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Oak Park approves Albion downtown high-rise Trustees OK development in 6-1 vote, despite strong opposition By TIMOTHY INKLEBARGER Staff Reporter

It’s been one of the hottest topics in town since it first appeared last year, prompting opposition rallies, hours-long meetings and, some would say, the jobs of two elected officials – but the Oak Park village board Monday approved a revised version of the 18-story high-rise by Albion Development in a 6-1 vote. The tower, which will be built at the corner of Lake Street and Forest Avenue, was opposed by the Park District of Oak Park and a vocal, well organized citizens group. Opposition focused on expected impacts they say the development would have on nearby AusSee ALBION APPROVED on page 12

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MAKING A STATEMENT: Members of the Marching Huskies band joined OPRF football players in kneeling during the National Anthem at Oak Park Stadium prior to the Sept. 29 game against Downers Grove North.

OPRF students take a knee at Friday night game

Principal releases statement in show of solidarity By TIMOTHY INKLEBARGER Staff Reporter

Some football players, cheerleaders and band members joined a nationwide movement at the beginning of Friday night’s

game against Downers Grove North High School, taking a knee during the National Anthem. The students joined with professional athletes across the nation, particularly in the National Football League, in a protest that began in 2016 with San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who declined to stand during the National Anthem as a statement against racial injustice.

Kaepernick’s protest prompted both support and backlash, eventually making its way to the White House, where President Donald Trump criticized NFL players who took a knee during the anthem, stating, among other things, in a speech in Alabama in September: “Wouldn’t you love to see one of these NFL owners, when someSee TAKING A KNEE on page 13

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Ernie’s first story survives Irma Oak Park resident Rob Elder is making a practice of breaking stories about Ernest Hemingway. The author of Hidden Hemingway: Inside the Ernest Hemingway Archives of Oak Park, published an article in the Paris Review in May (“To Have and Have Not” theparisreview.org/ blog/tag/to-have-and-have-not) about young Hemingway’s first love, Frances Coates, a fellow OPRF High School student, whom he continued to correspond with well into the 1920s [Hemingway’s first love? Wednesday Journal, June 21]. In the Sept. 29 New York Times Books section, Elder announced the discovery of even younger Hemingway’s first short story, written at the age of 10 and found in the archives of the Bruce family, friends of the author, in Key West, Florida. That would be the same Key West clobbered by Hurricane Irma last month, so Hemingway scholars worried about its condition. Happily, the Bruce estate came through mostly unscathed. Ernie, among so many other notable things, was a packrat, Elder notes. He

left stuff behind in all the places he lived. Toby Bruce, as Elder tells it, “retrieved a pile of boxes left in a storeroom behind Sloppy Joe’s Bar, Hemingway’s favorite saloon [in Key West]. Bruce was a longtime confidant who had served as Hemingway’s mechanic, handyman and sometime chauffeur.” He let Hemingway’s widow, Mary, take what she wanted from the stash and put the rest in storage where it languished all these years. The handwritten, untitled story is an imaginary travelogue through Ireland and Scotland, written as letters to his parents. In it he demonstrates flashes of both his imaginary and observational talent. “It’s the first time we see Hemingway writing a sustained, imaginative narrative,” Sandra Spanier, general editor of the Hemingway Letters Project, notes in Elder’s article. She calls it “a real landmark piece of writing.” Rob’s article can be found online at https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/29/ books/hemingway-first-story-found-inflorida.html. Ken Trainor

TRAVEL STORY: Ernie’s first story, recently rediscovered. Photos are by Sandra Spanier.

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Mark Christenson (left) and John Duffy kneel during the Pledge of Allegiance in the OPRF board room.

‘Taking a knee’ comes to OPRF

A day before some members of the Oak Park and River Forest High School football team and the Marching Huskies took a knee during the National Anthem, John Duffy and Mark Christenson — both members of the Committee for Equity and Excellence in Education —

knelt during the Pledge of Allegiance at a Sept. 28 regular District 200 school board meeting. Duffy said it was the first time he and Christenson had knelt. “I’m going to continue doing it because it’s an act of hope, it’s an act of faith, it’s an act of demonstration of a commitment to people who are doing more courageous things than I’m doing for what I believe in,” Duffy said.

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The Illinois Recycling Association has named Karen Rozmus, former Oak Park Environmental Services Manager, Recycler of the Year. Rozmus retired from the village earlier this year after more than two decades with the village. She spearheaded recycling, yard-waste recycling and composting in the village and has long been an advocate for environmental sustainability. We recently caught up with Rozmus, who says she is still on the executive board of the Illinois chapter of the Solid Waste Association of North America and president of Keep Illinois Beautiful. But now that she’s “retired,” Rozmus said she’s enjoying spending more time with her grandchildren.

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BIG WEEK Author talk: “Hemingway at Eighteen” Wednesday, Oct. 11, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., Veterans Room, Main Library: Join journalist Steve Paul as he talks about his new book, “Hemingway at Eighteen: The Pivotal Year That Launched an American Legend.” During WWI, young Hemingway became a Red Cross ambulance driver and went to Italy, where he was wounded. The book sheds new light on this young man bound for greatness. Put on with the library’s Special Collections team and The Ernest Hemingway Foundation. 834 Lake St., Oak Park.

Sones de México and the Mexican Folkloric Dance Company

Johnnies, Tommies, and Sammies: Music and the WWI Alliance Saturday, Oct. 7, 2 to 4 p.m., Veterans Room, Main Library: Throughout WWI, the musical cultures of Allied countries Great Britain, Canada and the United States provide insight into their changing views of each other, themselves and the conflict. Presented by musicologists and performers, the program includes films, period recordings, live performances and more. 834 Lake St., Oak Park.

Madam President: The Secret Presidency of Edith Wilson Tuesday, Oct. 10, 7 to 9 p.m., Veterans Room, Main Library: Author William Hazelgrove shares his book, which shows how the first lady became acting U.S. President after her husband Woodrow Wilson suffered a stroke. 834 Lake St., Oak Park.

Book Discussions Thursday, Oct. 12, 1:30 to 3:30 p.m., Maze Library: Starting next week, read and join librarians to discuss books centered around WWI. The first is “All Quiet on the Western Front.” ■ Oct. 17 “The Summer Before the War” (Dole, 7 to 8 p.m.) ■ Oct. 18 “A Farewell to Arms” (Main, 1 to 2:30 p.m.) Copies of books available at the libraries beforehand. Maze, 845 Gunderson, Oak Park.

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

Saturday, Oct. 7, 7:30 p.m., Lund Auditorium, Dominican University: Enjoy traditional Mexican folk tunes and clever experiments with Bach, Led Zeppelin, Woody Guthrie, three-part harmonies and more as this group works its way through a collection of more than 30 instruments. 7900 Division, River Forest.

Edgar Allan Poe Theatrical Performance Thursday through Saturday, Oct. 5 to 7 at 7 and 8:30 p.m., Pleasant Home: Enjoy three classics dramatically performed in different rooms of this historic Oak Park mansion. Also see the debut of “The Shroud of Tremaine, Or A Lady’s Confession,” commissioned by Pleasant Home Foundation and written by Oak Park author Mary Grace Bertulfo. Wine and cheese included during intermission. $30; $25 Pleasant Home Foundation members. Tickets: pleasanthome.org. 217 Home Ave.

Tchaikovsky Spectacular

2017 Barbara Ballinger Lecture: Jane Hirshfield

Sunday, Oct. 8, 4 p.m., Dominican University: The Symphony of Oak Park - River Forest presents Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 and Symphony No. 5, conducted by Jay Friedman. Preconcert conversation at 3 p.m. Free reception afterwards. $28; free, students through college. Bring a donation/food item for the OPRF Food Pantry to the concert. Bonus: Oct. 8 ticket holders invited to Oct. 1 rehearsal with CSO’s Maestro Riccardo Muti. Tickets/info: 708-218-2648, symphonyoprf.com. 7900 W. Division St., River Forest.

Sunday, Oct. 8, 2 to 4 p.m., Veterans Room, Main Library: See the award-winning poet and essayist whose work speaks to a connection with others and the wider community of creatures and objects with which we share our lives. Sponsored by the Friends of the Oak Park Public Library, the annual lecture features an accomplished author. The Book Table will sell titles. Info: oppl.org. 834 Lake St.

Jazz with Jennifer Graham Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 7 and 8, 7 p.m., Open Door Theater: Hear an intimate evening of jazz standards, including Gershwin, Ella, Billie Holiday and more. Tickets: opendoortheater.net, 708-386-5510. 902 S. Ridgeland, Oak Park.

Life Laughing Friday, Oct. 6, 7:30 to 8:30 p.m., Eastgate Café: JJeff Gee makes audiences laugh with his h funny observances on life and his very ve British accent. Gee is a nine-time published publis author including “The Winner’s Attitude” and “Super Service.” Free. Also catch the show Nov. 17 and Dec. 9. Questions: 847-814-6237. 102 Harrison St., Oak Park.

Folk & Baroque Monday, Oct. 9, 1:15 p.m., Nineteenth Century Charitable Association: Tim Macdonald and Jeremy Ward, The Scottish Fiddle Duo, use period instruments to mix Baroque chamber music with high-energy dance tunes, along with their 18th-century Scottish aesthetic. $10 suggested donation. More: 708-386-2729, nineteenthcentury.org. 178 Forest Ave., Oak Park.

Tributosaurus Becomes: Styx Friday, Oct. 6, 9 p.m., Wire: Come Sail Away with this local group as they morph into a 1970s Chicago rock-band. 21+ show. Doors open 8 p.m.; limited seating. $25; $60, VIP Reserved Balcony Seating (Limit 4), Questions: info@wireismusic.com. 6815 Roosevelt Rd., Berwyn.

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hen you look at a sweater knit by a Red Cross volunteer at West Suburban Hospital, read about rats in the trenches, hear music that tied allies together, or see original posters urging means of support — from binocular donations to war bond purchases — the stories of 100 years ago come alive. It is all part of a comprehensive offering, “World War I and America,” launched by the Oak Park Public Library and the Oak Park River Forest Museum. The exhibit, “From the Home Front to the Battle Front,” at the new museum, which the Historical Society of Oak Park-River Forest officially opened last month, examines WWI through the stories of eight local residents. One, Wallace Allen Valentine, whose name is listed on the Scoville Park War Memorial, was an African American soldier from Oak Park. Frank Lipo, executive director of the Historical Society, said it’s important for people to connect what is happening today with what was happening 100 years ago. “People see the War Memorial in Scoville Park,” he said. “When we researched, we found an Oak Leaves article about him and other ‘colored men’ going to war. So even then, the area was conscious about race in a positive way.” Something else discovered while researching a local businessman of the time is that the government started registering residents from a certain country. “Forty-two German men from this area had to register at Grace Lutheran Church, formerly German Lutheran Church,” Lipo said. “This idea of being vigilant, keeping your eyes wide open, and balancing individual rights, are issues we are still dealing with today.” When the 100th anniversary of WWI was approaching, Historical Society board member Peggy Tuck Sinko said they began thinking about curating an exhibit since it’s an important topic and the Historical Society already had items in their collection. They also tried something never done before. “We decided to invite community members to loan objects,” Sinko said. “We had absolutely no idea what would come in, but

things came we hadn’t thought about, such as artifacts from the German Army. It just added to the stories we were telling.” Purely by coincidence, an item was donated to the museum that both Sinko and Lipo treasure. A family now living in Pennsylvania sent a complete scrapbook chronicling the life of Elmer Joy Bishop, Oak Park resident and member of the Cuyler Church Orchestra, who died in the line of duty by enemy fire while repairing telephone lines on the front in France. He left a young widow back home in Oak Park; they had wed only 13 months earlier, on June 12, 1917. A gold star adorns the cover of the book. With so many stories to tell, the museum exhibit is only one way to explore the topics of this conflict that the U.S. entered into a century ago. The museum is also hosting two lectures, and the Oak Park Public Library also has a variety of offerings, including a film series with viewings and discussions led by Doug Deuchler, book discussions at all three branches, led by librarians, as well as author talks, performances and additional lectures by experts in their fields. Debby Preiser, library community relations coordinator, received an $1,800 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to apply toward the effort. She put the programming together herself, attending events at other locations and doing research through the State of Illinois Centennial Commission. “I met the author of Chicago Transformed when he presented his book at the Pritzker Museum and Library,” she said. “And I saw Johnnies, Tommies and Sammies, a music offering with six people from U of I and Illinois State, held at the Orland Park Library. These are really good programs and we’re bringing them here.” Also appearing are local authors Kathryn Atwood and William Hazelgrove. Veterans are part of the programming. Ed White reads and discusses essays from WWI, and on Veterans Day, a special commemoration will take place at Oak Park Arms at 11 a.m. on Nov. 11. The museum exhibit runs through the end of the year. For a complete listing of events: oppl.org/ ww1. For more on the Oak Park River Forest Museum: go to oprfhistory.org.

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Students through college are free. Single tickets are available at the door for $28. For tickets call DUPAC at 708-488-5000 or visit www.symphonyOPRF.com. Call 708-218-2648 for more info or a season subscription.

