Former Bar Louie building facing foreclosure
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The property will be going up for online auction next month. The bidding starts at $4.5 million. The auction begins Oct. 17 and lasts through Oct. 19.
The downtown Oak Park building that houses the FFC gym is facing foreclosure on its first three floors, the major ity of which are leased by the health club. The first floor commercial space is currently unoccupied. The pending foreclosure status only pertains to the commercially zoned spaces, extending from 1114 to 1126 Lake St., and does not apply to the building’s resident-owned condominiums
While the auction listing refers to the property as “wellmaintained,” its façade is in the process of being repaired Steve Cutaia, the Village of Oak Park’s chief building official, told Wednesday Journal over the summer that the concrete panels that covered the building’s exterior are being re Photographer
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commercial property in February, after building ownership defaulted on its mortgage. The property is owned by legal entity 1120 Retail LLC, which entered into the $12.8 million mortgage agreement in 2017.
Financial services fir m Wilmington Trust filed for foreclosure on 63,317-square-footthe
Commercial portion of Lake St. building up for auction in October
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Consider our vir tual infrastructure — the inter net. We like to think that our online shopping, remote work, Netflix binging, and addictive scrolling are fric tionless.Butthese rely on often overlooked people and processes and places, too. For one, you need a place to power our online habits. The small suburb of Nor thlake has one of the highest concentrations of data centers anywhere. They have three, including two run by Microsoft.
Jones points out that what we think is the work of algorithms — the policing of hate speech and pornog raphy on Facebook and Twitter, a facial reco gnition camera spotting a face in a crowd, a self-driving car navig ating cr umbling roadways — is actually the work of badly paid and exploited people
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“But workers say the last two years have been very hard,” Time notes, adding that “major staf fing cuts … have forced employees to take on more work.”
The close call reminded me that the humdrum rhythm of our daily lives in this complex society is utterly de pendent on people and processes that are increasingly invisible, taken for granted, and rarely cared for.
Meanwhile, railroad workers are leaving the profession, Time repor ted. You don’t need a colle ge de gree to work for a railroad and the average compensation for rail workers is $160,000, according to the Association of American Railroads
Time quoted a Union Pacific conductor who told the industry publication Freight Waves that “workers ‘are dropping like flies,’ in part because shifts that used to be eight or nine hours are now up to 19 hours.”Ialso see the deterioration in the hum drum while re porting. We rely on safe streets for commuting and transporting. But roadway projects across the suburbs were halted while constr uction equipment operators were on strike for several weeks in June and July. Now that the strike has ended, projects are delayed.
The village also makes sidewalk repairs in front of properties to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), which requires trip hazards to be replaced or re Thepaired.equipment
“For most of its inhabitants, the moder n world is full of black boxes, devices whose inter nal workings remain — to dif ferent de grees — a mystery to their user s,” writes Vaclav Smil in his new book, How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We’re Going
operators’ strike resulted in skyrocketing demand for workers and the cost of a single square of concrete rose from $200 last year to $300 this year, village of ficials said. As a result, they were forced to consider temporarily pausing the program or reducing its scope.
ast week, commuters across Chicago and the suburbs, including Oak Park and River Forest, were relieved to hear that labor unions and railroad companies ag reed to a tentative deal, aver ting a strike by railroad engineers and conductors that would have shut down Metra service
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of about 5,000 residents and in cor porated in 1924, released a Pavement Management Stud showing that 74 percent of its roadways are in “poor or failed condition.”Thestudy estimated that it would cost the small town nearly $1 million a year over a decade to bring the majority of the town’s roads up to fair condition.Iftheroadways and cost of re pairs are what they are in Berkeley, a small and relative young suburb, I can imagine what things are like in, say, Maywood — incor porated in the 1800s and with a population of around 25,000 people.
We also de pend on safe sidewalks. This summer in Westchester, village board members wondered how they would salvage a critical 50/50 sidewalk program that provides sidewalk squares at half the cost for residents who request replacements in front of their homes.
We rely on the railroads for more than just commuting. Products and materials we de pend on every day get transpor ted by rail, but this critical supply chain is deteriorating.TimeMagazine re por ted Se pt. 14 on a recent survey of companies that rely on railroad shipping. Nearly half of the companies surveyed said rail delays and service challenges had gotten worse from the end of 2021 to July. Nearly 60 percent of companies surveyed said they had been charged higher rates
Data centers are boring buildings full of servers, routers, cables, and racks that provide storage capacity for data processing and networking services. I’ve driven by these things all the time without realizing what they do and how we’d be screwed if, say, the employees inside them didn’t show up to work or the buildings were dama ged.
“We are never forced to encounter the fact that data must also be produced; that such an ethereal, elusive substance is the result — like hardware — of human labour,” writes Phil Jones in Work Without the Work er: Labour in the Age of Platform Capitalism.
“A day’s work might include labelling videos, transcribing audio or showing algorithms how to identify various photos of cats,” Jones writes, adding the “work is volatile, arduous and, when waged, paid
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Besides hulking, yet ignored, data centers, there are the invisible humans who constitute data processing.
They make an average of $2 an hour working remotely through sites like Amazon Mechanical Turk, which facilitates the kind of labor that Artificial Intelligence is cur rently incapable of doing.
by the Therepiece.”issomuch hidden volatility in the world that it’s scary to even ponder We don’t know how much we’re de pendent on the things, people, processes, and institutions we know nothing about until they stopAndworking.increasingly, they are jamming up. Goo gle Jackson, Mississippi. Europe in the coming winter. Puer to Rico
Each of us is the sum of the institutions that facilitate our world — the water treatment centers and energy plants and railroads and data centers and public works de par tments, etc.
When I go to the polls in November and again in April next year, I’m voting for the candidate who best understands the need for those institutions to work — because we’re living in a long emergency.
Vote like your life depends on it
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Westbound Union Paci c West Metra train approaches the Oak Park station.
And streets across the city and suburbs are in dire need of maintenance and reEarpairlier this month, Berkeley, a suburb
A Step In The Right Direc tion
Oaktober fest
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Movie Screening: ‘The Woman King’
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Second Annual Berw yn Blues Festival
The Oak Park Public Library will present a free screening of The Woman King, starring Viola Davis, a cinematic journey into the 1800s, with allfemale warriors protecting the African kingdom of Dahomey against a foreign enemy that’s determined to destroy their way of life. The warriors bring skills and erceness unlike anything the world has ever seen. Entr y is free, and each person attending must register at oppl.org/calendar. 1022 Lake St., Oak Park
Friday, Sept. 23, 5 p.m.; Saturday, Sept. 24, 1 p.m.; Sunday, Sept. 25, 1 p.m., FitzGerald’s Summer in Chicago always starts with the Chicago Blues Festival in Millennium Park. Now that the fall season is upon us, there’s another blues festival that ends the warm weather season. The lineup for the Berw yn Blues Festival is quite formidable, with such heavy hitters as Mud Morgan eld, Cedric Burnside, Ruthie Foster, Toronzo
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Friday, Sept. 23, 4 p.m.-10 p.m.; Saturday, Sept. 24, 12 p.m.-10 p.m., downtown Oak Park Oak Park has a big end- of-summer blowout in the street, with lots of bands, food, and other assor ted highlights. More info here: https://oaktober fest.net/. Marion Street and Nor th Boulevard, South of Lake Street, Oak Park.
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Friday, Sept. 23, 4-7 p.m., Lake Theatre
Pacifica Quar tet/Almita Vamos/Winston Choi Saturday, Sept. 24, 7:30 p.m., Unity Temple These three per formers kick o the Chamber Music series of the 2022-23 season. $35-45, $5 o for UTRF members, limited student seating is $10. 875 Lake St., Oak Park.
Friday, Sept. 23, 10 a.m.-12 p.m., Oak Park Public Librar y Blocks will be supplied by the librar y, and the imagination will be supplied by the kids Will it be a skyscraper or a shack? The possibilities are endless. For kids from 0-5. Register at oppl.org/ calendar. 834 Lake St., Oak Park
This is a special walk to raise money for mental health charities, speci cally NAMI and Thrive. Lo cated on the outdoor track at OPRF High School, the aim is to walk informationmiles2,500.More here: https://www.astepintherightdirec tion.us/. 201 N. Scoville Ave., Oak Park
Sunday, Sept. 25, 5:30 p.m., Oak Park & River Forest High School
Wednesday Jour nal welcomes notices about events that Oak Park and River Forest groups and businesses are planning. We’ ll work to get the word out if you let us know what’s happening by noon Wednesday a week before your news needs to be in the newspaper.
Cannon, Jontavious Willis, Li’l Ed & the Blues Imperials, J.D. McPherson, Melody Angel and countless others. More information here: https:// www. tzgeraldsnightclub.com/ber w yn-bluesfest/. Daily tickets, $45-529. Weekend passes, $140-999. 6615 Roosevelt Road, Berw yn.
Gas stations will ha close at midnigh
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Police process the scene of a shooting at the BP gas station at 100 Chicago Ave. in Oak Park on June 22.
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“The individuals that own these gas stations believe in the same [safety] concerns and we feel that closing down the stations will have the opposite of the intended effect,” Jasmer said.
Oak Park gas stations will no longer be legally permitted to operate 24 hours a da der a newly adopted ordinance, the Oak Park has mandated all gas stations close by midnight. The stations can open as ear as 5 a.m.
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The village board unanimously adopted the ordinance Sept. 19 as part of agenda, but not without some pushback from the gas stations. David Jasmer, one of torneys representing Oak Park g spoke out against the ordinance, “ripe” for a temporary restraining orde
He argued that the ordinance would only serve to increase crime rather than elimi nate it and will have the ultimate effect of mass gas station closures. The unlit stations will be left vulnerable, according to Jasmer, who referred to his clients as “essential busi nesses staffing essential workers” and members of the village’s small business community.The village has been working with gas stations to reduce crime. Jasmer asked for the opportunity to continue doing that, while noting the stations have no reason to believe the ordinance will be successful in limiting lawbreaking“Wefeelthere is no reasonable relationship, no causal connection that has been shown or documented by any statistics or other data to show that an overnight closure would have any impact at all on crime,” he said.The looming threat of legal action failed to sway the village board against the ordinance. With the conclusion of Jasmer’s public comment, the board immediately voted unani mously to adopt the entire consent agenda.
“We will bring that if the board goes ahead and implements the ordinance,” Jasmer said.The ordinance was born out of concerns regarding the safety of having 24-hour gas stations. The village has had a total of 18 vio
lent offenses take place at gas stations in the last three and a half years; 13 of those offenses took place after midnight, including the murder of 18-year old Jailyn Logan-Bledsoe in June
Colored concrete in place of granite pavers
he Public Wo rks Department be g an looking i nto almaterials wh i le p lanning the La ke Street re surfacing project of2019. Sproule and other public wo rk s staf f we re able to wo rk with different c oncrete providers that of fered color options
T he crosswalk project has already g one out to bid and the c ost of re p lacement will not be known until the bids c ome in. T he village has budg eted a total of$75,000 for streetscaping and other re pairs, wh ich includes the crosswalk. Sproule hopes to bring the project before the village b oard on Oct. 17, with c onstruction on the crosswalk, ideally, c ompleted before Thanksgiving.
wh ich should p ut an end to the shifting. C onstruction crews will score the slab with a c oncrete saw to it the appearance of interlocking pave rs.
While Sproule was not the public wo rks director in 2011 (he was for merly the village forester), he d oes not e scored concrete was considered as an alternative anite pave rs at that time because the project was one to match the aesthetic of North Marion Street. was also before the influx ofsignificant new de elopment in downtown Oak Pa rk , wh ich has increased olume oftraffic in the area in recent year s, amplify ing the stress placed on the pave rs probably wasn’t a c oncern at that point,” sai d
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T he individual pave rs will be re p laced with a slab of
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T he village ofOak Pa rk p lans to re p lace the gr anite pave rs lining the crosswalk at Marion Street and S Boulevard with scored, c olored c oncrete this f all. higher end treatment will make the c oncrete look the same as the gr anite pave rs wh i le offering more durabil it y.T he gr anite was laid down in 2011 as pa rt of the South Marion streetscape project, wh ich c ost roughly $5.4 million total. New Public Wo rks Director Ro b Sproule sai the we ight and volume oftraffic tr aversing S outh Boulevard was much less then than the street now experiencesThe gr anite i tselfis not to blame, he said. T he pave rs we re laid in an i nterlocking pattern, set in a bed. Th e pressure ofmoving vehicles, including snowplows du ring inclement we ather, c ause the individual pave rs to move within the bed.
T he pave rs have held up well for north-south traffic, but the crosswalk’s east-west traffic has c aused the pav-
ers to shift, creating p otholes that exacerbate over time, a ccording to Sproule.
e intersection of Marion Street and South Boulevard in Oak Park.
“We we re having staf f out there pretty re g ularly t ryin g to reset these things, ” he said.
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Members of ROYAL (Revolutionary Oak Park Youth Action League) held its back-to-school bash Sept. 17 in Oak Park. e event included four workshops supportive of Black and Brown teens navigating life in the village.
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White said there were three artists the arts council approached who had the capa bility and experience of painting large scale murals“That’s a talent in and of itself to do a re ally big project,” White said.
Artist Tia Etu has painted murals in Oak Park for over 25 years, and her most recent piece is at a newly constructed apartment building on North Avenue and Humphrey Avenue and is titled “The Birds, The Bees, Flowers, and The Trees.”
Council – a non-profit aligned with the vil lage gover nment and which raises funds to support artists and arts organizations in Oak Park, River Forest and Forest Park, said Executive Director Camille Wilson White. The arts council helped connect Etu and Noah“ThisPropertiesisprobably the longest one I’ve done since it stretches from one end of the building to the other,” Etu said.
Tia Etu uses new tools for her longest mural ever
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“If you give me freedom, you’re really go ing to get my best piece,” Etu said.
Properties gave Etu complete freedom with the mural, she said. Originally, the drawing Noah selected pictured only flow ers and the bee, but throughout the process Etu decided to add more characters such as birds, trees and insects.
Once submissions were in, Noah loved what Etu said in her drawing for the mural and chose her.
Etu said she wanted the piece to be color therapy on the wall. Throughout the entire process children came by and watched, and they were f ascinated by the mural, she said.
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Etu invited her student, who is also in her 60s, to help with the project for four days. Her student had been asking to join her on a project for a while, so for this mural she colored in everything Etu outlined the day
Etu said she painted her mural over two weeks, and for the first time she tried her hand at spray painting to complete the piece
said it was a faster process, and it was the most fun project she’s done yet.
Muralist Tia Etu at the cor ner of Humphrey and North Avenue.
“I just want some beauty in the midst of chaos,” Etu said.
Etu said after her student finished the solid color, she would comb over it to make sure it was as tight as she wanted inside the outline because her precise lines are her signature. She then added more color depth.
Happy, lengthy and color-infused, a new North Avenue mural
“I think it was the most fun project I did, because I did so many things differently,” she said.
“I’m going back over that flower with some yellows and reds and things like that, that gives it its three dimensionality,” Etu said.Noah
Wisaid.ththe location of the apartment in mind, Etu knows it can be loud, she said, with motorcycles and cars playing music across North Avenue, especially for tenants using their balcony. She said mental illness worries also plays a major part in lives today, and so she didn’t want the piece to be heavy or political – just something nice and calm to look at.
