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The Village of Villa Park observed Arbor Day with a tree planting on Friday, April 30. Pictured (left to right) at the tree planting at the village’s Franklin Park, located at 218 N. Third Ave., are: Villa Park Village Trustee Christine Murphy, Justin Shlensky—chair of the Villa Park Environmental Concerns Commission, Margaret Schiefer—a member of the Villa Park Environmental Concerns Commission, Villa Park Village Trustee Cheryl Tucker, Villa Park Village President Albert Bulthuis, Villa Park Village Trustee (and Village President-Elect) Nick Cuzzone and Leslie Allison-Seei—chair of the Villa Park Community Pride Commission. Arbor Day is observed on the last Friday of each April. The National Arbor Day Foundation has recognized Villa Park with Tree City USA designation for 36 straight years. To receive that recognition, a community must have a tree board or department, a tree-care ordinance, a comprehensive community forestry program and an Arbor Day observance.

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County announces goal to have 80% fully vaccinated by July 1 Accepting walk-ins at DuPage Fairgrounds as of May 3 The DuPage County Health Department (DCHD) today announced a county vaccination goal while outlining the ongoing strategies and partnerships to vaccinate residents. As of Apr. 29, more than 34 percent of DuPage County residents have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19.

Of the DuPage County residents currently eligible, over 60 percent have received at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose. Additionally, 88 percent of DuPage County residents ages 65 years and older have received at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose.

“DuPage County is at the head of the pack in vaccination efforts,” said DuPage County Chairman Dan Cronin. “Based on our track record, today I announce that DuPage County has set a goal to fully vaccinate at least 80-percent of our eligible residents by July 1.”

“We are committed to ensuring vaccine is available to anyone who wants to be vaccinated,” said Karen Ayala, executive director of DuPage County Health Department. “So far, more than 445,000 DuPage County resi-

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dents have received at least one dose, and we are working to assure that all the roughly 739,000 residents currently eligible to be vaccinated have convenient access to the vaccine.”

As part of this effort, the DCHD COVID-19 Community Vaccination Clinic at the DuPage County Fairgrounds will begin offering walk-in vaccinations as of Monday, May 3, to provide convenient opportunities to anyone age 16 years and older. Walkin opportunities will be available Monday through Saturday between 8:30 a.m. and 12 p.m. Individuals are encouraged to register any time before their visit at www.dupagehealth. org/covid19vaccineregistration.

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Sen. Tom Cullerton meets with Christian, a participant with the Ray Graham Association for Persons with Disabilities. Cullerton is co-sponsoring Senate Bill 1787, which would expand and accelerate state support services for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

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Cullerton continues to advocate for people with developmental disabilities To continue his commitment to advocate for people with developmental disabilities, State Sen. Tom Cullerton (D- Villa Park) met with members of the Ray Graham Association on Monday, April 19.

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“I will continue to make this community a priority as we work to pass a budget and various pieces of legislation aimed at supporting organizations like the Ray Graham Association.”

The Ray Graham Association is non-profit organization that serves people with intellectual and developmental disabilities throughout DuPage, Will, Cook, Grundy and Kane counties. The group helps people with disabilities find jobs and ensure themselves independence through interview training, resume writing, and learning to dress for success.

“After this unprecedented year, support for this community is more important than ever,” Cullerton said.

“I hope to continue meeting with organizations like the Ray Graham Association to learn how I can best advocate for the funding and support they need.”

To support people with disabilities, Cullerton is co-sponsoring Senate Bill 1787, which would expand and accelerate state support services for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

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Man sentenced to 12 years for attempted vehicular hijacking their 21st birthday in the Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice. A fourth man allegedly involved, Carlos Hendricks, 22, of Chicago, is currently in custody in the DuPage County Jail awaiting trial which is scheduled for June 21.

On Feb. 6, 2020, at approximately 4:15 a.m., Downers Grove police officers responded to a call of “shots fired” on the 7400 block of Webster. An investigation into the matter alleges that an occupant of the residence was warming up their car when they observed through the front window a vehicle stopped in front of the home with its headlights off. It is alleged that two occupants of the ve-

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Mutual aid program proves effective in VP, Addison

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On Sunday, May 2 at about 3 p.m., the Elmhurst Fire Department and mutual aid companies responded to a fire at an apartment building at 150 E. Lake Street. Upon arrival, one individual was reportedly non-responsive and was transported to Elmhurst Hospital. That person’s condition was unknown at press time.

The cause of the fire is currently undetermined and remains under investigation. The State Fire Marshal was on the scene to investigate.

Neighbors helping neighbors One of the nearby communities to offer mutual aid to the Elmhurst Fire Department in the above incident was the Village of Villa Park fire department. As is customary policy in mutual aid situations, the Addison Fire Department “took over” calls for Villa Park, while their trucks were assisting Elmhurst.

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It’s unusual for that to happen, it’s rare that the back-up department ever gets called. But it’s the reason the mutual aid system is in place and we’re very happy it is.”

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ceived a call that Addison covered for them. It was a mulch fire behind the White Castle on North Avenue.

Addison tended to the fire without incident.

“It’s unusual for that to happen, it’s rare that the back-up department ever gets called,” one Village employee said. “But it’s the reason the mutual aid system is in place and we’re very happy it is.”

Lisle man charged with armed robbery at Carol Stream gas station then took a folding pocket knife out of his pocket, opened it and showed it to the clerk. It is further alleged that at this point the manager saw what was happening and approached Gleason and the clerk. It is alleged that the manager gave Gleason $120 from the cash register after which, Gleason fled the scene.

A short time later, Carol Stream police officers located Gleason on a road near the gas station. It is alleged that as officers attempted to take Gleason into custody, he ignored officers’ commands and approached the officers while holding a black object in his hand and telling officers, “Just shoot me.” Despite Gleason’s alleged attempts to resist arrest, he was taken into custody at this time.

Gleason’s next court appearance is scheduled for Thursday, May 27 for arraignment in front of Judge O’Hallaren Walsh.

Members of the public are reminded that this complaint contains only charges and is not proof of the defendant’s guilt.

one shot in her direction. It is alleged that the vehicle then fled the scene.

A short time later, a Darien police officer observed the vehicle allegedly involved in the matter and attempted to stop the vehicle at 75th and Cass in Darien. The vehicle allegedly refused to stop and the Darien police officer continued his pursuit. It is alleged that the vehicle entered northbound I-55 at which time the Illinois State Police continued pursuit. It is further alleged that the vehicle exited the

expressway and crashed at Martin Luther King Drive in Chicago. The occupants of the vehicle, Shepherd, Hendricks and the two juveniles were taken into custody at this time. Police also recovered two handguns.

Shepherd will be required to serve 50% of his sentence before being eligible for parole.

Members of the public are reminded that the complaint against Hendricks contains only charges and is not proof of the defendant’s guilt.

