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November 9, 2016 Vol. 35, No. 12 ONE DOLLAR

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Cupcake bill makes its way to Oak Park

New ordinance allows entrepreneur bakers to use home kitchens

By TIMOTHY INKLEBARGER Staff Reporter

Small-time Oak Park bakers, fire up your ovens; the village has approved an ordinance that allows local entrepreneurs to use their home kitchens to produce baked goods and other items.

Mike Charley, interim director of the Oak Park Department of Public Health, says the state passed laws in 2011 and 2014, allowing some products to be made in residential kitchens with the approval of the municipality.

The so-called “Cupcake Bill” was signed by Gov. Pat Quinn in 2014 to allow entrepreneurs to make home goods in a domestic residence for direct sale. Gross sales for such products are limited to $1,000 per month, and a notice must be placed on the product stating that it was made in a home kitchen. Labels also must list potential allergens in the product.

The state also requires that goods produced under the Cupcake Bill legislation also must be sold directly to the consumer and stored at the residence where it was made.

“They are exempt from local health inspections unless there is a concern if something gets brought to our attention,” Charley said.

See CUPCAKE BILL on page 15

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BETTER WAIT THAN SORRY: A line of early voters snakes around Oak Park Village Hall on Nov. 7. Suburban Cook County experienced an early voting surge this election.

Oak Park taxes could increase 8.9% Fees also increasing for garbage, parking and other services

By TIMOTHY INKLEBARGER Staff Reporter

Oak Park residents would see an 8.9 percent increase in property taxes plus increased fees on a number of items from parking stickers to garbage disposal under a proposed Oak Park village government budget reviewed Monday night.

Battling aggressively against what Mayor Anan Abu-Taleb called “a revenue crisis,” this property tax hike – Village Manager Cara Pavlicek said the hike would total $3.2 million in added revenue – would largely go to begin closing gaping shortfalls in funding pensions for firefighters and police.

The property tax levy funds general

village operations, debt service payments and police and fire pension funds.

The cost increase is due to an increase of $468,510 to the Police Pension Fund; a $2 million increase to the Firefighters Pension Fund; a $400,930 increase to debt service and a $2.1 million increase See TAXES on page 14

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Can’t keep a good sign down Political vandalism: it’s a sign of the times in River Forest. Stolen, replaced and graffitied; torn down twice; sliced and diced, Oct. 21; replaced then sliced and diced again for good measure on Nov. 7; this is the fourth Clinton/Kaine front yard sign on our lawn since Labor Day. Prior to this election, just two or three signs had been stolen from our lawn in 27 years; none vandalized.

Despite the thugs’ best efforts, it’s still standing, after all these weeks. So is Hillary Clinton.

Daniel Lauber

It’s been a rough month for political signs, but some fared worse than others.

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Meet Oak Park’s new top cop

Oak Park Police Chief Anthony Ambrose, who was promoted to chief in August, will discuss community policing, strained relations between police and the public, and crime in Oak Park at a public meeting on Wednesday, Nov. 9 from 6 to 8 p.m.

The Village of Oak Park’s Community Relations Commission is sponsoring the forum at Oak Park Village Hall, 123 Madison St., and will be moderated by Community Relations Director Cedric Melton, according to a village press release. Melton will open the forum up to questions from the audience after the discussion.

The discussion “comes in the wake of a series of police shootings across the United States that have in some cases strained relations between police departments and members of the public,” according to the news release.

“Maintaining open lines of communication between the police department and residents we serve is at the heart of the community policing approach we follow in Oak Park,” Ambrose said in the press release. “I welcome this opportunity to engage in dialogue and foster a mutual understanding about the roles we all can play in keeping our community safe.”

Topics of discussion include: ■ Ambrose’s vision of policing ■ What to do if stopped by police ■ Police training processes and certification ■ Positive community collaboration

Timothy Inklebarger

In the pink

Photo courtesy Corey Kessler

Momenta’s Fall Concert includes a dance titled “The Pinks” with Audrey Kessler (left) and a flock of flamingos. Performances continue this Saturday and Sunday. For more photos, see page 21.

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Responding to gun violence

Sunday, Nov. 13 from 9:30 to 10:45 a.m., First United Church of Oak Park:

Foreign correspondence Monday, Nov. 14 at 7 p.m., Dominican University’s Martin Recital Hall:

The inaugural lecture of Dominican’s recently launched Georgie Anne Geyer Initiative will feature journalist Marvin Kalb, speaking on “The Foreign Correspondent – Here, There and Everywhere” in the Fine Arts Building, 7900 W. Division St., River Forest. A book signing and reception will follow. Kalb spent more than three decades with CBS and NBC News. He is a former host of Meet the Press. For more information about this free lecture, contact Christina Reilly at creilly@dom.edu.

Post-election bash Thursday, Nov. 10 from 7-10 p.m., O’Sullivan’s in Forest Park:

OPRF Alumni Association is celebrating the end of the election season, regardless of the results, with a gettogether at 7244 Madison St. Cash bar, free appetizers and music. Celebrate/ commiserate with OPRF classmates and friends in the annual Huskie Howl Thursday Night Out (with an election-year twist). The alumni association is trying to raise awareness of their mission and build membership through social events. For more, call 708-434-3281 or visit alumniassociation@ oprfhs.org.

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The weekly series, Our Response to Gun Violence: Choosing Life, Choosing Each Other, runs through Dec. 4. Future topics: Nov. 13 - Gun Violence and Public Policy Nov. 20 - Survivors after a Homicide: How Gun Violence Affects Families and Communities Dec. 4 - Where Do We Go from Here?

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Nov. 11, 12, 18 and 19 at 7:30 p.m. and Nov. 13 and 20 at 2 p.m.: The Collective, the theater production company of Concordia University Chicago, in association with Chicago Dramatists, presents The Death and Life of John Smith by Will Dunne. Directed by Rachel Edwards Harvith, it will be performed at Madison Street Theatre, 1010 Madison St., Oak Park. General admission tickets are $15, with discounts available for seniors, students and CUC alumni. Purchase tickets online at CUCdeath.brownpapertickets.com, or by cash or check at the door.

Art League exhibition Friday, Nov. 11 from 7 to 9 p.m. in the Carriage House Gallery:

OPAL’s 95th Anniversary Juried Artist Member Exhibition takes place at 720 Chicago Ave. Teresa Parker, curator of the Benedictine University Art Collection and Art Gallery, will be on hand to offer comments and announce the award winners. For more, call 708-386-9853 or visit oakparkartleague. org. The exhibit runs through Dec. 2.

A plan to end homelessness Wednesday, Nov. 9 from 6 to 7:30 p.m., Oak Park Public Library: The Oak Park Homelessness Coalition is launching its 2016 action plan at the Main Library’s Veterans Room. It’s time to make homelessness rare, one time, and brief in Oak Park. For more, contact vmatheny@cmhb-oakpark.org or call 708-3381724 x233.

Honoring our veterans CALENDAR EVENTS ■ As you’ve likely noticed, our

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.

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Friday, Nov. 11 at 11 a.m., Oak Park Arms ballroom: All veterans, their families and village residents are invited to attend a Veterans Day Commemoration at the Oak Park Arms, 408 S. Oak Park Ave. Virginia Cassin will welcome guests in the opening ceremonies. State Sen. Don Harmon and Village Mayor Anan Abu-Taleb will greet the gathering.

In recognition of the ongoing centennial of World War I, the “war to end all wars,” John Atwood will focus his remarks on those who fought and sacrificed for that cause. Originally called Armistice Day, it is celebrated on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month to commemorate the armistice in 1918. The History Singers, John and Kathryn Atwood, will lead patriotic singing. Bugler John Borland, in a WWI uniform, will play taps. Officers from the Oak Park Police Department Honor Guard will form a color guard.

And more ■ Free Trade Fair – Dominican University, Monday, Nov. 14 from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., atrium of Parmer Hall, 7900 Division.

■ Jazz in the Afternoon – The Terry Sullivan Jazz Trio returns to First United Church of Oak Park, 848 Lake St., Sunday, Nov. 13 at 4 p.m. Admission is $12.

■ Petite Boutique Holiday Market – Pleasant Home, 217 Home Ave., Friday, Nov. 11 from 4 to 9 p.m. and Saturday, Nov. 12 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Call 708-383-2654 for more.

■ CAST presents the musical Chess – Julian Middle School, 416 S. Ridgeland Ave., Nov. 11 and 12 at 7:30 p.m., Nov. 13 at 3:30 p.m. For more, visit jpnose19.wixsite.com/cast-at-pjms.

■ Judgement at Nuremberg – L.A. Theatre Works presents the play at the Dominican University Performing Arts Center, 7900 Division, Nov. 12 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets start at $24. For more, visit www.events.dom.edu.

■ Momenta’s Dances for Autumn – Academy of Movement & Music, 605 Lake St., Nov. 12 at 8 p.m., Nov. 13 at 7 p.m. Tickets: $20/$10 students/$5 seniors. Call 708-848-2329 or visit www.momentadances.org.

■ 125th Anniversary Gala – 19th Century Club, 178 Forest Ave., Saturday, Nov. 12 from 7 to 10 p.m. Food, drink, raffle, silent and live auction.

Call 708-386-2729.

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WHEN THE HUSKIES GO MARCHING IN: The Marching Huskies received the award for the Best Musical Performance at the Stagg Marching Band Jamboree.

Photo by Bill Kosik

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More than just crowd appeal

By MICHELLE DYBAL

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n array of white plumes top their heads as they file along singing, “When the Saints Go Marching in.”

In the packed bleachers, there are audible “Wows,” and then a truly remarkable occurrence, a standing ovation at a marching band competition as the OPRF Marching Huskies exit the field while a harvest moon peeks above the horizon.

The Marching Huskies went on to sweep the awards that September evening at the Geneseo Maple Leaf Classic: Best Winds, Best Percussion, Best Color Guard, Best Drum Majors and First Place in their division.

After 10 weeks of intense practice and performance, the marching band season came to a close with a final competition at Illinois State University on Oct. 22. The Marching Huskies took the field, which glowed under the setting sun, and performed their New Orleans-inspired show, “Phat Tuesday.” The four parts lasted 10 minutes, ending with “The Saints Go Marching In.” The crowd sings along and, by the end, is clapping exuberantly. In the stands I overhear, “Why can’t our school do something like that?”

Then it’s time for the awards ceremony.

First up is the trophy for “Crowd Appeal” and it goes to OPRF! The awards go on, and the schools qualifying for finals are announced, but it’s over for OPRF. Two hours later, back in Oak Park, tears are shed, not because of the outcome, but because it’s the last show for the seniors.

Marching Band has a huge impact on the students, and the seniors will miss it, but they, too, will be missed. Many are section leaders who mentored other marchers. Four of them are drum majors, who led and conducted the band this fall.

In the end, the Marching Huskies are happy. They won an award at a tough competition. They have Crowd Appeal! They don’t use microphones for their solos, duets, and quartets, nor do they employ large props, or recorded effects and audio, like so many other competing bands. They’re proud of winning something at all four competitions this year, including Best Musical Performance at

Stagg High School and Best Drum Majors at Benedictine University.

But what makes them winners is who they are. The 127 Marching Huskies volunteer and no one has to try out to be in the band or color guard. The students are from every grade level, including 33 seniors this year.

Most stick with it. They meet a few times over the summer, practicing at home, attending an away camp for four days before the school year begins (reportedly grueling yet fun), and then they practice four days a week after school until 5:30 and perform studentled sectionals one day a week. They played at five Friday-night home football games this year, in addition to the four all-day Saturday competitions. Some volunteered to play at the LemonAid fundraiser in River Forest in September. In May, they will march in the Ethnic Fest and Memorial Day parades.

Marching Band requires serious dedication. At the end of a football game, they can’t stop playing their instruments as they walk — and sometimes teeter, especially those with 30-pound sousaphones wrapped around them.

Setting the tone are the OPRF instructors who oversee the Marching Huskies: Anthony Svedja (music), Drew Fredrickson (marching), and Patrick Pearson (color guard). Numerous parent volunteers do everything from fitting uniforms, to driving trucks, to taking photos, to pitching in at special events, to preparing meals for competitions, to helping at camp among countless other things. The teens respond in kind, pitching in when needed, like the marchers who came back to school at midnight after the last competition to unload a truck filled with equipment, which was late after experiencing trouble on the road.

There are students of all abilities, and even some with disabilities, but it makes no difference. They support each other and become one when they perform. The upperclassmen mentor the freshmen before they start school, showing the new students around. Freshmen see more than 100 familiar faces on their first day, since they met and bonded at band camp.

It truly is a family, a winning family, with or without trophies.

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Three notable deaths

Odds and ends with some a bit odder than others: ood people gone: There are the wellknown pioneers in Oak Park’s recent history and then there are remarkable people, maybe lesser known, perhaps already a bit overlooked, who made this town the remarkable community that it is.

Over the past month, we’ve run obituaries for three such people. Greg Dell, Marie Kuda and Joe Scully.

In a time when bankers were not the friends of those working to build integrated communities — actually bankers were the profound enemies of integration — Joe Scully was very different. He rose to become CEO of the old St. Paul Federal Savings & Loan, headquartered on North Avenue, opposite Oak Park. It was a powerhouse institution and Joe Scully led it in progressive directions. He also joined bankers in Oak Park in creating the coalition of lenders at the core of the early Oak Park Development Corporation.

Where many communities fighting for racial integration saw capital sources choked off, Scully and other local bankers guaranteed an ongoing flow of loans for both commercial and residential investment here.

Scully’s influence was wide in Austin, in Catholic education, in fair housing in both Oak Park and Austin. He fought Parkinson’s for decades, in later years taking up boxing as a way to hold the disease more at bay.

Marie Kuda was one of many people in Oak Park who Wednesday Journal more or less missed during their lives. Only with their deaths did we come to see the wide influence and courage they showed.

An early leader in Chicago’s gay and lesbian history, she was, according to obits in Windy City Times and the SunTimes, more or less the historian of this great civil rights movement. In the 1970s, she created a publishing imprint, Womanpress, which focused on lesbian

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literature. She gathered and collected more than 100,000 items — from documents to matchbooks — which chronicled the movement.

Tracy Baim, another legend in Chicago’s gay community, said that Kuda had given hundreds of presentations about gay Chicago history in those early days, back when being out and being outspoken was particularly brave.

Greg Dell, a Methodist minister, spent a decade — 1985 to 1995 — in Oak Park as pastor of Euclid Avenue Methodist.

Here he was known for his inclusion as a minister and his activism, especially in battling homelessness and racism. He was among the founders of PADS, now known as Housing Forward.

It was after his move to a Methodist church in Chicago’s Lakeview that Dell gained notoriety when, in 1998, he performed a “holy union” service between two men. This led to a mighty battle within the Methodist church as Dell was put on trial within the church’s Northern District. He was suspended, though later reinstated.

Many good people pass through our lives. These are three who chose paths of leadership in this community.

Cubs vs. Sox: The Cubs weren’t the only Chicago baseball team making news last week. The White Sox parted ways with outfielder J.B. Schuck. Shrewd move, and I’m certain the start of a powerful resurgence at Guaranteed Rate Field.

Midweek Market RIP: Oak Park’s village board was expected Monday night to decommission a 2010 amendment to the Village Code which allowed the Midweek Market to exist from June to September. Sort of an orphan Farmers Market with alcohol, the event failed to catch on.

Another factor in the board’s decision Monday might have been that the site of the Midweek Market — Lake Street near Harlem — is now under a multi-story building being raised.

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West Sider a victim of nasty ’16 election

Activist Deborah Williams’ photo was used in a misleading Twitter meme telling users they could ‘vote by text’

By MICHAEL ROMAIN Editor

This year’s presidential election — what many Americans considered something of a long, national nightmare — may be over, but West Side community organizer Deborah Williams is still reeling, viscerally, from its effects.

“Donald Trump supporters are spreading memes on Twitter in both English and Spanish, trying to trick Hillary Clinton supporters into thinking they can vote by text,” noted a Nov. 2 article published online by Wired Magazine, which clarified that “voting by text” doesn’t exist.

Scroll down beneath its title, “Ignore the Trolls: You Definitely Cannot Vote Via Text,” and a screenshot of one of those misleading memes appears with Williams’ face plastered on it. Williams, who volunteered on the Hillary Clinton campaign, is holding an “African Americans for Hillary” sign.

“Avoid the line. Vote from home,” the meme reads. “Text ‘Hillary’ to 59925. Vote for Hillary and be a part of history.”

Williams said she learned about her inadvertent place in this controversy last Thursday, when the scam was aired during a segment of MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show.

“I was at home and my phone started ringing off the hook,” Williams recalled. “Some people called saying, ‘We just saw you on the Rachel Maddow Show!’ I didn’t believe it was me, but then they saw it on Facebook

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MISTAKEN ID: West Side activist Deborah Williams said that, after learning her face had been plastered on a misleading Twitter meme, she’s looking to tell her story. And to let national news outlets know that the underlying message in the meme is racist. and started tagging me in the video.”

Since then, Williams said she’s been on her own campaign of sorts. In the hours after learning about the photo, she contacted numerous people online, including a university professor, in an attempt, which was ultimately successful, to get the photo removed from Twitter.

Some Twitter users, however, have noted that they’ve encountered the scam — some also show the face of Clinton and what appears to be stock photo of a Hispanic wom-

an — since Twitter confirmed on Nov. 3 that it had taken them down. In addition, the meme showing Williams’ face has appeared in numerous national publications, including Rachel Maddow, Wired and Good Housekeeping.

She wants people to know that the woman who may be anonymous to most of the people across the country is a living, breathing person and a well-respected local campaign strategist and community organizer.

“The national news may have made people aware of the scam, but they also need to make people aware of the fact that the woman in that photo, who is me, was not party to this scam and that I’m a well-educated campaigner with 20 years of experience who knows you can’t vote by text,” said Williams, adding that she has since hired an attorney.

Williams has a bachelor’s degree in accounting and a master’s degree in grant writing, management and evaluation. She’s a full-time nonprofit consultant and energy service technician who has worked on the campaigns of state Rep. La Shawn K. Ford (8th), Cook County Commissioner Richard Boykin (1st), and Congressman Danny K. Davis (7th), among others.

Williams was a paid West Side field organizer for President Barack Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign. This year, she volunteered with the Clinton campaign. In 2014, Williams ran unsuccessfully for 29th Ward alderman.

On Nov. 7, Williams and the Leaders Network — one of the many community

organizations in which Williams is active — convened a press conference at Alice’s Restaurant, 5658 W. Madison St. to drive her message home.

When interviewed last Sunday, Williams said she hasn’t been contacted by any of those mainstream platforms, which she said could have at least blurred her photo or tried locating the identity of the person in that meme and allowed her to state that she has no affiliation with the people who started the controversy.

Williams also noted that major news outlets seemed to overlook perhaps the most significant aspect of the controversy.

“I also want the media to know that the vast majority of black voters are not naive and they know you cannot ‘Stay Home and Text in Your Vote,’” Williams said. “That Twitter meme was a racist piece and should not have drawn the national attention that it did from MSNBC, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Twitter and so many other online blog posts.

“Rachel Maddow said the meme was vile, gross and offensive, and the worst form of voter suppression,” Williams added. “Really? Is it worse than all of the laws and restrictions that conservatives use to stop minorities from voting? But the pictures of the conservatives who initiate and impose those tactics are not shown all over the world.”

Williams, who said she hasn’t yet explored her legal options with her attorney, said she hopes she can get justice for the improper use of her photo.

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River Forest students outpace state on PARCC exam Almost 80% met standards in English; 63% in math

By DEBORAH KADIN Contributing Reporter

River Forest elementary school students in 2016 continued to excel in English/language arts but fared a little worse in mathematics, according to the results of the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers exam, or PARCC, released at the end of October.

Overall, 70 percent of third- through eighth-grade student in River Forest District 90 schools met or exceeded standards overall on last year’s PARCC assessment, far outpacing their counterparts statewide. Across the state, just 34 percent of students met or exceeded expectations on the state-mandated exam, which is administered in March at

all public elementary schools in Illinois.

Results overall show, however, that an achievement gap continues to exist particularly between white students, students of color and low-income pupils, issues that the district will continue to focus on for some time, officials said.

Among the varied demographic groups, low-income students – those who receive free or reduced-price lunches, live in substitute care or whose families receive public aid – did not fare as well as their counterparts.

Composite scores showed that just 43 percent of those students met or exceeded standards. In English/language arts, around 53 percent attained similar standards and in mathematics, only 29 percent reached the same levels.

Taking into account all students, 77 percent of District 90 pupils met or exceeded standards in English/language arts, while 63 percent met or exceeded standards in math.

One group that Superintendent Ed Condon called out for achievement was English Language Learners, 84 percent of whom met or exceeded standards. Overall, he attributed the success to the diligence of students and faculty.

With respect to the lower percentage of students meeting and exceeding standards in math composite math, teachers are piloting new materials and resources that will better align instruction with learning standards, Condon said. The District 90 Board of Education will adopt new resources before the start of the next school year.

The school district also will continue its partnership with the University of IllinoisChicago mathematics department to provide professional development for teachers in kindergarten through fifth grade.

“We need to do a better job of engaging students … regardless what their interests are,” Condon said.

As to the achievement gap, or what the district calls the opportunity gap, Condon said the district will continue its work with the National Equity Project, which the district brought on in April to work on issues related to equity.

The group has since led training sessions for the school board and administrators and members of the committees on issues related to equity. The group also has led professional development workshops for faculty.

“We need to identify some of those contributing factors and figure out why some [demographic] subgroups could be challenged, how others experience success and see if they can be replicated,” Condon said.

Other results found that girls outpaced boys in English/language arts and have nearly caught up with boys in mathematics.

The district is awaiting scores of the science portion, which was administered to fifth- and eighth-graders last May.

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D97’s new headquarters gives officials room to breathe

Architect touts transparency, flexibility of 260 Madison’s design

By MICHAEL ROMAIN Editor

On Monday afternoon, Oak Park District 97 Superintendent Carol Kelley sat at a table surrounded by at least a dozen people working at computers. It’s an insignificant scene unless one considers that it would have been virtually impossible at the district’s now shuttered old administrative building, located several blocks west at 970 Madison St. Hours later, the large room where Kelley and her staffers were conferencing would turn into the district’s board room, where a special meeting was scheduled in the evening. That flexibility is one of the defining features of the new facility, said Colby Lewis, a principal architect at STR Partners LLC, which designed the $8.5 million, roughly 22,000-square-foot building.

Another defining feature, Lewis said, is the building’s transparency.

“With the board room, the first charge was to make it transparent so we’ve opened it up with a large glass wall to the street,” Lewis said during a Nov. 7 tour of the building. “You could watch tonight’s board meeting from the sidewalk if you wanted.”

In the foyer of the new building, which district central staff members moved into over recent weeks, visitors coming from the front and back entrances encounter a large, tiled wall permanently adorned with student artwork.

At eye-level, a band of glass showcases dozens of canvasses featuring student paintings, which can be changed with regularity.

To the left of the main entrance, and situated in front of a small waiting area, a bank of computers is reserved for parents and guardians to use to perform myriad tasks, such as registering for classes.

On the whole, said Chris Jasculca, D97’s senior director of policy, planning and communications, the new building’s two floors are designed to get as much usage out of each square foot and to make sure that space correlates with high performance.

“We were very intentional about which departments were placed on which floors, so the human resources and business departments were culled together, because they do a lot of work together,” said Jasculca.

“A lot of their functions are intertwined,” he said. “Upstairs, you’ll see that our teaching and learning, and special education departments have office space right next to each other, because those teams collaborate with each other often. In the old building, HR was on the first floor and the business

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LETTING IN SOME LIGHT: District 97’s new administration building at 260 Madison features an abundance of large windows, such as the ones that dominate the building’s facade, above, and that open up the new district’s new board room to public inspection. office was upstairs.”

Jasculca and Lewis said that an abundance of mobile furniture, such as tables on wheels, enhances the flexibility and fungible nature of the facility’s work spaces.

“There are lots of little meeting spaces,” said Lewis. “You don’t have meetings off in your office; you go and share with people. It’s also an effort to shrink the amount of space needed. We tried to make organization more efficient by putting departments that work closely with each other, closer together physically.”

Along with the large tilted wall in the lobby, another architectural feature of the new facility is the airy wood-lined, vinyl staircase that connects the first and second floors. A street-facing wall, hollowed out by a number of rectangular windows — some tinted by various primary colors — allows in a modulated stream of natural light that streams into open second-floor office space.

That sense of unstrained naturalness, said Lewis, also marks the building’s facade — one side of which features wooden planks broken up by windows and metal balustrades. The planks flow into ornamental grasses that serve as a buffer between the activity of the street and the private administrative work inside.

The other side of the facade features a

brick wall broken up by large windows looking into the board room.

“We didn’t want the wood right up against the sidewalk,” said Lewis. “It’s to protect it a bit.”

Jasculca said that the new building will be open for community use. He said that, although the district hasn’t fully discussed whether any fees would be charged for using the facility’s conference and office space, Jasculca said he anticipates that public use will be free.

