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October 12, 2016 Vol. 35, No. 8 ONE DOLLAR

JOURNAL of Oak Park and River Forest

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Community Bank targeted for takeover

Major shareholder claims leadership geared stock deal to “insiders and their friends”

By TIMOTHY INKLEBARGER Staff Reporter

Community Bank of Oak Park-River Forest acknowledged today in a press release that it has been targeted for a hostile takeover by one of its largest shareholders, First American Bank Corporation.

But Community Bank President and CEO Walter Healy said in the press release that First American’s offer letter contains “a number of misleading or inaccurate statements” concerning the value of the company and its earnings, among other things.

Neither Healy nor Marty Noll, chairman of the board of Community Bank, could be reached for comment.

First American owns 11 percent of the bank’s private stock, making it the second largest stockholder. First American claims in a Sept. 29 offer letter to shareholders that Community Bank has failed to create a market for shares and has “diluted” the value of stock “while some of the company’s value was silently transferred to management and their friends.”

The Community Bank press release states that First American issued an unsolicited offer to purchase common stock of the company for $134.32 per share with See COMMUNITY BANK on page 20

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Oak Park now restaurant hot spot New high-rise residents, streamlined permitting attracts business

By TIMOTHY INKLEBARGER Staff Reporter

Only five years ago, Oak Park and River Forest High School graduate Hai Tran and his family opened their first restaurant in this country. The Tran family already had a couple of restaurants and other businesses in Vietnam, but now they were ready to

give it a shot in America.

Saigon Pho & Café, located at 7237 Madison St. in Forest Park, was their first venture. The permitting and licensing needed to open the restaurant was a first for the family — Tran explained that in his native Vietnam, such legal requirements were practically nonexistent.

“In Vietnam it’s much easier,” he

said. “You put up the sign and you’re ready to go.”

When the lease for the Forest Park location expired, though, they decided to relocate Saigon Pho to the up-andcoming restaurant scene in Oak Park, Tran explained. The new Saigon Pho opened at 726 Lake St. earlier this year.

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‘Diary of Anne Frank’ as it’s meant to be How’s that for irony?

“In spite of everything,” Anyway, the OPRF Performing Anne Frank once famously, Arts Department’s production of and hauntingly, wrote, “I The Diary of Anne Frank promstill believe that people reises to do Frank’s words actual ally are good at heart.” justice — not of the ‘Lock her During last Sunday’s icky up!’ variety — during four perpresidential debate, Hillary formances this month, all inside Clinton channeled Frank’s the school’s Little Theatre. sense of optimism when she The first two performances said, “We are great because ANNE FRANK will take place this week on we are good, and we will Friday and Saturday, Oct. 14 and 15, both respect each other.” at 7 p.m. The next two will take place on Trump, meanwhile, inverted that sense Friday and Saturday, Oct. 21 and 22, both of optimism when he said of the Demoat 7 p.m. cratic presidential nominee that she has “hate in her heart.”

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Exploring special-needs options

On Tuesday, Oct. 18, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., OPRF High School will host the Options Fair, a post-secondary planning night for students with special needs. More than 60 colleges and agencies are scheduled to show up to the event, which will also feature a series of presentations.

Among the colleges slated to appear include Triton, Northern Illinois and Dominican University. Service agencies include Best Buddies, Helping Hand and Oak Leyden.

The fair will take place inside of OPRF’s Student Activity Center, among other locations on campus.

Michael Romain

Clown scare prompts counseling

Parents of Oak Park-River Forest High School were recently alerted that someone posing as a clown was threatening kids on Facebook.

The announcement came about the same time other disturbing clown threats were being reported in Chicago and other parts of the country.

Social media blew up, circulating the story far and wide, and television news outlets and others piled on, setting up film crews outside of high schools throughout the Chicago area — Oak Park included.

Now District 90 has announced it will have social workers and counselors “at the ready” for students experiencing clown-related fear and anxiety.

“The unsettling nature of this situation may cause considerable distress to children who became aware of the matter,” D90 Superintendent Ed Condon said in a letter to parents.

“As with any significant safety- or security-related issues, the school district will report any specific suspicious clown-related incidents to the local authorities for necessary investigation,” Condon wrote.

Timothy Inklebarger

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Supergroup comes to Oak Park

The term “supergroup” gets tossed around a lot in the music business.

It generally applies to a fusion of individually successful musicians who come together on occasion, perform together a time or two and then go their separate ways. That might have described The Flat Five 10 years ago when they would meet up for a soldout holiday show once a year at the Hideout in Chicago. But once a year just didn’t scratch the itch for this amazing quintet.

The Flat Five is made up of five outrageously talented, in-demand musicians from the Chicago area. Scott Ligon, Casey Mcdonough, Kelly Hogan, Nora O’Conner Kean & Alex Hall spend most of their time individually and in pairs touring and recording with Neko Case, NRBQ, Mavis Staples, The Decemberists, Iron & Wine, Jakob Dylan, Robbie Fulks, Alejandro Escovedo and many other heavy hitters, but it’s when they meet up and blend those glorious voices and instruments, that the magic happens.

A Flat Five show is a joyous lovefest for both their fans and for the

band itself. Their vocal harmonies are organic and simply uncanny, with a repertoire that ranges from the Beach Boys and Magnetic Fields to Captain Beefheart and a five-part vocal rendering of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven.”

There are simply no limits and by the end of a sold-out evening, their audiences are euphoric.

Sprinkled among the gems of a Flat Five show are songs written by Scott Ligon’s older brother Chris Ligon, a singular eclectic songwriter whose blend of sweetness, humor and quirky insights it them like a glove. It’s Chris Ligon’s songs that The Flat Five chose to honor with their debut release on Augidisc/Bloodshot Records on Oct. 14.

And, wonder of wonders, it is on that release date, this Friday at 5:30 p.m., The Flat Five have chosen to appear on the Val’s halla stage, performing songs from “It’s a World of Love & Hope, a tribute to the songs of Chris Ligon.” It is simply an event not to be missed (even if I do say so myself).

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Jazz stringtet Sunday, Oct. 16 at 10:30 a.m., Open Door Theater, 902 S. Ridgeland Ave.: Church of Beethoven hosts Zvonimir Tot’s Jazz Stringtet, which comprises Tot on acoustic guitar; Carmen Kassinger and Lisa Fako on violin; Cheryl Wilson, viola; Paula Kosower, cello; and Rob Kassinger, double bass, playing jazz-classical crossover music. See the Stringtet at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxRIGhAj4WY Come at 10 a.m. for cookies and coffee. Seating is limited, reservations recommended. Cost is $10 for adults/$5 for children. Tickets: http://www.churchofbeethovenoakpark.com/buy-tickets.html. Record store owner Val Camiletti is mistress of ceremonies. For more information visit www.churchofbeethoven-oakpark.com

Tale of the Tombstones Sunday, Oct. 16, starting at 1 p.m., Forest Home Cemetery, Forest Park: The silver anniversary of the annual two-hour walking tour, sponsored by the Historical Society of OP-RF, has been held on the third Sunday of every October since 1992. This year the spotlight falls on men and women who were stars in politics, sports, religion, and business. The theme is “The The Big Show.

Show.” Actors reincarnate characters who call Forest Home their final home. Baseball-playing evangelist Billy Sunday makes his return to the tour along with record-setting member of the U.S. House of Representatives Adolph Sabath, who makes his undead debut. Tickets are $15, members $10 and go on sale at 12:30 that day. Desplaines Avenue, south of I-290. For more information, call 708-848-6755 or email oprfhistorymatters@sbcglobal.net.

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Art for Social Change Friday, Oct. 14 from 7 to 9 p.m., Oak Park Art League, 720 Chicago Ave.: Opening reception for Behind the Wall, OPAL’s juried exhibition in the main gallery, featuring artwork from Chicago-area artists to raise awareness of domestic violence issues in partnership with Sarah’s Inn. Gallery hours are Monday-Friday, 1-5 p.m. and Saturday, 1-4 p.m. through Nov. 4. October is Illinois Arts & Humanities Month. For more information, call 708-386-9853, email oakparkartleague@gmail.com or visit www.oakparkartleague.com.

BIG WEEK

Latin jazz quartet Wednesday, Oct. 19 from 7 to 9 p.m., Main Library, 834 Lake St.: Latin Suenos Jazz Quartet will perform a concert for the NEA Big Read program, events centered on the novel The Beautiful North. Comprising some of Chicago’s finest jazz and Latin musicians and led by bassist/composer Steven Hashimoto, the group has been active in Chicago’s vital jazz scene for 10 years and combines jazz improvisation with Latin and Caribbean rhythms. More: oppl.org/bigread.

Shakespeare set to song

City Voices, direc directed by Bill Chin, with the Pro Musica Youth Chorus, present prese Music to Hear, a celebration of William Shakespeare’ Shakespeare’s texts set to music, including Macbeth, A Midsummer Nigh Night’s Dream and The Tempest set in styles from Mendelssohn to my mysterious and moody to mid-20thcentury jazz. The ttwo performances are Saturday, Oct. 15 at 7:30 p.m., First United Church of Oak Park, 848 LLake St., and Sunday, Oct. 16 at 4 p.m., Goo Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, 611 Rando Randolph. Tickets available at door. Adults $20, seniors $15, youth free.

Feeding the soul Saturday, Oct. 15 at 6 p.m., Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, 611 Randolph St.: Award-winning soprano Christine Steyer will perform a benefit recital, Music to Feed the Soul, accompanied

by Peter Storms on piano. Free parking in front. All funds raised will go directly to support People Loving People, which reaches out to the homeless on the streets weekly, feeding nearly 100 people with food, love and prayer. The Holiday Vendor Fair begins at 4 p.m. Complimentary dinner plate for all concert ticket holders. $25 tickets available at the door or online. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/music-to-feed-the-soul-charity-event-tickets27671323674?aff=efbeventtix.

Diary of Anne Frank The OPRF Theatre Department presents Diary of Anne Frank, directed

by Michelle Bayer, in the Little Theatre at 7:30, Oct. 14-15 and 21-22. OPRF High School, 201 N. Scoville.

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ART BEAT FitzGerald’s hosts an evening of blues therapy

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AMI Metro-Suburban is sponsoring a fundraiser titled “Recovery through the Blues” at FitzGerald’s in Berwyn on Thursday, Oct. 13, from 5:30 to 9 p.m. The performances will showcase the talents of members of NAMI Metro Suburban’s own NAMInation performance group.

In addition, the main performance will spotlight two notable Chicago blues legends: Grammy-nominated artists Matthew Skoller and special guest Lurrie Bell, a blues giant in his own right and the son of Chicago legendary blues harp player, Carrie Bell. He has performed with blues icons such as Buddy Guy, Junior Wells and other notable Chicago bluesmen.

NAMI Metro Suburban is an affiliate of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, which is dedicated to improving the lives of individuals and families affected by mental illness within the communities of west suburban Cook County. Proceeds from the Recovery through the Blues fundraiser will benefit NAMInation and NAMI’s Recovery through the Arts Program.

NAMInation has emerged as the premier performance group for NAMI Metro Suburban’s Recovery through the Arts program, which is committed to the principles of selfadvocacy through self-expression and the belief that, in the act of creation, we experience a freedom that transcends mental illness. The NAMInation performance group, and the Recovery through the Arts Program, had its genesis in the vision of Charles Torpe, program manager of the NAMI Metro Suburban Drop-In Center, and has benefited the avid support of Executive Director Kimberly Knake. Over the years, the program has performed in various venues, hosted talent shows for mental health agencies, provided a program called “Through the Blues to Recovery,” and offered an eightweek “Music is Recovery” curriculum for those living with mental illness.

With the support and passion of clients and community volunteers, members of NAMInation have performed at the Chicago Blues Fest, Soldier Field, the Thompson Center, and the NAMI National Convention in San Francisco. The performances are designed to entertain, but more importantly, to direct attention to the ways in which people with mental illness can confront and overcome stigma by sharing their recovery in public. Torpe observes that performing, as an art form, affords individuals in recovery the opportunity to test themselves while

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As for opportunities, NAMI Metro Suburban is exceedingly fortunate to have secured the distinguished talents of Matthew Skoller and Lurrie Bell to headline the entertainment for this fundraiser. Skoller is a celebrated vocalist, a gifted harmonica player and band leader. His extensive discography is a testament to his craft and vision as a blues man in this great city that birthed urban blues.

Bell’s presence in the NAMI Metro Suburban Drop-in Center community is truly an extraordinary turn of fate. He has emerged on the national and international scene as one of the most active and well-known artists to share his experience of mental illness and recovery. Along with his broad discography, he has an astonishing record of supporting organizations that address stigma and other mental health issues.

Characterized by music critics as a blues guitar genius, Bell uses his celebrated status to inform and educate people about mental illness and recovery.

We hope our local communities will come out Oct. 13 from 5:30 to 9 p.m. at FitzGerald’s to support this worthy cause and have an entertaining time sharing the down-home personal narratives of these two great artists as well as NAMInation. The $30 ticket includes entertainment, hors d’oeuvres, a drink with cash bar, 50/50 raffle and wine pull. For more information, call Charles: 708-524-2582, extension 102.

Get your tickets at Eventbrite.com (search for “Blues to Recovery”).

George Bailey, a longtime Oak Park resident and NAMI volunteer, is a retired Columbia College professor, a musician, and an avid student of the blues.

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Old ugly to modern ugly

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dds and ends with some a bit odder than others: Forty years of ugly: The administrative staff of our Oak Park elementary school district is making the move down Madison Street this week. They’re leaving the gloom and perpetual inadequacies of the HQ at 970 Madison St. for new digs at 260 Madison St. It has been a 40-year sentence in an old, cheaply repurposed structure that, back in the 1970s, was only intended as a temporary stop for District 97. Its longtime quarters in the old Lowell School at Lake and Forest disappeared unexpectedly fast when the handsome building sold quickly to a developer, Jonas Stankus, who had visions of matching 55-story skyscrapers that never came to fruition.

But D97 found shelter in an old automotive building on Madison and got diverted for decades by the press of educating kids and never-ending budget shortfalls. Then there is the reality that, anytime a school district wants to spend money to house its HR staff and registrars and mid-level bureaucrats, taxpayers will say, “What about my kid!”

Several months back, with construction just midway, I pronounced the new HQ to be blandly ugly. Now complete, I’ll stick with that assessment. In our news article last week, central office staff said the new building is designed to boost collaboration and other modern things. That the floors are flat, the roof won’t leak and the wiring is intended for something more ambitious than IBM Selectrics and adding machines will undoubtedly increase productivity.

Maybe we only allow D97 to build new structures every 20 years because they keep building ugly. Still can’t drive by the “new” middle schools without sighing over what might have been.

Paying the mayor: Still waiting to see if Mayor Anan Abu-Taleb is going to push ahead with his request for a

major pay raise for his post.

He’s floated a number in the range of $75,000 per year.

Just up River Road in Stephensville, err, Rosemont, Mayor Bradley Stephens is set for a raise to $260,000 per annum. All he has to do is win re-election come April.

Likely a sure thing since he is, well, named Stephens and his late father created the town, his brother runs Triton College, a nephew is the public safety director, another nephew runs the convention center.

It’s all about perspective.

Talking about race: The Community of Congregations, once on the sleepy list among local organizations, continues to impress with its focus and its actions on honest talk about race in Oak Park.

At its recent fall meeting at a church on Austin Boulevard, the group fronted a panel of local activists working toward a franker assessment and more plain talk on equity and diversity in Oak Park. We need more talk about race and how it plays out in our everyday lives, and we need much bolder plans for how we face up to equity imbalances in our schools.

The Community of Congregations, an affiliation of local religious entities, has also brought strong focus to building genuine connections in Austin and with West Side ministers.

Candidates surface: Two new candidates for Oak Park’s village board have surfaced this week. One is Simone Boutet. She was the assistant village attorney in Oak Park for many years before being passed over for promotion to the top job. Boutet is an interesting person who knows more about the inner workings of village hall than just about anyone. Can she be more than a oneissue, anti-village manager candidate?

And Dan Moroney, a local developer with a good reputation, announced his run. I was interested that, in announcing, he listed three priorities. Number three was building closer ties with Austin. That is a first.

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Dee Dee Farmer, 65, longtime Longfellow pre-K teacher

District 97 is mourning the sudden passing of Dr. Deneita “Dee Dee” Jo Farmer, the popular Longfellow Elementary School prekindergarten teacher who died unexpectedly on Oct. 7. She was 65 years old. So far, the cause of her death, which was confirmed over the weekend by family members, hasn’t been released.

Farmer, a 40-year veteran in early childhood education and a 1997 Golden Apple Award winner, was the head of Longfellow’s prekindergarten program and an involved Oak Park community member.

Last February, Wednesday Journal interviewed Farmer at the Collaboration for Early Childhood’s 12th Annual Symposium, a day-long gathering of early childhood educators from all over the Chicago area.

“I was never growing up,” Farmer said, which she cited as part of her motivation ■ To read more for teaching.

“So many things VISIT OAKPARK.COM happen as a result of kids just mucking about with things that are in our environment,” said Farmer at the time. “I’m still Peter Pan; I’m never growing up. Growing up is dull. The kids keep me young, excited, invigorated and they give me a lot of joy and peace.”

A statement released by Chris Jasculca, D97’s communications director, expressed the administration’s “shock” and “sadness” at Farmer’s sudden death.

“Dee Dee was a beloved member of our District 97 family who touched the lives of countless people during a remarkable career at Longfellow that spanned more than 20 years. However, it was the incredibly meaningful and impactful work she did both in and out of the classroom that will serve as a lasting testament to her legacy as an educator, a mentor and a role model for the thousands of children she served.

“Our thoughts are with her loved ones during this difficult time. We will miss her terribly, and will always remember and be inspired by the strong work ethic, integrity and tireless commitment she displayed on a daily basis.”

According to an online obituary, Farmer is survived by three children and seven grandchildren.

A public viewing is scheduled for Thursday, Oct. 13, from 2 to 5 p.m., at Cage Memorial Chapel, 7651 S. Jeffery Blvd. in Chicago.

The funeral service will take place on Friday, Oct. 14, from 10 to 11 a.m., at Pullman Christian Reformed Church, 424 E. 103rd St., Chicago, followed by interment at Lincoln Cemetery, 11900 S. Kenzie in Chicago.

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River Forest president to seek second term Trustees Cargie, Dwyer also running; Colwell-Steinke won’t seek re-election

By DEBORAH KADIN Contributing Reporter

While national elections are only a few short weeks away, campaigns for municipal races in River Forest have begun, with three incumbents declaring they again will run for their respective offices in the April 4, 2017 Consolidated Election.

As expected, Catherine Adduci has announced she will run for a second term as River Forest village president. Adduci told Wednesday Journal and posted on her Facebook page “Continue the Progress” that she will circulate petitions in the coming days.

“It has been an honor to serve this great community for the last three-and-a-half years and I would like to continue to serve you for another term,” Adduci said in a statement.

She said she plans to concentrate on similar issues -- providing strong public safety, improving property values and TOM CARGIE stabilizing property taxes -- that were central to her campaign in 2013 when she defeated Trustee Mike Gibbs.

Adduci also said finding creative solutions and other avenues to create revenue to provide ways to improve property values and stabilize property taxes will also be a continued focus.

“I started out with these goals and I will continue with this” Adduci said. “As long as we keep our eyes on it, it will always be

top of mind, and I am confident the future board and I will continue to do what is right to improve our valuable assets, our property, schools, and parks; our community investments.”

Adduci was appointed village clerk in 2007 and elected trustee in 2009. She serves as the vice president of the West Central Municipal Conference’s executive committee and recently was re-elected to serve as a vice president of the Illinois Municipal League.

So far, no one has stepped forward to challenge her.

Trustee Tom Cargie also has announced he will seek a second term as trustee. Cargie, who served as a six-year term as park district commissioner, told Wednesday Journal he is getting petitions together.

“I enjoyed my first four years and I am looking forward to another four,” he said.

He said that economic development will be the pivotal issue River Forest will TOM DWYER face and one of the only avenues open to the village will be establishing tax increment finance districts on Madison Street and another on North Avenue.

“Our village has become too dependent on residential property taxes. The only way to change that is through smart, sensible growth,” Cargie said. “The only way to do that is to establish TIFs. It shouldn’t be just residents bearing the costs of the parks and the school and the village.”

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RETURN TICKET: Cathy Adduci, shown during the victory party following her election as River Forest village president in 2013, will run for re-election in 2017.

In addition, Tom Dwyer said he intends to run for a second term and told Wednesday Journal he plans to start circulating petitions in the next couple of weeks.

“I have enjoyed the service. It’s been a good use of my personal time,” Dwyer said.

“I think I’m helping and I will continue to do that.”

Another trustee seen as an Adduci ally, Roma Colwell-Steinke, said she will not seek a second term. Colwell-Steinke, who served one term as village clerk and then a term as trustee, said a time-consuming professional schedule and personal matters led to her

decision. She served on the village board’s finance committee.

“It’s is so fascinating to look at the budget, what mandates come down from the state and pension funds,” she said. “I will miss knowing what’s going on in the village, but I don’t think I’ll miss the Monday meetings.”

Sharon Halperin said she has not yet decided if she will seek second term as village clerk.

Candidates could begin circulating petitions on Sept. 20; the deadline for filing nominating petitions is Dec. 19.

Pension costs up for cops, firefighters Village Finance Committee to direct additional funds to firefighters

By TIMOTHY INKLEBARGER Staff Reporter

The Oak Park Firefighters Pension Board advised village trustees to adopt an actuarial valuation that would increase an already costly pension bill by roughly $550,000.

The recommendation from the pension board would put the cost at $4.6 million for the firefighters retirement plan in 2017.

It’s another hit to Oak Park’s pension plan; earlier this year trustees learned that

updated actuarial assumptions that more accurately reflected mortality rates and investment returns added about $1 million to Oak Park’s property tax bill from firefighters and police officer pensions.

Those changes to assumptions also dropped the funded status — the assets of the plan compared to its liabilities — to 37 percent for the firefighters fund. That means if all employees retired today, it would have a little over a third of funds needed to pay retirement benefits.

Oak Park’s new actuary, Mitch Serota, recommended a $4.1 million contribution to the firefighters plan, based on a 6.75 percent rate of return on the fund’s investments. But another independent auditor, Todd Schroeder of Lauterback & Amen, put the contribution

at $4.6 million, based on a projected 7 percent rate of return.

Carolyn Welch Clifford, an attorney with Ottosen Britz Kelly Cooper Gilbert & DiNolfo, Ltd., reviewed the valuations by both Serota and Schroeder and a third conducted by the Illinois Department of Insurance (the village gets three separate opinions on its costly pension valuations) and determined Serota’s was in error.

Welch Clifford said Serota used a valuation method known as “projected unit credit” which the firefighters’ pension board described as “widely criticized as an inappropriate methodology for public pension funds,” adding “the SEC has specifically called it ‘statutory underfunding’ because it pushes off the funding of the benefits to the

end of the funding period.”

The memo given to the Finance Committee said the projected unit credit valuation model also would “lead to unmanageable escalation” of funding required and makes it more expensive for taxpayers over time.

Oak Park Village Trustee Bob Tucker suggested directing a greater share of the contribution — about $900,000 — to the firefighters’ pension because its 37 percent funded status is substantially lower than the police pension status, which currently stands at 51 percent.

“We can’t keep kicking the can down the road,” he said.

The pension discussion was part of the Finance Committee’s work in forging a budget for 2017.

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Oak Park developer to run for board of trustees

Dan Moroney wants to reduce taxes with sensible development

Moroney, a former self-described house flipper, said he’s more focused these days on new construction projects like the recent development in Forest Park.

He described himself as pro-development but said multiple large-scale developments downtown are changing the quiet suburban

By TIMOTHY INKLEBARGER nature of the village.

Staff Reporter “Nearly 800 units are being added to our A lifelong Oak Parker and real estate de- downtown district via three enormous buildveloper has announced his plan to run for ings. This scale of building is just too large for our community. The impact the Oak Park Board of Trustees on our community will be great,” in the April 2017 election.

Moroney said in a policy paper Dan Moroney has served on listing his reasons for running. the Oak Park Historic PreservaHe said he also would encourtion Commission since 2014, the age the village to reject approvOak Park Board of Realtors since ing a zoning change to allow for 2005 and as treasurer of Horace a 16-story building at the northMann School PTO since 2011. west corner of Lake and Forest, But Moroney is probably most across from the new 21-story well-known for being the developVantage apartment building. er of an 11,000-square-foot mixedMoroney noted that large-scale use, 4-unit apartment building in DAN MORONEY developments will help reduce Forest Park earlier this year at Candidate the tax burden, but “it can be ar7228 Madison St. – between Fat gued that the developments have Duck and Skrine Chops.

Moroney told Wednesday Journal that as been allowed to be too large and the incena trustee he would focus on lowering real es- tives too generous.”

As an example of generous incentives to tate taxes on homeowners, generating “sensible development” beyond downtown Oak developers, Moroney pointed to a $100,000 Park and creating stronger partnerships request in TIF funds from Golub & Company, developer of the Vantage tower, to build out with the Austin neighborhood of Chicago.

a ground-floor restaurant space for the building that was completed earlier this year.

Moroney says the village should focus more on smaller development projects along Madison Street, Roosevelt Road, North Avenue and Harrison Street.

“We need to get beyond downtown,” he said in an interview.

He said high taxes are making it impossible for middle-class families to live in Oak Park. The taxes on his own home, Moroney said, have increased 150 percent since 2000.

“I have an 8-year-old daughter and 11-yearold son. I want them to be able to afford to live in Oak Park when they become adults,” he states in his policy paper. “If real estate taxes grow at the rate that they have over the past 15 years, Oak Park will not be an option for them as a community to live in.”

The three open trustee seats in the upcoming election are currently filled by Glenn Brewer, Colette Lueck and Peter Barber. Barber is the only trustee who has said he will run for re-election. Lueck said earlier this year that she does not intend to seek another term.

Moroney said he plans to seek the endorsement of the Village Manager Association, an organization that vets and slates candidates for elected positions at village hall, but added he will run with or without the group’s backing.

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An online ‘starter kit’ for candidates

County clerk aims to make it easier to run for local boards

By BOB UPHUES Editor

“Someone oughta do something about this town!”

You’ve seen the Facebook postings, heard it wherever people in town congregate. Maybe you’ve said it yourself.

Things ought to be different. Different people need to be in charge of local government. But who wants the job? It’s such a pain in the neck even to run for office, because you have to fill out so many forms and jump through so many hoops.

If only the process were easier to navigate.

Cook County Clerk David Orr has heard your pleas and on Oct. 6 launched an online application process to make it simpler for people to run for suburban library districts, park districts and school boards.

The Running for Office Starter Kit allows anyone in suburban Cook County to see what offices are up for election – in this case for the April 4, 2017 Consolidated Election – and get the information and documentation they need to complete in order to throw their hat into the ring.

“Running for office should be easy,” said Cook County Clerk David Orr in a press release. “Unfortunately, it’s more daunting than it should be. Now, with our new Running for Office Starter Kit – the first of its kind in Illinois – so much of the information you need is at your fingertips.”

In rolling out the online application process, Orr noted that during the 2015 Consolidated Election more than 60 percent of the 699 total contests went uncontested.

“One of the many issues that accompany these uncompetitive elections is low voter turnout,” Orr stated. “Contested elections not only force public officials to work for their constituents’ votes by bringing different points of view into our democracy, but they also attract voters to the polls – expanding the political process on both sides of the ballot box.”

The Running for Office Starter Kit can be found on the Cook County Clerk’s website (www.cookcountyclerk.com), by selecting “Running for Office” from the drop-down menu under the “Elections – Suburban Cook County” tab on the home page.

A 3-minute video will take you through the basics of the application process and how to generate a candidate packet, which includes nominating petition forms and other documentation required to run for office.

Nomination forms come pre-populated with candidate information to help prevent the kinds of ticky-tack mistakes that often result in a candidate’s petitions being challenged and the candidate being removed from the ballot.

For now, however, candidate packets can be generated only for offices where nominating petitions can be filed directly with the Cook County Clerk’s Office. That means if you want to run for village president or trustee or township office you’ll have to do it the hard way.

“The requirements for [school boards, park district boards and library district boards] aren’t subject to changes and differences like the offices where each municipality would set the requirements and the requirements could be different from town to town,” said James Scalzitti, deputy communications director for the Cook County Clerk.

“But this is a start. Perhaps in the future municipal and township offices could be part of it, as well.”

Anyone interested in running for office next April needs to start thinking about it now, however. The period for collecting signatures for nominating petitions has already started, and the period for filing those petitions is Dec. 12-19.

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River Forest OKs turf field at Priory Park Fenwick will not add lights at the Harlem/Division site

By DEBORAH KADIN Contributing Reporter

Fenwick High School’s soccer/lacrosse field in Priory Park in River Forest will get synthetic turf next spring as part of a series of upgrades approved Sept. 26 by the River Forest Board of Trustees.