DuPage County announces scholarship program The DuPage County Department of Community Services is offering college and occupational training scholarships for low-income individuals with high academic potential.

The Community Services Block Grant scholarship supplements the cost of tuition, books, supplies and other school-related items for a semester or a quarter to offset the student’s needs.

This scholarship is funded and designed in cooperation with the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity.

Applicants are required to provide proof of DuPage County residency, gross household income for the past 30 days, and information about members living in the household.

Income for the household must be at or below 200 percent of the federal poverty level. Applicants must also include a 500-word original essay or personal statement, official school transcripts, two letters of recommendation, a Financial Aid Audit (financial aid award letter), and proof of enrollment in an Illinois accredited institution.

The scholarship award amounts will vary this year from $500 to $2,500 and special consideration is given to students interested in

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For more information, contact the DuPage County Department of Community Services at (630) 407-6500, or call the toll-free number at (800) 942-9412. TTY access is available at (630) 407-6502.

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On Friday, April 30, DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert Berlin and Carol Stream Chief of Police William Holmer announced that bond has been set for a Lisle man accused of robbing a Carol Stream gas station at knifepoint.

Paul Gleason, 34 (d.o.b. 1/8/1987) with a last known address in the 900 block of Inverness Road, has been charged with one count of Armed Robbery (Class X Felony), one count of Misdemeanor Violation of Domestic Violence Bail Bond and one count of Misdemeanor Resisting a Police Officer.

On Thursday, April 29, at approximately 1:19 a.m., Carol Stream police officers responded to the Pilot gas station at 170 N. North Avenue for a report of a robbery. Upon their arrival, officers spoke with the register clerk and the manager.

It is alleged that an individual, later identified as Gleason, approached the register, and stated, “I guess I’m going to have to rob” to the clerk at the counter. It is alleged that Gleason

hicle, which was reported stolen out of Chicago, then exited the vehicle and began walking up the driveway of the victim’s house toward the car that was warming up.

It is alleged that at this time, two residents of the home exited their house and confronted the two men.

It is further alleged that the men then returned to their vehicle and that one of the juveniles who was an occupant of the vehicle pointed a gun at a female resident of the home and fired

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On Friday, April 30, DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert B. Berlin announced that the first of two adults charged with attempting to steal a vehicle from the garage of a Downers Grove residence has been sentenced to 12 years in the Illinois Department of Corrections.

Lamourice Shepherd, 22, of Chicago, entered a plea of guilty to one count of Attempt Vehicular Hijacking, a Class 1 Felony, in front of Judge Daniel Guerin, who handed down the sentence. Last summer, two juveniles each entered a plea of guilty to their roles in the incident and received sentences of an indeterminate period of time not to exceed

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State Sen. Tom Cullerton, who was indicted in 2019 on charges of embezzlement, is set to go to trial in February next year, a federal judge said last week.

Cullerton, a Democrat from Villa Park, is scheduled to be tried in the U.S. District Court in Chicago, starting on Feb. 23, 2022.

The latest development in Cullerton’s criminal case came during a court hearing April 27 before Judge Robert Gettleman. Cullerton’s federal trial was previously set for July 2020 but that date was scrapped when the pandemic halted jury trials.

The indictment, issued in August 2019, charges Cullerton with one count of conspiracy to embezzle from a labor union and employee benefit plans, 39 counts of embezzlement from a labor union, and one count of making false statements in a health care matter. He pleaded not guilty to all of the charges.

Cullerton is accused of performing little or no work in his role as a union organizer for Teamsters Local Union 734, where he was a member before

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being elected to the General Assembly in 2012.

During his first term in office, in March 2013, Cullerton was hired as a union organizer, a full-time position that came with health and pension benefits.

He was hired to the union position

by John Coli, the former union leader who agreed to work with federal prosecutors as part of a plea deal.

Coli pleaded guilty in federal court to extorting a film studio in Chicago.

Cullerton’s indictment alleges the senator embezzled $274,066 from the union between January 2013 and February 2016—$188,320 in salary and allowances; $64,068 in medical and pension plan contributions; and $21,678 in “reimbursed medical claims.”

According to the indictment, Cullerton also received holiday bonuses for three years and collected about $60,000 from Jan. 15, 2015, through the end of January 2016.

Cullerton reported the additional income in a statement of economic interests form with the secretary of state’s office, as required by Illinois law, in 2013 and 2014 but not in 2015

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State Sen. Tom Cullerton of Villa Park is pictured at the Illinois State Capitol in March, 2020.

or 2016, according to the indictment.

Through his attorneys, Cullerton has denied wrongdoing.

Cullerton was reelected to his third state Senate term in 2018. His term ends in 2023.

The retired U.S. Army infantryman currently serves as chair of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee.

He is also a member of the Energy and Public Utilities, Insurance, Labor, State Government and Transportation committees.

Daniel Collins, one of Cullerton’s attorneys and a lawyer with Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP, declined to comment on the April 27 development.

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The Villa Park Environmental Concerns Commission presented its 2020 Green Champion Award to Kenneth Jacobson (left) at the Villa Park Village Board meeting on April 26. Justin Shlensky (right), the chair of the commission, presented the award.

Jacobson was nominated for and selected as the 2020 Green Champion for his efforts in the promotion of recycling and sustainable living. Jacobson has been a strong environmental advocate for many years, and has led Villa Park’s monthly electronics recycling program. The village’s electronics recycling events are held on the third Saturday of each month. Jacobson is also involved in Villa Park’s Spring Sweep event, which is a collaborative effort between the Villa Park Environmental Concerns Commission and the Villa Park Community Pride Commission.

The next Spring Sweep will be held on Saturday, May 15, from 9 a.m. to noon, on Home Avenue, near Villa Park Village Hall. The village’s environmental concerns and community pride commissions are open to accepting new commissioners and volunteers. For more information, visit www.invillapark.com/241/ Committees-Boards-Commissions.

Braxton Lear is 5 years old and tall for his age. He runs—not walks— from his scooter, to the swing set, to the trampoline in his great-aunt’s backyard in Caseyville, about 12 miles east of St. Louis.

Braxton’s mom, Shannon Lear, asks him what’s his name, how old is he, and what’s her name. He answers.

“He couldn’t do that a year ago,” Lear said.

Braxton was diagnosed with autism around his third birthday. For the past year and a half, he’s been receiving autism behavioral therapy from the Hope Institute, which Lear said has completely changed his behavior and strengthened their bond.

In Illinois, private insurance has covered applied behavior analysis, or ABA, therapy for only about 10 years. Low-income families covered by Medicaid aren’t eligible for the service to be covered, even though ABA therapy is the only evidence-based therapy proven to help children with autism.

Lear, a single mom working as a certified nursing assistant and studying in a culinary program, said she was able to get Braxton into a program only because his pre-K teacher told her how to apply for a grant.