Some aspect of public art was built into the village approval process for this apartment project. Noah Properties, the developer partnered with the Oak Park Arts
“I put the brightest, most beautiful colors on there, so that it would really make people feel happy when they came by and saw it,” Etu
By JAMIE O’TOOLE Contributing Reporter
Unveiling of new sculpture and renovations to group home mark the milestone
remembrance of Leslie Ann Jones and Tom Johnson. The fund contributes to Hephzibah’s ef for ts to heal children through art
During the month of October, women who live in these communities can receive a screening mammogram for no cost at Rush Oak Park Hospital.*
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Just like it opens its doors to children in need, Hephzibah Home opened its doors to the Oak Pa rk community last Friday for a special open house event in celebration of the organization’s 125th anniversary.Guestswere
The renovations, which were fully funded by private donors, include a new gross motor skills room, an updated garden play space, more visiting rooms and an art therapy space.
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Hephzibah celebrates 125th anniversary
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Several elected officials attended the open house, the first to be held by Hephzibah since the COVID-19 pandemic began. U.S. Re p. Jesus “Chuy” Garcia was there, as were Illinois Senate President Don Harmon and Oak Park Village President Vicki Scaman.
not only treated to an opportunity to learn more about the Hephzibah Children’s Association’s vast history of working with vulnerable and traumatized children, but also the chance to view the recently completed renovations made to the or ganization’s group home, 946 North Blvd.
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(Le to right) Illinois Senate President Don Harmon, Hephzibah Executive Director Merry Beth Sheets, Oak Park Village President Vicki Scaman, and U.S. Rep. Jesus “Chuy” Garcia.
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A special sculpture created by local artist Margot McMahon was also unveiled at the open house. The piece of art was paid for through Hephzibah’s Art Heals fund, which was created in
Now, there’s no reason not to have one.
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therapyNowstanding on the front lawn of Hephzibah Home, the sculpture serves to commemorate the Art Heals initiative while offering a symbol of healing to the community.
“I f it had sat there too long, I’m sure it would have ended up at my house,” he sai d. (a )
bad spot and was scared,” Gloodt said. “It was meowing pretty loud; you could hear it from the sidewalk.”
“She goes, ‘Oh, can you bring it home?’”
The whole operation was pretty straightforward. Neither the animal nor the ve hicle was harmed in the conduct of this rescue. The vehicle’s owner, whose name Gloodt didn’t catch, was so taken with the kitten, he adopted it on the spot.
Gloodt, who has three cats of his own, told Wednesday Journal he immediately texted his daughter after completing the rescue mission.
“That one was actually kind of t ricky,” heGloodtrecalledand another firefighter had to l ift the vehicl e, wh ich was parked in the
Gloodt was the first firefighter on the scene. He recalls being able to see the frightened feline from underneath the ca However, it was too upset to be coaxed out, so Gloodt called in reinforcements.
cue
The Oak Pa rk Fire De partment has made some serious rescues this past summer, and the most recent resulted in a kitten finding a permanent home.
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Fire personnel were called to 700 block of Washington Boulevard earlier this month after receiving re ports of a cat trapped in a parked vehicle. The little gray stray, only a few weeks old, had gotten itself lodged inside the vehicle’s engine and was crying desperately for help, according to Battalion Chief Jacob Gloodt, who coordinated the rescue ef forts.
ously involved in another cat predicament this past spring: a beautiful black cat had gotten stuck on a vehicle’s back axle.
Once it was safely remove d, the cat was taken to the Animal Care League. A self proclaimed “softi e, ” Gloodt followe d up with the shelter and found that the cat had been adopted
Both felines have found homes following complications with cars
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lock of Marion Street, and g et underneath it. T hey used streams of a ir to direct the kitten out of the vehicle and to , with Gloodt nudging it along .
“I think it realized it had got itself into a
The fire engine crew used a carjack to lift up the vehicle. Then owner of the vehicle popped open its front hood. The firefighters led the kitten out of the engine.
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PIE-EYED Organizer Dina Ross cuts the on during the Farmers Market annual pie bake-o
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“It became kind of a running joke in our house, my wife would ask my son where was and he would always guess I was making pies,” said Petrzelka who shops the farmer market weekly.
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Now that he has won the Oak Park Farm ers Market Pie Bake off, Petrzelka’s daughter Sydney is encouraging him to enter other pie competitions.Gettherecipe for his Pearadise Pie on oakpark.com.
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Crowds gathered on Saturday, Sept. 17, as 10 local bakers presented their best pies for judging at the 5th annual Oak Park Far mers Market bake-off. The competitors were chosen via lottery from a pool of 20 and judged by two randomly selected volunteers and Moni ca Fiala, the baker of 2021’s winning pie “It was a perfect day for the bake off,” said Dina Ross, farmers market commissioner and pie bake off organizer. “It felt fantastic to see people staying to watch the whole competition.”After tasting the bevy of homemade of ferings, judges named Adam Petrzelka’s “Pearadise Pie” as the first-place finisher. The winner received an etched glass pie plate featuring the farmers market new logo Petrzelka’s pie, handmade from filling to crust, featured fresh pears from Barry’s berries, eggs and blueberries from Hardin Farm and made use of a dash of Stover’s honey. The winning pear pie took top honors be cause it of its surprising use of almond paste and supremely flaky crust -- judges also noted
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Petrzelka thinks he has crafted somewhere between 200 and 300 pies in the past two years making them for friends, neighbors, and teachers. Though baking has provided an emotional outlet, Petrzelka has worked to perfect his crust one pie at time. Ross, noted the flakey crust on the winning pie was a de ciding factor and declared Petrzelka’s entry to be “a clear winner.”
“Our friends started a meal train for us, so I didn’t need to cook as much and turned to baking pies to thank people for the meals they provided for us,” said Petrzelka whose son died in October 2020 after six months of treatment. “But I found rolling the dough to be therapeutic and making pies became a good way to get out some of my feelings during that time.”
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Petrzelka, an avid cook and hobby baker, began making pies two years ago as a means to relieve some of the stress he felt after his five-year old son, Owen, was diagnosed with an incurable brain tumor in 2020.
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Making use of their 43 employees, the Forest Park shop can produce 300 three-gallon tubs of ice cream per week in their on-site factory, but the shop only needs 180 tubs for itself. The shop receives their fresh cream de livery on Tuesdays, staff members make the ice cream, and it is all sold by the end of the week. The creamery’s efficiency created the capacity for the Brown Cow to collaborate with other businesses to make their own ice cream and sustain the business through slower months.
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Brown’s first collaboration is a celebration of coffee made in partnership with Kribi Coffee – locations in Forest Park and Oak Park. They offer the ice cream for sale at the Brown Cow and anticipate Kribi using it as part of their catering program offered through their forthcoming Oak Park location inside of Cross Function Flexible Workspace at the Boulevard Arcade, 1033 South Blvd.
Amerikas, 734 Lake St. in Oak Park, and Media Noche, 6836 Windsor Ave. in Berwyn, make use of Brown Cow’s line of Latin-in spired flavors including avocado, horchata, Mexican hot chocolate. Sugar Beet Co-op, 812 W. Madison St., will begin selling the Brown Cow line of grocery store ice cream in October and Fritzi’s Delicatessen, 113 N. Oak Park Ave., features Brown Cow’s Madagascar va nilla as part of their beverage program.
cherry ice cream mixed with Spilt Milk’s popular almond tea cakes. The custom blend is available by the pint at Spilt Milk, 811 South Blvd.
After COVID-related supply terruptions forced Connie Brown to The Brown Cow, 7347 Madison St., in 2020, the community rallied around her to raise $62,000 to assist in the construction of an in-house creamery. Though the project went $80,000 over budget the donations helped Brown build the infrastructure necessary to bolster her own shop and has since evolved to create opportunities for other local busi nesses to create and store their own custom ice“Icream.amliterally only here today because of this community,” said Brown. “We built the creamery with the intention of making ice cream for ourselves and kind of organically grew into this model.”
MELISSA ELSMO/Food Editor Connie Brown shows o a vintage ice cream container she salvaged from her grandfather’s ice cream shop in Maywood Now the ice cream expert is sharing her talents with the broader community.
“These kinds of cross collaborations are a win for everyone; If they do well, then we do well, said Brown. “This community kept the Brown Cow open, and I want them to under stand the incredible opportunity they have opened to us.”
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Brown said the shop is nearing capacity for collaborations and looks forward to reaching that point and “seeing how that feels” before making decisions about growing her community creamery even more.
Brown Cow’s fan-funded factory in Forest Park churns out custom ice cream collaborations
After publicizing the local coffee collabo ration on Takeout 25, Brown received a call from Meg and Molly Svec of Spilt Milk who expressed interest in having Brown Cow mix up a custom blend exclusively available at their Oak Park bakery. They settled on black
The Brown Cow also offers private label ice cream for non-food related businesses Dan Matas of Key Mortgage Services, 7777 Lake St. Suite 100 in River Forest, has Brown mix up a custom ice cream inspired by his grandmother’s “butterscotchy cookies.” Bakers onsite make the cookies according to a family recipe and then blend them into their premium ice cream.
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Jens Jensen- designed urban oasis brings back childhood memories for area residents
“I know how to sautee, fry – all of that,” he said. “I f I c ome home with some fis h everybo dy knows it ’s going to be some g oodGoreeeating!”alsoshared some baiting t ips he lear ned from his gr andfather.
Herons and waterfowl visit the pa rk ’s reflecting p ond during the summer and mi gr ating birds li ke the Virginia rail and the mour ning warbler visit in the s pring, the city explains another online summary of the pa rk
“We would make stink bait,” he said. “We would g et chicken live r, red Kool-Ai d to make it look li ke blood and p ut some hot sauce on there with batter You p ut it on the hook li ke a chicken bite and throw it out there. ”
Dennis, of Austin, pours sh caught at the lagoon into his bait tank. He said he’ll use them as bait to catch large cat sh in the Des Plaines River.
Denise Dean drove around for hours last week with her 85-year old mother, Mami e Dean, looking for a p lace to fish. T hey, li ke so many others in the city and suburbs, eventually discove red the Columbus Park Lagoon, 500 S. Central Ave. in Austin.
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“The 144-acre pa rk includes a
Spo rt fishing licenses are residents b etween 16 and 64, veterans and seniors b etween $1.50 for super seniors 75 and free for anyone under 16 and who are disabled or blind.
T here we re, however, p eople Deans and others who c onsider historic Lagoon an escape from and exhaustion of city life
“On the way home, I told mama, ‘Thi s is the last bo dy of water before we ge t home to Garfield Pa rk .’ Over there, we know way too many p eople We would n’ t be fishing, we ’d be talking,” Denise said.
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Going shing in the Columbus Park Lagoon
Strictly speaking, I llinois anyone who wants to fish in waters to secure a fishing license IDNR. T hey licenses are available and at some local bait shop s.
“My gr andda dy taught me how to fish, ” Goree said, struggling with a c ast le g to ascend the back of a pa rked pickup truck. “We used to come out here and catch fis h all the time. I remember [city employees] used to bring the truck and I would see them stocking the waters with the fish.”
No one i nterviewe d for this stor y recommended eating the fish they catch, not even Goree, who said he’s well- ve r sed in the ar t of cooking fish.
Mark Goree, 35, of Austin, decide d on a wh im to visit the Lagoon Mond ay evening, his first visit of the year Hi s
meandering lagoon d esigned to emulate a prairie rive r, c omplete with c ascades and g entle waterfalls c onstructed of stratifie d stone,” the Foundation explains “Nat ive p lants we re used throughout, even at the pl ayer ’s gr een where outdoor perfor mances we re held with backstage dressing rooms created with native ve g etation. A nine-hole g olf c ourse predating Jensen’s d esign was i nte gr ated i nto his p lan. This is the only Chicag o pa rk d esigned by Jensen with hi s signature ‘council ring,’ a circular stone b ench for storytelling or c ontemplation. A Mediter r anean Revival style refector y was added in 1922. ”
After the i nterview, Goree was left to fish and reminiscence in p eace — j ust as Jens Jensen intended .
Denise Dean, of Gar eld Park, shes at the Columbus Park Lagoon on Sept. 16.
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C olumbus Pa rk was d esigned 1915 and 1920 by renowned landscap e architect Jens Jensen. According to an online summary by the C ultural L andscape Foundation, the pa rk re presents the c ulmination of Jensen’s d esign ideas and his public master piece.
fishing was limited this season d ue to a broken foot.
T he two spent about three hour s fishing catfish, channel fish and blue gill. A spokesperson for the Chicago Pa rk District, wh ich manages the Lagoon, sai d that the I llinois De par tment of Natural Resources (IDNR) usually stocks the Lagoon with fish every two weeks from May to Au g ust.
Realistically, though, many without licenses Over the seve r al hours on Mond ay and week, there we re no authorities the area for unlicensed fishers.
“The c enter of the pa rk was ke pt open to suggest the broad expanse of the prairie,” Jensen’s bio gr apher, Ro be rt E. Grese, wrote in a 1992 b ook. “F latness was re ga rded as an asset. ”
One of her professors suggested that she consider doing, as her final project, an anatomical illustration for one of Tessier’s surgeries addressing Treacher Collins Syndrome, a facial malfor mation that impacts the cheekbone, eye socket and chin. Her drawing received an honorable mention in a national contest and was published in U.S. News & World Report“Itwas amazing to watch the surgeons work, especially with children, sometimes for more than 12 hours at a time The philosophy of the center was that faces are the windows to the world — both in and out. Dr Tessier and his attend ing surgeons wanted to keep children with facial deformities from getting second looks,” Haugh said.
However, after 33 years in an industry she loved, Haugh made the difficult decision to close her practice in 2019, much to the chagrin of her many appreciative clients. The effects of the 2008 economic downtur n were still impacting her busi
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“It was hard work with incredibly long hours. But I had the opportunity to be an integral part of Tessier’s educational process with other surgeons And I got to work on a leather bound desk in a large studio on the Avenue des Champs-Élysées. Paris in July --not a bad deal!”
From chiropractor to crossing guard
As a respected local chiropractor, Cheryl Haugh spent cades helping Oak Park area clients on their path to and recovery Retired for the past couple years, she helping many of their children on their path to school. a crossing guard, she spends her mor nings and after shepherding students across busy Lake Street on their and from Beye School.
“There were miracles in people who had gone through years of other therapies without relief. What I did, through soft tissue work and adjustments, made a real difference. I believe in chiropractic work — it works,” said Haugh.
Now recovered from her surgery, Haugh is enjoying retire ment and plans to continue her long-held interest in art — as a fine artist rather than a medical illustrator
Cher yl Haugh’s long journey to an interesting new gig
After graduating, Haugh got a job at Rush University Medical Center’s new biomedical communications department, working alongside other young, enthusiastic, creative illustrators. In July 1975, she landed a plum assignment, based on a good deal of chutzpah, working with Dr Tessier in Paris. He agreed to cover her airfare and room and board for a month while she did preparatory anatomical illustrations for his surgeries.
VESTED INTEREST: School crossing guard Cheryl Haugh helps students cross Lake St reet from Harvey on Sept. 15.
