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October 31, 2018 Vol. 39, No. 14 ONE DOLLAR
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OPRF facilities plan cost jumps to nearly $220M Experts say cost projections for final two sequences ‘extremely difficult’ to make By MICHAEL ROMAIN Staff Reporter
After adding its estimates for the fourth and fifth sequences of Imagine OPRF’s long-term master facilities plan, a representative of Perkins and Will, an architectural firm, told the Oak Park and River Forest High School board Oct. 25 that the total projected cost of the master plan would be around $219 million. The updated financial estimate comes weeks after some community members criticized the district when an initial cost estimate of the master plan released last month only included projections for the first three sequences of the five-sequence plan. During the Oct. 25 meeting, members of Imagine, the group formed last spring to draft a long-term master plan, and various district officials tried putting that total cost figure into some context while dispelling what they said were the many inaccuracies some people were perpetuating about the cost and nature of the plan. During a presentation at a special meeting on Sept. 11, Imagine OPRF members announced the first three phases, or sequences, of the five-sequence master plan was projected to cost around $145 million to complete. Cost estimates for the last two sequences were not included in that Sept. 11 presentation, architects and Imagine members said, because the construction See OPRF on page 14
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Incredible edibles
Evan, 3, and Leah Triandafilou, 6, of Oak Park, peruse the pops during the Hemingway District Halloween Parade on Oak Park Avenue last Saturday. More photos on page 16.
Jewel out, Pete’s in at Madison and Oak Park Oak Park trustees approve Jupiter for development project
By TIMOTHY INKLEBARGER Staff Reporter
The Oak Park Board of Trustees approved Jupiter Realty Co. as the preferred developer for the village-owned parking lot at the corner of Oak Park Avenue and Madison Street at its meet-
SAVE THE DATE
ing on Oct. 29. The new proposal is vastly different from the blockbuster project proposed by Jupiter in 2016, which included retail shops and a grocery store. That project would have “bent” Madison Street to make room for a large grocery store. The new project brings a new twist to
the years-long effort to develop the corner lot — instead of Jewel-Osco, Jupiter is now saying that a second Pete’s Fresh Market in Oak Park will be the anchor tenant for the mixed-use development that will include both commercial and See JUPITER on page 15
SAY Connects presents, After “America to Me”: On the Ground in Oak Park and River Forest A community conversation for our villages on November 28, 2018 Julian Middle School Auditorium • 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. Tickets: FREE - For more info or to RSVP, visit the link below.
Tickets at: www.OakPark.com/sayconnects
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‘I voted,’ but not in Hindi The best thing about voting is playing our role in this grand experiment we call democracy and hopefully improving the future of our world. The second best part about voting, perhaps, is the “I voted” sticker you get that you can use to lord over your friends and family by showing what a good citizen you are. Early voting has already begun for the Nov. 6 midterm elections, and if you’ve made it to the polls and speak Hindi, you might have noticed something a bit off about the multicultural stickers that say “I voted” in several different languages. The Hindi translation has a typo, according to University of Chicago Prof. Ulrike Stark, who teaches Hindi language and literature in the Dept. of South Asian Languages and Civilizations. She said in an email that the Hindi is incorrect, “though not in the sense of using a wrong expression.” “Rather, there’s a typo in the verb, i.e., the vowel sign has been attached to the wrong consonant (this sometimes happens with Devanagari fonts in the transition from one program/medium to another,” Stark said. “It doesn’t necessarily mean that someone typed it incorrectly, although that’s also possible.)” “In any case, although the word ‘dayi’ makes no sense, Hindi speakers will easily be able to figure out that it’s a typo for ‘diya.’ The typo, though embarrass-
ing, doesn’t produce another meaning,” Stark noted. Stark’s colleague, Jason Grunebaum, a senior lecturer in Hindi at the university, said in an email that he is certain it is a computer, not a human, error. “(M)ost Hindi readers will probably have come across this misspelling before, since it’s something that some computers have and still do. It can look fine and be correct in one format, but sometimes when the format is changed—say from Word to PDF or across any number of platforms—it can go screwy,” Grunebaum wrote.
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Costumed skaters glide around last Friday, during the Spooky Skate event at Ridgeland Commons in Oak Park at the Ice Arena. Early voters will receive the stickers at Village Hall, 123 Madison St. — who knows if they’ll still pass them out on Election Day – but Oak Park Village Clerk Vicki Scaman said the faulty stickers came from Cook County. A spokesman for the county did not immediately return phone calls requesting an interview.
Early voting continues through Nov. 5. Scaman said there has been a good turnout so far, with about 600 people casting a ballot when early voting began on Oct. 22. More information about early voting is available at https://www.oak-park.us/ news/early-voting-ongoing-village-hall.
Timothy Inklebarger
The man behind Little Free Libraries
Alice x 2 win ‘Frighteningly Funny’ at Casket Races
Oak Parkers Ginger Colamussi and Kelly Benkert were named “Frighteningly Funny” at the sixth annual Casket Races in Forest Park on Oct. 27, characyers dressing up as Alice in Wonderland. During the races, five-
person teams build their own casket and run as fast as they can down Beloit Avenue from Adams to Madison. After two heats, their fastest time was 32.17 seconds.
Nona Tepper
Todd Bol, the Little Free Library founder, died in Wisconsin on Oct. 18 from pancreatic cancer. He was 62. Back in 2015, Wednesday Journal explored how Oak Park and River Forest — which had some 17 registered Little Free Libraries, according to the initiative’s global database — had become something of a hotbed for Bol’s creation. Since then, the number of registered libraries has roughly doubled. When we interviewed him three years ago, Bol said, “If there are 17, I’m willing to bet you there are twice as many.” Now that there are twice
as many libraries registered, we’ll keep to Bol’s back-of-the-napkin calculation and say that there are probably twice as many as that. There are now 75,000 little libraries in roughly 90 countries, according to the organization’s database. That’s quite a legacy to leave.
Michael Romain
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Oct. 31 - Nov. 7
BIG WEEK Día de los Muertos Celebration Saturday, Nov. 3, 2 to 4 p.m., Veterans Room, Main Library: Mexicans celebrate The Day of the Dead to remember their loved ones. This event, “The Dead Are Not Alone,” depicts a portion of this celebration. Come dance with the Catrina, eat pan de muerto and more. Adults/Teens. Info: oppl.org/calendar. 834 Lake St., Oak Park.
Franklin D. Roosevelt - A Fireside Chat
“100 Things to Do in Chicago Before You Die”
Sunday, Nov. 4, 2 to 3:30 p.m., River Forest Library: Historical dramatist R. J. Lindsey becomes the 32nd president addressing the nation, by the library’s second floor fireplace. Brought in partnership with River Forest Township. 735 Lathrop Ave., River Forest.
Wednesday, Nov. 7, 7 to 9 p.m., Veterans Room, Main Library: Meet author Molly Page as she discusses numerous adventures featured in this insider’s guide to the Windy City. 834 Lake St., Oak Park.
Jennifer McNulty: Influence Reception Sunday, Nov. 4, 2 to 4 p.m. Art Gallery, Main Library: Meet the Oak Park mosaic artist and see her work, on display through November. 834 Lake Street.
“Bohemian Rhapsody” Benefit
Thursday, Nov. 1, 6:15 to 9:15 p.m., Lake Theatre: The Oak Park Area Arts Council presents a celebration of 10am-Noon Queen and their lead singer with a movie viewing and auction of Freddie Mercury Explore the World of STEAM! (Passports Provided) Saturday, Nov. 3, 10 a.m. photos, including one with to Noon, Beye Elementary his autograph. $25, includes School: surprises/goodies. Tickets/ Drive a robot, write a poem, conduct more: oakparkareaartscouncil. experiments, create art and more as you org/2018/10/04/1285. 1022 Lake St., learn about Oak Park Education Foundation Oak Park. offerings. All ages; activities geared for 5 to 12-year-olds. Free. More: opef.org. 230 N. Cuyler, Oak Park.
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An Afternoon of Opera Monday, Nov. 5, 1:15 p.m., Nineteenth Century Club: Hear baritone Jonathan Beyer and pianist Amanda Crider perform opera, musical theater and American Songbook selections. $15, suggested donation. More: 708-386-2729, nineteenthcentury.org. 178 Forest Ave., Oak Park.
Trinity High School Blazer Boutique Thursday, Nov. 1, 5:30 to 9 p.m., Athletic Facility, Trinity: Enjoy “A Ladies’ Night Out” and get a jump on holiday shopping with specialty foods, hand-crafted items, jewelry, books and more. Cash bar; complimentary appetizers. Free admission. 7574 W,Division St., River Forest.
Stars, Stories and S’mores
Fallin’ For WSSRA Stars Friday, Nov. 2, 7 to 11 p.m., Cheney Mansion: Try your luck at Starlit Casino Night while supporting The West Suburban Special Recreation Association (WSSRA). Featuring casino games, live auction, appetizers/sweets and libations, the evening also celebrates WSSRA program participates - those with physical, mental or other types of disabilities. $100, advance; $180, for two; $120, each at the door. Tickets/more: wssra.net, 847-455-2100. 220 N. Euclid Ave., Oak Park.
Friday, Nov. 2, 5 to 8 p.m., Thatcher Woods Pavilion: At this family-friendly evening, there will be s’mores by the fire, storytelling, astronomy, night hikes and more. Free. Questions: 708-386-4042, experience.nature@cookcountyil.gov. 8030 W. Chicago Ave., in River Forest.
Love, Music and Marriage Friday, Nov. 2, 8 p.m., Open Door Theater: Hear award-winning jazz vocalist Margaret Murphy-Webb and her husband, Chicago bassist, Chuck Webb. $20. Tickets: opendoortheater. net, 708-386-5510. 902 S. Ridgeland, Oak Park.
Concordia Concerts Friday, Nov. 2, 8 p.m., Chapel of Our Lord, Concordia University Chicago: Hear the Wind Symphony perform. Free. Saturday, Nov. 3, 7:30 p.m., Chapel of Our Lord, Concordia University Chicago: Hear choral pieces sung by Kapelle. Free. More: CUChicago.edu/music, 708-209-3060. 7400 Augusta St., River Forest.
Model Train Open House Saturday, Nov. 3, Noon to 5 p.m., Lower Level, Dole Library Visit the OP Society of Model Engineers, see the HO layout and more. Info: opsme.org. 255 Augusta, Oak Park.
CALENDAR EVENTS ■ As you’ve likely noticed, our
First Tuesday Film Club now Twice Monthly “Select Pix” Tuesday, Nov. 6, 10 a.m., noon, and 7 p.m., Lake Theatre: Puzzle, a 2018 Sundance selection, portrays a woman with a penchant for jigsaws who sneaks away to a puzzle tournament then begins viewing the pieces of her life in a new light. Showing on the third Tuesday, Nov. 20, American Socialist: The Life and Times of Eugene Victor Debs. $8.50; $6, matinee/seniors/children. Info: classiccinemas.com. 1022 Lake St., Oak Park.
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.
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ART BEAT Enabling music for a generation By MICHELLE DYBAL Contributing Reporter
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usic brings joy and playing an instrument brings a sense of accomplishment along with that joy. But acquiring an instrument, maintaining it, taking lessons and other things that come with being part of a school music program are costly. That’s why, 20 years ago, an organization was formed to ensure no student who wishes to take instrumental music at the public schools will be left behind. PING! (Providing Instruments for the Next Generation) currently serves approximately 120 students. It has grown from its original mission to put woodwinds, brass, percussion and string instruments into the hands of fourth graders, which is when students choose this path at District 97 in Oak Park and District 90 in River Forest. Students qualify if they’re in the Free and Reduced Lunch Program, foster care, or have some financial strain on the household, according to PING! board President Ginger Yarrow. Since 2002, the organization has set up mentoring relationships for PING! Middleschool students with OPRF High School student volunteers, who come to their former middle schools, Brooks, Julian and Roosevelt, to mentor a current student who plays the same instrument. “They need those touch points,” Yarrow said. “It’s a mini-lesson every other week with a high-schooler. It’s social and support on the instrument, too, but also mentoring about the high school.” OPRF junior Julian Bradford is mentoring for a third year at Julian Middle School. He has been playing trombone since fourth grade when he also benefited from PING! “Going into middle school, I was planning on quitting music,” he said. “My mom convinced me to try it in middle school. Then we heard about this program and I got to meet my mentor. It was really impactful for me because he was really good and I was like, ‘I want to do that,’ so I kept going and now in high school I love it. I couldn’t imagine myself doing anything else.” As a junior, Bradford plays in both the top jazz and curricular bands at OPRF, Jazz Ensemble and Wind Orchestra. He is also a Marching Huskie. And this fall, he qualified for ILMEA, the Illinois Music Education Association’s statewide competition. This year he is mentoring sixth grader Elizabeth Drobot who plays trombone in
HELPFUL HINTS: Mentor Monty Ellwanger, left, a junior at OPRF, helps eighth-grader Christina Anthony learn the saxophone during the PING! music lessons at Julian Middle School. ALEXA ROGALS/Staff Photographer
Julian’s Concert Band. Bradford directs the lesson to challenge Drobot, who said elementary school music was “really easy” for her. She played in the fifth-grade band in fourth grade. Since 2003, PING! has also sent students to summer music camps. In 2018, 10 students were sent to Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp in Michigan and 27 attended the district 97 and 90 music camps/lessons at home during the summer with help from PING! When the extra-curricular Latin Percussion Group was formed for high school students, PING! helped support that as well. “Some might not stick with the music program, so we wanted to experiment outside the curriculum,” Yarrow said. “It gives more opportunities, more diversity to their experience.” PING! helps fund middle-school music trips to Cleveland, some OPRF Marching Band expenses, and the annual high school jazz trip to Purdue. Through the Donna D’Oro Anderson Lifelong Music Fund, “extraordinary experiences” are granted. The first award went to four class of 2018 seniors for a stipend to get started at college. Now the fund is helping some take the OPRF performing arts trip to Europe in March. PING! funds are raised through some grants but mostly by private donors. Local businesses, such as Kagan & Gaines Music and Austin Music, are also supportive. The Oak Park Village Board honored PING! with a proclamation at an October meeting. But what really matters is the students. One afternoon recently, a flautist mentor patiently went through the difference between 1/4 and 1/8 notes with her seventhgrade mentee. In another room, a high school saxophone player demonstrated, then the eighth-grader followed and faltered. “That’s a hard rhythm,” her mentor explained. The two kept working until the younger student nailed it. “That was it. Perfect!” her mentor said. Building relationships, providing musical enrichment and supplying instruments — a perfect medley.
Monday, November 5 – 1:15 An Afternoon of Opera An afternoon of opera favorites, musical theater and American Songbook selections presented by Baritone Jonathan Beyer and accompanist Amanda Crider.
Monday, November 19 – 1:15 Update on the Coming Water Crisis Dr. May Wu from Argonne National Laboratory will present an assessment of water use, availability and the implications to energy, agriculture and our life.
Monday, November 12 – 1:15 Chicago Artists Depict Urban Life David Sokol examines how Chicago artists saw the city, its buildings, and the life of the people from the late 1800s through the recent past, particularly the social realist artists of the 1920s through W.W. II.
Monday, November 26 – 1:15 Black Hawk’s View of Illinois History Drawing from Black Hawk’s autobiography and his knowledge of American Indian cosmology, Brian “Fox” Ellis portrays the reporter who transcribed and published Black Hawk’s life story. COST: $15 requested donation for non-members for each program. LUNCH: precedes Monday programs at 12:00, $25 for non non-members, RSVP required–all are welcome!
Evening Events and Other Activities Thursday, November 8 – 5:30-7:30 Happy Hour Mind Boggles: Health Care: Right or Privilege? Dr. David Ansell, Senior Vice President for Community Health Equity, Rush University Medical Center, Associate Provost for Community Affairs, Rush University, will discuss health care in America. Cash Bar and light snacks will be served. General admission: $15 at the door.
Monday, November 12 – 7:00 English Country Dances are taught and called. No partner needed, no experience necessary. $10 Adults/ $5 Students and Seniors. Wednesday, November 14 – 7:30 Henry Fogel Presents Pablo Suaste, a young Mexican pianist who studies at the Chicago College of Performing Arts, and who won a 2017 competition, producing a CD on the Aeolian label. $30/students $10. Sunday, November 18 – 3:00 Rose by Laurence Leamer—Set in 1969 at the Kennedy’s Hyannis Port compound the week after Teddy’s fateful accident at Chappaquiddick, Rose struggles with all the tragedies the Kennedys have overcome and finds new understanding of the choices she made. Freereaders.com
Nineteenth Century Charitable Association 178 Forest Ave, Oak Park, IL 60301 708-386-2729 For more information: nineteenthcentury.org
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ears back when the Journal first began reporting on quietly stated assertions that there was systemic racism built into Oak Park and River Forest High School — manifest in wide disparities in academic achievement, in stunning overrepresentation of black students in the discipline system, in the near total absence of African-American students in advanced classes, in the preponderance of black males in special ed — there was blanket denial and there was, from a few, ferocious pushback. Dr. Bernard Abraham, then a school board member at OPRF, was outraged by the assertions, dismissive of the evidence and clear that he and others were not racists, either overt or covert. Bernie Abraham, as intellectually exceptional, and as bellicose, a person as I’ve ever met, brought thunder. And the thunder bought some cover. For a while. It made our high school as data-averse an institution as was imaginable. We can’t track discipline. Each situation is unique. Handled by the deans. We don’t track it by race. That wouldn’t be right. We can’t tell you the racial makeup of honors classes or of special ed classes. Violation of the privacy of our families. You want to see test scores by race? We don’t know how to do that. We don’t intend to find out. Allowed a lot of deniability, which allowed a lot of wasted years of “Those Things That Are Best for Those Whose Future is Already Secured.” A superintendent once told me that change was just about impossible at OPRF. Between the faculty, the board and the community, the superintendent felt basically powerless. That would be a faculty too focused on teaching AP classes, a board elected to preserve the illusion of the shining school on the hill, and a white community (and a white local newspaper editor) boastful of having accomplished integration and devoted to resting on that laurel. Would have been the mid-1980s, we
added Jaslin Salmon as a freelance columnist. He was a member, and later president, of a local chapter of the NAACP, an effort that never took hold in this town. Salmon wrote provocatively about race, about liberal whites, me among them, who thought that letting black people live in our town was plenty good, darned progressive. Salmon was mocking. Black people don’t simply want to live in Oak Park. They want to be part of Oak Park. They expect to share in making decisions. They have to be on school boards and village boards. Some progress was made in that regard. There have been African-American school board members. A black principal for 10 years at OPRF. These past two years a black superintendent at OPRF. But as the final episode of America to Me spooled out Sunday night, the indelible moment for me was Jessica Stovall, a teacher passionate for equity, for connection with black students, stating simply that there wasn’t a leader in the building interested in leading on equity. That was 2015-16. Steven Isoye, the disconnected school superintendent, had bolted for the exit after more years of purported consensus-building on equity turned out to be a sham. Jeff Weissglass, the school board president and a believer in equity, acknowledged that his board had been consumed by ridiculous debates about a swimming pool. Two aging white fellows, Phil Prale and Don Vogel, who climbed the ladder to administration at OPRF and did damned little with the privilege, critiqued the black principal. Not a good look. Neither was yet another declaration by that principal, Nathaniel Rouse, that he could never be the status quo. This is 2018. Still the damned swimming pool. A bolder superintendent. A school board that swears equity is the only issue. A 10-hour nationally broadcast documentary makes plain that we aren’t all that, that change is hard. Especially when no one wants to change. If not now, OPRF, when?