The surface will be installed on the field, which is located at the northwest corner of Harlem Avenue and Division Street.

Fenwick leases the space from Dominican Province of St. Albert the Great, the order that oversees the high school.

Other improvements around that area include: ■ Installing an aluminum fence around the field to make the area more secure.

■ Replacing the existing scoreboard with a new scoreboard; ■ Installing a concrete pad for the bleachers. Today the bleachers sit on the ground.

Adding concrete under the bleachers will make easier for maintenance.

■ Restriping the parking lot and relocating the ADA spaces closer to the bleachers.

■ Installing a concrete sidewalk to the existing portable toilets to improve accessibility.

The school is studying what kind of turf that will be installed. In making that choice, Fenwick will take into consideration safety and other factors, said Nancy Bufalino, the school’s chief operating officer.

At this stage, Fenwick is unsure of the total cost of the work, as it will depend on the turf and the fill associated with the field, Bufalino said.

Fenwick plans to start work in early 2017 after the ground thaws and hopes to complete the project in May, Bufalino said.

The initial request for the field came in February, at which time the school also asked to install field lighting. That was taken off the table in April after Fenwick officials found the cost was higher than it planned to spend. Fenwick found that making sure all the water drainage issues were addressed became a higher priority, Bufalino said.

The use of synthetic turf should end the flooding and poor drainage that have plagued the field almost since it started being used for soccer 21 years ago. Those hazards impede “what we do, even in the summer,” Dennis Marani, a member of

Fenwick’s board of directors and co-chairman of the school’s facilities committee, told trustees in February.

Extended use of the field during the summer by summer camps damages the grass and affects the high school students’ ability to use the field for late summer and early fall practices, school officials said.

The changes at the field constitute a minor amendment to the planned development permit issued in April 1994 that allowed for construction of Priory Estates.

It also included the athletic fields at the Priory Park that are used by Fenwick High School.

Fenwick still has to present its plans for storm water detention to the village and the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District before permits for the work can be issued, Bufalino said.

While the requested amendment does not constitute a variation, village staff requested that it be approved by trustees with the condition that the detention system under the turf field must be built and maintained in a manner that will not increase the amount of storm water conveyed to the village’s sewer system.

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Vote

UNDER CONSTRUCTION: Harrison Green, an OPRF senior, works on a 3-D printer he made in the living room of his River Forest home. Green, a self-taught computer programmer, has already landed a full-time job with an Evanston technology startup.

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on the District 200 pool referendum.

This is not a facility plan. It’s a pool plan. Of the $44.5M budgeted, only a few million would be spent on performing arts and model classrooms. $37.3M would be spent on an oversized 40-meter pool and associated building costs, including a new garage.

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Still in high school, but already dreamily employed OPRF techie Harrison Green, 17, landed full-time gig with Evanston-based startup

By MICHAEL ROMAIN Staff Reporter

Oak Park and River Forest High School senior Harrison Green stood last week inside of his cavernous living room, taking stock of his most recent obsessions — among them, a custom quadcopter, or basically a drone, that he built from HobbyKing parts and hooked up to a flight controller board; a homemade 8-bit computer, which resembles a giant, Atari-era circuit board; and a homemade 3-D printer he built from $400 worth of materials and 14 hours of free time.

On his personal website, harrisongreen. me, the soft-spoken 17-year-old describes himself as “a high school student interested in computer science and electrical engineering.”

The barebones bio could fool someone into thinking that Green is indistinguishable from the crowd of talented techies and budding inventors at OPRF. But most probably can’t say that they’ve already landed a full-time job at a technology startup. The company, Intelligent Flying Machines, based in Evanston, manufactures autonomous drones.

Green said he couldn’t share too many

details about the company other than that it was started by Northwestern students who had posted a job listing over the summer that caught the OPRF student’s eye.

Harrison, who taught himself numerous computer programming languages while a student at Roosevelt Middle School in River Forest, works as a software engineer with the company.

Green said he’s the youngest person in the firm, but the age discrepancy doesn’t seem too pronounced, since the company is staffed by people who are college age or only slightly older.

“When other people see [me and my coworkers] together, they don’t necessarily realize that I’m in high school, since we all look around the same age,” Green said.

Last month, Green travelled with his firm to the Tech Crunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco, where the company was one of only 23 startups in the country to make software presentations.

“It’s a big deal for a company to be invited to attend,” said Sonia Green, Harrison’s mother. “Presenters included some of the leading people in technology as well as basketball phenomenon Steph Curry, who is an investor in a tech startup.”

Sonia said she watched on live stream while Harrison stood on stage with his coworkers during the presentation, which they pitched before a crowd of about 2,000 conference attendees. The moment, Sonia said, was thrilling even if somewhat predictable.

“I remember him building things from the age of 2 years old,” Sonia recalled during an interview last week. “He would take Campbell’s soup cans and baby food jars and stack them. He was always taking things apart. I get all these Facebook memories that pop up on my feed of Harry from, like, six years ago, sitting in Borders back when they still existed. He’d be surrounded by all these programming books.”

Roughly a decade later, a mound of programming books at least three feet high frames the doorway between the kitchen and the living room in the Greens’ River Forest home. The books are paying off.

“He’s a good kid,” said Sonia of Harrison, the oldest of her four boys. “He even got his three younger brothers smart watches for their birthdays.”

Harrison, who said he’s currently transitioning from full-time to parttime, hopes to study computer science or electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology next fall, when he may have to break away from his current employer because of the distance.

But he’ll be closer to what he said is his ultimate ambition — working with his role model Elon Musk, the brainchild behind pioneering technologies like the Tesla electric car and the SpaceX program.

“If I ever had a chance to work with him that would be cool,” Harrison said, perhaps already plotting out how he’ll land his next dream job.

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$12.6M would be spent to demolish the 13-year old garage, which has 25 more years of life in it, and to replace it with a smaller garage with less parking. This is a wasteful expenditure!

If passed, YOUR TAXES WILL INCREASE, and future tax hikes are a possibility.

The parking garage is a valuable community asset that should be preserved. It can be expanded with another level to accommodate future parking, classrooms or any space needs.

OPRF’s architects have an alternate plan for a solution that meets all of the school’s aquatic needs, increases community usage, preserves the garage, includes expenditures for performing arts and new model classrooms, and costs millions less!

Let’s solve the pool problem without going overboard.

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Roosevelt School project price tag close to $2 million

Costs included construction, engineering, legal fees and landscape design

By DEBORAH KADIN Contributing Reporter

River Forest Elementary School District 90 could spend as much as $2 million to renovate the exterior at Roosevelt Middle School, taking into account construction, design, landscaping, legal fees and related expenses, according to documents obtained

by Wednesday Journal in response to a Freedom of Information request.

As of September, the single biggest expense for the district has been construction of the project itself, which so far has totaled almost $1.1 million.

The general contractor, KR Miller, still must finish the landscaping, fencing and signage, which will amount to around $400,000, said Anthony Cozzi, the district’s director of finance and facilities. Total construction cost is around $1.4 million.

In addition to the construction costs, there are also engineering, legal and other costs dating back to 2012 related to the longawaited project.

From late 2012 until September 2016,

approximately $329,000 went to Terra Engineering. The civil engineering firm designed and re-designed the project, which had underwent several iterations before it was finally approved by the school board in March. The company also drafted construction documents, appeared at public meetings and hearings and did other activities associated with the project, district officials said.

Approximately $90,500 went to the law firm Robbins Schwartz for legal bills. The largest amount was $76,300, which came during the 2014-15 school year, when the River Forest Development Review Board conducted five public hearings associated with the application to do the work.

The law firm attended other district board meetings as well. In all, the law firm worked for the district through three school years, according to district information.

Other expenses included: ■ Hitchcock Design Group, $84,453.05. The firm was brought on to be the landscape architect in late 2012.

■ TADI, traffic consultant, $24,294.33 and Kimley-Horn and Associates, traffic consultant, $14,384.55. Cozzi said the district retained Peter Lemmon to work on the entire project. Lemmon worked for two different firms while the project was on the table.

■ Teri Guen Design Associates, $21,575.

The firm was brought on in February 2012 as the project’s original landscape architect.

■ Sraga Hauser, $8,642, 2012-2013 and 20132014. The law firm had been used by the school district before switching to Robbins Schwartz.

Money for the construction-related costs came from the district’s capital projects fund. Legal bills were paid from the education fund.

The project went through numerous iterations, but one issue remained constant – parking -- particularly in the north parking lot. The months’ long battles pitted parents against Roosevelt neighbors, residents against residents, the school board against the library board and even the school board versus the village’s board of trustees.

The school board in its application contained 36 parking spots and a student gathering spot, which was wanted by parents.

In February 2015, village trustees approved a project application conditioned on the school board have there being 30 parking spaces in the north lot -- 10 on the west side for two-hour parking, 10 in the middle reserved school use during school hours and 10 on the east side that would be used for student recreation during school

hours.

District 90 shelved the project in May 2015 because the school board didn’t like that plan. In November, the plan was dusted off, and the school board approved it without a student gathering space.

The project, now largely finished, includes 36 spots in the north lot -- nine set aside for three-hour parking for visitors to the library or the school.

Other elements include a library book drop in the Lathrop Avenue parking lot, a walkway to the north of the gym, improvements to the playground and storm water management improvements. The smaller Lathrop Avenue parking lot to the south has 14 spots.

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2016 Fall leaf collection set to begin...

• Keep catch basins clear of raked leaves to avoid flooding.

• Leaves only -- do not add brush, grass clippings or yard waste.

• Obey all parking restrictions. Regulations will be strictly enforced.

• Do not park on or near a pile of leaves, which can hinder leaf removal operations. Heat from a car also could ignite the leaves.

• Dampen piles after raking to avoid leaves being blown by the wind.

• Rake leaves onto side streets whenever possible. Try to avoid major thoroughfares where piles of leaves might create traffic hazards.

• Do not rake leaves into or close to cul de sacs or traffic diverters. The equipment needs room to operate.

• Inform landscape services of the leaf collection schedule.

• Drive carefully. Leaves are slippery when wet and large piles may hinder visibility.

• Drive cautiously – crews will create safe work zones and close intersections for a few minutes while removing large leaf piles.

For more information call 358.5700 or email publicworks@oak-park.us

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• Rake leaves out the day before the scheduled pickup date.

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• Do not rake leaves into or close to bus shelters or bicycle racks (including Divvy).

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• Consider composting or using the leaves as garden mulch as an alternative to raking.

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The annual fall leaf collection program is scheduled for Oct. 17 – Dec. 1 with seven pickups planned for each section of the Village. Residents should rake leaves into the street at least 18 inches from the curb the day before the scheduled pickup dates indicated on the map. Leaves raked into the street will be pushed into piles by Public Works crews during the night to reduce impact on traffic and parked cars. Leaves will be collected the following day. Residents who miss a scheduled pickup date should keep their leaves on the parkway until the night before the next scheduled pickup.

Sweepers will be scheduled to run at the end of the collection program to clean up residue. Cooperation is essential to the success of this operation, so please follow these simple rules:

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Oak Park businesses will find a postcard in their mailbox this week announcing the Chamber’s “Building Better Business Districts” project. In partnership with the Village of Oak Park, the Chamber of Commerce has been working since July to build a public online directory and a central resource for business information.

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The Chamber’s “Building Better Business Districts” project supports these organizations, as well as the professionally managed Downtown Oak Park through the village-wide online directory, communication tools and other back office functions. The central calendar will fill a real need in the community.

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OPRF students digging new Chromebooks, says survey Students and teachers express fears about overutilizing devices

By MICHAEL ROMAIN Staff Reporter

Earlier this year, District 200 administrators were enthusiastic about the rollout of a one-to-one computing program, which entailed handing out Google Chromebook laptops to every student at Oak Park and River Forest High School beginning in the 2016-17 school year.

Now, several months into the first year of the program, some early, albeit unscientific, data about students’ and teachers’ experiences using the devices provide some vindication for that early optimism.

At the time the program was pitched to school board members in March, the district’s assistive technology facilitator and occupational therapist, Lisa Vincent, lauded the potential benefits of the laptops, which were given to several hundred students in pilot programs that started in 2013 before they were administered to the entire student body this school year.

“For students who have struggled or failed

in classes because they couldn’t keep track of assignments or couldn’t manage their materials to get their assignments turned in, using the Chromebooks are a real gamechanger for them, and we’re seeing the technology actually improve their abilities as students,” Vincent said.

A recent opinion survey conducted by OPRF’s Student Council indicates that a majority of students have a favorable opinion of the laptops. Out of the 100 students who participated in the survey, nearly 80 percent noted that they either “like” or “love” having a Chromebook.

Fifty-two percent of respondents said they feel that they’re generally more productive when working on the Chromebook, with 17 percent reporting that they’re less productive “because of the distractions that they come with” and 31 percent reporting that the Chromebook isn’t a factor in their productivity.

During a school board meeting last month, Jackie Cofsky, the Student Council liaison, referenced some of the specific comments made by students and teachers about the new devices.

“The comments that struck me were the kinds that said they love the Chromebook because they’re able to do work at home, which they wouldn’t be able to do otherwise,

“The comments that struck me were the kinds that said they love the Chromebook because they’re able to do work at home, which they wouldn’t be able to do otherwise because they don’t have access to a computer at home,” JACKIE COFSKY

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because they don’t have access to a computer at home,” Cofsky said. “So it opens them up to a whole list of opportunities.”

Cofsky noted that teachers reported “seeing way more work being done because of the Chromebook” since students can now access online data and complete assignments more easily while in study halls and on lunch breaks.

The student leader, however, expressed some caveats from students and teachers about the fresh proliferation of the laptops.

“A lot of kids made the point that they learn better from pen and paper,” Cofsky said, adding that many students reported that they feel it’s much easier to absorb content through plain old pen, paper and physical textbooks.

Those students, Cofsky said, don’t want the Chromebooks to be mandated at the expense of getting rid of those old-fashioned alternatives.

And some teachers, Cofsky noted, expressed fears that the option of radically independent study afforded by the Chromebooks might lead to students becoming alienated from the classroom experience.

“Teachers didn’t want students to feel like they could be home teaching themselves the lesson,” Cofsky said. “They fear that any kid can stay home from, and potentially miss school. Teachers still want to have that important student-teacher interaction.”

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Or perhaps you have. Either way, our social standards about this controversial drug are shifting. It’s legally available for medicinal use, here and now.

There is very strong evidence that medical cannabis can help with certain chronic conditions and provide relief for many people with chronic pain.

There is also a fairly long list of unwelcome sideeffects. If you are considering this drug, let’s agree that it’s worthwhile to review, with your family doctor, marijuana’s clinically validated medical uses, and the cautionary findings.

About two dozen common conditions now qualify in Illinois for the Medical Cannabis Card. They include cancer, glaucoma, HIV/ AIDS, rheumatoid arthritis , Parkinson’s, and Alzheimer’s. New ones will be added to the list soon. Patients must apply online, and be under the care of a physician who will confirm that they qualify.

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A cannabis dispensary’s staff helps decide which product is the most appropriate for the patient’s condition. But no certification training or medical education is required of them.

My advice is to ask them directly how much knowledge they have of specific products and what background training they were given. And, of course, consult with your family doctor before making these decisions.

Cannabis impairs motor skills. At this time there is no legal limit for blood content, though, so consumers must behave in a fully responsible manner when deciding whether to work or drive.

One medical researcher recently wrote: “Further investigation into this exciting field promises to shed insights into the mechanisms of health and disease and provide new therapeutic options.” As for me, I believe the medicinal use of cannabis is here to stay, but my patients need to exercise care and be fully informed.

At my membership medical practice, we discuss these pros and cons as needed, including what we know about interactions with other drugs, and the research on potential side-effects. Members have no-delay, no-rush office visits and quick access to the doctor via cell phone and email. They also have the advantage of a very thorough, 2.5-hour annual The hundreds of products sold for medicinal cannabis contain varying amounts physical exam, which includes testing and consultation with a dietitian and a professional physical trainer. of the two main active components that work on the body. How a person absorbs and metabolizes those chemicals is highly Call WellcomeMD at 708-455-2094 for a free consultation variable, so the proportions are important. and a tour of the practice.

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PHO IN THE VILLAGE: Saigon Pho, 726 Lake St., relocated from Forest Park to Oak Park earlier this year. Co-owner Hai Tran said the move was due in part to new development and new residents in the village and wider diversity of dining options on Lake Street.

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Forest Park transplants from page 1 High-rise residential buildings going up in the downtown area and the confluence of new restaurants popping up in and around the downtown area attracted them to the location, Tran said.

“It’s not just because Oak Park is a growing town but the location is very diverse,” he said, noting that the strip along Lake Street offers a variety of cuisines, including sushi, Greek and Thai, among others. “We wanted to be in a place where people go out and can get whatever they want.”

It wasn’t so long ago that restaurants were less common in Oak Park — the Madison Street strip in Forest Park was the place to go if you wanted to dine out. But Forest Park eateries opening new or second locations in Oak Park is not limited to the Trans.

The owner of Novo, located on the same block as Saigon Pho at 734 Lake St., formerly operated House Red Vinoteca in downtown Forest Park.

Owner Neb Mrvaljevic said he began thinking of relocating to Oak Park because the Madison business district was “more of a bar scene” than a restaurant scene.

“I was approached by both [Oak Park Mayor] Anan [Abu-Taleb] and Viktor Schrader [Oak Park Economic Development Corporation], and I told them I know Oak Park has a lot of tough rules [for opening a business], but they said everything has changed,” he recalled. “It was true. I think I did everything in four months.”

Oak Park-based commercial realtor David King, of David King & Associates, located both Saigon Pho and Novo at their current locations, along with Forest Park-based Scratch Kitchen and Lounge, which announced last month that it will be opening a second location roughly twice the size of its current location, at 733 Lake St. later this year. Saigon Pho’s move also increased its dining room seating capacity.

King said the deals actually show the strength of Forest Park’s Madison Street business district. “Opening a second location [for Scratch] was only possible due to their presence on Madison Street,” he said.

“Neb’s lease expired and was replaced by the new upscale Heritage Restaurant; there was no existing restaurant space in Forest Park for Saigon Pho to expand to,” King said. “But quite honestly, I could not have closed these deals without the welcoming atmosphere in Oak Park.”

Restaurant owners said the word is out about Oak Park Village Hall streamlining its permitting and licensing process. That, combined with large-scale developments being completed, is making restaurateurs take a closer look at the village, they say.

Tammie Grossman, Oak Park’s director of Development Customer Services, said it’s no accident that business owners are finding it easier to set up shop in the village.

A new software system at village hall, which connects building inspectors, licensing, the Oak Park Fire Department and others, has made the process much more userfriendly. Business owners can now go online to see the status of their permits and applications, Grossman said.

The village also consolidated the building, building services, planning and housing departments into the Department of Development Customer Services in 2014, fostering greater communication between the four departments, Grossman said.

“I think it’s all about the ability to provide quick, effective communication and work through problems, and that’s the attitude we have at village hall,” she said, “and it is showing with restaurateurs coming in and finding it’s a different experience to work with us.”

Tran said his experience was easier opening the second Saigon Pho, in part because it was his second time going through the process but also because of the help he received from the village.

“A lot of people say, ‘It’s hard in Oak Park to get a license,’ but it was a breeze for us,” he said.

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Congratulations to the 2016 Oak Park River Forest High School Alumni Association Summer Enrichment Scholarship Recipients This past summer, these students expanded their learning horizons and elevated opportunities for their future.

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CIEE: Education as Human Right, Capetown, S. Africa

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CIEE Summer Lang/Culture, Toulose, France

Sophia Bree Kiessling

CIEE Summer Lang/Culture Toulouse, France

Gianna L. Andreoli

CIEE Summer Lang/Culture Seville, Spain

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CIEE Summer Lang/Culture Rennes, France

Raiven U. Jones Universal Dance Association Camp Drill Team

Ari B. Schwartz Illinois Wesleyan Summer Music Composition Instituteica

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Youth for Understanding Japan

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OPRFHS Costa Rica Field Science

Charles Cole

Michigan Math & Science Scholars

Kayla A. Locke Living the Language Spanish immersion

Sharmore Clarke Whale Camp Marine Science Institute, Maine

Matthew Aeschleman

OPRFHS Costa Rica Field Science

Jacob DeLaCruz OPRFHS Costa Rica Field Science

Henry Griffin

Chicago Children’s Choir Tour to Cuba

Julia Morrison

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Declan Ryan

SAIC Early College Prop/ Figure Painting

Columbia College Summer Intensive - Video Production

Isobella (Tatum) Peters

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Margaret Andries

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Jose Gabriel Manes

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Youth for Understanding Japan

Alice Atkins

OPRFHS Costa Rica Field Science

Ella Niermann

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Kenya Reeves

Jenna Somberg

Fallon Taiwo

Alejandra Serratos

Corrie Hudson

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Kiara D. Broderick

Asha Ivey

Liam J. Peachey

Ben Mertz

Jacob Molho

Ryan Moore

Mia Williams

Annalise Paul

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Jovan Williams

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This donor-funded program is in its 13th year and has allocated over $299,250 to a total of 373 students.

Information about 2017 Summer Enrichment scholarships will be available in early December.

To all the alumni and friends of OPRFHS who helped to build a Summer Enrichment Endowment held at the OPRF Community Foundation.

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C R I M E

Oak Park cops arrest man wanted on homicide warrant Ave. on Oct. 3 at 10:54 a.m.

Aaron Moore, 29, of the 1800 block of N. Mayfield, in Chicago, was arrested in the 5500 block of West North Avenue on Oct. 5 at 2:33 p.m. for a warrant out of Kane County for drug-induced homicide. He was transported to the Kane County Sheriff ’s Department.

Moore was charged with selling the heroin that killed a Kane County man earlier this year. The victim’s wife was also charged with drug-induced homicide, which is a Class X felony punishable for up to 30 years in prison, if convicted.

A garage was burglarized in the 100 block of North Taylor Avenue on Oct. 6, sometime around 2:09 a.m. The victim’s overhead garage door was open, and a black Raleigh Talus bicycle was stolen. The loss was an estimated $350.

Panhandler arrested on Austin

A 2009 Chevy Aveo was stolen from the 1500 block of North Harlem on Oct. 5 at about 7:05 p.m. The owner is a River Forest resident. The loss was an estimated $4,500.

A 27-year-old man, who lives in the 5800 block of West End in Chicago, was arrested for soliciting in the roadway in the 700 block of South Austin on Oct. 4 at 10:23 a.m. The man was held in lieu of bond.

Recovered stolen vehicle A 1992 red Jeep Cherokee that was reported stolen on Sept. 25, 2016, was recovered by the Oak Park Police Department at 6557 North

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silver Honda Pilot was burglarized in the 900 block of Wenonah, sometime between noon on Oct. 3 and 8 a.m. the next day. The burglar gained entry by unknown means and stole a garage-door opener, which was later recovered in front of the victim’s garage. No loss was reported.

■ A white Toyota Tundra was burglarized in the 500 block of Madison, sometime between 9 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. on Oct. 4. The offender broke out the rear passenger window to the vehicle and stole a Ryobi brand nailer.

The loss was an estimated $970.

■ A red Hyundai Elantra was burglarized in the 100 block of Flournoy, sometime between 12:30 p.m. on Oct. 1 and 4:20 p.m. on Oct. 4. The offender broke out the driver’s side window and stole a backpack containing miscellaneous items. The loss was unknown.

These items, obtained from the Oak Park

— Compiled by Timothy Inklebarger

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Hostile takeover attempt from page 1 First American Bank’s chairman and CEO, Thomas Wells, says the bank is internally valuated at $86 per share, constituting a 2.8 percent annual return over a 20-year period. That increases to 5 percent under First American’s bid price, he said.

Healy in the press release issued Monday said Community Bank’s board of directors is reviewing the offer to determine the best course of action for stockholders and advised stockholders “to take no action at this time pending conclusion of the review of the offer.”

The Community Bank board intends to release an advisory statement to shareholders on Oct. 14.

Wells said in an interview with Wednesday Journal that Community Bank’s management has put its own interests above those of other shareholders.

Wells’ offer letter states that Community Bank sold 49,691 new shares in the company in 2014 at $70 a share – 55.7 percent of the then book value of $125.62 per share – but didn’t give First American or some other shareholders the opportunity to purchase those shares.

“We don’t take issue with the need for the capital raise or the price, but we do object that existing stockholders were not informed of the transaction, never allowed to see the disclosures that accompanied the offering nor allowed to participate in the offering to preserve our ratable ownership interests,” Wells stated in the offer letter. “Management, by contrast, participated extensively in the offering.”

Based on the First American’s offering price of $134.32 per share, those allowed to purchase the discounted stock would earn $3.3 million, or a 96.2 percent return on the 21-month, $3.5 million investment.

First American’s letter to stockholders also notes that options for 30,850 shares with a price of $209 per share were

and River Forest police departments, came from reports, Oct. 1-6, and represent a portion of the incidents to which police responded.

Anyone named in these reports has only been charged with a crime and cases have not yet been adjudicated. We report the race of a suspect only when a serious crime has been committed, the suspect is still at large, and police have provided us with a detailed physical description of the suspect as they seek the public’s help in making an arrest.

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TAKEOVER ATTEMPT: First American Bank Corporation has launched a hostile takeover bid for Community Bank of Oak Park River Forest. First American, one of the top stockholders in the Oak Park bank, says the Community Bank leadership has geared sales of stock that would benefit insiders and their friends. cancelled and replaced with “new options awarded to directors and management for 5,205 shares, issued with an exercise price of $65/share and expiring in two-and-a-half years.

Also, stock options for 19,093 shares with an exercise price of $70 per share were issued to directors and management, according to First American.

“Those two contemporaneous events had the effect of relieving management of the decline in value all of the other OPRF stockholders had suffered since 2008,” the First American offer letter states.

Wells wrote to shareholders in September that Community Bank’s management also granted themselves more stock options in 2015 at $70 a share, which would be valued at $2.5 million more under First American’s asking price.

“This astonishing nearly $6 million in stock value created by shares sold and options granted during the last 24-month period was directed exclusively to insiders and their friends

and reduced the value of our stock!” the First American letter states.

“For 20 years, we OPRF stockholders have been locked in our investment without any means to exit at a fair price,” First American’s offer letter states. “We did not expect, however, a board of directors that after 20 years would resolutely oppose any alternative plan brought by stockholders to bring liquidity to their investment.”

Wells said in an interview that First American made a proposal to the Community Bank board to purchase the stock at $151 a share in August, but said that bank’s board has declined to discuss the offer.

First American noted that their proposed transaction is valued at $29 million.

Crain’s Chicago Business, which first broke the story, stated that the takeover bid could prompt other larger banks, such as Rosemont-based Wintrust Financial, also to make bids for Community Bank.

First American said in its offer letter that it will “support any cash offer at a value equal to or greater than the valuation proposed in our offer if it is made to all stockholders by Oct. 22, 2016 and will close by May 20, 2017, contingent only on the OPRF board’s willingness to support our offer in the event theirs fails to materialize or close.”

Healy’s letter to stockholders states that Community Bank, which has $301 million in assets, aims to address inaccurate statements in First American’s offer letter to stockholders about the bank’s “valuation, earnings, preemptive rights, equity grant and the alleged premium to book value that the offer price represents.”

Healy said in the Community Bank press release that the company “looks forward to responding to its stockholders regarding this unsolicited tender offer.”

“We take our fiduciary responsibilities to our stockholders very seriously,” Healy wrote. “It is our most important priority and it has provided Community Bank with a foundation that has guided us for 20 years. Our duty is to protect our stockholders’ interests, and we intend to meet our obligation in this regard.”

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UNDIVIDED: Darrell and Resheeda Washington hope to build bridges between Oak Park and Austin with L!VE Cafe.

New café to come a L!VE on Oak Park Avenue

By MICHAEL ROMAIN Staff Reporter

The owners of a new coffeehouse set to open next month in Oak Park have ambitions that go beyond serving cups of java.

L!VE Cafe, scheduled to open in mid-November at 136 S. Oak Park Ave., will be “an event cafe and creative space that aims to build bridges between communities with different demographic make ups, specifically the Oak Park and Austin communities,” according to co-owner Darrel Washington.

Washington, a self-described coffee enthusiast, said in addition to that larger mission, the cafe’s product will be more sophisticated than west suburban and West Side consumers may be used to.

“Specialty coffee shops don’t exist anywhere in the area,” Washington said. “This will be a place where you can experience a coffee tasting, a nitro brew and really dive into the culture of coffee as opposed to going somewhere with the mindset, ‘I need coffee, so I’ll just get a cup.’”

