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VILLAGE NEWS >> WOODRIDGE

Police launches information portal Info provides detailed information about where, when, and what types of crimes occurred

The Woodridge Police Department recently announced the launch of a new information portal. This website features crime data, interesting videos, current crime

trends, content in Spanish, and more. The Information Portal utilizes ESRI geographic information system (GIS) technology and data from DU-COMM dispatch cen-

ter to categorize and plot data on maps. The goal of the Information Portal is to increase transparency and be an engaging website with vast audience appeal. “The Information Portal highlights our commitment to transparency and providing dedicated professional service,” said Woodridge Police Chief Brian Cunningham. “It provides detailed information about where, when, and what types of crimes occurred. In addition, we will produce videos featuring officers providing safety tips and insight into crime trends. So whether you’re wondering what police activity is happening in your The Woodridge PD Information

Portal utilizes ESRI Story Map technology to combine crime data with additional content, such as videos neighborhood or you’d like to know the latest tips to improve safety, the information is just a click away with the Woodridge Police Information Portal.” HOW IT WORKS DU-COMM, the intergovernmental agency that provides public safety communications to Police, Fire, and EMS agencies, provides the raw data from emergency calls placed to dispatch. The Woodridge Police Department utilizes geographic information system data (GIS) to incorporate new service

MORE INFO Designed as a one-stop portal for making crime information easier to ﬁnd · Allows users to understand crime data and police service calls using a dynamic web map · Content updated regularly with tips and information from Police Department staff · Portal URL: http:// gis.vil.woodridge. il.us/wpdportal/ and animated video overview URL: https://youtu.be/ LkY4yJPhjx0

calls to the Information Portal each month. Through the collaboration of the Woodridge Police Department and DU-COMM, the police department can easily categorize and plot these service calls in a dynamic way. Users may also access many features of the Information Portal using mobile devices. The Woodridge Police Department utilizes ESRI’s story map application technology that allows staff to combine interactive mapping, narratives, videos, and images in a single resource. “The WPD Information Portal is an innovative way for the police department to provide transparency to residents,” said Nate Rock, GIS Specialist at Municipal GIS Partners. “By leveraging the power of GIS, the Woodridge Police Department is now able to more effectively and visually communicate the work they do serving and protecting residents on a daily basis in a novel way.”

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STATE NEWS

Village hires new community Organ donor development director registry expanded The Village of Woodridge is pleased to announce the appointment Kimberly Porter as the Community Development Director beginning January 8. Porter was the planning manager for the Regional Transportation Authority (RTA). The Village conducted an extensive search process in which many qualified candidates applied for the job. Over 30 candidates from around the nation applied, following the resignation of former director, Michael Mays, who accepted a new position out of state. Porter will assume the oversight of the day-today operations of the Community Development Department, which includes economic development,

short and long-term planning for the community, code enforcement, and building permit review. Porter brings with her over 17 years of planning and community development experience working on both the local and regional levels. Prior to the RTA, Porter served as the Economic & Community Development Director for the Village of University Park and as a planner for the Village of Skokie. Early on in her career, Porter also worked as an Operations Planner for the Chicago Transit Authority and as a City Planner for the City of North Chicago. “The Village welcomes Kimberly Porter to her new position, and we look forward to her being an in-

tegral part of our senior management team,” Village Administrator Al Stonitsch said Porter earned her Bachelors of Arts degree from North Central College and her Masters degree in Urban Planning and Policy from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Porter received her AICP accreditation from the American Planning Association’s (APA) professional institute and is an active APA member on a local and national level. “I am honored to accept this position, commented Porter. I have worked my entire career to be in a position like this, and to have this opportunity to work for such a great community like Woodridge makes it even more humbling.”