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Madison Street goes on road diet
Village poised to OK lane reduction, add bike lanes By TIMOTHY INKLEBARGER Staff Reporter
It’s a project that’s eight years in the making, but the Oak Park Board of Trustees is poised to approve a transportation project that would reduce Madison Street to two lanes and add lanes for bicyclists. The board did not take final action on the project at its Oct. 29 meeting, but trustees did unanimously voice their support for the so-called road diet plan, which will run the entire stretch of the roadway from Harlem to Austin. Residents turned out in support and opposition to the proposal, with many arguing for the improved safety the project would bring for bicyclists and pedestrians and others expressing concern over increased traffic congestion and cars it would send into the adjacent neighborhoods. Resident Rachel Poretsky told trustees that road diets have been successful in other parts of the country and would slow down motorists, making them more likely to visit businesses along the commercial corridor. “I want Oak Park to be a place that people
drive to, not drive through,” she said. Road-diet opponent Francis Bakalar said he believes the plan will bring congestion and force more traffic onto the adjacent streets of Washington and Jackson boulevards. “There must be other solutions,” he said. Village Engineer Bill McKenna acknowledged that traffic studies show that the road diet will increase the number of vehicles on Jackson by about 400 to 600 per day. That roadway experiences as many as 4,000 vehicles a day currently. Washington, which has about 5,300 vehicles pass by per day, will increase by as many as 1,400 vehicles, McKenna noted. The project is projected to cost $5.6 million and will be completed in 2019, if trustees approve the plan at their meeting scheduled for Nov. 19. McKenna said the road diet would also reduce the speed of vehicles passing along Madison from about 37 miles per hour to roughly 28 miles per hour. “If we get a 10-mile-per-hour speed reduction, that would be great,” he said. Trustees voiced interest in also removing the islands that run along Madison to help improve safety and reduce congestion, but McKenna said removing the islands is projected to cost several million
Rendering by the Village of Oak Park
SLIM STREET: Oak Park is expected to reduce the vehicle lanes on Madison and add bike lanes. dollars. McKenna did not have exact figures for the cost of removal at the meeting but will bring revised estimates to the Nov. 19 meeting.
Mayor Anan Abu-Taleb said the islands create a “hindrance” to the road diet but added that it is “time to take action” on the project. tim@oakpark.com
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ur latest in a series of columns on the growth cycle of dogs, from puppy to senior, with a look at the adult years.
to the vet, who can give you an assessment of their teeth and gums as well as a plan for treatment.
It’s probably impossible to pinpoint any time in a person’s life when they were care- and responsibility free. Even those first few years in the so-called “real world” still require apartment leases and car payments. Being an adult may bring new freedoms but it doesn’t mean your absolved from some new responsibilities. Now apply that approach to your dog. Sure, you trust him enough to leave him home alone each day, you let him sleep where he wants and you aren’t all that concerned with his day-to-day well-being.
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Respect their choices: Your dog may have been the friendliest puppy on the block a few years ago but that doesn’t mean he’ll be open to meeting every new dog, dog owner or child who crosses his path. It’s OK to let people know that your dog isn’t always friendly while he’s on a walk or that he’s territorial about his own space at home. How they respond isn’t your responsibility. What you need to do is make sure your dog is safe, happy and not put in the position of having to defend himself or his home.
Food matters: Parents are usually tuned into every That last part? That’s a problem. Of course you love morsel of food their young children put into their your dog, it’s just that she requires less attention now mouths. Then their kids get older. Those organic that she’s older, right? In some cases, sure, but unlike vegetables are replaced with microwavable burritos 25-year-old you, who was able to shop for your own with Jill and no one says a word. While you may be tempted groceries and find a comfortable place to live, your dog Showalter to buy the cheap stuff when shopping for dog food still relies on others to remain healthy and safe. or share your late-night pizza with Fido on Saturday For life nights, don’t. Your dog’s diet continues to be important as she Owners don’t adopt or purchase dogs with a six-year time limit; ages. Dogs that feast on table scraps tend to wear their weight, and they’re committing to a lifelong relationship and years of care and not in a good way. But the extra pounds aren’t the only problem. attention. Here are a few things to keep in mind as your dog enters Overweight dogs often deal with high blood pressure, type 2 his or her adult years: diabetes, osteoarthritis, heart disease, respiratory problems and more. Give your dog her best chance of living a long, happy life by Care for their teeth: OK, we get it. Despite years of warnings from being mindful of what she eats. your vet and groomer, you haven’t paid much attention to your dog’s teeth. But now that her dog breath really smells like, well, dog breath, you figure you probably should do something about it. The problem is you just don’t know where to start. Here’s a thought: Just do it. Like their human counterparts who take some time off from the dentist between dental policies, only to be happy with “only four cavities” at their first visit back to the dentist’s chair after a couple of years, it’s not too late to pay attention to your dog’s teeth. The first step is a visit
Keep moving: Don’t give up your dog’s activities. A simple walk each day will not only help keep him in better physical shape, it will do wonders for his mental state. The canine equivalent of a couch potato is the dog who sleeps for hours each day barely moves in and out of the house. Maintain a daily walk or play ritual with your dog, or sign her up for a dog-walking service or a little playtime at a nearby dog-care facility. Your dog’s health will improve, she’ll sleep better
and she won’t spend the rest of her life staring into space, dreaming of those wonderful neighborhood walks of her past. Jill Showalter owns Yuppie Puppy and Doggie Day Play in Oak Park. She has personally tended to more than 100,000 dogs since 2007 and has shared stories and advice with numerous dog owners.
Halloween treats can play tricks on your dog’s health Halloween can be pretty scary for dog owners. They know that their dogs shouldn’t indulge in candy but sometimes, especially when making sure their children aren’t sneaking 25 bars of chocolate into bed each night, things often go unnoticed. As your kids bring home their Halloween booty this year, take the necessary precautions: Keep candy out of sight (and smell): Don’t put candy in places where you dog can get to it. Even the placement of a half-empty trick-or-treat bag on the kitchen table or a reachable counter can present an all-you-can-eat buffet for your hungry canine. Remind your children, too. They shouldn’t leave a pile of candy on their bedroom floor. It will be gone when they get home from school and they may have to spend their evening cleaning up their pet’s “discarded” wrappers in the backyard. It’s not just chocolate: All variations of candy, especially when consumed in massive quantities, can be harmful to dogs. Sugar-free gum, though, can be especially harmful since most sugar-free candies contain xylitol, which can cause seizures, liver failure, loss of coordination and more. Keep them inside: It’s probably a good idea to keep your dog indoors on Halloween. Not only will you be doing the parents of tiny trick-or-treaters a favor, you’ll be protecting your pets from open gates, potentially disorienting costumes and those kids from down the block who would love to cover your pooch in shaving cream before the night comes to an end. Also, there’s always the possibility of your dog chowing down on 30-day old pumpkins or burning their curious noses on what exactly is lighting up Jack-O-Lanterns poorly carved eyes. Our loyal companions have placed so much trust in us. This is why it’s important that we honor that responsibility every day of their lives by being responsible dog owners. Whether it’s continuing a routine to walk them each morning or making sure they aren’t tempted by a bag of candy, our lifelong relationship requires care and attention. And the rewards are always worth the effort.
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VOICE endorses three for Oak Park trustee
By TIMOTHY INKLEBARGER Staff Reporter
Oak Park’s newest political organization, VOICE of Oak Park, has picked the three candidates it is backing in the upcoming Oak Park Board of Trustees election set for April 2. The group, which has decided to officially form a political action committee, held its candidate endorsement interviews at Pleasant Home, 217 Home Ave., on Oct. 25, hearing from five trustee hopefuls. Following presentations and a questionand-answer session with the candidates, members of the selection committee voted to endorse VOICE founder Joshua Klayman; Tim Thomas, who is a global production assistance coordinator for Ford Motor Company; and Christian Harris, who runs a house-cleaning business and serves on the board of the Oak Park Public Library. Twenty-six VOICE members cast the votes to pick three candidates for the three seats open on the Oak Park Board of Trustees in the upcoming election. Incumbents Bob Tucker and Andrea Button have said they will not run for re-election. Incumbent Trustee Jim Taglia has not officially announced whether he will run. The other two candidates at the VOICE meeting were Gary Schwab, who is retired and has served on numerous boards and commissions in Oak Park, and Susan Buchanan, a faculty member at the University of Illinois School of Public Health, who serves there as a physician member of the Occupational and Environmental Medicine Group. Buchanan said in an email that she will continue her run regardless of the VOICE decision. “I’m disappointed that I did not receive VOICE’s endorsement but I’m undeterred,” Buchanan said in an email. “The VOICE meeting was small, and the endorsement result does not necessarily reflect the opinion
of the majority of progressive voters in Oak Park.” Schwab said in an email that he would not run independently. “I am supporting/working with the VOICE-endorsed candidates,” he said. Former Trustee Greg Marsey, who attended the meeting and had voiced some interest in running again, said he was satisfied with the candidates and would not run for a seat. Klayman told the group that he would work for a diverse village that invites residents of all races, religions, sexual orientations and classes. “We must recognize that high taxes and declining affordability are major hurdles to having a diverse and integrated Oak Park,” he said. “We must champion solutions based on fiscal responsibility and not on austerity.” Buchanan also said she was “not an austerity cut, cut, cut person.” She said she supports Oak Park’s recent efforts to pass an inclusionary housing ordinance. “Developers need to offer [affordable] units or donate [to a housing fund to create affordable units],” she said. Thomas said he opposed the idea of allowing developers to contribute to an affordable housing fund that allows developers to contribute cash in lieu of including affordable units in their developments, saying it “ostracizes people”. Thomas also said he was “not a fan” of the Oak Park Economic Development Corporation”, a quasi-governmental nonprofit that works to bring economic development to the village. He called OPEDC a “shadowy” organization that works outside of the confines of public scrutiny. Harris said he aims to repair the relationship between the board of trustees and other taxing bodies in the village and reduce taxes. “We need to build cohesion between the six taxing bodies,” he said, noting that he opposes consolidating the park district, village, library and township.
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CAMPAIGN SEASON: Christian Harris, who serves as a member of the Oak Park Library Board of Trustees and runs a home-cleaning service in Oak Park, was endorsed by the new political group VOICE of Oak Park at Pleasant Home on Sunday. Klayman said in a telephone interview following the endorsement decision that he hopes candidates who were not endorsed will drop out of the race and support VOICEbacked candidates. He said the organization has chosen not to form a slate, even though it might have given them an advantage by collecting signatures one a single nominating petition. Klayman said some of the candidates already had begun collecting signatures and would have had to start over in the signature-gathering process had they decided to form a slate. “They would have had to start again
and thrown all that out and started from scratch,” he said. The candidates must collect signatures equal to 5 percent of the number of people who voted in the most recent municipal election. Candidates in the most recent municipal election had to collect 251 signatures to get their name on the ballot. VOICE, meanwhile, will register as a political action committee with the Illinois State Board of Elections, and the committee can begin to collect donations and expend money for whatever political purposes they deem fit. tim@oakpark.com
Should taxing bodies consolidate?
Referendum will ask Oak Parkers whether to study merging government entities By TIMOTHY INKLEBARGER Staff Reporter
Early voting has begun in the upcoming election set for Nov. 6 and Oak Parkers are faced with a question of whether the village of should pursue consolidating various taxing bodies under one administrative umbrella. The nonbinding referendum has been controversial, with advocates arguing that it could save taxpayers in administrative costs and opponents calling it a power grab
by the village. The question reads as follows: “Shall the merger and consolidation of Oak Park taxing bodies be considered, including, but not limited to, the Village of Oak Park, Oak Park Township, the Oak Park Public Library and the Park District of Oak Park, to determine if there would be efficiencies, the elimination of redundancies, and/or property tax reduction for the residents of Oak Park?” Approval of the referendum, proposed by the Taxing Bodies Efficiencies Task Force, an ad hoc committee created by the Oak Park Board of Trustees, would give the village the green light to move forward with studying consolidation. Oak Park Township Supervisor Claremarie Keenan said in a written statement that the township’s position “has been to provide
information and clarity around the issues — not campaign with a position. “Misinformation and inaccuracies are circulating and we have tried to stick with the facts,” the statement notes. “All along, we have stated we are not opposed to finding efficiencies and savings. We have several partnerships/collaborations in place which speak to our commitment to savings and efficiencies.” The statement adds that neither the creation of the task force nor the creation of the referendum were “collaborative or transparent.” “Through all of this, we have continued and will continue to provide our services to the community efficiently and collaboratively,” the township statement notes. Diane Stanke, a spokesperson for the park
district, released a statement noting that the park district “continues to strive to provide quality programs and facilities to meet the needs of Oak Park residents. “We are generating almost 50 percent of our budget through earned revenue, which is an increase from 29 percent in 2012,” the statement reads. “The park district agrees that taxes need to be evaluated, but there is no proof that consolidation saves money. However, there is research that shows that consolidation can reduce services. “The park district collaborates with all of the Oak Park taxing bodies and we look forward to continuing to find ways to collaborate to reduce expenses and redundancies.” tim@oakpark.com
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At OPRF, tassels will fly but graduation stays put
Board votes for switching to caps and gowns, against move to UIC Pavilion By MICHAEL ROMAIN Staff Reporter
The Oak Park and River Forest High School District 200 school board voted 6-1 during a regular meeting on Oct. 25 to switch to caps and gowns as the official commencement garb, replacing the more than century-old tradition of formal attire, mainly suits and dresses. Board member Fred Arkin voted against the motion. At that same meeting, the board voted unanimously against moving this school year’s graduation ceremony to the UIC Pavilion in Chicago. The attire change has drawn both support and backlash among students and families. Some parents during the Oct. 25 meeting said the board’s decision to change the tradition would undermine the preference of most graduating seniors to continue the formal attire tradition. That preference, they argued, has been shown in various polls taken over the last few years in which most graduating seniors who have voted have favored suits and
gowns. Some supporters of the attire change, however, have said it was necessary in order to address the pain and suffering of non-cisgender students who must face the choice of either outing themselves on graduation day or not participating in the milestone ceremony. Although most board members were in favor of the attire change, they also came to the consensus that the decision to change graduation attire should not have come before the board in the first place. Technically, the change is one for district administrators to make. “We put forth policy,” said board member Tom Cofsky. “This is really a debate of tradition versus social justice, and I think we’ve made it really clear in our policy that we’re supportive of social justice.” Supt. Joylynn Pruitt-Adams, however, said the administration brought the issue before the board because the magnitude of the change justified board support. She likened the attire change to the district’s recent overhaul of its gender equity policy. The latter action didn’t need board approval either, but the board nonetheless voted on it because of the magnitude of the changes, the superintendent said. In addition to the attire change, the administration had also recommended moving the graduation ceremony to the UIC
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OUT WITH THE OLD: This year, OPRF seniors will wear caps and gowns during commencement for likely the first time in the school’s history. Pavilion, citing significant cost savings, the much smaller capacity of campus facilities, the scarcity of tickets and the deteriorating conditions of OPRF’s facilities, especially the field house, which presents discomfort for disabled guests. The board voted unanimously against the recommendation, citing, among other things, a lack of information to justify such a major modification to OPRF’s graduation
tradition. “There is no … data to make this decision,” said board member Fred Arkin, adding that OPRF would “be just another high school graduating in [UIC’s] facility” if the move were made. “We take pride in our traditions and we should not be so cavalier to dismiss them,” Arkin said. CONTACT: michael@oakpark.com
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Bringing ‘America to Me’ … to a beginning?