Their insurance wouldn’t cover the therapy, and Lear said she doesn’t know how long the grant will cover it.

“It does scare me a little bit, if the funding runs out,” Lear said.

Help might be on the way from Springfield.

Legislation filed in the Illinois House would free up millions of dollars in Medicaid coverage for autism treatment after a previous bungled attempt in 2019.

House Bill 16, introduced by Rep. Deb Conroy, D-Villa Park, would amend rules for the state’s medical assistance program to allow Medicaid to cover specific treatments for children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder.

ASD is a developmental disorder that affects communication and behavior. Children and adults diagnosed as being on the autism spectrum can present a wide range of symptoms with varying intensity, from being non-verbal to establishing unusual and repetitive lifelong routines.

ABA therapy is one of the most widespread evidence-based interventions used to treat ASD and other disorders that affect child development.

The Autism Program of Illinois headed by the Hope Institute, worked with Conroy on HB 16 and has lobbied for behavioral therapy to be covered through Medicaid funds. Hope currently provides behavioral therapy to about 200 children diagnosed with ASD through private insurance.

“What we’re trying to do is get those children into treatment early.

The studies show early intervention works, so if you get them at that 2 to 5 (age), then your outcomes are greater,” Hope CEO Clint Paul said in an interview.

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Bond set for woman charged with dropping 5-year-old off six-story garage On Saturday, May 1, DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert Berlin and Winfield Chief of Police David Schar announced that bond had been set for a Plano woman accused of dropping her five-year-old daughter off a six-story parking garage at Central DuPage Hospital.

Jerica Crawford, 28, of Plano, has been charged with one count of Aggravated Battery to a Child Under 13, a Class X Felony. On April 29, 2021, Judge Paul Marchese issued a $500,000 with 10% to apply ar-

rest warrant for Crawford. Judge Marchese also granted the State’s motion for appointment of clinical psychologist.

On Feb. 23 at approximately 4:38 p.m., Winfield police officers responded to a call at Northwestern Medicine, Central DuPage Hospital, for two subjects who fell off the top of a parking garage on the southwestern part of the campus. Upon their arrival, officers found Crawford and her daughter on the ground next to the parking garage.

Both Crawford and her daughter had

sustained injuries and were brought into the hospital for treatment. It is alleged that Crawford drove to the top of the parking garage, walked to the edge of the garage and dropped her daughter off the top of the garage before jumping off the garage herself.

Crawford’s next court appearance is scheduled for May 24, 2021 for arraignment.

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Too many goodbyes left to say It’s been five months. Five long months, but there are still so many things to do. So many goodbyes left to say. Most of them are symbolic and silent, but they are goodbyes nonetheless. Between just him and me.

Everyone else has said their goodbyes in their own way. They were done long ago.

I’m far from done. I don’t think I’ll ever be done saying goodbye. I would’t want to be, honestly. Saying a final goodbye would be too hard.

I’m not ready for that. I won’t ever be.

Still, there are things to do — goodbyes, if you will.

I have to shut off his phone. I plan to do that soon. We’ve transferred all the photos and videos off of it.

No one calls him anymore. In fact the phone hasn’t been charged for a few weeks, so there’s no reason, really, to keep the account. No reason except it’s one more difficult goodbye to get through.

All the utilities are still in his name. More goodbyes, once I get to those tasks.

His wallet, driver’s license, watch and glasses. No one needs them anymore. No one can use them. I should get rid of them. I suppose I should say goodbye. Instead they sit in the drawer next to my bed.

Sometimes I hold them before sleep or right after waking. Eventually I’ll be ready to say goodbye, but not quite yet.

I’ve yet to transfer car titles. More goodbyes. I still have his vehicle.

Probably should sell it at some point. Another goodbye.

His tools. What do I do with his tools? I don’t know how to use them. My kids may want them at some point. Do we keep them just in case, or do we say goodbye?

I donated most of his clothes to charity. His closet is empty, reminding me daily of that goodbye.

I packed his shoes up, also for

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donation. They are still in the basement waiting for my goodbye.

I hope to move soon. Saying goodbye to the home where we raised our family will be significant.

There is the wall where we measured each child’s height as they grew from toddlerhood to the teen years. There is the kitchen table where we ate our family meals. There are bedrooms where we read nighttime stories and said our prayers. There is the dining room table where we shared special Thanksgiving and Christmas meals with extended family.

There are the bathrooms and kitchen, which he rebuilt from scratch when we first moved here 20 years ago.

There is the backyard where I planted raspberries, asparagus and my cherished hosta gardens. It’s the same place he built a paver patio and walking path. The backyard was our project. It was our haven. One of them, at least.

I need to move forward. He’ll come with me, I know that to my core. The house is just a house. Still, I’ll have to say goodbye to it.

I have to say goodbye to a lot of things; I already have. But there is more to do. More goodbyes to accomplish. I hate each one, but it is inevitable. It has to be done. So on I go.

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Survey shows almost 2/3 Illinoisans favor ‘immunity passports’ MyBioSource.com, a biotechnical products distribution company, recently conducted a survey -of 3,000 people to take the pulse of the nation on the topic of “immunity passports,” that is, a document issued as proof that the person has received the COVID-19 vaccine. The survey found that the opinions were quite divided – overall, 60% of Illinoisans believe immunity passports, compared to a national average of 59%.

The research also found that nearly 1 in 3 (30%) people believe there should be an interstate travel ban for people who have not had their COVID-19 vaccine. Some countries have had immunization certificate requirements in place for a number of years for foreign travelers, to prevent the spread of diseases such as yellow fever and polio.

Moreover, 60% of people think professional sports teams should give preference to ticketholders who have been vaccinated against the coronavirus.

This follows the announcement that this year, the Super Bowl gave away 7,500 free tickets to healthcare workers who had received both doses of the vaccine, to attend the game on Feb. 7.

How Illinois can jumpstart a heartland manufacturing revival

By Jim Nowlan The stars are aligned for Illinois to become a hot spot in the revival of manufacturing across our great American heartland.

For example, I propose a really big, transformative, federal-state-private-sector partnership that would create a cutting-edge, computer chip manufacturing and research facility on Arsenal Island, which straddles the Illinois-Iowa Quad Cities.

“But how are the stars aligned, Jim?” you might ask.

I respond: The Biden infrastructure plan includes $50 billion or more for a desperately needed American manufacturing and research renaissance. Illinois is a natural place for such a rebirth.

We have in the University of Illinois, Northwestern University, the University of Chicago and other research centers probably the greatest concentration of engineering and computer science firepower of any state, with perhaps the exception of Massachusetts and California.

As the heart of the once-proud manufacturing heartland, now called a Rust Belt, we still have a strong tradition of workforce excellence.

Further, Illinois has been an embarrassing laggard overall in economic growth; our population has been declining.

