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October 19, 2016 Vol. 35, No. 9 ONE DOLLAR

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Looking through a long lens Cubs’ photographer documents the team and ‘a beautiful game’ By KEN TRAINOR Staff Writer

Steve Green is right in the thick of the Cubs’ playoff run. But he’s not on the roster. Green, a longtime Oak Park resident, is the team photographer, has been for the last 34 years. He’s having fun, and he’s also exhausted. “It’s a lot of hours,” he said, “but it’s a lot of hours I like.” Currently, he’s in L.A. shooting the National League Championship Series. He was in San Francisco on Oct.

11 when the Cubs came back in the ninth with four runs to vanquish the Giants. In fact, when Giants shortstop Brandon Crawford made that terrible throw which bounced into the dugout, it bounced off Green’s noggin first. “That was not fun,” he said. “I’m looking through a long lens, so I didn’t even see it. It just banged me in the head. I got a little concussion. The trainers came out and bandaged me up, got the blood off me. I’ve got a big See STEVE GREEN on page 16

Mayor, trustees more than double annual pay Last pay increase for elected officials was in 1996 By TIMOTHY INKLEBARGER Staff Reporter

Photo by Michael Zagaris

IN FOCUS: Steve Green has been the Cubs’ team photographer for 34 years. Here he takes a break from shooting Addison Russell to photograph a photographer photographing him.

Village trustees voted 4 to 2 Monday in favor of more than doubling their annual pay, arguing that the change brings them in line with similarly sized communities, such as Evanston.

The proposal by trustees Bob Tucker and Adam Salzman increases the mayor’s annual pay from $10,800 to $25,200 and trustees pay from $7,200 to $15,000. The ordinance would not change the village clerk’s salary of $76,625. The proposal faced criticism from trustees Peter Barber and Colette Lueck, the two no votes on the ordinance. Both Barber and trustee Glenn Brewer, who was not present at the meeting, face re-election in the upcoming village See PAY RAISE on page 15

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Leaves leaving The village of Oak Park’s fall leaf collection began on Oct. 17 and will run through Dec. 1 with seven pickups planned in each of four geographic sections of the village. Leaves should be raked into the street at least 18 inches from the curb the day before the scheduled pickup dates in each section. Leaves raked

into the street are pushed into piles during the night, and then collected the following day. Residents who miss a scheduled pickup date should keep their leaves on the parkway until the night before the next scheduled pickup. More information, including a map of the pick-up schedule, is posted on the village website.

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Chicago Fire films FitzGerald’s in Oak Park friendly confines

Hoop dreams

The popular NBC television show Chicago Fire was shooting a scene in Oak Park on Oct. 15, on the 200 block of South Humphrey Avenue, according to the Village of Oak Park. Scenes from the shoot will be aired on Dec. 6, according resident Marjorie Hunt, who said in an email that part of the show was filmed in her house. Village spokesman David Powers could not immediately discuss the frequency with television shows and movie crews descend on the village, but he noted that Chicago Fire’s sister show Chicago PD also filmed in the village in March.

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The Cubs are playing in the National League Division Championship series and the games will be broadcast whenever and wherever — in the club, SideBar, tent and yard (depending on music shows). Bill FitzGerald has gone all out with giant screens everywhere — a 6-foot screen in the SideBar, 9 feet in the club, and 14 feet in the tent and yard. If the series continues past four games, here’s the schedule: 7 p.m. on Oct.19, 20, 22, and 23. And if the Cubs make the World Series, those games will be shown as well; No cover; families welcome. FitzGerald’s is at 6615 W. Roosevelt,

Children in costume hula hoop during Family Fireside Halloween in River Forest on Oct. 14.

Courtesy of UTUUC

LIQUIDATING: Everything must go this Friday, Oct. 21, 9-11 a.m., 1019 South Blvd. Cash only, says the Unity Temple Unitarian Universalist Congregation. Berwyn. For more information on FitzGerald’s, go to http://www.fitzgeraldsnightclub.com.

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Early voting starts Oct. 24

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FILMING IN OAK PARK: NBC’s Chicago Fire was filming in the 200 block of South Humphrey Avenue last week.

WILLIAM CAMARGO/Staff Photographer

Early voting for the Nov. 8 election starts Oct. 24 in Oak Park. Residents can take a trip to Oak Park Village Hall, 123 Madison St., if they plan on casting their ballots before Election Day. Visit during the following days and times:

Monday through Friday Oct. 24-28 | 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Oct. 31-Nov. 4 | 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Nov. 7 | 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday Oct. 29-Nov. 5 | 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday Oct. 30-Nov. 6 | 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. For more election info, visit cookcountyclerk. com. To get info on the candidates who will appear on your ballot, visit ballotready. com. You can look up info about judges at voteforjudges.org.

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Fright at Night

Harvest Ballroom Dance

Frightday Night, Oct. 21 from 6 to 9 p.m., Oak Park Conservatory: Despite creatures stirring in the Bootanical Forbidden Forest kids can trick or treat with eco-friendly bags. 6-8 p.m. is recommended for children 12 and under, 8-9 p.m. for ages 13 and up. Cost is $5. For more information, call 708-725-2400 or visit the Conservatory website. 615 Garfield St. (at East Avenue).

Saturday, Oct. 22, from 2-4 p.m. at the Oak Park Arms: The Harvest Ballroom Dance with live music by The Freenotes big band will take place at 408 S. Oak Park Ave. The public is invited. The Freenotes is an 18-piece orchestra that plays music from the 1940s through the 1960s. The dance is free and open to the public, but reservations are requested. For more information, call 708-386-4040 or visit http://www.oakparkarms.com.

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

Building a better Mousetrap Oak Park Festival Theatre and the Nineteenth Century Charitable Association present their annual co-benefit fall radio show, a re-creation of a 1940s live radio broadcast of The Mousetrap by Agatha Christie. Festival transports the audience back to the halcyon days of radio with a theatrical recreation of a “live remote broadcast” of a thrilling radio mystery from WVOP’s Theater of the Air. Come an hour before the show for cocktails (cash bar), good food, 1940s live music, and, of course, mixing with the cast. Feel free to come dressed in your favorite 1940s attire. Performances: Friday, Oct. 21 at 7:30 p.m., reception at 6:30, and Sunday, Oct. 23 at 3:30 p.m., reception at 2:30. Nineteenth Century Club, 178 Forest Ave.

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on Harrison (Halloween-themed), Oak Park Arts District, Friday, Oct. 21 from 6 to 10 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 22 from noon to 8 p.m. oakparkartsdistrict.com ■ Oak Park Art League, Storytelling Café: Voice Box, Sunday, Oct. 23 from 4 to 6 p.m. Admission: $20, includes coffee and dessert. oakparkartleague.org ■ Domestic Violence Walk for Awareness, Sunday, Oct. 23. Registration 1:30 p.m., walk starts at 2. Keystone Park, 7851 W. Lake St., River Forest. Domestic Violence Outreach Ministries of Oak Park-River Forest ■ Sarah’s Inn 35th Anniversary, Oak Park Country Club, Saturday, Oct. 22. “Stand Tall with Sarah’s Inn” fundraiser. sarahsinn.org

Concordia University Chicago’s Wind Symphony and Kapelle will each perform home concerts this fall in the Chapel of Our Lord on the university’s River Forest campus. Admission to both events is free. The Wind Symphony, the premier instrumental ensemble at Concordia, will perform Friday, Oct. 21 at 8 p.m., following their tour of Michigan and Indiana. The Kapelle concert will be held on Saturday, Oct. 22 at 7:30 p.m., coming at the end of their tour of Missouri and Illinois. Concordia’s campus is located at 7400 Augusta Street, River Forest.

Thursday, Oct. 20 at 7:30 p.m., Nineteenth Century Club: Rex Huppke will speak about his book, From Engineering to Journalism: An Economically Unwise Path. The veteran Chicago Tribune columnist shares his journey from the high-paying world of chemical engineering to the not-so-high-paying world of journalism, while making a strong case for the value of doing what you love. $10 suggested donation. Doors open at 6:45. Refreshments, cash bar. Nineteenth Century Charitable Association, 178 Forest Avenue, Oak Park. Call 708-386-2729 or visit www.nineteenthcentury.org.

Fright at Night Frightday Night, Oct. 21 from 6 to 9 p.m., Oak Park Conservatory: Despite creatures stirring in the Bootanical Forbidden Forest kids can trick or treat with eco-friendly bags. 6-8 p.m. is recommended for children 12 and under, 8-9 p.m. for ages 13 and up. Cost is $5. For more information, call 708-725-2400 or visit the Conservatory website. 615 Garfield St. (at East Avenue).

The return of Shinyribs Friday, Oct. 21 at 9 p.m., FitzGerald’s, 6615 W. Roosevelt, Berwyn: Shinyribs, of Austin, Texas, returns to FitzGerald’s Night Club for a “hip-shaking, belly-laughing, soul-singing, songslinging, down-home house party.” Kevin Russell has been described as “Burl Ives meets Al Green, Hank Jr. meets Teddy Pendergrass, and Wendell Berry meets

Chuck Berry, a unique musical experience and expression of our colorful musical heritage. For more on Shinyribs, go to http://www.shinyribs.org. Tickets ($20) are available at the club and Ticketweb http://www.ticketweb.com/snl/VenueListings.action?venueId=32814&pl= For more information on FitzGerald’s, go to http://www.fitzgeraldsnightclub. com, call 708-788-2118 or email info@ fitzgeraldsnightclub.com.

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hen I was a little girl of around 8 years old, I found a fledging. It was stuck under a bush, not moving much. I watched it for a while, waiting for its mother to show up in a little bird apron, saying, “Where have you been? Come home right now! Wait till your father hears about this!” Alas, neither mother nor father showed up. It appeared the bird was abandoned. So I got a shoebox, filled it with grass, used a jar he lid for water, and, on the d advice of my mother, fed r. the bird raw hamburger. Within several days, thee h bird was strong enough to fly away. I watched itt go with great pride and a little sadness because I wished it would stay and be my roommate forever. Like most people, I have a great fondness for birds. No matter the species, I find them a wondrous gift of nature. Their songs are joyful: I think you’d be hardpressed to find any ed such a quick fix. fix anti-depressant that offered (And no side effects!) They provide useful services to the ecosystem. They can be little comics, what with the way they take baths in puddles or dust. And I think it’s safe to say that almost everyone thrills to the sight of a bird sitting on eggs, then nurturing its young, then teaching them to fly away: a great life lesson. Most of us stare in appreciation when hawks soar overhead, when egrets stand still and graceful in water, when pelicans swoop down to capture dinner, when a chevron of geese flies by, when birds sit on a wire just like in the song. It has long been my habit to sit on the porch in the morning and wait for the birds to come. But I’ve noticed something: not so many come any more. And on my walks, I don’t see many hopping on lawns or flying from tree to tree. Many say birds are in free fall, so many dying, and this breaks my heart. What to do? Well, one thing you might consider is coming to the next Writing Matters event this

Winging it at Writing Matters Writing Matters is dedicated to serving author, audience, and community. We bring great writers to Oak Park, personally selected by yours truly. We always treat our guests well: we have fresh flowers everywhere, we have good food (homemade desserts as well as other treats that fit the theme of the evening, and wine), we give things away, and the audience is made up of absolutely delightful people who really seem to like each other. It always feels to me like a group date. If you’ve come before, come again. If you’ve never come, fly on over and give us a try. You won’t be disappointed, I promise. You will be inspired, entertained, and edified. And if i you really know how to have a good time, you’ll h walk out with chocolate all w over your face. o All proceeds from this event go to Tee’s Snack ev Shop, a culinary ministry Sh on the West Side that does a lot, in a quiet and purposeful way, to work against po violence. Tickets at brownpavio pertickets.com/Writing Matper ters: ter Visiting Authors to Oak Park. Par Come and bring your un-feathered friends! This will be a popular event, so hurry and get your tickets now! Tickets also available at the door, if seats are available. This Saturday, 7 p.m., Hemingway Museum, 200 N. Oak Park Ave.

Saturday, Oct. 22, at 7 p.m., at the Hemingway Museum. Our author will be Tony Fitzpatrick, who has just released his latest — gorgeous! — book, a mix of essays and collage art, called The Secret Birds. Those of you familiar with Tony know he’s not just a charismatic writer and artist, but a playwright, actor, former radio host and real Chicago character. Tony will do a presentation on birds, and talk about himself and his art. We will have a warm-up act in the form of Diann Bilderback, a longtime birder, who will share some of her wisdom about, and experiences with, birds. And we will have a live raptor there, either a red-tailed hawk or an owl.

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t was the big money grab Monday night. Oak Park village trustees voted themselves a whopping 100 percent pay raise. Or is it 1,000 percent? I’m bad with decimals. Anyhow, they increased their haul from $7,500 to $15,000 per meeting, err, per year. And the mayor/village president, who started all this foolish talk about getting a pay raise, well he got boosted from $10,8000 to $25,000. Now remember, when Mayor Anan Abu-Taleb first suggested several months back that he was undercompensated, he was initially looking for money in the village manager league. He fairly quickly pared that back to, oh, say, $75,000. So anyway you slice it, getting to $25,000 is only a moral victory. Now the trustees point out that they hadn’t had an increase in their pay — ahem, they like to call it a stipend, but it still spends — since 1996. Hell, Bill Clinton was still screwing around in the White House back in 1996. That’s a long time to go without. A raise, I mean. Fine print time: The raises voted on Monday go into effect after next April’s election and only apply to trustees (and the village president) who are on the April ballot. In other words, trustees Bob Tucker, Adam Salzman and Andrea Button-Ott, who were re-elected without opposition two years ago, get no pay raise for at least another two years. Poor kittens. Imagine the tension this will cause at the board table when rookie trustees ask innocent questions about why the hell actuaries can’t agree on when retirees will actually kick off or how to create a new TIF without telling the school districts. I can just hear Tucker

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indubitably see many more candidates surface for the April election. But I’m betting we’ll get to a dozen at $15K. Not a bad part-time job. Evening hours. Clean work. And everyone calls you “Your honor.” Beats watching the Bulls.

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now. “Been there. Done that. And you whippersnapper, don’t think I don’t know that you’re pocketing two bucks for every one of mine!” My suggestion is that we start a GoFundMe page for the soon-to-be underpaid trustees. Sort of a beer, babysitting and baseball slush fund so the trustees can still run a tab at the post-meeting watering hole, pay for the sitter in the case of young parents Salzman and ButtonOtt, and, heck, who doesn’t like the White Sox? Now that the word is out about 100 percent pay hikes on the table, we will indubitably see many more candidates surface for the April election. So far we have four announced. But I’m betting we’ll get to a dozen at $15K. Not a bad part-time job. Evening hours. Clean work. And everyone calls you “Your honor.” Beats watching the Bulls. Reminds me of the slate of Republican candidates for the Oak Park Township board who came to Wednesday Journal many, many years ago for an endorsement interview. Why are you running, was the softball question opener. “To do good for God and man. Because township government is the essential entity of government. Can’t imagine life without it. Can you? And I could really use that pay-

check.” We let them down gently. There is no paycheck. Focus on doing good for God and man. It will all be all right. These pay raises amount to a rounding error in the village budget. And once we agreed to start paying them something for their troubles, it was inevitable that someone would ask for their every-twodecade raise.

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Madison megaproject attracts developers Review could take weeks before public given access to proposals It is well-known that the village of Oak Park would receive at least one response to a request for proposals to build a new development – likely a combination of residential and retail – at the northeast corner of Madison Street and Oak Park Avenue.

Public officials revealed in September that the village has been negotiating for more than a year with Jupiter Realty to build a mixed-use development on what is now a village-owned surface parking lot. Village trustees acknowledged at a board meeting in September that the RFP was tailored to Jupiter, but John Lynch, executive director of the Oak Park Economic Development Corporation (OPEDC), a nonprofit consultant to the village aimed at attracting and maintaining business in the village, says that’s not the case.

Lynch said at the time that the RFP “is purely for the village-owned lot at the northeast corner of Madison and Oak Park; we are suggesting that respondents – to the extent that they have the interest and particularly if they have the ability to control additional parcels – they are certainly welcome to propose those as part of their response.” Some trustees questioned the four-week response time for the RFP, wondering whether the window was big enough for such a proposal to be put together.

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Felony Franks owner to run for Oak Park trustee Restaurateur wants lower taxes, sustainable growth, greater transparency By TIMOTHY INKLEBARGER

Former Oak Park assistant attorney to run for trustee Simone Boutet argues for increased transparency, quality development By TIMOTHY INKLEBARGER

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Oak Park restaurateur Deno J. Andrews has announced his intention to run for the Oak Park Village Board of Trustees in the upcoming municipal election in April 2017. Andrews is the owner of Felony Franks, a fast-food restaurant at 6427 W. North Ave. that employs ex-offenders, some of whom have spent time in prison, with the goal of helping them get their lives back on track. His nonprofit organization, The Rescue Foundation, works with those same ex-offenders to get them job training, counseling and other resources. Andrews served as a commissioner on the Oak Park Board of Health from 2005 to 2011. He said in a telephone interview that lowering taxes will be at the top of his agenda if elected to public office. The tax burden for small business owners like himself is so great that it is making it hard for independent shops to open in the village, he said. “Oak Park is at risk of losing its independent charm,” he said. Andrews worries about taxes growing to the point that only large national chains are able to afford opening up in Oak Park. He noted the recent closure of two independent businesses – Marion Street Market, 100 Marion St., and Michael’s Beef House, 6747 W. North Ave. – saying that he worries that it is a trend that could get worse. He worries that neighboring communities like Berwyn and Forest Park are more competitive than Oak Park because the taxes are lower. “Look at the Oak Park side of Roosevelt Road and it’s in pretty bad shape,” he said, noting the thriving businesses on the Berwyn side compared to “empty storefronts, dilapidated buildings and parking issues” on the Oak Park side. Andrews said that new residential development is needed to expand the tax base, but it needs to be done keeping in mind the pressure it will put on the school system and other public services such as the police and fire departments. Andrews is pushing for more growth, but made it clear that the village needs to focus on parts of town other than the downtown business district. “We need to be able to make sure we’re not overpopulating an area to a level we can’t support,” he said. He also emphasized the need for new construction to be architecturally signifi-

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Deno J. Andrews cant. “So many of our developments over the last 15 years have been generic, cheap looking buildings that have taken public funds,” he said, pointing to the Whiteco building, also known as Oak Park Place Apartments, at 479 N. Harlem, as an example. Andrews also said the village is perceived as not being transparent – noting the recent request for proposals issued by the Oak Park Economic Development Corporation for the large-scale development at the corner of Oak Park Avenue and Madison Street. The RFP was tailored to a single developer the village has been negotiating with behind closed doors for more than a year. The meetings between Jupiter Realty and OPEDC are not subject to Freedom of Information Act requests, because they work as a contractor for the village and are not officially part of village government. “It gives the perception that backroom dealings are going on; there’s one developer and others are only given a few weeks to submit a multimillion dollar proposal,” he said. Andrews said he did not believe the village has failed to be transparent, because you can follow the projects if you “know where to look.” But village leaders could work harder to make more information easier to find without filing open records requests. “I think we can just do better to prepare our citizens to be more involved,” he said. Andrews said he plans to seek the endorsement of the Village Manager Association, which slates candidates for local office. Asked if he would run without the group’s endorsement, Andrews said it depends on who the VMA slates. More information is available on Andrews’ campaign website at www.denoandrews.com. CONTACT: tim@oakpark.com

A former longtime attorney for the village of Oak Park has announced she will run for village trustee in the upcoming April 2017 election. Simone Boutet served as assistant village attorney for 14 years, two years as acting village attorney, before resigning from the position in 2015. Boutet said as a trustee she would focus on quality-of-life issues for Oak Park residents, maintaining the character of the community – which she says is hurting from substandard architecture and an increased focus on massive buildings that don’t fit in with the village’s architectural heritage – and bringing greater government transparency. “I believe in progress, but I don’t want to see Oak Park turn into Lincoln Park,” she said. “I don’t worship at the altar of highrises.” “This is a museum of a community, and we should continue that rather than putting up sterile or sometimes ugly development,” she added. Case in point is the Oak Park Place apartment building near the corner of Lake and Harlem, she said. The building – commonly referred to as the Whiteco building, after the developer who built the structure in 2008 – has been roundly criticized for being an ugly structure that does not fit in with the historic architecture of the village. She said Whiteco and other projects never should have received tax incentives from the village’s various tax increment financing (TIF) districts. Boutet said the village should perform a comprehensive review of TIF incentives awarded to companies to show whether they brought the revenue developers promised. “I think the community is very interested in seeing that information,” Boutet said. Boutet said the village should better utilize the brainpower it has at its disposal through its highly educated residents. The village’s recent release of a request for proposals from developers for the village-owned parking lot at the corner of Madison Street and Oak Park Avenue, for instance, was never sent to the village’s Plan Commission for review, she said. “One of the coolest things about living here is all the smart people here, and we should be taking advantage of their input; to me that’s the essence of democracy,” she said.

Simone Boutet She said the village often is not transparent in its decision-making, which has caused them to disengage from the process. Boutet said the village has never explained why the use of TIF funds was necessary for the $3 million environmental cleanup of the site of the Elevate Oak Park development being built near the corner of Lake and Harlem. “People like me knew there were underground storage tanks [at the site],” she said. “Why was it a surprise and why was it not part of the negotiations [with the developer] from the very beginning? Why was it suddenly a surprise? It’s our property.” She said the village also has not done enough to engage residents on the ongoing update of its zoning code, which governs height, density, parking requirements and other aspects of development in Oak Park. “When the village did the comprehensive plan, we filled up the high school cafeteria with citizens and interested parties by actively reaching out to the community, one individual at a time, until we had just about everyone who is known to be involved,” Boutet said in an email. “The zoning code is where the rubber hits the road. You don’t see the same outreach to the community with the zoning code. You don’t see yard signs or surveys as are used for the parking or sign code. You don’t see it on the village’s home page where items of lesser or more temporary significance are noted.” Boutet said she would seek the endorsement of the Village Manager Association but her candidacy did not rely on the group’s support. CONTACT: tim@oakpark.com

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Oak Park equips cops with anti-overdose drug

Mysterious helicopter makes emergency landing at OPRF

No injuries reported, but some residents left scratching their heads By MICHAEL ROMAIN Editor

Some Oak Park residents were caught off guard on Monday after a black helicopter made an emergency landing inside Oak Park and River Forest High School’s track and field complex on Lake St. and East Ave. “I arrived at the OPRFHS field Monday evening at 8 p.m. for a little exercise and found the gates pad locked with a couple joggers milling around,” said Oak Park resident Charles Raymond, who was on his way to the complex for an evening walk when he saw the scene. “When I asked why the gates were closed, they said, ‘Look at the middle of field.’ After focusing, I could see a black helicopter sitting in the field with a couple of people with flashlights.” Raymond, who took photos of the downed helicopter, said the joggers told him the he-

licopter had to make a “hurried landing and that it came down very fast, losing its rotating blades.” Officials with OPRF and the Oak Park Police Department confirmed that no one was injured during the emergency landing but that the complex was cleared out while authorities prepared for the helicopter to get towed away. “It just disappeared sometime between that night and the next day,” Raymond said. CONTACT: michael@oakpark.com

Oak Park cops are now equipped with a drug used by law enforcement and others to save the lives of those overdosing on heroin and other opioid-based drugs. The request for police officers to begin carrying the drug — Oak Park officers are now equipped with Naloxone, often sold under the brand name Narcan — first came from Oak Park Township Supervisor David Boulanger as a way to prevent overdoses. Oak Park police are often the first responders to the scene of an overdose and, in the short time it takes for paramedics to arrive, this can mean the difference between life and death, Boulanger argued. A state law that went into effect in January requires all police officers in Illinois to carry the drug. “By having access to Naloxone, our officers in the street can act quickly if they encounter someone experiencing an overdose. This really is a common-sense measure that can help save lives,” Oak Park Police Chief Anthony Ambrose said in a press release. Oak Park firefighters, who already carry Naloxone, administered the drug 43

times in 2015 and 46 times in 2014. The village press release noted that heroin users often purchase the drug in Chicago and seek safer communities to consume it, such as Oak Park. The Centers for Disease Control report that overdose deaths in Illinois were up 8.3 percent from 2013 to 2014, according to the village press release. The Naloxone doses were paid for through a grant from the Cook County Overdose Prevention Program, the village said. CONTACT: tim@oakpark.com

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ales of condominium homes at Ranquist Development Group’s District House hit the 35% mark, enabling the project to go from the design planning stage to the construction phase in a record amount of time. In the spring of 2016, Ranquist, along with Campbell Coyle Real Estate, submitted plans to the Village of Oak Park for a 28-unit building at 700 Lake Street and quickly was awarded Village approval for the project. The units hit the MLS in August with the opening of the Sales Center at 805 Lake Street, and the brisk sales pace means the project now has the green light to proceed to construction. For Ranquist’s Cory Robertson, the appeal of District House is multi-faceted. “Since the day we first released our design plans, the public’s response has been overwhelming. Our architects’ forward-thinking designs have struck a chord in a neighborhood known for great architectural history. Also, people in the western suburbs and the city have been looking for high-end condominiums

At a time when the majority of condominiums in the village are smaller, newer units or vintage walkups, District House fills a unique niche in offering spacious three bedroom units that will range from 1,700 to 2,000 square feet. Perfect for the down-sizing Oak Park resident who wants to remain in the neighborhood and still have space for guests and entertaining, the units also appeal to young professionals and families looking to put down roots in the community. that offer great access to transportation and all the amenities of downtown Oak Park.” From the beginning, Seattle-based Miller Hull and Chicago-based Northworks sought to create a building in context at the corner of Oak Park’s Lake Street and Euclid Avenue. The contemporary, LEED-certified

The quick pace of presales indicates that the local market is hungry for high-end condominiums, and Robertson expects the sales to continue as the project heads towards construction. To inquire about condominium homes in District House, stop by the District House Sales Center at 805 Lake Street or call Frank Vithelic at 708.386.1810.

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Oak Park marketing D97, Robinson’s Ribs properties By TIMOTHY INKLEBARGER Staff Reporter

The former headquarters for Oak Park School District 97 has not been transferred yet to the village of Oak Park, but that’s not stopping the village’s local economic development group from shopping the site to potential developers. John Lynch, executive director of the Oak Park Economic Development Corporation, a nonprofit contractor hired by the village to attract and retain business to Oak Park, said he and colleague Viktor Schrader will attend the International Conference of Shopping Centers in Chicago next week to promote that site and others throughout the village to retailers from across the globe. The former D97 administration building, 970 Madison St., combined with the adjacent former home of Robinson’s No. 1 Ribs restaurant, 934-936 Madison St., comprise a combined 42,000 square feet, Lynch said. The village purchased the Robinson’s building in 2015 for $495,000 with the goal of marketing the entire site to a potential developer. Which form that development will take place is still unknown. Lynch said OPEDC and the village expect to publish a request for proposals from potential developers “in the near future.” “It could be this fall,” he said. “Ideally we would like to have a project begin in the spring.” He said that although the D97 building

property has not been transferred to village ownership, the village can still move forward with soliciting proposals. A mixed-use development – made up of commercial/retail on the ground floor and residential units above – is a possibility, Lynch said. He reminded that the village recently amended its zoning ordinance for Madison Street, making it possible to build a residential-only building along the commercial corridor. He said the property likely was not large enough for a big-box store, but rather a modest-size retail space or two with surface parking. The shopping center conference, which will be held at Navy Pier in Chicago on Oct. 19 and 20, will also give OPEDC the chance to market the retail spaces coming online as a result of large-scale mixed-use developments coming to the village. Elevate Oak Park, which is under construction near the corner of Harlem Avenue and Lake Street, will have space for multiple retail tenants, as will the mixed-use development proposed by Lincoln Properties near the corner of South Boulevard and Harlem. OPEDC also will be promoting the retail space expected to open up at the corner of Oak Park Avenue and Madison Street, as well as available space in other parts of the village, such as North Avenue, Roosevelt Road and the Oak Park Arts District on Harrison Street, among others, Lynch said. CONTACT: tim@oakpark.com

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Candidates line up in D90

Four seats will be up on the River Forest Elementary School District 90 Board of Education, with one incumbent already declaring, two retiring and a fourth uncommitted. Stacey Williams announced her intention to run for a full four-year term in July when she was appointed to fill Patrick Meyer’s seat. Roman Ebert and David Latham said they were not intending to run for third terms. “Let’s give other people an opportunity, people who can provide fresh ideas and devote time to the district,” said Ebert, who has served as the board’s facilities chairman. Said Latham, “It’s tradition to serve only two terms. I respect tradition.” Anne Gottlieb told Wednesday Journal she will decide in the next few weeks whether she’ll seek a second term. Two months remain for prospective candidates to circulate petitions for the April 4, 2017 election. And the group that will endorse candidates who file independently, the Community Caucus, will start the screening process on Oct. 20. At that time, delegates – residents doing the screening – will learn about caucus

procedures as well as their responsibilities. That meeting is scheduled for 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. in the learning center of Roosevelt Middle School, 7560 Oak Ave. Information will be available for residents who want to run for the school board, said Cal Davis, this year’s caucus chairman. On Nov. 17, delegates will select the questions to ask the candidates. The month after petition filing ends on Dec. 19, the caucus will interview and select candidates for endorsement. If interviews aren’t finished that evening, a second session will be on Jan. 26. The dates for screening candidates is later this election season to allow for write-ins to step forward, Davis said. Prospective candidates must be 18 or older, have lived in River Forest at least one year and be a registered voter. A board member’s term is four years. Cook County Clerk David Orr has launched the Running for Office Starter Kit, which is available on the agency’s website.