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t is not easy to change your mind. Especially in a small town when you’ve been elected for advocating a specific position on a complex issue. Especially in these days of social media thunder where core supporters feel, not implausibly, that they have a call on you. But Deno Andrews and Dan Moroney, two of the Oak Park village trustees elected just in April on a platform opposing what they said was an overlarge Lake Street high-rise proposal, did change their minds about the Albion project. On Monday night they joined four board colleagues in widely approving construction of the 18-story, mixed-use project on the northwest corner of Lake and Forest. In the final week leading up to this unexpected outcome, both Moroney and Andrews smartly used their make-orbreak power — at least one of their votes was needed to create a super-majority to overturn the narrow Plan Commission recommendation opposing Albion — to substantively change the building’s design. In that 11th hour process, the massing of the high rise was shifted away from an 18-story wall of glass facing Austin Gardens to a series of stairsteps, notches, setbacks — choose your architectural term of choice — that will reduce the amount of shade cast by the building over the park. Having read the just-released “findings of fact” from the Plan Commission, it was clear that the most notable reason the proposal failed in that body was concern over its impact on the public park. Moroney and Andrews asked village staff to inquire if the developer was open to substantive changes. Moroney even sent along to Village Manager Cara Pavlicek a penciled sketch of what was either a new version of a high-rise or his plans for his front-porch steps. Now Tammy Grossman, the village’s lead staffer on development, has been talking to Albion since the morning after the Plan Commission’s initial vote. I presume some softening of fixed posi-

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tions had been underway on the developer’s part. After all, they really want to build a building here. Monday’s full house at village hall was a raucous one. Opponents were in the vast majority, and their feelings were clear as they hooted in the affirmative and snickered in derision. In the end, as trustees were speaking their piece on why they supported and Trustee Simone Boutet opposed this project, most of them pointedly thanked the opponents and urged them to stay active and involved. Trustee Moroney, though, had his dander up and was not so forgiving of the critics who have been “in his ear” and dominating his social media feed for months. Clearly, he did not like being compared to Donald Trump, being called a liar, having Monday’s crowd laughing as the developer spoke. “The value of Oak Park is civility,” he said. It may prove a challenge to get back to that place. And it may require the new trustees to remove themselves from the echo chamber of Facebook to maintain a clearer view of the full range of views held in Oak Park. Opponents — and the park district put itself at the center of the opposition — overplayed their hand. The confluence of general opposition to development, to change, to height, to density was given credible cover and focus with concerns about Austin Garden. When an alternate proposal surfaced that largely addressed the shade issue in the park, opponents were left with the weaker argument that they just don’t like tall buildings in Oak Park. Jan Arnold, executive director of the park district, was a speaker Monday night. With the shade argument largely neutralized, she said it was really about more than shade. It was about “altering the feel of the park for residents.” Now Albion, a better Albion, will be built. And in the process not only has the project gotten better but so have our trustees.

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D97 approves expansion of Holmes Construction on a 2-story, $8.8M addition, could be completed by 2018-19 By MICHAEL ROMAIN Staff Reporter

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Finger-pickin’ good Folktober Fest was held by Oak Parkers interested in bringing folk music back to the village. Organizers hope to hold more folk-music-related events and classes in the coming year.

A two-story, six-classroom addition to Holmes School was unanimously approved by the District 97 school board at its Sept. 26 meeting. The expansion will cost $8.8 million. The plan also calls for expanding the Chicago Avenue school’s multipurpose space and media center, classroom renovations and a repurposed second floor. The district had originally approved another plan -- an estimated $5.6 million, 1-story, 5-classroom addition last July, but the district’s Facilities Advisory Committee — a voluntary group comprising parents and community members who are experts in architecture, engineering and other related fields — reconsidered that option. Paul May, a civil engineer and FAC member, said during a Sept. 13 informational meeting that both plans would entail the expansion going up on the Kenilworth side of the school and the relocation of utilities. The plan approved last week, however, may not require the relocation of a water main

in that area, he said. District officials said that the approved plan, which would be paid for with bonds, could be completed in one construction season and in time for the 2018-19 school year. They added that the plan was actually less expensive, on a square-footage basis, than the previously approved plan. At the Sept. 13 meeting, district officials addressed a range of concerns expressed by community members. They said that a rock garden that’s currently located in the area where the addition would go up could be relocated to a new patio area. District officials also addressed how the recent hurricane season could affect the cost and availability of construction materials, noting that although construction crews could experience delayed supplies, the contractor would order the materials far enough in advance to minimize the delay. District officials said the expansion project’s construction manager, Bulley and Andrews, have started communicating with utility companies about their needs during the construction process. Nicor, officials said, explained that they’re able to move the gas mains by Feb. 1, 2018 without causing outages inside of Holmes or affecting the playground. CONTACT: michael@oakpark.com

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Local whiz kid brings technology to the masses

Fenwick junior partners with library to host Maker Fest By JYLLIAN ROACH Staff Reporter

At first glance, River Forester Ethan Baehrend seems like a typical 17-year-old. His room sports a variety of posters dedicated to pop culture icons, a beloved gaming computer, and even a Morty costume from the hit TV show Ricky and Morty. Except the posters depict Bill Nye and Neil de Grasse Tyson as saints. The gaming computer was built by Baehrend himself and that three-dimensional Morty mask? He printed that one his own. Yes, printed. Because underneath the awkwardness of being a teenager and behind the “Portal 2” posters, Baehrend is something of a technological prodigy. He was just 13 when he was first introduced to the world of 3D printing. He said he learned about it at school and enjoyed it enough to purchase a small $300 printer to experiment with at home. After some trial and error, Baehrend successfully made his first model — a deer. It wasn’t long after that the first printer broke, but it sparked a passion that wasn’t going anywhere. “I found the technology interesting at the time and I needed something to occupy my time kind of as an escape,” the Fenwick High School junior said. Soon Baehrend started buying broken 3D printers, refurbishing them and selling them on eBay. This wasn’t far from the business he was already running: modifying computers for friends. He’d been doing that since middle school. As his new side business grew, so did Baehrend’s skill. By the time he was 16, he said, he started drawing up plans for his own 3D printer. This one, which stands about waist-high on the average person, is entirely modular, which allows the user to create a single torso-sized object as easily as petri dish colonies. And that printer will hopefully be one day available through the company Baehrend just started — Creative 3D technologies.

Being something of a motivated innovator, Baehrend said he also wanted to make 3D printing more accessible to other highschool and middle-school students. He is just a community project away from earning the Eagle Scout title from Boy Scouts of America. While there were a variety of simpler projects to choose from — like beautifying a public space, or collecting items for local nonprofit organizations — Baehrend decided to follow his passion again. “There were other, easier options,” he said. “But I wanted to do something in my interests.” At first, Baehrend approached the Oak Park and River Forest public libraries with dreams of building a permanent maker space within the building. While both libraries were intrigued by the idea and interested in joining in on what has become a trend among libraries throughout the country, neither had room for such a space. Undeterred, Baehrend came back to River Forest Public Library with a re-designed proposal: a “maker fest.” The day-long event on Oct. 7 will run from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. and will feature activities and presentations from 12 Chicagoland creative organizations, such as School of Rock, Vortex Drones and Warehouse 88. “He’s really an amazing kid,” said Francisca Arnold, public relations and marketing associate for River Forest Public Library. Arnold said River Forest has embraced the “hands-on” trend of libraries for the last several years, and Baehrend’s project aligned perfectly with that mission. “One of our strategic goals is to stimulate imagination and another one is lifelong learning, so [the Maker Fest] really fits in with what the library’s doing as a whole.” Much of the event is about doing rather than listening. School of Rock, for example, will have what they call a musical petting zoo for participants to visit; Vortex Drones will have drone demonstrations outside. And this interactive style is exactly what Baehrend had in mind when he designed Maker Fest. “That’s what we hope to try to simplify with this fair. We want to make the technology more approachable,” he said.

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BUILDER : Ethan Baehrend, a junior at Fenwick, shows a model he designed and made with one of his 3D printers in the work space at his home in River Forest.

Diana Baehrend, Ethan’s mom, said the business, the inventing, the Maker Fest — none of it surprised her. In the hall of her River Forest home is a shadow box that contains some aluminum foil sculptures. These, she said were one of the many things her son had created. On the back of the shadow box is the story the aluminum sculptures tell; because Ethan, she said, has always wanted to create and innovate. For him, the bigger the project, the more creative, the better, she said. “Ever since he was little, Ethan has always been creative in the sense that ‘I want to make something and it has to be big and it has to be right,’” she said. She’s visibly proud as she talks about Halloween costumes he designed over the years; ones with flashing lights and moving

parts. She’s even more proud when she explains that his hobby is 100 percent funded by Ethan. She happily drives him wherever he needs to go to fuel his creativity, but he has always been responsible for making the money spent on his projects. The only problem she sees with his passion is that he’s ahead of his time. “If there were a negative, just for now, I think it’s a little isolating,” she said. “It’s not easy to find someone who understands. Adults love it; kids, not so much,” she said. Ethan Baehrend seemed less concerned about this drawback, shrugging as his mom speaks. He’s too busy checking on a small printer that’s hard at work, making a new component for his prototype. He expects to have it working before Maker Fest. “I took the best out of everything I know in four years’ experience in 3D printing,” he says, “and put it into something I can give to the masses.”

Lake and Lathrop property purchased Building was the last needed to move forward with development plan By JYLLIAN ROACH Staff Reporter

Sedgewick Partners has met its first deadline in the contract for the development

project at the southwest corner of Lake Street and Lathrop Avenue: It has purchased the last parcel of land needed. The commercial building at 7617-7621 Lake Avenue was sold on Sept. 29, meeting its obligations laid out in the contract with the Village of River Forest exactly on deadline. The development project has had its share of trials. One of the larger obstacles has been purchasing the commercial building owned by the family of Oak Park Township

Assessor Ali ElSaffar. While ElSaffar has been on board with selling the property, the soil in the area and under the family’s building had been severely contaminated by a nearby dry-cleaning business, causing years-long delays and complications in the sale. “There have been more ups, downs, twists and turns in getting to today’s closing than I ever could have imagined,” ElSaffar said in a press release. “It’s been a wild ride.”

The village has been publicly collaborating with developers to create a part commercial, part residential space at the corner of Lake and Lathrop. The plan, according to Sedgewick Partners, is a building that includes first floor commercial spaces and 20-30 2,000-square-foot condos on the second and third floors. Now that all of the land has been secured, Sedgewick Partners will have until Nov. 30 to submit a development application to the village board.

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The 2017-18 budget features a $12.5 million surplus, but officials caution prudence By MICHAEL ROMAIN Staff Reporter

After several years of deficit spending, the Oak Park Elementary School District 97 school board has adopted a surplus budget that puts the district on course to achieve a minimum fund balance of around 25 percent within the next five years. Total revenue for the 2017-18 fiscal year budgeted is estimated to be $115,981,917 while expenditures are $103,532,262 for a surplus of $12,449,655, according to district officials. Next fiscal year’s budget is around 25 percent larger than the 2016-17 budget of roughly $93 million. The 2018 fiscal year’s surplus reflects the additional money the district received from property taxes after the successful passage of a referendum that asked taxpayers for $13.3 million in new revenue. The district also stands to receive $6.6 million in property tax revenue in fiscal

year 2019 and another $2.6 million in unanticipated revenue due to an increase in the equalization factor, which is a critical aspect of how property taxes are calculated in Cook County. In July, the D97 school board voted to use the $2.6 million to pay down some of the debt related to the construction of its two middle school buildings. That leaves a “real surplus” of around $3.3 million, explained Alicia Evans, D97’s assistant superintendent of finance, during the Sept. 26 public hearing where the budget was adopted. Evans and other district officials, however, cautioned spending the money prudently. Board member Robert Spatz said that in order to hit its target fund balance level within five years the district has to maintain small annual surpluses. “Our finance policy says we should maintain a fund balance between 25 and 50 percent,” Spatz said. “We intentionally sized it to be at the lower end, which means that if enrollment increases beyond what we’re projecting, or state or federal funding decreases significantly,” the district could slip beneath the 25 percent minimum if it doesn’t have a sufficient fund balance. CONTACT: michael@oakpark.com

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pearances on behalf of local nonprofits and as an avid and frequently visible runner. “The Journal is really pleased to have Peter Sagal as part of our Conversations series. Many of us have spent a lot of SatPeter Sagal, host of NPR’s Wait Wait … urday mornings, stuck in mid-errand, waitDon’t Tell Me! is next up in the Wednesday ing for a segment of Wait, Wait Journal Conversations series. to close out before we drop off Sagal, an Oak Parker for many the dry cleaning or make it to the years, has hosted Wait, Wait for Farmers Market,” said Dan Halalmost 20 years. Broadcast naey, Journal publisher. “Bright, tionally and co-produced by Chipointed and quick-witted, Peter cago’s WBEZ, the show is heard is not just an irreverent enterby nearly three million listeners tainer but someone helping to on the radio and another million drive the wide national convereach month on a podcast version. sation.” Sagal will be on the stage of This series of Conversations Dominican University’s Fine is presented by Dominican UniArts Center on Monday, Nov. PETER SAGAL versity. Our moderator is Charlie 20. Charlie Meyerson will once Radio host Meyerson, founder of the Chiagain serve as the moderator. cago Public Square, a daily eTickets are available now at OakPark.com/sagal for the nominal price of $25. mailed news wrap. He’s also a longtime Oak The first event in the Conversations se- Parker with a career in news from radio to ries sold out in September. It featured David digital to print. Sponsors of the series include the Oak Axelrod, political commentator and former Park-River Forest Community Foundation, advisor to President Barack Obama. Beyond the Peabody Award-winning radio state Sen. Don Harmon, and Maya del Sol program, Sagal is known locally for his ap- restaurant.

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Development disruptions shut businesses, owners seek payment By TIMOTHY INKLEBARGER Staff Reporter

It took Nicor a few hours to reverse a potentially disastrous gas leak that evacuated a section of downtown Oak Park in August, but compensation to shop owners for the lost business has taken months. The gas leak – connected to the construction of The Emerson apartment complex near Lake and Harlem – which resulted in the evacuation of shops along Lake and Marion streets is only part of the problem, according to some business owners in the area. Planned power outages in the area over the last year due to the massive construction project have gone longer than expected in some instances, causing shop owners to lose business and perishable goods. Cindy Summers, owner of Sugar Fixé Patisserie, 119 N. Marion St., said power outages last summer and in October 2016 have disrupted her business in addition the gas leak disruption. The Oct. 4, 2016 power outage was supposed to be overnight but lasted about four hours longer than expected, causing her to open the shop late and lost some refrigerated products. Summers estimates the total loss during that episode was over $500 in food and lost business. “I was beyond frustrated,” she said in a

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CONSTRUCTION BLUES: Small business owners in downtown Oak Park are looking to get reimbursed for various disruptions to their businesses during construction of the Emerson Apartments. recent interview. “It was a pretty significant disruption. I literally had customers showing up [to a closed restaurant], angry.” Summers said she’s filed two insurance claims with ComEd and was rejected both times. Now she’s turned to the village of Oak Park for compensation. The Aug. 11 gas leak made headlines, shutting down businesses along Marion Street for several hours after a backhoe struck an underground gas line during construction

near The Emerson. Summers said the development company – a partnership between Lennar Multifamily Communities and Clark Street Real Estate – has been responsive and she expects to be reimbursed for the gas-leak closure. But other businesses might not even be aware they can file a claim, she said. Meanwhile, Summers waits for compensation for the October 2016 power outage. Michelle Vanderlaan, owner of Sugarcup

Trading, 110 N. Marion St., and 16 Suitcases, 108 N. Marion St., said she is in the process of following up on the gas leak. Vanderlaan noted, however, that the time it takes to follow up on such a claim can be onerous for a small business owner. “Small business should not have to go through hoops for that kind of stuff,” she said. Told about Summers’ efforts, Vanderlaan said, “Imagine the amount of time she’s spending in making that happen.” Summers said she has advocated that the village make developers set up a fund for such disruptions to business, sending an email in support of the idea to the Oak Park Plan Commission earlier this year during its consideration of the new Albion development at Lake and Forest. Tammie Grossman, director of Oak Park’s Development Customer Service Department, said in a telephone interview said the power outages and other disruptions to business are not uncommon during construction projects. “That’s why [developers] have insurance,” she said. She said the ComEd power outage falls to the village because the property – a large surface parking lot prior to the construction of the Emerson – was still owned by the village at the time of the outage.