Additionally, Illinois is a blue-blue state, with powerful blue elected officials in U.S. Senate Whip Dick Durbin, vice presidential candidate runner-up Sen. Tammy Duckworth, and a House Dem top player in Congresswoman Cheri Bustos.

Duckworth will want to be re-elected next year, but Bustos announced April 30 that she will not be running in

2022.

Why allocate really big manufacturing and research dollars in RED states, where most private investment has been going? Illinois has all the pieces in place. It is a natural.

So, here in a nutshell is my proposal for the Quad Cities (QC), which my district neighbored when I was in the Illinois House decades ago.

QC leaders have been in discussion with the flagship University of Illinois to come to town, and the university is interested.

The U. of I. at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) is home to one of the world’s leading computer science and electrical engineering campuses. For example, UIUC annually wins more National Science Foundation grant dollars than any university campus in the nation. And UIUC engineers and scientists are at the forefront of computer chip design.

John Deere, and Caterpillar down the road in Peoria, need both licensed engineers and engineer technicians.

And America badly needs to catch up in the computer chip design and manufacturing competition. Our nation has outsourced this function, and now wonders why, and of what we can do about it.

The U. of I. already has collaborative engineering programs with community colleges. Students start at the community colleges and have the opportunity to move on to the four-year bachelor’s program in engineering at UIUC. In Black Hawk College, the QC has one of the oldest and most solid community colleges in the nation.

Black Hawk and UIUC could use the existing collaboration model, locating a new UIUC junior-senior engineer program in the Quad Cities.

The Rock Island Arsenal is also a big player in the QC. Since the Civil War, the Army has operated a

munitions manufacturing plant on the two-square-mile Arsenal Island that lies, literally, in the middle of the Mississippi River, between Illinois and Iowa.

But employment at the Arsenal has dwindled from a high of 13,000 to about 5,500, and the future of America’s defense is no longer in bombs. Leaders at the Arsenal and in the QC understand this. They have the space, and are looking for new missions before the facility might one day easily be absorbed into other, much larger Department of Defense operations.

The future of America’s defense lies in ever more sophisticated computer chips to guide and operate Star Warslevel defense programs. Indeed, Sen. Durbin and Congresswoman Bustos were critical several years ago in establishing the Army’s Center of Excellence for Additive and Advanced Manufacturing and the Quad City Manufacturing Laboratory at the Rock Island Arsenal. It’s time to leverage these leading-edge assets.

It all makes so much sense. But elected officials like Durbin and Bustos need proposals that are near “shovel ready.” They are too busy to come to you; you have to give them something to run with. Your metro area may, indeed should, also have ideas for similar projects. Hop to it.

Time is of the essence. Claimants are already lining up around Lafayette Square, in front of the White House, to make their pitches for more than their share of the Biden largesse.

Making Illinois a world leader in chip production and research could be a game-changer.

For many years, Jim Nowlan was a senior fellow and political science professor at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. He was a state representative, worked for three governors and publishes a weekly newspaper in central Illinois.

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Hi, this is to all the homeowners who put mulch up against the tree bark and pile it up high. That is 100 percent wrong. That’s called a mulch volcano.

The same thing with plants; you are not supposed to bury the bottom of the plants in mulch. The mulch should be the same height all the way around, but by putting the volcano around the tree trunk, you’re actually hurting the tree.

You can look it up anywhere and you’ll find out that that’s 100 percent correct.

You do not do that. So, please stop wasting mulch. Thank you. Goodbye. *** Those of you who defend Donald Trump in Speak Out amuse me. It’s as if he is some type of messiah to you.

He lost; get over it. He was too polarizing and arrogant, he never listened to his advisors and he couldn’t keep his big mouth shut. I hold him responsible for what happened at the Capitol on Jan. 6. I’m glad he’s gone. *** So, Illinois is losing a seat in Congress. No surprise. What’s surprising to me is how out of touch the governor is concerning this mass exodus.

Pritzker claims that much of Illinois’ net out-migration in the last 10 years was primarily due to college students choosing to go to out-of-state universities, where tuition was more affordable. I know a number of people who’ve left Illinois in recent years, and believe me, they’re not college stu-

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dents. They didn’t all leave for warmer weather. Many moved to Wisconsin and Indiana; you can’t tell me their winters are any better than ours. They moved because property taxes are too high and they can’t afford to live here or do business here. Illinois is a state with a credit rating that’s near junkbond status. The sweetheart pension system can’t be sustained. But keep drinking the Democratic Kool-Aid and voting for clueless politicians like Pritzker. *** This is in response to the Speak Out caller who claims that people vote for Democrats because the GOP has repeatedly failed to not only work in a bipartisan manner, but obstructs any efforts made to address problems that affect all Americans (April 29 issue). I have a question for my progressive-regressive friends out there: When did Democrats in Congress ever work in a bipartisan manner with Donald Trump? The answer: never. The only thing they did for four years was work to obstruct his efforts and try to get him thrown out of office. *** When a police officer kills a criminal, it gets nonstop media coverage.

When a criminal kills a police officer, it’s not nearly as big of a story. Why is that? Why does the media sensationalize certain incidents and practically ignore others? Why does one police

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That early intervention seems to have worked for Braxton.

Before he started the therapy, Lear said, Braxton had some aggressive behaviors when he was frustrated, including biting hard enough to leave bruises and breaking some TVs. “His behaviors were really bad,” she said. “He was fighting me and leaving bruises.”

Braxton’s therapy focuses on communication and behaviors. As he started to talk more and communicate more efficiently, Lear said he’s less frustrated, and his aggressive behaviors reduced.

Now, she said there are times when he looks like he’s about to be aggressive, but he’s able to bring himself back down.

“He’s really excelled in a lot of areas,” she said. “He tries to be independent as much as he can.”

Each year, Illinois creates a budget for the upcoming fiscal year.

The General Assembly enacts this budget into law through two bills: an appropriations bill that allocates all federal funds, General Revenue Funds and other state funds to var-

ious state agencies, programs and municipalities; and a budget implementation bill that establishes how those various agencies and programs will spend those dollars.

In the Budget Implementation Act passed in 2019, legislators included coverage for behavioral therapy in the medical assistance program, which administers state and federal funds from Medicaid and similar services to qualifying residents. Any changes in how Medicaid funding is being used must be included in a State Plan Amendment that is submitted to the federal government for approval, which is where the mistake occurred.

The Illinois Medicaid plan requires that a practitioner must be a Board-Certified Behavior Analyst, or BCBA, and possess a second credential as either a Licensed Clinical Social Worker or a Licensed Clinical Psychologist in order to receive Medicaid funding for behavioral therapy.

That plan was submitted to and approved by the federal government.

The number of BCBAs in Illinois is around 1,400.

officer’s actions cause the media to project those actions onto all police officers? If the media focused on one criminal’s actions, and blamed an entire group of people for it, that would be unacceptable. *** All right, to all the stupid people in Villa Park, in Lombard and in the country, are you ready to buy the Biden and Obama electric cars? That’s their baby.