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ring your racing and running season to a close in historic Oak Park with the flat, fast, and scenic route of the 2016 Frank Lloyd Wright Races, featuring a 5K Run/Walk, the 10K Run, and the Youth Mile for ages 7-14. All events are on Sunday, October 23 and start just east of Oak Park River Forest High School (201 N. Scoville Avenue in Oak Park) at Scoville and Ontario Streets, and finish on Scoville in front of the school. The course for the 10K passes by eight Frank Lloyd Wright buildings, including the Home and Studio! The race will include your favorites from past years including the Mascot Race and the oatmeal breakfast bar. This is also your opportunity to purchase

past FLW race t-shirts for only $5! New this year we will have a Photo Backdrop with Frank Lloyd Wright where you can take pictures and share with your friends on social media. We even have “Abe Lincoln” (Race Bib #16) running the race in full costume! Make sure to look for our favorite President! Also be on the lookout for online surveys and prizes! If you want to clean up right after the race yet stay in beautiful downtown Oak Park, showers will be open at Ridgeland Common again this year, just bring your own towel. As a reminder, roads along the path of the race will be closed from midnight Saturday October 22 through 11am on Sunday October 23. Please visit www.flwraces.com for the race map course. Cheer runners and volunteers that make this race possible and if you haven’t registered yet, hurry since online registration closes on Friday October 21 and in-person registration closes on Saturday October 22 at 1pm! The weather is projected to be fantastic for the race! Enjoy!

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OPRF grads hatch platform for budding businesses

Binapro aims to be a Facebook for innovators By MICHAEL ROMAIN Editor

Three Oak Park and River Forest High School graduates, all of them longtime best friends, are trying to create a space for themselves in the world of social media with a website called Binapro. The platform is a “social network that connects innovators for the purpose of bringing disruptive ideas to life,” the website states. Binapro’s co-founders — Daniel Bevan, Derrick Griffin and Kelvin Evans — said the site features an Online Project Workplace, which offers users a “virtual workspace” that integrates business apps like Google Drive, WordPress, Skype and Evernote on a centralized location so they can get more work done. A feature called Binapro Crowd, Bevan said, would allow entrepreneurs a tool to grow an online following, sell their products and/or find potential investors. But one feature in particular, called Next Generation Innovation, resonates the most with the three friends. The NGI, they said, would allow high school and college

students the opportunity to get actual work experience with real businesses. The feature is an echo of their own experiences at OPRF, where the three young men helped create the high school’s business club before graduating in 2015. “Prior to the club, we felt there wasn’t really anything at the school that provided students the opportunity to really voice their opinions on certain business ideas they wanted to bring to life,” said Griffin, Binapro’s COO and a former business club president who is studying business administration at Robert Morris University in Chicago. Binapro CMO Kelvin Evans said the club, which is overseen by OPRF faculty members Derrick Purvis and Peter Hostrawser, allowed the three friends to create a marketing plan for the CMO of Hyatt. They’ve also worked on projects with corporate heavyweights like Coca Cola and Potbelly’s. “College students don’t even get to do things like that,” said Evans, who is currently majoring in entrepreneurship at Illinois State University. “That really changed my life and I don’t think I’d be where I’m at without it.” The club, however, was just a reinforcement of a bond that started at Holmes Elementary,

where Griffin and Bevan met in first grade before bonding with Evans in third grade. They’ve been inseparable ever since. By the time they graduated from OPRF last year, the notion that they would work on some kind of project together had pretty much solidified. What though? They dabbled in network marketing and even catering before nailing down the concept of Binapro. “The name is a play on words,” said Evans. “It stands for business, innovation and professional. We thought merging those ideas sounded good.” After he pitched the idea for a “social

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network designed for people to start business projects” to his two friends last year, Bevan said, they started slowly building the concept. They sought out at least two web developers, one of whom lives in Egypt, to build the network before settling on a platform called bubble.is, which allowed them to create a site on their own, without knowing how to code. “I just worked on this thing 30-35 days straight,” said Bevan, who is currently focusing on Binapro full-time. The site, binapro.co, is live, but it’s still in beta mode, he said. Still, users can signup and test the network’s usefulness. So far around 20 people have signed up, Bevan said, with another 50 people who have shown interest in doing so. At this stage, however, the focus is on building and improving the test version before attracting more users. In three months, they expect Binapro to start generating revenue before growing its user base. In the meantime, they’re keeping each other honest. “We’re focused on this 100 percent,” said Bevan. “It’s a great experience. We love what we do, but we’re also going to hold each other accountable.” CONTACT: michael@oakpark.com

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D200 pushes to inform public ahead of Nov. 8 referendum Board president addresses equity, parking and other issues during Oct. 17 presentation By MICHAEL ROMAIN Editor

Around 50 people attended an Oct. 17 informational meeting on the upcoming pool referendum at Oak Park and River Forest High School, where District 200 Board President Jeff Weissglass gave a PowerPoint presentation and fielded audience questions. District officials also provided the first two of at least six public tours of the high school facilities that will be given to the public over the next week. In addition to the informational session and the tours, the high school recently rolled out a new FAQ page on its website that answers commonly asked question about the ballot measure. The outreach efforts comprise perhaps one of the last, major pushes by the district to educate voters on the state of the high school’s two nearly 90-year-old pools and other campus spaces before residents weigh in on a Nov. 8 referendum. The ballot question will ask voters to partially fund an estimated $44.5 million, five-year facilities plan, which includes a new pool, by issuing up to $25 million in bonds. The plan, which the D200 school board in approved unanimously in August, includes the construction of a 40-meter swimming pool, a new parking garage, and expanded and renovated performing arts spaces, among other capital projects. In his PowerPoint presentation, (which, along with other documents, is available for the public to access on the high school’s website at oprfhs.org/facilities), Weissglass described the facilities plan as the result of years of public discussion about comprehensive capital upgrades that would accommodate growing enrollment. “We are growing dramatically,” Weissglass said. “The enrollment was much higher in the mid-1970s, but there have been significant changes in the use of the building since [then]; primarily around special education, which has changed dramatically, and the growth of performing arts.” District officials have noted that, between 2010 and 2015, the student population at OPRF increased by at least 12 percent. Enrollment in performing arts programs has increased by 20 percent in the past few years, with additional classroom space necessary to support programs like band, orchestra and theater, officials have noted. Weissglass said that community conversations around possibly replacing the two pools, which officials say are at least three

decades beyond their useful lifespan, go back at least 15 years ago. Five years ago, he said, some consensus began to form that pool renovation or construction needed to happen alongside other upgrades to a campus that hasn’t had a major building addition in 45 years. “We think we have finally found a solution and that solutions is to build a single pool, which would entail taking down the [parking] garage and building a slightly smaller garage in the space,” Weissglass said, “but then opening up the space in the building to accommodate the growth and changes.” The entrance to the new garage, which would have around 61 fewer spots than the current, 300-space garage, would be at Lake Street and East Avenue. The design of the entrance, however, hasn’t been finalized, he said. When asked if the smaller garage would create parking problems in the neighborhood around the high school, Weissglass said that the district would cooperate with the village to make its parking permit system more efficient. He added that up to 80 permit parking spots on South Boulevard go unused during the day. “What about not having a pool and using the [money] saved to [address] the achievement gap?” asked one audience member. “The board is spending most of our time and energy about educational issues, although that’s not what you see in public,” Weissglass responded. “And over the useful life of this pool, the pool cost would be, on average, about 1 percent of our operating budget per year. So, the amount of money we’re spending on achievement issues and educational excellence is astronomical compared to what we’ll spend on this pool.” Earlier in his presentation, Weissglass said that 10 percent of the student body at OPRF enters high school unable to enter or exit the water safely and that another 40 to 50 percent can’t swim efficiently. Oak Park resident Ken Johnson, who lives near the high school and was concerned about the new pool’s effect on area parking, said Monday’s informational session helped nudge him closer to voting for the referendum. “I’m undecided, but am leaning more towards yes than I was before,” Johnson said. Stasia Jamell, an Oak Park resident of more than three decades and a retired teacher, entered the presentation decidedly against the referendum and left with her opposition to the ballot measure strengthened. She said the cost of the proposed facilities plan was “extravagant” and that the district wasn’t transparent enough in its efforts to inform the public. “It bothers me that they’re spending so much money for a 40-foot pool when our high school is now ranked 36th in the state and there are so many kids who are graduating who aren’t up to the standards,” Jamell said. CONTACT: michael@oakpark.com

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Man arrested for River Forest carjacking

Fingerprints and DNA eviRiver Forest Police have ardence found in the vehicle led rested a man they say was inpolice to arrest Markeese D. volved in an aggravated vehicuGuider, 19, of Chicago, who was lar hijacking that occurred in charged with two counts of agthe 7600 block of Central on Sept. gravated vehicular hijacking 26, according to a police news reand one count of criminal treslease. pass to a vehicle. Police responded to that call at Guider’s bond was set at about 1 p.m., when it was report$100,000. He is being held in Cook ed that two men, one armed with County Jail. a shotgun, approached a woman MARKEESE GUIDER Police also identified two driving a 2009 BMW 528i and orother suspects connected to the dered her out of the car. The men fled the scene, followed by a carjacking – one is in custody for an unresmall red car that police suspect had driven lated offense and the other is being sought the two men to the location. Several days af- by River Forest police. The shotgun used in ter the carjacking, the BMW was discovered the carjacking also was located and is being parked near the intersection of Division held as evidence by another police jurisdiction. and Parkside in Chicago.

Community Bank responds to takeover attempt Oak Park-River Forest denies self-dealing in stock sale

2014 are “patently false and are meant to try to discredit the board.” “The granting of stock options is a standard practice at many community banks and are an important way to attract, retain and motivate high-quality employees,” CommuBy TIMOTHY INKLEBARGER Staff Reporter nity Bank Chairman Marty Noll and president and CEO Walter Healy said It was revealed earlier this month in the press release. “[First America] that First American Bank Corpora- also fails to note [Community Bank] tion, one of the largest shareholders has sought and received stockholder of Community Bank Oak Park River approval for each stock option plan.” Forest, is targeting the locally owned Community Bank also alleged in its bank for a hostile takeover. release that its relationFirst American claimed, ship with First Ameriamong other things, that can soured after the Oak Community Bank’s leaderPark bank terminated a ship diluted the value of ■ For the full statement 15-year arrangement existing stock in the bank by Community Bank for data processing serby gearing stock deals to invices with First AmeriVISIT OAKPARK.COM siders and friends. can in 2011. Community Community Bank resaid it found a different sponded with a letter to stockhold- vendor with better services at a better ers on Friday, Oct. 14, recommending price. That decision, said Community, they reject an offer by First American turned First American into a consisto purchase the bank shares at $134.32 tent critic of bank management. each, a number substantially higher Noll and Healy declined further than the current value of $86 per comment and First American chairshare. man and CEO Thomas Wells could not Community Bank released a stateimmediately be reached for comment. ment on Monday, Oct. 17, stating that Wells claimed in his offer letter to the offer “grossly undervalues the stockholders that the stock deals ofcompany” and is not in the best interfered to bank leadership and their est of stockholders. friends was not offered to First AmeriCommunity Bank also argues in the can, despite their position as one of press release that the assertions that the majority stock owners of the bank. the bank board engaged in self-dealCONTACT: tim@oakpark.com ing in the sale of stock beginning in

WEB EXTRA

Residential burglary arrest

Kendreeal Perteet, 21, of the 3900 block of West Congress Parkway in Chicago, was arrested on Oct. 16 at 11:54 a.m. in the 400 block of Desplaines Avenue in Forest Park for residential burglary and held in lieu of bond. No additional information was provided by the Oak Park police.

Residential burglary A residence in the 600 block of South East Avenue was burglarized sometime between 10:45 p.m. on Oct. 14 and 10:15 a.m. on Oct. 16. The offender entered the garage through an unlocked service door and stole a Swiss army knife, $100 in cash and a personal check from the center console.

The offender also entered the resident through an unlocked rear door leading to the kitchen and stole a man’s white gold wedding ring and a brown leather wallet containing credit cards, gift cards and personal identification. The loss was an estimated $1,100. These items, obtained from the Oak Park and River Forest police departments, came from reports, Sept. 26-Oct. 16, 2016, and represent a portion of the incidents to which police responded. Anyone named in these reports has only been charged with a crime and cases have not yet been adjudicated. We report the race of a suspect only when a serious crime has been committed, the suspect is still at large, and police have provided us with a detailed physical description of the suspect as they seek the public’s help in making an arrest.

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avalanche of better qualified candidates,” he said, adding that he supported the increase for the mayor. Barber unsuccessfully attempted to amend the ordinance to reduce the trustee pay increase to $10,800 a year. The motion to amend was not secfrom page 1 onded and, therefore, did not receive a vote. election in April. Lueck, whose term is up next Barber, a former president of the District 97 elspring, has said she does not plan to seek another ementary school board, noted that school board term on the board. members are not compensated for their service. The change would not affect trustees and the Lueck also opposed the pay increase, arguing mayor until after the 2017 election. Trustee terms that to suggest that increased pay would result are staggered, so the three trustees elected in in trustees with higher commitment, dedication 2015 – Salzman, Andrea Button-Ott and Tucker and passion was “an insult to the people who – would not receive the pay increase unless they have served on the board for the last 20 years.” seek re-election in 2019. “You can buy a lot of babysitting The increased pay closely mirrors for $12,000,” she said. that of elected officials in Evanston The meeting took an unexpected – the mayor there is paid $25,317 and turn when Village Clerk Teresa Powtrustees $15,990 – Tucker said, arguell attempted to make the case for ining, “I think these proposed amounts creasing the clerk’s pay as well. are incredibly fair even though I’m Powell argued in the comment secnot going to get a dime of it.” tion of a previous story in WednesHe added that the increase could day Journal that the clerk’s pay has help bring in a more diverse group of not kept pace with pay increases for trustee candidates, arguing that the other village employees. cost of child care and other issues as“The salary of the village clerk sociated with attending meetings can has not been raised along with other be too much of a burden for some who employees of the village in the past would otherwise serve on the board. eight years as it had I the previous BOB TUCKER “I try to encourage people with 36 years,” Powell wrote prior to the Oak Park Trustee lesser means to be involved [in village meeting. government], and I know these things Powell wrote that the position is hold them back,” Tucker said. paid “roughly 30 percent less than an Salzman said the fiscal impact to average department head. It should the village budget was negligible and in no way also be addressed.” would change the council-manager form of govAt the Monday night meeting, Powell attempternment in which trustees are essentially public ed to weigh in but was told she could only adservants who make policy decisions to be carried dress the proposed ordinance. out by the village manager, who is not an elected Salzman told Powell that if her comments were official. to go beyond the scope of the ordinance, “I would “If enacted tonight, the council-manager form ask the village attorney if that is out of order or of government remains as is,” Salzman said. germane to the item before us.” Barber voted against the ordinance, arguing Powell spoke briefly arguing that the ordinance that the pay increase for trustees was too high. should have addressed “all elected officials.” “I don’t think the amount is going to get an CONTACT: tim@oakpark.com

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‘A lot of hours I like’ from page 1 red lump. But it was the ninth inning, so I wasn’t going anywhere, especially with all that was happening. “At that point, I was on pure adrenaline. I was just so pumped. From there to the field to gather all the guys together and shoot the team picture, and then to the clubhouse to try to avoid all that champagne and get those pictures, and as soon as I got enough of that, I really let down, and then I was woozy. “I was lucky it didn’t hit my eye or my jaw. It bounced off the top of my head. My wife, Lisa, said, ‘It still didn’t knock any sense into you.’” People envy Green his job, and he admits that when he goes out on the field, as he frequently does, he still thinks, “I can’t believe I get to do this.” But people only envy him “until they find out all of what I do,” he said. “In everybody’s mind, it’s June 20th, a night game where it’s 70 degrees at game time and the sun doesn’t set till 8:30 and there’s no humidity and it’s perfect. They forget about April and May when it’s 40 and drizzling.” This all started back in 1982. Green, with a degree in art history, had been working at the Portland Art Museum. He came to Chicago to study photography at the Art Institute. A longtime Cub fan, he planned to do his thesis on Wrigley Field, “this last daytime, family-owned ballpark.” The Wrigley family thought it was a great idea, so they invited him to spend the season taking photos. But he couldn’t get a scholarship and couldn’t afford the Art Institute, so he applied for, and got, at grant from the Illinois Arts Council. “The Wrigleys gave me credentials and access to the team for a year,” Green recalled. Then they sold the club to the Tribune Company. “They asked me if I wanted to stay on and become their team photographer.” He did indeed. Green is not part of the “press.” He’s part of the Cubs organization. Originally he was a full-time employee of the Creative Services Department. Now he’s an independent contractor and oversees a team of five independent photographers. Fans can see his work on Cubs-centric media such as Vine Line, club websites and social media. When he started, he was roughly the same age as the players. Now at 64, “I could be their dads, easily, even their granddad. You earn your trust with these guys. I know the protocol. I know more what not to do. It’s relationships. You need to read it right. It helps a lot that (manager Joe) Maddon accepts me. I get along well with him.” The personality of the team has changed with the changes in personnel, but this team, he said, is unique. “They’re all for each other,” he said. “There’s a community feeling. They’re really young. They’ve come up together. It’s a team that’s been conceived by Theo Epstein and by Maddon. They have gone out of their way to put together quality individuals. Obviously excellent athletes, but the quality of the people involved is really important to them. They didn’t just go out and get the best athletes. They got the type of athletes and the type of person they wanted.” Winning helps, he admitted, but this team had a really bad streak before the All-Star break. “And it wasn’t like, ‘Get out of here. Go away.’ But I know when not to be around during that period. There’s a real fine line. I’m part of the organization. I’m not part of the team.” Green doesn’t cover the team. He documents the season, photographing each home game, along with some road games, the Cubs convention, etc., but also having the freedom to roam, looking for interesting angles and feature shots. “Wrigley is such a big part of the Cubs, the place,” he said. “A large part of my job is to document the whole scene at the ballpark, the beauty of it, as well as the game. … What I

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TURNABOUT IS FAIR PLAY: Cubs players put their photographer at the center of things for a change. Green calls baseball a beautiful game, which is evident in his Sports Illustrated cover article (right) from earlier this year.. have is the luxury to go anywhere at any time. I’m not confined to media spots. I’m not telling the story of each game. I’m trying to tell the story of the team and of the ballpark. I look for more iconic shots.” His favorite place to shoot from is the old scoreboard. “It’s really cool to see the way it all works up there,” he said. “And it’s a unique angle, either to shoot a very wide angle on the ballpark or a sunset or a long lens shot of guys diving in the outfield. I also like shooting from the upper deck, down on the field. For straight-ahead action, [it’s] right next to the dugout at first and third, and then I can shoot into the dugout, too.” The most photogenic players, he said, are Addison Russell and Javier Baez. “They are extraordinary athletes. I just love the way Javier Baez plays.” But it’s more than athleticism. “A guy like Kris Bryant has such good form. His results are stunning but he’s not that flashy. His swing is so pure and so easy as opposed to Javy who whacks the ball.” And it’s more than just action. “I’ve shot so many double plays and home runs, pitches coming off the pitcher’s fingers, balls off the bat,” he noted. “That’s the entry point for shooting sports. But it’s also a little mind-numbing after a while. Capturing the personality of the team and the players is really why I got into this. That’s really where my heart is.” He takes a fair number of shots at the beginning and the end of games, but during the middle innings he roams the park, trying to find things the fans would like to see. And he tries to be in the right place at the right time. “I used to do some work with a wonderful photographer named Walter Yost,” he recalled, “who I learned quite a bit from. He said people talk about lucky pictures, but really you make your own luck. Think of your background. Be aware all the time. I think ahead about where something

could And someplace else. ld happen. h A d then h it i usually ll happens h l l But occasionally it clicks. I can look at that shaft of light coming over the dugout and wouldn’t it look awesome if Lester walks out through that shaft of light?” He also has the freedom to go out onto the field when something happens and getting a different angle, like when someone hits a homer and comes out of the dugout to acknowledge the fans. As consuming as the job is, he said, it’s only 120 days a year. The rest of the year, he does work for corporations like Gatorade and Nike. He also shoots for Sports Illustrated and has worked World Series, Super Bowls and NBA championships. “I know that world,” he said. “I just don’t know it from our perspective. So I can’t embrace that yet.” He describes this team’s attitude as “beyond positive. It’s very confident. Maddon really sets the tone. He’s just magical to observe and be around. And the veterans Theo has brought on, guys like Lester, Hamel, Lackey, with them not winning is not OK. Competing is not OK. Winning is what’s OK. The older guys on that team are all about winning.” Normally he works mostly at Wrigley, but during the postseason, he goes on the road, too. “I’m with them till I’m not,” he said. If and when that magic moment Cub fans all fantasize about arrives, however, Steve Green won’t be cheering. He’ll have his work cut out for him. “I hope we can talk again in November,” he said. “We can talk about what that was like.” To see more, visit www.sgreenphoto.com. CONTACT: ktrainor@wjimc.com

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THE BEAT GOES ON: Hatch Elementary’s steel drum band has a new video out that they hope will accompany the Cubs into the World Series.

Oak Park school kids jump on Cubs bandwagon Hatch steel drum band’s ‘Go Cubs Go’ video racking up online views By MICHAEL ROMAIN Editor

Javier Baez’s game-winning RBI single against the San Francisco Giants on Oct. 11 is still resonating, three days later, like the merous local TV news segments. Evan said beat of a steel drum. In particular, the steel roughly 80 percent of the school’s more than drums belonging to the William Hatch El300 students participated in the video. ementary School Steel Drum Band. “We put out a permission slip and asked anyEarlier this month, the band created and body who wanted to be an extra in the video filmed their own rendition of what may be to fill it out,” he said. “It was open to anyone.” the Cubs’ national anthem, Steve Goodman’s The video only increases the drum band’s alcatchy “Go Cubs Go!” ready outsized reputation. Evan “We’re always listening for said the band has performed at songs that will transfer well to numerous professional sportsteel drums,” said Evan Jacobson, ing events in the past, including a Hatch music teacher who runs ■ https://www. a 2014 Chicago Bulls basketball the after-school drum band along game and a 2013 Chicago Wolves youtube.com/ with his father, retired music hockey game. teacher Paul Jacobson. watch?v=aBZKkfcWZ18 “The steel drum is a really versa“We saw the kids wearing their tile instrument,” Evan said. “You LOG ON TO OAKPARK.COM Cubs and gear and just getting can do a lot on it. Steel drums can excited and into Cubs fever right even play classical symphonies.” now,” Evan said. “My father and With the Cubs’ playoff hopes still alive, deI are big music people and big fans of Steve mand and interest in Hatch’s drum band reGoodman. We thought the kids’ excitement mains high. and the song would be a great combination.” And if the team wins it all? Evan said that, after teaching his drum “As a Cubs fun you can never be too confiband members the song earlier this month, dent,” said Evan, with characteristic Cubs he thought it would be a good idea to ask fan cautiousness. “We’re definitely feeling other students if they’d want to participate good about it, though. There’s a lot of posiin the song’s music video, which was uptive energy in the city and I think it’s a high loaded to YouTube on Oct. 12. time the Cubs do it.” Already, the video has garnered more CONTACT: michael@oakpark.com than 19,000 views and been featured in nu-

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he Performing Arts Department of Oak Park & River Forest High School has mounted an impressive production of The Diary of Anne Frank in the Studio Theater. Two performances remain this weekend at 7 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 21, and Sat., Oct. 22. Though the material is undoubtedly already familiar to lots of us and we know teenage Anne’s life did not end happily, this classic story of courage, hope, and the triumph of the human spirit still resonates. Anne’s remarkable diary chronicles the daily struggle of eight Jewish people hiding in several cramped attic rooms of an office building during the Nazi Occupation of the Netherlands. The time period depicted is 1942-1944, between Anne’s 13th and 15th birthdays. This was during the Holocaust in World War II, one of the darkest periods of human history. Director Michelle Bayer, the performing arts chair, has created a vigorous, touching production, with assistance from co-director Natalie Kozelka. Anne’s diary was recovered when her father, the sole survivor of his family, returned to the hidden upper rooms after he was released from a concentration camp at the end of World War II. Otto Frank recognized the importance of the journal and had it posthumously published. It remains one of the largest selling books of all time. Subsequent generations of school children continue to read Anne’s words. Most of the play is a flashback to the two years of hiding in the crowded secret rooms above an office building. There is one intermission. The group of eight — the Frank family of four, another family of three, and an extra man the group agreed to hide with them — are assisted by two generous Dutch gentiles. Miep (Maggie Perisho) bravely smuggles in as much food as possible, using just a few ration books, as well as library books and other supplies. Mr. Kraler (Ethan Gilbert) had

been a business associate of Otto Frank. He took over the business when Jews were no longer able to own such enterprises. During the day, total silence was mandatory. The refugees could not betray themselves to the workers below them in the office building. No noise could be made, not even the flushing of the toilet, until after 6 p.m. Their very lives depended on not being discovered. At night, frustration in the cramped pressure cooker often erupts, pent-up anxiety flares and accusations get tossed around. Stephanie Guralnick, as Anne, plays a passionate, complex young woman who displays a wide range of moods. Brimming with life and enthusiasm, Anne is someone destined for great things, if only she gets the chance to live. Thomas Weinheimer brings a quiet dignity to the role of Anne’s beloved father, Otto. He’s both compassionate and practical. Edith Frank, Anne’s mother, is played by Miranda Montgomery. The frustrated nurturer must swallow her pride and conceal her worry when Anne pushes her away. Anne’s self-effacing, quiet older sister Margot, is portrayed by Mariama Sidime. The actress makes this far more than a throw-away sidekick role. Her scenes touch the heart. The Van Daan’s teenage son Peter (Oskar Westbridge) grows from awkward adolescence to more focused maturity, becoming a confidant for Anne. Early in the production, the cast and crew visited the Illinois Holocaust Museum in Skokie to learn more about the horrific period of the European Occupation and the “Final Solution” of the Nazis. This deeply engaging production is a tribute to Anne, her family, and the millions of others who lost their lives in the Nazi death camps. It’s well-performed by a solid student ensemble. Tickets are $8 for adults and $6 for seniors and students. Performances are 7 p.m., Friday, Oct. 21, and Sat., Oct. 22.