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Westmont Natatorium Project moving forward Almost a year ago, the World Class Westmont Natatorium Project, planned to be adjacent to the Oak Brook Hills Chicago Hilton property, was approved by the Westmont Village Board. The project was then delayed due to various conversations and negotiations regarding project design. After making adjustments to address the new recommendations, the updated plan was approved by the Village Board on December 21. “I feel that the developers have worked hard to ad-

just their plans to address various concerns including stormwater management issues and preserving open land,” said Community Development Director Jill Ziegler. “The newly approved and updated plan was well-received overall and had the official support of The Residences of Oak Brook Hills homeowners association, which includes 42 residential homes that are adjacent to and surrounded by the golf course property located next to the Hilton Hotel. While change is often met with concern and it’s not possible to win everyone’s favor, the Village feels that this project is good for Westmont.”

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Law to remove decals from dealership vehicles before test drives takes effect Jan. 1 Measure initiated by tragic death of Brendan Burke A new law initiated by Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White to remove stickers, decals and paperwork from car windows before test driving a dealership’s vehicle takes effect Jan. 1. White’s top priority is to improve road safety. “This traffic safety measure is a common-sense solution that removes potential obstructions from the front and side windows of a vehicle prior to being driven off the lot of an automobile

dealer,” said White. “We want to make sure that the driver’s vantage point is not impeded in any situation.” White noted the bill stems from the tragic death of Brendan Burke, who was killed in a car crash by a motorist test-driving a vehicle that had decals and paperwork blocking his view. “Safety of drivers on the road must never be compromised,” said Martin Dolan, attorney for the Estate of Brendan Burke. “This law continues to protect Illinois citizens by eliminating obstructions on the windows of vehicles on a test drive. Brendan Burke’s family is confident this law will save lives.” Public Act 100-346 was sponsored by state Rep. Fred Crespo

(D-Streamwood) and state Sen. Cristina Castro (D-Elgin).

16- and 17-yearolds can become donors as of Jan. 1 Secretary of State Jesse White’s legislation allowing 16- and 17-year-olds to register for the state’s First Person Consent Organ/Tissue Donor Registry when they receive their driver’s license or identification card will take effect on Jan. 1, 2018. “Our main priority is to save lives,” said White. “Thousands of Illinoisans are waiting for an organ. Those who are waiting are someone’s mother, father, daughter or son. This new law is an important step in reducing the number of individuals on the waiting list.” Under current law, an individual must be at least 18 years old to join the First Person Consent Organ/Tissue Donor Registry. The legislation amends the Illinois Anatomical Gift Act allowing 16- and 17-year-olds to join the registry. Those who join the registry will receive a letter of thanks from the Secretary of State’s office, and Secretary White encourages 16- and 17-yearolds to use this letter as a basis for discussing their choice with their parents. By joining the First Person

Consent Organ/Tissue Donor Registry, 16- and 17-year-olds will be giving consent to donate their organs and tissue at the time of their death with only the single limitation that the procurement organizations (Gift of Hope Organ & Tissue Network and MidAmerica Transplant) must make a reasonable effort to contact a parent or guardian to ensure they approve of the donation. The parent or guardian will then have the opportunity to overturn the child’s decision. Once the 16- or 17-year-old turns 18, that decision would be considered legally binding without limitation. There are 47 states that have enacted this legislation. In 2016, more than 350,000 16- and 17-yearolds in Illinois were issued driver’s licenses and identification cards. “Approximately 4,700 people are on the waiting list in Illinois and about 300 hundred people die each year waiting for an organ transplant,” said White. “One person can improve the quality of life for up to 25 people. Currently, 6.3 million Illinoisans are registered with the state’s registry.” Illinoisans can register with the Secretary of State’s Organ/Tissue Donor Registry at LifeGoesOn.com, by calling 1-800-210-2106, or by visiting their local Driver Services facility.