You want to pay tens of thousands of dollars for the car and the battery? Be my guest. *** My wife and I took a morning-afternoon excursion to Lake Geneva. It was a sad experience—several businesses are gone; empty stores. A couple of businesses are trying to sell. Yet another is in inventory liquidation. One senior shop owner with cancer of the eye told us she will try to hang on. It’s so sad. This is happening to our fellow Americans while politicians in Washington play political parlor games. Will this help those business owners and ordinary citizens trying to hang on? *** I just read this in the Washington Post. The headline of the story was, “A year into the pandemic, it’s even more

clear that it’s safer to be outside.” One particular sentence in the story jumped out at me: “Near-absent are examples of (COVID-19) transmission at beaches and other open spaces where breezes disperse airborne particles, distancing is easier, and humidity and sunlight render the coronavirus less viable.” I hope the person I saw a few days ago skateboarding alone and wearing a mask when it was sunny, windy and 80 degrees is aware of this. *** Here’s a reminder about John Kerry, who is now Biden’s “climate envoy.”

In a 2009 editorial, Kerry wrote, “Scientists project that the Arctic will be ice-free in the summer of 2013.” That never happened. Nice prediction, Kerry. Seriously, how can people continue to believe this apocalyptic nonsense from Kerry and the Democrats? *** Democrats ruined Chicago, and are in the process of ruining Illinois. What are DuPage County voters doing?

Electing more Democrats! It seems like a great idea, doesn’t it? Get ready for subpar schools, increased crime, minimal punishment for criminals, higher taxes and fiscal insanity. Some of us will be moving elsewhere.

*** Biden said the Jan. 6 event was the “worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War.” I wonder if someone will ask Biden where he thinks United Airlines Flight 93 was heading before the passengers brought it down on Sept. 11, 2001. The Capitol? The White House? *** My family member works in assisted living, and after a break in any new cases, now three residents got COVID-19, which in and of itself is not a surprise. However, all three had been vaccinated at least two weeks out.

So, I am of the mind that anything is possible these days. *** Biden’s messaging makes no sense.

He and his administration tell people to get vaccinated. But even after we’re fully vaccinated, we’re supposed to wear masks and avoid crowds? That doesn’t exactly project confidence about the vaccines. By the way, masks don’t work. There’s no proof that they do work. In countries all over the world, in places where people wear masks, the cases still went up. Yet people, including many who represent our school districts, tell others to “Keep masking up!”

Monday, May 10 Library hosting children’s dessert class The Villa Park Public Library will host Kids Cook: Desserts in Disguise at 4 p.m. All children ages 6 and older are invited to join Chef Kristyn of Mealtime Memories as she shows and tells all about desserts and shares recipes for everyone to try at home.

This program will be held online via Zoom. Registration and a valid email address are required. All registrants will be emailed the details for the Zoom meeting the day before the program. For more information, visit the library’s website at vppl.info or

call 630-834-1164.

an email address to participate. Participants who have registered and paid for a session will be contacted when supplies are available for pick up. For more information, including project details, visit the library’s website at vppl.info or call 630-8341164.

• Library offers STEAM kits The Villa Park Public Library is offering monthly STEAM kits aimed at tweens and teens. Each take-home kit includes materials for a project that encourages creativity, exploration, and critical thinking through inquiry-based learning. STEAM kits are available to all children in grades 5 through 12. There is a limit of 25 kits available. The first kit will be available for pick up on May 12.

Registration is required. For more information, visit the library’s website at vppl.info or call 630-834-1164.

Villa Park Library events

Wednesday, May 12 • Library presents online craft program Join the Villa Park Public Library for Crafty Creations with Gilda from the comfort of your own home. A painting demonstration will be available online via a prerecorded YouTube video on May 12. Registrants may view the video at any time once they have received the link. Supplies must be paid for and picked up at the library. Registration and a $15 materials fee are required per project, per person. All registrants must provide

Villa Park’s 2021 Spring Sweep recycling and shredding event takes place May 15 Drive-through event is free to Villa Park residents, except for fees for paint recycling

Villa Park’s Community Pride Commission is joining the Villa Park Environmental Concerns Commission to hold the 2021 Villa Park Spring Sweep recycling and shredding drop-off event from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday, May 15.

The drive-through Spring Sweep will take place on Home Avenue, near Villa Park Village Hall. Traffic will enter from Harvard Avenue, heading north, and exit onto Ardmore Avenue. Entrance onto Harvard from St. Charles Road will be prohibited during the event.

Participants will recycle from the safety of their vehicles by driving to different stations on Home Avenue. Volunteers will collect and remove items from vehicles for disposal. Masks are required. Attendees are asked to remain in their vehicles at all times. Please load all items into your vehicle’s trunk or hatchback, if possible.

The event is free to Villa Park residents, but a fee will apply for residents who drop off paint for recycling. While non-residents are welcome, they will have to pay additional fees for document shredding ($10) and electronics recycling ($20), in addition to the paint recycling fees.

Accepted items include bicycles, hardcover and paperback books, used clothing and shoes, small appliances in working order, full and discharged fire extinguishers, old and tattered American flags, eyeglasses, hearing aids, paint, computers, monitors, printers, household batteries, digital cameras and cell phones.

The document shredding offers a limit of three banker boxes per household.

No stains, solvents, cleaning products or pesticides will be accepted.

For more information, or to volunteer for the event, send an email to the village’s community pride commission at pride@invillapark.com.

Ongoing programs Library celebrates Children’s Book Week through May 9 The Villa Park Public Library is celebrating Children’s Book Week from May 3-9. Children’s Book Week, an annual celebration of books for kids and teens, began in 1919 and is the longest-running national literacy initiative in the country. This year’s theme is “Reading is a Superpower.” Stay tuned to the library’s social media, website and newsletters for details about the celebration and to learn how children of all ages can power up with reading. For more information, visit the library’s website at vppl.info or call 630-834-1164.

Library offers teen book box subscription through May 17 The Villa Park Public Library is offering a Teen Book Box subscription service to teens in grades 6 through 12. Registrants will receive a themed box with a library book, treats, activities, crafts and books lists. For more information, visit the library’s website at vppl.info or call 630-834-1164.

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Police Reports Area police departments recently reported the following arrests and citations. Readers are reminded that an arrest does not constitute a conviction, and that suspects are considered innocent unless proven guilty in a court of law. Persons charged with domestic battery are not named in order to protect the privacy of victims. Juveniles age 17 or younger are not named.

Addison April 26 Saul Rodriguez, 32, of Addison, was charged with criminal trespass to vehicles near Fullerton and Yale at around 2:29 a.m.

