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Oak Park’s PharmaCann to be sold for $682 million Medical cannabis biz chaired by local entrepreneur Stephen Schuler By TIMOTHY INKLEBARGER Staff Reporter

ALEXA ROGALS/Staff Photographer

Stem sells

Isla Rynn, 2, of Riverside, picks out little pumpkins last Saturday, during the weekly Oak Park Farmers Market in the Pilgrim Congregational Church UCC parking lot on Lake Street. More photos on page 16.

RF approves controversial development Trustees unanimously favor Senior Lifestyle facility at Chicago and Harlem By NONA TEPPER Staff Reporter

River Forest trustees voted unanimously to approve an application to build a controversial senior care facility at the intersection of Chicago and Harlem av-

enues at their Oct. 15 meeting, saying the tax proceeds will benefit the entire village, that it fills a lifestyle need in River Forest and more. “Being asked to choose between a development who wants to invest in the village and homeowners who have al-

ready invested in our village, the basic choice appears like one or the other,” Trustee Michael Gibbs told an audience of about 60 residents. “But we represent hundreds of homeowners and River ForSee SENIOR LIFESTYLE on page 14

Oak Parker Stephen Schuler made national headlines on Oct. 11 with the announcement that medical cannabis company MedMen has entered into an agreement to purchase the Oak Park-based PharmaCann LLC for $682 million. Schuler is the lead investor and has served as executive director of the company’s board of directors. The news comes only a few weeks after the Los Angeles-based MedMen announced its plan to purchase the local medical cannabis dispensary Seven Point, 1132 Lake St. The PharmaCann deal is one of the biggest in the history of the cannabis industry. “This is a transformative acquisition that will create the largest U.S. cannabis company in the world’s largest cannabis market,” MedMen chief executive officer Adam Bierman said in a press release announcing the deal. The deal is notable in Oak Park not only because of the numbers involved but also because of its connection to local entrepreneur and philanthropist Stephen Schuler, who along with his wife, Mary Jo Schuler, have donated to variSee PHARMACANN on page 14

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R E P O R T

Democracy in the graveyard? We hope that’s not a bad omen or a symbol of doom and gloom to come, but the Historical Society of Oak Park-River Forest is shining a spotlight (well, hopefully, the sun) on those permanently settled in Forest Park’s Forest Home Cemetery who “worked for freedom, equality, and opportunity for all.” The historical society’s 27th annual guided walking tour, known as the Cemetery Walk, takes place this Sunday at 1 p.m. Employing the theme “Truth, Justice, and the American Dream,” this year’s walk will tell the stories of nine fascinating folks, using actors in period costume to do the telling: ■ Lenin Pellegrino and his father Frank Pellegrino. Frank was an Italian immigrant and American Communist and his son was a doctor, a fighter for racial justice in Oak Park, and the owner of the Kingston Mines blues club; ■ The Humbrock Brothers, who made the ultimate sacrifice in WWII; ■ Dorothy Charlton Kerr, in 1927 the first woman elected to the Oak Park Village Board and president of the 19th Century Club when it opened its building; ■ Will Palmer, a prominent Oak Park AfricanAmerican business leader in the early 20th century who helped found the allblack Mt. Carmel Baptist Church; ■ Martha Rayne, a pioneer female journalist who interviewed famous folk like Mary Todd Lincoln and founded the world’s first journalism school; ■ Edward E. Morrell, who spearheaded the construction of the World War I Monument in Scoville Park; ■ Joseph C. Corbin, an educator who battled racial discrimination after the Civil War to found what became the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, a pioneering school for African Americans and alma mater of U.S. Rep. Danny Davis. The 2018 walking tour kicks off at 1 p.m. with the last tour leaving at 2 p.m. Cost is $10 for members, $15 for others. For more information or tickets, call 708-848-6755 or visit www.oprfmuseum. org. No advanced reservations required. Forest Home is located on Desplaines Avenue, south of Roosevelt Road. The tour, appropriately, is sponsored by Drechsler, Brown and Williams Funeral Home and American Wilbert Vault Corporation.

Ken Trainor

Touch and go

ALEXA ROGALS/Staff Photographer

Jason Jeunnette, of River Forest, holds Morgan Jeunnette as they inspect the new fire truck last Saturday, during the Touch a Truck open house at the River Forest Fire Dept. Kylie Corvo, 3, of Elmwood Park, takes the wheel.

D97 supt’s last community meeting Oct. 25

District 97 Superintendent Carol Kelley’s last community café of the 201819 school year will be Thursday, Oct. 25, 9 a.m. to 10 a.m., at Live Café, 163 S. Oak Park Ave. “There will be no set agenda or presentations for these events,” the district explained on its website.

“Instead, this will be an opportunity to take part in an informal discussion about what is happening in District 97 and the community as a whole.”

Michael Romain

Early voting begins Oct. 22

Voters in Oak Park and River Forest can begin casting early voting ballots on Oct. 22 for the election set for Nov. 6. Early voters can cast their ballots at Oak Park Village Hall, 123 Madison St., through Nov. 5. If you’re not registered

to vote, you can also register at the early voting site. For more information on what’s you’ll need for identification to register, visit www.cookcountyclerk.com/ agency/early-voting. You don’t need to show an ID in order to vote early. Voting hours are as follows: ■ Monday - Saturday, Oct. 22-27 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. ■ Sunday, Oct. 28, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. ■ Monday - Friday, Oct. 29-Nov. 2, from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. ■ Saturday, Nov. 3, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. ■ Sunday, Nov. 4, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. ■ Monday, Nov. 5, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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The Great American Songbook Sunday, Oct. 21, 4 p.m., Pilgrim Congregational Church: Hear the Sing to Live Community Chorus “Singing in the Rain” under “Blue Skies” in a “DeLovely” and “S’ Wonderful” evening. Advance: $22; $17, ages 6 to 18. At door: $27; $22, ages 6 to 18. Free, breast cancer survivors. Tickets: singtolive. org. 460 Lake St., Oak Park.

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Agatha Christie’s “Black Coffee” Radio Show Friday, Oct., 19, 6:30 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 21, 2:30 p.m., Nineteenth Century Club: Oak Park Festival Theatre recreates a 1940s-style live radio broadcast. Before the show, enjoy an hour of cocktails, food, and live ’40s music while meeting the cast. Then be entertained by a “hilarious whodunit” as Hercule Poirot solves a murder mystery. $35, $28, seniors, $15, students. Tickets: oakparkfestival.com/fall-radio-show-black-coffee. 178 Forest Ave., Oak Park.

Get the Buzz on Honey Saturday, Oct. 20, noon to 2 p.m., Nutrition Lab, Parmer Hall, Dominican University: Meet local beekeepers, taste a variety of honey, learn the importance of bees and extract and bottle honey made by local bees at this workshop. Free. In partnership with the River Forest Sustainability Commission. Register by emailing: emcmanus@dom.edu. 7900 Division St., River Forest.

Harvest on Harrison Street Fine Art Boutique

Avanti Guitar Trio

Sat., Oct. 20, Noon to 7 p.m., Expressions Graphics: Fine art prints, painting, drawings, jewelry, pottery and more for sale. Questions: 708-447-9262. 29 Harrison St., Oak Park.

Sunday, Oct. 21, 10:30 a.m., Open Door Theater: The Church of Beethoven brings this chamber ensemble whose repertoire ranges from Baroque to contemporary, and features new compositions, classical masterpieces and an occasional rock/pop or jazz tune. $10; $5, students/kids. Tickets: brownpapertickets.com/event/3613790. 902 S. Oak Park Ave., Oak Park.

More Than a Mic : Write Your Monster Wednesday, Oct. 24, 5 to 7 p.m., Veterans Room, Main Library: At this special open mic, those ages 10 to 18 can share their Mary Shelly inspired monster creations - short stories, flash fiction, poems, spoken word or songs (up to 10 minutes). Questions: jcruz@oppl.org.

October 17-24

BIG WEEK Frankenstein Fall

Tacos and More to Provide Mammos Friday, Oct. 19, 5 to 8 p.m., Beer Shop: Enjoy dinner by Pink Taco and Beer Shop brews; 10% of sales donated to Buy A Mom A Mammogram at the River Forest Breast Center for uninsured, underinsured and undocumented women. 1026 North Blvd., Oak Park.

The Oak Park Public Library is celebrating the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein. More: oppl.org/calendar. 834 Lake St. A Mary Shelley Presentation Saturday, Oct. 20, 2 to 2:45 p.m., Veterans Room, Main Library: Stephanie Shaw, Columbia College theater professor, actress, and author speaks about the life of Mary Shelley, author of the 1818

classic monster novel, Frankenstein. A Mary Shelley Biopic Saturday, Oct. 20, 3 to 4:30 p.m., Veterans Room, Main Library: View Mary Shelley (2017), the story of the love affair between poet Percy Shelley and 18-year-old Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, which inspired her to write Frankenstein.

Barktoberfest Saturday, Oct. 20, 7 to 11 p.m., FitzGerald’s Side Bar: Benefit the Animal Care League (ACL) with live music, German food, raffle prizes and a chance to meet ACL adoptables. Open bar includes beer, wine and Barktinis. 21+. $65. Tickets: animalcareleague.org/barktoberfest-2018.html. 6615 W. Roosevelt Rd., Berwyn.

Architecture Walk & Talk Sunday, Oct. 21, 2 to 4 p.m., Pleasant Home: Tour interiors of two George W. Maher-designed buildings in Oak Park. $25; $20, members. Register/more: pleasanthome. org. Tour begins at Unity of Oak Park: 405 N. Euclid.

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A theatrical companion to ‘America to Me’ By DOUG DEUCHLER

Theater Critic

n my way to Oak Park and River Forest High School to see their fall play, Clybourne Park, I thought about how high school theater has changed since my teen years. We did shows like Harvey, Our Town, and Arsenic and Old Lace, certainly not a blistering contemporary comedy like Clybourne Park by Bruce Norris about the awkward “dance” folks do when they talk about race. If you’re unfamiliar with this satiric play, it premiered at Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre in 2011, won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama that year, and the Tony Award for Best Play in 2012. While I don’t review student shows here, whenever possible, we call attention to productions that are especially worthwhile. I applaud our high school for mounting this mature and significant drama. This fine and often humorous production, directed by Michelle Bayer, could almost be considered a companion piece to the Steve James’ TV documentary America To Me. It raises lots of racial issues. After each performance, the entire cast remains on stage, joined by a few teachers they have chosen, to discuss the show and its meaning with the audience. This “Talk Back,” which opened up insightful dialogue, was especially well-handled. The comedy is a pair of scenes, set exactly 50 years apart in a fictional Chicago neighborhood. The first act, which takes place in 1959, is a spin-off of Lorraine Hansberry’s groundbreaking play, A Raisin in the Sun. A middle-aged white couple, Russ and Bev (Gregory Hann and Eleanor Babwin), are moving from their South Side bungalow out to suburbia. They have unwittingly sold their modest longtime home to the neighborhood’s first AfricanAmerican family. Russ and Bev have been grieving over the suicide of their son, an emotionally troubled Korean War veteran. Karl Linder (Sam Theis), a nerdy bigot with a pregnant, deaf wife (Mira Mundt),

represents a neighborhood association that wants to keep the “colored” family from buying the house. Linder, fearing the new black family’s arrival will push the neighborhood into a downward spiral, tries to bribe them to stay out of their neighborhood. Russ and Bev’s black housekeeper Francine (Tiffany Akotia) and her husband (Jordan Murray), and the local clergyman (Jonny Hugh) get dragged into the debate as matters of race and real estate heat up. In their increasingly combustible state, the bigotry of some of these people is barely concealed. The playwright never uses the word Chicago in his text, presumably to make the show have more universal appeal. But there are many specific references to places like Kostner Avenue and Rosemont which make the location unmistakably local. In the second act, set a half century later in 2009, there is a new generation of adversaries as the area is now gentrifying. The locale has gone through a period of decline, plagued by drugs and violence. The same house from Act One, now in an all-black neighborhood, has just been purchased by upper-middle-class white, expectant parents, Steve and Lindsay (Colin Lonergran and Vivienne Badynee), who have grandiose plans to raze the vintage home and build a McMansion on the lot. African-American neighbors Lena and Kevin (Eva Fuller and Myles Green) fear the impending destruction of the vintage bungalow and oppose the newcomers’ plans, wishing to preserve the traditional look and feel of what’s now a historically black community. The costume designer is Jeffrey G. Kelly and the make-up and hair is by Patricia Cheney. The master carpenter is Ryan Pont, the scenic artist Olivia Lynch, and the master sound design is by Kyle Peterson. Two performances of Clybourne Park remain this weekend on Friday, Oct. 19 and Saturday, Oct. 20 at 7 p.m. at the OPRF Little Theater, 201 N. Scoville Ave., Oak Park. Tickets are $6 for students and seniors and $8 for adults and can be purchased at oprfhs.ticketleap.com/clyborne-park.

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District 200 is getting ready to make the biggest changes to its campus in 50 years. Imagine OPRF, the community-based team creating a long-term facilities master plan for the high school, anticipates making its recommendations to the Board this November.

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Can tax oversight really happen?

he “Holy God I Can’t Afford to Live Here Anymore Efficiency Task Force” issued its report three weeks ago. Deep in the report, after a great many declarative sentences related to the unsustainable trajectory of property taxes in Oak Park, after several common-sense recommendations on how to tame increases and a frank admission that property taxes are not ever going to decline, this ad hoc village government committee slid in its proposal for creation of a forever, overarching Community Financial Oversight Commission. And that is what I wanted to find out more about last week when three of the seven members of the task force — Chair David Pope and members Judy Greffin and Gary McCullough — came to Wednesday Journal for an interview. In a report with a fair amount of detail, the oversight commission flutters in on butterfly wings. Its mission is fairly well spelled out in the report. It is to recommend an annual village-wide, across six taxing bodies, budget increase limited to CPI, to evaluate any proposed tax referenda (though the report calls for a moratorium on any such referenda until 2030), to hold taxing bodies’ spending actions up for public review/scorn and to recommend ways taxing bodies can collaborate to save money by sharing services. What is left fully to the imagination in the report is just how such a commission is going to be birthed. Exactly which of the taxing bodies is going to buy in to creating a “citizen-led commission” charged with scorching their toes when they overpay teachers, when District 97 can’t figure out how to combine its storage facilities into the overbuilt village government public works facility, when the high school “pretaxes” all of us to the tune of $105 million, sitting without benefit in its vault. When I ask the task force trio if each taxing body gets to appoint reps to this super-commission David Pope’s eyes bug out and the cartoon bubble over his head reads, “Not another gol-darned I-Gov!”

I-Gov would be the current iteration of supposed collaboration among governments but is, in reality, the group that took six months to craft language for a One View in the Journal. “Don’t make it representatives of the governing bodies,” says Pope. “It needs to be an independent entity … an honest broker.” While Pope says his work on this topic will end as the current commission’s charge expires, Greffin and McCullough sound as though they want to be part of creating the permanent financial oversight commission. “We need to build this muscle in Oak Park,” says Greffin of creating a mechanism to control spending and insist on sharing services. “The community needs this muscle.” McCullough, a business person without experience in government, says, “This is not a problem that can be solved by bureaucrats or elected officials. Everyone is comfortable with what they are doing. The community has to wake up.” I asked this group my favorite question. Like them, hate them but there are four new tall buildings in Oak Park’s downtown and collectively they will, when finished and full, throw off $4 million in fresh annual property taxes. How do we force each taxing body to see this found money as a way to, at least, hold taxes flat for a moment rather than as a windfall tossed into the spending pot? Greffin says this is absolutely “a measurable moment.” The new buildings “expand the tax base. We have to see it as new revenue and an easy way [for taxing bodies] to live within their means.” Pope, McCullough and Greffin say, “Our commitment is to create this structure. What we put in place has to actually be effective.” Don’t just focus on the noise about consolidating the township. This commission is the actionable item out of all this work. If it happens, it is progress. If it goes by the wayside, this is just another task force overtaken by faster-rising taxes.

