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Funeral task force gears up to quell the violence

Skating away Daniel Martinez, a freshman at Concordia University from Cicero, balances on a quarter pipe on Oct. 1, at the Stevenson Park Skate Park on Lake Street in Oak Park.

Melee on Jackson Boulevard has residents concerned By TIMOTHY INKLEBARGER Staff Reporter

On a Saturday afternoon in early September, Oak Park resident Michael O’Malley was in the back of his home in the 800 block of Wisconsin Avenue, when he heard arguing coming from the street outside. O’Malley, who has lived at the corner of Wisconsin and Jackson Boulevard for the last 13 years, ran to the front of the house with his video camera at the ready. He suspected it might be another funeral procession — the kind that could get someone killed. Peeking through the blinds of his living room, O’Malley recorded a group of about 30 people who had exited their vehicles and were yelling at one another. Suddenly the fraSee FUNERALS on page 16

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Tax task force: No referenda until 2030 Also pushes independent citizen financial oversight panel

By TIMOTHY INKLEBARGER Staff Reporter

The Village of Oak Park’s Taxing Bodies Efficiency Task Force presented a wide range of recommendations to the Oak Park Board of Trustees at the Oct. 1 board meeting, including a moratorium on tax hike referendums until 2030, containing all

property tax hikes to CPI and creation of a citizen-led financial oversight commission that would monitor and advise all taxing bodies while also educating residents on municipal finance issues. David Pope, chairman of the taskforce and former village president, presented the report to trustees, noting that rapidly rising property taxes, which have substantial-

ly outpaced both the rate of inflation and the growth in household income, are forcing residents out of the village. “It poses risks to both current Oak Park residents and to the long-term viability of Oak Park’s core values of diversity, affordability and integration,” the report notes. See TAXES on page 13

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President Adduci named vice president? excited to exchange ideas and River Forest Village share solutions as we advocate President Cathy Adduci for local government at the state was elected vice president and federal level.” of the Illinois Municipal Adduci is currently servLeague on Sept. 22, one of 36 ing her second term as village officers elected to the post. president. She also served as a Adduci will serve for a year village trustee from 2009 to 2013 on the board of directors and as village clerk from 2007 to of the statewide organiza2009. With the Illinois Municipal tion, which advocates local League Board of Directors, she issues for the approximately CATHY ADDUCI has served on the Executive and 1,200 municipalities across RF Village President Legislative committees. Illinois. In 2014, she received the “Through my interaction Mayor of the Year Award from the Ilwith mayors from across the state, I will linois Crime Commission for making a be able to assist in solving some of the difference in the village of River Forest. very real issues our community and state face,” Adduci said in a statement. “I am Nona Tepper

Pup party Freidns Shaggy, a boxer above, and Harley run around Maple Park Dog Park on Oct. 1.

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A grand opening for Oak Park Market

Oak Park Market owner Angel Palivos created his new North Avenue grocery store with the local community in mind. The 13,000-square-foot market is celebrating its grand opening on Thursday, Oct. 4 from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. at 6209 North Ave; interested residents are encouraged to stop by for food tastings, wine sampling and more. “This party is not just in honor of the store opening,” Palivos said, “but also a celebration of local residents in Oak Park and the Galewood neighborhood of Chicago.” Previous grocery stores housed in

the same location failed, but Oak Park Market will focus on residents living in the area, said Palivos, who comes from a family of grocers. He listened to considerable feedback from local residents when deciding what to carry in his new shop. Oak Park Market will carry vegetarian and vegan-friendly ingredients, grab-and-go home-style meals, high-end deli meats, quality seafood, fresh baked breads, and a thoughtful selection of craft beer and wine. “Unlike the last two groceries in the same location, [Palivos] has chosen to create a store for the residents of Galewood and north Oak Park,” said Judith Alexander, chairwoman of the North Avenue Business District community group. “We’re all very excited to have such quality retail on North Avenue, especially east of Ridgeland.”

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Car-X costs Oak Park $141,000 to demolish

The Oak Park Board of Trustees approved spending up to $141,425 to demolish the former Car-X Tire & Auto building at 700 Madison St. The expenditure will be paid for out of Madison Street Tax Increment Finance (TIF) District funds. The village also used $1.3 million in TIF funds to pur-

chase the property in 2017. The demolition project was put out for public bid, and the village chose Delta Demolition to perform the work. The village purchased the property and is paying for the demolition to make way for a larger project at the corner of Oak Park Avenue and Madison Street. The village has sought bids to redevelop the village-owned parking lot on the northeast corner of Oak Park and Madison, adjacent to the Car-X property, but has not yet announced a preferred developer.

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BIG WEEK Ode to Joy Concert Sunday, Oct. 7, 4 p.m., Concordia University Chapel: Hear the award-wining Symphony of Oak Park & River Forest perform Beethoven’s Symphonyy No. 9 (choral). Bring non-perishables or cash donations for the OP-RF Food Pantry. $28; free,, students. Tickets/more: SymphonyOPRF.org. 7400 Augusta St, River Forest.

The ChangingAging Tour Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2:30 to 8:30, Pilgrim Congregational Church: Disrupt Dementia, (2:30 to 4 p.m.; $20) weaves film, music and first-person stories focusing on what can be learned from people living with dementia, rather than from experts. The Lobby Experience, (4 to 7 p.m.) is an interactive experience to engage with the ideas presented in the afternoon performance, get plugged in with local culture changers and connect with others in the community. At Life’s Most Dangerous Game, (7 to 8:30 p.m.; $20) Dr. Bill Thomas’ non-fiction theatrical performance features original music, storytelling, poetry and groundbreaking insights on aging and care. $30, whole-day pass. Brought by Wednesday Journal and A Tribe Called Aging. Tickets: changingaging.org/event/oak-park-il/#tickets. Questions: 312-816-5299. 460 Lake St., Oak Park.

Stop Worrying, Start Living Saturday, Oct. 6, 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., Kadampa Meditation Center: Worry and anxiety are feelings that do not exist outside the mind. Through training in meditation and mindfulness, learn to control thoughts and let go of negative, self-defeating thinking. Class includes practical teachings and meditations to be used in daily life. All welcome. $15; $20, at the door; free members/benefactors. Register: meditateinchicago.org/special-events/2018-10-06. 13 Harrison St., Oak Park.

Restorative Justice Youth Conference Saturday, Oct. 6, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Sunday, Oct. 7, 2 to 5:30 p.m., Veterans Room, Main Library: Explore the theme “What is restorative justice?” Come share your definition of what it should look like for your community through peace circles, panels, workshops and more. Register: oppl.org/ calendar. 834 Lake St., Oak Park.

Illinois Ghosts and the Afterlife Sunday, Oct. 7, 2 to 3:30 p.m., River Forest Library: Join paranormal investigator Terry Fisk as he discusses haunted locations he’s investigated. He will share photos, case histories, eyewitness accounts and ghost lore. Brought to you in partnership with River Forest Township. More: riverforestlibrary. evanced.info/signup/calendar. 735 Lathrop Ave., River Forest.

Facets: Self-Portrait Explorations Reception Friday, Oct. 5, 6 to 8 p.m., Lower Level Gallery, West Suburban Medical Center: See art by Michelle Silvetti -Schmitt, “primarily focused on the human figure, an inexhaustible source of inspiration, which conveys the energy and movement embodied in a moment through drawings, paintings and 3D mixed media.” Meet the artist at the opening. Exhibit through Dec. 4. 3 Erie Ct., Oak Park.

“The Mixtape of My Life” Wednesday, Oct. 10, 7 to 9 p.m., Veterans Room, Main Library: Meet local author Robert K. Elder and learn about his “Do-it-yourself music memoir.” The Book Table will have books for sale and signing. Info: oppl.org/calendar. 834 Lake St., Oak Park.

PACE/RTA Central Harlem Ave. Corridor Study Open House

Shedd the Straw

Thursday., Oct. 4, 6 to 8 p.m., Community Engagement Space, Main Library: This study aims to improve transit accessibility along Harlem Avenue. Residents and commuters are invited to provide input, including potential station location options. More: PaceBus.com/Pulse. 834 Lake St., Oak Park.

Tuesday, Oct. 9, 9:30 to 11 a.m., Nineteenth Century Club: The local Shedd the (drinking) Straw campaign is making progress, but there’s more citizens can do. Hear from Oak Park’s sustainability coordinator, an Oak Park Environmental and Energy Commission rep and a speaker from Green Community Connections. Brought by The League of Women Voters of OP&RF. 178 Forest Ave., Oak Park.

Black Minds Matter: Foundations of Black Male Success Chicago, Chicago with Geoffrey Baer Sunday, Oct. 7, 4 p.m., Pilgrim Congregational Church: Chicago a cappella opens their 25th anniversary season with a musical tribute to the city. WTTW’s Emmy-winning Baer narrates alongside projections illustrating Chicago’s past and present. The 10-voice ensemble delves into music from the 1893 Columbian Exposition, the Great Migration, the birth of blues and gospel, skyscrapers and more. $20 - $45. Tickets/more: chicagoacappella.org, 773-2817820. 460 Lake St., Oak Park.

Monday, Oct. 8, 6 to 8 p.m., Idea Box, Main Library: This is the first part of a 10-part public course designed to increase the national consciousness about issues facing black boys and men in education. Features a viewing and discussion. Additional dates to be announced. Register: oppl.org/calendar. 834 Lake St., Oak Park.

Fair Housing Ordinance 50th Anniversary Benefit Thursday, Oct. 4, 5:30 p.m., Nineteenth Century Club: Celebrate 50 Years of Fair Housing with an evening of food, drink, music and fellowship to support the Oak Park Regional Housing Center’s diversity, integration and homeownership efforts. Also includes silent auction and raffle. Reception and dinner (5:30), program (7 p.m.) $75. Tickets: oprhc.org/ benefit. 178 Forest Ave., Oak Park.

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ART BEAT

Locals make their mark with Jeff nominations By MICHELLE DYBAL

Contributing Reporter

he 50th Annual Jeff Awards will recognize outstanding achievement in Chicago-area theater later this month, but in the meantime, one local venue and several Oak Park-area performers received recognition through Jeff nominations. Named after a highly respected, successful 19th-century Chicago actor, Joseph Jefferson III, who often played Rip Van Winkle, “the Joseph Jefferson Awards Committee evolved in response to a search by Chicago actors for a way to honor local theater talent,” according to their website. “The Jeff Awards evaluates over 250 theatrical productions and holds two awards ceremonies annually.” The upcoming awards are for equity, or union, productions, while the June awards are for non-equity shows. Different from other awards, Jeff Awards do not use “best” or “winner” because they believe “there are no losers in the Chicago theater community.” Instead, “Jeff recipients are cited for outstanding achievement.” Berwyn’s 16th Street Theater received four nominations — the most it has ever garnered in one year. Before this year, the company has received seven Jeff nominations since Ann Filmer, who also lives in Berwyn, founded it in 2008. The theater received two nods in the New Works category, one for The Hero’s Wife by Aline Lathrop and another for Muthaland by Minita Gandhi, who also received a nomination for her Solo Performance. “We’re a playwright’s theater — new work is all we do,” said Filmer, the artistic director. “The playwright is always there, in casting, with designers; in most of the rehearsals they are making changes — up to a full year when it is presented to the audience.” The Hero’s Wife shows the relationship between a husband returning from war, dealing with PTSD at night, and his wife who suffers through his night-time episodes, but fears for his safety if she reveals this to his day-time persona. “Even though it turns out to be a love story,” Filmer said, “the audience goes through this intense experience.” In Gandhi‘s Muthaland, what starts as a tale of love takes a turn when there is a sexual assault during a spiritual retreat in India. According to Filmer, audiences were taken with Gandhi’s real-life account. Resident lighting designer and artistic associate for 16th Street, Cat Wilson, also was nominated for Lighting Design, Midsize

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Production, for The Wolf at the End of the Block. Oak Park actors who appeared in Chicago stage productions were recognized by the Jeff Awards as well. Teen Leo Gonzalez, sang, danced and acted in Fun Home at Victory Gardens Theater, which garnered four nominations, including one for outstanding Large Production, Musical or Revue. Ryan Kitley appeared in Goodman Theatre’s Support Group for Men this summer. The Ensemble has been nominated for its performance. The Jeff Awards take place on Monday, Oct. 22, at Drury Lane Oak Brook.

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No tax hike votes until 2030?

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K. I’m writing this column Monday afternoon. That’s before the Taxing Bodies Efficiency Task Force presents its 35page report to the Oak Park Village Board tonight. The village board is the body that commissioned the seven-member ad hoc committee to study the impact of high property taxes in Oak Park and to make recommendations on how to contain them going forward. Now I’ve read a lot of reports in my four decades covering Oak Park. A lot of them were interesting. Some worthless. Most of them ignored. But here’s a direct and common-sense report that ought to be read and followed. Among the simple declarations: Property taxes in Oak Park are flying, rising far faster than either inflation or neighboring communities. Generous local voters have chosen to raise their own taxes by approving a range of referendums over the past two decades for the library and park districts and the two school districts. With its home rule powers, the village government has also done a fine job of hiking taxes without needing voter referendums. Taxing bodies have driven up costs dramatically by paying high salaries and all sorts of benefits to their employees. The pension obligations are huge and in terms of teachers will be dropped back on local taxpayers if the state can figure out how to do it. The report says taxes are putting longterm values of diversity, affordability and integration at risk and driving older Oak Parkers out of town. For those willing to pay attention, the full report mitigates overstated worries that the coming November advisory referendum on whether Oak Park should consider merging government entities represented some sort of power grab by the village or was the primary recommendation coming from this group. It has been assumed by most that “consolidation” meant village government had its eyes on Oak Park Township. If, however, there is a local taxing body that comes off well in this report it is the

tight-with-a-nickel township. The township, said the report, pays its employees at the far low end of salaries in local government and they haven’t gone to voters for a tax referendum since the 1970s. Will Oak Park taxes ever drop? Will the new density mitigate increases? The report is realistic. Based on the referendums already passed and built into the taxing structure, taxes won’t go down. And history tells us as new development expands the tax base, spending just keeps rising to absorb the increased revenue. That’s a point I keep making. Taxing bodies must consciously not just absorb the new dollars. So what to do? Boldly the report calls on citizens to demand, and taxing bodies to acquiesce in, avoiding all new tax referenda until 2030, surprisingly just 12 years out. But we know both school districts are already eyeing what they consider inevitable asks. This would be a gigantic culture shift, especially with the Imagine OPRF facilities plan being debated and the OPRF teachers contract going to mediation. While coyly avoiding mention of OPRF and its absurd $100 million cash reserve, the report says all reserves ought to be spent down to reasonable levels and that any major infrastructure projects should be paid out of reserves before any additional debt is taken on. The report proposes the creation of a “citizen-led, village-wide Community Financial Oversight Commission” which would aggregate financial information among all taxing bodies, convert it into understandable and matching formats, monitor spending levels, advocate for sharing services (a single unified payroll function is mentioned). Elected officials who have said for years that they are elected with the sole fiduciary responsibility to build up the library, the elementary schools, etc. will not be fans of oversight. And while I worry about single-issue candidates focused only on taxes, that’s where the citizens come in.

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River Forest covers moving expenses for business Village will cover half of Skincare Company’s move to 7756 Madison St.

By NONA TEPPER Staff Reporter

A majority of members of the River Forest trustees voted to cover the partial buildout expenses for a business relocating to Madison Street at a village board meeting on Oct. 1, after developer Lake and Lathrop LLC purchased and made plans to demolish its present location. The village board voted 4-2 to pay a total of $36,250 in three installments to facilitate The Skincare Company’s move from 7607 Lake St. to 7756 Madison St., where it will occupy three suites. The village will use funds from the Madison Street tax-increment financing (TIF) district. Since the Madison Street TIF has not generated enough funds to cover the move, officials said on Aug. 20 that money will be transferred from the village’s general fund or capital improvement fund into the TIF fund and repaid at a later date. “We’re always looking for renters like [Skincare Company owner] Sandra [Capizzi] and investing in folks like you,” said Village President Cathy Adduci. “This is what I think the TIF was all about, to help busi-

nesses like you.” In a village memo, officials estimated the village would recoup its investment in five years. The memo said Skincare Company will eliminate half of the vacancies in the strip mall, increase real estate tax revenue by $16,000 annually and generate $1,500 in sales tax revenue to the village per year. The village will pay Skincare Company the money in three installments to limit the amount of money the village will need to transfer to the TIF fund. If for some reason Skincare Company goes of business, the village would also not need to pay the rest of the cash. The business will receive its first payment of $16,250 when it receives its certificate of occupancy, and next two on the first and second anniversary of the first payment. “I struggle with this one because I do still feel like this should have been on the developer, but I absolutely want to support a River Forest business owner, and I absolutely think that’s why we have the TIF funds, to put property on Madison,” said Trustee Patty Henek, who later voted against paying

for Skincare Company to move. The village board approved developer Lake and Lathrop LLC’s plans to build a five-story mixed use building where Skincare Company currently sits, 7607 Lake St., on Sept. 17. Trustees added as a condition of approval that the developer must work with the village to help move businesses interested in staying in River Forest elsewhere in the village. Adduci noted that Skincare Company will be leaving its current location by October and that the business and developer have “already negotiated whatever they need to negotiate.” Skincare Company’s lease at its current location expires in early 2019, and Lake and Lathrop LLC is responsible for buying out lease. “I think we’ll do whatever we can to help our small businesses,” Adduci said. “This has nothing to do with Lake and Lathrop. This has everything to do with you.” Village Administrator Eric Palm said this is the first redevelopment request the village has received for its current TIF districts. “This request will be the first and cer-

tainly not the last of various projects for redevelopment and rehabilitation for the Madison and North Avenue TIF districts,” he said. Palm said he’s had conversations with the remaining tenants in the Lake and Lathrop site -- Allstate and In & Out Fitness -- and knows the owners are looking for a new space but is unsure if they found one. Trustees Michael Gibbs, Carmela Corsini, Susan Conti and Adduci all voted in favor of using TIF funds to help Skincare Company move within the village. Trustees Henek and Tom Cargie voted against using village funds. At a prior village board discussion on the topic, Cargie said he saw the payout as another subsidy for Lake and Lathrop LLC. Trustee Respicio Vazquez recused himself from the vote, citing a “common law conflict of interest,” since he works for the law firm that represents River Forest School District 90 and Oak Park and River Forest School District 200, which are part of the TIF district. CONTACT: ntepper@wjinc.com

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A Mini-Mathletes program for the preschool set will begin on October 27th. The one-hour program will run from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. on Saturday mornings, and Frank says the focus is on building a strong foundation as well as a positive association with math. “Children will participate in interactive games and activities, art projects, and story time that all revolve around math. Our teacher has a strong background in early childhood education, and she uses different methods to introduce kids to math, incorporating number sense, counting, shapes and patterns.” Mathnasium will be offering a free Mini-Mathletes class demonstration on Saturday, October 13 from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. at the center on the corner of Chicago Avenue and Marion Street. Frank encourages interested parents to stop by the open house with their children, meet the instructor and see the kind of activities that will take place in class.