By MICHAEL ROMAIN Staff Writer
I am the poor white, fooled and pushed apart, / I am the Negro bearing slavery’s scars. / I am the red man driven from the land, / I am the immigrant clutching the hope I seek — / And finding only the same old stupid plan / Of dog eat dog, of mighty crush the weak.” (Langston Hughes, “Let America Be America Again”). Watching this last episode, I was struck by the argument between Jada Buford and John Condne about a YouTube video that shows a black woman cornering a white guy with dirty dreads because she believes that he’s a cultural appropriator. At one point, the guy tries to walk away and the girl grabs him, attempting to restrict his movement. “You’re saying that I can’t have a hairstyle because of your culture? Why?” the white guy asks. “Because it’s my culture,” the black woman responds. Buford, while condemning the fact that the woman “touched” the hippie, said that the woman nonetheless had a right to confront him. “That is cultural appropriation,” Buford said, before Condne asked her, “How does anybody claim a hairstyle?” I think these exchanges (both the YouTube
confrontation and the conversation between lesterol level should go up. Condne and Buford) are emblematic of where “Here’s the thing, you want to be in blackwe are as a country when it comes to racial face? You should do it. We should have Halunderstanding. For the most part, blacks and loween on election day,” Hughley said. “That whites are talking right past each other. way you get to go to the polls in black face The point about cultural appropriation, and they get to help you suppress your vote. or the practice of the dominant Everybody wants to be black culture adopting aspects of a until the police show up.” minority culture as its own, is I’m not suggesting that a not the act of adoption in and white person wearing dreads of itself (and, besides, not all is tantamount to a white perclaims of appropriation are leson wearing black face, but gitimate). The point is the powthe same underlying point extends to both instances. er imbalance that is laid bare Again, the power imbalance by the perceived cultural theft. WATC H I N G — and the myriad fatal ways As Buford noted, a white guy ‘ A M E R I C A T O M E ’ that it manifests in black gets to wear dirty dreads withEPISODE X people’s lives, as Hughley out also having to wear the psyshows — is the reason why chological and emotional burden of being a black person in dreads, which the perceived appropriation is so offensive to blacks in the first place. is something altogether more hazardous. So would-be change agents should apply It takes the comedian D.L. Hughley to drive the point home. Megyn Kelly said re- most of their energy to righting the struccently that she didn’t see anything wrong tural imbalance of power, rather than on with wearing blackface. Who, after all, policing relatively superficial offenses (by all means, if a white kid wants to go around wouldn’t want to look like Diana Ross? “That’s fine,” Hughley said on his radio looking unkempt that’s his right). But the world is upside down. I’m afraid show. “But looking like Sandra Bland will get you killed. On Halloween, black face will some people will come away from America to get you candy. Try wearing it to get a raise Me, particularly after watching the scene be… I think the minute you put on blackface, tween Buford and Condne, thinking, “Look, your credit score should drop and your cho- the out of control political correctness and
social justice warriorism of the college campuses has invaded even our high schools.” Meanwhile, they’ll gloss over the brute fact that most of the blacks at OPRF are situated at the margins, marked, so to speak, by the hazard of their skin, and comingled with others marked by all manner of vulnerability into a virtual underclass (one that mirrors that in the wider society). In his 2009 book First As Tragedy, Then As Farce, the philosopher Slavoj Zizek writes that after the civil rights and sexual revolutions of the 1960s, the “demands for new rights (which would have meant a true redistribution of power) were granted, but merely in the guise of ‘permissions.’” Zizek writes that the scope of what people are allowed to do in a permissive society is broadened “without actually giving them any additional power,” (i.e., you can work in the cafeteria, but you can’t get the keys). Zizek then quotes the French linguist Jean-Claude Milner: “Do not talk to me anymore about permissions, control, equality; I only know force. Here is my question: in the face of the reconciliation of the notables and the solidarity of the strongest, how to make it that the weak will have powers?” We should end our collective viewing by beginning to grapple with that question — collectively. CONTACT: michael@austinweeklynews.com
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Task force meets after six shot during Chicago funeral By TIMOTHY INKLEBARGER Staff Reporter
The shooting of six people at a funeral service in the South Side neighborhood of Burnside on Oct. 22 was the focus of conversation at the second meeting of the Cook County Funeral and Cemetery Violence Taskforce meeting in Forest Park on Oct. 26. Cook County Detective Sergeant Jason Moran, who serves on the task force, said the incident is still under investigation, and it will be a case study for the committee on preventing more violence at funerals on the South Side and western suburbs of Chicago. Much of the task force’s work in the western suburbs has been centered on Oakridge-Glen Oak Cemetery at Roosevelt and Mannheim roads and increasing police presence at funeral homes in Chicago that sometimes send raucous funeral processions through the city and suburbs. Moran said Chicago police had an officer assigned to the funeral at Bethlehem Star Missionary Baptist Church, 9231 S. Cottage Grove, but the officer there to keep the peace was called away on an emergency. “That officer chose to respond to support and assist his fellow policeman and after that is when the shooting occurred,” Moran said. Rev. Ira Acree, pastor of Greater St. John Bible Church in Austin, said he has begun hiring off-duty police officers to protect funeral services and processions that could become violent. “Their presence makes a world of difference,” he said. Cook County Commissioner Richard Boykin, who created the task force with Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart in March, said pastors and funeral-home directors often are unaware
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FUNERAL VIOLENCE: Cook County Detective Sergeant Jason Moran (left), task force chairman Parris Williams (middle), and funeral home operator Spencer Leak, Jr. (right. that the services they hold could become violent. Police should share information with them when they suspect funerals could become violent. Chicago police could reference its gang member database and other resources to help track funerals involving gang members, he said. “That alert [informing law enforcement officials of a gang-related homicide] shouldn’t just go to the sheriff ’s police; it ought to also go to a local jurisdiction like Cicero or Oak Park — they need to have the information,” Boykin said. “The pastor of the church where the funeral is taking place needs to have the information, and the funeral home director needs to have the information.” Task force members discussed creating a hotline for fu-
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neral and cemetery operators to maintain direct contact with law enforcement officials when they suspect violence might take place. Spencer Leak Jr., vice president of Leak & Sons Funeral Homes, said it can sometimes be difficult to determine whether the deceased was connected to gang activity because families frequently do not disclose that their son or daughter was involved with a gang. “We handle a lot of the crime victim cases in Chicago,” he told the board. He noted that his funeral home accepts payment through the state of Illinois’ Crime Victim Compensation Act, which reimburses families up to $7,500 for the burial of their loved one if they are the victim of a crime. Leak encouraged the police to meet with families of a deceased person suspected of being involved in gang activity to better understand whether or not there could be retaliatory gang activity at the funeral. When a funeral home begins talking with the family of the deceased, he said, “We are blind. It’s very hard for a funeral director to ask the questions to that family where it may be a little bit easier for the police officers to ask that family the question. When we are meeting with a family … and we begin to try and pry into what’s going on with their loved one’s life, all of them are going to say, ‘My baby was the best.’” Investigating gang affiliations of deceased people is “not what we do,” said Leak, adding that when he does discover a person might have been involved in a retaliatory gang shooting, they might not be eligible for reimbursement in the Crime Victim Compensation Act. tim@oakpark.com
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Taking a trek with Trekker Austin resident banks her walks for Google Street View By TIMOTHY INKLEBARGER Staff Reporter
Oak Park and Forest Park residents may have noticed a woman walking around the two villages in recent week with an exceptionally large smile on her face – more noteworthy, perhaps, is the 40 pounds of electronic equipment strapped to her back. “What is that thing?” people are constantly asking Austin resident Erin Bender as she walks around with a Google Trekker Street View backpack, capturing public spaces for the tech company. “A lot of people ask you what it is, but a lot of people already know,” she said in a recent interview. She makes $17.50 an hour walking around the city and its suburbs; she usually does about five miles a day, she said. “It’s not bad. I walk all over Chicago,” she said. “I’ve been in Forest Park and Evanston. It just depends.” Bender has been with Google for about two months now. She found the job on the temp staffing website Adecco. She is equipped with the trekker backpack and given a digital map to follow. The company gives her options for where she wants
to walk on any given day, she said. She noted that the backpack is equipped with cameras that give a 360-degree view of the area and one that points to the sky. “They have cars, too …” she said, but added that she likes the pay for walking with the trekker and added, “I’m getting exercise.” Prior to her gig with Google, Bender was working in the meat department at a JewelOsco, she said. A search of Adecco’s job-search website (www.adeccousa.com) revealed that the company is still searching for trekkers. “Operators are given the task of going to public and private areas specified by the client or partner, specifically targeting paths, attractions and other points of interest in the given area,” the job description notes. Trekkers must be able to carry 40 pounds of camera equipment on their back and be on their feet for most of the day, according to the job posting. Among other requirements, employees “must be able to deal with the public in a calm and rational manner.” That doesn’t appear to be a problem for Bender. tim@oakpark.com
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SUV flips on Washington Boulevard
A black Ford SUV flipped on its side after the driver lost control of the vehicle and hit two parked cars on Washington Boulevard between Ridgeland and Harvey avenues on Thursday afternoon. Two witnesses at the scene said a child was in the vehicle at the time of the crash, but no one appeared seriously injured. The Oak Park Police Department could not immediately be reached for comment. Oak Parker Lori Teague, the owner of a white Ford Escape struck by the SUV, said her vehicle is not drivable. She heard a loud bang from her nearby apartment and went outside to find her car and another vehicle, a Buick sedan, had been struck by the SUV. Ann Samar and Steve Mantooth, both of Oak Park, who also live in a nearby apartment building, are the owners of the Buick. “We came outside and saw our car hit in the back and a black SUV flipped on its side,” Samar said.
backpack and black card holder-type wallet and fled southbound to Fillmore. The estimated loss is $27. The two offenders were 5-foot-8 to 6-feet with slim builds and wore dark-colored hooded sweatshirts and dark pants. ■ A juvenile Oak Park girl was robbed in the 200 block of North Cuyler at 3:47 p.m. on Oct. 27. The girl was approached by three males who struck her in the face with closed fists, searched her clothing and took a piece of paper. They were last seen walking away southbound. ■ An Oak Park resident was robbed of their iPhone in the 600 block of North Kenilworth Avenue at 5 p.m. on Oct. 22. According to police, the offender approached the victim and asked for the time just before pushing the victim and grabbing an iPhone. Police described the offender as a black male between the ages of 18 and 25, about 5-foot-6, with a medium build and wearing a brown or orange windbreaker with the hood up. The estimated loss is $800.
Robbery
Burglary
■ An Oak Park man was robbed
in the 1100 block of Wesley Avenue at 1:11 a.m. on Oct. 28. Two males, both approximately in their late teens to early 20s, approached the man and said, “Give up your stuff.” They then took his
■ An apartment was burglarized in the 800
block of South Austin Boulevard, sometime between 9 a.m. and 6:58 p.m. on Oct. 26. The burglar entered through an unlocked rear kitchen window and ransacked the resi-
dence, stealing a bottle of tequila, a Ralph Lauren black hooded down jacket and $10. The estimated loss is $160. ■ A 2004 Infiniti G35X was burglarized in the 800 block of Garfield, sometime between 8:30 p.m. on Oct. 25 and 7 a.m. on Oct. 26. The interior was ransacked and a pair of RayBan prescription sunglasses, a Visa gift card, a black phone charger and a Sacagawea coin were stolen. The estimated loss is $216. ■ A Nissan Rouge was burglarized in the 100 block of North Scoville between 8 p.m. on Oct. 25 and 8 a.m. on Oct. 26. The burglar ransacked the center console and stole an orange backpack, blue JBL studio headphones, two carabiners and a tin of keys. The estimated loss is $170. ■ A vehicle was burglarized in the 200 block of Superior between 7:30 a.m. and 10 p.m. on Oct. 22. Entry was gained through unknown means and cash, a laptop and a laptop mouse were stolen. The estimated loss is $1,820.
Battery
A Cicero resident was the victim of battery in the 1000 block of South Humphrey at 9:56 a.m. on Oct. 24. A man exited a silver KIA and approached the victim. After a verbal exchange, the offender hit the victim in the face with an open hand and left the
scene. He was last seen driving southbound on Humphrey.
Theft A catalytic converter was stolen from a vehicle in the 300 block of South Boulevard between 7 p.m. on Oct. 23 and 8 a.m. on Oct. 24. The estimated loss is $2,000.
Criminal damage to property Two residents reported rocks thrown at the windows of their residences, one in the 700 block of North Lombard at 8:16 p.m. and the other in the 200 block of Iowa at 8:27 p.m., on Oct. 23. The damage to both windows were estimated at $500 each. These items, obtained from the Oak Park and River Forest police departments, came from reports, Oct. 22-28, and represent a portion of the incidents to which police responded. Anyone named in these reports has only been charged with a crime and cases have not yet been adjudicated. We report the race of a suspect only when a serious crime has been committed, the suspect is still at large, and police have provided us with a detailed physical description of the suspect as they seek the public’s help in making an arrest. Compiled by Timothy Inklebarger
Solar output at Ridgeland Common to more than double Two more panels atop the rec complex means it will generate 250 kilowatts By IGOR STUDENKOV Contributing Reporter
The Park District of Oak Park Board of Commissioners is expected to approve a new lease agreement that would more than double the amount of electricity the Ridgeland Common Recreation Complex generates from the sun. The new lease agreement will supersede a lease agreement the park district signed with Realgy Energy Services, an electric utility company based in West Hartford, Connecticut, two years ago. Except for the addition of two more solar panels atop the Ridgeland Common and the duration of the lease, the two agreements are largely the same. The park district’s board is expected to vote to approve the new lease on Nov. 1. In 2016, Realgy reached out to the park district about putting two solar panels on Ridgeland Common’s roof. In approving the initial deal, the park district agreed to purchase electricity for Ridgeland Common which is not generated by the solar panels
from Realgy. In exchange, Realgy installed and maintains the panels. During the park board’s Oct. 18 meeting, park district Executive Director Jan Arnold told the commissioners that they wound up getting more solar power than originally expected. “We projected at the time that [the savings] would be around $7,000 [a year],” she said. “We’re happy to report we’re current saving $25,000 annually.” So when Realgy offered to install two more panels, the park district was interested. While the original two panels were a 100-kilowatt system, the two new panels will add another 150 kilowatts. Together, the solar panels are expected to generate more than twice as much solar power than before. That, in turn, would save the park district $60,000 annually. According to Arnold, adding the new panels would cover about 30 percent of RCRC’s energy needs. The original lease agreement was set for eight years. The new agreement will last just as long, terminating June 30, 2027 at the earliest. Board Vice President Sandy Lentz wondered whether the roof would be able to handle the weight of two extra solar panels, but Arnold assured her that both the park district and the village looked into it, and neither found any issues.
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SUN-DRENCHED: Solar panels cover the Ridgeland Common Recreation Complex. Board President Victor Guarino wondered how much power the park district gets from solar panels overall. “It would be nice to get total savings on our total inventory for solar and publicize that, and what percentage of [park district’s overall] electric bill is provided by solar,” he said. “There are groups of people who could care less about trees and [care about] how
much they’re saving.” Arnold said that she didn’t have the exact numbers at the moment, but called the Ridgeland Common Recreation Complex is one of the “larger” solar power contributors. Arnold said the staff will look into the matter, as well as how much the park district is saving in water bills by recycling rain water.
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Cost concerns from page 1 work included in those sequences would take place too far into the future and that many variables — including materials costs, inflation and interest rates — could change dramatically. Still, some community members, particularly residents affiliated with the group OPRF Pragmatic Solutions, were adamant about seeing those financial projections. The whole five-sequence plan could take between six and 10 years to complete, depending on how aggressively the board acts to implement the many individual construction projects within it. Those separate projects range the gamut and address a wide array of physical deficits in the century-old high school campus — from relocating and upgrading the current library to renovating 76 classrooms in the first sequence alone to constructing a new 4-story facility for physical education and athletics in the third sequence. During the Oct. 25 meeting, Rick Young, with Perkins and Will, presented an updated draft financial funding plan that included cost estimates for the last two sequences and a flowchart showing how the various sequences, and their component projects, related to each other.
OAKPARK.COM | RIVERFOREST.COM Young said that the draft funding plan is designed to give the board some flexibility in implementing the various sequences and components, adding that some components can be done independently of the others. A lot of those independent components include summer construction work. For instance, one component that includes the renovation of 64 classrooms and that costs around $6 million can be done over multiple summers. The first, second and third sequences would cost a projected $28.3 million, $66.9 million and $49.6 million, respectively. The major project in the first sequence includes relocating and renovating the library and cafeteria while major features of the second and third sequences, respectively, include adding the physical education facility and constructing a student commons area. Those component projects could take 14 months, 18 months and 6 months to complete in the first, second and third sequences, respectively. The first three sequences all feature green roofs in various parts of campus, including the newly constructed additions. The architects also provided the district the flexibility to install solar panels as alternatives. Green roofs, Young said, could save the district money down the road. “Storm water is a significant issue throughout the metropolitan Chicago area and governing bodies are implementing stricter and stricter measures to deal with the issue for every new construction project that affects the site or the overall footprint
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of the building,” according to the draft funding plan. Sequences four and five would include the renovation of classrooms, administrative offices and science labs, among other instructional areas, and are projected to cost $20.6 million and $53.5 million, respectively. Those numbers, however, came with yet another caveat. “We want to stress that estimating costs for work that likely would begin at least six years from now is extremely difficult to do with any accuracy,” according to the draft funding plan. “The actual plan components and the actual costs to build them are certain to change significantly before sequences 4 and 5 are executed more than five years from now, for a variety of reasons,” the architects explained. Those reasons include the fact that changes to the first three sequences “would have implications for what is included” in the last two sequences, changes in the economy and construction industry that might affect cost and the possibility that “the school’s needs will change over time.” During the Oct. 25 meeting, some community members expressed frustration with the large price tag. “Are you crazy! You must be crazy!” said Maureen Kleinman, adding that the master plan “does not even give us any new or renovated classrooms for academic, vocational and technical use and applied arts.” “You have to have some limits, time constraints and priorities,” said Kevin Peppard.
Michael Stacks, an Oak Park resident who stressed that he is not a member of ORPF Pragmatic Solutions — the group founded by Monica Sheehan that was instrumental in narrowly defeating a 2016 referendum related to another long-term facilities plan — said that he feels that “the same lack of trust” that felled the previous long-term facilities plan is brewing with the “wellthought out” Imagine process. “I am concerned with the costs and the public’s concern that it addresses athletics over academics,” he said, adding that he hopes the district “presents multiple options, including options that reduce the overall cost and may eliminate certain athletic programs, whatever they may be.” Lynn Kamenitsa, an Imagine co-chair, however, pushed back against what she said was “lots of false and misleading information” about the master facilities plan “being spread by letters, online comments, flyers and social media lately.” For instance, she said, claims that the plan will not include classroom enhancements and STEM labs, or that it includes an Olympic size pool are not true. Kamenitsa urged residents who have questions about the plan to visit Imagine OPRF’s web page, imagineoprf.org. A town hall on the master facilities plan was scheduled to take place on Oct. 30, inside of OPRF’s South Cafeteria. The Imagine group is expected to present a final plan to the school board sometime next month. CONTACT: michael@oakpark.com
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Preferred developer from page 1 residential components. The decision comes following the recommendation of the Oak Park Economic Development Corporation (OPEDC), a quasigovernmental entity tasked with bringing economic development to the village. OPEDC’s letter of recommendation notes that there were four responses to the request for proposals issued in June. The other three proposals came from Jameson Charhouse Group/Marquette Companies/TWM Consulting, Michigan Avenue Real Estate Group, and Nitti Development. Jupiter’s vision has changed several times since the village began negotiating with the company in 2015. A recent version included: a mixed-use complex with a grocery store as large as 60,000 square feet on the second story of the building; 36,000 square feet of additional retail on the ground floor; and as many as 48 residences above a parking structure that would be available to both residents and customers of the various businesses. Jupiter announced signing a letter of intent with Jewel-Osco grocery store in July, but Jewel pulled out of the deal in early October. “Within a week, Jupiter reported to OPEDC that Pete’s Fresh Market was prepared to develop a new 41,500-square-foot store under a simplified development concept that would include a ground-level store with surface parking, additional outparcel retail, and would eliminate costly structured parking and the mid-rise residential component of the original proposal,” the OPEDC letter of recommendation notes. OPEDC met with representatives of Pete’s on Oct. 12 and 19 to negotiate the proposal, putting together a plan where the village would donate to the developer the property from 700 to 728 Madison St. and provide $3 million “to fund land acquisition costs for the private property at 644 Madison St., plus any remaining costs related to environmental remediation needed to construct the proposed improvements,” according to the OPEDC letter. Jupiter also has proposed purchasing the privately held property at 711 Madison St.,
Rendering provided by Jupiter Realty
A NEW PLAN: Jupiter Realty Company’s rendering of a senior living facility at 711 Madison St. on the south side of the street, to build a $60 million senior housing facility, which would be constructed by Paragon Real Estate. That would be owned by Essex Communities of Omaha, Nebraska, according to OPEDC’s letter. That building would include 201 residential units — 30 assisted living, 40 memory care and 131 independent living — that would “span the existing Euclid Avenue right-of-way and an additional property to the west.” Paragon asked the village to fund environmental remediation for the parcels of land, which is projected to cost $682,000. Nitti proposed a 155-unit multifamily development but “was not short-listed due to its lack of experience in this type of largescale multifamily infill development,” according to OPEDC’s letter of recommendation. The board voted unanimously to accept OPEDC’s recommendation, but trustees voiced disappointment about the scaledback project. Trustee Dan Moroney said it must be acknowledged that the smaller proposal was
“not what we want.” “Oak Park is great but we can’t force what we want, so we have to deal with what we have,” he said. “The status quo sure as heck isn’t the best option.” Oak Park Mayor Anan Abu-Taleb said that after six years of working on the project, he feels “like we can exhale.” “Is this the perfect development that we could do on Madison Street? It’s not, but it is the best possible project that we can do right
now,” he said. Jameson/Marquette proposed a 10-story, 218-unit, mixed-use building with two restaurants on the ground floor — those restaurants would have been a 5,000-square-foot Jameson’s Charhouse and a smaller café. Michigan Avenue Real Estate’s proposal would build a four-story, 96-unit residential building with parking and 6,000 square feet of retail space on the ground floor. tim@oakpark.com
District 97 gives pay raise to subs
Daily pay rate jumps from $103 to $110 By MICHAEL ROMAIN Staff Reporter
Substitute teachers and substitute teaching assistants in Oak Park Elementary
Schools District 97 are now taking home more money after the school board voted unanimously during an Oct. 23 regular meeting to increase their daily pay rate by $7 — from $103 to $110. Board member Rupa Datta was absent. The change only applies to substitute teachers and substitute teaching assistants who have the appropriate credentials, district officials pointed out in a statement
released last week. They explained that anyone who only possesses an Illinois paraprofessional license will “continue to receive the rate of pay that the board approved in January 2018 ($45 for a half day or $90 for a full day).” The pay increase comes after district administrators compared the pay of D97 substitutes to the average substitute pay in 30 other suburban school districts. District
officials said that they hope the increased pay rate will help them fill more substitute teaching positions. Anyone interested in becoming a substitute teacher must have a valid Illinois teaching or substitute teaching license. For more information, visit op97.org/hr/ substitutes. CONTACT: michael@oakpark.com
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hen it comes to haunted houses, there are true believers and doubting skeptics. Some are convinced that every corner Victorian is harboring the spirits of former inhabitants, and some are equally positive that the only ghosts in Oak Park are the variety wearing cast-off sheets as costumes. With its old housing stock and interesting history, Oak Park has its share of ghost stories floating around. Whether you choose to believe the lore or remain unconvinced, stories of Oak Park ghosts make for interesting legends on this of all days. Years ago, when the Oak Park River Forest Historical Society held annual Spirits in the Night housewalks, then-Historical Society Presi-
dent Kelli Kline and other volunteers researched ghost stories, along with the history of local homes. For years, Kline was a sympathetic ear to many residents who had stories to tell of hauntings in their own residences. Planted firmly in the believer camp, Kline found many credible stories of hauntings which are worth retelling.
