confessions,” Hemingway mentions wanting to visit the North Pole and describes himself as a malcontent who found it difficult to follow the rules set out for him. His teacher, identified only as M. Dixon, admonished the young dreamer to go easy on himself and leave the judgments to those around him. “I detect in this interesting account your old love of making yourself appear much worse than you are,” Dixon wrote. “Don’t put your own estimate on yourself, even if it’s a bad one — they will make their own value anyway. I’ve enjoyed having you for a pupil these two years immensely and shall always be intensely interested in your career. If it’s the North Pole, I hope you’ll reach it.” M. Dixon Photos provided by Hacking Hemingway Archive

GOING DIGITAL: Ernest and Marcelline Hemingway in winter attire holding hands, 1903 (above). Looking north on North Oak Park Avenue from North Boulevard, 1899 (below). Cutout of Ernest Hemingway at six years old, 1905 (right). is on display in the archive. In a love poem to a girl named Annette, Hemingway penned: “Your matchless grace and your sensuous loveliness, and beauty strikes me dumb. So that loving words I would to you address, stick on my tongue. The things I’d say to you Annette, (with all constancy) Oh god I love you so when I would speak I do forget, and murmur some inane banality! I’d gladly walk thru hell with you, or give my life.” These items and thousands more are usually only accessible by visiting the Hemingway Archive at the library, 834 Lake St. The physical archive also includes documents about legendary Oak Park figures, such as architect Frank Lloyd Wright and author Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarullo said the physical archive also includes a climatecontrolled room where a museum-grade vault houses the rarest and most valuable items in the collections. “The vault contains items from both the library special collections and the Hemingway archive,” she said during the tour. “Here in the sarcophagus, we have the Frank Lloyd Wright collections, including the Wasmus portfolio [early drawings by Wright], the originals of our Frank Lloyd Wright photograph collections — so these include sketches and renderings of houses and buildings Wright would have designed and then a few odds and ends letters from Ernest Hemingway to the library.”

These works are likely to be part of the library’s future digitization efforts, Tarullo said, but the documents are currently available by making an appointment to come to the archive reading room. “You can give us a call and we will set up an appointment for you,” Tarullo said. “We will kind of ask you what you’d like to see, what you’re interested in researching, so we can be prepared when you come in to have those materials available.” Emily Reiher, an archivist at the library, noted that the archive — most of which has not yet been made available online — is more than just hundreds of papers, books and other written material. “There are a lot of fun 3-dimensional objects here,” she said, highlighting a violin owned by Marcelline. “There are also costumes, hats and clothing that were worn by Marcelline and Grace Hall Hemingway [Ernest and Marcelline’s mother], and, of course, there are some paintings of Grace Hall Hemingway that were done at the Oak Park Art League.” CONTACT: tim@oakpark.com

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DIGITAL ARCHIV ARCHIVE: Confessions is an Ernest Hemingway in high essay by Ernes school (top). Ernest and Marcelline h l (t ) E Hemingway in Oak Park, 1918 (middle left). Ernest Hemingway holding a gun (middle right). Owl-themed Valentine by Marcelline Hemingway, 1906 (overlay). Lake Street under snow, 1894 (bottom left). Butterfly artwork by Marcelline Hemingway (above right).

Hemingway online Visit Wednesday Journal’s website at www.oakpark.com to view our video tour of the Hemingway Archive at the Oak Park Public Library. Our online story also includes links to the digital initiative Hacking Hemingway: Cracking the Code to the Vault.

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Julian instructor named Illinois Teacher of the Year finalist John Colucci among 10 educators shortlisted for top honor

the spoken-word program, reinforced Colucci’s point during an interview with Wednesday Journal last January. “I think, at their ages in particular, the students are just beginning to define themselves and to speak out about who they are,” Sullivan, 33, said. “There aren’t a lot of platforms By MICHAEL ROMAIN Staff Reporter for them to get up in front of a group of their peers and say, ‘This is who I am.’ When they When Julian Middle School teacher John get that opportunity, they light up.” Colucci, 29, found out he’d been selected as Colucci said much of his teaching is ina finalist for Illinois Teacher of the Year, he formed by the River Forest-Oak Park area. couldn’t quite bring himself to believe it. “Having grown up here, you don’t realize “I’ve been wracking my brain thinking what a cool place this is until you go away,” about why they selected me,” Cohe said. “I’m always trying to lucci said in a recent phone interwork into my curriculum why view. “I didn’t get into teaching to Oak Park is such a special place. be showered with praise. I think Going off to college and realizing, I’m just like any other teacher out ‘Wow, there’s only one black kid there who cares about their kids.” in my dorm? I didn’t grow up like Colucci, a native of River Forthis.’ When you have the opportuest, said he learned about the honnity to sit in the same classroom or over the summer, a few weeks and breathe the same air as a kid before school started. He was at who is different than you, who the beach when he got a call from didn’t grow up like you … that Julian Principal Todd Fitzgerald, makes what I do all the better.” JOHN COLUCCI who told him the news. That, and a certain kind of attenJulian teacher Nominated by staff members tiveness that Colucci says is anothat the Oak Park Education Founer characteristic of his teaching. dation (OPEF) and his colleagues at Julian, “I would say that I’m an advocate for all my the language arts teacher was lauded for pas- students,” he said. “I’m all about learning their sionately cultivating each student’s voice, names by the first week. I take the time to do among other qualities that endear him to co- that. Little things like that make kids realize workers and community members. you care about them and want them to learn.” One of Colucci’s signature achievements The winner of the Illinois Teacher of the within District 97 is his role in creating the Year award will be announced at a banquet spoken-word programs at Julian and Brooks in Normal on Oct. 22. middle schools. He collaborated with the In a recent statement, D97 Superintendent OPEF to implement the programs. Carol Kelley said the whole district will be “I wish I’d known about spoken word ear- rooting him on. lier,” Colucci said. “I went the athletic route. “John is an outstanding teacher who is There are students who need a voice early truly deserving of this prestigious honor,” and who need to be writing poetry. I’ve dedi- she said. “His strong commitment to educacated a lot of my time to getting that pro- tion, passion for learning and tireless advogram off the ground.” cacy for children have had a profound and Dan Sullivan, a spoken-word artist who lasting impact on his students both in and earlier this year was a part-time poet-in-res- out of the classroom.” idence at one of the middle schools through CONTACT: michael@oakpark.com

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District House Sales Hit 25%

fter only one week on the Multiple Listing Service, the District House condominiums have already achieved unit sales equal to 25%. Oak Park’s newest luxury condominium building, located at the corner of Lake Street and Euclid Avenue, has proven to be one of the most anticipated buildings to hit the local market in years.

living with modern amenities in each of its three bedroom, two bath units. With amenities such as green roof terraces, floorto-ceiling windows, high-end cabinetry and appliances, and heated, private garage parking, District House offers unparalleled style and convenience, not to mention an unbeatable location in the heart of downtown Oak Park’s Hemingway District.

Cory Robertson of Ranquist Development says the sales are indicative of the level of interest in high-end condominiums in Oak Park from a variety of different groups of home buyers.

District House recently celebrated the grand opening of its Oak Park sales center. Located at 805 Lake Street in the Scoville Square building, the District House Sales Center is now open daily from 12 p.m. until 6 p.m. At the sales center, interested buyers can view floorplans and large renderings of both exterior and interior. They will also be able to view photographs of completed condominium units previously developed by Ranquist Development.

People who have lived a significant part of their lives in Oak Park and are looking to downsize from their large single family homes still want to stay in the community. District House offers them the opportunity to live a maintenance-free lifestyle with all the space and amenities they’ve come to expect in a home. City buyers are also interested in the urban suburban feel of Oak Park. Everyone appreciates the great schools, recreation amenities, the Farmer’s Market and the parks, and the fact that you can also walk to great restaurants, the Metra and the Green Line.

From the beginning of the process, District House has proven to be anything but a cookie cutter development. Through the collaboration of two architecture firms, Seattle-based Miller Hull and Chicago-based Northworks, the striking building holds its own in a village renowned for architectural accolades. The LEED certified building will offer open floor plan

The units vary in size from 1,700 to 2,000 square feet and are priced from the upper $500,000s to the mid$800,000s. More information can be found at www. districthouseoakpark.com, or contact Frank Vihtelic of Jameson Sotheby’s International Realty at 312-451-7903 for a detailed presentation.

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Cops: Man wearing ‘Scream’ mask robs woman

An Oak Park woman was robbed at gunpoint by a man wearing a white “Scream” mask and black clothing in the 500 block of South Humphrey Avenue on Aug. 30 at 9:40 p.m., according to police. The offender reportedly came into the woman’s garage as she was getting out of her vehicle, displayed a black semi-automatic handgun and said, “Give me everything.” The victim handed over an orange purse that contained a Samsung tablet, an Apple iPhone, a Nexus cellphone, credit cards and $200 in cash. The loss was an estimated $1,700.

build and wore a gray sleeveless shirt and black shorts.

Burglary arrest

Residential burglary

Michael Copper Jr., 18, of the 4800 block of West Potomac Avenue in Chicago, was arrested on Aug. 31 at 11:39 a.m. and charged with burglary. No additional information was immediately available.

A residence was burglarized in the 900 block of North Ridgeland Avenue on Sept. 5 sometime around 4 p.m. The offender reportedly entered through an unlocked front porch window and stole a black 32inch Samsung flat-screen television and a pair of red Beats headphones. The loss was an estimated. $570.

Public indecency Someone described as a white man approximately between the ages of 50 and 60 exposed himself in the 300 block of South Grove Avenue on Aug. 30 at about 8 p.m. The man reportedly stood about 6 feet tall, had short, gray balding hair, a medium

Weapons arrest Tazadia Carter, 22, of the 400 block of North Harding in Chicago, was arrested in the 900 block of South Lombard on Aug. 31 at 9:49 a.m. and charged with one count of aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, three counts of aggravated assault with a firearm and battery. No additional information was immediately available.

Attempted residential burglary A residence in the 700 block of South Taylor was the target of an attempted burglary, sometime between 6 p.m. on Sept. 2 and 1:54 p.m. on Sept. 3. The offender

removed an air-conditioning unit and screen window in a failed attempt to enter the residence.

Theft A piece of construction equipment was stolen near Lake and River Oaks on Aug. 26 in River Forest. Police were called out at 7:08 a.m. on a report that a Honda generator had been stolen. The generator had been locked to a tree overnight, but the lock was cut.

Assault arrest A 58-year-old Maywood man was arrested for allegedly assaulting a River Forest police officer on Aug. 29. At 5:10 p.m., the police officer reported observing a man blocking the front door to the 7-Eleven at 1140 N. Harlem Ave. and being aggressive with customers trying to enter the establishment. When the officer detained the subject for further investigation, he reportedly threatened the officer, spit at him and took up a fighting stance. He was charged with assault.

Retail theft A

50-year-old

Chicago

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arrested on Aug. 31 at 11:14 a.m. at Whole Foods Market, 7245 Lake St., after store security reportedly witnessed her leave the establishment without paying for two bottles of liquor valued at a combined $62.

Aggravated battery to a peace officer A 24-year-old Chicago man was arrested in the 1100 block of North Boulevard, on Sept.1 at 5:58 p.m., and charged with aggravated battery to a peace officer, two counts of aggravated resisting arrest and one count of resisting arrest. No additional information was immediately available. These items, obtained from the Oak Park and River Forest police departments, came from reports, Aug. 26-Sept. 5, 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

River Forest radiologist on the ballot in congressional race Jeffrey Leef, 55, is an unconventional candidate By MICHAEL ROMAIN Editor

River Forest resident Jeffrey Leef, a University of Chicago radiologist, is an untypical candidate in an untypical election year. The lifelong Republican will be on the Nov. 8 ballot to challenge longtime 7th District Congressman Danny K. Davis, because, Leef said, the people deserve a choice. “I didn’t get into this until after this past primary,” said Leef, whose candidacy was challenged earlier this summer by 29th Ward Republican Committeewoman Fran Sapone. Sapone was ousted by the Cook County Republican Party for her support for numerous Democratic elected officials. “I went into the primary to vote and I saw all these positions where it was just one person running and I’m like, ‘This just isn’t right. I think there are a couple of things people can agree on, no matter their party affiliation. One is that, at the very least, we’re a two-party system and we have to take advantage of that. There really should

be two people running. I really felt strongly about that.” Leef ’s candidacy may be sanctioned by county Republicans, but during a recent phone interview, the 55-year-old political novice talked at times like an independent or an idealist running on symbolism. Leef said that he believes senators and congressmen should have term limits, the absence of which, he argued, has promoted dysfunction and complacency in Washington. He also railed against the tendency, which he said is rampant in both parties, to redraw legislative maps to create districts that are more favorable to candidates on their side. “Gerrymandering occurs in whatever party is strongest in the state, but the way the 7th District and the 4th District are drawn,” Leef said, “is the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever seen.” Leef said he’s suggesting that anyone who wants to donate to his campaign instead give the money to Opportunity Knocks in Oak Park, a nonprofit that services people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. “I absolutely want to win,” Leef said, when asked if, considering that strategy, he intended on seriously competing against Davis, who had more than $341,000 in available cash as of last month, according to opense-