To register, please go to mathnasiumminimathletes. youcanbook.me/. On the other end of the age range, Mathnasium is also kicking off a new opportunity to prepare for the ACT math college entrance exam. Aimed at high school students and some advanced eighth graders, Mathnasium will now offer a free Math ACT Practice test every other month for the rest of the school year about 4-5 weeks before the actual test date. Students take real ACT math sections under test-like conditions, and their scores are immediately generated. Frank remarks, “The practice test is a great way to get an estimate of where you are and what you need to move up. From the test, we customize ACT prep plans and tailor them to kids’ individual needs. Some kids might need a plan to help raise their scores in general, or if they’re already scoring in the thirties, we can move them up to the next level. It can make a significant difference in school choice if you go up a few points at that level.” ACT prep programs at Mathnasium are ongoing throughout the school year, and dates and reservations for the free practice test can be booked at mathnasiumact.youcanbook.me/ On top of these special offerings, Mathnasium continues to offer year-round help for all ages and all levels of math students. Whether students are at grade level, behind or ahead, Mathnasium’s specially trained instructors work to develop a plan to help keep children motivated and

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Court won’t toss Keystone’s lawsuit

Judge says village has right to collect property tax from school as legal proceedings continue By NONA TEPPER Staff Reporter

A Cook County judge recently denied the village of River Forest’s request to throw out a lawsuit by Keystone Montessori, while also denying an injunction submitted by the private school, upholding the village’s right to continue to collect property taxes as debate over the nonprofit’s right to seek tax-exempt status continues in the Cook County Circuit Court. “We are very pleased that our complaint against River Forest was validated by the court. This gives us further confidence that we are doing the right thing to support our school and the students and families of Keystone,” Vicki Shea, Keystone’s director, said in a statement. Keystone filed its lawsuit against the village on March 6 in the Cook County Circuit Court, alleging River Forest officials said they would only approve the school’s zoning permit if Keystone agreed never to seek a property tax exemption. The lawsuit claims its agreement with the village contravenes public policy and constitutes unconstitutional condition, illegal contract zoning, illegal perpetual contract and equal protection violation. The school is asking for reimbursement for attorneys’ fees, $1.1 million in prop-

erty taxes it said it has paid over two decades, and an end to its agreement with the village. In the motion to dismiss, filed March 20 in the federal district court in the Northern District of Illinois, the village argued the charges should be thrown out because Keystone knowingly signed an agreement to contract away its rights and that its federal and state complaints were untimely. A federal judge dismissed Keystone’s suit against the village in July, ruling that the nonprofit private school’s right to seek taxexempt status is rooted in the state tax law, not the U.S. Constitution. In a statement, the village said it was “pleased” Judge Sanjay Tailor denied Keystone’s request for an injunction on Sept. 20, which would have prohibited the village from enforcing the property tax agreement as legal wrangling continue. “The village will continue to defend the agreement, which has been in place for 20 years,” the village said in a statement. “Keystone Montessori has experienced significant financial troubles unrelated to its agreement with the village, and the village remains ready and willing to help it relocate its school to a suitable location so it may continue educating children.” In March, Busey Bank filed to foreclose on the school’s more than $2 million mortgage, according to records from the Cook County Recorder of Deeds. Attorney John Mauck, from the Chicagobased Mauck & Baker firm that is representing Keystone, has said that if the nonprofit school can break its agreement with the village, and become tax-exempt, Keystone will

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Keystone Montessori School be solvent and able to pay its mortgage and other obligations. The school pays about $100,000 annually in real estate taxes, and has not paid its 2017 taxes yet, Mauck said. He said the school had been relying on private donors to help pay the taxes, but this past year donors stopped giving. “When a motion to dismiss such as this is denied, it means that the judge feels all the matters alleged in the complaint create valid claims,” Mauck said in a statement. “Because the judge upheld the complaint,

OPRF approves new budget

District 200 has a deficit of roughly $2M By MICHAEL ROMAIN Staff Reporter

During a regular meeting on Sept. 27, the District 200 school board unanimously adopted a budget for the 2018-19 fiscal year that included a roughly $2 million deficit. This budget is the first without longtime chief business official Tod Altenburg. Revenues for the new Oak Park and River Forest High School budget totaled $82 million while expenditures totaled $84.2 million. As a result of the deficit, the district’s fund balance reserves are projected to decrease from $107.6 million to $105.2 million. This most recent budget cycle is the first since Altenburg left for a job in Lombard this summer. Cyndi Sidor, the interim chief school business official, and Robert Grossi of Crystal Financials, drafted this year’s budget. Grossi said that he and Sidor faced some “unique challenges” while putting together this current budget — namely the lack of institutional knowledge about the district’s operations and the fact that the district practices a modified accrual basis of accounting.

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“Under modified accrual basis of accounting, there tends to be several million dollars of adjustments in the ending financial information after the budget is prepared,” Grossi said. He said that he and Sidor had “more confidence” with projecting revenues than with expenditures. Around 90

and because River Forest repeatedly conceded that no substantive factual issues are disputed, we feel that Keystone is in a very strong legal position.” The matter will continue Nov. 7 at the Cook County Circuit Court. CONTACT: ntepper@wjinc.com In an original article published on Sept. 26, Wednesday Journal failed to mention the judge denied an injunction submitted by Keystone Montessori. We regret this error.

percent of the district’s revenues come from property taxes and other local sources, such as Tax Increment Financing rebates. Another, albeit smaller, challenge with drafting this year’s budget was the fact that there is still no teacher contract. Grossi and Sidor put the increase in base salaries at 2.2 percent, what the former called “a standard number” that they used absent more concrete contractual data. Sidor and Grossi said that two major increases in revenue took place in the areas of purchased services and supplies and materials. The district projected to spend nearly $300,000 more in fiscal year 2018-19 than in the previous fiscal year on expenditures such as advertising, social media archiving, contractual payroll and printing student ID tags. The district is projected to spend an additional $250,000 this fiscal year over the previous one on various supplies and materials, including expenditures related to career technology, Trapeze, the student newspaper, and AP classes. This most recent budget was also notable for the fact that the district allocated zero dollars for debt service payments. In 2016, the school board authorized a $1.02 million payment on bonds issued in 2005, putting it on track to be debt free. CONTACT: michael@oakpark.com

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Math Academy took hold of, raised up black math students Can Hartons’ program be resurrected? By MICHAEL ROMAIN Staff Reporter

Marshall Jeffries, 23, was often one of only a few African American students in his honors and AP classes at Oak Park and River Forest High School — but he wasn’t lonely. “There was always someone to check in and study with,” he said, adding that, more often than not, he knew the other black student in any given advanced math class. Jeffries got that familiarity — the sense of camaraderie and community — because of a program called Math Academy. The premise of the program was simple. Identify African American students in Oak Park with the ability to do advanced math and give them the apparatus of support that many white kids take for granted. “Every summer, we would get this math packet and obviously we didn’t want to do it,” Jeffries recalled in a recent interview. “The problems were so hard, way harder than anything we’d get in a regular test in our classes,” he said. “They were meant to challenge us, to make us go above and beyond the material, to understand the concepts. We had to really get together in a group and figure this stuff out.” But Math Academy went beyond academic preparation — it also allowed them to discover parts of themselves that may have remained obscured had they not participated in the program, many Math Academy alumnae said. “I’m sure many of us were probably called Oreos and asked, ‘Why do you talk so white?’ and I really didn’t understand that culturally and historically,” said Camilla Brewer, 26. “So, the program gave me an opportunity to experience my blackness and develop who I was — not what people thought I should be.” The students watched movies like “The Great Debaters” and “Eyes on the Prize,” and read Langston Hughes poems and essays by W.E.B. DuBois. At its core, the program was an education in black excellence (often obscured by the national focus on sociological data, such as poverty and crime statistics) that was imported by its founders, Austin and Michelle Harton, from the segregated South. Michelle grew up in Nashville, Tennessee. Austin in Birmingham, Alabama. He knew one of the four girls who were killed in the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church. He can recall her funeral. In the fight against explicit, de jure racism, the couple recalled during a recent interview, there was strong social cohesion. “Our parents had to teach us how to cope

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PIONEERS: Michelle and Austin Harton, both engineers-turned-educators, grew up in the segregated South, where racism was pervasive and black excellence was pungent. At left, Austin in 2008.

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in that environment,” said Michelle, a former District 97 school board member. “You could not let stereotypes impact you. Excellence was the standard. We had to push through any kind of –ism if you were going to make it.” “We wanted to make them realize that excellence in everything, including education, was a legacy,” Austin said. “Black people came out of slavery starting colleges. That’s the kind of legacy they’re continuing. They’re standing on shoulders. We wanted our students to realize, ‘Hey, if my forebears did it in those conditions, I have to do my part.’” The Hartons were both professional engineers living in Oak Park and raising two daughters, when they were forced to channel that legacy in a very explicit way. Their

youngest daughter, Marie, was slated for a lower track. “We were like, ‘No, that’s not going to work,’” Michelle said. “So, we went to the department chair at District 97 to make the case why Marie should take algebra — not another year of arithmetic. While we were there, we asked about other black students.” The Hartons said that they noticed that hardly any of their daughter’s African American friends were in that top math track. The department chair told them that the problem “would be something handled by parents.” So, they gathered parents during their daughter’s sixth-grade graduation and asked how interested they would be in sending their children to a math tutoring program. In 2000, they started meeting students at a church in Maywood before moving their meetings to schools in District 97. In the beginning, the couple helped any student who would come to them, typically during the summers. Through word-of-mouth, the program grew. They averaged roughly 15 students a year, they said. Michelle would work with seventh- and eighth-graders while Austin would tutor

high school students in everything from math and physics to chemistry. The program, they said, was “heavily supported” by District 97, which provided them with curriculum materials, space and even janitorial staff who would make sure they were OK while working in the buildings at night. The parents provided transportation and myriad other supports. Math Academy, they said, became one big family. “We had all kinds of families — from homes where both the mother and father were present to single mothers,” Michelle said. “A good deal of Math Academy was also teaching parents how to advocate for their kids. Just as you had students who had issues of belonging, you also had parents who were disconnected. “Once parents learn how to advocate for their kids and how to navigate the system, they quickly become experts at it,” she said. The Hartons maintained the program for some 13 years before moving into full-time education. Michelle teaches math to students at Chicago Public Schools while Austin is a chemistry and physics professor at Chicago State University. They’ve left a trail of black excellence in their wake, starting with their two daughters. Marie and Renee, like their parents, are graduates of MIT. Marie obtained a Ph.D. in chemistry from Columbia University and is doing postdoctoral research at the National Cancer Institute. Renee has a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Michigan and is doing postdoctoral research at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. Jeffries, who graduated in 2013, went to college on a full scholarship that he credits, in large part, to his time spent toiling in Math Academy. This year, he graduated from Northeastern University in Boston with a degree in accounting and finance, before starting his first full-time job with a consulting company. Brewer is now a college administrator working in Georgia. And there are more Math Academy alums whose influence stretches from hospitals and universities to former president Barack Obama’s White House. The Hartons said that they’ve recently been getting entreaties from community leaders to revive Math Academy, something they’re at least considering. “If there’s any opportunity to increase capacity and bring Math Academy back, I would push for that, because I don’t think black students are being tracked into lower tracks because they can’t do the work,” Brewer said. “There’s just not enough opportunity and sometimes, equity looks like this program.” CONTACT: michael@oakpark.com

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Williams points out, how we’ve “set up this system” of achievement that does not really illuminate many students’ “true brilliance.” What is illuminating is how often people like Kavanaugh and Trump end up rising to By MICHAEL ROMAIN the top in this color-blind meritocracy. Staff Reporter Something else that was illuminating durhis sixth episode aired a few days ing this sixth episode (and indeed in other after Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s Senate parts of the series) is just how stressful Judiciary Committee testimony, high school can be. It’s a pressure cooker. so pardon me for this somewhat The stakes, already, are high (which the studiscombobulated response. I dents know only too well; not satisfied with watched all of the sixth episode and parts straight A’s, Caroline Robling-Griest must of the testimony. Both productions had me see the percentages). And all of this before seriously questioning our conventional most students have even been on their first conceptions of merit and achievement. real job interview. There is, by mainstream standards, an ob“Listen to the poem!” the slam poets yell, vious achievement gap between President which is to say, ‘Life isn’t about a score or a Donald Trump’s U.S. Supreme Court pick percentage.’ Sadly, though, fewer and fewer and, say, Fred Hampton, the Black Panther students, even in Oak Park, can afford to releader who was assassinated by law enforceally take this message to heart. ment officials in 1969. As many economists have shown, the majorHampton — a smart, charismatic and soity of the wealth and resources that have been cially astute young man — created in America over the last was closer in temperament, three or four decades have clusmentality and economic tered among the top 10 percent of class to a Ke’Shawn Kumsa the population even as the rest of than a Kavanaugh. us have worked harder and longer. Hampton was an aspiring And the wealth gap between lawyer whose career aspirablack and white families has tions never materialized bestubbornly persisted for huncause suffering pushed the WATC H I N G dreds of years. young leader into a life of activAny notion of merit, particu‘A M E R I C A T O M E ’ ism. Kavanaugh, as most of us larly color-blind merit, melts know, went from Georgetown E P I S O D E VI into absurdity in this context. Prep to Yale Law School to the White House to a few votes away from a lifetime How can we seriously preach responsibility and achievement to the likes of Kendale Mcplacement on the highest court in the land. And yet Hampton and the Panthers are Coy and Ke’Shawn Kumsa when they will more closely associated with attempting to watch CNN and witness the comedy of eralleviate human suffering than the judge. rors that is our federal government? For instance, the Panthers confronted childHow can we preach the “hard work pays hood hunger by implementing breakfast off ” gospel to Robling-Griest — who stresses programs and were pioneers in the cam- herself out in order not to be debt-ridden afpaign to eradicate sickle cell anemia. ter college and whose family life was nearly Kavanaugh, on the other hand, has consis- upended by the colossal ineptitude and tently ruled from his perch on the 9th Circuit in recklessness of mostly white men (no more a way that blithely disregards human suffering or less able or gifted than she) who then got (read his heinous dissents in National Federa- obscene bonuses? tion of Employees v. Vilsack or Island AgriproThese mostly white men are blessed with cessors v. National Labor Relations Board). the privilege to perpetuate their wealth, to What is often lost in the discussion about raise children and grandchildren and greatthe black/white “achievement” gap is the grandchildren blessed with the latitude to strong possibility that the way we frame the err without consequence, to fail up. discrepancy is itself a problem. And also the latitude to do what they want or In favor of this stultifying emphasis on will with a girl like Robling-Griest who, if she white-collar career preparation, schools works hard enough and is good enough and across the country have seemingly been didoesn’t make too many mistakes, will grow minished in their ability to educate young into a woman like Dr. Christine Blasey Ford. people in the areas that most matter — in What are we doing to a generation of kids character development, in human empaby putting them through the ringer in high thy, in basic decency, in (as C. Wright Mills school only to let them loose in a world of would say) the sociological imagination. In one scene in the sixth episode, Brendan mountainous college loan debt, ruinous ecoBarrette’s mother says she wants her son to nomic inequality, moral depravity, callous“perceive inequities” and to “be part of the ness, precarious employment, wage insecusolution, not the problem.” That’s an educa- rity and Brett Kavanaugh? As Williams says, “The problem is not tion that doesn’t show up on a standardized test or in a GPA — important as these may be. with Jada [Buford], it’s with us.” It’s “disheartening,” OPRF teacher Tyrone CONTACT: michael@oakpark.com

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Oak Park nabs River Forest businesses

Two shops to open on Chicago Avenue By TIMOTHY INKLEBARGER Staff Reporter

Two River Forest businesses are relocating to a small business district near the corner of Chicago and Harlem avenues in Oak Park sometime this month. The flower shop Tulipia Floral Design is relocating from the corner of Lake and Lathrop to 1044 Chicago, and Clydon Hair Salon & Spa is relocating from 7359 North Ave. to 1048 Chicago Ave. Peter Kingston, co-owner of Tulipia said his shop has been at the River Forest location for over 14 years, but the block is scheduled for redevelopment and the building Tulipia once occupied is scheduled for demolition. “When that is going to happen I don’t know, but that’s why we moved,” he said in a telephone interview. He noted that the Oak Park location is a little larger – the size of the shop increases from 900 to 1,450 square feet – but he said,

“We’re going to carry the same product line as we’ve always carried.” He noted that the store is “always evolving” though. Though Tulipia gets a lot of its business online, Kingston said, “It’s still important have a location that is visible to the general population.” Tulipia’s new next-door-neighbor is Clydon, which spent 16 years on North Avenue prior to the move. Co-owner Eduarte Tare said the move brings his hair salon closer to his other two businesses – Hair Butterflies Lice and Nit Removal Salon, 425 N. Marion St., and Lilies & Spikes, Kids & Teens Hair Salon & Spa, 1105 Chicago Ave. He said the store is ready to open any day. The new location is more convenient for Tare, who has had to travel between the two locations for years. “It’s a family-owned business, so our clientele is in Oak Park and River Forest. Most of our people walk to us,” he said. Geraldine M. Healy and David King, of David King & Associates, represented ownership in both of the leases. CONTACT: tim@oakpark.com

NEW DIGS: Two River Forest businesses — Tulipia Floral Design and Clydon Hair Salon & Spa— have relocated to Oak Park. Peter Kingston, Ashley Kelly and their dog Grace (pictured above) say redevelopment of the corner of Lake and Lathrop prompted their relocation.