Washington said L!VE will have two primary roasters of specialty-grade coffee — Wheaton-based River City Roasters and I Have a Bean — each of which blends their roasting production with social values.

“River City is very mission-driven and focused on building relationships — not just stateside, but across the waters where farmers themselves are,” Washington said. “I Have a Bean focuses on hiring felons. They’ve developed a process of roasting that’s easy enough for someone coming fresh out of jail who needs money to learn and make a living on without spending years in school.”

Washington’s wife, Resheeda, a former Oak Park and River Forest High School English teacher, said the couple envisions the space as an intersection of diverse ideas, people and experiences.

“We have a significant heart and passion for bringing communities together,” Resheeda said. “When we see communities like Austin that are resilient in non-fiscal ways, robust and dignified and proud, and they’re situated next to communities like Oak Park, which may have many of those same tenets in addition to having financial resources along with socioeconomic robustness — we think there’s an opportunity for some mutuality. We think those communities can learn from each other.”

She said they want to “shift away from” a model of philanthropy that’s a one-way street, with limited resources flowing from wealthy communities into relatively impoverished ones with little to no reciprocity.

“We want to think about the assets of both communities and how they can strengthen and grow each other,” she said.

The couple provided much of the startup capital for the cafe out of their own pockets, she said, but additional resources came in the form of people they consider partners giving small donations over a period of roughly a year, plus volunteers giving time and in-kind donations (like furniture for the cafe), and substantial funding from Community Bank of Oak Park-River Forest.

The latter, the couple said, decided to take a risk on the non-traditional nature of their business concept.

“They were willing to work with us and come up with a plan and some possibilities that have helped us to exist,” Resheeda said, “so we’re grateful for the pliability that they’ve exhibited as a partner.”

The couple is holding two hiring events — one in Austin, which was held earlier this week, and another in Oak Park, which will be held today at L!VE from 4:30 to 8:30 p.m.

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n 2011, the Chicago Architectural Foundation (CAF) held its inaugural Open House Chicago event, a one-weekend, free-ofcharge, architectural festival in which notable Chicago structures opened their doors for tours. A global movement, the first Open House weekend was held in London in 1992 and has since spread around the world. This year, Oak Park has been added to the list of participants, joining Evanston as one of two suburbs represented.

Ten Oak Park buildings will be included in the open house, Oct. 15-16 (see sidebar for hours and locations). Nikki Snodgrass, media relations manager of CAF, said adding Oak Park was a natural for the foundation.

“Oak Park is so significant, particularly when it comes to Frank Lloyd Wright,” she said. The foundation has several Frank Lloyd Wright tours and they’re really popular, so we just knew our audience would be thrilled about adding Oak Park.”

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WRIGHT AND HEMINGWAY: The Wright Home & Studio (above) and the Hemingway Birth Home (right) are located within walking distance.

Open Oak Park Heidi Ruehle-May, executive director of the Pleasant Home Foundation, said the addition of Oak Park grew out of her participation in a community leadership program sponsored by the Community Foundation of Oak Park-River Forest a few years ago. Working with

the Frank Lloyd Wright Trust’s Tom Gull and Sarah Corbin, then with the Oak Park-River Forest Chamber of Commerce, RuehleMay came up with a project that used Open House Chicago as a model to create an Open House Oak Park-River Forest. The trio See OPEN HOUSE on page B9

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OPEN SUNDAY 1 - 3 P.M. 623 N KENILWORTH AVE

OAK PARK

4BR, 1.1BA ...................................$598,000 Steve Scheuring • 708-697-5946

OAK PARK

3BR, 2.1BA ....................................$598,000 Steve Scheuring • 708-697-5946

OAK PARK

3BR, 2.1BA ....................................$689,900 Maria Cullerton • 312-501-2033

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OPEN SUNDAY 2 - 4PM 1220 N. ELMWOOD

OAK PARK

OAK PARK

4+1BR, 3BA ..................................$695,000

3BR, 2.1BA ....................................$755,400 Greg Jaroszewski & Vee Jaroszewski 708-248-0446 / 708-373-9581

Sara Faust • 708-772-7910

7375 West North Avenue River Forest, Illinois 60305 708.771.8040

OPEN SUNDAY 1:30 - 3PM 636 WOODBINE AVE

OAK PARK

4BR, 2.1BA ....................................$850,000 Steve Scheuring • 708-697-5946

OAK PARK

4 BR +1 below grade, 3.1 BA ........$865,000 Gagliardo Realty Associates • 708-771-8040

OAK PARK

6BR, 5BA .......................................$894,000 Steve Scheuring • 708-697-5946

7375 West North Avenue River Forest, Illinois 60305 708.771.8040

OAK PARK

6BR, 4.1BA ....................................$990,000 Steve Scheuring • 708-697-5946

OAK PARK

5BR, 3.1BA .................................$1,175,000 Laura Talaske • 708-473-7125

7375 West North Avenue River Forest, Illinois 60305 708.771.8040

OPEN SUNDAY 2 - 3:30 P.M. 110 MARION #408

OAK PARK

2BR, 2.1BA ...................................$535,000 Bob Royals • 312-607-0801

OPEN SUNDAY 1 - 3PM 320 S. GROVE OPEN SAT & SUN 12- 1:30PM 432 S HUMPHREY

OAK PARK

OAK PARK

5BR, 2.2BA .................................................................................................................... $728,000 Lisa Grimes • 708-205-9518

OAK PARK

6BR, 3.2BA ................................................................................................................. $1,925,000 Laura Talaske • 708-473-7125

5BR, 4.1BA ....................................$950,000 Bob Royals • 312-607-0801

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RIVER FOREST

3BR, 2BA .......................................$379,000 Tagger O’Brien • 708-456-6400

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OPEN SUNDAY 1 - 3PM 1433 KEYSTONE

RIVER FOREST

6BR, 4.1BA .................................................................................................................... $949,000 Greer Haseman or Patty Reilly-Murphy 708-606-8896 or 312-316-2564

RIVER FOREST

RIVER FOREST

4BR, 2.1BA ..................................................................................................................$1,000,000 Greer Haseman or Patty Reilly-Murphy 708-606-8896 or 312-316-2564

4BR, 3.1BA ....................................$949,500 Chris Garvey • 312-434-3187

7375 West North Avenue River Forest, Illinois 60305 708.771.8040

OPEN SUNDAY 10 - 12PM 838 HARLEM

RIVER FOREST

3BR, 1.2BA ....................................$399,500 Chris Garvey • 312-434-3187

RIVER FOREST

RIVERSIDE

3BR, 1.2BA ....................................$560,000

2BR, 1BA .......................................$117,500

Steve Scheuring • 708-697-5946

Sheila Gentile • 708-220-2174

7375 West North Avenue River Forest, Illinois 60305 708.771.8040

OPEN SUNDAY 12 - 2PM • 1103 KEYSTONE RIVER FOREST

3BR, 3.2BA ..................................................................................................................$1,095,000

RIVER FOREST

5BR + 2 below grade/4.1BA ......$1,795,000 Gagliardo Realty Associates • 708-771-8040

Greer Haseman or Patty Reilly-Murphy 708-606-8896 or 312-316-2564

RIVER FOREST

OPEN SUNDAY 1-3PM 223 BLOOMINGBANK RD

RIVERSIDE

4BR, 4.2BA .................................$1,900,000

4BR, 3.2BA .................................$1,195,000

Tagger O’Brien • 708-456-6400

Sheila Gentile • 708-220-2174

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Generations of Excellence since 1958

708.771.8040 • 7375 W. North Ave., River Forest Donna Barnhisel Cibula 7375 West North AvenueJoe Dan Bogojevich Don Citrano MANAGING Anne Brennan Julie Cliggett BROKER/OWNERS River Forest, Illinois 60305 Karen Byrne Alisa Coghill Kevin Calkins JoLyn Crawford 708.771.8040 Tom Carraher Andy Gagliardo Maria Cullerton Pat Cesario

Tom Poulos

Karen Doty

Julie Downey Kurt Fielder Yvonne Fiszer-Steele Ramona Fox Chris Garvey Lisa Grimes Dan Halperin Sharon Halperin

Greg Jaroszewski Vee Jaroszewski Joanne Kelly Michael Kinnare Sherree Krisco Jack Lattner Susan Maienza Vince McFadden

Charlotte Messina Kathleen Minaghan Colleen Navigato Rosa Pitassi Katie Possley Michael Roche Sue Ponzio-Pappas Jenny Ruland

Laurel Saltzman Rob Sarvis Meg Sullivan Laurie Shapiro Tom Sullivan Debbie Watts George Wohlford Nancy Wohlford

550 THATCHER, RIVER FOREST OPEN SUNDAY 1-3

1507 JACKSON, RIVER FOREST OPEN SUNDAY 1-3

123 ASHLAND, RIVER FOREST OPEN SUNDAY 1-3

1141 N EUCLID, OAK PARK OPEN SUNDAY 1-3

MAGNIFICENT 3-STORY HOME with a bright and open floor plan, grand sized rooms, gracious foyer with spectacular staircase, amazing millwork, inlaid floors and high ceilings. First floor family room overlooks fenced in yard. Three car garage with walk up storage/loft area. ........................................................................$999,000

STUNNING RENOVATION of 5 bedroom, 3 full and 1 half bathroom Georgian with attached two car garage. LR, DR, bedroom, office, fam rm and kit flow beautifully on the first floor. The basement boasts a fifth bedroom, full bath, finished recreation room and workout area. ...................................................................... $874,000

CHARMING, SPACIOUS QUEEN ANNE BUNGALOW in pristine condition. Art glass windows, French doors, wood trim, hardwood floors. Granite kitchen, breakfast nook. Family room and 1st floor bedroom. 3 bedrooms on 2nd floor. Finished basement, enclosed porch, 2 car garage. .............................................................$649,900

ATTRACTIVE BRICK COLONIAL HOME recently painted and hardwood floors redone, offers the modern updates you want! Huge Liv Room with Fireplace, open and updated kitchen floor plan, 1st fl office, four BRs. Attached 2 car garage, LL Family Room, Laundry and Storage..................................................................................$709,000

1433 KEYSTONE, RIVER FOREST OPEN SUNDAY 1-3

PR ICE R ED UCE D! BEAUTIFULLY MAINTAINED HOME features a detailed LR, DR and kitchen with east facing sun/breakfast room on 1st FL. 2nd FL features sun filled library w/fireplace, large master suite. Finished basement includes a family room with a fireplace and a game room. ...................................................................................$949,500

RIVER FOREST HOMES A ONE-OF-A-KIND HOME! Impeccable restoration of original home with a fabulous addition surrounded by lush professional landscaping. Gorgeous decor & architectural detail throughout, yet warmly welcoming, house is perfect for intimate or grand scale entertaining..............................................$3,750,000 BUURMA-BUILT BUHRKE HOUSE combines Tudor revival & chateau style architecture elements.

Gorgeous décor and impeccable attention to detail and care found in house and landscaped grounds, extends to fabulous in ground pool and patios. Perfect for entertaining. .......................................................$2,649,000 CLASSIC BRICK COLONIAL with all high-end finishes. First floor features hardwood floors, family room off kitchen. Finished basement has media room, 2 addl BRs, full bath, plenty of storage. Backyard offers private deck, large heated patio, built in pool. 3 car garage, heated driveway. ..............................$1,795,000 RESTORE THIS HOUSE with fabulous curb appeal or Build your dream home on this 100’ x 184’ lot. ...........................................................................................................................................................................$1,400,000 HANDSOME AND BEAUTIFULLY MAINTAINED traditional brick home for those who appreciate tradition and elegance. Distinctive home offers 5BRs, 2 full/2 half baths. Professionally landscaped fenced yard with in-ground pool and spa. Ample storage in basement........................................................$1,389,000 GORGEOUS FRENCH NORMANDY with 5 bedrooms, 5 full & 5 half baths sits on a 75 foot corner lot.

Gleaming hardwood floors and fireplace in LR, simply stunning eat-in kitchen with adjoining family room.

Lower level rec room with gas fireplace. Beautifully landscaped grounds.......................................$1,139,000 BEAUTIFUL, STYLISH, UPDATED HOME with 4 BRs, 3.2 BAs on four floors of living space. Includes LR w/ frpl, new high end kitchen, Breakfast Rm, 1st FL office. LL has Fam Rm, Rec Room, Laundry, Wine Cellar and Full Bath. 2 car garage with extra storage and rooftop deck.......................................................$1,049,000 COMPLETELY RENOVATED 4 bedroom home is move-in ready. First floor features a spacious open floor plan. Large, high end kitchen. Full finished bsmt consists of a family room, a wet bar and a bonus room with its own bath. Deep backyard with a large patio and fire pit...........................................................$959,000 SO MANY IMPROVEMENTS in this 5 bedroom, 4 full, 5 half bath Victorian. Classic charm w/original woodwork, bullseye trim & soaring ceilings combined w/ modern amenities including the stone fireplace in the 1st FL family room. Four car garage, beautiful grounds. ..................................................................$939,000

ADDITIONAL OPEN HOUSES SUNDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2016 838 N HARLEM, RIVER FOREST OPEN SUNDAY 10-12

921 ONTARIO UNIT C, OAK PARK OPEN SUNDAY 1-3

PRICE REDUCED! BEAUTIFUL, MOVE-IN READY REHAB in River Forest.

Large open kitchen with all brand new SS. New 3/4 inch Brazilian Koa wood floors throughout. Designer baths. Wood burning fireplace. Master suite. Full basement.

Great backyard with covered patio. Close to great schools!....................$399,500

UNIQUE CONDO feels like a spacious single family home in the heart of Oak Park. Expansive living room with hardwood floors, wood-burning fireplace, and large eat-in kitchen with newer appliances leads to a private deck. New jacuzzi tub, and garage parking. ........................................................................$289,900

425 S OAK PARK UNIT A, OAK PARK OPEN SUNDAY 1-3

739 VAN BUREN UNIT 2E, OAK PARK OPEN SUNDAY 10-12

NEW LISTING! MOVE RIGHT INTO THIS 4 STORY TOWNHOME! This 2 bedroom, 2-1/2 bath townhome is a sunny and quiet end unit. Granite kitchen, hardwood floors, master suite, 2nd floor laundry, fireplace in LR. 4th floor loft with kitchenette. Large wrap around deck and attached garage. .................$364,900

NEW LISTING! STUNNING REMODELED CONDO with original charm.

Kitchen with granite, SS appliances, cherry cabinets. Beautiful oak woodwork throughout including built-in shelving in DR. Hardwood floors, fireplace. Enclosed back porch may be used as den. In unit laundry. ...................................$188,000

2646 N 72ND CT UNIT 1, ELMWOOD PARK OPEN SUNDAY 1-3

THIS IS IT!! Stunning unit with four large bedrooms, new designer kitchen with all exquisite cabinetry, appliances and quartz island! Fam room and LR with beautiful lighting opens to 2 balconies. Bath updated with ceramic tile and glass shower. 1 parking space. ....................................................................................................$195,000 GREAT COLONIAL HOME on a great block! Move in condition with 3+ bedrooms, 2-1/2 baths. Eat in kitchen, den/office space, mudroom, sun/Florida room and screened in back porch. Partially finished basement. Coach house with 2 car garage. You will love the available space!.............................................$699,000 WELL MAINTAINED center entrance brick & stone colonial with 4 BRs/4BAs. Spacious first floor family room. Travertine marble entry with winding staircase. Refinished hardwood floors. Two fireplaces. 2nd floor office. Finished LL with plenty of storage and pantry areas. ...................................................................$664,000 LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION!!! Spacious first floor has updated kitchen with granite counter tops and stainless steel appliances. The finished basement has 4th BR and a full bath. Professionally landscaped yard with new brick paver patio. Nothing to do but move in. ...................................................$599,000

OAK PARK HOMES UNPRECEDENTED ESTATE in the Frank Lloyd Wright Historical district of Oak Park! This meticulously renovated 5 BR, 5 full / 2 half bath property offers exquisite details and refined finishes that boast timeless materials and over the top custom millwork. This is a showcase home! .........................................$2,525,000 BEAUTIFUL ESTATE HOME in Historic Oak Park with a perfect blend of modern and vintage details including hardwood floors, leaded glass windows and a grand staircase. Large rooms, tall ceilings and a lot of windows make this 5BR, 3-1/2 BA home spacious and bright...........................................................$949,500 CLASSIC BRICK COLONIAL has it all! Move right in to this 4BR, 2BA home. Tastefully decorated, updated gourmet kitchen that opens to family room, and hand turned French doors that open to DR. Addl fam room on lower level. Great house for entertaining! ..........................................................................$865,000 SO MUCH TO SEE, LOVE & ADMIRE in this renovated 4BR/3.5BA American Four Square. You will love the renovated the 3rd floor w/a MSTR suite featuring a high end bath, plus an office. Other features include a new back porch retreat, Fin LL Rec Room, 3 plus car garage. .................................................................$765,000 STUNNING ENGLISH TUDOR in the perfect location. Two level Party Deck. Three Car Garage. Family room off eat-in kitchen with stainless steel appliances. Lower level recreation room with wet bar. Close to schools, Lindberg Park and transportation..................................................................................................$755,400 BEAUTIFUL, SPACIOUS, MOVE-IN READY VICTORIAN. Enjoy an inviting open front porch, rich oak floors, beautiful natural woodwork, pocket doors between LR and DR, and stunning, original leaded glass windows. Eat-in kitchen, expansive finished basement. Two garages.................................................$728,000

ROOM FOR EVERYONE and stunning finishes throughout. Newly finished kitchen features 2 dishwashers and a built in bar with beverage center. Top end bathrooms. Master Suite features a deck, walk-in closet and a redone bath. Beautiful decorating. Beautiful landscaping. ..........................................................$719,000 BEAUTIFUL KENILWORTH PARKWAY! 3 Bedroom, 2.5 Bath Classic Colonial. Brick, slate roof, curb appeal galore and move in ready!!! Walk up attic, lower level playroom, screened porch overlooks exquisite landscaped backyard. Ideal location. All you need to do is move in! .....................................................$689,900 QUINTESSENTIAL OAK PARK HOME! This 3BR, 1-1/2 BA home offers lots of space to grow. Enter thru the substantial light filled Living Room, proceed to the Dining Room with coved moldings. 1st floor family room located right off the kitchen. Generous sized bedrooms. .................................................$485,000 PRICE REDUCED! METICULOUSLY MAINTAINED BUNGALOW with an enclosed porch welcomes you to this home! Special features include hardwood floors, a spacious LR, beamed ceiling DR, two bedrooms, one full bath, bright kitchen and office overlooking fenced-in yard. Impeccable 2 car garage. ...............................................................................................................................................................................$264,000 VALUE MAY BE IN THE LAND. Major renovation needed to the house. Being sold “As Is”.$250,000 BEAUTIFUL THREE BEDROOM BUNGALOW with large rooms, double living area and nice location. Oak floors, well maintained, freshly painted and easy to move into! Spacious pantry, enclosed back porch and/or mud room, inviting front porch, many additional storage areas. ..................................$236,500 GREAT CHARM in this lovely 2 bedroom, 2 bath home on a quiet street. Why own a condo when you can own a cute house with a backyard. Hardwood floors, Enclosed front porch, Side drive. Walk to everything: Transportation, shops and restaurants.........................................................................................................$219,000

FOREST PARK HOMES JUST MOVE IN!! Meticulously maintained new construction built in 2006. Open floor plan features 10 foot ceilings, hardwood floors, and many custom details from crown molding to door handles. High end kitchen. 4 generously sized BRs. Open basement ready to finish. ..........................................................$489,000

ELMWOOD PARK HOMES PRICE REDUCED! GEORGIAN-STYLE HOME boasting three levels of living space. Solid brick home sits on double lot. Basement has eight foot ceilings and is finished with bedroom and family room. Home has all new stainless steel appliances. 2.5 car detached garage with driveway and alley access. .........$409,000

2234 N 73RD, ELMWOOD PARK

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DON’T MISS THIS ADORABLE RANCH! Spacious living room and dining room boast beautifully finished hardwood floors, as do the two bedrooms. Updated eat-in kitchen. Family room overlooks the yard, deck and oversized two and a half car garage ..................... ...............................................................................................$195,000 METICULOUSLY MAINTAINED BRICK GEORGIAN with 3 bedrooms, 1-1/2 bath, an open floor plan, expansive kitchen, and spacious family room. Living room has wood burning fireplace. Partially finished basement, entertainment deck, landscaped yard, two car garage........................................................$339,000 METICULOUSLY MAINTAINED BRICK GEORGIAN. Features 3 bedrooms, 1 full bath, 1 powder room. Updated kitchen, 1st floor family room, generous sized living and dining room. Partially finished basement with laundry and storage room. Beautiful yard, 2 car garage. ............................................$302,000

CONDOS/TOWNHOMES/2 FLATS RIVER FOREST 2 Flat................................................................................................................................$499,000 RIVER FOREST 2BR, 2BA. Eastern facing balcony..............................................................................$209,900 RIVER FOREST 2BR, 1BA. Rare opportunity! .....................................................................................$125,000 RIVER FOREST 1BR, 1BA. Entertainment area. .....................................................................................$99,000 OAK PARK 3BR, 2-1/2 BA. Many extra amenities. ...............................................................................$560,000 OAK PARK 3BR, 3-1/2 BA. Large corner unit.........................................................................................$489,000 OAK PARK 2BR, 1BA. Corner unit. ...........................................................................................................$145,000 OAK PARK 2BR, 1BA. Completely redone!................................................................................................$97,000 OAK PARK 1BR, 1BA. Convenient location................................................................................................$84,900 OAK PARK 1BR, 1BA. Updated kitchen and bath. ...................................................................................$52,000 FOREST PARK 2BR, 2BA. Spacious corner unit. ..................................................................................$289,000 FOREST PARK 2BR, 2BA. Large balcony. ..............................................................................................$178,000 FOREST PARK 2BR, 2A. West facing balcony......................................................................................$150,000 FOREST PARK 1BR, 1BA. Updated bath. .................................................................................................$89,500 FOREST PARK 1BR, 1BA. Top floor, corner unit......................................................................................$89,000 NEW LISTING FOREST PARK 1BR, 1BA. ...........................................................................................$79,900 ELMWOOD PARK 2BR, 1-1/2 BA. Remodeled corner unit..............................................................$169,900 ELMWOOD PARK 1BR, 1BA. Hardwood floors. ....................................................................................$82,000 ELMWOOD PARK 1BR, 1BA. Top floor corner unit...............................................................................$74,900

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Thank You

Thank You North Avenue 708.771.8040 •7375 7375West W. North Ave., River Forest

SOLD!

River Forest, Illinois 60305 708.771.8040

Here are some sales of properties our company has partcipated in this year:

SOLD!

RIVER FOREST 326 Ashland

931 Clinton

815 Franklin

907 Keystone

211 Park

7612 Vine

846 Ashland

322 Forest

942 Franklin

921 Keystone

527 Park

7625 Washington

1215 Ashland

715 Forest

1535 Franklin

915 Lathrop

814 Park

632 William

1235 Ashland

1410 Forest

303 Gale

515 Monroe

1130 Park

922 William

7600 Augusta

217 Franklin

7829 Greenfield

630 Monroe

1420 Park

1255 William

620 Bonnie Brae

339 Franklin

727 Jackson

1330 Monroe

313 Thatcher

1435 William

700 Bonnie Brae

624 Franklin

1425 Jackson

1322 Monroe

335 Thatcher

751 Clinton

735 Franklin

807 Keystone

1426 Monroe

7601 Vine

Your Home Here.

SOLD SOLD SOLD SOLD OAK PARK 1048 N. Austin 237 Clinton 812 N. Cuyler 817 N. Cuyler 716 N. East 843 N. East 1000 N. East 147 N. Elmwood

Sales Over $100 Million

164 N. Elmwood 727 N. Elmwood 1032 N. Euclid 536 Fair Oaks 618 Fair Oaks 800 Fair Oaks 1116 N. Fair Oaks 1204 Fair Oaks

531 S. Grove 1132 Gunderson 306 N. Harvey 332 N. Harvey 922 N. Harvey 1037 Hayes 1130 Home 731 S. Humphrey

SOLD SOLD SOLD SOLD

926 N. Humphrey 28 Iowa 260 Iowa 332 N. Kenilworth 1001 N. Kenilworth 101 Le Moyne 151 Le Moyne 605 Linden

543 S. Lombard 942 N. Lombard 1117 N. Lombard 417 N. Maple 1127 N. Marion 830 N. Oak Park 1127 Schneider 412 N. Scoville

With over $100 Million in closed sales this year and the highest average sales price of any of the local real estate offices, we know how to get the best value for your property. Clearly our agents are very productive and would enjoy providing you with an accurate up to date market analysis.

Whether you are buying a new home, or selling your home and want a complimentary opinion of value, call our office today at 708-771-8040

431 S. Taylor 609 N. Taylor 910 N. Taylor 1105 S. Taylor 1109 Wesley 603 Woodbine Your Home Here.

Sales Over $100 Million

October 12, 2016 ■ Wednesday Journal/Forest Park Review

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Serving Our Community For Over 70 Years

114 North Oak Park Avenue Oak Park, Illinois 60301

HOURS: MONDAYFRIDAY 9AM5PM SATURDAY 9AM4PM • SUNDAY 10AM2PM

708.524.1100

OAK PARK. BRIMMING WITH LIGHT & com- OAK PARK. UPDATED 3BR, 3.1BA w/ fort this elegant 4BR, 3.1BA home is move-in ready. lovely woodwork, leaded glass windows, large FR, Frplc. C/A. Fin’d bsmt. Lots more! .... $679,000 French doors & much more! ..............$624,900

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630 N. EAST • OPEN SUN 122PM

527 THATCHER • OPEN SUN 2:304PM

OAK PARK. COTTAGE CHARMER! Sweet 2BR, 2BA sits on a 50’x175’ lndscpd lot, offers large family rm, screened porch, high/dry bsmt, newer garage. ................................................$459,000

RIVER FOREST. QUEEN ANNE Victorian w/ open frt porch on lrg lot! 6BRs, 2.2BAs. Dble parlor. Frplc. Great location near train, schools, park. .............................................................. $649,000

OPEN HOUSES • SUNDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2016

OAK PARK OPEN 24PM • 1220 N. ELMWOOD

CONDOS/TOWNHOUSES OAK PARK OPEN 122PM SHOWROOM AT 139 S. OAK PARK AVE.

ART GLASS, wood floors, 4+ BR/3 BA bungalow. Updated kitchen. Finished walk-out basement. .......................................$695,000

OPEN 122PM • 630 N. EAST

OAK PARK. LARGE & SPACIOUS unit in the Decker Building. W/D in-unit. Parking included! .............................................................. $299,000 OAK PARK LIKE GREEN SPACE? Love to Entertain? Exceptionally restored, expanded home on private park-like lot offers huge family rm/kitchen combo. 6BR, 3.2BA. ......................................................................$1,925,000 VICTORIAN CHARMS, current updates. Move in condition 4/5BR 4 BA. Screened & open porches. Storage galore! Near OPRF. ..........$1,150,000 REDUCED! E.E. ROBERTS Prairie-style home on estate size lot. 5 bedrooms, 3.1 baths. .......................................................................$899,000 GORGEOUS OAK PARK HOME near award-winning schools. Chef’s kitchen, master ste, 4+1 BRs, 3.1BAs, finished bsmt. ...............$875,000 BEAUTIFUL ROOMS with rare details flow into outside spaces - deck, porch, gardens for elegant living. 4BR, 2.2BA. ...........................$699,900 UNIQUE CLASSIC Prairie-style home. 3BRs, 2.1BAs. Newly remodeled kitchen. WBFP. Family rm. 3-tier cedar deck. Enjoy! ................ $599,000 THE PERFECT CLASSIC BRICK HOME. 3BR, 1.1BA. Hdwd floors, wood burning frplc, breakfast rm & tandem. ............................$580,000 LOCATION & FAMILY ROOM! 4BR, 2BA. Hdwd flrs. Great yard. Call for all the updates. ...............................................................$529,700 ENJOY LIFE IN FLW Historic District. 5BRs, 1½BAs. Spacious LR w/ FRPLC. Family rm. Great yard! .........................................................$519,000 ORIGINAL OAK PARK HOME. Tremendous space in this 5BR, 1½BA Gunderson. Beamed ceiling, stained glass, pocket drs, WBFP & hdwd floors. ..............................................................................................................$499,000 SUNFILLED COLONIAL. 3BRs, 2 new full BAs + ½BA. Hdwd flrs. Wd cab kitchen w/pantry. C/A. Deck. Great house. ..........................$489,000 SMART, FRESH & EXCITING! 3BR, 1.1BA home in perfect loc’n.