“Am I the underdog? That’s an understatement. Running against any incumbent is an uphill battle.” JEFFREY LEEF

University of Chicago radiologist crets.org. A search through State Board of Elections records reveal no contributions to Leef ’s candidacy. “I still think that at the local level, people can make a difference,” said Leef. “I think there’s more we can do. Locally is where things need to start. Am I the underdog? That’s an understatement. Running against any incumbent is an uphill battle.” Leef describes himself as a fiscal conservative who is socially liberal. He said he’s believed in gay marriage since high school. “There are conservative Republicans who refer to me as a RINO,” he said. “A Republican in Name Only.” On gun control, Leef said, he isn’t necessarily opposed to tougher regulations, which puts him closer to his Democratic challenger than to many of those in his party. “The bottom line is there are children dy-

ing, period,” Leef said, before also noting that Chicago’s deep history of segregation factors into why “there is so much anger in impoverished communities.” Where he may be most untypical is in his sharp contrast to the Republican looming over him at the top of the ticket. “This is the first time in my voting life that, sadly, I cannot vote for president,” Leef said. “I cannot vote for Clinton or Trump. I’m not going to compare myself to him in any way. There’s no way I’d vote for him.” Leef said the central theme of his campaign is education, adding that he would advocate for market-based education policies, such as a school voucher system. He also lambasted Davis for taking contributions from numerous teachers’ unions. When reached for comment, Davis offered Leef his blessings, but declined to speak about his Republican challenger in more detail. CONTACT: michael@oakpark.com

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Residents weigh in on D200 supt. search

The Sept. 1 public meetings were poorly attended, although numerous focus groups had been held throughout the day By MICHAEL ROMAIN Staff Reporter

During two sparsely attended public meetings held on Sept. 1, residents offered their input on what they’d like to see in District 200’s next permanent superintendent. The meetings, held simultaneously at Oak Park and River Forest High School and Roosevelt Middle School in River Forest, were facilitated by four consultants from BWP, the search firm the D200 school board hired earlier this year to help find former Supt. Steven Isoye’s successor. Isoye resigned from the district in May to take the superintendent’s position at Niles Township High Schools District 219. Interim Superintendent Joylynn Pruitt, who recently retired from a school district in Missouri, was hired in July to replace Isoye temporarily. BWP consultants said a permanent superintendent for D200 could

be seated by winter break. In Oak Park, about a dozen parents and community members offered their opinions about the search process and what the board should look for in prospective candidates. Many expressed concern about the short tenures of recent superintendents. Isoye stayed at D200 for six years. He was preceded by Attila J. Weninger, who stayed from 2007 to 2010, and Susan Bridge, who served for eight years from 1999 to 2007. “We have not had a superintendent stay an extended length of time since Dr. Susan Bridge,” said former D200 board member Barbara Fernandez. “Why are they coming and leaving? They’re leaving very quickly.” Sheila Harrison Williams, a BWP consultant who has served as superintendent of Hazel Crest School District 152 ½ said superintendent tenures typically last between 3 and 5 years. “My stay for 13 years in one district is very rare,” Williams said. “But stability in a superintendent is very important if you want success.” Many attendees in Oak Park said they want to see more community involvement and teacher collaboration from the next superintendent, areas in which many people said Isoye wasn’t especially strong. In addition, those in attendance said they would like to see a superintendent with the sufficient political skills to build consensus

among board members to get things done. They also said they valued a strong leader who could drive through a vision for the district without being authoritarian. The primary concern among those who attended the Oak Park meeting was the achievement, or education, gap. The BWP consultants said they’re conducting a national search for a candidate with proven success in tackling racial inequality within a district similar to D200. “We need somebody who has direct experience in the African American community,” said Oak Park Township Supervisor David Boulanger. “(That person) needs more than just a theoretical, distant relationship. They actually need to know and have had active experiences (with African Americans), so they understand the cultural differences, which are real.” The subject of the meetings themselves was also a point of discussion in both Oak Park and River Forest. Just one resident turned out at Roosevelt Middle School to share her views on the strengths and challenges facing OPRF. Asked why she had attended the River Forest event rather than the session being held at the high school, the resident said she had hoped that other villagers would have attended to articulate a River Forest-specific assessment of the school.

“We need somebody who has direct experience in the African American community, (That person) needs more than just a theoretical, distant relationship. They actually need to know and have had active experiences (with African Americans), so they understand the cultural differences, which are real.” DAVID BOULANGER

Oak Park Township Supervisor

At OPRF, the consultants said they’d been hosting meetings with various community stakeholders, including students, faculty members, board members and teachers, since at least 10 a.m. that day. They said they were confident that they would receive a sufficient volume and diversity of community input. In addition to the meetings, residents have been asked to participate in a survey, which is available online and on paper, until Sept. 11. CONTACT: michael@oakpark.com Dan Haley contributed to this story.

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magnificent gesture of humanitarianism: giving away food we in all honesty don’t need is not a major sacrifice in any sense. Still, as we moved up the el train stairs over State Street, e go out to eat sevwe saw the guys poring over the eral times a week. food. They looked happy and we Because I’m always felt good. looking for foods Last year, the forward-looking (ingredients, preparations, etc.) that I can write French made it a law that about, we tend to over-order so grocery stores would no longer that we get a broad sampling of be allowed to throw away edible a lot of dishes. That means we Local Dining food; it now has to be donated hardly ever can finish every& Food Blogger to those in need. [http://www. thing on the table. We always huffingtonpost.ca/2015/05/22/ take a doggy bag and because france-food-waste-grocerywe almost always take public stores_n_7422090.html]. Worldwide, about transportation, we can be assured that on the way home, we’ll always run into folks one-third of food goes uneaten. Giving who might not be able to remember when away doggy bags seems like an easy way they last had some decent chow. to redress, in whatever small way possible, Last week, returning from dinner, we had that wastefulness. maybe 2 pounds of uneaten food, good stuff, So when you’re out to eat, and you meat, vegetables, not all gnawed apart but haven’t finished all your food, consider havin pretty good shape, basically untouched and all packed neatly into carryout containing it wrapped up to go; then eat it yourself ers by the wait staff, who portioned it into or, perhaps better, give it away to someone three bags. Changing from the Red Line to who hasn’t eaten well in a while. the Green Line at State and Lake, we ran Postscript: I’m walking along Michiinto a street guy, one of the usual fellas who gan Avenue by the Water Tower around sit at busy intersections, sometimes with 9 p.m. on a recent Friday night. A family cardboard signs, hand-lettered to explain of four clean-cut tourist-types walk by a their plight. Carolyn handed the man a street guy (sitting on the sidewalk, with a bag of food. His eyes got big. A friend of sign explaining his sadness); the dad stops his came over, and we gave him a bag. “Hey, Jimmy’s coming, too,” the guy said and hands him a box, which the street as another man appeared from the crowd, guy opens and looks into. He says, “I hate backpack on his shoulder. We gave him the pizza.” Walking away, the dad notices me third bag. noticing the interaction and says, “I was The men looked at us and said, “Thank just trying to show the kids something.” you. Thank you, god bless you.” Overall, No doubt, he did. “Maybe the guy just gets this seems like a much more personal a lot of pizza,” I offered, which I suspect he exchange than just peeling off a few bucks probably does. and walking on. No one’s saying this is a

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or Hursts’ Berwyn Jewelers owner Kathy Hurst, every piece of jewelry she sells represents far more than the metal and gems. Hurst sees the pieces she offers her clients as an opportunity to pass on a story. On Saturday, September 17, Hurst will be sharing the story of fair trade gems through a Fair Trade Colored Gem Event. For her, it ties into a life-long mission of the store. Hurst recalls that her late husband Ron and his brother George purchased Berwyn Jewelers Incorporated from the estate of their former boss in 1967. She says that their day jobs in local schools informed the way they ran the business. “They both were educators, and as a way to differentiate themselves from other jewelers, they started working with designers who were branded so they could share a story over the counter with a customer. That story could be passed down with the piece of jewelry to the next generation. There are not a lot of things like that which endure, but we try to pass along something that lasts: both the gemstone and the story that goes with it.” Hurst, who began working at the store while in high school, has carried on that message in the store. At a jewelry seminar, she was inspired by one of the speakers, Eric Braunwart of Columbia Gem House. “I wasn’t really aware of the fair trade gem market before this. It made so much sense to me that you would want to buy a piece of merchandise that is not only beautiful but that it also transparent in the way that it got to you. Most people who buy jewelry are privileged, and I realized that in buying fair trade gems, they might want to share that privilege with someone less fortunate.” Braunwart, who will be hosting the Colored Gem Event with Hurst, has been involved with fair trade gems for more than sixteen years. He recalls that a trip to Madagascar on behalf of the World Bank in 2001 informed his firm’s move into the fair trade market. “Madagascar had recently been found to be a huge trove of gemstones, and I was tasked with how to use gemstones and mining as a way to alleviate poverty.” Braunwart took inspiration from that trip and turned his business’ focus onto sustainability. “It changed the way we do business. It’s not just

Hursts’ Berwyn Jewelers, Inc. is located at 6418 Cermak Rd., Berwyn, IL. For questions or to make an appointment during the event, please call 708.788.0880.

the positive, such as price and the beauty of the stones that you consider. We also consider the negatives: how was the stone obtained, where it comes from, how was it produced?” While he estimates that focusing on fair trade sources cut his potential sources for gemstones by three quarters, Braunwart says the difference his business and its partners help make in the communities, from safe mining practices to providing schools and wells, adds immeasurably to the value of the gems he sources. “Fair trade sustainability and transparency are technical goals because focusing on these ensures that the people who are providing your gemstones are not harmed from the industry. The romance comes into the story when you learn about the people and the places where these gems come from.” On Saturday September 17 from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Hurst and Braunwart will share the story of fair trade gems at a trunk show at Hursts’ Berwyn Jewelers. Braunwart will provide information on the sources of stones and customers will be able to see a variety of fair trade products. Braunwart says that some of the favorite stones include the rare pink to orange padparadsha sapphires as well as green, sea foam, yellow and blue sapphires from Malawi. Customers will be able to purchase loose stones or already completed pieces. Hurst, Columbia Gem house expert, Eric Phillips and Hurst’s expert bench jeweler will also be on hand to sketch custom designs for purchasers of loose stones. Hurst welcomes customers to attend the event and believes the ethical message will resonate with others as it has with her. “This is a limited opportunity to buy gems that are beautiful and contribute to the world.”

Spotlight On Fair Trade Gem Stones Saturday, September 17 9:30am to 5:30pm Hursts’ Berwyn Jewelers 6418 Cermak Rd., Berwyn, IL Visit OakPark.com/HurstsGemEvent to view photos of the sourced Gems!

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4th-6th Grade Boys Tuesdays and Thursdays 5-6:30 Starts: Sept. 13th Ends: Oct. 20th (12 sessions) • $195

Starts: Sept. 13th Ends: Oct. 20th Kindergarten-3rd Grade Boys & Girls Tuesdays & Thursdays 4:00-5:00 (12 sessions) • $150 • Each session will be composed of fun, individual and team contests, introducing each participant to the fundamentals of basketball. • Prior basketball experience is not required

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Part 1: Each session will start with a 17 minute shooting competition called “King of the Den” in which each player will be competing at their own pace against the clock for a chance to win a new pair of customized Wolfpack Shoes, to be determined. Part 2: Teams will be drawn at random and players will compete in one of 5 unique Wolfpack games including the “Top Dog Tournament,” “33 Jumpstreet,” “Triple Threat” and others. Scores will be recorded and averages will be taken for another opportunity to win custom Wolfpack prizes.

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Creating a ‘green bridge’ A River Forest gardener honored for landscape

By LACEY SIKORA

Contributing Reporter

iver Forest resident Ellen Steinberg recently became the first Illinois gardener to receive a Green Bridges certification from the Herb Society of America, a designation awarded to gardeners who promote biodiversity in the use of native herbs and environmentally-friendly gardening practices. For Steinberg, the recognition underscores her lifelong love of gardening.

Early influences Steinberg comes from a long line of Illinois gardeners; her family has lived in this area for generations. “My father grew up in River Forest,” she said, “and his father had a hobby of trying to hybridize a black tulip. It still hasn’t been done. My father was self-taught. When I was about fifteen, my father and mother bought a summer home in Galena and started gardening with a vengeance, and their garden was once featured in Better Homes and Garden Magazine.” Steinberg notes that by working alongside her parents in their Galena garden, she learned by doing, and she brought that practice to the River Forest house she has called home since 1981.

Inspiration and collaboration Steinberg’s home on Franklin Avenue was modeled after the Colonial Williamsburg home of Dr. Archibald Blair. When

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GREEN BRIDGE: Ellen Steinberg and Scott McAdam in Steinberg’s backyard, which was designated a National Wildlife Habitat in 1977. Steinberg moved into her home, she wrote to the staff at Williamsburg and asked them to send her photos of Blair’s house and was struck by the similarity. “I got a book on Williamsburg’s colonial gardens,” she recalled, “and saw what was standard for that period. I thought I could create a cottage garden and a kitchen garden.”