The recommendations from the task force, released on Sept. 30, go much further than consolidation, though, calling on taxing entities to limit tax levy increases to the rate of inflation or less, constraining salary increases for public employees and creating a new citizen-led Community Financial Oversight Commission. It calls on governing bodies to not pursue future tax-increase referenda through 2030. This comes as Oak Park and River Forest High School District 200 is working on drafting a long-term facilities plan that may require the need for a multi-million referendum at some future date. Residents and trustees commented on the report, but the presentation was more of a listening session than a debate about the finer points of the white paper. David Yamashita thanked the taskforce for its work on the report, and said he is one of the residents who is considering leaving the

community because of the rising tax burden. “I do not want to leave this community; the taxes are going to be a huge drain on my retirement – I don’t think I can afford it,” he said. He added, though, that he thought the proposed referendum is “misleading” but praised the recommendation of creating a financial oversight commission. Trustee Deno Andrews also congratulated the taskforce on its work, saying that the discussions on reducing the tax burden need to take place. “I’m disappointed about the propaganda online about the intent of all of this,” he said, adding that many have claimed that the consolidation aspect of the report is an effort by village government to consolidate power. “Nowhere in the referendum does it mention that the village is in charge of (which government entity would oversee such a consolidation),” he said.

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Taskforce from page 1 “More recently, we’re seeing this increase in our taxes as a significant impediment to the ability of residents being able to age in place as people are increasingly being taxed out of their homes.” Oak Park’s increase in property taxes also has “dramatically outpaced other communities and is putting Oak Park at a competitive disadvantage,” according to the report. The task force was established earlier this year by the Oak Park Board of Trustees and has been viewed skeptically by other taxing bodies, such as Oak Park Township, Oak Park Public Library and the Park District of Oak Park, primarily due to the discussion of consolidating those taxing bodies under the umbrella of the village. In July, the Oak Park Board of Trustees voted to put an advisory referendum on the Nov. 6 ballot asking: “Shall the merger and consolidation of Oak Park taxing bodies be considered, including, but not limited to, the Village of Oak Park, Oak Park Township, the Oak Park Public Library and the Park District of Oak Park, to determine if there would be efficiencies, the elimination of redundancies and/or property tax reduction for the residents of Oak Park?” That ballot question is not legally binding but will give the Village of Oak Park direction on whether to pursue consolidation of the various taxing bodies.

“I do not want to leave this community; the taxes are going to be a huge drain on my retirement – I don’t think I can afford it.” DAVID YAMASHITA Oak Park resident

“What disappointed me most is how aggressively people don’t want to know the truth,” Andrews said. Similarly, Dan Moroney said he hopes every elected official in the village reads the report and “tries to think holistically” about spending in Oak Park. “I hope we adopt pretty much everything you guys said,” he said. CONTACT: tim@oakpark.com

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Thief takes Beats headphones then beats feet

An Oak Park man was the victim of theft in the 400 block of Lake Street about 3:55 p.m. on Sept. 24. The offender approached the victim asking to use his cellphone. The victim handed over his cellphone, and the offender took his Beats headphones and Ventra card. The estimated loss is $450.

Armed robbery An Oak Park man was robbed in the 100 block of Harvard Street at 8:45 p.m. on Sept. 27. The offender placed a hard object against the victim’s back and demanded his wallet, which contained $50 and credit cards. The offender then removed the victim’s gold 28inch Cuban chain from his neck and fled eastbound. The estimated loss is $1,590. The offender was described as between the ages of 30 and 35, 6-feet tall with a thin build and wearing a dark hooded sweatshirt, a dark Yankees hat and dark pants. ■ A man wearing a black ski mask over the lower part of his face, standing about 5-foot-11 and brandishing a black handgun approached a Chicago man in the 6000 block of North Avenue at 9:35 p.m. on Sept. 28 and demanded money. The victim drove away leaving his ATM card in the ATM machine. He learned later that $400 had been taken from his account. ■ Two Chicago residents were robbed at gunpoint in the 300 block of North Taylor about 8:43 p.m. on Sept. 27. Two young men pulled up in a brown or bronze Chevrolet as the victims were walking. The two offenders, brandishing handguns, exited the vehicle and approached the victims. One of the victims handed over his wallet and one of the offenders struck the victim. The other victim handed over cash. The two then fled northbound in the vehicle. Both offenders were described as 18 to 20 years old with slims builds. One was 5-foot-10 with a miniafro and wearing a black and white hooded sweatshirt with a Nike logo on the chest and

black pants. The other offender had shoulder-length dreadlocks and wore a light-gray jogging suit. ■ A Chicago woman was robbed on the CTA Green Line in the 400 block of South Boulevard at 7:21 p.m. on Sept. 27. The offender, described as around 35 years old repeatedly asked the victim for money and then reached inside the victim’s jacket pocket and took $15 and a pack of cigarettes. She then struck the victim several times and pushed her to the ground. The offender was last seen headed southbound on foot. The estimated loss is $26. The offender was described as 5-foot-5 with a heavy build and wearing a black sweatshirt and multi-colored pants.

Theft ■ An Oak Park man was the victim of theft in the 200 block of South Ridgeland about 9:15 a.m. on Sept. 26. The man was approached by a male in his late teens, who asked several questions and then took the victim’s iPhone from his hand. The offender then fled on foot. The estimated loss is $1,000. The offender was described as 5-foot7 to 5-foot-9 with an athletic build, short twisted dreadlocks and wearing a white Tshirt and white pants. ■ Someone stole an estimated $12,000 worth of jewelry in the 900 block of North Marion Street, sometime between noon on Aug. 26 and noon on Aug. 29. No details were given about the crime, but police noted that the thief took a gold bridal set of jewelry, including an engagement/wedding rings, a yellow-gold anniversary ring with diamonds, and two gold tennis bracelets. ■ A gray 2018 Audi A3, reported stolen on Aug. 23 from the 500 block of South Taylor, was recovered by Chicago police in the 5600 block of West Adams, Chicago, at 11:18 p.m. on Sept. 25. No arrests were made.

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■ A residence was burglarized in the 700 block of North Harvey sometime between noon and 3:15 p.m. on Sept. 30. The burglar gained entry by use of a pry tool to the basement window. Once inside, an envelope containing cash and a set of keys were stolen. The estimated loss is $500. ■ A residence was burglarized in the 200 block of Clinton, sometime between 5:30 and 9 p.m. on Sept. 30. The burglar entered through an unlocked rear door and stole a Macbook Pro valued at $2,600. ■ A residence was burglarized in the 600 block of South Humphrey sometime between 10:30 p.m. on Sept. 26 and 5:45 a.m. on Sept. 27. The burglar entered through an unlocked window and stole the following: two iPhones; two wallets with cash and cards; a Macbook Air; a jar of cash; keys; and a garage remote. They then used the keys to steal the victim’s 2015 Jeep Cherokee, which was recovered by Chicago police in the 100 block of North Central Park at 6:49 p.m. the same day. No arrests were made. The estimated loss is $28,000. ■ The driver of a 2006 Chevrolet Equinox caught a young man, roughly 19 or 20 years old, burglarizing a vehicle at 10:52 a.m. on Sept. 27 in the 800 block of South Humphrey. The burglar fled the scene and dropped several stolen items. He was described as 5-foot6 to 5-foot-7 with short hair, a thin build and wearing a black jeans and a black and red hooded sweater with cartoon character logos. No loss was reported. ■ A garage was burglarized in the 700 block of Fair Oaks, sometime between 4:30 p.m. on Sept. 24 and 8:48 a.m. on Sept. 26. The burglar entered through an unlocked door and then burglarized a 2015 Jeep Wrangler, taking a pair of sunglasses and also stealing three bicycles. The estimated loss is $2,500. ■ A garage was burglarized in the 1100 block of Hayes, sometime between 8:30 p.m. on Sept. 25 and 8:10 a.m. on Sept. 26.

The burglar entered through an unlocked side service door and then ransacked a 2007 Mercedes, taking two bags of miscellaneous hand tools. The estimated loss is $292. ■ A 2014 Ford Focus was burglarized in the 900 block of South Humphrey sometime between 12:30 a.m. on Sept. 24 and 1:30 a.m. on Sept. 26. The burglar took cash, a gas card and a black bag with a Dell laptop computer. The estimated loss is $510. ■ A Toyota Sienna was burglarized in the 400 block of Greenfield Street about 2:41 p.m. on Sept. 26. The burglar stole a Lincoln electric 140HD wire feed welder, then fled southbound on Ridgeland Avenue in a red Honda Civic. The estimated loss is $524. The offender was described as a male between the ages of 25 and 30. He was 5-foot-6 with a stocky build and wearing a navy blue hooded sweatshirt with orange inside the hood, black shoes with white soles and a red hat. ■ A male juvenile from Chicago was arrested in the 5500 block of West Grand in Chicago at 9:27 a.m. on Sept. 25 and charged with a burglary that took place in the 500 block of North Humphrey on July 5. ■ Arion McNeary, 19, of the 100 block of North Hamlin, Chicago, was arrested in the 5500 block of West Grand Avenue at 9:27 a.m. on Sept. 25 and charged with a burglary that took place in 100 block of North Humphrey on Aug. 15, 2017 and a burglary that took place in the 200 block of Washington on Aug. 17, 2017. These items, obtained from the Oak Park and River Forest police departments, came from reports, Sept. 24-Oct. 1, and represent a portion of the incidents to which police responded. Anyone named in these reports has only been charged with a crime and cases have not yet been adjudicated. We report the race of a suspect only when a serious crime has been committed, the suspect is still at large, and police have provided us with a detailed physical description of the suspect as they seek the public’s help in making an arrest.

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Luxury apartments approved for Madison Ambrosia Homes to go on vacant land where Taco Bell was opposed

By TIMOTHY INKLEBARGER Staff Reporter

The Oak Park Board of Trustees Monday approved a proposal for a 23-unit luxury apartment building at the corner of Madison Street and Lyman Avenue. The project by Ambrosia Homes Inc. sailed through the zoning process and gained village board approval with practically no opposition. It’s a stark contrast to the resistance from residents to a proposal in 2017 for a Taco Bell fast-food restaurant at the site. That

plan was unanimously opposed by the Oak Park Zoning Board of Appeals. The Ambrosia project will be three stories and include 23 parking spaces for residents. The property is now an empty lot, which has been vacant for roughly a decade. Ambrosia Homes president Tim Pomaville said the style of the building has changed significantly through the planning process to take on a more modern style. “We are trying to attract hip renters that want to be in the area,” he said. CONTACT: tim@oakpark.com

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AMBROSIA YES: The Oak Park Board of Trustees approved the 23-unit luxury apartment development by Ambrosia Homes at the southeast corner of Madison Street and Lyman Avenue.

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STREET FIGHT: A brawl broke out during a funeral procession near the corner of Jackson Boulevard and Wisconsin Avenue at about 1 p.m. on Sept. 8. Cook County Commissioner Richard Boykin and Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart have established a taskforce to address the issue of socalled high-risk funeral processions. The image is taken from a video Oak Park resident Michael O’Malley took of the street fight. The full video is available on www.oakpark.com. Screengrab

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out the windows of their cars and blasting loud music. O’Malley began noticing them about eight years ago, but they’ve become more frequent in the last few years, he said. from page 1 The incident took place a few weeks before the Cook County Funeral and Cemetery cas erupted into a melee with men and womViolence Taskforce held its first meeting. en punching each other in a chaotic frenzy. The working group, established in March So-called “rowdy” funeral processions are by Cook County Commissioner Richard not a new thing on Jackson Boulevard, but Boykin and Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart, this one, which took place about 1 p.m. on has been meeting throughout the summer Sept. 8, was the worst O’Malley has ever seen. with funeral directors, cemetery owners “I called 911 and it must have rung five or six times, and by that time it was pretty and law enforcement officials in an effort to much breaking up, so I didn’t complete the find solutions to the growing problem. At its first official meeting at Forest Park call,” he said. Village Hall on Sept. 28, the taskforce set a O’Malley said he has been trying to collect goal of submitting recommendations to the video of such funeral processions to give to police. He filed a report with the Oak Park Cook County Board of Commissioners by Police Department later, but hasn’t heard the end of November. Cook County Detective Sergeant Jaback on the incident. son Moran, who serves on the taskforce, His neighbor, David Brumirski, also was home during the street fight but only wit- said much of the violence centers on the Oakridge-Glen Oak Cemetery at nessed the aftermath. He was Roosevelt and Mannheim roads. told by his wife that the brawl He told taskforce members that spilled over onto his lawn. the county sheriff ’s department “One woman was winded or already is taking steps to adhurt and sat down on my steps,” ■ Video online dress the issue. he said, noting that most of the VISIT OAKPARK.COM The shooting death of Sirkarl fight took place on the street Freeman, 36, at the Oakridgeand in the parkway in front of Glen Oak Cemetery in February his house. Brumirski did call the police and later 2017, which was ruled a homicide by police, he saw officers outside interviewing witnesses said, prompted the cemetery to hire on-duty — but that was long after the funeral proces- sheriff ’s police officers to patrol the grounds at peak hours on Fridays and Saturdays. sion had moved on. The new police detail began on Sept. 28, Unlike his neighbor, Brumirski said he was unaware that funeral processions ever Moran said. “[Cemetery owner Devona Goodlow] is became violent. O’Malley said the processions he’s seen, very happy and the staff is very happy bewhich some funeral-home operators refer cause they feel very unsafe,” he said. Goodlow encouraged funeral home ownto as “high-risk funerals,” typically don’t result in individuals getting out of their cars. ers and police to communicate with cemThey are described as motorists driving er- etery directors to let them know when poratically, swerving in and out of both lanes tentially dangerous processions are headed of traffic, blocking intersections, hanging their way.

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Funeral taskforce assembles The Cook County Funeral and Cemetery Violence Taskforce held its first meeting in Forest Park on Friday, Sept. 28. The taskforce will meet again on Friday, Oct. 26, the location to be determined. Taskforce members are: Parris Williams – Cook County Sheriff ’s Office Nick Trutenko – Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office Chicago Police Lt. William Gentile – designee of the superintendent Forest Park Police Chief Tom Aftanas – designee of the West Suburban Chiefs of Police Detective Sgt. Jason Moran – Cook County Sheriff ’s Police, designee of the South Suburban Chiefs of Police Charles Childs – AA Rayner Funeral Home, designee of the Cook County Funeral Directors Association Kevin Carter – owner of Burr Oak Cemetery Jeannie Walsh – owner of Mount Glenwood Memory Gardens South and West cemeteries Pastor Johnny Miller – Mt. Vernon Baptist Church Pastor Ira Acree – Greater St. John Bible Church Berta Purnell – Community Activist “Funeral homes know what they’re bringing in to the cemetery,” she said. “When they meet with the families (of the deceased) they somewhat know what’s going on.” She told the taskforce that the violence is not always between rival gang members. The cemetery can have as many as 25 or 30 funerals in a day over the weekend, which results in traffic congestion and angry motorists.

“Sometimes we put them on hold [coming into the cemetery] and they get out and start fighting,” she said. “They fight with one another … this is family fighting family.” Moran suggested the possibility of creating an additional entrance to the cemetery and opening a second “economy” section to alleviate congestion in that part of the cemetery. Forest Park Mayor Anthony Calderone, who attended the meeting but does not serve on the taskforce, said his community experiences “quite a number of these funerals that either travel down Madison Street or come through Forest Park on Jackson Boulevard, which I happen to live on, so I see these firsthand.” He said the processions, which begin in Chicago, travel through Oak Park first. He encouraged the taskforce to include Oak Park law enforcement officials in the conversation. The processions also travel through Maywood, Broadview and Westchester before reaching their final destination. Oak Park police could not be reached for comment. “There’s not a simple solution to the type of behavior that takes place [during the processions],” Calderone said. Forest Park Police Chief Tom Aftanas said his officers have directed potentially violent processions onto the Eisenhower Expressway, rather than letting them pass through his community. Oak Park resident O’Malley told Wednesday Journal in a phone interview that he was unaware that a taskforce had been established until he read about it in the newspaper. He said residents in his area have met in the past to try to figure out what to do. For now, he’d like to see the processions directed to a different street. “I think someone should talk to the funeral homes and not allow them access to Jackson,” he said. The next taskforce meeting is set for Oct. 26, the location to be determined. CONTACT: tim@oakpark.com

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Dominican names Forest Parker winner of volunteer award Marilyn Jancewicz’s relationship with the school spans more than 50 years By TOM HOLMES Contributing Reporter

Marilyn Jancewicz is the 2018 recipient of Dominican University’s O’Keefe Outstanding Volunteer Achievement Award. The O’Keefe Award is named for Ruth McGrath O’Keefe, Class of 1935, and is presented each year to a dedicated alumna/us for their lifelong support of Dominican University. Jancewicz came to what was then called Rosary College in 1964 and has never left the area. She has lived in River Forest for 20 years, in Oak Park for 22 years and now in Forest Park for the last 12 years. Really a resident of the tri-village area, she said, “I know it like the back of my hand.” She received the honor partly because of her volunteer work at Dominican, which includes terms on the President’s Advisory Board and the School of Education’s Advisory Board. She also spearheaded the creation of two endowed scholarships and served on the planning committee for her class’s 40th and 50th reunions. Finally, she served her alma mater in a paid position in the Educa-

tion Department, helping place students in field education experiences and partnering Dominican with other schools. “We are proud to call Marilyn Jancewicz an alumna and incredibly grateful for all that she has done for Dominican University,” President Donna Carroll said in a statement. “She is a fitting example of Dominican’s mission in action and, through her life-long advocacy of the university, Marilyn is a great role model for our students, alumnae and volunteers.” But perhaps more importantly, Jancewicz received the honor not because of what she did but because of how she did it in her long career as a teacher in an inner city school, a school in the working class village of Broadview, and a school in the affluent community of Oak Brook. Jancewicz remembered Sr. Colleen McNicholas, who was the dean of the School of Education at the time Jancewicz was working for Dominican, saying of her, “I was glad that Marilyn was in the field of education to represent the university, because she not only understood education but she also understood Dominican.” Jancewicz explained that by “understood Dominican” McNicholas was talking about the university’s values. The school’s motto, she said, is Caritas et Veritas, or “truth and love.” “You can be schooled but not educated,” Jancewicz declared. “Dominican gave us

“You can be schooled but not educated. Dominican gave us more than just schooling. They gave us an education that included those values.” MARILYN JANCEWICZ Volunteer

more than just schooling. They gave us an education that included those values.” “We used to complain,” she recalled, “why do we have to take all this philosophy and theology for?” “We didn’t realize it at the time,” she continued, “but that kind of foundation spreads itself out.” In the current climate of sometimes contentious handwringing over the issue of equity, Jancewicz boiled it down to “I loved teaching no matter where I was. All kids are the same. When you strip it all down, they

just want to be cared about and respected.” A member of St. Edmund’s Catholic Church in Oak Park, she admitted, “I am currently struggling with issues of my Catholic faith rooted in the rich Dominican values passed down to me versus the institution of the Catholic Church in light of the current scandals.” This month, the retired educator will begin a new volunteer assignment working with the McGreal Center whose mission is to promote “the research and writing of the history of the Order of Preachers [aka Dominicans] in the United States. The Center facilitates opportunities for serious research related to the Dominican family’s significance in the life of the Order of Preachers, the church and the nation,” according to its website. During the four years Jancewicz studied at Rosary College, only four of her professors were lay people. All of the rest were sisters. When one of her classmates returned to the campus in River Forest this spring, after an absence of 50 years, she exclaimed, “Where are all the sisters?” So there’s a sense of urgency in the work she is beginning. “As everyone knows,” she explained, “the order has fewer and fewer members and most of them are older, so they are working hard to preserve the great work the sisters have done.”