Jasculca said the district is planning a series of public tours in the coming weeks.

The district’s old headquarters is now owned by the village government which will market the site for new development.

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Historical Society makes its move

Nonprofit serving Oak Park and River Forest nearly settled in at historic firehouse

By TIMOTHY INKLEBARGER Staff Reporter

The paint is barely dry at the new headquarters of the Historical Society of Oak Park and River Forest, and Executive Director Frank Lipo says the curious regularly peek through the windows to see what’s going on inside.

The historical society is putting the final touches on its move from its longtime Pleasant Home location at 217 Home Ave. to the historic Cicero Township Firehouse at 129 Lake St. in Oak Park.

The move has been years in the making – the group has raised more than $600,000 in grants and private donations to renovate the new location with a geothermal heating and cooling system, new plumbing and a gut rehab of the historic firehouse.

“Actual construction is close to being done,” he said.

Lipo said the historical society will have an open house on Dec. 4 from 1 to 5 p.m. as a soft opening of the new location, while an official grand opening is expected sometime next year.

He said the new space – which makes available 7,500 square feet compared to the 5,000 square feet at Pleasant Home – will have more room for rotating exhibits.

Lipo said that although the society’s focus is on Oak Park and River Forest history, the organization wants the new museum to also tell contemporary stories of the towns.

He said the first exhibit will feature information about the renovation and history of the new location.

“We put up some of our artifacts that people haven’t seen,” he said, noting that on display is famed Oak Park photographer and historian Philander Barclay’s bicycle.

The historical society is encouraging visitors to leave their thoughts and suggestions for new exhibits on a white “feedback wall” that has been put up in the building.

“Part of our theme is ‘this is your museum,’” he said.

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MAKING HISTORY: Oak Park-River Forest Historical Society Executive Director Frank Lipo at the organization’s new headquarters in the historic Cicero Firehouse, 129 Lake St. Lipo says the historical society will have an open house on Dec. 4 and an official grand opening sometime next year.

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Eagle Scout brings weather station to River Forest

Roosevelt School now a high-tech weather hub

By DEBORAH KADIN Contributing Reporter

River Forest has caught the bug – the Weather Bug that is.

David Snyder made the Weather Bug weather station, an online weather center, his Eagle Scout project and installed it at Roosevelt Middle School. All anyone with an internet connection has to do is go to the site, weather.weatherbug.com, and get upto-the-minute, live weather data on River Forest and from more than 8,000 stations throughout the country. Information from around the world also can be accessed.

For the 16-year-old junior at Oak Park and River Forest High School, the station is a perfect fit of his passions.

“I’ve always been interested in science, and this project combines engineering, science and computer applications, it was a good fit,” said Snyder, who wants to become an engineer.

And he is proud of what he has accomplished.

“It’s a good service to the community and it helps a lot of people, which is something I wanted to have with my Scout project,” said Snyder, who is part of Troop 65, which meets at River Forest Village Hall. The Court of Honor, when the weather station will be formally dedicated, will be in February.

Initially, Snyder wanted to do a project with Trailside Museum and because of his love for national parks, he thought of installing kiosks at the trailheads. Having those could make the trails accessible and more popular, Snyder said.

He took the idea to the museum in early 2015, but the idea was turned down because the forest preserve district does its own signs and because the site is in a floodplain.

Trailside suggested another project, refurbishing a part of the play area, but that was turned down by the forest preserve district.

During spring break 2016, Snyder, eager to complete his Eagle Scout project before he

turned 18, asked his scoutmaster, Michael Harkins, for suggestions. Harkins came back with the idea of a weather station. Snyder ran with it. After researching the idea, Snyder chose Weather Bug; the Scout council approved it in July.

Where to put it components? Snyder thought the best, most centrally located place in River Forest was on the roof at Roosevelt Middle School. The key was getting Roosevelt Middle School Principal Larry Garstki and Kevin Martin, District 90’s director of technology, on board.

It was “a no-brainer,” Garstki said.

Components were installed in September, and after a wee bit of testing, the station was up and running.

The project cost more than $8,000, money that Snyder had been saving ever since he started thinking about the project at Trailside. Equipment and installation were included. Maintenance is minimal.

Weather Bug has attracted a lot of attention. It got a few oohs and ahhs at a recent village board of trustees meeting where Snyder presented it. Weather Bug differs from the park district’s system of lightning detection, in that it displays the last strike within the last 30 minutes, whereas the park district’s system detects lightning that already has struck, Snyder told the board.

And students, faculty and staff regularly watch changing weather conditions from monitors in the school office and in a hallway by the school’s media center. Another monitor is situated in a science classroom.

The stations also come with educational modules, and Snyder will come to Roosevelt in the coming weeks to show science teachers all the different things the Weather Bug website can do, said Garstki.

Learning about weather at Roosevelt, and potentially at Lincoln and Willard as well, will become more sophisticated because teachers can use real-time information from local, national and international conditions.

That also could make for some good science projects.

“That will really make learning fun as well. And that’s the idea,” Garstki said.

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METEORLOGICAL SCOUT: Eagle Scout David Snyder shows off his newly installed WeatherBug station on the roof of Roosevelt Middle School in River Forest.

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HELPING THEMSELVES: Oak Park resident Tim Smyth works with (left to right) LaFrance Lucas, Brianna Mullen and Jillona Flowers in Smyth’s backyard earlier this month. Smyth paid Lucas and Mullen $75 each to rake leaves and work on other tasks. Flowers is a youth job developer with Westside Health Authority.

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There are some 10,000 youths in Austin between the ages of 20 and 24 who are unemployed and out of school, said Quiwana Bell, the COO of the Austin nonprofit Westside Health Authority, during one morning earlier this month.

Last month, the WHA launched its Good Neighbor campaign with an Oct. 25 press conference. The campaign, Bell said, has a goal of employing at least 1,000 of those young adults in Austin who need work — in both the formal and informal economy.

Oak Park homeowner Tim Smyth attended that press conference. He left it something of a pioneer in a local, homegrown experiment he and WHA hopes will grow to scale.

“My wife met a representative from [the community development nonprofit] Austin Coming Together, so I got on their mailing list, which is how I heard about [the press conference],” said Smyth. “Quiwana was saying that if we had any connections to employment, even if its simple handiwork around the house, let her know. It occurred to me that I don’t have to overthink this.”

Smyth said the previous owners of his home planted so many gardens that they were hard for him to maintain by himself.

So, he hired a landscaper from Berwyn.

“They charged me $150 and that was the number that stuck out in my head,” he said.

“It doesn’t require a whole lot of expertise; just time.”

Bell sat in Smyth’s living room last week with Brianna Mullen, 21, and LaFrance Lucas, 19, two young people that Smyth paid $75 each to rake and bag leaves and spruce up, in other ways, that backyard for a few hours. Jillona Flowers, a graduate of Southern Illinois University and a youth job developer with WHA, also chipped in.

This isn’t charity, Smyth said, just a simple act of mutuality so basic and rare, that its cutting edge. The Oak Park resident, who is active in numerous social justice organizations, said that some time ago he realized that he doesn’t have to go far to do well.

“You have to get small,” Smyth. “I live two blocks away from Rob Breymaier [the executive director of the Oak Park Regional Housing Center] and [at an event for the organization], he said, ‘We’re going to stop calling it Oak Park and Austin; instead, we’re going to call it the Greater West Side. We want to make Austin Boulevard invisible. There’s a lot of that in the air right now. It just makes sense.”

Bell said Smyth is the first person to open his home to WHA’s Good Neighbor youth employment initiative on either side of the boulevard. She hopes her nonprofit can be the conduit for facilitating more grassroots employment opportunities for young people who are desperate for work.

“People want to do something [about systemic issues like high youth unemployment rates], but they don’t know how or they’re afraid. They’re isolated,” Bell said.

“We had one neighbor who said that someone came to his door with an offer to rake leaves, but the homeowner had some fear and trepidation about opening the door. Had that man offering to rake leaves been connected to a trusted organization, or another neighbor, we would’ve been able to make that connection and help put him to work.

That’s what we seek to do.”

Lucas said he’s all too familiar with that kind of rejection. The Austin resident said he’s searched for work for months, but in vain.

“Sometimes it can be an obstacle going into a workplace with dreads,” Lucas said.

“That can be an obstacle in itself.”

Bell said that WHA, which operates a 15week job readiness, skills development and placement program for youths, ages 16 to 24, has long sought to pair West Side young people with formal employers. That will continue, she said, but the Good Neighbor campaign is somewhat different.

“Our mission is to build capacity among ordinary citizens,” she said. “When we talk to people on the streets, they talk about needing to be connected. We can’t wait on government to save us. What we need is already here in our community. We just need to connect resources.”

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TAXES

Fees up, too from page 1 in general operating expenses.

Pavlicek said the increase to the firefighters pension fund “is a first step toward beginning to work more aggressively to first bring it up to the Police Officers Pension Fund, which is slightly over 50 percent …”

Trustees were presented with a number of proposed ordinances as well that would increase various fees for garbage pickup and vehicle stickers, among others, to help reduce the property tax levy burden.

Garbage pickup would increase to $65.79 for one cart per quarter from the current fee of $60.87. Those with five carts would pay $319.95 per quarter, compared to the existing $289.86, under the proposal.

The village also proposed a $10 increase to rates for village-owned parking structures and lots in high-demand areas and a $5 increase for monthly garage rates and on-street daytime permit zones as well as quarterly permit fees for village-owned garages, off-street lots and on-street overnight parking zones.

Trustees have a little less than a month left before approving the tax levy at its Dec. 5 meeting.

“It’s really difficult to consider voting for a budget that includes over $2 million in increase in operating funds,” Trustee Colette

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“I think there are things we have to pass along that we have no control over and it’s not just the fire and police [pension] levy. It’s also the water costs.”

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Lueck said. “I think there are things we have to pass along that we have no control over and it’s not just the fire and police [pension] levy. It’s also the water costs.”

She said the public should get a line-item accounting of the operating fund increase.

“Where is that money going?” she asked.

Abu-Taleb said the village has had higher expenditures than it has revenue for 12 of the last 15 years and has transferred money from various enterprise funds “to make it look better.”

“We don’t have a cost crisis, we have a revenue crisis,” he said, adding that the village board can continue “to stick our head in the sand or be proactive and fix it for good.”

Trustee Bob Tucker said it is the responsibility of the community to fund the public safety retirement plans at a proper level .

“We don’t set the rules [on required pension payments] but we have to pay the bills,” Tucker said.

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CUPCAKE BILL

Something’s in the oven from page 1 The other state law, signed by Gov. Quinn in 2011, known as the Cottage Food Law, allows small-batch producers to use a residential kitchen to make baked goods, jams and jellies, fruit butter, dried herbs and dried tea blends.

Charley noted in a summary of the proposed ordinance that the state law “created new opportunities for farmers to engage in value-added processing, while making it easier for aspiring entrepreneurs to start new local food businesses selling at one of Illinois’ 300-plus farmers markets.”

They can sell up to $36,000 worth of the homemade products per year, but the items can only be sold at farmer’s markets.

These operations must be registered with the Oak Park Department of Public Health and pay a $25 fee to the village’s Business Services Division. Charley said producers also must become certified to operate a “cottage food” operation by taking an 8-hour class offered by the state.

Charley said the village recommended the ordinance to the Oak Park Board of Trustees as a result of requests from local entrepreneurs.

“The goal of the village is to be more business friendly for small entrepreneurs,” Charley said in a telephone interview.

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Study Hall ‘pops up’ in Pleasant District Chicago artists featured along with home goods, women’s apparel and more

By TIMOTHY INKLEBARGER Staff Reporter

A Chicago-based boutique from the West Town neighborhood is testing the waters in Oak Park for the next few months with a holiday pop-up store in the Pleasant District.

Study Hall boutique, which offers women’s clothing, accessories, housewares, books and other assorted ephemera, has opened at 128 S. Marion St. and will be there through December, said co-owner Naoko Nagano.

Nagano said she and her business partner and husband, Malcolm Felder, have been considering opening a second store and Oak Park made sense.

“A pop-up is a nice way to test the market without a huge amount of risk,” she said.

The curated selection of goods aims to make Study Hall “a haven for the curious” and “the stock is meant to inspire and lead the customer to discover something new every time they visit,” according to a press release.

The store is open Tuesday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Nagano said the Oak Park Study Hall also has a selection of handmade minimal jewelry, sweaters, vintage silk kimonos and items from Chicago-based artists, including ceramics from Debbie Carlos and jewelry from Cities in Dust and Cursive Design.

“We brought a little bit of everything, so it’s kind of a condensed version of what we have in the [Chicago] store,” Nagano said.

Viktor Schrader, economic development manager for Oak Park Economic Development Corporation, said Nagano contacted his organization to help find the space. “We just facilitated the introduction with the property owner and got her comfortable with the village and talked about the opportunity,” he said.

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STUDY THE MARKET: Chicago-based boutique Study Hall has opened a popup store through December at 128 S. Marion St. Co-owner Naoko Nagano says the temporary shop will give her the chance to see what the Oak Park market has to offer.

Pastries ‘flying off the shelves’ at Spilt Milk

New Oak Park bakery gets an Oak Park welcome on first week

By TIMOTHY INKLEBARGER Staff Reporter

The pastries and baked goods are selling like hot cakes at Oak Park’s newest bakery, this one in the Hemingway District.

Spilt Milk Pastry, 103 S. Oak Park Ave., has been open for less than two weeks, and co-owner Molly Svec said the response has been so big they’ve had to quadruple the production of some of their baked goods.

Svec, who opened the business with her sister Meg Svec, said she made 10 chicken Marbella pot pies – braised chicken with capers, olives, lemon juice, brown sugar, herbs and white wine – on each of the first days after the shop opened, and they sold so fast that she has quadrupled her production of the savory pies.

Spilt Milk’s breakfast sandwiches – a buttermilk biscuit with flaky sea salt on top, egg, bacon and sharp cheddar cheese – also have been “flying off the shelves,” she said.

“It’s going so much better than we anticipated,” she said. “We’ve almost sold out every day, and we’re baking more stuff throughout the day to sell. It’s amazing. We couldn’t have asked for anything better to be honest.”

The bakery carries drip coffee from Metric Coffee Co. as well as a selection of homemade muffins, pies, scones and other pastries.

Svec said the shop is capturing a lot of foot traffic from people headed to the nearby Oak Park Avenue Green Line El stop and early data shows that about a quarter of their patrons are return customers.

The first-time entrepreneur said the overwhelming response has made for some long days, but the bakery is eventually hiring another baker and Molly’s husband is soon joining the Spilt Milk team, she added.

“I knew there would be long hours, but I didn’t realize it would be 19-hours a day for however long it takes,” she said.

Spilt Milk plans to add a lunch menu at some point in the future but not until the second baker is hired, Svec said. The bakery is opened Tuesday through Friday from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Saturday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.; and Sunday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

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BUSY OPENING: Meg (left) and Molly (right) opened Spilt Milk bakery, 103 S. Oak Park Ave., late last month. Molly says business has been good.

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Robbery on Division uses air-soft gun

A person was robbed in the 200 block of Division St. on Oct. 31 at around 8:55 p.m. The victim was riding his bike, when a black 4-door sedan drove up next to him and someone inside shot an air-soft gun in his direction. Three black male teenagers exited the sedan and approached the victim, and one punched him in the face and demanded money. The victim handed over a single dollar and the teens left in the sedan eastbound on Division.

Burglary to motor vehicle A black Ford Explorer was burglarized in the 900 block of Home sometime between 8 p.m. on Oct. 30 and 8:30 p.m. the next day.

The burglar gained access to the vehicle by unknown means and stole a Garmin GPS unit worth an estimated $100.

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residence was burglarized in the 300 block of N. Harvey sometime between 10 p.m. on Oct. 31 and 5:47 a.m. the next day.

The burglar entered the residence through an unlocked rear door and stole two black

briefcases, a silver Apple Macbook Pro laptop, a silver HP laptop, a red Coach wallet with cash, credit cards and an Illinois driver’s license. The loss was an estimated $3,330.

■ A residence in the 800 block of S. Taylor was the target of an attempted burglary sometime between 8 a.m. and 7:36 p.m. on Nov. 1. The burglar entered through an unlocked door and left the premises when the homeowner returned. No loss was reported.

reported to have been masturbating and then left in an unknown direction.

Attempted robbery arrest

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A male juvenile Chicago resident was arrested in the 1000 block of S. Austin in Chicago at 3:37 p.m. on Nov. 1 and charged with attempted robbery. He was transported to the station, processed and released to a parent.

An Apple iPhone 6 that was left on the counter of a business in the 400 block of Madison was stolen at about 8 p.m. on Nov. 1. The victim was a Chicago resident and the loss about $700.

Public indecency A black man estimated to be in his 30s, standing about 5-feet 11-inches, with a medium build and short hair was seen standing on the northeast corner of the 500 block of Humphrey naked except for a pair of shoes at 4:18 a.m. on Nov. 1. The man was

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Motor vehicle theft A blue 1995 Toyota Tercel was stolen from the 300 block of S. Ridgeland sometime between 4 p.m. on Nov. 1 and 7:30 a.m. the next day. The offender used a key to gain entry and steal the car. The loss was an estimated $1,000.

These items, obtained from the Oak Park and River Forest police departments, came from reports, Oct. 31 and Nov. 1, 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 W E D N E S D A Y

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A heavyset man in his 20s, wearing a yellow hat was observed standing in the doorway of a garage in the 200 block of S. Harvey at 4:51 a.m. on Nov. 2. He was confronted and fled through the victim’s yard.

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WINNING SELFIES: The Oak Park Women’s Exchange’s 42nd Annual Holiday Arts & Crafts Fair on Nov. 6 was a bazaar headlined by handmade Cubs mementos, such as these paintings of Javier Baez and Anthony Rizzo, created by an artist who goes by the name of Shanel.

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Last Sunday’s Women’s Exchange featured Cubs handcrafts, fan stories

By MICHAEL ROMAIN Staff reporter

The dreamily chaotic Thursday morning celebration and the pungent euphoria of Friday’s parade may have passed, but Chicago Cubs fever has hardly abated.

At the Oak Park Women’s Exchange’s 42nd Annual Holiday Arts & Crafts Fair, held Nov. 6 at Percy Julian Middle School, 416 S. Ridgeland Ave., shoppers could see the delirium in original artwork, blankets, Christmas ornaments, and other handcrafted fare.

Peter Gaona, a South Side fashion designer and maker of vintage bowties, tote bags, lapel pins, sweaters, jackets and more, is not a Cubs fans.

That minor inconvenience, however, didn’t stop him from digging up a rare, vintage 1980s-era Cubbie-blue satin jacket he owned when the team went to the World Series last Wednesday and stitching onto the back of it the silhouette of Cubs legend Ernie Banks.

Cubs fan Sue McCracken said she was working on her custom Cubs victory pillows — a blue ‘W’ foregrounding a white pillow — during the team’s nerve-wracking playoff run, which ended with that final 8-7 triump in Game 7 against the Cleveland Indians,

which was enough to make anyone’s steady hands jittery.

“Sometimes when the games were playing, I’d walk into the other room to see what was happening. I just couldn’t take it sitting there,” McCracken said. “I have a rotary cutter, so I [worked] with that. That’s what I did during the games. I actually posted [on Facebook], ‘You watched, I sowed.’”

Kathy Vail was flanked by a display of aprons and totes, many of them patterned with the Cubs’ logo. Vail’s mother, Oak Park resident Lillian Vail, is a lifelong fan of the team, so she’s been sowing the Cubs’ logo well before last week’s historic win.

“I took my mom to spring training in Arizona this year and I was telling her [they won the World Series] because we went to spring training,” Kathy said. “Everyone had a ‘This is the Year’ T-shirt on, so it’s exciting that it actually happened this year.”

Lombard ornament-maker Kathy (who declined to give her last name) said she sold out all of the Cubs Christmas ornaments she made.

“I make them all the time,” said the longtime fan of the team. “I did more because of the win, but I always kind of stored stuff. When they went down 3-1, I thought it was over, so I kind of backed off on making them.”

From here until Christmas, at least, she may, like the Cubs at the beginning of that World Series, have some catching up to do.

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Sponsors are matched up to the eligible individuals and families, all of whom are below a certain income level. The sponsors then use participants’ “wish lists” to shop for gifts or gift cards, which they wrap and drop off at United Lutheran Church, 409 Greenfield St. in Oak Park, during the first week of December.

Residents who cannot sponsor an individual or family can help defray the purchasing of Thanksgiving Day gift cards, the cost of which comes to a total of about $36,000, Henek said.

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Some 2,000 people in the Oak Park and River Forest area will need assistance this year, about the same as last year.

However, Henek said there is a difference this year; the number of families may be lower – 772 this time around, but they are seeing larger, more-multigenerational families that include grandparents, grandkids.

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Traditional and non-traditional media, word-of-mouth, churches and schools are getting the word out. The need for sponsors also will be announced during the Community of Congregations annual interfaith service, which will be at 7 p.m., Nov. 20 at Oak Park Temple, 1235 Harlem Ave. Sponsored families will receive food gift cards so they can buy their own fixings for Thanksgiving dinner. In December, they will receive gifts.

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Henek in the mix for River Forest trustee Halperin won’t seek second term as village clerk

By DEBORAH KADIN Contributing Reporter

Two more River Forest residents have announced plans for next spring’s municipal elections.

Patty Henek, who came within a whisker of being elected trustee in 2015, is stepping up to run again for one of three trustee seats up for election on April 4, 2017, while Sharon Halperin will not seek a second term as village clerk.

Henek, who has long been active in volunteer philanthropic efforts, on Nov. 2 told Wednesday Journal she is putting together a campaign and supporters are gathering signatures on her behalf.

“This is something I still want to do,” Henek said. “My showing at the end [in 2015] indicated that the community was supporting my run. I still have the commitment and willingness to do the work on the part of the community.”

In a field of six, Henek came within 20 votes of beating out Trustee Carmela Corsini, who was running for her second term.

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In terms of local matters, Henek said she favors moving forward with a plan for the Madison Street Tax Increment Finance district but also agreed with the village board’s decision to take residents’ concerns into account and eliminate the prospect of using eminent domain.

She said she also favors the formation of a sustainability commission, because a more formal panel indicates that River Forest is committed to looking at matters in terms of the environment.

“The committee has done some great work,” Henek said. “If we have community members who are passionate toward researching best practices and doing the legwork and presenting it to the board, why should they not do that? Trustees don’t have all the time to research everything. That are residents out there willing to do that is huge.”

Henek coordinates the annual Holiday Food and Gift Basket program and has been the lead adult volunteer for the annual LemonAid fundraiser held each Sept. 11 in the 700 block of Bonnie Brae Avenue.

Halperin told Wednesday Journal she cannot devote the time to both her work commitments and the responsibilities of village clerk.

“I have thoroughly enjoyed my tenure,” Halperin said. “This was not an easy decision to make, but ultimately it’s the best decision for me at this time.”

Halperin said she was not closing on the door on running for public office in the future.

Other River Forest officials who earlier declared their intentions to run for re-election in 2017 include Village President Catherine Adduci for village president and trustees Tom Cargie and Tom Dwyer.

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few weeks ago, before I visited my daughter and her family in Oakland, California, I contacted my 3-year-old grandson, Declan, and asked him, only half-jokingly, if he’d like to me to bring him some grasshoppers to eat. I thought it’d be funny and weird for him to try Mexican chapulines (fried grasshoppers). My grandson told me, “I love grasshoppers,” adding, “But not raw ones. Crispy.”

So I brought a bag of crispy grasshoppers and, indeed, he did love them, eating one after another. I thought this was a good sign.

Grasshoppers like these are very popular in Oaxaca, Mexico, where we bought several “flavors” of the bugs from local street vendors: salted, garlic and a chili-flavored variety. They were probably the best bugs I’ve eaten.

The reason I was impressed by my grandson’s eagerness to try this food is that Photo: David Hammond bug-eating is not common in the United States. I’m guessing most would consider Declan eats grasshoppers, eagerly. it gross, though entomophagy is common Honeydoe, a catering company that sells throughout the world.

Middle Eastern/Mediterranean food — Yesterday, we went to The Strange Food though mostly, significantly, Syrian food.