Haunted houses Kline says several friends shared stories of ghosts in their Oak Park homes with her. One, who lived in an 1890s era home on Grove Avenue, reported seeing the ghost of an older woman wearing mourning clothing typical of the Victorian era, and her young daughter also reported seeing “an old lady” at the foot of her bed. After some delving into the home’s history, Kline learned that the owners of the home at the turn See HAUNTED on page 21
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Spirited spirits from page 17 of the century were a husband and wife, and the wife’s mother was a widow from Iowa. “She came to live with them, and she died in the house and was waked in the house,” said Kline. “Her husband died in 1880, so the kind of clothing my friend said the ghost was wearing would have been the widow’s weeds that women wore in mourning at that time.” At another home on Grove Avenue, Kline said that the owner invited in “ghost busters” and a clairvoyant to try to get rid of any unwelcome spirits. “All three said there was a spirit of a man, and the clairvoyant said she saw a man smoking a pipe and sitting in the back parlor,” Kline said “They said he was very proud of the house.” Kline says the owner of the home KELLI KLINE described waking up Former historical to the smell of pipe society president smoke in the house when she was home alone. At a home on Clinton Avenue, Kline says owners described seeing two spirits. One was the figure of a man. The homeowner awoke to see him in the bedroom, wearing a suit and tying a tie. He then walked through a wall, at a space that the homeowner later determined had originally been a doorway but that had been
“I truly believe that certain people can see them and certain cannot.”
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walled in during a remodel After extinguishing the of the home. Another time, candles and locking up for the the homeowner walked into night, the employee returned her baby’s room to see the the next morning to find all of spirit of a young girl rocking the candles lit. the baby’s cradle. “The point is that these were While she may be a bevotive candles,” Kline said. liever herself, Kline under“They were small and would stands that not everyone is have burnt out if they’d been willing, or perhaps able, to left lit overnight.” share the experience of the There are also stories of spirits. interns and workers feeling “I truly believe that cerstrange presences in the attic tain people can see them and and basement spaces. Some claimed to have seen a woman certain cannot,” Kline said. For her, Oak Park remains in white standing at the winripe for further tales of dow on the stair landing. ghosts. Kline says that through re“We have so many old search they discovered that Victorian houses here,” prior to the Cheneys living in she said. “The Victorians the mansion, an occupant of were really worried about the home died and was waked and invested in the spirit in the house. world. They had so many “She was really sick and customs around mourning, used a wheelchair before she Courtesy of www.cheneymansion.com from having weepers at fudied,” Kline said. “We were CHENEY CHILLS: Above and lower left, “spirits” greet visitors at the nerals to covering mirrors thinking that she was actually 2011 Spirits in the Night housewalk. with black cloth to wearing wearing nightgown when she black.” was seen as a ghost.” Still not convinced? If Geppetto’s Toy Box at 730 Halloween doesn’t spark your interest in “Cheney Mansion is big haunted,” Kline Lake St. in Oak Park for decades was the haunted houses, at least it’s an opportunity to said. “They’ve had all sorts of weird stuff home of Quintero Ltd., a women’s clothing get some good candy. Official trick or treating going on.” store. hours are 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. in Oak Park. Kline says that for years after it closed, Some of the odd circumstances include caretakers receiving calls that all the lights business owners in the store reported seeare on at the house when the last one to ing a ghost in the basement storage area Ghosts in other places leave the house turned them all off. Kline who strongly resembled Mr. Quintero. “He was a ladies’ man, and used to wear Formerly a home, now owned by the Park recalls hearing from one employee about District of Oak Park, the Cheney Mansion holding an evening event in the home in a cape and black hat,” Kline said. “People at 220 N. Euclid Ave. has long been the sub- which the fireplaces were filled with votive would see someone dressed like that floating in the basement.” ject of ghost stories. candles.
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Spectacularly adorned Victorian nestled in the heart of downtown Oak Park! Agent: Steve Scheuring
$399,900
Completely updated townhouse offering 4 levels of low maintenance, open concept living Agent: Saretta Joyner
ACTIVE LISTING
Unbelievably spacious and bright condo located in charming brick building! Agent: Leigh Ann Hughes
Chicago
$624,900
Outstanding home in outstanding location. 4 levels of living in this classic brick Tudor! Agent: Patricia McGowan
ACTIVE LISTING
You will want to live here! Block parties, progressive dinners, book club, wine time! Agent: Meredith Conn & Lisa Andreoli
ACTIVE LISTING
Not to be missed- Impressive attention to detail and flow throughout this OP Beauty! Agent: Celeste Duignan
Oak Park
ACTIVE LISTING
Lovely maintenance free home with lots of curb appeal! Agent: Mary Carlin
ACTIVE LISTING
Amazing one of a kind SE corner unit with private terrace! Agent: Patricia McGowan
Oak Park
ACTIVE LISTING
Vibrant Glenwood Arts Community with Farmers Market and everything Loyola! Agent: Meredith Conn & Lisa Andreoli
$301,200
This spacious & gracious home has room to roam for the entire family! Agent: Catherine Simon-Vobornik
ACTIVE LISTING
Potential abounds in this bungalow with a great location in River Forest Agent: Arrick Pelton
NEW PRICE
Welcome to this beautiful & expansive ranchstyle brick home nestled in a quiet cul-de-sac! Agent: Steve Green
$595,000
River Forest
ACTIVE LISTING
ACTIVE LISTING
Discover the best of Logan Square at the newest condominium development- The Avenue. Agent: Boris Lehtman
$1,500,000
A rare opportunity awaits! Home can function as luxury home or B&B! Agent: Kara G. Keller
Cicero
NEW PRICE
Awesome, updated & well maintained brick cape cod in North Riverside! Agent: Moe Pacheco
NEW PRICE
$744,000
Sophisticated, refined describe this spacious, newly built duplex on a quiet tree lined street. Agent: Boris Lehtman
NEW LISTING
This one has it all! Outstanding, walk to it all location & extensively customized! Agent: Patricia McGowan
Oak Park
Chicago
107 S Scoville Ave. Oak Park ACTIVE LISTING
ACTIVE LISTING
Move in ready, solid brick, 4 bedroom, 3 bath split level home, Agent: Priscilla Jaimes
ACTIVE LISTING
Deerfield
$269,900
NEW PRICE
WOW! Central Oak Park location for this home completely renovated and restored in 2005! Agent: Vanessa Willey
Oak Park
NEW PRICE
Beautiful bungalow in the Depot District of Berwyn! Agent: Sandra Dita Lopez
ACTIVE LISTING
$452,000
Sunny, solidly built Georgian nestled in a fabulous NW Oak Park location! Agent: Lisa Andreoli
ACTIVE LISTING
Totally rehabbed in 2016, but the vintage charm is still here! Agent: Liz O’Connell
Oak Park
843 N Marion St. Oak Park
FEATURED LISTING
Homer Glen
$749,999
This stunning country estate exudes elegance with modern style and fine appointments Agent: Roman Lewis
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Maywood Manor
You can be a part of this up-and-coming historical and vibrant community!
Experience the Elegance and Beauty of the Past, while enjoying the amenities and features of the present in this 2 bedroom, 2 full and 1 half bath condo. Living arrangements that are second to none!.............................................................$169,900
For floor plans and additional details, contact Susan Maienza at 708.860.1141
Gorgeous Home - Energy-Efficient Design
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ovingly renovated, 1126 Clinton in Oak Park has all the original character plus the added amenities we all love to have in our homes.
The home features a large addition that was designed by the awardwinning architect Tom Bassett-Dilley, who specializes in “green” homes that marry sustainable features with stylish design.
7375 West North Avenue River Forest, Illinois 60305 708.771.8040
The open floor plan boasts beamed ceilings throughout the first floor and a stunning builtin sideboard in the dining room. The modern kitchen opens to both the dining room and a large family room with east and south facing windows and a fireplace. In addition, a firstfloor bedroom and a full bath create a perfect guest suite. The family room overlooks an extensive deck and professionally landscaped backyard. Upstairs you’ll find four lightfilled bedrooms including a master suite with a private deck, three closets, and both a tub and shower! You will love the spacious closets in every bedroom. The basement is finished with a cozy recreation room and a half bath. There is plenty of storage under the addition as well. This home has earned the rare energy star rating with its incredible insulation and geothermal heating/cooling system, which costs on average $27 per month! Situated on a double lot, on a great block just behind Lincoln School.
LUXURY
510 KEYSTONE, RIVER FOREST :: $1,395,000 :: 7+ BED :: 7.5 BATH Gourmet kitchen opens to family room. Attached 3 car garage. Walk to train.
KATHY & TONY IWERSEN 708.772.8040 708.772.8041 tonyiwersen@atproperties.com
There is nothing to do here, except to move in and enjoy! 1126 Clinton is listed for $775,000. Beyond Properties invites you to our Open House on Sunday, November 4th from 11am to 1pm. Tom Bassett-Dilley will be joining us on Sunday answering any questions on this home’s addition and sustainable features. If you ever wanted to learn about green design, here’s your chance this Sunday! For more information, contact Erica Cuneen at Beyond Properties Realty, 708-220-2025.
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Generations of Excellence since 1958
708.771.8040 • 7375 W. North Ave., River Forest DonnaAvenue Barnhisel Don Citrano 7375 West North Dan Bogojevich Julie Cliggett Anne Brennan Alisa Coghill Illinois 60305 Karen Byrne Kay Costello Kevin Calkins JoLyn Crawford 708.771.8040 Andy Gagliardo Tom Carraher Maria Cullerton
MANAGING River Forest, BROKER/OWNERS
Pat Cesario Joe Cibula
Tom Poulos
132 DES PLAINES • FOREST PARK
Julie Downey Kurt Fielder
Yvonne Fiszer-Steele Ramona Fox Laura Gancer Chris Garvey Lisa Grimes Dan Halperin Sharon Halperin Greg Jaroszewski
Vee Jaroszewski Noa Klima Sherree Krisco Jack Lattner Susan Maienza Charlotte Messina Vince McFadden Elizabeth Moroney
Colleen Navigato John Pappas Sue Ponzio-Pappas Rosa Pitassi Caroline Rauch Michael Roche Jenny Ruland Laurel Saltzman
Laurie Shapiro Tom Sullivan Debbie Watts George Wohlford Nancy Wohlford
1140 JACKSON • RIVER FOREST OPEN SUNDAY 13
1423 LATHROP • RIVER FOREST OPEN SUNDAY 13
142 S SCOVILLE • OAK PARK OPEN SUNDAY 121:30
SETTING A NEW STANDARD in approachable elegance, this five bedroom, 3-1/2 bath home will exceed your expectations with wide plank hardwood floors, striking lighting and custom millwork throughout. One of a kind floor plan, and three fully finished levels. .............................................................................................. $1,250,000
HANDSOME TUTOR with classic original details beautifully blend with tasteful updated baths and kitchen. This 4 bedroom, 4-1/2 BA home with a spacious LR includes wood burning FP, built-in corner cabinets in DR, a full outdoor kitchen and patio, and finished basement........................................................................................ $899,000
CENTER OF TOWN VICTORIAN with high ceilings, four spacious levels of living in beautiful Oak Park. This 5 BR, 3-12 BA home offers a formal entry, wood burning FP, sun room, family room, eat-in kitchen. Great flow, tons of natural light & storage throughout this beauty! .................................................................................... $675,000
NE W LIS TING! ENJOY LUXURY LIVING in this masterfully renovated home on an extra wide lot. Gutted down to the studs, this Impressive open concept home features wood floors, natural light and high-style designer finishes. 1st FL office, finished LL family room and easy access to a large deck. ........................................................... $474,000
ADDITIONAL OPEN HOUSES • SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2018
RIVER FOREST HOMES
BURMA BUILT BUHRKE HOUSE combines Tudor revival & chateau style architecture elements. Gorgeous décor and impeccable attention to detail in both house and landscaped grounds. ....................................................................$2,399,000 BEAUTIFUL RIVER FOREST ESTATE features a stone and brick exterior leading to a timeless Interior. Includes a two story marble foyer, spiral staircase, 5 fireplaces. ..........................................................................................................$1,895,000 SPECTACULAR HOME offers modern/elegant architectural design, tasteful decor and impeccable attention to detail throughout, featuring 4 BRs, and 5 full baths..................................................................................................................$1,595,000 CLASSIC, ELEGANT HOME with exceptional design & open floor plan. Special features include a dramatic double door entry, gracious foyer, limestone mantle, open great room. .............................................................................................$1,250,000 SPECTACULAR HOME features generously sized bedrooms, loads of closet space, a chef’s kitchen. High end features throughout. Two car attached garage...... ............................................................................................................................$1,200,000 IMPECCABLY MAINTAINED COMTEMPORARY HOME includes 3 BRs, 3 full and 3 half BAs, unique bamboo floors, multi-faced gas fireplace, in-ground pool.......................................................................................................................$940,000 LOVELY TUTOR HOME offers beautiful woodwork and custom built-ins throughout. Original details blend seamlessly with the updated 3-story addition.... ...............................................................................................................................$899,000 LOVELY BRICK GEORGIAN with elegance, modern day conveniences, and space. Hardwood floors, 3 fireplaces, sunroom with heated floors, LL rec room. ..... ...............................................................................................................................$875,000 ELEGANT, GRACIOUS HOME with 4 BRs, 2-1/2 BAs offers, hardwood floors, beautiful molding, family room, eat-in kitchen, finished LL and whole house generator. ...................................................................................................................$719,000 GREAT LOCATION & EASY LIVING in this Tri-level home. Great flow for entertaining, complete with family room. Finished LL. Growth to make it your own .............................................................................................................................. .$619,000 BEAUTIFUL 3 LEVEL SINGLE FAMILY offers 3800+ sq/ft of living! Open concept on first floor. Second floor features 4 BRs & sunroom overlooking backyard. .....................................................................................................................$595,000 THIS IS YOUR PERFECT HOME! Brick, three generous sized bedroom Georgian on corner lot. Updated kitchen, 1st Fl fam rm, fin bsmt, laundry/storage room. ....................................................................................................................$595,000
OAK PARK HOMES
UNPRECEDENTED ESTATE in the Frank Lloyd Wright Historical district of OP! Meticulously renovated property offers exquisite details and refined finishes. A showcase home! ..............................................................................................$1,625,000
236 FOREST • OPEN SUNDAY 122
RIVER FOREST
STUNNING RENOVATION by Birmingham Development. Situated on a tree lined cul-de-sac block, this four bedroom, three and one half bath home has been thoughtfully designed and constructed with high quality craftsmanship & great attention to detail.......................$995,000
1206 LATHROP • OPEN SUNDAY 13
THIS HOME HAS IT ALL! Open floor plan, hardwood flooring and natural woodwork. High-end kitchen, first floor laundry area. Four large bedrooms. Large basement offers additional living space. 2-car attached garage. Tons of storage with lots of natural light throughout. ...$795,000
555 WILLIAM • OPEN SUNDAY 2:304
PERFECT LOCATION! This 3 BR, 2-1/2 BA home has it all! Remarkable Kitchen that opens to DR, gracious LR with fireplace, & a sunroom. Fin bsmt with family room , full bath and separate laundry room. Huge deck off the kitchen that overlooks professional landscaped yard. ....$619,000
1521 BONNIE BRAE UNIT 1FL • OPEN SUNDAY 13
NEW LISTING GROUND FLOOR UNIT NEWLY UPDATED with laminate and porcelain tile floor. New kitchen, large living room with picture window; large bedroom with two closets; covered rear patio and 2 parking spaces at your rear door...............................................$129,500
SO MUCH TO LOVE about this house in the Historic Harrison Street District built in 1913! Since then, house has doubled in size and sits on an eco friendly lot............ ...............................................................................................................................$465,000 SIDE ENTRANCE COLONIAL offers generous LR with wood burning fireplace, formal DR, breakfast rm, laundry in basement, mature fenced yard...........$450,000 READY TO MOVE IN charming 3 BR home features a welcoming front porch with swing and sitting area. Home offers oak woodwork, stained glass & hardwood floors.....................................................................................................................$449,500 WARM, INVITING CLASSIC OP HOME with vintage charm throughout. Stained glass window, hardwood floors, beamed ceiling, built-in cabinet, eat-in kitchen..................................................................................................................$415,000 CLASSIC OP BRICK BUNGALOW in wonderful location! Newly decorated, hardwood floors thru-out, all new windows. Nice sized yard with patio. .$370,000
FOREST PARK HOMES
OAK PARK 1213 EDMER • OPEN SUNDAY 24
PRICE REDUCED TWO STORY BRICK & FRAME HOME w/open floor plan on first floor with slate entry & hardwood floors. Basement is semi finished with laundry room..............................................................................................$375,000
FOREST PARK 7637 JACKSON UNIT 3S • OPEN SUNDAY 2:304 310 LATHROP UNIT 205 • OPEN SUNDAY 122
LARGE BRICK COLONIAL beautifully renovated from top to bottom! Some updates include wood floors, plumbing, electrical, appliances, siding, roof............... ...............................................................................................................................$409,000 PRICE REDUCED JUST MOVE IN! Serious pride of ownership is evident. Crown molding, a remodeled cook’s kitchen, separate breakfast room with builtins, den. A must see............................................................................................$299,000
LARGE BUNGALOW with beautiful slate entry, amazing art glass windows, hardwood floors & stunning period lighting throughout! This 5 bedroom, 4 bath home offers gas fireplace, built-in bookcases, cooks kitchen. LL has finished rec room laundry & plenty of storage! ............. $529,900
PRICE REDUCED TREE TOP VIEW IN THIS VINTAGE UNIT renovated in 1999. Natural wood trim, oak floors, entry hall with original brass light fixture; BI phone cubby and large coat closet. Separate eating area next to wood cabinet kitchen. .............................................$102,500
NEAT, TIDY ONE BEDROOM recently painted, new carpet in living room and bedroom. Maple cabinet kitchen w ceramic tile floor and eating area. Balcony off living room. Parking spot and storage space. Just move in and enjoy. ........................................................................$99,500
YOU WON’T BE DISAPPOINTED in this recently renovated, move-in ready E.E. Roberts home. This stunning 4 BR prairie style house is located in OP’s estate section. .................................................................................................................$899,000 COMFORT & CONTENTMENT LIVING in gracious A.L. Gardner House. Many improvements include a total kitchen redo and finished 3rd floor family room......... ...............................................................................................................................$899,000 STATELY BRICK CENTERENTRANCE COLONIAL. WB fireplace, high ceilings, crown molding, architectural details, leaded glass windows, hardwood throughout. .........................................................................................................$760,000 LARGE ENGLISH COUNTRY TUDOR HOME with 5 BRs, 3-1/2 BAs in OP’s Historic District. Impressive home blends both old and new, with natural woodwork.......................................................................................................................$749,950
WONDERFUL HOME offers a combination of original features and updated modern conveniences in this five bedroom, 2 full, 2 half bath home..........$719,000 GORGOUS TOTAL GUT REHAB of this unique bungalow. A lot of house in this 6 BR, 4-1/2 BA home with open floor plan, quality finishes, family room. $665,000 MOVEIN READY! Enjoy the well thought out design of this 5 BR, 4 BA home! Open floor plan, kitchen/fam room combo, finished bsmt. .........................$599,900 CLASSIC QUEEN ANNE HOME with 3 bedrooms, 3-1/2 baths includes sun room, family room, updated kitchen, great closet space, fin rec room, custom deck. .....................................................................................................................$545,000 A TRUE OP BEAUTY! Enjoy the deep park-like lot in Northwest Oak Park. Well maintained 1905 Farmhouse with 3 BR, 1-1/2 baths. In great condition! ..$479,900
ELMWOOD PARK HOMES
CONDOS/TOWNHOMES/2-FLATS
RIVER FOREST 3BR, 2BA. Two parking spaces.........................................$309,000 RIVER FOREST 2BR, 2BA Penthouse condo w/balcony. .........................$264,000 OAK PARK 3BR, 3-1/2BA. Screened porch& open deck............................$555,000 OAK PARK 3BR, 3BA. Two separate balconies............................................$405,000 PRICE REDUCED OAK PARK 2BR, 2BA. ...............................................$305,000 OAK PARK 3BR, 2BA. “Chicago style apartment”. .....................................$248,000 OAK PARK 2BR, 1BA. Original character/modern comforts. ....................$160,000 OAK PARK 1BR, 1BA. Spacious, sunny, top floor. ....................................... $129,900 OAK PARK 1BR, 1BA. Vintage condo. ...........................................................$115,000 OAK PARK 1BR, 1BA. Updated kitchen and bath. ........................................$99,000 OAK PARK 1BR, 1BA. Balcony overlooks courtyard. ....................................$76,000 PRICE REDUCED FOREST PARK 2BR, 2BA. .........................................$174,000 PRICE REDUCED FOREST PARK 1BR, 1BA. ........................................ $169,500 NEW LISTING ELMWOOD PARK 2BR, 2BA. ....................................... $179,000 NEW LISTING ELMWOOD PARK 2BR, 2BA........................................$150,000