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hen Peggy and Al Bernthal wanted to downsize from their spacious River Forest home on Greenfield Street, they knew a large part of the value of the property was in the 200 x 200-foot lot that backed up to Priory Park. The late 1960sera house had been a wonderful family home for them, but they knew subdividing the lot would make the real estate transaction more attractive. As the Bernthals considered how to handle the disposition of the large lot and their former family home, they hit upon a growing STEVE FILYO niche in the conBlueEarth Deconstruction struction business that helped make their plan to subdivide their property both more financially sound and more environmentally responsible. When they marketed the home, the Bernthals originally promoted it as two separate parcels, with the house on one lot and a separate, buildable lot to the east, but Peggy Bernthal said that plan hit a small snag when they realized the empty lot to the east of the house measured only 69 feet in width. By River Forest code, a lot needs to be at least 70 feet with setbacks. She realized that, in order to do a lot division according to code, the house would need to go.

“It’s an idea whose time has come. We take stuff even if it looks like stuff that wouldn’t end up on HGTV. It may not be pretty, but it’s useful.”

The decision to deconstruct As with many things in the internet age, the solution to tearing down the house presented itself through a quick Google search. Bernthal recalled, “I was interviewing de-

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BYE-BYE BAY: The Bernthals’ lot is being subdivided, which means their home needs to go. They chose deconstruction over demolition. molition people, I Googled deconstruction, and I found Steve.” Steve Filyo’s company BlueEarth Deconstruction takes apart Chicago-area buildings and works with the non-profit Rebuilding Exchange in Chicago to resell the salvaged materials. Filyo said in a house like the Bernthals’, very little from the deconstruction process goes into the Dumpster. “We save about 95 percent of what’s in the house,” he said. “We can save lumber, windows, doors, hardwood floors, mechanical

items and kitchens. If it can’t be re-used, we recycle it. The only things that go in the Dumpster are things we can’t reuse like plaster, drywall and insulation.” Filyo says companies like his are keeping a lot of building debris out of landfills and that people don’t realize how much of a home’s materials can be re-used. “It’s an idea whose time has come,” he said. “We take stuff even if it looks like See DECONSTRUCTION on page 20

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ROOM FOR EVERYONE and stunning finishes throughout. Newly finished kitchen features 2 dishwashers and a built in bar with beverage center. Top end bathrooms. Master Suite features a deck, walk-in closet and a redone bath. Beautiful decorating. Beautiful landscaping. ........................$719,000 ATTRACTIVE BRICK COLONIAL HOME recently painted and hardwood floors redone, offers the modern updates you want! Huge Liv Room with Fireplace, open and updated kitchen floor plan, 1st fl office, four BRs. Attached 2 car garage, LL Family Room, Laundry and Storage..........................$709,000 BEAUTIFUL KENILWORTH PARKWAY! 3 Bedroom, 2.5 Bath Classic Colonial. Brick, slate roof, curb appeal galore and move in ready!!! Walk up attic, lower level playroom, screened porch overlooks exquisite landscaped backyard. Ideal location. All you need to do is move in! ............................$689,900 METICUOUSLY MAINTAINED BUNGALOW with an enclosed porch welcomes you to this home! Special features include hardwood floors, a spacious LR, beamed ceiling DR, two bedrooms, one full bath, bright kitchen and office overlooking fenced-in yard. Impeccable 2 car garage. ......$264,000 VALUE MAY BE IN THE LAND. Major renovation needed to the house. Being sold “As Is”. .......................................................................................................................................................................$250,000 GREAT CHARM in this lovely 2 bedroom, 2 bath home on a quiet street. Why own a condo when you can own a cute house with a backyard. Hardwood floors, Enclosed front porch, Side drive. Walk to everything: Transportation, shops and restaurants ...........................................................................$219,000

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

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

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PP RR II CC EE RR EE DD UU CC EE DD !! QUINTENSSENTIAL OAK PARK HOME! This 3BR, 1-1/2 BA home offers lots of space to grow. Enter thru the substantial light filled Living Room, proceed to the Dining Room with coved moldings. 1st floor family room located right off the kitchen. Generous sized bedrooms ....................................................................$472,500 DON’T MISS THIS ADORABLE RANCH! Spacious living room and dining room boast beautifully finished hardwood floors, as do the two bedrooms. Updated eat-in kitchen. Family room overlooks the yard, deck and oversized two and a half car garage. .........................................................................$195,000

CONDOS/TOWNHOMES/2 FLATS RIVER FOREST 2 Flat..........................................................................................................................$499,000 PRICE REDUCED RIVER FOREST 2BR, 2BA. .........................................................................$199,000 RIVER FOREST 2BR, 1BA. Rare opportunity! ...............................................................................$125,000 RIVER FOREST 1BR, 1BA. Entertainment area.................................................................................$99,000 OAK PARK 3BR, 2-1/2 BA. Many extra amenities. .........................................................................$560,000 OAK PARK 3BR, 3-1/2 BA. Large corner unit...................................................................................$489,000 OAK PARK 2BR, 2BA. Unique condo. ................................................................................................$289,900 NEW LISTING OAK PARK 2BR, 1BA. .........................................................................................$149,900 OAK PARK 2BR, 1BA. Corner unit.......................................................................................................$145,000 OAK PARK 2BR, 1BA. Completely redone! ..........................................................................................$97,000 OAK PARK 1BR, 1BA. Updated kitchen and bath..............................................................................$52,000 FOREST PARK 2BR, 2BA. Spacious corner unit .............................................................................$289,000 FOREST PARK 2BR, 2BA. Large balcony .........................................................................................$178,000 FOREST PARK 2BR, 2A. West facing balcony................................................................................$150,000 FOREST PARK 1BR, 1BA. Updated bath.............................................................................................$89,500 FOREST PARK 1BR, 1BA. Top floor, corner unit................................................................................$89,000 FOREST PARK 1BR, 1BA. Clean, updated unit..................................................................................$79,900 PRICE REDUCED ELMWOOD PARK 2BR, 1-1/2 BA. ..........................................................$165,000 ELMWOOD PARK 1BR, 1BA. Hardwood floors. ..............................................................................$82,000 ELMWOOD PARK 1BR, 1BA. Top floor corner unit. ........................................................................$74,900

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OAK PARK. ORIGINAL OAK PARK HOME. Tremendous space in this 5BR, 1½BA Gunderson. Beamed ceiling, stained glass, pocket drs, WBFP & hdwd floors. x........................................$499,000

RIVER FOREST. IMMACULATE & UPDATED 2-story brick home on deep lot. 3BRs, 2.1BAs. Remodeled kitchen. New MBA w/Jacuzzi. C/A. Lovely! x ................................................. $594,000

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SPECTACULAR 6 BR, 3.2 BA on amazing block. 4 flrs of living space. High-end, designer kitchen & vaulted family rm. x .........................................................................................................................................$1,460,000

FOREST PARK. UNBEATABLE LOCATION. 5BRs, 3BAs. Eat-in kitchen. Terrific deck for outdoor entertaining. C/A. Great home. ................ $399,000 OAK PARK FANTASTIC ESTATE HOME w/meticulous renovation & expansion. Huge 101 x 268 private yd. 1st flr FR, Cook’s kitchen, MBR ste, library, 6BR, 3.2BA, porches, decks. More! x......................................................$1,925,000 REDUCED! INCREDIBLE HOME for the future! Best of old & lots of new - C/A, newer BAs, huge kitchen. 4 BRs + lndry upstairs. Close to schools, trains & town! x ................................................................................$1,100,000 SPACIOUS PRAIRIE school home on double lot 5BR, 3.1BA. Choice location! x .............................................................................................$899,000 GORGEOUS OAK PARK HOME near award-winning schools. Chef’s kitchen, master ste, 4+1 BRs, 3.1BAs, finished bsmt.x ................$875,000 NEW PRICE! SEE IT TO BELIEVE IT. Jumbo bungalow beauty w/4+BR/3BA. Chef’s eat-in kitchen, family rm & fin’d walk-out bsmt. x ..............................................................................................................$672,500 DELIGHTFULLY FRESH HOME w/4BRs, 3.1BAs. LR w/gas frplc, family rm w/blt-ins & inviting sun rm. C/A. Fin’d bsmt. Move right in. x ..............................................................................................................$679,000 SUPERB BRICK 3BR, 3.1BA, North Oak Park home. Elegant LR, DR, 2-car garage w/awesome, finished bsmt. x.............................................$614,900 UNIQUE CLASSIC Prairie-style home. Updated kitchen, stately family rm w/floor-to-ceiling bookcases, skylights, WBFP. Nice Loc’n. x ..............................................................................................................$599,000 SIDE ENTRANCE Colonial. 3BR, 1.1BA. Spacious rooms. Hdwd flrs, original woodwork. Brkfst rm & tandem. x ...................................$580,000 NEW PRICE! HOME FOR THE HOLIDAY! Move right in. 4BR, 2BA. New kitchen. Family rm. Many updates. Elementary schools 2 blks away. x ...............................................................................................................$517,700 ENJOY LIFE IN FLW Historic District. 5BRs, 1½BAs. Spacious LR w/ FRPLC. Family rm. Great yard! x .........................................................$519,000 SMART, FRESH & EXCITING! 3BR, 1.1BA home in perfect loc’n. Stylish décor. Updated kitchen. Deck. C/A. Lots more! x .............$459,000 REDUCED! SURPRISE INSIDE! Fantastic spc in this deceptively lrg cottage offering 2BR, 2BA, wonderful lot, + deep, dry bsmt. Super loc’n, worth the investment! x ....................................................................$409,900 BEST VALUE in town. Move right into a freshly painted & carpeted 3BR, 2.1BA. Awesome bsmt & great location. Tons of space. Fall in love! x ..............................................................................................................$409,000 ENJOY ONE LEVEL living in the 3BR mid-century brick ranch in NW Oak Park. Hdwd flrs. C/A. Spacious LR & separate DR. Full bsmt. Great yd. 2-car garage. x ...............................................................................................$389,000 ARTS DISTRICT vintage charmer on a corner lot! Updated kitchen. 4 BRs, 1BA. x.....................................................................................................$385,000 THREE BEDROOM, 1.2 BA Gunderson on one of OP’S fav blocks. 3-season porch, den & attic. Charming fixer-upper! .........................$365,000 SOLID BRICK bungalow in super location - large rooms and great yard. x ..............................................................................................................$279,000 VERY NICE 3 BR, 2BA. Huge living room, eat-in kitchen, finished basement. 2014: roof, boiler & hot water heater! x...............................$239,000

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PRAIRIE SCHOOL home built in ‘06 w/classic architectural design & contempo amenities. Spacious with 4BRs & 4½BAs. Family rm. SPECIAL!x...................................................................................................................$1,225,000

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NEW PRICE! MOVE-IN CONDITION. 4BRs, 2 BAs, New kitchen, baths, roof, furnace, finished lower level, 50 ft lot. 2-car gar + pkg spcs.

x .....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................$379,500 CONDOS/TOWNHOUSES • OAK PARK OPEN 12-2PM • SHOWROOM AT 139 S. OAK PARK AVE. OPEN 1-3PM • 248 S. MARION, #101

NEW CONSTRUCTION! New standard of luxury! 1808-2200 SF units, 3 BRs, 2 indoor parking spaces, spacious terraces, eco-efficient LEED certified. Pricing starts at.........................................................................$649,900 ATTENTION REHABBERS! 3BR, 1.1 BA farmhouse style home on large corner lot. Lots of potential. ..........................................................$220,000

RIVER FOREST THE ULTIMATE HOUSE. Stunning Tudor on massive lot 200x188. Rehab offers all the modern amenities. x....................................$2,999,000 PERFECT ATTENTION TO DETAIL. 5BR, 2.1BA home w/coach house. Chef’s kitchen w/over-the-top amenities. Family rm. Much more! x ...........................................................................................................$1,165,000 QUEEN ANNE Victorian w/open frt porch on lrg lot! 6BRs, 2.2BAs. Stunning foyer w/frplc & striking staircase w/balcony. Much more! x ..............................................................................................................$649,000 HUGE PRICE REDUCTION! VERY COOL RETRO RANCH w/ open floor plan on a large lot. 3 BRs, 2.2BAs. WBFP. MBR suite. 1st floor laundry. C/A. Attached garage.x ......................................................$599,000

FOREST PARK NEW LISTING! SWEET 3+1BR, 2.1BA FARMHOUSE. Gleaming hdwd flrs, new C/A, new W/D, finished bsmt & huge fenced yd. Just move in. x ..............................................................................................................$333,000

OTHER AREA HOMES

NORTHLAKE. JUST LISTED! GREAT HOME FOR ENTERTAINING. Lrg 4BR, 3.1 BA w/ awesome deck & beautiful yd. Lots of storage. x ..............................................................................................$299,900 BERWYN. STUNNING OCTAGON bungalow in great condition. 4+ BRs, 3 full BAs............................................................................................$395,000 BERWYN. AM 4-SQ, 3 BR, 1.1 BA near Proksa Park & train. Huge deck & patio w/parking for 3 cars. ..................................................................$259,000 CHICAGO. BELMONT-CRAIGIN bungalow. 2BR, 2BA. Nice kitchen! Rec rm +3rd BR in bsmt! x ................................................................$172,500 CHICAGO. PERFECT LOCATION! 2BR, 2BA boasts lots of amenities such as a deck, upgraded decorative windows, 2015 roof & more. $339,000 DOWNERS GROVE. NEW CONSTRUCTION! 3,600SF customized for you. 4BRs, 4.1BAs. High-end kitchen, master ste, walk-in closets & 2nd flr lndry! Incredible 50X298x50x296 lot. ...............................................$1,249,000 ELMWOOD PARK. WELCOME HOME! Lovely and spacious 3BR/1.5BA - while it lasts!! x.............................................................$338,000 ELMWOOD PARK. 3 BEDROOM, 2 BATH on great corner lot. C/A. This is the home for you! x.................................................................$249,000 ELMWOOD PARK. A MUST SEE! Spacious 2BR bungalow with super yard. x .........................................................................................$169,000

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NICELY UPDATED eat-in kitchen in this bight & spacious 2BR condo. Great location. Parking. .......................................................................$153,000

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COMMERCIAL OAK PARK. MIXED USE BLDG. 1st flr: lrg commercial spc – approx. 3000SF. 2 apts on 2nd flr: 3BR, 1BA /1BR, 1BA. 2-car gar. 1st flr handicapped access. Call for more info. .......................................................................$395,000

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

CONDOS/TOWNHOUSES OAK PARK NEW LISTING! GORGEOUS UPDATED vintage condo w/3BRs, 2BAs. Stunning kitchen, SS applncs, in-unit lndry & parking.x...$295,000 REDUCED! EXCLUSIVE 2BR, 2BA multi-level skylit condo in the Oak Park Club! Open family rm overlooks LR/DR. Frplc. 2 deeded garage spcs x ..............................................................................................................$480,000 BEAUTIFUL VINTAGE 3 BR unit! Spacious rms, lots of sun, fresh paint, hdwd flrs, 2 BAs, garage pkg, nice backyard, pets ok!! x.............$298,000

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

MAJOR PRICE REDUCTION! STYLISH & SPACIOUS Decker bldg unit on 2nd flr. 3BR, 2.1BA. Well-maintained. Move right in! x ..............................................................................................................$279,900 STEPS FROM METRA & Green Line. 2BR vintage condo remodeled kitchen & BA, spacious rms, lndry in-unit, C/A, sun rm, office, huge yd & garage pkg. x........................................................................................$279,000 BRIGHT & BEAUTIFUL corner condo in heart of OP! 2 large BRs w/big closets, 2BAs, freshly painted, Berber carpet, eat-in kitchen, pkg! Available NOW!............................................................................................................$169,900 TOP FLOOR 2BR condo is waiting for its next owner. Large rms, in-unit W/D, balcony. Well-run & rentable.......................................................$160,000 WELL-LOCATED & UPDATED 2 BR, 2 BA condo in the heart of DTOP. Updated kitchen & BA. Elevator bldg! x...............................$156,900 IN THE HEART OF TOWN, 2BR, 1BA condo w/view of lovely lndscpd courtyd. Floor-to-ceiling windows. Open flr plan. Pkg.....................$155,000 ATTRACTIVE 1BR UNIT in a beautiful bldg. Galley kitchen, living room & den – ideal 1st home...........................................................................$149,000 GREAT AFTERNOON sunlight brightens the space in this 1BR, 1BA condo with working fireplace & hardwood floors. ............................$108,000 PERFECT LOCATION. Freshly painted vintage 1 BR condo with 2 parking spaces.....................................................................................................$95,000 QUIET 1BR CORNER UNIT with central air. Updated kitchen. 1 parking space.......................................................................................................$89,000

RARE 3 BEDROOM at the Grove with balcony & patio. Granite & SS applnces. 2-car garage. x...................................................................$349,000

CONDOS/TOWNHOUSES OTHER AREAS

ELMWOOD PARK. JUST LISTED! LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION! MBR w/BA & large living space, in-unit W/D, C/A, elevator bldg. - check it out! x...........................................................................$139,000 LOMBARD. TERRIFIC DOWNTOWN Lombard location - gorgeous 3BR, 2BA condo. x ...............................................................................$310,000 WHEELING. LIGHT-FILLED 3-STORY townhouse with many fantastic upgrades. Recently decorated, hdwd flrs. C/A. x .........$299,900

RENTALS

FOREST PARK HOME. NEW RENTAL! SWEET 3+1BR, 2.1BA FARMHOUSE. Gleaming hdwd flrs, new C/A, new W/D, finished bsmt & huge fenced yd. ........................................................$2,600/mo

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

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WELL-LOCATED STUDIO features hardwood floors, new SS fridge, new portable washer. Murphy’s bed......................................................$69,900

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

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Recycling a beloved home from page 19 stuff that wouldn’t end up on HGTV. It may not be pretty, but it’s useful.”

Benefits, financial and otherwise Filyo noted that, working hand-in-hand with the nonprofit Rebuilding Exchange, his clients can recognize serious financial benefits from using his company. “Because we work with nonprofits,” he added, “all of the material is appraised, and it’s a tax write-off for the homeowners.” For Bernthal, the transaction was appealing from two angles. “We took the information we got from Steve to our financial planner, and to us it made sense both financially and in terms of removing something of value and having someone reuse it. It just seemed like, why wouldn’t we do it?” Filyo said he expects that the careful deconstruction of the Bernthal house will save quite a bit of material. “I think they say that 40 percent STEVE FILYO of our landfills are BlueEarth Deconstruction construction waste. I did the math, and we’re talking about over 250 to 300 trees alone in the wood in this house. What’s the point of harvesting new trees, when this wood is reusable?” For those looking to save some money and avoid a trip to a big box retailer, the Rebuilding Exchange will sell the materials salvaged from the Bernthal house and similar projects at a large discount. Filyo pointed out that furniture makers like to reuse the lathe in their projects, and a neighbor of the Bernthals already has dibs on their garage door. Kitchens, in particular, often have a second life according to Filyo. “The kitchen here was gorgeous,” he said. “Somebody will be able to buy it for tens of thousands less than it would cost new. We see high-end appliances like Wolf ranges and Sub Zero refrigerators all the time.”

“Because we work with nonprofits. All of the material is appraised, and it’s a tax write-off for the homeowners.”

Looking to the future With all of the construction and remodeling in Oak Park and River Forest, Bernthal said, the use of recycled materials companies like BlueEarth Deconstruction could have far-reaching implications. “This is an option that people haven’t realized can have economic value as well as environmental value,” she said.

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RESOURCE RICH: Up to 95% of the old house can be salvaged, according to BlueEarth Deconstruction.

Filyo got his start when he noticed that people were interested in the pretty salvaged materials from Chicago’s historic housing stock, and his business plan really took off when he realized there was a use for all parts of a home. “Once we hooked up with the Rebuilding Exchange and started to look beyond the pretty stuff,” he said, “we realized we had a business on our hands.” Filyo relies on a trained workforce to make that model work, and he envisions a

training program for people re-entering the work force after time in prison. For now, he said, “I’m so lucky to have the talent I have. A lot of our training starts with having new guys be around the work with experienced guys and learning on the job. Everyone has an understanding of how homes are built in order to work on taking them apart.” As the public becomes more aware of such specialists, Filyo sees more and more homeowners and contractors being drawn

into using deconstruction contractors. “It’s funny how word spreads. Now it’s just a game of telephone. We don’t advertise, but when we work with a general contractor, it becomes a part of their vocabulary.” In the final analysis, Filyo said, the deconstruction business is respectful of both the earth and the homeowners. “This is a family home,” he said. “It’s an emotional experience for the homeowner. It can feel disrespectful to wreck it when you can reuse it.”

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1431 Wesley Ave, Berwyn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Weichert Realtors Nickel Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$180,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:30-3 834 N. Austin Blvd, Oak Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Baird & Warner Oak Park/River Forest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $240,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-2:30 837 Ferdinand Ave, Forest Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Beyond Properties Realty Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $249,900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-1 2707 N. Sayre Ave, Chicago. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Beyond Properties Realty Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $275,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:30-3 6830 30th Pl, Berwyn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . @Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$277,500 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2

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1630 N. 78th Ave, Elmwood Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $299,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 1042 Thomas Ave, Forest Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $299,900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 1904 N. 74th Ave, Elmwood Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $339,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2 1051 Dunlop Ave, Forest Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Weichert Realtors Nickel Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $374,900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 1318 Elgin Ave, Forest Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gloor Realty Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $379,500 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:30-3 838 N. Harlem Ave, River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $399,500 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 624 S. Harvey Ave, Oak Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Baird & Warner Oak Park/River Forest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$410,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 1219 N. Euclid Ave, Oak Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $472,500 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 847 S. Kenilworth Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Baird & Warner Oak Park/River Forest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $519,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:30-3 700 Home Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . @Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $549,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Sat. 12-2 530 Park Ave, River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $599,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2 1431 Jackson Ave, River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $664,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 240 S. East Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Baird & Warner Oak Park/River Forest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $675,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2 827 N. Oak Park Ave, Oak Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $719,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2:15-4:15 847 N. East Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Weichert Realtors Nickel Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$727,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 1018 Forest Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $729,900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 807 N. Kenilworth Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Baird & Warner Oak Park/River Forest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $769,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 1507 Jackson Ave, River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $874,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 1433 Keystone Ave, River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $924,500 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-12 1326 Jackson Ave, River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $959,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 1041 Jackson Ave, River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gloor Realty Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,460,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3

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846 S. Wesley Ave. Unit 2, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re/Max In The Village . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$129,104 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 248 S. Marion Unit 101, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gloor Realty Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $153,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3

CONDOS

739 Van Buren St. Unit 2E, Oak Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$188,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 433 S. Kenilworth Ave. Unit 1S, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Weichert Realtors Nickel Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $235,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2 425 S. Oak Park Ave. Unit A, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $364,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-12 Showroom At 139 S. Oak Park Ave., Oak Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gloor Realty Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $649,900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2 Showroom At 139 S. Oak Park Ave., Oak Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gloor Realty Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $664,900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2 1133 Chicago Ave. Unit 4W, Oak Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gloor Realty Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $684,900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2

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Exceptional 5 bed Victorian home with 3 story turret, wrap around deck, screened in porch, built in buffets and book shelves, original wall murals, 2 fireplaces, custom designed kitchen, 3rd floor master suite, zoned heat and air, slate roof with copper finial cap and 4 car garage. This is a warm and inviting home. Ann Keeney - ID# 09202192

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Updated 3 bed, 1.1 bath American 4-Square features remodeled 3 season enclosed front porch, wood burning fireplace, pristine wood floors, detailed trim, colorful leaded glass, Frank Lloyd Wright inspired light fixtures, mission style radiator covers, dining room with beamed ceiling, nursery and full unfinished walkout basement. Bill Geldes - ID# 09314369

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Beautiful 3 bed, 2.1 bath 4-Square home with oak floors, art-glass windows and modern updates. Prairie oak staircase, large living, formal beamed-ceiling dining room, eat in kitchen, large master bedroom, finished attic, newly finished recreation with new bath room and huge deck. Gas Forced-Air Heat and C/A. Newer 2-car garage. Steve Scheuring ID# 09355038

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$379,000

Meticulously maintained 4 bed, 2 bath home features hardwood floors throughout, spacious living room with wood burning fireplace, elegant dining room, bright kitchen that opens up to the dining room and cozy enclosed back porch, family room, beautiful back yard and a 1-car garage plus 1 extra parking space Catherine Simon-Vobornik – ID# 09364392

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$270,000

Completely remodeled 3 bed,1.1 bath with enclosed front porch, hardwood floors, new laminate floor, kitchen features all new stainless steel appliances and new porcelain floor. Basement has new led fixtures and new stairs, roof 7 years, GFA/CA 5 years and Parking for 2 cars. Mary Ann Bednarke - ID#09248459

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Spacious 3bed, 2.1 bath townhome with main floor living level! Private patio off kitchen runs the length of the unit, hardwood floors, private master retreat with large walk-in closet and private bath, top floor family room with vaulted ceiling, skylights, balcony, and in-unit laundry. Common patio area and 1 car garage parking plus exterior space. Bethanny Alexander - ID# 09361960

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$249,900

Well maintained 5 bed, 2 bath home ready for new owners! Stained glass windows, hardwood floors, 3 season front porch, large living room, dining room, eat-in kitchen, master bedroom with likenew full bath, family room complete with woodburning fireplace park like yard and 2.5 car garage. Courtney Ramirez & Margarita Lopez – ID# 09266159

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Investor’s dream! 3-Unit building in Oak Park. 2-2 Bedroom units and 1-3 bedroom, 2 car garage and 1 exterior parking. Ton of updates: tuck-pointing, gutters, eaves, new insulated windows on third floor, new basement cement floor, and glass block windows, New 75 gal Water heater. Property being Sold As Is Ed Bellock - ID# 09348303

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New Moms

The Way Back Inn

Volunteering works PAGE 4

Steady as she goes PAGE 8

Finding his way PAGE 18

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Contributing Writer Deb Quantock McCarey Photographer Keith J. McCarey Editorial Design Manager Claire Innes Editorial Designers Jacquinete Baldwin, Javier Govea IT and Digital Developer Mike Risher Advertising Production Manager Philip Soell Advertising Design Manager Andrew Mead Advertising Designers Mark Moroney, Debbie Becker Advertising Director Dawn Ferencak Display Advertising Sales Marc Stopeck, Joe Chomiczewski Media Coordinator Kristen Benford Inside Sales Representative Mary Ellen Nelligan Circulation Manager Jill Wagner Distribution Coordinator Caleb Thusat Chairman Emeritus Robert K. Downs Editor and Publisher Dan Haley Business Manager Joyce Minich ON THE COVER: Austin Coming Together’s Dollie Sherman is a community organizer in the Austin community bent on making life here better. Lyriq, below, after painting rocks |

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e are a community filled with care. In the following pages, you will learn about how certain organizations and the people who run them truly care about those they serve. At Day in Our Village we asked passers-by to write on a big piece of paper their answer to the question, “What do you love about your community?” (See above) We could have asked why do you care about your community and received many of the same answers. Care = Love. Read. Learn. Care. (Love.) Caring for the community,

Kristin Carlson Vogen President & Chief Executive Officer Oak Park-River Forest Community Foundation

If you want to help This year we feature the following agencies and groups:

About our contributor

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Deb Quantock McCarey is an Illinois Press Association (IPA) award-winning freelance writer who has worked with Wednesday Journal Inc. since 1995, writing features and special sections for all its publications. An avid urban gardener and growing naturalist, she is also a local “green” advocate and community volunteer. As a WJ gardening blogger, Deb is also the host of Deb’s Big Backyard, which runs on oakpark.com and airs on Oak Park public cable, Channel 6.