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Chamber names new executive director

Liz Holt to take helm of local business organization By TIMOTHY INKLEBARGER Staff Reporter

The Oak Park-River Forest Chamber of Commerce has named Liz Holt its new executive director, following the departure of Cathy Yen in September. Holt has served as deputy director of the chamber since April 2017, after a three-year stint at Oak Park’s Heritage Tile, 144 N. Oak Park Ave., where she worked in sales, design and community outreach. That’s how she first came in contact with the chamber, she said in an interview. “I started going to chamber events, networking events, Women in Business, so I have experienced the chamber from the other side, as a new member and figuring out how you make your way, how you network, how you meet people, how you get in and engage with what the chamber has to offer,” she said. Holt earned a bachelor’s degree in archeology and a master’s degree in environmenTIMOTHY INKLEBARGER/Staff tal design from the University of Calgary. She said the chamber just held its annual Liz Holt, new Chamber director. Spotlight Awards event and is now focusing on events and initiatives for 2019. “Our special events, our programming, the better,” Holt said. She said the chamber also continues to our professional development – that’s our grow its new database of local businesses, biggest growing area,” she said. Holt spent much of 2018 focusing on the which launched in early 2017. “It allows every business with a busiprofessional development events that offer small business owners “a way to stay up to ness license in Oak Park to have an online presence,” Holt said. “The other date and educated on what they thing is, it facilitates the village need to know for running a small communicating with the busibusiness efficiently.” ness community, so if there is The chamber recently has held a road closure or if there is a professional development events disaster of some sort, it allows such as a roundtable discussion the village to be able to say to on human resources, where inthe chamber, ‘Can you tell evdustry professionals gave memerybody on this street this mesbers tips on human resources sage?’ So it’s to facilitate that dos-and-don’ts and other tips, communication.” she said. Holt takes the place of Cathy Another popular professional Yen, who served in the position development forum focused on for five years before starting her social media, which provided LIZ HOLT new job as director of operations information on promoting busiNew Chamber director for Beat the Streets, a Chicago nesses through Instagram and nonprofit focused on developonline video. ing youth through mentoring “The intent of the professional and sports activities, earlier this development series is that you leave your office for an hour and a half, month. “She was fantastic,” Holt said of Yen. “We you’re always going to have some networking, but you’re going to learn something worked very, very well together. We both that you’re going to go back to your desk, came to the table with big ideas and worked and you’re going to be able to change the through ideas to get the best result.” tim@oakpark.com way you do business right straight away for

“Our special events, our programming, our professional development – that’s our biggest growing area.”

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Oak Park Trustee Bob Tucker won’t run for third term

Says a 2021 run for village president isn’t out of the question By TIMOTHY INKLEBARGER Staff Reporter

Oak Park Trustee Bob Tucker has announced he will not run for a third term on the Oak Park Board of Trustees in the upcoming election on April 2, 2019. The two-term trustee said he aims to take “a break” to spend more time with his family and focus on a heavy workload at his job as chief operating officer and executive vice president of programs at Chicago Community Loan Fund, a nonprofit that provides financing for projects in low- and moderateincome neighborhoods. Some have speculated that Tucker could consider a run for village president in two years, but he said in an interview that he’s not really thinking about that at this time. “It’s not only a long time in my life, but it’s an eternity in the world of politics,” he said. “I don’t rule it out.”

Tucker was elected to public office both times with the endorsement of the now-defunct Village Manager Association. He ran unopposed in his most recent election, along with Adam Salzman and Andrea Button. Button, who also is up for re-election, announced in September that she also does not plan to run in 2019. That leaves Trustee Jim Taglia as the only incumbent left in the upcoming election. It will be Taglia’s first election bid for the seat; he was appointed to the position in 2017, following the departure of Salzman, who resigned. Tucker said he would support Taglia in his run for trustee, calling him “a really great board member.” Tucker said he would always be proud of the economic development that boards he has served on has brought to Oak Park. “These buildings add to the vibrancy [of the village],” he said, noting that the tenants of the downtown high-rises bring new life to local businesses like The Book Table bookstore and Poor Phil’s restaurant and bar. Tucker said other highlights of his time on the board include his work choosing not to opt out of a minimum wage hike imposed

Bob Tucker writes about his decision in Viewpoints, page 29. by Cook County; the board’s approval of sanctuary city ordinance; and recent efforts to establish an affordable housing ordinance. Four others have announced they plan to run for the board of trustees in the upcoming election: Tim Thomas, Susan Buchanan, Joshua Klayman and Greg Marsey. tim@oakpark.com

let your voice be heard

at Concordia University Chicago Ferguson Art Gallery

The Collective Theater

Music Concerts

Eclectic Selection by Marcia Babler October 6 - November 10

The Nerd by Larry Shue

Wind Symphony Home Concert | November 2 at 8 p.m., Chapel

Directed by Katie Rub ’19 | November 9 - 18 Madison Street Theatre, 1010 Madison St., Oak Park Tickets: CUCNerd.brownpapertickets.com

Kapelle Home Concert | November 3 at 7:30 p.m., Chapel

Contemporary Abstract Art by Gretchen Beck November 19 - December 15 Gallery hours: Mon.-Fri. 9 a.m.-7 p.m., Sat.-Sun. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Ferguson Gallery is located in Kretzmann Hall

Jazz Band Concert | November 12 at 7 p.m., Chapel Chamber Orchestra Concert | November 18 at 7 p.m., Chapel Music Department Information: 708-209-3060

Event details are subject to change. Unless noted, all events take place at Concordia University Chicago, 7400 Augusta St., River Forest. Visit CUChicago.edu

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Oak Park approves affordable apartment building

Project on S. Oak Park Ave. will include 37 units By TIMOTHY INKLEBARGER Staff Reporter

The Oak Park Board of Trustees unanimously approved a proposal for a 37-unit affordable apartment building at the corner of South Oak Park Avenue and Van Buren Street at its Oct. 15 meeting. Tensions ran high at Oak Park Village Hall Monday night, with the impassioned testimony from more than a dozen opponents and supporters of the project by Boston-based Community Builders, Inc. The nonprofit real estate developer’s project will be built on a vacant parcel of land that once housed a gas station and, later, a makeshift parking lot, which has been fenced off for the last couple of years in the Southtown Business District. The meeting opened with a speech from Oak Park Mayor Anan Abu-Taleb. “One of the things that makes Oak Park a special place to live is it is accepting of all people, regardless of their socioeconomic or racial background,” he said. “We want people to belong in our village.” The project was recommended for approval by the Oak Park Plan Commission and supported by the Oak Park Economic Development Corporation. Testimony at the meeting was almost evenly split between supporters and opponents. Thelmare Varnado, who lives near the

Rendering courtesy of Community Builders

AFFORDA-BUILD: The Oak Park Board of Trustees unanimously approved a proposed affordable-housing development at the corner of South Oak Park Avenue and Van Buren Street by Community Builders, Inc., at its Oct. 15 meeting. building site, said she opposed the project because of its density and because it would put too many low-income residents in one place. “It will hurt property values,” she said. “No one will want to buy property beside or near it. Resale values will go down, and mine at retirement time.” Milton Clark, who also lives near the project, criticized the village for its creation of an affordable housing fund that allows developers of high-rise projects downtown to contribute money, rather than include affordable units in their downtown developments. The village is poised to contribute $500,000

to the Community Builders project from the fund. “You’ve given developers too easy of a way out,” he said. “They should have included affordable housing in those buildings. Now [the village] is making another bad decision.” Resident Amy Dean said the village is facing an “affordable housing crisis” and more families are paying over 30 percent of their monthly income for rent. Dean acknowledged the argument for financial contributions to an affordable housing fund in lieu of including units in luxury

apartment buildings but added “that time has passed.” David Mann, chairman of the Plan Commission, said that the commission was not concerned with density, largely because of the size of the units, which will mainly be comprised of one-bedroom and efficiency apartments. He noted that the building is projected to house fewer than 50 people. Trustees unanimously supported the project and called on residents nearby to welcome the new development and its tenants. Trustee Deno Andrews said his work with ex-offenders – Andrews is the former owner of Felony Franks restaurant, which hired people who have spent time in prison – put him touch with the deplorable conditions under which many low-income people live. He said one of the best ways to prevent recidivism is to provide safe, affordable housing for people that give them easy access to work. Trustee Jim Taglia said that Community Builders has a national reputation for building quality developments and has over 11,000 units across the country under management or owned outright. He reminded the board that “Oak Park taxpayers are not subsidizing this. Period.” Trustee Dan Moroney said he, too, supports the project but took issue with the vitriol of comments in online forums from supporters of the project. “[Opponents] have been slandered in a lot of ways,” he said. “That doesn’t feel good when someone takes your opinion or feelings and labels you a NIMBY [not in my backyard] or intolerant.” tim@oakpark.com

Demolition of Marion Street house rejected

Trustees follow Historic Preservation Commission’s lead By TIMOTHY INKLEBARGER Staff Reporter

A widely opposed proposal to demolish 119-year-old house at 224 S. Marion St. was unanimously rejected by the Oak Park Board of Trustees at its meeting on Oct. 15. The proposal by local developer David Lehman earlier had been unanimously rejected by the Oak Park Historic Preservation Commission. Lehman proposed razing the building, which is currently used as office space, to make way for a luxury condo building. The building is located in the RidgelandOak Park Historic District and cannot be demolished without approval from the Oak Park Board of Trustees. Frank Lipo, executive director of the His-

torical Society of Oak Park and River Forest and a former member of the Historic Preservation Commission, said tearing down the structure would “chip away” at the historic character of the district “instead of embracing what makes our community desirable.” Lehman argued that the condo building would bring new tax revenue to the village provide needed housing stock in the area. “I believe a lot more people in Oak Park are concerned with high real estate taxes than this demolition,” he said. Oak Park Mayor Anan Abu-Taleb voted against the demolition request but thanked Lehman for his interest in bringing projects to the village. “I really appreciate the time and effort you’ve taken to invest or potentially invest in Oak Park,” he said, adding that there are plenty of properties on Madison Street for new developments. tim@oakpark.com

LEXA ROGALS/Staff Photographer

DEMO NO: The Oak Park Board of Trustees unanimously rejected a proposal to demolish a historic home on Marion Street.

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GREENHOUSE EFFECTS: Rain or shine, the conservatory plans to be more eco-contributing.

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facilities. Located near the East Avenue entrance/exit of the Oak Park Blue Line ‘L’ station, it was built in 1929 to house a collection of plants. As the park district website notes, the conservatory already has some sustainability features. It recycles water by collecting storm water run-off from nearby sections of Garfield Street and East Avenue, using it to water the plants. According to documents posted on the park district’s website, the solar panels will be placed on the flat sections of the conservatory’s roof. Lindgren said that the solar panels will be a 19.8 kilowatt system. The rain water harvesting system will take the water from the greenhouse’s gutters, collect them into four tanks, filter it and use it to water the greenhouse’s plants. Lindgren said that the system will be able collect up to 4,500 gallons. He said that the park district is interested in getting both up and running as soon as possible. Bid requests for both projects went out on Oct. 10, with the responses due Oct. 26. The park district’s board of commissioners are expected award both contracts during a special meeting on Nov. 1. Lindgren said the park district would like to begin construction in mid-November and finish by Dec. 31. “The rain water harvesting system will be used year-round to water the plants inside the greenhouses,” Lindgren said. As for the composting and bee-keeping components, Lindgren said that they will be put in place at some point during the spring of 2019. Lindgren said Sun Club has been pleased with the response the pledge drive got in Oak Park. “This pledge grant is something that they would like to use as a template for communities all over the [United States],” he said. “This format not only benefits the sustainability efforts of the park district, but also extends its reach to all the residents that pledge to make commitments for positive change in their homes and businesses.”

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After watching this eighth episode, I began to reflect on my first experiences at Oak Park and River Forest High School. I had transferred from Proviso East High School in Maywood my junior year. Because I was an honors student at East, my academic counselor recommended that I continue that path and take honors and AP courses at OPRF. On my first full day at the school, my counselor walked me to the lunchroom, segregated back then as it is now, and guided me to the all-black section. A few moments into our introductions, a girl asked me why I would possibly want to leave East for OPRF. Pressured to play cool, I lied and told her my mother made me, even though this wasn’t the case. By semester’s end, uncomfortable with the blacks and alienated from the whites, I would spend the lunch period sitting at a table of two, myself and a silent, eccentric Jamaican teenager I had befriended whose family lived in the apartment unit below ours. By the time I graduated OPRF, I had been partially absorbed into a quirky, multicultural group of proud outcasts who congregated at a table on the western periphery of the lunchroom. This cherubic white kid named Blair was something like our ambassador, our emissary to the cafeteria’s normal regions. My time at OPRF, I realized long after leav-

But as an observer of a majority-minority ing the school, was marked by this peripheral perspective. Fifteen years after graduat- high school district a few miles west, I can ing, I understand why one minority student tell you that this fear is not just something at OPRF might yearn to leave for a “lesser” white people in Oak Park feel. Recently, parents and students from Provischool like East while another might revel so Math and Science Academy, a selective— in OPRF’s plethora of opportunities. enrollment school within Proviso Township Before I watched the eighth episode of High Schools District 209, America to Me, I spoke to went apoplectic after they John Duffy, chairperson of found out about a conceptual the Committee for Equity and plan that merely flirted with Excellence in Education. He the idea of moving PMSA’s appears in the episode talkcampus (currently a converting at a board meeting about ed office building in Forest tracking — “the practice of Park) onto the campus of eiputting a small group of highther East or West. er-achieving students into WATC H I N G The irony is that the selecseparate advanced or honors ‘ A M E R I C A T O M E ’ tive enrollment school was classes,” according to an Atbuilt as an effort to persuade lantic article. E P I S O D E VIII families from predominantly “That’s almost a taboo word in this district and it shouldn’t white communities like Westbe,” says Duffy of the practice, speaking to chester, Hillside and Forest Park to keep board members. “How does it contribute to their children in predominantly black Disracial equity? It’s been the perception, year trict 209, as opposed to sending them to priin and year out, that there are two schools vate school or moving away in order to send here. Let’s put that question on the table. their kids to public school somewhere else. What about tracking?” When the mere concept of moving PMSA Don Vogel, a retired OPRF longtime for- closer to East and West was broached, the mer administrator, says on camera that if students and parents of the selective-enrollthe school did away with tracking, “I’m fair- ment school flooded the board with their ly certain the community would rise up and fears and concerns (of bullying, of being say, ‘That’s not a good thing.’ You know, the around students who aren’t as motivated, of cost to honors-level students would be far behavior problems, etc.). greater than the benefit to lower-achieving These concerns weren’t coming from students.” whites. PMSA’s student body is 61 percent Dan Cohen and John Hoerster both allude Hispanic and 29 percent black. to the reality that white parents of highDuring our brief talk, Duffy, who taught achieving students fear what might happen at Proviso East for two decades, directed me to their children’s prospects if the district to a document drafted for OPRF in 2011, inde-tracked, so to speak. formally called the Blueprint Assessment.

“OPRF leadership must acknowledge and address the commonly held notion that there are two schools within OPRF: one for high-achieving students and another for all other learners,” the assessment reads. That conclusion can easily be extended to Proviso — a district divided between one high-performing school and two low-performing ones and where student achievement is demarcated by factors that aren’t as clear-cut as black and white. Both districts, though, have similar mottos: “Nothing but the best” in Proviso and “Those things that are best” in Oak Park. There are subtle distinctions between the two, but both cleave closer to meritocracy than to real egalitarianism. The black student who queried me in the lunchroom on my first day at OPRF, I realize now, was not necessarily ignorant or unmotivated. She was responding to her alienation from this culture that treats most of its white students as temporarily embarrassed geniuses, to rephrase John Steinbeck, and most of its black students as too far gone to aspire to this common exceptionalism. To achieve true egalitarianism, or the notion that all students have equal rights to high-quality education, Duffy told me, there needs to be “a common base, a shared target we want all kids to move toward.” “Look at the Spoken Word Club,” Duffy said. “Those kids are all on different tracks, as far as I can see, but what they’re aiming for as students of the language is a really high standard of expression. They all know what that standard is. The same principle has to apply to every discipline and all curricula.” CONTACT: michael@austinweeklynews.com

D97 to eliminate food from school celebrations ‘Food Free in Three’ program addresses food allergies, promotes health

By MICHAEL ROMAIN Staff Reporter

District 97 officials announced earlier this month that they’ve launched a new program called “Food Free in Three” in all 10 district schools. The program “calls for the elimination of all food from school celebrations over a three-year period that began in the fall of 2018,” officials explained in a statement released Oct. 2. The elimination of food during celebrations will not apply to the district’s breakfast and lunch programs. In addition, students will still be able to bring snacks to school. The program is designed to “ensure the safety and inclusivity of all students, regardless of food-allergy status, religious or cultural practice, or medical condition.”