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ALBION APPROVED Trustee vote 6-1 in favor from page 1 tin Gardens. Albion will include 265 apartments, a 207-space parking garage and about 9,500 square feet of ground-level retail space. The Oak Park Plan Commission rejected the developer’s original proposal in September, noting in its finding of fact that the tower “did not complement the character of the surrounding neighborhood due to the proposed structure’s height on the north side, including that the scale of the north wing of the building is incompatible with Austin Gardens to the north.” The commission’s rejection of the proposal put the project in jeopardy because it required a supermajority vote of 5-2 from the Oak Park Board of Trustees to be overturned. A last-minute design change suggested by trustees Deno Andrews and Dan Moroney altered the north side of the building to include a stepped design aimed at reducing the shade the building would cast on Austin Gardens. “The idea of a stepped building has received a lot of interest from our architecture and development team as this has added a new element of architectural presence to the site,” Andrew Yule, Albion vice president of development wrote in a memo to the board. “The intent will include a building stepped down from Lake Street to the park to limit density, shadow, and wind on the north side of the site near the park which was a concern of the planning commission.” The gambit worked, winning a 6-1 approval from the board – Trustee Simone Boutet was the sole no vote. Yule told trustees at the meeting that Albion aims to

Renderings courtesy of Albion

Rendering of the new Albion development as viewed from Austin Gardens. break ground on the project in June 2018 and it is expected to take about two years to complete the tower. The meeting drew a large audience of Albion opponents, many of whom yelled at trustees and Albion representatives throughout the meeting. The village board gave three advocates and three opponents for the project the chance to make their cases for and against the project.

Jan Arnold, executive director of the Park District of Oak Park, argued that the park district staff and the public did not have enough time to fully review the new design and that the project still would have negative impacts on the park and the 48 performances by Festival Theater during the summer. Arnold said the tower would reduce the level of enjoyment residents get out of the park “which

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A TALL ORDER: (Left) A full room listens to community members speak about Albion on Monday, Oct. 2, during a public meeting at village hall. (Right) An attendee holds up a sign that says “Don’t throw shade on Austin Gardens.”

cannot be replanted or redesigned.” Cindy Summers, owner of Sugar Fixé Patisserie and president of Downtown Oak Park, told the board that she supports the project because it would be good for the local economy. “I’ve already seen it with Vantage,” she said, of the 21-story luxury apartment building that stands across the street to the east from the proposed Albion building. Trustees debated the proposal in the public meeting and explained their reasons for their votes. Boutet motioned to have the revised project return to the Plan Commission for further consideration, arguing that trustees and the public were not given enough time to

review the altered project, but her motion was defeated in a 6-1 vote. Boutet said she and the public want a development that “fits a little bit better into the community.” Boutet, along with trustees Dan Moroney and Deno Andrews, were elected to the board earlier this year and all three campaigned on a platform that included opposing the Albion project. At the Monday night meeting, just prior to casting their votes, Moroney and Andrews both acknowledged that they had reneged on a campaign promise. Andrews said he agreed with the Plan Commission’s findings-of-fact report rejecting the original proposal. Andrews said he was “confident the project would do some damage to the park” but added that it would diversify

the tax base and bring revenue into the village. “It appears as if I’m flipping my vote; I don’t blame you for being angry, and I apologize,” he said before voting to approve the project. Moroney said it was a hard decision, noting that constituents have called him “a liar, shady, sketchy and Trumpian” for changing his position on the proposal. He criticized his detractors, saying that the rhetoric was “uncalled for.” “Have some respect, people,” he said. Oak Park Mayor Anan Abu-Taleb, who ran unopposed in the recent election, said he has been “very predictable” in his support for such developments during his time in office. “I know that I am not in love with high-rises; I am in love with the people of the Village of Oak Park,” he said, adding, “At the end of the day, I believe we have a project that is good for the Village of Oak Park.” CONTACT: tim@oakpark.comww

TAKING A KNEE The protest spreads from page 1 body disrespects our flag, to say, ‘Get that son of a bitch off the field right now. Out! He’s fired. He’s fired!’” The comment prompted members of teams across the NFL to engage in a variety of forms of protest during the National Anthem, including taking a knee and in some cases locking arms in a show of solidarity. At the Sept. 29 game, dozens of OPRF football players, cheerleaders and band members silently joined in the protest. Owen Frankel, 17, an OPRF senior tuba player, said he heard about the plan a few days prior to the game. He said that all but about 15 to 20 members of the roughly 126-member band decided to take a knee during the anthem. “I think racial equality is an important issue right now, and standing against injustice in the current political climate right now is really important,” he said. Frankel said he could hear one man yelling at the players and band members from the stands as the National Anthem played from the loud speakers. “I couldn’t really hear what he was saying,” Frankel said. “I could just hear that he was shouting and swearing. The whole band handled it really well because we just marched

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off the field and kept our composure.” Another 17-year-old tuba player, Grace Farnham, a senior, who took a knee during the National Anthem, said, “It felt like a big moment. I don’t really have words to describe it.” “It’s not meant to disrespect the flag or disrespect the National Anthem or disrespect the country, but we just wanted to raise the conversation about police brutality and racial injustice in the country because it’s prevalent everywhere and Oak Park is not immune to that,” she said. OPRF Principal Nathaniel Rouse issued a statement prior to the game, noting that

many students have voiced their own “personal feelings, fears and anxiety about recent events across our nation, events vividly underscoring that people have suffered, been hurt and died in our country due to hatred, racism, bigotry and ignorance.” “Recently, we have seen an overwhelming amount of Americans taking a stance on racial injustice happening throughout our country,” Rouse wrote. “Many Americans have used their platform to bring the conversation on race in America to the forefront. “While many have confronted these issues, we here at OPRF believe it is critical

that we continue the conversation.” He encouraged the community to work together to combat oppression “aimed at black, Latino, Muslim, refugee, immigrant, and LGBTQ+ communities.” “America was founded on the ideals that promise life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness to everyone,” Rouse wrote. “It is imperative that we work to make sure that promise is fulfilled. “We must continue to love. We must continue to speak out on injustices wherever they exist.” CONTACT: tim@oakpark.com

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Roosevelt Road pharmacy robbed at gunpoint

Segreti Pharmacy, 6144 W. Roosevelt Rd., was robbed at gunpoint at 5:50 p.m. on Sept. 26. Two men, both approximately 30 years old, entered the pharmacy and took an employee’s iPhone. One of the robbers, who was armed with a chrome semi-automatic handgun, asked, “Where are the narcs?” The second robber held a plastic garbage bag and had the employee place various prescription drugs and the iPhone into the bag. The two left in an unknown direction. The estimated loss is $1,466. The armed robber was described as black, 6-foot-3, 230 pounds, and wearing black sunglasses, and a beige short-sleeved dress shirt. The other robber was described as 5-foot-9, 250 pounds, with a long combed-back afro hairstyle and wearing a black sweatshirt and black pants.

Vehicular hijacking A woman was parking her silver Subaru Forester in her garage in the 700 block of North Hayes at 6:25 p.m. on Sept. 29, when a man between the ages of 15 and 25 approached and grabbed her arm in an attempt to remove her purse and keys. She released the purse and keys after she was unable to free herself from the man, who then entered the vehicle and drove off eastbound on Augusta. He left the purse behind, according to police. The vehicle was later located parked and unoccupied in the 1700 block of North Parkside in Chicago at 11:55 p.m. the man was described as black, 5-foot10, with a thin build and wearing a darkcolored sweater.

Assault A Chicago resident was the victim of aggravated assault in the 400 block of North Austin at approximately 8:30 p.m. on Sept.

26. The victim was a target of road rage while stopped at the stoplight at the corner of Lake Street and Austin Boulevard when a man, approximately 30 years old, pointed a black handgun with a nickel-plated barrel at the victim

Robbery

■ A Chicago juvenile was arrested in the 5600 block of West Division Street in Chicago and charged with aggravated robbery at 11:48 p.m. on Sept. 24. The juvenile was taken to the station, processed and released to a parent. ■ An AT&T employee was sitting in his work truck, facing northbound in the alley of the 900 block of North Humphrey at 2:50 p.m., when a male in his late teens or early 20s displayed a silver semi-automatic handgun and said, “Give me the wallet and stuff.” The victim handed over two iPhones worth $700. The robber was described as black, 6-foot tall, thin and wearing a dark baseball cap, long dreadlocks, a gray shirt, dark pants and blue underwear. ■ Marquez Goston, 18, of the 1000 block of North Lorel in Avenue in Chicago, was arrested at 11:15 a.m. on Sept. 29 for an armed robbery that took place on June 20, 2017 in the 500 block of N. Cuyler. ■ An Oak Park man was robbed in the 900 block of Clarence at about 7:15 p.m. on Sept. 30 by a man estimated to be in his late teens. The robber approached the victim as he was parking his car, put the man in a headlock and demanded the keys to the vehicle. The victim said he did not have the keys, so the robber threw him to the ground and took $90 from his shirt pocket.

Battery ■ Pedro

Menendez, 48, of the 5900 block

of Jackson in Chicago, was arrested at 1:46 a.m. in the 1100 block of South Boulevard and charged with aggravated battery and held for bond hearings. ■ An Oak Park woman was the victim of battery in the 200 block of Fillmore Street at 6:29 p.m. on Sept. 28. The woman was walking her dog eastbound on Fillmore when she witnessed five boys throwing rocks at dogs in a yard. She told them to stop, and they instead began throwing rocks at her, striking her in the head. ■ Samuel C. Smith, 25, of the 7200 block of South Saint Lawrence Avenue in Chicago, was arrested in the 700 block of South Austin Boulevard at 10:11 a.m. on Sept. 29 and charged with domestic battery and resisting a peace officer. Police report that Smith struck a woman and grabbed her by the throat on the CTA platform. After a short struggle, he was taken into custody, processed and held for bond hearings.

Residential burglary ■ An apartment was burglarized in the 100 block of West Division Street sometime between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. on Sept. 21. The burglar gained entry to the apartment by prying open the rear door and then stole a 50-inch Samsung flat screen television, a PlayStation, an Xbox, 15 video games and a drum set. The estimated loss is $4,500. ■ A residence in the 300 block of South Humphrey Avenue was burglarized at about 9 a.m. on Sept. 26. The burglar entered by breaking the kitchen door with a rock and then stole cash and costume jewelry valued at $300. ■ A residence in the 900 block of Pleasant Street was the target of an unsuccessful burglary sometime between 11 p.m. on Sept. 24 and 8 a.m. on Sept. 25. The burglar

attempted to pry off the lock from the metal screen door. The estimated loss is $100. ■ A residence was burglarized in the 800 block of West Washington Boulevard sometime between 11:15 a.m. and 12:36 p.m. on Sept. 26. The burglar used a pry tool to gain entry to the residence through a kitchen window and then stole a Lenovo laptop, three iPhones, jewelry, $20 in British pounds and an Apple laptop. ■ A residence was burglarized in the 600 block of North Ridgeland between 6:45 and 9 p.m. on Sept. 25. The burglar entered by breaking a back window and then stole two MacBook’s, an iPad 7, a jade jewelry box with miscellaneous jewelry and a white cross. The estimated loss is $2,415.

Theft ■ Someone stole $200 from a kitchen counter in the 100 block of S. Elmwood sometime between 7 a.m. and 4 p.m. on Sept. 25. ■ A man entered a store in the 300 block of Madison Street and concealed some unknown items and left without paying at about 5:37 p.m. on Sept. 25. ■ A man was arrested in the 1100 block of South Boulevard at 8:19 p.m. on Sept. 25 for theft of a bicycle from 201 North Scoville. ■ Four females in their late teens or early 20s stole various items from the Gap department store, 435 N. Harlem at roughly 7:28 p.m. on Sept. 21.

Criminal damage to vehicle A red 2004 Chevy was vandalized in the 1200 block North Austin at 8:14 a.m. on Sept. 25. A man smashed the driver’s side window with his fist.

— Compiled by Timothy Inklebarger

Boykin announces re-election bid

County commissioner rules out run against board President Preckwinkle By MICHAEL ROMAIN Editor

Cook County Commissioner Richard Boykin (1st), whose district covers all of Oak Park, where he lives, announced last week that he will run for re-election — effectively ruling out a run against Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle. Boykin had mulled the idea of running for board president for months. It was a tantalizing prospect considering Preck-

Despite the unpopularity of winkle’s relative political weakthe tax and Preckwinkle’s vulness in the wake of her pivotal nerability, however, running a role in the passage of the deeply campaign against her might still unpopular sugary beverage tax, have proved a formidable underwhich raised the cost of some taking. sweetened drinks by a penny per The board president has benounce. Boykin, who voted against efited from millions in adverthe tax, has been a leader in the tising dollars from former New effort to repeal it. York City mayor and billionaire “When I stepped forward four businessman Michael Bloomyears ago to run for public ofRICHARD BOYKIN berg, who has pledged millions fice, I did so because I felt called Cook County commissioner more to the campaigns of Preckto serve,” Boykin said in a statewinkle and other commissionment announcing his decision to run for re-election. “The 1st District of Cook ers who voted for the tax. In 2012, while he was mayor, Bloomberg County is my home, and the people of the 1st District deserved then — as they deserve passed a measure that would “limit the sales now — leadership that puts people above of sugary drinks larger than 16 ounces,” according to a New York Times report. The politics.”

measure, however, was struck down two years later by the New York State Court of Appeals. Boykin held a press conference on Sept. 28, where he was flanked by Chicago politicians and West Side community leaders, including Rev. Ira Acree, a prominent Austin pastor. “I’m very disappointed in the decision that Commissioner Boykin made today, but I’m supportive and hopeful that he would continue to fight,” Acree told AustinTalks. “As the pastor of this community in the 1st District, I want to express my appreciation for this leader being the vision — one who has not been tentative or afraid to raise issues that affect us every day.” CONTACT: michael@oakpark.com

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OPRF biz students take on community café

Trustee leads OPRF class on building a business By TIMOTHY INKLEBARGER Staff Reporter

Oak Park and River Forest High School students got a lesson in starting a local business and a little real-world experience in the month of September from entrepreneur and Oak Park Village Trustee Deno Andrews. Andrews led two Small Business Management classes at OPRF for about three weeks last month on his plans to launch a community-owned café in northeast Oak Park. The project is real – Andrews already has recruited more than 200 people interested in investing in the business – but students were tasked with developing a business plan, scouting potential locations and developing a marketing strategy. Andrews, an entrepreneur who owns Felony Franks fast-food restaurant, 6427 North Ave., said he was attracted to the OPRF business program because of the business-incubator program at the school. “This is completely disrupting the way teaching is done,” he said. “When I was here learning business, we were crammed into desks, writing on paper – zero creativity.

