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Willowbrook High School’s football team kicked off its 2022 season with Friday night’s home game against Notre Dame College Prep School of Niles. The halftime entertainment included performances from Willowbrook’s cheerleaders, dance team and marching band. At the end of their performance on the field, the band members marched toward the stadium track and played “Hey! Baby” in front of Willowbrook’s student section. Some enthusiastic students are pictured while band played nearby. The Warriors’ fans didn’t have much to cheer about during the game. The visiting Dons from Notre Dame built a 14-0 halftime lead and went on to beat Willowbrook 28-0. The Warriors will play another home game this Friday, when they will face Downers Grove North.
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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 Commis sion, 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 recogni tion, a community must have a tree board or department, a tree-care ordinance, a comprehensive com munity forestry program and an Arbor Day observance.
Villa Park Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Post 2801 held its Memorial Day service on Monday morning at Cortesi Veterans Memorial Park. Post Commander Jim Blankshain is pictured bowing his head as Willowbrook High School students Lily Hendrickson and Anna Seelbach sound taps at the end of the ceremony. The post’s 2020 Memorial Day event was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic. This year’s observance included a reading of the names of the Post 2801 members who have recently died. That list included World War II veteran Charles “Sid” Bergh, who served as the master of ceremonies of the post’s annual Memorial Day service for several years. A veteran of the U.S. Navy, Bergh died in October 2020. He was 94 years old. Bergh was the post’s last surviving World War II veteran.
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The Elmhurst office of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Chicago will sponsor a free community shred event and food donation drive on Saturday, Sept. 10 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Immanuel Lutheran Church, 142 E. 3rd St. in TheElmhurst.ShredSpot will securely shred sensitive documents on site. Food donations collected at the event will benefit the Elmhurst-Yorkfield Food“WithPantry.identity theft such an ongoing prob lem, it’s so important to make sure sensitive documents are disposed of properly,” said John Lawrence, managing broker of the El mhurst office. “We hope the community will mark their calendars and plan to attend this free shred event on Sept. 10. And, if they can bring a non-perishable food item or two to help the Elmhurst-Yorkfield Food Pantry as well, that would be wonderful. “I’d like to thank Trese Hodges, the Elm hurst office Kindness Foundation Ambassador, for her assistance coordinating this event.”
The Kindness Foundation is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization whose mission is to support meaningful local initiatives that im prove the communities the company serves and enhances the quality of life for fellow citizens.
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The Elmhurst Heritage Foundation has an nounced the return of the 7th Annual Elmhurst Craft Beer Fest on Saturday, Sept. 17 from 1 p.m. until 6 p.m. on the grounds of the Elm hurst History Museum, located at 120 E. Park Ave. in downtown Elmhurst. After record-setting attendance last year, the Foundation is planning another memorable event. This fundraiser supports the Elmhurst History Museum’s exhibits and programs, as well as educational field trips at the Church ville One-Room Schoolhouse.
The Event Co-Sponsor for the fourth time is PintsTopElmhurst.levelPlatinum Sponsors include Lake side Bank, DiCianni Graphics, Kelly Stetler Compass Real Estate, Elmhurst Bank and The Katris Law Group. In all, more than 50 local businesses are generously supporting the event. The day will feature tastings from a selection of nearly 100 different craft beers, ciders and hard seltzers from more than 45 craft and mi crobreweries, with an emphasis on local brew ers from the Chicago area. Live music will be performed by PettyCash and Lake Effect. Rigo’s Tacos will serve up au thentic Mexican tacos to accent the beverages served.Tickets for the Elmhurst Craft Beer Fest are available online at elmhurstcraftbeerfest. com. General admission tickets are $50, ear ly entry ticket is $65, and designated driver is $20. Participants must be 21 years of age or older. Discounted tickets are available before Friday, Sept. 9. Please visit social media pages or elmhurstcraftbeerfest.com for the latest in formation.Formore information, go to elmhurstcraft beerfest.com or call the Elmhurst History Mu seum at 630-833-1457.