Festival, an event organized by fellow food There are currently no Syrian restaurants writer/blogger/videographer Keng Sisain Chicago, and Jebran is now just making veth. Keng is Laotian, and he wanted to inhis food for events, banquets and so on. He troduce people to the food of his plans, however, to expand and homeland, as well as the food of hire Syrian refugees because, a lot of other “ethnic” groups he told us, “They know the food, who may not currently have a they need jobs, and they need to strong presence in Chicago and integrate into the community.” whose food might be considThat’s what food does. It inteered, by others, to be strange. grates people, bringing together “Strange,” though, is a very people from different cultures relative term. What is strange to share their foods and learn to some might be commonplace about one another. I can’t think to others. We had, for instance, of a time in the history of the an outstanding bowl of poworld when it’s been more zole, Mexican pork soup with important for people to learn hominy. This is a soup known about one another. to probably 100 percent of So I was happy when my Chicago’s Hispanic community, Local Dining grandson tried a kind of food though obviously those outside that most of us have never had & Food Blogger this community might think it and that I guarantee will not at least uncommon and perhaps be found in 99.99% of Mexican strange. Similarly, there was restaurants in this country (who have to mac ’n’ cheese offered, and there’s probably serve mostly gringos). I am certain my not a person in America who hasn’t had grandson did not think eating grasshopthis old standby. To some Asians, however, pers was a way to increase cultural sensicheese is one of the most disgusting foods tivity — he did it because it was fun — but in the world, repulsive, abhorrent, inedible and truly strange. (Why, they might wonder, I’m confident that the next time someone offers him a food he’s never had before, and would anyone eat rotten milk?) that maybe his friends will think is gross, The Strange Foods Festival exemplimaybe he’ll just give it a try and gain some fies one of the main reasons, aside from understanding of another way of thinking appetite, that I like food: It brings people and being. together. When you take the plunge to eat a Postscript: My grandson also ate a lot of food from another culture, you’re connectbacon with his chapulines; my daughter had ing with that culture. And in our current to admonish him, “Declan, you have to eat climate of divisiveness, anything that more than just bacon and grasshoppers.” brings people together is a good thing.

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n July, Crain’s Chicago Business published a story touting the increase in home sales in the first half of 2016 compared to the same period the year before. Sales in River Forest were up 34 percent over 2015, Oak Park sales were up 22 percent over the previous year, and Forest Park saw a 36 percent rise. With three more months of sales data to consider, local real estate professionals are facing the end of the selling season with optimistic outlooks.

For sales closed year-to-date through the end of October, the numbers paint a rosy picture for the near west suburbs. For detached, singlefamily homes, Oak Park saw a 20.2 percent increase in closed sales over the same period in RICH GLOOR JR. 2014, River Forest also saw a 20.2 per- Broker/owner of Oak cent increase, and Park’s Gloor Realty Forest Park closed sales increased 41.7 percent compared with two years ago.

Move-up buyers Rich Gloor Jr., broker/owner of Oak Park’s Gloor Realty and Swati Saxena, broker associate of Baird & Warner in Oak Park, agree that in Oak Park and River Forest, a lot of movement can be attributed to the return of the move-up buyer.

“The condo market here and in the city has had a good effect on the local market,” said Gloor. “It’s put a lot more

buyers in the market who couldn’t sell their condos before. Maybe they got to an acceptable loss — a number that made them comfortable enough to sell their condo at a loss and buy a home.”

He points to an example of the young couple from the city who bought a condo at the height of the real estate boom.

With the real estate recession, they may have been stuck in the condo longer than they originally planned.

“Now, they might have two kids instead of one in a two-bedroom condo, and the market has changed enough, and they need the space enough that they’re finally able to get out to the suburbs.”

These kinds of buyers who are able to purchase their first homes in the suburbs enable those already living in starter homes to sell and buy a bigger home.

Saxena noted that a lot of local sales traffic comprises those moveSWATI SAXENA Broker associate of Baird & up buyers who already live in a home Warner in Oak Park in the area and are looking for their second, larger home.

“What I have seen is a lot of people moving up,” she said. “Once people are in the area, it is very rare that they leave for another suburb unless there is some sort of transfer out of state due to a job.”

Like Gloor, she thinks the return of better pricing has enabled people to move up.

“We’re seeing more people who have gotten their equity back and are ready to move,” she said.

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

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4BR, 4.2BA .................................$1,900,000 Tagger O’Brien • 708-456-6400

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Stunning renovation! Open concept new kitchen, maple cab., SS appliances, granite countertops and marble subway tile! Two new high-end baths. All new mechanicals, plumbing, flooring,. Extra large lot. Don’t miss this!!.......$399,000

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Energy Star Silver Certificate Award Home. Beautiful hdwd flrs. Updated island kitchen with large eating area.

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Move-in condition 1906 Thomas Hulbert house with large yard, finished attic, and full basement. 5 BR/2 BA....... $574,100

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Farmhouse with modern touches. Full BA on each flr, huge eat-in kit. Hdwd flrs, open floor plan and 10’ ceilings. Newer roof, siding and insulation. Depot Dist location. 4 BR/ 2 BA................ $240,000

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

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1433 KEYSTONE, RIVER FOREST OPEN SUNDAY 10-12

123 ASHLAND, RIVER FOREST OPEN SUNDAY 1-3

838 N HARLEM, RIVER FOREST OPEN SUNDAY 10-12

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BEAUTIFULLY MAINTAINED HOME features a detailed LR, DR and kitchen with east facing sun/breakfast room on 1st FL. 2nd FL features sun filled library w/fireplace, large master suite. Finished basement includes a family room with a fireplace and a game room ................................................................................................. $825,000

CHARMING, SPACIOUS QUEEN ANNE BUNGALOW in pristine condition. Art glass windows, French doors, wood trim, hardwood floors. Granite kitchen, breakfast nook. Family room and 1st floor bedroom. 3 bedrooms on 2nd floor. Finished basement, enclosed porch, 2 car garage ................................................ $639,900

BEAUTIFUL, MOVE-IN READY REHAB in River Forest. Large open kitchen with all brand new SS. New 3/4 inch Brazilian Koa wood floors throughout. Designer baths. Wood burning fireplace.

Master suite. Full basement. Great backyard with covered patio.

Close to great schools! ............................................................$389,500

1018 FOREST, OAK PARK OPEN SUNDAY 1-3

STUNNING ENGLISH TUDOR in the perfect location. Two level Party Deck. Three Car Garage. Family room off eat-in kitchen with stainless steel appliances. Lower level recreation room with wet bar.

Close to schools, Lindberg Park and transportation. ........................... .................................................................................................$729,900

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1904 N 74TH, ELMWOOD PARK OPEN SUNDAY 12-2

PR ICE R ED UCE D! METICUOUSLY MAINTAINED BRICK GEORGIAN with 3 bedrooms, 1-1/2 bath, an open floor plan, expansive kitchen, and spacious family room. Living room has wood burning fireplace. Partially finished basement, entertainment deck, landscaped yard, two car garage ......................................................................................$339,000

RIVER FOREST HOMES A ONE OF A KIND HOME! Impeccable restoration of original home with a fabulous addition surrounded by lush professional landscaping. Gorgeous decor & architectural detail throughout, yet warmly welcoming, house is perfect for intimate or grand scale entertaining. ...................................................................................................................$3,750,000 BURMA BUILT BUHRKE HOUSE combines Tudor revival & chateau style architecture elements. Gorgeous décor and impeccable attention to detail and care found in house and landscaped grounds, extends to fabulous in ground pool and patios. Perfect for entertaining. ........................................................................................................... $2,649,000 CLASSIC BRICK COLONIAL with all high-end finishes. First floor features hardwood floors, family room off kitchen. Finished basement has media room, 2 addl BRs, full bath, plenty of storage. Backyard offers private deck, large heated patio, built in pool.

3 car garage, heated driveway. ..................................................................................$1,795,000 RESTORE THIS HOUSE with fabulous curb appeal or Build your dream home on this 100’ x 184’ lot. .............................................................................................................. $1,400,000 HANDSOME AND BEAUTIFULLY MAINTAINED traditional brick home for those who appreciate tradition and elegance. Distinctive home offers 5BRs, 2 full/2 half baths. Professionally landscaped fenced yard with in-ground pool and spa. Ample storage in basement. ...................................................................................................$1,389,000 GEORGOUS FRENCH NORMANDY with 5 bedrooms, 5 full & 5 half baths sits on a 75 foot corner lot. Gleaming hardwood floors and fireplace in LR, simply stunning eat-in kitchen with adjoining family room. Lower level rec room with gas fireplace. Beautifully landscaped grounds...................................................................................................... $1,139,000

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

739 VAN BUREN UNIT 2, OAK PARK OPEN SUNDAY 1-3

MOVE RIGHT INTO THIS 4 STORY TOWNHOME! This 2 bedroom, 2-1/2 bath townhome is a sunny and quiet end unit. Granite kitchen, hardwood floors, master suite, 2nd floor laundry, fireplace in LR. 4th floor loft with kitchenette.

Large wrap around deck and attached garage. ........................................ $364,000

PRICE REDUCED! STUNNING REMODELED CONDO with original charm.

Kitchen with granite, SS appliances, cherry cabinets. Beautiful oak woodwork throughout including built-in shelving in DR. Hardwood floors, fireplace. Enclosed back porch may be used as den. In unit laundry. ...................................... $187,900

BEAUTIFUL STYLISH UPDATED HOME with 4 BRs, 3.2 BAs on four floors of living space. Includes LR w/ frpl, new high end kitchen, Breakfast Rm, 1st FL office. LL has Fam Rm, Rec Room, Laundry, Wine Cellar and Full Bath. 2 car garage with extra storage and rooftop deck............................................................................................................$1,049,000 MAGNIFICENT 3-STORY HOME with a bright and open floor plan, grand sized rooms, gracious foyer with spectacular staircase, amazing millwork, inlaid floors and high ceilings. First floor family room overlooks fenced in yard. Three car garage with walk up storage/loft area. ..............................................................................................................$999,000 COMPLETELY RENOVATED 4 bedroom home is move-in ready. First floor features a spacious open floor plan. Large, high end kitchen. Full finished bsmt consists of a family room, a wet bar and a bonus room with its own bath. Deep backyard with a large patio and fire pit. .........................................................................................................................$959,000 STUNNING RENOVATION of 5 bedroom, 3 full and 1 half bathroom Georgian with attached two car garage. LR, DR, bedroom, office, fam rm and kit flow beautifully on the first floor. The basement boasts a fifth bedroom, full bath, finished recreation room and workout area......................................................................................................................$874,000 GREAT COLONIAL HOME on a great block! Move in condition with 3+ bedrooms, 2-1/2 baths. Eat in kitchen, den/office space, mudroom, sun/Florida room and screened in back porch. Partially finished basement. Coach house with 2 car garage. You will love the available space!..........................................................................................................$684,000 LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION!!! Spacious first floor has updated kitchen with granite counter tops and stainless steel appliances. The finished basement has 4th BR and a full bath. Professionally landscaped yard with new brick paver patio. Nothing to do but move in. .................................................................................................................$599,000 PRICE REDUCED! VERY UNIQUE PRAIRIE HOME sits on a beautiful corner lot. The home suggestive of Tallmadge & Watson has a dramatic family room that opens to the kitchen. Expansive LR with fireplace. Basement has 2nd half bath, and storage. Nice size yard with private brick patio & XL 2 car garage. .................................................$595,000 LARGE VICTORIAN with 4 bedrooms, 2-1/2 baths has great original details including wide moldings, wood burning fireplace, beamed ceilings, large room sizes and high ceilings. Master bedroom with bath, good closet space. Large backyard with deck. ..............................................................................................................................................$450,000

111 ROCKFORD, FOREST PARK OPEN SUNDAY 1-3

OAK PARK HOMES UNPRECEDENTED ESTATE in the Frank Lloyd Wright Historical district of Oak Park!

This meticulously renovated 5 BR, 5 full / 2 half bath property offers exquisite details and refined finishes that boast timeless materials and over the top custom millwork. This is a showcase home! ...........................................................................................................$2,525,000 BEAUTIFUL ESTATE HOME in Historic Oak Park with a perfect blend of modern and vintage details including hardwood floors, leaded glass windows and a grand staircase. Large rooms, tall ceilings and a lot of windows make this 5BR, 3-1/2 BA home spacious and bright. .........................................................................................................$939,500 ROOM FOR EVERYONE and stunning finishes throughout. Newly finished kitchen features 2 dishwashers and a built in bar with beverage center. Top end bathrooms.

Master Suite features a deck, walk-in closet and a redone bath. Beautiful decorating.

Beautiful landscaping. .....................................................................................................$719,000 ATTRACTIVE BRICK COLONIAL HOME recently painted and hardwood floors redone, offers the modern updates you want! Huge Liv Room with Fireplace, open and updated kitchen floor plan, 1st fl office, four BRs. Attached 2 car garage, LL Family Room, Laundry and Storage........................................................................................................$709,000 BEAUTIFUL KENILWORTH PARKWAY! 3 Bedroom, 2.5 Bath Classic Colonial.

Brick, slate roof, curb appeal galore and move in ready!!! Walk up attic, lower level playroom, screened porch overlooks exquisite landscaped backyard. Ideal location. All you need to do is move in! ..............................................................................................$689,900 VALUE MAY BE IN THE LAND. Major renovation needed to the house. Being sold “As Is”. .................................................................................................................................$250,000

FOREST PARK HOMES JUST MOVE IN!! Meticulously maintained new construction built in 2006. Open floor plan features 10 foot ceilings, hardwood floors, and many custom details from crown molding to door handles. High end kitchen. 4 generously sized BRs. Open basement ready to finish. ..............................................................................................................................$489,000 NOTHING TO DO BUT MOVE IN! Newly stained dark hardwood floors throughout, including the kitchen. Three large bedrooms. New deck and many upgrades. Don’t pass this one by.... larger inside than it looks. Sunny back yard ready for your perennial garden. Fenced yard.........................................................................................................$299,900

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TOTALLY REMODELED!! All new: kitchen, hardwood floors, windows, siding, roof, light fixtures, plumbing fixtures, doors and hardware, and fenced-in yard. Master bedroom has walk-in closet, master bath, and walk out deck. 2 car garage with additional exterior parking space....................................................................$559,900

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

CONDOS/TOWNHOMES/2 FLATS RIVER FOREST 2BR, 2BA. Eastern facing balcony. .............................................$199,000 RIVER FOREST 1BR, 1BA. Entertainment area. .....................................................$99,000 OAK PARK 3BR, 2-1/2 BA. Many extra amenities. ................................................$560,000 OAK PARK 3BR, 3-1/2 BA. Large corner unit..........................................................$489,000 OAK PARK 3BR, 1BA. Fenced in backyard. .............................................................$299,000 OAK PARK 2BR, 2BA. Unique condo. .......................................................................$289,900 OAK PARK 2BR, 2BA. Open floor plan.....................................................................$238,500 OAK PARK 2BR, 1BA. Corner unit. ............................................................................$145,000 OAK PARK 2BR, 1BA. Completely redone!.................................................................$97,000 OAK PARK 1BR, 1BA. Updated kitchen and bath. ...................................................$76,300 FOREST PARK 2BR, 2BA. Spacious corner unit. ...................................................$289,000 FOREST PARK 2BR, 2BA. Large balcony................................................................$178,000 FOREST PARK 1BR, 1BA. Updated bath..................................................................$89,500 FOREST PARK 1BR, 1BA. Top floor, corner unit......................................................$89,000 FOREST PARK 1BR, 1BA. Clean, updated unit........................................................$79,900 ELMWOOD PARK 2BR, 1-1/2 BA. Remodeled corner unit. ..............................$165,000 PRICE REDUCED! ELMWOOD PARK 1BR, 1BA. ..........................................$79,500

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Oak Park Redone 2 BR, 1 BA unit in elevator bldg. Parking included Low Assessment ..............................$145,000

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

847 Clinton Pl, River Forest $1,149,000 :: 4 beds :: 3.5 baths Beautifully designed center entrance brick colonial with a gourmet kitchen. Walk to train.

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Great Corner top floor unit. 1 BR and 1 parking space.

Back courtyard with bldg grill and patio set to enjoy. ........................................................................... $89,000

Chicago Nice size 2nd flr unit great location with large eat-in kitchen. Close to transportation. Balcony for outside enjoyment. ......................................................$99,900

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730 Linden Avenue, Oak Park 1416 Ashland Ave, River Forest $769,000 :: 4 bed :: 3.2 bath $1,599,000 :: 5 bed :: 4.3 bath Oak Park landmark with a light-filled, open Grand French inspired stone estate on extra large lot. Large bedrooms and open floor plan. floorplan. Beautiful home in a great location!

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

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OAK PARK. IMPRESSIVE COLONIAL! Well-maintained & spacious. Designer kitchen. OAK PARK. SPACIOUS PRAIRIE school 4BRs, 3.1BAs. New roof. Beautifully lnscpd yd. home on double lot 5BR, 3.1BA. Choice locax .......................................................$845,000 tion! x ............................................. $899,000

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FOREST PARK. MOVE-IN Condition. 4BRs, OAK PARK. 4 BEDROOMS, 2.1 BATHS w/ 2 BAs, New kitchen, baths, roof, furnace, finnewer kitchen, LR, DR, family rm & den. Large ished lower level, 50 ft lot. 2-car gar + pkg backyard with deck. x ................... $589,000 spcs. x ..............................................$379,500

OPEN HOUSES • SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2016 OAK PARK OPEN 12-2PM • 1013 N. EAST AVE.

BRIMMING WITH light & comfort this elegant 4BR, 3.1BA home is move-in ready. Frplc. C/A. Fin’d bsmt. Lots more! See it! x ................................................................................................................................................$639,000

OAK PARK. STRIKING UPDATED vintage condo w/3BRs, 2BAs. Stunning kitchen, SS applncs, in-unit lndry & parking. x ...$295,000 OAK PARK LIKE GREEN SPACE? Love to Entertain? Exceptionally restored, expanded home on private park-like lot offers huge family rm/kitchen combo. 6BR, 3.2BA. x .....................................................................$1,925,000 CLASSY VICTORIAN! Exceptional wdwk & art glass.

Great porches, inviting kitchen, 5BR, 4.1BA. Fam rm & lndry on 2nd. Newer roof & systems. Fresh & ready! x .....................................................................$1,100,000 GORGEOUS OAK PARK HOME near award-winning schools. Chef’s kitchen, master ste, 4+1 BRs, 3.1BAs, finished bsmt. x.............................................. $850,000 UNIQUE BRICK HOME w/extraordinary pegged oak flrs, cathedral ceiling LR & limestone kitchen. 4BR, 2.2BAs. Gorgeous garden. 2-car gar. x .........$699,900 SPACIOUS 4+1 BR, 3 BA bungalow beautifully finished on 3 levels. A must see up-to-date classic. x ....................................................................... $672,500 UPDATED 3BR, 3.1BA w/lovely woodwork, leaded glass windows, large FR, french doors and much more! x ........................................................................$614,900 EXCEPTIONAL CLASSIC Prairie-style home. 3BRs, 2.1BAs. Newly remodeled kitchen. WBFP. Fam rm. 3-tier cedar deck. Enjoy! x ........................................$599,000 ENJOY LIFE IN FLW Historic District. 5BRs, 1½BAs. Spacious LR w/FRPLC. Family rm. Great yard! x ........................................................................$519,000 HOME FOR THE HOLIDAY! Move right in. 4BR, 2BA. New kitchen. Family rm. Many updates. Elementary schools 2 blks away. x .....................................$517,700 ORIGINAL OAK PARK HOME. Tremendous space in this 5BR, 1½BA Gunderson. Beamed ceiling, stained glass, pocket drs, WBFP & hdwd floors. x .. $499,000 SUN-FILLED COLONIAL. 3BRs, 2 new full BAs + ½BA. Hdwd flrs. Wd cab kitchen w/pantry. C/A. Deck.

Great house. x..................................................$479,000 OAK PARK. SMART, FRESH & EXCITING! 3BR, 1.1BA home in perfect loc’n. Stylish décor. Updated kitchen.

Deck. C/A. Lots more! x ..................................$459,000 ENJOY ONE LEVEL living in the 3BR mid-century brick ranch in NW Oak Park. Hdwd flrs. C/A. Spacious LR & separate DR. Full bsmt. Great yd. 2-car gar. x ........................................................................$389,000

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

QUEEN ANNE VICTORIAN w/open frt porch on lrg lot! 6BRs, 2.2BAs. Stunning foyer w/frplc & striking staircase w/balcony.

Much more! x .......................................................................................................$599,000

OPEN 12-2PM • 1519 ASHLAND

IMMACULATE & UPDATED 2-story brick home on deep lot.

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

NORTHLAKE OPEN 11-1PM • 105 N. HAROLD AVE.

IT IS ALL HERE! 4BR, 3.1BA, fab living rm, sep dining rm, eat-in kitchen, deck, yd. 2nd kitchen, family rm in bsmt & good storage. x ........................................................................................................................................$299,900

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

NEW CONSTRUCTION! New standard of luxury! 1808-2200 SF units, 3 BRs, 2 indoor pkg spaces, spacious terraces, eco-efficient LEED certified. Pricing starts at...................................................................$654,900

OPEN 12-2PM • 1126 WASHINGTON, #1A

ATTRACTIVE 1BR UNIT in a beautiful bldg. Galley kitchen, living rm & den – ideal 1st home...........................................................................$144,000

THREE BEDROOM, 1.2 BA Gunderson on one of OP’S fav blocks. 3-season porch, den & attic. Charming fixerupper! ...................................................................$365,000 VERY NICE 3 BR, 2BA. Huge living room, eat-in kitchen, finished basement. 2014: roof, boiler & hot water heater! x ................................................$239,000

DOWNERS GROVE. NEW CONSTRUCTION! 3,600SF customized for you. 4BRs, 4.1BAs. High-end kitchen, master ste, walk-in closets & 2nd flr lndry!

Incredible 50X298x50x296 lot. ......................$1,249,000 ELMWOOD PARK. LIGHT & BRIGHT, beautiful floors, C/A & 3 BR, 1.1 BA Great space! x......$338,000 ELMWOOD PARK. ROOM FOR EVERYBODY! RIVER FOREST Lovely, large brick bungalow. 4BR w/3 full BAs & MAGNIFICENT HOME! 5BR, 4.2BA Tudor built on updated kitchen. Move right in. x .................$285,000 massive 200 x 188 lot. Rehab & addition offer modern INCOME amenities. x ................................................. $2,999,000 SPECTACULAR 6 BR, 3.2 BA on amazing block. 4 flrs OAK PARK. BRICK 3-FLAT close to school wih a big of living space. High-end, designer kitchen & vaulted living rm, formal dining rm. Excellent condition! Great family rm. x.................................................. $1,460,000 income!.................................................................$729,000 PRAIRIE SCHOOL home built in ‘06 w/classic archi- RIVER FOREST. INCOME PROPERTY, like a 2-flat, tectural design & contempo amenities. Spacious with but a side-by-side. 3BRs, 2.1 BAs in each unit. Hdwd flrs.

4BRs & 4½BAs. Family rm. SPECIAL! x ..... $1,225,000 C/A. 3½-car garage. x ....................................$749,000 PERFECT ATTENTION TO DETAIL. 5BR, 2.1BA home COMMERCIAL w/coach house. Chef’s kitchen w/over-the-top ameniOAK PARK. MIXED USE BLDG. 1st flr: lrg commercial ties. Family rm. Much more! x ....................$1,165,000 spc – approx. 3000SF. 2 apts on 2nd flr: 3BR, 1BA /1BR, VERY COOL RETRO RANCH w/open floor plan on 1BA. 2-car gar. 1st flr handicapped access. Call for more a large lot. 3 BRs, 2.2BAs. WBFP. MBR suite. 1st floor info. .......................................................................$395,000 laundry. C/A. Attached garage. x ..................$599,000

FOREST PARK

UNBEATABLE LOCATION. 5BRs, 3BAs. Eat-in kitchen. Terrific deck for outdoor entertaining. C/A. Great home. ...................................................................$399,000 LOVINGLY MAINTAINED & UPDATED. 3+1BR, 2.1BA farmhouse. Refinished hdwd flrs, new C/A, new washer/dryer. Parklike yd. x...........................$319,900

OAK PARK CONDOS/TOWNHOUSES

EXCLUSIVE 2BR, 2BA multi-level skylit condo in the Oak Park Club! Open family rm overlooks LR/DR. Frplc.

2 deeded garage spcs. x................................$480,000 STYLISH & SPACIOUS Decker bldg. unit on 2nd flr. 3BR, 2.1BA. Well-maintained. Move right in! x ........................................................................$279,900 OTHER AREA HOMES CLEAN CORNER CONDO facing south and east.

BERWYN. STUNNING OCTAGON bungalow in great 2 bedrooms, 2 baths. Large closets. Covered pkg. A deal condition. 4+ BRs, 3 full BAs. x ....................$395,000 at ...........................................................................$169,900 BERWYN. AM 4-SQ, 3 BR, 1.1 BA near Proksa Park WELL-LOCATED & UPDATED 2 BR, 2 BA condo in & train. Huge deck & patio w/parking for 3 cars. the heart of DTOP. Updated kitchen & BA. Elevator bldg! x ........................................................................$259,000 x ........................................................................$156,900 EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY

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IN THE HEART OF TOWN, 2BR, 1BA condo w/view of lovely lndscpd courtyd. Floor-to-ceiling windows. Open flr plan. Pkg. .........................................................$155,000 NICELY UPDATED eat-in kitchen in this bight & spacious 2BR condo. Great location. Parking. x.$153,000 IDEAL LOCATION close to DTOP, library, Scoville Pk, & transportation. 2BR w/new flrs. Elevator bldg. Parking. ...............................................................................$123,000 GREAT AFTERNOON sunlight brightens the space in this 1BR, 1BA condo with working fireplace & hardwood floors.....................................................................$108,000 SUNLIT & SPACIOUS 1BR, 1BA unit with central air.