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THINK OUTSIDE THE BUN: Deno Andrews leads a business administration class at Oak Park River Forest High School on his idea for a community-funded cafe. Zoe Smith (middle) and Hannah Keidan (right) presented their final project to the class. “I took an accounting class; I took a business law class; I took a general business class; and everything was memorization out of a book – absolutely no real world experience.” Zoe Smith and Hannah Keidan, both 17-year-old seniors, worked as managers for the project.

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Smith said she chose the elective business class because she’s interested in pursuing management, marketing or consulting in college. “I just wanted to test this out since the OPRF business school is really known and cool,” Smith said.

Keidan also was attracted to the class because of the OPRF business program’s reputation. “I thought this project was really interesting because it actually gives you real experience within a business,” Smith said. “I’m really excited to actually go and visit this business that we worked on.” Peter Hostrawser, the class instructor, said the business program at OPRF aims to bring in public figures and real business owners to instruct and mentor students. That’s how school faculty was put in touch with Andrews. “Deno’s name kept coming up with all of our mentors,” he said, noting that Andrews was recommended more than once. “A lot of the coaches coming in said, “Deno is doing this – you should talk to him about this program, and it was the community-owned café.’” He said Andrews has led the class three times a week for three weeks. “It’s funny because I’m in front of the students all the time,” he said. “But when a business owner comes in (students) react differently.” Andrews has said the café project is expected to take about $700,000 to get up and running; as of early August, he had had financial commitments of about half of that from independent investors. CONTACT: tim@oakpark.com

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Wright would have seen Stephen’s casts and photographs of Mayan buildings. These ancient structures appealed to him much more poignantly than the European Neoclassical style that dominated other buildings at the Exposition, and which he and Sullivan heartily disdained. Seeing Mayan buildings at the Exposition powerfully influenced Wright’s future work. The following key elements of Wright’s bestknown buildings had their genesis in Mayan architecture. Horizontal lines: It seems that after seeing the Uxmal exhibit at the Exposition, Wright was influenced to go more horizontal. Horizontality was characteristic of Uxmal structures, such as the Nunnery and the House of the Governor (plaster casts and photographs of the structures were on display at the Exposition). The horizontality of both Mayan and Wrightean structures is reinforced with banding, horizontal lines that run lengthwise across the building; these bands stop the eye from moving upward and persuade it to trace along the length of the building, parallel to the earth, very unlike the structures Wright was then being commissioned to design. Flat roofs: The Queen Anne and other Victorian styles, which Wright practiced early in his career, favor steeped roofs. Later works like the Laura Gale House

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Nunnery at Uxmal. Temple, a series of big rectangles upon big rectangles, with many horizontal lines and flat roofs. This rectangular massing gives so many Mayan and Wright structures their undeniable monumentality and distinct sense of space. In “The Future of Architecture,” Wright wrote that in Mayan architecture, “we see a grand simplicity and concept of form. Probably it is greater elemental architecture than anything remaining on record.” Wright’s admiration for the architecture of an indigenous American people is evident in the evolution of his Prairie School of Architecture.

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ome Ec might not be on the curriculum at many high schools anymore, but here in Oak Park it’s making a comeback in a slightly different form. Natalie Papier and Kim Daunis are bringing their colorful home help to houses throughout Oak Park and River Forest with their new home design business Home Ec. While they might not teach you how to cook or sew, they promise to help homeowners achieve a style for their homes that is all their own. Both moms with kids at Holmes School, Daunis and Papier met a few years ago at a fundraiser, and the rest is history. Once their shared love of vintage items and home furnishings was apparent, they decided to pair up on popup shops in Oak Park. Admitting that they might be hoarders of vintage items and that their basements were overflowing, Papier said that clearing items out of their own houses while showcasing their styling skills led to a new career for the duo. They recently opened an office on Marion Street and are busy helping local clients create the homes of their dreams.

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Old and new Both Daunis and Papier have backgrounds in the arts and are self-trained in styling houses. Their work on their own houses sparked the idea that there could be a career behind their hobby. After a feature on HGTV’s “House Hunters,” Papier and her family set about renovating their new-to-them Oak Park Victorian, and Daunis was the veteran of a large-scale renovation in California before she and her family settled in Oak Park. In their pop-up store stage, they didn’t just offer items for sale but staged the storefronts as they would style a real living space in a home, and locals responded with requests for decorating assistance. See HOME EC on page 19

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IN BUSINESS: Kim Daunis (left) and Natalie Papier share a love of vintage home furnishings, which they often incorporate into their home designs through their Oak Park business, Home Ec.

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Treasure hunting from page 17 The two found that their love of vintage items resonated with others in the community. “We incorporate a lot of vintage and eclectic things,” Papier said. “Here in Oak Park, there’s a lot of traditional architecture, and the question is how do you keep that but add funk?” Daunis added, “You don’t want to throw out grandma’s stuff, but you might want a more modern house.” While eschewing big-box store decorating, they say that not only are vintage furniture items often more affordable, but they are usually also better made than mass-produced items that require an Allen wrench for assembly. They do prefer to purchase some items, like textiles, new and often turn to area stores or a local seamstress for these items. Daunis says that the Oak Park area is rife with resources of all kinds for their work. “We’re learning everything within our little village,” Daunis said. “We’ve got a ton of resources here.” Papier agreed adding, “We’re making a lot of local connections. There are a lot of women-owned businesses here.” The pair were thrilled to find a female electrician at Kinetic Energy to help install light fixtures, and their painters, wallpaper hangers and handyman are all from the area as well. Papier’s neighbor does upholstery, and her dad has been known to jump in to do finish carpentry on projects. They find treasures, building materials and inspiration at ReUse Depot in Maywood. From chandeliers to door knobs to salvaged wood and stained glass, the store on Madison Street is a frequent stop. They also turn to Studio 8, a vintage goods shop on Garfield Street in Oak Park for unique finds, and often find makeover-ready pieces of furniture at the Brown Elephant or Divine Consign. Two Story Farmhouse is another source for new textiles and styling pieces. They continue to build their Rolodex of local artists, including painter Mike Hedges, so that clients can find the perfect art pieces for their finished rooms.

Social media key While the pop-up shops and word-of-mouth referrals helped spread their name in the area, Daunis and Papier also say that a large part of their marketing comes through social media.

When Papier and her husband were turning the attic space of their home into a family room, she posted photos on social media, and was approached by someone from the blog Design Sponge about featuring her home on the well-known blog. The blog later published another local project that Daunis and Papier had worked on together. Furniture company Joybird reached out to the duo after Papier posted about her purchase of a Joybird sofa for her attic. The company published two style story videos: one on Papier’s attic and one that featured Daunis’ house, a client’s house and a shopping trip at ReUse Depot. With the publication of these projects, they found demand for their services surged. Through Facebook (www.facebook.com/ homeecop) and Instagram (www.instagram. com/home_ec_op) Papier and Daunis share frequent glimpses into ongoing design project as well as their own homes and their shopping finds, available in their online store, www.homeecop.com.

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Recent projects Home Ec works on a wide range of projects for clients, and Daunis says that their clients are generally in one of two stages in life. “Either they just moved in or a starting a renovation and need help, or they’ve been here 10 years and say, ‘It’s time. I want to make it me,’” Daunis said. “From a wholehouse renovation to choosing colors or helping layout furniture. We do all of this.” A recent kitchen renovation features a green island and cheerful wallpaper. Another project remade a home that had been through an earlier renovation that stripped it of its vintage character. The homeowner turned to Home Ec to add the character back into her house.

Many clients also request help in designing kids’ spaces, jobs that Daunis and Papier say allow them to exercise their creativity and sense of fun while still making sure to fit the budget for clients whose taste is likely to change over time. Depending on the scale of the project, clients can pay by the hour or a flat fee for a set project. “We can just do a mood board and you put things together yourself, but most of our clients want us to do the whole enchilada,” Papier said. For them the most fun comes at the end of the project. “When you pull stuff together, that’s how you make it a home,” Daunis said. “It’s very rewarding.”

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An American Ramadan

River Forest couple says don’t make assumptions about Muslims By TOM HOLMES Contributing Reporter

to sunset, every day for four weeks. Nausheen sounds very much like a Jew on Yom Kippur or a Christian during Lent when she describes what Muslims are striving for during Ramadan. “What people may not know,” she said, “is that the purpose of Ramadan is to bring you closer spiritually to your Cre-

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

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Two story mixed use building with 50’ span bow truss roof. Approx 9000 SF total includes 6250 SF 1st flr and two 2nd flr aptmnts. Shop area is approx 3600 SF. Theresa Jurgus – ID# 09765095

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Complete 3 BR, 2 BA Gut Rehab! Everything new in this beautiful brick home, huge finished basement, hdwd throughout, back yard with a 2 car garage. Jennifer Hurley - ID# 09731037

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4 BR, 2 BA, huge corner lot! LONG list of updates including a brand new water line August ‘17, new a/c, new roof on house, garage in ‘16 and many other updates! Margarita Lopez - ID# 09758022

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Oak Park

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Beautiful 1st flr 3 BR, 3 BA duplexed condo features master suite, gorgeous kitchen, fireplace, large balcony, in-unit laundry, heated garage parking plus outside space. Bethanny Alexander - ID# 09583335

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$334,900

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$450,000

Mixed use property! Former medical space with lots of potential, large indoor parking, and one large apartment to add income and property tax benefits. Theresa Jurgus – ID# 09715979

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Well maintained 3 BR, 1.1 BA feat. fireplace with built-in bookcases, separate DR, gourmet kitchen, family rm full basement and fenced backyard with patio. Saretta Joyner – ID# 09727691

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Lyons

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5 BR, 4 BA Octagon Bungalow with all of the original charm, craftsmanship. Huge finished basement with full BA for guests. This is a great Oak Park home! Steven Green - ID# 09750639

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Brick 3 bedrooms, 3.5 baths home features kitchen with skylight, stately fireplace in the family room and hardwood and laminate floors throughout, partially finished basement with huge recreation room with 12ft ceilings and full bathroom. NEW pool, NEW deck and NEW roof! Truly a great home!

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3 BR, 2.2 bath brick Burma checks all the boxes! Middle of the block, close to everything, wonderful neighbors and flanked by mature trees on all sides. Kara Keller - ID# 09643407

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Bright 3 bedroom, 1.1 bath brick, American 4 Square features decorative stained glass windows and original woodwork that has been stripped and restored to its original beauty. Newer baths, new roof 2016, new fence 2017, energy efficient furnace 2006, new gutters and downspouts 2011.

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834 Carpenter Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Weichert Realtors Nickel Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $315,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2 6955 Riverside Drive, Berwyn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Weichert Realtors Nickel Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$373,500 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:30-3:30 610 Lyman Ave, Oak Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Beyond Properties Realty Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $374,900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 1163 Clarence, Oak Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Related Realty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $375,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2

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716 Carpenter Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Weichert Realtors Nickel Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $379,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:30-3:30 630 Lyman Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Beyond Properties Realty Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $387,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 632 N. Humphrey Avenue. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Weichert Realtors Nickel Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$419,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2 1001 S. East Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $425,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 1043 S. Clarence Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Beyond Properties Realty Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $440,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10:30-12:30 625 Clarence Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Weichert Realtors Nickel Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $479,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2 1116 S. Grove Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Weichert Realtors Nickel Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $524,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2 245 S. Ridgeland Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re/Max In The Village . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $524,900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11:30-1:30 735 Home Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gloor Realty Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $575,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2:15-4 627 Belleforte Ave, Oak Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Baird & Warner Oak Park/River Forest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $595,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 723 N. East Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gloor Realty Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $599,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2:15-4 545 S. Oak Park Ave, Oak Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Weichert Realtors Nickel Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $625,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2 1213 Edmer Ave, Oak Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Baird & Warner Oak Park/River Forest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $642,500 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 924 Fair Oaks Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Weichert Realtors Nickel Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $649,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 1443 Thatcher, River Forest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gloor Realty Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $749,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2 1119 Fair Oaks, Oak Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gloor Realty Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $874,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2 313 S. Elmwood Ave, Oak Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gloor Realty Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $945,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2 1501 Park Ave, River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $949,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 734 Linden Ave, Oak Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Baird & Warner Oak Park/River Forest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $969,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3

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1133 Chicago Ave. UNIT 2W, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gloor Realty Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $669,900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2 1133 Chicago Ave. UNIT 3W, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gloor Realty Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $684,900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2

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7836 Madison Ave. UNIT 21A, River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . @properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $549,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-1 7836 Madison Ave. UNIT 21A, River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . @properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $549,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Sat. 11-1 101 N. Euclid Ave. UNIT 2, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Weichert Realtors Nickel Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $649,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11-12:30

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419 S. Ridgeland Ave, Oak Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $434,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 310 N. Grove Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Weichert Realtors Nickel Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $679,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3

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rofessional development opportunities are the fitness classes of the business world. We all know we need them, but when the business day gets going, there are a hundred different reasons why the latest email to arrive in your inbox is more important than attending an optional class on marketing or financial management. This is on my mind for two reasons: first, I am trying to do a fitness challenge at one of our fabulous local wellness studios. Squeezing in exercise class into my overwrought schedule is so much harder than giving up wine, cheese and pasta. Second, we are planning the Chamber’s activities for 2018. We hear over and over

from members that they are interested in professional development. Therefore, we work hard to deliver quality programming each year. But then people don’t attend. Or at least not in the numbers we expect. There are lots of variables. Are we holding sessions at a convenient time and location? Will there be food? Is the topic engaging? Who is speaking? Are we clear about what the class will do for the attendee? Is the program well-marketed? After a few years of trial and error, we’ve learned that topics matter most. To that end, we have a survey on our website (oprfchamber.org, look under the “News” menu) asking members to weigh in on what interests them. We would appreciate if you would add your two cents. We also learned that people really are pressed for time. Making a video of the class and posting it online has been a huge success, allowing us to reach mem-

bers who cannot attend in person. We’ll do more of that in the future. Finally, we learned that members are more likely to attend sessions tailored to their specific needs. We get better attendance at professional development sessions in our smaller Women in Business and Young Professionals groups than we do when we offer topics geared toward general membership. We will be taking all of this into account as we prepare for 2018. In the meantime, we would love to hear from you as to what kind of professional development most interests you.