April 22 Oliverio O. Funes-Simon, 26, of Addison, was charged with DUI, violation of a temporary visitors’ driver’s license, speeding and no insurance near Lake and Iowa at around 11:06 p.m.

dent and driving while license suspended near Addison and Sunset at around 9:24 p.m.

Alfred L. Bunum, 50, of Hillside, was charged with aggravated DUI, DUI, endangering the health or life of a child, transportation or possession of open alcohol by the driver, improper lane usage and disobeying a stop sign near North and Westmore at around 9:01 p.m.

Molly E. Garay, 24, of Romeoville, was charged with battery at a business in the 300 block of N. Kenilworth at around 2:13 a.m.

Darryl White, 54, of Lombard, was charged with two counts of DUI, transportation of open alcohol by the driver, squealing or screeching tires and no insurance near Parker and Sunset at 4:50 a.m.

A complainant at a business in the 100 block of E. North told police at around 12:43 p.m. that they were being threatened by a suspect.

A complainant in the 400 block of W. Division told police at around 4:21 p.m. that they heard shots being fired in the area.

Villa Park April 24 Alejandro Anicacio Valente, 35, of Aurora, was charged with DUI, two counts of disobeying a stop sign, failure to reduce speed to avoid an acci-

April 23 Police said Maxwell J. Lucansky, 31, of Mount Prospect, was arrested on a failure to appear warrant out of DuPage County at around 8:05 a.m.

Retail theft was reported at a store

April 23 David Kucera, 44, of Bensenville, was charged with violation of an order of protection in the 600 block of S. Iowa at around 8:18 p.m.

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in the 900 block of S. Route 83 at around 5:15 p.m. Police said unknown suspects removed multiple items from display shelves and left the store without paying for the items.

A complainant at a business in the 300 block of E. Kenilworth told police at around 11:35 p.m. that they were being harassed by a suspect who has an order of protection against them.

April 22 A complainant at an auto dealership in the 100 block of E. North told police at around 3:43 p.m. that they noticed a company vehicle was missing.

A complainant at a business in the 300 block of E. Kenilworth told police at around 10:02 p.m. that they were punched in the face by a suspect. The complainant did not want to sign complaints; they only wanted the suspect to be trespassed from the business.

April 20 A complainant in the 400 block of N. Iowa told police at around 12:17 p.m. that they saw a suspect looking into their residence on their surveillance camera.

A complainant at a business in the 100 block of W. North told police at around 3:18 p.m. that that they terminated an employee who was now causing a disturbance. Officers asked the former employee to leave.

Bensenville The Bensenville Police Department recently reported the following arrests and citations. Persons who are charged with domestic battery are not named in order to protect the victim’s priva-

cy. Readers are reminded that an arrest does not constitute a conviction, and that suspects are considered innocent unless proven guilty in a court of law.

Juveniles age 17-or-younger are not named.

April 28, 11:01 a.m. in the 300 block of E. Green St., Wendy S. Hansen, 65, of Cuba City, turned herself in on an in-jurisdiction warrant.

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April 28, 1:15 p.m. in the 100 block of Red Oak Street, a complainant reported that an unknown suspect attempted to gain access to her bank account with a fraudulent check from Secret Shopper. This case is under investigation. BEPC2100320.

April 27, 5:33 p.m. in the 900 block of Medinah Street, George Trossian, 48, was arrested for one count complaint for violation of stalking, no contact order. BEP2100317.

April 27, 12:43 p.m. near S. York Road and Forest View Road, Benjamin Bogosh, 28, was arrested for failure to appear warrant out of Dekalb and a traffic violation. BEPC21003015.

April 27, 12:28 p.m. in the 300 block of E. Green St., Eudosio Junior Barcenas, 20, turned himself in on a failure to appear warrant out of DuPage County. BEPC2100311.

April 26, 1:36 p.m. in the 500 block of S. Church Road, criminal defacing was reported to a government supported property. This case is under investigation. BEPC2100307.

April 26, 7:35 p.m. in the 700 block of W. Irving Park Road, a complainant reported that an unknown suspect attempted to pay for his items with counterfeit currency. This case is under

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Freshman Calli Kenny of the Willowbrook softball team is pictured during last week’s home game against Addison Trail. Kenny drilled the first home run of her Willowbrook career in the bottom of the fifth inning, when she lined a two-run homer over the left-field fence. The above photo shows Kenny at the plate moments before her home run. Willowbrook regrouped from its loss to the Blazers to win its next game. The Warriors defeated Glenbard West 6-3 on Friday in Villa Park. Friday’s non-conference win over the Hilltoppers (of the West Suburban Silver Conference) gave the Warriors an overall season record of 2-3.

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Are you suffering from back pain or sciatica? Then it’s likely your biggest problem is pain. But there’s another major problem: bad information.

To end sciatica misery you must have the right information. Pay close attention because local doctor Kelly SynowiecMoroney DC is going to destroy sciatica myths and give you the facts.

MYTH: Sciatica will just “go away” with some rest.

FACT: If you are dealing with back pain, buttock pain or leg pain, then you must seek help from a doctor who is knowledgeable in sciatica immediately.

Left untreated, sciatica can lead to permanent nerve damage - and lifelong pain.

MYTH: Pain is the only problem associated with sciatica.

FACT: In severe cases, sciatica can lead to the inability to control your bowels or bladder - leading to embarrassing situations.

MYTH: You must take pain medications to deal with sciatica.

FACT: Drugs like muscle relaxants, pain killers, narcotics, antidepressants, and antiseizure medications have serious potential side-effects and do not cure the root cause of sciatica.

MYTH: “I must have done something wrong to get sciatica.”

FACT: Physical work or simply sitting at a desk for long periods can lead to sciatica. Accidents and trauma can also be the culprits. Pregnancy can cause sciatica.

Sciatica can affect anyone - including

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MYTH: Stop exercising and get several weeks of bed rest to overcome sciatica.

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According to Dr. Kelly, “We use a combination of ultra-advanced technology, not found elsewhere in the region, for precisely diagnosing the cause of your low back pain and sciatica. This means superior long-term results for most people.”

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HOPE Taskforce seeks grant applicants The DuPage County Heroin/ Opioid Prevention and Education (HOPE) Taskforce has announced the availability of grant funds to address opioid overdose response and treatment and recovery.

Grants between $25,000 and $50,000 are available for local government and community organizations to fight the opioid crisis in DuPage County.

“Fighting the opioid epidemic is as critical as ever for our com-

munity, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic,” said Greg Hart, HOPE Taskforce Co-chair and DuPage County Board member. “It will take the dedication and ingenuity of our entire county to continue to make progress. We are looking for local organizations to assist HOPE in its efforts to address opioid use disorder in DuPage County by providing program ideas in which the Taskforce should invest.”

Proposals must serve DuPage

County residents and address HOPE Taskforce Framework priorities: increase overdose response and prevention (including harm reduction) and provide integrated mental health and substance use disorder treatment and recovery.