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Wherever it was invented, n the ’60s, in nearby Elmhurst, and however popular it may if you were going to have have been, chop suey is “Chinese food,” what you’d unlikely to be a menu item probably be having was chop that many of us order any suey from Elmhurst Chop more. It feels old and passé, Suey (now closed). like duck a l’orange or trout Chop suey was once synonyamandine. Nonetheless, in mous with Chinese food. This honor of National Chop Suey was before many of us gringos Day (Aug. 29), I decided to knew that there were different have a dish I hadn’t ordered in Chinese regions, each with their probably the past half-century, own unique cuisines. Chop suey and I decided to have it at a may have come from the Cantonplace I’d never been to before, ese tradition, in that it leverages the aptly named King Chop fresh ingredients, modestly seaLocal Dining Suey, located at the end of an soned, in a light sauce. There is, & Food Blogger unprepossessing strip mall on however, a lingering controversy Lake Street. about where chop suey origiKing Chop Suey is all nated, just as there is about many takeout, and I got beef chop other foods, including the Cuban suey, an eggroll and shrimp sandwich served at Potbelly in fried rice for $6.95, a very Downtown Oak Park. reasonable price for what Some say chop suey was 210 Lake St., Oak Park seemed like (no exaggerainvented in the U.S., and there’s 708-383-9985 tion) 2 pounds of food. Back no doubt that chop suey is the home, opening the white dish most likely to be found on Styrofoam container, I found any Chinese-American menu, that most of the food had the same faded along with other Americanized dishes grey-green-brown colors of the washedlike General Tso’s Chicken and Crab out food photographs that hang above the Rangoon. Some speculate that chop suey King Chop Suey takeout counter. Still, the was developed by Chinese workers in San flavors of the chopped carrots, onions, Francisco or elsewhere, but there is strong and bean sprouts seemed fresh, and there evidence that it may have originated in was no taste of slightly-past-its-prime oil, (you’ll never guess) China! Andrew Coe, in which one does sometimes encounter at his excellent book Chop Suey, makes the many less expensive Chinese places. There case that this preparation may very well was a lot of beef included, almost 1:1 with have arisen from a Cantonese peasant dish the vegetables, which kind of surprises me called something that sounds like “chop as this is value-dining. It’s not expensive suey” and that contained a lot of chopped but it was very satisfying. vegetables. At King Chop Suey, they serve the chop Chop suey was some of the first Chinese suey of my youth: decent and fresh ingredifood that found a mainstream market in ents, spiced very non-aggressively to appeal the United States, and since then Chinese to many tastes, with rice and an eggroll, all food has become the most popular ethnic of it tasting like 1964. cuisine in the U.S.

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Contributing Reporter

s the Oak Park Regional Housing Center prepares to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Fair Housing Ordinance with its annual benefit on October 4 at the Nineteenth Century Club in Oak Park, one of its longtime employees quietly retired this fall after more than 45 years with the Housing Center. After the passage of the Fair Housing Ordinance in 1968, when African-American families began to

integrate Oak Park in the early 1970s, many faced discrimination in neighboring communities. Oak Park resident Roberta “Bobbie” Raymond opened the Oak Park Housing Center to ensure equal access to housing, working initially with a small staff and a group of realtors willing to show a diverse clientele homes in Oak Park. One of those early volunteers was Louise Varnes. Varnes recalls how she and her husband intentionally chose Oak Park as a home for their growing family. See LOUISE VARNES on page 23

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TIME FLIES: Louise Varnes (top, in the 1980s and lower right, center, at a recent benefit for the organization) has spent 45 years working at the Oak Park Housing Center, helping ensure the village’s commitment to fair housing.

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FROM THE START: Louise Varnes started off as a Housing Center volunteer when the organization was housed at First United Church. Above left, a photo of the original Housing Center staff shows longtime director Roberta “Bobbie” Raymond (center) and Varnes (top row, far right). Above right, Varnes, who eventually became a paid employee, brings homemade cookies to the staff.

LOUISE VARNES Diversity efforts from page 21 “We deliberately moved to Oak Park because of the integration efforts,” Varnes said. “Our house had been vacated by a family who had lived there for two generations, and a lot of that was happening in Oak Park. The houses were changing over and it was a very active community.” She and her then-husband had five children in their Elmwood Avenue house, and Varnes recalls that once the children started school, she wanted to get more involved with the community. She knew Raymond from the neighborhood, and Varnes started volunteering with Raymond’s housing efforts at First United Church on Saturdays. “I thought, ‘This is perfect. My husband be home with the kids, and I can get out and do something significant,’” Varnes said. As her volunteer responsibilities grew, Varnes eventually became an employee and says she learned much from watching Raymond. “I went from one day a week to full time. I learned so much from Bobbie, how she dealt with those who were upset about what we were doing,” Varnes said. “She reasoned with people and talked them down. She was

a tiny person with all this presence.” decades-long career and says she helped at Varnes recalls learning more and more least 1,000 people a year. about the issue of fair housing and the “She’s been an ambassador to many in work’s reach throughout and outside of the Oak Park,” Stewart said. “She tells people village. about the housing available here, about “There was no end to it,” she said. “It parking and all the things they need to was a continuing issue. Other communities know. At least one third of them decide came to us to learn about our diversity ef- to move here. She’s helped at least 30,000 forts.” people find a home in Oak Working with an office of Park.” many women was something With the passage of time, that Varnes calls empowerVarnes’ role changed as ing and enjoyable. technology upended the “Work was fun. At the world of housing. She startsame time it was serious,” ed working with a paper she said. system, changed to an elecFor the Housing Center’s tronic database and then Director of Technical Assismoved into using phones to tance and Marketing Mike connect with clients. Stewart, who first met Var“I appreciated her willLOUISE VARNES nes at St. Giles Church, her ingness to change with the connection to the Housing technology,” Stewart said. Center was an important “Throughout it all, she connected with others by hearpart of the work of the cening people’s stories.” ter. He also notes that Var“I’ve been there almost 25 years, and she’s been a fixture at the Hous- nes’ demeanor was a key to her longevity at ing Center,” Stewart said. “She started on the Housing Center. “We all know when people come in and the front lines when the Housing Center was just a room at First United. She has are looking for an apartment, they are likeworked Saturdays her entire life at the ly to be stressed,” Stewart said. “She really helped with those stress levels.” Housing Center.” Co-worker Jerry Ehernberger, senior Stewart tried to compile statistics on how many people Varnes helped over her rental housing advisor at the Housing Cen-

“We deliberately moved to Oak Park because of the integration efforts.”

ter, recalls the personal side of Varnes. “She impressed me from the very beginning with her deep knowledge of movies, directors and actors,” Ehernberger said. “She loves Shakespeare, her cats and raising roses.” He also recalls her love of cranes, which had the entire office running outside to look to the skies when someone reported a sighting. At the end of the day, Ehernberger credits Varnes with teaching him about his vocation. “I knew nothing about the Housing Center when I started there,” Ehernberger said. “I really learned the ropes on the job, and she showed me how things worked.” Now that she’s a grandmother and great grandmother, Varnes decided it was time to slow down a bit and retire from full-time work, but she says her work at the Housing Center was a defining part of her life. “It became a part of my life,” she said. “I’m so glad that I was able to be involved with that. I’m very grateful for the opportunity that came to me.” She notes that some things change -- such as the advent of online housing searches and people moving more frequently, but she says the Housing Center is as relevant as ever. “The people there now, they are hardworking, and looking forward to continue the basic idea that we all can live together in the same neighborhood,” Varnes said.

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CHANGING AGING The Wednesday Journal and A Tribe Called Aging welcome Wednesday Journal and A Tribe Called Aging welcome

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‘A TED talk mashed up with Woodstock’ The ChangingAging Tour comes to Oak Park on Oct. 10

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A day long, 3 part event, blending medical science, storytelling and live music The ChangingAging Tour shatters our culture’s damaging myths about aging

n Wednesday, Oct. 10, an event unlike any other comes to Oak Park for the first time. Sponsored by Wednesday Journal and A Tribe Called Aging, the ChangingAging Tour is a Disrupt Dementia - ChangingAging Tour three-part event blending medical sciDisrupt Dementia 2:30-4:00pm | $20* ence, storytelling and live music. Mike Bolinder part of the ChanginThis immersive and transformational non-fiction theater experience weaves film, music and first-person gAging team, says that, in a nutshell, stories with groundbreaking research turning convention on its head by focusing on what we can all learn from people living with dementia, rather than from experts. This performance is designed for people living the ChangingAging Tour is a cultural with dementia and their allies. expression that challenges ageism in our society. According to Bolinder, ageism is not a negative association about older The Lobby Experience - ChangingAging Tour people; it is instead having a positive Lobby Experience 4:00-7:00pm or negative association about someone old or young, based on how many years In the lobby Dr. Bill Thomas and his friends have created an interactive experience for you they have lived. Bolinder says these steto engage with the ideas presented in the afternoon performance, get plugged in with local reotypes are damaging to society as a culture changers’ and connect with others in your community. Dining options available on whole. The ChangingAging Tour aims campus (within short walking distance) between performances. to topple the stigma and upend cultural stereotypes about age. “At the end of the day,” Bolinder Life’s Most Dangerous Game - ChangingAging Tour said, “we believe the secret to happi- Life’s Most Dangerous Game 7:00-8:30pm | $20* ness, particularly in the second half of Dr. Thomas’ signature “non-fiction” theatrical performance features original music, life, is dispelling the myth that youth is storytelling, poetry and groundbreaking insights on aging and care. Featuring musical perfection and that aging means rapid guests Nate Silas Richardson and Namarah McCall. decline.” ChangingAging has been around in scientific research, they approach the it, “part rock-and-roll, part aging festival. involved is “non-fiction” theater. “All of whole for justThe $30 ourpass material is true. stories we tell TED talk mashedthe up with Wood-day various forms for five years, and Bolinder issue of aging through culture, using It’s a *Purchase are based on Bill’s extraordinary 30-plus says in that time, they have held over 500 theater, music and storytelling to chal- stock.” More importantly, he says the theater year career as a physician and professor live events. While the group has roots in lenge perceptions of age. Bolinder calls

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TOUR continued from page 11 thor, entrepreneur, musician, teacher and farmer, whose work explores the terrain of human aging. During the ChangingAging Tour, Thomas presents the evening segment, called Life’s Most Dangerous Game. Through song, storytelling and poetry, Thomas presents neuroscience evidence and insights into aging and care through a cultural format. The afternoon session, called Disrupting Dementia, is another nonfiction theater experience

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The Changing Aging Tour is coming to Oak Park on October 10th. Some local favorites are hosting great dinner and show deals exclusively for ticket holders! Visit one of the restaurants below and show your Changing Aging ticket to receive a special treat.

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“We’ve segregated old people because we’re afraid of them. If we integrate older people into our society again, it will give us all opportunity to be enriched. Having older people as part of your life helps everyone live a better life.” Mike Bolinder Changing Aging team member

aimed at turning conventional ideas about demen dementia on their heads by focusing on what we can learn from people with dementia. The session includes a performance by musician Samite Mulondo, a Ugandan refugee who starred in the film Alive Inside, which tells the story of using music to reach patients suffering from Alzheimer’s and dementia. While helpful for those living with dementia and their allies, Bolinder says this experience is for the entire community “because it’s about the human condition.” For Bolinder, Oak Park is particularly well-suited to host the ChangingAging Tour. “I’m learning that Oak Park is a unique community, and it has contributed two things to our culture in America that are indelible. The first is Frank Lloyd Wright’s commitment to architecture. You see that at work throughout the country today. The second is McDonald’s.” Think what you like about McDonald’s and its food, but Bolinder points out that there are aspects of the restaurant chain beyond the cheeseburger, such as the colors, the catchy slogans and the entrylevel jobs it offers that are a cultural touchstone for our country. Bolinder says an overarching message for the community is that the ChangingAging Tour is for all ages. The cast is intergenerational, and Bolinder promises music fans that the “next Beyoncé” is one of the performers. “The show is for everyone. If you approach the idea that your life is not over when you get old, you’ll live your life differently.” For Oak Park and for the country as a whole, he sees great benefits to rethinking the role of aging in our society. “We’ve segregated old people because we’re afraid of them,” Bolinder said. “If we integrate older people into our society again, it will give us all opportunity to be enriched. Having older people as part of your life helps everyone live a betThe

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How to get tickets The ChangingAging Tour takes place Wednesday, Oct. 10 at Pilgrim Congregational Church, 460 Lake St. in Oak Park. A whole day pass is just $30 and can be purchased at www.oakpark.com/changingaging. Wednesday Journal subscribers receive a $5 discount when using the code WJSUB. ChangingAging Tour schedule: Disrupt Dementia, 2:30 to 4 p.m. (individual program tickets $20) The Lobby Experience: 4 to 7 p.m. (no charge) Lifeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Most Dangerous Game: 7 to 8:30 p.m. (individual program tickets $20)

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Wednesday, October 10th Pilgrim Congregational Church | 460 Lake St. Oak Park A day long, 3 part event, blending medical science, storytelling and live music The ChangingAging Tour shatters our culture’s damaging myths about aging Disrupt Dementia - ChangingAging Tour Disrupt Dementia 2:30-4:00pm | $20* This immersive and transformational non-fiction theater experience weaves film, music and first-person stories with groundbreaking research turning convention on its head by focusing on what we can all learn from people living with dementia, rather than from experts. This performance is designed for people living with dementia and their allies.

The Lobby Experience - ChangingAging Tour Lobby Experience 4:00-7:00pm In the lobby Dr. Bill Thomas and his friends have created an interactive experience for you to engage with the ideas presented in the afternoon performance, get plugged in with local culture changers’ and connect with others in your community. Dining options available on campus (within short walking distance) between performances.

Life’s Most Dangerous Game - ChangingAging Tour Life’s Most Dangerous Game 7:00-8:30pm | $20* Dr. Thomas’ signature “non-fiction” theatrical performance features original music, storytelling, poetry and groundbreaking insights on aging and care. Featuring musical guests Nate Silas Richardson and Namarah McCall.

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1003 S. Oak Park Ave. UNIT 5, Oak Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Baird & Warner Oak Park/River Forest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$149,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11:30-1:30 501 Doral Ln, North Aurora . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Baird & Warner Oak Park/River Forest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $299,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2:30 2222 Grove Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re/Max In The Village . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $312,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2 949 N. Taylor Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Baird & Warner Oak Park/River Forest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $365,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12:30-2 723 N. Lombard Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . @properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $372,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 1150 S. Humphrey Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . @properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $375,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2

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511 N. Harvey Ave, Oak Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Baird & Warner Oak Park/River Forest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $379,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 1128 N. Elmwood Ave, Oak Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $450,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-12 1016 Baldwin Ln, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Baird & Warner Oak Park/River Forest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $450,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2 639 N. Lombard Ave, Oak Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $458,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 1217 N. Marion St, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re/Max In The Village . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $489,500 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:30-3:30 912 Lyman Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Baird & Warner Oak Park/River Forest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $525,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 1213 Edmer Ave, Oak Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $529,900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 738 Forest Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Baird & Warner Oak Park/River Forest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $535,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 721 Ontario St. UNIT 106, Oak Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Baird & Warner Oak Park/River Forest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $539,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2:30-4 627 Belleforte Ave, Oak Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $545,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 842 N. Elmwood Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . @properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $584,900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2 1138 N. Ridgeland Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $665,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 142 S. Scoville Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $675,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11-12:30 732 S. Taylor Ave, Oak Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Baird & Warner Oak Park/River Forest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $699,900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-3 738 N. Marion St, Oak Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Baird & Warner Oak Park/River Forest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $735,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-4 1024 Ontario St, Oak Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re/Max In The Village . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $778,800 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11:30-1 1206 Lathrop Ave, River Forest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $795,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 752 Franklin Ave, River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . @properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $875,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 236 Forest Ave, River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $995,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3

CONDOS

1140 Jackson Ave, River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,300,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3

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424 Park Ave. UNIT 604, River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $265,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3

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1424 N. Harlem Ave. UNIT C, River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Baird & Warner Oak Park/River Forest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $207,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 15 Forest Ave. UNIT 19, River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . @properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $554,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Sat. 11-1 15 Forest Ave. UNIT 19, River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . @properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $554,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-1

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FREE Screening Mammogram Early Detection Gives Us the Best Chance to Defeat Breast Cancer

Thanks to generous grant funding, Westlake Hospital is offering free screening mammograms to female residents of Proviso Township in these qualifying zip codes: 60104 Bellwood 60126 Elmhurst 60130 Forest Park 60141 Hines 60153 Maywood 60154 Westchester 60155 Broadview

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Participants will be required to show proof of residence (Photo ID, Driver’s License or a utility bill reflecting the qualifying address). Participants must be at least 40 years old, or 35-40 years old with a strong family history of breast cancer, whose most recent screening mammogram was at least 365 days prior to the scheduled test. All FREE screening mammograms must be scheduled for and occur in the month of October, 2018. A physician’s order is required. Call (708) 783-5000 to schedule your screening mammogram today. Space is limited. Westlake Hospital 1225 West Lake Street, Melrose Park, IL 60160 westlakehosp.com © WH 2018 MDI082118

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314 S. Kenilworth Ave, Elmhurst Open House - Sunday, Oct. 7, 3-5pm UNIQUE ENGLISH TUDOR set in Elmhurstâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most sought after neighborhood amongst many other historic homes and new custom builds. Set on a premium 90 x 190 lot and walking distance to award winning schools, downtown Elmhurst & metra station. Offering over 3,100 sf, 5 Beds & 3 Baths â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Asking Price - $925,000

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Heaven on Humphrey

ocated on a quiet, cul-de-sac block, lined by lovely Victorians, 326 S. Humphrey, with its wide graceful wrap-around front porch and turret, may well be your dream home. Adding to the delightful charm and character of the home is an interior filled with original architectural details, including carved woodwork, a beautiful staircase, dining room built-ins, and many original light fixtures.