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271 N. Elm Ave, Elmhurst. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re/Max In The Village . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $274,900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2 1150 S. Humphrey Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . @properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $360,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2 623 N. Lombard Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re/Max In The Village . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $398,800 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2:30-4 838 Woodbine Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re/Max In The Village . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $449,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-4 838 N. Kenilworth, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . @properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $485,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3
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1217 N. Marion St, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re/Max In The Village . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $489,500 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12:30-2 113 S. Euclid Ave. UNIT A, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Baird & Warner Oak Park/River Forest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $499,900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-1:30 1213 Edmer Ave, Oak Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $529,900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-4 842 N. Elmwood Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . @properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $584,900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2 555 William St, River Forest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $619,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2:30-4 514 N. Grove Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Baird & Warner Oak Park/River Forest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $624,900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-3:30 101 N. Euclid Ave. UNIT 12, Oak Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Baird & Warner Oak Park/River Forest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $642,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-1:30 142 S. Scoville Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $675,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-1:30 1126 Clinton Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Beyond Properties Realty Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $775,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-1 1206 Lathrop Ave, River Forest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $795,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 1423 Lathrop Ave, River Forest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $899,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 236 Forest Ave, River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $995,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2 1140 Jackson Ave, River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,250,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 703 N. East Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Baird & Warner Oak Park/River Forest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,299,900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-1:30
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310 Lathrop Ave. UNIT 205, Forest Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$99,500 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2 7637 Jackson Blvd. UNIT 3S, Forest Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $102,500 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2:30-4 1521 Bonnie Brae Pl. UNIT 1FL, River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $129,500 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 415 S. Maple Ave. UNIT 201, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . @properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $134,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Sat. 11-1 7243 Madison St. UNIT 421, Forest Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re/Max In The Village . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $245,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2 15 Forest Ave. UNIT 19, River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . @properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $554,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-1
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15 Forest Ave. UNIT 19, River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . @properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $554,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Sat. 11-1
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The terrible risk of freedom
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velyn Beatrice Hall (1868-1956) coined the famous phrase: “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” Since my teens, I have admired this uniquely American notion. Tolerance of difference, even the celebration of differences, is one of the most foundational and demanding notions of the American idea. In the wake of the Pittsburgh shootings, this idea is more important than ever. We are living in uncomfortable times. History will judge us harshly. It will be a tale of a president whose pivot point is the economy, who sees all other issues through that lens. Immigrants, according to him, don’t strengthen us; they take our jobs, health care and education without being legally deserving. I want this president to rise above his economic comfort zone and risk being uncomfortable. It will take many pounds of leadership to look the NRA in the eye and have the courage to say, “No more military-grade weapons for public sale.” I understand this will not eliminate violence born of hate and bad guys will continue to acquire weapons. But I believe common-sense gun legislation will make a dent in this terrible risk of freedom. Our unique American experiment depends on diversity to strengthen our notions of justice and liberty. It is only in the test of diversity that we find the truth of difference: When we accept, enfold and celebrate difference, we become more powerful, not less. Differences give us new ideas, new solutions to old problems, and the gift of new points of view. The American experiment, where anyone has a chance to create their best life, no matter where their great-grandparents emigrated from, has proven true. Go back far enough and you realize that all of our ancestors walked out of Africa to populate the world’s continents. We are all immigrants. Tolerance is not baked into the human condition. Tolerance (and intolerance) is taught, by example and by words, by parents and aunts and uncles and neighbors and friends. We must, must recall the phrase “e pluribus unum” (out of many, one) printed on our money so we don’t forget it. We must defend the right to be different, to be gay, to be Jewish, to be liberal or conservative, to have a different shade of skin color. The fabric of America is a weave of threads different in length, color, and texture. The result is visionary and wonderful. Like flu shots, we know that voting is good for us and the community at large, but voting requires an effort. In 2016, less than half of the American electorate (41%) hauled themselves off their couches and into a polling place to take advantage of this civic privilege. But today is different. In light of the infection of mass shootings in our country, there is one thing we all can do no matter what or who we agree with. We can vote.
KAREN MURIELLO One View
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Why consolidation is not the answer
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series of big tax increases by village government, coupled with a tax referendum for School District 97, are the principal reasons for the significant tax increases Oak Park property owners have experienced over the last five years. In response, village government has put an advisory referendum on the November ballot regarding the consolidation of local governments. Since this ballot measure does not address the spending decisions that drive tax increases, however, I do not believe it will have a meaningful impact on our community’s tax problems. The referendum, proposed by the village’s Efficiency Task Force, appears to be a nobrainer: should Oak Park’s village government be merged with the township, the park district and the library if such a merger would result in “a property tax reduction for the residents of Oak Park?” A referendum with no apparent downside would likely win the support of voters who read it for the first time in
the ballot booth. But what would a successful referendum actually mean? The task force claims that the results will provide “insights regarding the perspectives of voters … concerning the method of the delivery of important governmental services.” But an extremely general referendum question designed to generate a Yes vote does not provide any insight into the minds of voters. Since the referendum question provides no information on the real-life impact of consolidation, it is impossible to know what voters really think about it. For example, tax levies from village government have increased by 44 percent over the last five years. This is much higher than the levies from the other local governments that would be merged with the village (Township +11%; Park District +10%; Library -1%). If information about the levy increases of each government were on the ballot, I suspect people would oppose giving more authority to village government, and would instead wonder why village taxes have gone up by so much. There would also be less support for the referendum if its impact on my office were disclosed. Under state law, merging a township with a municipality means eliminating the elected township assessor (my office). The assessor, however, is the only local official focused on helping residents with tax problems, and demand for the assessor’s services is high. For example, during the appeal period following last year’s reassessment, roughly one out of every five Oak Park homeowners came to the township assessor’s office for assistance in filing appeals. It is doubtful that residents would knowingly vote to eliminate an office that they use so frequently. Finally, the referendum ballot fails to acknowledge that many elements of the proposed consolidation of local governments are not permitted under state law. Thus if the referendum passes, community leaders will likely spend countless hours arguing over a consolidation plan that the legislature may never approve. Is this what the community wants? I suspect our citizens would prefer that our leaders work together to make local government more efficient. Consolidation supporters assume that fewer local governments and fewer elected officials will save money through increased coordination and reduced duplication. Although there is a serious debate about whether this assumption is true, one fact about
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Vote ’Yes.’ Or, Vote ‘No’
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n Tuesday, voters in Oak Park will turn out at the polls to choose the next governor, a batch of judges and, if they get to the end of the ballot, to offer up a non-binding opinion on whether Oak Park should study the option of consolidating local taxing bodies in some non-specified way. Well not fully unspecified. The proposal, put forward by the Taxing Bodies Efficiency Task Force, implies that it would be problematic to consolidate either or both of the public school districts into an existing taxing body. That leaves the village government, the park district, the library and the township as possible partners. This referendum question has spurred some angst, particularly among defenders of Oak Park Township, which is perceived as the target of a hostile takeover by village government. Certainly, the village has been inartful in raising the consolidation option. There have been tensions between the village and the park district related to new construction downtown, and its inability to make a pact with District 97 to share a new or rehabilitated headquarters on Madison Street. And across Illinois, township governments have been the poster child for the fact that our broke and abused state has more units of local government than any other. So how to vote on this question? What does it hurt to vote “Yes” and allow “consideration” of some sort of consolidation? Or, what does it hurt to vote “No” since the chance of any actual consolidation is remote. We don’t have an actual recommendation. We do, though, have strong feelings that the report of this ad hoc task force, issued two months after the ballot question was approved, is a strong and worthy approach to finally bringing runaway property taxes to a slow trot. Let’s focus on innovation and actual collaboration among these governments to take real costs out of service delivery. And let’s focus on the creation of the ongoing citizen-led financial oversight commission that would provide actual accountability for each and every taxing body.
Things we like
■ Some months back we urged the school board at Oak Park and River Forest High School to reclaim the decision over what graduates wear to the ceremony. For 100 years there was no debate or dissension over the white dresses and dark suits worn by young women and men. And then, as our collective awareness grew about stereotypes and clothing choices, an interesting debate ensued. The school, we think rightly, left the gradual modernizing vs. tradition debate in the hands of students. That was well and good until these past few years when it came into focus that there are real issues of gender and gender fluidity underlying what had seemed a more basic decision. The rights of the minority of students on a sexual identity continuum needed to be actively acknowledged and respected. The decision last week by the school board to accept the position of the administration to move to caps and gowns this coming spring is absolutely the correct one for our high school. Well done. ■ For 40 years, since the exodus of auto row, Madison Street in Oak Park has been a hodge-podge of odd uses. Some retail, a few restaurants, some remnant auto care, a few institutions and governments. Not much of a destination but a pretty good thoroughfare. The village of Oak Park accumulated some key parcels but never had the vision, will or the economy to make the future happen. But Monday night that changed as major developments on both sides of the street at Oak Park Avenue were approved. Further, the lingering debate over narrowing traffic lanes on the street was finally implemented. This is what progress looks like.
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Trick-or-treating when you’re older Since we’re publishing on Oct. 31 this year, and because we all need a reminder right about now that goodness and beauty abound, I went back to the archives for this column from the year 2000, slightly revised and refreshed.
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alloween night, I went for an atmosphere soak during peak trick-or-treat time — walking the neighborhood from Euclid to Elmwood avenues, South Boulevard to Washington Boulevard — big old houses, thickly arbored parkways, and loads of kids, not all from that neighborhood, I’ll warrant. Doesn’t matter. Halloween isn’t about territoriality. It’s about gracious giving, even if the gifts are bad for your teeth (the real trick in trick-ortreating). We’ve been blessed the last four years with balmy weather, but this year was best. Must have been 70 degrees, judging by how many people sat on their porches and front steps. The majority of houses were warmly lit inside and most of the porch lights were turned on as well. This section of Oak Park boasts beautiful, elegant homes with ample front porches and spacious picture windows. Normally when you walk down a block, there’s a clear demarcation between outside and inside, private and public, but on this night in this neighborhood, that barrier completely dissolved. The air, temperate and bug-free, allowed many front doors to be thrown wide open. I’ve never seen so many open doors. It seemed, at first, to break some unwritten rule, but once the incongruity faded, it felt so ... welcoming, neighborly, as if privacy needs took a backseat to the more urgent imperative of communal connection. On a night like this, it’s possible to glimpse what life might be like in some future utopia of harmonious interdependence — if only humanity can find the courage to take that next evolutionary step. Forget broad lawns and narrow minds. Let’s be the village of “open doors and porch lights.” Let this be the logical next step in our long commitment to open housing. The holiday delirium was making me feel downright visionary. Overhead, the branches of leafless trees twisted gracefully against the twilight. The fingernail moon
sailed westward like a single-masted ship into the afterglow of the setting sun, pursuing its master with slavish devotion. Kids scurried from house to house, the hems of their costumes brushing the pavement, shoes scuffling through the parched parchment of curled leaves. Jack O’ Lanterns and assorted other luminaria gleamed from nearly every porch post, stairstep and window with savage contortions and/or friendly smiles. A giant cobweb, strung between two houses, rose two stories. Burial mounds of leaf mash lined the curbs. Ceramic pumpkins fused together into tiny totem poles of frightful visages. On one front lawn, a fire pit blazed, the residents reclining in white wicker furniture, sipping wine, doling out sweets. Adults were almost as numerous as kids — commuters returning from work, parents accompanying little ones, directing them, reminding them to say “trick or treat” and express gratitude for the latter. Thanksgiving can’t hold a candle to Halloween, when kids say “thank-you” far more often. Like most communities, most of the year, we are infected by an epidemic of “porch neglect.” But this was the night to take advantage of the best room outside the house. Back decks are for those who want to withdraw. Front porches are the stitching in our social fabric. For all its frightfulness and grotesque ghoulish gore, Halloween really teaches kids a lesson in neighborly beneficence, when heretofore anonymous adults become accomplices in a vast rightthinking conspiracy to create idyllic childhood moments that will age and cure for later reminiscence, just like the ones created for us. Parents play a bigger role in trick-or-treating than when I was a kid. Though born of fear for their kids’ safety, there is an unintended bonus. Being out on the streets reacquaints us with once-upon-a-time magic, allows us to steep awhile in dreamy nostalgia about the past and hopeful idealism about the future. At any rate, that’s where I was steeping. When you get older, the treats are intangible, filling our personal pillowcases with sweetmeat memories and good will. None of which cause truth decay.
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‘Hate U Give’ and ‘America to Me’
I just saw the film, The Hate You Give (THUG) — a must-see movie, by the way. In my humble opinion, if the TV series featuring OPRF High School, America to Me, does not explore one of the issues that the main character in THUG struggles with — coexisting in two very different worlds (one poor and black, the other affluent and white), then America to Me missed a prime opportunity to explore an important dilemma for many African-American adolescents who will eventually find themselves in a situation similar to the main character in THUG. She is an African-American girl from a poor, inner-city neighborhood who attends an affluent, predominantly white high school. She’s smart, outgoing, from a healthy, intact, two-parent family, and she has no emotional or psychological problems. She’s merely trying to adapt to
being a teenager who goes between two very different subcultures —one neighborhood poor and black vs. an upper-middle-class predominantly white private school. America to Me hopefully will address this important issue and take a break from solely focusing on black kids with a myriad of personal, family and/or academic challenges. The main character of THUG (Starr) is a normal black teenager who acknowledges that, as a result of going between these two very different subcultures, she doesn’t 100 percent fit into either world. This is a dilemma we need to better understand so we can guide and support these youngsters as they make their way in this world — the larger world outside their old neighborhoods.
Janice Matthews Rasheed
(Retired) professor, Loyola University Chicago
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Help do away with animal mills
want to give you some time to think. Just think about our animals, the problems, the good things. I want you to think before you start reading this article. I was thinking about my foster dog, Joy, the other day. Long story short, she was abandoned by a puppy mill. I will give you a brief description of a puppy mill. Imagine you are Joy. Golden fluffy fur, nice medium size, very adorable face. You are in the puppy mill. You are crammed in a small crate. You get very little food. You are there to have puppies. When your puppies are young, you get separated from them. Your puppies are crammed in crates with little food and no exercise for their energetic bodies. They wait and wait for adopters. When you can’t have any more puppies, you get thrown away, as if you haven’t done anything, as if you haven’t sacrificed every single one of your puppies, as if you’re not a living thing, as if you just have served people for money. It just makes me sad to think about all those dogs who are treated as if they’re not a living thing. So we all owe those animals love. An animal’s heart can’t break so many times. Now I’ll shift things over and give a small introduction of me. I’m Mia. I’m 11 years old. My family and I have fostered 16 dogs, adopted 1 rabbit and 1 fish. My family and I fostered Joy from a local shelter called Animal Care League. When Joy came to our house, she was frantic and scared. She was scared of almost everything. The vacuum cleaner, sudden movements, any noises. She’d scramble across the floor. My mom and I were shocked. She seemed traumatized. Who could ever do such a cruel thing to such a gentle and sweet dog? Joy came from a puppy mill for Wheaton Terriers, Animal Care League explained. She was forcefully having
puppies, getting separated very early in the puppy’s life, and then was abandoned. I hated that story. I hated the mystery as to where the puppy mill was. I wished and wished that Joy could speak, and tell us everything. So I finally decided that I want everyone to join me on my goal. I want to go step by step to make it very hard for a person/people to create any animal mills. I also want to help people understand how bad the conditions are in puppy mills so they decide on their own not to buy puppies that come from mills. I would be extremely delighted if all animals from the animal mills get freed and go to a shelter. I will be ecstatic if all the shelters become no-kill shelters, and if there is no space, the animals could fit into another shelter, specially created to take in animals from shelters with no room for them. I want to make step 1 come true, and then I’ll move on. I hope for the best, and I won’t give up. Please help! Please help! How? Here are some ways: ■ If you buy an animal, try to buy it from a shelter instead of pet stores and animal mills. ■ Spread the message to your neighbors, and contact people you believe have to do with an animal mill. ■ Go to thepuppymillproject.org and start trying to help locally. I’d like to say some thank you’s. First, to Animal Care League and Paws Chicago for helping my family and I understand more about animals. Next, to Cara Sue Archterberg who wrote Another Good Dog. I read that book and it inspired me to write this article. You can find more information on the website for The Puppy Mill Project (https://www.thepuppymillproject.org/). Mia Pinc is a fifth-grader at Irving Elementary School in Oak Park.