In addition, officials said, the program will provide students with “lifelong healthy habits” that disrupt the link between celebrations and food consumption, and allow students and staff members to connect through meaningful, non-food means, such as activities and games. A range of factors prompted D97 to create the Food Free in Three program. One of the most important factors was the prevalence of food allergies among district students. According to officials, approximately 10 to 15 percent of district students have a food allergy, most notably related to “nuts of any kind.” Students are also allergic to mil, soy, wheat and eggs, officials said. The program also aligns with the district’s Food Allergy Management Program, which includes guidelines for how the district should handle life-threatening food

allergies, officials said, stipulating that the implementation of “food-free celebrations” will happen over three years. Phase one started this fall, with the district allowing eight categories of food at celebrations. Those include “fresh fruit, fruit juice, fresh vegetables, dried fruit, yogurt without granola topping, lean meats, and packaged popcorn and pretzels that are nut safe.” Phase two will take place during the 201920 school year, in which school officials will only allow food from four categories — fresh fruit, fresh vegetables, and nut-safe packaged popcorn and pretzels — at celebrations. By 2020-21, the final phase, no food will be served during school celebrations. D97 said they’ll create a list of resources for schools to use when organizing food-free celebrations. That list will be shared with families and staff. In the meantime, they

referred schools and parents to a “Healthy Party Guide,” created by Action for Healthy Kids — anti-childhood obesity initiative. The launch of the Food Free in Three program comes a year after the parents of a Holmes School fourth-grader told Wednesday Journal that she nearly died from a foodallergic reaction during her lunch period. Tim and Laura Hunnewell said that their daughter, who was allergic to peanuts, went into anaphylactic shock as her lunch period was ending. The couple said that they believe that school employees violated the district’s Food Allergy Management policy. In the Oct. 2 statement, district officials said that “students’ snacks and the district’s food service program will still need to comply with federal nutrition guidelines and the district’s Food Allergy Management Program.” CONTACT: michael@oakpark.com

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Taxation task force makes its case

Group to pitch various taxing bodies on belt-tightening recommendations By TIMOTHY INKLEBARGER Staff Reporter

The Taxing Bodies Efficiencies Task Force, established earlier this by the Village of Oak Park, released its report to the village board in early October and now aims to pitch its findings and recommendations to the village’s five other taxing bodies. Members of the group met with Wednesday Journal staff a few weeks after releasing the report, which makes a number of recommendations, including holding the line on tax increase referenda through 2030 and establishing a citizen-led budget oversight committee. The task force, earlier this year, convinced the Oak Park village board to approve a nonbinding ballot question in the November election that asks if the village should further pursue considering merging some or all of the various taxing bodies, including the Village of Oak Park, the Park District of Oak Park, the Oak Park Public Library and Oak Park Township. Chairman David Pope reiterated last

week that the property tax rate, which has increased three times as fast as the rate of inflation in recent years, is “putting at risk some of the core elements of what Oak Park has been about for 50 years.” The village’s diversity and affordability for various income levels is at risk, said Pope, a former village president. The task force’s report notes that between 2015 and 2017 “the total amount or property taxes levied by all Oak Park taxing bodies has grown by 20 percent.” Eighty-seven percent of that growth comes from school districts 97 and 200 and the village government, according to the report. And over the last 17 years, the average percentage of median household income that goes toward property taxes has jumped from 5 to 8.4 percent. Task force member Judy Greffin says the village needs a multi-faceted solution. “We need to live within our means, which is the Consumer Price Index,” she said, referencing the index that measures the average change of prices paid by consumers for various goods and services. Gary McCullough, who also served on the task force, emphasized that nowhere in the report is it suggested that the village or any other taxing body reduce services in an effort to control spending. The suggestion that the task force wants

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to cut services is an oft-stated position on internet chat boards, but McCullough said the task force’s mandate was to find savings. It’s believed by some that “there was a preordained outcome” for the report, but the group, which met throughout most of the year “didn’t get involved to carry anyone’s water,” he said. Among the group’s recommendations is the creation of a citizen-led financial oversight commission, but such a commission would have little impact without the support of Oak Park’s six taxing bodies. “We need buy-in” from elected officials, administrators, neighbors and the press, McCullough said. It’s unclear exactly how the commission would be formed, who would choose its members and what its makeup would be. But Pope says it would not be a continuation

of the existing task force. Some of the same members could serve on the commission, but Pope said he has completed his work and does not plan to serve on the body. According to the report, the group would: ■ Recommend village-wide budget increases as informed by inflation. ■ Recommend cost saving actions to streamline government. ■ Evaluate the collective impact of referenda. ■ Publish budget decisions of taxing bodies, including their percentage increase. ■ Publish comparisons of the cost of running local government to similar communities. ■ Develop a curriculum to inform elected officials and administrators as to the collective impact of spending decisions. ■ Host public forums on various budget and tax-related projects. Greffin said the oversight commission is the best way to see that the work of the task force lives on. She said Oak Park needs to be proactive before the tax burden reaches a point of no return. “We need to build this muscle in Oak Park,” she said. tim@oakpark.com

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in August, following a PharmaCann press release announcing the company’s work developing a “first-of-its-kind” capsule designed to absorb better and have longer-lasting and more reliable effects. The so-called self-emulsifying drug delivery system technology “has been widely used in the nutrition, nutraceutical, biotech and pharmaceutical industries, and has been shown to significantly improve the absorption of everything from antivirals to immunosuppressant drugs,” according to the press release issued in late July. Unruh said the drug delivery capsules aim to “make sure a higher percentage of the active ingredient is available to the body.”

“This self-emulsifying technology has been proven in other pharmaceuticals but not cannabis,” he said in the interview. PharmaCann’s goal was to bring a mainstream pharmaceutical sensibility and process to the products sold “so patients know what they’re getting, and they’re getting the same thing every time,” Unruh said. The pending sales of PharmaCann and Seven Point dispensary both come about a month after Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner signed a bill authored by state Sen. Don Harmon (D-Oak Park) making it easier and faster for patients to acquire medical cannabis cards. The Alternatives to Opioids Act allows patients who have been prescribed opioidbased drugs to instead get a temporary medical-cannabis card. The new law, which went into effect upon Rauner’s signature, also allows those prescribed medical cannabis to get a temporary card, giving them immediate access to the drug. Prior to the new law cardholders have experienced months-long waits before their cards are made available. Although PharmaCann’s focus has been on the medical cannabis industry its pending sale and that of the local dispensary Seven Point also could be in anticipation of legalization of the sale of recreational cannabis in Illinois. Gubernatorial candidate J.B. Pritzker has said on the campaign trail that if elected he will approve legalization of the drug for recreational use. tim@oakpark.com

of assisted living apartments, with a fourth floor rising in the middle of the building. That floor will contain assisted-living apartments and green rooftop courtyard. A pitched roof will rise to 68.5 feet on the Harlem Avenue facade, more than double the village’s zoning limit of 30 feet for the site. “The cart has been put before the horse,” said resident Saskia Belore. “We have a developer with no ties to the community, with a land use that we are not zoned for, that has entered this process dictating the terms to us rather than the village having a clear plan.” The Sheridan at River Forest was approved on the condition that the village’s Traffic and Safety Commission look into prohibiting right turns onto Harlem Avenue from the development and for permit parking on nearby residential streets; that the developer plant trees on neighbors’ property, if residents request them; to restrict delivery hours from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m.; to remove snow from the public right of way; and that the property remains on the village’s tax rolls. “We’re hopeful we’ll be given the chance to help the village achieve its goal of becoming one of the most dementia-friendly communities in the nation by providing a better housing option to seniors,” said Bob Gawronsky, vice president of development for Senior Lifestyle. Jennifer Tammen, principal at Ehlers

and Associates, an accounting firm hired by the village, reviewed developers’ economic impact study and projected that, once the project is built and stabilized in about 30 months, it would generate $581,000 in overall revenue to taxing districts, with at least $68,000 benefiting the village. “The important thing is the schools will get $400,000 in essentially free money,” Trustee Tom Cargie said. “They’re going to get additional tax revenue without additional kids to teach. This is a development that ensures that our schools will not have to raise our taxes as much next year.” Despite having reservations about the height of the development, Trustee Patty Henek also said she was looking forward to the ways the community could become involved in the senior care project, including partnering with high school, Concordia University Chicago and Dominican University students. “I’m really still disappointed in the height,” Henek said. “I was really still hoping that we would be able to provide some relief to the neighbors, but I do think it’s for the greater good for the broader community.” Gawronsky pushed back against assertions that, since the project was initially presented in three versions at a smaller size, that developers could have decreased

the size of the project and have it remain financially viable. “We’re in an environment of rising interest rates, especially construction costs,” Gawronsky said. “This plan was recommended by the [Development Review Board] after a significant amount of back and forth. [A plan for] 106 [units] was not financially feasible.” Mark Daniel, an attorney with the Oakbrook-based Daniel Law Office enlisted to represent nearby neighbors, filed a protest of the development, alleging that the senior care facility represented “floating zoning” since trustees were approving a development whose use, parking and classification are not outlined in the village code, that the development represented illegal contract zoning and that the village’s process for approving the plan has legal procedural issues. “This projected does not remotely fit within the goals and objectives in the 2003 comprehensive plan,” Daniel said. Village Attorney Greg Smith pushed back against Daniels’ claims, saying the village’s process for reviewing developments was greater than state requirements and that the village was not trading developers zoning rights for some type of benefit “Don’t be distracted by the claims,” he said. CONTACT: ntepper@wjinc.com

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ous charitable organizations and backed a variety of business ventures in the village, including the Marion Street Cheese Market and Greenline Wheels. Stephen Schuler, who helped launch PharmaCann in 2014, also ran for the Oak Park School District 200 Board in 2015 but withdrew his candidacy months before the election, stating: “After further consideration of the talented slate of candidates, in addition to several other personal and professional factors, I have decided to withdraw my candidacy for District 200.” The press release put out on Oct. 11 by PharmaCann notes that the all-stock transaction with PharmaCann would give MedMen “a portfolio of cannabis licenses in 12 states that will permit the combined company to operate 79 cannabis facilities.” PharmaCann currently operates dispensaries in Arlington Heights, Evanston, North Aurora and Ottawa and production facilities in Dwight and Hillcrest, according to the company’s website. The MedMen press release says PharmaCann is among the largest medical cannabis companies in the country, operating 10 dispensaries and three cultivation facilities in Illinois, New York, Maryland and Massachusetts. “The company also owns licenses for retail stores in Pennsylvania, Maryland,

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Unanimously approved from page 1 est business owners and other taxing bodies that serve our village. I, for one, will always choose what’s in the best interest of the entire village.” Although village code technically outlaws such facilities from operating anywhere in River Forest, developer Senior Lifestyle and the Kaufman Jacobs investment firm aim to build a four-story, 125-unit senior living home at 800-826 N. Harlem Ave. Named The Sheridan at River Forest, it will house 92 assisted-living and 33 memory-care service apartments, mostly one-bedroom units, with an average assisted-living unit priced at $5,500 per month, and the average memory-care unit running $6,800 per month. The development will occupy approximately 1.5 acres, and sit at the northwest corner of Chicago and Harlem avenues. The ground floor will consist of common spaces for programs, dining and 66 parking spaces. The second floor will contain a mix of assisted-living and memory-care support spaces, with a landscaped courtyard for memory-care patients. The third floor will consist

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OPRF student found

Kayla Mason, 14, had been missing since Sept. 25 By MICHAEL ROMAIN Staff Reporter

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UNSAFE LANDING: Destroyed storefront on Chicago Avenue in Oak Park.

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Chicago man drives into businesses on Chicago Ave. Police charge driver with driving under the influence

Blind Creations Tattoos, 250 ½ Chicago Ave., tearing off the façade to the two storefronts and causing extensive structural damage to the building. It’s uncertain whether Thai Oak Park Express, 250 Chicago Ave., was damaged By TIMOTHY INKLEBARGER Staff Reporter in the crash. No other vehicles were inA Chicago man has been charged volved in the accident, Grivetti with driving under the influence said in a telephone interview. after wrecking his SUV, which he “He was driving at a high drove into two commercial storerate of speed and drove off the fronts in the 200 block of Chicago road and onto the sidewalk and Avenue at 2:17 a.m., according to hit the building,” Grivetti said. Oak Park police. No one was seriously inThe driver, Larell D. Jackson, 25, jured in the accident, but one of the 4500 block of Wilcox Avenue passenger was taken to Loyola in Chicago, was charged with drivLARELL D. JACKSON Medical Center for lacerations ing under the influence, failure to to the head, Grivetti said. reduce speed to avoid an accident, He said the Oak Park Fire Department driving on the sidewalk and driving withalso responded to the accident. out insurance, according to Oak Park Police Jackson was taken into custody and was Commander Roger Grivetti. Jackson drove his vehicle into Barber’s released on a 10 percent bond of $3,000. tim@oakpark.com Gallery, 252 Chicago Ave., and the adjacent

An Oak Park and River Forest High School student who had been missing for two weeks was recently found. Officials with the high school posted on Monday to the District 200 Facebook page that Oak Park police confirmed that Kayla Mason, 14, is with her family. Mason had been missing since Sept. 25, according to a profile on the National Center on Missing and Exploited Children’s website. CONTACT: michael@oakpark.com

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Vehicle left running, stolen A white 2015 Chevy Captiva that was left running and unattended was stolen from a parking lot in the 100 block of South Humphrey Avenue, Oak Park, at 8:50 on Oct. 13. The estimated loss $15,000. ■ Someone attempted to steal a vehicle in the 900 block of South Taylor, sometime between 5 and 6:20 p.m. on Oct. 14. The make and model of the car were not given by police. The offender forced open the rear driver’s side window and gained entry to the vehicle. They then damaged the plastic casing surrounding the ignition cylinder but failed to steal the vehicle. No estimated loss was given. ■ A blue 2017 Nissan Versa that was reported stolen out of Matteson, Illinois, on Oct. 5, 2018, was recovered in the 600 block of Madison Street, Oak Park, at 2:55 p.m. on Oct. 11. The vehicle was identified as a Hertz rental car. ■ A gray 2001 Chevrolet Silverado that was reported stolen on Oct. 4, 2018, in Chicago was recovered in the 100 block of North Cuyler Avenue in Oak Park at 4:38 a.m. on Oct. 10.

Burglary ■ A garage was burglarized in the 300 block of South Cuyler Avenue, sometime between 5 p.m. on Oct. 13 and 2:30 p.m. on Oct. 14. The offender entered the garage through an unlocked side service door and stole a Cannondale and a Trek bicycle. The estimated loss is $1,350. ■ A 2006 Honda Odyssey was burglarized in the 1300 block of North Austin Boulevard, sometime between 4:30 and 5 p.m. on Oct. 8. The offender took a wallet from the center console valued at $20. ■ Johnnie E. Jackson, 54, of the 2700 block of West Roosevelt Road, Chicago, was arrested in the 5600 block of West End,

Chicago, at 8:48 p.m. on Oct. 8, and charged with a burglary that occurred in the 300 block of South Elmwood Avenue in Oak Park. The date of the burglary was not given.

Criminal trespass Someone forced open a basement door to gain entry to a building in the 100 block of Washington Boulevard in Oak Park sometime between 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 6 and 7:30 a.m. on Oct. 8. Once inside, they broke a third-floor window and a section of exterior railing and left traces of a substance believed to be cannabis on the floor. The estimated loss due to damage is unknown. These items, obtained from the Oak Park and River Forest police departments, came from reports, Oct. 8-15, 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. Compiled by Timothy Inklebarger

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or 12 years John Lawrence has been a mainstay of the local real estate scene, founding his real estate practice in 2006 and franchising with Weichert Realtors in 2008. From a corner office at Oak Park Avenue and North Boulevard, his group of real estate agents has operated in the center of town and been responsible for placing many local homeowners in their homes. On Oct. 1, Lawrence announced that Weichert Realtors Nickel Group was joining Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff Realty Group. Lawrence will stay on as Managing Broker. For Lawrence, the partnership allows him to keep doing what he has always aimed to do: provide his agents and their clients with the best tools and resources available. He notes that much of the technology his firm and their clients embraced and promoted, like three-dimensional home tours will remain, and says the partnership allows him to do a lot more than he could do on his own. “Berkshire Hathaway Homeservices KoenigRubloff has an amazing presence in the Chicago Market,” Lawrence said. “I look at my job as putting our agents JOHN LAWRENCE in the best position Managing Broker with the tools and resources they need to help our clients buy and sell homes.” Another tangible benefit is marketing. The actual quality of the physical marketing materials is better than what Lawrence could provide as a smaller office. Lawrence says that the high quality of the materials is a visual signal that they are offering a first-class experience for their clients who are buying or selling a home. In addition, the reach of that marketing, and the association of the brand with Warren Buffet opens doors that were not available to him as a smaller shop. “The national and international exposure is important,” Lawrence said. He points out that the company can market properties online in China in a way no competitor can because of firewalls set up in that

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JOINING FORCES: John Lawrence says the acquisition of Weichert Realtors Nickel Group by Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff will provide the local Oak Park office with additional marketing resources and international reach. country. They also have a strong presence with international print publications such as the Financial Times of London. “We have the ability to get places that other companies can’t go or don’t think they can go,” Lawrence said. In addition, the online presence of the company is orchestrated to make listings easily translatable into other languages and includes currency conversions for clients working from abroad.