Austin Coming Together, page 5 West Cook YMCA, page 6 Steckman Studios of Music, page 7 New Moms, page 8

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PACTT, page 10 By The Hand, 11 FOPCON, page 12 Sarah’s Inn, page 13 Opportunity Knocks, page 14 OP Township Center for Disability for Seniors, page 17 Way Back In, page 18

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Volunteering works at Wonder Works By DEB QUANTOCK McCAREY

oing totally buggy amidst the sounds of playful parents, with kids, ages 1 to 5, Patrick Milburn, a long-time Wonder Works Children’s Museum nature and science volunteer, is cupping a Giant Madagascar Hissing Cockroach in the palm of his hand, waiting patiently for his next one-on-one with a young museum patron. Milburn, a 25-year-old man living with a developmental disability says Bugs in Fall is his favorite science and nature program. Beyond this volunteer gig at the museum, Milburn works part-time for pay at FFC (Fitness Formula Clubs), folding towels and cleaning up and at the River Forest Community Center where he also helps keep the building clean. On Fridays, he rides his bike to the museum, and parks right out front, he says. “I do like helping Mr. Eric show the cockroach to the kids,” Milburn says. “I tell them to pet it with one finger on its back. I do not let them hold it in their hands, because if the cockroach falls on the ground, and if they do not know it is on the ground, they could accidently squish it.” So, from 10 a.m. to noon most Fridays, Milburn will be working with bugs, doing transportation education facilitated by a Hot Wheels track or model train set, or showing kids backyard rocks. Eric Gyllenhaal, a museum educator, says his protégé is always looking up at the clock at 11:30 a.m., saying “time flies when you are having fun.” Milburn regularly helps Gyllenhaal set up his themed exploration station, as well as break it down and clean it all up, but “we can always find something fun for Patrick to do”, says Gyllenhaal. These “bug men” put on this program four times a year, with learning activities that combine science or nature play with art. “Patrick can work the microscope and at the same time he can use his other hand to hold the Giant Madagascar Hissing Cockroach, and that really helps me out,” says Gyllenhaal. David Hoambrecker, director of operations at Wonder Works, says the museum has a

Wonder Works Children’s Museum Address: 6645 W. North Avenue, Oak Park, IL 60302 General office number: 708.383.4815 Website: www.wonder-works.org Leadership contact name & title: Rachel Rettberg, CEO Statement of purpose: Wonder Works Children’s Museum’s mission is to inspire and instill confidence, curiosity and creativity in young children by delivering them a hands-on play experiences that will ultimately prepare them for life, including school and beyond. How long have you been in existence? In our current space, 13 years. Ways volunteers can help: Volunteers are an integral part of the museum with opportunities to help with general museum maintenance on exhibits, to guided activities, program development, fundraising support, and marketing. To volunteer, call: 708.383.4815 Useful donations other than money: http://smile.amazon.com/registry/ wishlist/1KQQ7U2F0W9RE

Photo by Kevin J. McCarey

Patrick Milburn assists with the Science and Nature programming at Wonder Works Children’s Museum. Here he is holding a Giant Hissing Madagascar Cockroach. long history of partnering with organizations that serve special needs populations. “It is not so much that we search out working with this population. It is that we are completely open to it,” Hoambrecker said.

“And that’s why we have such a good, long term relationship with those organizations, plus have such great volunteers like Patrick,” Meanwhile, the mealworm is trying to slide out of its dish again… and without

missing a beat, Patrick rescues the worm, saving its day. Another time a cockroach tried to crawl up under his shirt sleeve, which did not bother him, he admits. “At the end of the day, Patrick will often ask me if he can take a cockroach home,” Gyllenhaal says. “We always tell people that these are Rain Forest Cockroaches, so they don’t live in our houses. And they are not going to live long outside of their container. But, I always tell Patrick, that is not really true. They could hold up in his basement pretty well, and I say, I do not know if your mom will like that.”

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Bringing her Austin neighborhood back By DEB QUANTOCK McCAREY

ith a big personality, even broader smile and that Southern charm, Dollie Sherman is the 59-year-old outreach coordinator for Austin Coming Together (A.C.T.). With the assist of other residents, she is helping to bring back the Austin community she loves. Often accompanied by groups of young people, “Ms. Dollie,” who has operated a home-based daycare business in Austin for 25 years now, walks and talks the streets of Austin to help re-build bridges that have been broken by the ongoing issues of living in poverty, she says. “I moved here from Mississippi 38 years ago, got married and raised my family in the Austin community, so I can see how much we have changed. It’s the negativity, the crime, the drugs, the violence,” says Sherman. It was three years ago when she decided to take her stand. Since then, on-the-job for A.C.T., Sherman is the face of and force behind A.C.T.’s new Safe Neighborhood programming, where the 2025 collective impact goal is that all generations will be participating in repairing harm in the Austin community. Sherman works tirelessly to organize groups of neighborhood residents, who as participants of a Restorative Justice peace circle, are empowered to resolve neighborhood issues without police intervention. “Thriving in peace, joy, love and happiness, that is what we all want to do to take back Austin,” she says. “I see all the negativity, but I do see beyond it. I think there has been a breakdown in communication and compassion for others in the community. But, that is why I bring together block leaders, seniors, and youth and say hey, let’s talk.”

Giving peace a chance In 2016 A.C.T. launched its Safe Neighborhoods’ Restorative Justice initiative,

Austin Coming Together Address: 5049 W. Harrison Street, Chicago, IL, 60644 General office number: 773-417-8618 Website: www.austincomingtogether.org Leadership contact name & title: Darnell Shields, Executive Director Statement of purpose: Austin Coming Together coordinates its 70+ member organizations in order to impact the quality of early learning, neighborhood safety, access to living wage careers, and the the housing market in the Austin community. How long have you been in existence? 6 years Ways volunteers can help: Event assistance To volunteer, call: 773.417.8612 Useful donations other than money: Office supplies, beverages, auction/raffle items, professional services

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Austin Coming Together’s Dollie Sherman is a community organizer in the Austin community bent on making life here better. Lyriq, below, after painting rocks to proactively deal with high rates of interpersonal, institutional, and structural violence, said Darnell Shields A.C.T’s director of operations. Sherman is one of the A.C.T. staff members who hosts the conversations of elders, block leaders and youth who have issues with each other to come together to hash out their personal issues in a safe space, with the guidance of a trained facilitator.

Shields says the idea behind a restorative justice peace circle is to give everyone at the table a voice “to the point where the leaders help the individuals who have been involved in the situation to make amends, and so forth,” adding that A.C.T. will be offering more peace circle facilitator trainings, to scale up and afford more residents an opportunity to attend one. Other groups in the

schools, including organizations such as BUILD, have been in the trenches doing this work, as well. Whenever and wherever she can, community organizer Dollie Sherman is also bent on beautifying what she calls “a bunch of community eyesores,” starting with two dilapidated vacant lots located on her 600 block of Lorel. “This lot is going to be a Block Club Garden. I am going to have benches out here for anyone to come and sit, and a table that will be cemented in here with an umbrella. There will be shrubs and raised beds,” she said. “We are going to grow vegetables and flowers [because] this is not a hood. It is a neighborhood, and when you put the word neighbor in front of hood, it builds the whole meaning of the word up.”

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Community of Caring | West Cook YMCA

October 19, 2016

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Living strong with cancer By DEB QUANTOCK McCAREY

frequently,” he says. “I like to have other people around me who are also suffering or ince 2011, 77-year-old Oak Parker, groaning…or smiling or laughing, whatGlen Benoy, has been diagnosed with ever. The group thing, I can do that.” two different forms of cancer, which Joining the ‘cancer club’ after treatment transitioned him into Born on a dairy farm in McHenry Couna state of remission twice. ty, Benoy says he spent 23 years living and He credits his returning strength and working for companies in Europe -- first overall physicality to the Greece, then in Germany programming of the West -- on-the-job for his comCook YMCA, and specifipanies worldwide. cally its new evidence-based In 1998, Benoy returned “Livestrong at the YMCA” stateside and settled into program, which debuted in Oak Park and retired. February 2016. His first diagnosis, Now, as one of its inauprostate cancer, came in gural “graduates,” Benoy 2011, and after a regimen said he and the eight other of radiation, he entered a cancer survivors benefitstate of remission. Glen Benoy ted from the free 12-week On St. Patrick’s Day program, which met twice 2015, is when Benoy first a week for 90 minutes. found a tumor on the inIn it, he and his buddy Joe, another man dex finger of his right hand, and later anothwho had undergone radiation treatment for er one in his armpit. “The original Merkel prostate cancer, toughed out the traditional Cell tumor [an especially aggressive and exercise methods in an effort to ease back rare form of skin cancer] was not diagnosed into a fitness routine, while maintaining a until I had it for eight to10 months,” he said. healthy weight in a social setting. “The doctors did not think it was cancer, and “Before cancer, I was never athletic, and I ignored it for months at a time.” I didn’t use to exercise, but since, I have Eventually, the diagnosis led him to the participated in the Y’s programming rather research lab at the Seattle Cancer Care Alli-

“I like to have other people around me who are also suffering or groaning…or smiling or laughing, whatever. The group thing, I can do that.”

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Glen Benoy of Oak Park is a cancer survivor who uses the West Cook YMCA fitness program to stay fit, ance, where a cadre of Merkel Cell Carcinoma specialists and cancer researchers were helping patients manage the disease. Now he is happy to report that he is in a state of remission, clear of cancer again. Many months later, Laura Olszewski, director of the living healthy program at West Cook YMCA is taken with how fit her “guinea pig,” as Benoy calls himself, looks and feels. “Our YMCA Diabetes program, Livestrong at the YMCA and Enhanced Fitness are all evidenced-based programs where people go through testing pre-and post class, and sometimes during the class we want to help people reduce their risk

West Cook YMCA Address: 255 S. Marion St., Oak Park, IL 60302 General office number: 708-383-5200 Website: www.westcookymca.org

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of developing a chronic disease, or with exercise, help them manage one.” Since then, three days a week starting at 7 a.m. Benoy has been at the Y shaking his booty to a bevy of disco tunes, getting fitter, thanks to instructor Felicity Woodson and her Enhanced Fitness exercise class for seniors with chronic conditions. “I am slower than I was before, but, I now know that exercise can be fun. It has for sure increased my walking endurance, and people say I look pretty darn healthy. Has it increased my strength? I don’t know, at home, I do not lift that many things, really. Well, maybe a six pack of beer now and then,” he laughs.

and fostering a sense of social responsibility, the Y ensures that every individual has access to the essentials needed to learn, grown, and thrive.

How long have you been in existence? 1903 (113 years) Ways volunteers can help: The West Cook YMCA invites members of the community to join the Y to give their time, talents, and treasure to the Y and to the Community. We believe that if we work together we can make a difference and bring hope and happiness to others. The West Cook YMCA has opened new volunteer opportunities on-site to increase the effort

to serve others through the programs offered at the Y. Administrative Support Specialist Event Assistant Financial Development Data Specialist School Age Assistant Togetherhood Committee Chairperson Youth Sports Coach

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Community of Caring | Steckman Studio of Music

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October 19, 2016

Drumming out loud in complicated lives By DEB QUANTOCK McCAREY

ith the pull of a pied piper, at the Forest Preserve of Cook County’s “Forest Jam” event in early September, one of Steckman Studio of Music’s Out Loud After School drumming instructors, Andrew Elbert, was circling up a half dozen or so aspiring musicians for his annual “drum petting zoo” experience. With their legs hugging an African djembe drum, and taking their rhythmic cues from Elbert, the 4, 5 and 6-year-olds caught on quickly. “Mmmm, mmmm…tastes like chicken” (the beat), and “Get a haircut and tie your shoes” (the break), is how Elbert motivated 12 open palms to energetically slap the rope-tuned skin covered goblet-shaped drum, a djembe, an instrument Elbert told them was from West Africa. This Out Loud facilitated drum circle was a taste of the 8-week long mentoring program that with African drumming, touches the musical souls of about 30 elementary and middle school age kids who are either referred to it by Oak Park Township Youth Services, or a school counselor. “Probably the number one thing about African drumming and children of all abilities doing it is the instrument’s immediate accessibility, especially the djembe, which is the kind of hand drum I teach,” says Elbert, a Chicago-based musician and composer, who is a contracting artist with Steckman Studio. Right away kids have the ability to bang away, creating sound, and expelling pent up energy, says Elbert, who on behalf of Steckman Studio also conducts African drum classes for cognitively challenged adults, and after-school for the children residing at Hephzibah House, a foster home in Oak Park. “Drumming is very therapeutic in that way, so if they have a bit of anxiety, or anger built up, or have something going on that was bothering them earlier in the day, oftentimes drumming is an excellent way to not forget about your troubles, but leave them alone for a while. It is hard not to feel good when you are done,” Elbert says. Over the run of the Out Loud After School

Steckman Studio of Music Address: 829 South Oak Park Ave. #2 Oak Park, IL 60304 General office number: 708-524-1954 Website: www.steckman-studio.org Leadership contact name & title: Dr. Harry M. Steckman, Artistic Director Statement of purpose: Music Education for all to develop literacy skills and promote selfconfidence and self-esteem How long have you been in existence? Nearly 40 years Ways volunteers can help: Volunteer needed for board and business leaders to lead fundraising efforts to reach more students. To volunteer, call: 708-524-1954 Useful donations other than money: Sponsor a scholarship student both academically and musically.

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Andrew Elbert, 33, an instructor with Steckman Studio of Music’s Out Loud After School mentoring program facilitates a drumming circle with young kids at an outdoor event in River Forest. drum ensembles, Harry Steckman, the nonprofit’s founder, says its young performers have played around town, including at Riveredge Hospital in Forest Park, and on the stage

at Scoville Park during “A Day in our Village.” Last year, African drum instructor Kevin Swanson did a series of 8-week-long Out Loud After School sessions at three District 97

schools. “Every study that has been done about learning music talks about how it helps you understand emotions, plus making music makes you smarter,” Swanson smiles. “Girls, boys, it doesn’t matter. Of course not. At one school I had almost all girls. They either love it, or hate it. That’s middle school.” As Steckman Studio of Music celebrates 40 years of offering piano, guitar, violin and drum instruction in Oak Park, Steckman says this reach out is to school age children who do not fit in anywhere else. Contracted artists, such as Elbert and Swanson, are fostering self esteem, and leadership skills while developing discipline through the development of learning an instrument during this mentoring program. “Most of the kids we serve are either experiencing social problems, parental problems, or economic problems. The hope is we can help get them get back on track,” Steckman said.

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Community of Caring | New Moms

October 19, 2016

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Steady as she goes By DEB QUANTOCK McCAREY

hen India Meadows, now 25, began reassembling her life, interrupted as a teenager, it was two years ago as a single working mom residing with her then-four-year-old at New Moms’ Transformation Center. The multi-use campus in Austin encompasses 40 individual apartments created for homeless young women, ages 18 to 24, and their children. The young families can reside there until age 25. For Meadows, living among peers in a structured environment is helping her regain stability. Previously her life was like a jumble puzzle, easy to look at, but hard to figure out. “When I got pregnant in high school, my mom said, well, you are pregnant. I told you there will be no babies coming into my house. And so she basically, suddenly just put me out,” says Meadows. Meadows says she has no one to blame but herself for her circumstances, and “the company I was keeping kept putting me in a position to lose, and I lost. And now I am moving forward. That’s it.” “After me being a homeless person, suddenly I came from a place where sometimes I

“After me being a homeless person, suddenly I came from a place where sometimes I did not even know if on that day I would even eat. I came from a place where I had to worry about where I was going to go the next day. So, to be honest, New Moms has given me an ability to be stable for at least two years, and that is a real blessing.” India Meadows

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Helping new moms in Oak Park and beyond On Sept. 1, Laura Zumdahl, president and CEO at New Moms, says its acquisition of Parenthesis Parent Child Center in Oak Park was official. “We were established in 1983. Parenthesis has been providing parental support and education in the Oak Park area for the past 36 years, and now as a program of New Moms, what they do will remain the same, and continue to operate as is in Oak Park.” Down the road, Zumdahl’s aim is to expand a few of their long time programs into the Oak Park area, particularly their workforce development and residential housing initiatives. Meanwhile, with her life now being more stable, Meadows future is back in focus. “I can honestly say that my daughter has probably been around things she shouldn’t have. But, I was trying to do what was right for her,” Meadows says. “I have this little person looking up to me, so I just can’t give up. I have to show her that she can do anything she wants to do. I try and set that example for her, and keep going.”

New Moms Address: 5317 W. Chicago Ave., Chicago, IL 60651 / Oak Park Programs (Parenthesis’ Programs): 405 S. Euclid, Oak Park, IL 60302 General office number:773.252.3253 Website: www.newmoms.org Leadership contact name & title: Laura Zumdahl, President & CEO Statement of purpose: New Moms provides comprehensive services to surround young moms and their children with all they need to transform their lives. In Chicago we offer transitional housing for young moms and children experiencing homelessness, as well as early childhood services and job training. In Oak Park and the surrounding suburbs we offer home visiting and parent education and support for families. How long have you been in existence? New Moms was founded in 1983 (33 years) Ways volunteers can help: Volunteers assist with a variety of roles including child care, special events, fundraising, etc. To volunteer, call: Emily Mikhail at 772.252.3253 x135 Useful donations other than money: New kid’s toys and clothing; personal care items for young moms; diapers and formula

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ive days a week, Nicole “Nikki” Tyson, 43, punches in to start her preopening shift at Rock Bottom Brewery in Chicago. At 10 a.m., Tyson, an adult who is living with autism, is focused on making the restaurant customer-ready. First, she starts the coffee brewing, then fills big restaurant tubs with ice. Next, she replenishes the salt and pepper shakers and pitches in to remove the chairs from the tables. “No one can do Nikki’s job better than Nikki does it, because setting up the servers’ wait stations plays right into her skills and strengths,” says David C. Thomas, the Vocational Director at PACTT (Parents Allied with Children and Teachers for Tomorrow) Learning Center. Twelve-plus years ago it was his programming that prepared Tyson to earn a steady paycheck doing a job in the community. For a person living with autism, working at Rock Bottom Brewery is a perfect fit. “Nikki likes order, and at Rock Bottom Brewery she gets everything perfect, the way it is supposed to be, with deep concentration and purpose,” says Terry Herbstritt, the nonprofit’s director of development and communication. Annually, he says PACTT Learning Center serves about 50 families through its various programming for children and adults living with autism. “At PACTT we saw Nikki’s condition of autism not as a problem, but a possibility for growth and for her to do the best that she could in her situation,” Thomas says. “Now, all she needs is a ride to work. Her job coach basically just stands nearby to keep her safe, because Nicole can do her job.” Living with autism For Lois and Spencer Tyson of Oak Park, the road in raising a child with autism has been long, bumpy and full of surprises, especially when they began realizing that their daughter does understand a lot more than she can express. “Nikki can communicate, but we can’t hold a conversation with her, so I suppose that Nikki would be on the lower functioning end of the autism scale, but in many ways, we are sometimes amazed at how clever and absolutely skilled Nikki is,” Lois said. “We try to understand how frustrating, how frightening it must be when you have this in you, but for some reason you cannot communicate a feeling.” Seeking out special trainings, as well as seminars on how to raise an autistic child, learning to mindfully insert themselves into the center of national and local parent support groups, has enabled Lois and Spencer Tyson to grow in their parenting skills, and

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PACTT vocational program participant Nicole “Nikki” Tyson of Oak Park preparing the wait stations for her part-time job at Rock Bottom Brewery in Chicago.

“At PACTT we saw Nikki’s condition of autism not as a problem, but a possibility for growth and for her to do the best that she could in her situation. Now, all she needs is a ride to work. Her job coach basically just stands nearby to keep her safe, because Nicole can do her job.” David C. Thomas their youngest daughter to thrive. “PACCT found this job for Nikki, and they are always looking for volunteer or job situations where they can integrate the strengths of our kids into the community,” says Lois. Meanwhile, when Spencer takes walks with Nikki, he says the conversation is still mostly one way…until he makes a game of it, and they start counting geese at Columbus Park lagoon in Austin. “If it is a large group, I can get her to say ‘lots of geese.’ If it is a small group, she will count them, saying 1, 2, 3, 4, 5” he says. “As parents, we are always baffled by what goes on with Nikki. But, we can come here for sup-

PACTT Learning Center Address: 712 Belleforte Oak Park, IL 60302 General office number: 773-338-9102 Website: www.pactt.org Leadership contact name & title: Terry Herbstritt – Development Director Statement of purpose: Our mission is to assist individuals with severe autism in becoming as independent as possible with the ability to integrate effectively into their homes and community.

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hen Sherrie Nelson, 26, revs up her 25 second graders in her By The Hand Club (BTHC) after school program classroom, it’s with the enthusiasm of a high school cheerleader working the crowd, prior to the start of the big game. “Whose house is this,” she shouts. “This is God’s house,” shout back the kids who are only a snapshot of the goal-oriented programming that started in 2001with 16 children from Cabrini-Green, and now encompasses 1,180 kids, first grade through college, from the neighborhoods of Cabrini-Green, Altgeld-Murray, Austin and Englewood. For Nelson, being the BTHC 2nd grade team leader is a good fit. In 2003, at age 13, she resembled them, a quiet child ready to jump in and emotionally and academically thrive in a safe space, tucked away from the streets after school. “Me and my family moved to Cabrini in 1999, so I was 9 and my Mom kept us in the house all the time because of the things that were going on in the neighborhood,” says Nelson, who credits this programming for dramatically improving her reading and writing skills. Initially, it was through BTHC’s Sidewalk Sunday School outreach programming that Nelson joined in the city wide faith-based initiative that was founded by Donnita Travis, its executive director. “Here, on these two corners in the Austin community, in two buildings [415 and 416 Laramie] we are serving about 500 kids from five (Chicago public) schools,” Travis says. To participate in BTHC, she says the kids have to be “enrolled in one of those five schools, and we rely on principals from those neighborhood schools to identify and refer kids who are in critical need of intervention,” says Travis. “We are working closely with schools, principals and parents to make sure that students who are most likely to drop out of school, don’t.” Instead, the aim is for BTHC kids to graduate from high school, then go on to college and start a career.

Like Nelson, Toi Dickson, whose four sons, age 15, 12, 9 and 8, are in the BTHC program, has a back story that begins at Cabrini Green’s Building No. 714, “The Whites,” and gets worse when the single parent household was residing in its row houses. In an effort to protect her children, Dickson says she and her siblings were never allowed to leave the home, or their mother’s side. In 1997, Dickson’s mother relocated them to Austin, where she enrolled her daughter in the community’s arts enrichment program-

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By The Hand Address: 415 North Laramie, Chicago, IL 60644 Phone: 312.305.2622 Website: www.bythehand.org Leadership contact name: Donnita Travis, Executive Director Statement of purpose: By The Hand is a Chicago-based, after-school program that emphasizes academic excellence while nurturing the whole child—mind, body and soul. How long have you been in existence? Since 2001, 15 years. Ways volunteers can help: Tutoring, serving meals, teaching enrichments, serving at special events and participating in service projects To volunteer, call: Latoya Pinson, 312.636.2709 Useful donations other than money: Back packs, school supplies, coats, hats, gloves, scarves, socks, Christmas gifts

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By the Hand Club’s 2nd Grade Team Leader, Sherrie Nelson prepares her class for their faith-based, after school experience at the nonprofit’s site at 416 Laramie in Chicago. After school, kids in the By the Hand Club’s regularly work in the program’s computer lab to improve their test scores in reading and writing.

ming, especially vocal training. “Now, singing is how I find peace,” says Dickson, the BTHC choir director and a sixth grade team leader. When Dickson herself became a mother, she instinctively began channeling that over-protective approach, and her boys did

not like it. In 2013, when Travis brought BTHC to Austin, Dickson made sure her boys were recommended for the child and parent-centered afterschool programming. “You can’t stop the shooting. You can’t stop the rape. The murder. And, the peer pressure is real. You can’t stop any of that. But, you can figure out how to send your children to the By The Hand Club,” says Dickson. “Coming here after school has given my sons an outlet where they can run and play in a place where they feel safe to just live and be free.”

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Community of Caring | Opportunity Knocks

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n Tuesdays, artisan pickle assembly line workers Sonya Taylor, 25, and Patrick O’Rourke, 27, on average piece together and seal up about 48 jars of Knock Out Pickles, and on a really productive shift, even more. Under the supervision of Joe Hart, culinary director at Opportunity Knocks (O.K), neither of these young adults living with a developmental disability mind the repetitiveness of their part-time job…or in Taylor’s case, being up-to-her-elbows in these farm-to-jar cucumbers -- washing, slicing and spicing them, for starters. “Sonya and Patrick are strictly here to work,” says Hart at the end of a recent shift. “And, they work the whole time. It is hard to stay focused and stay on their feet for 3 hours. But Sonya and Patrick tough it out.” Hart says that Taylor is in charge of washing all the cucumbers, slicing them and inserting them into the jars, whereas Patrick is responsible for setting up all the jars to be filled with all the pickling ingredients. Taylor also measures the peppercorns and dill seed, as all three varieties contain peppercorns, dill seed and garlic. But the type of vinegar and extra dash of red pepper flakes are based on the variety of the refrigerator pickles being produced. Phil Carmody, O.K.’s president and chief administrator, says it was Hart who came up with the “big idea” for this in-house social enterprise. He test-kitchened the recipes at home, then piloted the vocational aspects of marketing, production, sales and distribution of the artisan pickle brands with the “War-

riors” enrolled in O.K.’s “Life Shop” and “After Opps” programming. Currently, buckets of Knock Out Pickles are being sold in bulk to Kinderhook Tap and Old School Tavern and Grill, and off the shelf at Sugar Beet Co-op, Carnivore and Alpine Sub Shop. “The purpose of any enterprise at Opportunity Knocks is to create jobs and revenue that will help support all of our other programs,” Carmody said on a midSeptember tour of the group’s new urban farm. “And now Knock Out Pickles is turning a profit for us.” Last spring, farm director Joe O’Meara was hired to till and cultivate a 1/4 acre of “farm land,” with the help of the O.K. Warriors. ReUse Depot in Maywood donated their side yard to house the farm, and the repurposed materials to build the garden boxes, O’Meara said. “We do have several accessible raised beds and wider walkways to accommodate wheelchairs, so not all of the yard is used for farming,” he said, adding they also grow other cool and warm season veggies, as well as most of the pickling ingredients. In peak season this summer, O’Meara said he saw yields of 75 to 80 pounds a week, with the cucumbers being harvested by the program participants of Opportunity Knocks because “the Warriors have been part of every step of this process,” he said. Still, says Hart, the smell of pickle production can be sour, but it is the sweet smell of success for him, the nonprofit itself, and his two hard-working employees. “I was very excited when I got the job. I get a pay check every other week, and I like to go out to dinner with my friends,” Sonja says. “But I don’t eat pickles when I go out to eat. I don’t like them much.”

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Sonya Taylor, 25, holds a part-time job jarring three varieties of Knock Out Pickles at Opportunity Knocks.

Opportunity Knocks Address: 8020 Madison St., River Forest, IL 60305 Phone: 708.771.6159 x 204 Website: opportunityknocksnow.org Leadership contact name: Phil Carmody, President Statement of purpose: Opportunity Knocks is dedicated to providing services and resources for teens and young adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities so that they may pursue their recreational, educational and vocational interests.

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How long have you been in existence? Programs in operation since 2010 Ways volunteers can help: We are constantly looking for volunteers to support our programs, as well as our events. Please visit the Get Involved page on our website to learn more. To volunteer, call or email: Sam Kehoe, Volunteer Coordinator; phone: 708.341.5537; email: sam@opportunityknocksnow.org Useful donations other than money: Time and talent.

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Community of Caring | Sarah’s Inn

October 19, 2016

Facing domestic violence head on

by DEB QUANTOCK MCCAREY

esly Ramirez, 41, is a proud Latina working mom with permanent resident status, thanks to Sarah’s Inn and her introduction to the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). Under VAWA, special provisions have been enacted for battered immigrants that allow them to gain legal status in the US without having to rely on an abusive spouse to petition for them. As a living snapshot of a troubling statistic: Prior to and during her marriage, Ramirez says she was isolated, verbally abused and battered: Slapped, hit, punched and in the face, spat on. “One in four women will experience domestic violence at some point in their lifetime,” says Carol Gall, executive director of Sarah’s Inn, adding that one in five teen girls will experience teen dating violence. “That is a shocking number to hear and register. That is why our prevention work is so important and vital,” says Gall. In light of Sarah’s Inn’s 35th anniversary, and October being National Domestic Violence Awareness Month, we recently sat with Ramirez to learn, through advocate Caitlin Ramsey, who has been her Spanish-to-English translator since 2013, her survivor story. “I met the father of my children, who is 8 years older than me, and after going out for a while, we decided to live together. That’s when I got pregnant with my first son (now 21). I thought it was strange that he never wanted to bring me around his family.” She soon learned why: He was simultaneously secretly married to another woman, who bore him a child as well. He separated Carol Gall from that woman when Ramieriz’s son was two-years-old. “After that, he decided to take me around his family. One time at his sister’s, I found a memento of the other wedding. A lot of problems started around that. To defend himself, he would say, ‘I chose you, so you always have to be grateful for that.’ This is when he started to hit me.” Even so, in 2002, Lesly became pregnant with her second son (now 13), and that year, at age 27, she married her abuser. At the time, they moved into his sister’s basement. “When his sister would see me with the marks, she would just laugh, because she was going through domestic violence with her own husband, and apparently it brought her pleasure to know that her own brother was doing the same thing to me. [After he made me get an abortion] he started repenting for his behavior a lot, [saying] ‘everything was going to change.’ But nothing changed.” Her kids were exposed to and traumatized by the domestic violence in their home. “My children’s father would go into the only bathroom, and stay in there with the door closed for an hour when the children had to go to the bathroom. Once, by the time he opened the door, my second son had gone pee outside of the door from waiting. [After standing up for her son] his father punched me in the face, and I fell through the accordion door, into the bathroom stall and hit my head. My oldest son saw all this and called the police.” Lesly requested that the police make her spouse exit the house. He did, but was back the next morning, as if nothing had happened, drinking heavily day and night…and secretly

“One in four women will experience domestic violence at some point in their lifetime. That is why our prevention work is so important and vital.”