Steinberg looked for a local landscaper who could help her realize her plans, and happened upon Scott McAdam, president and co-owner of McAdam Landscaping. She says their 34-year relationship has been a big part of her life. See GARDENER on page 23

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1547 N. 18th Ave, Melrose Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Weichert Realtors Nickel Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $235,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2 1008 S. Highland Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $244,900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 1830 Wisconsin Ave, Berwyn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Baird & Warner Oak Park/River Forest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $279,900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 1051 Dunlop Ave, Forest Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Weichert Realtors Nickel Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $399,900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2 419 N. Humphrey Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $409,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 2626 N. 75th Ave, Elmwood Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $419,900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 406 Augusta St, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $425,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 916 Pershing Ave, Wheaton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re/Max In The Village . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $425,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 835 N. Marion St, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Baird & Warner Oak Park/River Forest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $449,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 1120 Beloit Ave, Forest Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re/Max In The Village . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $449,900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2:30-4 630 N. East Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gloor Realty Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $459,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2 300 S. Oak Park Ave, Oak Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Baird & Warner Oak Park/River Forest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $499,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-4 1219 N. Euclid Ave, Oak Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $499,900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 847 S. Kenilworth Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Baird & Warner Oak Park/River Forest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$527,750 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:30-3 1017 Home Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re/Max In The Village . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $549,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 548 Woodbine, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gloor Realty Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $599,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2 1125 Edmer Ave, Oak Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $625,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2 527 Thatcher Ave, River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gloor Realty Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $649,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2:30-4 1143 Keystone Ave, River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $699,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 1013 S. Euclid Ave, Oak Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Baird & Warner Oak Park/River Forest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $739,900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2:30-4 824 S. Kenilworth Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $765,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 520 Washington Blvd, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Weichert Realtors Nickel Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $769,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 1046 N. Grove Ave, Oak Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $865,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 606 N. East Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re/Max In The Village . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $870,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 402 Lenox St, Oak Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re/Max In The Village . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $895,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2 1507 Jackson Ave, River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $899,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 223 Thatcher Ave, River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $939,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 1326 Jackson Ave, River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $989,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 1433 Keystone Ave, River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$1,019,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10:30-12:30 530 N. East, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gloor Realty Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$1,150,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 1041 Jackson Ave, River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gloor Realty Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,630,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-4 1519 Ashland, River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gloor Realty Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$9,256,098 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2

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GARDENER A safe haven from page 19 “When I met him, as far as I know, he was just doing lawns, and the first thing I said was that I don’t like grass, so let’s see what we can do to get rid of it. I am extremely grateful that I found somebody I can work with and who shares my vision of how to do things. I treat him like he’s a younger brother.” McAdam said his relationship with Steinberg has been a testament to time and to Steinberg’s skills in the garden. “I’ve been working with her on this yard for almost 35 years,” he said. “Ellen is a unique client. She’s been a plant guru. She knows this stuff. Initially, when we designed the gardens, they were based on the colonial architecture of the house. Everything we did was designed to keep the historic value of the home. We get a ton of input from her. It’s back-and-forth. It’s a great relationship.” At first, McAdam and Steinberg

worked together to create the formalized Williamsburg-style gardens that Steinberg wanted to frame the house. They removed lines of shrubs, added parterres and created a kitchen garden. Next, they turned to the asphalt driveway. It all started with a rumor. “The people who sold the house told me they had Chicago pavers under the asphalt,” she said. “After I got rid of the extraneous shrubs lining the driveway, I thought, why not tear up the driveway? I told Scott that underneath he’d find really cool Chicago bricks. Then I asked him to clean and re-lay the brick.” In Colonial Williamsburg, it was common for public walkways to be

gravel or grey brick and private walkways to be composed of red brick. Steinberg had McAdam use that same plan at her home, laying a driveway of Brussels brick, which was grey, and creating pathways using the salvaged Chicago brick. As time passed, Steinberg found inspiration in gardening books written by Michael Dirr, one of McAdam’s professors at the University of Illinois. She also stumbled upon Kenneth Druse’s The Natural Garden and credits him for her plans to create an environmentally friendly space. “I want a natural garden for two reasons,” she said. “It would grow naturally here without too much fussing and sprays, and it would

naturally frame the Williamsburg garden I already had. I like civilization pushing against the wild.” She moved the kitchen garden to the rear of the home, created an early Germanic four-square garden and through it all focused on creating a yard full of plantings that were not only pleasing to the eye but pleasing to wildlife. “I don’t like the idea of putting chemicals on things,” she noted, “and grass and lawn take up so much of our resources both in time and water. In order to keep it green, you have to use all sorts of chemicals on it that can’t be good for kids or me with my allergies.” She read books and articles on honeybees and monarch butterflies dying off and was inspired. “As a single person,” she said, “I can create a safe place. On this 75 by 180-foot piece of land, I can create a green bridge, a safe haven for the pollinators. It all starts with one person. Now I’m able to teach my children and my grandchildren about this.” Steinberg’s garden was designated a National Wildlife Certified

Habitat in 1997 and was included on the 2004 Oak Park-River Forest Garden Club Walk. She sees recognition as part of educating the public about environmentallyfriendly gardening practices. “It was cool to find out I was the first person in Illinois to win the Green Bridges Award,” she said. It’s something I believe in passionately. I live across the street from a park in River Forest, and they’ve adopted an integrated pest control policy, which I’m so glad about. It’s better for the kids.” The “green bridge” term arises from the need to create safe passages, free of invasive species, which nurture an environment where pollinators can thrive. As Steinberg awaits a new delivery from McAdam — a female winterberry bush that should help her garden create more berries for the birds — she observes that whether she is out in the garden with the butterflies in the spring and summer or watching the birds from the warmth of her house in the winter, her garden is a constant source of joy.

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his extreme renovation at 1005 N Kenilworth Avenue has traditional charm but also airy, light-filled rooms, modern styling and an amazing open concept floor plan. What began as a one and a half story bungalow (where, rumor has it, St. Giles Church was started in the basement), is now a 3200 square foot two story house, with an additional 1200+ square foot living space in the basement. There is room for everyone here, with six bedrooms and four and one half baths! The seller took great care in preserving the original footprint of the house with its lovely face brick and architectural details, while redesigning the interior for modern living. The home features an open kitchen and family room. There is also a large dining room off the kitchen and a full covered back porch. The separate living room has three distinct seating areas. The full second floor expansion has four large bedrooms, a laundry room, and an enormous master suite with marble and quartz finishes. The first floor bedroom with an ensuite bath could be a stellar home office. The lower level boasts 8’ ceilings, an enormous family room, large bedroom, full bath and mudroom with exterior access. The seller says this house is 95% new, which includes new plumbing, water line, electrical, two high efficiency HVAC systems, windows, roof, and cement board siding. 1005 N Kenilworth Avenue is currently listed for $1,075,000. For more information, contact Cynthia Howe Gajewski at Beyond Properties Realty, 312-933-8440.

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Aiyana Best and Kellen McLain put their STEM training to the test building a robot at the YMCA’s Thingamajig Convention at St. John’s Lutheran.

Your Journey of Rediscovery

f you haven’t been to the West Cook Y lately, you’re in for some real excitement – and that’s why we invite you to “Come Rediscover Your Y!” One of the first things you’ll notice is “new.” New equipment, new member benefits, new personal trainers and fitness coaches, even new programs. We’ve been on a journey the last two years, investing more than $1.2 million into “new.” And we’ve done this with just one thing in mind: YOU. Like many residents of Oak Park and the surrounding communities, I was shaped at the West Cook Y. Many of my childhood memories center around summer camp activities. The difference the West Cook YMCA made for me ignites my passion to turn our 113-year history into today’s all-new and totally relevant Y for today’s children, families, adults and seniors. Programs at the Y are all about helping you bring out the best version of yourself. Our “best self ” is not a one-size-fits-all standard. Instead, it’s discovering for yourself what motivates you to be healthy, active and fulfilled. And that’s far more than simply hitting a target number on a scale or achieving a certain image that the popular press has determined is ideal for everyone. Instead, we focus on nine different ways a member at West Cook Y can achieve well-being. This “well-being wheel” (see graphic on page 3) means you can find your own passion and commit to a process of rediscovering what makes you feel and be your very best self. One of the important ways we can all increase our well-being is to learn what matters when it comes to vitality. Health professionals say we need to “increase our health literacy.” At the West Cook Y, that moves from an abstract term to real programs and real support. From the Diabetes Prevention Program to LIVESTRONG at the YMCA for cancer survivors, healthy aging programs to sports teams, and swimming lessons to after-school programming with a global arts perspective, our members rediscover that being healthy in spirit, mind and body is good for you – and just good fun. So I invite you to join us and begin your own journey of rediscovery. Talk to us. Tell us what makes you feel like the very best Continued on page 4

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STEM, BOOST Programs Spell Summer Camp Success for Youth

By Lacey Sikora

t the West Cook YMCA, youth programming— from preschool, to after-school and summer camp— engages the entire child. From physical fitness programs, such as swim instruction and basketball, to arts and crafts and skills-based learning like STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) programming, the Y is helping children develop healthy bodies and healthy minds. Youth Development Director Elizabeth Lopez says the West Cook Y had one of its most successful summer camp seasons this year.

“We surpassed previous years’ numbers in terms of registered campers coming into the door and staying longer. It’s been wonderful to be at St. John’s in Forest Park this summer. We had a lot of flexibility in space, and it was a place that campers could call their own. From STEM activities to cooking classes in a full-fledged commercial kitchen, the kids enjoyed a very busy and fun summer.” Lopez notes that STEM programming was a welcome addition to this year’s popular Y summer camps. “This year we were selected as one of ten Y’s to receive a Thingamajig© grant. The Continued on page 2

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Building Community Through Social Responsibility

By Lacey Sikora

t the West Cook YMCA, the focus is on developing the spirit, mind and body of members through quality leadership, programs and services. That development isn’t limited by the four walls of the Y’s Marion Street headquarters in Oak Park. Through new programs that impact the community and with improvements to traditional programs, the West Cook YMCA and its members are having a great impact on the community at large. In September, the new Togetherhood program, which began in April, will launch. This is a grass roots effort in which members will work together on community projects outside of the YMCA. The member-initiated projects will not only provide opportunities for members to work and organize together but will also affect positive change in the 10 west suburban communities served by the Y. Member Engagement Director Kyle Hartje says of the program, “Whether our members see a need for us to clean up a community park or serve meals to seniors, the Togetherhood program provides an opportunity to really go well beyond the walls of our building. We’ll expand our reach to the community and help others beyond just touching our members’ lives.” Hartje is also excited about a new program that will benefit resident members of the West Cook YMCA. “We’re launching a series of new Life Skills Workshops for our residents. At the Y, we focus on the holistic health of all of our members. With the Life Skills Workshops, we will be identifying some of the needs specific to our residents, whether it is computer skills training or financial literacy classes.” Favorite traditional programs, from fundraising to holiday celebrations, continue to build on community as well. Thanksgiving at the Y is a free community event hosted every year for residents, members and local partners. Hartje notes that this annual event is a key part of the holidays for many. “We partner with Food for Friends to provide a delicious traditional Thanksgiving dinner. Through food and fellowship, we’re able to provide a memorable holiday experience for those

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Dylan Owens and Jalen Kiarie test how barriers such as pencils can prevent water from spilling out of plastic bags during a Thingamajig© Convention experiment.

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Paige Clincy, Case Manager (center), works with West Cook YMCA residents during a Life-Skills class on computers. who don’t have that opportunity,” Hartje said. The West Cook YMCA’s annual Christmas tree sale, now in its 44th year, is another community favorite that also supports the mission of the Y. The Y makes purchasing a Christmas tree a fun family event, that this year will include an offer of a YMCA signature coffee blend plus a holiday goody bag for children with the purchase of each tree. Proceeds of the sale support bringing Y membership to those who would not be able to afford the Y’s services. Likewise, Tara Lenardi, Financial Development Director, notes that the West Cook YMCA’s Annual Gala, set for Saturday, November 12 at the Oak Park Country Club, will raise funds to support the Y’s mission and allow the Y to serve those who would not be able to afford membership on their own. “We never turn anyone away for their inability to pay. Every dollar donated during our Annual Support Campaign and at our Annual Gala stays within our community. When you give, you’re actually supporting your own neighbors,” Lenardi says.

$5,000 grant was meant to implement STEM programming at the Y during the summer programming. Two of our staff members, Rebecca Boblett, our School Age Coordinator and Kinyeta Porter, our Lead Camp Counselor and STEM Specialist, travelled to Washington D.C. for training,” Lopez explained. This summer, all campers were exposed to STEM activities, and many of the campers participated in STEM through the camp’s new Boost activities, concentrated specialty classes with a more focused approach. Whether it was creating volcanoes that exploded or engineering race cars out of recycled materials, Lopez reports that the STEM Boosts were some of the more popular camp activities. Summer camp STEM activities culminated

in a Thingamajig© Convention near the end of the camp schedule. Open to the community and to families of campers, the convention highlighted camp STEM activities and included science challenges, invention stations and strategic games. According to Lopez, the STEM skills implemented this summer will spill over into the Y’s after-school and preschool programming this school year. “Last year, we participated in a pilot program that added upgrades to our Afterschool Program. This year, one of the upgrades will be STEM programming. We’re going to have people from STEM professions come in and share with our students. Research shows that not as many females, minorities or people from low-income backgrounds work in the STEM fields. Exposing our children to professionals in these positions will help them envision themselves in these fields later in life,” she said.