Updated kitchen. 1 parking space.......................$89,000 WELL-LOCATED STUDIO features hdwd flrs, new SS fridge, new portable washer. Murphy’s bed. ....$69,900

RIVER FOREST CONDOS/TOWNHOUSES

VERY CLEAN, attractive & affordable brick townhouse.

2BR, 1.1BA, bonus LL rec rm. Parking. ..............$159,000

FOREST PARK. RARE 3 BEDROOM at the Grove with balcony & patio. Granite & SS applnces. 2-car garage. x .............$349,000 LOMBARD. HIGH-END 3BR, 2BA spacious corner unit in newer building. x ........................................$310,000

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The zip in one zip code Gloor pointed out this has been an especially strong year for south Oak Park’s 60304 zip code. The neighborhood is doing well with both first-time buyers and buyers of higher-end new construction.

“We’re seeing really high prices south of the freeway,” he noted. “There’s a lot of new construction from Harlem to Oak Park Avenue, from 290 to Roosevelt. There are second-story additions and a lot of new homes.

We’re seeing prices in the upper $700s right now, numbers that weren’t there before.”

That neighborhood has a strong community feeling that Gloor says a lot of first-time buyers seek out, and many people who own starter homes there want to move up to bigger homes in the same neighborhood.

The statistics reflect a strong interest from buyers who want to purchase homes in the neighborhood. According to Saxena, the 60304 zip code saw a 16.3 percent increase in the number of closed sales between 2014 and 2016, and an 11 percent increase in the median sales price for the same years.

Fall trends Even though the stereotypical hot season for home sales is spring and summer, the fall has also been strong in the local market this year.

Saxena attributes some of that to the weath-

er and some to the natural movement of people from the city to the suburbs. Calling this a great time to move, she said, “If we have a

non-rainy fall, that helps sales. Good weather just makes it easier to get out and see a house.

In general, the colder it gets, the more people

hunker down and wait for better weather to look.”

Many buyers who plan to purchase in the suburbs in 2017, she noted, are already starting their searches now.

“We still see a lot of the typical buyers from the city, who are people with kids who come to the area for the schools and ease of commute to Chicago. It’s very appealing. The more they see now, the easier it is to make a decision when the time comes.”

Gloor said the fall has been strong at his office as well. “We’ve had 20 sales in October already, and we’re still getting new listings even now.” He believes October 2016 was stronger than October 2015 and thinks the year will finish strong.

Looking forward Heading into 2017, Gloor thinks the upward trend will continue.

“We have longtime homeowners who didn’t have to move, who are now ready to downsize because they’ll make more money on the sale of their homes post-recession. We’re seeing a lot of people in Oak Park and River Forest doing the move up to the second home. It’s a nice transition right now.”

He noted that move-up buyers are being more choosey.

“They often are looking for something on a specific block or certain area. Not a lot of them want to take on the work involved with a fixer-upper.

“I think 2017 will be another really solid year,” he added. “We should have a very healthy, slowly appreciating year for properties that are ready to move in or are new. We’re not going to see those spikes that we saw before, and that’s not a bad thing.”

November 9, 2016 ■ Wednesday Journal/Forest Park Review

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1126 Washington Blvd. Unit 1A,. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gloor Realty Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$144,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2 121 Pleasant St. Unit B, Oak Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re/Max In The Village . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $159,500 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-2:30 739 Van Buren St. Unit 2E, Oak Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $187,900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 930 Ontario St. Unit 3D, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Weichert Realtors Nickel Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$232,500 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2 425 S. Oak Park Ave. Unit A, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $364,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 1007 Hayes Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Baird & Warner Oak Park/River Forest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $439,900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 Showroom At 139 S. Oak Park Ave., Oak Park, Il . . . . . . . . . . . . Gloor Realty Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $654,900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2 Showroom At 139 S. Oak Park Ave., Oak Park, Il . . . . . . . . . . . . Gloor Realty Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $669,900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2 Showroom At 139 S. Oak Park Ave., Oak Park, Il . . . . . . . . . . . . Gloor Realty Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $689,900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2

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$307,000

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Samuel Marshall – ID# 09261376

Oak Park

$275,000

Fabulous 4 bed, 2 bath home with vintage features of original woodwork, built-ins and stained glass surrounding the wood burning fireplace, beamed ceiling dining room with original built-in hutch, hardwood floors, spacious newly remodeled eat-in kitchen, recreation room perfectly situated on a double lot.

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$379,000

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

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$224,000

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$167,400

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Cicero

$149,000

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P R O P E R T Y

T R A N S F E R S

800 Fair Oaks Ave. home sells for $675,000

The following property transfers were reported by the Cook County Recorder of Deeds from September 1 to September 30, 2016. Where addresses appear incomplete, for instance where a unit number appears missing, that information was not provided by the recorder of deeds.

OAK PARK ADDRESS

PRICE

SELLER

BUYER

800 Fair Oaks Ave 1038 Division St 130 Le Moyne Pky 431 S Taylor Ave 312 N Oak Park Ave 942 N Grove Ave 334 S Kenilworth Ave 1111 Superior St 1220 N Oak Park Ave 537 S Lyman Ave 618 S Highland Ave 1204 Linden Ave 119 S Taylor Ave 541 S Lyman Ave 831 S Highland Ave 321 S Ridgeland Ave 155 N Humphrey Ave 621 S Harvey Ave 22 Le Moyne Pky 947 N Taylor Ave 512 S East Ave 109 S Scoville Ave 1001 N Taylor Ave 1015 Wesley Ave 124 Wright Ln 138 Le Moyne Pky 104 N Oak Park Ave 135 N Ridgeland Ave 325 N Humphrey Ave 624 S Cuyler Ave 1038 Susan Collins Ln 1401 N Harlem Ave 410 S Grove Ave

$675,000 $589,000 $545,000 $545,000 $525,000 $480,000 $440,000 $440,000 $440,000 $440,000 $435,000 $429,000 $428,000 $414,000 $410,000 $406,500 $385,000 $381,500 $380,000 $362,000 $358,000 $350,000 $341,000 $336,000 $297,000 $278,500 $275,000 $270,000 $231,000 $220,000 $202,500 $178,500 $174,000

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201 S Maple Ave 938 North Blvd

$170,000 $165,000

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SELLER

BUYER

1021 S Ridgeland Ave 228 N Oak Park Ave 800 Washington Blvd 1035 S Cuyler Ave 916 Austin Ave 414 S Elmwood Ave 327 Wisconsin Ave 147 N Ridgeland Ave 228 N Oak Park Ave 425 N Humphrey Ave 914 Columbian Ave 312 N Oak Park Ave 830 N Austin Blvd 1023 Washington Blvd 541 S Lyman Ave 50 Iowa St

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T R A N S F E R S

846 Ashland Ave., River Forest

7731 Adams St., Forest Park 119 S. Taylor Ave., Oak Park

507 William St., River Forest

RIVER FOREST ADDRESS

PRICE

SELLER

BUYER

846 Ashland Ave 734 Keystone Ave 624 Franklin Ave 507 William St 1118 N Harlem Ave 1535 Park Ave 7601 Washington Blvd 1431 Ashland Ave 7213 W Division St

$2,005,000 $1,175,000 $499,000 $255,000 $200,000 $166,500 Unknown Unknown Unknown

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FOREST PARK ADDRESS

PRICE

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The new Austin Gardens facility fits its space, looks to the future

his new Austin Gardens Environmental Education Center continues and extends the tradition at the Park District of Oak Park of providing quality educational and recreational facilities appropriate to the green space.

Austin Gardens is a 3.6-acre urban forest located between the Frank Lloyd Wright Historic District and the lively downtown commercial district.

The project completed this summer was designed by two premier Oak Park designers, landscape architect Carol Yetken and architect Tom Bassett Dilley.

Yetken’s specialty is natural prairie landscapes that emphasize the grasslands of Illinois.

Bassett Dilley is a leading proponent of sustainable residential architecture. He has the rare skill to successfully blend historic, modern and sustainable-design principles.

I’m happy to report that this is not just a beautiful building with integrated landscape, but an intelligent design that acknowledges the Oak Park context and sustainable features, creating a significant new asset in Austin Gardens.

The center’s vision included a place for a nature-based preschool, a meeting hall with a view to the park, and support for Festival Theatre during the summer and

skating during the winter — all of this to be housed in a building of utmost energy efficiency, with water collection for toilet flushing, ground-source heat pump heating and cooling, rooftop photovoltaic electricity production, and landscaping that features a learning garden, rain gardens, native plantings, and outdoor gathering spaces.

Bassett Dilley, describing the conceptual idea, said, “The building was conceived as an embodiment of the native oak savanna: with a tall canopy facing the park and a low, dense enclosure against the alley. A sense of prospect and refuge is created. The building really does feel nestled into its site.”

The materials and details are sympathetic to the work of the Prairie School architects, yet modern and eloquent. The orthogonal forms successfully contrast with the gardens’ natural planting.

The building engages beautifully with the site, located on the south edge of the property, providing a screen for the adjacent commercial building. The wood structure is expressed and left natural to blend with the garden. Reclaimed ash is employed as the trim, using trees removed from the park system. A deep overhang shades the two story glass walls while flooding the space with natural light. A smaller one-story

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GREEN IN THE GARDENS: 1) Opening to the north, the structure has a dignified quality.

2) The canopy protects the entrance and opens the view to the Festival Theatre production in the summer.

3) Interior of the flexible grand room flooded with natural light and views to the garden.

4) The curvilinear walk separates the main garden path from the arrival garden.

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mass overlaps the taller skeletal form containing entrances, classrooms, theater support spaces, toilets and mechanical spaces.

The pavilion is designed to be LEED Platinum-certified, with net zero energy use, employing: ■ A geo-thermal system for heating, air conditioning and comfort control ■ Photovoltaic array on the roof to supply the projected energy needs of the building, net zero (uses sun energy) ■ Green roof, absorbs rainfall, reduces heat loads, reduces carbon dioxide and produces oxygen ■ Storm water harvesting through a cistern and diversion for toilet flushing ■ Rain garden/bioswales to absorb the

cistern overflow and the excess rain runoff as a feature in the garden.

■ High energy-efficient mechanical systems in the building.

The building composition establishes a geometric focal point for the park. The walking path provides access to the center, binding it to the gardens. The design is a hybrid of classical order and natural prairie. The restraint exercised in this project is commendable.

There is a lot to like in this project. It is about education, it is about the future, and it is about being a good neighbor. This is a respectable example of a modern design that has been tempered without losing its sense of place.

Garret Eakin is an architect, preservationist and a professor at the School of the Art Institute.

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As my third year at Intercultural begins, I As mylike third year how at Intercultural would to state proud I am begins, of the I would like to state how proud I am of work work that the teachers perform on athe daily that the teachers perform on a daily basis. basis. That is where the magic happens, That happens, and is I’vewhere foundthe thatmagic it is true that theand I’ve found that are it isthe true that are the teachers soul of the the teachers school. As soul of the school.

As an Intercultural parent, an Intercultural parent, I appreciated how I hard appreciated how work, hard but the now teachers the teachers as anwork, but now as an administrator I understand administrator I understand and recognize and recognize many subtle skills the the many subtlethe skills the job requires. job requires.

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As we grow, we continue to improve As school we grow, we continue to Oak improve our infrastructure at the Parkour school infrastructure at the Oak Park campus, campus, including the installation of a new including the installation of a new statestate-of-the-art security system.

This week, of-the-art security system.

This week, the the students harvested their first vegetables students harvested their fi rst vegetables from from our new organic garden! And more our new organic garden! moreschool upgrades upgrades are coming as And this new year are coming as this new school year begins. begins.

It is extremely fulfilling to see Intercultural’s It is extremely continued growth.fulfi Tolling me to it see means that Oak Intercultural’s continued growth.

To medualit Park recognizes the value of the unique means that Oak Park recognizes the value of language education we are providing. From the unique dual-language education we are all of us on the Intercultural team, it is our providing.

From you, all ofand us the on the Intercultural pleasure to serve children of this team, it is our pleasure to serve you, and the vibrant community. children of this vibrant community.

Thank you! ¡Gracias! 謝謝你！

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Grace Lutheran School invites parents to an Early Childhood Open House on Tuesday, Nov. 29, 6–7 p.m.

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race Lutheran School, at the corner of Division and Bonnie Brae in River Forest, offers classes for children age 3, 4 and 5, as well as for elementary-age students in grades 1–8. Parents beginning the process of choosing a preschool are invited to talk with teachers and tour classrooms at an Early Childhood Open House on Tuesday evening, Nov. 29, from 6 to 7 p.m.

Grace’s morning preschool class welcomes three-year-olds to participate in free play, small-group projects and whole-group activities. Children build, touch, count, learn letters, sing and talk with one another and their teachers. They also work on practical skills for independence, such as getting dressed for outside play and cleaning up.

Classes meet from 8:15 to 11:30 a.m. and children attend two, three or five days each week.

Junior and senior kindergarten classes, for four- and five-year-olds, also meet from 8:15 to 11:30 a.m., with an afternoon option that extends the school day until 3 p.m. Afterschool care is available for students age 4 and older until 6 p.m.

Early Childhood classrooms at Grace are large and bright. Junior and senior kindergartners

learn by doing, practicing social skills and problem-solving in their play, as well as learning letters and numbers. Language arts instruction in senior kindergarten includes individualized practice in pre-reading and reading. Grace School’s gym and playground provide plenty of room for active play.

Elementary and middle-school students at Grace are taught by experienced classroom teachers, with support from resource teachers certified in special education and reading.

Students in grades 1–8 participate in music, art and German classes. Grace School graduates go on to succeed at competitive area high schools, public and private.

All students at appropriate grade levels are eligible to participate in after-school sports, including cross country and track, volleyball and basketball. Grace teams regularly compete at state and national tournaments sponsored by the Lutheran Sports Association.

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perating on the core principle that every child can become great at math, Mathnasium is a rapidly growing educational franchise across the U.S. and abroad. In 2013, Jana Frank opened up the local Mathnasium center at 212 S. Marion St. in Oak Park and is now celebrating three years of helping kids get ahead in math.

“This is a tremendous milestone for both Mathnasium and the community,” Frank says, “Since we opened, there’s been no greater privilege than watching our students grow and improve. Mathnasium students have quickly learned that math can be fun and interesting as well as useful, both in terms of success in school and the valuable life skills it provides.”

In 2013 alone, Mathnasium centers around the world taught more than 1.5 million student sessions. This underscores the critical role after-school math education has come to play for students and parents alike and the value of the Mathnasium Method™, which combines mental, verbal, visual, tactile, and written techniques and focuses on helping kids truly understand math.

“It’s our core belief,” Frank asserts, “that most any child can succeed at math. We’re

looking forward to many more years of bringing the Mathnasium Method™ to the Oak Park community. We are excited about helping every child reach their potential in math by teaching in a way that makes sense to them.”

Children come to Mathnasium either to address difficulties they are having with math or to participate in advanced study so they can remain challenged and further excel in their classes. Both groups of students understand the importance of math education for success in college and beyond.

Mathnasium, the nation’s leading mathonly learning center franchise, specializes in teaching kids math in a way that makes sense to them. Students go to Mathnasium year-round to catch up, keep up, and get ahead in math. The proprietary Mathnasium Method™ is the result of 40+ years of hands-on instruction and research. Since 2003, Mathnasium has grown to over 600 locations, with a new center opening each week. For more information, or schedule a free trial session for your child, call 708613-4007 or visit www.mathnasium.com/ oakparkriverforest.

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We would love to show you all the fun and enriching experiences kids have at Pilgrim, take you on a tour through our classrooms, and talk about our exciting programming options for the 2017-2018 school year.

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The Neighborhood Giving Project

Community Giving Guide

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eason of Giving is a campaign organized by Wednesday Journal and the Oak Park River Forest Community Foundation to encourage local charitable giving during the holiday season. It has long been recognized that when we shop local, our money recirculates through

Animal Care League No matter how long it takes, the Animal Care League keeps an adoptable animal until we find that right loving home. We take proactive approaches to animal care and adoption as well as preventative measures to help reduce the number of homeless animals in our communities. The Animal Care League provides medical treatment for over 1,000 animals each year ranging from routine vaccinations to emergency, life-saving surgery.

Make a meaningful difference in the life of a homeless animal. Visit www. animalcareleague.org, where you can sign up to be a volunteer or donate. You can also donate your gently used items to the 2nd Chance shop, and attend one of many fun special events.

The Collaboration for Early Childhood The Collaboration for Early Childhood is your resource for early childhood information in Oak Park and River Forest. We provide the connections vital to every child’s opportunity for success in learning and in life. We work with more than 60 organizations so that parents and their children receive critical information and support services, children are screened for developmental delays, teachers in child care centers, preschools and family child care homes provide high quality programs and our most vulnerable children and their families experience a strong web of support.

For more information, or to make a donation, please visit us at www.collab4kids. org or follow us on Facebook.

Concordia University Chicago Founded in 1864, Concordia University Chicago is a comprehensive liberal arts-based Christian university in the Lutheran tradition. Through its College of Arts

the local economy reaping dividends for the entire community. The same is true for charitable giving. When you donate to local nonprofits, your money goes to work in your own neighborhood.

Your donations feed local families, offer safety and learning to local children, and enrich the beauty and art that and Sciences, College of Business, College of Education, and College of Graduate and Innovative Programs, Concordia-Chicago offers more than 100 areas of study in small classes taught by professors who are passionate about teaching and student success. Concordia-Chicago equips men and women to serve and lead with integrity, creativity, competence and compassion in a diverse, interconnected and increasingly urbanized church and world. More than 5,000 full-time undergraduate and graduate students are enrolled at Concordia-Chicago, located in River Forest.

Forest Park Historical Society

The Historical Society of Forest Park is dedicated to the preservation, collection and celebration of Forest Park History. We study the past so we can understand the present so we can shape the future. The Historical Society in Forest Park is an important part of the social infrastructure of our community.

We partner with many groups to enhance the quality of life in our village.

1000 Elgin, Forest Park IL 60130 To make a donation, volunteer or to get more information, go to www. forestparkhistory.weebly.com.

Frank Lloyd Wright Trust Inspiring tomorrow’s architects today. Our D97 program has introduced thousands of students to Wright’s design legacy. Our community’s vitality is enhanced by the mission of the Frank Lloyd Wright Trust.

Through its stewardship of the Home and Studio, the Trust continues to preserve an Oak Park treasure as a source of community pride and inspiration.

To learn more or donate, go to flwright.org 931 Chicago Ave, Oak Park, IL 60302

surrounds us all. Over the coming weeks, we hope that you will take a moment to look over the listings in this Giving Guide. Find an organization that resonates with you. Check out their website. Consider making a donation or volunteering. Spread the word. Don’t just shop local—give Local.

Hephzibah

Hephzibah Children’s Association was founded in 1897. We serve more than 1,000 children and families each year through innovative, community-based programs.

Hephzibah provides a Group Home for children who have been taken from their families due to profound abuse or neglect.

Our skilled staff recruits and trains foster parents, and offers ongoing support to help all family members navigate challenges.

Our after-school Day Care operates on a sliding scale to serve working parents in Oak Park, with programs based at each elementary school.

To make a real difference in the lives of children and families, please donate today at www.hephzibahhome.org.

Housing Forward The mission of Housing Forward is to transition people from housing crisis to housing stability. By emphasizing prevention, supportive services, employment readiness and supportive housing, we are able to offer a comprehensive, long-term solution that moves clients into housing quickly and keeps them there.

This housing-first approach to homelessness is more efficient, more fiscally responsible and less traumatic to clients who are typically facing extraordinary hardship. It is also beneficial to the communities being served who do not have to bear the costs of homelessness in the form of expanded social services, health care and public safety costs.

We offer an attractive return on your investment — measured in terms of human lives and futures.

To donate, please visit www.housingforward. org/give, or contact Janet Gow, Director of Development & Communications, at 708.338.1724 ext. 262.

Many parents are eager to teach their children about the importance and the rewards of helping others. The Neighborhood Giving Project is a 501c3 non-profit organization providing community service opportunities for busy families in the Oak Park-River Forest area. Our mission is to inspire our children to be better citizens of the world by providing hands-on, hands-together community service opportunities; to enrich their learning with civic responsibility, social justice, and charitable action.

Partnering with local organizations, NGP develops service projects that are developmentally appropriate for children, and also genuinely fun. Topics include hunger and homelessness, education and literacy, family health, animal care, and more.

To learn more about getting involved or to make a donation, go to www. neighborhoodgivingproject.org

Nineteenth Century Charitable Association The Nineteenth Century Club was established in 1891 and the spirit of the founders continues today in the work of the Nineteenth Century Charitable Association through community outreach grants, scholarships, and public programming in five areas: music, art, literature, science, and social sciences. The NCCA is the owner of 178 Forest Avenue, commonly referred to as the Nineteenth Century Club. Our charitable and cultural activities are supported by our members, volunteers, donors, and by the events held at the Club. Programs are open to all and we welcome men and women of all ages to join.

If you would like information about volunteering, joining or donating, please call us at 708-386-2729 email to info@ nineteenthcentury.org.

Oak-Leyden Developmental Services In 2014, Oak-Leyden Developmental Services helped nearly 600 children and adults with developmental disabilities reach their highest potential. Our multi-disciplinary Early Intervention Program provides therapies to help prepare young children for their years ahead, as well as education that supports the entire family. Our enriching, adult day programs offer community activities, life skills coaching, and vocational training. In our 12 group homes, adults receive residential care, social and recreational opportunities, and access to healthcare providers.

Please volunteer, donate items on our wish list, make a contribution, or become an Oak-Leyden Enrichment Partner at www. oak-leyden.org or call 708-524-1050 x102.

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Oak Park Art League Founded in 1921, the Oak Park Art League (OPAL) is one of Oak Park’s first cultural institutions and fulfills its mission through its offering of high quality art education to people of all ages and skill levels, programs and guest lectures, artist demonstrations and critiques, plus monthly exhibitions in OPAL’s historic Carriage House art gallery.

On Giving Tuesday, leave your legacy of support by sponsoring a Century Club limited edition brick in OPAL’s garden courtyard. Purchase a personalized brick for yourself, a business, or honor a loved one and help pave the path to OPAL’s centennial anniversary in 2021.

720 Chicago Avenue 708-386-9853 oakparkartleague@gmail.com www.oakparkartleague.org

The Oak Park Education Foundation (OPEF) Strong schools are at the heart of a strong community. Established in 1989, OPEF is a privately funded, nonprofit organization that brings artists, architects, scientists, and technology experts into K-8th grade classrooms at every District 97 school.

Our professional partners share their passion for learning while conducting free, hands-on residencies with more than 4,200 students annually. OPEF also runs BASE Camp, exceptional summer and day-off enrichment. Learn more, volunteer or donate at opef.org.

260 Madison St., Oak Park, IL 60302 Contact: Deb Abrahamson, Exec. Dir., dabrahamson@opef.org. 708 524 3023

Oak Park Public Library Support literacy, learning, and community connection When you give locally, you can choose to share a gift that nurtures ideas and spreads knowledge in and around Oak Park. You can support the freedom to read, to learn, and to grow. Loyalty to your local public library helps a 113-yearold institution, dedicated to literacy and community connection, continue to be free and accessible to all.

To learn more about how you can make a difference and keep Oak Park’s center of information, local history, and civic engagement strong, contact Executive Director David J. Seleb (d.seleb@ oppl.org, 708.697.6911) or Deputy Director Jim Madigan (jmadigan@oppl. org,708.697.6909).

Oak Park Regional Housing Center The Housing Center promotes and sustains the racial integration of Oak Park. We help over 3,500 households and 250 landlords annually. The Housing Center provides the foundation for equity and inclusion in Oak Park. Your gift helps keep Oak Park’s promise of diversity that we all cherish.

To donate visit: oprhc.org/donate or make checks payable to OPRHC, 1041 South Boulevard, Oak Park, IL 60302

Oak Park River Forest Food Pantry $1 = 3 meals, is an equation only you can make possible.

With your help, Oak Park River Forest Food Pantry has been reducing local hunger for nearly 40 years. Your support means we are able to meet the needs of nearly 16,000 families struggling with hunger each year. It means we can provide over 50 pounds of nutritious food plus access to vital programs and services to help people stretch limited food budgets in healthy ways. It means that even a little goes a long way: every $1 donated can feed a neighbor for an entire day.

To make a donation, visit www. oprffoodpantry.org or send checks payable to OPRF Food Pantry to Oak Park River Forest Food Pantry, 848 Lake Street, Oak Park, IL 60301.

PACCT PACTT Learning Center is committed to empowering people challenged by autism with choice in regard to where they live, learn and work. PACTT’s mission is to assist individuals with autism in becoming as independent as possible with the ability to integrate effectively into their homes and community. At the core of this mission is to see each individual as a unique gift and then provide the person-centered supports that foster learning and growth.