LUXURY 510 KEYSTONE, RIVER FOREST :: $1,395,000 :: 7+ BED :: 7.5 BATH Gourmet kitchen opens to family room. Attached 3 car garage. Walk to train.

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1104 N ELMWOOD, OAK PARK $749,000 :: 4+ bed :: 3.5 bath

1 GALE AVE #4A, RIVER FOREST $850,000 :: 4 bed :: 5.5 bath

7410 NORTH, #503, ELMWOOD PARK $158,000 :: 2 bed :: 1.5 bath

Stylish brick English Tudor. Beautifully designed.

Huge condo with over 5000 sq ft of beautifully finished space with balcony & 4 parking spaces. Walk to train.

C/A, in-unit washer/dryer, balcony and parking.

KATHY & TONY IWERSEN 708.772.8040 708.772.8041 tonyiwersen@atproperties.com

The spacious beautiful kitchen, remodeled in 2007, has granite counter tops, stunning quartersawn oak cabinetry, and a huge bay window running the length of the eastern wall. The cul-de-sac will allow your kids the choice to play safely in front of the house or in the huge backyard. The front porch is truly an idyllic spot that you may never want to leave. Sit with friends and neighbors and enjoy the view: the trees, the beautiful homes, and the children playing. 326 S. Humphrey is listed at $480,000. For more information, contact Deborah Wess of Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage (formerly Gloor Realty), 708-212-1122.

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Earn your bragging rights.

721 Ontario Street, Unit 106, Oak Park

Open Sunday, Oct. 7th, 2:30-4pm

Race along with a small, but competitive field of runners to test your speed and endurance. Medals awarded for winners in all age groups— youth to 80+.

Adam Doe

SOPHISTICATION REIGNS in this one-of-a-kind unit at The Oak Park Club. Soaring ceilings, architectural details, custom woodwork, massive room sizes, and an incredibly good use of space, are just the beginning of what this home offers you. Looking for more? How about a first floor bedroom and bath, a covered deck with stairs down to a private terraced garden, and parking for 2 cars. All of this and more, situated in one of Oak Park’s prized residential buildings and located in the heart of downtown. Come see for yourself what makes this home unlike any other. .................................................................................................................................$539,000

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DEMYSTIFYING MEDICAL INSURANCE

THURSDSAY • OCTOBER 11, 2018 11:30 AM LUNCH | 12 PM PRESENTATION BELMONT VILLAGE SENIOR LIVING 1035 MADISON STREET • OAK PARK, IL 60302 Speaker: Dan Medina, BA, NCG, CDP, BCPA Dan is the operations manager for Care Navigators and is a certified national guardian, dementia practitioner and patient advocate.

Join us for an informative discussion on medical insurance. We’ll define common insurance terms, learn how to read and understand an explanation of benefits (EOB) document and hear tips and tricks for becoming more knowledgeable consumers of healthcare. RSVP to 708-848-7200 or pporter@belmontvillage.com.

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Congratulations to the Oak Park Arms on their 40th anniversary! 408 S. Oak Park Ave., Oak Park * (708) 386-4040 * oakparkarms.com Among the celebrants: Cliff Osborn, Jack Carpenter Realtors; Dexter Cura, Escape Factor; Kholood El-Helo, Palmgren Acupuncture; Scott Davis, ThriveHive Internet Marketing; Susie Goldschmidt, MB Financial; Kim Goldschmidt, AXA Advisors; Manny Kramer, Oak Park Arms; Jonathan Biag, Escape Factor; William DeWoskin, Oak Park Arms; Nancy Teclaw, Senior Citizens Center of Oak Park-River Forest; Moses Williams, Oak Park Arms; Heather Lindstrom, Oak Park Arms; Pat Koko, Celebrating Seniors Coalition. Not pictured: Carrie Lawlor, Bethesda Rehab & Senior Care; Mike Lavery, Excel Window Tinting; Vicky Rehill, Synergy HomeCare; Vicki Scaman, Village of Oak Park; Cathy Yen, Liz Holt, and Mark Walden, OPRF Chamber of Commerce.

For your own ribbon cutting contact us on oprfchamber.org

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Early Childhood Resources Early Childhood Center and Camp

West Suburban Temple Har Zion 1040 N. Harlem Ave. River Forest, IL 60305 708.366.9000 www.wsthz.org 2-5 years old 7:30 am–6:00 pm M-Th 7:30 am–3:30 pm on Fri.

Preschool and kindergarten programs for three, four, and five-year-olds Call for an appointment. 7300 Division St. River Forest 708-366-6900 graceriverforest.org

Helping parents be successful since 1980 708/848-2227 www.parenthesis-info. org Find us on Facebook.

Early Childhood Education at

Pilgrim Community Nursery School Celebrating 50 years. 460 W. Lake St. Oak Park IL, 60302 Phone: 708-848-5869 www.pilgrimschool.net Accepting students ages 2–5 years old.

First United Church Nursery School More than Just a School 848 W. Lake St. 708-848-4910 Find us on Facebook and at www.firstunited school.com Call for a tour and info about summer camp.

The Day Nursery

1139 Randolph Street Oak Park, IL 60302 708.383.8211 Call to Schedule a Tour! oakparkdn@att.net www.oprfdaynursery.org

• Open 7 am–6 pm • Serving children 2½–6 years old • NAEYC Accredited

Raise your profile in the community. Check the early childhood directory on oakpark.com for updated listings, maps, & current open house information. Call Mary Ellen Nelligan for details: 708-613-3342

Collaboration for Early Childhood Strong Start, Bright Future

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BEETHOVEN | Symphony No. 9 (Choral)

JAY FRIEDMAN, Music Director MAURICE BOYER, Assistant Conductor

Sunday Oct. 7, 2018 - 4PM Concordia University Chapel

The Symphony Chorus, William Chin, Director Jessica Coe, Soprano • Julia Hardin, Mezzo-soprano Christian Ketter, Tenor • Daniel Eifert, Baritone Pre-Concert Conversation at 3PM with David Leehey Free parking in the garage located at 1124 N. Bonnie Brae Place (one block west of Harlem Avenue between Division and Thomas Streets) in River Forest. Chapel just west of garage exit.

FlexTix Subscriptions $125 for our fiveconcert season, $100 for Seniors 65+. Single tickets: $28. Students through college attend free of charge.

Tickets and subscriptions are available through our website: SymphonyOPRF.org and also at the door. Email TheSymphonyOPRF@gmail.com or call 708-218-2648 for more information. Please bring items for the OPRF Food Pantry.

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS IS FRIDAY 5 P.M.

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An open letter to OPRF

p. 44

Becoming a Dementia friendly community No matter what your chronological age, this is the moment to join this next step — invite your friends, buy your tickets and participate in changing our aging!

www. oakpark.com/changingaging

ast month, I attended a meeting about dementia-friendly communities hosted by the Concordia Center for Gerontology in River Forest. The location was appropriate because of unfolding local efforts to make River Forest part of Dementia Friendly Illinois (DFI). Under the leadership of River Forest President Cathy Adduci, the village is engaged in a process to become recognized by DFI. This process includes encouraging citizen involvement, educating village bureaucracy, and implementing village services. Both the police chief and the fire chief were present to outline specific training and program developments as part of creating a Dementia Friendly River Forest. Dr. Raj Shah, director of the Rush Hospital Alzheimer’s Clinic, presented information about the DFI program, as part of Dementia Friendly America (DFA). Dr. Shah spoke about his clinic’s impressive research, as well as the human face of dementia. He spoke of DFA’s efforts to create a more civil society for all of us and how respecting dementia patients and their families and caregivers actually helps all of us. Today, there are approximately 220,000 people in Illinois with some form of dementia, a number expected to rise to 260,000 by 2025. But dementia affects families and friends of patients as well, with upwards of 500,000 people impacted in Illinois. The second half of the meeting addressed the heartfelt, human experiences of dementia patients and their families by way of two panels. The first panel consisted of Carla Sloan, River Forest Township Supervisor; Helen Kwan, health care lobbyist/advocate and a River Forest resident; Dr. Shah; and President Adduci. The second panel was composed of four dementia caregivers who spoke eloquently of their own experiences caring for family members. One of these four was my friend Doug Wyman, who shared some of his spiritual journey caring for his wife Barbara, who died in hospice care two weeks ago. Our condolences, Doug. Kudos to the leadership of River Forest for being a role model in the burgeoning Age Friendly Movement. Because of unprecedented longevity in our species, we are all pioneers in this uncharted terrain, feeling our way as we go, one step at a time.

MARC BLESOFF

See BLESOFF on page 44

Say it ain’t so, Dr. Huxtable

s media pundits, social media trolls and everyday people opine about Bill Cosby’s case and subsequent conviction, one critical fact emerges. We, the adoring public, never really knew the real person who brilliantly played the character of Dr. Huxtable on The Cosby Show. So for the record, it was not the wise and kind Dr. Huxtable who was guilty of the series of pre-meditated sexual assaults of women who trusted him. It was this guy, William Henry Cosby Jr., who was the sexual predator — “a wolf in sheep’s clothing.” The case of Bill Cosby is a metaphor for how we Americans have been duped by the illusions created by television and the movies. We got snookered into believing that the role a person plays reveals his or her real character. Not so. We never knew Bill Cosby. As it turns out, America’s Dad was a cold and calculating sexual predator who drugged his victims. The Me-Too movement has caused an uproar among many men and women who claim the movement paints with broad brush strokes. Some argue that men are unfairly entrapped into sexual misbehavior and that women should be savvier. Notwithstanding female savvy, we men are often tone deaf and have been socialized to believe that women are almost a different species. As progressive and open-minded as some of us

men believe ourselves to be, we are, at best, recovering sexists. As a result of culturally defined roles, what men know about women amounts to a thimbleful of knowledge compared to what women know about men. This disparity between the genders is like the gap between the oppressed and their oppressors. In other words, the oppressed must, for survival, know more about their oppressor than the other way around. A woman in an abusive relationship must study and anticipate the personality of the man she lives with. She must know, to the best of her ability, what his trigger points are and what situations will result in his visiting emotional or physical abuse upon her. Even without the introduction of drugs and alcohol designed to render her incapable of resistance, a woman is still vulnerable. If she complains to law enforcement, her family, friends, clergy or strangers, the underlying question she is forced to answer is, “What did you do to bring this on yourself ?” The presumption of guilt for just being a woman is one of the reasons sexual assaults are profoundly under-reported or not shared. We have failed when the victim decides it is more tolerable to live with the emotional and psychological consequences of sexual abuse than to subject herself to the accusations and innuendos that come with reporting the incident. Powerful

KWAME SALTER

See SALTER on page 44

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OPRF heads to mediation

fter six months of effort, the two sides negotiating a new pact with teachers at OPRF High School can point to “substancial progress” and “good faith.” Not good enough, apparently, as the Faculty Senate (i.e. the union) and the school board are now heading to nonbinding mediation. A first session with federal mediation was reportedly scheduled for this past Monday. Given the perfect storm in which District 200 has placed itself, that is not a surprise, nor a particular disappointment. If these negotiations had been short and sweet, taxpayers would have been in trouble. The Imagine OPRF committee is pushing a $145 million-plus building renovation project that will, seemingly, require some level of referendum support from taxpayers. The district is sitting on $100 million in reserves, a good portion of which it bent every rule to illicitly collect from taxpayers. Faculty see that cash and, inevitably, want a good piece of it and certainly don’t want any cries of poor mouth from the district. A brand new — as in released Monday night — report from the village government’s Taxing Bodies Efficiency Task Force, pushes hard, suggesting that no tax hike referendums should be put forward until 2030, that spending increases should be capped by the Consumer Price Index, and, in an unnamed nod to OPRF, that any capital plans among taxing bodies should be primarily paid for out of cash on hand. Makes for tough negotiations, which will be more or less a novelty for this school district. Look back over the past two decades as spending at the high school has accelerated and you will find a series of stunningly generous, while also stunningly unambitious, contracts with faculty. That simply cannot be allowed to happen again. So, mediation? Bring it on. Binding arbitration? Could be next.

Lake Street redo

The bluestone sidewalks, granite curbs and brick street were always more ambiance than we cared for, or thought the village government could afford, on that fancy stretch of Marion Street. That’s why as endless committees have debated the inevitable need to rebuild Lake Street, from the century-plus old sewer pipes to the tippy-top of the curly-cue light fixtures, we’ve always argued for moderation. A flourish of brick at key intersections, pavers that accent but don’t stick up to trip you, a few bump-outs to accommodate our currently endless desire to eat curbside, would be fine by us. You could leave the granite for kitchen countertops and have you looked lately at those stained bluestone sidewalks?! The village board took $5 million out of an initial $20 million plan to remake Lake fully from Harlem to Euclid and to repave it all the way to Austin Boulevard. They could have taken out another $3-4 million by our measure. But the project is getting near to going out to bid and construction is pegged to start in 2019. We have a few thoughts: This is an essential infrastructure project. The water and sewer pipes are ancient and inadequate. Don’t be surprised, but the same issue exists on Oak Park Avenue from Ontario to Pleasant. This project isn’t driven by new tall buildings along Lake Street; it is driven by trying to stay ahead of major water main breaks. The biggest challenge is on Lake from Oak Park Avenue to Euclid. It seems to be the vortex of infrastructure hell. Current plans are for all traffic and parking to be eliminated for up to four months, possibly in spring 2020. Special care for those businesses will be required. Somewhere in the $15 million, the village government will have to find some funds to support marketing for the independent businesses in downtown Oak Park and the Hemingway District. We want to end this hard project with most of those businesses intact.

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Taking the long way home

n Friday night, along with Janet and Bob Haisman, I received the Ulyssean Award from the Senior Citizens Center of Oak ParkRiver Forest, the oldest senior center in the state of Illinois, founded in 1954. “Ulyssean” is a reference to the hero of Homer’s Odyssey, whose name is actually Odysseus, but somewhere along the line it was transcribed into English as Ulysses. In Alfred Tennyson’s famous poem of that name, having returned home after his decade-long ordeal, Ulysses is not content to rest on his laurels late in life and sets off on a new journey where, “ere the end, some work of noble note may yet be done.” According to the SCC, “It is this thirst for learning, doing, and adventure of body and spirit that is the Ulyssean Journey. The Ulyssean Award honors individuals in the community who exemplify this lifestyle and philosophy … and made contributions to the community which have served to broaden our social, educational and/or cultural horizons.” I don’t know if I can lay claim to all of that, but I’m definitely a horizon-scanner, and I’m following some pretty impressive role models. Redd Griffen, Sherlynn Reid, Virginia Cassin, Rev. Dean Lueking, Lee Brooke, Chatka Ruggiero, Gus Kostopulos, Sylvia and Gy Menninga, Bobbie Raymond, Norb Teclaw, David and Sandra Sokol, Larry Christmas, Don Offermann, Mardi Bloch, Barbara Furlong, Jeanette Fields, Jim Bohenstengel, Harriette and Mac Robinet, Nancy Waichler, Harold Rohlfing, John Hedges, Mena and David Boulanger, Michelle Germanson, Ann and Gene Armstrong, Marty Noll, Harriet Hausman, and Barbara Ballinger previously won this award in its 15-year history. I thought I would share my remarks from Friday night because the occasion reminded me of an important thread in my life that had gotten buried, because my main point applies to anyone who reads this column on a regular basis, and because we can probably all use a good, old-fashioned pep talk right about now:

10 years, during which Ulysses survived the lotus blossoms of forgetfulness; the man-eating, one-eyed Cyclops; the boulder-throwing Laestrygons; the perilous passage between Scylla and Charybdis; at one point in the journey coming within sight of his homeland, only to have his crew foolishly open the bag of winds that King Aeolus had given them, setting off a storm that blew them far off course again. Warned about the Sirens, Ulysses puts wax in his crew’s ears and has them tie him to the mast so he can hear the beautiful song that would otherwise have lured him to his death. He survives it all, barely, and finally is delivered by sympathetic sailors, alone, to his beloved Ithaca, his son Telemachus, and the love of his life, Penelope. Magnificent. Larger than life. I had never read a book that gripped me like this one did. I had no idea a story could have that kind of power. I was only 10, but up in the comfort of my bedroom, the world suddenly enlarged. That started me on a literary odyssey. All thanks to the artistry of a great writer … Gerald Gottlieb. I heard Homer’s version was pretty good, too. Though I never read the original Odyssey, I love Homer’s description of the Aegean as the “winedark sea,” evoking mystery and blood-tinged foreboding. “Yea, and if some god shall wreck me in the winedark deep,” Ulysses says, “even so I will endure … For already have I suffered full much, and much have I toiled in perils of waves and war. Let this be added to the tale of those.” Joseph Campbell, the world’s foremost authority on mythology, said myths like this one have no power until we apply them to our own lives, until we see our face in these stories. The Hero of a Thousand Faces, he called it. When we see the parallels between these stories and our own lives, the power of myth is unleashed, and it is a potent force. In college, my literary odyssey led me to James Joyce’s novel, Ulysses, a modern retelling of the Odyssey, framing it as a search for what he called “the holiness of the ordinary,” which became my modus operandi — in journalism and in life: attempting to find the extraordinary in the ordinary. After college, I discovered Tennyson’s poem in which he imagines that Ulysses does not live happily ever after in Ithaca, but is driven by a deep restlessness to set off one more time into the unknown to meet his final destiny. For always roaming with a hungry heart / Much have I seen and known, Ulysses says. I am a part of all that I have met; / Yet all experience is an arch wherethro’ / Gleams that untravell’d world whose margin fades / For ever and forever when I move. … / Little remains: but every hour is saved / From that eternal silence, something more, / A bringer of new things; … / And this gray spirit yearning in desire / To follow knowledge like a sinking star, / Beyond the utmost bound of human thought. But my favorite Ulyssean poem is “Ithaka,” by the Egyptian/Greek poet C.P. Cavafy, who offers this advice:

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First of all, thanks to Nancy Teclaw, Janine Katonah, Galen Gockel and the rest of the SCC board. I can’t imagine receiving a more personally meaningful award … because I have a long history with Ulysses. Picture a 10-year-old boy holed up in a cozy, second-floor bedroom in one of those grand foursquare Gunderson homes overlooking Jackson Boulevard on the south side of Oak Park in the early 1960s, sitting at a desk, hunched over a book. This book. The Adventures of Ulysses, from the Landmark series. Perhaps you had them in your house growing up. I read Abe Lincoln – Log Cabin to the White House, The Landing of the Pilgrims, The Swamp Fox of the Revolution, and even Genghis Khan and the Mongol Horde to name a few. But this one changed my life. The story held me in thrall — starting with the Trojan Horse, which Ulysses devised, earning him the nickname “Wily” and the enmity of Poseidon, god of the sea. Ulysses and his crew were condemned to a long, torturous, treacherous trip back to his kingdom, Ithaca, in Greece, a trip that lasted