“I’ve been surprised how much I am enjoying this,” said. “Oak Parkers are so friendly in the mor ning. I love ing the kids and setting the tone for their day. I’m the first sider they see and I feel an obligation to be sunny for And then I see them at the end of the school day, like ends.”Asshe has become a fixture in their lives, Haugh has privy to some interesting conversations with her charges. Like the girl who proudly shared that she was ing a special sparkly tutu, which was invisible to Haugh until the girl advised that she had tucked it into her tights it wouldn’t get dirty on the way to school.
ness, and the field was changing, with competition from the growing physical therapy field. In addition, her own health was becoming a challenge. She had major surgery for her scoliosis that same year.
Haugh worked at Rush for 10 years and then decided to pursue her dream of being a chiropractor She attended Triton College for two years to take basic science classes before enrolling in the National University of Health Sciences in Lombard. She opened her chiropractic business in River Forest in 1987, using a multidisciplinary approach incorporating massage, spinal manipulations, counseling and spirituality
Another benefit of her practice was meeting her future wife, Elizabeth (Betsy) Ritzman, a client, as well as a counselor and minister They decided to work together on a femi nist book focusing on women’s health and spirituality and celebrating women’s transitions. The book never reached fruition — but the relationship did. Cheryl and Betsy were the first lesbians in Illinois to register as domestic partners. They were legally married in their backyard on Aug. 2, 2014.
Haugh’s interest in the chiropractic field stemmed from own issues with back pain, starting with a trampoline dent in grade school and including a diagnosis of scoliosis as a young adult. But the road to the profession was long and without several potholes along the way.
While, as a child, she had aspired to be a doctor, her lackluster grades in high school and the expense of medical precluded that goal. Also interested in art, she decided to pu sue medical art at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She juggled studies with a part-time job at the sity’s Craniofacial Center, where she met Dr. Paul Tessier, a French maxillofacial surgeon considered to be the father of moder n craniofacial surgery.
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“I was in pain for many years. Walking was becoming difficult and, once I saw the X-ray of my back, I knew I needed surgery. I truly believe that what I learned through my chiropractic practice kept me from having to have invasive treatment much sooner,” she said.
OPRF has eliminated tracking for most freshman classes math is exempt be cause freshmen at OPRF take a wide range of math
that point yet,” Sullivan said. “That’s a more complex area to look at. We definitely think there would be benefits to streamlining the entry points and that’s where we’re at right now.”Sullivan said she’s heard anecdotally that the new freshman curriculum is going well but it is too soon to say how it going with any degree of real knowledge
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“I don’t want to wait three years down the road to know whether it’s working or not,” said school board member Fred Arkin at the school board’s Sept. 8 Committee of the Whole meeting. “I want to know by November how it’s Administratorsgoing.”plan to report to the school board later this fall on the new policy that was approved last year but one ad ministrator cautioned that initial data could be inconclusive and that it will take some time to know if the new program is working.“Wehave to be really careful that we aren’t trying to define too quickly whether or not all of our freshmen students are being successful based on one or two short ter m things that could change in two weeks, or three weeks, or a quarter,” said Laurie Fiorenza, assistant superintendent for student lear ning, in response to Arkin’s request. “I think we need to be very careful that we don’t send a message that we’re go ing to be able to decide by November.”
Data presented at the Se pt. 8 meeting indicate a great dis parity in enrollment in Honors classes, grades and test scores among various ethnic groups at OPRF. Over the last five years only six to 10 percent of students enrolled in sophomore Honors English at OPRF have been Black while approx imately 18 percent of all OPRF students are Black. Black students only accounted for six to seven percent of students enrolled in sophomore Honors science, six to 10 percent of sophomore Honors history classes and eight to nine percent of sophomore Honors World Languages enrollment.
One member of the Oak Park and River Forest High School District 200 Board of Education is calling for a progress re port on how the school’s new policy of detracking most freshmen classes is going sooner rather than later.
Sullivan said that OPRF will continue to of fer Honors, Colle ge Prep and Advanced Placement classes to sophomores, juniors and seniors“We have no plans to detrack sophomore, junior or senior (years),” Sullivan said. “I know that is something that people expressed concer n about but we will continue to have Honors and AP classes.”
WhitestudentsandAsian students were generally over re presented in Honors classes. Sophomore Honor’s English had 64 to 73 percent of white students over the past five years according to data provided to the school board when approximately 55 percent of sophomores were whit e.
Over the past five years white and Asian students received higher grades in the freshmen classes that have been restruc tured. Some 78 to 88 percent of white students and 80 to 96 percent of Asian students received grades of A or B in these classes compared to 49 percent to 64 percent of Black students and 64 percent to 74 percent of Hispanic students over the past fiveWhiteyears.and Asian students have also scored much higher on the SAT colle ge entrance examination than Black and Hispanic students. Last year 71 percent of white students,76 percent of Asian students and 54 percent of multiracial students at OPRF students who took the SAT met or exceeded the Colle ge Board’s expec tations in math compared to just 22 percent of Black students and 40 percent of Hispanic students at OPRF
of multiracial students at OPRF met or exceeded expectations compared to 39 percent of Black students and 66 percent of HispanicFiorenzastudentssaidthere will be two major benchmarks to judge whether the re vamped freshman cur riculum is working or not. Those will be whether the classes maintain OPRF’s standards of academic rigor while closing the gap in perfor mance between students of dif ferent races and ethnicities“Theequity issue here is access,” wrote Fiorenza and Lear ning Analytics Coordinator Kristen McKee in their re port to the board. “By opening access, improving these numbers, reducing disproportionality, and disrupting the har m we are currently causing we will know we are making progress We also reco gnize that change is not linear By increasing access and providing students a more rigorous experience that may not have been in place before, we know that challenges may lie ahead.”
“I don’t want to wait three years down the road to know whether it ’s working or not.”
Hispanics were slightly under re presented in all sophomore honors classes at OPRF except for World Languages. Hispanic students accounted for nine to 12 percent of students enrolled in sophomore Honors English over the last five years while Hispanics accounted for about 13 percent of all OPRF
In the reading and writing portion of the SAT 92 percent of white students, 86 percent of Asian students and 80 percent
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“Thereclasses.areabout 10 different entry points into math so that is an area that definitely needs to be streamlined, but we are not at
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“Those are typically students with IEP’s (Individualized Education Plans) frequently,” said OPRF spokeswoman Karin Sulli van.While
OPRF eliminated college prep classes at the freshman level this year in a move to promote equity and get more Black students into higher level classes Most freshman classes, other than math, are now only taught at the Honors level although about 15 percent of OPRF freshmen are in lower level Transitions classes.
“At this point it’s really too early,” Sullivan said. “We really don’t have any data at this point. We’re hearing that it’s going really well but that’s just a general comment.”
Much of the scaffolding has been removed, but the repair work has been prolonged due to a shipment of new materials arriving damaged. Construction crews await the de livery of new materials to finish the job.
When Brendan O’Connor put the call out to the community to help Big Guys Sausage Stand weather a financial stor m in June of this year, the restaurant had already amassed $50,000 in credit card debt trying to stay afloat during these uncertain times for restaurants
O’Connor to focus on special event catering and promises pop ups
Curto, saddled with roughly $5.9 million in unpaid debts, filed for bankruptcy in 2011.
July.“We gave it a two and a half month run,” said O’Connor. “Business started out strong, but then it slowed down again. We were work ing with the minimum labor requirements to stay open, but the last month has been rough. Our business just fell off a cliff.”
It costs approximately $100 an hour to keep Big Guys open and O’Connor was quick to point out the restaurant is closed for three of those hours daily for menu prep and cleaning. To make ends meet the restaurant need ed to generate $300 an hour in sales, but on re cent weekdays could only muster $700 daily. O’Connor made it clear he could not compete with fast food restaurants in the area and lamented going through days without cus-
To make matters worse, Big Guys’ veteran cook, the “back bone of Big Guys” announced he would be retur ning to Mexico for at least six months making ongoing staffing challenges insur mountable for the fragile sausage stand
“The business just went the wrong way on me,” said O’Connor. “I had to punch the brakes before it got any worse.”
Though O’Connor is in conversations with “experts” about potentially selling the building, he intends to use the kitchen on the premises to continue Big Guys’ catering ser vices. The owner admits he has often made up for front of the house losses with cater ing orders going out the back door and now looks forward to focusing solely on large scale-special events for up to 500 guests.
Big Guys owner Brendan O’Connor is closing his restaurant on Roosevelt Road in Berwyn.
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The legal entity currently in ownership of the property is managed by another legal entity, 1120 Retail Inc.; its president is listed as Antonio Vallado. Wednesday Jour nal has re quested comment from Vallado. The Jour nal has also reached out to FFC management for comment on how the property’s legal status affects its leasing agreement.
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Cutaia said of the concrete panels “And the glue was kind of coming unglued.”
tomers when he could see people lining up at nearby drive thrus
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For those who have come to expect a Big Guys’ style rescue at the holidays, O’Connor is clear those folks should rest easy He will be offering all of his popular “take and bake” Thanksgiving and Christmas menu items again this year.
“We’ve been having a hard time leasing the space,” Vallado told the ZBA. “We’ re in hardship right now with the bank.”
“I feel like I have been running with weights on for the past few years,” said O’Connor “It will be nice to focus on cater ing without being stretched so thin, but I will miss interactions with customers and running daily specials.”
to complete repairs, pay the mortgage and “keep the lights on.” There was a modest amount left in the bank when he reopened in
Curto’s company, RSC & Associates, was also sued in 2009 by the Village of Oak Park over the building’s poor construction. The suit argued that the developer failed to meet the guidelines of its 2004 redevelopment agreement, under which the Village of Oak Park gave village-owned property to the de veloper and reimbursed the costs of its de molition and remediation.
The commercial part of the building is roughly 74% occupied as of this past Au gust, according to its online auction listing, but 1120 Retail LLC has had trouble kee ping tenants in the ground floor retail space. The building lost a major tenant in 2019 with the closure of Bar Louie restaurant. Brue gger’s Bagels and Mattress Firm also rank among the building’s previous ground floor tenants.
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The condo association, as Wednesday Jour nal previously reported, was forced to take out a loan and levy a special assessment to condo owners to make building repairs. At the time, those repairs were estimated to cost upwards of $1.5 million.
The GoFundMe buoyed his business with more than $40,000 in donations, but it wasn’t enough to stave off the closure of the beloved counter
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A representative from N.A.I Farbman said that the company is not involved in auctioning the property.
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recommends appointing a receiver when it is feared a company or individual may dis sipate or waste corporate property or assets
RSC & Associates was previously sued in 2007 by Brandenburg Family Associates The company had paid $1.5 million toward buying the building’s commercial space, but the deal fell through. The lawsuit alleged the down payment was not retur ned to Brandenburg Family Associates
A year and a half after Bar Louie shuttered, the Oak Park Zoning Board of Ap peals voted to allow 1120 Retail LLC to convert the ground floor into a co-working of fice space. Vallado alluded to the company’s financial dif ficulties at that zoning board meeting on Sept. 17, 2020.
“This age of convenience is really a doubleedged sword for independent restaurant owners,” said O’Connor
Financial crisis forces Big Guys closure in Berwyn
NAI Farbman is serving as the property’s court-appointed receiver. Receivers are neutral, third-party custodians appointed to protect property under the control of someone being sued, according to the U.S. Secu rities and Exchange Commission. The SEC
The foreclosure filing is just one of many legal tussles involving the building. Since its 2006 construction, the building has been the object of a parade of lawsuits. The building’s condo association sued 1120 Retail LLC, as well as developer Richard Curto and Trapani Construction, in 2009 due to report ed shoddy construction.
“I’ve said it before, but I feel like I am work ing my own funeral,” said O’Connor. “I know I could figure out a way to pull this off, but at some point, I have to think of my own mental health.”O’Connor called on the community for assistance when staffing shortages forced the decade old restaurant into a temporary closure. Grateful for the support, O’Connor used the money generated by the fundraiser
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Armed robbery
■ Someone broke the rear driver’s side window of a gray 2015 Chrysler and stole from the vehicle a University of Illinois Chicago bookbag that contained a University of Illinois Chicago iPad, an iPad pen, a personal iPad, a Bose speaker, a University of Illinois Chicago credit card and cash between 3:30 p.m. and 10 p.m., Sept. 15 in the first block of Lake Street. The estimated loss is $3,000.
The minivan was last seen traveling eastbound on Washington Boulevard from Austin Boulevard. An unknown person was also in the minivan, sitting in the front passenger’s side seat.
Motor vehicle theft
from the 100 block of North Humphrey Av enue at 1:30 a.m., Se pt. 14.
These items, obtained from the Oak Park Police Department, came from reports, Sept. 13-19, 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 ha ve 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
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■ The catalytic converter from a gold 2002 Honda Civic was cut while the vehicle was parked in the 1100 block of Lyman Avenue be tween 11 p.m., Sept. 15 and 9:34 a.m., Sept. 16.
The victim relayed to police that she realized the minivan was following her while she was driving through the 1100 block of Randolph Street at 1:20 a.m., Sept. 17. She heard the gunshots after she exited her 2014 Toyota RAV4, which had broken down, according to police. Upon inspecting her vehicle, she found five bullet holes in her front passenger’s side door and both front tires flat.
■ An Oak Park resident’s white 2018 Kia Optima was removed from the 900 block of North Ridgeland Avenue at 7:37 a.m., Sept. 13. Hockey equipment, men’s clothing, a Dell laptop with computer bag and a sensory weighted helmet with a vest were inside the vehicle. The total estimated loss is $23,000. The vehicle was recovered by Chi-
■ A package was stolen from the foyer of a building in the 400 block of Home Avenue between 12:30 p.m., Sept. 14 and 1:09 p.m., Sept. 15. The estimated loss is $100.
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MX2 pro-hook boxing gloves from the back seat between 3:30 p.m. and 10:20 p.m., Sept. 15 in the first block of Lake Street. The estimated loss is $1,020.
Shots red at driver on Randolph; no injury, tires attened
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tin Boulevard. No loss or damage to the ve hicle was reported.
A Forest Park resident was shot at while driving early Saturday morning. The shots were fired from a black minivan that had been following her.
■ Someone broke the front passenger side window of a gray Mazda then stole the three photography-grade cameras and six camera lenses from the vehicle between 6 p.m. and 10:12 p.m., Sept. 15 in the first block of Lake Street. The estimated loss is $350.
A man pulled a gun on an Oak Park resident after the resident yelled out to him as he was standing at the driver’s side of the
An Oak Park resident was sitting in his ve hicle, when he was approached by an armed male teenager, who pointed a silver handgun at the resident and demanded he turn over his property, at 10 p.m., Sept. 13 in the 200 block of Lake Street. The offender took cash from the vehicle and ransacked its glove compartment. As the offender was trying to take things from the backseat, the resident escaped by driving off. The estimated loss is $204.
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By LACEY SIKORA Contributing Reporter
he owner of 327 and 329 Home Ave. in Oak Park, 327 Home Ave., LLC, is requesting a zoning map amendment to reclassify the lots from R-5, two-family residential zoning to R-6, multiple-family zoning. The Oak Park Plan Commission is holding a virtual meeting on the proposal on Sept. 22 at 7 p.m.
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The application states the owner’s intention is to build a four-unit townhouse building on the lot, increasing the total of units on the two lots to eight.