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Stepping up and challenging ‘anti-aging’ Extra!! Extra!! Read all about it!

The Who, “Tommy”

’d never even heard of Allure magazine. It is a leading, sophisticated advertising package for cosmetics, fashion, perfume, hair, etc. Flipping through the pages, one notices Chanel, Ralph Lauren, Lancome, Neutrogena, L’Oreal, and all the heavy hitters in the amazing, billion-dollar beauty industry. I was in CVS, wearing beat-up sandals, dirty cut-offs and a stained T-shirt, unshaven, buying cough syrup. I saw the magazine cover at the checkout. I bought the magazine — not for hair-styling tips or shampoo recommendations or Botox ads. Right there in CVS the cover screamed out the words “The end of anti-AGING, our call to the industry.” This is like Car and Driver magazine promoting only green sustainable energy. Or the AMA Journal supporting Medicare-for-All. Or the NRA newsletter agreeing that 150-round clips and silencers sold at 7-11 is not healthy for our communities. About 30 pages inside this very slick magazine I found the statement written by Michelle Lee, editor in chief: “Changing the way we think about aging starts with changing the way we talk about aging. With that in mind, and starting with this issue, we are making a resolution to stop using the term ‘anti-aging.’ Whether we know it or not, we’re subtly reinforcing the message that aging is a condition we need to battle — think antianxiety meds, antivirus software, or antifungal spray.” I ask: What is “anti-aging” anyway? Pro-death? I’ve written here previously about what Dr. Bill Thomas terms “the tyranny of still.” When referring to olders, the comment “Oh my, you still look so good” or “look at you, still sharp as a tack” or how about when we talk down to olders or raise our volume to help them understand or call them “honey” or “sweetie.” Michelle Lee writes, “Repeat after me: Growing older is a wonderful thing because it means that we get a chance, every day, to live a full, happy life. Language matters.” She closes her statement with, “Major props to those who have already taken steps, and, to the rest of the beauty industry, we’re calling on you now: We know it’s not easy to change packaging and marketing overnight. But together we can start to change the conversation and celebrate the beauty in all ages.” Kudos to Michelle Lee and Allure. On another note, I recently read a terrific article by

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Eight girls & a limo: Our date with Alexander Hamilton

y children always said that if I had only $100 to my name and was forced to choose between paying the electric bill and going to see a musical, I would choose the latter— to hell with the lights. While I may now have slightly more than that in my bank account, their statement still rings true. As teens, our parents started taking my siblings and me to see live theater, both in Chicago and sometimes on Broadway if we were headed in that direction on summer vacation: Annie, A Chorus Line, 42nd Street, Phantom of the Opera. Those trips to the theater were some of my best memories growing up. Getting all dressed up, sitting in velvet seats in the dark quiet theater clutching a Playbill in your hands, going out to dinner afterwards, humming the opening number of whatever was the go-to show of the season. OK, I’ll admit if I had to hear our youngest sister sing the chorus for “Tomorrow” one more time (after seeing Annie for the third time), I might personally want to wring Andrea McArdle’s scrawny neck. But on the whole I was always happy to hear the soundtrack for each and every show, over and over again, until every verse was buckled down in my memory.

With my children, I kept that tracks playing and started taking them to live theater from the age of 6 — maybe more for myself than for them at that point. I believe it gave them an appreciation for the arts and instilled in them proper theater etiquette (which sorry to say, seems to be sorely lacking in the general public today). Local productions at Village Players and Circle Theatre (now long gone), were great jumping-off points for them, then moving on to A Christmas Carol at the Goodman each holiday season during grade school years. In high school and college it was the big-time productions on Broadway each year, or London if they were lucky enough to be traveling in that area, and, of course, everything that Broadway in Chicago brings to our great city each season: Wicked, Book of Mormon, The Producers, Chicago, Hairspray, Billy Elliot, and of course, Hamilton … which brings us full circle and back to the point of this article. Waaaaaay back in November 2016, the day I heard that Hamilton would be heading from Broadway to Chicago, I marked my calendar for the day the blocks of tickets would go on sale and jumped on the Lin Manuel

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Taking a knee

he protest is about racism. Deep and entrenched in our culture. Played out daily in the lives of black Americans, most particularly in their interactions with police officers and the justice system. That students at Oak Park and River Forest High School, on the public stage of a Friday night football game, would largely join that protest, taking a knee or locking arms during the anthem is a point of intense pride to us. These are our children, raised in our villages with an intense and imperfect focus on race and racism, equity and opportunity. Never has the attention of our three public school systems — OPRF, District 97 and District 90 — been as intently aligned on acknowledging the truth of systemic racism in our institutions as it is in 2017. This is less a heavy burden than a relief as we begin to fully acknowledge the truth of this racism and seek ways forward. And so, as our Huskies — football players, band members, cheerleaders — took the field on Friday evening at Downers Grove North many of them made their powerful statement of protest. Just as in the NFL, this is no protest against a flag or a song, against the military or whatever other hooey our pathetic president conjures to distract his base. It was an All-American statement of legitimate protest by free people. Nate Rouse, the principal at OPRF, issued a statement in advance of the student protest. Many OPRF students, he said, have voiced their own “personal feelings, fears and anxiety about recent events across our nation, events vividly underscoring that people have suffered, been hurt and died in our country due to hatred, racism, bigotry and ignorance.” The words of John Hoerster, the football coach, are more powerful still. He talks about teaching Dr. King’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” with its precise dissection of well-meaning white people who claim to sympathize with the cause of black justice but always object to the means of protest. “My comfort of privilege has allowed me to do that and I can’t muster to do it any longer,” Hoerster wrote to the school’s administration. “Tonight I will kneel with my players. It’s time to lean into that discomfort.” That is the affirmation we need to send to these students: Act positively on your beliefs, filter the noise, the nonsense, act inclusively to broaden the circle.

A pause on cameras OPRF is on a conscious path to change its culture. Less punitive discipline, more restorative justice. Less of a security force that can feel omnipresent and more empowerment of all adults in the building to connect and guide students. Those worthy efforts feel a bit at odds with the recent proposal to double the number of security cameras at the Scoville Avenue campus — from 110 cameras to 220. That is a lot of unblinking eyes on one large school building. The $315,000 proposal, which also includes replacing the existing cameras with digital versions, was tabled at a recent board meeting. It will come back to the board with additional information and context. We are not unilaterally opposed, but we’d like to see this school board debate the mixed message we are seeing here.

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respective churches were built, eventually y the time you read this, our village lining Lake Street to the point where Oak trustees may have made their deciPark became known as “the place where sion on the Albion proposal to build taverns end and steeples begin.” African an 18-story building at the corner of American residents also met there before Lake Street and Forest Avenue. Mt. Carmel Church was completed on what I propose adding a story. Not to the buildis now Westgate. ing. To the discussion. Barclay noted that in Temperance Hall, It’s a long story, but a good one, a story “Virginia reels were danced and amateur about stages of development at that corner, plays given within its doors. … Until 1900, which goes all the way back to the first when it was torn down, it was one of Oak Anglo settlers of Oak Park — then known as Park’s most famous landmarks.” Oak Ridge. Joseph and Betty Kettlestrings You can see Barclay’s photo at the Historiarrived in the early 1830s, about the time the cal Society’s new Oak Park River Forest Black Hawk War drove the native PotawatoMuseum, 129 Lake St. “The wood frame mis out of Illinois. Not one of this nation’s holding the photo was made from the front finest hours. door casing, the only thing left from the Suddenly there was a lot of land for the school house,” according to a photo caption in the Oak acquiring and the Kettlestrings bought most of what Leaves on Dec. 4, 1968, showing Wallis Austin, Henry is now west central Oak Park, and then, little by little, Sr.’s grandson, presenting the framed photograph sold it off. But they didn’t sell all of it. According to to members of the newly formed Historical Society. Gertrude Fox Hoagland’s 1937 book, Historical Survey Wallis’ father, Henry Jr., started Oak Park Trust of Oak Park, Illinois, “When Joseph Kettlestrings and Savings Bank in 1892 and in 1923 completed the returned to Oak Park early in 1854, he donated land at familiar pillared edifice the [northwest] corner at the corner of Lake and of Lake and Forest, on Marion (now Chase Bank). which a one-story, frame For decades it served as structure was built (1855) the financial cornerstone for a school and meeting of the community. house, with the underBarclay gave the framed standing that when a photo to Henry Jr. in 1935, permanent school was with the stipulation that erected, the corner prop“at the proper time, the erty could revert to him.” bank would turn this It was the village’s first relic over to the Oak Park school, with less than 20 Historical Society.” students under the watchIn the mid-’30s at the ful tutelage of Principal height of the Depression, A.D. Thomas. Oak Park Trust, like a lot In 1859, Oak Ridge of banks, was in trouble. School was built kitty Temperance Hall, in 1885, occupied the northwest To keep it afloat, Henry corner (you can still see corner of Lake & Forest. Jr. sold off the Lake Street the cornerstone in the frontage all the way to the ground near the sidewalk corner of Lake and Forest. He had his house moved to on the south side of Lake Street), which later became the north (roughly where the Austin Gardens Environknown as Central School, then Lowell School, in a mental Education Center is located). The Lake Theatre larger building that was torn down in the 1970s to make opened in 1936. way for a controversial high-rise development, which According to a map of that area, by 1950 a service never got further than its infamous name, “Stankus station existed to the east of the theater, followed by a Hole” — for the crater that sat like an aborted quarry for years. Eventually, 100 Forest Place, our first true small surface parking lot, and a corner lunch counter. high-rise, rose there in the 1980s. The Oak Leaves carried an article with a rendering Also in 1859, Henry Austin Sr. bought the Ketof a $1.5 million shopping center planned for the site. tlestrings’ property across the street, which extended Construction was set to start in March of 1950. It never from the corner west along Lake Street almost to came together, but it may have inspired Oak Park resiMarion and north to Ontario, where Austin Gardens dent Willard W. Cole, president of Lytton’s (aka “The is located. The Austins originally built their home Hub”) to have a similar structure built on that corner roughly where the Lake Theatre sits now. At the corner, and relocate from 1035 Lake (the general vicinity of they left the one-story frame building for public use, The Book Table) which they had occupied since 1927. renaming it “Temperance Hall.” Henry Sr. was an Lytton’s, in fact, was the first “State Street store” to open enthusiastic teetotaler who famously bought out the in Oak Park, preceding Marshall Field’s. last tavern in town and took an axe to the last barrels of The new Lytton’s building was designed by the booze in stock. Oak Park stayed “dry” until 1972. architectural firm Shaw, Mertz and Dolio and at the The Women’s Christian Temperance Union used the groundbreaking in May of 1956, among the notables in hall for meetings, but it also hosted “public rallies, attendance, was President Eisenhower’s brother, Earl. In dances and church services,” according to Philander May of 1957, the store’s grand opening was a big enough Barclay, who included an 1885 photo of the building in deal for the Oak Leaves to devote an entire special sechis famous collection of snapshots. tion to it. The hall became known as “the cradle of churches,” Sometime in 1985 or early 1986, just shy of Lytton’s with Congregational, Baptist, Presbyterian, and Episcopal congregations holding services there until their See NEXT PAGE on page 35

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I was the picture of health … except for my sweet tooth

good deal of attention was spent on health and hygiene in the elementary school I attended (Holmes). In fact, health was a topic listed on our report cards — a course in which we received a grade of excellent, very good, satisfactory or “needs improvement.” I never received an excellent because my teeth were never up to the standards set by the school. A few times a year, a dentist would come to the school to check our teeth and contact our respective families if problems were discovered. My family was contacted frequently by the school because I was prone to cavities. In fact, I could have been a poster boy for the American Dental Association, and I became more than a casual acquaintance to Dr. Robert Wirth, who had an office across the street from the Lake Theatre. The school was also visited by a local optometrist. My sight was 20/20 until I was a freshman in high school when I became near-sighted, and I have worn glasses for the past 63 years. During the winter of my fifth-grade year, a physician came to the school to give physical exams to all of the fifth-graders. As you might imagine, it was a real thrill for the guys to stand in line in a barely-heated basement room in our socks and underwear waiting for the top-tobottom physical. I think all of us passed. The good health practices rules were posted in each classroom, and these are the rules as I remember them: The first stated that we should drink a quart of milk each day and never drink coffee or tea. Well, I drank three glasses of milk per day and did not drink either coffee or tea, so I did fine on rule one.

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The second rule said we should sleep eight hours per night and keep the windows open in our bedrooms. I failed this one because I have never slept more than six hours per night. I also slept with the windows closed during the winter months because I was told I would have to pay the heating bill if I opened the windows. I ate fruit, cereal, and vegetables regularly, so I passed rule three. I drank the recommended eight glasses of water each day, so I easily passed rule four. As far as sweets were concerned, I failed miserably. I still have to fight off the urge to eat candy on a daily basis. So much for rule five. I usually brushed after meals, but rule six said to always brush, so I failed this rule, too. I always washed my hands before meals. So I passed rule seven. Rule eight said to take a bath every other day. I did this without fail. I should have received an A-plus for rule nine. It stated that one must play part of each day outside. I played about two hours outside each day after school [weather permitting] and about four hours a day on weekends and probably six hours per day during the summer months. As I look back on these rules, I believe that today’s health enthusiasts would endorse these rules wholeheartedly. John Stanger is a lifelong resident of Oak Park, a 1957 graduate of OPRF High School, married with three grown children and five grandchildren, and a retired English professor (Elmhurst College). Living two miles from where he grew up, he hasn’t gotten far in 77 years.