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Lesly Ramirez, shown here with 2 of her 3 children, is rebuilding their broken lives thanks to the counseling and services of Sarah’s Inn in Oak Park. selling drugs and philandering. At that time, she became pregnant with her third child, a girl (now 8). When her husband was caught, then incarcerated he found a loophole to secretly stalk his wife while he was in a low security prison with bus privileges for felons to job interviews, in preparation for starting a new life. This unlawful act provoked Lesly to pursue a court order of protection, with the assist of an advocate from Sarah’s Inn. Soon a sea of services began rushing in, enabling all of them to attend group and individual counseling, while Lesly worked with an advocate to get on Public Aid and find pathways to completing her GED. She matriculated through the highest level of English as a second language coursework,

and is now finding resources to earn a college degree. “[Before], if he hit me, I had asked for it. If he spit in my face, it was because I deserved it, because I had provoked him. During a family therapy session my oldest son turned to me and said, ‘Why did you stay with him when he hurt you so badly. Why, oh, why did you stay with him so long?’ And I told him, I did it for you to have something I never had, to have both of your parents together. And then, my oldest son told me ‘who told you that we wanted to have him around?’ Now, he is gone, yes, and with my advocate at Sarah’s Inn, we looked for an attorney who would help me for free, and to finally divorce myself from him. Officially. Now, me and my children have a healthy and peaceful life. We may not be rich,

Sarah’s Inn Address: P.O. Box 1159, Oak Park, IL 60304 *For safety of our clients and staff we do not publicize our physical address Phone: 24-Hour Crisis Line: (708) 386-4225 Website: sarahsinn.org Leadership contact name: Carol Gall, Executive Director Statement of purpose: Since 1981, Sarah’s Inn has worked to improve the lives of those impacted by domestic violence and to break the cycle of violence for future generations. As a comprehensive domestic violence agency, Sarah’s Inn approaches domestic violence as a societal issue that demands a holistic response. We are committed to programming

that responds appropriately to the needs of those families already impacted by violence, as well as working proactively to prevent violence for future generations.

How long have you been in existence? Celebrating 35 Years Ways volunteers can help: Volunteers are an essential part of daily operations at Sarah's Inn and make important contributions toward ending domestic violence in the communities we serve. Opportunities include becoming a Crisis Line Volunteer Advocate, a Community Outreach & Education Volunteer, doing a volunteer group project, hosting a drive, and many more! To volunteer, call: Imelda Guerra, Volunteer & Events Coordinator, (708) 386-3305 x.1005

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uring a recent Diverse Learner Tour at the Oak Park Conservatory, Jamie Childs of Oak Park eagerly scratched and sniffed the green skin of a softball size fruit growing on its Ponderosa Lemon Tree. As the hanging show-and-tell fruit passed hand-to-hand through the small group of developmentally disabled adults from UCP Seguin Services “Choice” program, Andrea Green, a volunteer tour guide for the Friends of the Oak Park Conservatory, shared more about it. After they all went nose-to-fruit, Green told the conservatory visitors that the scent resembles that of the mosquito repellent, citronella: sweet, but not over-powering and pleasant. To create interactive sensory experiences for groups such as this one, Green teamed with consultant Julyne Seger to invent and debut the free educational experience last spring. Since then, the tour’s popularity has been growing, she says. “This is not horticultural therapy. But, our Diverse Learner Tour is geared to people who have learning disabilities or social limitations or other limitations that make it difficult for

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Jamie Childs, a participant of UCP Seguin Services’ “Choice” programming in Oak Park checks out a Ponderosa lemon during a recent FOPCON (Friends of the Oak Park Conservatory) Diverse Learner Tour at the Oak Park Conservatory. have the Cacao Tree. Cactus have thorns and grow in the desert. Yes, please, I would like to come back again.” Green says the aim of the inclusive tour programming is to “cover the same horticultural material topics that the tours do that are geared for children and adults.” Because the content is simplified, and the tour itself is sensory-driven it opens up a new world of learning for folks who learn differently. An advantage for Laura Lopez, a life skills program leader at UCP Seguin, is that her day program participants are walking distance from the Oak Park Conservatory and they regularly take advantage of that, visiting on their own, or in groups for an or-

ganized tour. Today she says were two aides and seven of her “special” consumers. “Maybe they will see something on this tour that they can plant at their own homes, or our Levinson Center,” says Jim Haptonstahl, Seguin’s executive vice president. “But, in general, it gives them a chance to get out where they belong. Integrated into the community.” For Childs, the love of learning about plants is growing. “The black-eyed Susans and the coneflowers in the Discovery Garden, yeah, my mom has those,” she said. “The cactus is my favorite plant, because I have an aunt in Phoenix and the lemons, when I scratched the skin, well they smelled really, really good.”

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Website: fopcon.org Leadership contact name: Executive Director Beth Cheng, President Ellen Kuner Statement of purpose: The mission of the Friends of the Oak Park Conservatory is to promote community interest in the Conservatory, to offer educational and recreational opportunities and to support projects that benefit the Conservatory. How long have you been in existence? We

To volunteer, call: 708-725-2460, ext. 2 or coordinator@fopcon.org Useful donations other than money: Serve on the Board of Directors or on a committee.

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Community of Caring | Oak Park Township Senior Services

October 19, 2016

Happy in their own home

t age 79, Leroy Pugh jokes that his life is good, but could be better if “he had a job, and wasn’t a client of rheumatoid arthritis.” Up to his mid 70’s, Pugh says he had his mobility, was able to get around and manage the affairs of himself and his wife, a 69-year-old who is now relegated to using a walker to get around. “Before, I cooked. I ironed. I scrubbed the floors. I drove, and could run down the stairs, even backwards…as opposed to almost having to crawl up and down the flight of stairs now,” he says. This personal state of hardship is what he shared with Rachel Bazan, an Oak Park Township Senior Services case manager. “My stability is not as good as I would like it to be but I would say that the range of services I receive from Senior Services have been very instrumental in bringing me and my wonderful wife, with whom I have spent 40 wonderful years, to where we are now,” he said. “And, oh wow… I would tell anyone and everyone that there is a service for seniors that is open to helping anyone who has a need.”

The end of this beginning It was when the Oak Park seniors had overlapping hospital stays that the hospital social worker referred them to township Senior Services. “The Pughs needed a meal brought in to them until they recovered, and that is how we first got involved,” Bazan said. Since then, they have continued to qualify to receive the daily delivery of a hot lunch and the added service of in-home assistance with the Chore Program. Thanks to Bazan, around their necks they wear an Emergency Response lanyard, which Pugh says he has used twice so far. “Every morning, the Pughs receive their Homemaker Services,” Bazan says. “It is a statewide program offered through the Department of Aging. Homemaker Services and Emergency Response are both income and asset based services, so it is for seniors who are low income and do not have many assets.” Shawn Lewis, adult protective services and case management supervisor at the township’s Senior Services, says starting at age 60, people who reside in Oak Park and River Forest seeking out their help can receive those services, a bevy

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Case manager Rachel Bazan, a care coordinator with Oak Park Township’s Senior Services, shares a laugh with her client, Oak Parker Leroy Pugh, a 79-year-old senior who is happily living at home with rheumatoid arthritis, thanks to a range of services he is receiving now. of others, and even one-on-one case management help to navigate Medicare, prescription drug plans and other details of independent living. “So that is really our goal, to work on a clients behalf to keep them autonomous in this community as long as possible,” Lewis says. Some services are available to everyone for free, whereas other programs have qualifying income or asset guidelines, Lewis points out. “We do provide a lot more services,” Bazan says. “For example, we have congregate dine-in that provides independence and promotes socialization among seniors and a curb-to-curb transportation program, as well.” For Pugh, it is also about the TLC he gets now and again from Senior

“Oh wow...I would tell anyone and everyone that there is a service for seniors that is open to helping anyone who has a need.” Leroy Pugh Services, out of the blue. “What we appreciate even more than the services, is the occasional call we receive to find out how we are doing,” Pugh says. “It makes me feel human, like I belong and am somebody special. And that means a lot to me, too.”

Oak Park Township Senior Services Address: 130 S. Oak Park Avenue, Oak Park, IL 60302 Phone: 708-383-8060 Website: oakparktownship.org Leadership contact name: Desiree Scully-Simpkins, Director of Senior Services Statement of purpose: The mission of Oak Park Township Senior Services is to enhance the quality of life for seniors in our community by providing a broad array of supportive services that promote the values of independence, self-esteem and dignity. Our services are offered to any senior (60 and over) that resides in Oak Park or River Forest.

How long have you been in existence? Oak Park Township has been in existence since 1902. The development of Oak Park Township Senior Services was established in 1971.

Ways volunteers can help: Delivery of home delivered meals for homebound seniors that reside in Oak Park and River Forest. Volunteers for the Illinois Volunteer Money Management program. To assist seniors manage their money with the goal of aging in place. To volunteer, call: Home Delivered Meal Program-Celeste Duignan, Nutrition Program Manager Illinois Volunteer Money Management Program-Steven Smith, Money Management Coordinator, (708) 383-8060 Useful donations other than money: Oak Park Township has a medical equipment loan program. Donations of medical equipment such as wheel chairs, walkers and canes that can be loaned out to those in need in the community. Please contact our main Oak Park Township Office: (708) 383-8005

Community of Caring | Way Back Inn

October 19, 2016

By DEB QUANTOCK McCAREY

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Finding his way back in

obert W. Burgan of Des Plaines is 25 years old, a musician, a poet… and a young man in recovery for opioid addiction at The Way Back Inn. The agency’s sites, The Way Back Inn for men and Grateful House for women, have recovery programs for adults who are suffering from alcohol, drug and gambling dependence in Oak Park, Maywood, Forest Park, Melrose Park and Chicago. Burgan’s dependence on prescription painkillers began after he incurred a wrestling injury in high school. “My problem with substance abuse is typically opioids, painkillers and pharmaceuticals,” said Burgan, just prior to taking the stage at an open mic organized by the local social service consortium, A.R.T. (Addiction Recovery Team) during National Recovery Month in September. “It really got out of control when I started doing an opiate called Kratom.” “Every morning I would wake up with a whole list of problems. The first one was that I needed to get this substance to feel better,” said Burgan, who is also living with depression. “Once I got the substance, I would think, OK, I solved my first problem, I will deal with the rest of them tomorrow.” “Back then I made a pact with myself: No matter what, you are not going to withdrawal,” he said. “The drug turned me into a monster because I did whatever I had to do to get money to buy drugs.” Burgan’s long relationship with drug addiction got worse when over a six month period the drugs took over and he hit rock bottom, not only losing his job, but the trust and support of his family and friends. “I stole from people. I lied to people. My mind was messed up, and I needed to change,” he said. “It was only related to the addiction. The only reason for the thievery was the addiction. But I was always sabotaging myself.” After admitting himself into a hospital detox program, upon completion he was homeless…until he found The Way Back Inn to begin rebuilding his broken life in its residential recovery program. In 2016, Anita Pindiur, executive director of The Way Back Inn, says her agency has been in the trenches of the opioid epidemic, as about 50 to 60 percent of the 100 or so people they annually serve in their residential and outpatient programming are between the ages of 18 and 25 years old. “It’s really, really sad,” she said. “This starts really young, and by the time we see these individuals, they have already been abusing the substance for four or five years, sometimes starting as young as 15, and in those high school years, what we are seeing in our population is that they are not dabbling in marijuana, or stealing liquor from mom and dad’s liquor cabinet. They are moving directly into opioid and heroin addiction.”

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Spoken Word artist, Robert W. Burgan, 25, represented The Way Back Inn at an A.R.T. (Addiction Recovery Team) sponsored Open Mic event at the Oak Park Public Library in mid-September. On September 18, Burgan was 84 days clean…and counting on having a full recovery. “Opioids do not kill pain. They kill your personal life, and the person you are,” he said. “Now, making music is my positive approach to healing my pain, not masking it, or self medicating it, but healing it.” Writers note: The Way Back Inn is looking for beta testers to try out a new iPhone Recovery App. To help, link to wbi.today.

“The drug turned me into a monster because I did whatever I had to do to get money to buy drugs … I stole from people. I lied to people. The only reason for the thievery was the addiction. But I was sabotaging myself.” Robert Burgan

Address: 412 Wesley Oak Park, IL 60302 (cooperate address 104 Oak st. Maywood, IL 60153) Phone: 708-345-8422 ext 1 for general questions Website: waybackinn.org Leadership contact name: Anita Pindiur Executive Director for general questions or intake Phil Schneeberger Outreach and Admissions Statement of purpose: The mission of the Way Back Inn is to rebuild lives damaged by addiction in a personalized healing environment. How long have you been in existence? The Oak Park location since 1958 known as the Grateful House, the Way Back Inn since 1973, the two merged in 2002 Ways volunteers can help: special events such as our picnics and annual dinners we need help in mailing invitations, getting donations, and running the events. We need volunteers to provide special activities or skills to the clients such as interviewing skills, cooking classes, or engagement in the community. To volunteer, call: 708345-8422 ext 29 ask for Christine Laughlin Useful donations other than money: Clients are always in need of shoes, work clothing, and jackets in the winter. During our main fundraising event we have a silent auction, any times that can be auctioned off are appreciated.

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Members Only? Sifting Through Local Business Associations

By CATHY YEN, Executive Director

ast week I introduced the Chamber’s “Building Better Business Districts” project. As we begin to roll out the online directory to the business community, we are encountering familiar questions regarding the role of business organizations in town. What is the difference between a chamber of commerce, a tourism bureau, a business district and a development center? Every town takes a different approach. Here is how Oak Park delineates roles: The tourism organization “Visit Oak Park” serves twenty-one area communities. Its sole purpose is to drive visitors to Oak Park, whether for tourism, weddings, day trips or business meetings. Visit Oak Park focuses its marketing

on Chicago and people outside a fifty-mile radius through advertising, guidebooks and its website. The organization is funded by taxes on hotel stays as well as grants from the local municipalities. Visit Oak Park also has a membership option for businesses that want to be featured in tourism marketing. The Oak Park Economic Development Corporation is funded entirely by the Village of Oak Park. It focuses on new investment and development, whether from new construction, rehabs or business expansion. Their chief role is to provide expertise and recommendations while working to attract investment to the community. OPEDC does not provide loans or grants and is not a membership group. Any business interested in opening or expanding in Oak Park is encouraged to call them.

nizations. Some charge dues for membership and most focus on street-level merchants and restaurants. Finally, the Chamber of Commerce is a membership organization that acts as an information resource and voice for businesses throughout the area. It offers special networking, programming and promotion opportunities for members. Excluding this project grant, the Chamber does not receive funding from the Village – it is an independent organization. Businesses many choose to be part of all three membership organizations or none at all. Regardless of membership, all businesses will appear in the Chamber’s online Oak Park business directory.

Business districts are merchant associations in the commercial neighborhoods. The twelve districts organize sidewalk sales, holiday lighting and street fairs. Other than Downtown Oak Park, these are volunteer-run orga-

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188 South Oak Park Ave. Saturday Masses: 8:30 a.m. & 5:30 p.m. Sunday Masses: 9:00 & 11:00 a.m. Weekday Mass: 8:30 a.m. Holy Day Masses: As Announced Reconciliation: Saturday 4:15 p.m. Parish Office: 708-848-4417 School Phone: 708-386-5131

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First United Methodist Church of Oak Park

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St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church

First Congregational Church of Maywood

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United Lutheran Church N. Ridgeland & Greenfield, Oak Park Holy Communion with nursery care and Children’s Chapel each Sunday at 9:30 a.m. Thomas Mass Third Sunday at 5:00 p.m. www.unitedlutheranchurch.org 708/386-1576 Lutheran-Independent

Grace Lutheran Church

7300 W. Division, River Forest David R. Lyle, Senior Pastor Phyllis N. Kersten Interim Associate Pastor Sunday Worship, 8:30 & 11:00 a.m. Sunday School/Adult Ed. 9:45 a.m. Childcare Available

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Christ Lutheran Church

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

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Fair Oaks

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

St. Edmund Catholic Church

Roman Catholic

St. Bernardine Catholic Church Harrison & Elgin, Forest Park

CELEBRATING OUR 105TH YEAR! Sat. Masses: 8:30am & 5:00pm SUNDAY MASSES: 8:00am & 10:30am 10:30 Mass-Daycare for all ages CCD Sun. 9am-10:15am Reconciliation: Sat. 9am & 4pm Weekday Masses: Monday–Friday 6:30am Church Office: 708-366-0839 CCD: 708-366-3553 www.stbern.com Pastor: Fr. Stanislaw Kuca Traditional Catholic

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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

808 S. East Ave. 708/848-2703 www.ascensionoakpark.com Worship: Saturday Mass 5:00 pm Sunday Masses 7:30, 9:00, 11 am, 5:00 pm Sacrament of Reconciliation 4 pm Saturday Taize Prayer 7:30 pm First Fridays Feb.– Dec. & Jan. 1 Holy Hour 6:00 pm Third Thursdays

Rev. James Hurlbert, Pastor

The Traditional Catholic Latin Mass

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

Third Unitarian Church 11am Service: “Celebration of Life” thirdunitarianchurch.org (773) 626-9385 301 N. Mayfield near Austin and Lake

Unity

UNITY CHURCH OF OAK PARK 405 North Euclid Ave.

The light of God surrounds you. Sunday Services 9 am & 11 am Youth Education 11 am 708-848-0960 — unityoakpark.org

Upcoming Religious Holidays Oct. 17-23 Sukkot Jewish 18 St. Luke, Apostle & Evangelist Christian 20 Birth of the Báb Baha’i Installation of Scriptures as Guru Granth Sikh 24 Shemini Atzeret Jewish 25 Simchat Torah Jewish 28 Milvian Bridge Day Christian 30 Diwali Deepavali Hindu/Sikh/Jain 31 All Hallows Eve Christian Reformation Day Protestant Christian

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ART ON HARRISON

The Oak Park Arts District conjures a bewitching Halloween.

Friday, October 21, 6 – 10 pm

Special events, spells, artist receptions, live music and brews within the galleries, shops and eateries

Saturday, October 22, 12 – 8 pm

Art, music, hocus-pocus, hands-on crafts and eye of newt for the whole family Come in costume! Pick up a “Trick or Treat” bag at participating businesses while supplies last. On Harrison Street between Austin and Ridgeland Avenues

Please haunt www.OakParkArtsDistrict.com for details.

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS IS FRIDAY 5 P.M. Call Viewpoints editor Ken Trainor at 613-3310 ktrainor@wjinc.com

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Doug Deuchler reflects on turning 70 p. 42

Upcoming referendums and your property taxes By ALI ELSAFFAR

Oak Park Township Assessor

n the next six months, Oak Park voters will face two separate referenda that could impact their property taxes. The first referendum is for Oak Park and River Forest High School, which will be seeking authority in November to borrow $25 million to pay for part of the costs of a new swimming pool, as well as other improvements. The second referendum will take place in April of next year, when Oak Park’s elementary school district will seek an as-yet-undetermined sum to help fund its operations. My office does not take a position on the merits of referenda but does try to help voters determine what their overall tax bills would look like in the event of a successful referendum. To do this, I will start with what tax bills would look like without any referenda. If both referenda fail, I estimate that next year’s tax increases for most local taxpayers would be between 1.5% and 2.5%. The primary reason for this is that state law allows most local taxing districts to increase their annual tax levies by an amount that roughly matches the rate of inflation. But many other factors also impact taxes, including tax appeals and exemptions. Unfortunately, neither levies nor appeals nor exemptions have yet been determined, making precise estimates impossible. Nonetheless, this year’s inflation rate, coupled with past experience with the other factors, make an estimated tax increase of 1.5% to 2.5% reasonable. High School Referendum - To understand the tax impact of the high school’s proposed $25 million referendum, it can be helpful to think of the payments on a home mortgage. The amount of your mortgage payment depends on how much you borrow, what the interest rate is, and how long it will take to pay off the loan. The same is true for school bonds. After much discussion, the school board decided to borrow $25 million, and plans to repay the money over 20 years. The school anticipates an interest rate of a little over 3%, which means that Oak Park and River Forest taxpayers would pay about $1.8 million per year to repay the loan. A successful pool referendum would increase Oak Park tax levies by about $1.34 million per year, with the rest being paid by River Forest. Since Oak Park’s total tax levy this year was $180 million, an additional $1.34 million corresponds to a tax increase of about three-quarters of 1% in Oak Park (0.75%). For a tax bill of $10,000, this is an increase of $75. The increase in River Forest is a little higher, at 0.85%, or $85 on a $10,000 bill. These figures closely match the increases projected by the high school. If the high school referendum impacted bills next year, the choice for Oak Park taxpayers would be between, say, a 2% tax increase without the pool referendum, and a 2.75% increase with the referendum. In fact, however, the impact would not appear on tax bills until 2018. It is not possible to estimate the range of possible tax increases so far in advance, but it is fair to say that tax See ELSAFFAR on page 39

This Halloween, help us oppose child slave labor

am writing to address a very important issue: child slave labor. Candy companies (in particular Mars, Hershey, Nestle, Cadbury) buy chocolate from producers in Ghana and the Ivory Coast who use children to harvest cocoa beans. These children are forced to live in small shacks with only filthy buckets to urinate in. The children work from dawn to dusk and live in a nightmare. The majority of children used in this kind of labor are sold into it. Others are tricked into thinking the job will bring good money, or even kidnapped! Children are forced to carry heavy bags of cocoa. If they fell, you probably wouldn’t blame them. But the adult supervisors seem to! When a child falls, they are whipped instead of being helped up. Escaping plantations is extremely hard, and if you are caught, you get a severe punishment, such as being whipped. Sometimes children are even killed. One boy who escaped told the Daily Beast, “Being whipped was a part of everyday life.” He also revealed that before whippings, he was stripped. When these practices were exposed in 2001, Congress prepared legislation requiring Mars, Hershey, Nestle and others to label their candy as using child labor. But the companies stopped the legislation by promising to address the problem by 2005. They didn’t. Their new target is to reduce child labor by 70 percent by 2020, but studies show they probably won’t meet that goal. While the companies have taken some steps, the number of children in

hazardous labor in the chocolate industry has actually gone up, according to a 2015 Tulane University report. As you buy Halloween candy, I ask you not to support companies that use child and slave labor. Here are some other options: Buy chocolate that has a Fair Trade label, which means the company paid enough for good working conditions. Newman’s Own, 365, Equal Exchange and Endangered Species are four kinds of chocolate available locally that don’t use child labor, according to the SlaveFree Chocolate website. Chocolate that says it was made in South America is also safe. You could also give out gum or fruit snacks, or buy candy from independent companies (try to avoid Skittles, SweetTarts or other candy made by Mars, Hershey, Cadbury and Nestle). Yes, candy like Reese’s and Snickers is cheaper, but that’s because these companies pay farmers so little that they resort to child labor just so they can feed their own families. If you send an email to the group my friends and I started, Kids Against Child Labor, to tell us you’re not buying child-labor chocolate this Halloween, we’ll contact Mars, Hershey and Nestle after Halloween and tell them how many people in Oak Park stopped buying their candy. If you have any questions or choose to fight alongside us, please contact kidsagainstchildlabor@gmail.com. By doing this, you are helping to make the world a better place. Natasha M. Cosgrove is a 10-year-old Oak Park resident.

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Whither the VMA?

he very mention of the VMA — the Village Manager Association — once stoked fear and earned respect in any person contemplating a run for the village board of trustees in Oak Park. That will happen when your good-government, pro-diversity, economic-development-backing political organization wins every slot on the village board and backs every successful village president over the course of multiple decades. Of course, that unfettered run of wins began cracking 20 years ago when, here and there, angry splinters from the VMA monolith began slating and running candidates of their own. A few of them actually won. Then it was 12 years ago, in an odd three-person race, that the VMA candidate for president actually went down hard. And four years back, it was the upstart Anan Abu-Taleb who clobbered the VMA presidential candidate John Hedges. That was pretty much the end of VMA invincibility. Now it’s the autumn before spring elections and the VMA is again conducting its secret interviews with prospective candidates for the board and for mayor/village president. A slate will presumably be forthcoming; history tells us it will be announced anytime between now and Thanksgiving. But here’s what’s different this time around: The Journal has now reported on four individuals who are planning to run for village trustee. There are likely to be others, too. But all four, including incumbent Peter Barber, have made their announcements in advance of the VMA selection process. Barber, Deno Andrews, Simone Boutet and Dan Moroney have all said they will submit to the VMA process but will not be bound by the results. Glenn Brewer, another incumbent trustee, has not publicly announced his election plans or if he will appear before the VMA. Clearly the VMA swagger has worn off. We hope that additional candidates come forward to run for trustee. These are interesting times in Oak Park and having a range of candidates will be good for voters.

About that RFP

When he ran for election as Oak Park’s village president four years ago, Anan Abu-Taleb spoke plainly of his desire and his plan for the village to move smartly to spur large-scale residential and commercial development. We supported that idea. We’ve also supported his efforts to remove or shorten the government process obstacles that have turned past Oak Park development projects into endless horrors resulting in mediocre buildings. Over the past two years as Abu-Taleb shifted the focus from projects in the pipeline for Downtown Oak Park to Madison Street, the Journal has copiously reported the public steps toward change and, as we were able, the more shielded steps. On the public side, we’ve covered the remaking of Madison Street zoning from Austin to Harlem, the decision to focus village efforts from East to Home, the acquisition of property on the street, the ongoing discussion of the “road diet” and the proposed “bend” in the road that was clearly tailored to support a single, large developer’s efforts. And we’ve reported on the name of the clearly preferred developer, Jupiter Realty. Now, to check a box in the legal process required, the village put out a short turnaround Request for Proposals for developers for this site at Madison Street and Oak Park Avenue. The deadline for submissions has passed and now, at this late date, the village and its Oak Park Economic Development Corp. partners have gone into radio silence. How many proposals were received? we asked. More than one. Who are the developers? Top secret. When will this review process move ahead? Could take weeks. Feels like an odd time to revert to old ways to spur development.

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Why I attend reunions

y confidante/familiar/muse/ consigliere/voice of the average reader said, “We don’t want to read another piece about your ideal childhood. Not all of us had one. It just makes us feel bad. If you’re going to write about your reunion, it has to be universal.” My childhood wasn’t perfect, but there is an aversion in some people to revisit the past because the things they didn’t like about it may not have changed. But I find that most of the time, the people have changed, so I usually go, and I’m usually glad I did. That was the case Saturday night as some 50 members of Ascension School’s class of 1966, about a third of our Baby Boomer graduating class, gathered on the second floor of Skrine Chops in Forest Park to revive a long-gone era by bouncing memories off one another. In large gatherings, my voice washes out almost immediately and I can’t be heard over the din, so I do more listening. Which is good because I get a better sense of who my classmates have become. People do change and mellow and evolve and that’s nice to hear. What I heard was not the verbal equivalent of an “isn’t my life great?” Christmas card. Four members of our class died recently within a 12-month stretch. Those who were once close to them are still mourning and trying to understand what happened. At 64, the good news and bad news is decidedly mixed. And we wondered about all those classmates who have not been heard from in 50 years. At one point, when everyone was talking to someone else, I wandered over to the memorabilia table and got lost in the class photos, from first grade on. Each face so different — unique, youthful personalities shining through. People change much more during the nine years of grade school than they do in the four years of high school or college. And then there was my face. Who was that kid? How much I have forgotten — or maybe never knew. That’s part of why I go to reunions. I think there is something to be gained by stretching back to the past like this, to our former selves. We get a fleeting, godlike glimpse of our lives, a momentary view from on high. I don’t know if our class will venture beyond 50 years.