Stylish décor. Updated kitchen. Deck. C/A. Lots more! .............$459,000 BEST VALUE in town. Move right into a freshly painted & carpeted 3BR, 2.1BA. Awesome bsmt & great location. Tons of space. Fall in love! ..............................................................................................................$409,000 ENJOY ONE LEVEL living in the 3BR mid-century brick ranch in NW Oak Park. Hdwd flrs. C/A. Spacious LR & separate DR. Full bsmt. Great yd. 2-car gar. ......................................................................................................$389,000 ARTS DISTRICT vintage charmer on a corner lot! Updated kitchen. 4 BRs, 1BA. .....................................................................................................$385,000 THREE BEDROOM, 1.2 BA Gunderson on one of OP’S fav blocks.

3-season porch, den & attic. Charming fixer-upper! ........................$365,000 GREAT 2BEDROOM with room to grow…Don’t miss this opportunity. .....................................................................................................$279,000 VERY NICE 3 BR, 2BA. Huge living room, eat-in kitchen, finished basement. 2014: roof, boiler & hot water heater! ...............................$239,000 ATTENTION REHABBERS! 3BR, 1.1 BA farmhouse style home on large corner lot. Lots of potential. .........................................................$220,000

RIVER FOREST THE ULTIMATE HOUSE. Stunning Tudor on massive lot 200x188.

Rehab offers all the modern amenities. ....................................$2,999,000 PICTURE PERFECT 6BR, 3.2BA Tudor. This stunning home combines one-of-a-kind architectural details with today’s timeless modern amenities. Must see! ................................................................................$1,460,000

COTTAGE CHARMER! Sweet 2BR, 2BA sits on a 50’x175’ lndscpd lot, offers lrg family rm, screened porch, high/dry bsmt, newer garage. ..................................................................................................$459,000

NEW CONSTRUCTION! New standard of luxury! 1808-2200 SF units, 3 BRs, 2 indoor pkg spaces, spacious terraces, eco-efficient LEED certified. Pricing starts at .................................................................$649,900

QUEEN ANNE Victorian w/open frt porch on lrg lot! 6BRs, 2.2BAs. Dble parlor. Frplc. Great location near train, schools, park. ................................................................................................................................................$649,000

FAB UNIT, FAB LOCATION! Great architectural details & mod amenities. 2BR, 2BA. Private deck. 2 deeded garage spcs. ........................................................................................................................................$495,000

RIVER FOREST OPEN 2:304PM • 527 THATCHER

OPEN 122PM • 721 ONTARIO ST., #302

OTHER AREA HOMES OPEN 121:30PM • 1645 S. SCOVILLE

OPEN 122PM • 938 NORTH BLVD., #303

BERWYN. NEW LISTING! STUNNING OCTAGON bungalow in great condition. 4+ BRs, 3 Full BAs. ................................................$395,000 PRAIRIE SCHOOL home built in ‘06 w/classic architectural design & contempo amenities. Spacious with 4BRs & 4½BAs. Family rm. SPECIAL! ...........................................................................................................$1,225,000 PERFECT ATTENTION TO DETAIL. 5BR, 2.1BA home w/coach house. Chef’s kitchen w/over-the-top amenities. Family rm. Much more! ...........................................................................................................$1,165,000 FANTASTIC RANCH w/open floor plan. 3 BRs, 2.2BAs. WBFP. Large MBR ste. 1st flr lndry. C/A. Att garage. ........................................ $609,000 IMMACULATE & UPDATED 2-story brick home on deep lot.

3BRs, 2.1BAs. Remodeled kitchen. New MBA w/Jacuzzi. C/A. Lovely! ..............................................................................................................$594,000

FOREST PARK JUST LISTED! UNBEATABLE LOCATION. 5BRs, 3BAs. Eat-in kitchen. Terrific deck for outdoor entertaining. C/A. Great home. ..$399,000 PERFECT 10! New kitchen, BAs, roof, furnace, 4 BRs, 2 baths waterproofed & finished basement. .......................................................$379,500

OTHER AREA HOMES BERWYN. JUST LISTED! AM 4-SQ, 3 BR, 1 .1 BA near Proksa Park & train. Huge deck & patio w/parking for 3 cars. ............................$259,000 CHICAGO. BELMONTCRAIGIN bungalow. 2BR, 2BA. Nice kitchen!

Rec rm +3rd BR in bsmt! ................................................................$172,500 CHICAGO. UNBEATABLE LOCATION! 2BR, 2BA boasts lots of amenities such as a deck, upgraded decorative windows, 2015 roof & more. ..........................................................................................................$339,000 DOWNERS GROVE. DARLING 2BR, 1BA home sitting on a 50 x 296 lot has potential. Close to train, school & shops. ................................$344,900 ELMWOOD PARK. LIGHT & BRIGHT, beautiful floors, C/A & 3 BR, 1.1 BA Great space! ...........................................................................$338,000 ELMWOOD PARK. WELCOME HOME! Lovely and well-maintained 3BR, 2BA. ...............................................................................$249,000 ELMWOOD PARK. NICE BLOCK, good location, spacious 2BR, 2BA bungalow. ..........................................................................................$169,000

IDEAL LOCATION 2BR unit, near Metra, shops, dining. Wellmaintained bldg, w/parking. .....................................................................$123,000

COMMERCIAL OAK PARK. MIXED USE BLDG. 1st flr: lrg commercial spc – approx.

3000SF. 2 apts on 2nd flr: 3BR, 1BA /1BR, 1BA. 2-car gar. 1st flr handicapped access. Call for more info. .......................................................................$395,000

VACANT LAND OAK PARK. LOCATED IN CENTRAL OP this vacant property is yours with immediate possession possible. Make an offer! ............$399,000

CONDOS/TOWNHOUSES OAK PARK NEW LISTING! WELLLOCATED STUDIO features hdwd firs, new SS fridge, new portable washer. Murphy’s bed. ..................................$69,900 BEAUTIFUL VINTAGE 3 BR unit! Spacious rms, lots of sun, fresh paint, hdwd flrs, 2 BAs, garage pkg, nice backyard, pets ok!! .............$298,000 STUNNING 2BR vintage condo in prime location! Remodeled kitchen & BA, spacious rms, lndry in-unit, C/A, sun rm, office, huge yd & garage pkg. .....................................................................................................$279,000 CLEAN CORNER CONDO facing south and east. 2 bedrooms, 2 baths.

Large closets. Covered pkg. A deal at ....................................................$169,900 LOVELY VIEW. Tastefully decorated, ready for the next owner. 2BRs, 1BA. In-unit W/D. Balcony. ....................................................................$160,000 WELLLOCATED & UPDATED 2 BR, 2 BA condo in the heart of DTOP. Updated kitchen & BA. Elevator bldg! ...............................$156,900

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Starting at $649,900 EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY

WHEELING. LIGHTFILLED 3STORY townhouse with many fantastic upgrades. Recently decorated, hdwd flrs. C/A. .........$299,900

RENTALS COMMERCIAL RENTALS OAK PARK. OFFICE SPACES in lovely Art Deco bldg. 2 Elevators.

Entry handicap equipped. Tenants pay electric. Public pkg. Call! Rent ranges from ...................................................................................$2,616/mo to $898/mo WESTMONT. CLASSIC STORE FRONT/walk in office on busy street. 2 blocks from Metra train. In-suite restrooms and kitchen. Great exposure. ................................................................................................$1,525/mo

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RIVER FOREST CONDOMINIUMS/TOWNHOUSES VERY CLEAN, attractive & affordable brick townhouse. 2BR, 1.1BA, bonus LL rec rm. Parking. ........................................................................$159,000

FOREST PARK CONDOMINIUMS/TOWNHOUSES RARE 3 BEDROOM at the Grove with balcony & patio. Granite & SS applnces. 2-car garage. ...................................................................$349,000

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RIVER FOREST. MUCH MORE THAN A 2FLAT. Side-byside living. 3BRs, 2.1 BAs in each unit. Hdwd flrs. C/A. 3½-car garage. ..............................................................................................................$799,000

EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY

IN THE HEART OF TOWN, 2BR, 1BA condo w/view of lovely lndscpd courtyd. Floor-to-ceiling windows. Open flr plan. Pkg. ...................$155,000 NICELY UPDATED eat-in kitchen in this bight & spacious 2BR condo.

Great location. Parking. ...........................................................................$153,000 ONE BEDROOM, 1 bath condo in well-managed building. Generous room sizes. Great storage. ...................................................................... $108,000 PERFECT LOCATION. Freshly painted vintage 1 BR condo with 2 parking spaces. ...................................................................................................$95,000 SUNLIT & SPACIOUS 1BR, 1BA unit with central air. Updated kitchen. 1 parking space.............................................................................................. $89,000

OAK PARK. ATTRACTIVE 1BR UNIT in a beautiful bldg. Galley kitchen, living rm & den – ideal 1st home. .........................................$149,000

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OPEN HOUSE

Ten from Oak Park from page B1 launched the smaller-scale community open house as a one-time volunteer effort, know that they would need to seek help in order to sustain it.

After Ruehle-May pitched the project to Open House Chicago, Vantage Development agreed to come on board as a sponsor, and the rest was history. Ruehle-May is thrilled to see Oak Park’s local architecture scene reach a larger audience.

“Open House Chicago,” she pointed out, “gets about 80,000 visitors overall. We’re not expecting that many to come to Oak Park, but it’s an exciting opportunity. Hopefully, we’ll get a lot of people to shop and eat and visit Oak Park over the weekend.

Because it’s free, it opens up the buildings to everyone who is the least bit interested in architecture, not to mention the wonderful buildings in our own backyard.”

Sponsor doubles as attraction Photo by Eric Allix Rogers

St. Edmund Church Wright’s Home & Studio up the street on Forest Avenue,” he said. an We used Roman brick, a very com-mon element in Wright’s designs to clad the entire garage, and at the same time, the tower above it is contemporary glass.”

Oak Park sneak peeks

Photo by Eric Allix Rogers

Oak Park Art League (above) and Vantage Oak Park (above right)

While many of the Oak b Park buildings featured O in Open House Chicago, such as Wright’s Ho Home & Studio and th the Hemingway b birthplace, are a already tourist attrr tractions, a few ot o other buildings are no o as well-known not arc architecturally .

Oa Oak Park Art Leagu Executive DirecLeague Juli Carpenter calls tor Julie buildin one of the best her building O Park. kept secrets of Oak “We’ve been here since 1937,” she said, “and we’re a little hidden gem.

We’re a bit hard to find on a heavily wooded lot with a beautiful garden.”

The Art League is housed in a 1902 E.E. Roberts coach house and stable, one of only two he designed in Oak Park. Originally part of the 1894 Victorian home to the west, the coach house has both Victorian and Prairie design elements.

“There’s a synergy between us and some of the other Open House sites,” Carpenter said. The Art League was founded in 1921 and moved into the Wright Home & Studio until 1928. Then we moved to the Nineteenth Century Club until Grace Hemingway, a major patron, raised the money to buy this Photo by Tim Inklebarger

For Vantage developer Michael Glazier, sponsoring Oak Park in the Open House Chicago festival was an easy choice.

“Obviously, Oak Park is a destination unto itself for architectural interest,” he said.

“When Open House contacted us, the architecture of our own building tied into the event.

We have a history of community involvement, and this was spot-on because of the nature of our building.”

Vantage Oak Park, a newly constructed high-rise apartment building at Lake and Forest, will also be one of the buildings open to the public over the weekend. Glazier noted that the design of the building acknowledges Oak Park’s architectural history as it creates something more modern.

“The architecture is contemporary, but elements are contextual and tie into Frank Lloyd

Open House Oak Park Locations and Hours: 1. Vantage Oak Park: 150 Forest Ave., Saturday and Sunday 11 a.m.-5 p.m.

2. Ernest Hemingway Birth Home: 339 N. Oak Park Ave., Saturday closed, Sunday 1-5 p.m.

3. Frank Lloyd Wright Home & Studio: 951 Chicago Ave., Saturday closed, Sunday 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

4. Nineteenth Century Club: 178 Forest Ave., Saturday 9-5, Sunday closed 5. Oak Park Art League: 720 Chicago Ave., Saturday 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Sunday 12-5 p.m.

6. Oak Park-River Forest Historical Society Museum (Cicero Firehouse): 129 Lake St., Saturday and Sunday 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

7. Pilgrim Congregational Church: 460 Lake St., Saturday 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Sunday 1-5 p.m.

8. Pleasant Home (Farson-Mills House): 217 Home Ave., Saturday and Sunday 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

9. Unity of Oak Park (Taylor House): 405 N. Euclid, Saturday 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Sunday 1-5 p.m.

10. St. Edmund Roman Catholic Church: 188 S. Oak Park Ave., Saturday 9:30 a.m.-2 p.m., Sunday 12:30 -5 p.m.

See OPEN HOUSE on page B14

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Your local face of real estate since 1933.

OPEN HOUSE • SUN. 1:30-3 636 WOODBINE AVE

Oak Park

$850,000

Spectacular completely renovated 4 bed, 2.1 bath Traditional located in the Frank Lloyd Wright Historic District.

Features of hardwood floors, formal living room with gas fireplace, large dining room, Chef’s kitchen, family rm with new woodburning fireplace, large master suite and lower level that features work/craft space. Great outdoor space!

Steve Scheuring – ID# 09251411

GREAT INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY

Broadview

$849,500

Excellent corner location on Roosevelt Road and 13th Avenue, close to Loyola Hospital and Hines VA. This clean brick 2 story, 12 unit corridor-interior entrance building features 11-1 Bedroom units, 1 Studio unit and 12 parking spaces. Current renters are all long term month to month tenants!

Mike Lennox/Jim Gillespie - ID# 09296945

OPEN HOUSE • SUN. 1:30-3 847 S KENILWORTH AVE

NEW PRICE

OPEN HOUSE • SUN. 1-3 1013 S EULCID AVE

Oak Park

$719,900

Recent 5 bed, 4 bath rehabbed home features hardwood floors, kitchen with cherry cabinets, granite counters, wine cooler and peninsula, family room, coved ceilings and art glass. Delightful master suite with gas fireplace, 3rd floor retreat, patio with pergola, open front porch, 4 car Gar plus extra parking pad.

Patricia McGowan - ID# 09280420

OPEN HOUSE • SUN. 12-4 300 S OAK PARK AVE

OPEN HOUSE • SUN. 1-3 623 N KENILWORTH

Oak Park

FEATURE PROPERTY OPEN SUNDAY 1-3PM

$598,000

Traditional 4 bed, 1.1 bath 4-Square located in the Frank Lloyd Wright Historic District. Grand entrance, exquisite tiled decorative fireplace, a nice huge kitchen opens to breakfast area and family room, back deck, 3rd floor office/bedroom, finished lower level, front screened porch. Central AC and 2 car garage.

Steve Scheuring - ID# 09271933

OPEN HOUSE • SUN. 1-3 1024 ALEXANDER LANE

540 N Cuyler Ave, Oak Park

River Forest

$569,000

4 bed, 2.1 Prairie-Style home with open floor plan, updated kitchen and traditional dining room with builtins. All season sunroom, hardwood floors throughout, mud room leads to an expansive deck overlooking the fantastic backyard - perfect for grilling and entertaining. New tear-off roof in 2015 and MUCH MORE! Leigh Ann Hughes – ID# 09314059

Oak Park

OPEN HOUSE • SUN. 12-2 721 ONTARIO ST #202

Oak Park

$475,000

Duplexed 2 bed, 2.1 bath condo features elevator to the private unit entrance, gas fireplace, high-end kitchen, master suite with skylights in vaulted ceilings, 3rd level loft office space with walk-out balcony area.

The 2nd level also features the home’s large 2nd bedroom with its own en suite full bath. So much more!

Steve Scheuring – ID# 09245479

$519,000

Updated 3 bed, 1.1 bath American 4-Square features remodeled 3 season enclosed front porch, wood burning fireplace, pristine wood floors, detailed trim, colorful leaded glass, Frank Lloyd Wright inspired light fixtures, mission style radiator covers, dining room with beamed ceiling, nursery and full unfinished walkout basement.

Bill Geldes - ID# 09314369

NEW LISTING

Oak Park

$439,900

Character and modern elegance in this meticulously maintained 3 bed, 2 bath home. This home features hardwood floors, spacious living room with decorative fireplace and built-in bookshelves, elegant dining room, updated kitchen, newly updated basement, large family room, great yard with patio and 2 car garage plus extra space.

Catherine Simon-Vobornik – ID# 09360521

Oak Park

OPEN HOUSE • SUN. 12-2 539 GUNDERSON AVE

Oak Park

$383,000

Brick 4-Square with 3 bed, 1.1 bath, grand entry foyer, formal dining room, fantastic kitchen and large family room that opens to the back deck. Spacious lower level with space for a guest bedroom/separate office/recreation area. Great storage! Upgraded electrical!! Much More!!!

Steve Scheuring – ID# 09342113

NEW LISTING

GREAT OPORTUNITY

$489,000

Beautiful 4 bedroom, 1.1 bath Oak Park Victorian on corner lot in the heart of it all! Grand foyer with built-in bench, vintage detail throughout....pocket doors, hardwood floors, natural oak woodwork and two fireplaces. Newer high-end kitchen, Updated baths, Central air, newer boiler and hot water heater, 3 car garage and MUCH More!

Ann Keeney & Jane Swibel – ID# 09327973

NEW LISTING

Oak Park

$479,900

Spectacular 3 bed, 4.1 bath end-unit townhome with gorgeous hardwood floors, custom bookshelves, gas fireplace, half bath, and a kitchen that’s not to be believed! Master spa-like bath with whirlpool tub and separate shower! Last but not least is an amazing 4th floor great room and massive roof deck Bethanny Alexander - ID# 09246029

OPEN HOUSE • SUN. 2-3:30 1830 WISCONSIN AVE

Berwyn

$279,900

Spacious 4 bedroom, 2.1 bath English Tudor. Newly refinished hardwood floors, formal dining room, large eat-in kitchen, finished basement featuring a family, office/bedroom and paver patio. New Roof (2015), 2 car garage with New Garage Door (2016), Concrete (2012) New Furnace (2009), New A.C. (2013) and Basement Windows (2006).

Mary Ann Bednarke - ID# 09308165

Lloyd Behrenbruch - ID#09361874

F E AT U R E D N E W CO N S T R U C T I O N OPEN SUNDAY • 12-2PM 319 CHESTNUT LANE, OAK PARK

50%

SOLD

NEW PRICE

Oak Park Oak Park

$229,900

Comfortable 4 bed, 1.1 bath home with several updates and throughout the years. All new in 2004; roof, soffit, fascia and gutters, thermo pane windows and glass block in basement, vinyl siding on home and garage, exterior doors, electric service upgraded to 200 amp service with panel and much more.

James Salazar – ID# 09223568

Chicago

$185,000

Come see this beautiful rehabbed 3+1 bed, 3 bath brick bungalow with hardwood floors, open floor plan, gorgeous kitchen with stainless steel appliances second level master suite, finish basement with an extra bedroom and 2 car garage Tokela Brown - ID# 09348314

Cicero

$150,000

Meticulously maintained solid brick 3 bedroom home features hardwood floors, beautiful Art Deco bathroom and trim, large family room that’s unusual for a home of this size, spotless unfinished basement and an unfinished portion of the second floor awaits your special touches and provide plenty of storage!

Bobbi Schaper Eastman- ID# 09360041

Forest Park

$63,900

Nice 1 bedroom 2nd floor condo features newly painted, new carpeting installed in the living room, bedroom, hallway and closet. In-unit washer/dryer!

Parking included!! Walking distance to restaurants, shopping and transportation. Oven-range as is not in working condition. Unit can be rented.

Mary Ann Bednarke – ID# 09168022

Starting At: $529,900

The Oak Park Oasis, 22, 4 level townhomes with a fresh new approach to townhome living. Sleek and modern with a downtown flair, featuring versatile 3 or 4 bedroom layouts, 3.5 baths, open kitchens with large center island, balcony off kitchen for grilling, 1st floor office/bedroom that features an en-suite full bath, beautiful master suite, 4th level has cozy loft space - plumbed for wet bar, large private roof deck and 2 car attached garage. Many great cabinet selections with quartz closets, marble bathrooms, oak flooring, and stainless steel appliances! Buy now and pick your finishes! Great center of town location! Delivery Spring 2016! Call for details.

Patricia McGowan – ID# 09154664

Call us today to use the local knowledge and skill of our agents paired with the broad reach and power of Baird & Warner.

1037 CHICAGO AVENUE, OAK PARK I 708.697.5900 | BAIRDWARNER.COM

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$459,000

This beautiful 4 bedroom, 1.1 bath home lives large inside and out or from top to bottom and front to back. Enjoy many improvements over the years accomplishing a great blend of function with the charm of yesteryear. A wonderful porch and foyer to welcome your guests, updated kitchen and sunny breakfast room, newer windows abound, large deck, tear off roof, central A/C, over-sized park like yard. Be close to many Oak Park treasures (Dole Branch Library, Anderson and Taylor Parks and the all new Ridgeland Commons Recreation Complex complete with indoor Ice arena). Several commuting choices are available. Be next to love and enjoy all this home has to offer.

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John Matthews, Sales Manager for Baird & Warner’s Oak Park/River Forest Office is pleased to announce

September’s Top Producers!

To date 2016 is already the best year in the office’s 8 year history! The Oak Park/River Forest office continues to be the dominant force in the real estate market and we’re projecting another record breaking year in 2017.

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atricia McGowan, a broker with the Oak Park/River Forest office has been named Top Producer for Highest Sales Volume in the month of September.

When asked for a quote, Sales Manager John Matthews stated “Pat’s expertise is extraordinary!” He went on to say “Whether vintage, new construction or your first home, Pat will provide the professional guidance needed.”

To learn more about Pat or to request more information regarding The Oak Park Oasis Townhomes development, call her direct at 708.697.5931 or visit her website patriciamcgowan.bairdwarner.com.

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atherine Simon-Vobornik and Kara Keller, brokers with the Oak Park/ River Forest office shared the esteem honor of both being named Top Producers for Most Homes Sold in the month of September.

“Each unique in their own rite, Kara and Catherine are highly sought after professionals when it comes to client satisfaction and market expertise” said Sales Manager John Matthews. “Their online reviews are remarkable!” *You can learn more about Catherine by visiting her website at catherinesimon.bairdwarner.com or call her at 708.697.5942 *You can learn more about Kara by calling her direct at 708.697.5983 or visiting her website at karakeller.bairdwarner.com..

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teve Scheuring, a broker with the Oak Park office has been named Top Producer for Most New Listings in the month of September. Steve maintained his stellar marquis performance. “Steve continues to hold the title of Top Agent in the market” quoted Sales Manager John Matthews. In addition, Matthews was quoted saying “His marketing skills sell homes quickly and for the best possible price.” To learn more about Steve visit OPRFHouse.com or call him at 708.697.5946.

Thanks to these Top Producers and our entire team Baird & Warner which has sold the most homes in the Oak Park, River Forest and Forest Park areas in 2015! Baird & Warner has been offering real estate services to the local market since 1933 and has serviced the Greater Chicago Metropolitan market since 1855. For more information about the services offered by Baird & Warner, visit their website at bairdwarner.com or call 708.697.5900.

OAK PARK

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OPEN HOUSE SUNDAY 13PM 804 S. CARPENTER

4 BEDROOM HOME in great Oak Park location. Close to Lincoln School.

2 Blks from Blue Line. Make this your family home. ......................$249,000

4 BEDROOM BRICK RESIDENCE in Mann School district. Colonial floor plan. Price to sell. ...............................................................................$479,050

Agt. Margie Bidinger

Agt. AJ Chandler

RIVER FOREST

OAK PARK RENTAL

2 BEDROOM CONDO in prime River Forest location. Newly decorated.

Master bedroom w/master bath. Third floor unit in well maintained bldg. .............................................................................................................$194,900

CHARMING CRAFTSMAN stucco 3 bdrm home. Vintage interior restored. Fenced yard & 2 car garage. This is a must see!.....$2,200/Month

Agt. Ron Will

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730 Linden Avenue, Oak Park $769,000 :: 4 bed :: 3.2 bath Oak Park landmark with a light-filled, open floorplan. Beautiful home in a great location!

1416 Ashland Ave, River Forest $1,599,000 :: 5 bed :: 4.3 bath Grand French inspired stone estate on extra large lot. Large bedrooms and open floor plan.

PRICE REDUCTION

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1142 Franklin Ave, River Forest $1,600,000 :: 4 bed :: 4.5 bath Custom modern 6000 sq. ft. home. Dramatic design and unique detailing throughout.

847 Clinton Pl, River Forest $1,195,000 :: 4 beds :: 3.5 baths Beautifully designed center entrance brick colonial with a gourmet kitchen. Walk to train.

410 Kenilworth Ave, Oak Park Architecturally significant Arts & Crafts 6bd/3.1 bath home located on one of the best blocks. $1,389,000

KATHY & TONY IWERSEN

JUST SOLD

708.772.8040 708.772.8041 tonyiwersen@atproperties.com

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T R A N S F E R S

611 N Kenilworth Ave. home sells for $1,127,000

The following property transfers were reported by the Cook County Recorder of Deeds from August 1 to August 31, 2016. Where addresses appear incomplete, for instance where a unit number appears missing, that information was not provided by the recorder of deeds.

OAK PARK ADDRESS

PRICE

SELLER

BUYER

330 Wesley Ave B1 829 S Euclid Ave 611 N Kenilworth Ave 303 N East Ave 910 Belleforte Ave 1121 Linden Ave 1121 Linden Ave 536 Fair Oaks Ave 1127 Fair Oaks Ave 301 N Scoville Ave 131 S Scoville Ave 308 N Lombard Ave 321 Wesley Ave 333 N Oak Park Ave 1032 N Euclid Ave 1200 Rossell Ave 417 N Maple Ave 328 S Lombard Ave 621 S Grove Ave 624 Clinton Ave 525 N Lombard Ave 705 Gunderson Ave 147 N Elmwood Ave 731 S Humphrey Ave 326 N Humphrey Ave 1015 Division St 824 S Grove Ave 514 S East Ave 1005 N Marion St 642 S East Ave 1022 S Grove Ave 1183 Wenonah Ave 150 N Scoville Ave 410 Clinton Ave 1130 Home Ave 1040 N Humphrey Ave

$2,490,000 $1,525,000 $1,127,000 $855,000 $822,000 $805,000 $805,000 $773,500 $760,000 $750,000 $730,000 $701,500 $700,000 $650,000 $630,000 $630,000 $580,000 $564,000 $550,000 $535,000 $513,500 $510,000 $508,000 $475,000 $470,000 $435,000 $430,000 $430,000 $429,000 $425,000 $418,500 $417,500 $412,000 $402,500 $355,000 $340,000

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BUYER

902 S Kenilworth Ave 717 Home Ave 915 N Harvey Ave 814 Clinton Ave 707 N Cuyler Ave 927 Ontario St 2E 823 Woodbine Ave 110 Home Ave 1042 Hayes Ave 1154 S Ridgeland Ave 813 Lake St 8131N 1040 Erie St 202 935 S Kenilworth Ave 165 N Kenilworth Ave MANY 1035 S Harvey Ave 1040 Erie St MANY 165 N Kenilworth Ave 1D 218 Flournoy St 1035 Randolph St 10351 938 North Blvd 204

$335,000 $335,000 $310,000 $290,000 $273,500 $272,000 $253,000 $250,000 $227,000 $197,000 $190,000 $184,000 $183,500 $183,000 $180,000 $180,000 $175,000 $136,000 $127,000 $97,500

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OAK PARK ADDRESS

PRICE

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BUYER

420 Home Ave 308S 1311 N Harlem Ave 13112C 1031 S Scoville Ave 1135 Augusta St 1135 Augusta St 818 N Euclid Ave 829 S Euclid Ave 829 S Euclid Ave 1154 Gunderson Ave 1015 Fair Oaks Ave 1212 Woodbine Ave 216 Le Moyne Pky 911 S Kenilworth Ave 633 N Grove Ave 201 S Scoville Ave 6 Le Moyne Pky 834 N Grove Ave 721 S East Ave 232 N Taylor Ave 1153 Gunderson Ave 828 N East Ave

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523 South Blvd 642 Fair Oaks Ave 1114 S Cuyler Ave 936 Washington Blvd 9363W 833 N Harlem Ave 3S

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$3,650,000 $999,000 $845,000 $835,000 $800,000 $790,000 $703,000 $674,000 $664,000 $545,000 $520,000 $435,000 $187,000

822 N Harlem Ave 1535 Forest Ave 306 424 Park Ave 604 406 Franklin Ave 3B 1020 N Harlem Ave E5 7352 Lake St P2 1206 Ashland Ave 8033 Lake St 80332 8117 Lake St 101 Park Ave 1540 Franklin Ave 1011 Keystone Ave 1531 Monroe Ave 15411 714 Ashland Ave 941 William St

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home.”