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Maria reached out to Park Place of Elmhurst to see what she could do to help the residents there. She said the staff was helpful at developing ideas for what the residents needed and what would lift their spirits. “So far, we’ve delivered Mother’s Day gift bags, activity packets, and flags for a patriotic celebration,” Maria said. “I’m just looking for little ways that can let people know they’re cared for.”
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How energy gets from the grid to the home is immensely complicat ed. To sum up a portion of it, MISO procures energy capacity each year, which is a promise that generators can put a certain amount of energy online during the grid’s peak demand hours.Threats of brownouts entered the mainstream discussion when MI SO’s capacity auction came up 1,230 megawatts short for the 2022-2023 year, contributing to load concerns and higher downstate energy prices. What that means for reliability, ac cording to the company’s analysis, is that the “loss of load expectation”—a measure of how long, on average, that available generation capacity is likely to fall short of load demand— for the subregion that includes Illi nois increased from the annual target of 0.1 day per year to 0.179 day per year.The target is 0.1, not 0, because there will always be a possibility that electricity use exceeds the available capacity, even in “normal” years. At a 3-hour committee hearing in May, lawmakers heard testimony from energy experts that surprise out-of-state fossil fuel retirements were the main driver of the capaci ty shortfall this year, as CEJA’s de carbonization measures have not yet takenThoseeffect.measures include massive subsidies for renewable and nuclear energy and mandates that fossil fuel generators go offline by 2045—al though state regulators can override those dates in the event of load con cerns.While the likelihood of load in terruptions increased only slightly this year, MISO warned at the May committee that as more fossil fuel plants go offline, the likelihood could increase in future years if new gener ators like renewables or battery stor age aren’t put online quickly enough.
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MISO and its member states, Mor ris said, also recently worked to re duce the amount of time it takes for a generator to connect to the MISO grid, earning praise from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
“MISO believes it’s likely to get worse before it gets better,” Melissa Seymour, MISO’s vice president of external affairs, told the House com mittee in May. “Unless more capaci ty is built, especially capacity able to reliably generate during tight system conditions, the shortfalls we experi enced this year will continue to get worse moving forward.”
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There was a lot to unpack at the Aug. 25 candidate forum which saw Gov. JB Pritzker and his Republican challenger state Sen. Darren Bailey appear on the same stage, albeit at different times, for the first time this campaign season.
“It’s been so wonderful work ing with Park Place,” Maria said. “They’re so gracious and thankful, and they have wonderful ideas on how to help. I know what I’m doing is just a tiny bit, but they always ap preciate it.” Maria hopes to expand the Kind ness Project Network to other orga nizations, and to find people who would like to volunteer to assist in this“Asoutreach.Ifind more need, and I find more people, I will do more,” she said. “The goal is to turn this into a non-for-profit that lifts people’s spirits with random acts of kind ness.”She hopes the Kindness Project Network can expand to other orga nizations, like children’s hospitals and“I’dschools.like to see where it goes,” Maria said. If you would like to learn more about the Kindness Proj ect Network, inquiries may be sent to Park Place of Elmhurst at info@ provlife.com. For more information about Park Place senior living op tions, visit ParkPlaceElmhurst.com or send an email to: ppe@provlife. com.
When the COVID-19 pandem ic began, many people looked for ways to help those who needed it most. That was what was behind long-time Elmhurst resident Maria Shannon’s idea to start something she calls the “Kindness Project Net work” in the fall of 2020. “When COVID started, I was talking to some family members,” she said. “I saw how COVID was affecting more than just physi cal health, but mental health and well-being as well.”
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Park Place of Elmhurst offers senior living options. While many community members live inde pendently, others rely on assistance and the pandemic has made it espe cially difficult for those with health care restrictions. Park Place of El mhurst was a logical place for the Kindness Project Network to begin. Maria has always enjoyed volun teering for different organizations and outreach programs. Now her passion for donating time is blessing Park Place of Elmhurst. While the Kindness Project Network is still in its infancy, the residents have felt the love from these thoughtful gifts. She is now planning other projects for the senior community, including a book drive, an October candy bag, and a Veterans Day gift.