PACTT programs include a therapeutic day school, residential services for children, transition program for older teens, vocational training/job placement and residential services for adults.

To learn more about PACTT or make a donation, go to www.pactt.org or call 773-338-9102 ext. 2424

Pillars Pillars is the largest nonprofit provider of mental health and social services in the western and southwestern suburbs. The agency serves 10,000 people each year through direct client services, including Mental Health, Addictions, Domestic & Sexual Violence, Child & Family Services, and Community Housing. Untreated mental illness and addiction can lead to hospitalization, encounters with law enforcement, violence, and even early death. Pillars’ programs empower people to break out of those cycles and lead healthy, productive, independent lives—which ultimately saves the community money. Stand together as Pillars, with us.

Donate online or pledge a monthly gift today at www.pillarscommunity.org/ donate.

Ping!

PING! (Providing Instruments for the Next Generation) is an all-volunteer organization that loans musical instruments to students in need in grades 4-12 in Oak Park-River Forest school districts 90, 97, and 200 so that they can participate in their school band or orchestra. PING! also provides music enrichment for its students through workshops, mentoring, summer music camp scholarships, private lessons, and field trips. PING! serves between 125 and 150 students each year who would not otherwise have the opportunity to participate in the music programs at school.

PING! depends on the community for donated instruments and financial contributions to maintain our instrument inventory and program funding.

For more information or to make a donation, go to www.pingoprf.org. If you have an instrument to donate, send us an email at pingoprf@gmail.com.

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Sallie Smylie

and her family began volunteering for Housing Forward about 15 years ago making and serving dinners to guests in various PADS shelters. At the time, it was her only insight into the services of what was then known as West Suburban PADS. Today, Sallie is the President of the Board of Directors and is more involved in the services the agency provides in its mission to end homelessness.

As a board member, Sallie finds it rewarding to work alongside other passionate and compassionate board members and staff to realize tangible results of Housing Forward’s comprehensive services available to those who are chronically homeless or at risk of homelessness, and those who have homes but require supportive services to keep them.

“Lynda Schueler is the key influence,” says Sallie. “It is a privilege to work with someone so knowledgeable and dedicated to serving those in the community facing a housing crisis.”

Sallie believes in Housing Forward’s philosophy of “housing first” in that the most effective way to address the conditions and causes of homelessness first requires not just shelter but a home. Sallie considers support of Housing Forward a good investment as it is a recognized leader in addressing homelessness and it maximizes and effectively leverages every dollar donated.

When she is not volunteering or heading the Housing Forward board, Sallie enjoys reading, singing and knitting for her precious little granddaughter.

Pleasant Home Pleasant Home Foundation, a non-profit organization, restores and preserves our National Historic Landmark house museum while offering a wide variety of educational opportunities, cultural programming and free community events. Financial support is crucial to sustain Pleasant Home as an important resource for tourism and as a center for the community.

Pleasant Home 217 Home Avenue, Oak Park, IL 60302 pleasanthome.org hruehlemay@pleasanthome.org 708-383-2654

This Community Giving Guide of local nonprofits will run weekly through December. If you would like information on how to list your organization, email Marc Stopeck at marc@oakpark.com.

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Transforming lives

Each year, neighbors choosing to give locally are supporting the power to transform lives. Take, for example, the recent $500 gift from the Schwab Charitable Fund that was earmarked for adult literacy in memory of a loyal Oak Park Public Library patron. Twentysix new Main Library titles in the Rapid Reads Series now offer contemporary, entertaining plots and come with tutor tools for testing comprehension and discussion. Adult Education Librarian Rashmi Swain was thrilled to be able to fulfill an Oak Park literacy volunteer’s request with the donated funds. “The new titles are perfect for instilling foundational reading skills, and for fostering a continued love of reading,” Swain said.

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Community Giving Guide The River Forest Library Foundation Since 1905, the River Forest Public Library (RFPL) has been transforming lives and nurturing a love of reading and learning in children, teens, and adults. Today, as a 21st century library, the RFPL not only provides the latest books and periodicals, but also digital content, remote online access, onsite computer technology, and interactive educational programs By giving to the RFPL Foundation, a 501(c)(3) organization, you can honor a parent, child, or other family member; a cherished teacher or mentor; a dear friend; or your own love of learning. Your gift will inspire others and help to ensure that the Library will always be here to grow and change with us.

Mail donations to the RFPL Foundation at 735 Lathrop Ave, River Forest, IL 60305, or go to www.riverforestlibrary. org/donate.

Sarah’s Inn

Since 1981, Sarah’s Inn has worked to improve the lives of those impacted by domestic violence and to break the cycle of violence for future generations. Our Intervention Program provides bi-lingual services for families affected by domestic violence in order to safely navigate crisis, effectively process trauma and ensure self-sufficiency.

Our Training and Education Program creates a network of skilled bystanders to appropriately intervene as first responders and community advocates. Our Together Strong Project was created to prevent relationship violence by teaching youth about

John Miniutti

has a wealth of expertise and successful business experience. But most of all John has a wealth of kindness, informed by the loving relationship with his late son Fritz. In 2011, John sought an effective organization to provide supports for Fritz, his son with disabilities who resided with him in their River Forest home. John found a willing partner – UCP Seguin of Greater Chicago – to support Fritz with a range of services to make his life more productive and meaningful.

John wanted to be an advocate for his son and other individuals with disabilities. In 2012 he joined UCP Seguin’s Board, providing his keen insights to ensure excellence in its programs and soundness in its finances. But John has provided so much more, generously donating his treasure to help sustain UCP Seguin’s innovative services.

Sadly, John’s son Fritz Miniutti passed away in August 2014.

Fritz was an intelligent, active man with many interests – going

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the impact of their choices, giving them the tools to lead healthy lives, and empowering them to make a difference in their community.

To donate, visit donatenow.networkforgood. org/sarahsinn, or make a tax-deductible donation through postal mail by sending a check to: Sarah’s Inn, PO Box 1159 Oak Park, IL 60304

UCP Seguin of Greater Chicago UCP Seguin believes that all people, regardless of ability, deserve to achieve their potential, advance their independence and act as full members of the community. So we stop at nothing to provide life skills training, assistive technology, meaningful employment and a place to call home for people with disabilities, as well as specialized foster care for children. Our goal: life without limits for people with disabilities.

Make a difference in the lives of people with disabilities. Donate online at ucpseguin. org send gifts to UCP Seguin, 332 Harrison Street, Oak Park IL 60304

Your holiday donation will help even more neighbors receive the gift of healthy living.

To donate, visit WestCookYMCA.org/donate or send your check to West Cook YMCA, 255 S. Marion St., Oak Park, IL 60302. (708383-5200)

Wonder Works Children’s Museum Creative and imaginative play are vital to a healthy child and Wonder Works Children’s Museum provides countless opportunities for both, giving children a safe space to explore. Wonder Works is committed to providing an environment where early learning flourishes through thoughtfully designed “experience zones” and educational programming.

Rachel Rettberg CEO Wonder Works Children’s Museum 6445 W North Ave, Oak Park IL 60302 773.636.7971 rrettberg@wonder-works.org www.wonder-works.org www.facebook.com/ wonderworkschildrensmusem

West Cook YMCA It’s our passion at the West Cook YMCA that financial need should never stand in the way of anyone who wants to achieve vitality and improve their well-being. YMCA scholarships cover everything from memberships and class fees to after-school programs and summer day camps for children. Community support makes it possible for us to provide more than $120,000 in scholarships to local residents for Y programs and memberships each year.

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to the gym, working with computers, watching movies, dining out, playing with pets, and working, either at the local theater or as a volunteer for the office of State Senator Don Harmon. Fritz received Life Skills Training, Employment and Respite services from UCP Seguin, accessing social-recreation venues with a UCP Seguin staff member who became his good friend.

Imbued with his love for Fritz, John has been a generous donor to support UCP Seguin’s programs. He sees his gifts of time and resources as going hand in glove to ensure the success of the agency that gives so much to individuals with disabilities.

Through these years of dedicated service and giving, John Miniutti has been a philanthropist in every sense, keeping individuals with disabilities served by UCP Seguin foremost in his thoughts and deeds.

Like John Miniutti, you too can help provide life without limits for people with disabilities. Donate online at ucpseguin.org or send gifts to UCP Seguin, 332 Harrison Street, Oak Park IL 60304

John Miniutti with his dear late son Fritz

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“This is a great time for the entire community to invest in the Community Foundation.�--John & Linda Tibensky, donors Connect with

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The Oak Park-River Forest Community Foundation has partially underwritten the Season of Giving in support of nonprofit organizations serving Oak Park and River Forest.

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OAKPARK.COM | RIVERFOREST.COM Vicki Witt, Grace Angelos, Mary Jo Taira, Foundation Board member Barb Rohm Rossa and Amy McDavid at Thanksgiving in October.

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OUT ABOUT Thanksgiving in October On behalf of the board of directors and staff of the Oak Park - River Forest Community Foundation, THANK YOU for joining us last Thursday at 19th Century Club for our annual Thanksgiving in October, where we celebrated our 2016 grantees.

Kira Barrett, Christina Strand and Bjorn Vogen explain Future Philanthropists Program activities.

Brian Muehrcke with Rhea Yap, Director of Fund and Donor Development for the Community Foundation and Former Board Chair Boyd McDowell.

The event was graced by Community Foundation Board Member Marcia Preston and Board Vice Chair Stacey Williams.

PING! friends Mary Ann Haggerty and Helen Gullo enjoy the evening.

Oak Park Chamber of Commerce’s Mark Walden talks with Board Member Michelle Vanderlaan

“Spirits of the Season” drawing winner Mary Jo Taira with Julie Carpenter of the Oak Park Art League, Mary Jo’s choice for the Spirits of the Season grant.

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BE ALERT TO UNDIAGNOSED, UNTREATED DIABETES THE YMCA’S DIABETES PREVENTION PROGRAM CAN YOU MEASURE A HEALTHY LIFE? Sure, you can—by the cup, the ounce, and the step.

If you’re at risk for type 2 diabetes, you can make small, measurable, changes that can reduce your risk and help you live a happier, healthier life.

THE WEST COOK YMCA For those with prediabetes and who are interested in preventing diabetes, we offer several free year-long group classes called Project Lifestyle Change. Each group class consists of eleven 90-minute sessions throughout the year, providing participants the opportunity to track food intake, physical activity, blood sugars, blood pressure and cholesterol. It’s a great way to learn about making lifestyle changes to improve health while at the same time making new friends. As part of this popular program, the West Cook YMCA offers a free three-month trial membership. For more information, call Rush Oak Park Hospital at 708-660-5900.

The YMCA’s Diabetes Prevention Program gives you the skills you need and the support you deserve to make lasting healthy lifestyle changes. New Session begins Monday, November 14 at 6:30 p.m. New participants will be accepted until December 5. Y Membership is not required! Contact us at 708-383-5200 or preventdiabetes@westcokymca.org

YMCA’s Diabetes Prevention Program Community Advisory Board Take Charge of Your Diabetes! 25% of Americans age 60 years and older have diabetes. Diabetes impacts how a person eats, exercises, deals with illness and manages emotional health. Take Charge of Your Diabetes is a six-week evidencebased program developed by Stanford University. AgeOptions has been a licensed provider of the program throughout suburban Cook County for ten years. Ready for the first step to Take Charge of Your Diabetes, call Sara Caudillo at 708-383-0258.

For more information on the program, visit our website at http://www. ageoptions.org/TakeChargeofYourHealth.

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Join Jewel-Osco for free Eating Healthy with DiabetesTM grocery store tours. JewelOsco Registered Dietitians and specially trained pharmacists can help lead the way to a healthier you. This FREE two-hour grocery store tour will help you learn how to make better choices when shopping for diabetes. Go online for a complete tour schedule and availability: jewelosco.com/eatinghealthywithdiabetes or call 1-877-728-6655.

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ne of my sons lives near Wrigley Field, the epicenter of the greatest thing to ever happen.

As fate would have it, we were babysitting there last Thursday. The weather was fine, so we put Teddy in his stroller and headed over to Wrigley to see what was going on The Day After The World Stood Still.

When I was a kid, baseball was my favorite thing. The first World Series game I remember is Johnny Podres two-hitting the hated Yankees to win the 1955 World Series. The nuns let us listen to Mazerowski’s 3-run homer to win the 1960 World Series finale. But I lost interest in the sport. Strikes, steroids, expansion, spiraling salaries, three-hour games and my sons’ interest in soccer and basketball all contributed to my growing indifference.

So I was not nearly as caught up in Cub fever as most were. Call me a contrarian, or as my wife does, a hater. Gradually though, I must admit I got caught up in the enthusiasm. I actually watched some of Game 7.

I laughed when I saw that Alex Rodriguez, the game’s most notorious steroid cheat, and Pete Rose, it’s best known gambler, were part of the broadcast team. I read all about the crazy ending and was happy the Cubs won.

Our visit to Wrigley was very cool. Lots of celebrants were out. Teddy got lots of compliments on his Cubs hat. I told people that the 10-month-old lad had never seen the Cubs lose a World Series. They laughed.

Every demographic was out in the warm sunshine celebrating.

Maybe this was a bigger deal than I thought. Certainly the city could use some good news. Spiraling murder rates and civilian shootings have tarnished Chicago’s national image. This tribal celebration is just what we needed. We all have our passions. Some of us collect Hummels. Some of us follow Taylor Swift’s break-ups.

But the Cubs are a generationally-shared passion. That makes it special. We are Chicago.

The Cubs’ success is a welcome respite from this vicious, mean-spirited election’s seemingly endless churn. This day there were no Republican or Democrats. Just Cubs fans. For a short time, at least, our minds shifted from stressful jobs, aging parents, sick children, the looming winter — and all the other fears and demons that lurk on the edge of our consciousness.

So for this Thursday afternoon as we three circumnavigated the old ball park in the late fall’s lengthening shadows amidst all those happy people, Chicago was a great place to be.

Go Cubs go. Do it again next year. Please.

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From deja vu despair to unhinged delight

t was a day of distraction and anticipation, near-misses, and infamous bad luck. followed by a beaming burst of hope, which In 2004, the Red Sox broke through. The gave way to stomach-churning optimism, next year was the South Side team’s turn. only to have it descend into deja vu despair.

Now it was the Cubs’ turn — at least it sure And then the grounds crew pushed the seemed so with two outs in the 8th inning. tarp onto the playing field at rainy ProgresLester, the former Red Sox World Series winner, pitching on fumes and two days’ rest, sive Field in Cleveland. induced a ground ball from Jose Ramirez.

I nestled into a (relatively) quiet corner of Onto the 9th inning!

FitzGerald’s, the Berwyn night club, and pulled up my Only, shortstop Addison Russell couldn’t quite get a Facebook page: “Whoever sees the four horsemen first ... handle on it. Moving quickly to his left, he actually overplease send us a quick heads-up!” shot it with his glove. Not an error, but a makeable play I read Revelation, the last book of the Bible, which that hadn’t been made. In came flamethrower Aroldis foretells the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, but Chapman to shut the door. didn’t recall any mention of Indians vs. Cubs, or a Jon Only, the Indians kicked it wide open. A double drove Lester wild pitch, or even Joe Maddon’s curious hanhome one run, and dling of the pitching then noted speedster staff. Just the same, this and light-hitting Rajai had the feeling of end Davis came to the plate. times.

He worked the count to I had arrived at the 2-and-2, fouling off two place-to-be for Cubs pitches as he choked fans in the near-western up on his bat like some suburbs of Chicago — ballplayer plucked from FitzGerald’s, along Roothe game’s dead-ball era sevelt Road just south more than a century of Oak Park — in the ago. bottom of the sixth inBefore the next pitch, ning. Moments earlier, while streaming video retiring Cubs catcher via Facebook Live, I David Ross had slugged helped lead a 17-secthat redemptive home ond chant of “Let’s Go run over the center field Cubs!” that gradually wall to push Chicago’s worked its way through lead to three, 6-3. the nervous assembly.

During my drive to The chant halted as FitzGerald’s in the Chapman dealt, Davis bottom of the fifth swung from his heels, inning, I heard Cubs’ Photo by Matt Baron and the ball shot play-by-play man Pat THE BIGGEST W OF ALL: It stands for Cubs Win and World Series, toward the left-field Hughes describe the but for Cubs fans, it means, “We’re Winners.” corner. Would it be far Lester wild pitch that enough? Would it be ricocheted off Ross’s fair? mask, and the ensuIt was eminently ing frenzy of two Indians coming in to score on the play. unfair. Improbably, impossibly: a two-run home run. A Dread crept in, but Ross’ storybook home run kept it at collective groan ascended from the parking lot. A 6-6 tie arm’s length. never felt like such a hole to climb out of.

That’s how I had seen most of these playoffs, extending “Oh my goodness,” I said. “You’ve got to be kidding my arm to watch the action on my smartphone or iPad. me.”

But this denouement — this I had to see in a proper setWatching Davis circle the bases, right arm raised and ting, around other Cubs fans, with a humongous screen thumping his chest, I trekked down another hole — to to take it all in. The same idea had occurred to hundreds 13 years ago, when the Cubs self-destructed in the 8th of others, spread out among three big screens situated inning of Game 6 of the National League Championship inside the main building, under a tent, and in the parkSeries. ing lot.

Back then, on assignment as a journalist, I went to the Born and raised in the Boston area, I am and forever lobby of the YMCA across the street from my home to will be a Red Sox fan first. But having spent 30 years in capture fans’ reaction to that squad’s clinching of a World Chicago, the Cubs (along with the White Sox) have inSeries berth. Then came the Bartman incident, followed spired an allegiance sealed by a kindred connection, all See BARON on page 28 three franchises having suffered generations of futility,

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onestly, we don’t have much patience for local government officials who don’t believe in the ability of local government to solve problems and strengthen community.

In an election week where the very purpose of, and faith in, government was on the national ballot, we’re disgruntled to see two River Forest trustees doubt that there is value in elevating the village’s sustainability committee to official commission status.

First we think sustainability ought to be about at the top priority of every agency of government. Stewardship of this fragile planet is big picture but also reliant on the small, everyday actions of each town and each citizen. River Forest has been slow to understand this and so kudos to the volunteers who have founded and energized this local movement.

The sustainability committee was created two years ago as a collaborative effort between village government and the River Forest Parks Foundation. It has done good work.

Now a proposal to elevate it to full status as a village government commission has run into static. Two trustees, Mike Gibbs and Tom Dwyer, objected to that step. Gibbs, a once, and possibly future, candidate for village president, said, “Nothing can screw up a group more than government involvement.”

In an earlier email sent to Village President Catherine Adduci and Village Administrator Eric Palm, and obtained via a Freedom of Information request from Wednesday Journal, Gibbs wrote, “We do not need another agenda-driven group making our lives and those of our citizens more difficult by adding opinions to village programs and processes.”

We find that cynicism over the virtues of local government disheartening. In a town as smart as River Forest, including more voices is a healthy thing. More volunteers stepping forward to take on complex and important issues such as sustainability is a healthy thing. Seeing such efforts only as a drain on staff resources or an imposition on an allegedly over-worked village board is looking at local government in the wrong way.

We admire River Forest for its gradual growth toward inclusion and a somewhat more activist government. Gibbs and Dwyer have, once again, proven themselves to be uninspired holdovers from the village’s Sleepy Hollow era.

Help from Austin Typically there’s a lot of talk about how Oak Parkers can help Austin. The donation of time and goods and money is a fine thing and we encourage it. However, the tradition can be fairly one-way and that can feel, and it can be, somewhat patronizing.

A few years back, at a forum on race and equity at Pilgrim Congregational Church that focused on the disconnect between Oak Park and Austin, a church member said, “I don’t want to hear more ways I can help people in Austin. I want to know people in Austin.”

That comes to mind this week as our Michael Romain, education reporter at Wednesday Journal and editor at our sister paper, the Austin Weekly News, reports on a new initiative underway at the venerable Austin-based Westside Health Authority.

That group has long been in the work-training business. But training a person and then finding them a job are two different things on the West Side, where unemployment among young black men is stratospheric. Now WHA is looking for ways to piece together work, mainly home labor and landscape, in Oak Park. Tim Smyth is an Oak Park homeowner who offered to allow youth from WHA the opportunity to provide basic landscaping services around his house. The agency is looking for more Oak Parkers (or River Foresters or Austinites) willing to make this connection mutual and beneficial.

Obviously this concept is not a cure-all. But it might be a start.

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One for all ages

ear Dad, That was something. One for the ages. Wish you were here to see your Cubs win at last. I don’t know how the afterlife works, but maybe, somehow, you tuned in. If so, you know this is a very different team from the ones you watched most of your life. They personified a favorite quote from your hero Winston Churchill, spoken in the depths of World War II during England’s finest hour: “Never, never, never give up.”

In the nine years since you died, a new Cubs management group proved that a measly curse doesn’t stand a chance against patience, talent, a plan — and chemistry.

Never underestimate chemistry. The right mix of personalities in the right environment. When Kris Bryant fielded that slow roller on the infield grass for the last out, he wasn’t thinking, “God, I hope I don’t screw this up!” He had a big grin on his face. “Look what I got!” Even when his foot slipped on the wet grass, his throw was true.

You should’ve seen it. I so dearly wish you could’ve seen it.

Maybe you did.

If you did, no doubt you thought back to your childhood, when the Cubs were in the Series in ’29 ’32 ’35 and ’38. Four times in nine years, four times in your first 14 years. They lost them all, but they were good. Then World War II came along and replacement players, but in 1945 they made it again. You were on a troop ship coming home from Europe and didn’t know what happened in Game 7 until you docked in New York harbor. Or maybe you just didn’t ask because you figured the news was bad. Years of futility can do that to a fan.

Your dad saw the championships in 1907 and ’08.

He told me he saw Tinker, Evers and Chance play at the West Side Grounds and Weeghman Park, which became Wrigley. All W’s. He saw the 1918 World Series when the Red Sox beat them. When he died in 1971, the championship drought was 63 years long.

In the ’50s and early ’60s, the Cubs were bad, but each summer you drove all of us to Wrigley to watch them.

They always lost, it seemed, but if memory serves, Ernie Banks would come up in the seventh or eighth inning, uncoil that smooth, loose-wristed swing and the ball would soar into the left field bleachers or out of the park for a solo homer and we’d all go home happy.

In 1969, the team was finally good, but came up short.

In 1984, they were better but lost in the playoffs. In 2003, they were really close, then collapsed. You suffered through it all but never, never, never gave up. It became a generational thing. Just as you never, never, never gave up on us, we never, never, never give up on one another.

This year, all those who never gave up were rewarded with a Series and a Game 7 that people will talk about for another 108 years (unless they win again next year, which suddenly seems quite possible). Coming back to tie the Series at 3 all, coming back to regain the lead in the 10th inning, holding that lead against a very good opponent who never, never, never gave up.

It was your kind of Series, your kind of team. Sure, you’d shake your head about Baez’s lack of discipline at the plate, but also about his flashes of brilliance in the field. When he missed that bunt, you’d shake your head again and say, “Fundamentals!”

You’d have second-guessed Maddon pulling Hendricks in the 5th inning, but then you’d say, “Let’s wait and see. He must have a reason.”

After watching Schwarber bat, you might have second-guessed the National League’s stubborn refusal to accept the designated hitter in spite of your great devotion to tradition. And when everyone else was congratulating Ben Zobrist for getting that clutch hit in the 10th, you’d have pointed out the more important hit was Miguel Montero’s follow-up single, which provided the margin of victory.

You would have drawn from everything you learned, and taught, in three decades of coaching youth baseball in Oak Park. It would have been wonderful to watch it all with you.

But maybe I did.

After it was all over, since I couldn’t call you, I phoned Mike, son number 1, who, as you well know, probably owns the distinction of having watched more televised Cubs games in the past 60 years than anyone. And for many of those years he was, as the announcers used to say, “scoring the game at home.”

Photo by Bill Trainor As a lifelong White Sox fan, I, too, know about suffering — enough to be in awe of the pain of Cubs fans, which has always been an order of magnitude greater. So I wanted to tell him how happy I was that he lived to see this moment. It was 12:30 a.m., Thursday’s first hour, but this was no time to worry about being polite.

Bill, son number 6, went one better. The next day he visited your grave in Queen of Heaven Cemetery with offerings. How you would have enjoyed reading the Trib Sports section that day.

But maybe you did.

Maybe in the afterlife they don’t care so much about baseball and championships and the like. But I’ll bet they care about happiness.

And this past week everyone around here enjoyed a little bit of heaven.

Which, of course, made me think of you.

Yours (truly), Son number 3

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Dear friends, I would like to thank all of you who attended a surprise dedication of a plaque for me in Austin Gardens at a mature, Norway Maple tree on Sunday, Oct. 28.

Thanks also to those who could not attend and sent good wishes. I was pleased, flattered and honored by the large turnout of such a diverse group of people that I have worked with in various organizations over the last several decades. It is my pleasure to know so many good and dedicated people in our community. Thanks from the bottom of my heart.