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The malevolence of America’s political right The following piece was written and submitted before the Tree of Life Synagogue murders in Pittsburgh.
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he far right wing hasn’t gotten worse. It has always been this bad, but by vicariously enjoying the rise of one of their own to the world’s most powerful position, all checks and safeties on the movement’s hatred, ignorance, superstition, tribalism, and violence have been removed. In this regard, there is no longer such a thing as “a nice person, but.” The malevolence that has infected America’s political right is too profound, ingrained, dangerous, and permanent to brush these beliefs aside in forming and maintaining our voluntary relationships. Nor can we say any longer that “it’s just politics.” Politics is certainly a big part of the equation, but there is something far more fundamental at stake. It is unacceptable for us to live out our lives in denial of the destructive views that many among us tolerate, even if they do not fully embrace them, because it gets them what they want in the moment. We must, as a society, vocally and assertively reject the depraved values, strategies, and tactics of the American right wing, even when it is uncomfortable for us to do so on a personal level. This, however, is exactly what prior generations had to do and what we must do to preserve America for future generations. It is not an exaggeration to mark these times as pivotal for the United States. The infatuation with authoritarianism in our country is nothing new. It is a continuation of past, painful schisms in the evolution of the American experience. The idea of fighting for independence from a monarch was a political dispute, but it transcended politics because it was also a question of human rights, as was the end of slavery and the rise of women’s suffrage, workers’ rights, and the Civil Rights Movement. So too is the struggle of LGBTQ individuals to become full participants in society. Many political issues of our time, like health care — voting rights, reproductive choice, humane immigration, economic justice, and wage fairness — arise from conflicting perceptions of the basic dignities that should be afforded to everyone. In each case, the status quo had (and has) its passionate defenders. In many minds among conservative America, certain people just don’t merit regard or respect. The resurgent fascists elevate such callousness into an obsession with self-empowerment and a desire to impose the kind of status quo ante that historically could only endure through exclusion, coercion, violence, and, at its worst, murder and even genocide. In apparent desperation, the right wing has turned to extremes in nationalism, religion, personal weaponry, voting suppression, and the forces of racial injustice in its attempt to broadly impose policies that cannot win in the marketplace of ideas. As the proponents of this toxic vision have become more brazen and belligerent, the unequivocal rejection of their vision has been mirrored by broad and diverse elements of society and business. It is no wonder that the right wing has allied itself with freedom’s historic national enemies who exemplify similar tactics and beliefs. When such destructive attitudes and behaviors are implicitly and explicitly endorsed by a man who has become not just the worst U.S. president in history but the most horrifying, it is no surprise that threats, violence, and terrorism are overt features of far-right-wing doctrine. The only surprise is that it took so long. The seeds were sown decades ago and cultivated all this time by well-funded power brokers. Now we are all reaping the poisonous harvest. Decency will win out as it always does, but the extent of damage and injury in the meantime and how hard we are willing to work to hasten the demise of renewed fascism are open questions. Brian Kibble-Smith is a resident of Oak Park.
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Raoul’s campaign funding a concern Illinois’ 2018 election cycle has been, for the most part, a battle of dueling rich guys. The race for attorney general is no different. But not all contributions come from a handful of wealthy men. In simplest terms, the AG office is supposed to be the citizens’ safeguard against dubious outside influences. It is in this light that one candidate’s contributions beyond one very wealthy man should give working families extreme pause. Over the past year, Kwame Raoul has received significant contributions from gambling and tobacco interests, including over $100,000 from both national and local gaming interests such as DraftKings and FanDuel and $100,000 from what the media has labeled as the “tobacco titan.” Are gambling and smoking the kind of activities the state’s chief legal officer should be associated with? How can the office that’s “advocating for women, safeguarding children,
and keeping communities safe” reconcile this affiliation with gambling and smoking against the families that have been torn apart by these same vices? Between the piles of gambling and smoking campaign cash, you’d think Raoul was running for mayor of Rosemont. Tack on a few other dubious connections such as the notorious red light camera operator SafeSpeed, and you have to wonder if these questionable relationships and poor judgment are appropriate for someone considering the highest legal office in the state. Considering the current office holder is a Madigan, maybe we set the legal bar too low. Or maybe it’s best to smoke ‘em if you got ‘em. Kwame Raoul surely will.
Nick Binotti Oak Park
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SOURCE : Above levy data is from the Cook County Clerks’s office, and is compiled by the Oak Park Township Assessor’s office.
ELSAFFAR
Arguments against consolidation from page 33 government consolidation is indisputable: it concentrates power into the hands of a smaller number of people. When elected officials are eliminated through consolidation, checks and balances in government are also eliminated. This point was made clear by two referendums that took place last year. Voters in Oak Park and Evanston both approved school referendums in 2017. When tax bills came out, however, Oak Park’s District 97 received $2.6 million more than the referendum ballot indicated, and Evanston’s school district got $1.5 million more. I discovered the Oak Park problem while reviewing local tax levies, and notified D97 and the public. To its credit, the district responded by reducing its levy by $3.1 million in 2018. Evanston, however, does not have a township assessor, having eliminated the position when it merged township and city governments. Without an independent elected official trained in tax matters,
there was apparently no one in Evanston with the stature to question the extra money the Evanston schools received. As a result, the school board kept the extra money. One could conclude that Evanston’s consolidation plan, often cited as a model of government efficiency, actually cost taxpayers $1.5 million. The issue of D97’s extra money is the most recent example of a 40-year history of independently elected township assessors providing Oak Park with information and insight into public policy questions regarding taxes. Having such independent voices in government has been very beneficial for our community. Because the task force’s consolidation plan would eliminate independent voices in tax, social services and other fields, it should not be implemented. We should, however, adopt the recommendations from the task force related to government spending, such as those that call for a 12-year moratorium on referendums and a 3 percent limitation on annual tax increases. These ideas can be implemented in Oak Park immediately, without requiring approval from state lawmakers. By adopting such proposals, we would significantly slow the growth of Oak Park taxes and provide real help to local property owners. Ali ElSaffar is the Oak Park Township Assessor.
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What does Hinsdale know that we don’t?
Have you heard about the referendum on Nov. 6? The high school district wants to issue $166 million in bonds for infrastructure repairs, performing arts, pools, library, cafeteria, accessibility, science and technology classrooms, and more. The voters rejected a referendum for less than half that amount last year. Sound familiar? It’s the Hinsdale high school district. Hinsdale has two campuses. At one school they’ll build a new 10-lane, 40yard pool for $24 million, at the other
Oak Park needs an inclusive housing law
— that has sustained our democracy for some 240 years. The threat posed by abuses of power, such as the White House-directed halt to an incomplete FBI investigation, reinforces the urgency of Ms. Hausman’s message: Vote!
As a longtime Oak Parker, whose family has benefited from the economic and racial diversity of our village, I am highly supportive of the efforts to make Oak Park more affordable for middle-class and low-income families. For this reason I support the efforts to pass an inclusionary zoning ordinance. I also urge the village board to pass an inclusive housing law that would require a set-aside of 20 percent of newly built units in high-rise buildings for affordable rents for lower-income people. While this will affect developer and building costs, the social cost of losing the economic diversity of the village will be higher over the long term. Oak Park has always been a national leader in inclusionary housing. These new laws are necessary to preserve the economic and racial diversity of our town.
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Is VOICE just VMA lite?
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The organization VOICE endorsed three candidates for village trustee. One of the endorsed candidates is the group’s founder. Twenty-six citizens picked the three individuals. So they are indeed a political party and a small one at that. But wait ... this looks like Village Manager Association lite. The VMA folded shop, and now VOICE wants three slots so badly, they asked the unendorsed not to run. A small group puts up three candidates. It then focuses on keeping others out of the running. What arrogance! If unendorsed, please run. If unendorsed, write letters to the Journal. Give a voice to those whom VOICE wants to silence. It all smells the same. Good tactic by those running VOICE to not create a slate but to run separately. They knew they would face a challenge if they tried to do what the VMA did last time. Remember that outcome? Another good tactic they chose is to form a PAC and not a party, but it is just a ploy. No party, no primaries, money, money, money. They likely have a lawyer or two guiding this process. Beware the VOICE you hear.
school a 6-lane, 40-yard pool for $15 million. Both will have IHSA-compliant diving wells. Sound familiar? Not exactly. Sounds quite a bit cheaper than the five-star OPRF proposal. I’ll vote for a $24 million pool when OPRF goes to referendum. However, they can pay for it out of petty cash. A quarter-billion for one campus when Hinsdale is doing two campuses for $100 million less is a different story.
Democracy or dictatorship? In a recent Wednesday Journal essay, Harriet Hausman asks: “Is Trump turning our democracy into a dictatorship?” Your vote in the midterms can answer that question. The midterms offer the best chance for all of us who love our country to restore the balance of power — executive, legislative and judiciary
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or the past dozen years, a group of River Forest and Oak Park residents have teamed up with people of Chicago’s North Lawndale neighborhood to feed hungry people in that area. This uncommon partnership began when James Brooks, the African-American pastor of Harmony Community Church, took up his new pastoral calling in North Lawndale after 10 years as youth ministry coordinator at Grace Lutheran Church in River Forest. His years at Grace made a lasting impact on people like Diane Carioscio of River Forest, who began volunteering at the Harmony Food Pantry eight years ago when she learned of people living just 6 miles away who live with hunger as a daily reality. At Harmony every Wednesday morning beginning around 7 a.m., lines of people begin forming outside the church building. Carioscio and other volunteers, half from Grace and half from Harmony, arrive at 6:30.
They fill sacks and boxes with canned goods, bread, dessert, meat, dairy, and fresh fruit for the distribution process, which takes place from 11 a.m. till 1 p.m., and 250 people receive the food parcels, which they’ve been waiting several hours for, two people per minute. Their names have been registered on a computerized list certifying that they are below a certain income level and thus are qualified to receive food parcels twice a month. The food is provided by the Greater Chicago Food Depository at a value of $900,000 during 2017. Other businesses also provide funding. Another River Forest resident, Sue Foran, organized a recent event that brought people from North Lawndale together with residents of Oak Park and River Forest — the fourth annual gala celebrating the Grace-Harmony connection. Almost 200
people from the two congregations joined for supper at Grace Church, fostering friendships and mutual respect among people who otherwise have little or no opportunity to meet and work together. James Brooks spoke movingly that evening of the power of people of faith in North Lawndale who face crime and violence daily but live purposeful lives, rarely made known in the media. Following his challenging words, Grace parishioner and Oak Park resident Chris Koetke led a live auction on a wide variety of items donated by friends of the Harmony ministry. The financial goal was to raise $100,000 to renovate the interior of the Harmony Church building to make it a safer and more adequate space for daily use by children and adults of North Lawndale, to expand the educational ministry of the
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LUEKING One View
Why you should vote No on consolidation
After growing up in Oak Park 1973-85, returning to Oak Park after serving in the Navy, running for office in Oak Park and River Forest in 2003, I covered local government in Proviso Township (west of Oak Park) and got involved in Chicago politics. I oppose consolidating Oak Park taxing bodies under the village of Oak Park. (I have at times worked for the Oak Park Township assessor, 2002-2017.) One of the things I realized covering government meetings in Proviso Township is that many taxing bodies don’t have a full complement of people capable of competently doing the job. This leads to machine politics, recruiting people willing to go through the stuff necessary to run for office — minus the fundraising — who vote the way the bosses tell them to vote. Oak Park has more than enough people who can competently govern the various taxing bodies and are willing to go through the necessary stuff to run for office. If a community has the talent base to make the various taxing bodies work, it’s better to disperse the power and decision making. In Chicago, the city of Chicago boasts how it holds the line on raising taxes. This is accomplished through chicanery, which is possible because the mayor controls the other units of government. For example, when Rahm Emanuel was first elected, he created a debt Chicago Public Schools owed the city of Chicago based on work the Chicago Police Department had done in the schools going back into the past. The city of Chicago also uses TIF districts to intercept money from the schools, forcing Chicago Public Schools to raise taxes to cover for the money municipal government stole from the schools. Consolidating taxing bodies will make who is paying for what more confusing. And, in confusion about who is paying for what, insiders have an advantage, diverting money to their pet projects. Consolidation will lead to government that is more confusing, more opaque, and it will be harder to improve services at the township, park district and libraries. As someone involved in politics, I suspect that some of the elected officials (electeds) in village government resent that getting elected in Oak Park hasn’t led to getting elected to higher office. These ambitious Oak Park electeds hope that creating more powerful local elected offices will empower them to run for higher office because they have larger budgets, more employees and presumably get more media coverage. There is an element of personal ambition and vanity by Oak Park electeds driving consolidation. Consolidation will lead to Oak Park having local politics that look more like the machine politics of Chicago, Cicero, Melrose Park, etc. I recommend a No vote.
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congregation as well as sustaining the Food Pantry year around. The total raised for Harmony that evening was $250,000. Grace Lutheran is not the only River Forest congregation working in food pantry partnership with a Chicago congregation. St. Luke Catholic Church is similarly associated. First United Church in Oak Park has also been an active site of food distribution for years. My apologies for overlooking other congregations or local individuals who work to aid fellow human beings, young and old, near and far, who live with the blight of hunger. There is room for all who want to know more and do more. For further information, please go to HFoodPantry@gmail.com. Dean Lueking, a resident of River Forest, is pastor emeritus of Grace Lutheran Church.
Why I don’t send my kids to OPRF
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ike most of our Oak Park community, I’ve been in discussions about America to Me. As a lifelong Oak Park resident, my husband and I met in the fourth grade at Longfellow Elementary, and I went on to OPRF. I fully planned on having our children follow in our footsteps through Oak Park’s public schools all the way through high school. However, after my eldest attended and struggled to graduate from OPRF, we have decided not to enroll our other children there. Though my eldest did graduate, it was a very rocky road, complete with a hospitalization, suspension, and a great many tears. My eldest son has special learning needs. I was afraid to move him out of District 200 because I feared he would not have similar resources elsewhere. But when our younger son would have been a freshman at OPRF, we predicted there would be problems. What was frightening for us, he is a very tall, black male. From our experiences, coupled with research, we know many white female teachers are intimidated by large, black, outspoken young men. So we live in Oak Park but send our children to Saint Patrick High School, a local Catholic high school. It is not as racially diverse as OPRF, but it is a better fit for our family. For us, the benefits at St. Patrick’s outweigh the loss of racial diversity at OPRF. My boys now have many male teachers, including their father. The school also has smaller classes, teachers who work with them before and after school, and a very strong school-parent-community network. This was the school model that worked for my black family. The racial challenges at OPRF have persisted for decades and as an alumnus, I saw them firsthand in my own experiences when I was student.
Although I accomplished some great things there, I also saw problems. I had honors classes and I also had On Campus (OC) classes. OC classes are for kids who need to be self-contained for behavior issues. The high school segregates OC students on the 4th floor, isolated from the other students. Now I take the negative “OC” label and have transformed into a motivator for me and for other black children. I am proud that on Dec. 15 at 3 p.m., I will be graduating from Concordia University with a master’s degree in education. I don’t blame my parents. Like many black Oak Parkers, then and now, my parents thought OPRF was a “good school.” They didn’t know what OPRF was really like for black students. For some students, it was. But it was just not a good school for many black children. And even though I ultimately did graduate from OPRF, I believe I would have done much better at another school. My point in sharing our family’s stories is to encourage more black parents to seek other options. It is a great place for some kids, but not for all children. I have seen too many black and brown kids struggle at OPRF. When talking to other black and brown parents who have children who don’t fit in at the school, I tell them, don’t wait for OPRF to change because OPRF won’t change. If you have the opportunity to move your child to a different school, do it. I love my Oak Park village and wouldn’t think of raising my kids anywhere else. I am just not in love with the high school. Juanita Bennett Griffin is an Oak Park resident, a mom and a graduate student at Concordia University. She works at Hephzibah Children’s Association and graduated from Oak Park and River Forest High School in 1992.
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Why I’m not watching ‘America to Me’
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ur community has been captivated by the Starz docu-series, America to Me. I haven’t watched the show myself. Not because it isn’t interesting; rather, I don’t watch it because racism and racial achievement gaps in Oak Park are topics I have been writing, talking, and fighting about since my husband and I decided not to place our children in the schools there five years ago. Not only were Oak Park schools racist, but it was painfully obvious they had no real desire to fix the racism. Don’t get me wrong. Oak Park had committees, boards, and community meetings that talked about the racial achievement gap. There were, and are, lots of community meetings about racism and the racial achievement gap. Oak Park has even written some good reports about the racial achievement gap. But while Oak Park education leadership and community leadership has excelled at meetings and writing reports, they have failed over and over to actually implement anything with measurable success that actually fixed the racial achievement gap. Somewhere between the meetings, the committees, the plans, and the writing of the reports, anti-racist policy in the schools has fallen by the wayside. Oak Park’s historic inability to implement anti-racist policies or programs that address the root cause of the racial achievement gap leave me skeptical that anything will change now. So the idea of engaging in any well-meaning but time-sucking meetings, discussions, or creation of plans to close the racial achievement gap that take place now, thanks to the momentum of America To Me, would be frustrating and a waste of my very limited energy. There is only one report I want to read on racism and racial achievement gap at OPRF: a report that lists all the policies, programs, and initiatives that have been attempted
before and an accurate, honest analysis of why their multiple attempts to end the racial achievement gap failed to achieved the desired results. Since that report has yet to be written or proposed, I continue rolling my eyes inward, even while smiling and nodding about “plans for reform.” The hard part about being friends with white Oak Parkers who call themselves anti-racist, is that, while they are sincerely well-meaning, they lack either the ability, or the community support, needed to make real change. I don’t believe anyone currently employed with or associated with the Oak Park public schools truly has the skills or tools to bring real racial equity or even fix the racial achievement gap. Many Oak Park residents would gladly come to a #BlackLivesMatter rally. Yet these same people will fight any reforms to the gifted and talented program, especially any that could possibly mean — gasp! — loss of resources for their white children. So I and other black folks in the community continue to smile and nod while white liberal Oak Parkers vow at meetings that this time, they will do something, really, this time, to fix the “racial achievement gap.” Meanwhile, we black parents with options and resources enroll our children in other schools. We’re tired of hearing talk about the “deficits” of black children while nothing changes to address the structures that continue to hold our kids down. Until there is a plan to address the racism of white Oak Park residents, schools, and institutions, and a plan that centers on reducing the individual racism of white people, or have a group of white people who are willing to voluntarily give up the aspects of white privilege that benefit their children, I’ll keep smiling and nodding. ShaRhonda Knott Dawson, a former Oak Park resident writes for the educationpost.org.