“Once the zoning change is made, I don’t think there’s a legal mechanism to put any restrictions on the allowed
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Neighbors who learned of the proposal and those who attended the meeting were not surprised by the request to reclassify the property to the higher-density zoning classification. Most of them were in the neighborhood in 2020 when a 16-unit development was proposed for the vacant lot at 329 Home Ave. (https://www oakpark.com/2020/07/13/battleerupts-over-rezoning-home-avenue-historic-property/ )
Elizabeth O’Brien, president of the condo association at 339 Home Ave., adjacent to the vacant lot, has opposed the zoning change from the beginning.
Under the current R-5 zoning, only a two-flat or singlefamily home can be built at 329 Home Ave. The adjacent
e owner of the property at 327 Home Ave., where a residential building (above) was div ided many years ago into four units, wants to build a four-unit tow nhome development on the vacant lot immediately to the south, at 329 Home Ave Developer seeks OK for scaled back Home Ave. development 16-unit building scrapped in favor of 4 townhomes
Local architect John Schiess and property owner 327 Home Ave. LLC. were the applicants for the zoning map amendment. The corporation is owned by Gary Collins, who is a board member of Growing Community Media, which publishes Wednesday Journal.
In late August, Schiess held a public meeting to answer questions about the development. He declined to comment for this article but stated he is not the architect for the building planned for the site, and says he has no financial or ownership interest in the property.
building at 327 Home, a for mer single-family home long converted into four apar tments, is grandfathered in as an exception to zoning. If the change to R-6 zoning is ap proved, up to 16 units can be built on the remaining lot.
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Craig Failor says there can be no restrictions placed on a zoning map amendment by the plan commission but notes that the owners of the property have stated it is their intention to put a deed restriction on the property, limiting it to four Collins,units.who partnered with for mer Chicago Alderman Ted Mazola, to rehab 327 Home Ave., says he is not working with Mazola on the building planned for 329 Home Ave.
e developer has hired architect Bob Mi in to desi gn a brick and stone tow nhouse building (above) for the lot at 329 Home Ave.
“They bought the property knowing what the zoning was and knowing this was the beginning of the historic district,” Costigan said. “Why do their concerns outweigh the people currently living on the street?”
Like O’Brien, Joe Costigan lives in a neigh boring condo and fears the development will block sunlight into units which have only north-facing windows. He questions the assertions made in the zoning amendment application that state the developers need a denser zoning designation in order to make a return on their investment.
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number of units,” O’Brien said. “He could build up to 12 more units on that lot. I really do feel that he’s going to bait and switch us.” Collins told Wednesday Journal he intends to build a four-unit building and plans to live in one of the four townhomes. He retained local architect Bob Mifflin to design a rendering of the property, which was included in the application for the zoningViamendment.llagePlanner
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He said he is aware of the neighbors’ concerns about the project and says that he has been a longtime member of the local community and is interested in maintaining the historic character of Oak Park
Those who wish to be included in the virtual meeting should email the planning commission by 5 p.m. on Sept. 22.
For those interested in commenting on the proposed zoning amendment for 329 Home Ave. prior to the virtual Oak Plan Commission Meeting on Sept. 22, statements can be emailed to planning@oakpark.us or dropped of f in the Oak Park payment drop box across from the entrance to Oak Park Village Hall, 123 Mad ison St., no later than 5 p.m. on Sept. 21.
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If the zoning change is approved, he states that he plans to build four units of
O’Brien objects to the proposed parking arrangement which calls for three garages, and additional spaces on a parking pad.
When it comes to plans for the building, he says that he is using himself as the guide. While anyone can live there, he thinks there is a market for baby boomers like him who don’t want a single-family home with a $30,000 tax bill but still want to live in the community where they raised their kids.
She said she feels the development is not appropriate for the neighborhood and would like to see zoning upheld for the historic district. She also noted that the developers have already removed many trees from the site.
ment,” O’Brien said.
Brian Latz, who his home in the 300 block of Home Avenue in 1998, says zoning was
“One of the things I love most about Oak Park is our heritage,” O’Brien said. “We’ re losing our charm, what makes us Oak Park. We are one of the few arboretum towns in the U.S. and we need to protect our greenspace.”According to Failor, the owners have not asked for zoning relief other than the map amendment, so the property would still be subject to all other village zoning requirements including the open spac e requirement.InR-5single-family residential zoning districts, the limit for impervious surface coverage is 65 percent for single-family homes, and 70 percent for two-unit buildings. In R-6 zoning districts, the lot coverage maximum remains the same for singlefamily homes and two-flats, but townhome or multi-family buildings have a maximum impervious surface coverage of 75 percent.
“Are we going to preserve zoning to preserve the history and character of the neighborhood, or are we going to cater to an outside developer?”
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For Costigan, who has lived in Oak Park for 30 years and raised his family here, the issue concer ns the importance of citizen input.
Neighbors wary
e property ow ner says he intends to live in one of the units and w ill place a restriction on the deed prohibiting more than fo ur units in the future
“The back of the lot would be all ce-
Those who would like to be able to comment at the meeting must email planning@oak-park.us by 5 p.m. on Sept. 21.
“Zoning is supposed to protect residents,” he said. “The village shouldn’t be choosing winners and losers between a developer and its citizens. We’re the people that Oak Park relies on to maintain its vibrancy, schools and park system.
Plan Commission accepting public comment on development
two to three bedrooms each, and he says the entire building’s square footage would be no larger than a two-flat. He plans to have an elevator in the building and provide plenty of parking in light of his own interest in owning and driving cars.
A Zoom link is included on the meeting agenda, which can be found online at oak-pa rk . us/your-gove r mission.commissions/historic-preservation-com-nment/citizen-Themeetingwillbestreamedliveatoak-park.us/commissiontvandonlocalcablechannelsandwillbearchivedonlineforon-demandviewingthefollow-ingday.
“I’ve designed a really beautiful building,” Collins said.
“I love landscaping. I love gardens, once it’s done, it will be beautiful,” Collins said. “There will be green space at the front and in between the buildings.”
The Oak Park Historic Preservation Commission discussed the proposal at their Se pt. 8 meeting after Schiess presented the amendment application. Some commissioners were in favor of the zoning map change, and others, including Commissioner Mo Chase, expressed concer ns about how the change in density and the removal of green space would af fect the historic character of Home Avenue
The Historic Preservation Commission members’ opinions on the proposed development will be presented to the plan commission at the Se pt. 22 meeting.
Failor says it is possible the plan commission could make a recommendation on Se pt. 22, or if the meeting runs long, at a future meeting. If the plan commission approves the zoning map amendment, the final approval for the change would be up to Oak Park Village Board.
CREDIT R A MIFFLIN ARCHITECT site plan provided to the village (above) shows how the proposed tow would be situated property
Collins says concer ns about overall ap pearance of the project are unfounded.
He said that it is not his intention to alter the character of the neighborhood and praises his architect’s connections to historic preservation in Oak Park
“Why do they allow this sor t of slippage to occur in an historic district?” Latz said. “They’re calling it ‘transitory zoning’ but I don’t see a lot of examples of that. Across the street and to the nor th it’s single-family homes. When you look at the plat, the existing house sits on both of those lots. In my mind they allowed those four units to remain because the four units were spread over two lots.”
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“The last time around the Historic Preservation Commission reviewed it and tur ned it down,” he said. “I hope the plan commission considers the character of the 200 and 300 blocks of Home and realizes this is something dif ferent. We have some of the oldest, most historically significant homes in Oak Park in this neighborhood.”
an impor tant par t of his decision to buy his home. Latz, who is vice president of asset management for Driehaus Enter prise Management, says that as someone who works in preservation and land planning, it was very appealing to him that his 1800s era home was protected from the encroachment of development.
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For the most part, the Friars have. While pleased with a 33-15 homecoming victory over De La Salle Sept. 16 at Triton College, Battaglia is looking for more consistency.
pecially on our home field.”
OPRF eld hockey still a work in progress
read the play The ball was tipped and it came right to me,” Jaksic said. “I blacked out and ran as fast as I could and got into the end zone It probably won’t hit me until I watch it on film, but it feels good.”
Friars travel to Wilmette to meet the Ramblers, one of the Chicago area’s top programs, on Sept. 24.
The Huskies led early, but two costly tur novers in the second quarter tur ned the tide for good as the Lions rolled off 31 consecutive points en route to a 38-13 West Suburban Conference Silver Division victory.
Fenw ick quarterback E.J. Hosty looks to pass against De La Salle in a CCL/ESCC White Div ision game Sept. 16. e senior accounted for four touchdowns (two passing, two rushing) in the Friars’ 33-15 v ictory
Fenwick (2-2, 1-0 in the Chicago Catholic League/East Suburban Catholic Confer ence White Division) started fast, march ing 77 yards on nine plays for a touchdown with quarterback E.J. Hosty doing the honors with a 1-yard sneak. Kicker Luis Avalos’ point after gave the Friars a 7-0 lead at the 9:19 mark of the opening quarter.
team that finished as state r unner-u p, the Oak Pa rk and Rive r Fo rest High School field hocke y team knew that the annual Huskie Invitational would ser ve as a good barometer for j ust where they ’re at in 2022.And the ve rdict after finishing the tour nament 2-3 is that there’s room for im
over the middle for a 25-yard touchdown.
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S enior defender Caroline Revsin e ag reed with Wi r tz’s assessment.
OPRF was held to 187 yards of total of fense. Evans led the Huskies in both rushing (11 carries, 82 yards) and receiving (3 catches, 38 yards). On defense, Sam Gray had a team-high 11 tackles, including two resulting in losses.
By MELVIN TATE Contributing Reporter
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After a blowout loss to Oak Park and River Forest High School in Week 1, Fenwick High School football coach Matt Battaglia vowed his team would get better.
The play of the game occurred on the De La Salle’s next possession. One fourth down the Meteors attempted a fake punt, but the pass deflected into the hands of Fenwick de fensive lineman Mirko Jaksic, who rumbled 30 yards for a touchdown and a 20-0 Friars lead.“Ijust
Friars score 27 points in rst half, coast to homecoming victory
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However, De La Salle got on the board twice in the final quarter on a fumble return by Evan Smith and a 15-yard touchdown run.
“We got a little lackadaisical with the football, and that just can’t happen,” Battaglia said. “We’ve got an opponent coming up [Loyola Academy] that’s not going to show much mercy if you don’t protect the football.”The
However, late in the second quarter, fum-
The Huskies will try to get back into the win column Sept. 23 when they visit Hinsdale Central.
“We we re up against a lot of g ood teams, and playing five g ames you have to be on all the time,” she said. “We had g ood ener gy, but sometimes the d etails we ren’ t there. Finishing with a win is all we c ould
provement.“Therewe re some ups and downs,” said OPRF c oach K ristin. “Our first and last g ames we re nice. In the middle three, there we re some nice things that happ ened, [but] against a c ouple of teams we pl ayed timid. We let them c ontrol the pace when we needed to ste p up and take it, es-
In the first quarter, OPRF quarterback Jack Gooch (11-of-22, 99 yards, 2 INT) tossed a 1-yard touchdown pass to Ryan Martin -- the eighth time this year that the duo has connected for a score.
bles by Eric Evans and Gooch on consecutive possessions swung the momentum towards LTHS. Gifted short fields, Lions quarterback Ryan Jackson threw touchdown passes of 7 and 10 yards to give LTHS a 17-7 halftime lead.Two more scores by the Lions (4-0, 2-0) in the third quarter put the game away. Lemer Bur nett had a 1-yard touchdown run in the fourth quarter for the Huskies (2-2, 0-2).
Fenwick football makes quick work of De La Salle
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After the defense stopped De La Salle (1-3, 0-1) on downs in the red zone, Fenwick went 81 yards on 11 plays and hit paydirt again when Hosty (12-of-22, 176 yards, 2 TD, INT) found Jalen Williams (3 receptions, 72 yards)
After spending the first three weeks of the season away from Oak Park Stadium, the Oak Park and River Forest High School football team played its home opener against Lyons Township High School on Sept. 16.
Having lost players last season’s
“Jalen is really quick,” Hosty said of the junior wide receiver. “He’ ll blow right by you, and he’s been catching touchdowns for us all year.”
Late in the first half, Hosty threw his sec ond touchdown strike, a 9-yarder to Michael Caccitolo to give Fenwick a 27-0 halftime lead. Hosty then tacked on another 1-yard touchdown run late in the third quarter to conclude the Friars’ scoring.
Lyons Township downs OPRF 38-13
“We won the first half but lost the second,” he said. “The last couple of weeks, we’ve gotten off to fast starts, but right around half time we start to let it slip. We’ve got to clean that up.”
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Huskies lose three of ve games at annual home invite
were the first this year to in-state schools.
ahead of several higher-ranked Class 3A teams.Junior Katie Stabb was sixth (lifetime-best 17:25.6) – a strong improvement from her 2021 state meet (57th, 17:51.08) -- followed by seniors Avery Minnis (55th, 19:04.8) and Natalie Quinn (63rd, 19:14.3) and juniors Lenny Ster ritt (79th, 19:24.1), Anne Lynch (123rd, 19:51.4), Rachel Prestes (167th, 20:14.2) and Jenna Ahn (176th, 20:24.9).
In the final match, Lily Rose Drews notched a hat trick for the Huskies, who improved its season record to 8-6-1 with the victory“Itfelt really good,” said Drews. “I think our team did a great job on connecting on all those passes to make it happen.”
Revsine feels good about where OPRF is at this point in the season, but she also re
Baileigh Racky (2nd in the 100 butterfly); senior Annie McCar thy (tie for 4th in the 50 freestyle along with OPRF senior Amanda Lane); and senior Anastasia Ler ma and sophomore Vicky Castillo (3rd and 4th re spectively in diving).
The Friars placed sixth as a team with 132 points Senior Bella Daley finished sec ond overall in a time of 19:14.6. Kyra Miller (29th), Amalia Anderson (34th), Romy Ber getz (35th), Adelai Kaiser (36th), Molly We ber (41st), and Emma Brennan (46th) all placed among the top 50 individuals for Fenwick
Sadie Mur phy won the 200 individual medley (2:09.20) and the 100 backstroke (58.39) to help OPRF finish fifth with 336 Sophomorepoints.Jessica Li had a personalbest time of 26.19 in the 50 freestyle for OPRF. The Huskies’ 200 freestyle relay was third in a time 1:43.55, and the 400 freestyle relay was fourth (3:47.14).
“We’ re getting a lot of oppor tunities in side the circle but not capitalizing on them, and we need to find that extra motivation to finish,” Wir tz said. “We need to expect the ball to go in.”
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alizes that there’s work to do.
Girls place 6th at 71-team Richard Spring race
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“These guys have worked their tails off and it was great to see them put it together in a race,” OPRF coach Chris Baldwin said. “We did a workout this week and you could see the confidence swell in those guys.”
OPRF went 3-2 and placed 13th in the Wheaton Classic, held at Wheaton-Warrenville South Sept. 14 and 17. The Huskies posted wins over Geneva, Loyola Academy, and
OPRF has its next four matches away from home, be ginning Se pt. 21 at Deerfield.
Fenwick, OPRF, and Trinity all competed at the Friar Invitational at Fenwick on Se pt.