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by Marc Stopeck

Wednesday Journal, October 3, 2018

W E D N E S D A Y

JOURNAL of Oak Park and River Forest

Editor and Publisher Dan Haley Senior Editor Bob Uphues Associate Publisher Dawn Ferencak Staff Reporters Michael Romain, Timothy Inklebarger, Nona Tepper Viewpoints Editor Ken Trainor Sports/Staff reporter Marty Farmer Columnists Marc Blesoff, Jack Crowe, Doug Deuchler, John Hubbuch, May Kay O’Grady, Kwame Salter, John Stanger, Stan West, Michelle Mbekeani-Wiley, Cassandra West, Doris Davenport Staff Photographer Alexa Rogals Editorial Design Manager Claire Innes Editorial Designers Jacquinete Baldwin, Javier Govea Business Manager Joyce Minich IT Manager/Web Developer Mike Risher Advertising Production Manager Philip Soell Advertising Design Manager Andrew Mead Advertising Designers Debbie Becker, Mark Moroney Advertising Director Dawn Ferencak Advertising Sales Marc Stopeck, Bill Wossow Inside Sales Representative Mary Ellen Nelligan TRAINOR continued from page 42 As you set out for Ithaka hope your road is a long one, full of adventure, full of discovery. Laistrygonians, Cyclops, angry Poseidon — don’t be afraid of them: you’ll never find things like that on your way as long as you keep your thoughts raised high, as long as a rare excitement stirs your spirit and your body. Laistrygonians, Cyclops, wild Poseidon — you won’t encounter them unless you bring them along inside your soul, unless your soul sets them up in front of you. … Keep Ithaka always in your mind. Arriving there is what you’re destined for. But don’t hurry the journey at all. Better if it lasts for years, so you’re old by the time you reach the island, wealthy with all you’ve gained on the way, not expecting Ithaka to make you rich. And if you find her poor, Ithaka won’t have fooled you. Wise as you will have become, so full of experience, you’ll have understood by then what these Ithakas mean. Oak Park is my Ithaca. I left it for 20 years and came back to chronicle my own odyssey and the odysseys of my fellow villagers for the past 28 years through the pages of Wednesday Journal. It turns out you can go home again, and Oak Park has been everything I could have asked of an Ithaca. What I like about this award is that it isn’t focused on the past — because, frankly, I haven’t achieved all that much, unless you consider writing a weekly newspaper column for 33 years — half of my life — an achievement. But this award isn’t about that. It’s about

continuing on — keep on keeping on. When readers are kind enough to comment on my work — and they are almost always kind — at the end of the conversation they usually say, “Keep writing those columns.” That’s the Ulyssean challenge. What I like best about this award, though, is that it reconnects us to Homer’s defining metaphor: That life is a great journey and we are its heroes. Our heroism can be very small or somewhat larger or very large indeed. But it’s not how much we achieve. It’s the fact that we keep living life as fully as possible to the very end, no matter how challenging our circumstances. Don’t stop. Keep going. Go farther. I am honored that the Senior Citizens Center chose to single me out as an example of Ulyssean restlessness, and I’m thankful for this reminder of the Ulyssean ideal, which remains very much alive in my life. But the plain fact is, we’re all Ulysseans, whether we know it or not — not in some vaguely aspirational, Hallmark card sense, but in a very real way. We’re all taking the long way home. And getting there is not the final goal. As the CTA slogan used to say long ago, “It’s the going — not the getting there — that’s good.” Probably not the best slogan for the CTA, but it fits for life’s journey. So I’d like to end with a toast to my fellow Ulysseans, as we continue our respective odysseys, sometimes shared, often intersecting, but ultimately each of us on our own mythic journey through a wild and wonderful world, facing our monsters — external and internal — driven by a holy restlessness, navigating the wine-dark seas and probing the wine-dark deep, far from home but getting there, heading there, wherever home ends up being. As Ulysseans, let us firmly resolve that our lives will not be lived in vain, that we will keep going and go farther, that we will strive and never yield, because it is not too late, it is never too late, to seek a newer world. Here’s to all of us.

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An open letter to OPRF

Where is the concern for older employees?

would like to see some level of protest over what has been happening to many middle-class employees over the past decade or so. I’m speaking about the age group approximately 48-60. There never appears to be concern shown as to the firing and hiring practices except when a person in this demographic speaks out. Where are the supposed experts on this matter, the politicians, AARP, think tanks like the Hoover Group, or newspapers and other publications? We have a group of talented, well-educated, experienced individuals who have been replaced at most major corporations without much, if any notice, or post-employment assistance. They are a loyal group, for the most part, who come to work one day and are told they’ve been replaced with no health insurance (except for COBRA which they now may not be able to afford) or much severance. Typically, they are replaced by much younger employees who, while well educated, have no experience in the field they were just hired into. One argument goes that the new employees cost less, which could be true until an error or two costs the firm substantially more than any pay advantage. In addition, the employer could argue that the older employee will only be around a few years before retirement so why not employ people for the future? The problem is most young, new employees will depart for better paying jobs after gaining a couple years of experience, while the older employee probably plans on working for several years, loyally, and not seeking an outside position. To add insult to injury, the main firms following this hiring trend over the past decade or so are generally our largest corporations, who promote themselves as a boon to the community with some outreach program or another. How does the corporation justify this minor benefit against ruining loyal

employees’ lives and the lives of their families? What of the income taxes lost, both state and federal, as well as sales tax revenue as the now-unemployed lack the funds for spending? How does that help the local community? These individuals will find a hostile hiring policy at many firms. They are usually not looking for experience but rather a cheaper hire to improve their bottom line. After a time, the unemployed person abandons his quest for a decent opportunity and is no longer counted by the politicians who seek to make any employment figures work to their advantage. The poor recognize this process as it’s similar to what they face most of their lives. Why should we care about former members of the middle class who have fallen on hard times? Because in many cases the previously employed donated to charities that help all people, worked at food banks and in some cases even mentored someone to help them with their job quest. Now this unemployed middle-class person will be looking at the lower-paying jobs available to make ends meet and squeezing out other applicants. This is not a matter of one class versus another but rather how the corporations and their profit ratios negatively affect all people. When is some action going to start which calls real attention to this injustice? Not just the story or two in the local paper about some poor person who now delivers pizza after 30 years employed fully by a corporation, but a full-blown study that names the companies involved and how this is really affecting our society. This practice has gone on much too long and there are thousands of people in this area alone who have been affected to some degree. Time to name names and kick some ass! Who’s bold enough and in the position to lead the attack? Jim Agin is an Oak Park resident.

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Disrupt Dementia, Oct. 10 Another one of these steps happens next Wednesday, Oct. 10, at Pilgrim Congregational Church, UCC, in Oak Park, when The ChangingAging Tour hits town. You have one week to get your tickets. You’ve heard about it by now, especially if you read this column. No dry speeches — rather music, poetry, theater, drama, all entertaining us and challenging us to re-frame aging. www. oakpark.com/changingaging. Disrupt Dementia, the afternoon program starting at 2:30 p.m., is a perfect follow-up to the recent Dementia Friendly River Forest meeting. The 7 p.m. evening event is titled, “Life’s Most Dangerous Game.” And in between is the not-to-be-

missed Lobby Experience, from 4 to 7 p.m., including music, singing and yoga provided by our community neighbors. Make it a day/night experience, and take advantage of our nearby local restaurant discount specials! I’ve been touting, here in this column and all around town, how the ChangingAging Tour is built for the Oak Park/River Forest area. But is the Oak Park/River Forest area built for the tour? Will you take advantage of this opportunity? No matter what your chronological age, this is the moment to join this next step – invite your friends, buy your tickets and participate in changing our aging! Marc Blesoff is a former Oak Park village trustee, co-founder of the Windmills softball organization, co-creator of Sunday Night Dinner, a retired criminal defense attorney, and a novice beekeeper. He currently facilitates Conscious Aging Workshops and Wise Aging Workshops in the Chicago area.

Oak Park schools have been in session for several weeks now, and the parents in our village have a lot of questions for our kids: How was school today? Did you learn anything? Who’d you hang out with? Unfortunately, some of our fellow parents also must inquire: Were you harassed today? Were you searched or detained? There is a pattern occurring in our high school, and the parents expressing concern are those who happen to be raising young black men. We are writing this open letter because this is not how we want to raise our children. We want to make OPRF a stronger institution for all our kids, and we want to ensure that both staff and students adhere to the letter and spirit of the code of conduct. As adults who love the young people in this village, we are both heartbroken and outraged. It is ironic that our local high school is the feature of a nationally-aired documentary, America to Me, not because we have created a post-racial utopia, but because we are a racially diverse community. Filming occurred in 2015, yet today still, some of our students face toxic stress and trauma. This is not right. We want to feel pride in our diversity, but we can be proud only if we treat every single member of our community with respect, only if we recognize the mistakes we are making, only if we call them out and fix them. We care deeply about our community, which is why: We require transparency. As parents, we would like to explicitly be educated on the policy for detaining and searching students at Oak Park and River Forest High School. Who is being searched and detained? Who violates the policy without repercussion? We require a moratorium on searches until clear written policy, process and protocol is established for the search of all students. We require equity. We expect the District 200 administration to do whatever it takes to stop plaguing African-American students with a scrutiny that assumes misbehavior or criminal activity so that our black and brown students can maintain their focus on their education, extracurriculars and friendships as peers do, without additional anxiety or trauma. We write out of desperation, but also out of hope. We ask OPRF administrators and our elected officials for answers, and a better path for our children. We ask other parents if this represents the Oak Park you love. This cannot stand. Oak Park deserves better. Our children deserve better.

Kisa and Christopher Marx Oak Park

SALTER from page 41 and wealthy men who are serial abusers know and depend on this reality as a defense against claims made against them. Bill Cosby, Bill Clinton, Harvey Weinstein, Roger Ailes, and Donald J. Trump all know and use this predictable defense. Another defense most recently employed by a Cosby representative was calling out the racialized criminal justice system that applies the rule of law differently for blacks. There is no argument from me as to the validity of this claim. Yet in the Cosby case, this argument withers in the face of the facts. For sure, it is sad to see a feeble-looking, 81-year-old icon being sentenced to 3-10 years in prison. However, lest we

forget, the victims are condemned to a lifetime of post-traumatic nightmares and emotional disorders. The Cosby case, specifically, cannot and should not be about race — it is about power, celebrity, and privilege. Abusive behavior toward, and exploitation of, the less powerful is not a race issue — it is an ethical and criminal issue. Therefore, we will all be watching the trial and subsequent disposition of the Weinstein case. If his sentence is anything less than prison time, the claims of racism will be bolstered. Still, we must never forget that these men put themselves in the position of the victimizer. It is the victims, somebody’s wife, daughter, mother or relative, who need our support — not the victimizer. Kwame Salter, an Oak Park resident, is an occasional columnist for Wednesday Journal.

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Nothing wrong with opposing zoning variances This is to enlighten your stated opinion [It only took 10 years, Our Views, Viewpoints, Sept. 19] that a few locals voiced “usual noise” about the development in River Forest at Lake and Lathrop. Between the Development Review Board and the Board of Trustees, there were four well attended meetings with a lot of public comment, including a petition signed by 700 River Forest residents opposing the zoning allowances. No one during public comment spoke in favor of increasing the zoning ordinance restriction of 13 units to 30 units. Likewise there was no public support to increase the building’s height to 1½ times the height limit contained in the zoning ordinance. At every public meeting the developer had a different building height. Additionally, parking had to be altered from the zoning ordinance. On any given day, street parking is already currently limited. Every speaker during public comment was opposed to the numerous allowances to increase the density allowed by the zoning code. Trustee Patty Henek, being the only No vote, recognized the residents’ objections to the significant zoning allowances

granted by the trustees. Village President Cathy Adduci and trustees Cargie, Conti and Gibbs had no concern for the input of River Forest residents. The Development Review Board had two members out of five who voted not to accept the development as presented with all of the zoning allowances. At the public meetings, there was little or no objection to a development. It was clear that there was no support for disregarding the wise building restraints of the existing zoning code. The Sept. 19 Wednesday Journal also carried letters by Oak Park residents on their concerns about a development planned that also disregards the Oak Park zoning code. It is not unique to River Forest residents that the disregard to density restrictions are not acceptable to residents. It is puzzling to me how the developer of the Lake and Lathrop project assumed the development would receive village board approval. The assumption can be concluded from the developer offering units for sale several months before the trustees voted.

Fred Heiss

River Forest

Wednesday Journal, October 3, 2018

Regulating bullets can reduce gun violence In discussions on what to do about gun violence, one aspect has remained in the shadows — until a recent article in the New York Times titled, “California Tries New Tack on Gun Violence: Ammunition Control” (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/09/us/california-gun-control-ammunition-bullets.html), which focuses on the fact that it’s not the gun or the shooter who kill people, it’s the bullets! The NYT article highlights what is happening in California where very strict regulations about the sale of ammunition exist or will soon take effect. As pointed out, federal law prohibits the sale of ammunition to people who are not allowed to (legally) purchase guns but this is not well enforced; nor is the sale to people under the 21-year-old minimum age allowed for bullet sales. Furthermore, there are no limits on the amount of ammunition one can purchase in stores or over the internet. California will soon require that a log be kept of ammunition sales and a background check conducted. And new handguns need to have technology that prints a miniature signature on each shell casing so they can be traced to specific guns. Internet sales directly to buyers are already not permitted in California; neither are magazines with a greater than 10 bullet capacity.

And of course certain types of ammunition should be entirely off limits, such as bullets that disintegrate upon impact and create monstrous injuries and high velocity ammunition intended for military use. These are common sense regulations that, if enacted around the country, would reduce gun violence for sure. Just remember that once a bullet has been fired, it is gone forever, unlike the gun from which it was fired which may be operable for perhaps 100 years if cared for well. Of course, any ammunition regulation should include a requirement about its safe storage. As you may know, there is an advisory referendum question on the ballot in Oak Park this November asking voters if they would support legislation requiring the safe storage of firearms within homes. I propose including ammunition storage in any such legislation. The Second Amendment does not speak to ammunition. Thus, ammunition is not constitutionally protected and can be regulated without opposition invoking the US Constitution. So let’s do it! Let’s go for strict regulation of ammunition sales and possession.

Maarten Bosland

Member of the Gun Responsibilities Advocates of Oak Park

Wednesday Journal, October 3, 2018

Creating welcoming spaces at OPRF

am a member of the IMAGINE OPRF Work Group, attended OPRF High School and graduated in 1997. Freshman year was among the most terrifying experiences of my life. OPRF was overwhelming until I found a home, my niche, in the instrumental music department. My life, my friends and my weekends stemmed from that room. OPRF was my home for four years because Room 100 was my home for four years. My success and confidence developed in that room, expanded to success in the broader school and beyond. The struggle to find a niche in high school is almost universal. The students who find a home, thrive. The students who don’t, struggle. During the IMAGINE process I discovered that far too many students of color and students without means do not ever find their home at OPRF. As a volunteer, I heard passionate stories from students and parents about programs (like instrumental music) that engaged and connected students to the school. I heard about art studios and weight rooms filled with students from early morning through study halls and free periods and until faculty members guiltily asked students to leave in the evening. I heard about the theater program, marching band, and track team that each support the growth of hundreds of students. I also heard heart-wrenching stories from students about hiding in bathrooms during lunch time because they were afraid of the lunch room. I heard about compassionate teachers who hosted lunchtime retreats in their classrooms for students. I heard about students doing homework in stairwells because they didn’t want to go home. I heard about crowds of minority students pushed out of the building after school. I heard from disenfranchised students who did not feel welcome in the building, don’t feel like there are spaces created for them, and can’t find a home at OPRF. The IMAGINE group discussed these findings and puzzled over how to address this issue. Then the IMAGINE team toured several peer high schools and the solutions started to become evident. Schools we visited incorporated commons areas for students. Deerfield connected their cafeteria and renovated library, creating a welcoming student gathering space. Lake Forest did the same, connecting the library, athletics corridor and extra-curricular spaces. These created hubs for student activities during the day and after hours in areas that could be securely isolated from the rest of the school. IMAGINE is proposing an OPRF commons, anchored by a student resource center providing access to library, media, and tutoring resources. Student services like counselors, social workers, and nurses would be located along the commons for student access during lunch and outside of school hours. The commons would include quiet, comfortable seating areas where students could linger, study, and gather. The commons would be a transformative space for OPRF that would create places for students to feel welcome in the building, to find their home. Facilities matter, and I invite you to our Oct. 3 community meeting to learn about the commons and other parts of our master plan for OPRF. Jacob Worley-Hood is an Oak Park resident and member of IMAGINE OPRF.

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Remembering a wise elder in our village When I heard that Val Camilletti died, I actually felt a gripping fear in my gut: “Oh, no. The wise elder woman is gone.” It had that kind of tribal or village experience of losing an important woman who held space, who held court, so to speak. We knew where she’d be. We went there to buy things, to ask questions, and more importantly to talk about very important things. We respected what she had to say. Our culture is losing these kinds of wise elders, these unique people and this important village experience. I’m deeply concerned since our culture seems to be moving into a detached, machine-like way of being where one’s phone seems so important. As my husband and I say, “We fear for the Republic.” We were blessed to have Val for so many decades. I also want to celebrate Val’s courage to not do anything extraordinary when she found out about her condition. She allowed a natural process, had a wonderful quality of life, and, gratefully, we hear she didn’t suffer too much or too long at the end of her life. The celebration of Val at Fitzgerald’s on Sept. 16 was wonderful. It was so very “Val” — creative, joyful, fun, funny, musical, interesting, eclectic and full of wonderful people. Val, we will miss you. There’s no one who can take your place.