In his retirement, E.E. Roberts was a member of the Art League, and he was commissioned to adapt the coach house, turning it into the Art League’s headquarters in 1937. His original plans for the space, as well as one of his original paintings, are in the Art League’s collection.

Carpenter said the location of the Art League adds to the cultural conversation about Oak Park.

“We really do form a tri-part dialogue of architecture, writing and the arts with the Home & Studio up the street and the Ernest Hemingway birthplace a block away.”

On Lake Street, Pilgrim Congregational Church is a well-known Oak Park landmark

with its proximity to the high school and the farmers market, but few are aware of its rich architectural history.

Designed by Patton & Fisher, the original chapel was built in 1889 with the current sanctuary completed in 1900. It is the oldest continuously operated house of worship in Oak Park according to Delena Williams, member and Open House organizer for Pilgrim Congregational Church.

Williams noted that the current parlor will be of particular interest to tour participants.

“It was originally the Sunday School room and has a series of smaller rooms separated by balconies,” she said. The superintendent of Sunday School stood in the middle of the room and could see inside all of the Sunday School classrooms.”

For a complete listing of the more than 200 buildings open to the public during the 48 hours of Open House Chicago, visit www. openhousechicago.org.

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Re/Max In The Village . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $424,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2 106 S . Humphrey, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Beyond Properties Realty Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $430,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 1030 S . Kenilworth Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re/Max In The Village . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $449,800 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2 630 N . East Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gloor Realty Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $459,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2 300 S . Oak Park Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Baird & Warner Oak Park/River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $489,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-4 1123 Augusta St, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re/Max In The Village . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $499,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-4 1137 Linden Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Weichert Realtors Nickel Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $519,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 847 S . Kenilworth Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Baird & Warner Oak Park/River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $519,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:30-3 1017 Home Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re/Max In The Village . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $549,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 623 N . Kenilworth Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Baird & Warner Oak Park/River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $598,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 527 Thatcher Ave, River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gloor Realty Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $649,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2:30-4 123 Ashland Ave, River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $649,900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 1220 N . Elmwood Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gloor Realty Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $695,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-4 1141 N . Euclid Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $709,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 1013 S . Euclid Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Baird & Warner Oak Park/River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $719,900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 847 N . East Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Weichert Realtors Nickel Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$727,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 230 S Scoville Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gullo & Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $849,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2 636 Woodbine Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Baird & Warner Oak Park/River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $850,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:30-3 1507 Jackson Ave, River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $874,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 1433 Keystone Ave, River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $949,500 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 1206 Lathrop Ave, River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Weichert Realtors Nickel Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $990,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2 550 Thatcher Ave, River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $999,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 1103 Keystone, River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . @Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,095,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2 250 Forest Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . @Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$1,165,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11:30-1:30 530 William St, River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re/Max In The Village . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,485,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3

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938 North Blvd . Unit 303, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gloor Realty Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $123,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2 739 Van Buren St . Unit 2E, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$188,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-12 2646 N . 72nd Court . Unit 1, Elmwood Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $195,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 921 Ontario St . Unit C, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $289,900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 425 S . Oak Park Ave . Unit A, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $364,900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 721 Ontario St . Unit 202, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Baird & Warner Oak Park/River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $475,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2 721 Ontario St . Unit 302, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gloor Realty Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $495,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2 Showroom At 139 S . Oak Park Ave ., Oak Park, Il . . . . . . . . . . . . Gloor Realty Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $649,900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2 Showroom At 139 S . Oak Park Ave ., Oak Park, Il . . . . . . . . . . . . Gloor Realty Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $664,900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2 Showroom At 139 S . Oak Park Ave ., Oak Park, Il . . . . . . . . . . . . Gloor Realty Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $684,900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2

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1024 Alexander Ln, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Baird & Warner Oak Park/River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $479,900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12:30-2 318 Pennsylvania Way, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Baird & Warner Oak Park/River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $539,900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2 1025 Walnut Way, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Baird & Warner Oak Park/River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $549,900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2 319 Chesnut Ln, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Baird & Warner Oak Park/River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $554,900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2

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he Panton Eye Center has provided state-of-the-art eye care for over fifty years. Board-certified ophthalmologists and optometrists offer comprehensive optical, medical, and surgical care including five treatment lasers.

John H. Panton, M.D., founder, comments on the advances made during his career: “Cataract was once a blinding disease. Surgery required a lengthy hospitalization and patients wore thick spectacles post-operatively. That is a thing of the past. Today’s no-shot cataract surgery allows the restoration of normal vision for nearly everyone. What we now consider routine was unimaginable when I began!”

Peter J. Panton, M.D., senior surgeon, describes the surgical elimination of glasses or refractive surgery: “The refractive components of the eye are the cornea (in the front of the eye) and the lens (inside the eye). There are two major refractive procedures: (1) LASIK is the use of a laser to reshape the cornea; (2) Refractive Cataract Surgery is the combina-

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tion of a bifocal implant with no-shot cataract surgery. For both our LASIK patients and our Refractive Cataract Surgery patients, life without glasses is the anticipated outcome.”

Robert W. Panton, M.D., fellowship-trained corneal surgeon, defines ALL LASER LASIK: “ALL LASER LASIK is the combination of two lasers to correct vision. The first makes a thin flap of cornea which is gently folded back.

The second reshapes the cornea. The flap is repositioned without the need for stitches.

Prior to surgery, the patient is able to see only the big-E; the morning after ALL LASER LASIK, the patient drives himself for his follow-up exam.”

Elizabeth Panton Karkazis, O.D. explains how contact lenses complement refractive surgery in a comprehensive practice: “Teenagers are too young for LASIK and not every adult is a suitable candidate for LASIK. When surgery is not an option, contact lenses remain a valuable tool to satisfy a patient’s optical needs.”

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Dr. Peter Panton Discusses Cataract Surgery & Bifocal Implants Dr. Panton, what is a cataract and how is it treated?

A cataract is the clouding of the lens inside the eye. Neither drops nor pills can prevent or cure a cataract. The only treatment for a cataract is its surgical removal and its replacement with a clear artificial lens or intraocular lens implant (IOL).

Dr. Peter J. Panton, a graduate of the Brown University School of Medicine, is certified by the American Board of Ophthalmology, a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, and former president of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society.

Call to schedule your Bifocal Implant Evaluation

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What is the difference between a monofocal implant and a bifocal implant?

In the past, the IOL corrected distance vision only; this is called a monofocal implant. Patients who undergo cataract surgery with a monofocal implant still need reading glasses. Recent advances incorporate a bifocal into the IOL. The bifocal implant allows patients to read without glasses, drive without glasses, and do virtually all of their activities without glasses.

What will I experience during cataract surgery with a bifocal implant?

Cataract surgery is performed on an outpatient basis using eye drops to numb your eye; no shots are necessary. The operation takes approximately 20 minutes after which you will rest for a short time before going home. Post-operatively, you will be asked to instill eye drops for a few weeks after surgery. You will have 90% of you vision back within one day and your eye will be completely healed within two weeks.

How do I find out if bifocal implants are right for me?

While most cataract patients are candidates for this technology, it is best to seek consultation with an ophthalmologist with experience in bifocal implants. If you want to reduce your dependence on glasses after cataract surgery, call Dr. Panton at 708-452-7200 to schedule an appointment.

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Politics is good, but it’s not God

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The pool, the Leef, and the Donald

have a few thoughts on the upcoming elections: Here’s the deal on the pool project at Oak Park and River Forest High School, at least for me. At $37 million, the pool costs $15 million more than it should. A good, decent, fine pool can be built for less and it should be.

Too often in Oak Park, when it comes to public building projects, we not only have our cake and eat it too, but we eat the plate, the utensils, the table and the dining room. The pool project is no exception.

Adding a couple rooms to the pool project for high school arts (and a few million bucks in cost for a total of $44 million) does not change the equation. The high school does not have a comprehensive facilities plan. The arts space is a tail trying to wag the pool dog to attract a few more yes voters. Doesn’t work for me.

In other elections, here’s where I’m at: I’m not voting for Danny Davis for Congress. My friend from Proviso West High School, proud class of ’78, Jeff Leef, is running against Danny as a Republican. Jeff is a longtime River Forest resident and a doctor at the University of Chicago. He is not a crank but a moderate Republican.

And if that’s not enough to earn my vote, in a Madigan-esque move, Democrats ran for Republican committeemen seats, won and then tried to keep Leef off the ballot so Danny could run unopposed. A federal court had to intervene to prevent the hostile takeover of the local Republican Party and get Leef on the ballot.

In Oak Park, that’s dirty pool and should not be tolerated in our local politics.

And for president, Oh Lord! For three weeks in September I was in Italy hiking in the Dolomites. It turned out to be an apology tour. When asked by Europeans what was happening to America with Trump, I told them our nation had gone temporarily insane (including several of my brothers who are temporarily blocked on Facebook).

I have a few friends supporting Trump. They say, don’t believe what he says. Trump will surround himself with smart people and they will control him. He’s a businessman and knows how to create jobs. All this is balderdash. While in Europe, some Italians told me that the U.S. had not learned the lesson Italy did by electing businessman Silvio Berlusconi as prime minister. I replied that a better analogy was Mussolini. He had a strong jaw, always projected strength, had no real plans, and led his country to ruin.

I take no joy in voting for Hillary, but I will do it with alacrity — to prevent undocumented dreamers from losing their work status and being expelled; to prevent religious discrimination against Muslims; to prevent nuclear immolation; to prevent nutty tweets about porn videos at 3 a.m.; to prevent presidential slander of war veterans and even TV stars; to prevent one-party control of all branches of elected government; to move the Supreme Court away from NRA interpretations of the Second Amendment, etc., etc., etc.

Like everyone else, I’d like to see more empathy from Hillary.

She is no Barack Obama. I have to admit to a bad case of Clinton fatigue. There is always drama that follows the Clintons. But these are quibbles, given the alternative.

Jack Crowe is the executive director of Year Up – Chicago.

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Love is patient and kind - it shouldn’t hurt

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omestic violence does not discriminate. It has no boundaries. It hides not just in the inner city and far-away countries, but in every neighborhood, every income and education level, every racial and ethnic group and every religion.

One in four women, and sometimes even men, will experience domestic violence in their lifetimes. Recently, the news stations have all been talking about the steps that college campuses are taking because of the sexual abuse of their female students.

Athletics have been in the news the last couple of years because of athletes’ acts of violence against women. All acts of violence and abuse deteriorate our communities, families, and lead to more violence.

Twenty-five percent of American women and eight percent of American men will experience domestic violence in their lives; children are often witnesses and victims themselves.

There are many forms of abuse: physical, mental, financial and spiritual. Violence is a pattern of coercion used by one person to exert control and power over another, especially those they are supposed to love and protect. It may take the form of beatings, isolation, withholding household finances, and restricting religious practices.

No one should live in fear of someone they love. Love shouldn’t hurt; love is not abusive.

However, once a person realizes they can no longer take the abuse placed on them, they now get into another critical time. How many times have we heard that a woman had a “restraining order” on her abuser only to find out that he killed her anyway.

It is especially important that we teach our teens who are just starting to date. They need to understand that anyone who tries to alienate them from their friends, makes persistent phone calls or text messages, monitors and monopolizes their time, asks them to do things they are not comfortable with, or hits or scares them in any way are in a dangerous situation and they need to tell

their parents or school counselor and get out of that relationship quick.

Love is not abusive or threatening; love doesn’t hurt.

A question that is often asked of the victim is, “Why did you stay?”

The answer is not a simple one. Battered women lack information about domestic violence and what help is available. They are unable to identify their experience as abusive if it is not physical. Who will support her and the children if she leaves? There is no place to go because she has been cut off from family and friends. Women are conditioned to believe they are responsible for his actions. Experience has taught them that they are unable to change anything. Sometimes, shame, guilt and humiliation — “I don’t want anyone to know” — is a good reason. The marriage vows state, “Until death do us part” and St. Paul says, “Wives be subject to your husband.” None of these statements are worth staying in an abusive relationship; society and faiths say, “Get out!”

October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Walkers of all levels and denominations are invited to participate in the Annual Walk for Awareness event on Sunday, Oct. 23. The event is held in Keystone Park, Lake Street and Keystone Avenue, in River Forest to build awareness of the Domestic Violence Outreach Ministries of Oak Park-River Forest. Registration begins at 1:30 p.m.; the walk starts at 2 p.m. This is not a fundraiser; there are no fees. It is only intended to raise awareness that help is available through many social agencies, that education is key to intervention and prevention, and to encourage the abused to get help through various outreaches: Catholic Charities (312-6557725); Sarah’s Inn Crisis Line (708-386-4225); IL Domestic Violence Hotline (877-863-6338) and their local house of worship.

Ample parking is available for all participants on Central Avenue, in The Depot parking lot at 401 Thatcher and on Lake Street near Keystone Park.

Domestic Violence Outreach Ministries of OP-RF is composed of volunteers from St. Luke, St. Giles, St. Edmund and Ascension parishes.

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or years there was no better way to get a rise out of Oak Park village officials than to point out another business decamping from Oak Park to Forest Park. And for a time, the defections were persistent and entirely one-way.

Departing businesses would blame high rents and the high taxes that spiked those rents. New businesses choosing between the towns would point to their actual experience or their perceptions that it was nigh on impossible to pull permits, pass inspections or otherwise feel appreciated by Oak Park’s village hall.

Now, though, that has changed — quite remarkably and very consistently. Today in a news article we recap the trio of restaurants which have, over the past months, left Forest Park and either opened here or are working to open a second location in Oak Park. Novo (House Red in its Forest Park incarnation), Saigon Pho and, soon, Scratch Kitchen are all new entrants into Oak Park’s crowded restaurant scene.

And the stories told by their entrepreneurial owners suggest that working with Oak Park officials — both at village hall and at the Oak Park Economic Development Corporation — has been productive and responsive. That’s a credit to Oak Park’s elected and appointed officials who first accepted the village’s longtime deficiencies in this area and strategically went after solutions.

Mayor Anan Abu-Taleb, himself a local restaurateur, gets credit for grabbing hold of this complex issue and seeing basic options for retooling.

These included a wholesale rethinking of organizational structures within village hall where far-flung and non-communicating business-related functions were actively gathered up and placed in a new Development Customer Services Department.

Village Manager Cara Pavlicek and department head Tammie Grossman get the credit here.

The village board has consistently backed this effort, notably in supporting significant spending on an entirely new and fully integrated software package that connects all the relevant departments and also makes documentation available to all parties online. So, for instance, tracking a permit application is now transparent. Those applying will know where in the system that approval has moved or stalled. And bottlenecks can be spotted and corrected.

For its part, Forest Park has largely lost its cost advantages as taxes and rents in that town are now closing in on Oak Park.

And for more complicated reasons, the welcome mat from Forest Park’s village hall now seems less welcoming.

Some current critics in Oak Park point to the new high rises and suggest that Oak Park is losing its lure for small and independent businesses. We’d suggest that, in a very tough moment for attracting entrepreneurial business, Oak Park is doing well.

Four years later

You wouldn’t expect that a project to rethink parking, create new open spaces and spruce up landscaping at a middle school could take four years, run up hundreds of thousands in engineering, reengineering, and multiple traffic studies, sending a whole lot of money right out the door to lawyers.

Especially in River Forest. But now as work at Roosevelt Middle School nears its conclusion that is what the costs all tote up to — about $2 million.

And that doesn’t begin to compute the sledge-hammering of the community psyche as nice, normal, upper-middle-class folks went ballistic on each other. Altogether a very strange interlude in River Forest’s staid history. No one did their best, few people were at their best. We’re just glad it is just about over.

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Falling in love with our grandchildren

It was, I wrote at the time, “better than have a bone to pick with Lesley Stahl, watching the first moonwalk. Way better. the longtime TV journalist and 60 Utterly engrossing. So fragile, so precious, Minutes correspondent. In the Februso beautiful, so innocent, so peaceful, so ary/March issue of AARP magazine, pure. So alive.” she wrote a lovely piece about becoming Suddenly I found myself falling down a grandmother, excerpted from her new the same deep well shaft, head first into the book, Becoming Grandma. mystery, that I experienced when I held my “Throughout my career,” she wrote, “I son for the first time three decades earlier. had worked at suppressing both my opinA titanic jolt? The Titanic had nothing on ions and my emotions. … Then, wham! My this. The Germans have a word for authenfirst grandchild.” tic, unfiltered, undiluted experience. Echt.

The impact took her by surprise.

This was echt. It was echt-static.

“I felt I was growing a whole new chamIn the three years since, the feeling hasn’t ber in my heart. I nearly swooned, staring changed. I’ve had two great privileges in my at her like a lover. I’d never seen anything so delicate and beautiful, so sweet, every life, being the stay-at-home parent with my feature perfect. And it’s not that I didn’t see son for three years (age 3-6) and babysitting her three chins. regularly for the twins.

“I was at a time in my life where I’d assumed I had Kristen brings them to Oak Park now once a week already had my best day, my tallest high. But now I was because she works here. The boys must think Oak Park overwhelmed with euphoria. Why was she hitting with Avenue is the mecca of vehicular traffic. Commuter such a force? What explains this joy, this grandmother buses, school buses, ambulances, firetrucks, police elation that is a new kind of love?” cars, garbage trucks, mail trucks, motorcycles, and no Plenty of people had told her how great it would be to less than three kinds of trains crossing on the tracks become a grandparent. overhead (CTA, Metra and Union Pacific). My God! It’s “But what I couldn’t get over was the physicality of so different from wide-open, semi-rural Carol Stream my feelings,” she said. … “I was infatuated. Dare I say where they live. The kids’ section of the Oak Park Pubit? It felt like … ardor. lic Library is also beyond Aha! There it was. We their wildest dreams. grandmas literally, actuThere is so much more ally, fall in love.” to explore together. WonI was with her all the der Works, the Oak Park way — until I read the Conservatory. Maybe I’ll short Q&A-style sidebar get one of those bicycles attached to the story, with the sidecar on the which posed the question, front.

“How do grandmothers Recently, I asked them and grandfathers differ?” what red on the stoplight “When I first held my means. “Stop,” they said. grandchild, I felt a titanic What does the green light jolt of emotion,” she remean? “Go,” they said. plied. “Most of the grandAnd what does yellow mothers I interviewed had mean? “Caution,” said the same elated feeling.

Bryce with a casual With grandfathers, not air as if he tosses such one of them said they had weighty words around that first initial jolt. The with abandon. Whoa! Just real attachment comes a turned 3 this past Monday. little later. But their emoObviously, Kristen, the tions are very deep.” intersection of nature and I’m glad she acknowlnurture, who is so aweedged our deep emotions some I can’t begin to extol (albeit “a little later”), but her motherly virtues, has JAVIER GOVEA/Staff her sample of grandfabeen working with these Papa and the boys go looking for trains. thers was obviously way two. And they aren’t the too small. only beneficiaries. I am I certainly felt that jolt. gifted too, once a week. So The boys were born eight weeks early and spent the first precious, so beautiful, so innocent. And so alive. weeks of their lives in incubators. Bryce was 3.9 pounds, So, Lesley, with all due respect, it’s quite possible for Tyler 3.1, the latter small enough to carry comfortably grandfathers to fall in love with their grandchildren, in my hand. and I’m not the only one. I think back to Frank Muriello, “I learned there is no such thing as a ‘quick look’ who, when I told him I was a grandfather-to-be, said at a preemie in an incubator,” I wrote after my initial simply, “Never turn down a babysitting request.” And encounter, “especially when they happen to be your first he had lots of them. I suspect he fell in love, too. grandchildren.”

Every time the boys call me “Papa Ken,” I fall in I expected to be pleased to make their acquaintance, love all over again. And I’m sure Papa Jim, their other but since we couldn’t hold them yet, I figured my first grandfather, would heartily agree. sight of them, probably from a distance, would be no big You undoubtedly meant well, Lesley, but don’t sell deal. But I found myself inches from Tyler on the other grandfathers short. The jolt is equally visceral, then it side of the glass, his tiny body wired up, his chest — deepens. impossibly it seemed — rising and falling.

And it endures.

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We’re forever living in bubbles …

hose of us who live in Oak Park are often said to live in a bubble that floats outside the rest of the world.

The only other times I have been told I lived in a bubble is when I was in college at Vanderbilt and law school at the University of Chicago.

I gather that living in a bubble means living in a place where like-minded people share values that are distinct from the rest of the population. There is a suggestion that living in a bubble is a bad thing because you are insulated from “the real world” — whatever that is.

The more I think about the concept of the bubble, the more I conclude that everyone lives in a bubble. Complex combinations of geography, history, family, and personal preference cause us to clump together in groups with shared values. Boys Town, Pilsen, and Austin in Chicago. Wilmette, La Grange and Naperville in the ’burbs. Coal miners in eastern Kentucky. Ranchers in Montana. Financiers in Manhattan. Oil men in Texas.

University towns.

Who doesn’t live in a bubble?

We gather in groups that make us comfortable. Here in Oak Park, we watch MSNBC, listen to NPR, vote Democrat and eat Brussels sprouts. In Harrodsburg, Kentucky, where my mom hailed from, they listen to Rush, watch Fox, vote Republican and eat fried chicken. It is the way of the world, the way of their world.

So the notion that living in a bubble is somehow unusual, or even bad, needs to go.

Everyone lives in a kind of bubble. We sort ourselves by a combination of free will and fate into places where we are comfortable, at least psychologically.

The challenge is to realize, understand and reconcile all these bubbles that float around bumping into each other on a tiny little speck in an infinite universe.

They are not places to find absolute truth. That requires individual effort.

And a willingness to acknowledge and understand — and even learn from — the other bubbles.

Right-turn scofflaws

fender. You’d think people would get the message.

While I’m not in favor of red-light cameras generally, I suspect Oak Park could issue that many tickets for violations of the daytime No Right Turn on Red signs at Lake and Ridgeland alone. I do wish the police would camp out there occasionally and demonstrate a commitment to enforcing the rules at that intersection before some children get run over.

JOHN

HUBBUCH

As a frequent visitor to the two intersections with River Forest red light cameras (who by the way has never incurred a camera ticket anywhere), I can only say that I’m surprised by the low number of tickets issued.

It’s somewhere between amusing and pathetic to watch how many people blow off the Right Turn on Red rules at those intersections. I happen to know a multiple of-

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hen I was growing up, guys did things that identified them as being part of “guydom.”

Guys liked to belch. I think it was a way of communicating with other guys.

A guy in my freshman algebra class enjoyed belching so much that it tried the nerves of our teacher to such an extent, she was forced to discipline him.

One day after the guy had belched loudly, the six-foot-tall Mrs. Ashley grabbed the guy by the arm, pulled him up out of his desk, shook him, pushed him back into his desk and threatened to do more if he didn’t stop belching. The guy never again belched during algebra class.

Guys scratched a lot. In fact, I scratched myself so often, my mother thought I had a skin condition, but I was only following a guy custom.

Guys sniffed constantly. It wasn’t that we had allergies; it was just what guys did.

I imagine some people thought we were smelling something foul surrounding them, but that wasn’t the case. It was just part of

guydom.

Wrestling was big on television, so guys wrestled with each other quite frequently, keeping alive this ancient sport.

Guys were smart enough not to wrestle on cement or inside the school, but when the need to wrestle occurred, and we were near an expanse of grass, grapple we would. No one ever got hurt, but we sure picked up a lot of grass stains that did not make our mothers happy.

Guys loved sports, and guys who didn’t like sports were thought to be weird in the head. We played most of our games on neighborhood courts and fields, but some guys played baseball, football, basketball and soccer on school teams. Whenever we could get the money together to see professional sports, we would go.

Guys rarely worked in the kitchen. We never cooked and didn’t want to learn how to cook. We came into the kitchen to eat.

Most guys never washed or dried a dish.

I was not one of them, however. I usually washed or dried dishes two or three times a week, but no other male member of my fam-

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Guys ate with their mouths open. We were berated constantly for doing this because it looked awful, and also bits of food would end up embedded in our clothing, again much to the dismay of our mothers.

Guys liked to spit. I believe this habit came from watching big league ballplayers spit tobacco onto the diamonds.

The guys in my neighborhood had spitting contests where the contestants — whose mouths were filled with chewing gum — stood behind a line and let fly to see who could spit the greatest distance.

These contests were performed on cement so that distances could easily be seen.

Charlie Mack usually won because of what he called his superb technique — a method that was never disclosed to the rest of us.

One day while chewing a huge wad of gum, I forgot myself and spit on the kitchen floor. Unfortunately for me, my mother entered the kitchen just as I spit. That was the day I learned how to mop and wax a tile floor.

What skills and activities are now required for a young man to enter the realm of guydom?

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 76 years.

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Don’t force people into hunger In Illinois, one of the results of federal welfare reform will be the partial loss of the federal nutrition assistance program known as SNAP, which stands for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and replaced the food stamp program.

Nearly a quarter of a million unemployed Illinoisans will be forced into severe hunger if Governor Bruce Rauner lets a federal waiver of time limits lapse. The federal welfare reform bill called for able-bodied adults without dependents to work 20 hours per week or be in a job-training program to receive food assistance for more than three months during a three-year period.

However, Illinois, along with other states suffering continued high unemployment, were granted a waiver to continue receiving federal food assistance. All Gov. Rauner has to do is ask the federal government to continue providing the assistance. The federal assistance will not negatively affect the Illinois budget.

Basic human services in Illinois are under attack, making this federal nutrition assistance more important than ever. Gov. Rauner, even able-bodied adults without dependents who can’t find permanent work need to be able to eat to keep them able-bodied.

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ou may recall the story of Jesus’ two disciples who request to sit at his right and left hand when he enters his glory.

It’s recorded for us in Mark’s Gospel, chapter 10:35-45. I find it a useful story to review during this election season because here we find Scripture exposing for us, in a very candid way, the temptation of all politics.

They ask Jesus a profoundly political question: “Grant us to sit, one at your right hand and one at your left, in your glory.”

(10:37) Give us status, Jesus. Give us influence. Give us power. Political power to rule.

The temptation to seize political power is one Jesus himself knew all too well. He was 40 days in the wilderness when the Devil offered him not the presidency of the United States but “all the kingdoms of the world and their glory.” (Matthew, 4:8) To use power not in life-giving and justicecreating service of others but in the service of your own agenda. This is the temptation of politics.

What makes political power such an irresistible temptation? I think Henri Nouwen has the simplest answer: “Maybe it is that power offers an easy substitute for the hard task of love.”

I would imagine there are a lot of differing opinions here on a range of political issues: immigration, taxes, welfare, social security, education, the environment, military spending, and trade. But I’m fairly confident there is one thing we would all agree on — there’s not a lot of love in politics these days.

Richard Hofstadter wrote an insightful article about the “paranoid style” of American politics. Our political culture, he says, is defined by “heated exaggeration, suspiciousness, and conspiratorial fantasy.” That sounds about right, doesn’t it? The remarkable thing, though, is that Hofstadter wrote those words in 1964. Makes me wonder what he might say about the sorry state of politics today.

My brother Brad sent me an email recently lamenting the state of politics in America.

I suspect some of you may have sent and received similar emails. “I had dinner with several clients in Atlanta last night and not one word of policy was exchanged. It was all about 15-second-sound-bites. … These are company owners who should know better.

Maybe my expectations about people actually evaluating policy are way overstated … People are going to vote viscerally, not logically. It’s kind of depressing … everyone is just mad at the other guy, not supporting their own [candidate] … as the polls show!”

But it’s awfully easy to shift the blame, isn’t it? When we talk about the sad state of American politics, it’s easy to assume it’s

someone else’s fault. There’s some other group messing everything up. It’s those darn Democrats! Or weird Republicans! Or special interests! Big banks! Greedy Wall Street executives! Teachers unions! The gun lobby!

The media! Fox news! Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Rachel Maddow!

The British journalist G. K. Chesterton was once asked to give his thoughts on the question, “What is wrong with the world?”

No doubt those who asked were hoping for some eloquent treatise on the great social or political ills of the day: communism, totalitarianism, racism, sexism, classism, some other scary sounding “ism.”

Instead, Chesterton penned a very short and extremely honest answer.

What is wrong with the world?

“I am. Yours, truly, G.K. Chesterton.”

We are the problem with American politics. The sad state of politics in America today is better described as the sad state of Americans as we engage with one another politically. We’ve become, by and large, an anxious, angry, and resentful people.

Sadly, followers of Jesus haven’t helped the situation. Instead, in many ways we’ve done much to stoke the blaze of resentment, distrust and incivility.

What’s gone wrong? The world has given itself to the idolatry of political power.

But so, too, in many ways has the church.

We’ve been like James and John, the sons of Zebedee, asking Jesus if we can have the corner office in his earthly kingdom, our name on the letterhead, our views always made the law of the land.

We’ve succumbed, you might say, to the temptation of politics, to a deep and subtle political worldliness, the kind Jesus warns against, the kind Jesus went up against as he stood before Pontius Pilate, the kind Jesus died for as he was executed as a political agitator.