Wir tz would like to see the Huskies get better with their defensive org anization. She also believes they need to improve on finishing their scoring oppor tunities. In the match with DSHA, OPRF missed a pair
“We’ re doing a lot of good stuf f,” she said. “We know what we have to work on. We have a vision of where we want the season to go.”
Johnson improved significantly from sec ond in last year’s frosh-soph Spring Invite (16:06.5).“I’mjust excited to come out here and have such a great day and excited for the rest of the season, more big things to come,” Johnson said. “Today we made a statement.”
Fenwick and Trinity high schools competed in the Riverside-Brookfield Invitational on Sept. 17.
By MELVIN TATE Contributing Reporter
Girls swimming and diving
After losing its first match on Se pt. 17 to Glenbrook South 7-1, OPRF ended the tour nament by defeating Divine Savior Holy Angels High School of Milwaukee 6-3. The losses to Glenbrook South and Lake Forest
“I’m not too shocked but I am really excited. It’s been a while since the state meet last year so I feel like I’ve done a lot since then,” Stabb said.
“It’s a huge confidence boost and does validate all of the work we put in. But again, we knew we were a very talented team,” Ne whart said. “We’re happy with it and know there’s things we can do to improve upon and there are teams that are going to contend very closely with us.”
of penalty shots.
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Waubonsie Valley, but lost to Plainfield North and Sandburg.
Senior Liam Newhart and his Oak Park and River Forest High School boys cross country teammates showed the results of their offseason training on the state’s biggest stage on Sept. 17.
The No 26 OPRF girls were sixth (308)
Fenwick placed seventh at the Riverside Brookfield Invitational on Se pt. 17.
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The Huskies next match at Lake Street Fields is Oct. 6 against Glenbrook South.
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The Blazers came in fourth with 87 points. Freshman Molly McGreal was Trinity’s top runner, placing fourth in a time of 19 minutes, 51.3 seconds. Jasmine Arzuaga (8th), Myla Roy (15th), Laura Murphy (22nd), and Alexa Gonzalez (39th) were other Blazers who finished in the top 50.
Friars placed second with 436 points Notable individual Fenwick perfor mances were tur ned in by sophomore Anna Doher ty (2nd in both the 100 breaststroke and 200 IM); sophomore Evelyn Mulvihill and junior Cailey Peele (2nd and 3rd respectively in the 50 freestyle); senior
Huskies sprint to cross country invite title in Peoria
At Peoria’s Detweiller Park, the annual course of the IHSA state meet, the Huskies (79 points) won the 71-team Richard Spring Invitational over top-ranked Hinsdale Central (186) and Wheaton Warrenville South (211).
Sophomore Benicio Carideo was the top runner for the Friars, finishing 25th in a time of Other17:56.4.Fenwick runners among the top 50 individuals were senior Grant Schleiter (38th) and senior Jake Leonardi (45th).
Newhart, a 2021 Class 3A individual state qualifier, was third in a lifetime-best 14 minutes, 42.5 seconds. OPRF entered ranked No 9 in Class 3A by ILXCTF.com
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The Oak Park and River Forest High School girls volleyball team improved to 2-0 in the West Suburban Conference Silver Di vision on Sept. 13, rolling to a 25-5, 25-7 home victory over Proviso West.
By BILL STONE Contributing Reporter
Huskies nish 13th at Wheaton Classic tourney
OPRF volleyball stays perfect in WSC Silver
OPRF”had three matches on Se pt. 16. The Huskies defeated Huron (Michigan) 2-1 in the opener but lost the next two to Lake Forest 5-1 and Pioneer (Michig an) 3-0.
The Friars finished second in all three relays: the 200-yard medley (1:52.94), the 200 freestyle (1:42.43), and the 400 freestyle (3:41.98).Sophomore
Juniors Dan Johnson (10th, 14:59.9) and Mi chael Michelotti (17th, 15:10.4), seniors Nick Parrell (18th, 15:11.8) and Owen Augustine (32nd, 15:27.5) also ear ned top-40 individual medals, followed by junior Lewis O’Connor (64th, 15:52.0) and senior Roan Egan (154th, 16:31.8).
Newhart bested his 2021 state race (45th, 15:09.27) with a kick that missed second-place Oswego East senior Parker Nold by 0.2 sec onds. Hinsdale Central competed without top runner Dan Watcke.
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“I’m happy. They’re hungry for more,” OPRF coach Ashley Raymond said. “Katie has great racing instincts. I think she ran re ally smart.”
Reese Garland and Ella Hullinger each had five kills, Grace Nelson four kills and five digs, Arianna Winsett eight aces, and Kinsey Smith 15 assists for the Huskies (15-4 overall).
Trinity was eighth with 51 points Katerina Krysan had the Blazers’ top individual finish, placing 11th in the 500 freestyle in a time of 6:47.39.
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In his Sept. 6 letter, “Setting the record straight on OPRF finances,” D200 Board President Tom Cofsky wrote that Hennessy presented “examples of how different funding options might fit together.” Cofsky failed to mention that Hennessy presented only two proposals, parts of a shell game. The first proposed unnecessary borrowing to pay for maintenance items to preserve cash reserve funds for the other proposal, Project 2. Both borrowing proposals were designed to circumvent taxpayers.Superintendent
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Prior to the Aug. 16 CFC meeting, Chairman Steve Miller emailed D200 Chief Financial Officer Cyndi Sidor and referred to the upcoming debt presentation as “Bonds 101.” Yet instead of an informational session on bonds, Hennessy focused on how to bypass taxpayers to fund two specific projects and proposed issuing $82 million in debt certificates. Debt certificates are like high-interest credit cards. As a well-resourced district, OPRF has never had to resort to debt certificates, and there’s no need now. They cost more to borrow than bonds. Important to underscore, debt certificates provide taxpayers with no recourse to put a funding proposal on the ballot.
crawled into bed and checked my alar m clock. I settled my body, positioned my pillow and sheets, closed my eyes. I lay there, as any other night, letting my mind drift away into slee p. It ke pt drifting but couldn’t find a place to rest. I turned over, tried to settle again. I lay still for what felt like a long time, finally looking up at the clock, it was 2 a.m., and I hadn’t slept. Now my stomach star ted to twist a bit. What if I couldn’t sleep? Wh at would I do the rest of the night? How miserable would I feel the next day?
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As an individual, I do not have one thing to worry about — I have many. As a society, the situation is the same. Even in a crisis as clear as climate change, its many elements and ef fects can bury us in an avalanche of information and emotion. T he American West is undergoing one of its worst heat waves in years. Europe endured horrible heat earlier this summer. Unimaginably, one-third of the nation of Pakistan is under water due to monster floods. These events produce untold suf-
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This was the second time that debt certificates were presented as a funding option to the CFC. In January at its very first meeting, the administration and board sought the CFC’s approval to issue debt certificates to pay for maintenance items, some not needed for 10 years, and didn’t inform the CFC that the $96 million sitting idle in the cash reserve could be used for this purpose, nor did it explain the difference between bonds and debt certificates.
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letter, “OPRF’s Project 2 should go to referendum,” prompted two District 200 board members to respond with attempts to discredit it. One wrote a Viewpoints letter while the other made a comment during a board meeting. Re gardless, my letter is factual and based on the debt discussion presented by D200’s bond consultant, Elizabeth Hennessy, in the Aug. 16 Community Finance Committee (CFC) meeting. I encourage everyone to watch the meeting on D200’s YouTube channel.
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As these thoughts took hold, I realized that I was entirely awake. Wor ries flooded my mind, and I had no tools to manage them. In a spiral of self-fulfilling anxiety, my thoughts about not slee ping created more tension in my mind, preventing me from sleeping, and creating the miserable day that I feared.
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Greg Johnson and his administration sanctioned the borrowing proposals. In fact, D200 worked with Hennessy in crafting them, based on emails acquired via two Freedom of Information Act requests
fering for those experiencing them directly. For those of us hearing about them second hand, they can produce severe anxiety As with my slee pless night, in viewing the climate destruction around us, our focus can move from changing the behavior that causes this destruction to our concer ns that we will never succeed. How can we possibly reduce our carbon emissions to zero in a matter of a few decades? How can we accomplish this task when it depends not just on our own actions — or our own family’s, local community’s, or even nation’s — when it depends on the collective actions of people around the world? These are the perfect conditions for us to center anxiety rather than productive action.
The meeting was also problematic as it violated the Open Meetings Act, as the administration didn’t provide citizens the opportunity to make public comments or a link
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This Friday, Sept. 23, there is another opportunity to set anxiety to the side for a moment and act. A host of environmental organizations will be leading a Global Climate Strike in cities around the world, with one strike happening here in Chicago. At 11 a.m., crowds will gather at Pritzker Park in the Loop, at 310 S. State St People will march to the Federal Reserve, Chase Bank, and the offices of Senators Durbin and Duckworth to demand that all take action to incentivize climate action and punish climate inaction.
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This is a major curriculum restructuring. It is certain to need adjustments and corrections as time goes by. It also needs to be given time and room to evolve. This school has a history of impa tience with new programs. This is no time for impatience.
This plan has been years in the making with pilot efforts launched already and a carve-out, for now, in the heavily tracked math curriculum. There is also a percentage of students, mainly those with IEPs, who remain in what is euphemistically called the “Transitions” curriculum. That’s certainly reasonable.
For many years, the U.S. has been a “center right” country. But the Republican Party has become more and more extreme over the past 40 years, to the point where there is no functioning “center right” anymore. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger are the only ones willing to speak out against the forces of autocracy that have overtaken their party. The rest give consent with their silence.
You cannot support, actively or passively, the inhumane policies of autocracy without damaging your humanity. Neutrality is no longer an option.
Over its history, this school has watched passively as those students were actively under represented in all honors and AP classes. The plan in place, beginning this fall, is to increase the academic rigor of the entire freshmen curriculum, and the academic support available to those freshman, with the goal of moving a notable percentage of our children of color into honors and AP classes in their sophomore, junior and senior years.
Sooner or later ... one has to take sides — if one is to remain human.
Limiting the hours of operation of those stations is a realistic response to that violence. Credit to neighbors of the BP for their effective organizing around multiple concerns impacting their residential neighborhood. Credit to the village board for its deci sion, contrary to a staff recommendation.
That’s why we need the media to start telling the truth and why we need the center right to choose democracy — which means voting against anti-democratic Republicans until their party rejects the despots and autocracy enablers in Congress and in our state capitals.Itmeans
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Neutrality is uncommitted, indifferent. It doesn’t want to influence the outcome.
Reporting that Republicans have become the party of extremism happens to be the truth, and the national media should be telling the truth, not trying to prove how “impartial” they are.
Until this nation gets control of the number of guns flooding our streets, and we are not optimistic on that front, then efforts to limit gun violence will necessarily be piecemeal and limited in effectivenessDoesnotmean we don’t grab those opportunities as the village of Oak Park did Monday night when it passed an ordinance requiring all gas stations in the community to close during over night hours. The better than half-dozen 24-hour gas stations in Oak Park have seen disproportionate numbers of violent crimes during the middle of the night. That includes the staggering murder of Jailyn Logan-Bledsoe, a new OPRF grad, at the BP station on Chicago Avenue early in the summer
The only functioning part of our politi cal spectrum is center left. The far right is totally dysfunctional, awash in conspiracy theories, bowing to the cult of personality.
Even for those too far gone to realize how much they need it.
Sooner than later, we have to take a side … if we want to remain a democracy.
The far left, meanwhile, doesn’t exist. At most it is a tiny percentage, unlike the far right, which comprises 90% of the Republican Party. The “further” left, the so-called “progressive wing” of the Democratic Party, wants more than the center left and wants it sooner. What they want is reasonable, but to their great credit, they have cooperated with the center left in moving this country forward. They have accepted that modest progress is better than going in the direction the far right wants to take us, which is backward. So they compromised
The only accountability still functioning is the vote Our electoral system worked beautifully in 2020, but it has since been compromised by anti-voting legislation in red states
Also understand that the measures of success will not likely come on standardized tests, suspect anyhow. The primary measure will be the self-confidence and resilience of Black and Brown students finally given a fair shot at succeeding in more rigorous coursework. And for that to happen these villages need to display our faith and confidence in them.
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Neutrality is part of the problem
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Anti-democracy is the problem, so neutral means passively anti-democratic. You can only be pro-democracy if you intentionally, actively do something about it.Anti-democracy thrives on neutrality. Silence gives consent — consent to the Big Lie about the 2020 elec tion, to overtur ning legal elections when you don’t like the results, to political insurrections. If you don’t actively speak out against anti-democracy, you’re giving consent.
Those who currently take refuge in the illusion of benevolent neutrality — the center right and the splitthe-difference media — are key to whether anti-democratic extremism will be defeated in the midterms and in the 2024 presidential election. That means defeating Trump as well as extremist gover nors and Republican state legislators who have been passing, or pushing, anti-democratic and inhumane legislation.
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Trump will never be indicted and convicted for his crimes. So whenever we get this country back on the rails, we will need to address the glaring weaknesses in our justice and judicial system, which protects elitists like Trump who have no respect for the law and dare the system to do something about it
School administrators have also been focused on how to moni tor and measure the results of this bold change. Very early measures may come as soon as November. That’s welcome so long as we all accept that, for a change this big, we need to all be on board for the long haul.
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voting to support the center left, the func tional part of our political system. We must become a center left country, one that believes again in govern ment and finds ways to make it work — for all of us.
That’s been the traditional position of the national media. To that end, the networks — including PBS — declined to televise President Biden’s primetime speech in Philadelphia on Sept 1. Evidently, they were worried the speech would be viewed as “too partisan.” They wanted to stay neutral. In his speech, Biden pointed out an obvious truth: Trump and the MAGA Republicans are extremists. He called on “mainstream” Republicans to choose the side of democracy
That applies to the rest of us also. Our job as citizens is not to be impartial. Our job is to save our democracy when it is under attack. Neutrality will not accomplish that.
Faculty and administrators have worked hard to remake the frosh curriculum while adding more support.
olitical neutrality is no longer an option. In fact, neutrality is part of the problem. I wish we lived in a “both/and” country, but we don’t. We live in an “either/or” nation, the most pertinent dichotomy being: “If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem.”
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Compromise can be positive or negative. If you compromise too much, you become “compromised.” If you’re incapable of compromising, you end up even more compromised. Extremists are incapable of compromiseThiscountry needs to get back on the rails. Only the center left, with help from the further left — and the center right — can build a coalition that will get this country moving forward. Functioning gover nment is pro-democratic. The anti-democratic coalition consists of gover nment-haters, plus the indifferent and uninfor med, plus the passively neutral.
There are times when being partisan is a bad thing and being neutral is a good thing. This is not one of those times. They should have televised the speech.
PRF High School has just embarked on its boldest and most foundational effort ever to raise the academic opportunity and performance of Black and Brown students by including all freshmen in a rigorous honors curriculum.
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Opposite the wooden, tiered seating is a natural stone seating area with integral planters, built into a low earthen berm, as an optional enhancement.
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In addition to use as an open-air classroom, it can function as a school or community meeting place, a place for group discussions, demonstrations. And a performing arts and music space. Think of it as a school’s “front porch” under a canopy of shade trees, a place to hang out and meet up before and after school, or for lunch.