Gina Orlando

Oak Park

Val Camilletti

Madison needs more interesting shops Are we still spinning our wheels on this project and wasting more tax dollars that could be better spent elsewhere on consultant studies? I realize that this is a favorite topic of our village president/mayor/whatever his title, but enough is enough. First we were looking into the ridiculous bend in Madison Street to accommodate a developer and when that project fell through (after the previous costly road study) we moved on to this next attempt to gridlock Oak Park even further than it is currently. Really, we have two major east/west streets through Oak Park, Madison and of course North Avenue to accommodate our daily traffic flow. To reduce Madison further would only result in worse traffic and an overflow onto Washington and Jackson, which are both already near their maximum capacity. Has the deep thinker at Oak Park Village Hall ever

ventured out and experienced this traffic buildup? Very doubtful. The statement was made that if we slow traffic down, more folks will stop in the stores along the route. More likely, you’ll have people attempting to avoid Madison Street entirely and never even see what stores are there. That statement rings false when you look at a town like LaGrange, which has popular stores of all types along LaGrange Road and carries much more traffic than Madison ever sees. Still, people will shop these stores with two-hour free parking along the road despite the sometimes very heavy traffic. In other words we don’t need to slow traffic to a crawl; Oak Park needs some better and more interesting places to shop!

Jim Agin

Oak Park resident since 1980

We need to find a new owner for Magic Tree Rose Joseph and I co-founded Magic Tree Bookstore in 1984. Our little storefront was located between a barber shop and state Senator Phil Rock’s office on Madison Street. When A Child’s Place closed on Oak Park Avenue, we hauled everything over there with the help of many book lovers. Over the years, we were happy to recommend books, host tons of events, deliver bookfairs (great for building muscles!) and participate in community events. In 2015, after almost 31 years in business, we sold the store and hoped it would thrive for many years. However, the current owner announced her desire to sell Magic Tree on Facebook in May. There was no mention of this in the local papers. When we were selling the store, we had articles in the papers which did indeed attract some potential buyers. In my opinion, she really hasn’t given the shop a strong chance to be sold. Now the owner expressed her intent to close this

34-year-old institution dedicated to introducing children to the love and fun of reading. I would hope that Beth Albrecht, the current owner, would show some flexibility in sale price and dates for Magic Tree’s future. It took us years to find a buyer, not months. This isn’t just about another retail store. This is a reading community, as evidenced by their recent financial support of The Book Table’s expansion. This community needs a children-oriented bookstore. This community needs someone who can reach out to schools. This community needs people who care enough to operate a local business that nurtures young minds in a fun environment. Isn’t there someone who has the dedication and will to take the reins of Magic Tree Bookstore?

Iris Yipp

Co-founder of Magic Tree Bookstore

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The wisdom of taming my sweet tooth

confess: I was a sugar addict when I was in grade school. Yes, I consumed large quantities of refined sugar in all forms. I remember that both my mother and grandmother baked chocolate cakes, angel food cakes, cupcakes, cookies, fudge and all kinds of pies. How could I resist? I remember one time I ate half a box of Fannie May chocolates and washed them down with a bottle of coke. Each morning I would eat sugar-coated cereal, and if that wasn’t enough sugar, I would add a teaspoon of sugar to the bowl. Many times after school I would buy two or three donuts at Pigney’s Bakery on Chicago Avenue and gobble them down on the way home. Pigney’s was about five blocks west of Holmes School, and I lived east of Holmes, so I went out of my way to satisfy my sugar urge. Sometimes, too, I would walk to Zehender’s Pharmacy, which was three blocks west of the school and

get my sugar fix by eating a dish of ice cream. I supported my habit by using both my 50-cent-perweek allowance and the money I earned from shoveling snow, raking leaves and mowing lawns. I believed that eating and drinking sugarloaded products was a reward for my labors. I imagine you’re thinking I was terribly overweight. Actually, I was not. The reason is because I played sports each day and did a great deal of outdoor physical work. When I graduated from Holmes School, I was 5-foot-7 and weighed 115 pounds. I actually looked undernourished. When I started high school, I finally realized I had to stop gorging on sweets. I was not ill, but my teeth were in terrible shape. By the time I was 14, half of my teeth had been filled by Dr. Wirth. I had so many

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metal fillings that I would not go outside if I saw a bolt of lightning. I hated the constant dental visits and the pain of having my teeth filled. Quitting my addiction was difficult. I thought I would go crazy without my daily fix, but I knew that I would have to grin and bear it. After a few weeks it got better. I substituted fruits for refined sugar products. It worked. Both will power, and the thought of the dentist’s drill really did the trick. Over the years, I have done my best not to succumb to my old addiction, so I have become a selective consumer of sweets. By that I mean I will eat a slice of birthday cake, and I will have an occasional bowl of ice cream, but at other times, I will decline to eat sweets. I am positive that if I returned to my life of sugar addiction, I would have clogged arteries and every other malady that can come from out-of-control consumption of sugary products. Suprisingly, except for four “wisdoms,” I still have all of my teeth.

Wednesday Journal, October 3, 2018

Vote No on HarlemChicago development

According to its comprehensive plan*, River Forest’s Goal for Housing & Residential areas is to “Maintain the village as an exceptional residential community and retain its predominant single-family, detached-dwelling character and varied architectural styles.” Village trustees must consider development proposals that ensure tax revenue, but many residents believe that the application submitted for an oversized 4-story, 125-unit senior living facility at the corner of Chicago and Harlem does not comply with the community’s goals as set forth in its “Ground Rules For Development,” and it offers no meaningful financial gain for the village. The development’s plan includes rezoning and demolishing at least three single-family homes. As proposed, its dimensions are not allowed under code; the structure itself will be twice as high as nearby homes and take up nearly 60% of the block. This on top of the fact that village code expressly prohibits land use designated as assisted living and nursing homes. River Forest’s share of the net tax revenue will only be $300 annually, and the developer admits that any fees paid to the village will be spent by the village on expenses for professional studies. With such negligible benefits, urge our trustees to vote no on Oct. 15 to approve the multiple variances to codes put in place to protect the character and fabric of our community. In order for a development in this space to be viable, there should be greater financial benefits, a smaller footprint that retains the neighborhood’s character, and broad community support. *https://vrf.us/uploads/cms/documents/guides/comprehensiveplan.pdf

Ashby Mims

River Forest

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Kathryn Jonas, 70 Community activist, urban forest champion

Kathryn Jonas, 35-year resident of Oak Park, active community member, beloved mother, friend & partner, died on Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2018. Born on May 18, 1948, she is survived by her lifelong partner, Gary Johnson; KATHRYN JONAS their daughter, Erika Vernon (Christopher), brother Matthew Jonas (Bonnie), sister Marilyn Willits (George), and sister Carolyn Jonas (Sergio). The family is hosting a celebration of Kathryn’s life on Sunday, Nov. 4 in Oak Park. Please email kathrynejonas@gmail.com for details.

Chuck Bednar, 82

is credited with the artistic design of the Hemingway Museum in Oak Park. He was past president of the Civil War Round Table of Chicago, a board member of the Stephen A. Douglas Association, a member of the Abraham Lincoln Association, and served as president of the Carl Sandburg Historic Site Association. The Illinois Museum Association recognized him as “Volunteer of the Year” in 2009. He is survived by his wife, Marilyn A. Bednar; his daughter, Melissa Bednar; his grandsons, Robert J. Bracken and Charles J. Bracken; his brother, Richard (Sandy) Bednar; his niece, Kathy, and her daughter Kinsley; and relatives Jack (Donna) Ilko and David (Evonne) Ilko. He was preceded in death by his parents and his stepmother, Dorothy C. Bednar. Visitation was held on Sept. 24 at HinchliffPearson-West Galesburg Chapel, followed by a funeral service. A private family burial took place at Memorial Park Cemetery. Memorials may be designated to the Galesburg First Presbyterian Church or to the Carl Sandburg Historic Site Association. Online condolences may be made at www.h-p-w.com.

Co-designer of Hemingway Museum

Barbara Fanta, 95

Charles J. “Chuck” Bednar Jr., 82, of Galesburg, formerly of Oak Park, died on Sept. 18, 2018. Born March 7, 1936, to Charles J. Sr. and Juanita (Kelly) Bednar, he married Marilyn Stief on Nov. 21, 1962, in Pasadena, California. He graduated from the University of Illinois in 1959 with a BFA degree, School of Industrial Design. He served for eight years in the U.S. Army Reserve, retiring with the rank of captain. A resident of Oak Park for over 46 years. He established Bednar Design Inc. in the village in 1975. He and Marilyn returned to his family home in Galesburg in 2009. A member of First Presbyterian Church in Galesburg, he was a longtime member of the Rotary Club in Oak Park and Galesburg. An early member of the board of directors for the Ernest Hemingway Foundation and

Barbara Fanta, 95, died peacefully at her Oak Park home on Sept. 24, 2018. A longtime teacher in Oak Park School District 97, she taught elementary and special needs children at Beye, Whittier, and Lincoln schools and also taught preschool at First United Church of Oak Park. She traveled widely in the United States, North and Central America, and in Europe and Japan. Barbara Fanta was the sister of the late Paul (LaVergne) and the late Charlotte; and the aunt of David and John (Jane). According to her wishes, there will be no services. The family appreciates donations in her memory to the Oak Park-River Forest Food Pantry, 848 Lake St., Oak Park 60301 or to Friends of the Oak Park Public Library, P.O. Box 3655, Oak Park 60303.

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Cell: 708.420.5108 • Res: 708.848.5667 I am affiliated with Peterson-Bassi Chapels at 6938 W. North Ave, as well as other chapels throughout Chicagoland.

Edgar Matticks, 91 Longtime Oak Park resident

Edgar G. Matticks, 91, a resident of Melrose Park and a longtime resident of Oak Park, died on Sept. 26, 2018. Born in Williamsfield, Ohio on Sept. 30, 1926 to the late Glenn and Carol Matticks, he married Betty Knobloch and they moved to Oak Park in 1967 and raised their family. Betty died 2015. A tool and die maker for many years before his retirement in the early ’90s, he enjoyed many years in his woodshop, crafting toys and furniture for his family and friends. Edgar Matticks is survived by his children, Richard (Elaine), Dave (Vicki), Karen (Joseph EDGAR MATTICKS Maalouf) Cairo, Steve (Mary), Jeff (Sherry) and Dan (Brenda) Matticks; his grandchildren, David (Katie), Mike (Veronica), Sarah and Christina Matticks, John (Ann) Cairo, Drew and Amy Matticks, Kyle Matticks, Haley, Kayla and the late Owen Matticks, Emily and Melanie Matticks; his great-grandchildren, Alexis Matticks, William and Rowan Matticks, Patrick and Joseph Cairo and Connor Matticks; and many nieces, nephews, cousins and friends. He was preceded in death by his first wife, Reba; and his siblings, Richard Matticks and Jane (the late Earl) Butt. Visitation will be held on Saturday, Oct. 6 at 10 a.m. until time of service, 12 p.m., at Oak Park’s Drechsler, Brown & Williams Funeral Home, 203 S. Marion St. with Interment at Concordia Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, the family appreciates donations to JDRF, www.jdrf.org which aides Type One Diabetes research and support.

Marguerite Pizzo, 60 Active at St. Luke, enjoyed tennis and golf

Marguerite “Margo” Pizzo (nee Triolo), 60, of River Forest and Marco Island in Florida, has died. She was active in the St. Luke choir and was an avid tennis player and golfer at the Oak Park Country Club. The ultimate organizer for her family, friends, and social activities, she put the needs of others first and will impact the lives of four through her organ donations. Margo Pizzo was the wife of James “Jim”; the mother of Maria Pizzo, Andrea (Colten) Maertens-Pizzo and Sophia Pizzo; the daughter of the late Peter and the late Angela Triolo; the sister of Dr. Peter “Tom” (Dr. Pamela)

Triolo and Joseph A. (Joan Carlton) Triolo; the sister-in-law of Patricia (Brian) Bauer, Jack Pizzo, Pamela (Peter) Russell, Peg (Alan) Mickelson and the late Joel (Estelle) Pizzo; daughter-in-law of Joseph and Elizabeth Pizzo; aunt of dozens; and a friend of many throughout Oak Park and River Forest. Visitation will be held on Wednesday, Oct. 3 from 4 to 9 p.m. at Oak Park’s Drechsler, Brown & Williams Funeral Home, 203 S. Marion St. and on Thursday, Oct. 4 at 9:30 a.m. until time of Mass, 10:30 a.m., at St. Luke Church, 7600 W. Lake St. in River Forest, followed by interment at Queen of Heaven Cemetery. The family appreciates memorials to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, 262 Danny Thomas Place, Memphis, Tennessee 38105.

James Betke, 78

Attorney, First Presbyterian elder James E. Betke, 78, a 35-year resident of Oak Park, died at home on Oct. 1, 2018. After graduating from Hope College, he moved on to the University of Chicago where he earned degrees in Psychology (1963) and a Juris Doctor in 1966. After 35 years at the law firm McDermott, Will and Emery, he went into private practice for 15 years, retiring in 2016. A member of First Presbyterian Church of River Forest, where he sang in the choir and served as an elder, he was a past president of the River Forest Tennis Club and served on the board of Wednesday Journal. He was also the number one spectaJIM BETKE tor and bleacher coach during his children and grandchildren’s athletic careers. Jim Betke was the husband of Maryellen (nee Stoops); the father of Todd (Michele Gelfand) Betke, Kevin (Kim) Betke, Kyle Betke, and Kendra (Cory) Olson; the grandfather of Jeanette, Jillian, Megan, Hannah, and a granddaughter to be born in February; the son of the late Carl and Helen Betke; the brother of Jan (the late Bob) Ryder, Jon (Martha) Betke, and Robin (Mark) Burford; and the uncle of many nieces and nephews. A memorial service will be held on Saturday, Oct. 6 at 1:30 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church of River Forest, 7551 Quick Ave. Interment will be private. In lieu of flowers, please send memorials to First Presbyterian Church of River Forest or the Helen Betke Memorial Music Fund at Hope College Development Services, attn: Harvey Koedyker, P.O. Box 9000, Holland, MI 49422-9904. Arrangements were handled by Drechsler, Brown & Williams Funeral Home in Oak Park.

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First Congregational Church of Maywood

400 N. Fifth Avenue (1 block north of Lake St.) Come join us for Sunday Morning Worship at 11 am Pastor Elliot Wimbush will be preaching the message. Refreshments and fellowship follow the service. 708-344-6150 firstchurchofmaywood.org When you're looking for a place to worship the Lord, Check First.

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

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

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West Suburban Temple Har Zion

1040 N. Harlem Avenue River Forest Meet our Rabbi, Adir Glick Pray, learn, and celebrate with our caring, progressive, egalitarian community. Interfaith families are welcome. Accredited Early Childhood Program Religious School for K thru 12 Daily Morning Minyan Weekly Shabbat Services Friday 6:30pm & Saturday 10:00am Affiliated with United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism 708.366.9000 www.wsthz.org

Methodist

ELCA, Lutheran

Good Shepherd

Worshiping at 820 Ontario, Oak Park IL (First Baptist Church) 9:00 a.m.—Education Hour 10:30 a.m.—Worship

All are welcome. goodshepherdlc.org 708-848-4741

Lutheran—ELCA

United Lutheran Church

409 Greenfield Street (at Ridgeland Avenue) Oak Park Holy Communion with nursery care and children’s chapel each Sunday at 9:30 a.m. www.unitedlutheranchurch.org

708/386-1576

Lutheran-Independent

Grace Lutheran Church

7300 W. Division, River Forest David R. Lyle, Senior Pastor David W. Wegner, Assoc. Pastor Lauren Dow Wegner, Assoc. Pastor Sunday Worship, 8:30 & 11:00 a.m. Sunday School/Adult Ed. 9:45 a.m. Childcare Available

First United Methodist Church of Oak Park

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

Fair Oaks

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

744 Fair Oaks Ave. Oak Park 386-4920 Sunday Schedule Christian Education for All Ages 9:00am Worship Service 10:00am

Child care available 9-11am

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

Roman Catholic

Ascension Catholic Church

Grace Lutheran School

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

Christ Lutheran Church

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

St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church

305 Circle Ave, Forest Park Sunday Worship, 9:30am Christian Education Hour 8:30am Wednesday Worship 7:00pm Wheelchair Access to Sanctuary Leonard Payton, Pastor Roney Riley, Assistant Pastor 708-366-3226 www.stjohnforestpark.org

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

Rev. James Hurlbert, Pastor

Roman Catholic

St. Edmund Catholic Church

188 South Oak Park Ave. Saturday Mass: 5:30 p.m. Sunday Masses: 9:00 & 11:00 a.m., 5:30 p.m. Weekday Mass: 8:30 a.m. M–F Holy Day Masses: As Announced Reconciliation: Saturday 4:15 p.m. Parish Office: 708-848-4417 Religious Ed Phone: 708-848-7220

Roman Catholic

St. Bernardine Catholic Church Harrison & Elgin, Forest Park

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

St. Giles Family Mass Community

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

Traditional Catholic

The Traditional Catholic Latin Mass

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

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

Oct 1 Shemini Atzeret Jewish 2 Simchat Torah Jewish 4 St Francis Day Catholic Christian Blessing of the Animals Christian 8 Thanksgiving - Canada Interfaith 9-16 Navaratri Hindu 18 St. Luke, Apostle & Evangelist Christian 19 Dasara Hindu 20 Birth of the Báb Baha’i Installation of Scriptures as Guru Granth Sikh 28 Reformation Day Protestant Christian Milvian Bridge Day Christian

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COMMUNITY SERVICE OFFICER 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 no later than October 8, 2018. DATA ENTRY/CUSTOMER SRVC Small local company has an opening for a Data Entry/Customer Service Rep. We are looking for an energetic self-starter, analytical mind, detail-oriented, advanced customer service and a positive professional attitude. The position requires: 2+ years customer service skills, strong interpersonal skills, ability to multi-task, flexible attitude, general AP/ AR, payroll knowledge, data entry skills. Full benefits, paid vacation & holidays. Submit cover letter & resume to datainputjob@ yahoo.com

Part Time Positions Available for 2018-19 school year After-School Recreation / Day Care Worker Youth Development Specialist on site at Oak Park public schools The Day Care Program of Hephzibah Children’s Association is accepting applications for nurturing individuals to provide care and supervision of 5-11-year-old children in the After School Day Care program on site at Oak Park public schools. The days and hours are Mon–Fri from 2:30-6:00 PM and 2:00-6:00 PM on Wednesdays. Plan and supervise arts and crafts, indoor & outdoor play, games, sports, homework help and more. Requirements include: -6 semester hours in education, recreation, social work or related college courses -previous experience working with children. Openings available for the 2018-19 school year starting. Contact Amy O’Rourke, Director of Day Care at aorourke@hephzibahhome.org Equal Opportunity Employer