National trend, local trend A little less than a year ago, another local name, Gloor Realty, joined forces with a larger brand when the Oak Park office became part of the Coldwell Banker brand, bringing a national name to the local real estate market. Lawrence says his office’s move is definitely part of a larger trend of larger firms coming in to acquire smaller offices in vibrant

towns. “Oak Park is highly desirable,” he said. Nancy Nagy, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff Realty Group says that there was a lot drawing the company to the area. “There is so much to love about Oak Park and River Forest – the history and character, beautiful architecture and rich culture,” Nagy said. “The thriving downtowns have great dining, entertainment and unique retail shops that are a draw for new construction and home buyers. “While this is a new office for Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff Realty Group, we are entering this market by partnering with brokers who are wellestablished here. We value and have always wanted a presence in Oak Park, River Forest, and the surrounding communities, so we are beyond thrilled that this is the next step in continuing the growth of our company.”

Nagy notes that the firm has west suburban offices in Hinsdale, Elmhurst, Glen Ellyn, Wheaton and Naperville. The Oak Park location is a natural fit for their first office in the near west suburbs. While the signage is already changing in the office and on the Oak Park Avenue exterior, Lawrence said that his 56 agents will continue to offer the same service they always have. “The office is staying here, I’m staying in this position,” he said. “The staff is the same. We’re a well-oiled machine already, everything is just getting smarter.” For Nagy, Lawrence and the strength of his agents were a big draw. “John Lawrence and the brokers in this office are extremely well-respected and have deep ties within the area,” Nagy said. “They understand the market and needs of homeowners, and what attracts buyers who want to live here.”

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RIVER FOREST HOMES BURMA BUILT BUHRKE HOUSE combines Tudor revival & chateau style architecture elements. Gorgeous décor and impeccable attention to detail in both house and landscaped grounds. ................................................................... $2,399,000 BEAUTIFUL RIVER FOREST ESTATE features a stone and brick exterior leading to a timeless Interior. Includes a two story marble foyer, spiral staircase, 5 fireplaces. ..........................................................................................................$1,895,000 SPECTACULAR HOME offers modern/elegant architectural design, tasteful decor and impeccable attention to detail throughout, featuring 4 BRs, and 5 full baths..................................................................................................................$1,595,000 CLASSIC, ELEGANT HOME with exceptional design & open floor plan. Special features include a dramatic double door entry, gracious foyer, limestone mantle, open great room. .............................................................................................$1,250,000 PRICE REDUCED SETTING A NEW STANDARD in approachable elegance, this five bedroom, 3-1/2 bath home will exceed your expectations. One of a kind floor plan, and 3 fully finished levels.............................................................$1,250,000 SPECTACULAR HOME features generously sized bedrooms, loads of closet space, a chef’s kitchen. High end features throughout. Two car attached garage...... ............................................................................................................................$1,200,000 IMPECCABLY MAINTAINED COMTEMPORARY HOME includes 3 BRs, 3 full and 3 half BAs, unique bamboo floors, multi-faced gas fireplace, in-ground pool. ....................................................................................................................$940,000 HANDSOME TUTOR with original details that beautifully blend with updated baths and kitchen. 4 BR, 4-1/2 BA home with full outdoor kitchen and patio. .......... ...............................................................................................................................$899,000 LOVELY TUTOR HOME offers beautiful woodwork and custom built-ins throughout. Original details blend seamlessly with the updated 3-story addition.... ...............................................................................................................................$899,000 LOVELY BRICK GEORGIAN with elegance, modern day conveniences, and space. Hardwood floors, 3 fireplaces, sunroom with heated floors, LL rec room. ..... ...............................................................................................................................$875,000 STUNNING & SOPHISTICATED ENGLISH TUDOR on highly desired RF block! Beautiful brick home flooded with natural light and offers quality and stunning details throughout. ....................................................................................$719,000 GREAT LOCATION & EASY LIVING in this Tri-level home. Great flow for entertaining, complete with family room. Finished LL. Growth to make it your own....................................................................................................................... $619,000 BEAUTIFUL 3 LEVEL SINGLE FAMILY offers 3800+ sq/ft of living! Open concept on first floor. Second floor features 4 BRs & sunroom overlooking backyard. .....................................................................................................................$595,000

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OAK PARK HOMES

UNPRECEDENTED ESTATE in the Frank Lloyd Wright Historical district of OP! Meticulously renovated property offers exquisite details and refined finishes. A showcase home! ..............................................................................................$1,625,000 YOU WON’T BE DISAPPOINTED in this recently renovated, move-in ready E.E. Roberts home. This stunning 4 BR prairie style house is located in OP’s estate section. .................................................................................................................$899,000 COMFORT & CONTENTMENT LIVING in gracious A.L. Gardner House. Many improvements include a total kitchen redo and finished 3rd floor family room......... ...............................................................................................................................$899,000 STATELY BRICK CENTERENTRANCE COLONIAL. WB fireplace, high ceilings, crown molding, architectural details, leaded glass windows, hardwood throughout. .........................................................................................................$760,000 LARGE ENGLISH COUNTRY TUDOR HOME with 5 BRs, 3-1/2 BAs in OP’s Historic District. Impressive home blends both old and new, with natural woodwork.......................................................................................................................$749,950 WONDERFUL HOME offers a combination of original features and updated modern conveniences in this five bedroom, 2 full, 2 half bath home..........$719,000 CENTER OF TOWN VICTORIAN with high ceilings, four spacious levels of living, 5 BRs, 3-12 Bas, sun room. Great flow, natural light & storage throughout! ... ...............................................................................................................................$675,000 MOVEIN READY! Enjoy the well thought out design of this 5 BR, 4 BA home! Open floor plan, kitchen/fam room combo, finished bsmt. .........................$599,900

CLASSIC QUEEN ANNE HOME with 3 bedrooms, 3-1/2 baths includes sun room, family room, updated kitchen, great closet space, fin rec room, custom deck. .....................................................................................................................$545,000 LARGE BUNGALOW with beautiful slate entry, amazing art glass windows, hardwood floors & stunning period lighting throughout! ............................$529,900 A TRUE OP BEAUTY! Enjoy the deep park-like lot in Northwest Oak Park. Well maintained 1905 Farmhouse with 3 BR, 1-1/2 baths. In great condition! ..$479,900 SO MUCH TO LOVE about this house in the Historic Harrison Street District built in 1913! Since then, house has doubled in size and sits on an eco friendly lot............ ...............................................................................................................................$465,000 READY TO MOVE IN charming 3 BR home fea tures a welcoming front porch with swing and sitting area. Home offers oak woodwork, stained glass & hardwood floors.....................................................................................................................$453,000 SIDE ENTRANCE COLONIAL offers a generous LR with wood burning fireplace, formal DR, breakfast room, laundry in basement, mature fenced yard. ........... ...............................................................................................................................$450,000 WARM, INVITING CLASSIC OP HOME with vintage charm throughout. Stained glass window, hardwood floors, beamed ceiling, built-in cabinet, eat-in kitchen..................................................................................................................$415,000 CLASSIC OAK PARK BRICK HOME on a beautiful block in great location. Large living, hardwood floors under carpet. Large MBR + 2 additional bedrooms. . ................................................................................................................................$337,000

FOREST PARK HOMES METICULOUSLY MAINTAINED NEW CONSTRUCTION. Open floor plan features 10 ft ceilings, hardwood floors, and many custom details from crown molding to door handles. ..................................................................................$449,000 TWO STORY BRICK & FRAME HOME w/open floor plan on first floor with slate entry & hardwood floors. Basement is semi finished with laundry room. ........ ...............................................................................................................................$395,000

ELMWOOD PARK HOMES LARGE BRICK COLONIAL beautifully renovated from top to bottom! Some updates include wood floors, plumbing, electrical, appliances, siding, roof.$409,000 JUST MOVE IN! Serious pride of ownership is evident in this wonderful home. Crown molding, a remodeled cook’s kitchen, separate breakfast room with builtins, den. A must see............................................................................................$320,000 CHARMING ENGLISH TUDOR sits on oversized lot. 3 bedroom, 2-1/2 bath home offers eat-in Kitchen, family room, cedar closets, basement with rec room & wet bar. ................................................................................................................$318,000

CONDOS/TOWNHOMES/2-FLATS PRICE REDUCED RIVER FOREST 3BR, 2BA........................................$309,000 RIVER FOREST 2BR, 2BA Penthouse condo w/balcony. .........................$264,500 RIVER FOREST 2BR, 2BA. Large balcony...................................................$199,000 PRICE REDUCED OAK PARK 3BR, 3-1/2BA..........................................$555,000 OAK PARK 3BR, 3BA. Two separate balconies............................................$412,500 OAK PARK 2BR 2BA. Newer elevator building! ..........................................$315,000 OAK PARK 3BR, 2BA. “Chicago style apartment”. ..................................... $249,000 OAK PARK 2BR, 1BA. Original character/modern comforts. ....................$160,000 OAK PARK 1BR, 1BA. Spacious, sunny, top floor. ....................................... $129,900 OAK PARK 1BR, 1BA. Vintage condo. ...........................................................$115,000 OAK PARK 1BR, 1BA. Updated kitchen and bath. ........................................$99,000 FOREST PARK 2BR, 2BA. Light, bright, airy end unit................................$174,900 PRICE REDUCED FOREST PARK 1BR, 1BA. .........................................$174,500 PRICE REDUCED FOREST PARK 1BR, 1BA..........................................$105,000 FOREST PARK 1BR, 1BA. Balcony & parking space. ................................... $99,500 NEW LISTING FOREST PARK 1BR, 1BA. ................................................$89,900

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314 S. Kenilworth Ave, Elmhurst Open House - Sunday, Oct. 21, 3-5pm UNIQUE ENGLISH TUDOR set in Elmhurst’s most sought after neighborhood amongst many other historic homes and new custom builds. Set on a premium 90 x 190 lot and walking distance to award winning schools, downtown Elmhurst & metra station. Offering over 3,100 sf, 5 Beds & 3 Baths – Asking Price - $925,000

Mike Muisenga, Broker (630) 815-5043 mmuisenga@gmail.com

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

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

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

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

Stylish brick English Tudor. Beautifully designed.

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

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

KATHY & TONY IWERSEN 708.772.8040 708.772.8041 tonyiwersen@atproperties.com

Historic Opportunity

ou must visit to appreciate the amazing location, and the comfort and contentment you will find living in the gracious A.L. Gardner House at 308 N. Kenilworth, in the heart of the Frank Lloyd Wright Historic District (what a block!) in Oak Park. The current owners have retained all the original character while bringing it into the 21st century. The wonderfully high ceilings start in the gracious entryway and continue all the way to the entirely new kitchen and eating area, redone in 2016. The whole family will want to go barefoot in the kitchen after experiencing the heated ceramic tile floor! Relax on the wrap around screened porch, surrounded by entirely new landscaping and fencing done in 2017. Or maybe escape to the totally finished 3rd floor family room! Too many other improvements to list. Walk to Holmes Elementary, parks, Green Line, Metra, and downtown Oak Park. Living doesn’t get any easier! 308 N. Kenilworth is listed at $899,000. For more information, contact Laurel Saltzman of Gagliardo Realty Associates, 630-728-8385 or Laurel@GagliardoRealty.com

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211 Elgin Ave. UNIT 5K, Forest Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Baird & Warner Oak Park/River Forest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$190,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 2222 Grove Ave, Berwyn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re/Max In The Village . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $312,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2 6817 W. Medill Ave, Chicago. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $345,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Sat. 1-3 1150 S. Humphrey Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . @properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $368,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2:30-4 708 S. Wesley Ave, Oak Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $370,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 1122 N. Harvey Ave, Oak Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . @properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $439,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2

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1016 Baldwin Ln, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Baird & Warner Oak Park/River Forest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $450,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 1217 N. Marion St, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re/Max In The Village . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $489,500 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11:30-1 108 Wesley Ave, Oak Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Baird & Warner Oak Park/River Forest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $549,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2 842 N. Elmwood Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . @properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $584,900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-3 1446 Clinton Pl, River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $595,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2 1330 Lathrop Ave, River Forest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $619,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 514 N. Grove Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Baird & Warner Oak Park/River Forest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $624,900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-1:30 555 William St, River Forest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $629,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2:30-4 101 N. Euclid Ave. UNIT 12, Oak Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Baird & Warner Oak Park/River Forest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $642,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-3:30 1138 N. Ridgeland Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $665,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 732 S. Taylor Ave, Oak Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Baird & Warner Oak Park/River Forest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $699,900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-3 1426 Jackson Ave, River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $719,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 1021 N. Elmwood Ave, Oak Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Baird & Warner Oak Park/River Forest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $730,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 1206 Lathrop Ave, River Forest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $795,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 719 Linden Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Coldwell Banker Residential. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $825,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 314 S. Kenilworth Ave, Elmhurst . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices/Prairie Path Realtors . . . . . . . . $925,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-5 236 Forest Ave, River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $995,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3

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415 S. Maple Ave. UNIT 201, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . @properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $134,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2 635 Garfield St. UNIT 2, Oak Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re/Max In The Village . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$150,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Sat. 1-3 110 S. Marion St. UNIT 308, Oak Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . @properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $600,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-1

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120 Chicago Ave. UNIT E, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re/Max In The Village . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $269,800 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:30-3 15 Forest Ave. UNIT 19, River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . @properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $554,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-1 15 Forest Ave. UNIT 19, River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . @properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $554,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Sat. 11-1

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Congratulations to the 2018 Business Spotlight Award Winners! The 3rd Annual Business Spotlight Awards celebrate & recognize local businesses and organizations. In 2018, the program received 600+ nominations for nearly 200 nominees across or ssix categories. The OPRF Chamber congratulates all distinguished finalists and 2018 winners!

2018Â Winners Community Character Escape Factor

Customer Experience Lively Athletics

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Local Legends Hephzibah Children's Association

New and Notable L!VE Cafe

Small Biz Superhero Distinctive Coaching for Business Success

2018 Finalists Community Character Adam Doe, State Farm Agency Chicago Literary Hall of Fame CycleBar OPRF Divine Consign North Riverside EDUCO Web Design Escape Factor Hit It! Fitness L!VE Cafe Lively Athletics Oak Park Friends School Local Legend 19th Century Charitable Assocation Beyond Properties Classic Cinemas Lake Theatre Corna Kitchen and Bath Dominican University Hephzibah Children's Association Master S. H. Yu Martial Arts New Rebozo Pleasant Home Foundation Sassetti - Certified Public Accountants

Customer Experience Corna Kitchen Bath & Tile CycleBar OPRF Lively Athletics MaidPro Oak Park NameOnAnything.com River Forest Chocolates SPENGA Oak Park TAN Travel The Barre Code - Oak Park The Dailey Method - Oak Park

Excellent Eats Autre Monde Barclay's American Grille Born & Braised Mancini's Nature Yoga Sanctuary Cafe Obsessed Kitchen and Bar River Forest Chocolates Skrine Chops Spilt Milk The Heritage

New & Notable Bricks Wood Fired Pizza CAA The Hearing Place It Takes a Village Birth + Family Support Jamilla Yipp Photography L!VE Cafe La Notte Ristorante Italiano Nature Yoga Sanctuary Cafe Oak Park Banquets The Birth Boutique The Historical Society of OP & RF

Small Business Superhero Dr. Constantine L. Politis, DDS Dr. Mary Ann Bender Escape Factor Hit It! Fitness Palmgren Acupuncture Starship Restaurant & Catering TcPhotography The Actors Garden The Barre Code - Oak Park

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Taking a pass on a third term

ith two months remaining to file petitions for next spring’s local elections, I wanted all Oak Parkers — including those thinking of running for office — to know that I will not be seeking a third term as an Oak Park village trustee. Although I have cherished the time I’ve spent serving all residents of Oak Park, I’ve always told anyone who would listen that two terms seems like the right amount of time to serve in one locally elected position. And my thinking hasn’t changed. My departure does not mean that I think all of our work is finished. There will always be something left to complete, and the next big issue facing the community will always be right around the corner. Yet after two terms, it’s time for me to take a break. I am very proud of what we have accomplished. Among other things, we made Oak Park a welcoming village, helping to underscore our longstanding commitment to being a diverse and welcoming community to all at a critical time in history. I fought to ensure that Oak Park did not opt out of Cook County’s minimum wage law. I was an early supporter of the village’s involvement with the Collaboration for Early Childhood Care & Education to help all of our children reach their full potential. I have advocated consistently for affordable housing, environmental sustainability and racial equity. When I took office in 2011, residents were clamoring for economic development to take hold in our village, and through intentional, defined efforts, Oak Park has made tremendous strides. I have tried to serve as a moderating voice, bringing different opinions together to help us establish a path forward for our community. During all of these decisions, the tax burden on Oak Parkers has remained forefront in my mind. Critical investments in aging infrastructure and pension payments needed to be made, as did difficult cuts in staffing and programs. None of this was ever easy. I’ve never been a particularly good politician, but I think I’ve been a good public servant, remaining true to Oak Park’s core values. I was raised by two loving, involved, progressive parents who stressed the value of public service and the importance of fighting for those who are less fortunate. I have always tried to be a strong, practical, progressive voice on the village board. And Oak Parkers have always pushed me and made me better. The election results of November 2016 lit a fire under many people. I am thrilled that so many people are getting involved, paying attention to local issues and considering running for office. Serving on the village board may not be glamorous work, but it is incredibly important work. And the board is well supported by a smart, ethical, hard-working and committed village staff. To those of you who are critical thinkers, truly interested in governing and setting good policy, and willing to listen to a variety of perspectives about how best to move forward: consider stepping up to run. You won’t regret it. I never have. A lot of important work and decisions lie ahead in the next six months, and I plan to finish my term continuing to advocate for the same policies and values that I have pushed for over the past seven and a half years. I expect all of you to continue to push me. Thank you for giving me the amazing opportunity to serve.