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Several months ago, I proposed multi-use, open-air classrooms and meeting spaces for Oak Park and River Forest schools. Since then I have received very positive responses and suggestions This resulted in a design that has flexibility in a modular form that can adapt to different sites and different budgets
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to different sites. Timber planters are integral. This de sign also shows natural stone planters on the ends, adding a few graceful curves to the design, with stonework in the style of Jens Jensen’s prairie stonework
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More now than ever, children are exposed to violence, death, and panic in the media. The idea that children are oblivious or unaffected by events that don’t directly impact them is a myth — children and adolescents are mentally
and emotionally processing their experiences of school shootings, gun violence, climate change as well as natural disasters, images of war, and hateful rhetoric. Children across all developmental stages can be impacted by these events and, without proper support, an increase in anxiety, depression, hypervigilance, or behavioral prob lems can result.
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For several weeks the Committee for a Just Peace in Is rael and Palestine (CJPIP), an Oak Park based org anization, has run ads putting forward its positions. On July 27, the ad read, in part, “Israel creates ongoing airstrikes in Gaza, creating severe environmental har m to the land.” The ad says nothing about why there were airstrikes.
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Please join us on Sept. 29 from 7-8:30 p.m. at the Oak Park Public Library’s main branch or via the livestream on Facebook.Aswith all Thrive Talks, there is no charge.
Steve Parker, LMFT, is chair of the Thrive Program Development Committee.
I have attended many public meetings sponsored by CJPIP I have read their advertisements Never have I come across anything that holds the Palestinians to account for any of their actions. Maybe it is time.
It is estimated that 20-30% of the rockets fired from Gaza landed in Gaza, causing serious har m to their own people and environment. The rockets and incendiary devices bur ned fields and caused environmental damage in Israel.
or the past four years, Thrive Counseling Center has sponsored Thrive Talks, a series that of fers a wide range of presentations focusing on topics of interest to our community. This year is no exception. Our first talk couldn’t be timelier. In the shadow of the recent Highland Park massacre, the numerous mass shootings nationwide, and the hatred on display in Charlottesville, we as adults are left with the task of explaining such horrific events to our children. How can we explain something to our children that we can’t even understand?
Over the previous 18 months, over 5,400 rockets were fired from Gaza into Israel, specifically into ci vilian areas of Israel. Previously, hundreds of incendiary balloons and kites were flown into those same areas of Israel, as well as even more rockets. In addition, there were many incidents of tire bu rnings on the border
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On Sept. 29 at 7 p.m. in the Veterans Room of the Oak Park Public Library, main branch (as well as live streamed on the Thrive Facebook page). Dr. Laura Vecchiola, an expert on the topic of talking to children about traumatic events, will present: “Feeling Safe in an Unsafe World: How to talk to Children and Adolescents about Traumatic World Events.”Thistalk will provide information for parents, caregivers, educators, and anyone else interested in learning how best to talk to children and adolescents about the frightening, and traumatic events that are happening in the world around us.
In this talk, participants will lear n how to approach these difficult topics of conversation, based on their child’s developmental level of understanding. Practical tips on how to start, navigate, and end conversations will be given. Participants will also lear n ways they can provide comfort and re-establish a sense of safety in their child’s daily life. Fi nally, participants will lear n how to look for signs of trauma or other emotional difficulties that may be an indication that their children need further support. While these conversations are never easy, by the end of this talk participants should feel better equipped to support their child and to be a safe, reassuring presence in the midst of a world where scary things can and do happen.
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The tangible benefits are obvious when considering this facility upgrade: moder nized infrastructure, better quality of play for PE students and tennis athletes, great first
The 100-year-old physical education spaces at OPRF no longer serve our students, or the community. These facilities must be modernized. For families with kids attending the school, and everyone who has toured the old spaces, that much is Yobviousetsome wonder if every possibility has been considered. And some argue that the decision to fix the crumbling infrastruc ture should be delayed in order to let the whole community decide what to do. I do not want the school board to wait. I don’t want the board to kick the can down the road, as so many previous boards did. The current school board was elected to act. To make decisions. To do what’s best for the school and for the community We empowered you to act when we elected you.If the process to decide how to moder nize our facilities was somehow suspect, I could understand the desire for delay.
But the Project 2 plan is part of the larger Imagine plan — a nearly two-year-long ef fort by 40 community members and OPRF staf f to analyze every lear ning space on the OPRF campus. That ef fort culminated in a long, rigorous needs analysis (available on the school’s website) as well as highly detailed recommendations for which spaces to mod er nize, which to leave intact, and how to prioritize the work most cost-ef fectively. The just-completed Project 1 and the expected Project 2 directly stem from this thoughtful process
OPRF facility upgrades are worth it
Anyone who lives of f of Madison knows the constant extreme night- and daytime noise from these rider/racers. Forest Park has posted a huge sign on Madison saying there will be a $750 fine for this behavior. Apparently Oak Park taxes don’t get us the same kind of at tention to the needs of our citizens All it would take is some parked police cars along Madison on Friday and Saturday night to stop this ille g al, dangerous and extremely annoying problem.
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out of the community, no one else could recall any other public rinks requiring identification when entering. The discussions with other Oak Park parents revolved around how we, the taxpayers, paid for Ridgeland ’s $30 million renovation and its staf f’s wages. No one could understand why we should have to show an ID for access, since we pay for Ridgeland’s operation. No one was aware of the park district requiring ID to access other facilities that are open to the community for use
“In an ef fort to direct and connect with our visitors … all Ridgeland Common visitors, 12 years of age and older, will be required to check in with facility staf f upon entering the facility.” The email stated that two check-in options would be available: a digital access card in Amelia, the Park District’s app, or the person would need to show a picture ID and sign a “Code of Conduct.”
We must stand up and tell the board to rescind this sign-in procedure that adds no value, and, if actually necessary for the security of those using Ridgeland Commons, to implement more effective security measures
I think all Oak Parkers would agree that we pay rather high taxes So it was with some dismay that when I called the police to report the incessant motorcycle racing and noise on the Madison corridor along which I live, and the extremely loud music played by same, it took the police 40 minutes to come. And when the officer did ar rive, he was rude, obviously disinterested, filed no report and as much as said it was not an important enough issue for the po lice to waste their time on.
n Aug. 8, many of us in the community re ceived an email from the Park District of Oak Park notifying us that new check-in procedures were coming to Ridg eland Common Recreation Center, Be ginning Aug. 15.
As a father of two hockey players, a youth hockey coach, an adult hockey player, and my association with the OPRF High School Hockey Club as a board member and a player parent for over 30 years, I had never seen any other public (park district) rink, in Illinois or elsewhere, take such measures. Asking a few others in and
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Isn’t it time we stood up against policies and procedures that only provide the illusion of security? This reminds me of Benjamin Franklin’s famous quote: “Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
Rescind the new Ridgeland Common check-in policy
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The time is now to build on this success and that of Project 1 and keep going without pause What an amazing legacy we will leave for our present and future youth. We can — and must — do this.
In other words, the decision before the board is based on years of analysis, with enor mous community involvement. The board is empowered to go forward — now, not after more community input.
Rob Roy has been an Oak Park resident for 30 years.
Knowing that hockey season would be starting in September, I sent an email to Jan Ar nold, executive director, on Aug. 11, asking for an explanation. She responded it was so the Park District could know who is in the building for safety reasons. She analogized that the local public high school requires an ID for anybody who enters the building.Ireplied that requiring an ID at the high school, or Ridgeland, does not make either facility safer. Anyone can, unfortunately, show an ID and still have a weapon on their
Our elected District 200 school board members and the OPRF High School administration secured funds and set a timeline for the much-needed rebuilding of the tennis courts They nailed it.
What possible le gitimate reason could there be to delay?
D200 board should move ahead with Project 2 now
impression for visiting teams, and even im proved home property values. The intangible benefits are priceless: a feeling of being valued as a student and as an athlete, a sense of pride in our school, the ability to come together as a community of families and fans to watch matches, and clarity and comfort that our tax dollars are being put to good use.
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These courts are used during the day by PE students, after school by tennis athletes, and on the weekends by community members who want to play They are truly an asset for us all. This is a small but important indicator of what we should expect from the more extensive field and Project 2 upgrades. The payoff will be huge and long-lasting
This renovation is an example of the kind of facility upgrade that is essential for the high school — and it’s not just about physical education or athletics It’s also about community.After
person. I also reminded her that the park district’s announcement did not justify it based on security concer ns, but represented to the community that it was being implemented so that the park district could “connect” with those visiting Ridgeland Common. I suggested that to make Ridgeland Commons safer, they would need to install security screening (metal detectors maintained by security personnel) like at Fifth Third Ice Arena (the private Chicago rink funded by the Chicago Blackhawks).
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last year’s partial court availability due to construction parking and equipment storage, the utmost priority was given to ensuring these courts were ready to go in time for tryouts on Aug. 8. I watched the progress eagerly this spring and summer and was thrilled to see the courts completed as promised.The courts are impressive
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“After living in various locations across the country, I retur ned to Oak Park and started Selleria Veneta with my best friend, Cecilia (who is originally from Padua, Italy) We meet Italian artisans and bring their creations to the Chicago area. Being that Cecilia is from the Veneto region, we import most of our artisan pieces from this special place,” Moses told me.
Gem, the gorgeous jewelry boutique, now has opened Gem Home, in the alley with art and antiques sprinkled among art books and other new items
to attend the virtual meeting. While D200 resisted holding a replacement meeting, citizens prevailed and the CFC reversed its earlier decision, withdrawing its support for the issuance of debt certificates.
Not everyone needs to take this action — not everyone needs to take every action or the same action. This is just one example of a collective action we can take to address climate change. There are so many others.
Action instead of anxiety
Monica Sheehan is an Oak Park resident.
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There is no way to justify an outlay of an additional $2.65M in order to save $9,000/year in annual operating costs If the school were to invest that outlay in risk-free treasuries, the interest income alone would be over 10 times the operating costs. In fact, with some conservative assumptions, an endowment of $2.65M could easily generate enough future revenue to cover operating costs and to pur-
I emailed three separate requests to Cofsky, as board president, and Martire asking for a list of the specific inaccuracies that led Martire to attack my letter. Weeks have passed, and neither has emailed a substantive response. No surprise, as my letter is factual.It’sunacceptable for board members to publicly attack fact-based communications by community members. And it’s unaccept able for Johnson and his administration to propose bypassing taxpayers in funding controversial major capital projects.
Moses Valdez, with his seven siblings and parents, moved to Oak Park in 1978 and his family was among the first Mexican Americans to settle in the community Moses graduated from OPRF High School in 1992. He said four of his siblings also graduated from OPRF and two worked there.
Not everyone can join in this protest. Perhaps you must go to work or school, or you have care giving obligations in your family. Perhaps you’ re physically unable to march or stand for long periods
At times, our wor ries can feel over whelming. They can distract us, dis hear ten us, and become the focus of all our attention. When we act on climate, we take the focus of f of our anxiety and place it back where it needs to be — on the cor porate and gover nmental entities most responsible for this crisis and on how we can hold them accountable to change.
I have lived in Oak Park for more than 27 years, but it continues to surprise me Case in point was when my friend, Suze Solari, a style consultant who lives in River Forest, invited me recently to a night out with food, music, and shopping at Selleria Veneta on Oak Park Avenue I had walked past the store many times but not been in side, though my mom sports a beautiful bracelet she got there on one of her visits. So I was excited to have an excuse to check it out.Not
Veneta is launching a new event: The North/South 3rd Friday Night, Moses added.Oak Park Avenue has great shopping. From the athletic clothing at Lively (and the Goodr sunglasses that at $25 are now my go-to), to dozens of flavored olive oils at Olive and Well and the special treasures at Manouche, The Irish Shoppe and Filoni.
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only did I leave with a beautiful buttery red leather purse on sale, after having a very fun night, but I cannot believe I waited so long to step inside and meet the owners of this iconic Oak Park store that brings such beauty to Oak Park and the Hemingway District.Co-owner
“We opened in the Hemingway District right before the pandemic and it was a struggle, but we are still here. We also established wonderful relationships with all the businesses and business owners on Oak Park Avenue During the pandemic we spearheaded various special events to bring attention to our beautiful shopping district.”Selleria
As far as the mountainous cash reserve, Cofsky wrote that the board has been “responsibly” bringing it down when it should have returned all unauthorized tax dollars to taxpayers nine years ago.
For the record, I did not state or imply in my letter that the board or CFC had recommended a financing plan for Project 2, which Hennessy “ballparked” at $90.5 million and with borrowing would tally $127 million.
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In regard to Bob Skolnik’s recap of OPRF’s decision to invest in a geother mal system (“OPRF invests in geother mal to heat, cool new athletic facility,” Sept. 14), the figures he cites concer ning the costs and savings of a geother mal system are eye-raising to say the least, and I can only hope there is much more behind the board’s decision than just this.
And since we’re talking surprises. I popped into Trends with my 25-year old daughter a few weeks ago. We were looking for special occasion dresses. She didn’t find a dress but did walk away with some other amazing finds, including almost new Patagonia overalls and some amazing tops. And I found an incredible dress in my size that cost probably one-tenth of the retail price.
OPRF geothermal gures questionable
are around 15 tons per year A geother mal system that saves 70 tons/year? Maybe, although even that sounds like a stretch. But unless the gas boiler in question emits twice as much CO2 as the entire city of Chicago, the annual savings of a geother mal system will be nowhere close to 70 million tons
There is nothing wrong with a policy that takes environmental factors such as CO2 emissions into account, but that shouldn’t give the Board of Education a blank check. This isn’t a priceless work of art, or some grand plan for furthering world peace and social justice. Nor is this some status symbol OPRF needs to keep up with the Joneses in El mhurst, Hinsdale, or wherever It’s an HVAC system we’re talking about, and $2.65M is not
chump-change.Iftheboardwishes to justify doubling its HVAC budget for a geother mal system, they should first take into account the opportuni ty cost of the additional outlay, provide a realistic estimate of GHG emissions reductions, and assign a reasonable figure (say, $50/ton) to the social costs of GHG emissions The key word here is realistic: i.e., figures that are not straight out of the geother mal sales pamphlet. Hopefully, the author of this article has left out the details of a much more extensive cost-benefit analysis. But if the gist of the article is correct, then this is indeed a total waste of money.
Melanie Weiss Oak Park
Jim Schwartz is an Oak Park resident, an educator, and a blogger at Entwining.org.
Besides Cofsky, board member Ralph Mar tire called out my letter as “inaccurate” at the Aug. 25 general meeting without providing any substantiation. Martire’s Trumpianlike comment was an attempt to publicly discredit my letter and me as its author.
As for the environmental impacts, the carbon emission figures cited in the article are clearly wrong. I hope this is just an error on the part of the author because if the school is touting 70 million tons per year in greenhouse gas emission reductions, then they have no idea what they are talking about. Percapita GHG emissions in the United States
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And of course, there’s Tony’s Shoe Clinic that gives more life to our beloved items
chase replacement boilers in perpetuity Of course there may be other considerations, such as the additional cost of air conditioning, or the lifespan of a gas boiler vs. a geother mal heat pump, but if the figures cited in the article are anywhere near the ballpark, then on a cost basis, there is simply no time horizon over which geother mal could be competitive with gas or electric
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to explore solar panels for your homes Take public transpor tation more and ask for better service so others can take it too. Join advocacy groups like Citizens Climate Lobby and the Sunrise Movement to speak out for a carbon tax and other necessary policies.