We might come together again, or we might not. As we trickled out at the end, I wondered if this was the curtain closing. Class dismissed. If it is, then it is. But a closed curtain doesn’t offer closure. So I want to say something to all my classmates (and hope it has universal application): What I want to say is thank you. Thank you for being there way back then. For being exactly who you were — even if we didn’t interact much or connect, even if you can’t really remember if we connected or if I can’t remember. In many ways, our experience was defined by quantity — 150 kids per grade level is a lot of kids. Quality came later. It was on display at the reunion five years ago and again Saturday night. Thank you for becoming quality people and for the life you have lived because everyone’s life has quality, which is different from mere achievement. The quality of our lives is partly because of Ascension and the Ursuline nuns and the secure, highly defined parochial culture we grew up in. Whether you embraced that culture or got as far away from it as you could, whether you took what was positive and shed what wasn’t, whether you look back on it fondly or are still recovering from it — or maybe an amalgam of all of the above, like me — it is partly what made us who we are, and for that I’m thankful. The nuns may have been a little too authoritarian for my taste, but they were human beings with shortcomings, and those habits were probably hot, and they had 50 kids in a classroom! That culture defined us, but not entirely. We did most of the work ourselves. Thank you for living a full life with all its struggles and mistakes and loves that lasted, or didn’t, and minor triumphs — as well as the triumphs that seem minor but actually required considerable courage, which we don’t give ourselves enough credit for. Life, as they told us back at Ascension and at home, would have its ups and downs, and it did. The ledger doesn’t balance. But as my familiar says, there is always joy, a series of moments we string together like a necklace of pearls, which we call happiness. Reunions like this help put our lives in perspective. They remind me, and I hope all of you, that our lives were good once and still are. So whether your memories have faded to grey or are vibrant with color, recalling the excitement of a future stretching out before us — or both, like me — I want to thank you for sharing this path with me during that remarkable period, 1957-1966, when so much changed or was changing, in the world and in us, a time I consider myself lucky to have witnessed. And thank you for whatever brought you back to this rest stop to check in. Just one more time. The writer Thomas Wolfe famously said, “You can’t go home again.” That may be. But a reunion gives us an opportunity to come home to ourselves.

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W E D N E S D A Y

by Marc Stopeck

JOURNAL of Oak Park and River Forest

Editor and Publisher Dan Haley Senior Editor Bob Uphues Associate Publisher Dawn Ferencak Staff Reporters Michael Romain, Timothy Inklebarger Viewpoints/ Real Estate Editor Ken Trainor Sports/Staff reporter Marty Farmer Columnists Jack Crowe, Doug Deuchler, John Hubbuch, May Kay O’Grady, Kwame Salter, John Stanger, Stan West Staff Photographer William Camargo Editorial Design Manager Claire Innes Editorial Designers Jacquinete Baldwin, Javier Govea Business Manager Joyce Minich IT Manager/Web Developer Mike Risher Advertising Production Manager Philip Soell Advertising Design Manager Andrew Mead Advertising Designers Debbie Becker, Mark Moroney Advertising Director Dawn Ferencak Advertising Sales Marc Stopeck, Joe Chomiczewski Media Coordinator Kristen Benford

Vote Yes to eliminate Recorder of Deeds position

The voters of Cook County have a real chance to effect change this November. Near the end of the ballot (after all the judges) is a binding referendum to eliminate the elected Recorder of Deeds position and transfer the duties of that office to the Cook County Clerk. The League of Women Voters of Cook County has recently completed a study on this referendum and recommends a “Yes” vote. This is an opportunity to save money and to make county government more efficient. This referendum is not a reflection on the current Recorder of Deeds’ ability or accomplishments. The Recorder of Deeds has mainly administrative duties, which can easily be absorbed into the Clerk’s Office. The League has found it is reasonable that at least $1 million could be saved each year should the referendum be approved. This is money that could be

re-directed to other pressing needs. Because the consolidation of offices would not occur until 2020, there is plenty of time to ensure the consolidation would take place smoothly, with any reduction in personnel accomplished through attrition, rather than layoffs. In Illinois since 2000, several counties have consolidated the two offices and have reported cost savings and no ill effects. Of the 10 largest counties in the United States, only Cook and Maricopa County in Arizona have these offices as separately elected entities. We recommend a “Yes” vote on Nov. 8. Rarely do voters have the chance to reduce costs and increase efficiency in their county government with one vote. To read the League’s study, go to www.lwvcookcounty.org.

Beverly Graham, Margaret Massarello, Michelle Mbekeani Vice presidents, League of Women Voters of OP-RF

Fed up with Shrubtown’s ‘Pool Guy’ I’ve had it! I am a supporter of the new pool, and I didn’t want to spoil my Wednesday good mood by glancing at the Viewpoints page but couldn’t resist. The obvious anti-pool slant of the Journal is in full view, with the “Pool Guy” car-

toon [Shrubtown, Viewpoints, Oct. 12] bigger than ever. I’m renewing my subscription to the Oak Leaves, and I’ll check back next year to see if you’ve cleaned up your act.

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The OPRF facilities dilemma

he facilities bond referendum for Oak Park and River Forest High School represents a dilemma for our community. We have a significant infrastructure problem, posed by our two 88-yearold leaking pools that can no longer be adequately maintained and were built on opposite sides of the building to separate boys and girls. We have growing enrollment school-wide and in our performing arts department in particular. And we have the challenge of adapting our 20thcentury building for 21st-century learning. On the other hand, we are a community dedicated to racial and economic diversity and are concerned about the cost of the project and the overall level of our property taxes. I have led conversations about this dilemma for three years and am writing to share my personal perspective. I worked hard to hear all viewpoints, some of which did not emerge until after the board adopted a plan for a 50-meter pool on the garage site without replacing the lost parking on campus. The critique and petition drive regarding that plan by a group of commu-

nity members led to a good compromise. The approved facilities plan reduced the pool size by 20%, saved 80% of the on-site parking spots, and lowered expected costs by nearly 10%. These community members made a valuable contribution but continue to argue that there is a suitable and substantially less expensive two-pool alternative. I believe they are now misinterpreting the facts, however, and that no cheaper solution exists. We did consider a two-pool approach but determined that retaining separate pools on opposite sides of the building, one of which would be shrunk to four lanes and not have a girls’ locker room nearby, was a poor solution. In addition, meeting the needs of performing arts would require a $10.7 million addition, and renovating the boys’ PE locker room would cost $2.5 million more under that plan. In total, the five-year plan with the inadequate two-pool solution would cost $39.9 million plus $270,000 for deferred maintenance on the garage. Significantly, that design also requires the loss of a gym, which would likely cost several million dollars to

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He votes No on this headline I find your headline “Vote no if you dare” [Viewpoints, Oct. 12] extremely misleading. Two earlier viewpoints in the same issue were headlined “Vote yes to make space for OPRF performing arts” and “Please vote yes for performing arts space.” So to me it’s a logical leap to assume that an article with the headline “Vote no if you dare” will also be about the District 200 facilities referendum. It’s not. The article is a thoughtful retrospective on voting in Communist Russia in 1939. You pulled your headline from the author’s fear of thinly veiled threats of retribution for “incorrectly voting” on a referendum to include the Baltic states in the Soviet Union. I know in my heart of hearts that the Journal is not exercising those same thinly veiled threats to those who vote no on the referendum! It was just a poor choice of headlines.

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Oak Park Editor’s note: Chris is correct that no thinly veiled threat was implied about the upcoming referendum. The writer of the piece used that headline, and we simply didn’t think about the confusion it might cause. Our flub.

replace in a future renovation. By comparison, the projected cost of the board’s adopted plan is $44.5 million. However, the purchase price to acquire the garage from the village of Oak Park included in that estimate is $2.7 million, which the village will use to pay off the amount it still owes on the garage. The portion of that purchase price attributable to Oak Park residents, which is 2 million dollars, is therefore satisfying a debt they already owe and is not a new cost. At a real cost of $42.5 million, and taking into account the gym that would need to be replaced, the two-pool plan would probably be more costly than the approved plan. Without a lower cost alternative, the challenge we face is that addressing the agreed-upon needs of the school will cost over $40 million. I believe that it is in the best interests of our students and our community to make this investment and that borrowing a portion of the cost is both fair and fiscally prudent. I hope you come to the same conclusion and will join me in voting Yes on Nov. 8. Jeff Weissglass is an Oak Park citizen and serves as the District 200 school board president at Oak Park and River Forest High School.

The power of vision and the D200 referendum Envision-sustained greatness! With your Yes vote, the District 200 school board will implement yet another vision that will serve the OPRF High School community in perpetuity. Thank goodness our school board had the guts back in 1924 to build the athletic stadium. Have you ever watched a loved one play there or attended an athletic event in that space? It is an electrifying experience! Subsequently, in 1927 our school board had the vision and stewardship to approve the first high school field house in the country, which expanded physical education and athletics to girls. The power of these 90-year-old visions serves students and the long-term health and vibrancy of our community every single day! The current vision, which includes expanded and modernized classrooms, performing arts space, student activity space and an appropriate-sized pool that satisfies health, safety and competition code requirements will also accommodate a wide variety of learners, interests, ability levels and community groups for decades to come. Oak Park and River Forest, like all communities, are in a perpetual state of recruiting new families, new businesses and new investment from both private and public sources. Our collective approval of this upgrade to a key community asset is critical to keeping our community attractive academically, socially, and economically. This project isn’t about the needless spending of money; this project is

about maintaining our community’s ability to compete in a crowded market. High-quality schools have always been the core of our OP-RF community. As lifelong residents and beneficiaries of everything public, it is the shared duty of all voters to equip our public schools and our faculty and staff with facilities and amenities that will upgrade teaching, learning and student preparation for college and career. The marketplace of higher education and the job economy continues to demand more; it is our duty to deliver more! Let’s remember, our community elected seven bright-minded representatives who are responsible for building visions, analyzing options, and making hard decisions. This high-performance team of folks has studied the facility upgrade matter for over 12 years and has evaluated over 20 plans. Further, the board unanimously approved the proposed plan. Let’s show our respect for the board’s wisdom and their endless hours of volunteer service by voting Yes for Referendum 200. If you are worried about the financial impact on your taxes, go to the Tax Impact Calculator on the OPRF High School website (http:// www.oprfhs.org/facilities/Tax-Impact-Calculator.cfm). We encourage everyone to Vote YES for the long-term health and vibrancy of our Oak Park-River Forest community!

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Base your vote on accurate information

s Election Day (Nov. 8) nears, it is important that voters have accurate information and the tools to distinguish fact from fiction when it comes to the high school facilities referendum. District 200 recently posted additional information on its website, including a new FAQ (October 2016) in response to voters’ recent questions. These updated factual documents are valuable to voters to counter the misinformation and unsupported claims of those opposed to this investment in our school. The cost breakdown of various facilities plan components is stated more clearly and specifically in these documents than in earlier cost estimate documents. The plan totals have not changed since the board adopted it (August 16). The new cost breakdown details which costs belong to which project elements. The documents clarify that the pool and supporting spaces make up less than half of the total cost ($21.4M) and the PE locker rooms, performing arts, and other learning spaces total $10.4M ($2.8M for locker rooms, $4.8M for performing arts, $1.6M for model classrooms, and $1.2M for Driver Education and other classroom space). Make no mistake, the pool is the most expensive component of this comprehensive facilities plan, followed by the parking garage, yet the cost of those two components includes the benefit of creating space inside the building for the arts and other learning. OPRF’s FAQ-October 2016 contains detailed information about why the two-pool option was rejected, provides a head-to-head comparison of the actual facilities plan with the rejected plan, and debunks inaccurate claims about potential cost savings. These documents make it clear that the board thoroughly evaluated this option and

found it fell short of the school’s needs in many ways (not delivering enough bang for the $39.9M buck, diminishing PE and athletics, eliminating the adaptive PE gym that would cost millions more to replace, creating less performing arts space, allowing less community use, reducing green space, and limiting future learning space, among others). This is why, as the board reiterated on Sept. 22, the deeply flawed, expensive, two-pool option is not a viable option under consideration. There is only one plan on the table. Repeated claims by referendum opponents about a so-called “pragmatic” option are a red herring meant to distract voters from understanding and evaluating the actual adopted plan. The up-to-date factual information at oprfhs.org/facilities goes a long way toward clearing up confusion caused by these claims. We encourage voters to seek it out. The D200 school board is the only group that evaluated all the information relevant to selecting a plan, reviewed all the data and alternatives, and weighed the impact of each option on the entire school, its students, its budget, and its future. This is what we elected them to do. Now we voters have an opportunity to vote on financing part of the plan cost through bonds. Voting Yes will allow the comprehensive project to move forward. Voting No will result in costly delay, forcing the board to spend valuable time re-solving the pool, performing arts, locker room, and enrollment challenges when they could be working on other issues. We urge you to get full and accurate information before voting on Nov. 8.

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impossible to determine the exact impact of a referendum on tax bills. What can be said, however, is that D97 receives more tax dollars than any other Oak Park taxing district. This year it levied a total of $61.3 million, representing 34% of all property taxes paid in Oak Park. If the largest taxing district receives additional tax revenue through a referendum, the impact is usually noticeable for taxpayers, even if the precise amount cannot yet be ascertained. Conclusion - The public schools in Oak Park and River Forest provide an excellent education for their students. But the cost of providing this education leads to tax bills that annually increase. I hope the information in this article helps residents make informed decisions as they go to the polls.

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Frequently asked questions on the D200 referendum

he following FAQ was released last week by OPRF High School: Why not go with the previously considered plan that had two pools — didn’t it meet the same needs? No. The single 40-meter pool in the District 200 board-approved plan differs in a number of ways from a plan with two smaller pools on opposite sides of the building:

Before adoption of the final plan, it was reduced by $9.5 million from the plan presented to the D200 board on Aug. 1. Why can’t the two-pool plan be reduced by the same amount? Most of the elements that were cut to create the approved plan were already absent from the two-pool plan, so were not available to be cut. The only exception might have been to leave the black box theater in place. However, because the configuration of the two plans differed significantly, the feasible changes that could have been made to the two-pool plan were not comparable. The new classroom space for band and orchestra would have been roughly 1,000 square feet less than in the approved plan, and theater programming would not have had any space to expand. Since there are no comparable changes possible, there are, therefore, no comparable cost reductions available.

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I keep hearing that the previously considered facilities plan with two pools would cost $15 million less. Is that true? No. The two-pool plan that was considered in August 2016 was estimated to cost $39.9 million. The adopted plan, which includes purchasing the parking garage currently owned by the village of Oak Park in order to build a new 40-meter pool and a new garage on that site, is estimated to cost the district $44.5 million. However, more than $2 million of the garage purchase price is a transfer from one Oak Park taxing body to another to pay off existing debt and is not a new cost to Oak Park taxpayers. The net difference in cost to taxpayers between the two plans is therefore $2.6 million. However, that difference does not take into account the loss of the adaptive gym space. Rebuilding that space elsewhere as part of future projects could cost several million dollars.

I’ve heard conflicting information about how much the community might get to use the pool in the approved facilities plan. Can you clarify? Following community meetings to review potential facilities plans in mid-July 2016, we developed an in-depth schedule of potential community use for a single 40-meter pool compared to the facilities plan with two pools that was then under consideration, as well as to the current two pools. (You can find

Renovates classrooms for 21st century learning Accommodates 20% growth in performing arts class enrollments Adds performing arts space within building footprint, without losing campus green space Preserves adaptive gym used by special education students Total number of swimming lanes Provides adequate space for simultaneous use by up to three PE classes Allows simultaneous use by multiple teams/team levels Provides both boys and girls locker rooms next to pool(s) used by both genders Eliminates girls walking through the field house in wet swimsuits to get from west boys pool to girls locker room Approximate potential community use during school year, in estimated number of lane hours/week Includes a girls locker room next to any pool(s) used by community Maintains on-site garage parking Avoids reducing parking garage capacity by approximately 20% by saving 61 spots Avoids disruption by maintaining garage parking during construction that document on our website.) Community use includes the West Suburban Special Recreation Association (WSSRA), the YMCA’s TOPS swim team, and the Park District of Oak Park swim lessons, lap swim, etc. I have been hearing conflicting information about the price of the pool and the other elements of the facilities plan. What are the real costs? During the analysis and deliberation phase, the D200 board considered a great deal of information, all of which remains posted on our website. But now that a plan has been approved, we are working to provide clear information about what is in the plan as it was adopted on Aug. 16. This may differ from earlier information that was included in working documents as the project was being researched and developed. The total costs remain the same as approved by the board on Aug. 16. Below is an overview of that detailed cost sheet. In addition, we’ve provided a breakdown of costs for the previously considered plan with two pools; the more detailed background document can be found on our website.

Overview of cost breakdown for approved plan with single 40-Meter pool:

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Pool and Support Spaces $21.4 million Garage Demolition and Construction $10 million Performing Arts Expansion $4.8 million PE Locker Room Facilities $2.8 million Model Classrooms $1.6 million Other Repurposed Spaces $1.2 million

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$41.8 million $ 2.7 million $44.5 million

The plan includes repurposing a portion of the former East Pool space as classroom and Driver Education spaces. Purchase price was estimated based on the village’s outstanding debt for garage. For Oak Park taxpayers, who compose about 75% of D200 taxpayers, this will not be a new cost but rather an existing cost transferred from one Oak Park taxing body to another. Oak Parkers will have paid off more than 85% of the costs of the high school’s garage since its inception. Approximately 25% of the purchase price will be a new cost to River Forest taxpayers.

Overview of cost breakdown for previously considered plan with two pools: Pool and Support Spaces Performing Arts Expansion and Other Repurposed Spaces PE Locker Room Facilities Model Classrooms Total Construction Cost Deferred Maintenance on Garage Total Proposed Cost

$22.3 million $10.7 million $5.3 million $1.6 million $39.9 million $270,000 $40.2 million

Why not pay the full cost out of the high school’s fund balance? The answer to this question, as well as other finance-related information, can be found at http://www.oprfhs.org/facilities/NEW-FAQOct-2016.cfm.

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It’s OK to vote No on pool referendum

When it comes to voting on a school referendum, voters often fall into one of two categories: ■ Those who generally vote No because they don’t want their taxes to go up or they feel the schools waste too much money. ■ Those who generally vote Yes because they want to support the schools and they want what’s best for the children. If a line were drawn to separate the supporters from the non-supporters, most people I know would fall on the “supporter” side of the line. Involved with PTO events and fundraisers, school committees, as room parents and classroom aides, and so much more, when it comes to voting on school funding issues, we vote Yes because we support the schools in our community. It’s tough for many of us to vote No, to send a vote of no-confidence to members of the school board who put in long hours for no pay. But there are times when we look at the issue and think, “This just isn’t something I can support.” This is one of those times. We need to do something about the pools at the high school, but must the solution involve a new pool so big and so expensive that its construction and related costs a total of $37 million? Do we have to tear down a much-used and much-needed parking garage (and replace it with a smaller garage) to create space for this very large and expensive pool? Must our property taxes go up to fund this construction when the high school has so much in its cash reserves after years of overtaxing us? Three questions, one answer: No! There are options that would work within the footprint of the school, options that would give the high school an acceptable pool at a much lower cost. Because the process was driven almost entirely by members of the aquatics community — parents whose children swim in various competitive programs starting in grammar school — these options were dismissed. All would significantly improve our current swimming facilities and cost significantly less than this plan. Adding $7.5 million for improvements to classrooms, performing arts spaces and locker rooms brings the board’s chosen plan’s total to $44.5 million; choosing to spend less on the pool leaves more for these other important improvements. So for the first time ever, I’m opposing a school referendum and voting No on the D200 bond issue referendum. And that’s OK.

Maureen Kleinman

A 33-year resident of Oak Park whose three children are OPRF graduates

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look at that number — 70 — and I think, “Me? No way! I’m not ready.” But the reality is that very soon I shall slip into my eighth decade. “So what’s the big deal?” a younger friend asked me. “Age is only a number.” That’s true, but we only get so many numbers. I’m finding the transition into this new decade is just a tad scary. I have never been afraid of the aging process till now. But this birthday seems different. I may be able to concentrate on being less apprehensive. But can I actually learn to embrace turning 70? It’s an emotionally tricky milestone, to say the least. I’m proud to have been born in 1946, the beginning of the largest demographic bulge in the history of the world. Every adult male I knew as a child — from my dad and my uncles to our neighbors — had fought in World War II. We, the first Boomers, were born into the highly energized postwar period. Our parents’ lives went “on hold” when our dads went off to war. Many of our moms worked in war plants. My mother had assembled wrist watches at the Elgin Watch Factory until Pearl Harbor. After that, she and all the other “gals” in her section put timing mechanisms in torpedoes. In our childhoods, we little Boomers were often told how lucky we were, born into such a booming period of opportunity, enjoying our carefree lives, often in “better neighborhoods,” with Eskimo Pies, Sugar Pops, Howdy Doody, hula hoops, coonskin caps, Bosco, Sky King, and all the rest. Many of us working-class kids would become the first members of our families to graduate college. Ah, yes. To paraphrase Dickens, it was the best of times. My father got a new Chevy Bel Air the same month I got a Schwinn “two-wheeler” bicycle. It was the worst of times. Everyone’s house smelled like an ashtray, every kid shared chicken pox, measles, and mumps in our crowded classrooms (and occasionally polio), and father didn’t always know best. The first of the early Baby Boomers have been turning 70 since January. I’m in very good company. There are 2.1 million of us: folks like Cher, Bill Clinton, Liza Minnelli, Jimmy Buffett, Tommy Lee Jones, Danny Glover, Dolly Parton, Diane Keaton, Steven Spielberg, Ben Vereen, Sylvester Stallone, and even that orange-looking dude who puts his name on buildings. Milestone birthdays force you to confront your own mortality. There seem to suddenly be so many new things to consider at 70. (Notice I said consider, not worry about. I’m trying to be upbeat.) For instance, our culture seems obsessed with memory loss. Probably nothing but cancer is more terrifying. I bought a big green-colored jar of Gingko Biloba but I can’t seem to remember where I put it. Eating a healthy diet and portion control

have become significant issues. But at the Lake Theatre I have been known to completely devour a family-sized bag of Twizzlers before the trailers have even finished playing. I don’t ever feel old on the inside. I usually forget to ask for my “senior” discount in stores. I teach film classes to “seniors” but don’t seem to notice that lately many of them are younger. I guess I haven’t fully faced up to being a senior. Attempting to become more physically active, I joined a water aerobics class, Aqua Motion, at Gottlieb Fitness Center. In my first session I found the sudden transition — jumping into a pool chock-full of seniors — a bit daunting. But they were all so fun and welcoming, I’m now a proud participant, thrilled to see men and women in their eighth and ninth decades in running shoes, sweats, swimsuits, and workout clothes. You can run but you can’t hide. Lots of us don’t want to grow old, so we keep buying jeans with ever-bigger butts and distracting ourselves in various ways — like getting tattoos, pretending we’re ageless. But if you’re not getting older, you’re dead. So deal with it, I tell myself. After a while, of course, your body develops a mind of its own and betrays you. Every day it seems like something new is either growing in you or on you. In China I’m told young people revere the elderly. I’d have to see this to believe it. In America at a certain point you’re simply invisible. In Walgreens recently, I was writing a check (Yes, I’m one of those old coots who still writes checks). The young female clerk told me the total: “Nineteen-oh-one.” As I wrote in the amount, I quipped, “1901? Why, that’s the year I was born!” She responded, “Cool.” No, dear, I’m not really 115 years old. If you ask me, growing old gracefully is way overrated. Avoiding negativity is a good tactic in general but there’s no need to wear rose-colored glasses. Sometimes it feels so good to fuss. At this age, conversations can become tedious. One needs a medical dictionary to keep up with friends’ health updates. Back in the day, we engaged in animated chats about drugs and sex and rock & roll. Now we seem to endlessly discuss crap

like A-Fib, tinnitus, knee- and hip-replacement procedures, prostate biopsies and restless leg syndrome. I remember old folks boring me to tears when I was a kid with their tales of youthful diligence and deprivation, so I am usually on guard that I don’t commit this offense. I resist using “in my day” in any conversation with younger people. Life was definitely different when we septuagenarians were coming up. Every memory is American history. Our first 1951 black-and-white Admiral TV had mahogany doors that opened and closed over the screen. My mother always made us keep them closed when the television was not in use. I think she thought Milton Berle or Gabby Hayes or Ricky Ricardo might be able to watch us if we didn’t. If you’re 70 you remember when Cokes and candy bars cost a nickel, comic books were a dime, and lots of kids kept pennies in the little slots of their penny loafers. I thought I was very cool because I put dimes in mine. This meant I always had money to make a call from something called a “pay phone.” We had a “party line” in our house. For a slight reduction in our monthly phone bill, my family shared our telephone line with a couple of other unknown “parties.” Our phone ring was two longs and a short. Though we were never, ever supposed to do it, as a small kid I loved cautiously picking up the receiver to listen in on the conversations of the other “parties.” My mother would get furious with me if she caught me, but, frankly, the daytime drama provided by gabbing strangers was always far more fascinating than anything Ma had going on her kitchen radio. I digress — which also seems to be a habit of my new age group. As we march into “old age,” many of us struggle with a persistent, irrational dread of getting older. No one wants to lose their youthful energy and face the inevitable health problems that come with it. Mortality lurks. We have more aches and pains — usually from overdoing it. (We think we’re 50.) We buy sympathy cards at an increasing rate because we are losing dear ones more frequently. Most of us are “making do,” living on less. And we fear being

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forgotten. These are all real issues, difficult to disregard. There is a name for this: gerascophobia. The term comes from geraso, which means “I’m getting old.” We males especially dread turning into cranky old men. When I was a kid I was convinced this eventually happened to all guys. Those crabby codgers who seldom smiled would always be yelling at us for riding our bikes across their lawns, or losing a ball in their bushes. But now I clearly see we’re not all doomed to become abrasive, joyless geezers. If you’re an annoying jerk as a kid, chances are you’ll be like that at 70. It’s that simple. As older Baby Boomers turn 70, it’s better to celebrate all that’s good about this age. And there’s a lot. For starters, less tendency to people-please. It’s easier to turn stuff down. We know our values. We understand what makes us happy; most of us are pretty mellow. We’ve gotten better at tuning out negativity. Most of my friends tell me they avoid toxic situations and boring people. Yes, we may be distressed by the ravages of the years on our appearance. My pal Michael Termine is frequently told how great he looks for his age. But Michael admits, “I would rather be an ugly 35 than a greatlooking 70.” But 70 years after Mozart was born, he’d been dead for 35 years. In 1900 life expectancy was 47 years. But that’s because the millions of babies who died of everything from diarrhea to diphtheria brought the average down. We need to grab the quality time that still lies ahead. There’s not that much we can do about aging, so you might as well not worry about scary health stuff in advance. It just poisons the present and sucks the joy out of it. There’s still a lot of gas left in the tank. Gerontologists say the most important thing we can do is keep busy and stay involved — working a bit, perhaps, volunteering, and playing. We need to re-examine and reshape our lives. I didn’t always listen so well to my father, but I do remember him saying the most important thing you can do as you grow older is to be flexible. Life is ever changing and you have to keep up or you’re sunk. Perhaps we older Boomers will alter perceptions of what it means to grow old. We’ve always been so full of ourselves, thinking we have all the answers because of our vast numbers. But maybe we’ll put a new spin on turning 70. I’m definitely stepping into a brave new world. Am I ready for it? I’d better be! Doug Deuchler is a longtime educator and historian who, when he isn’t reviewing local theater for Wednesday Journal, is a stand-up comic, tour guide/docent, film class instructor and author of several books about Oak Park and surrounding communities.