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Swim Instructors The Park District of Oak Park is hiring part-time year round swim instructors to provide instruction, direction and safety to all students. $11 per hour. Classes are held at OPRF High School during the winter; Ridgeland Common/Rehm pool during the summer. Hours vary depending on the season. To view full job description and to apply, go to www.pdop.org/jobs JOB ID 1477 TALENTED STYLIST WANTED Seeking talented stylist to work in vintage hair salon. This salon is unique; apply if you are, too. Broadway Hair Salon, Brookfield. 708-485-0371

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PUBLIC NOTICES LEGAL NOTICE Chertkow and Chertkow (22019) Attorneys for Petitioner 1525 East 53rd Street Chicago, Illinois 60615 STATE OF ILLINOIS) COUNTY OF COOK )ss Circuit Court of Cook County, County Department, Domestic Relations Division. In re the marriage of MARGARITA MENDOZA, Petitioner and JUAN CARLOS CAMACHO, Respondent, Case No. 2018D-007945. The requisite affidavit for publication having been filed, notice is hereby given to you, the above named Respondent, that a Petition has been filed in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, by the Petitioner, for Dissolution of Marriage and for other relief; and that said suit is now pending. Now, therefore, unless you, the said Respondent, file your response to said Petition or otherwise make your appearance therein, in the Office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, Room 802, Richard J. Daley Center, 50 West Washington Street, in the City of Chicago, Illinois, on or before October 30, 2018, default may be entered against you at any time after that day, and a judgment for Dissolution of Marriage entered in accordance with the prayer of said Petition. DOROTHY A. BROWN, Clerk. Published in Wednesday Journal 9/26, 10/3, 10/10/2018

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION CIT BANK, N.A. Plaintiff, -v.MARY MARGARET T. CALFA, MARY MARGARET T. CALFA, AS TRUSTEE OF THE MARY MARGARET T. (KRAMER) CALFA DECLARATION OF TRUST DATED 5/ 17/05. Defendants 17 CH 15175 8 LE MOYNE PKWY OAK PARK, IL 60302 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on April 18, 2018, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on October 19, 2018, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 8 LE MOYNE PKWY, OAK PARK, IL 60302 Property Index No. 16-05-106-0300000. The real estate is improved with a single family residence. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The

Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/ 18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. For information, examine the court file or contact Plaintiff’s attorney: CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876 Please refer to file number 14-17-10569. THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales. CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100 BURR RIDGE, IL 60527 (630) 794-5300 E-Mail: pleadings@il.cslegal.com Attorney File No. 14-17-10569 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 17 CH 15175 TJSC#: 38-7477 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff’s attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. I3099115

Judicial Sales Corporation will on Monday, October 29, 2018 at the hour of 11 a.m. in their office at 120 West Madison Street, Suite 718A, Chicago, Illinois, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described mortgaged real estate: P.I.N. 16-07-315-029-1005. Commonly known as 336 South Maple Avenue, Unit 2B, Oak Park, Illinois 60302. 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 by certified funds, balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection. For information call The Sales Department at Plaintiff’s Attorney, Anselmo Lindberg & Associates, LLC, 1771 West Diehl Road, Naperville, Illinois 60563-1890. (630) 453-6960. For Bidding instructions visit www.alolawgroup.com 24 hours prior to sale. F17110139 INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I3099058

to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/ 18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. For information, examine the court file or contact Plaintiff’s attorney: CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876 Please refer to file number 14-18-03595. THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales. CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100 BURR RIDGE, IL 60527 (630) 794-5300 E-Mail: pleadings@il.cslegal.com Attorney File No. 14-18-03595 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 2018 CH 04590 TJSC#: 38-6342 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff’s attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. I3099297

FINANCIAL, LLC, PORTFOLIO RECOVERY ASSOCIATES, LLC, CITIBANK, N.A., SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST TO CITIBANK (SOUTH DAKOTA) N.A. Defendants 16 CH 11164 1836 N. 21ST AVENUE MELROSE PARK, IL 60160 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on April 9, 2018, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on November 9, 2018, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 1836 N. 21ST AVENUE, MELROSE PARK, IL 60160 Property Index No. 15-03-103-0480000. The real estate is improved with a single family residence. The judgment amount was $290,919.14. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. The subject property is subject to general real estate

taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/ 18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. Plaintiff, vs. FRANCESCO MANCINI; JENNIFER MANCINI AKA JENNIFER MCLEAN; LIONS GATE CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants, 17 CH 15605 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION HSBC BANK USA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE (THE TRUSTEE) FOR THE HOLDERS OF DEUTSCHE ALT-A SECURITIES, INC. MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST, SERIES 2007RAMP1 Plaintiff, -v.ANDREA M. RANDALL, LOFTOMINIUMS OF FOREST PARK CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION, MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., ILLINOIS HOUSING DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants 2018 CH 04590 7248 DIXON STREET #B FOREST PARK, IL 60130 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on July 30, 2018, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on November 5, 2018, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 7248 DIXON STREET #B, FOREST PARK, IL 60130 Property Index No. 15-12-420-0191010. The real estate is improved with a condo/townhouse. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION MTGLQ INVESTORS, L.P. Plaintiff, -v.GINA CAMPA A/K/A GINA M. CAMPA, JESUS GARCIA A/K/A JESUS M. GARCIA, A/K/A JESUS H. GARCIA, MIDLAND FUNDING LLC, CAPITAL ONE BANK (USA), N.A., SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST TO CAPITAL ONE BANK, STATE OF ILLINOIS, EQUABLE ASCENT

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WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. For information, contact Plaintiff’s attorney: HEAVNER, BEYERS & MIHLAR, LLC, 111 East Main Street, DECATUR, IL 62523, (217) 422-1719 Please refer to file number 564652104-FT. If the sale is not confirmed for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the purchase price paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee’s attorney. THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales. HEAVNER, BEYERS & MIHLAR, LLC 111 East Main Street DECATUR, IL 62523 (217) 422-1719 Fax #: (217) 422-1754 CookPleadings@hsbattys.com Attorney File No. 564652104-FT Attorney Code. 40387 Case Number: 16 CH 11164 TJSC#: 38-7594 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff’s attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. I3099790

property will NOT be open for inspection For information call the Sales Clerk at Plaintiff’s Attorney, The Wirbicki Law Group, 33 West Monroe Street, Chicago, Illinois 60603. (312) 3609455 W18-0030. INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I3099882

FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. For information, contact Plaintiff’s attorney: HEAVNER, BEYERS & MIHLAR, LLC, 111 East Main Street, DECATUR, IL 62523, (217) 422-1719 Please refer to file number 2120-14745. If the sale is not confirmed for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the purchase price paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee’s attorney. THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales. HEAVNER, BEYERS & MIHLAR, LLC 111 East Main Street DECATUR, IL 62523 (217) 422-1719 Fax #: (217) 422-1754 CookPleadings@hsbattys.com Attorney File No. 2120-14745 Attorney Code. 40387 Case Number: 11 CH 42952 TJSC#: 38-6635 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff’s attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. I3096984

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION OCWEN LOAN SERVICING, LLC; Plaintiff, vs. MARK JOSEPH COMETA; LOURDES LANSANG; CIRCLE TERRACE CONDOMINIUMS; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS; Defendants, 18 CH 974 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Thursday, November 8, 2018 at the hour of 11 a.m. in their office at 120 West Madison Street, Suite 718A, Chicago, Illinois, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described mortgaged real estate: P.I.N. 15-12-418-011-1003 and 1512-418-011-1062. Commonly known as 148 Circle Avenue, Unit 1W & P-27, Forest Park, IL 60130. 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 by certified funds, balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours. No refunds. The

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION US BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION AS LEGAL TITLE TRUSTEE FOR TRUMAN 2016 SC6 TITLE TRUST Plaintiff, -v.JOHN J. RICE, DIANE C. RICE Defendants 11 CH 42952 1038 BELOIT AVE FOREST PARK, IL 60130 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on August 15, 2018, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on November 16, 2018, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 1038 BELOIT AVE, FOREST PARK, IL 60130 Property Index No. 15-13-418-0140000. The real estate is improved with a single family residence. The judgment amount was $499,902.60. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/ 18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE

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OPRF defense denies Downers North late Huskies’ dominant fourth quarter defensively, Bryant TD run secure win

By MELVIN TATE Contributing Reporter

During much of head coach John Hoerster’s tenure, the Oak Park and River Forest High School football team has been primarily known for good, proficient offense that generates excitement. While the offense certainly has produced some good moments this season, defense has been the Huskies’ calling card under coordinator Tim Fischer’s guidance. The Huskies’ prowess on that side of the ball was evident in their 21-14 win over host Downers Grove North at Carstens Field on Friday, Sept. 28. After a 66-yard touchdown run by Nazareth Bryant put the Huskies ahead for good at 21-14 in the third quarter, OPRF dominated defensively the rest of the way. In the fourth quarter, Downers Grove North failed to pick up a first down. “They were disappointed because they gave up some big plays,” Hoerster said about the defense. “But we really buckled down in the second half. Those guys came to play. They played with energy and passion and some guys stepped up. It was fun to watch.” Linebacker Cedric Cheatham knew the Huskies needed to pick up the pace defensively. “We came out of halftime and said we’ve got to step it up; they can’t score again,” said

COMEBACK Clutch plays from page 56 tie the score at 21-all. In overtime, Cronin scored on a 12yard run to put the Friars ahead 28-21. The Vikings responded with a touchdown; however, the Friars’ stuffed a gutsy 2-point conversion attempt by St. Laurence to seal their inspired Homecoming victory. Defensive lineman Konrad Skowyra made the play of the game, which largely sparked the Friars’ resurgence. The senior standout blocked Liam McCarthy’s punt and scooped up the ball en route to a 71-yard return for a touchdown. The clutch play gave Fenwick its first lead of the game, 14-13. Skowyra, one of the team’s top two-way players, finished the game with seven tackles as well. While the Friars (2-4, 1-1 Chicago Catholic League Green) didn’t post notable stats offensively, they made enough big plays to pull out the win. Making his return start after a knee injury sidelined him against De La Salle, Cronin

Cheatham, who had a team-high seven tackles. “We’ve got to win this game for our team and that’s what we did. “We’re just working hard,” he added.

ORANGE CRUSH: The OPRF defense dominated Downers Grove North in the fourth quarter of a 21-14 win.

completed 6 of 15 passes for 57 yards, highlighted by his aforementioned TD toss to Lopez. He added a pair of rushing touchdowns, including the game-winner in overtime. As he has done all season, Lopez earned hard yards on the ground with 79 yards on 17 carries. Marcus Wright contributed four catches for 46 yards. Several players led the Friars defensively, including Max Forst (7 tackles), Tim Carey (3.5 tackles) and Jared Perry (interception). After an 0-3 start, Fenwick has won two of three games. A postseason appearance remains possible if the Friars run the table with three straight victories to close out the regular season. However, powerhouse teams like Montini and Mount Carmel are upcoming opponents. Regardless, the Friars have shown signs of progress with both momentum and optimism heading into the final third of the regular season. Fenwick hosts Montini on Friday, Oct. 5, followed by their final home game the following week on Friday, Oct. 12 against Marmion Academy. Both games at Triton College in River Grove start at 7:30 p.m.

“We’re a close-knit group of guys that’s been playing for a long time. We love to play for each other and we go all out every game. That’s all we do.” The Huskies won their third game in a row, against a game opponent. “Ever since I’ve been the head coach, (Downers North) has played us tough every year,” Hoerster said. “That No. 7 (Downers Grove North quarterback Drew Cassens) was all over the field. He’s a great football player.” Cassens (9-for-19 passing, 94 yards; 16 carries, 70 yards) opened the scoring with a 4-yard run to give the Trojans a 6-0 with 10:39 left in the second quarter. “(Cassens) was tough,” Cheatham said. “He was definitely a good player.” OPRF responded with a touchdown on its next possession as McGill (17 carries, 102 yards) did the honors with a 48-yard TD run. Darrow’s extra point gave the Huskies a 7-6 with 8:57 remaining until halftime. In a seesaw game, the Trojans regained the lead on Owen Geraghty’s 2-yard run into the end zone. Cassens connected with Geraghty on a 2-point conversion to make the score 14-7 at the 4:42 mark of the second quarter. On a fourth-and-2 from the OPRF 48, Hoerster called for a fake punt. The gamble paid off as Ethan Reinhardt ran a 9-yard right sweep for a first down. McGill capped off the scoring drive with a 15-yard run. Darrow

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added a PAT to tie the score at 14-all entering halftime. At the 6:48 mark of the third quarter, Bryant (12 carries, 106 yards) broke into the clear over the left side for his aforementioned 66-yard TD burst. Darrow was good again for the extra point and a 21-14 Huskies’ advantage. “Naz had a great run,” Hoerster said. “He had an opportunity and made good on it. I’m happy for him; he deserved that.” After Bryant’s touchdown, Cassens led the Trojans deep into OPRF territory on the ensuing drive. The Huskies’ Jalen Hubert came up with an interception off a tipped ball to quell the drive. OPRF defensive ends Jared Schainis and Izaiah Ruffin sacked Cassens on consecutive plays late to secure the win. The Huskies’ Jake Adams had 4.5 tackles, while Naahlyee Braynt, Ashford Hollis and Daemyen Middlebrooks chipped in three tackles apiece. Aidan Shea had a pair of tackles. Offensively, OPRF amassed 276 yards of total offense and 11 first downs. One more win will give the Huskies playoff eligibility for a school-record seventh consecutive season. “We’re going to play some good teams coming up,” he said. “We’ve got to be able to play with more consistency on offense.” OPRF (4-2, 2-1 West Suburban Silver) hosts York on Friday, Oct. 5. Kickoff is 7:30 p.m.

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Fenwick, OPRF golf on course for playoffs Boys teams enter postseason with high hopes for low scores By MARTY FARMER Sports Editor

The Fenwick High School boys golf team capped off their regular season in style at the Chicago Catholic League Championship. Josh Kirkham won the CCL individual title with a 2-under-par 70. Following Reese Wildermuth (2017) and Jack Mortell (2016), Kirkham became the third consecutive Friar to be the varsity medalist at the tournament and Lawless Player of the Year. Teammate Jake Wiktor carded a 75 at the CCL Championship. The Friars earned second in the team standings behind Loyola Academy. Prior to their CCL Championship clash, the Friars edged the Ramblers to go undefeated in dual matches (11-0, 6-0 CCL) during the regular season. Wiktor led Fenwick with a score of 35 against Loyola. In addition to success in dual matches, the Friars fared extremely well in Invitationals this fall. Fenwick took first at the Providence and Mount Carmel invites and second at the St. Ignatius Invitational. The Friars’ final tuneup for the postseason occurred over the weekend. Fenwick won the Lyons Township Invite. Jackson Schaeffer finished first with a 2-over 73 and Wiktor carded a 75 as the runner-up. Phil Sandor also notched a top-10 finish. The Friars, along with crosstown rival OPRF, open the Class 3A state playoffs at the Lane Regional. The site is the Hilldale Golf Club in Hoffman Estates.

OPRF golf Seniors Andrew Corsini and John Parker have been the unquestioned leaders for the Huskies all season. Both are West Suburban All-Conference and All-Academic honorees. Corsini finished sixth in the West Suburban Conference tournament by carding a 73 and he medaled at the St. Rita and Mount Carmel invites. He leads the Huskies in 9-hole scoring average with a 38. Parker placed 14th in the conference tournament with a score of 77. “Andrew Corsini and John Parker set the

tone for this team,” OPRF coach Bill Young said. “Andrew worked on his game quite a bit this past offseason and it’s really paying off. John Parker is our captain and a total student of the game.” Juniors Jackson Derks and Aidan Wittenberg, are other contributing golfers. “Jackson continues to improve and possesses a lot of raw talent,” Young said. “He has only been playing competitive golf for the last two years. Once he establishes some consistency, tee to green, he can be a special player. “Like Derks, this is Aidan’s third year on varsity. Aidan knows his way around the course and is improving. He shot 39 at Notre Dame earlier in the season.” Freshman Nate Bibbey has performed well in his varsity debut. He shot 39 against Latin and posted an 80 at the Mount Carmel Invite. “Nate is getting some great experience playing varsity golf in the West Suburban Silver,” Young said. “Nate has the potential for a great high school career.” OPRF finished the regular season with a 5-7 dual match record and 2-4 in conference. “Playing in the West Suburban Silver, with outstanding teams like Hinsdale Central, Glenbard West, York, Lyons Township and Downers Grove North, can be demoralizing,” Young said. “We shot a respectable 313 in the conference tournaCourtesy Bill Young ment, which would have been a winning score in many other conferences, yet that was only good enough for sixth place.” The Huskies notched big wins against Whitney Young and Downers Grove North, along with a third-place showing at the Mount Carmel Invite and fourth-place finish at the St. Rita Invite. “We have been improving, especially our top three guys,” Young said. “We compete in probably the toughest conference in Illinois high school golf. The biggest thing we have been talking about is just improving individually and as a team each time we go out. “As we go into the postseason, our focus is managing the courses we play and having each golfer manage his individual game.” All regionals started on Oct. 2 (past deadline). Results will be posted online.

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Fenwick stuffs St. Laurence in OT Cronin, Skowyra spark Friars’ second-half comeback, overtime win

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Fenwick celebrates one of its four touchdowns against visiting St. Laurence on Sept. 28. The Friars won 28-27 in overtime.

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fter a much-needed win against Leo in Week 4, Fenwick High School football coach Gene Nudo said, “Our men continue to fight as any Friar would.” The Friars’ fighting spirit certainly was on full display during a 28-27 comeback win in overtime against St. Laurence on Friday, Sept. 28 at Triton College in River Grove. In the first quarter, Nate Thomas opened the scoring on a 65-yard run to give St. Laurence a 6-0 lead. In the second quarter, the Vikings’ Logan Cleary recovered a fumble at the Fenwick 26-yard line. St. Laurence (2-4, 1-1 CCL Green) capitalized on the turnover when Thomas scored his second touchdown on a 2-yard plunge into the end zone. Rodney Quinn’s PAT extended the lead to 13-0. Thomas accounted for all four touchdowns the Vikings scored against Fenwick. The talented sophomore running back rushed for 227 yards and a TD on 34 carries in a 27-26 loss against Chicago Hope Academy in a CCL crossover in Week 5 action. Despite Thomas’ impressive performance, Fenwick rallied with timely plays on offense, defense and special teams in the second half. Trailing 21-14 with less than a minute remaining in the fourth quarter, the Friars made their move. Junior quarterback Danny Cronin threw a 4-yard touchdown pass to Mitch Lopez with 33 seconds left. Kicker Bryan Dowd made the extra point to See COMEBACK on page 54

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