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Mining history in S.Illinois BY CASEY BISCHEL OF THE BELLEVILLE NEWS-DEMOCRAT Louis Joliet and Pere Marquette, returning from an expedition on the Mississippi River in 1673, were the first explorers to notice the combustible material that would shape the Illinois economy. The coal just sat there on the surface like lowhanging fruit near Utica along the Illinois River. The first mine appeared near Peoria not long after, but it wasn’t until 1830, when coal from Belleville found a market in nearby St. Louis, that the industry took off, according to Keith Weil and Alvin K. Grandys, who wrote the 1976 Illinois Coal Digest, a publication from the Illinois Department of Business and Economic Development. Coal grew by leaps and bounds over the decades. In the 1850s and 1860s, railroads opened lines to new customers and the Civil War. Later, Weil and Grandys write, the formalization of geology and the appearance of the steam engine made coal easier to find and dig. The mines attracted tens of thousands of workers, many of whom were exposed to the dangers of an unchecked industry. As mine collapses and explosions claimed hundreds of lives, new vitality sprang into labor unions that went on to fight for better safety and health care. Early mine collapses, the result of apathetic owners, encouraged miners to organize but still produced few gains, according to Rosemary Feurer, a history professor at Northern Illinois University. Reforms went unenforced, and even a nascent form of workers’ compensation, the victory of a particularly deadly episode in Cherry, in the northern part of the state in 1909, barely compensated widows from a legal judgment. Every law “was written in blood,” said Bernie Harsey, president of the United Mine Workers of America Local 1825 in DuQuoin. Harsey also fought for a better way of life for miners. In 1993, management wanted to reduce health care benefits, so the union went on strike, and Harsey was out of work for six months. If the strike didn’t happen, he said, he didn’t think he would have health insurance coverage. Harsey, who started in the coal industry in 1973, said he’s used between $2 million and $3 million in health insurance to cover his family for everything from cancer to a kidney transplant.

“We wouldn’t have that without our labor disputes,” he said. Health care was one of the items that miners fought hardest for, and in 1946, John Lewis, the leader of the United Mine Workers of America, negotiated legislation that secured cradle-tograve health care coverage for its members that was guaranteed by the federal government. Recently, that compromise came under threat when Peabody Energy filed for bankruptcy in 2016, the latest in a series of coal companies to fail. After a temporary stopgap that saved health insurance for 22,600 retired miners, their widows and children, Congress finally saved the deal in April 2017. Today, the “Promise of 1946,” a term the Krug-Lewis Act acquired relatively recently, seems sacrosanct, but miners at the time wouldn’t have seen it that way, Feurer said. Throughout Lewis’s tenure, the UMWA grew closer to management, and the organization became more bureaucratic. Inspired by these trends, a more rebellious wave of labor action in the 1960s won the Federal Mining Safety Legislation of 1974, an improvement to narrower and weaker bills passed in 1951 and 1969. For as much as miners sacrificed for their benefits, others who weren’t covered sometimes sacrificed just as much, as companies pit workers against themselves by bringing in different ethnic groups to undercut wages of more established groups. The 1922 Herrin Massacre stands out as the one of the most violent episodes of labor violence in which union members shot and killed 19 strikebreakers. The first people to mine in Illinois were slaves, Feurer said. Other early groups to settle the area were English, Scots-Irish and Irish, people who’d struck out with the poor soils of Appalachia, according to David Conrad, a history professor at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. From 1890 to the early 1920s, eastern and southern Europeans settled the area next. After the Civil War, African-Americans came north only to find that “southern Illinois was not greatly different,” Conrad wrote in “Tell Me A Story: Memories of Early Life Around the Coal Fields of Illinois.” As evidence of coal’s importance to the economy and culture of Southern Illinois in particular, the first mining union, the American Miners’ Association, began in West Belleville in 1861. Since then, Illinois has produced