BOB

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The balloons are back!

or those of you who remember your childhood days in Oak Park, Carmen Pistilli was a legend. Mr. Pistilli sold balloons on the corner of Oak Park and Chicago avenues for 50 years. On Sunday afternoons, the Balloon Man, with his colorful balloons, was always cause for jubilation among the children of Oak Park. It has been almost 30 years since Mr. Pistilli stood on this corner, but a lifelong resident of Oak Park will restore that tradition this Saturday in the same spot where Mr. Pistilli stood, selling balloons. I’ll be there for two reasons: The first is to bring back the nostalgic days of Oak Park and share the story of the Balloon Man with anyone who is willing to listen. The primary focus, though, will be to raise funds for an iconic Oak Park institution — Hephzibah Children’s Association. All proceeds from this sale will benefit Hephzibah, and its mission “To help children thrive and families flourish through innovative, communitybased programs” (Hephzibah website). As a member of the Oak Park Auxiliary Board for Hephzibah, I believe strongly in its mission. One day as I drove past the corner of Oak Park and Chicago, I remembered the man who sold balloons for so many years and thought it would be great to bring back this tradition. And why not tie it into a charitable cause such as Hephzibah? I spoke with the owner of the home on that corner, who supported the event. I then went to the village to obtain a permit to sell (solicitors are only allowed to sell on Saturdays and not PHOTOS PROVIDED Sundays) and then went to the Oak BALLOON MEN: Carmen Pistilli, aka the Balloon Man, sold his wares at Park River Forest Museum to reOak Park and Chicago avenues. Top, David Wick and Bridget Carlson search the story behind Mr. Pistilli sell balloons for Hephzibah in the same location and his balloons. The last step is selling the baldo even better this Saturday. loons. Twelve different varieties of In the end, I’m hoping to raise funds for a worthy Mylar balloons, geared toward children, will be offered. cause like Hephzibah and reminisce about Oak Park, Each balloon costs $5. Free-will donations will be grabringing back a piece of Oak Park’s folklore. It should ciously accepted. Meanwhile, I will share the stories of be fun. If you have any questions, feel free to email me both Carmen Pistilli and Hephzibah, as well as listen at nc2332cn@yahoo.com. to any memories you might wish to share. I previously Saturday, Oct. 20 (rain or shine), 11 a.m.-3 p.m., northhosted a balloon sale at this site in September. He was west corner, Oak Park and Chicago avenues, $5 for each happy to tell the story of both Carmen Pistilli and balloon, proceeds to Hephzibah Children’s Association. Hephzibah. We had good success with sales and hope to

DAVID WICK

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Two-term limit

e’re going to be sad to see Bob Tucker step down from Oak Park’s village board when his second term expires in the spring. He’s been a strong and effective public servant these almost eight years. But we’re supportive of the part of his reasoning which ties to the public benefit of elected officials stepping away after two terms in office. Being elected to the school board, park board or village board is not intended to be a life’s work. You come forward, do your best, and then step away so others might serve. In Oak Park, the unwritten tradition is a self-imposed limit of two terms and it works. Tucker, we suspect, wrestled with the issue and we wrestled, too, as we have a worry that in our divided moment, in a time when there is inevitably fair concern over property tax levels, that Oak Park will have a preponderance of candidates next spring focused solely on taxes. While every elected official needs to get religion on tax saturation, it isn’t so simple as just opposing every spending initiative. The issues of local government are complex and we need elected officials who see the nuance. Tucker has also been a trustee who advocated for our village’s long-held progressive values of equity and inclusion, ideals that might get lost if the bottom line is the only line.

Value in building Village boards in both River Forest and Oak Park, Monday night, OK’d mid-sized building projects that we actively support. In River Forest it is a new assisted living senior project for the under-developed northwest corner of Harlem and Chicago avenues. First a pie shop and more recently a branch bank swimming in a huge parking lot, this parcel can bring greater value to River Forest. This project also adds three single-family homes stretching north along Harlem. There has, of course, been opposition from immediate neighbors who haven’t minded the quiet, empty parking lot. But this is progress and it brings a necessary benefit to River Forest in a high-end assisted living facility that has been lacking in town. Meanwhile, the Oak Park Village Board on Monday approved an affordable housing project for a long-vacant corner at Oak Park Avenue and Van Buren. A respected developer will turn this abandoned gas station into 34 units of housing for working people. Again, some neighbors have objected. Too many units and not enough parking, they say. But a block from the Blue Line and with income levels not likely to clog a parking lot, this is a strong addition to Oak Park.

The rusty water tower We’ve been looking at the rusted-out CTA water tower at the far end of the Green Line for a long time. Looks like hell. But we all got a new view just last week when the Review posted a drone video of notable spots around these villages. Everything looked sharp and ship-shape until the CTA’s water tower came into focus. Looks worse from the air than from ground level. A year ago we updated the story about how this water tower, constructed in 1967, came to be so ignored. Regular complaints from officials in both Forest Park and River Forest get absolutely nowhere. The latest information from the CTA is that they lack the funds to either paint it or demolish it. So it sits, a bucket of rust, a mammoth eyesore. And with the CTA perpetually strapped for cash, an unlikely recipient of a fix.

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Remembering, reconnecting and saying thanks

his is the 25th anniversary of an article I wrote back in 1993, titled, “Whatever happened to the class of ’68?” about the 25th anniversary of their graduation from OPRF High School. It began like this: “As anyone who was alive and cognizant a quarter-century ago will recall, the world was coming to an end in 1968 — the Tet Offensive, anti-war demonstrations culminating in the Chicago Convention riots, the assassinations of King and Kennedy. The ’50s and ’60s hadn’t prepared us for this kind of turmoil. “What was it like finishing high school during that tumultuous year? What were the critical issues facing the senior class at Oak Park and River Forest High School? Well, as it turns out, things like swimming in the nude and dresses that had to be long enough to touch the ground when you knelt on the floor. “Those were just some of the memories excavated by members of the class of ’68, who returned recently to the place where the rest of their lives commenced 25 years ago.” Well, they’re back — this Friday at Goldy’s and Saturday at the 19th Century Club, the site of some of their sock-hops back in those now golden days of yore. Since I inadvertently became the class chronicler in 1993, it seems fitting to comment on the 25th anniversary of their 25th anniversary. In 1993, looking back, Oak Park in 1968 seemed almost quaint, even innocent. Now 1993 seems quaint and innocent. As the organizing committee — chaired by Kathy Sullivan and comprising Gary Patteau, Jim Payette, Gail Rummelhoff Milner, Jacqueline Sbarbro Swiss, Carol Schroeder Skowronski, Miriam Solon and Jim Tierney — has discovered, planning a reunion these days has gotten more … complicated. First, of course, their outreach efforts included technology that didn’t exist in ’93 — email, social media, even subscription services — and many class members are now retired, have moved, and/or disconnected their landlines. For classmates who said they couldn’t afford to attend, the committee put out a call for donations and 69 classmates (and three non-classmates) stepped up, giving enough (including $1,000 from Senior Class President Dan Schwartz, now the state treasurer of Nevada) to entice 14 classmates and three teachers to make the trip. Given the times they grew up in, they opted to honor class veterans, especially Vietnam vets, such as Sullivan’s late husband. Many more classmates, they discovered, have developed physical issues since their last reunion, which is why the committee chose the 19th Century Club for the Saturday venue, which allows front door drop off and an elevator immediately inside for access to the ballroom. Those who can’t make it will be sent signed cards and reunion booklets. Awareness of dietary restrictions, of course, was much on their minds, and they decided not to use balloons, plastic banners and other eco-unfriendly decorations. Centerpieces (from Dick Biggins and

Maggie Miles’ Empowering Gardens in Forest Park, which hires and trains the disabled) will come in clay pots, featuring greenery that can be replanted outdoors. In other words, the committee intentionally made their task more difficult in order to mirror the increasing complexity of modern life. Friday’s venue will be held at Goldy’s in Forest Park, owned by classmate Mike Sullivan (no relation to Kathy), who purchased the business from the father and uncle of classmate Ellie Goldstein Boyer. With this class, roots run deep. “From day one,” Kathy Sullivan said, “our goal was to honor the school, the teachers and the towns in which we were reared, as well as supporting the businesses of our classmates.” They opened the reunion account at Forest Park Bank where Don Offermann is senior vice president. Offermann was OPRF’s superintendent in 1993 and began his career as an English teacher there in 1968. Rick Storto, OPRF class of ’77, will serve as DJ, recommended by none other than the late great Val Camiletti of Val’s halla Records. April Ross, class of 1970, donated a 1968 Tabula belonging to her late sister Nancy Ross to serve as the sign-in book. “We achieved all of our lofty goals,” Sullivan said, “even as they grew throughout the past year.” The original class totaled 875. The number of (documented) deceased is 106. They tracked down all but 65 and contacted roughly 700. Over 200 classmates will attend, accompanied by 65 guests. The class of ’68 had 13 Vietnam veterans (three of whom are deceased, one of them listed on the Vietnam Memorial). Six of the 13 will attend the reunion. Non-Vietnam vets total 32, four of whom have died. And last, but never least in a place like Oak Park, 14 classmates are published authors. Reunions are an opportunity to remember where you came from, the community that formed and fostered you. But it’s also a reminder to the rest of us that this is a major part of what any community is about: producing offspring, educating them, and providing a springboard from which they launch. And every 25 years or so, a group comes back and ponders what this place means in their lives. As a community, we take comfort in the well-worn cliché, “Our children are our future.” But once in a while, the future returns and reminds us, “This community was our past.” “I think we’ve turned a reunion into something more impacting and far reaching, a class legacy,” said Kathy Sullivan. Whatever happened to the class of ’68? One quarter are returning this Friday and Saturday night to update and renew what one classmate wrote in the 1993 reunion booklet: “Has it really been [another] 25 years? Surely you jest! Since then we’ve faced many challenges. We’ve been put to the test. Remember the good times and forget all the rest. For then and for now, celebrate and treasure ‘those things that are best!’”

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Some feedback for Imagine OPRF

commend the Imagine Team for its commitment and the comprehensive plans proposed. As a parent of an OPRF High School alumnus and a former OPRF Booster Club member, I agree that infrastructure improvements/repairs and other improvements are needed. As a taxpayer, I strongly object to the deluxe options chosen by the Imagine Team. Here’s what I and many others imagine for OPRF: ■ Priority 1: Become ADA compliant and remove obstacles to disabled students and special ed students. Put in ramps, an elevator in the south wing, make bathrooms and classroom entrances wheelchair-accessible. Make gender-neutral restrooms and changing rooms available throughout the building. Use existing/surplus funds to accomplish this. Do not increase our property taxes. ■ Priority 2: Expand space and access to student-centered learning areas that can be used before, during, and after school, so that students who don’t have tablets, computers, or printers at home will not be disadvantaged. If — and only if — it can be done within a reasonable budget, the Student Commons hub for student services, located in the center of the building is a great idea. Do not increase our property taxes. ■ Priority 3: Renovate or replace the existing 25-meter pool to eliminate poor ventilation, falling ceiling tiles, and leaking, but keep the 25-meter size. We do not need a deluxe larger pool. Do not increase our property taxes. ■ Priority 4: Address overcrowding and safety concerns in performing arts and physical education areas, but without a deluxe rebuilding option. Do not increase our property taxes.

■ Priority 5: Schedule other repairs and renovations for future years as funds become available. Do not increase our property taxes. Two suggestions: ■ Invest in solar panels. The school has a huge footprint with plenty of usable roof area. Talk to the park district, which has reduced its energy bills by 20 to 25 percent after installing solar panels at Ridgeland Common and other locations. The Community Solar Program provides tax incentives and renewable energy credits. Contact the village of Oak Park Environmental Commission and/or Seven Generations Ahead and consult with their experts on this strategy. Publicize how much OPRF is saving and win points with the community. Do not increase our property taxes. ■ After you revise the Imagine proposal to reflect this over-taxed community’s desire for vastly more modest spending, create a vastly more transparent Imagine document that details each line item and its cost. My frustration with the existing handout we were provided at the Oct. 3 meeting lumps together too many projects in the “Scope of Work Summary” and attaches a huge number to each: $28.5 million, $66.7 million, $49.6 million. How did you get to these numbers? You make it impossible for the public to see where costs can be shaved. We need you to sharpen your pencils and trim costs. This community is not willing to be steamrolled into spending these colossal amounts of money, especially without seeing exactly how much is proposed on each improvement. Differentiate between needs and wants. Do not raise our property taxes. Ellen Edwards has been an Oak Park resident since 1974.

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University of Illinois students can have an impact in November Instead of feeling powerless about the situation in Washington D.C., Oak Park and River Forest residents can influence swing congressional races outside our safe blue 7th District. Our college students in other districts give us a big lever. If you have, or know a family who has, a child at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), you can encourage the student to register and vote on campus for Betsy Dirksen Londrigan for Congress. There are roughly 220 students from our community at UIUC. All they need is a student ID and a postmarked letter addressed to them at their local campus address to register and vote at the Illini Union for about a week and a half before the election. Illinois’ 13th Congressional District, which includes UIUC, Illinois State (ISU), and about 10 other schools, is a swing congressional district, so our efforts there have a big effect on who controls Congress. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg —we have students

all over the country that can do the same. If you have a child or know someone at university, look up their school here: tinyurl.com/competitive-schools-2018 to see if they are in a swing district. Specific registration requirements and early voting schedules depend on the local election authority. Here is a “how-to” doc for parents to motivate their kids and make a plan to vote, with details for on-campus early voting and grace period registration/voting at UIUC and ISU: tinyurl.com/vote2018-uiuc-isu-parents Beyond the UIUC and ISU campuses, google the clerk of the county listed for the school found in the “competitive-schools” link above. Control of Congress could depend on a few hundred votes in just a few districts. Talk to those students and make sure they vote in those swing districts.