Instead, Christians — indeed, perhaps, Americans of all faiths, and none — need to be reminded, not least during this election season, of the Bible’s level-headed vision of politics: Politics is good, but politics isn’t God. There is a long and venerable Christian tradition that views politics as basically a necessary evil. These are Christians who don’t see politics show up until after the Fall in Genesis 3. This is a more pessimistic view of politics where the state exists simply to “bear the sword” (Romans, 13:4). This is an approach that puts politics in the same category as pulling weeds out of your garden, something pretty annoying but that has to be done if you want to minimize the damage.

But this view of politics, I believe, sells short what the Bible says about politics. As we learn from the opening chapter, we are made in the image of God. Which means we’ve been created to image forth God the

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great king and to do so in relationship and in community.

This doesn’t mean God has given us a particular political system to follow. We don’t find in Genesis 1, for example, any mention of representative democracy or an electoral college or a Supreme Court or a separation of powers or a House or Senate. In fact, we don’t even see anything about Republicans or Democrats in the Bible!

But what we do see on the opening page of Scripture is a great king who makes human beings in his own royal image, to represent him and to extend his kingdom in this world.

We find in Genesis 1 a political creature called man, who is called to live out his vocation, socially and politically, with others made in God’s image.

Which means we have been made not just for community but for political community.

Aristotle was exactly right: “Man is by nature a political animal.” Or, in more Christian terms, man is by divine design a political creature, called to steward creation and govern it in a way that reflects the character and will of our Creator.

For the Christian, then, engaging in politics shouldn’t be viewed as getting your teeth cleaned, much less going for a colonoscopy. Politics isn’t some necessary evil, a sad and slightly depressing feature of our fallen world.

No, politics is a creational good. God has made us political creatures in his image.

But it must also be said that politics isn’t God — even though we want to make it God. We need to resist this particular temptation.

We need to grapple with what it means for the church to be “a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that [we might] proclaim the excellencies of him who called [us] out of darkness into his marvelous light” (1 Peter, 2:9). We need to reflect on the ecclesial shape of our politics. What does it mean for the church to have a prophetic ministry in politics today? What does it mean for the church to have a priestly ministry as a faithful presence? And what does it mean for the church to have a kingly ministry and thus seek the welfare not of itself but of the city?

My hope and prayer in speaking to politics for Christians is, first of all, to lay the groundwork for a distinctly Christian approach to politics that is genuinely Gospelrooted and God-centered.

Secondly, my hope would be to help change our political culture as Christians, so that we increasingly engage in politics with grace and truth, civility and compassion, humility and courage.

And thirdly, I would hope that these reflections encourage followers of Jesus to do the hard work of political engagement, but to do so in a way that prioritizes love, displays patience, and rests in hope.

As Henri Nouwen put it, we should never make political power an easy substitute for the hard task of love.

Rev. Todd Wilson is senior pastor of Calvary Memorial Church.

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thought my acting career was came the largest supplier of tents over until the Oak Park-River in the U.S. He provided canvas to Forest Historical Society cast circuses, carnivals and revivals me in their 20th Annual “Tale before his life ended in tragedy. of the Tombstones” tour at Another person you’ve probably Forest Home Cemetery. I’ll be never heard of was a card-carrymaking my comeback on Suning member of the International day, Oct. 16, at 1 p.m. I’ve been Alliance of Bill Posters and Billasked to play Adolph Sabath, a ers Local 1.

Czech immigrant who rose to beThat’s the beauty of Forest come one of our longest-serving Home, the cemetery welcomes member of Congress. everyone, from business tycoons It’s a juicy role and when I to humble workingmen. We do read the snappy script by Kurt have one celebrity, though. Billy Etchingham, I was hooked. It’s Sunday was a star player for the been years since I appeared on the cemetery Cubs before becoming an evangelist, who stage. I started my career there as a guide preached to millions. for the tour but kept getting my group lost.

These performances have an advantage There are still occasional sightings of my over mine. They use real actors.

2006 group wandering among the tombStill, I’m going to memorize my two-page stones. The society thought it safer to make script and resurrect Sabath on the Sabbath. me an actor.

He was that rarest of creatures, a I had a good run for a while. I crusading congressman, pushing played William Grunow, standing progressive ideas. Many of his in front of his magnificent maucauses championed the rights of soleum. Grunow made a fortune people, who, like him, came from selling radios before amassing a humble circumstances. Thanks second fortune selling chickens. to his efforts, several of these It was fun dressing up and precauses became law. tending to be rich. They later let He was way ahead of his time me play a Knights of Columbus in advocating for the elderly, member, complete with uniform the working class and people of and sword. I was careful not to color. He was as feisty as they ADOLPH SABATH strike anyone with the sword but come, fighting for his constituI yanked it out so dramatically, ents. And being from Chicago the scabbard flew through the air and struck and representing a district that included the a woman in the leg. cemetery, he probably picked up a few votes After that, the roles dried up. Like many from Forest Home during the course of his veteran actors, I became too old to play long career. He can be seen as a machine sword-wielding knights. I was content to repolitician or an enlightened leader, dependtire from showbiz, until this role came along. ing on your viewpoint.

However, Adolph Sabath is just one of the So if you’d like to learn more about charfascinating characters coming back to life acters from the worlds of sports, politics, reon the 16th. We have the set designer who ligion and the theater, come to the cemetery first brought The Wizard of Oz to the stage, at 12:30 this Sunday. Tickets are $15, $10 for wowing audiences with an erupting volcano. historical society members. Call 708-848-6755, We have the proud mother of an Olympic or visit www.oprfhistory.org. runner from River Forest. Another woman I promise no sword as a prop this time but will tell us how her husband’s company becertainly a cigar for those smoke-filled rooms.

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ngaging performances fill the new all-female production of William Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors. Produced by the Saltbox Theatre Collective in the studio performance space at Madison Street Theatre and tightly directed by Brian Fruits, the show runs about 90 minutes without any intermissions. The lively action never drags.

The intimate black box space is devoid of color — no scenery or set changes. But the actors are all wearing vivid, brightlycolored costumes that remind you of a Bollywood film. The performance space is brilliantly ablaze in fabric, a melange of Middle Eastern and Asian garments. This is not Elizabethan period attire, of course, but it’s a feast for the eyes, especially in the big scenes when the stage is full of Fruits’ large and diverse cast of actresses.

Costuming is by April Hunsucker.

Many characters also wear classical masks, created by Saltbox artists, which are fascinating.

This is one of the shortest and earliest of The Bard’s works. It has long been considered an apprentice effort. Though it’s fun and frantic, there is not much emotional depth or intellectual heft. But that has always allowed acting troupes to put their own distinctive spin on this early1590s comedy about identical twins. This venture, with its all-actress cast, is often hilarious.

Shakespeare was actually the father of twins, so perhaps he was drawn to developing a plot with identical siblings. Shakespeare ups the ante by offering two sets of confusing doubles. This tale of mistaken identity — twin masters, twin servants — features look-alike “guys,” who all arrive on the same scene at the same time.

The two sets of twins, separated by a shipwreck years earlier and seemingly lost to each other, end up in a rowdy, rollicking farce of witty back-and-forth comedy, often punctuated by slapstick physical comedy.

Antipholus of Syracuse (Emily Steward) and “his” bumbling, comical servant Dromio of Syracuse (Victoria Montalbano), arrive in Ephesus, which turns out to be the home of their twin brothers, Antipholus of Ephesus (Sabrina Harms) and his servant, Dromio of Ephesus (Sabrina Harms). A series of wild mishaps occur, resulting from the on-going mistaken identities.

Playing the twin servants — the child-like, innocent Dromios brothers — Harms and Montalbano are fine comediennes who frequently steal their scenes.

Egron (Regina Leslie), the doting father of the lost Antipholi twins, provides initial exposition about the long-ago shipwreck when he lost his wife and baby sons, plus their infant servants.

Of course, one wonders why parents would name their identical babies the same name or how helpful a pair of infant servants, also identically named Dromio, might be. But in a place of magic and mayhem, I guess we cannot be too realistic.

This play wouldn’t work otherwise.

The climactic scene when the “errors” of the title begin to correct themselves and the two sets of twins finally meet is genuinely moving.

I was a bit confused in the early episodes since all the performers are female yet almost none of them are cross-dressed as men. A few, like Rosemary Foley who plays a male merchant, wear a mask with a large mustache. But at times I was initially disoriented as to the gender identity of other characters.

Long-suffering Adriana (Stephanie Stroud), wife of Antipholus of Ephesus, gets caught up in all the mistaken identity.

She is upset thinking that her husband is paying attention to another woman.

There are romantic entanglements as well. Luciana (Rebecca Botter) is Adriana’s unmarried sister, object of Antipholus of Syracuse’s affection. She tries to calm Adriana but then gets caught up in the madness herself.

Angelo, a shifty goldsmith, is played by Danelle Swanson.

There’s a gargantuan kitchen wench played by Joanne Bomba who’s simultaneously funny and scary.

Amelia, an Abbess, played by Joy Schoeph, shows up late in the plot in a pivotal role.

Johnathan Boehle and Danielle Swanson are the assistant directors.

Musician Julie Siarny provides periodic punctuation on the flute and breaks in the action. There is no intermission.

Other cast members include: Gloria Alvarez, Beth Harris, Regina Leslie, Jessica Litrenta, Allison Schier, Kamara Thornton, Madelyn Tomko, Alyssa Vierneza, and Bernadetta Zawiejska.

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Saltbox Theater Collective’s new production of “Comedy of Errors” at Madison Street Theatre, 1010 Madison runs through Oct. 23. Performances are Oct. 7-8, 14-15, 21-22 @ 7:30 p.m. and Oct. 8-9, 15-16, 22-23 @ 2 p.m. Tickets are $20 general admission, $15

for seniors and students: www.sbtcomedy. brownpapertickets.com or at the door with cash or credit cards.

Doug Deuchler is a longtime educator and historian who, when he isn’t reviewing local theater for Wednesday Journal, is a stand-up comic, tour guide/docent, film class instructor and author of several books about Oak Park and surrounding communities.

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he award-winning Performing Arts Programs at Oak Park and River Forest High School contribute directly to the quality of our school, the desirability of our community, and the academic success of our students. They warrant your support on Nov. 8.

The programs, collectively, have grown by more than 20 percent over the last six years and are out of space. They are bursting at the seams with enrollment and demand not seen in decades. The division head of Fine and Performing Arts documented these space needs in 2015. They were folded into the Long Term Facilities Planning (LTFP) process in January 2016.

When the District 200 school board, at the urging of citizens attending public meetings, merged the LTFP and pool renovation processes, expanded space for the performing arts continued to be part of the planning.

Performing arts classrooms and upgrades are fully integrated into the final facilities plan. At $4.8 million*, just over 10 percent of the total project costs, the line item costs of the performing arts expansion are much lower than the pool and parking components. It is by building a new garage with a smaller footprint and consolidating two pools into one that arts

space becomes available at that price. (The board rejected another plan that included a smaller performing arts expansion in a $10.7 million addition on green space at the southeast corner of the building.) The facilities plan makes space for the performing arts at the location of the current west pool.

More than 1,000 OPRF students take advantage of performing arts opportunities, both curricular (five bands, five choirs, three orchestras, Guitar, AP Music Theory, Sound Production, Therapeutic Music, Therapeutic Theater, Acting 1 & 2, Musical Theater, Directing, Advanced Theater, Theater Tech & Design) and extracurricular (Marching Band & Color Guard, Vocal Jazz, Pep Band, Show Choir, Jazz Band II, Orchestra Pit, Gospel Choir, Drama Club, Orchesis, Piano Ensemble, Stage Crew, theater productions, student music ensembles, and more).

Numerous studies find correlations between arts education and increased student engagement, academic performance, test scores, and college attendance, as well as decreased dropout rates and behavioral problems. Those correlations are strongest for low-income students.

The OPRF arts programs strive for inclusion, equity, and access for all students.

Most offerings are non-audition. Students with special needs are welcomed through-

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out and have access to therapeutic music and theater courses designed for specific needs. The PING program provides instruments and lessons for those with financial need. As a place for both high-performing and at-risk students, the performing arts help build community and a positive culture for all.

The OPRF facilities plan includes new band and orchestra classrooms and support spaces and expanded space for theater and choir. This will result in classrooms able to accommodate growing enrollment (including students with special needs), the ability to accommodate new course offerings, storage space appropriate to the number of students, updating facilities from the 1960s, and ensemble rehearsals in dedicated rehearsal rooms instead of hallways (where they disturb other learning).

We urge you to Vote Yes in November to make space for OPRF Performing Arts.

And we urge you attend a concert (Huskie Musicfest, Oct. 18), see a play (Anne Frank this weekend), or watch videos online (Marching Huskies) to enjoy your tax dollars at work enriching our students. * Vote Yes D200 puts this figure at $4.8 million. Pragmatic Pool Solutions uses a figure of $4.3 million.

Ben Campbell, Lisa Colpoys, Wayne Franklin, Lynn Kamenitsa, Matt Kosterman, Mary Anne Montgomery, Ellen Pimentel, Peter Ryan, and Karen StewardNolan are members of the Vote Yes D200 Facilities Referendum Committee.

A few questions regarding the referendum There have been many opposing editorials on the current District 200 swimming pool referendum. The D200 school board proposal on that referendum would tear down the existing OPRF High School parking structure and replace it with another one, along with an enlarged 40-meter competition pool.

The less expensive alternative proposes replacement of the existing pools and preserving the existing garage. Both offer enhanced performing arts facilities, at a cost that is small compared to the pool. In the spirit of being fiscally responsible and sustainable while also equitably meeting students’ needs, there are questions that would seem to make sense for a voter to ask in order to assess the cost-benefit of the referendum proposal:

1) Up to now, the Physical Education (PE) students have not required a 40 meter pool. What students are served by the expanded pool? Clearly the swim team is. How many students are in that group, and how many total studenthours are spent in swim team activities? There is a difference of millions of dollars between the current D200 board proposed project and the less expensive alternative. What is the cost per swim team student-hour for the additional dollars spent on the D200 board recommendation?

2) Under each alternative, how many performing arts students are served, and how many student-hours are spent in the performing arts? What is the cost per student-hour of the performing arts enhancements?

3) How does the enhanced pool cost per swim team student-hour in (1) compare with the performing arts enhancement cost per student-hour in (2)? And moreover, are there any potential projects that would benefit the student body at large that could be funded by the additional money required by the board’s 40 meter pool proposal? From the perspective of the entire student body, which alternative project is more equitable?

4) The documentation indicates that the replacement parking garage required by the current proposal has approximately 100 fewer spaces than the existing garage that would be torn down. Is this adequate for the parking requirement moving forward?

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he OPRF High School referendum seems to have Oak Park running amok in drama. What better way is there to look at drama than through a drama?

(A hypothetical play) Setting: The setting is a diverse inner-ring suburb located next to a major city.

Its residents are proud of their tolerance and support of social justice.

Public education is almost their religion. They support the schools so much they never say no to a referendum, and they pay the highest property taxes in the state. The high school is the aureole and corona of the community. Still, the school has an achievement gap between its high-income students and the percentage of its student body who are low-income. The suburb is also undergoing changes as the local government subsidizes high density development of luxury condos and apartments.

ter live raises the rent to compensate for property tax increases. The family can no longer afford the rent, so they move a few blocks away to the city where the girl attends another high school. The academics are less impressive, the band and theater programs smaller.

From her bedroom window, the student can sometimes hear the suburb’s high school marching band practicing.

The girl becomes depressed because she misses her previous school. Her mother cannot tolerate her daughter receiving a lesser education so she illegally enrolls her in her former high school, using a relative’s address in the suburb as their residence. The daughter is elated. She thrives in the school. Her GPA rises, and she gets the part of the grandfather in a gender-ambivalent version of the play You Can’t Take It With You. On the day of the play’s opening performance, the school’s residency officer finds out she is not a resident of the village. The school moves to expel her. At the end of the performance, the daughter receives a standing ovation.

She wells up with tears at the accolades and the knowledge that this is her last moment in the school.

The student moves again back to the city. However, the documentary concerning the achievement gap appears in theaters. The girl’s situation, her expulsion, her love of performing arts appear in the film, giving her national attention. An acclaimed performing arts charter school system opening a school in the city takes notice. It offers her enrollment in its local school. She attends and graduates with honours.

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Synopsis: The protagonist is a low-income girl of a single-parent mother and a student of the suburb’s high school.

She is an excellent student who loves the performing arts and participates in band and theater.

As a film crew roams the halls of the high school to make a documentary on the school’s achievement gap, the community passes a referendum to tear down a recently built parking garage to build a stretch swimming pool, one of the largest pools in the state.

The owner of the apartment building in which the mother and daugh-

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The Performing Arts & Learning Spaces Referendum?

f you read the opinion letters and marketing materials put forth by the District 200 board members and their lobby group, Vote Yes D200 Referendum Committee, you would think that the $25 million District 200 referendum question is for a comprehensive facilities plan with the bulk of the money going to performing arts programs and 21st-century classrooms at OPRF High School. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Just $4.3M* or 9.6 percent of the project’s total revised $44.5M price tag, which includes $20M of our overtaxed dollars from the reserve fund, would be earmarked for a band room, an orchestra room and six classrooms, according to the Aug. 16 school board meeting minutes.

That’s it. The rest of the money, $40.2M or 90.4 percent, would go to a 40-meter, 25-yard pool; locker rooms; and demolishing the structurally sound garage with at least 25 more years of service life and building a smaller replacement garage, which would not meet current parking needs, a few hundred feet to the west to squeeze in the mega pool.

Clearly, it’s not a facilities plan but a pool plan, which is driving the entire project and its costs. The board’s plan on the ballot is a Mercedes pool with a few extras thrown in in hopes of broadening support among voters. It’s close but not quite as luxurious as last year’s failed Mercedes pool effort by the board and its pool lobby to bypass voters and build a $37.5M, 50-meter, Olympic-size pool that would have demolished the parking garage and eliminated all parking at a school of 3,200 students. Note that the $11M repurposing cost of the existing pools was not includ-

ed in the $37.5M price tag. It would have raised the cost to $48.5M. That would have been some natatorium and at a supreme cost to taxpayers.

The school’s own architects, Legat, developed and vetted, along with school officials, another pool plan, a pragmatic one that meets all of the school’s needs and its pools cost millions less than the Mercedes pool on the ballot. If similar cuts were made to the pragmatic plan as the $9.5M cuts that were made to the board’s plan, the price tag for the pragmatic plan would cost $15 million less.

One way to cut its costs further would be to repurpose and renovate the 2,000 square feet of under-utilized lecture halls, rooms 370/371, at the school. Yet there is no plan to renovate these spaces for performing arts or any purpose. Why is this “green” reuse option dormant? Why is there no effort to reconfigure these existing spaces and others rather than building a massive addition?

We believe the board’s proposed addition and its oversized 40-meter pool would significantly increase the school’s total operating costs. Despite repeated requests, the school has yet to disclose the estimate for this increased annual cost to taxpayers. Why not?

Vote NO in NOvember to the $25 million, District 200 pool bond referendum question. Let’s solve the pool problem without going overboard. * Vote Yes D200 puts this figure at $4.8 million. Pragmatic Pool Solutions uses a figure of $4.3 million.

Bridgett Baron, Jack Davidson, Amanda Massie, and Monica Sheehan are members of OPRF Pragmatic Pool Solutions (D200VoteNO@gmail.com).

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Please vote Yes for OPRF performing arts space As a senior at OPRF High School, I understand that the changes at OPRF are not going to affect me directly, but I still support the Vote Yes D200 Referendum because it will impact future generations of OPRF students for the better. Vote Yes does not only help the swimming program and swimming PE classes but it will help the performing arts, as well as a new gym for adaptive PE for the special needs kids, as well as updating locker room space and interactive learning classrooms.

It is very important to get this referendum

passed now as there is a huge growth of kids in the performing arts. Personally, I experience every day the lack of space for theater rehearsals — oftentimes we are practicing in the hallway where kids are walking, talking, and socializing, which is very distracting and not conducive to the process of learning our parts.

Our school is so lucky to have an amazing performing arts program, but as more and more kids join in, there is less and less space. We don’t want to turn kids away from these programs but provide them the space

to thrive in the programs that make them comfortable and engaged in something that interests them.

Our marching band, show choir, concert bands, orchestra ensembles, choir programs, and dance groups are some of the best in the state, as evidenced by the numerous awards each of the ensembles and ensemble members have won over the last several years.

I was very fortunate to be part of the cast of Little Shop of Horrors last January at the Illinois High School Theatre Fest at Illinois State University. Our two performances

were completely sold out and we were the talk of the fest — comments such as, “You guys should be on Broadway,” were heard by us all. We were so thrilled to be representing our community in front of 4,000 students and teachers from across the state.

A top-notch performing arts program deserves the best we can provide, not just for us, but for generations to come. Please Vote Yes on Nov. 8 and help us to look forward and always be “Those things that are best.”

Patti Meadors

OPRF High School senior

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hen I first moved to Oak Park almost four years ago, I thought I was moving to my version of paradise. But I soon realized my assessment was premature. Student discipline and achievement disparities between white and black students at the high school are stark and pervasive, and as the adoring mother of a biracial son, it worries me. I used to think that OPRF High School’s Board of Education should spend more time discussing those issues — and not some facilities plan — because that has nothing to do with issues of equity.

Or does it?

The high school has not had a major infrastructure improvement since 1967 — since before this community made a deliberate commitment to integration when African Americans started moving here in significant numbers. Many of the things we most love about Oak Park stem from policies implemented in the ’60s and early ’70s to prevent “white flight” as black families moved here from the West Side.

Those visionary Oak Parkers worked diligently to make us the vibrant, progressive community we are today.

They enacted a fair housing ordinance, adopted a diversity statement, stopped displaying for-sale signs, and founded the Oak Park Regional Housing Center to safeguard our integration.

It is a privilege to be a part of this incredible place. But it comes with a reciprocal obligation.

The suggestion that upgrading performing arts, classrooms, and aquatics come instead of addressing race issues is a false dichotomy. It is not an either/or proposition. We don’t heal

our broken leg instead of attending college or repair our leaking roof instead of mowing our lawn. Without a commitment to improving the spaces for all our children, we are lying when we say we are interested in equity, integration, and educational excellence.

The world has changed considerably over the last century. The sexes are no longer segregated, teaching no longer means lecturing, and we acknowledge that separate is not equal. We appreciate all of the gifts our children have, whether it be their artistic ability, intellect, or athletic prowess, and they deserve a safe and adequate facility in which to nurture them.

Sound infrastructure is not a sexy topic but is vitally important for our community’s continued vibrancy and success. This is even more true for our high school because it is our community’s greatest asset and has the most important of functions — educating our children and anchoring our economic vitality. The quality of our schools is what attracts new residents and the promise of maintaining that quality is our brand.

We don’t need a stopgap solution — we need one that is forward thinking and anticipates future needs.

We have been frugal in the stewardship of our resources for decades; the pools were built almost a hundred years ago, and our last infrastructure improvement was almost 50 years ago.

I will be voting “yes” for the referendum because this facilities plan is the best use of our tax dollars and treats all of our students as equally deserving.

Sara Spivy Dixon is a member of the District 200 school board.

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Opportunities to get better informed before Nov. 8 I’d like to thank the League of Women Voters for the recent opportunity to make a presentation about the OPRF Facilities Plan and Referendum. It was an engaging and hopefully helpful evening [Sept. 28].

As a board, we have moved from the analysis and deliberation necessary to make our decision to now doing our best to clearly communicate the information necessary for the community to make an informed decision.

Our presentation goes a long way in doing that, and we are continuing to develop responses to important questions being raised about the facilities plan and its costs.

I encourage community members to attend one of our upcoming public meetings at the high school, 201 N. Scoville Ave., to see the

presentation and have your questions answered.

Monday, Oct. 17, tours, 6:30 and 8:30 p.m., 7:30 (presentation) Thursday, Oct. 20, tours of facilities, 6:30 and 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 22, facility tours, 2 and 3 p.m.

Sunday, Oct. 23, facility tours, 2 and 3 p.m.

If you can’t make it, the presentation slides are also available at www.facilities.oprfhs. org, along with updated information.

Thanks to the entire community for your thoughtful consideration of the referendum question and your participation in public meetings.

Jeff Weissglass

Board president, District 200

We should get a choice Although the board denies it (gonna take my ball and go home attitude), there are really choices as regards the pool issue. They are both being discussed in Wednesday Journal. Let the taxpayers decide; it’s their money!

Instead of Yes or No, let’s vote on A or B, and it will be settled.

Enough already!

Rick Klaus

Oak Park Editor’s note: Though many might prefer a multiple-choice referendum, they aren’t set up that way. Voters have one option and two possible votes, Yes or No.

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s this election year unfolds, I recall a time in 1939 when I was 6 years old. Stalin’s Russia and Nazi Germany signed a non-aggression pact, dividing Eastern Europe among themselves. Germany expanded into Sudetenland and Czechoslovakia, to gain “Lebensraum” (space for living). Russians chose to occupy the Baltic States of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia to increase their count of nations in the Soviet Union.

The pact co-signers arranged a short period of time for the German nationals to repatriate to Germany before the Russians swooped in to occupy the Baltic States. I remember seeing the Russian troops moving around the countryside making their presence felt.

Russians announced to the world that the Baltic States voluntarily chose to join the Soviet Union. To give credibility to their claim, a referendum to validate the inclusion of the Baltic States into Soviet Union was staged. Voting was mandatory and approval of the referendum was “strongly recommended.”

On Election Day, local officials of the

Communist government, accompanied

by Russian troops, escorted people to the polling places. Late in the day, the armed escorts came to our farm and mandated that my parents fulfill their civic obligation. Everybody knew they were expected to vote “yes.”

Although my parents were reluctant to participate, they did not resist the armed escort. My mother asked the “people’s organizer,” “What if I don’t agree with the proposition?” In a nasty, curt manner that man said, “Vote no, if you dare.” The implication was clear. Each ballot would be counted and examined for compliance. Dissenters would suffer retributions.

As expected, the Russians got the results they wanted. They announced to the world that the people of the Baltic States had chosen to join the Soviet Union. That was the beginning of a three-year occupation by the Russians and the process of denationalizing the occupied region. Individuals and families of political and social prominence and influence were arrested and charged with being subversive. They

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were packed into railroad box cars and deported to a Siberian gulag.

During the long occupation, deportations continued. Many of my relatives and their families fell victims. They were never released. They never returned. They disappeared as if they ceased to exist.

Virtually everyone in the country awaited the dreaded moment when a truck with Russian soldiers would arrive at their door at dawn.

As a young child living through the years of Russian occupation, I had my view of elections skewed. It seemed to me that elections were not about peoples’ will or choices. Rather, elections were a license for an oppressive government to exploit, manipulate and eliminate people at their will.

Today, I am an immigrant and a proud naturalized citizen of the United States.

Today, I rejoice in the freedom of choices in our electoral process. I rejoice, especially in having no fear of being urged to vote at gunpoint or of being relocated to a “gulag” for how I vote.

But with each election, the memory of 1939 still haunts me.

Fred Natkevi is a longtime Oak Park resident.

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Patrick Reith, 66, Oak Park resident, Vietnam veteran

Patrick J. Reith, 66, a resident of Oak Park for 53 years, died on Oct. 6, 2016 at Hinsdale Hospital. Born on Dec. 25, 1949 in Jackson, Michigan, to the late Malcom and Betty Homsher Reith, he graduated from Oak Park and River Forest High School and Bradley University. After graduation, he served with the U.S. Navy in Vietnam and later worked for the Chicago Tribune as a distribution manager.

Patrick Reith is survived by his siblings, Carol (the late John) Bishop and Brian; and his many nieces and nephews.

A memorial visitation will be held on Saturday, Oct. 15 from 11 a.m. until the service at 2 p.m. at Drechsler, Brown & Williams Funeral Home, 203 S. Marion St. in Oak Park.

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Member of Chicago’s Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame Marie Kuda, 76, a longtime resident of Oak Park, died on Oct. 1 from heart failure.

She became known as the unofficial historian of Chicago’s LGBT community, according to her Oct. 4 obituary in the Chicago Sun-Times. In 1991, she was inducted into the first class of Chicago’s Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame. Much of her archive, according to the Sun-Times, ended up in Indiana University’s Kinsey Institute for human sexuality.

Marie Kuda is survived by her companion, Marilyn Blackman, and her friend and former partner, Shirley Rissmann.

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Lutheran—ELCA

United Lutheran Church 1 5LGJHODQG *UHHQ¿ HOG Oak Park Holy Communion with nursery care and Children’s Chapel each Sunday at 9:30 a.m.