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Healthy Living at the Y: Programs for Adults, Seniors Focus on Spirit, Mind and Body

By Lacey Sikora

or generations, the YMCA has been helping members achieve wellness through physical fitness. As the definition of wellness expanded to encompass spirit, mind and body, the West Cook YMCA’s programs grew to a complete, holistic approach to member well-being. Through new programming, the WCY is helping members attain well being and a greater sense of vitality. This fall, on the heels of the success of the YMCA’s Diabetes Prevention Program, the West Cook YMCA is launching “Take Charge of Your Diabetes,” a new program targeted at adults who have been diagnosed with diabetes. Through small group classes, the sixweek program will guide diabetes patients to make lifestyle changes to adjust their behavior to improve their health outlook. Jennifer Allington, West Cook YMCA’s Registered Dietician, will be one of the facilitators of the new Take Charge of Your Diabetes program. She says that she has seen a marked interest in an initiative that address-

es the needs of those already diagnosed with diabetes. “The new program will focus on a lifestyle approach that addresses the overall face of diabetes, including a nutrition component, managing medications and dealing with stress,” Allington said. This July, the Y also launched a new “EnhanceFitness” program for arthritis prevention and management. With four certified instructors, the classes meet three times a week for sixteen weeks for low intensive cardio and strength training. West Cook YMCA Healthy Living Director Laura Olszewski explains that the program is not limited to those with arthritis. “The new program is geared toward seniors, but it is good for anyone with any type of mobility issue from arthritis to morbid obesity. You can perform the entire class from a seated position,” Olszewski explained. Olszewski notes that the evidenced-based program provides tangible results. “Ninety percent of the people who register for EnhanceFitness stay with it as long as they are at the Y, and 9 out of 10 participants say that they would recommend the program

YMCA to Host Oak Park River Forest Chamber of Commerce Health & Wellness Lectures The West Cook Y will host the Oak Park River Forest Chamber of Commerce’s new Health & Wellness monthly speaker series. Opening event is Thursday, September 15 at 7 p.m., “Chronic Disease Prevention—You Can Do It!,” led by Laura Olszewski, Healthy Living Director and featuring Healthy Living Coordinator Sergio Perez and Jennifer Allington, Registered Dietitian.

Lawanda Shelton of Combined Insurance will speak about “Supplemental Health Insurance/Medicare Supplements.” Future events will focus on back pain, senior care and other key health and wellness issues.

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to a friend. The benefits are measurable. Participants see increased strength, balance and decreased depression. They not only feel better physically, but it becomes a community within a community for the participants,” she said. It is estimated that EnhanceFitness participants have significantly fewer hospitalizations, lower specialty care costs and lower adjusted healthcare costs compared to nonusers over 12 months. Recognizing that healthy living encompasses the mind as well as the body, this fall the West Cook YMCA is launching SMART, an evidence-based, stress management and resiliency training program, through Massachusetts General Hospital that teaches self-care to help alleviate stress. Olszewski, who will be the first non-clinical lead of the eight- week program, remarks that for the Y’s large senior population, anxiety can be a big concern. “We want to first help people see the connection between stress and health. Then, we’ll work on techniques to manage those two conditions.” The West Cook Y will also continue to offer

its successful LIVESTRONG at the YMCA program for cancer survivors. Launched in March of this year, Olszewski says that participants have been very enthusiastic about the LIVESTRONG at the YMCA program. The 90-minute twelve-week fitness program is open to adults who have had any type of cancer in their lifetime, from patients still in treatment to those in remission. “We help people reclaim their health. We have participants who run marathons and others who walk with the assistance of walkers. All are able to be in a group and work at their own pace. We can also offer new experiences, like yoga or a spinning class, in an environment that is safe and comfortable.” “This program helps participants build muscle strength, increase their flexibility and endurance and improve confidence and self-esteem,” said Olszewski. “Every person’s experience with cancer is unique. Our approach is to tailor a program for each person’s needs and capabilities,” she explained. The LIVESTRONG at the YMCA program is free to survivors, who also receive a oneyear membership to the Y.

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West Cook Y Spotlight on Health: Meet the New Dietician

By Lacey Sikora

hen the West Cook YMCA hired registered dietician Jennifer Allington at the end of 2015, her newly created position tied in neatly with the Y’s holistic approach towards improving its members’ health and wellness. Recognizing that health encompasses far more than just physical fitness, the Y brought on Allington to serve a variety of roles. Notes Allington, “My original role was to facilitate the new Diabetes Prevention Program that kicked off in December of 2015.” The year-long program will see its third class begin in September, and Allington points out that the West Cook Y is the first YMCA in the Chicago area to offer this program. Members meet weekly for the first four months and then taper off to monthly meetings for the final six months of the program. Allington says participants must meet certain criteria before joining. “People

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Registered Dietician Jennifer Allington (right) reviews possible menu items to control calorie intake. complete a risk-assessment questionnaire. They must be at least 18 years old, have a BMI of 25 of higher and a blood test indicating they are at risk for diabetes.” Once enrolled, participants learn how to approach diabetes prevention in a holistic manner. Allington covers stress reduction, getting started with physical activity, nutrition, and dealing with negative thoughts. On the heels of the success of the Diabetes Prevention Program, this fall, the West Cook Y and Allington will begin a new program, Take Charge of your Diabetes, aimed at those already diagnosed with diabetes. “There’s a natural overlay to taking the next step and offering our services

to those who already have that diagnosis,” remarks Allington. This September, through Allington, the West Cook Y also launched new dietician services for members. A variety of packages will be offered to interested members. Allington says that the visits will cover a wide-range of nutrition topics from weight loss and high blood pressure to managing or preventing diabetes to cooking tips. “We’re going to see what the need is and then tailor our offerings to what the community needs,” she says. For more information, contact Jennifer Allington at jallington@westcookymca.org or 708.434.0249.

1,000 The number of seniors who come to the West Cook Y for exercise,

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healthy living guidance and friendship with like-minded seniors

our members as they travel

1972

That’s when we first offered fresh-cut Christmas trees for sale at the Y – and we still bring the best to you each holiday

Looking to brighten up your table with healthy and nutritious vegetables? Some 26 recipes for tasty vegetable dishes presented at this summer’s Oak Park Farmers’ Markets are now on the Y’s web site www.westcookymca.org Check out such favorites as a Kale Salad with Dates, Parmesan and Almonds; a Spinach and Endive Salad with Pecans and Blue Cheese; Swiss Chard and Onion Tacos; and a Wok-Seared Asparagus with Chili, Garlic and Black Bean Sauce.

RECONNECT WITH YOUR Y COMMUNITY

The West Cook Y has been offering local boys and girls a summer camp experience for 85 years

2,700 The number of YMCAs across the country available to

West Cook Y’s Healthy Vegetable Recipes Available on Web Site

That’s how many free exercise classes we offer every week

69 Programs being offered by the West Cook Y this fall 100% The level of our commitment to help every man, woman or child who comes to the West Cook Y reach their own wellness goals

person you can be. Show us where we can improve. Let us teach you new skills and encourage you every step of the way. We’re neighbors, you and I. We see each other at the Jewel, at church and on the sidewalks. We laugh together and we grow together as a community. So join me to Rediscover Your Y – and rediscover what it means to be part of a close-knit community of people who genuinely enjoy being together and want to help each other achieve their very best selves. Phillip Jiménez President & CEO West Cook YMCA 708.383.5200 phillip@westcookymca.org

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St. Edmund Catholic Parish Love of God and Love of Neighbor

faith-filled and diverse St. Edmund community gathers weekly to be nourished by Christ in Word and Eucharist. So strengthened, we are sent forth into the world to love our neighbor.

St Edmund Catholic Parish Reaching out from the heart of Oak Park since 1907! 188 S. Oak Park Ave., Oak Park, IL 60302 708-848-4417 • stedmund.org Reverend John McGivern, Pastor Worship Schedule Monday–Friday: 8:30 am • Saturday: 8:30 am; 5:30 pm Sunday: 9:00 & 11:00 am; (5:30 pm eff. 9/25) The people of St. Edmund Catholic Parish are a diverse community of Christians whose beliefs are rooted in sacred scripture and the traditions of the Catholic faith.

St. Edmund parishioners participate in many outreach ministries, such as: weekly staffing of Housing Forward homeless shelter (formerly P.A.D.S.), ongoing support of the OPRF Food Pantry with food drives, monetary contributions, diaper and adult undergarment collections, and fresh produce from our parish Peace Garden. Other ministries involve: Respect Life, clothing drives, domestic violence awareness and support, peace and justice outreach, ministry to the homebound and hospitalized, monthly vigil to end gun violence, and a Green Team to implement Pope Francis’ encyclical on the environment, to name only a few. Our Young Adult Ministry (20s and 30s) promotes spiritual growth, service opportunities and social gatherings. If this might interest you, please check out St. Edmund Young Adults on Facebook, or e-mail laurencampbell@sbcglobal.net. We also look forward to the influx of new housing in our downtown area, and to new people who may

be looking for a vibrant Catholic Faith Community. We are excited that the Chicago Architecture Foundation has chosen St. Edmund Church as a site for this year’s Open House Chicago, on September 15 & 16. St. Edmund Church, designed by Henry J. Schlacks, with magnificent stained glass F. X. Zeittler windows from Munich, Germany and a stunning ceiling designed by John Mallis is worth visiting. All are welcome at St. Edmund Parish. Join us for liturgy. For more information log on to our website at stedmund.org!

First Pres Looks to Meet Your Real-Life Needs

o tie? No problem! At First Presbyterian Church of River Forest, folks come as they are, some a little fancy, most decidedly not. We’re far more concerned with meeting your real-life needs and helping you encounter the love of the real-life God than with what you wear. We have two worship experiences each Sunday. Both are welcoming and have something for those who are just beginning to explore Christian faith as well as for lifelong followers of Jesus, and everyone in between. If choirs and hymns, brass, handbells, and a massive pipe organ inspire you, then our 9:00 am worship is the place for you. If visual media and a worship band that plays everything from jazz to rock is more your vibe, then our 10:30 am service is for you. Whichever worship time you choose, you will be warmly welcomed, hear a practical biblical message with real-life application, and be given an opportunity to experience the beauty and wonder, majesty and mystery of God. On the way to or from worship, stop by our Social Hall to get a cup of coffee and a bite to eat, and make some new friends.

Mobility challenges? No problem! Our building is fully accessible with power doors, accessible restrooms, and an elevator that serves all three levels. Got questions? Got doubts? No problem! There are opportunities for people of all ages to explore faith in Jesus Christ. From preschoolers through adults, we encourage you to bring your questions, challenges, and doubts. We have a special focus on Junior and Senior High students and their families. We also have an active Mothers of Preschoolers (MOPS) ministry and host the men’s and women’s Community Bible Studies. New classes and small groups start Sunday, September 11. First Pres is a joyful place where people can grow spiritually, connect relationally, and serve sacrificially. Learn more about current ministries, our rich history, and the faith that shapes us at www.firstpresrf.org. More questions? No problem! Call the office at (708) 366-5822 and speak with Vanessa or Janelle, or email the pastors directly, Paul Detterman, paul.detterman@firstpresrf. org; or Allison Lundeen, allison.lundeen@ firstpresrf.org. We’re here for you!

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Fair Oaks Presbyterian Church Youth mission trip travels to Lakota Reservation

Late Friday afternoon July 22, thirty

ate Friday afternoon Julyfrom 22, thirty youths and nine adults Fair Oaks youths and nine adultsembarked from Fair Oaks Presbyterian Church on an 825 mile coach bus journey to the Presbyterian Church embarked onRosean budcoach Indian Mission, 825 mile bus Reservation journey to theinRose-bud Dakota.in The mission group IndianSouth Reservation Mission, Southtrip Dakota. were welcomed by Shane and Noella The mission trip group were welcomed by Red Hawk, a couple who are members Shaneofand RedLakota Hawk, atribe. couple who theNoella Sicangu The Red are members of the Sicangu Lakota tribe. The Hawks had a vision of helping the youth Red Hawks hadcommunity a vision ofby helping the youth of their transforming an empty buildingbyinto an arts center. Fair of their community transforming an empty Oaks adultFair leaders worked building intoyouths an artsand center. Oaks youths diligently forworked four days, scraping, paintand adult leaders diligently for four ing, and cleaning to get the building days, scraping, paint-ing, and cleaning to get ready for a fall opening. The trip particithe building ready for a fall opening. The trip pants also helped split firewood that partici-pants also helped split firewood thatof would be used to help heat the homes wouldthe be elderly used tocome help heat thePutting homesup of firethe winter. forwinter. future Putting cold weather was an eye elderlywood come up fire-wood -opening experience who for future cold weather wasfor anthe eyeyouths -opening experience for the youths who take for granted a furnace-heated home back home.

take for granted a furnace-heated home Oaks Church also serves Our Lord backFair home. byFair supporting missionalso in surround-ing Oaks Church serves Our communities, the greater area and Lord by supporting missionChicago in surrounding communities, themember greaterparticipation Chicago worldwide by active as area and worldwide by active member well as financial support. participation as well as financial support. FairOaks Oaksisiscommitted committedand andvery very active Fair active in its its ministry ministrytotoyouth. youth.One Oneofofthe the largest in largest ministriesisis the the after afterschool schoolWednesday Wednesday ministries where over over 100 100 children children and Logos program program where and youth gather at the church to particiyouth gather at the church to partici-pate pate in Bible Study, Worship Recin Bible Study, Worship Skills,Skills, Rec-reation reation and Play, and Family Meal Time. and Play, and Family Meal Time. The heart The heart and focus of Logos is building and focus of Logos is building Christian Christian relationships and seeing all relationships and seeing people as children of God.all people as children ofWorship God. is at 10am every Sunday and weekly Sunday classes are and ofWorship is at School 10am every Sunday fered forSunday childrenSchool and adults at 9am. weekly classes are of-fered for For further call 386-4920. children andinformation adults at 9am.

