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November 14, 2018 Vol. 39, No. 15 ONE DOLLAR @oakpark @wednesdayjournal
High-rise by Unity Temple would be tallest in town Golub & Company plans 28-story tower near Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece By TIMOTHY INKLEBARGER Staff Reporter
Oak Park’s next big luxury high-rise apartment building could be 28 stories tall and constructed on the site of the U.S. Bank branch drive-thru and a parking lot at 835 Lake St. – less than a half-block away from Frank Lloyd Wright’s Unity Temple at 875 Lake St. The proposal is by Golub & Company, the same developer that built the 21-story, 270-unit Vantage Apartments, 150 Forest Ave., in 2016. The proposal came to light after Golub called a meeting with residents of the adjacent Courtland Condominiums, located to the east. That meeting took place at the Carleton Hotel on Nov. 8. Golub Senior Vice President Michael Glazier, Golub’s senior vice president, could not immediately be reached for comment, but spokesman Jim Prescott said in a telephone interview that the meeting was being held as a courtesy to Courtland residents. He said neither the press nor the general pubSee HIGH-RISE on page 14
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MESSAGING: Marchers rally in front of the Lake Theatre on Nov. 11, during a Unite Against Hate March in Oak Park and River Forest.
Rocky few weeks at OPRF culminates in march The Nov. 11 demonstration, prompted by swastika incident, was second in two weeks By MICHAEL ROMAIN Staff Reporter
For the second frigid Sunday in a row, student activists and community members demonstrated outside of the main entrance of Oak Park and River Forest High School to demand the implementation of policies and procedures that might help calm the high school’s volatile
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atmosphere of racial hostility. In less than a month, at least three separate cases of racist and anti-Semitic graffiti have been reported on campus, a teacher has been disciplined for allegedly saying the n— word multiple times during class and an OPRF student has been charged after allegedly using Apple’s AirDrop feature to send the image of a swastika to the phones of students during a
school assembly on Friday. At least 300 people converged outside of OPRF’s main entrance on Nov. 11, many dressed in layers and holding signs, one of which read, “Hate doesn’t make America great.” Omar Yamini, an Oak Park resident who was among the throng of demonSee MARCH on page 19
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