Frank Hansen Oak Park

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Why Oak Park needs an inclusionary zoning ordinance

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one of the newly-built high-rises offer relief from high rents in Oak Park. As detailed last week, most current Oak Parkers cannot afford the rent in the newly-constructed high-rises, let alone buy a new condominium. It’s no surprise that so many of Oak Park’s seniors have had to leave the village they made so great and that their children can’t afford to return to the town where they grew up. Forty-seven percent of Oak Park’s tenants and 30 percent of its homeowners with a mortgage are cost burdened, spending a higher percentage of their income on housing costs than is financially healthy. It’s no surprise that none of this new construction offers homes they can afford. Developers have long contended that the cost of new construction is too high to build new housing that middle-class households with modest incomes can afford. So what can Oak Park do to keep the village within reach of more of its current residents? Plenty, starting with adopting a fair and balanced effective inclusionary zoning ordinance, which, for nearly 50 years, has been one of the most successful tools for producing new affordable housing at no taxpayer expense. It won’t solve the affordable housing crisis by itself, but it’s a good start. Anxious to bring new development to Oak Park, the village routinely allows developers to build new high-rises at much higher densities than the zoning code cur-

rently allows. Inclusionary zoning, however, allows these higher densities only when the developer reserves a percentage of all new units, typically 20 percent, at rents affordable to households of modest means. Since there’s been a lot of misinformation circulated about how inclusionary zoning works, here’s one example of a fair approach: For example, Oak Park would allow higher densities only when a developer agrees to rent 20 percent of all the units to households with incomes up to 80 percent of Chicagoland’s $84,583 area median income in 2018, namely $67,666. Those units would be affordable to a huge majority of Oak Parkers currently priced out of nearly all new construction — 35 percent of all households in the village, including most of the village’s African-American residents and nearly all Oak Park tenants. A developer seeking to build an 80-unit building where the zoning currently allows only 40 units, would have to include 16 affordable units (20 percent). Current village practices do not require any affordable units be included as the tables published last week show. Properly drafted, inclusionary zoning makes everybody a winner: ■ Oak Parkers gain more affordable housing without any government subsidy in the face of the shrinking supply of affordable housing. ■ Developers win with greater profits from building more market-rate units than

the current zoning allows. ■ The village, districts 97 and 200, and other taxing bodies win because the larger buildings generate more property tax than the smaller building the current zoning permits. ■ Local businesses benefit from the larger number of “captive” customers plus from households in the inclusionary units having more discretionary income to spend at local businesses. ■ The new scattered affordable units enable seniors, African Americans, and other middle-class households with modest incomes to continue to live in Oak Park, maintaining the village’s racial and economic diversity. ■ Neighbors win because the value of neighboring properties remain unchanged or even rise, according to studies of affordable housing. ■ And taxpayers don’t spend a cent to subsidize the much-needed affordable units scattered throughout new Oak Park residential developments. As the village starts to write its ordinance, attention must be paid to the research that shows successful inclusionary zoning needs to: ■ Provide predictability with a clear density bonus formula ■ Maintain affordability for at least 50 years, preferably 99 years, with village options to renew ■ Be mandatory; voluntary systems fail ■ Apply to the entire village; greater profits under inclusionary zoning will attract new construction to difficult-to-develop areas

DAN

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What made Magic Tree grow? In the words of Dr. Seuss, “Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.” That’s the spirit guiding all of us who had the honor and pleasure of working at Magic Tree bookstore over the past four years under the tremendous leadership and dedication of its owner, Beth Albrecht. Beth purchased the store with a fervent belief that she could steward it for the next generation. We witnessed firsthand the endless hours, hard work and creative events she planned to make Magic Tree grow. She breathed new life into the store, fostering a vibrant community of readers and book lovers of all ages. But running a bookstore in 2018 is not the same as running a bookstore in 1984 or even 2004. Growing competition, rising rents, and changing consumer habits have made

survival increasingly difficult for booksellers everywhere. When Beth made the difficult decision to put the store up for sale, as bittersweet as it was, we understood why. We just didn’t have enough business to keep the doors open. We are grateful for the thousands of customers, including many librarians and teachers, who have supported Magic Tree over its long history. Our loyal customers understand the fate of independent bookstores doesn’t rest entirely with their owners. It also rests in the hands of a community that believes in the power of books — and the power of purchasing them from local booksellers in their own village.

Andrea Edwards, Priscilla Williams, Lynda Fitzgerald, Karen Kitto, Ellen Cutter, Kjersti Anderson, Grace Brandt Magic Tree Bookstore staff

Lauber is right on target

Our thanks to Daniel Lauber for documenting what common sense has been telling us for some time that, due to poor decision-making on the part of local government, the village has be-

come unaffordable and unacceptably congested [New housing out of reach: What’s a village to do? Viewpoints, Oct. 10]. Many Oak Park residents saw these problems coming and protested

overdevelopment before the Vantage, Emerson and Albion were built, but our elected officials would not listen.

Barbara Croft, Norman Hane Oak Park

■ Place limits on resale prices of inclusionary condo units to keep them affordable to the same targeted income group ■ In lieu payments must no less than the cost of building a new unit, about $365,000 these days A host of other details must be worked out, based on factual research, not myths or politics. Drafting an inclusionary zoning ordinance cannot be rushed. In my 44-year association with Oak Park, I’ve seen there is nothing this village can’t do if it resists playing politics and puts its mind to it. At RegionalHousingSolutions. org, the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning (CMAP), Metropolitan Mayors Caucus, Metropolitan Planning Council, and Institute for Housing Studies at DePaul University, report that inclusionary zoning is the right tool for Oak Park. With a fair, effective inclusionary zoning ordinance, will enable Oak Park to continue to be the great racially and economically diverse community it has aspired to be for more than half a century. Get the facts on the inclusionary zoning ordinance that nearly 900 jurisdictions have adopted with the plethora of research available at http://www. http://oakparkwithinreach.org/ and http://planningcommunications.com/resources.htm. Former Oak Park Senior Planner Daniel Lauber, AICP, has worked with communities across the country to foster racial and economic integration and to preserve and create housing that households with modest incomes can afford. He has served as an expert witness before both houses of Congress.

Romain’s column is a must read

Along with many current and former Oak Parkers, my husband and I have been watching America to Me with great interest. The episodes are so dense with people and incidents and images — sad, moving, heroic, troubling, perplexing — that they can be difficult to digest and even to know where to begin a discussion. Thus, each week, I eagerly await Michael Romain’s reflections on the series. In each column, he has found a way to focus in on one profound theme, drawing from a broad range of sources — literary, scholarly, sociological, historical — for support and added insight. The wisdom of this paragraph from his first column has particularly stayed with me: “Race at OPRF, the film shows, is lived as an amoral fact. It’s a series of real-life propositions, split-second decisions, day-to-day tradeoffs. Race is a conundrum built atop layers and layers of decisions, some good, some bad, that actual, flesh-and-blood people are forced to navigate in the here and now.” Steve James’ series is a great gift to our community, as is Michael Romain’s column. I am grateful to Wednesday Journal for providing this channel for Romain’s writing and intellect. And I am grateful to Romain for his exceptional work.

Susan Messer Oak Park

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Collaboration yes, consolidation no

fter years of subsidizing every private development and commercial infrastructure improvement scheme they could find, even to the point of outsourcing most development negotiation and decisions to the Oak Park Development Corporation to put together fait accompli deals for the village board and the Plan Commission to approve (or else), they are now trying to position themselves as the guardians of property tax efficiency with classic austerity property tax cap and citizen fiscal review board limits to public spending, mostly focused on those “other” taxing bodies. According to documents included in the 2017 Village Budget report (not included in later reports), even with all the new development, from 2005 to 2014 total Equalized Assessed Value (EAV) for Oak Park was flat, with residents picking up a greater share of the levy, as the commercial property share dropped from 15% of EAV to 9%. This may have to do with Cook County Property tax corruption (same shift happened for all of Cook County), standard breaks for vacancy for commercial property, TIFs, or something

else, but it is striking data. Note that this occurred without even considering the demographic and retail mix of the new development, i.e. the three critical ratios in a state where, by far, the largest share of public school funding is from local property taxes (Illinois is at the bottom, or near bottom of states in its state funding share for public education): EAV/Public School Students, Property Tax Payees Without Public School Students/Total Property Tax Payees, and Total Local Sales and other Tax Receipts/ Property Tax Receipts. Also note that in Illinois’ system, towns with exclusive zoning, like River Forest, can ramp up their EAV/Property tax payee and student ratios, and towns with extensive retail and or industrial development can also afford a lower property tax rate. For this and other reasons, as is well known, Illinois’ system for funding public education is fundamentally unjust, inequitable, and inadequate. But the solution is not property tax caps and fiscal austerity for residents now that the real estate market is slowing down for devel-

opers, but more efficient spending and more equitable revenue sources that would tax finance, like a LaSalle Street financial transactions tax; and the wealthy, like progressive income, wealth, and property taxes. Property tax caps in California effectively decimated the public school system for decades, and ALEC-inspired spending limits and citizen financial control boards have had similar destructive effects in Colorado, Kansas, and other states where they have been implemented. In the last municipal election, all three candidates who presented themselves as opposing Albion won on the basis of broad popular opposition to the current board majority’s misguided arguments that subsidizing increased development and raising EAV (in the 2005 to 2014 period there was no sign of this) would reduce property taxes. Two of these, trustees Andrews and Moroney, who are cited in the Journal article, effectively slapped their supporters in the face, as they flipped after they were elected and voted for the Albion project.

RON

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We at VOICE are now proceeding to carefully vet our newly endorsed candidates to ensure that they, unlike the two that many of us voted for in the last local election, will actually follow through on their public statements and serve the interests of the residents of Oak Park and not the developer and business interests (who support publicly subsidized growth in residents and especially higher-income residents relative to growth in retail, i.e. maybe one floor of retail) that in recent years have effectively captured our boards of trustees, to the point that they almost succeeded in forcing Oak Park opt out of the Cook County living wage and sick leave ordinance. Please vote against the consolidation and property tax propaganda referendum, and for our VOICE-endorsed trustees in the next election. Collaboration yes, consolidation no. Folks who run for village trustee generally do not have the interest or expertise to oversee schools, parks, or senior services. Ron Baiman teaches economics in the MBA program of Benedictine University, is a 24-year Oak Park resident, and an active member of VOICE.

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A Racial Equity Policy for District 200

n September, with the national premiere of America to Me, District 200 leadership asserted a commitment to become a national model for racial equity education. Indeed, racial equity efforts are underway in D200, but they are missing an essential component that leading school districts in Portland, Oregon and Minneapolis have adopted. We maintain that if D200 hopes to approach best practices around racial equity in education, OPRF High School must immediately adopt and carry forward a defined Racial Equity Policy. Below we share the central features of a racial equity policy framework we recently presented to D200. We recognize that the barriers to equitable educational services are historical and can be rooted in cultural assumptions. Racial equity reaches beyond simply addressing individual bias or personal unconscious bias, and looks to remedy policies, practices, procedures, and the allocation of resources resulting in structural racism that works better for one culture, and negatively impacts communities of color. Protocols necessary for the district’s Racial Equity Policy involve leadership, specific plans, development of processes, the collection of data with measurement of impact, and training. Leadership – Following the adoption of this framework, the district will appoint a Racial Equity Administrator (REA) to implement the Racial Equity Policy and report to the superintendent with a system of communication established between

that REA and all business, operational, administrative, student services, and academic departments of D200. The REA shall have personal qualifications and experience in racial equity disciplines. An REA is necessary for the faithful long-range implementation of the Racial Equity Policy and to achieve accountability for this policy. The REA will be part of the District Leadership Equity Team, led by the superintendent, and will report directly to the superintendent. Plan – First, is to develop and apply a racial impact assessment or racial lens analysis to all current or future proposed D200 decisions, programs, practice, curriculum, budget allocations, hiring, or policies with recommendations on how those actions will affect students of color, and whether the action will result in the intended outcome of racial equity. Second, the plan will select and evaluate existing programs, practices, curriculum, budget allocations, policies, and systems within D200 to identify the intended results of those existing structures, and measure the outcomes of those existing structures with regard to racial equity. If this analysis results in an adverse impact on the stated goal of the Racial Equity Policy, the REA shall provide recommendations for initiating changes to maximize the likelihood of achieving racial equity. Scope – The Racial Equity Policy itself is intended to become an embedded accept-

ed practice throughout all of the departments and divisions of D200, including but not limited to, all departments, divisions, and services reporting to the superintendent, and all departments, divisions and services reporting to the principal. All D200 employees will be trained in how to use a selection of racial equity tools. The superintendent and REA will develop a reporting system to the REA of all current pending decisions, policies and practices to be implemented by the departments, divisions and services, including those decisions, policies and practices of the superintendent’s and principal’s offices for a racial equity analysis. No decision can move forward without submission, analysis, and recommendations provided by the REA to the decision makers. Department Leadership Training – The REA will develop a racial equity training program for leadership positions in the various departments, divisions and services to assist the REA in implementing the Racial Equity Policy throughout D200. Each department, division and service will identify a racial equity liaison to interface with the REA. Process – The superintendent, REA, division heads, teachers and support staff will utilize racial equity tools that imbed the vision of a racial equity lens in daily school life and decisions. These tools assist in undertaking a racial equity analysis of past and current education

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structures and practices. Racial equity tools assure that D200 proactively seeks to eliminate racial inequities and advance equity. They require all decision-makers to: ■ identify clear goals, objectives and measurable outcomes; ■ engage the community in decisionmaking processes; ■ identify who will benefit or be burdened by a given decision; ■ examine potential unintended consequences of a decision; ■ develop strategies to advance racial equity and mitigate unintended negative consequences; and, ■ apply mechanisms for successful implementation and evaluation of impact. The REA will provide a report to the superintendent on a bi-annual basis to assess the use and impact of racial equity lens tools and practices. The data to be collected will require the cooperation of the departments, divisions, and services implementing the practice. Funding and Budget – Implementation of this Racial Equity Policy requires expertise and financial resources. The superintendent will submit as part of the annual budget the REA personal expense and supporting administrative costs to achieve the execution and sustainability of the Racial Equity Policy. Melanie McQueen is a member of African American Parents for Purposeful Leadership in Education; John Duffy is a member of the Committee for Equity and Excellence in Education; and Anthony Clark is the founder of the Suburban Unity Alliance.

D200’s moment of truth

Kendale McCoy in ‘America to Me.’

Credit: Starz

A 4-story physical education facility or address the achievement gap? With the eyes of America on Oak Park as the achievement gap is explored in America to Me, we are faced with a stark choice. Do we invest a significant portion of our +$100M reserves in improving educational outcomes for all OPRF students or do we build a 4-story physical education facility? I attended a recent Imagine OPRF Community meeting. I appreciate the work and time the Imagine team spent in developing this plan. They did a nice job talking about the “path to equity” and what role facilities play in this. Specifically, ADA accessibility in Sequence 1, elevator in Sequence 2, Student Common in Sequence 3 and Sequence 4. All seem to meet that goal of improving student outcomes and making OPRF a welcoming and supportive place for all students. These specific facility changes should be costed and prioritized. We also need to be clear on what are the specific measurable

student outcomes supported by these facility changes. Unfortunately, the majority of the spending in the master plan is on a new 4-story physical education center. This is a “want” and is not directly linked to the core educational mission of the school. As America to Me has shown all of us, some of our students of color are in crisis and cannot wait. While facilities have a role to play in improving student climate, we need to balance this with additional changes (that may require funding) to close the gap now. There is not an unlimited amount of funding available from the residents of Oak Park and River Forest. Hard choices will need to be made on how we can best use our limited funds to address the achievement gap. Improving student outcomes is what should guide us on what to prioritize in the Imagine OPRF master plan. What do we want our legacy to be in the wake of America to Me?

Lisa Reed

OPRF parent

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OPers should run in the POWER 5K

On Sept. 22, several coworkers and neighbors and I took part in the Austin POWER 5K run in the Austin neighborhood of Chicago. It was a sparkling fall day, and people seemed to have a great time running through the neighborhood. We ran past expansive historic homes on tree-lined streets. Kids participated, riding in strollers or running (many of them running very quickly!). Mayor Emmanuel, state Rep. Camille Lilly, state Rep. LaShawn Ford, and several aldermen were present and took part with gusto. Dance music filled the air, and an Austin bakery, Schweet Foods, brought delectable

Madison Street plan should go to referendum

I just saw some details on the Madison Street “Road Diet.” I doubt most people know it would cost over $13 million. It seems to me that, before our government spends so much and permanently alters a significant part of the village, there should be a referendum.

Joyce Porter Oak Park

That concert was over the rainbow

I was privileged to attend a superb vocal concert on Sunday, Oct. 14, at the Main Library. Pianist Mark Streder, who has been a music professor at Elmhurst College for 22 years, introduced music from the movies with entertaining background stories and then masterly accompanied the overwhelmingly beautiful singing of Rachel Peterson. Songs from movies such as Casablanca, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and Guys and Dolls were included. The program ended with “Over the Rainbow.” The love songs made me realize how much I love my husband of over 50 years. Do yourself a favor and if you have the opportunity see this duo.

Joanne Selden

Oak Park

cheesecakes that were quickly devoured. This was a beautiful reminder of how much our nearby neighbors have to offer. We owe it to them to come out and show our support. (side note: The next time you need a birthday cake, think of Schweet Foods and visit them on Chicago Avenue in Austin!) There are many neighborhood 5Ks throughout the fall; in addition to Austin, neighborhood runs include Englewood, Little Village, Pilsen, and Lawndale. I am thankful that my employer (Rush University Medical Center) supports several of these runs and inspired me to get involved. At the Austin run, I noticed

many of my Oak Park neighbors, in addition to residents and local dignitaries who were there. I saw people getting outdoors, having fun, and supporting this community, which certainly has struggles but also has residents of all ages working, going to school, taking public transportation, and just living their lives. I love to see so many Oak Parkers at the annual Frank Lloyd Wright races. Could we also support our Austin neighbors next year? Let’s get a big group of Oak Parkers out there to run the Austin 5K!