Sandra Sokol

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The days when Superman had a place to change

hen I was a young guy, the telephone booth was the place where a person could go to make a phone call.

There were many phone booths available for public use, but I especially remember the ones at Zehender’s Pharmacy on the southwest corner of Chicago and Marion, the one at Walgreens on the northwest corner of Oak Park and North Boulevard, and the one on the northwest corner of Oak Park and Lake.

The booth was a small structure furnished with a pay phone. The booth had a light that went on when the door was shut and windows to let other people know when the booth was in use.

Usually the booth contained phone directories, both local and Chicago, and some booths even had a seat.

The booth on Oak Park and Lake was made of metal to protect it from the elements whereas the indoor booths were generally made of wood.

Sometimes a booth would be vandalized. I entered the one at Walgreens one day and discovered that the phone books were missing and the receiver had been torn from the phone.

One of the problems faced by those wanting to use the phone was the person who talked on and on without thinking of others waiting to make a call.

Another problem was the smell of tobacco in the booths because, in those days, people smoked everywhere and the booths were no exception.

When entering a booth, one of the things that was evident was the phone numbers and messages written on the walls. Often a message would direct the occupant of the booth to call a certain number. A few of my friends

did this more than once and usually got an earful of obscenities.

When I made a call from a booth, I simply lifted the receiver and then deposited 5 or 10 cents into a slot on the phone. I would then dial the number of the person I wanted to call. If the person did not answer, my coin would be returned at the base of the phone.

What was aggravating, though, was when I was in the middle of a conversation and ran out of time and the operator would interrupt the call to tell me to deposit more money.

I can remember two times when I called home because I was going to be late for supper.

I used the technique of reversing the charge, hoping that whoever answered would accept the charge. Fortunately, the charges were accepted. Unfortunately, I had to pay for the charge when the phone bill arrived at our house.

A popular fad at the time was to see how many people could fit inside a phone booth.

I did this once in the booth at Oak Park and Lake when four of my buddies and I crammed into the booth and in trying to get out of the structure, pushed, shoved and elbowed each other until we tumbled onto the sidewalk.

Telephone booths served the public for many years, and they still can be found at airports, some other public buildings, and on a few street corners.

John Stanger is a lifelong resident of Oak Park, a 1957 graduate of OPRF High School, married with three grown children and five grandchildren, and a retired English professor (Elmhurst College). Living two miles from where he grew up, he hasn’t gotten far in 76 years.

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tional breads, chocolate, and mole. It was great fun! Overall, I approached the celebration with a certain cultural curiosity but was not theologically sold on what I saw.

Then my father passed away, and I placed on our altar his photo, his hat, some of his favorite foods, and a deck of cards because he taught me to play poker. The Day of the Dead took on a completely different meaning. Returning to the U.S., we have continued to set up a Day of the Dead altar every year. Sadly, we have added my mother, my in-laws, other family members, and many friends to the altar, but the altar is not a shrine. It is a family reunion and a celebration of Life. It goes beyond telling stories and sharing memories to a feeling

The Cubs and me

bout a quartercentury ago, I did something Chicagoans of my generation almost never did: I switched baseball allegiances. I became a White Sox fan, after almost 40 years of heartbreak, roller-coaster rides, and anguish as a Cubs fan. I never looked back. Until this year.

The truth is, I haven’t been much of a baseball fan at all in recent years; at best you could probably call me a “fair weather fan.” But I regularly wear my White Sox cap, and continued to do so this fall, well into the playoff season when the whole city was focused on the North Side team. I will confess to having enjoyed a quiet pleasure as the Cubs kept winning. I didn’t watch their games, but I regularly checked the sports section of the Tribune to find out how things went. When they beat the Dodgers in the playoff series and were going to the World Series, I joined my kids in cheering out loud.

My wife Barbara has a superstition, as strong as that of any ballplayer who taps his bat three times on the plate when he’s up, or touches the bill of his cap before delivering a pitch.

She believes that if she witnesses a game, our team will lose. She means it; therefore she won’t watch. I did not take the time to watch a whole game as the Series got underway, but saw snatches. Like all Chicagoans, I was dismayed as the Cubs went down two games.

But they rallied and last night I talked to myself before the game.

“Ron,” I said, sotto voce, “you have to watch this game. This has never occurred before in your lifetime, and may well never occur again. You have loved the Cubs in your life, you have

loved Wrigley Field, you love this city. There is no way you can sit this one out.”

And so it began. Six, seven innings of rewarding, gratifying baseball.

They were actually on their way! The great Cub starter, Jon Lester, now in relief, was pitching masterful ball; just six more outs, and history would be made. Then Joe Maddon, the Cub manager, pulled him, putting Aroldis Chapman on the mound, he of the 100 mph fastballs. Only, tonight they weren’t. Bam. Bam. Bam. The worst bam of all was a two-run home run, and a tie ballgame.

I felt it in my stomach before I felt it in my head. That age-old thud, like something heavy dropping in my abdomen, the physiological equivalent of dread. And then the brain kicked in: anguish, despair. The inner voice changed. “No. No, not again. You are not going to do this to me one more time. You just aren’t.”

I reached for the remote and turned off the TV. Shortly after, I went to bed.

Barbara got up first the next morning and came back to the bedroom to give me the news. Was I happy? Absolutely! Was I ecstatic? No. Did I instantly regret that I hadn’t hung in there, that I had missed this unique event in my lifetime? No. If I had it to do over again, I would do it the same way — I would have flicked off the TV when the game was tied.

Think of a soldier who suffers from PTSD, and sometime in the course of his life, someone bursts in and says: “Guess what? We’ve won the war!”

That’s great! Really! Yeah … that’s really good …”

Ron Moline is a longtime Oak Park resident.

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of being in communion with one’s living and deceased loved ones.

Is that so much different from what Chicago experienced this past week when the Cubs won the World Series? Family members decorating the tombstones of their deceased with Cubs balloons and other paraphernalia? Names of loved ones who never lived to see this day written in chalk on the brick walls of Wrigley Field? The man who drove all day from North Carolina to a darkened cemetery in Indiana to listen to Game 7 at his father’s gravesite?

The Cubs’ World Series was a family reunion, just like the Day of the Dead.

Celine Woznica Oak Park

A different attitude toward aging

Thanks for publishing the viewpoint by Marc Blesoff [The changes life brings, Viewpoints, Nov. 2].

His sharing the attitude toward aging by William May, that it’s a mystery rather than a problem, helped me.

I have recently had a birthday and I’m in the numbers where people are starting to congratulate me!

Joanne Selden

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by Alex Gonzalez’s muffed double-play grounder, and a much different story emerged — the Cubs’ infamous meltdown.

And here we were, in the waning moments of Nov. 2, 2016, and as Yogi Berra would say, it felt like déjà vu all over again. Neither team scored in the 9th, though it had more than a little drama. The Cubs failed to get a runner home from third base with one out; the Indians’ Jason Kipnis gave a huge scare with a long drive that initially appeared to be a home run but curved foul.

Onto extra innings. But first came that rain, and the 17-minute delay, during which time the Cubs regrouped behind a pep talk from slumping outfielder Jason Heyward.

What happened on the field next has already been exhaustively chronicled and will be re-visited innumerable times for years to come. At FitzGerald’s, we hung on every pitch, rejoiced in the Cubs’ two-run rally, wondered if they would rue not scoring at least three runs, and clung to this newfound hope.

Thirteen minutes before midnight, up now by only one run, the ground ball rolled to Kris Bryant at third base.

His throw to Anthony Rizzo was on the money. Déjà vu despair dissolved, fully, finally, mercifully and loudly, among the throng.

Taking its place was a special sort of unhinged delight, the type that has been bottled up for more than a century.

During various late-game segments of the Cubs’ Game 7 World Series victory, including the final out and the ensuing celebration among fellow fans, Matt Baron of Oak Park shot video of the FitzGerald’s scene. You can find it on his Facebook page, at www.facebook.com/mwbaron.

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Rev. Greg Dell: a remembrance

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astor Greg Dell died on Oct. 30, 2016 from the complications of Parkinson’s Disease. Many older members of Euclid Ave. Methodist Church here in Oak Park remember him from the years he served that congregation from 1985 to 1995.

Those who didn’t know him personally may be familiar with his name because he made the news as an advocate for the homeless and LGBT rights.

He was a change agent, and he paid the price. In 1998, he led a “holy union” service at Broadway Methodist Church on the North Side of Chicago that celebrated the commitment of two gay men. He was put on trial by the Northern District of the United Methodist Church in 1999, found guilty of “disobedience to the order and Discipline of the United Methodist Church,” and suspended from his pastoral duties. He was reappointed to Broadway in 2000 by Bishop Joseph Sprague.

While serving as pastor of Euclid Methodist Church, he co-founded what was then called West Suburban PADS (now Housing Forward). He was dedicated to the fight against racism and an active participant in

the Community of Congregations.

Those who knew him well, however, including members of the congregations he served, admired him more for his humanity than his advocacy.

Marcia Schattauer was introduced to Dell when her husband took her to a service Euclid.

That Easter morning was the first time she had been in a church in 20 years. Growing up in a fundamentalist congregation, she remembered feeling “less than a Christian.” She didn’t know her Bible verses well enough and didn’t pray the way her relatives thought she should.

Instead of a lot of judgment, however, what she felt from Dell and the people assembled for worship was that “wherever I was and who I am is perfectly accepted as a Christian.” With tears in her eyes she added, “I didn’t have to prove myself. I didn’t have to do anything to feel like I’m a Christian.”

Katy Clusen, a member of Broadway Methodist Church, said, “Everyone knows what a soft spot Greg has in his heart for the babies and little ones. I think baptisms were always one of his favorite ‘duties.’

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Greg Dell He beamed with joy and delight as he held our daughter aloft in a jubilant procession around the sanctuary, proclaiming, ‘Welcome your new sister, sisters and brothers’ as everyone clapped and cheered.”

Dell had to leave the ministry in 2007 because his Parkinson’s had progressed to the point where he could no longer function in that capacity. At a farewell and Godspeed event at Broadway Methodist Church, Carl Rinder, a Euclid Methodist member who knew Dell during his time in Oak Park, came to this conclusion: “Greg said many

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times at Euclid that part of a deep faith is an ability to be angry about situations involving pain and loss, but that [those situations] never have the last word. This disease will not destroy him. It isn’t the last word.”

The disease killed him, but it didn’t destroy him.

Tom Holmes, a retired Lutheran minister, is a Forest Park resident and writes a column for our Forest Park Review newspaper.

He is also a regular contributor to Wednesday Journal.

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want to call attention to the nonsense that is the advisory referendum to repeal the 2nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and dispel some myths and assumptions that have been in the Viewpoints section lately.

The 2nd Amendment was written specifically for the right of citizens to bear arms.

The National Guard is not a militia; it is controlled by the state government and subject to federal control when necessary. In fact if you go back and read quotes, letters, and books by many of the Founding Fathers like Washington, Jefferson, both John and JQ Adams, Mason, Franklin, and Webster, you will realize that is exactly what they meant.

In fact they felt so strongly about the 2nd Amendment that it’s part of the Bill of Rights and was meant to preserve the rest, yet we have to deal with the fear and ignorance of the anti-gun mob.

The two key Supreme Court decisions got it right in DC v Heller, which of course would explain President Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland, who, as an Appellate Court judge, voted against Heller and McDonald v Chicago.

Now here is the point where all the gun control arguments fail. When the “assault weapons” ban expired, it was not reinstated because it was useless. It had no measurable effect in reducing crime. When the handgun bans were rightfully struck down and concealed carry was a reality in Illinois, none of the “Wild West”-type shootouts took place that the anti-gun mob raged about.

The current wave of violence in Chicago and Cook County is being committed by criminals with illegally obtained firearms, which the Trojan Horse use of “universal background checks” (that was not going

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The PARCC test isn’t worth it

to happen) referendum that led to the “assault-style” rifle and high capacity magazine ban also proved useless. The Crook, er, Cook County taxes on firearm and ammo purchases is not about reducing crime, just about more money for the Democrat Machine, which has been grossly incompetent at solving the real problems.

The Australian gun confiscation is another case in point. It resulted in a short-term modest, not drastic, reduction in crime, yet by 2012 a huge black market trafficking in firearms has arisen and the crime rates have skyrocketed in urban areas like Melbourne, fueled by the illegal guns obtained by criminals.

There are millions of responsible gun owners in the U.S. and if we were the problem you would know it. When it comes to gun control, I think we actually need to go in the opposite direction. The restrictions in states like CA, CT, MA, NJ, and NY are clearly an infringement of the 2nd Amendment. California has the most ludicrous restrictions in the U.S. and yet don’t stop the violence in Oakland or Compton and couldn’t prevent a terrorist attack in San Bernardino.

Every time the anti-gun mob quotes stats, they like to throw in the suicides and accidents to boost their claims because suicides make up the majority of gun deaths (2/3) and when you remove these figures the U.S. drops significantly in the international gun death stats.

Fear and ignorance replace truth and clear thinking when people find an issue that they hot button yet don’t fully understand.

Emerson Bolen is a resident of River Forest.

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he release of this year’s PARCC test scores came when most people’s attention was turned toward politics and baseball. For parents of school-age kids, though, it’s worthwhile to take another look at the test our children’s schools spent so much time administering last spring. After getting the results, we should ask: Is the time and money we invest in this test worth it?

For me, the answer is a resounding no. I refused the test last year on behalf of my then-third-grade son. I did not reach this decision lightly. I am a former District 97 teacher (8 years at Julian), who moved to Oak Park to send my three children to its schools. I wholeheartedly support my children’s teachers — and to me, the best way to show that support is to protest the PARCC. Why? The PARCC is more than eight hours long. It was shortened slightly last year, but this year the district’s website says it will be 495 minutes in the third grade, rising to a whopping 550 minutes by grades 6-8. By comparison, the SAT is 3 hours 50 minutes; the bar exam is six hours. If we can determine in six hours whether someone is qualified to practice law, surely we don’t need eight hours to find out if my 9-year-old can read and do math.

It interrupts the school day for seven sessions over two weeks. The testing minutes listed above do not count the many minutes spent preparing for, and concluding each of, the seven testing sessions. Students are usually not assigned homework during the testing window, essentially making their learning grind to a halt.

The results are not timely enough to be useful. My son’s fourth-grade teachers

are just now finding out what their students were capable of six months ago in third grade.

These results are far too late to assist with any instructional decisions.

It doesn’t give us any new information about our kids.

The district already administers the MAP test twice (six hours total in three sessions per year), as well as the COGAT and DIBELS in younger grades, so they have timely information about our students’ math and reading ability. As for the Common Core standards, teachers assess those in class constantly. Teachers can’t even see which questions their students missed on the PARCC, so there is no useful information for them.

Preparing for it is distorting our curriculum and taking class time. Given the high-stakes, public nature of the test, teachers and administrators have virtually no choice but to spend class time preparing. But as any teacher knows, practicing test-taking strategy is not the same as learning. Test score increases, while laudable, should be the incidental byproduct of excellent teaching. They should not be the goal.

I want my children’s teachers to be able to do their jobs well. The best way for a teacher to know my children’s strengths, interests, and weaknesses isn’t to give them an endless test. It’s to spend all day with them in the classroom, engaging in real learning experiences. This is what they do — except when the PARCC gets in their way.

I will continue to refuse the PARCC unless it is far shorter, more timely, and no longer tied to high-stakes consequences for schools and teachers. Next spring, when we replace two valuable weeks of learning with a crushingly long test, let’s ask ourselves: Is this worth it?

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Oak Park showed well at the Chicago Film Fest

ocs rock! The opening film of the press screenings was award-winning director (and Oak Park resident) Steve James’ Abacus: Small Enough to Jail.

When New York City’s District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. did not have the guts to prosecute the white male investment bankers who crashed the world’s economy in 2008, he and his office instead picked on what one person in the film called “the low hanging fruit of the Chinese Immigrant Sung family,” owners of the Abacus Federal Savings Bank in New York’s Chinatown, who were accused of mortgage fraud.

Like many immigrant groups who were denied access to U.S. credit and financing, the Sungs created their own bank, given the Chinese immigrant community’s propensity

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to do business in cash. Abacus fulfilled a need. Apparently, in the course of that noble intention, two middle managers at Abacus got greedy and committed some criminal and corrupt financial transactions, though not the Sungs, who were exonerated. The D.A. was excoriated in the high-stakes Manhattan court case for what folks on the street called “a punk-ass move,” picking on Asians.

Kudos to James, whose previous work includes Academy Award-winning Hoop Dreams, and The Interrupters (with Oak Park’s Alex Kotlowitz). Abacus (in English,

Mandarin, and Cantonese) coincides with the 50th Anniversary of Kartemquin Films, which has been supportive of immigrant families, and the Oak Park International Film Festival.

Chicago’s Michael Paulucci, whom I met at the screening via his main actor Harold Dennis, directed a sensitive 10-minute short about a black transsexual who uses spoken word to announce to the world and to her dad that she’s coming out. Dennis brilliantly plays a homophobic dad who ultimately learns why pronouns matter. Paulucci carefully crafts it. And despite the festival’s new Queer

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Hugo Awards category, Pronouns missed awards night. Dennis has appeared in several Oak Park International Film Festival films in the last decade. He’s especially close to local actors Joyce Porter, Renee Domenz and documentarian Bonni “Blue” McKeown.

Additionally, there was a tribute to African-American cineaste Julie Dash’s 25-year-old, recently restored soon-to-bere-released film, Daughters of the Dust, about three generations of Gullah women preparing to head north from their St. Helena, South Carolina island in 1902. The local connection is Oak Parker Floyd Webb who served as its associate producer. Dash praised Webb’s work.

“Floyd worked on press, script changes and helped pull the film together,” she said.

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to sunset, every day for four weeks.

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Art Perry, 86

Longtime OPRF dean of students Arthur Reyburn Perry Jr., 86, formerly of Oak Park, died on Nov. 4, 2016. Born on Oct. 31, 1930 to Arthur Reyburn Perry Sr. and Mary Lucille Kahman Perry, he grew up in Davenport, Iowa along with his three younger siblings.

He attended St. Ambrose Academy in Davenport, where he loved football and was selected as a tackle on the 1948 Des Moines Register All-State High School Football Team.

Awarded a football ARTHUR PERRY DEAN scholarship by Notre Dame University, he played on the 1949 National Championship Team under legendary coach Frank Leahy.

He graduated with honors in 1952 and went on to earn an MA in education. To the end of his life, he maintained a deep commitment to all things Notre Dame.

After college, he studied for the Roman Catholic priesthood and was ordained in the Diocese of Davenport on June 1, 1957. Following his ordination he taught at Assumption High School in Davenport, Iowa. Art’s love of working with young people began here.

During his 13 years as a priest, he also served as chaplain at St. Vincent Home from 1957 to 1964 where he brought fun as well as spiritual care, along with an occasional lapse in decorum, to the children there. On one occasion, the director of St. Vincent’s, looking out an upstairs window, saw a large tree shaking violently. She rushed outside and, fearing some children might fall, cried out sternly, “Come down from that tree!”

She was startled to see the bare legs and sandaled feet of Father Perry exiting the lower branches. He was trying to provide some active play and exercise to the young boys who were missing a father’s influence.

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On his next assignment, he served as principal for six years at Notre Dame High School in Burlington, Iowa.

In 1970, he requested release from his clerical duties and joined the staff at Oak Park and River Forest High School as a dean of students, where he served until his retirement in 1993.

He married Suzanne Crane Perry of Burlington in 1970 and became stepfather to her five children. They have one son together.

He and Suzanne moved to Miami, Florida after retirement. They returned to the Chicago area in April 2016 and settled into a new life at Casa San Carlo retirement community in Northlake.

Throughout his career, Dean Perry formed lasting bonds with his students. He corresponded with some and was a Facebook friend to many. Even in retirement, he often found opportunities to “interview” high school students about their interests, classes, goals and college plans. His interest in young people, coupled with his mild and unthreatening nature, made it easy for teens to feel comfortable talking with him.

Music was central to his life. He loved to sing and especially to sing his prayers. He and Suzanne were choir members at Ascension Parish in Oak Park and, during their 20 years in Florida, sang with the Schola Cantorum of Little Flower Church in Coral Gables. They were fixtures at daily Mass at St. Hugh Parish in Coconut Grove, Florida.

The night before he died, his children brought their instruments and surrounded Art with music: Songs and lullabies he sang to the children when they were small, filled the room. These simple tunes, sung in rounds and in parts, made him happy.

In addition to his wife, Suzanne, Art Perry is survived by his stepchildren, Melissa Boldebuck ( Richard Lambert), David Walz (Nancy Peterson), Theresa Castro (Jim Hubacek), Brian Walz (Cristi Belmonte), Mary Walz Lluhi (Joe); his son, Arthur R. Perry III (Jennifer Mack); his brother, Richard Kahman Perry; his two sisters, Mary Lu Soto and Hallie McNamara; 10 grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; and many loving nieces and nephews. He was preceded in

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death by his grandson, Scott David Walz.

Visitation will be held on Sunday, Nov. 13 from 3 until 8 p.m. at Gibbons Funeral Home, 134 S. York Road, Elmhurst and Monday, Nov. 14 from 9:30 a.m. until time of Mass of Christian Burial, 10 a.m., at Villa Scalabrini Chapel, 480 N. Wolf Road, Northlake.

Private interment will take place at Sacred Heart Cemetery, Burlington, Iowa.

Mary Rose Davis, 90 Matriarch, traveler, patriot

Mary Rose Davis (nee Anderson), 90, of LaGrange, formerly of River Forest, died peacefully on Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2016 at Hinsdale Hospital, surrounded by her family. Born in Chicago on Aug. 26, 1926 to Peter Anderson and Lenore O’Neill, she and her husband initially raised their family in Chicago’s St. Thomas Aquinas Parish and then in St. Luke Parish in River Forest.

After Roland died, she began a career with Sears Roebuck working in personnel and retired from there in 1992. She then worked with her son, Jerry, at Davis Athletic Equipment Company for 15 years, so she could keep him in line. He never had such great lunches either! She especially enjoyed traveling and a highlight of her life was a month-long trip to Europe in 1958. She loved family dinners, baking, sewing, walking in the park, shopping, and enjoying a piece of pie at Baker’s Square on Senior Day Wednesdays.

Back in junior high school, she received the American Legion Award, a medal given for courage, honor, leadership, patriotism, and scholarship, all the qualities which she upheld throughout her life.

Mary Rose Davis is survived by her children, John (Kim Anh), James (Diane), Jerome (Carol), Jean, Joan (Scott) Burks, Mary Ann (Thomas) Forness, Judith, Joseph and Jeffrey (Dora); her 14 grandchildren; and her 11 great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband, Roland; and her grandson, Ryan Burks.

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Hershell Lee Cobb, 81

Former Oak Park resident Hershell Lee Cobb, 81 of Curve, Tennessee, formerly of Oak Park, died on Nov. 5, 2016. Born on May 25, 1935, he is survived by his children, Randy (Sandra) Carter, Rick (Jackie) Cobb and Ronal Cobb; his grandchildren, HERSHELL Rusty Jackson, MelLEE COBB anie Gentry, Amanda Cobb and Ricky Cobb Jr.; and his five great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Dayphon Cobb (nee Cavender); his grandchild, Jamie Carter; and his brother, Avery Thomas Cobb.

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West Suburban Temple Har Zion

1040 N. Harlem Avenue River Forest Meet our new 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

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

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

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

Roman Catholic

St. Bernardine Catholic Church Harrison & Elgin, Forest Park

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

Child care available 9-11am

fairoakspres.org

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

Roman Catholic

Ascension Catholic Church

The Traditional Catholic Latin Mass

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

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

Grace Lutheran School

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

Christ Lutheran Church

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

St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church

305 Circle Ave, Forest Park Sunday Worship, 8:30 am and 11:00 am Adult Bible Class, 10:00am Wheelchair Access to Sanctuary Leonard Payton, Pastor Roney Riley, Assistant Pastor 708-366-3226 | www.stjohnforestpark.org

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

Rev. James Hurlbert, Pastor

Roman Catholic

St. Edmund Catholic Church

188 South Oak Park Ave. Saturday Masses: 8:30 a.m. & 5:30 p.m.

Sunday Masses: 9:00 & 11:00 a.m. & 5:30 p.m.

Weekday Mass: 8:30 a.m.

Holy Day Masses: As Announced Reconciliation: Saturday 4:15 p.m.

Parish Office: 708-848-4417 School Phone: 708-386-5131

Unity

UNITY CHURCH OF OAK PARK 405 North Euclid Ave.

The Presence of God watches over you.

Sunday Services 9 am & 11 am Youth Education 11 am 708-848-0960 — unityoakpark.org

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BY PHONE: (708) 613-3333 | BY FAX: (708) 524-0447 | BY E-MAIL: CLASSIFIEDS@OAKPARK.COM | CLASSIFIEDS@RIVERFOREST.COM HELP WANTED ARTS CENTER EXEC DIRECTOR The Riverside Arts Center is seeking a passionate, mission-driven, action-oriented individual with administrative experience to guide the organization to the next level.