“MISO has fallen down on the job,” he said. “That’s why Illinois had to pick up the pace in solar and wind and make sure that we’re pro ducing more energy, not less. That is what the Climate and Equitable Jobs Act does. It helps us produce more energy.”Inastatement to Capitol News Illinois in July, MISO said it under stands the urgency of putting new power on the grid and it had even more than 6,000 megawatts in the works.“Currently, MISO is processing 95 generator interconnection queue re quests for the state of Illinois (total ing over 15,000 megawatts), which is 12 percent of the total requests MISO has received for the entire 15-state footprint,” spokesperson Brandon Morris said in a July email. “MISO is and continues to be ‘on the job’ of ensuring reliability is maintained while managing through this unprec edented number of unique requests to connect new resources.”
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For starters, I fact-checked the governor’s claim that eminent do main language was removed from the final 2021 energy bill known as the Climate and Equitable Jobs Act. That law, which Pritzker signed, con tained a provision giving a private transmission line that authority in sevenNowcounties.it’stime to fact check his challenger, too. “I had several counties in my dis trict two weeks ago that went through a three-hour brownout,” Bailey told a crowd of farmers at Schuler Farms in Lexington. “First time ever. It’s com ing. It’s Exceptpreventable.”there’sno evidence that brownouts have occurred anywhere in AndIllinois.when I asked the Bailey cam paign for more specifics on which counties had seen blackouts, they responded only with a statement calling Pritzker’s energy policies ex treme.Arecent Capitol Fax blog ap peared to be the first outlet to look into Bailey’s claim, unearthing an unbylined Aug. 5 article posted to a website that’s part of an infamous “pay-to-print” network historically tied to right-wing candidates. Bailey was heavily quoted in the “article” that noted White and Wayne counties had experienced a threehour brownout on July 30. Capitol Fax reported that the Wayne-White Counties Electrical Co-op had no such “brownout” event, although there might have been storm-related outages. I called them up and was told the same. The Midcontinent Independent System Operator, or MISO, is the federally-regulated regional trans mission organization that serves 15 states including most of Illinois out side of the Chicago area.
Following the two-year COVID hiatus, on Saturday, Sept. 17, the Elmhurst Knights of Columbus will host Oktoberfest beginning at 5:30 p.m. at its location at 537 S. York St. At 7 p.m., the 12-piece Chicago Big Band will perform under the direction of Brian Patti. Tickets are $20 and include one brat, two sides, one beer or soda and dessert. Tickets are available at elmhurstkofc.org. Sponsored by Usinger’s Sausage, which provides the brats.
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The grid operator told me they had no knowledge of any “brownouts,” which is a term it does not use. “As of Friday, Aug. 26, MISO has been in normal operating conditions for the entire month,” a spokesperson said. “None of our emergency oper ating conditions this summer have resulted in power interruptions.”
Some of CEJA’s main backers in the Illinois Clean Jobs Coalition have pointed the finger at MISO, noting at a July news conference that there are 6,000 megawatts of transmission projects in the RTO’s “queue” that are awaiting approval to begin the process of hooking it into the grid. Pritzker suggested the same at the Aug. 25 ag forum.