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An open letter regarding a recent report of discrimination

ear owners and managers of Doc Ryan’s, Suburban Unity Alliance recognizes that as a privately owned business, you have the right to choose how your establishment is run, from the drinks served, to music played, to how you want your patrons to dress. We appreciate small businesses and recognize the role a local bar plays economically and socially. We are not writing this letter to vilify or to force change. We write in the hope that it will create further dialogue and understanding. Suburban Unity Alliance was created in an effort to raise equity awareness and to provide opportunities for local communities to gain better understandings of existing discriminatory issues. Two of our initiatives are equity advocacy and community engagement. SUA utilizes these programs to engage community stakeholders in an effort to increase self-awareness and empathy, leading us to opportunities for reassessment and growth. These two initiatives are the reason you are being contacted. The first encounter between SUA and

Doc Ryan’s resulted from a music request, to which your establishment’s response was perceived to be discriminatory. SUA was able to sit down and conduct a mediation session between Doc Ryan’s representatives and the concerned patrons. We thank you for engaging in mediation, and though all issues were not resolved, we believe all parties reached a better understanding about the incident. We are presently writing you based on the report of a more recent incident regarding your bar’s dress code. An African American male patron reported to SUA that, while in your establishment, he was asked by a manager to pull up his pants because he was “sagging.” While no other member of SUA was present to witness this encounter, based upon this patron’s statement, we believe another mediation session would be beneficial. The patron felt singled out and embarrassed, that he was not “sagging,” and even had a button-up shirt and jacket covering his pants. Though he did explain to the manager that he felt wronged, he did not deem his words or actions to be hostile.

Nonetheless, the Forest Park Police Department was contacted and the patron was escorted from the establishment. Following this report, SUA’s director reached out to your establishment via phone and Facebook messaging directly to the owner in an effort to set up mediation, in hopes of resolving this issue. There has been no response from any representative of Doc Ryan’s regarding this incident. After the incident, which occurred on Friday, Sept. 1, from interactions this patron had with representatives of your establishment, he felt marginalized. Because SUA has not heard from anyone representing Doc’s, we felt compelled to write this letter in hopes of sparking conversation. While SUA has no issues with dress codes, it is recognized that dress codes can be ambiguous and inconsistently applied. Biases, often implicit, come into play. A violation of a “sagging” policy may be in the eye of the beholder. This is where a community can come to perceive a dress code or other policy to be discriminatory, while others consider it warranted.

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Anthony Clark, an OPRF teacher, yells directions out of a bullhorn during a July 16 march he organized to condemn racism and discrimination in the western suburbs. The march grew out of a Facebook post that alleged a discriminatory incident at a Forest Park bar. Hence, the importance of creating dialogue to reach understanding and growth for both customer and establishment. SUA believes this dialogue will be beneficial for our entire community, and we would love if your business and others would engage in an SUA-led forum with commu-

nity members to discuss business practices and perceptions. Please feel free to contact SUA’s director, Anthony@suburbanunity.org. We look forward to hearing from you.

Anthony Clark

Director of Suburban Unity Alliance

YOU’RE INVITED: To a reading of “The Ghost of Cleopatra” By local authors John Rice & Gail Tanzer John Rice is a Licensed Private Detective, Award-Winning journalist for the Forest park Review and Wednesday Journal and a former Professor of English at the Paris Business College. He is a long-time Forest Park resident and a member of the Historical Society of Forest Park.

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John will read a chapter from his book, and discuss the backstory, followed by a Q&A. “The Ghost of Cleopatra” is a work of historical fiction that tells the story of AfricanAmerican/Native American sculptor, Edmonia Lewis, whose masterpiece, The Death of Cleopatra, languished for over 70 years in Forest Park. It’s an epic story that spans centuries and continents and tells how the spirit of the Queen of the Nile inspired Lewis to create her likeness in marble. The story is told through the eyes of Lewis, her statue and Cleopatra herself.

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Wednesday Journal, October 19, 2016

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Joseph Scully, 76

Banker, equality advocate, theater owner Joseph C. Scully, 76, died peacefully in his sleep at his Lakeside, Michigan home on Oct. 15, 2016. Born on Sept. 7, 1940 in Detroit, Michigan to Nora and Clare Scully, he received a bachelor’s degree in political science and a master’s degree in business administration from Loyola University Chicago. An active member of the Loyola community and the Tau Kappa EpJOSEPH SCULLY silon fraternity, he was a member of the Loyola University Board of Trustees for nine years and supported the university’s commitment to provide scholarships to Arupe College and to Loyola University students. He was president and chief executive officer of St. Paul Federal Savings Bank. He was also dedicated to the advancement of fair housing practices in Chicago and Oak Park during his career and served in leadership positions on numerous community boards including Link Unlimited, Austin Career Education Center, Oak Park Housing Center and CARA. Quiet and unassuming but unafraid to take unpopular stands for equality and justice, he was always up for a new adventure, and as a longtime movie enthusiast, Mr. Scully purchased the Vickers Theatre in Three Oaks, Michigan after he retired from banking. He was an avid golfer and loved nothing more than spending time on the golf course with family and friends. For over 43 years, he suffered with Parkinson’s disease and was an inspiration to family members, friends, and all who knew him. He never let the disease define who he was. His strength, courage and good humor served him well as the disease progressed and challenged his quality of life. His life can be summed up with the famous quote: “Try hard to leave the world a little better than you found it.” This is his legacy.

Joe Scully is survived by his wife of 53 years, Judy; his children, Julie, JoEllen, Elizabeth, Kirk and Katie; his sons-in-law, Pat, Jeff and Chris; his grandchildren, Erinn, Joe, Caroline, Jack, Amelia, Charlotte, Natalie, Jackson, and Quinn; his brother, Edward; and his many nieces, nephews and friends. He was preceded in death by his sisters, Roseanne Reid and Margie Griesmer. Visitation will be held on Wednesday, Oct. 19 from 3 until 8 p.m. at Drechsler, Brown & Williams Funeral Home, 203 S. Marion St. in Oak Park. A memorial service will be held on Thursday, Oct. 20 at 11 a.m. at Oak Park’s Pleasant Home, 217 Home Ave. In lieu of flowers, the family appreciates memorial donations in his name to Arupe College and/or Loyola University Chicago.

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Elsie June Wade (nee Trader), 91, of River Forest, died on Oct. 13, 2016. Born on June 17, 1925, she graduated from Oak Park and River Forest High School in 1943 and was an alumna of DePauw University. In 1949, she married Daniel Wade and, with artistic skill, created a gracious and beautiful home where she lived nearly all of her life in River Forest. A ELSIE WADE lifelong member of First Presbyterian Church of River Forest, she was an active volunteer in many organizations, including church circle, Women’s Society, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and, notably, even in her later years, at West Suburban Hospital. All she did reflected her graciousness, her Christian values and her abiding faith, and most important to her were her family and friends. Elsie Wade is survived by her children, Daniel G. (Maryanne) Wade, Elizabeth W. (Dr. Steven) Senger, and Catherine W. Grounds; her grandchildren, Benjamin

Joseph Stefanic III, 87, died in his Oak Park home on Oct. 14, 2016. Born in Roselle Park, New Jersey, he served in the U.S. Navy from 1946 to 1948, stationed in Puerto Rico, and attended Rutgers University and the University of New Mexico, graduating with a degree in psychology in 1952. An avid golfer from a very young age, he continued to play throughout his life, JOSEPH STEFANIC and he enjoyed teaching others his love of the game. He was also a talented baker, making bread and cookies for his family and friends every week for decades. He could often be seen walking in his south Oak Park neighborhood with his dog, and he always enjoyed chatting with everyone he met. When asked what he was most proud of in his life, he answered, “My family.” He will be missed by many. Joe Stefanic is survived by Mary Louise (McKeone), his wife of 58 years; his children, Joseph M. (Marlene Widra), Michael (Shelley), Laura, Thomas (Valerie), Ellen (Mike Ross) and Vicky (Jim Diss); and his nine grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents, Joseph Jr. and Katherine (Bak), and his brothers, John (Ellender) and William. A memorial service will be held at a later date.

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Wade, Madeline and Caleb Senger, and Fatima, Aleyah and Noor Kahbi; her brother, Fred C. Jr. (Barbara); and her many friends. She was preceded in death by her husband, Daniel M. Wade; her parents, Frederick C. and Mae J. Traver; and her brother, Craig Traver. Visitation was scheduled for Tuesday, Oct. 18 at Drechsler, Brown & Williams Funeral Home, followed by an 11 a.m. funeral service on Wednesday, Oct. 19 at First Presbyterian Church of River Forest, with interment at Mt. Emblem Cemetery. The family appreciates donations to First Presbyterian Church of River Forest.

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ANNUAL TREASURER’S REPORT Village Of River Forest • Fiscal Year Ending April 30, 2016 SUMMARY STATEMENT OF CONDITION Beginning Balance

Special Revenue

Debt Service

Capital Project

Enterprise Fund

Trust & Agency 36,859,826

8,883,475

835,809

149,078

7,109,808

7,461,745

15,593,024

286,522

240,985

1,550,939

4,979,372

1,497,217

(15,114,689)

(513,450)

(217,253)

(1,540,687)

(3,800,219)

(3,554,951)

9,361,810

608,881

172,810

7,120,060

8,640,898

34,802,092

Revenues Expenditures

General Fund

Ending Balance

REVENUES BY SOURCE

Property Taxes 6,396,586, Utility Tax 559,018, Communication Tax 342,467, Non Home Rule Sales Tax 885,574, Other Taxes 338,067, State Income Tax 1,190,627, State Sales Tax 1,852,443, Motor Fuel Tax Allotments 285,767, Personal Property Replacement Tax 120,319, Intergovernmental/Grants 453,173, Licenses and Permits 1,117,850, Fines and Forfeits 1,190,019, Water Sales 2,873,611, Sewer Sales 1,696,090, Refuse 947,369, Parking Fees 142,142, Other Charges for Services 612,692, Investment Income (932,292), Miscellaneous 736,286, Transfers In 1,262,979, Employer Contributions 2,077,272, Total Revenue 24,148,069

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A&B Landscaping & Tree Service Inc: 68309.25, Abood, Gerard & Kelly: 3600, AC Pavement Striping Co: 48390.06, Accela Inc #774375: 10475, Acres Group: 30050, Action Transmission & Auto Inc: 5319.69, Air One Equipment Inc: 118666.35, Alliance Contractors Inc: 7143.01, Alternative Energy Solutions Ltd: 3978.6, Amalgamated Bank of Chicago: 51492.5, American Recycling & Disposal LLC: 20199.46, Anderson Elevator Co: 3358.38, Andy Frain Services Inc: 56546.8, Animal Care League: 3560, Arlington Heights Ford: 16548.88, Associated Technical Services Ltd: 5280, AT&T: 8922.64, AT&T Wireless: 2768.68, Atlas Bobcat LLC: 39278.98, Avalon Petroleum Company: 33684, Axa: 100982.14, B & G Logistics Inc: 3325, B&F Construction Code Services Inc: 65401.85, Basecamp Web Solutions: 3926.25, Baskin, Steven: 4000, Baxter and Woodman: 20084, Bearrows, Thomas: 4000, Benistar/Hartford-6795: 101639.95, Best Technology Systems Inc: 2800, Birkel, Patrick: 2900, BKD LLP: 31582.5, Blackboard Inc: 8000, Boen, Jonathan: 2700, Bolder Contractors: 13580937.52, Bollinger, Lach & Associates Inc: 43226.92, Brennan, Paul: 4000, Broadleaf Inc: 16020, Burke Engineering Ltd, Christopher B.: 647624.97, Burke, Susan: 4000, Cacciatore, Victor: 4000, CALL ONE: 19608.3, CAMZ Communications

Inc: 13920, Car Reflections: 2795, Card Services: 75864.16, Cargill, Incorporated: 33970.46, Carroll, Mark: 4000, CDS Office Technologies: 8844, Certified Fleet Services Inc: 11007.04, Chapman & Cutler: 3000, Chicagoland Paving Contractors: 441973.1, City of Chicago: 1520173.04, Clark Baird Smith LLP: 50425.6, Classic Graphic Industries Inc: 4464.5, ClientFirst Consulting Group LLC: 147545.97, ComEd: 7980.62, Communications Direct Inc: 3995.66, Community Bank: 67137.76, Constellation Energy Services Inc: 33315.72, Constellation NewEnergy Inc: 38519.1, Conway, Linda: 4756.24, Corvo, Joseph: 4000, Current Technologies Corp: 7006.77, Currie Motors Frankfort Inc: 26862, Datasource Ink: 6635, De Lage Landen Financial Svcs Inc: 6621.72, Dell Marketing L.P.: 33148.42, DiFebo, Frank: 3779.5, Dominican University Bldgs & Grounds: 29437.5, E-Seek Incorporated: 2848.75, Eden Brothers: 18071, EIS/Elevator Inspection Svc Co Inc: 4996, EJ Equipment Inc: 13153.64, Energenecs Inc: 49315, Engineering Resource Associates Inc: 7393.76, Envirosafe: 5995, ESRI: 6000, Essential Equipment Solutions: 9015.11, EYE Lighting International: 206908, Firehouse Software: 3625.92, Fleet Safety Supply: 30094.21, Forest Preserve Distr of Cook County: 12000, Freeway Ford–Sterling Truck: 10620.83, Galls LLC: 3681.86, Gancer, Laura: 4000, Gee Asphalt Systems Inc: 23056, Genesis Employee Benefits Inc: 325213.76, Gewalt Hamilton Assoc Inc: 11950.25, Gingerich, Gereaux & Associates, M: 4900, GIS Consortium c/o MGP Inc: 4655.6, GO Painters Inc: 11088.5, GovHR USA LLC: 14195.65, Grainger Inc, W.W.: 3072.89, Griffin, Michael: 4000, Grimes Real Estate Services: 3400, Gulbrandsen Ret., Hon. Perry J: 7200, H&H Electric Co: 80749.69, Hallsigns: 2845.47, Hancock Engineering: 16230, Hancock, Linard & Lynn: 4000, Hayes Mechanical: 37697.51, HD Supply Waterworks Ltd: 54738.11, Health Inspection Professionals Inc: 11250, Henson, Sarah: 4000, Hoette, Lynn: 3300, Houseal Lavigne Associates: 26850.72, ICMA: 159059.38, Illinois Environmental Protection Agency: 5000, IMRF: 364734.22, Interstate Emergency Vehicles Inc: 4176.44, IPBC: 1295696.74, IPELRA: 3250, IRMA:

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business or the most transactions,” says Gerri Keating, CEO of OPAAR. “The Realtor of the Year is the person everybody else can look up By DEB QUANTOCK MCCAREY to, somebody who is an all-around good person, professionally and personally. John will be given another plaque in Springfield on April 17, and hen first meeting John Lawrence, the honored, so it is a big deal.” 2012 Realtor of the Year, it’s easy to see WJ recently sat down for a conversation with how and why the broker/owner of Oak Lawrence in his offices at 101 N. Oak Park Ave. Park-based Weichert Realtors – Nickel Group was selected by the Oak Park Area How did your new real estate office survive Association of Realtors (OPAAR) to receive this top the recent recession? industry honor. Well, we opened up on Dec. 1, 2006, not knowing With a warm handshake, sincere smile and we were about to go into a real depressed period. earnest gaze, Lawrence epitomizes a home-grown It did get a bit hairy. I lost one partner and then businessman and committed community guy who another a couple of years later. enjoys giving back to Oak Park, River Forest and We started out lean, and we stayed lean … and Forest Park. the money was well managed, so we weren’t Peers say the 41-year-old family man is a successful feeling that real pinch. Throughout everything, real estate pro because of his commitment to we also kept a very positive message and dialogue excellence in business as well as the common good going in the office. As a result, every single year where he lives and works. These attributes he we have out-performed the market by a large attributes to the role-modeling he received from his margin. At the very end of 2008 we affiliated with compassionate and civic-minded parents, Dr. Gene Weichert Real Estate, and that played a role in our and Evelyn Lawrence of River Forest. increase in business. For example in 2009, when The fourth in a line of six kids, Lawrence attended everybody was losing it in real estate, we had a St. Luke Catholic School in River Forest, and is a 1989 40 percent increase in business and were able to graduate of Oak Park and River Forest High School. attract good, quality, producing agents. He went on to earn an undergraduate degree from the University of Illinois Champaign and a teaching What is your business philosophy? certificate from Concordia University in River People want to work with good people they feel Forest. He currently resides with his wife Pam, an are going to treat them right. So it is important early childhood special education teacher, and their to me to make this a place where agents want to 9-month-old daughter in River Forest. do business, and for the community to see that Nine years ago, he shifted careers from being a we give back to it. For example, we are a strong special education teacher himself in River Forest supporter of Opportunity Knocks, so our agents School District 90 to real estate, first working for are given the opportunity to make a donation other offices, then opening his own. after every closing, and the office matches it. We An active member of the Oak Park-River Forest also do food drives … [for the Forest Park and Oak Chamber of Commerce, in 2012 he became its Park food pantries] and we will continue to do president. Lawrence also serves as treasurer on that. the board of OPAAR, and sits on the board of directors for Opportunity Knocks, a community How’s business so far this year? organization that serves teens and young adults with [In the third week of March], the inventory developmental disabilities. “Being Realtor of the Year is not necessarily See LAWRENCE on page B3 because the recipients did the most amount of

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BY PHONE: (708) 613-3333 | BY FAX: (708) 524-0447 | BY E-MAIL: CLASSIFIEDS@OAKPARK.COM | CLASSIFIEDS@RIVERFOREST.COM HELP WANTED BUILDING & GROUNDS MANAGER Hephzibah Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Association in Oak Park is accepting applications for a full-time Building and Grounds Manager to be responsible for the maintenance, repair, cleanliness and upkeep of the building, leased properties, mechanical and electrical systems and grounds in compliance with state, local and federal guidelines. Qualified candidates will meet the following requirements: -Ability to develop and maintain maintenance schedules -Skilled in plumbing, carpentry, heating/air conditioning, painting, repair and maintenance. -Familiarity with contractors, suppliers, machinery and building operations. -Knowledge of and adherence to safety and security requirements as well as OSHA and state and local codes and regulations pertaining to building, grounds, machinery and equipment. -Supervisory experience. -Ability to work cooperatively with staff and oversight agencies and be flexible to the changing needs of the agency. -Ability to perform the physical requirements of cleaning, lifting, carrying, bending, kneeling, standing, reaching, pulling and pushing. Microsoft Office skills. Contact: MJJoyce, Human Resources at mjjoyce@hephzibahhome.org. Equal Opportunity Employer DRIVE WITH UBER Drive with Uber. No experience is required, but youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll need a Smartphone. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fun and easy. For more information, call: 1-800-404-0815 ELECTRICIANâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S HELPER PART-TIME Part-time Electricianâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Helper. Some experience required. Must have own transportation and some tools. Call 708-738-3848. PART TIME SALES ASSOCIATE Part Time Sales Associate to work in the Gift Shop at West Suburban Medical Center. Must have previous retail experience. Email resume to: sjakobsen@sbcglobal.net SEASONAL LABORER POSITION The Village of River Forest Public Works Department is seeking a Seasonal Laborer. This position will work up to 40 hours per week and requires the ability to perform strenuous work in varying weather conditions. Hourly rate for this seasonal position is $9.50 and is limited to (but not guaranteed) 400 hours. For full details and to download an application, please visit vrf.us/government/employment-opportunities. EOE. Position is open until filled.

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5 BEDROOM HOME NEAR REHM Beautifully remodeled 5 bed/ 2 full bath home in south Oak Park is just two blocks from Rehm Park. Remodeled kitchen has granite counter tops and all new stainless steel appliances with both a large attached breakfast area and a family room. Additionally, the kitchen opens to a separate dining room at the other end, leading to spacious front room. New HVAC & Roof. Call 708-261-3028.

FOREST PARK 1 BEDROOM 3 RM 1 BR 2nd Floor Apt. Rent includes heating & cooking gas, parking space. Recently rehabbed. No more than 2 people. Good credit & job history. Avail. OCT 1. Rent $950/mo. For Info Call William 773-491-8660.

OAK PARK COACH HOUSE Oak Park 1bdrm Coach House: all wood floors, 15 windows, new kitchen & bath, in-unit laundry, heated garage + extra space, 10 min walk to CTA Green Line, dog/catâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;negotiable. Available 10/1/16. $1,600/ mo + gas/electric; 1 mnth deposit. PRIVATE-QUAINT-SAFE. Contact Ken at: cozetteken@yahoo.com; 630 660-5293

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2BR/1BT OAK PARKâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;$1500 Luxury Apt 2BR/1BT, Mann school dist. Hrdw floors, fully remodeled, central air, 1 ext. parking, 2 storage, avail 10/15, Call Mark 773 510 5858 OAK PARK 1 BR 1 Bedroom, LR, DR, hardwood floors, tile bath, heat included. $875 + 1 mo security. Call 708-717-3975. OAK PARK 3BR Oak Parkâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;3 Bedrooms, LR, DR, hardwood floors, tile bath, heat included. $1,450 + 1 mo security. Call 708-717-3975

137 DesPlaines Forest Park Four Plus Bedrooms, 3 1/2 Baths $665,000 with Side Lot

Contact Susan at J P Props 312-560-9464

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902 S. 3RD AVENUE (behind Aldi) Tired of renting? Why not consider buying an affordable 2BR condo w/ 1000 sq ft of living space on this historic site at less than market rents? Savings are built in from a unique 12 year tax freeze plus lower utility costs from energy saving systems and appliances. Onsite pkg, exterior lighting and enhanced security systems included. Be among the first to benefit from this unique project in which the buyer can have input into the individual unit(s). Call 708-383-9223.

SUBURBAN RENTALS Berwyn 6 RM, 2BR. Heated. Dining rm. Close to transport. Nice area. $995. Riverside 5 RM, 2BR. Heated. Pkg. Close to train & bus. $950.

OAK PARK XTRA LARGE 2 BR Decorative fireplace, hardwood floors, walk-in closet, granite in kitchen plus dishhwasher. Back porch. Parking available, garage space extra. Pets OK. Heat & water incl. Near I290 and Blue Line. $1395/mo. plus security. Avail. immediately. Call 708-359-1440. OAK PARK FOREST PARK Studio, 1, and 2 BDRM. Heated. Dining room. Parking available. Walk to El. $625-$1250.

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RIVER FOREST LARGE 1BR Hardwood floors throughout. Spacious walk-in closets. Storage. Parking. Laundry in building. $800/ mo. Call 708-657-4226.

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SPACE FOR RENT

Augusta & Kildare: PERFECT FOR SENIORS A gorgeous studio apt. features include kitchen, dining room, large living room, walk-in closet, hardwood floors, incl. heat, appliances, and laundry room, in a beautifully landscaped & well maintained building, quiet, safe & secure, rent 585.00. For more information call 773-838-8471.

OAK PARK SPACE Suitable for not-for-profit. Varied uses possible such as school, office spaces, community services center, clinic, etc. Please call 312-810-5948

ROOMS FOR RENT AUSTIN CLEAN ROOM With fridge, micro. Nr Oak Park, Super Walmart, Food 4 Less, bus, & Metra. $116/wk and up. 773-637-5957

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OFFICE SPACE FOR RENT

Berwyn 6 RM, 3BR, 2BA. Heated. Close to transport. Very nice apt. Must be quiet. $1200. No smoking. No pets. Credit Check a must. Welcome good tenants.

* OAK PARK 6955 North Ave. - 3 & 6 room office suites $675 to $1200

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GARAGE SALE 3724 HOLLYWOOD AVE FRI 10/21 & SAT 10/22 9AM TO 2PM

CRAFTERSâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; DELIGHT! Stampinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Up sets; Dies; Cricut cake machine; Punches; Card stock; Paper sets; Cartridges; and misc. itemsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;anything else I can drag to the garage! Chicago

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Furniture; Household; Holiday; Collectibles and Much More!!

* OAK PARK 6142-44 Roosevelt Rd. - 4 & 5 room office suites * OAK PARK 115 N. Marion St. - 2 room office $573

Strand & Browne 708/488-0011

HUGE GARAGE SALE 1102 LATHROP AVE FRI 10/21 & SAT 10/22 8AM TO 3PM

Loads of plus-size womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s clothes, jewelry, shoes, purses, household/ kitchenware, dishes/platters, microwaves, lawn/garden, yard games, patio tent 10x10,CD/DVD & wood CD racks, rugs, vertical blinds, blankets/linens, fireplace accessories, office chairs, wood table, ladies Schwinn bike, 60x38 finished piece Corian, luggage, pictures, too much to list. La Grange Park

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MULTI-FAMILY GARAGE SALE 230-232 S. EUCLID

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GARAGE PARKING SPACE WANTED GARAGE PARKING SPACE WANTED

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* RIVER FOREST 7777 Lake St. - 3 & 4 room suites * RIVER FOREST 7756 Madison St. - STORE 926 sq. ft.

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Starter elec piano with stand, starter guitar with stand & Fender amp; sony play station2â&#x20AC;&#x201C;some games & controllers, Tosh DVD video & Sony blu-ray players, blu tooth CD boombox, compct VHS camcorder & Stand, verizon LG phone & Ellipsis 8â&#x20AC;&#x2122; tablet, 46â&#x20AC;? Sanyo TV, 2 Middle Atlantic Racks-SRS sliding system for mounting in cabinet or entertainment ctr; load cap 125 Ibs; two 23â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Plateau speaker stands; 12 btl wine cooler; Kenmore heavy duty vac with bags; misc other items. All items in good condition Oak Park

MULTI-FAMILY GARAGE SALE 130 N CUYLER AVE. SAT 10/22 8AM TO 2PM SUN 10/23 9AM TO 1PM

Tools, kitchen items, books, clothes, toysâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;too much to list! Riverside

GARAGE SALE 151 BLOOMINGBANK RD SAT 10/22 8AM TO 2PM

Household items, toys, books & much, much MORE!!

FURNITURE LIKE NEW! From a smoke free home: Leather Couchâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;$200 obo; 2pc light oak wood entertainment center w/ glass doorsâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;$300 obo; 2 glass end tables (match ent. cntr)â&#x20AC;&#x201C; $70 obo for both plus matching cocktail table base for FREE. Call 708-340-4972.

ITEMS FOR SALE AIR CONDITIONER W/ REMOTE! I have a Frigidaire air conditioner. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s perfect for bedroom. It also has a remote control which I loved operating without getting up! However, now it comes on but the blower is not blowing out the air. If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re handy and can fix or want for parts... Make an offer.. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s YOURS! 773-516-9237

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CLASSIFIED WANTED TO BUY WANTED MILITARY ITEMS: Helmets, medals, patches, uniforms, weapons, flags, photos, paperwork, Also toy soldiers-lead plastic-other misc. toys. Call Uncle Gary 708-522-3400

TO BE GIVEN AWAY FREE FURNITURE/LAMPS Dining Room/ Desks/office chairs/ queen bed/headboard/metal cabinet/prints/framed art/red leather bar,victorian couch,misc chairs/gun cabinet,toy chest, marble coffee table,lamps. Pick up by Oct 22. Contact Mary at 708-310-0223

AUTOS FOR SALE TOYOTA COROLLA 2007 Super Clean, Garage kept Toyota LE model w/Power Windows, Doors, Mirrors, Auto Trans, 6 CD player. Big plus and rare to have a Moonroof on this model! Custom Weather Tech liners. 110K miles, many years left on this baby. White w/tan interior. $5900 OBO. Call to see 708-205-9680.