“We have been impressed by the organizations previously funded by the Taskforce, including national recognition,” said Dr. Lanny Wilson, HOPE Taskforce Co-chair and DuPage County Board of Health

member. “This year, we are looking for similarly creative and sustainable proposals to reduce the impact of the opioid crisis. Resources and collaborative programs are critically needed - given the 17 percent increase in overdose deaths in DuPage County in 2020. With the right partners, we will find ways to significantly decrease these tragic, and preventable, overdose deaths in DuPage County.”

Grant submissions must be re-

ceived by the HOPE Taskforce no later than noon, Friday, May 21.

Grant recipients will be notified in June 2021.

The grant funding is made possible by the DuPage County Board, which has agreed to provide $100,000 annually to support the work of the HOPE Taskforce.

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Residential property taxpayers likely to see bill increase due to COVID-related decrease in commercial property values County Board ordinance allows property tax payment penalty waiver for those impacted Next week, property owners in DuPage County will begin receiving their 2020 property tax bills.

While the average tax rate is down .62 percent, the average bill has increased 3.18 percent.

“Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, commercial property vacancies

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The action was taken to address the continuing reality that many DuPage County property owners continue to struggle financially due to the effects of the COVID-19 related shutdown. The fact exists that many families who have set aside money to pay their property taxes now need those funds to make mortgage or car payments as well as purchase groceries, medicine and other necessities.”

are increasing, therefore lowering their assessed value. The result of commercial property values decreasing causes residential property to take on a greater percentage of the tax burden,” according to DuPage County Treasurer Gwen Henry.

To help address the challenges that many property owners continue to face due to the pandemic, the DuPage County Board passed an ordinance allowing property owners in DuPage County who have been financially impacted adversely by the COVID-19 virus to waive the late payment penalty on the first installment of their property tax payment, as long as they make their payment by August 1, 2021.

“The action was taken to address the continuing reality that many DuPage County property owners continue to struggle financially due to the effects of the COVID-19-related shutdown,” Henry said. “The fact exists that many families who have set aside money to pay their property taxes now need those funds to make mortgage or car payments as well as purchase groceries, medicine and other necessities,” she added.

To qualify for the penalty waiver, the current owner of the property must demonstrate a financial hardship as a result of the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic that has affected their ability to timely pay

through September 1, 2021, the full penalties allowed by law will be applied for all days of delay after August 1, 2021,” Henry continued.

“The second installment of property taxes remains due on or before September 1, 2021, and any late payments of that installment will incur the usual statutory penalties,” she said.

“DuPage County property owners interested in more information should visit https://www.dupageco. org/treasurer/ to fill out an online waiver application or download an application to waive the penalties for late payment of the first installment of their property tax bill,” Henry concluded.

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING On May 20, 2021 at 10:00 a.m., a remote meeting will be conducted by Villa Park School District #45. The purpose of the meeting will be to discuss the district’s plans for providing special education services to students with disabilities who attend private schools or home schools within the boundaries of District 45 for the 20212022 school year. If you are the parent of a home-schooled or privately placed student who has been or may be identified with a disability within the boundaries of School District 45, you are urged to attend. Please RSVP whether you will be attending or not to Linette Miceli at lmiceli@d45.org by May 13, 2021 and we will provide you with conference information. If you have further questions pertaining to this meeting, please contact Diana Brown at 630-516-7700.

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Montini Catholic’s prom queen a Villa Park resident

Montini Catholic High School held its prom at the school on Saturday evening. This year’s prom court included 10 seniors— five boys and five girls. The school announced the prom king and queen—Patrick O’Connor and Lexi Ream—at the beginning of Saturday’s event. Ream is a resident of Villa Park. The other girls on the prom court are: Mia Chlada, Franceska Gabriel, Alivia Gianatasio and Rosalie Moraga. The other boys on the prom court are: Antoine Harris, Jalen McBride, Cooper Petersen and Jack Sebben. Montini’s Class of 2021 will hold its commencement ceremony in the school’s stadium on Friday, May 21.

Business brief

DuPage Foundation re-accredited by national standards board DuPage Foundation successfully renewed its accreditation status recently with the Community Foundations National Standards Board. Since 2009, when the program was first developed through the Council on Foundations, DuPage Foundation has adhered to the operational guidelines set forth in The National Standards for U.S. Community Foundations.

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Sports

The Addison Trail softball team earned its first victory of the season with last week’s 14-4, five-inning win over Willowbrook in Villa Park. One photo shows Addison Trail junior Madison Domek (above left), who pitched all five innings in the victory. Another photo shows senior shortstop Anna Ruffolo (above middle) of the Blazers firing the

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ball to first base. One more photo shows Addison Trail sophomore Brianna Matthews (above right) heading toward home plate to score a run. Three days after posting its West Suburban Gold Conference win over Willowbrook, the Blazers moved to 2-3 overall and 2-2 in the conference with Saturday’s 16-4 win at Morton.

Blazers beat Willowbrook in clash of District 88 teams Addison Trail follows its win over the Warriors with a victory at Morton; Willowbrook regroups from loss to Blazers to beat Glenbard West

STAFF REPORT

Addison Trail defeated Willowbrook 14-4 in last week’s West Suburban Gold Conference softball game in Villa Park.

The Blazers earned their first win of the season with their five-inning victory at Willowbrook on April 28. Addison Trail captured its second straight win on Saturday, when it beat Morton 16-4 in a conference contest.

Addison Trail, which opened the season with three straight losses, improved to 2-3 overall and 2-2 in conference play following Saturday’s win.

The Blazers scored three first-in-

Home run

ning runs against Willowbrook in the meeting of District 88 rivals. Addison Trail, which scored at least one run in all five innings, delivered four runs in the third inning and five runs in the fourth inning.

Addison Trail took advantage of several errors by the depleted Warriors, who were missing some key players.

The Warriors showed some offensive spark in the bottom of the fifth inning. Moments after senior Caroline Dooley doubled, freshman Calli Kenny blasted a two-run home run— her first homer of the season. Kenny

smashed a drive down the left-field line that easily cleared the fence.

Junior Kayla Neff followed Kenny by belting her second home run of the season. Neff’s opposite-field homer over the right-field fence cut the Blazers’ lead to 10 runs. Willowbrook was unable to add another run, which would have extended the game to the sixth inning.

Junior Madison Domek pitched a complete game for Addison Trail to earn the victory. Domek allowed four hits and four runs in five innings. She recorded three strikeouts and allowed two walks.

Dooley pitched a complete game for Willowbrook, allowing only two earned runs over five innings. She struck out 11 batters. Dooley gave up nine hits and one walk.

Junior Gia Napoli went 3-for-5 and scored three runs for the Blazers. Senior Anna Ruffolo went 3-for-4 and drove in three runs. Junior Taylor Gloms went 2-for-4 with two runs batted in. Senior Izzy Aramburu went 1-for-4 and drove in three runs.