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Karen Ard, 79
Musician, scientist, social activist Karen Ard (nee Eggers), 79 of Oak Park, died on Oct. 19, 2018. Her husband, Tom, often referred to her as a Renaissance woman. A musician who played the piano and cello, she yearly joining the local orchestra in playing the Messiah. Over many months, she vo l u n t e e r e d at the Adler Planetarium where she polished a mirror and also built a tube to make KAREN ARD her own telescope, which she used to help people learn about the sky. In her 40s, Karen returned to college to earn a degree in geology, which involved taking rock samples from fields in central Wisconsin, cutting thin sections from each to examine under a microscope in order to determine their composition. She was involved in community organizing in middle Maywood to ensure integration and developed a relationship with gang members at the Cicero Salvation Army to teach some members to enjoy reading. She became so good at teaching students who hated reading that she taught many non-readers to love reading, sometimes in only one week. She could never get enough of talking with people, getting to know them and discussing social justice; this brought her immense pleasure. For 12 years, she taught second- to sixth-grade science. Having the same
students over so many years, she got to know each quite well. She’d have a science fair each year in which she’d help students pick a project they could master and then explain to each parent as they came to their booth. She taught junior college courses in earth science which included global warming as far back as the 1990s. But her foremost joy was being a loving wife and mother. Karen Ard was the wife of Tom; the mother of Sheri A. Ard and Denise E. Ard; and the sister of Thomas Eggers and Paul (Anne) Eggers.
Edmond Ryan Jr., 83
Member of the IBEW Local 134 Edmond M. Ryan Jr., 83, of Apple Canyon, formerly of Oak Park and River Forest, died on Oct. 24, 2018. He was the former financial secretary and proud 64-year member of Local 134 IBEW and past-president of the Harmony Club of Chicago. Edmond Ryan was the husband of Nancy (nee Campbell); father of Edmond M. III (the late Geraldine), Matthew (Cathy), Patrick (Christina), Tim (Karen Raino), Catherine (Eric) Petersen, Delia (Brad) Jacks and Joseph; grandpa and great-grandpa of many; and the brother of Judy (Ralph) Kamradt, John (Sue) Ryan and the late Marianne (William) Hall. A funeral Mass was celebrated on Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2018 at River Forest’s St. Luke Church, followed by private interment. The family appreciates donations to the American Cancer Society (www.cancer.org). Arrangements were handled by Conboy-Westchester Funeral Home.
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RELIGION GUIDE Presbyterian
Check First.
First Congregational Church of Maywood
400 N. Fifth Avenue (1 block north of Lake St.) Come join us for Sunday Morning Worship at 11 am Pastor Elliot Wimbush will be preaching the message. Refreshments and fellowship follow the service. 708-344-6150 firstchurchofmaywood.org When you're looking for a place to worship the Lord, Check First.
You’re Invited to A Church for All Nations A Church Without Walls SERVICE LOCATION Forest Park Plaza 7600 W. Roosevelt Road Forest Park, IL 60130
William S. Winston Pastor
ELCA, Lutheran
Good Shepherd
Worshiping at 820 Ontario, Oak Park IL (First Baptist Church) 9:00 a.m.—Education Hour 10:30 a.m.—Worship
All are welcome. goodshepherdlc.org 708-848-4741
Lutheran—ELCA
United Lutheran Church
409 Greenfield Street (at Ridgeland Avenue) Oak Park Holy Communion with nursery care and children’s chapel each Sunday at 9:30 a.m.
LIVE Webcast - 11:15AM Service Believer’s Walk of Faith Broadcast Schedule (Times in Central Standard Time) Television DAYSTAR (M-F)
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1040 N. Harlem Avenue River Forest Meet our Rabbi, Adir Glick Pray, learn, and celebrate with our caring, progressive, egalitarian community. Interfaith families are welcome. Accredited Early Childhood Program Religious School for K thru 12 Daily Morning Minyan Weekly Shabbat Services Friday 6:30pm & Saturday 10:00am Affiliated with United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism 708.366.9000 www.wsthz.org
Sunday Schedule Christian Education for All Ages 9:00am Worship Service 10:00am
Child care available 9-11am
fairoakspres.org OAK PARK MEETING OF FRIENDS (Quakers) Meeting For Worship Sundays at 10:00 a.m. at Oak Park Art League 720 Chicago Ave., Oak Park Please call 708-445-8201 www.oakparkfriends.org
Roman Catholic
Ascension Catholic Church
708/386-1576
Lutheran-Independent
Grace Lutheran Church
7300 W. Division, River Forest David R. Lyle, Senior Pastor David W. Wegner, Assoc. Pastor Lauren Dow Wegner, Assoc. Pastor Sunday Worship, 8:30 & 11:00 a.m. Sunday School/Adult Ed. 9:45 a.m. Childcare Available
Grace Lutheran School
Preschool - 8th Grade Bill Koehne, Principal 366-6900, graceriverforest.org
www.livingwd.org www.billwinston.org
West Suburban Temple Har Zion
744 Fair Oaks Ave. Oak Park 386-4920
www.unitedlutheranchurch.org
(708) 697-5000 Sunday Service 7AM, 9AM & 11:15AM
Fair Oaks
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Lutheran-Missouri Synod
St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church
305 Circle Ave, Forest Park Sunday Worship, 9:30am Christian Education Hour 8:30am Wednesday Worship 7:00pm Wheelchair Access to Sanctuary Leonard Payton, Pastor Roney Riley, Assistant Pastor 708-366-3226 www.stjohnforestpark.org Methodist
First United Methodist Church of Oak Park
324 N. Oak Park Avenue 708-383-4983 www.firstUMCoakpark.org Sunday School for all Ages, 9am Sunday Worship, 10am Children’s Chapel during Worship Rev. Katherine Thomas Paisley, Pastor Professionally Staffed Nursery Fellowship Time after Worship
808 S. East Ave. 708/848-2703 www.ascensionoakpark.com Worship: Saturday Mass 5:00 pm Sunday Masses 7:30, 9:00, 11 am, 5:00 pm Sacrament of Reconciliation 4 pm Saturday Taize Prayer 7:30 pm First Fridays Feb.– Dec. & Jan. 1
Rev. James Hurlbert, Pastor
Roman Catholic
St. Edmund Catholic Church
188 South Oak Park Ave. Saturday Mass: 5:30 p.m. Sunday Masses: 9:00 & 11:00 a.m., 5:30 p.m. Weekday Mass: 8:30 a.m. M–F Holy Day Masses: As Announced Reconciliation: Saturday 4:15 p.m. Parish Office: 708-848-4417 Religious Ed Phone: 708-848-7220
St. Giles Family Mass Community
We welcome all to attend Sunday Mass at 10 a.m. on the St. Giles Parish campus on the second floor of the school gym, the southernmost building in the school complex at 1034 North Linden Avenue. Established in 1970, we are a laybased community within St. Giles Roman Catholic Parish. Our Mass is family-friendly. We encourage liturgically active toddlers. Children from 3 to 13 and young adults play meaningful parts in each Sunday liturgy. Together with the parish, we offer Catechesis of the Good Shepherd, a Montessori-based religious education program for children in grades K-8. For more information, go to http://www.stgilesparish.org/ family-mass-community or call Bob Wielgos at 708-288-2196.
Third Unitarian Church 10AM Sunday Forum 11AM Service Rev. Colleen Vahey thirdunitarianchurch.org (773) 626-9385 301 N. Mayfield, Chicago Committed to justice, not to a creed
Roman Catholic
St. Bernardine Catholic Church Harrison & Elgin, Forest Park
CELEBRATING OUR 107TH YEAR! Sat. Masses: 8:30am & 5:00pm SUNDAY MASSES: 8:00am & 10:30am 10:30 Mass-Daycare for all ages CCD Sun. 9am-10:15am Reconciliation: Sat. 9am & 4pm Weekday Masses: Monday–Friday 6:30am Church Office: 708-366-0839 CCD: 708-366-3553 www.stbern.com Pastor: Fr. Stanislaw Kuca
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SECURITY OFFICERS WANTED! Black Knight Security is seeking to hire P/T & F/T Security Officers in the Downtown Chicago and surrounding areas! Apply at www.blackknightsecurity.com or text ‘Security Jobs’ to 97211. EOE SYSTEMS ANALYST The Village of Oak Park is seeking qualified candidates for the position of Systems Analyst in the Information Technology Department. Applicant will need to be knowledgeable and capable to apply the principles and techniques of various programming languages, database, computer programming, on-line programming and programming documentation. Additional skillsets include systems analysis and design techniques, such as database normalization, business analysis, workflow procedure, modular programming, stored procedures, and interface with operating system. Our technology environment consists of MS-SQL & Tools, Superion OneSolution CAD/ RMS, CityView Permit, Licensing & Inspections, ERSI ArcGIS, Laserfiche and web software (Java, HTML, Adobe ColdFusion and Drupal).http://www.oak-park.us/ . Interested and qualified applicants must complete a Village of Oak Park application no later than November 19, 2018. TOP PAY FOR PART-TIME MOVERS EVENINGS & WEEKENDS Call 312-942-1850 TUTOR OPENINGS AVAILABLE Skills Tutoring Center / Riverside/ is looking for part-time tutors. Flexible scheduling is available. Background check required. Email: skillstutoringcenter@gmail.com VISION THERAPIST (PT) Later afternoon /evening hours(weekdays). Possible Saturdays. Work one on one with patients(typically children) to improve vision skills. Training provided. River Forest Optometrist-Fax resumes to 708-771-0513. No Calls. WEB DEVELOPER MCY Custom Case Corp seeks Web Developer. Mail resume to 275 12th Street, Wheeling, IL.
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NOTICE TO BIDDERS PUBLIC NOTICE OF INTENT REQUEST FOR THE RELEASEÂ OF FUNDS On November 8, 2018 the Village of Oak Park (Village) will request the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to release federal funds under Title I of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 (PL 93383), as amended, for one activity pursuant to the Program Year (PY) 2018 Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program, which is Oak Park Housing Authority housing rehabilitation at 324-26 Austin Blvd., Oak Park, Illinois at an approximate cost of $120,000. An Environmental Review Record covering this activity has been made by the Village, which documents the environmental review. This Environmental Review Record (ERR) is on file at the below address and is available for public examination and copying upon request from November 1 to November 7, 2018, 5 p.m. The ERR is also available on the HUD Environmental Review Online System (HEROS) at: https://www. onecpd.info/environmental-review/ environmental-review-records The Village of Oak Park will undertake the activity described above with Block Grant funds from HUD, under PL 93-383. The Village of Oak Park and Cara Pavlicek, in her official capacity as Village Manager, and Tammie Grossman, in her official capacity as Development Customer Services Director, consent to accept the jurisdiction of the Federal courts if an action is brought to enforce responsibilities in relation to environmental reviews, decisionmaking, and action, and that these responsibilities have been satisfied. The legal effect of the certification
is that upon its approval, the Village may use the Block Grant funds, and HUD will have satisfied its responsibilities under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969. HUD will accept an objection of its approval of the release of funds and acceptance of the certification only if it is on one of the following bases: (a) that the certification was not in fact executed by one or both of the responsible entity’s Certifying Officers; (b) that the responsible entity has failed to make one of the two findings pursuant to Sec. 58.40 or to make the written determination required by Secs. 58.35, 58.47 or 58.53 for the project or activity, as applicable; or (c) that the recipient or other participants in the development process have committed funds, incurred costs or undertaken activities not authorized by Sec. 58.75 before release of funds and approval of the environmental certification by HUD. Objections must be prepared and submitted in accordance with the required procedure (24 CFR Part 58) and may be addressed to HUD at 77 West Jackson Blvd., Chicago, Illinois 60604. Objections to the release of funds based on other than those stated above will not be considered by HUD. No objection received after 5 p.m., November 22, 2018 will be considered by HUD. Cara Pavlicek, Village Manager, and Tammie Grossman, Development Customer Services Director (Certifying Officers) 123 Madison Street Oak Park, IL 60302
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LEGAL NOTICE The Village of Oak Park will receive sealed bids at the Public Works Service Center, 201 South Boulevard, Oak Park, Illinois 60302, until 4:00 p.m. on Friday, November 9th, 2018 for the following BID 18-202 VILLAGE OF OAK PARK OAK PARK AVENUE VIADUCT LIGHTED SIGN REPAIR PROJECT REQUEST FOR PRICES Bid forms may be obtained from the Public Works Customer Service Center by calling 708358-5700 or by stopping by the office located at 201 South Boulevard, Oak Park, Illinois between the hours of 7:30 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. Information is also available from the Streets Superintendent, Scott Brinkman, sbrinkman@oak-park.us or on the Village’s website http://www. oak-park.us/your-government/ finance-department. 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 4:00 p.m. on the working day preceding the date of proposal opening. For more information call the Public Works Service Center at 708.358.5700. THE VILLAGE OF OAK PARK Published in Wednesday Journal 10/31/2018
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. Registration Number: D18155605 on October 4, 2018. Under the Assumed Business Name of HAM PUBLISHING with the business located at: 620 W SURF ST APT 204, CHICAGO, IL 60657. The true and real full name(s) and residence address of the owner(s)/partner(s) is: ANDREW DILLINGHAM 620 W SURF ST APT 204 CHICAGO, IL 60657. Published in Wednesday Journal 10/17, 10/24, 10/31/2018
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. Registration Number: D18155716 on October 18, 2018. Under the Assumed Business Name of WOMANSPIRIT CIRCLE with the business located at: 137 N OAK PARK AVENUE SUITE 400, OAK PARK, IL 60301. The true and real full name(s) and residence address of the owner(s)/ partner(s) is: ELENA VASSALLO CROSSMAN 622 FOREST AVE OAK PARK, IL 60302. Published in Wednesday Journal 10/24, 10/31, 11/7/2018
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Sealed bids will be received by the Board of Education, Oak Park Elementary School District 97 (the “Board�) for the following project: OAK PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DISTRICT 97 LINCOLN & LONGFELLOW ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS ADDITIONS & RENOVATIONS 1111 GROVE AVE. OAK PARK, IL 60304 715 HIGHLAND AVE. OAK PARK, IL 60304 & 2019 LIFE SAFETY WORK 1111 GROVE AVE. OAK PARK, IL 60304 715 HIGHLAND AVE. OAK PARK, IL 60304 LINCOLN & LONGFELLOW/ 2019 LIFE SAFETY BID GROUP 2 – Masonry, misc. metals, millwork, metal panels, roofing, glazing, doors & hardware, drywall & ACT, operable partitions, mechanical, electrical, plumbing and fire protection. Bids will be received until 2:00 p.m. prevailing time on Tuesday November 20, 2018 at the Oak Park Elementary School District 97 Administrative offices, 260 Madison Street, Oak Park, IL 60302, and will be publicly opened and read at 2:15 p.m. prevailing time on that date. Bids shall be submitted in an opaque sealed envelope clearly marked: Oak Park Elementary School District 97 260 Madison Street, Oak Park, IL 60302 Attention: Bulley & Andrews Project: LINCOLN & LONGFELLOW ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS ADDITIONS & RENOVATIONS & 2019 LIFE SAFETY WORK BID PACKAGE 2 Scope of work for Bid Package 2 generally includes, but is not limited to: Masonry, misc. metals, millwork, metal panels, roofing, glazing, doors & hardware, drywall & ACT, operable partitions, mechanical, electrical, plumbing and fire protection. All bids must be submitted in accordance with the bidding instructions contained in the Bidding Documents for the project. Bid security in the form of a bid bond in an amount equal to ten percent (10%) of the base bid amount shall be submitted with the bid. Should a bid bond be submitted, the bond
shall be payable to the Board of Education, Oak Park Elementary School District 97, 260 Madison Street, Oak Park, IL 60302. All documents and information required by the bidding instructions contained in the Bidding Documents for the project shall be submitted with the bid. Incomplete, late or non-conforming bids may not be accepted. No bids shall be withdrawn, cancelled or modified after the time for opening of bids without the Board’s consent for a period of ninety (90) days after the scheduled time of bid opening. The Bidding Documents for the project (which include the bidding instructions for the project and other related documents) will be available Monday November 5th, 2018 and may be purchased from Springer Blueprint Services – 1640 S. Western Ave. Chicago, IL 60643 – 773-238-6340. The Bidding Documents are available for viewing/ download online without cost or purchase at the Bulley & Andrews, LLC FTP Site, https://ftp.bulley. com, username: LincolnLongfellow, password: bulley1891. The Board reserves the right to reject any or all bids or parts thereof, or waive any irregularities or informalities, and to make an award that in the Board’s sole opinion is in the best interest of the District. The site will be available for visits by appointment to be coordinated with Bulley & Andrews, LLC. Interested parties may inspect the existing conditions. Schedule an appointment with Jason Hayhurst of Bulley & Andrews in advance if you wish to visit the sites. All bidders must comply with applicable Illinois Law requiring the payment of prevailing wages by all Contractors working on public works. If during the time period of work, the prevailing wage rates change, the contractor shall be responsible for additional costs without any change to the contract amount. All bidders must comply with the Illinois Statutory requirements regarding labor, including Equal Employment Opportunity Laws. For additional information on the project, contact Jason Hayhurst of Bulley & Andrews, LLC at jhayhurst@bulley.com or 773-6452110. Dated: 10/30/2018 Jason Hayhurst Bulley & Andrews, LLC
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REAL ESTATE FOR SALE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION LENDINGHOME FUNDING CORP Plaintiff, -v.ECHELON REALTY INVESTMENTS CORP, SERENA OCENAS A/K/A SERENA VICTOR, ZOE PENDERGAST, META HOLDINGS, LLC Defendants 18 CH 2552 917 S LOMBARD AVE Oak Park, IL 60304
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real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/ 18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. For information, contact Plaintiff’s attorney: JOHNSON, BLUMBERG & ASSOCIATES, LLC, 230 W. Monroe Street, Suite #1125, Chicago, IL 60606, (312) 541-9710 Please refer to file number 180907. THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales. JOHNSON, BLUMBERG &
ASSOCIATES, LLC 230 W. Monroe Street, Suite #1125 Chicago, IL 60606 (312) 541-9710 E-Mail: ilpleadings@johnsonblumberg.com Attorney File No. 18-0907 Attorney Code. 40342 Case Number: 18 CH 2552 TJSC#: 38-8028 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff’s attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. I3101295
quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/ 18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce, LLC, Plaintiff’s Attorneys, One North Dearborn Street, Suite 1200, Chicago, IL 60602. Tel No. (312) 346-9088. Please refer to file number 261126. THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales. McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce, LLC One North Dearborn Street, Suite 1200
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION U.S. ROF III LEGAL TITLE TRUST 2015-1, BY U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS LEGAL TITLE TRUSTEE Plaintiff, -v.AUDREY L DAVIS A/K/A AUDREY DAVIS, VINCENT J HOWARD, VILLAGE OF OAK PARK Defendants 18 CH 03081 34 LEMOYNE PARKWAY 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 August 29, 2018, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on November 30, 2018, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 34 LEMOYNE PARKWAY, OAK PARK, IL 60302 Property Index No. 16-05-105-0320000. The real estate is improved with a single family home with a detached two car garage. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to
REAL ESTATE FOR SALE Chicago, IL 60602 (312) 346-9088 E-Mail: pleadings@mccalla.com Attorney File No. 261126 Attorney ARDC No. 61256 Attorney Code. 61256 Case Number: 18 CH 03081 TJSC#: 38-7231 I3101810 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK, AS TRUSTEE (CWALT 2004-2CB) Plaintiff, -v.CHARLES J. NOVAK, KATHLEEN A. NOVAK A/K/A KATHLEEN ANN NOVAK, BEERMANN SWERDLOVE LLP, CAPITAL ONE BANK (USA), N.A., FIRSTMERIT BANK, N.A. S/B/M TO MIDWEST BANK AND TRUST COMPANY, GERALDINE M. REDMOND, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants 15 CH 09899 1537 SOUTH ELGIN AVENUE FOREST PARK, IL 60130 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on June 22, 2016, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on November 27, 2018, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 1537 SOUTH ELGIN AVENUE, FOREST PARK, IL 60130 Property Index No. 15-24-215-0340000. The real estate is improved with a tan, vinyl siding, single family, with a two car detached garage. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and with-