many generations of miners, and today, as a lack of opportunities clamps down on the region, it ensures that only an eager, if smaller, generation will continue the dangerous work. Only, they won’t belong to the UMWA anymore, Harsey said. Not a single member works in any mine in Southern Illinois. About 98 percent of workers who belong to the Local 1825 are retired now. The other 2 percent, about 10 people, are waiting for work on the inactive list. It’s been this way since 1997, when the mine reached the end of its property and there was nothing more to dig. “We knew the day was coming,” Harsey said. “You just get on with life.” The future of coal mining in Illinois is bleak for workers, and although many believe the industry’s freefall began only recently, it peaked in the 1920s, and has been declining since, Conrad said. In 1930, a whopping 185 coal mines employed 51,200 people who produced 52 million tons of coal. By 2015, just 19 mines employing 3,600 people produced 55 million tons of coal, according to the Illinois Department of Natural Resources. While coal production varies from year to year, the number of workers has declined steadily. Technology and natural gas, the two biggest culprits for the industry’s current decline, were blamed 100 years ago, too, as trains became more efficient and other fuels found new markets. After Harsey’s mine shut down, many workers were let go, but some stayed on for the next five years to work on land reclamation. Harsey worked with the operating engineers’ Local 5 for 10 more years. “For me, only working (seven or eight) months out of the year, I was more fortunate than the others,” he said. Local 1825 may be out of work, but it still celebrates the history of Illinois coal mining. Every year on April 1, it gets together to celebrate the victory of an 8-hour workday. In 2017, about 175 people showed up. “We had a good turnout,” he said. Casey Bischel of the Belleville NewsDemocrat can be reached at cbischel@ bnd.com. Editor’s note: The weekly Illinois Bicentennial series is brought to you by the Illinois Associated Press Media Editors and Illinois Press Association. More than 20 newspapers are creating stories about the state’s history, places and key moments in advance of the Bicentennial on Dec. 3, 2018. Stories published up to this date can be found at 200illinois.com.

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START Despite a young, undersized team, Westmont in=s off to a 13-1 start to the season

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When the Westmont boys basketball team takes the court they don’t have the biggest players, they don’t have the best athletes, but what they do have has worked to the tune of a 13-1 record to start the season. “I knew we would be good but I don’t think anybody anticipated we would be quite this good early on. We are small, so we surprise people,” Westmont coach Craig Etheridge said. “Every game we just seem to find a way to win. Some days we struggle inside and we make our outside shots. Other days we can’t buy a basket from the outside and we attack the basket well and get to the free throw line.” With a small team – only two players taller than 6-feet – the Sentinels are constantly batting larger teams, but the size differential doesn’t scare Westmont.

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“That is an investment we made two years ago. The junior class – which is most of the starters – they came off the bench at the varsity level as freshmen and I had one kid who started as a freshman,” Etheridge said. “They were smaller physically then and they had to learn to play against bigger bodies. Last year most of them were starters as sophomores and we took our lumps and couldn’t quite get over the hump and I think they learned how to play against bigger bodies and now it doesn’t faze them. “They have a lot of poise this year. They are really confident and comfortable – not only with their own abilities, but with their teammates as well.” As the season has progressed and Westmont has improved, the team goals have also progressed. “Early in the season, the goal

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Caden Anderson and Westmont have opened the season 13-1.

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ROUNDUP

Slammers to host three summer tourneys The Joliet Slammers presented by ATI Physical Therapy will host three teen baseball tournaments in the summer of 2018, including two 15U tournaments and a 16U tournament. Each Slammers tournament will host eight teams and guarantee three games per team. The Slammers are now accepting team registrations. The first 15U Slammers tournament will take place Friday, July 6-Sunday, July 8. The 16U tournament will run Friday, August 3-Sunday, August 5. The final 15U tournament will take place Friday, August 10-Sunday, August 12. All three tournaments will be held at Joliet Route 66 Stadium on the newly installed artificial turf.

HOT FROM PAGE 5 was just to play the best basketball we were capable of playing. Now that we have seen where we

at lrhodes@jolietslammers.com. Team registration forms can be found at www.jolietslammers. com.