For further information call 386-4920.

Our Christ‐centered preaching, congrega�onal prayer, �me for individual medita�on, and an excellent variety of music are all hallmarks of Fair Oaks Church’s family‐friendly worship service.

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744 Fair Oaks Ave.—Oak Park 1 block south of Division St. 2 blocks west of Ridgeland Ave.

Call (708)386‐4920 ...or visit us at FairOaksPres.org

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scension Catholic scensionofCatholic Church Oak Park is Church for of Oak Park is known beautiful known for beautiful liturgies, glorious music, liturgies, glorious music, outstanding education outstanding education programs for children, a call programs children, a call to service, for a commitment to to service, a commitment to community. Ascension has community. Ascension hasand served the area since 1907 served the area since 1907 and celebrates the story of its rich celebrates the story of its rich history. history. Ascension is a stewardship Ascension is a stewardship parish called to share what we parish called to share what we have been given, and return have been given, and return it with increase to the Lord. it with increase to the Lord. Over forty parish organizations Over forty parish organizations provide outreach within and provide outreach within and beyond boundaries, beyond our our parish parish boundaries, enhance our prayer life, and and invite inviteothers othersinto into enhance our prayer life, the parish is is led led by by very very active activelay lay the faith. faith. The The parish groups: Council, Stewardship StewardshipTeam, Team, groups: The The Parish Parish Council, The Finance Committee, School and Religious The Finance Committee, School and Religious Education Education Boards. Boards.

Ascension School welcomes welcomes over over450 450 Ascension School students in pre-kindergarten through eighth students in pre-kindergarten through eighth grade, than 400 400 students studentsfrom frompublic public grade, and and more more than schools participate in the religious education schools participate in the religious education program. children prepare prepare program. All All Ascension Ascension children for as aa parish. parish. Over Over 150 150teens teens for sacraments sacraments as participate trips to to serve servethose thosein in participate in in service service trips need country. need throughout the country.

808 808S.S.East EastAvenue Avenue Oak Park IL 60304 Oak Park IL 60304 708.848.2703 708.848.2703 www.ascensionoakpark.com www.ascensionoakpark.com

The heart of the parish life life isis worship. worship. Mass Mass is through Friday Fridaymornings mornings is celebrated Monday through and weekend. Ecumenical Ecumenical and five times on the weekend.

Living in God’s grace we worship Sundays at 8:30 and 11:00 a.m.

we learn classes for children, teens and adults Sundays at 9:45 a.m.

we serve in daily life, at Grace and beyond

Our mission:

Bring in, build up and send out disciples for Jesus Christ.

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7300 Division Street 7300 Division Street River Forest, Illinois 60305 River Forest, Illinois 60305 708-366-6900 www.graceriverforest.org 708-366-6900

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Grace Church proclaims God’s grace in worship, education and fellowship

race—God’s undeserved, unexpected, surprising and forgiving love—is what is preached at Grace Lutheran Church, at the corner of Division and Bonnie Brae in River Forest. The people of Grace Church live out their response to God’s grace in worship, learning, fellowship and service to God’s people. Sunday morning worship services include hearty congregational singing, as well as music from choirs and instrumentalists. The education hour, 9:45–10:45 a.m. on Sundays, includes Sunday School and confirmation classes for children, a discussion group for teens, and classes for adults taught by guest speakers from area colleges and seminaries. October class topics include the presidential election and the Reformation. Grace’s educational ministry includes a parish school, with an enrollment of 221 students this year in preschool through eighth grade. Grace School serves children from Oak Park, River Forest and Galewood, and other surrounding communities, as well as from the congregation. The school offers half-day and full-day options for four- and five-year-olds, as well as morning preschool for three-year-olds. Before school and after school care is available for children age four and up. Call 708-366-6900 for more information.

Grace Church will welcome Pastors Lauren and Dave Wegner to the pastoral staff in October as associates; they join Senior Pastor David R. Lyle. The new associates will focus on youth and family ministry and education, as well as on pastoral care for the church and school community. Come to Oktoberfest on Sunday, October 2! Grace Church celebrates its German heritage with an annual Oktoberfest— though you certainly don’t need to be German to enjoy the cozy autumn atmosphere in Grace’s gym and atrium! This year’s festivities take place on Sunday, October 2, 4–7 p.m. There will be music, German folk dancers, a traditional Erzgebirge market offering wooden toys and Christmas decorations, plus sausages, potato salad, sauerkraut, apple cake, pretzels, and beer from Oak Park’s Kinslagher Brewery. All are invited! Tickets are available at the door ($20, age 12 and up, $10, age 5–11), or call the church at 708-366-6900 for the discounted advance price.

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WE ARE A WELCOMING COMMUNITY YOU ARE WELCOME HERE: We like to say “Come as you are” at Unity Temple Unitarian Universalist Congregation. When we open our worship service, we say, “Whoever you are, wherever you are on your life journey, you are welcome here.” Our Unitarian Universalist religious community has a wide embrace for people of diverse backgrounds, life experiences, and even beliefs. Although Unitarian Universalists hold and celebrate different beliefs, we unite around a covenant; that is, we agree on how to be with one another. This means that part of what we do is live out the ideals that each and every person is important and that we are all interconnected. This means that our congregations are places where all people are accepted and where we keep on learning together. And it means that throughout our lifetime, each of us continues to search for what is true and right in life. RELIGIOUS EDUCATION: With over

300 children enrolled, we have one of the largest Unitarian Universalist religious education programs in the region. We mark our children’s lives by welcoming them at birth with dedication ceremonies. We honor their Coming of Age in ninth grade with a special rite of passage program, our youth group for tenth through twelfth grade is youth-driven, and as our seniors graduate we mark this transition with a bridging ceremony in a Sunday morning worship service. Our young people explore the rich history of Unitarian Universalism, world religions, our Hebrew and Christian Bible heritage, making a different in the world through social justice, and the ideas and feelings about life, love and death. At various developmental ages we also offer our first, fifth and eighth graders Our Whole Lives (OWL), a values based sexuality education curriculum. One of the core values within the program is that bisexuality, homosexuality and heterosexuality are all normal. The great diversity among the families in our congregation celebrates these values.

SUNDAY MORNING WORSHIP: We won’t ask you to change who you are, but we will challenge you to change how you live. At Unity Temple Unitarian Universalist Congregation, we engage in something called theme-based ministry. Each month has a theme such as Covenant (September), Healing (October), Story (November) or Presence (December). The Sunday morning worship services revolve around these themes, and we’ll also be asking people to consider how these values are part of their lives. Each month, we compile a resource packet with readings, books, movies, songs, YouTube clips, blogs and any number of other possibilities on this theme. There are spiritual exercises and questions to wrestle with, elements that make this more than an exercise for the mind, but one for the heart and spirit. If this sounds like a place for you then please visit us find out more. Come as you are. You are welcome here.

We won’t ask you to change who you are, but we will challenge you to change how you live.

Sunday service and religious education: 11 am | 409 Greenfield, Oak Park While Unity Temple is closed for restoration please join us at our temporary home, United Lutheran Church, located at 409 Greenfield (at the corner of Greenfield and Ridgeland) in Oak Park.

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You are invited to join our progressive, inclusive, and green community!

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uclid Avenue United Methodist Church invites you to join us this fall as we follow the radically inclusive model of Jesus. We are a progressive community, committed to social and environmental action. At Euclid, you are encouraged to get involved by volunteering with our Green Action Team, participating in social justice work, striving for full LGBTQ inclusion in our communities, lending your voice to the choir, joining a book club or a small group, or playing on the soft ball team. Our Sunday School program offers a creative and progressive curriculum and is led by an experienced team of education professionals and volunteers. Our children and youth are challenged to not only learn about Bible stories and discover their own faith, but to put God’s inclusive love into action by making meals for the homeless, volunteering, and tending to our gardens. We offer a number of ways for members of our community to explore their faith. Adult Forum on Sunday mornings dives into the exciting work of contemporary theologians. On Thursday nights, you are invited to join Thursday Night Lights, focusing on new ways to talk about faith—beginning with

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the surprising connections between science and our evolving faith. Theology Uncorked is a monthly, casual gathering to discuss spirituality and wholehearted living. A Bible Study and midweek Communion Vesper service is offered each week off site at the Oak Park Arms. Euclid Avenue UMC is committed to being good environmental stewards. Our building is heated and cooled using geothermal technology, our roof is home to nearly 100 solar panels, our parking lot has permeable bricks, and our grounds feature native plants and include a butterfly way station. We are located at 405 S. Euclid Avenue. Our Sunday morning worship begins at 10:30 am followed each week by fair-trade coffee and treats from the community. Sunday School and small groups kick off this fall on Sunday, September 11th. To celebrate the beginning of Sunday School, coffee hour on Sunday, September 11th will include a chocolate fountain.

St. Giles Parish and School: Building Community

t. Giles Parish, located at Columbian and Greenfield in Oak Park, has been serving the communities of North Oak Park and Chicago’s Galewood neighborhood since 1927. The Joy of the Gospel comes alive at St. Giles through our mission principles of Welcoming, Worship and Walking the Way. Striving to build community within our faith family and the greater world around us, we Welcome the friend and stranger alike. We join together in Worship to strengthen these bonds and to reinforce our call as a parish to share the gifts God grants us each day in whatever way we are able. We do this by Walking the Way of Christian witness through outreach programs and cooperation and dialogue with other faith communities in the area. St. Giles parishioners are involved in dozens of ministries in spiritual life and worship, Christian formation and education, human concerns and parish life. This involvement provides the vision, witness and spirit that make St. Giles a special community

Our parish Religious Education program offers formation and education for students in public school and home-school in addition to sacramental preparation for all students in the parish. St. Giles School, a 2010 Blue Ribbon School, is a fully accredited pre-school through eighth grade institution with a before-andafter school program, striving for academic excellence based in Catholic tradition. At St. Giles Parish, we are committed to giving vision and hope to the future by our prayer and our openness to Christ and the Holy Spirit, who call us as we go forward in love and faith. For more information, please visit us at www. stgilesparish.org or call us at (708) 383.3430. St. Giles Parish 1025 Columbian Ave. Oak Park, IL 60302 (708) 383-3430 www.stgilesparish.org

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St. Bernadine:

To Unite as One Community

ounded in 1911, St. Bernardine is the only Catholic church in Forest Park.

In the spirit of our patron, Saint Bernardine, who was so in touch with the needs of his time, we recognize our responsibility to nurture the growth of the parish, to unite as one community and to enthusiastically and respectfully gather in praise of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Mass times: Saturday – 8:30 am, 5:00 pm Sunday – 8:00 am, 10:30 am Monday-Friday – 6:30 am Call our rectory at: 708-366-0839 for more information

St. Bernardine acted with sincerity, courage and humility. With these same qualities, and with the Lord as our Shepherd, we set out on our journey: • To sincerely welcome others into our community – old and young, those from our community and those from afar. As we have been fed we reach out to feed others; in doing so, joyfully share our love of the Lord. • To grow in our faith by sharing the Word of God through catechesis and education. • To share our time, treasures and talents for the good of all. We are enriched by our diverse histories and traditions.

Celebrating Our 105th Year!

GrandMaster S.H. Yu Recently Named to Kukkiwon World TaeKwonDo Federation International Advisory Board

The official appointment ceremony Aug 6-7, 2016 for the Kukkiwon International Advisory Board; Kukkiwon President OH Hyun Deuk, PhD, pictured front/center; with the 9th Dan Advisory Group in front including GrandMaster S.H.Yu, 2nd from right.- at Kukkiwon World Tae Kwon Do Headquarters

GrandMaster Yu, 9th Dan, 3rd left of 9th Dan Committee President, center, Seung-Wan Lee: Power in Numbers! With the distinguished Korean 9th Dan Active GrandMasters at the TaeKwonDo Promotion Foundation. — at Taekwondo Park Muju, S. Korea.