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Activists and motorists who want the cameras to remained turned off, and removed, spoke at the Aug. 23 Oakbrook Terrace city council meet ing. One of the activists, Roger Ro manelli, implored city council mem bers to agree to remove the cameras and withdraw opposition to them— or they should all resign. According to a Chicago Tribune story, Oakbrook Terrace has received over $12 million in revenue from the red-light cameras since they were in stalled in 2017. But at the city coun cil meeting, Esposito said the cam eras have always been about public safety, not about bringing in revenue for the “Thecity.city is financially strong,” he said.Having the cameras in Oakbrook Terrace has not been without con troversy. The city’s former mayor, Tony Ragucci, who resigned in 2020, pleaded guilty in May to taking kick backs to support the use of red-light cameras in Oakbrook Terrace. He faces up to five years in prison. Ra gucci pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud and one count of filing a false tax Aroundreturn.350 communities across the country use red-light cameras. Nearly all red-light cameras in Illi nois are confined to Chicago and the
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A DuPage County Judge ruled last week that the city of Oakbrook Terrace can temporarily reactivate its red-light photo-enforced camer as at Route 83 and 22nd Street near the Oakbrook Center outdoor mall in Oak Brook after the Illinois Depart ment of Transportation (IDOT) shut them off in May. Judge Craig Belford ruled the city can turn the cameras back on at least until a lawsuit that Oakbrook Terrace filed in June has been settled. In May, IDOT revoked the operat ing permits for the cameras. It said at the time Oakbrook Terrace did not submit mandatory reports document ing safety at the intersection. However, the city’s lawsuit claims IDOT overstepped its authority by ordering the cameras to be turned off. It says IDOT doesn’t have the au thority to regulate the cameras once they are Anotherinstalled.courthearing is scheduled forInOctober.anannouncement last week to Oakbrook Terrace residents, Mayor Paul Esposito said he was pleased with Belford’s ruling to reinstate the city’s right to operate cameras at the intersection.“AsIcommunicated to you in June, your safety at home, at work, or at play, and when traveling through out our region is our top priority,” he said. “We worked diligently to turn the cameras back on because more than 230,000 drivers have run red lights at that intersection.”
Earlier this year, the Villa Park Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Post 2801 Auxiliary held contests for young artists. The Americanism Program Coloring Contest was for preschool and kindergarten students ages 3, 4 and 5. The 2021-22 contest theme was “Honoring Old Glory and Those Who Fought For Her.” Children who entered the contest made a coloring of a firecracker. The contest winners received a certificate, chalk and a monetary award. The VFW Post 2801 Auxiliary’s kindergarten-level award went to Zoey Bechert of Immanuel Lutheran School in Elmhurst. She is pictured (above left) with her teacher—Nancy Burden. Zoey moved on and won first-place honors at the district level to advance to the state level. Lucy Witek of Downers Grove Christian School was the auxiliary’s first-place winner in the 4-year-old level. She is pictured (above middle) with her teacher—Jennifer Haywood. Beckham Macak of Downers Grove Christian School won the first-place award in the 3-year-old division. He is pictured (above right) with his grandmother—Sharon Nese.
Red-light photo-enforced cameras—which had been covered and turned off at the intersection of Route 83 and 22nd Street in Oakbrook Terrace due to an Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) ruling in May—are now being turned back on following a ruling by a DuP age County judge last week. The cameras will remain on at least until a lawsuit filed by Oakbrook Terrace has been settled.
suburbs. Villa Park has red light cam eras at North and Villa, Summit and Roosevelt, and Route 83 and River side, near Walmart. Other communities in DuPage County that have red-light cameras include Addison (John F. Kennedy Drive; Lake Street), Aurora, Bensen ville (Green and York; Grove and Route 83), Carol Stream, Glendale Heights, Lisle, Roselle, West Chica go, Willowbrook and Winfield. Parts of Bensenville and Roselle are in Cook County, while parts of Aurora are in Kane, Kendall and Will coun ties.
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Roberto C. Lechuga De La Cruz, 19, of Addison, was charged with unlawful use of cannabis by a driv er near Army Trail and Route 53 at 10:54 p.m. Aug. 22 A 47-year-old Arlington Heights man was charged with two counts of domestic battery at 7:30 a.m. Aug. 21 Angelica Maria Adorno, 26, of Chicago, was charged with two counts of battery in the 100 block of Villa Ave. at 9:49 p.m. A 37-year-old Addison man was charged with two counts of domestic battery at 10:35 a.m. Aug. 19 Police said Tristan R. Panzer, 25, of Addison, was issued a warrant in the 500 block of N. Lincoln. Aug. 18 Alma P. Pelcastre Alonso, 42, of Villa Park, was charged with DUI, expired registration, no insurance and a turn signal violation near Addi son and Moreland at 2:06 a.m. Aug. 17 Lacheon Simmons, 49, of Addi son, was charged with DUI near Ful lerton and Collins at 10:55 p.m.
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Area police departments recently reported the following arrests and citations. Readers are reminded that an arrest does not constitute a con viction, and that suspects are consid ered innocent unless proven guilty in a court of law. Persons charged with domestic battery are not named in or der to protect the privacy of victims. Juveniles age 17 or younger are not named.
