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JOURNAL of Oak Park and River Forest
September 19, 2018 Vol. 39, No. 8 ONE DOLLAR @oakpark @wednesdayjournal
River Forest green lights Lake and Lathrop
Summer’s sunset Attendees check out the food vendors during the annual Oaktoberfest in downtown Oak Park. More photos on page 7.
Trustees vote 4-1 to approve development By NONA TEPPER Staff Reporter
The River Forest Village Board voted 4-1 at a regular meeting on Sept. 17 to approve the Lake and Lathrop planned development, altering slightly the five-story mixed-use development. “I believe it’s the board’s responsibility and my responsibility to solve our problems in the community and to have a real crisp, clear vision of what our community should look like in the next 50 years. We take great pains in trying to create guiding principles,” Village President Cathy Adduci said, naming the village’s priorities as fire and safety, increasing property values and stabilizing River Forest’s property taxes. “We take these core values really seriously. When we sit around the table, when we talk about opportunities that come before us, it’s not like we just pop up and say, ‘Let’s make this decision on no knowledge’…There’s some work that we need to do with the developers, but I don’t believe it should stop this development,” she said. The majority of trustees approved Lake and Lathrop LLC’s planned development at Monday’s meeting, on the conditions that See LAKE AND LATHROP on page 16
ALEXA ROGALS/Staff Photographer
Four to run for Oak Park Board of Trustees Incumbent Trustee Andrea Button says she won’t seek re-election
By TIMOTHY INKLEBARGER Staff Reporter
Four new candidates have surfaced in the upcoming election for the Oak Park Board of Trustees set for April 2, 2019, and all of them are connected to the new political organization, VOICE of Oak Park. The new candidates are Joshua Klayman, who is a founder and lead organizer for VOICE and professor emeritus of behav-
ioral science at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business; Susan Buchanan, a faculty member at the University of Illinois School of Public Health, where she serves as a physician member of the Occupational and Environmental Medicine Group; Tim Thomas, who works for Ford Motor Company as global Ford production assistance coordinator; and Greg Marsey, a former Oak Park village trustee in the mid2000s, who serves on the local Plan Commis-
sion. The names of the four potential candidates were revealed at a VOICE of Oak Park meeting, held on Saturday, Sept. 15 at Dole Public Library. The candidates will be competing for the seats now held by Bob Tucker, Andrea Button and Jim Taglia. Button has announced that she will not See TRUSTEES on page 12