The cost of admission per team is $900 if a $250 dollar deposit is made by January 31. If the deposit is made January 31, the total cost will be $1,000 per team. Final payments must be made my May 1st, 2018. Admission includes a complimentary ticket to a Slammers game. Participants in the July 6th tournament will receive a game ticket to the July 5th Slammers game. Participants in the August 3rd tournament will receive a game ticket to the August 7th Slammers game. Participants in the August 10th tournament will receive a game ticket to the August 9th Slammers game. Interested teams can contact Lauren Rhodes with the Joliet Slammers at (815) 651-2041 or

A single eight-minute stretch was all the North Central College men’s basketball team needed to pull away for good in Saturday’s College Conference of Illinois & Wisconsin (CCIW) encounter at Carroll University, as the Cardinals methodically picked apart the Pioneers in a 73-54 victory at Van Male Arena. The win was the sixth consecutive for North Central (9-4, 3-2 CCIW), which limited the Pioneers to 31.5 percent shooting (17 of 54), the second-lowest accuracy by a Cardinal opponent

are at and have had a chance to compare ourselves, we want to be one of the top three teams in the conference, we want to be playing for a conference cham-

pionship in the tournament and later in the season,” Etheridge said. “Regionals are a real possibility now, so as the season has gone on, we are starting to ex-

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this season, and put its stamp on the game with a 21-2 surge late in the first half. With score tied at 10-10 after just over six minutes of play, the Cardinals got back-to-back buckets from Erwin Henry and Matt Cappelletti to open the rally that would define the contest. Henry added a threepointer and a free throw, Connor Raridon converted a three-point play, Alex Sorenson scored on a reverse layup, and Mike Pollack sank a three-pointer before Henry drilled another three and Sorenson capped the rally with a layup to leave the score at 3112 with 6:51 left in the first half. North Central made 8 of 10 shots during the rally while forcing the Pioneers to miss 12 straight at-

tempts. The visitors scored the final seven points of the half, getting four from Sorenson and another three-point play from Raridon, to carry a 41-17 lead into halftime. The Cardinals kept themselves clear of any potential secondhalf drama and saw Henry enter the history books with 12:12 on the clock, as his three-pointer from the left wing gave him a game-high 19 for the afternoon and 1,002 for his career. Henry becomes the 26th North Central player to score at least 1,000 career points. Henry made 7 of 8 shots from the floor during the game, including a perfect 4 for 4 effort from three-point range.

pand the expectations and the kids are buying into it and they like having the challenge.” With several underclassmen getting the majority of the playing time, Etheridge said the Sentinels are looking for a two-year run. “It is nice that we are achieving a lot this year with a young group and we are hoping that will trigger over into next year,” he said. The young players, however, are not the lone reason for the success – there are a group of seniors that contribute greatly to the team from the bench. “It is a really special group of kids. I have some seniors that going in knew they were never really going to see the floor and

during tryouts we talked and I told them the situation and they were all fine with it and they knew it would be a fun year and they are making the most of it. I just asked one thing from them – if you are going to be on the team, be a good teammate – and they have been dynamite,” Etheridge said. “They have a lot of fun on the bus and in the locker room and during the game they are special. I try not to pay attention because I have other stuff, but every so often, I catch a glimpse and they are a lot of fun. Even when we come off the floor after a bad possession or we miss a few shots, those are the first guys to grab a player and tell them they will get the next one. They really encourage them.”

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Apply brainpower to business ideas or projects and employ the latest technology. Email and software can be valuable tools. You may lose ground if you are too competitive or aggressive in the week ahead.

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PISCES

FEBRUARY 20 TO MARCH 20

Go ahead and make contact. The attractive person who is on your mind might be thinking about you as well. In the week ahead tighten your belt where spending is concerned and buy only things of solid value.

JUMBLE

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PREVIOUS PUZZLE’S ANSWERS

JUMBLES:

• PRIOR • GUEST • EXOTIC • MATTER

ANSWER:

THE PUPPY THAT SHREDDED THE MORNING NEWSPAPER WAS A -- “TEAR-IER”

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