Michael Lieb, 81 Professor Emeritus of English
Dale Rider, 90 Longtime River Forest village trustee
Shirley Eleanor Christell, 99, of Forest Park, died peacefully on Sept. 13, 2022 at Central Baptist Village in Nor ridge, where she most recently lived. Her husband Jack died in 2015, after they’d been mar ried 69 years.Shirley loved spending time with family
Resident of Oak Park and Forest Park
She cherished as a foundation her connection to church, which expanded to volunteer work with Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in leading the Daytimers group as well as starting a knitting group creating prayer shawls. She and her husband also worked at the Lutheran Center/ELCA Headquarters in Chicago, and her love of reading and research led her to volunteer at the Forest Park Public Library, where she served as president of the Friends of the Library Board.
Nosek Funeral Home, 2447 S. Desplaines Avenue, North Riverside. Funeral service, military honors and inter ment, took place on Sept. 20 at Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery in Elwood, Illinois.
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He was known to colleagues, students, and friends in the U.S. and abroad as a brilliant scholar, devoted teacher, generous mentor, and supportive colleague.
He enjoyed playing with his nephew, fishing, reading and, recently, exploring his spiritualityRicky was the father of Richard and Ryley, brother of Shannon, and uncle of AJ. He was a member of the Creedon family and loyal friend to Memorialmany.donations to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital are appreciated.
In lieu of flowers, please send donations to Central Baptist Village (4747 N. Canfield Ave., Nor ridge, IL 60706), Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, or plant a tree in her honor through the National Forest Foundation’s initiative https://www.nationalfor ests.org/tree-planting-programs.
and friends, whether in small gatherings or those that overflowed into their beautiful yard in Forest Park She also enjoyed birding, gardening, sewing, knitting, crocheting, basket-weaving, and baking/cooking (she could throw a party in 15 minutes when any guest dropped by). Shirley and Jack enjoyed traveling — from camping, to taking ship and riverboat cruises, to attending Elderhostels, and visiting family and friends throughout the United States.
A memorial service is planned for 11 a.m., Saturday, Nov. 12 at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, 611 Randolph St., Oak Park, IL 60302.
An avid traveler, he visited all 50 states and 36 foreign countries. He lived in River Forest 56 years and served on the River Forest Village Board for over 18 years, elected five times over four decades. River Forest honored him by naming his street Dale E Rider Way. He was instrumental in improving the water system with the erection of the water tower and was also active in improving vil lage streets and drainage systems
Douglass College, who became his wife of 59 years. The Liebs moved to Williamsburg, Virginia, where he taught at the College of William and Mary. During this period, they had two sons, Laurence (1967) and Mark (1969). They moved to Oak Park in 1970, when he accepted a position teaching English Renaissance literature at the University of Illinois Chicago, where he remained until he retired as Distinguished Professor of English Literature.Acelebrated
A celebration of life will be held on Oct. 23, at The Sheridan of River Forest from 2 to 4 p.m.
Shirley Christell, 99 Good Shepherd Lutheran Member
scholar of the works of John Milton, he wrote numerous books and arti cles that influenced the direction of his field His many books focused on the relation of religion and literature. They include Poetics of the Holy: A Reading of Paradise Lost, The Visionary Mode, Milton and the Culture of Vi olence, and Children of Ezekiel: Aliens, UFOs, the Crisis of Race, and the Advent of Endtime His scholarship ear ned inter national recognition, numerous grants, and awards
Shirley is survived by Lance (Carol), Roy (Ter ry), and Valerie (Suzanne); four grand children; and nine great-grandchildren.
Dale was preceded in death by his parents, Dean Loller Rider MD and Jeannette (nee Leszczynski) Rider MD; his brothers, J. Alfred (Graclynn) Rider MD and Richard (Constance) Rider MD He is survived by his daughters, Martha and Harriet; his grand children, Erik, Andrew and Matthew; his nephews and nieces, Peggy, Vicci, Dick, Su zanne, Paul, Dr Dean, and the late Charles Rider.Visitation was held on Sept. 19 at Kuratko-
Michael Lieb, emeritus professor of English, died on Aug. 2, 2022. Bor n in Newark, New Jersey on Oct. 21, 1940, to Dr. Saul and Adele Lieb, he ear ned his BA and PhD in English literature from Rutgers University. During that time he met Roslyn Corenzwit, a student at
Michael is survived by his wife, Roslyn; his sons, Laurence and Mark; his grandchildren, Kathryn, Nicholas, and Annie; and his brother, Jeffrey and his wife, Louise.
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An accomplished singer, she sang in Good Shepherd Lutheran Church’s choir as well as the local singing group, The Trebelaires. She also found expression through music by playing piano, organ, and accordion.
Dale E. Rider, 90, a longtime resident of River Forest, died on Sept. 10, 2022. Bor n Oct. 17, 1931 and raised in Riverside, he graduated from Riverside-Brookfield High School, Class of 1949 and Indiana University, Class of 1954. A U.S. Ar my Ko rean War veteran, he was a 50-year member of Riverside Masonic Lodge #862, a longtime member of Berwyn Moose #424, Elmhurst Elks #1531, and Elmhurst American Legion #187, and a lifetime member of Forest Park VFW #7181. He worked 11 years for Allied Chemical Corporation, where he was an ac tive member of the Chicago Perfumery and Soap Extract Association. Later he worked for Shearson Hammill Company as a stockbroker. The company merged with other companies over the years, and he became second vice president with Smith Barney Co
Richard T. “Ricky” Sulli of Oak Park and a long time resident of Forest Park, died peacefully on Sept. 4, 2022. Bor n on June 8, 1986 in Oak Park, the son of Mi chele nee Lardino and Thomas Sullivan, he was a resident of Forest Park for many years.
Responsibilities: A flexible work schedule is available for On-Call Substitutes with the opportunity to work one day a week, up to 5 days a week and may work half days or full days. The on-call substitute will work in place of the individual he/she will be temporarily replacing during the scheduled day. This individual may also be asked to perform other duties as required in relation to the substituting assignment.
- Operating assigned equipment and vehicles
River Forest School District 90 is seeking On-Call Substitute Teachers and Teacher Aides.
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To perform various network/system administration, computer support, and operational activities for the Village including computer system setup, configuration, and testing.
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The Village of Oak Park is seeking qualified candidates for the position of Grants Coordinator in the Development Customer Service Department. This position will develop and coordinate CDBG and other grant-funded programs for the department; coordinates assigned activities with other departments and outside agencies; and to provide highly responsible and complex staff assistance to the Development Customer Services Neighborhood Services Division Manager and department director. Applicants are encouraged to visit the Village of Oak Park’s website http://www.oak-park. us/jobs. Interested and qualified applicants must complete a Village of Oak Park application. Weightlifting Level 1 certification out at: Lake Oak Park Instagram resumes
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Qualifications: Valid Illinois Teaching License: Professional Educator License (PEL); or, Substitute Teaching License (SUB); or, Educator License with Stipulations; Paraprofessional Educator Endorsement (ELS) or High School diploma with 3 years to obtain para license.
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4. Configure, test, and monitor server and end-user systems for security, such as, user accounts, login scripts, file access privileges, and group policy management.
4. Operate, administer and manage the Village and Public Safety computer systems, including E-911 center, in-vehicle computer
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The Village of Oak Park is seeking a qualified candidate for the position of Fire Inspector Part-Time in the Fire Department. This serves the public through enforcement of Village fire & life safety codes and ordinances; through inspections of residential, commercial and industrial properties; and provides consultation and information to residents, architects, attorneys, fire services personnel and builders regarding laws, rules, regulations and policies relating to fire and life safety. Applicants are encouraged to visit the Village of Oak Park’s website http://www.oak-park. us/jobs
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6. Test, configure, deploy, and support security systems, such as, facility access system, video & audio system.
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Three years of network/system administration in the public or private sector, maintaining a minimum of 75 Client Workstation computers. AND Training: Possession of a Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university with major coursework in computer science or a related field. Certifications in Microsoft Server Administration, Networking, Applications and Cisco
The Village of Oak Park is seeking qualified candidates for the position of Community Service Officer in the Police Department. This position will perform a variety of public service, customer service and law enforcement related duties and responsibilities that do not require the services of a sworn police officer; and to perform a variety of administrative duties. Applicants are encouraged to visit the Village of Oak Park’s website http:// www.oak-park.us/. Interested and qualified applicants must complete a Village of Oak Park application.
The Village of Oak Park is seeking qualified candidates for the position of Parking Enforcement Officer in the Police Department Field Services Division. This position will perform a variety of duties and responsibilities involved in the enforcement of Village parking regulations; and to provide general information and assistance to the public. Applicants are encouraged to visit the Village of Oak Park’s website http://www.oak-park.us/. Interested and qualified applicants must complete a Village of Oak Park application.
1. Ensure that best in class customer service is provided to both internal and external customers and also embrace, support, and promote the Village’s core values, beliefs and culture.
The Village of Oak Park is seeking qualified candidates for the position of Emergency Preparedness and Response Coordinator in the Health Department/ Village Manager’s Office. This position will coordinate disaster response, crisis management and medical countermeasure dispensing/ distribution activities for the Village of Oak Park, provide disaster preparedness training, and prepare emergency plans and procedures for natural (e.g., floods, earthquakes), wartime, or technological (e.g., nuclear
2. Configure, test, and deploy network systems, such as, firewalls, routers, switches, wireless equipment, network servers and storage arrays.
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In re the Marriage of TEARA DYNAE CARPENTER, Petitioner, and TYISHA PENNINAH MARSHALL, Respondent, THE STATE OF ARIZONA
Notice is hereby given, pursuant to “An Act in relation to the use of an Assumed Business Name in the conduct or transaction of Business in the State,” as amended, that a certification was registered by the undersigned with the County Clerk of Cook County. Registration Number: Y22009637 on September 9, 2022 Under the Assumed Business Name of ZOYPHCO with the business located at: 815 LATHROP AVE, FOREST PARK, IL 60130. The true and real full name(s) and residence address of the owner(s)/partner(s) is: ZOEPHIA VICTORIA LAUGHLIN 815 LATHROP AVE FOREST PARK, IL 60130,
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF ARIZONA IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF MARICOPA NO. FN2022-091197
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TO THE ABOVE NAMED RESPONDENT, YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to appear and defend in the above entitled action within TWENTY (20) DAYS, exclusive of the date of service, if served within the State of Arizona, or within THIRTY (30) DAYS, exclusive of the date of service, if service is made without the State of Arizona. If service is made by publication, service is complete THIRTY (30) DAYS after the date of FIRST PUBLICATION and you must appear and defend within THIRTY (30) DAYS thereafter. In order to appear and defend, you must file a proper response or answer in writing with the Clerk of this Court, accompanied by the required filing fee. Failure to appear and defend will result in judgment by default being rendered against you for the relief requested in the Petition. You are required by law to serve a copy of your response or answer upon the Petitioner, and such response or answer should be addressed as follows: TEARA DYNAE CARPENTER 99 W PALOMINO DR APT 173 CHANDLER, AZ 85225 If service is made by publication, a copy of the Petition and other papers filed in this matter may be obtained from the Clerk of this Court whose address is as follows: CLERK OF SUPERIOR COURT 201 W. JEFFERSON ST PHOENIX, AZ 85003 Request for reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities must be made to the Court by parties at least three working days in advance of a scheduled court proceeding.
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Published in Wednesday Journal September 21, 2022
The Environmental Review Record (ERR) documenting the environ mental determination for each ac tivity is on file at the Village of Oak Park, 123 Madison Street, Oak Park, IL 60302 and is available for public examination and copying weekdays from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. CST.
The successful bidder is required to pay the general prevailing wage for work under this Contract as ascertained by the Illinois Department of Labor, and shall submit certified payroll records, in compliance with the Prevailing Wage Act (820 ILCS 130) and the requirements of the Bidding
TIME: 7:00 p.m. or as soon thereaf ter as the Agenda permits
Hauser Middle School Auditorium Upgrade Project
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will be held on September 21, 2022 at 10:00 AM at Hauser Middle School, 65 Woodside Road, Riverside, IL 60546 in the Hauser Auditorium. Bidders must allow sufficient time to register at the building prior to being permitted to proceed to the meeting location.
The Village of Oak Park certifies to HUD that Kevin Jackson, in his of ficial capacity as Village Manager, and Tammie Grossman, in her of ficial capacity as Development Cus tomer Services Director, consent to accept the jurisdiction of the Fed eral courts if an action is brought to enforce responsibilities in relation to the environmental review process
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SUBJECT PROPERTY ADDRESSES: 839 Madison Street (southeast corner of Madison Street and Car penter Avenue), Oak Park, Illinois 60302
Bids will be received until 1:00 PM, September 30, 2022, at the District office at 3440 S. Harlem Ave, Riverside, IL 60546. A public bid opening will take place A public bid opening will take place afterwards at 1:30 PM, September 30, 2022 at the Hauser Middle School, 65 Woodside Road, Riverside, IL 60546 in the Hauser
at the meeting or mailed to Mr. Carl Muell, Director of Public Works, Village of Brookfield, 8820 Brookfield Avenue, Brookfield, IL 60513 until October 28, 2022. This meeting will be accessible to persons with a disability in compliance with current Accessibility Standards prepared by the Capital Development Board. Persons with a disability planning to attend and needing special accommodations should contact Carl Muell at the Brookfield Public Works (Phone Number 708-485-2540).
Published in Wednesday Journal September 21, 2022
OBJECTIONS TO RELEASE OF FUNDS
The proposed activities are cat egorically excluded under HUD regulations at 24 CFR Part 58 from the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) requirements but sub ject to review under other authori ties listed in 24 CFR 58.5. An En vironmental Review Record (ERR) that documents the environmental determination for these projects is on file at the Village of Oak Park, 123 Madison Street, Oak Park, IL 60302 and is available for public examination and copying weekdays from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. CST. The ERR is also available on the HUD Environmental Review Online System (HEROS) at: environmental-review-recordsonecpd.info/environmental-review/https://www.
Village of Oak Park 2022 Village of Oak Park Electrical CabinetProjectRestoration
P.I.N.s: 16-18-107-001 and 16-18107-002
HUD will accept objections to its release of funds and the Village of Oak Park’s certification for a pe riod of fifteen (15) days following the anticipated submission date or its actual receipt of the request (whichever is later) only if they are on one of the following bases: (a) the certification was not executed by the Certifying Officer of the Vil lage of Oak Park; (b) the Village of Oak Park has omitted a step or failed to make a decision or finding required by HUD regulations at 24 CFR part 58; (c) the grant recipient or other participants in the devel opment process have committed funds, incurred costs or undertaken activities not authorized by 24 CFR Part 58 before approval of a release of funds by HUD; or (d) another Federal agency acting pursuant to 40 CFR Part 1504 has submitted a written finding that the project is unsatisfactory from the standpoint of environmental quality. Objec tions must be prepared and submit ted in accordance with the required procedures (24 CFR Part 58, Sec. 58.76) and shall be addressed to HUD at CPD_COVID-19OEE-CHI@ hud.gov. Potential objectors should contact HUD to verify the actual last day of the objection period.