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Pay attention to aesthetic and cultural values Dear Trustees, Please listen to the larger community on this subject, which is so very important to the future of our village. I was here when we fought to deprive Stankus of his plans to build a massive (51 stories if I recall) apartment building during the ’70s. Just imagine if that project gone forth! So many of us older Oak Park residents have kept re-segregation from happening with school reorganization, opted for open housing before the national From PREVIOUS PAGE 100th anniversary in Chicago, the store closed and became a non-descript office building with ground floor retail (and, for a time, the Visitor Center gift shop). Frank Lipo, executive director of the Historical Society, says the history of downtown Oak Park is “layer upon layer of buildings.” It’s possible another layer is about to be laid. I’m not proposing a monument to Lytton’s or the Austin family or to Temperance Hall. But the opposition

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laws were enacted, argued for safe gun laws, and many other issues because they were the right thing to do to keep our village heritage intact. Yes, we pay high taxes because we do not have local industry to offset that price — but building high-rise apartments with little thought to the aesthetic or cultural values of our village is just wrong. Please listen to us!

Fran Sullivan Oak Park

to Albion has been making the case, and making it well, that there is more to development in Oak Park than merely economic. This corner encompasses Oak Park’s earliest history, its school history, church history and commercial history — and now, perhaps, its high-rise history. If Albion gets built, it won’t be the end of the world. If it doesn’t get built, it won’t be the end of the world. It won’t even be the end of the story, which is ongoing. But before we take any step, we should know what we’re stepping on.

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A moratorium on removing trees

Here’s a cost-saving measure for the village of Oak Park, and it’s a real crowd-pleaser. Let’s take a 3- to 5-year moratorium on the removal/replant craze that has overtaken Oak Park Forestry since Dutch Elm disease came to town. I write this as the last elm tree on my block — nearly 100 years old — is being chopped and loaded onto a truck. The VOP employee I spoke with sees this as an eco-victory. His department continues to change the treescape with varieties of their own choosing, eliminating problems. They take pride in the new tableau they are creating. They appeal to the altruism of complainers by suggesting that your toxic tree will take out the elm on LeMoyne. Guess what? The village took out both trees! We should support this why? So future Oak Parkers can enjoy the shade in 10 or 20 years? But I live here now and part of my hefty taxes go to support what I consider overzealousness. This constant cutting is the “repeal and replace” of not just the trees, but the microclimates above and around people’s homes, and the visual character of our neighborhoods. Granted, there are parts of Oak Park that still enjoy the benefit of towering old trees, like the estate section and parts of south Oak Park. But the 1000 block of Grove, like a lot of north Oak Park, is forever changed. Stop the madness! Have an outside party inventory Oak Park’s trees (yes, again) as to type, location and condition. Let’s get a second opinion. Let’s cut back on the dreaded white dots that mark our trees for doom.

Elin Thorgren Oak Park

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Annual Halloween lip-syncing show is on

Sixteen Halloweens ago, Oak Parker Eric Brightfield constructed a big top tent over his entire backyard, built a stage with lighting, set up a sound system connected to his computer, and invited over a 100 people to dress up as their favorite musical performers and lip-sync one of that star’s greatest hits. The fun of that night was so spectacular, it marked the beginning of the annual lip syncing Halloween show. Word spread quickly and after two years the show moved to FitzGerald’s where it has taken place before a packed house ever since.

“Who are you going to be and what song are you going to perform?” became the topic of conversation throughout the year. Eric, the creative genius, transformed FitzGerald’s into C B G Bs, Studio 54, the Soul Train stage to name a few of the themes. He simply set the stage for hundreds of people to have a magical night. Last November Eric died suddenly: a huge loss. The reality of this loss still keeps revealing itself. One of the realities was that the epic Halloween parties would be no more. After all, the parties were completely Eric’s creation.

However, a really good idea can have a life of its own. And so thanks to Eric’s neighbor, Heather Korneck, and her committee, and, of course, to the FitzGeralds, this show will once again take the stage on Saturday, Oct. 28 at FitzGerald’s in Berwyn. Solo, or with a group, now is the time to begin getting your act together! Showtime is approaching. As Eric’s death reminds us, life is short. So who will you be this year and what song are you going to sing?!

Steven Parker Oak Park

Repeal the ‘Obamacare’ name, not the plan I hope I am able to encourage many of you who feel as I do, that health care has become a political volleyball tossed about without true concern for health care. President Trump has caused uncertainty surrounding federal subsidies provided for the Affordable Care Act. His threatening of payment stoppage has caused insurance companies to increase their rates, resulting in difficult charges in health services. This squeeze is one of the ways in which the Republicans’ new health care

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plan may be accepted by the public. But we must oppose it. So far, the study of their new plan to repeal and replace “Obamacare” (as they refer to the Affordable Care Act) will basically transfer health care distribution to the states. Most of the states are already overburdened with financial problems. Many of the services now provided will necessarily be eliminated, such as payment for pre-existing conditions, subsidizing care for ailing seniors, and including health care for family members to age 26, and

also, any preventive care measures. An estimated 25 million present Affordable Care enrollees will lose health care. We cannot allow this to occur. Urge our Congress to repair the flaws that are part of our present health care system and name it as is supposed to be its title, “The Affordable Healthcare Act.” Repeal the name “Obamacare,” not the law. Please join me in phoning or emailing our congressmen or other states’ congressmen.

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Reducing traffic congestion on Lake An open letter to our Oak Park Mayor and Board of Trustees: This is a proposal that would reduce traffic congestion in Downtown Oak Park by reconfiguring Forest Avenue at 1000 Lake Street. The Albion building would significantly reduce the value of the Vantage building by blocking the westerly view of Vantage residents. Having adjacent high-rise buildings will always reduce the value of the current building. Attached is a rendering of the proposal, which lists some of its advantages.

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BLESOFF from page 33 Elizabeth White titled, “Breaking the Reframe on Aging” (https://changingaging.org/blog/breaking-reframe-aging). One of White’s main points is that too many positive-aging advocates have yet to embrace affordability and access as core principles. She queries, “Are we really reframing aging when so much of the focus is on the traits of the boomers at the top of the food chain with the resources and means to take care of themselves? Those who are still high-school skinny, free from joint pain, working easily in cool encore careers. What’s the reframe for the approxi-

mately 40 million boomers trying to scrape together the finances to survive the next 25 years?” Finally, affordability, access and the other points that Elizabeth White raises may come up locally at an Arbor West Neighbors program titled, “Creating and Recreating Home: Options for Aging in Community,” scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 18, 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., in the Veterans Room of the Oak Park Public Library. More on this next month. 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.

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Take a knee in Normandy

You want to take a knee? Take one at the beach in Normandy where American men stormed the beach, even as the one in front was shot to pieces, the very sea stained with American blood. The only blockers most had were the dead bodies in front of them, riddled with bullets from enemy fire. Then, take a knee in the sweat-soaked jungles of Vietnam, from Khe San to Saigon. Anywhere will do. Americans died in all those jungles. There was no playbook that told them what was next, but they knew what flag they represented. When they came home, they were protested as well, and spit on for reasons only cowards know. Take another knee in the blood-drenched sands of Fallujah in 110 degree heat. You’ll need to stay hydrated, but there won’t be anyone to squirt Gatorade into your mouth. You’re on your own. There’s a lot of places to take a knee. Americans have given their lives all over the world. When you use the banner under which they fought as a source for your displeasure, you dishonor the memories of those who bled for the very freedoms you

have. That’s what the red stripes mean. It represents the blood of those who spilled a sea of it defending your liberty. While you’re on your knee, pray for those who came before you, not on a manicured lawn, striped and printed with numbers to announce every inch of ground taken, but on nameless hills and bloodied beaches and sweltering forests and bitter cold mountains, every inch marked by an American life lost serving that flag you protest. No cheerleaders, no announcers, no coaches, no fans, just American men and women delivering the real fight against those who chose to harm us, blazing a path so you would have the right to “take a knee.” You haven’t an inkling what it took to get you where you have the freedom to “protest.” Not only is it disgraceful to a nation of real heroes, it serves the purpose of pointing to your ingratitude for those who chose to defend you under that banner that will still wave long after your jersey is retired. It goes like this: God Bless America!

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The successful small business person is one who listens to his/her client’s needs, is able to accommodate any necessary changes the client makes, is friendly and helpful and, of course, dependable. In a few weeks, Pat Ferrentino, the owner of Natural Expressions, a hair salon here in Oak Park, will be closing her shop, Natural Expressions, to the dismay of so many of her customers. Pat is not only a marvelous stylist but has all of the qualities mentioned above. And many of us are lucky to have become not just her client but her friend also.

She is retiring from business after many years working here in our community, first in salons on Oak Park Avenue and then in her own on South Boulevard and then Harrison Street. Pat is a great example of what most of us want in a service business owner. And she’s been good for our town. We wish you well, Pat — and we know you wish us luck finding someone to replace you. It won’t be easy.

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ter the matinee at an old family favorite, The Italian Village, where we had our own private dining nook (smart on their part — we are not a quiet group); and a few ridiculously expensive Hamilton souvenirs. It was a day to remember, and one I hope to repeat again in the near future. When we encourage our children to appreciate the arts and live theater, we are enhancing their literary knowledge, as well as their empathy and tolerance for those in the world around them. You can cry, you can laugh, you can love the story or hate the story, and you can escape the real world and live for just a minutia of time in someone else’s imagination. The theater makes you “feel.” And isn’t that what we all really need right now? So crack open that dusty piggy bank, throw a garage sale, take out a loan — whatever you have to do — and get yourself to the theater. As the great Tallulah Bankhead once said, “If you want to help the American theater, don’t be an actor, be an audience.”

from page 33 Miranda bandwagon. I bought eight tickets in the Dress Circle seating area of Private Bank Theater for September of 2017 … yes, really. And although I might have had to dig into my 401k to get them, I could not have been more thrilled that I actually had seats for the most-talked-about musical production of this season, possibly this decade. With my youngest sister recently returned to the Midwest after 10 long years away from Chicago’s cultural scene (and deep-dish pizza), I turned our long-awaited Hamilton day into a girls-only outing; my two younger sisters, me, and our daughters, ranging from 30 to 10 years old. My brother-in-law set us up in a limo (which was quite a sight on the Eisenhower Expressway, I assure you) for our ride downtown and back; an early dinner af-

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How do we show our love of country? One of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.” — Charles A. Beard American historian, 1874-1948

olin Kaepernick has stirred up a patriotic hornet’s nest. To many, he is simply a provocateur out to disrespect our flag and all it stands for as a symbol of truth, justice, and the American way. To others, he is exercising his constitutional right of free speech and expression. Both the flag and Kaepernick’s protest go beyond the symbolic. The flag has always represented the aspirational goals of our society. Our flag stands for what we strive to be as a nation. The flag is not some idol that we should, unconditionally, worship. How do we reconcile the symbol (flag) with the oppressive reality that so many African Americans have experienced? Herein lies the problem. Blacks have unflinchingly answered the call to arms in every conflict that this country has entered. According to official records (The American War Library),

“early in the Vietnam war, when blacks made up about 11% of our fighting force, black casualties soared to over 20% of the total (1965, 1966).” Fighting under the flag as a symbol of America’s stated beliefs about democracy, blacks gave their lives for a country that consistently denied them fundamental human rights. During each conflict, black soldiers hoped that upon their return to American society they might, at last, be granted full citizenship in their home country. Despite their valor and courage in these foreign wars, full citizenship remained both elusive and contested at home. Black soldiers returned home to find that they were still second-class citizens, subjected to systemic discrimination and even lynching. Now we are engaged in a political debate about how blacks or any other American citizen should react to the singing of the National Anthem and the unfurling of the flag. Have we boiled the concept of patriotism down to a litmus test of whether one stands, kneels or places their hand

over heart when we are at a sporting event? Over 70 years ago, the Supreme Court ruled and has subsequently upheld Justice Robert H. Jackson’s opinion written for the Court. In his opinion, Justice Jackson said making saluting the flag a requirement violated the plaintiff ’s constitutional rights (Jehovah’s Witnesses school children). Perhaps we should dive a little deeper into the concept of patriotism. It is not “my country right or wrong.” Rather, patriotism is being vigilant about calling out any slippage from what we say we are about and making sure we become what we say we stand for, both at home and abroad. Having a cold beer in one hand and a baseball cap in the other while waiting for the last stanza of the Anthem doesn’t equate to patriotism. Patriotism is not just demonstrative — it is definitive. In other words, do you love your country enough to make sure it lives up to its stated goals? Are you man or woman enough to challenge America when

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we drift away from our stated principles? Kaepernick is pointing out the contradictions that blacks in America must live with every day of their lives. He chose a symbolic gesture to address a reality for black people that does not square with America’s stated values of guaranteeing “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” Does it much matter if you kneel or stand? What counts, ultimately, is whether you are willing to stand up for the ideals that make America great. The record will show that black Americans have always stood up for this country in times of war. Was the current POTUS being unpatriotic when he sought a deferment during the Vietnam War and is he unpatriotic when he does not always place his hand over his heart during the National Anthem? Kwame S. Salter is an Oak Park resident and an occasional columnist for Wednesday Journal.