The Executive Director will be responsible for the administration of the organization while supporting its mission, programmatic goals and financial objectives. This part time, non-exempt position will report to the Board of Directors.

For a complete job description check online or email bfinn@riversideartscenter.com.

EARLY CHILDHOOD TEACHERS Oak Park Building Blocks (OPBB) Educational Childcare for 6-week to 6-year olds is hiring part-time and full-time classroom staff for the toddler room, preschool 2s and 3s room and for a pool of substitutes.

Immediate opening for afternoon shift: 1 DCFS-qualified teacher and 1 assistant teacher. Please send resume, call (708) 386-1033 or email for application and to set up interview: admin@oakparkbuildingblocks. com. Located in Cornerstone Church, 171 N Cuyler Ave; Oak Park.

OFFICE ASSIST/BOOKKEEPER JAYNE is a fast growing women’s retail business with 6 stores in the western suburbs that has an opening for a full time bookkeeper. The best applicant should posses all the skills necessary to help manage an accounting office including an in depth knowledge of Quick books, General Ledger and Inv.mgmt., Bank Reconciliations, inter company billing, sales tax, journal entries, payroll and time sheets. Competitive pay, paid vacation, and insurance is offered. Pls send resumes to craigsshoes@gmail.com

HELP WANTED

HELP WANTED POLICE OFFICER TESTING Brookfield, IL Starting Salary: $59,134.40

The Village of Oak Park is seeking qualified candidates for the position of Engineering Technician I. This employee performs technical engineering support tasks; prepares preliminary designs through final plans and technical drafts; makes complex calculations for various public works projects; and perform a variety of field inspections. Applicants are encouraged to visit the Village of Oak Park’s website http://www.oak-park.us/. Interested and qualified applicants must complete a Village of Oak Park application.

The Village of Oak Park is seeking qualified candidates for the position of Part-Time Public Health Specialist. This position which will develop and implement strategies and activities to advance tobacco prevention and control within the Village of Oak Park among other duties within the Village of Oak Park Health Department. Applicants are encouraged to visit the Village of Oak Park’s website http://www. oak-park.us/. Interested and qualified applicants must complete a Village of Oak Park application no later than November 18, 2016.

Published in Wednesday Journal 11/9/2016

Alcohol and Drug Prevention Program Assistant Oak Park Township, Illinois is seeking a part-time Alcohol and Drug Prevention Program Assistant to assist the Program Coordinator in completing the activities of the grant funded, Illinois Department of Human Services (IDHS), project to reduce underage drinking in Oak Park and River Forest. The project includes sustaining a community coalition in identifying and implementing evidence-based prevention strategies.

Essential candidate qualities include the demonstrated ability to remain organized and work effectively with individuals and diverse community groups. Public speaking/presentation skills and interpersonal skills will be required. The Program Assistant will be expected to report on strategic planning activities and related project events. The position requires a Bachelor’s degree in public health or related field and/ or a minimum of 3 years’ experience related to this project’s requirements.

This is a part-time position, at 20 hours a week. Part-time employees participate in an IMRF pension plan.

To apply, send resume and cover letter to the attention of: Vicki Scaman, SPF-PFS Program Coordinator Oak Park Township 105 S. Oak Park Ave. Oak Park, IL 60302 Email applications addressed to the Program Coordinator will be accepted at: vscaman@oakparktownship.org Deadline for receipt of resumes: Friday, November 18, 2016 For information on Oak Park Township, visit our Web site at http://oakparktownship.org Oak Park Township is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer.

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Testing is being conducted for new hires and to establish an eligibility list for anticipated future hiring needs Applications online at: jobsource.copsandfiretesting.com Application deadline: Wednesday, November 30, 2016 Test Date: December 17, 2016 C.O.P.S. and F.I.R.E. Personnel Testing Service 200 W. Higgins Rd Suite 201 Schaumburg, IL 60195 847-310-2677 SCHAUER’S HARDWARE PART-TIME CASHIER Evenings and Weekends. No experience necessary, but looking for positive energy people. Must be outgoing, able to work with customers, deal with money & problem solving. bSend resume to schauerhardware@att.net.

SEASONAL LABORER POSITION The Village of River Forest Public Works Department is seeking to fill a Seasonal Laborer position.

Applicants must be at least 18 years of age and possess a valid Illinois (CDL) commercial driver’s license.

Hourly rate for this seasonal position is $20.00 and is limited to (but not guaranteed) 999 hours.

Full details and application available at vrf.us/government/employmentopportunities.

EOE. Position is open until filled.

SUBURBAN REAL ESTATE HISTORIC MAYWOOD MANOR

902 S. 3RD AVENUE (behind Aldi) Tired of renting? Why not consider buying an affordable 2BR condo w/ 1000 sq ft of living space on this historic site at less than market rents?

Savings are built in from a unique 12 year tax freeze plus lower utility costs from energy saving systems and appliances. Onsite pkg, exterior lighting and enhanced security systems included. Be among the first to benefit from this unique project in which the buyer can have input into the individual unit(s).

Call 708-383-9223.

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SUBURBAN RENTALS

SUBURBAN RENTALS

FOREST PARK 2BR apt $1100/mo. in a smaller, quiet building. Front apt with 2 exposures. Updated with fresh paint.

Very clean. No smoking. No pets.

Credit check and 1 1/2 mos. security deposit required.

Call 708-404-2865.

RIVER FOREST OR OAK PARK 1 BR Hardwood floors throughout.

Spacious walk-in closets. Storage.

Parking. Laundry in building. $800/ mo.

Call 708-657-4226.

FOREST PARK CONDO Spacious 3 bedroom 2 bath condo for rent. Hardwood flooring living room/dining room. Freshly painted.

1 assigned parking space. Heat included. $1450 Contact (630)6972994 or (708)526-3815.

Oak Park

1 BR CONDO 1001 N HARLEM Completely remodeled 1 BR. Hardwood floors throughout.

Laundry on site. $995/mo + security. Assigned parking space $50/ mo xtra.

708-870-0266 OAK PARK Roosevelt Rd/Oak Park Ave Corridor 2 BR, 4RMS. Close to blue line.

Laundry on site. Parking, Heat & Water Included. $1150/month.Call 708-383-9223 or 773-676-6805 OAK PARK FOREST PARK Studio, 1, and 2 BDRM. Heated.

Dining room. Parking available.

Walk to El. $625-$1250.

www.oakrent.com

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

Augusta & Harding: Beautiful 2-bedroom condo-like apt, in a sunny, safe, secure 8 unit bldg. Large newly tiled kitchen & bath, hardwood floors, central air, appliances included, tenant pays utilities, rent 785.00, for more information call 773-838-8471.

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GLA PROPERTY MANAGEMENT, INC. LaVerne Collins Managing broker

Office located at: 320 S. Wisconsin Ave. Oak Park

708-763-9927 www.glapropertymanagement.com

Properties may be broker owned.

Call us for a complete list of rentals available.

M&M property management, inc.

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ROOMS FOR RENT PARKING SPACES/ GARAGE AUSTIN

CLEAN ROOM With fridge, micro.

Nr Oak Park, Super Walmart, Food 4 Less, bus, & Metra. $116/wk and up.

773-637-5957

Large Sunny Room with fridge & microwave. Near Green line, bus, Oak Park, 24 hour desk, parking lot. $101.00 week & up. New Mgmt.

773-378-8888

CHURCH FOR RENT BEAUTIFUL CHURCH FOR RENT

in OAK PARK. Perfect for a congregation. Other potential uses. Corner of Scoville & Adams. rentalinquiry542@gmail.com 708-848-5460

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

OFFICE SPACE FOR RENT * RIVER FOREST 7777 Lake St. - 3 & 4 room suites * RIVER FOREST 7756 Madison St. - 926 sq. ft. * OAK PARK 6957 North Ave. - 2 room office suite - 1st floor, 2400 sq. ft.

Medical Suite * OAK PARK 6142-44 Roosevelt Rd. - 4 & 5 room office suites

Strand & Browne 708/488-0011

Find your new apartment this Saturday from 10 am – 4pm at 35 Chicago Avenue.

Or call us toll free at 1-888-328-8457 for an appointment.

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FOREST PARK OUTDOOR SPACE Outside parking space available.

200 blk of Elgin. $50 per month.

708-903-7053

HOLIDAY BAZAAR Berwyn

CRAFT FAIR TRINITY CHURCH 7022 RIVERSIDE DR. SAT. NOV. 12 9AM-2PM Bake Sale: 20 vendors Lunch: Croissant Sandwiches or Sloppy Joe’s $2.50 Free gift wrapping 708-484-1818

ESTATE SALES Brookfield

ESTATE SALE 4132 ELM AVE FRI 11/11 & SAT 11/12 9AM TO 2:30PM

Housewares, some furniture, nice woman’s clothes, children’s items/ clothes, holiday items, electronics, lots of miscellaneous. Brand new wheel chair never used. Something for everyone, all priced to sell.

Come and check it out!!

GARAGE/YARD SALES Oak Park

GARAGE SALE 1234 N KENILWORTH SAT 11/12 8AM TO 3PM

Variety of everything!

FURNITURE 1930’S SINGER SEWING MACHINE Still operable! Carved oak wood.

Great condition. Appraised value $250. Call 708-366-5618.

TO BE GIVEN AWAY FURNITURE

CRIB/TODDLER BED in good condition; assembly required; EASY CHAIR brown leather CHEST OF DRAWERS; END TABLE; KITCHEN TABLE small apt. size Call 708-366-8644

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

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CLASSIFIED HEALTH BOLSEN CLINIC For all your Medical needs including: High Blood Pressure, Diabetes, Colds, Infections, Asthma, Physical Exams and more Hours 9 am–5 pm (Mon–Fri) 9 am–12 noon (Sat) 6429 W. North Ave., Suite 106 Oak Park, Illinois 60302 708-763-8334

CEMENT Finishing Touch Cement & Masonry Residential and Commercial Driveways | Garage Floors Sidewalks | Steps | Patios Specializing in Stamped Concrete Tuck Pointing and All Types Brickwork

Rocco Martino 708-878-8547 FinishingTouchCement2 @gmail.com

For All Your Concrete Needs!

CLEANING Pam’s A+ Cleaning Service

A cleaner day is just a phone call away. For a detailed cleaning please call 708-937-9110

ELECTRICAL FOUR SEASONS ELECTRIC *CEILING FANS* VARIETY of electrical work Re-wiring of old houses

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Mixed hardwoods • $130 F.C. CBh & Mix • $145 F.C. 100% oak • $165 F.C. Cherry or hiCkory • $185 F.C. 100% BirCh • $220 F.C. Seasoned 2 years Stacking Available

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FLOORS KLIS FLOORING INC.

New hardwood flooring installation & pergo. Sanding, re-finishing, staining. Low prices, insured.

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Appliances & Furniture Removal Pickup & Delivery. 708-848-9404

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Public Notice of Mechanicâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Lien Notice is given that a 1981 Mercedes Benz 300SD sedan, VIN# WDBCB20A6BB010307, belonging to Luke Russell, amount due and owing on this vehicle for repairs and storage total $6776.81, is subject to enforcement of a mechanicâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lien pursuant to Chapter 770 ILCS 45/1 et seq. and 90/1 et seq. Vehicle will be sold to the highest offer on or after November 15, 2016 at 727 N Harlem Ave, Oak Park IL 60302.

Chertkow and Chertkow (22019) Attorneys for Petitioner 1525 East 53rd Street Chicago, Illinois 60615

Published in Wednesday Journal 10/26, 11/2, 11/9

LEGAL NOTICE Chertkow and Chertkow (22019) Attorneys for Petitioner 1525 East 53rd Street Chicago, Illinois 60615 STATE OF ILLINOIS) COUNTY OF COOK )ss Circuit Court of Cook County, County Department, Domestic Relations Division.

In re the marriage of Elba Maldonado, Petitioner and Jose Luis Flores-Rodriguez, Respondent, Case No. 2016D009918.

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The requisite affidavit for publication having been filed, notice is hereby given to you, the above named Respondent, that a Petition has been filed in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, by the Petitioner, for Dissolution of Marriage and for other relief; and that said suit is now pending.

Now, therefore, unless you, the said Respondent, file your response to said Petition or otherwise make your appearance therein, in the Office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, Room 802, Richard J. Daley Center, 50 West Washington Street, in the City of Chicago, Illinois, on or before December 14, 2016, default may be entered against you at any time after that day, and a judgment for Dissolution of Marriage entered in accordance with the prayer of said Petition.

DOROTHY A. BROWN, Clerk.

Published in Wednesday Journal 11/9, 11/16, 11/23/2016

PUBLIC NOTICE Notice is hereby given, pursuant to â&#x20AC;&#x153;An Act in relation to the use of an Assumed Business Name in the conduct or transaction of Business in the State,â&#x20AC;? as amended, that a certification was registered by the undersigned with the County Clerk of Cook County. Registration Number: D16148609 on November 1, 2016 Under the Assumed Business Name of JKCONSTRUCTION with the business located at: 2648 MAPLE ST, FRANKLIN PARK, IL 60131.

The true and real full name(s) and residence address of the owner(s)/ partner(s) is: JAKUB P KUBACKI 2648 MAPLE ST FRANKLIN PARK, IL 60131 Published in Wednesday Journal 11/9, 11/16, 11/23/2016

PUBLIC NOTICE For any person who was a Special Education Student at Oak Park & River Forest High School and graduated in 2009 or 2010, you will have 30 days to contact Lynette Welter, at Oak Park & River Forest High School at 708.434.3806 to request your records. On December 15th the Special Education student records for the 2009 and 2010 school years will be destroyed.

STATE OF ILLINOIS) COUNTY OF COOK )ss Circuit Court of Cook County, County Department, Domestic Relations Division.

In re the marriage of Coinda Martinez, Petitioner and Martin Duran, Respondent, Case No. 2016D-009993.

The requisite affidavit for publication having been filed, notice is hereby given to you, the above named Respondent, that a Petition has been filed in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, by the Petitioner, for Dissolution of Marriage and for other relief; and that said suit is now pending.

Now, therefore, unless you, the said Respondent, file your response to said Petition or otherwise make your appearance therein, in the Office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, Room 802, Richard J. Daley Center, 50 West Washington Street, in the City of Chicago, Illinois, on or before December 14, 2016, default may be entered against you at any time after that day, and a judgment for Dissolution of Marriage entered in accordance with the prayer of said Petition.

DOROTHY A. BROWN, Clerk.

Published in Wednesday Journal 11/9, 11/16, 11/23/2016

LEGAL NOTICE STATE OF ILLINOIS, COUNTY OF COOK, ss.__ In the Circuit Court of Cook County, County Department, Municipal Division.

Christopher Stoller, Plaintiff, vs. Priscilla L. Wright, et. al., Defendants. No. 20161125304 The requisite affidavit for publication having been filed, notice is hereby given you, Priscilla L. Wright, defendants in the above entitled suit, that the said suit has been commenced in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Municipal Division, by the said plaintiff against you and other defendants, praying for specific performance of an Agreement to transfer a certain Assignment of Claims and Quitclaim deed to the premises known as 415 Wesley #1 Oak Park, IL 60302.

Notice is also hereby given you that the said Complaint prays for other relief; that summons was duly issued out or said Court against you as provided by law, and that the said suit is now pending.

Now, therefore, unless you, the said above named defendants, file your answer to the Complaint in the said suit or otherwise make your appearance therein, in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County, Municipal Division, Room 601, Richard J. Daley Center, 50 West Washington Street, in the City of Chicago, Illinois, on or before 12/ 11/2016, default may be entered against you at any time after that day and a Judgment entered in accordance with the prayer of said Complaint. 11/9/16, 11/16/16, 11/ 23/16.

DOROTHY A. BROWN, Clerk.

Lynette Welter Scheduling and Records Secretary Special Education

This is an attempt to collect a debt pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

Published in Wednesday Journal 11/9, 11/16/2016

Published in Wednesday Journal 11/9/2016.

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Notice of Public Hearing Park District of Oak Park November 17, 2016, 7:30 p.m.

2017 Budget and Appropriation Ordinance Notice is hereby given that the Board of Commissioners of the Park District of Oak Park will conduct a public hearing concerning the adoption of the Park District’s 2017 Budget and Appropriation Ordinance on November 17, 2016 at 7:30 p.m. at the John Hedges Administration Building, 218 Madison St, Oak Park, IL, during the Board of Commissioners’ regular board meeting.

Dated: November 9, 2016 By: Commissioner Sandy Lentz Secretary, Board of Commissioners Park District of Oak Park Published in Wednesday Journal 11/9/16

PUBLIC NOTICE Notice is hereby given, pursuant to “An Act in relation to the use of an Assumed Business Name in the conduct or transaction of Business in the State,” as amended, that a certification was filed by the undersigned with the County Clerk of Cook County. FILE NO. D16148485 on October 20, 2016.

Under the Assumed Business Name of SARIAH LYNN PHOTOGRAPHY with the business located at: 3330 SUNNYSIDE AVE, BROOKFIELD, IL 60513. The true and real full name(s) and residence address of the owner(s)/partner(s) is: SARIAH MATTINSON 3330 SUNNYSIDE AVE BROOKFIELD, IL 60513 Published in Landmark 10/26, 11/2, 11/9/2016

PUBLIC NOTICE Notice is hereby given, pursuant to “An Act in relation to the use of an Assumed Business Name in the conduct or transaction of Business in the State,” as amended, that a certification was registered by the undersigned with the County Clerk of Cook County. REGISTRATION NO. D16148502 on October 21, 2016. Under the Assumed Name of CAMERON MICHELE DESIGNS with the business located at: 611 SOUTH HARVEY AVENUE, OAK PARK IL, 60304. The true and real full name(s) and residence address of the owner(s)/partners(s) is: CAMERON MICHELE PILCHER 611 SOUTH HARVEY AVENUE OAK PARK, IL 60304.

STATE OF ILLINOIS COUNTY OF DUPAGE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE EIGHTEENTH JUDICAL CIRCUIT IN RE THE ESTATE OF MARION M. BENESCH VIPOND Deceased Case Number 2015-P728 PETITION FOR LETTERS OF INDEPENDENT ADMINISTRATION That the Order Admitting Will to Probate and Appointing Representative was entered in the Circuit Court of the Eighteenth Judicial Circuit on August 28, 2015 for the Estate of Marion M. Benesch-Vipond and that the undersigned, on oath states: 1. The decedent, whose place of residence at the time of death was 400 W BUTTERFIELD ROAD, ELMHURST, IL 60126 died on 6/24/ 2015 at ELMHURST, ILLINOIS, leaving a Will.

2. The approximate value of the estate in this state is: Personal $250,000 Real $0 Annual Income From Real Estate $0 3. The names and addresses of decedent’s heirs are: MARION E INGOLD, RICHARD E BENESCH, WILLAM A. BENESCH 4. The decedent nominated the following to act in the office indicated above: MARION E. INGOLD 4454 HARVEY, WESTERM SPRINGS IL 60558 5.Petitioner is legally qualified to act or nominate a resident of Illinois to act). Petitioner asks that letters administration be issued.

6.*If so indicated above, the Petitioner requests independent adminstration. The name and address of the personal fiduciary designated to act during independent administration for each heir, who is a minor or disabled person, are shown on Exhibit A attached and made part of this petition.

7. This ad also requests that any unknown heirs make themselves known to the attorney herein.

8. This ad will serve as a notice to creditors that they have 6 months from the date of filing of this petition to submit their claims Petitioner: MARION E. INGOLD 4454 HARVEY AVE WESTERN SPRINGS, IL 60558 MATT J LEUCK DuPage Attorney Number 48518 Attorney for: PETITIONER MARION E. INGOLD 84 E BURLINGTON RD RIVERSIDE IL 60546 708-447-3166 Published in Landmark 11/2, 11/9, 11/16/2016

INVITATION TO BID The Forest Park Public Library is accepting sealed bids for the following trades; Flooring. Bid packet information can be obtained from the Architect, Product Architecture + Design (312)202-0701 or tnash@ product-architects.com. A mandatory walk through will be held on November 21 at 9am. Sealed bids are due Friday December 2nd, 2016 at 10:00am at the library. Bids will be opened publicly at 10:00am.

PUBLIC NOTICE Notice is hereby given, pursuant to “An Act in relation to the use of an Assumed Business Name in the conduct or transaction of Business in the State,” as amended, that a certification was registered by the undersigned with the County Clerk of Cook County. FILE NO. D16148317 on October 3, 2016.

Under the Assumed Business Name of JONERSON FINANCIAL SERVICES with the business located at: P.O. BOX 34706, CHICAGO, IL 60634. The true and real full name(s) and residence address of the owner(s)/partner(s) is: TERESA B JONES, 2919 N MULLIGAN AVE, CHICAGO, IL 60634.

Published in Forest Park Review 11/9, 11/16/2016

Published in Wednesday Journal 10/26, 11/2, 11/9/2016

Published in Wednesday Journal 10/26, 11/2, 11/9/2016

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING VILLAGE OF RIVER FOREST SPECIAL SERVICE AREA NUMBER 10 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on December 12, 2016, at 7:00 p.m. in the River Forest Village Hall, Board Room, 400 Park Avenue, River Forest, Illinois, a public hearing will be held by the President and Board of Trustees of the Village of River Forest to consider forming a special service area consisting of the following described property: LOT 17 (EXCEPT THE NORTH 36 FEET THEREOF) AND LOT 20 IN SAMUEL WATTS SR. SUBDIVISION OF THE EAST HALF OF THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF SECTION 12, TOWNSHIP 39 NORTH, RANGE 12, EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, (EXCEPT THE EAST 50 FEET THEREOF AND EXCEPT THE RIGHT OF WAY OF THE CHICAGO AND WISCONSIN RAILWAY) IN COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS. AND THAT PART OF THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF SECTION 12, TOWNSHIP 39 NORTH, RANGE 12, EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, LYING EASTERLY OF THE EASTERLY LINE OF LOTS 17 AND 20 AND LYING WESTERLY OF A LINE 25 FEET EASTERLY OF THE EASTERLY LINES OF SAID LOTS 17 AND 20, AS MEASURED PERPENDICULAR AND RADIAL THERETO, SAID LOTS 17 AND 20 BEING IN SAMUEL WATTS, SR. SUBDIVISION OF THE EAST HALF OF THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF SECTION 12, TOWNSHIP 39 NORTH RANGE 12, EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED APRIL 2, 1910 AS DOCUMENT 4533770, AND LYING SOUTH OF THE NORTH LINE OF SAID LOT 17, EXTENDED EAST AND LYING NORTH OF THE SOUTH LINE OF SAID LOT 20, EXTENDED EAST, IN COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS.; PINs: 15-12-313-007-0000, 1512-313-026-0000, 15-12-313-0460000; Street Location: Northeast corner of Madison Street and Forest Avenue in River Forest, Cook County, Illinois; Common Address: 7820 W. Madison Street, River Forest, Illinois.

All interested persons affected by the formation of River Forest Special Service Area Number 10 will be given an opportunity to be heard regarding the formation of and the boundaries of Special Service Area Number 10 and may object to the formation of Special Service Area Number 10 and the levy of taxes affecting said Special Service Area Number 10.

The purpose of the formation of River Forest Special Service Area Number 10 is to fund the Village of River Forest’s cost of maintaining, repairing, reconstructing and/ or replacing the common areas, including but not limited to the water mains and stormwater management improvements, on the above-

described property, in the event that the owner(s) of the abovedescribed property fail to maintain, repair, reconstruct and/or replace said common areas, including but not limited to the water mains and stormwater management improvements, as required by: (i) The Village of River Forest Municipal Code; and (ii) The Plat of Resubdivision for the Promenade Townhomes, recorded with the Cook County Recorder of Deeds on September 26, 2016 as document number 1627045049; (hereinafter the “Special Services”), within said Special Service Area Number 10.

A tax levy at a rate not to exceed $2.3809 per $100.00 of equalized assessed valuation of property in Special Service Area Number 10, for each year during which the Village of River Forest is required to expend funds relative to said Special Services, so long as the stormwater management improvements and/or roadway/sidewalk improvements, as referenced above, exist, will be considered at the public hearing. As taxes will not be levied until such time, if any, as the Village actually expends funds for said Special Services, it is currently unknown as to the actual amount of the taxes that will be levied for the initial year, if any, for which taxes will be levied within Special Service Area Number 10; however, any such initial tax levy shall not exceed the maximum tax rate as set forth above. Said tax is to be levied upon all taxable property within the proposed Special Service Area Number 10.

At the public hearing, all persons affected by the formation of said Special Service Area Number 10, including all persons owning taxable real estate therein, will be given an opportunity to be heard.

The public hearing may be adjourned by the President and Board of Trustees to another date without further notice, other than a motion, to be entered upon the minutes of its meeting, fixing the time and place of its adjournment and/or as otherwise required by law.