PETITIONER(S): Oak Park Com mons Cohousing, LLC, 106 South Oak Park Avenue-Suite 205, Oak Park, Illinois 60302
PROPERTY OWNER: Oak Park Commons Cohousing, LLC, 106 South Oak Park Avenue-Suite 205, Oak Park, Illinois 60302
A copy of the application and each of the applicable documents are on the Village Website at www. oak-park.us and also on file and available for inspection at the Vil lage Hall, Development Customer Services Department, 123 Madison Street, Oak Park, Illinois 60302, during current business hours, Monday through Thursday, be tween 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. The Plan Commission may continue the hearing to another date without further notice by public announce ment at the hearing setting forth the time and place thereof. Anyone with questions about the application may contact the Village by phone at 708-358.5420 or by email at plan ning@oak-park.us
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and that these responsibilities have been satisfied. HUD’s approval of the certification satisfies its respon sibilities under NEPA and related laws and authorities and allows the Village of Oak Park to use HUD pro gram funds.
LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOT 1 AND THE SOUTH 27 FEET OF THAT PART OF MADISON STREET NOW VACATED LYING NORTH OF AND ADJOINING SAID LOT 1 IN PRICES ADDITION TO OAK PARK, SAID ADDITION BEING A SUBDIVI SION OF LOT 4 IN SUBDIVISION OF EAST 1/2 OF LOT 2, IN SUB DIVISION OF SECTION 18, TOWN SHIP 39 NORTH, RANGE 13, EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERID IAN (EXCEPT THE WEST 1/2 OF THE SOUTHWEST 1/4 OF SAID SECTION), IN COOK COUNTY, IL LINOIS.
LEGAL NOTICE
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Public notice is hereby given that the Board of Education of Riverside School District 96 in Riverside, Illinois will receive sealed bids for:
HEARING DATE: October 6, 2022
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TheAuditorium.Boardof Education reserves the right to reject any or all bids or any part thereof.
Village of Oak Park 2022 Village of Oak Park Traffic Signal ReplacementControllerProjectBidNumber:22-130
Kevin Jackson, Village Manager, and Tammie Grossman, Develop ment Customer Services Director, Certifying Officers
Public Meeting Notice
The Village of Brookfield invites the public to attend a Public Information Meeting regarding proposed improvements to Burlington Avenue from Dubois Boulevard to Salt Creek and to DuBois Boulevard from Ogden Avenue to Burlington Avenue. The purpose of the meeting is to seek public input and comments on the proposed preliminary design plans. The meeting will be held in an open house format from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday September 28, 2022 at the Village Council Chambers in the Brookfield Village Hall located at 8820 Brookfield Avenue in Brookfield, Illinois. Exhibits will be on display for viewing and representatives from the Village and their consultant will be available for discussion and to answer questions.
The Entry Level Appointment Committee of the Village of Oak Park, Illinois adopted Rules and Regulations for Fire Department entry level appointments on August 1, 2022. The Rules and Regulations may be obtained at the Human Resources Department, Village of Oak Park, 123 Madison Street, Oak Park, Illinois 60302 during the regular business hours of 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. The Rules and Regulations shall take effect ten (10) days from the date of publication of this notice
The compliance factors were de termined on each project’s sitespecific location and no mitigation or compliance was required. The Village of Oak Park has determined that the project activities will have no significant impact on the human environment. Therefore, an Envi ronmental Impact Statement under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969 is not required.
DOCKET NUMBER: PC 22-04
offered must be accompanied by bid security in the form of certified check or bid bond made payable to the Owner in the amount of not less than ten percent (10%) of the amount of the aggregate of the bid as a guarantee that if the bid is accepted, a contract will be entered into and the performance of the contract properly secured. The successful bidder for the project is required to furnish Performance and Labor and Material Payment Bonds in an amount equal to one hundred percent (100%) of the bid amount, with sureties to be approved by the Owner, and in the form required by the Bidding Documents.
The following activities will take place within the Village of Oak Park, Illinois utilizing a total of $136,000 CDBG funds. 1 Infrastructure proj ects: Village of Oak Park Public Works Street Resurfacing project which resurfaces the deteriorated roadway and improves crossings for pedestrians for safety concerns. The area is within the boundaries of a Low/Mod income area and will be funded with returned PY2020 CDBG funds with a total project cost of $1,500,000.
PUBLIC NOTICE OF ADOPTION OF RULES AND REGULATIONS OF THE ENTRY LEVEL APPOINTMENT COMMITTEE OF THE VILLAGE OF OAK PARK, ILLINOIS
Bid documents may be obtained from the Village’s website theWorksForhttp://www.oak-park.us/bid.atquestions,pleasecallPublicat(708)358-5700duringabovehours.
The Village of Oak Park will re ceive sealed bids from qualified contractors at the Public Works Center, 201 South Boulevard, Oak Park, Illinois 60302 Monday through Friday, 7:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. local time until 3:00 p.m. on Wednesday, October 5, 2022 for the following:
On or about October 10, 2022 the Village of Oak Park (VOP) will re quest the U.S. Department of Hous ing and Urban Development (HUD) to release federal funds under Title of the Housing and Community De velopment Act of 1974 (PL 93-383), as amended, for various activities pursuant to the Program Year (PY) 2021 Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program which runs from October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2022.
PUBLIC NOTICE
REQUEST: The Plan Commission will conduct a public hearing on a planned development application for a five (5) story - 24-unit multiple family building in the MS-Madison Street Zoning District. The Petition er seeks the following allowance from the Oak Park Zoning Ordi nance associated with the Planned Development application, found in Article 5 – Table 5-1 Commercial Districts Dimensional Standards: an increase in height from an allowed 50 feet to 58 feet-3 inches.
Bid documents may be obtained from the Village’s website theWorksForhttp://www.oak-park.us/bidatquestions,pleasecallPublicat(708)358-5700duringabovehours.
The Village of Brookfield is also seeking public comment on the effects that the proposed improvements will have on Creekside Park. Creekside Park, which is under the jurisdiction of the Village of Brookfield, is a publicly owned Park. As such, it is subject to protection under Section 4(f) of the U.S. Department of Transportation Act of 1966. For the proposed project, the Village of Brookfield intends to seek a Section 4(f) “de minimis” impact finding from the Federal Highway Administration based on a determination that the project will not adversely affect the features, attributes, or activities that qualify Creekside Park for protection under Section 4(f).
A new storm sewer outlet to Salt Creek will be installed across Creekside Park as part of Burlington Avenue Improvements Project. This work will result in the park being closed for a period of approximately 2 months. Mitigation will include the installation of construction fencing to isolate the area of construction from pedestrian traffic. The area will be restored to its original condition immediately after the installation of the storm sewer within the park is completed. Detailed documentation describing the impacts and mitigation associated with the effects of the Burlington Avenue Improvements Project on Creekside Park will be available for review at the Village of Brookfield Village Hall, 8820 Brookfield Avenue, Brookfield, IL from September 28, 2022 to October 28, 2022.
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Written comments may be submitted
LOCATION OF HEARING: The Plan Commission will conduct the public hearing remotely with live audio available and optional video. The meeting will be streamed live and archived online for on-demand viewing at www.oak-park.us/ commissiontv as well as cablecast on VOP-TV, which is available to Comcast subscribers on channel 6 and ATT Uverse subscribers on channel 99. The remote public hearing is authorized pursuant to Section 7(e) of the Open Meetings Act. The Village President has determined that an in-person public hearing is not practical due to the COVID-19 outbreak during Governor JB Pritzker’s current disaster proclamation. It is also not feasible to have a person present at the public hearing due to public safety concerns related to the COVID-19 outbreak. Written testimony or comments regarding the application may be provided prior to the start of the public hearing by email to planning@ oak-park.us. The individual’s name and a reasonable part of their testimony or comment will be read aloud into the record at the public hearing if received no later than 30 minutes prior to the start of the public hearing. If email is not an option, written testimony or comment can be dropped off in the Oak Park Payment Drop Box across from the south entrance to Village Hall, 123 Madison Street, to be received no later than 5:00 PM on October 6, 2022. All written testimony and comments will be distributed to the Plan Commission and made a part of the official hearing record. Those wishing to provide public testimony at the hearing must contact the Village Planner at planning@oak-park.us for instructions on attending the hearing live via Zoom by 5:00 PM the day of the hearing. Interested persons may also participate in the hearing to cross examine the applicant and its witnesses by emailing a completed crossexamination form to clerk@oakpark.us before 5:00 PM on the day prior to the public hearing to sign up. Individuals who sign up to participate in this manner will receive an email from Village staff with information about how to join the hearing online through Zoom web-conference means or by phone. Questions regarding written testimony, comment or cross examination may be directed by phone to 708-358.5420 or email planning@oak-park.us
ENVIRONMENTAL CERTIFICA TION – RELEASE OF FUNDS
Bid Number: 22-129
FINDING OF NO SIGNIFICANT IMPACT (FONSI)
Any individual, group, or agency may submit written comments on the ERR to the Village of Oak Park, 123 Madison Street, Oak Park, IL 60302 or via: email at grants@oakpark.us All comments received by October 10, 2022 will be considered by the Village of Oak Park prior to authorizing submission of a request for release of funds.
The Village of Oak Park will re ceive sealed bids from qualified contractors at the Public Works Center, 201 South Boulevard, Oak Park, Illinois 60302 Monday through Friday, 7:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. local time until 3:00 p.m. on Wednesday, October 5, 2022 for the following:
Published in RB Landmark September 7, 21, 2022
Published in Wednesday Journal,September 21, 2022
The ERR is also available on the HUD Environmental Review Online System (HEROS) at: environmental-review-recordsonecpd.info/environmental-review/https://www.
Published Journal September 21, 2022
Copies of the Bid Documents including plans and specifications will be available starting September 19, 2022. Bidders can download electronic Drawings and Specifications from the BHFX Plan Room, www. bhfxplanroom.com. Printed sets may be ordered and paid for by the con-
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Saleresidence.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 the 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 Uponcourt.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.
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.
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NOTE:TJSC#:CaseAttorneyAttorneyE-Mail:847-291-1717ILNotices@logs.comFileNo.19-092500Code.42168Number:19CH1489142-3258PursuanttotheFairDebt 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. Case # 19 CH 14891
The60304.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 inForspection.information call Sales Department at Plaintiff’s Attorney, Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC, One East Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60601. (614) 220-5611. 19-038564
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The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information.
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION HSBC BANK USA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR MERRILL LYNCH MORTGAGE INVESTORS, INC., MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, MANA SERIES 2007-OAR4
Commonly known as 830 N GROVE AVENUE, OAK PARK, IL 60302
EN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on June 13, 2022, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on October 24, 2022, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker, 1st Floor Suite 35R, Chicago, IL, 60606, sell at a public sale to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate:
For information, contact The sales clerk, LOGS Legal Group LLP Plaintiff’s Attorneys, 2121 WAUKEGAN RD., SUITE 301, Bannockburn, IL, 60015 (847) 291-1717 For information call between the hours of 1pm - 3pm.. Please refer to file number THE19-092500.JUDICIAL SALES CORPORAOneTIONSouth Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236YouSALEcan also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales. LOGS Legal Group LLP 2121 WAUKEGAN RD., SUITE 301 Bannockburn IL, 60015
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.
CONNER; STEVEN CONNER; THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, THE OFFICE OF DEPARTMENTTHE OF THE TREASURY; THE STATE OF ILLINOIS; CITIMORTGAGE, INC.;
The mortgaged real estate is improved with a condominium residence. The purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by subdivisions (g)(1) and (g) (4) of Section 9 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 10% down
THE794-9876JUDICIAL SALES CORPORAOneTIONSouth Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236YouSALEcan also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales. CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100 BURR RIDGE IL, 60527
C. RYZA, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES OF ELAINE E. RYZA, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS, CARY ROSENTHAL, AS SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR ELAINE E. RYZA
PUBLICNOTICEOAK8302022Defendants(DECEASED)CH01290NGROVEAVENUEPARK,IL60302OFSALENOTICEISHEREBY
IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE
COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR GSAA HOME EQUITY TRUST 2006-14, ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006-14 ELIZABETH-v.-Plaintiff, SMITH, LARRY E. 6462018DefendantsSMITHCH03138LYMANAVE
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If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1).
by certified funds, balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for Forinspection.information call Law Clerk at Plaintiff’s Attorney, The Wirbicki Law Group, 33 West Monroe Street, Chicago, Illinois 60603. (312) 360-9455. W19-0997
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If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1).
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PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on October 4, 2021, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on October 11, 2022, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker, 1st Floor Suite 35R, Chicago, IL, 60606, sell at a public sale to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 626 NORTH TAYLOR AVENUE, OAK PARK, IL
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Property60302 Index No. 16-05-319-008The0000real estate is improved with a single family residence.
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The judgment amount was Sale$417,344.71.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 the 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 Uponcourt.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.
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.
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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. Case # 2022 CH 01290 INI3202624THECIRCUIT
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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. Case # 2018 CH 03138
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COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY ASSOCIATEDDIVISIONBANK, NA; SHEILAvs.Plaintiff,
IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Monday, October 17, 2022 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. 16-18-428-043-1032, 16-18428-043-1051and 16-18-428-043Commonly1059. known as 6436 Roosevelt Road, Unit 415 and P-17 and P-25, Oak Park, IL 60304.
ELLEN-v.-Plaintiff,C. SCHNACK, RANDALL C. 62619DefendantsSCHNACKCH14891NORTHTAYLOR AVENUE OAK PARK, IL 60302
EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY
YouSALEcan also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales. CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100 BURR RIDGE IL, 60527
IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Tuesday, October 25, 2022 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. Commonly16-08-311-001-0000.knownas200 South Humphrey Avenue, Oak Park, IL
CLEMENT-v.-Plaintiff,LLC
shall be 120 days or the period allowable for redemption under State law, whichever is longer, and in any case in which, under the provisions of section 505 of the Housing Act of 1950, as amended (12 U.S.C. 1701k), and subsection (d) of section 3720 of title 38 of the United States Code, the right to redeem does not arise, there shall be no right of redemption.
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If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1).
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For information, examine the court file, CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. Plaintiff’s Attorneys, 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL, 60527 (630) THE794-9876JUDICIAL SALES CORPORAOneTIONSouth Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-
Where a sale of real estate is made to satisfy a lien prior to that of the United States, the United States shall have one year from the date of sale within which to redeem, except that with respect to a lien arising under the internal revenue laws the period
COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DEUTSCHEDIVISIONBANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY AS TRUSTEE FOR AMERICAN HOME MORTGAGE ASSETS TRUST 2006-5; MORTGAGE BACKED PASS THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 2006-5; KARRIvs.Plaintiff, L. SPILLANE; PRAIRIE PLACE AT ROOSEVELT6436CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION; DEPARTMENTILLINOISOFREVENUE; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS;
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PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on July 27, 2022, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on October 31, 2022, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker, 1st Floor Suite 35R, Chicago, IL, 60606, sell at a public sale to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 646 LYMAN AVE, OAK PARK, IL 60304 Property Index No. 16-17-114-015The0000real estate is improved with a single family residence. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial Sale fee for the 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 Uponcourt.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 YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. For information, examine the court file, CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. Plaintiff’s Attorneys, 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL, 60527 (630)
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