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GrandMaster Yu receiving his credentials and appointment to the Kukkiwon International Advisory Board from Kukkiwon President OH Hyun Deuk, PhD.at Kukkiwon World Tae Kwon Do Headquarters

GrandMaster Yu with Dr. Josephine Kim, PhD, presenter at the TaeKwonDo Leader’s Forum, from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Her presentation on the mental and developmental benefits of TaeKwonDo practice on the practitioner resonated with GrandMaster Yu›s holistic teaching philosophy.

Credentials you can trust: GrandMaster Yu received his Lifetime, 9thDan Distinguished GrandMaster Medal, and presents his International Advisory Board recognition, appointment letter, and plaque to his sudents. Congratulations Sir! We are proud to study under you and call you “Teacher”.

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e continue to grieve Elijah Sims this week, our high school student who days ago fell to Chicago’s senseless gun violence. While we face our own daily challenges here, those challenges pale compared to Austin and other depressed areas of Chicago. The encroachment of urban violence and the effects of neighboring poverty into our own community may be our biggest challenge yet. Residents, schools, police, government, businesses, healthcare - all aspects of our community are impacted. That has always been true, but Elijah’s death drives home a sense of urgency. The poverty, disinvestment and accompanying violence endemic to many of the

surrounding communities have grown to such propositions that we cannot look away. They are on our doorstep, threatening our way of life - or, in Elijah’s case, taking life. Despite suggestions of a presidential candidate, we cannot simply “build a wall” to protect ourselves from the difficulties facing our neighbors. Nor will cul-de-sacs or higher property taxes immunize us against the socio economic ills beyond our borders. Violence, crime, loss of life and loss of hope - these are the symptoms of much deeper problems, rooted in a history and society that won’t easily change course. We literally must stem the bleeding to give us time to systematically address the inequities, lack of opportunity, racism and limited access to capital and services.

area, rather than a competitor. The same must be true of our eastern neighbor. Violence doesn’t stop at Austin Boulevard, but nor does opportunity, investment or relationships. Our businesses have customers from Austin. Our professionals have set up businesses on the west side of Chicago. Our residents have friends in Austin. Churchgoers cross the boulevard every Sunday in both directions. Our community’s prosperity, safety and opportunity must expand beyond our borders. Regionalism is no longer just proactive or even speculative. The best way to protect our community is to expand its benefits to those around us through intentional investment and involvement.

Embracing local economic regionalism is part of the solution. Only recently have we talked about collaborations with Forest Park as a partner in the economic health of our

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Responding through the filter of fear vs. faith

n Tuesday, Aug. 30, heartbreak seized our community upon learning of the gunshot murder of an Oak Park and River Forest High School senior, Elijah Sims. He was fatally wounded the night before in the Austin neighborhood. Initial news accounts noted that Elijah was visiting friends from his old neighborhood — among the most violent and murderous in violence-and-murder-ravaged Chicago. Shortly beforehand, Elijah had assured his mother, by phone, that he’d be home soon. If we could turn back the clock, as he ended his call with his mom, we would all urge Elijah (and the 15-year-old he was with, who was seriously wounded) to sprint across Austin Boulevard and back into Oak Park. That same inclination to flee from danger, or to steer clear of it in the first place, was reflected by a reader of the story about Elijah’s murder on Wednesday Journal’s website: “Oak Park kids: don’t go over there!!” It’s an entirely understandable remark. It’s a reflection of “using your head” and “having a heart” to protect our loved ones. After all, the murder rate is exponentially higher “over there,” on

the east side of Austin Boulevard, than “over here,” in relatively safe Oak Park. Shortly after, another reader voiced a common sentiment in the Wednesday Journal comments section: “So terribly sorry about this,” then added a direct response to the previous commenter: “But staying away is not the answer.” Again, a “heart and head” comment — a heart that anguishes over others’ incomprehensible loss and a head that knows we cannot simply side-step Austin and, through our well-intentioned thoughts and prayers, simply wish away this scourge of violence. It’s a tension that many of us face. It’s a tension that is right in my face. In the “micro” — as for me and my own famly — there is a part of me that worries deeply about my wife and our teenage children being in Austin. Yet it’s a place where we have been attending church since March and where we are increasingly invested emotionally and spiritually. When I related the news of Elijah’s murder, and that my family now has our church home in Austin, a friend — a man of genuine and fervent faith — said, “Time to find another church.” It was a variation on the “don’t go over

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there” admonition to Oak Park kids. But in the “macro” — my place and my family’s place in the larger fabric of our society — I can’t help but think: Don’t we have a responsibility to try to be part of the solution rather than simply taking steps to run from the problem? So now, again, we are left with this latest heartbreak, which is unspeakably raw for those who personally knew and loved Elijah. To them, I wish God’s peace and comfort to endure and to honor Elijah’s life by living theirs as fully and as lovingly as possible amidst the darkness of their loss. On an undeniably different level, there is the dull, diffuse heartbreak felt by so many others like me. What are we to do? “Fight or flight” are the two basic choices that kick in when we are confronted by danger and are looking to survive. While countless reactions are understandable, what’s more relevant, particularly for those who are part of faith communities, is not to settle for mere survival. We must insist on thriving, and an essential step is to frame our response through the filter of fear versus faith. “There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear.” (1 John 4:18) So what’s it going to be, fellow Oak Parkers? Which will you feed and nurture and allow to grow?

More jobs is only part of the solution

I am so sick and tired of hearing the political rhetoric simplifying the challenges facing communities of color (both black & brown) to merely a need for more (and better-paying) jobs. As a social scientist (college professor) and licensed, practicing mental health clinician, I am keenly aware that the social problems bearing down and undermining some (not all) of these ethnically/ racially marginalized peoples are com-

plex. Hence the solutions also need to be multifaceted. The issues of poverty, drug and alcohol abuse, gang and community violence, and the weakening of strong two-parent families interact to feed on each other and are further undermined by inadequately-resourced community schools and poor access to proper social, mental and physical health services.

People, please stop encouraging this naive narrative that all these communities need is some “Godfather” who will flood America with jobs — and all will be well again. That’s only part of the problems that need to be addressed!

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curate to say that such violence seems not to be limited to Cook County. I know this statement is contrary to what the FBI stats seem to be showing — those that indicate a decrease in violent crime — but a phone call to the police administrations in downstate communities over 20,000 population will likely confirm my observations. My uneducated conclusion: There is a societal breakdown that is widespread. It likely has many causes. This may be one of the most difficult issues to face our nation since WWII, the Great Depression and the push to adopt the Civil Rights acts in the 1960s. It should be approached with the unlimited effort that it deserves. We must recognize that all reasonable

investments must be made. It is a cancer that will continue to eat away at our society, and it is not enough to say that it is “too large” or “too complicated.” Even small steps with small gains are better than doing nothing. We, as a family, also lived on South Taylor in the late 1960s. We were there when the 1968 Democratic Convention took place. We were there when Chicago and other cities stressed after the King and Kennedy assassinations. These current times are not reactions to obvious causes such as those but are nonetheless serious and, perhaps, more pervasive and, sadly, likely to be more enduring. John Hefner is a former resident of Oak Park.

from page 37 Illinois. I have been here since 1980. In the past 2-3 years, the use and presence of guns by criminals in our city has grown. The city police are facing much more violent criminals and more danger in their routine duties. The historically peaceful cities of Champaign and Urbana have seen significant increases in gun violence. This is easy to see just by watching the evening news and reading the local papers. While it is no comfort to the folks in Oak Park and the Chicago area, it is ac-

Janice Matthews Rasheed, PhD, MSW, LCSW Professor of Social Work Loyola University Chicago Licensed clinical social worker Oak Park

Wednesday Journal, September 7, 2016

WJ only represented one side in condo story

t’s unfortunate the Aug. 23 article, “River Forest condo project in limbo” is one-sided as it only reports what the Economic Development Commission thinks is best for our community and never mentions what the residents want or other possibilities for the land at Lake and Park — land that was purchased with taxpayer dollars. Instead, the article played one source: the EDC, an advisory committee of residents who are not elected by taxpayers but rather handpicked. Wednesday Journal missed the opportunity for balanced community journalism, failing to recognize what the residents have to say in what is developed on village-owned land and forgetting that residents spoke out adamantly opposing the EDC’s suggestion of a high-rise apartment building. As well, the article failed to mention what the elected officials thought about the proposals that were presented to them last spring. When it came time to publicly state opinions for the final recommendation, none of the trustees recommended Pine Grove’s 80-unit apartment building, and some even expressed their skepticism about the role of the EDC. Sure, there were critics and skeptics of the Keystone Venture plan too. However, due to the outpouring of community voices, phone calls, letters and meetings, trustees honored voter trust and did not recommend the multi-unit apartment building proposed by Pine Grove. The fact that this article mentioned, “The village also could see if Pine Grove Centrum Partners is still interested” is absurd. Not one vote was issued for them so why would we even consider bringing their proposal back? It is clear an 80-unit apartment complex isn’t what our residents and trustees want. The article never even mentioned seeing if the Pathway Assisted Living group is still interested or if we should call for more submissions until we get it right. This article also fails to mention that three new apartment buildings are currently being built in Oak Park with a combined total of over 800 new units. Oak Park and River Forest don’t need more apartment units. What I also question is why the EDC feels there is a “level of urgency” in moving the project forward? River Forest currently has a lot on its plate: Fresh Thyme on North Avenue has been a debacle with a stop work order since Feb. 19; Lake and Lathrop is about to be redeveloped; 29 townhomes being built at the Hines Lumber site; and the yet-to-be-determined Madison Street TIF development project, not to mention the proposed North Avenue TIF. With this many projects going on in River Forest, why are we in a time crunch to add another? I agree with Trustee [Mike] Gibbs when he previously and publicly stated, “I’m greatly uncomfortable with the power the EDC seems to feel they have.” I cannot understand why Wednesday Journal, by way of shoddy reporting, feels we should listen to the EDC and not the residents and elected trustees of our community. Lori Madden is a resident of River Forest.

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Why affordable housing matters

commend village staff for negotiating with two developers who are planning to build mixed-use developments in Oak Park to create a $1 million fund that supports and re-invests in affordable housing opportunities in our village [Developers pitch in $1 million for affordable housing, News, Aug. 17]. While the village has approved smaller developments deemed affordable for lower-income households, the larger rental developments currently underway in the downtown area are well above current rental market rates in the village. Vantage Oak Park, the development at Lake Street and Forest Avenue, has studios starting at $1,300 and 2-bedrooms can exceed $3,500 a month, making them affordable only to high-end income earners. In order for the village to maintain its longstanding commitment to diversity and inclusiveness, both economic and racial, it must address affordable housing in the village. The $1 million is a good start. Housing affordability is a nationwide problem that we witness at the local level. In June of this year, the MacArthur Foundation released the results of its fourth annual national survey titled “How Housing Matters.” This report explores the notion that affordable housing is an essential “platform” that promotes positive outcomes in education, employment, and physical and mental health. Julie Stasch, MacArthur’s president said, “Housing is more than shelter; research shows that stable, affordable housing is a lifeline to educational success, health and well-being and economic security. There is a solid foundation of helpful policies, but more needs to be done to preserve and increase the supply of affordable housing and to address the loss of income that contributes to increased demand.” Housing Forward knows firsthand that any community member could be at risk of being homeless without housing that is reasonably affordable. Renters seek our services when they

are behind in their rent and need financial assistance to stave off eviction. We find that they are often paying 50% or more of their income toward housing. For these households, as well as those we serve working to regain housing, they are counseled to find housing that is affordable to their income. Sometimes those options mean finding housing in neighboring communities because Oak Park is no longer affordable. As the village considers how to increase the community’s affordable housing stock, Housing Forward recommends the following: 1) create a flexible rental assistance pool for households facing an eviction due to an unexpected financial crisis; 2) establish a security deposit fund for low- and moderate-income renters who are relocating within our community; 4) create an incentive pool to recruit, retain and support landlords who share the value of affordable housing and want to set aside 10-15% of their units for lower-income households seeking to live or relocate in Oak Park; 5) create a landlord indemnification fund to mitigate risk from renting housing units to individuals and families who may have difficulty obtaining housing due to bad credit, a criminal record, unemployment or a poor rental history; 6) establish a rental assistance program to fund “bridge units” to quickly house disabled individuals leaving homelessness while permanent supportive housing units can be found. Addressing housing affordability, which uplifts our commitment to diversity in our community, requires good policies, planning, and investment. The benefits are simple: Housing affordability translates into housing stability and economic security, which are critically important for the growth and prosperity of Oak Park today and for generations to come. To maintain the diversity on which we pride ourselves, we must create a diverse housing stock affordable to all incomes. Lynda Schueler is the executive director of Housing Forward.

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Red Friday at OPRF

With backpacks and field hockey sticks, On skateboards and bikes, In threes and walking alone, They wore red shirts, Red sweatpants with their football jerseys. I’ve never been so moved, As they went about their business. Getting to school, But wearing red to honor their slain classmate. God bless our kids. I never went through anything like that in high school.