Dennis Bushkofsky, Pastor Handicapped Accessible www.unitedlutheranchurch.org 708/386-1576 Lutheran-Independent

Grace Lutheran Church

7300 W. Division, River Forest David R. Lyle, Senior Pastor Phyllis N. Kersten Interim Associate Pastor Sunday Worship, 8:30 & 11:00 a.m.

Sunday School/Adult Ed. 9:45 a.m.

Childcare Available

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

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

Roman Catholic

St. Bernardine Catholic Church Harrison & Elgin, Forest Park

CELEBRATING OUR 105TH YEAR! Sat. Masses: 8:30am & 5:00pm SUNDAY MASSES: 8:00am & 10:30am 10:30 Mass-Daycare for all ages CCD Sun. 9am-10:15am Reconciliation: Sat. 9am & 4pm Weekday Masses: Monday–Friday 6:30am Church Office: 708-366-0839 CCD: 708-366-3553 www.stbern.com Pastor: Fr. Stanislaw Kuca Traditional Catholic

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

The Traditional Catholic Latin Mass

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

Third Unitarian Church 11am Service: “Celebration of Life� thirdunitarianchurch.org (773) 626-9385 301 N. Mayfield near Austin and Lake

Grace Lutheran School

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

Christ Lutheran Church

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

St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church

305 Circle Ave, Forest Park Sunday Worship, 8:30 am and 11:00 am Adult Bible Class, 10:00am Wheelchair Access to Sanctuary Leonard Payton, Pastor Roney Riley, Assistant Pastor 708-366-3226 | www.stjohnforestpark.org

808 S. East Ave. 708/848-2703 www.ascensionoakpark.com Worship: Saturday Mass 5:00 pm Sunday Masses 7:30, 9:00, 11 am, 5:00 pm Sacrament of Reconciliation 4 pm Saturday Taize Prayer 7:30 pm First Fridays Feb.– Dec. & Jan. 1 Holy Hour 6:00 pm Third Thursdays

Rev. James Hurlbert, Pastor

Roman Catholic

St. Edmund Catholic Church

188 South Oak Park Ave. Saturday Masses: 8:30 a.m. & 5:30 p.m.

Sunday Masses: 9:00 & 11:00 a.m.

Weekday Mass: 8:30 a.m.

Holy Day Masses: As Announced Reconciliation: Saturday 4:15 p.m.

Parish Office: 708-848-4417 School Phone: 708-386-5131

Unity

UNITY CHURCH OF OAK PARK 405 North Euclid Ave.

Forgiveness brings personal freedom and true joy.

Sunday Services 9 am & 11 am Youth Education 11 am 708-848-0960 — unityoakpark.org

Upcoming Religious Holidays Oct. 12 Ashura Islam Yom Kippur Jewish 17-23 Sukkot Jewish 18 St. Luke, Apostle & Evangelist Christian 20 Birth of the Båb * Baha’i Installation of Scriptures as Guru Granth Sikh

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BY PHONE: (708) 613-3333 | BY FAX: (708) 524-0447 | BY E-MAIL: CLASSIFIEDS@OAKPARK.COM | CLASSIFIEDS@RIVERFOREST.COM HELP WANTED BUILDING & GROUNDS MANAGER Hephzibah Children’s Association in Oak Park is accepting applications for a full-time Building and Grounds Manager to be responsible for the maintenance, repair, cleanliness and upkeep of the building, leased properties, mechanical and electrical systems and grounds in compliance with state, local and federal guidelines. Qualified candidates will meet the following requirements: -Ability to develop and maintain maintenance schedules -Skilled in plumbing, carpentry, heating/air conditioning, painting, repair and maintenance.

-Familiarity with contractors, suppliers, machinery and building operations.

-Knowledge of and adherence to safety and security requirements as well as OSHA and state and local codes and regulations pertaining to building, grounds, machinery and equipment.

-Supervisory experience.

-Ability to work cooperatively with staff and oversight agencies and be flexible to the changing needs of the agency.

-Ability to perform the physical requirements of cleaning, lifting, carrying, bending, kneeling, standing, reaching, pulling and pushing. Microsoft Office skills.

Contact: MJJoyce, Human Resources at mjjoyce@hephzibahhome.org. Equal Opportunity Employer Director, Mining sought by Uptake Technologies, Inc in Chicago, IL to dvlp & lead biz strategy in our mining vertical to help mining cmpnys solve their most dfclt biz chllngs.

Requires travel as needed to meet w/ clients. For full job description & to apply, visit www.jobpostingtoday.com, ref #41502 DRIVE WITH UBER Drive with Uber. No experience is required, but you’ll need a Smartphone. It’s fun and easy. For more information, call: 1-800-4040815 ELECTRICIAN’S HELPER PART-TIME Part-time Electrician’s Helper. Some experience required. Must have own transportation and some tools.

Call 708-738-3848.

EXPERIENCED CAREGIVERS Compassionate caregivers needed to service our Clients in the West Suburbs. Live-ins or hourly. One year paid experience preferred. www.cantata.org or 708-4855674. We also accept walk-ins.

Cantata Adult Life Services 8700 West 31st St. Brookfield, IL PART TIME SALES ASSOCIATE Part Time Sales Associate to work in the Gift Shop at West Suburban Medical Center. Must have previous retail experience. Email resume to: sjakobsen@sbcglobal.net SALES MANAGER AMKO International, Inc. seeks a Sales Manager. Mail resume to: 911 N Hilltop Dr, Itasca, IL

SUBURBAN REAL ESTATE

SUBURBAN RENTALS

SUBURBAN RENTALS

Another Award Winning Home by Local Developer

OAK PARK 3BR Oak Park–3 Bedrooms, LR, DR, hardwood floors, tile bath, heat included. $1,450 + 1 mo security.

Call 708-717-3975

OAK PARK FOREST PARK Studio, 1, and 2 BDRM. Heated.

Dining room. Parking available.

Walk to El. $625-$1250.

OAK PARK COACH HOUSE Oak Park 1bdrm Coach House: all wood floors, 15 windows, new kitchen & bath, in-unit laundry, heated garage + extra space, 10 min walk to CTA Green Line, dog/cat–negotiable. Available 10/1/16. $1,600/ mo + gas/electric; 1 mnth deposit.

PRIVATE-QUAINT-SAFE. Contact Ken at: cozetteken@yahoo.com; 630 660-5293

RIVER FOREST LARGE 1BR Hardwood floors throughout.

Spacious walk-in closets. Storage.

Parking. Laundry in building. $800/ mo.

Call 708-657-4226.

137 DesPlaines Forest Park Four Plus Bedrooms, 3 1/2 Baths $665,000 with Side Lot

Contact Susan at J P Props 312-560-9464 )

HISTORIC MAYWOOD MANOR

902 S. 3RD AVENUE (behind Aldi) Tired of renting? Why not consider buying an affordable 2BR condo w/ 1000 sq ft of living space on this historic site at less than market rents?

Savings are built in from a unique 12 year tax freeze plus lower utility costs from energy saving systems and appliances. Onsite pkg, exterior lighting and enhanced security systems included. Be among the first to benefit from this unique project in which the buyer can have input into the individual unit(s).

Call 708-383-9223.

5 BEDROOM HOME NEAR REHM Beautifully remodeled 5 bed/ 2 full bath home in south Oak Park is just two blocks from Rehm Park.

Remodeled kitchen has granite counter tops and all new stainless steel appliances with both a large attached breakfast area and a family room. Additionally, the kitchen opens to a separate dining room at the other end, leading to spacious front room. New HVAC & Roof.

Call 708-261-3028.

SUBURBAN RENTALS FOREST PARK 2BR apt $1100/mo. in a smaller, quiet building. Front apt with 2 exposures. Updated with fresh paint.

Very clean. No smoking. No pets.

Credit check and 1 1/2 mos. security deposit required.

Call 708-404-2865.

OAK PARK 1 BR 1 Bedroom, LR, DR, hardwood floors, tile bath, heat included. $875 + 1 mo security. Call 708-717-3975.

Oak Park

1 BR CONDO 1001 N HARLEM Completely remodeled 1 BR. Hardwood floors throughout.

Laundry on site. $995/mo + security. Assigned parking space $50/ mo xtra.

708-870-0266

OAK PARK Roosevelt Rd/Oak Park Ave Corridor 2 BR, 4RMS. Close to blue line.

Laundry on site. Parking, Heat & Water Included. $1150/month.

Call (708)383-9223

SUBURBAN RENTALS

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CITY RENTALS Augusta & Kildare: PERFECT FOR SENIORS A gorgeous studio apt. features include kitchen, dining room, large living room, walk-in closet, hardwood floors, incl. heat, appliances, and laundry room, in a beautifully landscaped & well maintained building, quiet, safe & secure, rent 585.00. For more information call 773-838-8471.

SUBURBAN RENTALS

GLA PROPERTY MANAGEMENT, INC. LaVerne Collins Managing broker

Office located at: 320 S. Wisconsin Ave. Oak Park

708-763-9927 www.glapropertymanagement.com

Properties may be broker owned.

Call us for a complete list of rentals available.

ROOMS FOR RENT AUSTIN CLEAN ROOM With fridge, micro.

Nr Oak Park, Super Walmart, Food 4 Less, bus, & Metra. $116/wk and up.

773-637-5957 Large Sunny Room with fridge & microwave. Near Green line, bus, Oak Park, 24 hour desk, parking lot. $101.00 week & up. New Mgmt.

773-378-8888

CHURCH FOR RENT BEAUTIFUL CHURCH FOR RENT

in OAK PARK. Perfect for a congregation.

Other potential uses. Corner of Scoville & Adams. rentalinquiry542@gmail.com 708-848-5460

SPACE FOR RENT

M&M property management, inc.

t XXX NNQSPQNHU DPN 649 Madison Street, Oak Park Oak Park: Studios, 1 & 2 BR from $650-$2000 Forest Park: 1 & 2 BR from $725-$1,000

Apartment listings updated daily at:

OAK PARK SPACE Suitable for not-for-profit. Varied uses possible such as school, office spaces, community services center, clinic, etc. Please call 312-810-5948

OFFICE SPACE FOR RENT * RIVER FOREST 7777 Lake St. - 3 & 4 room suites * RIVER FOREST 7756 Madison St. - STORE 926 sq. ft.

Find your new apartment this Saturday from 10 am – 4pm at 35 Chicago Avenue.

Or call us toll free at 1-888-328-8457 for an appointment.

* OAK PARK 6955 North Ave. - 3 & 6 room office suites $675 to $1200 * OAK PARK 6142-44 Roosevelt Rd. - 4 & 5 room office suites * OAK PARK 115 N. Marion St. - 2 room office $573

Strand & Browne 708/488-0011

WANTED PARKING SPACE GARAGE PARKING SPACE WANTED

Near Madison & Marengo. Contact johnson312k@gmail.com

RUMMAGE SALES Brookfield

ST. PAUL LUTHERAN SCHOOL RUMMAGE SALE! 9035 GRANT AVE FRI. 10/14 9AM-6PM SAT. 10/15 9AM-12PM

$5.00 Bag Sale on Saturday Clothing, household items, furniture, toys, books, misc.

GARAGE/YARD SALES Brookfield

4 FAMILY YARD SALE 3708 MADISON ST SAT 10/15 & SUN 10/16 9AM TO 5PM

Tools; Kitchen/Cleaning items; Clothing; Toys; Xmas and More!

Chicago

HOME & GARAGE SALE 2055 N NEWLAND SATURDAY 10/15 8:30AM TO 1:30PM

Furniture; Household; Holiday; Collectibles and Much More!!

Forest Park

3 FAMILY GARAGE SALE 1404 CIRCLE AVE FRI 10/14 & SAT 10/15 8AM TO 3PM

Don’t miss it!

Forest Park

GARAGE SALE 621 ELGIN AVE. SAT 10/15 8:30AM TO 2PM

Hundreds of DVDs; Collector Barbies; Collector plates &glass; Dresser; Lamps; Disney Vinylmations; Christmas ornaments and Much More!!

Forest Park

MULTI FAMILY YARD SALE 1039 HANNAH FRI 10/14 11AM TO 5PM SAT 10/14 8AM TO 1PM

SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE! Lots of household items; Linens; Ladies’ shoes & accessories; Tons of Halloween, Fall & Christmas items. Everything you need for the Holidays and Much More!

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Find the best employees with Wednesday Classified! Call 708-613-3342

GARAGE/YARD SALES North Riverside

GARAGE SALE 2500 KEYSTONE SAT 10/15 9AM TO 1PM

Retro glass tables; Vintage barber chair; Antique Dining Room set; Clothes and More!!

Oak Park

GARAGE SALE 323 S SCOVILLE FRI 10/14 & SAT 10/15 8AM TO 12PM

Lots of boys clothes 12,14,16, AE, J.Crew, gap; Books, sporting goods, toys household items. Women’s and men’s clothes too.

Oak Park

ECLECTIC GARAGE SALE 1174 S GROVE SAT 10/15 9AM TO 2PM

Women’s clothes & dresses, women’s shoes, rock & metal tshirts, men’s suit jackets & shirts, Atari games, hard to find Playstation 1&2 games, electronics, 90s comicbooks, squatty potty, 70L hiking backpack, 90s TMNT action figures, etc. Most everything in good-excellent condition.

Riverside

GARAGE SALE 110 MICHAUX RD SAT 10/15 9AM TO 4PM

Karaoke Machine, Nintendo DS, XBOX KINECT, Games,Movies, Cameras, Clothing, Bedding Bath, Designer Multi-purpose Fabric Remnants, Baseball Cards, Halloween Costumes, Household Items, Antique Irons, Italian Hand Painted Pottery, Victorian Bohemian Vases, Coach Purses, Hannah Andersson Clothes for girls.

Riverside

GARAGE SALE 522 UVEDALE ROAD FRI 10/14 8:30AM TO 2PM

Large items, Bunk Beds, Couch and Love seat, Dining room table and chairs. Desks and book shelves, Clothes and Household items.

Whole House moving sale.

ITEMS FOR SALE TOOLS FOR SALE

Maintenance Repair Man Retiring.

Liquidating tools, carpentry, plumbing, electric supplies, machine shop tools and much misc. By appointment only.

Call Greg @ 630-253-5248.

WANTED TO BUY WANTED MILITARY ITEMS: Helmets, medals, patches, uniforms, weapons, flags, photos, paperwork, Also toy soldiers-lead plastic-other misc. toys. Call Uncle Gary 708-522-3400

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CLASSIFIED FURNITURE LIKE NEW! From a smoke free home: Leather Couch–$200 obo; 2pc light oak wood entertainment center w/ glass doors–$300 obo; 2 glass end tables (match ent. cntr)– $70 obo for both plus matching cocktail table base for FREE. Call 708-340-4972.

AUTOS FOR SALE TOYOTA COROLLA 2007 Super Clean, Garage kept Toyota LE model w/Power Windows, Doors, Mirrors, Auto Trans, 6 CD player. Big plus and rare to have a Moonroof on this model! Custom Weather Tech liners. 110K miles, many years left on this baby. White w/tan interior. $5900 OBO. Call to see 708-205-9680.

HEALTH BOLSEN CLINIC For all your Medical needs including: High Blood Pressure, Diabetes, Colds, Infections, Asthma, Physical Exams and more Hours 9 am–5 pm (Mon–Fri) 9 am–12 noon (Sat) 6429 W. North Ave., Suite 106 Oak Park, Illinois 60302 708-763-8334

GUARANTEED ACUPUNCTURE Have you’ve ever wondered if acupuncture could help you heal but didn’t want to invest the money to find out? Well here’s your chance to find out RISK FREE! For 15 years Art of Natural Healing has been successfully treating conditions, such as–high blood pressure–weight loss–infertility–depression–chronic pain–sleep disorders and more, without toxic medications.

Let us help you naturally!

Mention this ad and receive a FREE AcuGraph evaluation during the month of Oct. Art of Natural Healing 7773 Lake Street River Forest 708.366.8002

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773-732-2263

Public notice is hereby given that a Public Hearing will be held by the Development Review Board of the Village of River Forest, County of Cook, State of Illinois, on Thursday, October 27, 2016 at 7:30 p.m. in the Community Room of the River Forest Village Hall, 400 Park Avenue, River Forest, Illinois on the following matter:

Roofing Repairs Concrete Repairs • Drywall All types of handiwork Call For Free Estimates Ask for John

Electricians serving the greater Oak Park area. Licensed, Bonded & Insured–Reasonable Pricing & Free Estimates. Kinetic’s proud to say you have never experienced service like this! 15 years experience and dedication.

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FIREPLACES/ FIREWOOD

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Mixed hardwoods • $130 F.C. CBh & Mix • $145 F.C. 100% oak • $165 F.C. Cherry or hiCkory • $185 F.C. 100% BirCh • $220 F.C. Seasoned 2 years Stacking Available

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HAULING

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BASEMENT CLEANING

Electric Door Openers

Appliances & Furniture Removal Pickup & Delivery. 708-848-9404

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LANDSCAPING

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Serving Oak Park, River Forest, Forest Park & Riverside Since 1974

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STATE OF ILLINOIS) COUNTY OF COOK )ss Circuit Court of Cook County, County Department, Domestic Relations Division.

In re the marriage of Yeimi Ordonez, Petitioner and Brian Reyes, Respondent, Case No. 2016D-000175.

The requisite affidavit for publication having been filed, notice is hereby given to you, the above named Respondent, that a Petition has been filed in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, by the Petitioner, for Dissolution of Marriage and for other relief; and that said suit is now pending.

Now, therefore, unless you, the said Respondent, file your response to said Petition or otherwise make your appearance therein, in the Office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, Room 802, Richard J. Daley Center, 50 West Washington Street, in the City of Chicago, Illinois, on or before November 15, 2016, default may be entered against you at any time after that day, and a judgment for Dissolution of Marriage entered in accordance with the prayer of said Petition.

DOROTHY A. BROWN, Clerk.

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Application # 16-03: Amendment to Planned Development Ordinance #3588. The Applicant proposes to modify the exterior building materials and building height of the multipurpose hall and supporting spaces at St. Vincent Ferrer Church at 1530 Jackson Avenue, River Forest, Illinois 60305, located on the south side of North Avenue between Jackson Avenue and Lathrop Avenue.

The Legal Description of the property is as follows: BLOCKS TWO (2) AND THREE (3) IN WILLIAM H. BECKMANâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S SUBDIVISION OF THE WEST HALF (W1/2) OF THE WEST HALF (W1/ 2) OF THE NORTH EAST QUARTER (N E 1/4) OF SECTION ONE (1), TOWNSHIP THIRTY-NINE (39) NORTH, RANGE TWELVE (12), EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN. The applicant is: St. Vincent Ferrerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Literary Society d/b/a St. Vincent Ferrer, 1530 Jackson Avenue, River Forest, Illinois 60305.

All interested persons will be given the opportunity to be heard at the public hearing, the purpose of which is to take evidence on the Application for the Development Review Board and Village Board to consider. A copy of the application and meeting agenda will be available to the public at the Village Hall, 400 Park Avenue, River Forest, or at www.vrf.us.

Clifford Radatz Secretary Development Review Board Published in Wednesday Journal 10/12/2016

PUBLIC NOTICE Notice is hereby given, pursuant to â&#x20AC;&#x153;An Act in relation to the use of an Assumed Business Name in the conduct or transaction of Business in the State,â&#x20AC;? as amended, that a certification was filed by the undersigned with the County Clerk of Cook County FILE NO. D16148089 on September 14, 2016. Under the Assumed Business Name of Mâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;DIOR HAIR & MAKEUP ARTISTRY with the business located at: 7001 W. NORTH AVENUE SUITE 203, OAK PARK, IL 60302. The true name(s) and residence address of the owner(s) is: CHNIKI MONIQUE THOMAS, 1134 HANNAH AVENUE FOREST PARK, IL 60130.

Published in Wednesday Journal 9/28, 10/5, 10/12/2016

PUBLIC NOTICE Notice is hereby given, pursuant to â&#x20AC;&#x153;An Act in relation to the use of an Assumed Business Name in the conduct or transaction of Business in the State,â&#x20AC;? as amended, that a certification was filed by the undersigned with the County Clerk of Cook County. FILE NO. D16148061 on September 14,2016 Under the Assumed Business Name of LUXE HOME PHOTOS with the business located at: 36B MARENGO AVENUE, FOREST PARK, IL 60130. The true and real full name(s) and residence address of the owner(s)/ partner(s) is: CHARLES SCHUMACHER 36B MARENGO AVENUE FOREST PARK, IL 60130 Published in Forest Park Review 9/28, 10/5, 10/12/2016

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Village of River Forest Development Review Board River Forest, Illinois

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLNOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT, PROBATE DIVISION Estate of SANTA B. DIMARCO, Deceased No. 2016 P4662 That the Petition For Probate of Will and for Letters Testamentary In the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois was granted on July 27, 2016 for the Estate of Santa B. DiMarco, Deceased and that Joseph R. Ender was appointed as the Executor and letters of office have issued and states under the penalties of perjury that:

STATE OF ILLINOIS COUNTY OF DUPAGE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE EIGHTEENTH JUDICAL CIRCUIT IN RE THE ESTATE OF ELIZABETH M. FENCL Deceased Case Number 2015-000141 PETITION FOR LETTERS OF INDEPENDENT ADMINISTRATION That the Petition for Letters of Independent Adminstration in the Circuit Court of the Eighteenth Judicial Circuit was filed on April 7, 2015 for the Estate of Elizabeth M. Fencl and that the undersigned, on oath states:

Application # 16-04: Amendment to Planned Development Ordinance #3588. The applicant proposes to increase the height of the buildings at 7820 Madison Street (Hines), River Forest Illinois.

The Legal Description of the property is as follows: LOT 17 (EXCEPT THE NORTH 36 FEET THEREOF) AND LOT 20 IN SAMUEL WATTS SR. SUBDIVISION OF THE EAST HALF OF THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF SECTION 12, TOWNSHIP 39 NORTH, RANGE 12, EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, (EXCEPT THE EAST 50 FEET THEREOF AND EXCEPT THE RIGHT OF WAY OF THE CHICAGO AND WISCONSIN RAILWAY) IN COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS. AND THAT PART OF THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF SECTION 12, TOWNSHIP 39 NORTH, RANGE 12, EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, LYING EASTERLY OF THE EASTERLY LINE OF LOTS 17 AND 20 AND LYING WESTERLY OF A LINE 25 FEET EASTERLY OF THE EASTERLY LINES OF SAID LOTS 17 AND 20, AS MEASURED PERPENDICULAR AND RADIAL THERETO, SAID LOTS 17 AND 20 BEING IN SAMUEL WATTS, SR. SUBDIVISION OF THE EAST HALF OF THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF SECTION 12, TOWNSHIP 39 NORTH RANGE 12, EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED APRIL 2, 1910 AS DOCUMENT 4533770, AND LYING SOUTH OF THE NORTH LINE OF SAID LOT 17, EXTENDED EAST AND LYING NORTH OF THE SOUTH LINE OF SAID LOT 20, EXTENDED EAST, IN COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS. The address of the property is as follows: 7820 W. Madison Street, River Forest, IL 60305.

The applicant is: Interforum Holdings, Inc., 550 East Frontage Road, Northfield, Illinois 60093.

Clifford Radatz Secretary Development Review Board Published in Wednesday Journal 10/2/2016

Petitioner asks that the will be admitted to probate and that letters testamentary issue.

Atty Name: Matt Leuck Attorney for Petitioner 84 E. Burlington, 2W Riverside, IL 60546 708-447-3166 Atty No. 11017 Published in Landmark 10/5, 10/12, 10/19/2016

PUBLIC NOTICE Notice is hereby given, pursuant to “An Act in relation to the use of an Assumed Business Name in the conduct or transaction of Business in the State,” as amended, that a certification was filed by the undersigned with the County Clerk of Cook County. Registration Number: D16148295 on September 30, 2016.

Under the Assumed Business Name of BARBARA JEAN COUTURE with the business located at: 129 MARSHALL AVE, BELLWOOD, IL 60104. The true and full real name(s)and residence address of the owner(s)/partner(s) is: BARBARA DAVIS 129 MARSHALL AVE BELLLWOOD, IL 60104 Published in Wednesday Journal 10/5, 10/12, 10/19/2016

PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a public hearing will be held by the Community Design Commission, acting as the Design Review Commission, of the Village of Oak Park on Wednesday evening, October 26, 2016 at 7:15 p.m. in Room 101 of the Village Hall, 123 Madison St., Oak Park, Illinois on the following matter: Cal. No. 04-16-DRC: 921 N. Kenilworth Avenue, Chuck Colegrove

Petitioner: WENDY FENCL 6107 WESTERN AVE WILLOWBROOK, IL 60052

DATED AT OAK PARK, ILLINOIS, this 12th Day of October, 2016

MATT J LEUCK DuPage Attorney Number 48518 Attorney for: PETITIONER WENDY FENCL 84 E BURLINGTON RD RIVERSIDE IL 60546 708-447-3166 If a consul or consular agent is to be notified, name country: _______________ Published in Landmark 10/5, 10/12, 10/19/2016

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All interested persons will be given the opportunity to be heard at the public hearing, the purpose of which is to take evidence on the Application for the Development Review Board and Village Board to consider. A copy of the application and meeting agenda will be available to the public at the Village Hall, 400 Park Avenue, River Forest, or at www.vrf.us.

1. Santa B. Dimarco, whose place of residence at the time of death was 1209 Austin Blvd, Cicero, Cook, Illinois died April 24 2016, at Cicero, Illinois leaving a will dated October 1, 2004.

2. The approximate value of the estate in this state is: Personal $400,000, Real: $100,000, Annual Income from Real Estate $0.

3. The names and post office addresses pf the testator’s heirs and legatees are set forth on Exhibit A made a part of this petition.

4. The testator nominated as executor of the following, qualified and willing to act: Joseph R. Ender 4010 S. California Ave, Chicago, IL 60632.

5. The name and post office address of the personal fiduciary designated to act during independent administration for each heir or legatee who is a minor or disabled person are shown on Exhibit A, a part of this petition.

6. This ad also requests that any unknown heirs make themselves known to the attorney herein.

7. This ad will serve as a notice to creditors that they have 6 months from the date of filing of this petition to submit their claims.

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1. The decedent, whose place of residence at the time of death was 5904 WESTERN AVE, WILLOWBROOK, IL 60527 died on 12/2/ 2014 atÿDOWNERS GROVE, leaving no Will.

2. The approximate value of the estate in this state is: Personal $500 Real $210,000 Annual Income From Real Estate $0 3. The names and addresses of decedent’s heirs are: Meribeth Fencl, Robert C Fencl Jennifer M Richardson, Francis M. Fencl, Wendy Fencl 4. The decedent nominated the following to act in the office indicated above: WENDY FENCL 6107 WESTERN AVE, WILLOWBROOK IL 60052 5.Petitioner is a DAUGHTER of decedent and is legally qualified to act or nominate a resident of Illinois to act). Petitioner asks that letters administration be issued.

6.*If so indicated above, the Petitioner requests independent adminstration. The name and address of the personal fiduciary designated to act during independent administration for each heir, who is a minor or disabled person, are shown on Exhibit A attached and made part of this petition.

7. This ad also requests that any unknown heirs make themselves known to the attorney herein.

8. This ad will serve as a notice to creditors that they have 6 months from the date of filing of this petition to submit their claims

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Public notice is hereby given that a Public Hearing will be held by the Development Review Board of the Village of River Forest, County of Cook, State of Illinois, on Thursday, October 27, 2016 at 7:30 p.m. in the Community Room of the River Forest Village Hall, 400 Park Avenue, River Forest, Illinois on the following matter:

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Chuck Colegrove, on behalf of Free Church, is requesting that variations be granted from the following section of the Sign Code of the Village of Oak Park, to permit the installation of a 13 foot tall by 2.25 foot wide temporary pole sign (Welcome Banner) intended to help quests find the proper entrance to Mann School for Sunday morning services between 8:30 am and 11:30 am, where temporary pole signs are limited to six (6) feet in height and are limited to a certain number of display days at the premises commonly known as 921 N. Kenilworth Avenue, Oak Park, IL.; 1. Section 7.7.13 (B) (3) (b), which section requires that pole signs are limited to six (6) feet in height; and 2. Section 7.7.13 (B) (3) (C), which section requires that temporary pole signs must be setback ten (10) feet from any property line; and 3. Section 7.7.13 (B) (3) (d), which section requires that temporary pole signs may be erected on a zoning lot no more than four (4) times in a year.

All papers in connection with the above matter are on file at the Village of Oak Park and available for examination by interested parties by contacting the Zoning Administrator at 708.358.5449.

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PUBLIC NOTICE Notice is hereby given, pursuant to “An Act in relation to the use of an Assumed Business Name in the conduct or transaction of Business in the State,” as amended, that a certification was registered by the undersigned with the County Clerk of Cook County. FILE NO. D16148317 on October 3, 2016.