Waking up on the wrong side on Monday

astor Walter Mitty woke up Monday morning feeling both irritable and depressed. It all began on Sunday at coffee hour. Gerhardt Aschenbrenner started going off about how “these young people spend all their time on their phones.” “They bow their heads during the sermon,” he complained, “so everyone thinks they are being pious, but what they are really doing is texting each other. I know. I sat up in the choir loft today and was able to see everything. It’s disrespectful.” Asch’s wife, Dorothy, tried to calm him down, but while she was shushing him, Dominique took up the baton and started to run with it. “I’m black,” he began, “and I grew up in the Robert Taylor homes, so I know what discrimination feels like, but these football players kneeling during the national anthem — that’s really disrespectful.” “OK, OK, Dominique,” shot back Sharissa Hawkins, “I respect where you’re coming from, but if you’re going to protest something, kneeling is about as respectful a way of doing it as I can think of.” That got Hilda Hossenbrenner going. “I was baptized in this church 80 years ago,” she began, “and haven’t missed more than 10 Sundays since. You talk about disrespect, my parents would turn over in their graves if they knew that guitars and

drums were being played in our sanctuary.” Eric Anderson leaned over to his wife, Debbie, during Hilda’s rant and whispered, “They’d also turn over in their graves if they knew that worship was in English instead of German!” “They went on and on with their gripes,” Mitty vented to his neighbor Michael Rosenthal when they bumped into each other around noon the next day. “I mean, Michael, I’m all for respect. I hear where Dominique is coming from, but I also think Sharissa has a good point. Kneeling is a pretty respectful way of protesting.” Michael sat down on his front steps. He felt that his friend was just warming up with his list of complaints about his members. “Sometimes I feel like everywhere I turn I’m dealing with children, Michael,” he continued. “Everyone from our president to talk show hosts to college basketball coaches to drivers on the Eisenhower are behaving like self-centered adolescents.” Mitty’s neighbor listened for 10 more minutes until his neighbor had finished his indictment of the majority of the human race. He didn’t want to offend his good

friend, but he felt like he had to say something in response. “So, Walt, are you saying that you and I are the only grown-ups remaining in Poplar Park?” “Meaning what, Michael?” Michael decided approach his friend from a point of view he could relate to. “You know we Jews are as concerned about social justice as you are, right? “Yeah. You said the concept is ‘heal or repair the world.’” “Right. Tikkun Olam. But in a couple of days we have our Day of Atonement.” “I know and I even put a Yom Kippur card in the mail to you yesterday.” “Sheyman dank, my friend. I’ve been thinking,” said Michael, “that on Yom Kippur we spend all day focusing on our own sins and how we need to repair not the world but our own relationship with God.” “So, Michael, are you saying I should take the log out of my own eye before I try to take the specks out of my neighbors’?”

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“I certainly don’t think you have a log in your eye,” Mitty’s neighbor replied. “You know how much I respect you. But the high holy days got me thinking about how everybody in our society seems to be blaming everybody else for the polarization and the terrible state of discourse in this country. And I started wondering if, before blaming those we don’t agree with, we first looked inside ourselves honestly. Maybe we’d find enough there to work on that we’d at least speak in more measured tones about those who see the world differently than we do.” Herman Mitty’s oldest son always had a hard time accepting criticism. On the other hand, he believed that if the shoe fit he should wear it. He decided to change the subject to how Michael thought the Cubs would do in the playoffs. The change in his tone let Michael know that his neighbor was thinking seriously about what he had said. Tom Holmes, a retired Lutheran pastor, writes a column for our sister publication, the Forest Park Review.

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Last week’s Viewpoints letter, “Put the Community Center at Lake & Forest,” by Victor Guarino, was submitted by the father of Vic Guarino, who serves as a park board commissioner. We apologize for any confusion.

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O B I T U A R I E S

William Gyba, 93 Former Oak Park resident

William Gyba, 93, died on Sept. 28, 2017. Born in Ansonia, Connecticut on Jan. 1, 1924, he lived in both Waterbury and Wolcott and in Oak Park before retiring to Orlando, Florida in 1986. He was a retired engineer for the Timex Corporation and Martin-Marietta. William was the husband of the late Sophia Gyba (nee Habrukovich); the father of Susan Letendre and Dea Sullivan; the grandfather of four; and the great-grandfather of four. Visitation and funeral services were held at Woodlawn Funeral Home on Oct. 2, followed by interment at All Faiths Memorial Park in Florida. Arrangements were handled by Woodlawn Funeral Home & Memorial Park, 708-442-8500.

Harry Patten, 87 Fenwick grad, VP of Inland Plumbing

Harry O. Patten, 87, died peacefully at home on Aug. 15, 2017 in Duluth, Georgia. Born in Chicago on Jan. 16, 1930 to Harry and Catherine Patten, he became a longtime resident of Oak Park and graduated from Fenwick High School. Upon his 1949 graduation, he began working with now defunct Inland Plumbing in Chicago where, through untiring work, he rose to the level of vice president. He later became a co-owner with his son, James Patten, of Thatcher Oaks Awnings in Elmhurst and, upon his retirement, joined the company’s sales department.

A member of the St. Giles Family Mass Community, he later became a member of Unity Church of Oak Park. He was a hospice volunteer, a camper, an avid reader of mystery novels, and he loved to dance and listen to music of all kinds. Harry Patten is survived by Lillian Morgan-Lewis, his second wife of 14 years; her two children, stepdaughter Kelly LewisArthur PhD and her husband Odel Arthur and stepson, Morgan S. Lewis. He is also survived by his children from his first marriage to the late Patricia Casey: Jayne Patten, Harry Patten and Patty Bell, William Patten and the late Diane, Robert and Julie Patten, and James and Joanne Patten; 13 grandchildren; 17 great-grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews. A private memorial celebration of his life will be held at Pleasant Home, 217 Home Ave. in Oak Park on Oct. 8 at 9:30 a.m. In lieu of flowers, please send gift donations on behalf of Harry O. Patten to Hospice Atlanta Center, 1244 Park Vista Dr. NE, Atlanta, Georgia 30319.

Daniel Rice

Longtime attorney in Oak Park and Forest Park Daniel (Dan) Joseph Rice, 67, of Berwyn (formally of Forest Park and Oak Park) died on Sept. 26, 2017. Born on Dec. 7, 1949 at St. Anne Hospital in Chicago to parents Edward Francis Rice and Elizabeth Ann Conerty, he was a dedicated and hard-working attorney his entire career, the sole practitioner of his law practice in both Oak Park and Forest Park for over 40 years, running a highly-suc-

cessful general practice. He was a graduate of St. Ignatius College Prep, Loyola University, and John Marshall Law School. Dan was the brother of (the late) Ed, Betty Ann, Eileen, John, Julie, Joan, Marilyn and Tim; the fiancé of Tamara (Tam) Trutwin; the father of Meagan and Bridget with his second wife, (the late) Moira, and Jennifer, Carrie, Matt and Kevin with his first wife, Madonna. The memorial gathering was private.

ging a pair only when he was required to go indoors for class or meals. In 2014, Jeff and good friends from Knox College moved to a shared home in Redmond, Washington, where they produced a monthly-or-so podcast on gaming (volcanobakemeat.wordpress.com) and were selected to present at the 2017 Emerald City Comic Con in Seattle. He worked as a waiter at a British pub and took classes at Bellevue College. Across the years, in both Oak Park and Redmond, his family, friends, and co-workers were regularly traumatized by his cheerful, never-ending, and atrociously unsuccessful quest to perfect an English accent. How can a few words sum up a life? Jeff was full of laughter and kindness. He was Jeffrey Ritsert, 25, of Oak Park, took his smart and funny and game for any advenown life in the early hours of Aug. 24, 2017. ture. Those of us who knew and loved him are left with emptiness and The depression he fought from pain. At the same time, we are childhood became more than he grateful for the wonderful memcould bear. Born on May 9, 1992 ories we have of him and thankin Oak Park, he attended Grace ful that he is no longer sufferLutheran School in River Foring. Rest in peace, Jeffrey. The est, demonstrating during his kindness that flowed from your years there an amazing aptitude gentle heart truly changed the for door-to-door sales during lives of those who knew you. the annual Cub Scout popcorn Jeffrey Ritsert is survived by drives. He graduated in 2010 his parents, Larry Ritsert and from Oak Park and River Forest Elaine Pierce; and his sister, High School where he excelled JEFFREY RITSERT Trinity Pierce. A memorial serin musical theater and ignoring vice will be held on Saturday, homework. During high school, he sang with the Madrigal Choir of Grace Oct. 7 at 2 p.m. at First United Church of Episcopal Church, loving the music and the Oak Park, 848 Lake St. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests a friends he made there. Jeff attended Knox College in Galesburg. donation to your favorite charity or to the A true comfort-seeker, he placed cheap flip- American Foundation for Suicide Prevenflops under bushes all over campus so he tion (development@afsp.org or 1-888-333could go barefoot as much as possible, snag- AFSP, rated 90/100 by Charity Navigator).

Jeffrey Ritsert, 25 A too-short life of kindness and laughter

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Religion Guide Methodist

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First United Methodist Church of Oak Park

First Congregational Church of Maywood

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

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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

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

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

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 8:30am & 11:00am Adult Bible Class & Sunday School 10:00am Wheelchair Access to Sanctuary Leonard Payton, Pastor Roney Riley, Assistant Pastor 708-366-3226 www.stjohnforestpark.org

To place a listing in the Religion Guide, call Mary Ellen: 708/613-3342

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 School Phone: 708-386-5131

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 Summer Schedule at

thirdunitarianchurch.org (773) 626-9385

301 N. Mayfield, Chicago, near Austin and Lake Unity

UNITY CHURCH OF OAK PARK 405 North Euclid Ave.

Wherever you are, God is! And all is well. Sunday Services 9 am & 11 am Youth Education 11 am 708-848-0960 — unityoakpark.org

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REAL ESTATE FOR SALE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION WELLS FARGO BANK NA; Plaintiff, vs. CHICAGO TITLE LAND TRUST COMPANY, AS TRUSTEE UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF A TRUST AGREEMENT DATED THE 12TH DAY OF AUGUST 2011 AND KNOWN AS TRUST NUMBER 8002357731; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT; SMITH ROTHCHILD FINANCIAL COMPANY; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS; CHARNETTA JOHNSON AS ADMINISTRATOR TO THE

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ESTATE OF BETTY O. WILSON; Defendants, 17 CH 3100 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 Wednesday, October 25, 2017 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. 16-05-325-020-0000. Commonly known as 517 North Humphrey Avenue, Oak Park, IL 60302. The mortgaged real estate is improved with a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection For information call Sales Department at Plaintiff’s Attorney, Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC, One East Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60601. (614) 220-5611. 17-003509 F2 INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I3061547

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. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/ 18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. For information, contact Plaintiff’s attorney: HEAVNER, BEYERS & MIHLAR, LLC, 111 East Main Street, DECATUR, IL 62523, (217) 4221719 Please refer to file number 2120-12149. 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. 2120-12149 Attorney Code. 40387

Case Number: 16 CH 04550 TJSC#: 37-8438 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. I3062637

redeem does not arise, there shall be no right of redemption. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/ 18.5(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 14-13-21664. 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. 14-13-21664 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 16 CH 014770 TJSC#: 37-8472 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. I3062786

AGREEMENT DATED AUGUST 4, 1978 AND KNOWN AS TRUST NO. 2370; JPMORGAN CHASE BANK NA, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA FOR THE BENEFIT OF INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE, UNKNOWN OWNERS, GENERALLY AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS; Defendants, 15 CH 17814 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause on May 19, 2017 Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Thursday, November 9, 2017 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. 15-01-305-003-0000. Commonly known as 1127 Ashland, River Forest, IL 60305. The mortgaged real estate is improved with a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection For information call Ms. Kimberly S. Reid at Plaintiff’s Attorney, Kluever & Platt, L.L.C., 65 East Wacker Place, Chicago, Illinois 60601. (312) 236-0077. INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I3063374

hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/ 18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. For information, contact Plaintiff’s attorney: POTESTIVO & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 223 WEST JACKSON BLVD, STE 610, Chicago, IL 60606, (312) 263-0003 Please refer to file number C1638439. 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. POTESTIVO & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 223 WEST JACKSON BLVD, STE 610 Chicago, IL 60606 (312) 263-0003 E-Mail: ilpleadings@potestivolaw. com Attorney File No. C16-38439 Attorney Code. 43932 Case Number: 16 CH 09545 TJSC#: 37-8285 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. I3061776

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION DITECH FINANCIAL LLC Plaintiff, -v.UNKNOWN HEIRS AND DEVISEES OF MARGARETTE STOILJKOVIC, DECEASED, UNKNOWN CLAIMANTS AND LIENHOLDERS AGAINST THE ESTATE OF MARGARETTE STOILJKOVIC, DECEASED, UNKNOWN CLAIMANTS AND LIENHOLDERS AGAINST THE UNKNOWN HEIRS AND DEVISEES OF MARGARETTE STOILJKOVIC, DECEASED, ELENA STOILJKOVIC AKA ELENA M. STOILJKOVIC, IVAN STOILJKOVIC, PORTFOLIO RECOVERY ASSOCIATES, LLC, WILLIAM BUTCHER, AS SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE OF MARGARETTE STOILJKOVIC, DECEASED Defendants 16 CH 04550 1180 S. Scoville Ave. Oak Park, IL 60304 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on December 6, 2016, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on November 3, 2017, 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 1180 S. Scoville Ave., Oak Park, IL 60304 Property Index No. 16-18-427-0160000. The real estate is improved with a single family residence. The judgment amount was $354,975.58. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, AS TRUSTEE OF STANWICH MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST A Plaintiff, -v.JOHNNIE WATSON, LAQUILLA HARDMAN, JOHNNIE NELSON WATSON, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, STATE OF ILLINOIS– DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE Defendants 16 CH 014770 1218 N. AUSTIN BLVD. 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 21, 2017, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on November 15, 2017, 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 1218 N. AUSTIN BLVD., OAK PARK, IL 60302 Property Index No. 16-05-127-0300000. The real estate is improved with a residence. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. Where a sale of real estate is made to satisfy a lien prior to that of the United States, the United States shall have one year from the date of sale within which to redeem, except that with respect to a lien arising under the internal revenue laws the period shall be 120 days or the period allowable for redemption under State law, whichever is longer, and in any case in which, under the provisions of section 505 of the Housing Act of 1950, as amended (12 U.S.C. 1701k), and subsection (d) of section 3720 of title 38 of the United States Code, the right to

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION US BANK NA AS TRUSTEE, ON BEHALF OF THE HOLDERS OF THE JP MORGAN MORTGAGE TRUST 2006-S2 MORTGAGE PASS THROUGH CERTIFICATES Plaintiff, vs. MARY L. PROCYK; GEORGE S. PROCYK; CHICAGO TITLE LAND TRUST COMPANY, SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE TO COLE TAYLOR BANK SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE TO CORUS BANK FKA RIVER FOREST STATE BANK AND TRUST COMPANY AS TRUSTEE UNDER TRUST

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY, AS TRUSTEE FOR GSAMP TRUST 2006-FM2, MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006FM2 Plaintiff, -v.ANGELA LANISE HUNTER Defendants 16 CH 09545 1825 S. 11TH AVENUE Maywood, IL 60153 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on November 29, 2016, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on October 16, 2017, 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 1825 S. 11TH AVENUE, Maywood, IL 60153 Property Index No. 15-15-406-0070000. The real estate is improved with a single family residence. The judgment amount was $170,008.29. 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)

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION BAYVIEW LOAN SERVICING, LLC, A DELAWARE LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY Plaintiff, -v.EARL L. FILSKOV JR. A/K/A EARL LESTER FILSKOV JR., CHRISTINE H. FILSKOV A/K/A CHRISTINE HELEN FILSKOV Defendants 16 CH 005316 213 E. WAGNER DRIVE NORTHLAKE, IL 60164 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on November 28, 2016, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on October 13, 2017, 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 213 E. WAGNER DRIVE, NORTHLAKE, IL 60164 Property Index No. 12-29-304-0240000. The real estate is improved with a residence. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders

are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/ 18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. For information, 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 14-16-04335. 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. 14-16-04335 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 16 CH 005316 TJSC#: 37-8243 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. I3061455

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION U.S. BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR SPECIALTY UNDERWRITING AND RESIDENTIAL FINANCE TRUST MORTGAGE LOAN ASSETBACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006-BC3 Plaintiff, -v.WILLIAM HANKISON, HSBC MORTGAGE SERVICES, INC. Defendants 14 CH 13050 1423 SOUTH 16TH AVENUE Maywood, IL 60153 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on December 17, 2014, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on October 12, 2017, 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 1423 SOUTH 16TH AVENUE, Maywood, IL 60153 Property Index No. 15-15-219-0120000. The real estate is improved with a single family residence. The judgment amount was $186,446.23. 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. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale.