Stephanie Bailey

Oak Park resident

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Rita Brown, 61 Former Oak Park resident

Rita Dunnebecke Brown, 61, formerly of Oak Park, died on Oct. 11, 2018 at University Hospital in Denver after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. Born and raised in north Denver, and an alumna of Holy Family High School, Denver, and University of St. Mary, Leavenworth, Kansas, she was a trailblazer, finding success in what was a male-dominated corporate world. She will always be remembered as the glue of a large and caring group friends RITA BROWN and family nurtured during her years living in Denver, Boston, Kansas City, Chicago, and elsewhere. She lived in Oak Park for many years and cherished her time in the Chicago area. Rita Brown is survived by her sons, Eric and Kevin; her spouse, Curt Brown; her daughter-in-law Gelsey Bennett; her siblings, Patrick and Dan Dunnebecke, Jane Hood and Mary Dorr; her granddaughter, Sadie; and her numerous cousins, nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents, Robert and Irene Horvat Dunnebecke, and her son, Michael. Services and burial will be performed on Oct. 22 at Archdiocese of Denver Mortuary, Mt. Olivet Cemetery.

Jo Ann Kiefer, 83

Supporter of equal rights for women Jo Ann Kiefer (nee Perry), 83, a longtime resident of Oak Park and a more recent resident of Lake Barrington Woods Retirement Community, died on Oct. 11, 2018 surrounded by her family. Born on Jan. 23, 1935 in Monroe, Michigan, she attended Summerfield High School in Petersburg, Michigan. She worked for many years at Concordia University in River Forest and, prior to that, for many years JO ANN KIEFER at the YMCA College in Chicago. She was ahead of her time, active in many women’s groups, and a passionate supporter of equal rights for all. Jo Ann Kiefer is survived by Joseph M. Kiefer, her husband of 48 years; her children William A. (Judy Curtis) Freberg and Helen (David) Wachowiak; her grandchildren, Lana Marie Casey, Erica Jo (Scott)

Diehl and Hannah Wachowiak; her greatgrandchild, Charlotte Diehl; her siblings, David (Eva) Perry and Carol Brzuchalski; and many nieces, nephews, cousins and friends. She was preceded in death by her parents, Clara Jane Loveridge and William Perry; and her sister, Linda Perry. Private services were provided by the Illinois Cremation Society.

Meredith Murray Jr., 88 Pediatrician and veteran

Dr. Meredith “Bud” Murray Jr., 88, died peacefully on Oct. 12, 2018 at his River Forest home with his family at his side. Born on Oct. 5, 1930 to Dr. Meredith and Marie Murray (née Ryan), he grew-up in River Forest. He graduated from St. Luke Grade School, Fenwick High School, the College of the Holy Cross, and Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine. He married Janine Morency, the youngDR. MEREDITH er sister of his closMURRAY JR. est childhood friend. The couple lived in River Forest and raised their children. Following medical school, he served as a lieutenant commander in the Medical Corps on a Navy destroyer following the Korean War, living for a short time in California with his young family. He returned to River Forest and established a successful medical practice in Oak Park and spent more than 40 years delivering thousands of babies, in what he called the happiest area of medicine, and was on the staff of West Suburban and Loyola hospitals. After his first wife’s death, he married Sheila Clements with whom he lived out his retirement by traveling, playing golf, and enjoying time with their many grandchildren and friends. Bud Murray was always close to and is survived by his “big sister” and only sibling, Sr. Jean Murray OP, the former president of Rosary College, now Dominican University. He is also survived by his wife, Sheila Clements Murray; his children, William (Susie Cahill), David (Donika) and Janine Beatty (Steve); his grandchildren, David, Alana, John, Michael (Sharyn), Maria and Katie Murray, Meredith (Jesse) Binkley, Samantha (Austin) Barnes, and Christopher Beatty. He is also survived by Sheila’s children, Julie (Dan) Harper, Katie (Randy) Tuma and Bill (Julie Plaut) and Mike (Ann McIntyre) Clements; and her grandchildren, Nicole, Annie (Matt Slaman), Kelsey, Elise, Ian and Kevin Tuma, Dan, Kathleen and Sarah Harper, and Janie, Nora, Martin and Nieve

Clements; and many nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his first wife, Janine Morency Murray. Visitation was held at Drechsler, Brown & Williams Funeral Home on Oct. 14, followed by a funeral Mass on Oct. 15 at St. Luke Church, with interment at Queen of Heaven Cemetery. The family appreciates memorial contributions to Rush University Alzheimer’s Disease Center or to Catholic Charities.

Dennis Russell, 67 Longtime resident of Oak Park

Dennis J. Russell, 67, a longtime resident of Oak Park, died on Oct. 10, 2018. Born on Nov. 22, 1950, he was the brother of Robert A. (Jim Young), Patrick M. (Rosemary), Eileen (John) Sutter, Donna J. RussellMartensen, and the late Thomas Otie Russell; the uncle of Courtney (Jimmy) Watts and Brian (Angela) Russell, Edward (Michelle), Joseph and Sarah Sutter, Jennifer and Heather Martensen; DENNIS RUSSELL great-uncle of Bryan and Bella, Jude and Lily; and the son of the late Robert O. and Mary M. Russell. Visitation and service were held Oct. 13 at Drechsler, Brown & Williams Funeral Home, with interment at Mt. Carmel Cemetery. The family appreciates donations to the American Heart Association (heart.org).

Rosanne Ryan, 68 IT manager for the U. of I.

Rosanne L. Ryan, 68, of River Forest, died on Oct. 6, 2018. Born and raised in Oak Park, she was an OPRF High School graduate, received her B.A. in Computer Science from the University of Arizona, and her M.A. in Journalism from the University of Illinois, ChampaignUrbana. She was manager of IT at the University of Illinois and the Chicago Police Department before her retirement in 2016. Rosanne Ryan was the mother of ROSANNE RYAN Jack and Veronica (Tristan Mortensen) Minor; and a cousin of many. She was preceded in death by her husband, John Minor; and her mother, Marjorie Brand Ryan. A memorial visitation will be held on Sun-

day, Oct. 21 from 1 p.m. until time of service, 3 p.m., at Drechsler, Brown & Williams Funeral Home, 203 S. Marion St. in Oak Park. In lieu of flowers, donations to Breast Cancer Research Foundation 28 W. 44th St., Ste. 609, New York, New York, 10036 (bcrf. org) are appreciated.

Judith Wittenberg, 83 Organist, choir director at Good Shepherd Church

Judith C. Wittenberg (nee Bechtol), 83, of Oak Park, has died. A charter member of the Oak Park Concert Chorale, she also served as the financial secretary for many years and was the organist and choir director at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church for 25 years. She provided meals for property clean-up day, served many years at the Oak Park-River Forest Food Pantry, and was a docent at the JUDITH WITTENBERG Oak Park Conservatory. Judy Wittenberg was the wife of the late Charles Wittenberg; the mother of Alan (Vicki) Wittenberg and Lynn (Bevin) Zamora; the grandmother of Robert Wittenberg; sister-in-law of Paul (Dorothy) Wittenberg, Carol (Dick) Horneck, Robert (Jan) Wittenberg and Dottie (Bill) Post; and the daughter of the late Paul and Cornelia Bechtol. A funeral service will take place at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 20 at Oak Park’s Euclid Avenue United Methodist Church, 405 S. Euclid Ave. In lieu of flowers, the family appreciates donations to Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, P.O. Box 2070, Oak Park 60303 or Oak Park Concert Chorale, 924 N. Oak Park Ave., Oak Park 60302.

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RELIGION GUIDE Presbyterian

Check First.

First Congregational Church of Maywood

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

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

William S. Winston Pastor

ELCA, Lutheran

Good Shepherd

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

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

Lutheran—ELCA

United Lutheran Church

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

LIVE Webcast - 11:15AM Service Believer’s Walk of Faith Broadcast Schedule (Times in Central Standard Time) Television DAYSTAR (M-F)

3:30-4:00pm

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WCIU-TV (Sun.)

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Word Network

10:30-11:00am

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www.livingwd.org www.billwinston.org

West Suburban Temple Har Zion

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

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

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

Child care available 9-11am

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

Roman Catholic

Ascension Catholic Church

www.unitedlutheranchurch.org

708/386-1576

(708) 697-5000 Sunday Service 7AM, 9AM & 11:15AM

Fair Oaks

Lutheran-Independent

Grace Lutheran Church

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

Grace Lutheran School

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

St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church

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

First United Methodist Church of Oak Park

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

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

Rev. James Hurlbert, Pastor

Roman Catholic

St. Edmund Catholic Church

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

St. Giles Family Mass Community

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

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

Roman Catholic

St. Bernardine Catholic Church

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

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SAY Connects presents, After “America to Me”: On the Ground in Oak Park and River Forest

A community conversation for our village. November 28, 2018

Julian Middle School Auditorium 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

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LEGAL NOTICE The Village of Oak Park will receive sealed proposals at the Office of the Village Engineer, 201 South Boulevard, Oak Park, Illinois 60302, until 10:00 A.M. on Thursday, November 1, 2018 for the following: Project 18-28, Water Service Database Modifications. In general, the contract will require professional services to modify existing GIS databases to input information relative to water servicesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; materials, age, notes, etc. The consultant will be required to compile information from existing sources including the Villageâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s water service tap cards, water meter replacement records, capital improvement records, and building permit records. Proposal forms may be obtained from the office of the Village Engineer starting on Thursday, October 18, 2018 beginning at 4:00 p.m. The Village of Oak Park reserves the right to issue proposal documents and specifications only to those consultants deemed qualified. Proposal forms will not be issued after 4:00 p.m. on October 31, 2018. THE VILLAGE OF OAK PARK Bill McKenna Village Engineer Published in Wednesday Journal 10/17/2018

PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a public hearing will be held by the Zoning Board of Appeals of the Village of Oak Park on Wednesday, November 7, 2018 at 7:00 p.m. in the Council Chambers of the Village Hall, 123 Madison St., Oak Park, Illinois on the following matter: Cal. No. 27-18-Z: 617 Madison Street, Delaine Birch Property Index Number 16-18-203-003-0000 The Applicant Delaine Birch seeks a variance from Section 8.3 (B) (Table 8-1: Use Matrix) of the Oak Park Zoning Ordinance which requires that residential dwelling units be located above the ground floor in buildings in the MS Madison Street District, to permit the construction of a residential dwelling unit in the basement at the premises commonly known as 617 Madison Street, Oak Park, Illinois. Those property owners within 300 feet of the Subject Property and those persons with a special interest beyond that of the general public (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Interested Partiesâ&#x20AC;?) wishing to cross-examine witnesses must complete and file an appearance with original signatures with the Village Clerk no later than 5:00 PM on the business day preceding the public hearing. All papers in connection with the above matter are on file at the Village of Oak Park and available for examination by contacting the Villageâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Zoning Administrator at 708.358.5449. The Zoning Board of Appeals may continue the hearing to another date without further notice by public announcement at the hearing setting forth the time and place thereof. Published in Wednesday Journal 10/17/2018

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING VILLAGE OF OAK PARK PLAN COMMISSION DOCKET NUMBER: PC 18-09 (Zoning Ordinance Text Amendment â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Work Lounge) & PC 18-10 (Special Use Permit â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Work Lounge) HEARING DATE: November 1, 2018 TIME: 7:00 p.m. or as soon thereafter as the Agenda permits. LOCATION OF HEARING: Room 201 (Council Chambers), Oak Park Village Hall, 123 Madison Street, Oak Park, Illinois, 60302 APPLICANT(S): Ron and Kristen Halverson (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Applicantsâ&#x20AC;?) REQUEST: The Applicants have requested the following amendments to the Oak Park Zoning Ordinance: (1) Article 2 (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Definitions and Rules of Measurementâ&#x20AC;?), Section 2.3 (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Definitionsâ&#x20AC;?), to define â&#x20AC;&#x153;work loungeâ&#x20AC;? as follows; A shared office establishment that includes a first floor use for the presentation of music, theatrical plays, stand-up comedy, magic shows, open-microphone nights, and spoken word poetry performances, as well as events and group activities, such as salon-style discussions with authors, scholars and community members, trivia nights, pool and dart leagues, murder-mystery events, sporting event viewing, birthday parties, holiday parties, anniversary parties, corporate off-site meetings and book club meetings and shall also include the sale of alcoholic liquors for consumption on the premises; (2) Article 8 (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Usesâ&#x20AC;?), Section 8.3(A) (1) (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Use Restrictionsâ&#x20AC;?) to add a work lounge to the list of exceptions for the 50 feet retail requirements; and (3) Table 8-1 (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Use Matrixâ&#x20AC;?) to include work lounge as a special use in the DT Downtown District zoning district. The Applicants have requested a special use permit based on the above Zoning Ordinance text amendments for a work lounge to be located at 193 North Marion Street, Oak Park, Illinois 60302, P.I.N. 16-07-118-050-1001. Copies of the application and each of the applicable documents are on file and are available for inspection at the Village of Oak Park Village Hall, Development Customer Services Department, 123 Madison Street, Oak Park, Illinois 60302, during regular business hours, Monday through Friday, between 8:30 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. The Plan Commission may continue the hearing to another date without further notice by public announcement at the hearing setting forth the time and place thereof. Persons with disabilities planning to attend and needing accommodations should contact the ADA Coordinator at (708) 358-5430 or e-mail building@oakpark.us at least 48 hours before the scheduled hearing. ALL INTERESTED PERSONS ARE INVITED TO BE HEARD David Mann, Chairperson OAK PARK PLAN COMMISSION Published in Wednesday Journal 10/17/2018

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Cal. No. 28-18-Z: 303 N. Marion Street, Robert Picchiotti Property Index Number 16-07-107-022-0000 The Applicant Robert Picchiotti seeks a variance from Section 4.3 (Table 4-1: Residential Districts Dimensional Standards) of the Oak Park Zoning Ordinance which requires a minimum 15 foot rear setback to permit the construction of an attached, twocar garage featuring a three (3â&#x20AC;&#x2122;) foot rear setback off of the west lot line at the premises commonly known as 303 N. Marion Street, Oak Park, Illinois. Those property owners within 300 feet of the Subject Property and those persons with a special interest beyond that of the general public (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Interested Partiesâ&#x20AC;?) wishing to cross-examine witnesses must complete and file an appearance with original signatures with the Village Clerk no later than 5:00 PM on the business day preceding the public hearing. All papers in connection with the above matter are on file at the Village of Oak Park and available for examination by contacting the Villageâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Zoning Administrator at 708.358.5449. The Zoning Board of Appeals may continue the hearing to another date without further notice by public announcement at the hearing setting forth the time and place thereof. Published in Wednesday Journal 10/17/2018

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 registered by the undersigned with the County Clerk of Cook County. Registration Number: D18155520 on September 24, 2018. Under the Assumed Business Name of D.M. BURTON STYLE with the business located at: 7208 HARVARD ST UNIT 1, FOREST PARK, IL 60130. The true and real full name(s) and residence address of the owner(s)/ partner(s) is: DARIEN T MARIONBURTON 7208 HARVARD ST UNIT 1 FOREST PARK, IL 60130. Published in Forest Park Review 10/3, 10/10, 10/17/2018

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 registered by the undersigned with the County Clerk of Cook County. Registration Number: D18155605 on October 4, 2018. Under the Assumed Business Name of HAM PUBLISHING with the business located at: 620 W SURF ST APT 204, CHICAGO, IL 60657. The true and real full name(s) and residence address of the owner(s)/partner(s) is: ANDREW DILLINGHAM 620 W SURF ST APT 204 CHICAGO, IL 60657. Published in Wednesday Journal 10/17, 10/24, 10/31/2018

Proposal forms may be obtained from the office of the Village Engineer starting on Thursday, October 18, 2018 beginning at 4:00 p.m. The Village of Oak Park reserves the right to issue proposal documents and specifications only to those contractors deemed qualified. Proposal forms will not be issued after 4:00 p.m. on October 31, 2018. The work to be performed pursuant to this Proposal is subject to the Illinois Prevailing Wage Act, 820 ILCS 130/0.01 et seq. THE VILLAGE OF OAK PARK Bill McKenna Village Engineer Published in Wednesday Journal 10/17/2018