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out recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/ 18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce, LLC, Plaintiff’s Attorneys, One North Dearborn Street, Suite 1200, Chicago, IL 60602. Tel No. (312) 346-9088. Please refer to file number 8255. THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales. McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce, LLC One North Dearborn Street, Suite 1200 Chicago, IL 60602 (312) 346-9088 E-Mail: pleadings@mccalla.com Attorney File No. 8255 Attorney ARDC No. 61256 Attorney Code. 61256 Case Number: 15 CH 09899 TJSC#: 38-5959 I3097472
of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on August 30, 2018, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on December 3, 2018, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 7250 DIXON ST UNIT B, FOREST PARK, IL 60130 Property Index No. 15-12-420-0191012. The real estate is improved with a condo/townhouse. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/ 18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. For information, examine the court file or contact Plaintiff’s attorney: CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876 Please refer to file number 14-18-01296. THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales. CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE
ROAD, SUITE 100 BURR RIDGE, IL 60527 (630) 794-5300 E-Mail: pleadings@il.cslegal.com Attorney File No. 14-18-01296 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 18 CH 01956 TJSC#: 38-7241 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff’s attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. I3101863
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC D/ B/A MR. COOPER Plaintiff, -v.LAURIE MAZUR A/K/A LAURIE PRITCHETT, THOMAS PRITCHETT, LOFTOMINIUMS OF FOREST PARK CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION Defendants 18 CH 01956 7250 DIXON ST UNIT B FOREST PARK, IL 60130 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION DITECH FINANCIAL LLC Plaintiff, -v.MARK HASKINS, RICK HASKINS, WILLIAM P. BUTCHER AS SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR EDWARD A. WIELGUS AND PRISCILLA B. BLACK A/K/A PATRICIA BRUCE A/K/A PATRICIA BLACK, UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES OF EDWARD A. WIELGUS, IF ANY, UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES OF PRISCILLA B. BLACK A/K/A PATRICIA BRUCE A/K/A PATRICIA BLACK, IF ANY, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, STATE OF ILLINOIS, 230 CIRCLE CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION, UNKNOWN OWNERS-TENANTS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS, BRIAN J MATSKO, THE INDEPENDENT REPRESENTATIVE OF THE ESTATE OF THE DECEASED MORTGAGOR PRISCILLA BRUCE A/K/A PATRICIA BRUCE A/K/A PATRICIA BLACK, APPOINTED BY THE PROBATE COURT, MARK R BRUCE, PATRICK A BRUCE Defendants 15 CH 02029 230 CIRCLE AVENUE UNIT 1 W FOREST PARK, IL 60130 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on August 29, 2018, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on November 30, 2018, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 230 CIRCLE AVENUE UNIT 1 W, FOREST PARK, IL 60130 Property Index No. 15-12-434-0471001. The real estate is improved with a red brick, three story multi unit condominium with no garage. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a
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2018, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on November 27, 2018, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 1530 N. 39TH AVENUE, STONE PARK, IL 60165 Property Index No. 15-04-301-041. The real estate is improved with a single family residence. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/ 18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. For information, examine the court file or contact Plaintiff’s attorney: CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876 Please refer to file number 14-14-19291. 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. 14-14-19291 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 09 CH 039917 TJSC#: 38-8267 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff’s attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. I3102254
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION UMB BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, NOT IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY, BUT SOLELY AS LEGAL TITLE TRUSTEE OF LVS TITLE TRUST V Plaintiff, -v.GLACIER PROPERTY GROUP, LLC, DANE M. VUKASINOVIC, OAK PARK PROPERTY, JV, LLC, CITY OF CHICAGO Defendants 18 CH 7301 514 N TAYLOR AVE 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 October 10, 2018, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on November 26, 2018, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 514 N TAYLOR AVE, Oak Park, IL 60302 Property Index No. 16-05-325-0100000. The real estate is improved with a single family residence. The judgment amount was $403,195.49. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/ 18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. For information, contact Plaintiff’s attorney: JOHNSON, BLUMBERG & ASSOCIATES, LLC, 230 W. Monroe Street, Suite #1125, Chicago, IL 60606, (312) 541-9710 Please refer to file number 170859. THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION
One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales. JOHNSON, BLUMBERG & ASSOCIATES, LLC 230 W. Monroe Street, Suite #1125 Chicago, IL 60606 (312) 541-9710 E-Mail: ilpleadings@johnsonblumberg.com Attorney File No. 17-0859 Attorney Code. 40342 Case Number: 18 CH 7301 TJSC#: 38-8321 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff’s attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. I3102345
TO JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A. AS TRUSTEE FOR CWABS REVOLVING HOME EQUITY HOME EQUITY LOAN TRUST SERIES 2004-Q, UNKNOWN OWNERS, GENERALLY, AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants, 15 CH 5987 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 27, 2018 Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Tuesday, December 4, 2018 at the hour of 11 a.m. in their office at 120 West Madison Street, Suite 718A, Chicago, Illinois, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described mortgaged real estate: P.I.N. 15-35-202-002-0000. Commonly known as 282 Maplewood Road, Riverside, IL 60546. The mortgaged real estate is improved with a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection For information call Mr. Anthony Porto at Plaintiff’s Attorney, Kluever & Platt, L.L.C., 150 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60601. (312) 981-7385. INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I3102366
funds, balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection For information call Mr. Anthony Porto at Plaintiff’s Attorney, Kluever & Platt, L.L.C., 150 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60601. (312) 981-7385. INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I3102353
AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. For information, examine the court file or contact Plaintiff’s attorney: CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876 Please refer to file number 14-18-04977. THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales. CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100 BURR RIDGE, IL 60527 (630) 794-5300 E-Mail: pleadings@il.cslegal.com Attorney File No. 14-18-04977 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 2018 CH 05980 TJSC#: 38-6870 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff’s attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. I3103043
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION OCWEN LOAN SERVICING, LLC Plaintiff, -v.JOSE IZQUIERDO, GABRIEL IZQUIERDO, ADRIANA IZQUIERDO, ANGELITA SILVA, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants 09 CH 039917 1530 N. 39TH AVENUE STONE PARK, IL 60165 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on March 30,
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK AS SUCCESSOR TO JPMORGAN CHASE BANK AS TRUSTEE FOR THE ABFS MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST 20031, MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2003-1; Plaintiff, vs. ALLEAZER SIMPSON; ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE; UNKNOWN OWNERS, GENERALLY AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS; Defendants, 17 CH 13512 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 24, 2018 Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Wednesday, December 5, 2018 at the hour of 11 a.m. in their office at 120 West Madison Street, Suite 718A, Chicago, Illinois, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described mortgaged real estate: P.I.N. 15-07-413-011-0000. Commonly known as 440 N Irving Avenue, Hillside, IL 60162. The mortgaged real estate is improved with a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection For information call Mr. Anthony Porto at Plaintiff’s Attorney, Kluever & Platt, L.L.C., 150 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60601. (312) 981-7385. INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I3102378 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK AS TRUSTEE FOR THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS CWMBS, INC., CHL MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH TRUST 200429, MORTGAGE PASS THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2004-29 Plaintiff, vs. JOHN D. MULHERN, MARLENE F. MULHERN, STANDARD BANK AND TRUST COMPANY AS TRUSTEE OF A TRUST AGREEMENT DATED APRIL 23, 2004 AND KNOWN AS TRUST NO. 18265, THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK, AS SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION NEW PENN FINANCIAL LLC DBA SHELLPOINT MORTGAGE SERVICING; Plaintiff, vs. ALEJANDRO ESPINOSA; PNC BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO NATIONAL CITY BANK; UNKNOWN OWNERS GENERALLY AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS; Defendants, 17 CH 10828 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause on January 22, 2018 Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Monday, December 3, 2018 at the hour of 11 a.m. in their office at 120 West Madison Street, Suite 718A, Chicago, Illinois, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described mortgaged real estate: P.I.N. 15-18-228-008-0000. Commonly known as 17 Howard Ave., Hillside, IL 60162. The mortgaged real estate is improved with a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 10% down by certified
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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION DITECH FINANCIAL LLC F/K/A GREEN TREE SERVICING LLC Plaintiff, -v.JOSE SANCHEZ, CHRISTINA SANCHEZ, VERONICA M. SANCHEZ Defendants 2018 CH 05980 1318 S 11TH AVE MAYWOOD, IL 60153 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on August 16, 2018, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on December 13, 2018, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 1318 S 11TH AVE, MAYWOOD, IL 60153 Property Index No. 15-15-215-0170000. The real estate is improved with a residence. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/ 18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS
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Sky’s the limit for OPRF soccer Huskies won 18 games, conference, tourney and regional titles under Fried By MARTY FARMER Sports Editor
In three seasons, Oak Park and River Forest High School boys soccer coach Jason Fried has established a very good program. And with seven returning starters next fall, the Huskies’ best might still be to come. That’s a very exciting thought for supporters of the team, which finished 18-4-2 this season. OPRF also earned a share of the West Suburban Conference Silver Division title for the second year in a row, along with winning the Leyden Challenge Cup and Argo Regional. The Huskies’ superb season came to a close with a 1-0 loss against conference rival Lyons Township in the final of the Riverside-Brookfield Sectional. OPRF upset top-seeded Morton 1-0 in a riveting semifinal. “We played well against LT, particularly in the second half,” OPRF coach Jason Fried said. “We did everything well except finish scoring opportunities. LT took advantage of a situation they had and that’s all it took.
“It’s tough losing to LT after beating Morton, which is obviously a fantastic team,” Fried added. “The Morton game was one of our better ones from an IQ standpoint. Our positioning was fantastic, too, and a huge reason why we beat them.” OPRF rolled through the regular season, highlighted by winning streaks of eight and five games. For a roster loaded with star power, the team played selfless soccer. The results reflected their chemistry as OPRF outscored its opponents 76-21. All-conference goalie Sam Pecenka had 11 shutouts, while all-sectional pick Jaime Guillen (21 goals, 10 assists) and all-state selection James Maguire (10 goals, 12 assists) led offensively. Guillen is an exchange student from Spain and Maguire a threeyear varsity starter. Brody Bliss and Paul Garcia scored 11 goals apiece. Defensively, all-conference players Blake Soto and Jai Hsieh-Bailey and Dylan Whitney anchored a formidable backfield. “We’ll lose key guys like James, Brody, Blake and Collin (McKittrick),” Fried said.
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OPRF forward Jaime Guillen, exchange student from Spain, added a lot of offensive fire power for the Huskies. “I think we’ll miss their leadership most of all. We also lose a lot of our scoring. But guys always step up and I really like our group of returning players.” Pecenka, Hsieh-Bailey, Whitney, Bram Lebovitz and Zeke Rivera (among others) are back next season. “The last two seasons we have had great records, won conference twice and met a
lot of our goals,” Fried said. “With a totally different group of guys, this year was even better than the previous one. We are proud about the status of the program. “However, we not only want to keep getting to sectional finals but we want to win them, and then go deeper in the playoffs. Until we accomplish those kinds of goals, we won’t be completely happy.”
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Fenwick, OPRF volleyball net regional titles By MARTY FARMER Sports Editor
The Fenwick and OPRF girls volleyball teams played an instant classic during the regular season, with the Friars prevailing 25-21, 22-25, 26-24. Another commonality between the crosstown rivals is they both won a regional championship in the Class 4A state playoffs. After cruising past Kenwood in their postseason opener, the Friars outlasted Jones 34-32, 25-19 in a scintillating regional final at Argo. South Carolina-bound McKenzie Moorman led the Friars with 16 kills. Zaria Glover (7 kills, 3 blocks) and Beau Vanderlaan (7 kills, 4 blocks) also contributed for the victors. Like Fenwick, the Huskies swept all four sets (Oak Lawn 26-24, 25-12) and (Lane 25-21, 25-15) en route to winning the Lane Regional. Offensively, Zora Barnett (8 kills), Natalie Chizzo (7 kills) and Chloe Cantu (5 kills) led the Huskies. Ella Dunavan led the defense with 10 digs. Unfortunately, a potential rematch in the
De La Sectional final won’t happen after St. Ignatius defeated Fenwick 25-19, 25-17 and Whitney Young beat OPRF 23-25, 25-18, 25-22 in the semifinals. The Friars finish the season with a 19-6 record, while the Huskies went 14-21.
Trinity cross country The sophomore-laden Blazers continued to impress this postseason by placing fourth at the Fenton Sectional in the Class 2A state playoffs. Five of the team’s top seven runners are sophomores. Sophomores Kate Foley (10th/20:02.7) and Sylvia Ritzler (12th/20:14.5) paced the Blazers. Regional champion/senior Alexis Cohn also ran well, finishing 14th with a time of 20:23.5. Courtney Yungerman (21:13.5), Hannah Roberts (21:46.7), Jessica Hoffman (22:42.9) and Annabel Halloran (22:54.6) also competed for Trinity.
OPRF girls cross country The Huskies advanced to the Class 3A state finals with a fifth-place showing (114)
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Fenwick senior McKenzie Moorman had 16 kills the in 34-32, 25-19 win over Jones in Final of Argo Regional. at the Niles West Sectional. Sophomore Nora Wollen (14th place/18:15), senior Hannah Thompson (16th/18:16.4) and freshman Josephine Welin (21st/18:23.2) led the Huskies with times inside the top 25. Freshman Samantha Duwe (27th/18:33), sophomore Parker Hulen (42nd/19:08), senior Violet Harper (50th/19:15) and junior Audrey Lewis (75th/19:43) also represented the Huskies at Niles West.
Fenwick girls cross country Senior Laura Durkin and junior Marie O’Brien recorded times of 18:46.6 and 18:52.7 at the Marist Sectional to earn a trip to the Class 3A state finals. The Friars just missed qualifying for state as a team with a score 167, trailing the final state qualifier Plainfield North (164) by three points.
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Brother Rice next from page 48 the OPRF lead to 14-0 with 10:03 left until halftime. After the Trevians drew closer at 20-10 via Donovan Perkins’ 1-yard TD plunge and Graham Dable’s 35-yard field goal, McGill struck again on a 1-yard TD run up the middle to give OPRF a 26-10 lead in the closing seconds of the third quarter. Darrow added the PAT to make the score 27-10. With 8:41 remaining in the game, the Huskies put the game out of reach on McGill’s beautifully lofted 14-yard pass to senior wide receiver Trevon Brown, who caught the ball in the back of the end zone. McGill completed 6 of 7 passes for 98 yards and rushed 20 times for 138 yards, while Craig Shelton had three receptions for 74 yards. Running back Nazareth Bryant contributed 87 yards on 12 carries. The Huskies amassed 365 yards of total offense on 56 plays (6.5 yards per play), had 20 first downs and converted 7 of 13 first downs (53.8 percent) in a solid performance. The only negative may have been nine penalties for 110 yards. Defensively, Jake Adams led the Huskies with a team-high six tackles and a sack. Daemyen Middlebrooks had 4.5 tackles, while Ethan Reinhardt, Ashford Hollis
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OPRF defensive players Cedric Cheatham (#1) and Jake Adams (#51) tackle a New Trier player on Friday, Oct. 26 at OPRF Stadium. The Huskies won 34-16 in a first round game of the Class 8A playoffs. and Cheatham tallied four tackles apiece. Aidan Shea, Danny Francis, Joe Phelan, Izaiah Ruffin, Machi Young and Brown all recorded multiple tackles as well. Quarterback Carson Ochsenhirt (22-for37, 199 yards) plus wide receivers Michael Endre and Perkins paced the Trevians offen-
sively. Perkins (6 catches, 23 yards) scored a pair of touchdowns, while Endre caught 11 passes for 137 yards. The Trevians’ top player, Northwestern-bound Duke Olges, finished with four tackles, including one for loss. New Trier finishes the season 7-3. As for the Huskies, they are peaking at
the perfect time. After a 1-2 start, which included losses to playoff teams Waubonsie Valley and Hinsdale Central, OPRF has not dropped a game. Led by Cheatham and defensive linemen Ruffin and Hollis, the Huskies entered their postseason opener against New Trier allowing 11.6 points per game. They held a New Trier offense that averaged about 30 points per game in relative check. The OPRF offense has improved over the course of the season with solid play from its offensive line, the development of McGill, plus contributions from running backs Bryant and Keith Robinson and wideouts Shelton and Brown. Over the past three weeks, OPRF has defeated Glenbard West in a huge road win, routed Lyons Township to earn a share of the West Suburban Conference Silver Division title and handily beat well-regarded New Trier. OPRF (8-2), which has won seven games in a row, takes on top-seeded/host Brother Rice Saturday, Nov. 3 at 6:30 p.m. in the second round of the Class 8A playoffs. The Crusaders crushed Zion-Benton 49-0 in Chicago Saturday night. Brother Rice (10-0) won the Chicago Catholic League Blue Division championship and outscored its opponents 304-52 during the regular season. The Crusaders are battle tested, with notable victories against several state title contenders like Marist, Loyola and Montini. Brother Rice also beat Fenwick 35-3 in a CCL crossover game.
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or most of the regular season, OPRF’s defense was the Huskies’ most productive unit. Props and accolades deservedly came their way. Keep in mind the OPRF defense held fellow conference champs Hinsdale Central and Glenbard West offenses, collectively, to seven points. While the defense certainly played well in a 34-16 win over visiting New Trier on Friday, the offense stole the show as quarterback Jaden McGill fueled a balanced attack in the Huskies’ Class 8A playoff opener. The sophomore accounted for four touchdowns and amassed over 235 yards of total offense as OPRF built a 14-0 lead in the first half and never looked back on the way to victory. Ironically, one of the Huskies’ best defensive players opened the scoring. Moonlighting as a situational running back in the Huskies’ “jumbo” package, OPRF senior linebacker Cedric Cheatham scored on a 9-yard run with 3.3 seconds left in the first quarter. At the 10:02 mark of the second quarter, McGill added a brilliant 42-yard run into the end zone to further help the Huskies’ cause. In a shotgun formation, McGill took the snap, faked a handoff and then evaded several New Trier defenders behind the line of scrimmage before breaking free down the left sideline for a touchdown. Henry Darrow’s extra point extended See ADVANCE on page 46
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