The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/ 18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. For information, contact The sales clerk, SHAPIRO KREISMAN & ASSOCIATES, LLC, 2121 WAUKEGAN RD., SUITE 301, Bannockburn, IL 60015, (847) 2911717 For information call between the hours of 1pm–3pm. Please refer to file number 14-073260. THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales. SHAPIRO KREISMAN & ASSOCIATES, LLC 2121 WAUKEGAN RD., SUITE 301 Bannockburn, IL 60015 (847) 291-1717 E-Mail: ILNotices@logs.com Attorney File No. 14-073260 Attorney Code. 42168 Case Number: 14 CH 13050 TJSC#: 37-8232 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. I3061398

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 14-16-13480. 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. 14-16-13480 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002

Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 16 CH 014316 TJSC#: 37-8298 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. I3061873

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION CITIZENS BANK NA F/K/A RBS CITIZENS, N.A. SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO CHARTER ONE BANK, N.A. Plaintiff, -v.XENEA M. JONES Defendants 16 CH 014316 3124 MADISON STREET BELLWOOD, IL 60104 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on February 1, 2017, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on October 17, 2017, 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 3124 MADISON STREET, BELLWOOD, IL 60104 Property Index No. 15-16-200-0640000. The real estate is improved with a residence. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION SPECIALIZED LOAN SERVICING LLC; Plaintiff, vs. CONCEPCION MEJIA; MANUEL PARRA; FIFTH THIRD BANK (CHICAGO); Defendants, 16 CH 2050 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 Friday, October 27, 2017 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. 12-28-405-037-0000. Commonly known as 2624 Westbrook Drive, Franklin Park, IL 60131. The mortgaged real estate is improved with a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection For information call Sales Department at Plaintiff’s Attorney, Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC, One East Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60601. (614) 220-5611. 16-025242 F2 INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I3061863

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Bright future from page 48 blocking, the quarterback is looking for me, and the defense gives us the energy and opportunities to make plays.” Brown also credits the OPRF coaching staff and family members for fostering his development. “All my coaches, from Little Huskies until now, have taken me under their wing to try and make me better,” Brown said. “My uncle also played for Oak Park and has given me a lot of helpful pointers about the game.” Time and talent are on Brown’s side. Considering he’s only a junior, Brown should continue to make a major impact on the field and boost the strong football culture Hoerster has established at OPRF. “I like how I’ve adapted my game to the mental aspect of football,” Brown said. “I’m doing a good job of not just depending on my talent. In the offseason, I want to get faster and stronger while getting smarter in terms of my football mentality.” At 6-foot-1 and 180 pounds, Brown is a gifted athlete who also participates on the OPRF track and field team. He competes in the 400-meter dash, triple jump and high jump. A primary goal for Brown is to play college football. That aspiration seems realistic factoring in the Huskies’ recent success with wide receivers advancing to the college level. In four games, Cobbs Jr. has 23 catches for 272 yards and three touchdowns for Indiana. While Scott has yet to record a catch at Wyoming, head coach Craig Bohl is very high on the 6-6, 215-pounder’s potential. Hopefully, Brown will earn a similar opportunity. “I went to a Mizzou (University of Missouri) camp over the summer,” Brown said. “It allowed me a chance to get more experience in seeing all the talent that’s out there and meet new people.”

Huskies upset by Downers North Whatever happens the rest of the season, OPRF will remember Friday’s 28-23 loss against visiting Downers Grove North. The Huskies squandered a 17-0 halftime lead and the Trojans reeled off 28 unanswered points en route to victory. With tough conference games remaining against Glenbard West and Lyons Township, OPRF (4-2, 1-2) is a long shot to win the West Suburban Silver. Nevertheless, the Huskies will focus on playing more consistent football to punch their ticket into the Class 8A playoffs. Against Downers Grove North, the game was a tale of two halves. OPRF senior quarterback Brian May opened the scoring on a 29-yard touchdown run. Kicker Henry Darrow added the extra point to give the Huskies a 7-0 lead with 9:42 left in the first quarter. Keith Robinson added a 2-yard TD run and Darrow kicked the PAT, extending the lead to 14-0 at 4:42 of the second quarter. Darrow made a 27-yard field in the closing seconds of the first half to give OPRF a 17-0 halftime lead. Downers Grove North running back Drew Shelly rushed for three touchdowns in the second half to fuel the Trojans’ rally. Two of his TDs occurred during a critical six-minute span midway through the fourth quarter which gave Downers Grove North a 28-17 lead. OPRF sophomore quarterback Toby Kunkel scored on a 10-yard run with 10 seconds left in the fourth quarter to close out the scoring at 28-23. Kunkel completed 14 of 22 passes for 144 yards and three interceptions. May went 8-for-9 for 58 yards and ran seven times for 51 yards. Top running back Terrance Roundy was held in check, rushing for 46 yards on 13 carries. Brown (7 catches, 68 yards), Robinson (7 catches, 48 yards) and Craig Shelton (4 catches, 46 yards) led the Huskies in receiving. OPRF travels to Elmhurst to take on York Friday, Oct. 6. Game time is 7:30 p.m.

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Fenwick seniors put away St. Joseph Friars focused on winning CCL Green, preparing for state playoffs BY SCOTTY GRUSZKA Contributing Reporter

The Fenwick High School boys soccer team celebrated Senior Night with a 4-1 win over St. Joseph on Friday, Sept. 29 at the Priory in River Forest. Four seniors each scored a goal for the Friars, who apart from a counter-attack goal by St. Joseph, dominated possession and the match. “We played well and we were able to move the ball around and play out of the back,” Fenwick coach Rob Watson said. “We could have scored a couple more goals, especially towards the end of the game. Overall, we put together a great game.” Entering Friday night’s contest, the Friars held an 8-7 record with a 4-1 mark in the Chicago Catholic League. While the first part of the their CCL schedule consisted of Green Division opponents, the Friars now face Blue Division opponents which will provide some of their toughest competition. Their only CCL loss occurred last week against St. Ignatius at the Priory. The Wolfpack edged Fenwick 1-0 with a goal from the penalty spot. Fenwick bounced back well against St. Joseph, controlling possession and breaking through the Chargers’ defense with apparent ease. Senior midfielder Tommy Reardon had great runs up the right side of the field, but a counter-attack from St. Joseph in the 10th minute shocked the Fenwick defense and gave the Chargers a 1-0 lead. Fenwick didn’t need long to answer. A minute later, Alex Sanchez’s corner kick found Kyle Arquette who headed in

a goal to tie it all up at 1-1. In the 20th minute, a handball just outside of the box led to a free kick for Fenwick. Senior captain Mariano Mollo almost curled it in, and with the ball bouncing around the box, senior Sean Mitchell buried the goal to put the Friars ahead for good at 2-1. The first half wrapped up with Mitchell getting tripped up in the box after dazzling the St. Joseph defense. Reardon stepped up to the penalty spot and placed the ball into the bottom left corner, extending the Friars’ lead to 3-1. Fenwick moved the ball around and held on to possession for most of the second half. Senior Mike Cerceo drilled one into the net with eight minutes to go to bring the match to a 4-1 finish. Looking ahead, Fenwick travels for its final three games of the regular season. Courtesy of their strong start in CCL play, the Friars have the inside track to repeating as CCL champions in consecutive years for the first time since 20132014 if they can finish up strong in the remaining weeks. “We certainly need to win out,” Watson said. “Winning the CCL is possible but Loyola, Mt. Carmel and St. Laurence are at the top. We need to beat them.” The playoffs are looming on the horizon for Fenwick. The Friars begin postseason play on Tuesday, Oct. 17 in regionals. The challenging back-end of matches this season will surely prepare the Friars for the intensity of the state playoffs. Reardon isn’t fazed about the upcoming slate of matches. “It gets us ready and builds us up (for the playoffs),” Reardon said. “Even with a loss, there is something to take from it and then we come back harder in practice.” In recent years, Fenwick has had success in the state play-

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Fenwick’s Mike Cerceo (#20) kicks the ball downfield on Friday, Sept. 29, during a soccer game against St. Joseph at Priory Park in River Forest. The Friars won 4-1. offs. The Friars are looking to bring home their first sectional championship in boys soccer since 2013. Fenwick travels to St. Laurence on Thursday, Oct. 5 for a 6 p.m. match. The Friars close out the regular season with a match at Mt. Carmel on Wednesday, Oct. 11 at 4:30 p.m.

Friars’ Fakouri aces her regular season Fenwick girls tennis team is one to watch in postseason BY MARTY FARMER Sports Editor

Fenwick No. 1 singles player Haley Fakouri won her 19th and 20th matches against Loyola and Trinity Christian, respectively, last week. Those victories earned Fakouri the No. 2 seed at the upcoming Girls Catholic Athletic Conference meet. Fakouri will likely be seeded first at the Timothy Christian Sectional in the Class 1A state playoffs. “Haley is improved in several aspects since last year, including her serve and backhand,” Fenwick coach Gerard Sullivan said. “She has a lot of good wins to show for it. She had a good summer of competition, too, and is highly ranked among Illinois seniors (by tennisrecruiting.com). “Her goal of getting one more win and a medal at state is definitely on her mind.” The Friars’ only other individual event win against Loyola came in a 3-setter won by Brooke Lepore and Morgan Hosty at No. 3 doubles. The Ramblers defeated Fenwick 5-2 in team scoring. The Friars’ lone loss against Timothy Christian occurred at top doubles, where Timothy

Christian played its top two players with the intention of a deep run at state. Fenwick topped the Trojans 5-1 in the final dual-meet score. And on Sept. 20, Fenwick tied crosstown rival OPRF 4-4. Last season, the Friars finished 8-2, third in the GCAC, won a sectional and placed 13th in the 1A state finals in 2016. Fakouri won six of eight matches to finish sixth at state. This year, Fenwick (12-7-1) enters the GCAC tournament with a 2-3 conference record. The Friars hope to surpass St. Francis for a top-three finish of the six teams in the conference’s Red, or A, Division. In addition to Fakouri, the Friars have benefitted from several other players’ contributions. Junior Bella Burdi has held the No. 2 singles position well, “Bella Burdi is getting maximum experience out of the season for herself at #2 singles,” Sullivan said. “She has shown development in her game. Her goal is to win matches and gain confidence during the regular season to develop into a seeded and dangerous singles entry in the postseason.” Seniors Maria Krug and Anna Hendricks

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Fenwick senior Haley Fakouri has won 20 matches this season. She’s also a top contender to win the Class 1A singles state title this year. have played well at No. 1 doubles. “Both Maria and Anna medaled in conference and made it to the state qualifying round last year,” Sullivan said. “They are motivated to repeat and improve on those results.” Junior Kelly Chapman and senior Shannon Hayes make up a strong second team in doubles. “Kelly and Shannon are playing very close to our No. 1 team now, which is great for both teams at practice,” Sullivan said.

“Both teams have solid results and are gelling so they will very likely stick. Our two top doubles teams push each other and have had some good wins. They have much more potential as they improve their court positioning and attacking games.” Brooke Lepore and Morgan Hosty are at No. 3 doubles for Fenwick. The rest of the roster includes junior Colleen Stephany (No. 3 singles) and doubles teams Bridie Owens/Maggie Matthews and Emily Burda/Bridget Hartman.

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Brown emerges as top playmaker OPRF junior could be latest star wide receiver following Cobbs Jr. and Scott BY PATRICK SKRINE

In Week 3, Brown caught six passes for 149 yards and two touchdowns in a 21-13 loss against reigning West Suburban Conn recent years, the Oak Park and River ference Silver Division champion Hinsdale Central. Forest High School football He led OPRF in receiving over team has enjoyed the luxury the weekend as well, pulling down of dynamic wide receivers. seven receptions for 68 yards in a Blessed with size and 28-23 loss against Downers Grove speed, players like Ke’Juan North. Ratcliff, Simmie Cobbs Jr. and “Trevon is going to be a special Jared Scott are just a special player,” OPRF coach John Hoerfew that come to mind. ster said. “He’s at a different level Junior Trevon Brown looks and a phenomenal young man.” like the next great wideout for Although his name shows up on the Huskies. JOHN HOERSTER the stats sheet frequently, the selfJust six games into his varOPRF coach less Brown credits his teammates sity career, Brown has shown a for creating his opportunities to knack for making clutch plays succeed on the field. on the field and putting up big “The seniors have really helped numbers in the scorebook. me out and have showed me the In the Huskies’ season way,” Brown said. “Making the opener against Simeon, Brown plays I’ve made are not only by made a spectacular diving me. All the yards I’ve gained are for the catch in the right corner of the end zone whole team because the offensive line is late in the fourth quarter to tie the game. OPRF made the extra point to pull off a 29See BROWN on page 46 28 comeback win.

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“Trevon is going to be a special player.”

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OPRF junior wide receiver Trevon Brown is a burgeoning star. Brown’s size, speed and savvy should translate to being able to play college football.

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