If a petition signed by at least fiftyone (51%) of the electors residing within Special Service Area Number 10 and by at least fifty-one (51%) of the owners of record of the land included within the boundaries of Special Service Area Number 10 is filed with the Village Clerk, within sixty (60) days following the final adjournment of the public hearing, objecting to the creation of Special Service Area Number 10, the enlargement thereof, the levy or imposition of a tax for the provision of the Special Services to the area, or to a proposed increase in the tax rate, said Special Service Area Number 10 may not be created or enlarged, and no tax may be levied or imposed nor the rate increased.

DATED this 1st day of November, 2016.

Sharon Halperin Village Clerk Village of River Forest

Published in Wednesday Journal 11/9/2016

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PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT, PROBATE DIVISION Estate of BESSIE LUDIK, Deceased Case No. 16 P 5741 PUBLICATION NOTICE INDEPENDENT ADMINISTRATION TO: CREDITORS, CLAIMANTS, UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES 1. Notice is hereby given of the death of Bessie Ludik who died on 8/1/16 leaving a will dated November 15, 2007 and numbered 16W6276, admitted to probate October 28, 2016.

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The Representative for the estate is: ANTON SCHOENBERGER 3. The Attorney for the estate is: MATT J LEUCK, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Atty. No. 11017, 84 E. BURLINGTON # 2W, RIVERSIDE, IL 60546 4. Claims against the estate may be filed on or before 05/09/17.

Claims against the estate may be filed with the Clerk of the Circuit Court, Richard J. Daley Center, 50 West Washington Street Room 1202 Chicago, IL 60602 or with the Representative, or both. Any claim not filed within that period is barred. Copies of a claim filed with the Clerk must be mailed or delivered to the Representative and to the attorney within 10 days after it has been filed.

5. On 8/28/16 an Order Appointing the Representative was entered.

6. Within forty-two (42) days after the effective date of the original Order Admitting the Will to Probate, you may file a petition with the Court to require proof of the validity of the Will by testimony or witnesses to the Will in open Court, or other evidence, as provided in Article VI 5/6- 21 (755 ILCS 5/6/21).

7. Within six (6) months after the effective date of the original Order Admitting the Will to Probate, you may file a petition with the Court to contest the validity of the Will as provided under Article VIII 5/8-1 of the Probate Act (755 ILCS 5/8-1).

8. The estate will be administrated without Court supervision unless an interested party terminates independent supervision administration by filing a petition to terminate under Article XXVIII 5/28-4 of the Probate Act (755 ILCS 5/28-4). /s/ ANTON SCHOENBERGER Independent Administrator

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Published in Wednesday Journal 11/9, 11/16, 11/23/2016

PUBLIC NOTICE Notice is hereby given, pursuant to “An Act in relation to the use of an Assumed Business Name in the conduct or transaction of Business in the State,” as amended, that a certification was registered by the undersigned with the County Clerk of Cook County.

Registration Number D16148624 on November 1, 2016 Under the Assumed Business Name of B.E. WELL with the business located at: 116 CHICAGO AVE., OAK PARK, IL 60302. The true and real full name(s) and residence address of the owner(s)/ partner(s) is: BRANDI ELIZABETH JONES 116 CHICAGO AVE. OAK PARK, IL 60302.

Published in Wednesday Journal 11/9, 11/16, 11/23/2016

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: D16148645 on November 3, 2016. Under the Assumed Business Name of YOUR VIRTUAL ADMIN EXPERT with the business located at: PO BOX 323 LAGRANGE, IL 60525. The true and real full name(s) and residence address of the owner(s)/partner(s) is: GWENDOLYN L YOUNG, 106 EAST AVE #2 LAGRANGE, IL 60525.

Published in Landmark 11/9, 11/16, 11/23/2016

REAL ESTATE FOR SALE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY, AS TRUSTEE FOR LONG BEACH MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST 2006-7 Plaintiff, -v.JOHNNY JAMISON, SUSAN JAMISON, STATE OF ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE, CITY OF CHICAGO, MIDLAND FUNDING, LLC Defendants 11 CH 25850 841 N. Lombard 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 May 19, 2015, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on December 5, 2016, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive–24th Floor, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 841 N. Lombard Ave., Oak Park, IL 60302 Property Index No. 1605-303-023-0000. The real estate is improved with a single family residence. The judgment amount was $487,146.09. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/ or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior

REAL ESTATE FOR SALE to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information.

If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required

by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/ 9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. For information, contact Plaintiff’s attorney: HEAVNER, BEYERS & MIHLAR, LLC, 111 East Main Street, DECATUR, IL 62523, (217) 422-1719 If the sale is not confirmed for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the purchase price paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee’s attorney. THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales.

HEAVNER, BEYERS & MIHLAR, LLC 111 East Main Street DECATUR, IL 62523 (217) 4221719 Fax #: (217) 422-1754 CookPleadings@hsbattys.com Attorney Code. 40387 Case Number: 11 CH 25850 TJSC#: 36-11955 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.

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION PNC BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION Plaintiff, -v.KARLA M. SMITH, CAPITAL ONE BANK (USA), N.A. AS SUCCESSOR TO HSBC BANK NEVADA, N.A., FKA HOUSEHOLD BANK, ATLAS STONE DISTRIBUTION, INC., THE PARKVIEW OF FOREST PARK CONDOMINIUM Defendants 16 CH 04482 1101 S. Harlem Unit 203 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 July 12, 2016, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on December 6, 2016, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive–24th Floor, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 1101 S. Harlem Unit 203, Forest Park, IL 60130 Property Index No. 1513-431-043-1007. The real estate is improved with a residential condominium. The judgment amount was $97,880.86. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/ or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information.

If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assess-

ments and the legal fees required

by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. For information, contact Plaintiff’s attorney: HEAVNER, BEYERS & MIHLAR, LLC, 111 East Main Street, DECATUR, IL 62523, (217) 422-1719 If the sale is not confirmed for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the purchase price paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee’s attorney. THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales.

HEAVNER, BEYERS & MIHLAR, LLC 111 East Main Street DECATUR, IL 62523 (217) 4221719 Fax #: (217) 422-1754 CookPleadings@hsbattys.com Attorney Code. 40387 Case Number: 16 CH 04482 TJSC#: 36-11962 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.

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GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on June 10, 2015, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on December 8, 2016, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive–24th Floor, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 731 BELLEFORTE AVENUE, OAK PARK, IL 60302 Property Index No. 16-06-308-018-0000.

The real estate is improved with a single family home; 2 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, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/ or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. Where a sale of real estate is made to satisfy a lien prior to that of the United States, the United States shall have one year from the date of sale within which to redeem, except that with respect to a lien arising under the internal revenue laws the period shall be 120 days or the period allowable for redemption under State law, whichever is longer, and in any case in which, under the provisions of section 505 of the Housing Act of 1950, as amended (12 U.S.C. 1701k), and subsection (d) of section 3720 of title 38 of the United States Code, the right to redeem does not arise, there shall be no right of redemption.

The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information.

If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required

by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and

(g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. For information: Visit our website at service.atty-pierce.com. between the hours of 3 and 5 pm. PIERCE & ASSOCIATES, Plaintiff’s Attorneys, One North Dearborn Street Suite 1300, CHICAGO, IL 60602. Tel No. (312) 4765500. Please refer to file number 11299. 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.

PIERCE & ASSOCIATES One North Dearborn Street Suite 1300 CHICAGO, IL 60602 (312) 476-5500 E-Mail: pleadings@ pierceservices.com Attorney File No. 11299 Attorney Code. 91220 Case Number: 10 CH 01542 TJSC#: 36-8887 I706591

INC., AS NOMINEE FOR GMAC MORTGAGE CORPORATION DBA DITECH.COM, BERNARD PITZEL A/ K/A BERNARD A. PITZEL Defendants 12 CH 45189 312 NORTH RIDGELAND AVENUE OAK PARK, IL 60302 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on April 28, 2016, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on December 9, 2016, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive–24th Floor, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 312 NORTH RIDGELAND AVENUE, OAK PARK, IL 60302 Property Index No. 16-08-106-008-0000.

The real estate is improved with a single family home with an attached 2 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, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/ or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser

will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information.

If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the 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: Visit our website at service.atty-pierce.com. between the hours of 3 and 5 pm. PIERCE & ASSOCIATES, Plaintiff’s Attorneys, One North Dearborn Street Suite 1300, CHICAGO, IL 60602. Tel No. (312) 4765500. Please refer to file number 11302. 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.

PIERCE & ASSOCIATES One North Dearborn Street Suite 1300 CHICAGO, IL 60602 (312) 476-5500 E-Mail: pleadings@ pierceservices.com Attorney File

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A., AS TRUSTEE, ON BEHALF OF THE REGISTERED HOLDERS OF FIRST FRANKLIN MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST 2006-FFH1, ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006FFH1 Plaintiff, -v.TERRI RENIVA AKA TERRI A RENIVA, ELBERT D RENIVA AKA ELBERT RENIVA, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Defendants 10 CH 01542 731 BELLEFORTE AVENUE OAK PARK, IL 60302 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. Plaintiff, -v.LISA NORDSTOM-PITZEL A/K/A LISA A. NORDSTROMPITZEL, ELIZABETH HEBSON, MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS,

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION DITECH FINANCIAL LLC; Plaintiff, vs.

CONNIE R. RAMIREZ; DUNLOP CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION; DUNLOP MANOR CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION; FOREST PARK NATIONAL BANK AND TRUST COMPANY; UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES OF CONNIE R. RAMIREZ, IF ANY; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS; Defendants, 15 CH 4593 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Wednesday, November 30, 2016 at the hour of 11 a.m. in their office at 120 West Madison Street, Suite 718A, Chicago, Illinois, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described mortgaged real estate: P.I.N. 15-13-307-026-1006.

Commonly known as 926 Dunlop Avenue, Unit 206, Forest Park, IL 60130.

The mortgaged real estate is improved with a condominium residence. The purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by subdivisions (g) (1) and (g)(4) of Section 9 of the Condominium Property Act Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours. No refunds.

The property will NOT be open for inspection.

For information call the Sales Clerk at Plaintiff’s Attorney, The Wirbicki Law Group, 33 West Monroe Street, Chicago, Illinois 60603.

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INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I706346

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION U.S. BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, NOT IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY, BUT SOLELY AS TRUSTEE FOR THE RMAC TRUST, SERIES 2013-4T Plaintiff, -v.GAD IKEANUMBA AKA GAD C. IKEANUMBA, 1030-32 NORTH AUSTIN CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION AKA 1030-32 N. AUSTIN CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION, HENRY SILVERMAN LIVING TRUST U/A/D AUGUST 26, 1996 Defendants 11 CH 33740 1032 North Austin Blvd. Unit 1N, (ASSESSOR’S OFFICE SHOWS AS 1030 NORTH AUSTIN BLVD. UNIT 1N) 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 September 20, 2016, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on December 21, 2016, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive–24th Floor, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 1032 North Austin Blvd. Unit 1N, (ASSESSOR’S OFFICE SHOWS AS 1030 NORTH AUSTIN BLVD. UNIT 1N), Oak Park, IL 60302 Property Index No. 16-05-314031-1001. The real estate is improved with a residential condominium. The judgment amount was $241,648.27. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/ or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information.

If this property is a condominium

unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required

by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. For information, contact Plaintiff’s attorney: HEAVNER, BEYERS & MIHLAR, LLC, 111 East Main Street, DECATUR, IL 62523, (217) 422-1719 If the sale is not confirmed for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the purchase price paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee’s attorney. THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales.

HEAVNER, BEYERS & MIHLAR, LLC 111 East Main Street DECATUR, IL 62523 (217) 4221719 Fax #: (217) 422-1754 CookPleadings@hsbattys.com Attorney Code. 40387 Case Number: 11 CH 33740 TJSC#: 36-11561 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.

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on August 8, 2016, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on December 12, 2016, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive–24th Floor, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 514 N. HUMPHREY AVENUE, OAK PARK, IL 60302 Property Index No. 16-05-326-033-0000.

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, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/ or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. Where a sale of real estate is made to satisfy a lien prior to that of the United States, the United States shall have one year from the date of sale within which to redeem, except that with respect to a lien arising under the internal revenue laws the period shall be 120 days or the period allowable for redemption under State law, whichever is longer, and in any case in which, under the provisions of section 505 of the Housing Act of 1950, as amended (12 U.S.C. 1701k), and subsection (d) of section 3720 of title 38 of the United States Code, the right to redeem does not arise, there shall be no right of redemption.

The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information.

If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required

by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments

required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. For information, examine the court file or contact Plaintiff’s attorney: CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL 60527, (630) 7949876 Please refer to file number 14-16-03929. THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales.

CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100 BURR RIDGE, IL 60527 (630) 794-5300 E-Mail: pleadings@il.cslegal.com Attorney File No. 14-16-03929 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 16 CH 005490 TJSC#: 36-10020 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.

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14, 2016, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive–24th Floor, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 401 SOUTH MAPLE AVENUE, Oak Park, IL 60302 Property Index No. 16-07-321-019-0000. The real estate is improved with a single family residence. The judgment amount was $473,172.93. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information.

If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the 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 foreclo-

sure sales. For information, contact The sales clerk, SHAPIRO KREISMAN & ASSOCIATES, LLC, 2121 WAUKEGAN RD., SUITE 301, Bannockburn, IL 60015, (847) 291-1717 For information call between the hours of 1pm–3pm fax number 312-3724398 Please refer to file number 15-076981. THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales. SHAPIRO KREISMAN & ASSOCIATES, LLC 2121 WAUKEGAN RD., SUITE 301 Bannockburn, IL 60015 (847) 291-1717 Fax #: (312) 372-4398 E-Mail: ILNotices@logs.com Attorney File No. 15-076981 Attorney Code. 42168 Case Number: 12 CH 41397 TJSC#: 36-11179 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.

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tate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information.

If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required

by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/ 9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. For information, examine the court file or contact Plaintiff’s attorney: CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL 60527, (630) 7949876 Please refer to file number 14-16-03188. THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales.

CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100 BURR RIDGE, IL 60527 (630) 794-5300 E-Mail: pleadings@il.cslegal.com Attorney File No. 14-16-03188 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 16 CH 004578 TJSC#: 36-9984 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.

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION CIT BANK, N.A. Plaintiff, -v.NORMAN HALL TRUST DATED 10/31/05, EVA HALL, UNKNOWN SUCCESSOR TRUSTEES OF THE NORMAN HALL TRUST DATED 10/31/05, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA– DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants 16 CH 005490 514 N. HUMPHREY AVENUE 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

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC Plaintiff, -v.SHERRI LASKO, HARBOR FINANCIAL MORTGAGE CORPORATION F/K/A NEW AMERICA FINANCIAL, INC., CAPITAL ONE BANK (USA), N.A., SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST TO CAPITAL ONE BANK, JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST TO GREAT AMERICAN FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION, ASSOCIATED BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST TO GREAT AMERICAN FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION Defendants 12 CH 41397 401 SOUTH MAPLE AVENUE 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 September 13, 2016, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on December

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. Plaintiff, -v.UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES OF BRADLEY L. ERICKSON, ILLINOIS HOUSING DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY, IMPERIAL MANOR OF OAK PARK CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS, DOROTHY ERICKSON, WILLIAM P. BUTCHER, AS SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR BRADLEY L. ERICKSON (DECEASED) Defendants 16 CH 004578 425 HOME AVENUE UNIT #3E 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 5, 2016, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on December 14, 2016, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive–24th Floor, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 425 HOME AVENUE UNIT #3E, OAK PARK, IL 60302 Property Index No. 16-07-323-043-1025.

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, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/ or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real es-

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Finishing strong from page 44 “We ran pretty well. The whole course was fast,” OPRF coach Chris Baldwin said. “Our three best races were definitely regionals (2nd), sectionals (5th) and state. As a coach, you can’t really ask for anything better than that.”

Loud, 11th at state as a sophomore, hoped to compete among the top 10, but Baldwin estimated that Loud was around 120th after 800 meters.

“I was trying to move up and push myself the entire race.

I ended up not moving enough,” Loud said. “I’m really proud of the team more than anything. That’s always great to see when my team does great.”

OPRF girls OPRF senior Mahal Schroeder spoke with at least two NCAA Division I coaches Saturday and ran an impressive lifetime-best 17:44 for 50th in the 3A girls race.

Building upon her 17:58 at sectionals, Schroeder surpassed taking 92nd at state last year (18:07) and 147th (19:03) for the 2013 team qualifier.

“She had a great day,” OPRF coach Tom Tarrant said.

“She’s a hard worker. In all of my years coaching, 20 years, that’s the hardest working kid I’ve ever met. I don’t think (college running) was on her radar freshman year.”

Photo by Bill Stone

Trinity girls cross country (left to right): Hailey Hansen, Emma Creviston, Hannah Roberts, Alyssa Jimenez, Grace Brown, Catherine Doyle and Bridget O’Bryan. (Left) Fenwick’s Nicole Finn ran a blistering 5:45 first mile and finished 135th (18:41) at her second 3A state trip.

“The last 800 meters, I completely died.

I was in so much pain it was unbelievable.”

ALEX MARKS Fenwick senior

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Fenwick girls Fenwick senior Nicole Finn pushed her limits with a blistering 5:45 first mile and was 135th (18:41) in her second 3A state trip.

Finn, the No. 1 finisher for the Friars’ regional and Girls Catholic Athletic Conference titlists, was 123rd (18:24) with the 2014 state team qualifier.

“She ran a great first mile, very competitive,” Fenwick coach Kevin Roche said. “I love her tenacity, the way she’s raced all season. She wanted more, we wanted more but she did not let this opportunity go to waste, which makes me very proud.”

Fenwick boys After two miles of the 3A boys final, Fenwick senior Alex Marks was on pace to break 15:00 for the first time with a personal-record 9:57.

“The last 800 meters, I completely died. I was in so much pain it was unbelievable,” Marks said.

Marks staggered to finish in 137th (15:40) after taking 38th (15:24) last season with the Friars’ 2A team qualifier.

“Overall I’m not too sad because I know I tried. I just didn’t reach what I thought I could,” Marks said.

Trinity Side-by-side in the 2A girls race, sophomore Bridget O’Bryan (92nd, 19:03) and junior Hailey Hansen (93rd, 19:03) had the highest individual state finishes in Trinity history and led the Blazers (23rd, 507 points) to their highest state team finish.

“Every year has been like a stepping stone to building the program,” Hansen said. “Definitely this experience is going to push us to go further.”

Junior Emma Creviston (100th, 19:05) was one place ahead of the best previous finish, followed by junior Alyssa Jimenez (176th, 20:08), sophomore Hannah Roberts (193rd, 20:32), junior Grace Brown (194th, 20:33) and sophomore Catherine Doyle (203rd, 20:47).

The Blazers’ first state qualifiers were 2012 individuals.

Their first team qualifier in 2013 was 25th in 2A. Trinity was 3A the past two seasons.

“You never know so we have to seize the moment and we did that,” first-year Trinity coach Johann Gonzalez said.

“They set a great foundation and this just took it to another level.”

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Elite 8-bound Friars edge Lake Zurich Riding a six-game win streak, Fenwick faces host Jacobs next in 7A quarterfinals

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eminiscent of the Chicago Cubs fans who predicted their beloved team would win the World Series, a Fenwick High School football fan proudly held up a sign, “It’s gonna happen: Fenwick 2017 Class 7A State Champion.”

While it remains to be seen if Fenwick makes good on that prognostication, the Friars did take a step closer with a 20-14 win over Lake Zurich, Friday, at Triton College in River Grove.

The victory propels Fenwick to three wins away from its first state championship and a second Elite 8 appearance in the past three seasons.

The Friars and visiting Bears provided anxious fans a tale of two halves on Saturday. The teams combined for 34 points in the first half with Fenwick leading 20-14 at the break, followed by a scoreless defensive battle in the second half.

“I wish we played as well offensively in the second half as we did the first, but it was a hard-fought game,” Fenwick coach Gene Nudo said. “Our defense was great in the second half. The guys stepped up and made some huge plays for us.

“This is our second time in three seasons making the state quarterfinals. We’re excited about the opportunity to hopefully play well and go ever farther this year.”

Trailing by six with 3:03 left in the game, Lake Zurich junior quarterback Evan Lewandowski completed a pair of passes (18 yards, 5 yards) to Matthijs Enters to move the ball to the Lake Zurich 38-yard line. Two plays later, Fenwick senior linebacker Brett Moorman returned an interception for a touchdown essentially securing the Friars’ berth in the

77A quarterfinals. Fenwick ccommitted a penalty on the play, however, taking away pl the touchdown. th Moorman has returned an interception for a touchdown, called back due to do penalty in each of Fenwick’s pen first two post-season wins firs this year.

“It’s weird how that’s hap“I pened two weeks in row,” he pen Photo by Marie Lillig said. “I’m just happy we got said the win and move on to the next round. Defensively, we played well in the second half.

Despite Moorman’s tough luck with touchdowns, the Friars kept the ball after his clutch pick which enabled them to run off enough time to earn the 20-14 victory.

Defensive end Ellis Taylor (4 solo tackles, 2 assisted tackles), defensive lineman Adrian Nourse (5 solo tackles), linebackers Marty Stein, Jacob Kaminski (5 solo tackles, 1 assisted tackle), and Jason Ivery and cornerbacks Lorente and Lorenzano Blakeney, Ryan Chapman and Alex Pierson also contributed to the Friars’ stellar performance in the second half.

“Ellis Taylor was all over the place,” Moorman said. “He’s such a force that he can take away half of the line of scrimmage and force teams to run the ball opposite his side. Our fans really supported us. We are 7-1 at home this season and Triton really feels like home for us.”

In the first half, Fenwick scored on three of four possessions to build a 20-7 lead with 8:05 left in the second quarter.

The Friars opened the game with an impressive 10-play, 80-yard scoring drive capped off by senior quarterback Jacob Keller’s 1-yard run to lead 6-0 at the 7:48 mark of the first

quarter. Connor Hendzel missed the PAT. Two plays later, Lake Zurich responded with a 70-yard touchdown run by diminutive running back Joey Stutzman (5-foot-7, 160 pounds) to give the Bears their lone lead of the game at 7-6 after Kyle Obsuszt’s PAT sailed through the uprights.

Keller connected with senior wide receiver Sherman Martin on a 36-yard touchdown pass as the Friars regained the lead at 13-7 with 4:34 in the first quarter.

On the Friars’ next offensive series, Keller completed a 42yard pass to Martin and an 11-yard pass to senior running back Conner Lillig, which moved the ball inside the Bears’ 10. Lillig scored on a 7-yard touchdown run, extending Fenwick’s advantage to 20-7.

Midway through the second quarter, Lewandowski threw a 39-yard TD pass to Jake Stevens, who broke free from the Fenwick secondary in the middle of the field to make the score 20-14.

Keller finished 13 of 21 on passing attempts for 224 yards and a touchdown. Lillig rushed for 97 yards and a touchdown on 24 carries. Martin had three catches for 119 yards and O’Laughlin caught five passes for 78 yards.

The Friars’ offensive line of Marco Torres, Austin Glazier, Daniel Kannin, Joe Calcagno and Sean Heslin turned in a terrific performance Saturday.

“Our offensive line deserves a ton of credit for our success,” Lillig said. “Those guys are phenomenal. They give Jake (Keller) all kinds of time in the pocket and are great run blockers.”

Fenwick (10-1) travels to Algonquin to take on Jacobs (7-4) on Saturday, Nov. 12. Kickoff is 3 p.m.

While the Friars are seeded fourth and projected as a top contender to win state, the Golden Eagles are the No. 28 seed with upset wins over Lincoln Park and Batavia, the past two weeks.

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OPRF boys cross country takes 13th at state Trinity, Huskies’ Schroeder and Friars’ Finn fare well in girls competition

By BILL STONE

F Photo by Chuck Vietzen

OPRF senior Irwin Loud finished 28th with a time of 14 minutes, 53 seconds for 3.0 miles at the Class 3A boys cross country state final. The Huskies placed 13th (341 points) as a team.

or his last Oak Park and River Forest boys cross country race, senior Matt Politis gladly used a different uniform Saturday.

The tops are exclusive to the state meet, featuring vertical stripes in blue and burnt orange school colors.

“We call them the candy canes,” Politis said. “We’ve had these for six to eight years now. We just don’t use them a lot.”

The Huskies’ first state team appearance since 2010 was a sweet one. They took 13th in Class 3A (341 points) at Peoria’s Detweiller Park after not even being in the final top 25 rankings entering sectionals.

Senior Irwin Loud was 28th (14 minutes, 53 seconds for 3.0 miles), three seconds from the last top-25, all-state spot, followed by Politis (54th, 15:04), juniors Matt Vietzen (61st, 15:09) and Robert George (139th, 15:41), senior Chance Bayles (154th, 15:47), junior Peter Halloran (192nd, 16:11) and senior Eric Mulshine (207th, 16:37).

OPRF was 19 points from 10th behind five personal records, four by at least 20 seconds.

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