Domek pitched six innings and picked up another win in Saturday’s victory at Morton. Domek worked the first six innings on the mound. Gloms

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Freshman Calli Kenny of the Willowbrook softball team is greeted by teammates as she arrives at home plate after her two-run blast.

Moments after Kenny homered, junior Kayla Neff connected for her second home run of the season—a solo shot over the right-field fence. The visiting Blazers beat the Warriors 14-4 in five innings in the April 28 contest.

pitched the seventh inning.

Domek allowed six hits. She had two strikeouts and allowed two walks.

Morton scored all four of its runs in the sixth inning, when Addison Trail committed two errors.

Domek provided an offensive punch in Saturday’s game; she went 4-for-5 with a pair of doubles and drove in five runs against Morton. Napoli, sophomore Angela Stathopoulos and sophomore Brianna Matthews all homered for the Blazers during Saturday’s win. Napoli hit a two-run homer in the fifth inning.

Stathopoulos connected for a tworun homer in the sixth inning. Matthews hit a two-run homer in the seventh inning to account for the Blazers’ final two runs of the game.

Napoli, Ruffolo and Gloms all delivered a 3-for-5 performance at the plate.

Warriors bounce back to defeat Glenbard West Two days after losing to Addison Trail, Willowbrook rebounded to earn a 6-3 victory over Glenbard West in Friday’s non-conference game in Villa Park.

The Warriors ended a three-game losing streak and moved to 2-3 overall with Friday’s win over the Hilltoppers of the West Suburban Silver Conference.

Junior Caitlyn Kulczyski pitched the first three innings of Friday’s game for the Warriors. Neff worked the final four innings. Kulczyski gave up one run and two hits. She struck out five batters and allowed one walk. Neff gave up three hits and one earned run.

She recorded six strikeouts and gave up one walk.

Willowbrook sophomore Kayleigh Dennison went 2-for-4 and drove in one run. Neff also went 2-for-4 with one run batted in. Junior Grace Hayes went 2-for-4 with a pair of doubles.

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Amendment would allow for referendums exempting municipalities from statewide ban

By Tim Kirsininkas CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS

A new amendment to House Bill 116, which advanced out of committee earlier this spring, would allow municipalities to vote on rent control measures through referendum.

HB116 as originally introduced would have lifted the state’s blanket ban on local rent control measures, which has been in place since 1997. The new amendment instead would give that power to voters and municipal governments to consider rent control measures on a community-by-community basis.

The bill’s sponsor, Rep. Will Guzzardi, D-Chicago, said he chose to introduce the amendment as a compromise after hearing from constituents and colleagues in the house.

“We’ve gotten great support for (this bill) in the chamber, but we also heard some concerns from some colleagues about lifting this ban statewide,” Guzzardi said April 21.

“There were some members who spoke to me and said well you know, the people in our community really think that this ban is important, and voters in my district don’t want to be exempted from the ban,” he added.

Guzzardi said in an April 21 Housing Committee hearing that the new amendment would lay out a process to allow local voters to introduce a ballot measure for rent control, from the petition process to placing a referendum on the ballot.

Under the act, if voters of a municipality pass a rent control referendum, the municipality would be considered exempt from the state’s blanket ban on rent control policies, allowing the local government to set caps on rent prices.

“If a community can get the signatures to get a petition on the ballot and pass a referendum, and its locally elected officials can pass an ordinance to govern rent increases in their community, boy, it doesn’t seem like we should be standing in that community’s way,” Guzzardi said.

Opponents of the legislation, including Greg St. Aubin of the Illinois Realtors Association, called the bill “a very destructive policy” that would discourage investment in new housing developments and create an atmosphere of uncertainty for developers and landlords around the state.

“Our view is that whether you lift the ban in its entirety, or you go with this model, we believe that it is sending a tacit message from the state to local governments that (rent control) is a legitimate, viable, and perhaps even worthwhile policy, and we disagree with that,” St. Aubin said.

Republican opponents on the committee raised concerns that the bill still goes too far in opening the door to regulating rental costs for landlords who need to set prices in order to adequately maintain their rental properties, and that the legislation could allow for a wide range of rules on rent across the state.

Rep. Andrew Chesney, R-Freeport, said the bill would be an overreach on regulating landlords.

“Theoretically, a vote, a referendum and a city council could completely obliterate whatever business they have. So, I mean, doesn’t that seem like a complete government takeover of a private business?” Chesney said.

“There’s no protection to the actual owners that gives them any certainty of what the city councils would even be able to do,” he added.

Guzzardi responded that the bill is intended to give more flexibility and power to local municipalities to decide for themselves if rent control is an approach they would like to consider, and that the bill would play no part in determining a statewide policy on rent control.

“We are offering the marvelous and much beloved protection of democracy,” Guzzardi said. “Right now, communities have no voice in this manner.”

Rep. Delia Ramirez, D-Chicago, agreed that the legislation as amended would provide a fair balance across the state to leave a preemption on rent control in place while simultaneously providing municipalities the ability to decide for themselves if they wish to initiate rent control.

“I think that this bill really gives us an opportunity to leave it to the voters to decide where they stand, and then go back to the local authorities (when they) decide they want to entertain the conversation,” Ramirez said.

The bill as amended passed the Housing Committee by a 14-8 vote.

Bond set for man accused of stealing car from Glen Ellyn driveway On Thursday, April 29, DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert Berlin and Glen Ellyn Chief of Police Philip Norton announced that bond had been set for a Chicago man accused of stealing a black 2016 Lincoln MKX SUV from the driveway of a Glen Ellyn home. Kenneth Diamond, 19, of Chicago, has been charged with one count of Aggravated Possession of a Stolen Motor Vehicle (Class 1 Felony), one count of Theft - $10,000 to $100,000 (Class 2 Felony), one count of Aggravated Fleeing or Eluding a Peace Officer (Class 4 Felony) and one count of

Burglary to a Motor Vehicle (Class 3 Felony).

On June 30, 2020, at approximately 2:21 a.m., officers responded to a motor vehicle theft having just occurred from the driveway of a Glen Ellyn home. A short time later, officers with the Wheaton Police Department allegedly observed the stolen Lincoln driving in Wheaton, closely following a dark-colored sedan.

At approximately 3:10 a.m., Wheaton officers initiated a traffic stop on the Lincoln at which time both the Lincoln and the dark-colored sedan

fled at a high rate of speed. Stop sticks were employed in Wheaton and punctured the tires of the Lincoln. It is alleged that at this time both the Lincoln and the dark-colored sedan came to a stop and that two individuals exited the Lincoln and entered the dark-colored sedan.

It is further alleged that the dark-colored sedan then fled the scene. Officers pursued the vehicle but were unable to make a stop. An investigation into the alleged vehicle theft led authorities to Diamond as the suspected driver of the Lincoln.

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