Katie Brennan River Forest

BLESOFF from page 37 How about the next time you get together with good friends, your contemporaries, you plan to talk about crafting an intention statement for how you wish to age? Not your first choice for a night out, huh? You’re probably right — it takes a bit more self-reflection. But you might be surprised. Recently I co-facilitated a ninesession Wise-Aging Workshop series (12 participants in their 60s, 70s and 80s) and nobody wanted it to end, so the group is still meeting on its own. Living well can be liberating. Living well through the last third of our lives is a win-win. It allows us to experience that life gets better and better, our losses notwithstanding. It also allows us to live our legacies, not just leave our legacies. And as it helps us to be the folks people want to visit, not should visit, living well not only gives us the joys, pleasures, satisfactions and perspectives that contribute to our happiness, it also allows us to actually be alive until death finds us.

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Lessons from summer theater

have been a fan of Oak Park Festival Theatre since it was called Shakespeare in the Park. They do a fine job. This year’s performances of George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion and Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew were no exception. I often have trouble decoding Shakespeare’s English in real time. Thanks to good directing and delivery, I had no trouble with Shrew. If I had to classify these plays, I would call them “strange romances.” Both depict women who fall for men who treat them badly and men who have little respect for women. Hardly the stuff of which romantic comedies are usually made. I wondered what, if anything, these plays have to say about the mystery of relationships. Pygmalion presents the wellknown story (largely due to the musical version, My Fair Lady) of Eliza Doolittle in her quest to speak in a more gentile fashion so she can find better work than being a flower girl. Eliza’s mentor, Henry Higgins, teaches her educated English and manners, yet gives her no credit for her success. While Eliza becomes a better version of herself, Higgins never evolves. Similarly, in Shakespeare’s play, there is no evolution in the character of Petruchio, Katherine’s husband. He comes to Padua to “wive it wealthily.” He woos Kate because she is strong-minded and her rich father is having difficulty getting her a husband. Petruchio’s scheme to improve Katherine as a wife involves starving her, depriving her of sleep, demanding that she see the world according to his dictates. When she surrenders,

I experienced little but embarrassment for her. Despite knowing the outcome of both plays, I was rooting for Eliza Doolittle to find someone who would appreciate her and to leave Higgins to wallow in his lonely bachelorhood. Frankly, I wanted to see Katherine bounce a heavy object off Petruchio’s inflated ego. I believe it is the lack of any transformation in the male characters that left me wanting a different ending to both plays. In My Fair Lady, Alan Jay Lerner recognizes this flaw. When, at the end, Higgins believes that Eliza has left him, he admits, to his consternation, that he has “grown accustomed to her face.” I think it is this change in Higgins that makes me leave My Fair Lady with a smile, whereas I left Pygmalion feeling cheated. Some might argue that Petruchio evolves to a small extent at end of Shrew. However, the concessions that Katherine has made are so much larger than his token affections that I give him no points for it. Had he expressed his appreciation for Kate by declaring his undying love (preferably on his knees), I would have left the play more satisfied. In The Power of Myth, Joseph Campbell wrote, “Marriage is not a simple love affair. It’s an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in which two have become one.” As I left Austin Gardens after each of these plays, I was aggravated. It took a while to understand what was bothering me. For the ordeal of relationship to work, the sacrifices and transformation must be mutual. Charles Hughes is a therapist in, and a resident of, Oak Park.

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O B I T U A R I E S

Regan Pierce, 44 Ascension member, volunteer

Regan Widrig Pierce, 44, died on Sept. 1, 2016 at her Oak Park home. Born in La Grange on Nov. 24, 1971, she graduated from Hinsdale Central High School and received her Bachelor of Arts degree in History from Loras College. A devoted mother, she was an active member and volunteer of Ascension Catholic Church. Regan Pierce is survived by her husband, Rob; her children, Ellie, Ben, Tess, Mac, and Millie; her parents, Larry and Rhonda “Roni”

Widrig; her sister, Dana Widrig; her in-laws, Ray and Leslie Pierce; and her nieces, Olivia and Alexis. Visitation was held on Sept. 5 at Drechsler, Brown & Williams Funeral Home. A funeral Mass was celebrated on Sept. 6 at Ascension Church, followed by interment in Bronswood Cemetery. The family appreciates memorials to Regan’s Children at “Regan’s Reserve” c/o Elizabeth Skalitzky, Community Bank, 1001 Lake St. in Oak Park, 60301.

Wednesday Journal, September 7, 2016

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First Congregational Church of Maywood

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324 N. Oak Park Avenue 708-383-4983 www.firstUMCoakpark.org Sunday School for all Ages, 9am Sunday Worship, 10am Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Chapel during Worship Rev. Jenny Weber, Pastor Professionally Staffed Nursery Fellowship Time after Worship Presbyterian

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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 Schedule Christian Education for All Ages 9:00am Worship Service 10:00am

Roman Catholic

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: Mondayâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Friday 6:30am Church Office: 708-366-0839 CCD: 708-366-3553 www.stbern.com Pastor: Fr. Stanislaw Kuca Traditional Catholic

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

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Ascension Catholic Church

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 11am Service: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Celebration of Lifeâ&#x20AC;? thirdunitarianchurch.org (773) 626-9385 301 N. Mayfield near Austin and Lake

Grace Lutheran School

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

Christ Lutheran Church

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

St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church

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

808 S. East Ave. 708/848-2703 www.ascensionoakpark.com Worship: Saturday Mass 5:00 pm Sunday Masses 7:30, 9:00, 11 am, 5:00 pm Sacrament of Reconciliation 4 pm Saturday Taize Prayer 7:30 pm First Fridays Feb.â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 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

Unity

UNITY CHURCH OF OAK PARK 405 North Euclid Ave.

The Presence of God watches over you. Sunday Services 9 am & 11 am Youth Education 11 am 708-848-0960 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; unityoakpark.org

Upcoming Religious Holidays Sept 6-15 Paryushana Parava Jain 8 Nativity of Virgin Mary Christian 10 Waqf al Arafa Hajj Day Islam 11-14 Eid al Adha * Islam 14 Elevation of the Life Giving Cross (Holy Cross) Christian 22 Equinox

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with the caretaker to accomplish assigned facilities Carry out tasks in the department and duties. demonstrating theas

signed duties describedability in thetohousekeeping, perform them. maintenance and preserUnder the leadership of the Caregiver Coordinator, the Caregiver Commu-vation manuals. The facilities assistant is also designated as one of the with the scheduled Departmentdays nity Organizer will be the primary liaison to a number of Caring Together   primary respondents10. onCommunicates the emergencyregularly plan. Regularly Heads to review production needs and matters Living Better (CTLB) partners and coordinate the community outreach include weekends.  of quality in order to maintain a well-run departand communications activities of CTLB. Caring Together, Living Better  QUALIFICATIONS: ment. is an innovative, community-based partnership in Chicago’s south and  west suburbs focused on expanding and improving supportive services • Associate’s Degree equivalent trade experience. and 11. or Assists the Department Heads in Mechanical monitoring the for informal (unpaid) caregivers of older adults. AgeOptions originally de-   technical skills as demonstrated by a minimum of 2 years of prior work condition and operation of department equipveloped a south suburban CTLB partnership and has expanded the part experience and/or certified training. Experience with housekeeping ment in order to advise the office of the need for nership into the west suburbs. The Caregiver Community Organizing Spe preferred. Ability to learn and apply special procedures related to hisrepair or replacement of these. cialist will work with select CTLB partners to develop, expand and sustain  toric houses and museum environments. their caregiver support programs, develop caregiver outreach materials 12. Assists thebe Department • Travel to off-site locations may necessary.Heads by assuming a   and conduct outreach to caregivers, volunteers and referral sources. share of the responsibility for the implementation  • Ability to lift loads of 75 pounds. Frequently moves,practices. loads, delivers, of all prescribed food sanitation QUALIFICATIONS  or adjusts supplies and property weighing 35 to 75 pounds. On rare  Bachelor’s Degree and two years experience in communications, social 13. Helps to monitorloads conditions in the production occasion, may move with assistance weighing over 100 pounds. services, community organizing, volunteer coordination or related area or areas and assists in the routine daily cleaning of five years of related experience. Experience working in Latino commu-   • Frequently required to climb ladders, work onand roof,storage and in areas. tight spaces the preparation, service  nities highly preferred. Verbal and written fluency in Spanish and English (crawlspaces, etc.).  required. Ability to travel locally with valid driver’s license and proof of 14. Shares in the deep cleaning of all production and • Weekend and evening hours areas required.  auto insurance required. serving periodically as the need arises and  the work schedule permits. • Ability to conduct visual, auditory, olfactory inspections. This position will be located in Oak Park, IL but will involve extensive travel among the towns of Berwyn, Cicero, Melrose Park and other western   15. Performs other duties as assigned by the Director Send Resume to: mcampbell@flwright.org suburbs.  of Food Service, Assistant Director, Satellite Coordinator or a Department Head. Please visit our website at www.ageoptions.org. Interested persons,   please e-mail resume with cover letter to: HR@AgeOptions.org or  Physical/Visual Fax to: (708)524-0870. EOE. Please put PT Community Organizer in  Activities: Standing, sitting, lifting, carrying reaching, fine motor header. Older persons encouraged to apply. Please include salary  dexterity, talking, hearing, visual acuity: near visual history in cover letter. No phone calls please. acuity required. Ability to lift a minimum of thirty-five   (35) pounds alone; fifty (50) pounds with assistance.

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PUBLIC NOTICE Notice is given on a public hearing for a final application for U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD) funding. In approximately three weeks, the Village will submit an application to HUD for a Section 108 Loan Guarantee Program now that the Village Board has approved the final application for a $3 million loan fund for small to midsize businesses. These funds, if approved, will be loaned by the Village to promote businesses expansion/improvement, create and/or retain jobs, assist low/moderate-income persons, & deliver positive economic benefits for the Village & its residents. For borrowers, the Village will offer a competitive interest rate, lower than conventional financing. Each Section 108 loan activity will create and/or retain permanent jobs, at least 51 percent of which (computed on a full-time equivalent basis) will be made available to or held by low/ moderate income persons. The proposed Section 108 Loan Fund will meet the HUD Public Benefit standards. An open-house Public Hearing on the final Section 108 Loan Fund application will be held from 3-5 p.m. on September 9, 2016 in Room 215 of Village Hall, 123 Madison Street, Oak Park, Illinois 60302. Attendees can arrive at any time within this two-hour period. Reasonable accommodations will be made for persons with disabilities & non-English speaking persons, as needed. For more information, contact Mark Dwyer, Grants Supervisor, Village of Oak Park, 123 Madison Street, Oak Park, Illinois 60302 at (708) 358-5416. Published in Wednesday Journal 9/7/2016

PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN in accordance with Section 4(2) of the Illinois Local Government Professional Services Selection Act, 50 ILCS 510/4(2), that the Board of Education of Riverside School District No. 96, Cook County, Illinois, is requesting statements of interest from firms seeking to provide architectural service on a continuing basis for various projects of the School District. It is anticipated that such services will commence on or about October, 2016. The Board of Education is further requesting statements of qualifications and performance data from those firms which do not have such a statement on file with School District 96. The proposal document should include the following: -Statements of interest -Statement of qualifications -Cover letter indicating an interest/overview of Master Facilities Planning Process -Description of Master Facilities Process -Resume -Multiple examples of the consultant’s previous work -3 References The above information must be submitted electronically and in hard copy to the following address by no later than 5:00 p.m. on September 12, 2016: Mr. David Sellers Interim Director of Finance and Operations Riverside School District No. 96 63 Woodside Rd. Riverside, IL 60546

PUBLIC NOTICES We anticipate scheduling presentations with the Riverside District 96 Board of Education on September 21, 2016 from 7:00-9:00 p.m. Riverside School District No. 96, Cook County, IL Lynda Murphy Secretary, Board of Education Published in RB Landmark 9/7/2016

PUBLIC NOTICE VILLAGE OF RIVERSIDE, ILLINOIS NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Notice is hereby given to all interested persons that a public hearing before the Planning and Zoning Commission of the Village of Riverside will be held on Wednesday, September 28, 2016 at 7:00 p.m., or as soon thereafter as the business of the Planning and Zoning Commission may permit, in Room 4 of the Riverside Township Hall, 27 Riverside Road, Riverside, Illinois, to consider an application for a variation from Section 10-7-3.F.2.a of the Village of Riverside Zoning Ordinance for property located at 106 Northgate Road, Riverside, Illinois, in the R1-A Single-Family Residence District, in order to build a 6-ft. tall fence in the street yard along Westover Ave. Application No.: PZ 16-015 Petitioner: David and Julianne Kafka Property Commonly Known As: 106 Northgate Road, Riverside, Illinois PIN: 15-25-300-024 The variation sought is from Section 10-7-3.F.2.a of the Riverside Zoning Ordinance, which provides as follows: “Fences and walls shall be prohibited in street yards, except where the street yard adjoins a nonresidential use or along 26th Street, 31st Street or York Road, subject to further review by village staff. Along street yards that adjoin 26th Street, 31st Street or York Road, a fence shall not exceed six feet (6’) in height.” The above application is available for inspection at the office of the Village Clerk, 27 Riverside Road, Riverside, Illinois 60546. During the Public Hearing the Planning and Zoning Commission will hear testimony from and consider any evidence presented by persons interested to speak on this matter. Persons wishing to appear at this hearing may do so in person or by attorney or other representative and may speak for or against the proposed variation. Communications in writing in relation thereto may be filed at such hearing or with the Planning & Zoning Commission in advance by submission to the Village’s Building Department at 27 Riverside Road, Riverside, Illinois prior to 4:00 p.m. the day of the public hearing. The Public Hearing may be continued from time to time without further notice, except as otherwise required under the Illinois Open Meetings Act. Dated this 7th day of September, 2016. Paul Kucera, Chairperson Planning and Zoning Commission Published in Landmark 9/7/2016