LEGAL NOTICE The Village of Oak Park will receive sealed proposals at the Office of the Village Engineer, 201 South Boulevard, Oak Park, Illinois 60302, until 11:00 a.m. on Thursday, November 1, 2018 and at that time will be publicly opened and read aloud for the following Village Project: 19-12, Madison Street Improvement Project. In general, the improvements consist of sewer replacement and rehabilitation, sidewalk corner improvements, sidewalk and curb patching, limited traffic signal modifications, drainage structure adjustments, coldmilling of bituminous concrete, installation of hot-mix asphalt binder and surface courses, and pavement markings; and all appurtenant work thereto. Plans and proposal forms may be obtained from the office of the Village Engineer starting on Thursday, October 18, 2018 at 12:00 p.m. A non-refundable deposit of $50 is required for each set of plans and specifications. The Village of Oak Park reserves the right to issue plans and specifications only to those contractors deemed qualified. No bid documents will be issued after 4:00 p.m. on the working day preceding the date of bid opening. All prospective bidders must prove they are pre-qualified by the Illinois Department of Transportation before receiving bid documents. The work to be performed pursuant to this Proposal is subject to the Illinois Prevailing Wage Act, 820 ILCS 130/0.01 et seq. THE VILLAGE OF OAK PARK Bill McKenna Village Engineer Published in Wednesday Journal 10/17/2018

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REAL ESTATE FOR SALE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION OCWEN LOAN SERVICING, LLC; Plaintiff, vs. MARK JOSEPH COMETA; LOURDES LANSANG; CIRCLE TERRACE CONDOMINIUMS; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS; Defendants, 18 CH 974 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Thursday, November 8, 2018 at the hour of 11 a.m. in their office at 120 West Madison Street, Suite 718A, Chicago, Illinois, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following

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described mortgaged real estate: P.I.N. 15-12-418-011-1003 and 1512-418-011-1062. Commonly known as 148 Circle Avenue, Unit 1W & P-27, Forest Park, IL 60130. The mortgaged real estate is improved with a condominium residence. The purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by subdivisions (g) (1) and (g)(4) of Section 9 of the Condominium Property Act Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection For information call the Sales Clerk at Plaintiff’s Attorney, The Wirbicki Law Group, 33 West Monroe Street, Chicago, Illinois 60603. (312) 3609455 W18-0030. INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I3099882

party checks will be accepted. The balance in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/ 18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. For information, contact Plaintiff’s attorney: HEAVNER, BEYERS & MIHLAR, LLC, 111 East Main Street, DECATUR, IL 62523, (217) 422-1719 Please refer to file number 2120-14745. If the sale is not confirmed for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the purchase price paid. The

Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee’s attorney. THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales. HEAVNER, BEYERS & MIHLAR, LLC 111 East Main Street DECATUR, IL 62523 (217) 422-1719 Fax #: (217) 422-1754 CookPleadings@hsbattys.com Attorney File No. 2120-14745 Attorney Code. 40387 Case Number: 11 CH 42952 TJSC#: 38-6635 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff’s attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. I3096984

The judgment amount was $329,711.25. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/ 18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. For information, contact Plaintiff’s attorney: JOHNSON, BLUMBERG & ASSOCIATES, LLC, 230 W. Monroe Street, Suite #1125, Chicago, IL 60606, (312) 541-9710 Please refer to file number 180907.

THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales. JOHNSON, BLUMBERG & ASSOCIATES, LLC 230 W. Monroe Street, Suite #1125 Chicago, IL 60606 (312) 541-9710 E-Mail: ilpleadings@johnsonblumberg.com Attorney File No. 18-0907 Attorney Code. 40342 Case Number: 18 CH 2552 TJSC#: 38-8028 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff’s attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. I3101295

transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/ 18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce, LLC, Plaintiff’s Attorneys, One North Dearborn Street, Suite 1200, Chicago, IL 60602. Tel No. (312) 346-9088. Please refer to file number 261126. THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales.

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION US BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION AS LEGAL TITLE TRUSTEE FOR TRUMAN 2016 SC6 TITLE TRUST Plaintiff, -v.JOHN J. RICE, DIANE C. RICE Defendants 11 CH 42952 1038 BELOIT AVE FOREST PARK, IL 60130 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on August 15, 2018, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on November 16, 2018, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 1038 BELOIT AVE, FOREST PARK, IL 60130 Property Index No. 15-13-418-0140000. The real estate is improved with a single family residence. The judgment amount was $499,902.60. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION LENDINGHOME FUNDING CORP Plaintiff, -v.ECHELON REALTY INVESTMENTS CORP, SERENA OCENAS A/K/A SERENA VICTOR, ZOE PENDERGAST, META HOLDINGS, LLC Defendants 18 CH 2552 917 S LOMBARD AVE Oak Park, IL 60304 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on October 1, 2018, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on November 13, 2018, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 917 S LOMBARD AVE, Oak Park, IL 60304 Property Index No. 16-17-302-0350000. The real estate is improved with a single family residence.

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of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/ 18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce, LLC, Plaintiff’s Attorneys, One North Dearborn Street, Suite 1200, Chicago, IL 60602. Tel No. (312) 346-9088. Please refer to file number 8255. THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales. McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce, LLC One North Dearborn Street, Suite 1200 Chicago, IL 60602 (312) 346-9088 E-Mail: pleadings@mccalla.com Attorney File No. 8255 Attorney ARDC No. 61256 Attorney Code. 61256 Case Number: 15 CH 09899 TJSC#: 38-5959 I3097472

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK, AS TRUSTEE (CWALT 2004-2CB) Plaintiff, -v.CHARLES J. NOVAK, KATHLEEN A. NOVAK A/K/A KATHLEEN ANN NOVAK, BEERMANN SWERDLOVE LLP, CAPITAL ONE BANK (USA), N.A., FIRSTMERIT BANK, N.A. S/B/M TO MIDWEST BANK AND TRUST COMPANY, GERALDINE M. REDMOND, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants 15 CH 09899 1537 SOUTH ELGIN AVENUE FOREST PARK, IL 60130 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on June 22, 2016, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on November 27, 2018, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 1537 SOUTH ELGIN AVENUE, FOREST PARK, IL 60130 Property Index No. 15-24-215-0340000. The real estate is improved with a tan, vinyl siding, single family, with a two car detached garage. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser

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Huskies and their fans celebrate gripping victory over Glenbard West

he Oak Park and River Forest High School football team’s 10-7 win against Glenbard West at Duchon Field in Glen Ellyn Saturday trumps any local sports news over the weekend. Heck, it’s already secured a spot as one of the most memorable games of the school year. Beating Glenbard West on its own turf is a MAJOR statement. Saturday’s win snapped a 10-game losing streak to the Hilltoppers, long considered the gold standard of the West Suburban Conference Silver Division. It also marks the first time since 2006 that OPRF has left Glenbard West victorious. The win also gives the Huskies a great opportunity to clinch a share of the

conference title, which would be the school’s first in 20 years. An OPRF win Friday night at home versus Lyons Township gets it done. Most importantly, the win gives the Huskies a tremendous boost of confidence heading into the playoffs. There is good reason for the Dog Pound and OPRF fans to feel pumped. Led by stalwarts Izaiah Ruffin, Ashford Hollis and Cedric Cheatham, OPRF is athletic, fast and very disciplined on defense. The Huskies are particularly stout against the run, which bodes well as the weather turns colder in the playoffs. Glenbard West coach Chad Hetlet described the OPRF defense as extremely

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good. He also expressed surprise as to why the Huskies aren’t more publicized. On the other side of the ball, OPRF runs the ball well. Quarterback Jaden McGill has been steady and running back Nazareth Bryant has really come on strong down the stretch. In addition, the return of Keith Robinson (72-yard TD run against Glenbard West) gives OPRF another dimension as a triple-threat option at quarterback, running back and wide receiver. Although the running game is OPRF’s offensive strength, I still feel the Huskies could use a little more balance. Trevon Brown and Craig Shelton are very good receivers capable of making plays at any time. When opponents stack the box to stop the run, either McGill or reserve quarterback Toby Kunkel will need to make opponents pay with crisp, accurate passes to the Huskies’ array of playmakers.

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OPRF running back Keith Robinson scored the lone touchdown on a 73-yard run in the Huskies 10-7 win at Glenbard West. Robinson rushed for 117 yards on 12 carries.

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The Huskies’ playmakers have been aided this season by plenty of protection from the offensive line. Left tackles Fabian Gonzalez and Tommy Cronin, left guard Ryan Schuler, center Henry Hart, right guard Ben Reniva and right tackle Tavell Gross have become a cohesive and effective unit. “We are extremely pleased with their development,” Hoerster said about the offensive line. “Not a lot of them had playing time as juniors. And Fabian was a sophomore last season. We were really curious how they would come together this season. It’s really fun to see how much they have grown. “We went into this season with a commitment to running the football,” Hoerster added. “We felt like we needed to do a better job running the football and getting the tough yards when we needed them. These six guys up front have been the backbone of all of that.” Cox, regarded as one of the premier running backs in the state, rushed for 138 yards on 27 carries for Glenbard West. Bleker completed 5 of 8 passes for 99 yards. Defensively, the Huskies continued their dominant play. Linebacker Cedric Cheatham was all over the field with 13.5 tackles, including two for a loss. Jaylan Pascacio had 5.5 tackles. Izaiah Ruffin, Ethan Reinhardt, Malik Donaly, Joe Phelan and Daemyen Middlebrooks added four tackles apiece. Defensive coordinator Tim Fischer also cited solid efforts from Aidan Shea and Jake Adams in containing the Hilltoppers’ highly-regarded ground game. In the second half, the Huskies stopped Glenbard West twice on fourth down. “Obviously, we’re ecstatic with the win because [Glenbard West] is such a good program,” Fischer said. “We have nine seniors on defense. Our defensive line sets up our linebackers well to make plays. With Ashford (Hollis) and Izaiah on the line, they are hard to move. We have Cheatham, too, who is a kid that finds the ball and shoots gaps pretty well. Another guy, Aidan Shea, has been lights out for us all year.”

Special teams may be Hoerster’s best since taking over the program. Punter Ethan Reinhardt has been very good lately, while kicker Henry Darrow will be remembered for some time thanks to his gamewinning 41-yard field goal against Glenbard West. Bryant and Aidan Shea provide nifty kickoff and punt returns, respectively, and the kick/punt coverage teams have fared well. Skills aside, the Huskies are playing with a purpose. Hoerster suffered a major heart attack over the summer. There were questions about him coaching this season. He made a remarkable recovery and has been with the team all season coaching from the press box during games. His story exemplifies determination and perseverance. It is apparent Hoerster’s fighting spirit has inspired the players. If the Huskies keep playing at such a high level, I like their chances to finally smash the status quo and enjoy a deep postseason run. If you don’t believe me, just ask Hetlet and Glenbard West.

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The Hilltoppers actually outgained OPRF in total yards (298-223), had more first downs (16-10) and won time of possession (28:51-19:09). However, the Huskies ultimately made enough big plays to earn the huge road win. After a 1-2 start, the Huskies have reeled off five straight victories, highlighted by Saturday’s statement win. Although the opponent, venue and recent head-to-head matchup made the result particularly meaningful, OPRF is playing with understated but palpable confidence on the gridiron. In terms of the West Suburban Conference Silver Division standings, the Huskies (6-2, 4-1) can clinch at least a share of the championship with a win against visiting Lyons Township on Friday, Oct. 19. Kickoff is 7:30 p.m. at OPRF Stadium. Glenbard West (6-2, 4-1) can earn a share of the championship as well if the Hilltoppers defeat Proviso West.

Hinsdale Central (6-2, 5-1) has already notched at least part of the conference title. The Red Devils will win the title outright in the unlikely scenario that heavily-favored OPRF and Glenbard West lose to LTHS and Proviso West, respectively, in Week 9 games. The last time OPRF won a conference title was 1998. Regardless of the outcomes during the final week of the regular season, the Huskies are playing at a high level during the second half of the schedule. To paraphrase a line from Hoerster, it’s truly “a great day to be a Huskie.” “It’s always good to feel like you are trending up,” he said. “You want to head into the playoffs feeling confident and good about yourself. The kids believe in the plan. We have a really strong senior group. They have brought the juniors and sophomores into the mix well. Everybody feels like they are a part of something special.”

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Gladden glad to be linked with OPRF golf Senior caps off accomplished career with state finals appearance By MARTY FARMER

said. “I’m not used to playing in snow and freezing rain. I was really cold like everybody else. It was hard to fine tune my swings. Haley Gladden’s love of golf is a sweet story. At least it “I just decided to try and get the ball as close to the hole as began that way. possible. My goal was to get through the round “I started playing golf consistently in seventh and stay positive. That’s all I could do.” or eighth grade,” Gladden said. “My parents Gladden carded an 88 (16-over) at the state fiused candy as an incentive to play. At first I nals in Decatur, Illinois. Teammate Ella Haas would play golf so I could get some candy at the finished with a score of 102 (30-over). halfway house. Then I actually started liking the At the Conant Sectional, Gladden shot 84 and sport and wanted to keep playing and get better.” she was the medalist (87) at the Payton Regional For those unfamiliar with the glossary of golf, as OPRF won the team title as well. She was also a halfway house is located on golf courses bethe Huskies’ team captain and an all-conference tween the first nine holes and the back nine. It’s golfer in the West Suburban Silver this fall. essentially a pit stop for golfers to recharge while “Haley led by example and was the team’s top grabbing snacks, sweets and refreshments. scorer,” OPRF coach Matt McMurray said. “She Since her introduction to the game, Gladden is a hard worker and put a lot of time and effort HALEY GLADDEN has blossomed into the Huskies’ best player with into her game over the summer.” OPRF senior an assortment of sweet swings. Since she missed the state cut by four strokes Gladden has a strong short game, and she in 2017, the affable Gladden was the team’s sentichips and drives the ball well. Her mentality mental favorite to make state this year. complements her skills. Gladden’s equanimity has benefitted her as “I just try to keep a positive attitude,” she said. “I don’t count both a golfer and honors student. In college, she plans to my score until the end so it doesn’t mess with my head. Golf is play golf for fun and focus on her academics. like 90 percent mental and 10 percent physical.” “I was considering playing college golf,” Gladden said. Unfortunately, difficult weather conditions at the state fi- “It’s hard to juggle golf and academics, so I think I’ll just nals negatively impacted her game. play golf for leisure. I’m interested in schools in the South “The conditions definitely affected my strategy,” Gladden like Richmond and Wake Forest. Sports Editor

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OPRF senior Haley Gladden was a team captain, allconference pick, regional medalist and state qualifier this season. Gladden mentioned pre-med, biology or health as possible fields of study. Currently, she’s taking a heavy course load of AP classes at OPRF. Although completing a round of high school golf can take four or five hours, Gladden embraced the experience. “I really like golf because you’re outside and it takes you away from the whole school environment,” she said. “Golf gives me an opportunity to just relax and enjoy. It’s a sport that allows for self-reflection. I also like how golf is an individual sport that can be meshed into a team sport.”

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OPRF answers bell against Glenbard West Darrow, Robinson, Bryant and defense power Huskies to breakthrough win By MARTY FARMER

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tradition of Glenbard West football is for its players to run up the hill on campus and ring the victory bell after each win, the theory being every Glen Ellyn resident will know when the Hilltoppers (colloquially known as “Hitters”) have prevailed. The only sound heard Saturday, however, was a long overdue celebration among the Oak Park and River Forest High School football players, coaches and fans. The Huskies edged the Hilltoppers 10-7 at Duchon Field, snapping a 10-game losing streak against Glenbard West and symbolically shedding the ghosts of Hitters past. “It’s a great win for the program,” OPRF coach John Hoerster said. “Our coaching staff did a great job coming up with the game plan. In every phase, I think we went into the game feeling good about our plan. We had good practices during the week and believed we could win.” While kudos certainly belong to multiple Huskies, kicker Henry Darrow enjoyed game-winning honors, making a 41yard field goal with three seconds left in the game. The fact that he kicks left-footed made the ending even cooler. A few minutes before Darrow’s dagger, the Hilltoppers had tied the score at 7-all when running back Tyquan Cox tossed a 5-yard touchdown pass to quarterback Tommy

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OPRF quarterback Jaden McGill looks for an open receiver while under pressure from a defender. The Huskies won 10-7 on Oct. 13 in Glen Ellyn. Bleker at the 1:23 mark of the fourth quarter. The welldisguised play resembled the Philadelphia Eagles’ “Philly Special,” which resulted in a TD pass to quarterback Nick Foles in Super Bowl XXXIX. On the ensuing kickoff, the Huskies’ Nazareth Bryant set up Darrow’s kick with a long run to midfield. Bryant returned two kickoffs for 61 yards on the day. Engaged in a scoreless defensive battle throughout the first half, the Huskies finally hit paydirt when senior run-

ning back Keith Robinson scampered 73 yards down the left sideline for a touchdown in the third quarter. Robinson finished with 117 yards on 12 carries. OPRF quarterback Jaden McGill completed 4 of 8 passes for 37 yards and rushed for 52 yards on 16 carries. Senior wide receiver Craig Shelton caught three passes for 32 yards.

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