Under the Assumed Business Name of JONERSON FINACIAL SERVICES with the business located at: P.O. BOX 34706, CHICAGO, IL 60634. The true and real full name(s) and residence address of the owner(s)/partner(s) is: TERESA B JONES, 2919 N MULLIGAN AVE, CHICAGO, IL 60634.

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Published in Wednesday Journal 10/5, 10/12, 10/19/2016

PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE OF AVAILABILITY OF AUDIT REPORT OF RIVERSIDE TOWNSHIP Riverside Township hereby provides public notice that an Audit of its funds for the period April 1, 2015 through March 31, 2016 has been made, and that a report of such audit dated September 19, 2016 performed by Selden Fox, LTD has been filed with the County Clerk of Cook, Illinois, in accordance with 30 ILCS 15/0.01 et seq.

The full report of the audit is available for public inspection at Riverside Township Hall, 27 Riverside Road, Riverside, Illinois, during regular business hours 9:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, except for holidays.

Request of bids for athletic field drainage install at Taylor Park.

Owner: Park District of Oak Park 218 Madison St, Oak Park, IL 60302 The Park District of Oak Park seeks bids related to the installation of vertical drainage pipe system for an athletic field. The Park District of Oak Park will receive individual sealed Bids until 10:00 a.m. (Chicago time) on Monday, December 5th, 2016, at 218 Madison St., Oak Park, Illinois.

The bidding documents and requirements will be available on the Park District’s website as of 5:00 pm Wednesday, October 12th, 2016.

A non-mandatory pre-bid walkthru is scheduled for Wednesday, November 16th at 10am (Chicago time) at Taylor Park 400 Division St., Oak Park, IL 60302. Copies of the bidding specifications are available via the Park District of Oak Park website at: http://www.pdop.org/bids-and-rfps/ For additional information, contact Travis Stephen at travis.stephen@ pdop.org or (708) 725 2054. Only the bids prepared in compliance with the bidding documents will be considered. This project must adhere to the Prevailing Wage Act of 2015. The Park District of Oak Park encourages minority and women owned business firms to submit bids for this project.

Park District of Oak Park By: Sandy Lentz, Secretary Park District of Oak Park 218 Madison St. Oak Park, IL 60302

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REAL ESTATE FOR SALE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION STEARNS LENDING, LLC Plaintiff, vs.

MARITZA MARTINEZ DUARTE; AVENUE SQUARE CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants, 15 CH 3949 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, November 9, 2016 at the hour of 11 a.m. in their office at 120 West Madison Street, Suite 718A, Chicago, Illinois, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described mortgaged real estate: P.I.N. 16-07-117-010-1007.

Commonly known as 805 Erie Street, Unit 1, Oak Park, Illinois 60302.

The mortgaged real estate is improved with a condominium residence. The purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by subdivisions (g) (1) and (g)(4) of Section 9 of the Condominium Property Act Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection.

For information call The Sales Department at Plaintiff’s Attorney, Anselmo Lindberg Oliver LLC, 1771 West Diehl Road, Naperville, Illinois 60563-1890. (630) 453-6960. For Bidding instructions visit www.falillinois.com 24 hours prior to sale.

F15010079 INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING AND JOINT REVIEW BOARD MEETING TO CONSIDER THE DESIGNATION OF THE REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT AREA FOR THE PROPOSED RIVER FOREST MADISON STREET TAX INCREMENT FINANCING DISTRICT AND THE APPROVAL OF A REDEVELOPMENT PLAN AND PROJECT IN RELATION THERETO Notice is hereby given that a public hearing will be held on Monday, October 24, 2016, at 7:00 p.m. at the River Forest Village Hall, First Floor Community Room, 400 Park Avenue, River Forest, Illinois 60305 (the “Public Hearing”), in regard to the proposed designation of a redevelopment project area (the “Redevelopment Project Area”), and the proposed approval of a redevelopment plan and project (the “Redevelopment Plan and Project”) in relation thereto, as updated from the originally proposed redevelopment plan and project to limit the use of eminent domain on certain residential properties within the Redevelopment Project Area, for the proposed River Forest Madison Street Tax Increment Financing District (the “Madison Street TIF District”), pursuant to the provisions of the “Tax Increment Allocation Redevelopment Act,” 65 ILCS 5/11-74.4-1, et seq., as amended (the “TIF Act”).

The boundaries of the Redevelopment Project Area for the proposed Madison Street TIF District are more fully set forth on the legal description attached hereto as Exhibit “1” and made part hereof and the street location map attached hereto as Exhibit “2” and made part hereof.

The proposed Redevelopment Plan and Project provides for land acquisition and assembly, improvements to the public infrastructure within the proposed Redevelopment Project Area and for the Village of River Forest (the “Village”) to implement a set of actions to promote redevelopment within the proposed Redevelopment Project Area. The contemplated Village actions include, but are not limited to: acquisition of property and property interests, except that no eminent domain authority shall be used to take any single family home within the Redevelopment Project Area; site preparation and clearance; demolition; provision of public infrastructure and related public improvements and rehabilitation of structures; interest rate write-downs; job training; the encouragement of redevelopment agreements; assisting in the clean-up of any hazardous waste, hazardous substances or underground storage tanks as required by State or Federal law where these are a material impediment to redevelopment; addressing any flooding problems; and improving opportunities for further development and redevelopment within the Madison Street TIF District. The Village would realize the goals and objectives of the Redevelopment Plan and Project through public finance techniques including, but not limited to, tax increment allocation financing.

Copies of the Eligibility Report, as updated, the Housing Impact Study, as updated, and the Redevelopment Plan and Project, as updated, have been on file with the Village since August 8, 2016, and are currently on file and available for public inspection between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, except holidays, at the office of Eric Palm, Village Administrator for the Village of River Forest, at 400 Park Avenue, River Forest, Illinois 60305. Copies of the Eligibility Report, as updated, the Housing Impact Study, as updated, and the Redevelopment Plan and Project, as updated, are enclosed with the copies of this Notice that are being mailed to the affected taxing districts and the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity.

Eric Palm, Village Administrator for the Village of River Forest may be contacted for further information, at the address above or by telephone at (708) 366-8500.

Pursuant to the TIF Act, the Joint Review Board for the proposed Madison Street TIF District (the “JRB”) is being convened to review the public record, planning documents, Eligibility Report, as updated, Housing Impact Study, as updated, and the proposed ordinances approving the Redevelopment Project Area and the Redevelopment Plan and Project, as updated, for the proposed Madison Street TIF District. Pursuant to the TIF Act, the JRB shall consist of one (1) public member and one (1) representative from each of the following taxing districts: Triton Community College District 504, River Forest Public Schools District 90, Oak Park and River Forest Consolidated High School District 200, the River Forest Park District, the County of Cook, River Forest Township, and the Village of River Forest.

Pursuant to the TIF Act, the meeting of the JRB will be held on Tuesday, September 13, 2016 at 6:00 p.m. at the River Forest Village Hall, First Floor Community Room, 400 Park Avenue, River Forest, Illinois. Those taxing districts with representatives on the JRB are hereby notified of said JRB meeting. The JRB’s recommendation relative to the Redevelopment Project Area and Redevelopment Plan and Project, as updated, for the proposed Madison Street TIF District shall be advisory and non-binding, and shall be adopted by a majority vote of those members of the JRB that are present and voting, and submitted to the Village within thirty (30) days after the first convening of the JRB. Failure of the JRB to submit its report on a timely basis shall not delay the Public Hearing, nor shall it delay any other step in the process of designating the Redevelopment Project Area or approving the Redevelopment Plan and Project, as updated, for the proposed Madison Street TIF District.

Prior to and at the October 24, 2016 Public Hearing, all interested persons, affected taxing districts and the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity may file with the Village Clerk written comments to and may be heard orally with respect to any issues regarding the proposed Redevelopment Project Area and Redevelopment Plan and Project, as updated, for the proposed Madison Street TIF District. Written comments are invited and can be sent in advance of the Public Hearing to the River Forest Village Clerk, 400 Park Avenue, River Forest, Illinois 60305. The Public Hearing may be adjourned by the Village Board without further notice other than a motion to be entered upon the minutes of the Public Hearing, fixing the time and place of the subsequent Public Hearing.

Mailed and Published by order of the Corporate Authorities of the Village of River Forest, Cook County, Illinois Sharon Halperin, Village Clerk

Exhibit “2” Street Location Map for the River Forest Madison Street Tax Increment Financing District.

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Village of River Forest Proposed Madison St. TIF No. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49

PIN 15-11-404-030-0000 15-11-404-031-0000 15-11-404-032-0000 15-12-313-007-0000 15-12-313-026-0000 15-12-313-044-0000 15-12-313-045-0000 15-12-313-046-0000 15-12-313-047-0000 15-12-313-048-0000 15-12-313-049-0000 15-12-313-050-0000 15-12-313-051-0000 15-12-313-052-0000 15-12-313-053-0000 15-12-318-020-0000 15-12-318-021-0000 15-12-318-036-1001 15-12-318-036-1002 15-12-318-036-1003 15-12-318-036-1004 15-12-318-036-1005 15-12-318-036-1006 15-12-318-036-1007 15-12-318-036-1008 15-12-318-036-1009 15-12-318-036-1010 15-12-318-036-1011 15-12-318-036-1012 15-12-318-036-1013 15-12-318-036-1014 15-12-318-036-1015 15-12-318-036-1016 15-12-318-036-1017 15-12-318-036-1018 15-12-318-036-1019 15-12-318-036-1020 15-12-318-042-1001 15-12-318-042-1002 15-12-318-042-1003 15-12-318-042-1004 15-12-318-042-1005 15-12-318-042-1006 15-12-318-042-1007 15-12-318-042-1008 15-12-318-042-1009 15-12-318-042-1010 15-12-318-042-1011 15-12-318-042-1012

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Exhibit “1” Common Boundaries, PINs, and Legal Description for the River Forest Madison Street Tax Increment Financing District Common Boundaries : the area generally bounded by the north side of Madison Street in the Village of River Forest, from Lathrop Avenue on the east to Thatcher Avenue on the west, including several properties north of Madison Street on the east side of Forest Avenue, and including the Canadian National Railway property from Madison Street north to the Union Pacific Railroad tracks’ intersection with Hawthorne Avenue.

LEGAL DESCRIPTION (MADISON STREET TIF): THAT PART OF THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER OF SECTION 11, THE SOUTH HALF OF SECTION 12, THE NORTH HALF OF SECTION 13 AND THE NORTHEAST QUARTER OF SECTION 14 IN TOWNSHIP 39 NORTH, RANGE 12 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN IN COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS, BEING DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEGINNING AT A POINT OF INTERSECTION WITH THE NORTH RIGHT-OFWAY LINE OF MADISON STREET AND THE EAST RIGHT-OF-WAY LINE OF THATCHER AVENUE; THENCE NORTHERLY ALONG SAID EAST RIGHT-OFWAY LINE TO A POINT ON THE NORTH LINE OF THE SOUTH 158 FEET OF SAID SOUTHEAST QUARTER OF SECTION 11; THENCE EASTERLY ALONG SAID NORTH LINE OF THE SOUTH 158 FEET TO A POINT ON THE WEST RIGHT-OF-WAY LINE OF GALE AVENUE; THENCE NORTHERLY ALONG SAID WEST RIGHT-OF-WAY LINE TO A POINT ON THE WESTERLY EXTENSION OF THE NORTH LINE OF LOT 9 IN BLOCK 7 IN GALE AND BLOCK’S SUBDIVISION; BEING A SUBDIVISION IN THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF SAID SECTION 12; THENCE EASTERLY ALONG SAID WESTERLY EXTENSION AND NORTH LINE OF LOT 9 TO A POINT ON THE WEST LINE OF THE EAST 145.00 FEET OF SAID LOT 9; THENCE SOUTHERLY ALONG SAID WEST LINE TO A POINT ON THE NORTH LINE OF THE SOUTH 60 FEET OF SAID LOT 9; THENCE EASTERLY ALONG SAID NORTH LINE TO A POINT ON THE WEST LINE OF THE EAST 90 FEET OF SAID LOT 9; THENCE SOUTHERLY ALONG SAID WEST LINE AND SOUTHERLY EXTENSION THEREOF TO A POINT ON THE NORTH LINE OF THE SOUTH 40 FEET OF LOT 8 IN SAID BLOCK 7 OF GALE AND BLOCK’S SUBDIVISION ; THENCE EASTERLY ALONG SAID NORTH LINE TO A POINT ON THE EAST LINE OF SAID LOT 8 (SAID EAST LINE ALSO BEING THE WEST RIGHT-OF-WAY LINE OF AN 18 FOOT PUBLIC ALLEY); THENCE NORTHERLY ALONG SAID EAST LINE TO A POINT ON THE WESTERLY EXTENSION OF THE NORTH LINE OF THE SOUTH HALF OF LOT 5 IN SAID BLOCK 7; THENCE EASTERLY ALONG SAID WESTERLY EXTENSION AND NORTH LINE TO A POINT ON THE EAST LINE OF SAID LOT 5 (SAID EAST LINE ALSO BEING THE WEST RIGHT-OFWAY LINE OF KEYSTONE AVENUE); THENCE EASTERLY ALONG A LINE TO A POINT ON THE NORTH LINE OF THE SOUTH HALF OF LOT 5 IN BLOCK 8 OF SAID GALE AND BLOCK’S SUBDIVISION; THENCE EASTERLY ALONG SAID NORTH LINE TO A POINT ON THE EAST LINE OF SAID LOT 5, SAID POINT ALSO BEING A POINT ON THE NORTH LINE OF THE SOUTH 150 FEET OF LOT 21 IN SAMUEL WATT’S SR. SUBDIVISION, BEING A SUBDIVISION IN THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF SAID SECTION 12, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED APRIL 2, 1910 AS DOCUMENT NO. 4533770; THENCE EASTERLY ALONG SAID NORTH LINE TO A POINT ON THE WEST RIGHT-OF-WAY LINE OF FOREST AVENUE; THENCE NORTHERLY ALONG SAID WEST RIGHT-OF-WAY LINE TO A POINT ON THE WESTERLY EXTENSION OF THE NORTH LINE OF LOT 8 IN SAID SAMUEL WATT’S SR. SUBDIVISION; THENCE EASTERLY ALONG SAID WESTERLY EXTENSION AND ALONG SAID NORTH LINE OF LOT 8 TO A POINT ON THE WEST RIGHT-OF-WAY LINE OF THE CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILROAD (F.K.A. THE MINNEAPOLIS, ST. PAUL AND SAULT STE. MARIE RAILROAD); THENCE NORTHERLY ALONG SAID WEST RIGHT-OF-WAY LINE TO A POINT ON THE NORTH LINE OF SAID SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF SECTION 12; THENCE EASTERLY ALONG SAID NORTH LINE TO A POINT ON THE EAST RIGHT-OF-WAY LINE OF SAID CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILROAD; THENCE SOUTHERLY ALONG SAID EAST RIGHT-OF-WAY LINE TO A POINT ON THE NORTH LINE OF PARK AND MADISON TOWNHOMES RESUBDIVISION, BEING A SUBDIVISION IN SAID SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF SECTION 12, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED DECEMBER 19, 2007 AS DOCUMENT NO. 0735303059; THENCE EASTERLY ALONG SAID NORTH LINE TO A POINT ON THE WEST RIGHT-OF-WAY LINE OF PARK AVENUE; THENCE NORTHERLY ALONG SAID WEST RIGHT-OF-WAY LINE TO A POINT ON THE WESTERLY EXTENSION OF THE NORTH LINE OF LOT 8 IN BLOCK 8 OF E.S. 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Senior star’s return coupled with runners like Vietzen and Politis bodes well for Huskies Se

By BILL STONE Contributing Reporter Contr

Oak Par Park and River Forest senior boys cross country runner Irwin Loud runne returned triumphantly to retur Peoria’s Detweiller Park Peori Sept. 17.

In his h first cross country race of o the season at Peoria Notre Dame’s Richard Spring Sprin Invitational, Loud in wet and muddy was fifth fi conditions (14 minutes, condi 59.4 seconds for 3.0 miles) s on the th annual site of the Irwin Loud state m meet.

“It was pretty insane. A bit messy, but it was nice to get out there,” Loud said.

After an unfortunate end to his 2015 season at sectionals, Loud is hoping to return to Peoria for the Class 33A state meet Nov. 5 Huskies also qualifying as a -- and with the Huskie graduating team despite graduatin ng several key seniors.

“I feel it’s a motivator. I’m still trying to do always improve on my as well as last year and al times said. “That’s always in time m s and places,” Loud sa the back of my head, but it’s always great to push myself at the sectional meet because we’re trying

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“We started off fast and the rest of the first half was played evenly in the middle of the field,” Fried said. “The second half was got some high-percentage opportunities but when we got in the attacking third we broke down.”

Meanwhile, OPRF goalkeepers Alex Schoeny and Kel Felton combined on the Huskies’ fifth shutout.

Schoeny, in a rare starting role, made two tremendous saves in the first half, including one on Fenwick star Mike Cerceo, who had gotten loose in the box. Felton played the second half.

“Kel is the usual starter,” Fried said. “He’s had a great season, but Alex is a great leader and a senior who makes the team better pushing the guys to get better, so we wanted to make sure he had the start in that game.”

It was the second straight loss for Fenwick (10-4-1), which is enjoying an outstanding season, but Friars coach Robert Watson was not discouraged.

“It was a very well-played game,” Watson said. “For 60 to 70 minutes it was a pretty good battle mostly in the middle of the field.

“Their goalkeeper made a couple of phenomenal saves.

We tip our hat to them.”

The game was Fenwick’s first time playing or practicing at Triton, whose huge turf field stood in stark contrast to the Friars’ usual field at the Priory.

“That was our first visit to Triton,” Watson said. “We’d

to get the whole team (downstate).”

Sectional Oct. 29, the unranked Huskies are expected In 2015, Loud appeared destined for at least a to contend for the fifth and final team qualifying spot top-10 state finish, but collapsed while leading the with unranked Plainfield South, Downers Grove Lake Park Sectional in the final mile and he and the South and Plainfield North.

Huskies did not advance.

“We’ve had some kids missing a couple of meets.

After suffering a similar incident two weeks later There’s a little bit of sickness going around,” Baldwin while among the frontrunners at the Nike said. “It’s going to be a challenge for Cross Nationals’ Midwest Regional in us to make it down. Nothing’s easy, no Terre Haute, Ind., Loud was diagnosed matter what sectional you are at in the with walking pneumonia. state.”

By the track season, Loud was healthy.

In their opening invite at Fenton For more cross country At the 3A state meet in May, Loud took Sept. 3, the Huskies were second to coverage third in the 3,200-meter run and fourth Hersey. Vietzen was fourth, Mulshine in the 1,600 – the only top-five finisher for and Politis were 20th and 21st and LOG ON TO OAKPARK.COM both races.

Halloran and George were 42nd and “With more and more races, he’s been 45th. pushing himself to new levels,” OPRF coach Chris On Sept. 24, Loud was sixth at the Palatine Invite Baldwin said. “He had a very successful track season behind four top-seven 3A or 2A state finishers in so I think that answered a lot of questions. It’s 2015. Vietzen was 39th. exciting to see him continue to race.”

Loud then won Lockport’s Locktoberfest Oct. 1 Loud’s Spring Invite time was about 20 seconds (15:57.6 for 3.0 miles) over Neuqua Valley senior from when he was an all-state 11th (14:39) in 2014. Jake McEneaney (16:02.3), 47th at 3A state last year.

Junior Matthew Vietzen (55th, 15:43.9) and senior Vietzen (16th) and Politis (21st) were five seconds Matt Politis (87th, 16:05.8) also were among the top 90 apart. out of 543 finishers. OPRF finished 12th of 58 teams.

“The course was all over the place, super muddy Other contributors this season have been Robbie and rain the whole day, but I thought I ran pretty well George, Peter Halloran, Lucas Carrillo, Christian and able to lessen the gap between me and (Vietzen),” Steinhofer, Declan Cavanaugh and Owen Savoy from Politis said. a strong junior class and seniors Eric Mulshine, “We’re trying to get that split between the four of Chance Bayles and Charlie Cole. us (behind Loud) as minimal as we can and have the Moved this year to a new grouping in the Marist pack work up through the race.”

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never practiced there.

“It’s a college-level facility, a very big field and that showed during the game as both teams (adjusted).

But Watson and his players enjoyed the setting, the perfect weather and a good-sized crowd.

“We’re struggling to compete without a couple key injured players,” Watson said. “Oak Park was just a slightly better team than we are on that day. They have good balance and exceptional goalkeepeing. I enjoy watching the way they play.”

Fried also enjoyed the game.

“It’s really nice to have good competitive games to play before the playoffs,” Fried said. “It’s a great thing. For our guys it’s one of our favorite games of the year. Rob has a great program.”

HEAD2HEAD MATCH UP: The Huskies’ Cameron Duncan (#22) and Friars’ Kyle Arquette battle for a header at Triton College. OPRF won 2-0.

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Glenbard West wallops Huskies OPRF allows over 625 yards, 8 touchdowns to rejuvenated Hilltoppers

By MARTY FARMER

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he status quo sucks” is a quote from George Carlin that the Oak Park and River Forest High School football team has adopted as a slogan this season.

Loosely translated for the Huskies’ purposes, it means that while OPRF has qualified for the state playoffs a school-record five seasons in a row and been a consistent winner under head coach John Hoerster, more is expected.

Within the highly competitive West Suburban Conference Silver Division, the quote rings partially true for the Huskies.

OPRF is in contention to win the coveted conference title while eight-time defending conference champion Glenbard West isn’t. Whether it’s Hinsdale Central, Lyons Township or the Huskies (or a combination of these teams), a new Courtesy Artis Carrol Photography champion will be recognized this season. The mighty Hilltoppers have already been dethroned. Change is in the air.

OPRF senior Davion Talbert, left, offers encouragement to teammate Jared Scott during the Huskies’ 56-39 loss at On the flip side, the dynamic between Glenbard West and Glenbard West.

OPRF, unfortunately, remains the same. The Hilltoppers defeated the Huskies 56-39 at Duchon Field in Glen Ellyn Saturday. zone again on a 22-yard pass play to give the Hilltoppers a bring us back down to earth.

Under Hoerster, the Huskies are 0-5 against the reigning “Usually we can rely on our defense, but our offense kept 49-33 lead at the 11:42 mark.

Class 7A state champs and have lost in seemingly every way OPRF methodically moved the ball down the field 76 yards us in the game. We did some positive things today. We’ll learn fathomable. Whether it’s been high-scoring shootouts, lastfrom this game and be ready for Lyons [Township] next week.” on 12 plays only to be denied a touchdown on a fourth-and-1 minute losses or blowouts, Glenbard West has been the itch Glenbard West led 14-0 after one quarter, courtesy of a at the Glenbard West 1, OPRF running back Terrance Rounthe Huskies just can’t seem to scratch.

2-yard touchdown run by Dionte Moorehead and a 24-yard dy (13 carries, 40 yards) was stuffed at the line of scrimmage “We were too inconsistent today,” Hoerster said. “We all by the Hilltoppers in the key defensive play of the game.

TD catch by Reifel. have to watch film and figure some things out. We saw glimps“We have some good things to pull from this game and I es of some really good things on all sides of liked the fight in our guys,” Hoerster said. “We’re playing Touchdowns gone wild the ball, but we just couldn’t string together a some really good teams the rest of the way so we have to fix consistent run of those positive things.

The second quarter offered an entertaining scor- our mistakes.”

“And I don’t care what people say about ing barrage (at least for fans), in which the Huskies Although the Huskies couldn’t quite keep up with Glenbard Glenbard West; that’s still a very good team. outscored the Hilltoppers 27-21 to draw to 35-27 at West offensively, Hunt passed for 285 yards, three touchdowns If you don’t play with consistency, they are halftime. and two interceptions. Scott hauled down 10 catches for 119 going to take advantage of that. They are OPRF senior quarterback Jeremy Hunt opened yards and Blair has six catches for 90 yards and two TDs. very well-coached and have kids with talent the scoring on a 2-yard run with 10:59 left in the secThe offensive line also protected Hunt reasonably well in and discipline.” ond quarter.

On the ensuing play, Diver ran right the pocket.

Running the ball effectively was more difficult, While the coaches and players as a unit acthrough the middle of the OPRF defense for an 80- however, as the Huskies finished with 93 yards on 31 carries. cepted responsibility for the loss, the defense yard run, extending Glenbard West’s lead to 21-7.

“We did a really good job throwing the ball and made some had a particularly rough day at the office. AlThe Huskies scored on a 25-yard TD pass from Hunt strides,” Scott said. “There were some holes in their coverBRENDEN FLOWERS though the game was played at picturesque to Blair, but the Hilltoppers responded again with a ages which we were able to exploit. We could have run the OPRF cornerback Duchon Field along the shores of Lake Ellyn, 12-yard TD reception by Pihlstrom. ball a little better although I don’t think we did bad. There’s the Huskies’ defense was unsightly Saturday.

After Hunt threw an interception, Diver’s 6-yard definitely room to grow all around.

As if allowing 56 points weren’t mind-bogrun capped a 7-play, 50-yard scoring drive to give “Even though there was a lot of bad and good in this game, gling enough, OPRF also gave up 626 yards Glenbard West a 35-14 advantage with 3:02 left until we can learn from it. We needed an atmosphere like this to overall, including 434 rushing yards. Glenhalftime. In the final three minutes of the second play in for our upcoming games. The games coming up will bard West junior running back Ryan Diver quarter, OPRF scored on Keyon Blankenbaker’s 90- be even bigger and we’ll be ready.” gashed the Huskies for 310 yards and three yard kickoff return and Rolliann Sturkey’s 3-yard Sturkey led OPRF in tackles with 9.5, followed by senior touchdowns on 26 carries. Fellow junior Dre linebacker Tariq Thurman (9) and senior safety Wesley Thomas chipped in 93 rushing yards, while quarterback run to make the score 35-27 at the half.

“It looked pretty bleak at different moments but we got Cheatham (8). Molina turned in a solid all-around effort Cole Brady finished 8-for-12 for 192 yards and four touchsome a spark from different phases of the game,” Hoerster with six tackles and three catches for 38 yards. downs. Junior wide receiver Ben Reifel and senior tight end said. “Keyon (Blankenbaker) had a great touchdown return OPRF hosts Lyons Township on Friday, Oct. 14 at 7:30 p.m.

Alex Pihlstrom caught two TDs apiece.

The Lions are loaded with talent on both sides of the ball, The Hilltoppers, who entered the game on a rare two-game on a kickoff that really brought some life back into us. Jarlosing skid, scored at will. Prior to this week, the Huskies ed Scott made some incredible plays. Two-way players like led by quarterback Ben Bryant, running back Reggie Terrell, wide receiver Brandon Fischer and defensive tackle had allowed only 66 points in six games, which made Satur- Kohri Blair and Ryan Molina really came to play.”

The second half provided a similar narrative with both Mickey Brown. day’s showing so unexpected.

In the conference standings, Hinsdale Central (7-0, 5-0) is “It was a humbling experience,” said OPRF cornerback teams trading touchdowns in the third quarter. Hunt tossed in first place, followed by OPRF and LTHS (both 6-1, 3-1) and Brenden Flowers who had an interception against Glenbard a 12-yard touchdown pass to Molina for the Huskies’ score.

In the fourth quarter, Brady found Pihlstrom in the end then Glenbard West (5-2, 3-2).

West. “We were 6-0 and things were a little high but this will

“It was a humbling experience.”

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Huskies edge Friars at Triton Sheehan, Constable each score a goal for OPRF in well-played match

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new venue brought a different dimension to the historic rivalry between the Fenwick and Oak Park and River Forest boys soccer teams.

The level of play, however, remained the same – topnotch.

Flynn Sheehan and Will Constable scored goals and Ethan Haussmann and Andrew Barkidjija notched assists as the visiting Huskies beat the Friars 2-0 Saturday at Triton College.

It was the first time either team had played on Triton’s new field, which measures 125 feet by 75 feet, as large as many professional stadiums.

“It was by far the biggest field we’ve ever played on,” OPRF coach Jason Fried said. “It was massive.

It was a little too big for high school JASON FRIED soccer. But the guys came out and did OPRF coach a good job from the start.”

Indeed, the Huskies (10-5-2) struck first 10 minutes in when Sheehan knocked home Haussmann’s cross.

After that, play was contained mostly in the midfield as two evenly matched and motivated squads tried but failed to get the better of each other. The Huskies finally got an insurance goal thanks to Constable, who tallied with 12 minutes left as the Friars pushed

“For our guys it’s one of our favorite games of the year.”

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OPRF’s Flynn Sheehan vies for a loose ball against a Fenwick player. The Huskies blanked the host Friars 2-0 at Triton College on Saturday, Oct. 8.

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