REAL ESTATE FOR SALE

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT–CHANCERY DIVISION CITIMORTGAGE, INC., SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST TO ABN AMRO MORTGAGE GROUP, INC., Plaintiff, -v.MELISSA J ABATE A/K/A MELISSA ABATE, THE 254 W. CHICAGO AVENUE CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION Defendants 12 CH 24561 254 CHICAGO AVENUE UNIT A 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 July 7, 2016, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on October 11, 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 254 CHICAGO AVENUE UNIT A, Oak Park, IL 60302 Property Index No. 16-05-322-030-1001. The real estate is improved with a condominium. 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(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF

POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. For information: Visit our website at service.atty-pierce.com. between the hours of 3 and 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 8661. 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. 8661 Attorney Code. 91220 Case Number: 12 CH 24561 TJSC#: 36-8620 I699237

September 28, 2016 at the hour of 11 a.m. in their office at 120 West Madison Street, Suite 718A, Chicago, Illinois, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described mortgaged real estate: P.I.N. 15-13-301-013-0000. Commonly known as 7641 York Street, Forest Park, IL 60130. The mortgaged real estate is improved with a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection. For information call Mr. Frederic Deraiche at Plaintiff’s Attorney, Kluever & Platt, L.L.C., 65 East Wacker Place, Chicago, Illinois 60601. (312) 236-0077. File Number SPSF.2424 INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I701940

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY AS TRUSTEE FOR HSI ASSET SECURITIZATION CORPORATION TRUST 2005NC1, MORTGAGE PASS THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 2005-NC1; Plaintiff, vs. BRODERICK MCKINNEY; HOUSEHOLD FINANCE CORPORATION III; URBAN PARTNERSHIP BANK, TRIA HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION; UNKNOWN OWNERS, GENERALLY AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS; Defendants, 15 CH 17415 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause on June 27, 2016 Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Wednesday,

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR J.P.MORGAN ALTERNATIVE LOAN TRUST 2006-A3 MORTGAGE PASSTHROUGH CERTIFICATES Plaintiff, -v.ROBERT P. ALLEN A/K/A BOB ALLEN, LISA C. ALLEN, THE PRIVATEBANK AND TRUST COMPANY, CITY OF CHICAGO, AN ILLINOIS MUNICIPAL CORPORATION, THE INDECOR GROUP D/B/A J.C. LICHT COMPANY Defendants 10 CH 54095 1307 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 October 30, 2015, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30

AM on October 3, 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 1307 ASHLAND AVENUE, River Forest, IL 60305 Property Index No. 15-01-113-009. The real estate is improved with a single family residence. The judgment amount was $943,691.71. 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(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. For information, contact The sales clerk, SHAPIRO KREISMAN & ASSOCIATES, LLC, 2121 WAUKEGAN RD., SUITE 301, Bannockburn, IL 60015, (847) 291-1717 For information call between the hours of 1pm–3pm fax number 312-372-4398 Please refer to file number 10-048882. THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales. SHAPIRO KREISMAN & ASSOCIATES, LLC 2121 WAUKEGAN RD., SUITE 301 Bannockburn, IL 60015 (847) 2911717 Fax #: (312) 372-4398 E-Mail: ILNotices@logs.com Attorney File No. 10-048882 Attorney Code. 42168 Case Number: 10 CH 54095 TJSC#: 36-10508 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. I702645

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Huskies, Friars cruise to victories Led by superb quarterbacks and plenty of playmakers, OPRF and Fenwick are 2-0

Fenwick senior running back Conner Lillig rushed for 98 yards and two touchdowns in a 51-0 win against Bowen.

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By LAUREN RECCHIA

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he defining moments of the Oak Park and River Forest High School football team’s season most likely will occur during West Suburban Conference Silver Division play, particularly with a regular season-ending stretch run of games against Glenbard West, Lyons Township and Hinsdale Central. While defending state champion Glenbard West is the favorite, any of the four teams could conceivably win the conference championship. In the meantime, OPRF (2-0) took care of business within the West Suburban Conference in a different way. The Huskies hit the road Friday night and defeated Addison Trail 35-14 in a convincing conference crossover victory. After missing the second half of last season with an injury, OPRF senior quarterback Jeremy Hunt turned in his second straight solid performance this fall. He completed 9 of 15 passes for over 100 yards and three touchdowns. Hunt also rushed four times for 30 yards. Most importantly, the 6-foot-3, 220-pound signal caller is feeling comfortable again on the gridiron. “I felt better on the field this week for sure,” Hunt said. “I had a lot more nerves last week (21-14 win against Simeon). “We worked a lot on our passing and catching. I felt like that really helped us out coming into the game today.” In the closing seconds of the first quarter, Hunt threw a 13-yard touchdown pass to sophomore wide receiver Craig Shelton. Hunt then connected with Khori Blair on a 12-yard touchdown pass, extending the lead to 14-10 with 3:19 left in the second quarter. Other notable contributors offensively for OPRF included senior wide receiver Jared Scott (4 catches, 65 yards, TD) and junior running back Terrance Roundy (11 carries, 51 yards, TD).

“It’s nice knowing that we don’t have to score on every single drive because our defense will back us up.”

and learn what I can learn. “We just have to clean up the small mental mistakes and physical mistakes, and we can keep building off of each week.” OPRF hosts Morton, the Huskies’ second and final conference crossover game, on Friday, Sept. 9 (7:30 p.m.).

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Fenwick blows out Bowen

OPRF quarterback

Fresh off an inspiring win against Class 4A state champion Phillips, the Fenwick High School football team had a much easier time against a Chicago Public School in Week 2 action. Fenwick routed visiting Bowen 51-0 on Friday at Triton College in River Grove. Senior quarterback Jacob Keller completed 4 of 6 passes for 51 yards and a pair of touchdowns. After two games, Keller has six TD passes and no interceptions. Sherman Martin had two catches for a team-best 42 receiving yards, while tight end Jack Henige contributed two receptions for nine yards and two touchdowns. After a tough outing against a very physical Phillips defense, Fenwick running back Conner Lillig rebounded nicely with 98 yards and two TDs on just five carries against Bowen. Michael Paunove, George Lazios and Jackson Haeflinger contributed a rushing touchdown apiece for the victors. The Friars (2-0) dominated the action with their ground game, amassing 152 yards and five touchdowns on 15 carries. Defensively, Lorenzano Blakeney led Fenwick with four tackles, with his brother, Lorente, Gavin Ortiz and Jason Ivery chipping in three tackles each. Miles Guillen added a safety. Fenwick hosts Montini on Friday, Sept. 9 at Triton College. Kickoff is 7:30 p.m.

Defensively, the Huskies held the Blazers scoreless until late in the third quarter. “Our defense is amazing,” Hunt said. “They bailed us out a lot. It’s nice knowing that we don’t have to score on every single drive because our defense will back us up.” Addison Trail junior running back Nicholas Dambrose scored on a 13-yard TD run with 5:14 to play in the third quarter to cut the Huskies’ lead to 28-7. The Blazers scored again on an 11-yard pass from senior quarterback Bobby Daniels to senior wide receiver Stevan Jones with 7:38 left in the game. The Huskies closed out the scoring with a 6-yard touchdown run up the middle by Roundy late in the fourth quarter for a 35-14 win. Senior middle linebacker Rollian Sturkey led defensively with two sacks. Eddie Gorens, Noah Coplan, Tariq Thurman, Ryan Molina and Brenden Flowers, among others, also contributed on defense. Senior cornerback Keyon Blankenbaker also blocked a 38-yard field goal attempt by the Blazers in the second quarter. While there’s still room for improvement, Hunt likes the direction the Huskies are headed. “We’re going to take the win, but learn from the mistakes we made,” Hunt said. “I just have to take the game in stride

—Marty Farmer contributed to this story.

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(Above) The Fenwick boys golf team returns four starters from last year’s team which finished fifth in Class 2A. (Left) Junior Stephanie Mroz was a regional medalist last year.

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Trending upwards from page 52 miss the state cut one year after finishing 17th at state as a freshman. But that swing was typical of the inconsistency shown by a young team. “It’s a fine line between setting high expectations and not looking too far ahead,” Delany said. “You’ve just got to stay in the moment. We didn’t stay in the moment last year. “When you’re (young), you don’t get over the bad shots, but you’ve got to. So we worked on letting the bad shot go and focusing on the next shot.” The strategy has worked so far. The Friars are 4-1 in dual meets, including 3-1 in the GCAC. The only loss was a twostroke decision to Loyola, which was the state runner-up last season. Fenwick graduated Frankie Bell, who is now playing at DePauw, but returns the rest of the lineup, including Mroz and her fellow co-captains, senior Amy Kucera and junior Olivia Morrissey. Kucera took medalist honors in the Loyola match with a 37, while Mroz has been steady. Morrissey, junior Natalie Mortell and sophomore Alexis Attard give the Friars depth. “We’re very pleased by how we’ve played,” Delany said. “What is really making a difference is the improvement from my 3, 4 and 5 golfers. “(Mortell) is my No. 3. She worked on her game a lot over the summer. I think she practiced every day from the day after sectionals and it is showing.” The Friars have qualified for state twice, the last com-

ing in 2005. They are aiming to advance this fall and have added several 18-hole tournaments to their schedule in order to prepare for the postseason. One of those tournaments in the Decatur Eisenhower Invitational on Sept. 17, which will be played on the state meet course at Hickory Point. The Friars will host the GCAC meet at Green Garden Country Club and the Class 2A regional meet at Cog Hill No. 1. The sectional will be at Schaumburg Golf Club. Success and disappointment are a part of golf, but Delany hopes this time around the Friars will have more of the former and less of the latter. “They’re learning that golf is a process,” Delany said. “You have to enjoy the process. They’ve shown resilience and come back from disappointment.”

Fenwick boys Fenwick was dropped down to 2A last season and the Friars took full advantage of it, qualifying for the state meet for the sixth time in school history and first since 2008. The Friars’ fifth-place finish was their best ever, “That was great,” Fenwick coach Jerry Kribs said. “We had so much fun last year that we’d like to do it again.” The quest will be harder this fall, however, because the IHSA has bumped the Friars back up to Class 3A. “It will be a challenge, but the kids are excited and eager to rise the challenge,” Kribs said. “(Being there before) has made them hungrier.” Four starters return, led by senior Jack Mortell, who finished 12th individually at the state finals last year with a 10-over-par 152 total. Mortell is just the fifth All-State player in program history and the first since Conor Weldon finished seventh in 2005 “Jack is our leader who obviously is a great player,” Kribs said. “He’s looking to go with a strong finish.” Mortell’s career likely won’t be finished this fall. Kribs said Mortell is drawing interest from several colleges, including Carthage.

“He’ll be playing college golf next year; it’s just a matter of where,” Kribs said. “This season will have on impact on where.” Also back are a trio of juniors. Billy Bruce and Reese Wildermuth tied for 63rd at state with 170s, while Michael Scudder shared 107th place with a 189. One of them will have to replace graduated Christian Early, who was 31st at state last fall, as the No. 2 man behind Mortell. “Reese has been working a lot on his game in the summer,” Kribs said. “He’s taking on that added responsibility.” The two new starters are senior Cole Fisher and sophomore Josh Kirkham, who flirted with the nine-hole school record last week before settling for a 4-under 32 at Joliet Country Club. Kirkham’s score was two shots off the record set last year by Mortell, who fired a 30 at Harborside International. The Friars are off to a 3-1 start. The only loss was a sixshot decision to perennial power Providence, which placed ninth in Class 3A last fall. “The guys are playing well right now but golf is such a short season, so you want to make sure you peak at the right time,” Kribs said. “They want to be playing their best golf at the end of the season.”

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Fenwick golf on course for success Coming off historic seasons, boys and girls teams return talent and high expectations

By MATT LE CREN

Contributing Reporter

he 2015 postseason was the best of times for the Fenwick High School girls golf team. It was also the worst of times. After winning the first regional championship in program history with a 345 total, the Friars ballooned to a 383 at sectionals, finishing 11th in a 12-team field. The unceremonious ending to an otherwise memorable season was a valuable lesson for the Friars, who return all but one starter.

“We had success but we also had tremendous disappointment and I think that success and disappointment have inspired the girls to make improvements,” Fenwick coach Kitty Delany said. “We had a very good day at regionals and we had a very bad day at sectionals. I think it helped them to mature.” The highs and lows were shared by everyone on the team, including star Stephanie Mroz, who took medalist honors at the regional with a 69. But the sophomore fired an 89 at sectionals to

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