HEALTH GUARANTEED ACUPUNCTURE Have youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve ever wondered if acupuncture could help you heal but didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to invest the money to find out? Well hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s your chance to find out RISK FREE! For 15 years Art of Natural Healing has been successfully treating conditions, such asâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;high blood pressureâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;weight lossâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;infertilityâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;depressionâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;chronic painâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;sleep disorders and more, without toxic medications. Let us help you naturally! Mention this ad and receive a FREE AcuGraph evaluation during the month of Oct. Art of Natural Healing 7773 Lake Street River Forest 708.366.8002

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Robert Wcislo, applicant, requests that a variation be granted from Section 3.5.4 (B) (1) of the Zoning Ordinance, which section requires a front yard setback of not less than 20 feet, to permit the construction of an approximately 6â&#x20AC;&#x2122; x 17â&#x20AC;&#x2122; enclosed porch resulting in a front yard setback of 7â&#x20AC;&#x2122;-8â&#x20AC;?. An enclosed porch is defined as a porch or terrace protected by walls or windows or by a roof having vertical supports. Enclosed porches are not allowed to project into the required front yard setback pursuant to Section 4.10.1 (Appurtenances Permitted in Front Yards). Those property owners within 500 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 not 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 interested parties by contacting the Zoning Officer at 708.358.5449. DATED AT OAK PARK, ILLINOIS, this 19th Day of October, 2016 Published in Wednesday Journal 10/19/2016

LEGAL NOTICE Chertkow and Chertkow (22019) Attorneys for Petitioner 1525 East 53rd Street Chicago, Illinois 60615 STATE OF ILLINOIS) COUNTY OF COOK )ss Circuit Court of Cook County, County Department, Domestic Relations Division. In re the marriage of Yeimi Ordonez, Petitioner and Brian Reyes, Respondent, Case No. 2016D-000175. The requisite affidavit for publication having been filed, notice is hereby given to you, the above named Respondent, that a Petition has been filed in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, by the Petitioner, for Dissolution of Marriage and for other relief; and that said suit is now pending. Now, therefore, unless you, the said Respondent, file your response to said Petition or otherwise make your appearance therein, in the Office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, Room 802, Richard J. Daley Center, 50 West Washington Street, in the City of Chicago, Illinois, on or before November 15, 2016, default may be entered against you at any time after that day, and a judgment for Dissolution of Marriage entered in accordance with the prayer of said Petition. DOROTHY A. BROWN, Clerk. Published in Wednesday Journal 10/12, 10/19, 10/26/2016

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that at the General Election to be held on Tuesday, the 8th day of November, 2016, the following proposition will be submitted to the voters of the Village of Brookfield, Cook County, Illinois:

POR EL PRESENTE SE DA AVISO que durante las elecciones generales a realizarse el martes 8 de noviembre de 2016, se les presentará la siguiente propuesta a los votantes del pueblo de Brookfield, condado de Cook, Illinois:

Shall the Village of Brookfield, Cook County, Illinois, erect a new public library building, furnish necessary equipment therefor and issue its bonds to the amount of not to exceed $10,300,000 for the purpose of paying the costs thereof?

¿Acepta usted que el pueblo de Brookfield, condado de Cook, Illinois, erija un nuevo edificio de biblioteca pública, suministre equipos necesarios para la misma y emita sus bonos por un valor que no exceda los $10,300,000 con el propósito de pagar los costos de dicho proyecto?

The bonds will bear interest at the rate of not to exceed 9.00% per annum. The polls at the election will be open at 6:00 o’clock A.M. and will continue to be open until 7:00 o’clock P.M. of that day.

A los bonos se les cargará un interés a una tasa que no exceda el 9.00 % al año. La votación en estas elecciones comenzará a las 6:00 a.m. y continuará hasta las 7:00 p.m. de ese día.

Dated this 19th day of October, 2016. David D. Orr County Clerk, The County of Cook, Illinois

Fechada este día 19 de octubre de 2016. David D. Orr Secretario del Condado, Condado de Cook, Illinois

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING FOR STREET AND/OR ALLEY RIGHT-OF-WAY VACATION VILLAGE OF OAK PARK PLAN COMMISSION ADJACENT SUBJECT PROPERTY ADDRESSES: 201-211 Harrison Street (East side of alley) and 213-215 Harrison Street (West side of alley), Oak Park, Illinois, Cook County. HEARING DATE: November 3, 2016 TIME: 7:00 p.m. or as soon thereafter as the Agenda permits. LOCATION OF HEARING: Council Chambers, Room 201, Oak Park Village Hall, 123 Madison Street, Oak Park, Illinois, 60302 OWNER (S) OF RECORD: Village of Oak Park, 123 Madison Street, Oak Park, IL 60302 APPLICANT: Harrison Street Ventures, LLC; 200 Harrison Street, Oak Park, IL 60304 LEGAL DESCRIPTION: That part of a 16 foot wide public alley described as follows: A 16 Foot Wide North-South Public Alley Lying Entirely In Block 1 Of Harrison Street Subdivision Of The North ½ Of The Northwest ¼ Of The Southwest ¼ Of Section 17, Township 39 North, Range 13 East Of The Third Principal Meridian, More Particularly Described As Follows: Beginning At The Northwest Corner Of Lot 1, Also Being On The South Right Of Way Of Harrison Street, Thence South Along The West Line Of Said Lot 1 For A Distance Of 33.62 Feet To The Northwest Corner Of Lot 2; Thence Continuing South Along The West Line Of Lot 2 For A Distance Of 13.38 Feet; Thence West To A Point On The East Line Of Lot 46 47.00 Feet South Of The Northeast Corner Of Said Lot 46; Thence North Along The East Line Of Said Lot 46 For A Distance Of 47.00 Feet The Northeast Corner Of Lot 46, Said Corner Also Being On The South Right Of Way Of Harrison Street, Thence West Along The Said South Right Of Way Line For A Distance Of 16.00 Feet To The Northwest Corner Of Lot 1 And The Place Of Beginning, In Cook County, Illinois. REQUEST: The Applicant seeks the vacation of a portion of an abutting commercial alley located between the addresses referenced above, which are both owned by Harrison Street Ventures, LLC, accessing Harrison Street. The portion of the village right-of-way to be vacated is approximately 16 feet in width (east to west) and 47 feet long (north to south). The principal purpose of the public hearing is for the Plan Commission to hear evidence and testimony about whether the public interest would be served by vacating the proposed portion of the aforesaid alley. Your attendance and comments on the development plans at the public hearing are welcome. Copies of the application and each of the applicable documents are on file and are available for inspection at the Village Hall, Development Customer Services, 123 Madison Street, during regular business hours, Monday through Friday, between 8:30 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. Persons with disabilities planning to attend and needing special accommodations should contact the Village Clerk’s Office at 123 Madison Street, Oak Park, Illinois 60302, or call (708) 358-5670. ALL INTERESTED PARTIES ARE INVITED TO BE HEARD. David Mann, Chair OAK PARK PLAN COMMISSION, Sitting as a Zoning Commission Oak Park, Illinois 60302 Published in Wednesday Journal 10/19/2016

LEGAL NOTICE The Village of Oak Park will receive sealed bids at the Village of Oak Park Police Department, 123 Madison, Oak Park, Illinois 60302, until 5:00 p.m. on Friday, November 11, 2016 for the following: BID 16-116 For Crisis Intervention & Police Social Work Services Proposal forms may be obtained from the Village of Oak Park Police Department front desk located at 123 Madison, Oak Park, Illinois between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. The Village of Oak Park reserves the right to issue proposal documents and specifications only to those vendors deemed qualified. No proposal documents will be issued after 5:00 p.m. on the working day preceding the date of proposal opening. For more information call the Police Department Erica Ramsay, Commander at 708.386.3800. THE VILLAGE OF OAK PARK Published in Wednesday Journal 10/19/2016

PUBLIC NOTICE Notice is hereby given, pursuant to “An Act in relation to the use of an Assumed Business Name in the conduct or transaction of Business in the State,” as amended, that a certification was registered by the undersigned with the County Clerk of Cook County. FILE NO. D16148317 on October 3, 2016. Under the Assumed Business Name of JONERSON FINACIAL SERVICES with the business located at: P.O. BOX 34706, CHICAGO, IL 60634. The true and real full name(s) and residence address of the owner(s)/partner(s) is: TERESA B JONES, 2919 N MULLIGAN AVE, CHICAGO, IL 60634. Published in Wednesday Journal 10/5, 10/12, 10/19/2016

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LEGAL NOTICE 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 evening, November 9, 2016 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. 26-16-Z: 400 N. Kenilworth Avenue, Kevin and Dianne Risch Kevin and Dianne Risch, Applicants, filed an application with the Zoning Board of Appeals for the Village of Oak Park, seeking a construction necessitated variation from Section 4.6 3 (A) of the Zoning Ordinance of the Village of Oak Park, which section establishes a minimum height of 20 feet for a detached accessory building or structure, to permit the maintenance of a newly constructed garage at 400 N. Kenilworth Avenue at its current height of 21 feet. Those property owners within 500 feet of the Subject Property and those persons with a special interest beyond that of the general public (“Interested Parties”) wishing to cross-examine witnesses must complete and file an appearance with original signatures with the Village Clerk not 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 interested parties by contacting the Zoning Officer at 708.358.5449. DATED AT OAK PARK, ILLINOIS, this 19th Day of October, 2016 Published in Wednesday Journal 10/19/2016

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLNOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT, PROBATE DIVISION Estate of SANTA B. DIMARCO, Deceased No. 2016 P4662 That the Petition For Probate of Will and for Letters Testamentary In the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois was granted on July 27, 2016 for the Estate of Santa B. DiMarco, Deceased and that Joseph R. Ender was appointed as the Executor and letters of office have issued and states under the penalties of perjury that:

STATE OF ILLINOIS COUNTY OF DUPAGE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE EIGHTEENTH JUDICAL CIRCUIT IN RE THE ESTATE OF ELIZABETH M. FENCL Deceased Case Number 2015-000141 PETITION FOR LETTERS OF INDEPENDENT ADMINISTRATION That the Petition for Letters of Independent Adminstration in the Circuit Court of the Eighteenth Judicial Circuit was filed on April 7, 2015 for the Estate of Elizabeth M. Fencl and that the undersigned, on oath states:

1. Santa B. Dimarco, whose place of residence at the time of death was 1209 Austin Blvd, Cicero, Cook, Illinois died April 24 2016, at Cicero, Illinois leaving a will dated October 1, 2004. 2. The approximate value of the estate in this state is: Personal $400,000, Real: $100,000, Annual Income from Real Estate $0. 3. The names and post office addresses pf the testator’s heirs and legatees are set forth on Exhibit A made a part of this petition. 4. The testator nominated as executor of the following, qualified and willing to act: Joseph R. Ender 4010 S. California Ave, Chicago, IL 60632. 5. The name and post office address of the personal fiduciary designated to act during independent administration for each heir or legatee who is a minor or disabled person are shown on Exhibit A, a part of this petition. 6. This ad also requests that any unknown heirs make themselves known to the attorney herein. 7. This ad will serve as a notice to creditors that they have 6 months from the date of filing of this petition to submit their claims.

1. The decedent, whose place of residence at the time of death was 5904 WESTERN AVE, WILLOWBROOK, IL 60527 died on 12/2/ 2014 atÿDOWNERS GROVE, leaving no Will. 2. The approximate value of the estate in this state is: Personal $500 Real $210,000 Annual Income From Real Estate $0 3. The names and addresses of decedent’s heirs are: Meribeth Fencl, Robert C Fencl Jennifer M Richardson, Francis M. Fencl, Wendy Fencl 4. The decedent nominated the following to act in the office indicated above: WENDY FENCL 6107 WESTERN AVE, WILLOWBROOK IL 60052 5.Petitioner is a DAUGHTER of decedent and is legally qualified to act or nominate a resident of Illinois to act). Petitioner asks that letters administration be issued. 6.*If so indicated above, the Petitioner requests independent adminstration. The name and address of the personal fiduciary designated to act during independent administration for each heir, who is a minor or disabled person, are shown on Exhibit A attached and made part of this petition. 7. This ad also requests that any unknown heirs make themselves known to the attorney herein. 8. This ad will serve as a notice to creditors that they have 6 months from the date of filing of this petition to submit their claims

Petitioner asks that the will be admitted to probate and that letters testamentary issue. Atty Name: Matt Leuck Attorney for Petitioner 84 E. Burlington, 2W Riverside, IL 60546 708-447-3166 Atty No. 11017 Published in Landmark 10/5, 10/12, 10/19/2016

Oak Park Elementary School District 97 will be conducting a Silent Auction of used office furniture: Desks, office chairs, bookcases, file cabinets and miscellaneous office furniture. The successful bidder is responsible for removal of their items by Friday, October 28, 2016. For additional information contact Dr. Alicia Evans (708)524-3000.

PUBLIC NOTICE Notice is hereby given, pursuant to “An Act in relation to the use of an Assumed Business Name in the conduct or transaction of Business in the State,” as amended, that a certification was filed by the undersigned with the County Clerk of Cook County. Registration Number: D16148295 on September 30, 2016. Under the Assumed Business Name of BARBARA JEAN COUTURE with the business located at: 129 MARSHALL AVE, BELLWOOD, IL 60104. The true and full real name(s)and residence address of the owner(s)/partner(s) is: BARBARA DAVIS 129 MARSHALL AVE BELLLWOOD, IL 60104

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Petitioner: WENDY FENCL 6107 WESTERN AVE WILLOWBROOK, IL 60052 MATT J LEUCK DuPage Attorney Number 48518 Attorney for: PETITIONER WENDY FENCL 84 E BURLINGTON RD RIVERSIDE IL 60546 708-447-3166 If a consul or consular agent is to be notified, name country: _______________ Published in Landmark 10/5, 10/12, 10/19/2016

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REAL ESTATE FOR SALE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION STEARNS LENDING, LLC Plaintiff, vs. MARITZA MARTINEZ DUARTE; AVENUE SQUARE CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants, 15 CH 3949 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Wednesday, November 9, 2016 at the hour of 11 a.m. in their office at 120 West Madison Street, Suite 718A, Chicago, Illinois, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described mortgaged real estate: P.I.N. 16-07-117-010-1007. Commonly known as 805 Erie Street, Unit 1, Oak Park, Illinois 60302. The mortgaged real estate is improved with a condominium residence. The purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by subdivisions (g) (1) and (g)(4) of Section 9 of the Condominium Property Act Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection. For information call The Sales Department at Plaintiff’s Attorney, Anselmo Lindberg Oliver LLC, 1771 West Diehl Road, Naperville, Illinois 60563-1890. (630) 453-6960. For Bidding instructions visit www.falillinois.com 24 hours prior to sale. F15010079 INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I704982 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO WELLS FARGO BANK MINNESOTA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE F/K/ A NORWEST BANK MINNESOTA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR STRUCTURED ASSET SECURITIES CORPORATION MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST 2007-OSI Plaintiff, -v.MARIAN ARCHIE, 222 BOULEVARD MANOR CONDOMINIUMS Defendants 14 CH 011908 222 W. WASHINGTON BLVD. UNIT #104 OAK PARK, IL 60302 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on January 28, 2016, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on November 23, 2016, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive–24th Floor, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following

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described real estate: Commonly known as 222 W. WASHINGTON BLVD. UNIT #104, OAK PARK, IL 60302 Property Index No. 1608-314-043-1004; 16-08-314-0431027. The real estate is improved with a condo/townhouse. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the 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 assess-

ments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. For information, examine the court file or contact Plaintiff’s attorney: CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876 Please refer to file number 1413-12641. THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales. CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100 BURR RIDGE, IL 60527 (630) 794-5300 E-Mail: pleadings@il.cslegal.com Attorney File No. 14-13-12641 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 14 CH 011908 TJSC#: 36-11964 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that

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shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection. For information call Mr. Frederic Deraiche at Plaintiff’s Attorney, Kluever & Platt, L.L.C., 65 East Wacker Place, Chicago, Illinois 60601. (312) 236-0077. File Number SPSF.2282A INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION U.S. BANK NA, SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE TO BANK OF AMERICA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO LASALLE BANK NA AS TRUSTEE FOR WAMU MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 2007HY6 TRUST Plaintiff, vs. PAUL WICKLOW, MELISSA A. WICKLOW, JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA FOR THE BENEFIT OF INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE, UNKNOWN OWNERS, GENERALLY, AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants, 15 CH 9733 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause on August 18, 2016 Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Tuesday, November 22, 2016 at the hour of 11 a.m. in their office at 120 West Madison Street, Suite 718A, Chicago, Illinois, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described mortgaged real estate: P.I.N. 16-07-206-004-0000. Commonly known as 308 N. Oak Park Avenue, Oak Park, IL 60302. The mortgaged real estate is improved with a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee

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OPRF field hockey primed for state tournament Fifth-seeded Huskies edge Loyola in ideal postseason tuneup By MARTY FARMER Sports Editor

The Oak Park and River Forest High School field hockey team celebrated Senior Day with an impressive 3-2 win over Loyola. Christen Conley scored a pair of goals, including the game-winner in overtime, and Katie Bonaccorsi added a goal to lead the Huskies to victory in their last regular season home game. With four minutes remaining in overtime, Conley scored off a shot from the top of the circle. She opened the scoring as well with a goal on a reverse chip shot to the top right corner of the cage. Bonaccorsi’s goal was a tip in off a Conley shot to make the score 2-0. The Ramblers responded with two goals to tie the game before Conley’s clutch goal in overtime. On Oct. 8, New Trier pulled out a 5-3 win over the Huskies in Winnetka. After the teams battled to a scoreless tie in regulation, a 10-minute overtime with six field players and a goalie (compared to the normal 10 field players and a goalie) occurred. The Trevians scored with three minutes left in overtime, but the Huskies’ Ella Rossa pulled around the goalie and scored in the final minute to force a 1-1 tie. In the shootout, OPRF players Mia Ryan, Lucy Brandstrader,

Grace Dorian, Rossa and Conley each took a shot on goal but New Trier outscored them to earn a hard-fought win. The Huskies, seeded fifth in the state tournament, host Latin on Thursday, Oct. 20 in opening round action.

OPRF girls golf Senior Katie Latham, the Huskies’ lone state qualifier, shot a two-day total of 169 (25-over-par) at the girls Class 3A golf state tournament.

Fenwick girls tennis Led by state qualifiers Haley Fakouri (singles) and the doubles team of Bella Burdi and Ceci Walsh, the Friars won the Timothy Christian Sectional in Class A action Saturday in Elmhurst. Fakouri won the singles title with a 4-0 record, highlighted by a 7-5, 7-5 victory over Timothy Christian’s Abygale Ahn. Burdi and Walsh also went 4-0 to capture the doubles championship. In the final, Bursi and Walsh rallied for a 5-7, 7-5, 6-4 win over Timothy Christian’s Danielle Beard and Maddie Monat.

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OPRF’s Mia Ryan unleashes a shot against Lake Forest Oct. 1 in Oak Park. Class 2A, trailing only the host Dolphins (34). OPRF will send its doubles teams Julia Krause/Maria Krunic and Hannah Keidan/ Sophia Kreider, who finished third and fourth, respectively, to state. Krause/Krunic, who finished 3-1 overall, defeated Keiden/Krider 6-1, 6-4 in the thirdplace match.

Fenwick girls cross country Nicole Finn finished third (18:43.7) and Delaney Gibbons took sixth (18:56) as the Friars won the GCAC Blue/Red Division

Conference Championship meet. Laura Durkin (7th, 19:00.5), Mary Bridget Donahue (13th, 19:16.3) and Ariene Amaya (15th, 19:18.5) also ran well for the Friars.

Fenwick boys cross country The Friars (81 points) came in fourth behind Marmion (45), St. Ignatius (54) and Loyola (69) in the Chicago Catholic League Championship. Alex Marks placed sixth at 15:27.1 and Joseph Wermes earned ninth with a time of 15:33.1. Jack Darrow recorded a time of 15:35.9, good for 11th.

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this year) whose feet seem to barely touch the his time of year is always a hotbed of road ground as they speed past our group. These races, and with cooler temperatures it is guys are running at a faster pace for 26 miles also marathon season. Those who have been than I have ever been able to run a single mile. reading my drivel for awhile know that I’m After the lead pack, there’s a lull, with a few not a big marathon fan. semi-elite runners, or those who have dropped Don’t get me wrong, I have great respect for behind the leaders. Then the larger crowd of those who run them well, but the marathon is runners builds into a throng; 45,000 people not necessarily the holy grail of our sport. And sign up for the Chicago Marathon every year. too many people view marathons as something to achieve – a one-time experience – rather than If it’s a warm day, the demand for water and part of one’s overall running program. Also, too Gatorade is huge, and volunteers hand out many runners do too many marathons, leading to beverage cups at a rapid rate. But this year injuries or over-training syndrome. was pretty much ideal weather, cooler for the That said, I volunteer every year at Mile 18, runners but not too cold for volunteers. on Taylor Street in Little Italy, as a member of Then as the crowd of runners begins to Running Columnist Oak Park Runners Club’s aid station. We’ve ebb, we see more people walking, some even been doing this since 1989, and are proud to be talking on their cell phones. These are some part of the big show. It’s always exciting to see of the folks who are “doing” the marathon the press truck appear in the distance, flanked by Chicago rather than running it. Okay, even walking for 26 miles is Police motorcycles, marking the approach of the lead pack nothing to sneer at, but somehow, it doesn’t seem right when of runners. Usually it’s a group of maybe a dozen skinny participants don’t seem to be taking it seriously. And all us guys from Kenya or Ethiopia (plus two guys from Japan volunteers have to be there to take care of everyone.

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The Chicago Marathon is one of the “Marathon Majors,” one of only six premier marathons around the world which have formed an association awarding prize money to runners who score top finishes in these events over a 2-year span. Note that the top runners can only run one, or perhaps two, quality marathons a year, since the event takes a significant physical toll. That’s one reason why I worry about some of my friends who have run three, four or even more marathons in a year. So I always recommend races up to the half marathon as less likely to cause injury while still keeping you in top physical condition. Nevertheless, our marathon is a huge revenue generator for the city, with runners, their friends and family members travelling here from all over the world to stay in hotels, visit restaurants and spend their money. It’s a huge sports and financial asset for Chicago. So if you have to run a marathon, fine; train carefully, but keep competing at those shorter distances, too. And congratulations to those who ran the Chicago Marathon, or any other marathon this fall.

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OPRF flirts with perfection against Lyons Huskies’ dominance sets them up for showdown against Hinsdale Central

By MARTY FARMER

Sports Editor

he Oak Park and River Forest High School football coaches looked at film of the Huskies’ 27-3 win over visiting Lyons Township and must have had a hard time finding mistakes. The Huskies played nearly perfect football. “We put together four quarters of great football,” OPRF coach John Hoerster said. “It wasn’t without flaw. We tell our kids there’s no such thing as a flawless football game. “Everybody stepped up. Guys played their hearts out against a really good football team in Lyons Township.” Senior quarterback Jeremy Hunt completed 16 of 23 passes for 136 yards and rushed 10 times for 61 yards. He also accounted for three touchdowns, one passing and two rushing. Junior running back Terrance Roundy was a workhorse, racking up 173 yards and a touchdown on 31 carries. The offensive line of Phil Saleh, Ethan Lemons, Sharmore Clarke, Jacob Hale and Amir Tillis is probably the most underrated unit on the team. They continually provide Hunt ample time in the pocket and are physical yet nimble in run blocking. OPRF had more total yard on offense (407 to 82), more first downs (22 to 7) and won the time of possession battle (33:21 to 14:39).

OPRF senior Ryan Molina prepares to shed a Lyons Township defender in a conference game Friday, Oct. 14. OPRF won 27-3. WILLIAM CAMARGO/Staff Photographer

Defense bounces back Senior linebacker Rolliann Sturkey camped out in the LTHS offensive backfield. He recorded 7.5 tackles, including 3.5 for loss and 1.5 sacks. Relative newcomers Evan Kavanaugh (5 tackles), John Mitchell (4.5) and Davin Colvin (4) made an impact. Sophomore linebacker Cedric Cheatham also fared well in his varsity debut. “We played awesome,” OPRF linebacker/ running back Ryan Molina said. “This was a bounce-back win that we really needed, especially going [to Hinsdale Central] where we have a chance to maybe win conference and take momentum into the playoffs.” After allowing 56 points and over 625 yards to Glenbard West in Week 7, the Huskies got back on track with a dominant performance against a highly regarded LTHS offense. “I could tell this week just by everybody’s attitude we would be ready,” Sturkey said. “We had high-tempo practices, and we proved we’re still one of the best defenses.” OPRF methodically expanded the score against the Lions (6-2, 3-2). Hunt capped off a 9-play, 65-yard drive with a 6-yard run to put the Huskies up 6-0 at the 7:19 mark of the first quarter. Nathan Rusk kicked a 30-yard field goal with 6:19 left in the second quarter, accounting for the Lions’ only points of the game. Hunt threw an 8-yard slant pass to Davion Talbert that extended the Huskies’ lead to 13-3

with 34 seconds remaining until halftime. After OPRF held the Lions to a threeand-out to open the second half, the former put together a signature scoring drive of 80 yards on 15 plays over five minutes that culminated with a 10-yard run by Roundy to make the score 19-3.

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Clinch CCL Green from page 52 49-20 win against St. Francis in Wheaton Friday. The victory secured the CCL Green championship for the Friars. Senior quarterback Jacob Keller (10-for-14, 123 yards, 3 TDs) threw touchdown passes, one each to Lillig, Mike O’Laughlin (3 catches, 42 yards) and Sherman Martin (4 catches, 41 yards) in the first quarter, powering Fenwick to a 21-0 lead over St. Francis. In the second quarter, running backs Michael Paunove and Jackson Haeflinger tacked on a touchdown apiece as the Friars extended their lead to 35-0 at halftime.

Hunt added a 27-yard run midway through the fourth quarter which essentially sealed the 27-3 win. The victory gives OPRF an opportunity to earn a share of the West Suburban Conference Silver Division. Hinsdale Central (8-0, 5-0) leads OPRF (7-1, 4-1) by a

Fenwick linebacker Brett Moorman returned a fumble for a touchdown to make the score 42-0 in the second half. Lillig added a TD run as well, and the Spartans scored three touchdowns in the second half to close out the scoring at 49-20. Lillig led Fenwick in rushing with 124 yards on 12 carries as the Friars finished with 25 carries for 172 yards overall. Defensively, several players impacted the game with notable plays, including Moorman’s TD return, Ellis Taylor (sack, caused fumble), Ryan Chapman (fumble recovery) and Marty Stein (interception). “Our win over St. Francis was one of our most complete games of the year,” Moorman said. “We really executed on all phases of the game. “Marty Stein and Adrian Nourse both played another great game. I think those two guys are sometimes overlooked even though they are a huge part of what we

half-game in the conference standings. The Huskies’ last conference title came in 1998. “It’s for conference and a great matchup,” Hunt said. “We’re definitely going to come out strong.” The teams square off Friday, Oct. 21 at 7:30 p.m. in Hinsdale.

do on defense.” Stein said the chemistry among players has been a huge factor in the Friars’ bounce-back season. “The camaraderie on our team is something special,” Stein said. “It makes us play a whole lot better. We are all proud of each other. The success we’ve had as a team is attributed to all the hard work we put in during last winter and summer.” The Friars close out the regular season against De La Salle on Friday, Oct. 21 (7:30 p.m.) at Triton College in River Grove. “The De La Salle game is big for us in accomplishing our goals,” Fenwick offensive lineman Joe Calcagno said. “Those goals are to win the Chicago Catholic League Green outright and secure at least one home game in the playoffs. “Most of all, we need to keep our momentum going into the playoffs.”

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Fenwick routs St. Francis, wins conference

Keller’s 3 TD passes lead to comfortable victory against host Spartans By MARTY FARMER

Sports Editor

fter last year’s disappointing 3-6 season, the Fenwick High School football team figured a strong season was in order this year. While there were mitigating circumstances last season, such as a rash of injuries to key players, relative inexperience and an extremely difficult schedule, the Friars believed they had the players to win plenty of games this year. “Last year was not Fenwick’s best,” senior running back Conner Lillig said, “but we have come a long way since then because everybody on our team has strived for success. “As (Fenwick head) coach Nudo BRETT MOORMAN says, ‘We are always a work in Fenwick linebacker progress,’ meaning we can always improve, which only helps us become more successful.” The Friars’ determination and confidence, coupled with plenty of talent, has been on display all season. Fenwick is 7-1 overall and 3-0 in the Chicago Catholic League Green Division after Friday’s

“Our win over St. Francis was one of our most complete games of the year.”

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Fenwick senior running back Conner Lillig runs toward the end zone for one of his two touchdowns during the Friars’ 49-20 win over St. Francis on Friday, Oct. 14 in Wheaton.

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