A complainant at a pharmacy in the 1-100 block of E. St. Charles reported at 6:58 p.m. that a subject was causing a disturbance and wanted the subject served with a no-trespass order. The subject was issued a no-trespass notice.
Aug. 14 A 31-year-old Villa Park woman was charged with two counts of do mestic battery in the 500 block of W. Division at 9:08 a.m. A complainant in the 1-100 block of W. Rand reported at 1:24 p.m. that a subject was threatening them. A complainant at Jefferson Pool re ported at 5:06 p.m. that a subject was causing a disturbance and the com plainant wanted the subject to leave for the day. The subject left after an officer spoke with them. Fraud, identity theft
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According to information provided last week by the Villa Park Police De partment, police reported two incidents of residents being a victim of fraud or identity theft. Catalytic converter theft
According to information provided last week by the Villa Park Police De partment, police reported one incident of a catalytic converter being removed from vehicles at the following location: a hotel in the 300 block of E. Roosevelt at 1:11 p.m.
DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert B. Berlin and Hanover Park Chief of Police Andrew Johnson have announced that bond has been denied for a Ha nover Park man accused of shooting at a female mo torist Sunday, Aug. 21. Reco Murray, 25, appeared at a bond hearing where Judge Margaret O’Connell denied bond. Murray has been charged with one count of at tempted murder (Class X felony) and one count of aggravated discharge of a firearm (Class 1 felony). It is alleged that on Aug. 21 at approximately 2:30 a.m., the victim was in her vehicle at Lake Street and Ontarioville Road in Hanover Park stopped at a red light when the de fendant pulled up behind her. It is alleged that when the light turned green, Murray immediately began honking at the victim and tailgated her as she pulled away. It is further alleged that the victim pulled over to let Murray pass. It is alleged that Murray passed the vic tim and stopped shortly after passing her at which time the victim attempt ed to continue driving past Murray. It is alleged the two vehicles were involved in a minor traffic accident. It is further alleged that when the vic tim stepped out of her car to exchange information, Murray began yelling at her, pulled out a handgun and fired three shots at her. It is alleged that the victim then ran back to her car and drove away with Murray following her. It is alleged that Murray caught up to the victim at a red light at the intersection of County Farm Road and Lake Street and fired three more rounds at victim’s vehicle. It is alleged that the victim then drove to the Hanover Park Police Department and circled the parking lot with Murray still following her. Officers with the Hanover Park Po lice Department took Murray into custody at this time. Through the course of their inves tigation officers found a 9mm Taurus pistol from under the driver’s seat of Murray’s vehicle. Authorities also recovered a total of six shell cas ings from the two locations as well has five bullet cartridges from the victim’s vehicle. Additionally, the victim’s vehicle was found to have multiple bullet holes and a shattered passenger side window. The victim was“Ituninjured.isalleged that as a result of road rage, Mr. Murray opened fire on two separate occasions on an innocent woman, first shooting three times at her after a minor accident and then shooting three additional times when he followed her and they were stopped at a red light,” Berlin said. “This type of violent, unprovoked behavior will not be tolerated in DuPage County and will be aggres sivelyMurray’sprosecuted.”nextcourt appearance is scheduled for Monday, Sept. 26 for arraignment before Judge O’Connell.
Villa Park Aug. 20 A complainant at a golf course in the 500 block of E. Van Buren reported at 10 a.m. that an unknown suspect re moved multiple flags from the course. A complainant in the 500 block of E. Riordan reported at 10:55 a.m. that an unknown suspect was sending them unwanted text messages. A complainant in the 400 block of S. Riverside reported at 3:42 p.m. that an unknown suspect was sending them unwanted text messages. Aug. 19 Eric Wood, 44, of Oak Park, was charged with DUI, possession of can nabis by a driver, resisting or obstruct ing a police officer, improper lane us age and no insurance near Roosevelt and Route 83 at 2:36 a.m. A complainant in the 500 block of N. Ardmore reported at 5:39 p.m. that juvenile subjects were harassing their child.Acomplainant in the 200 block of E. Division reported at 5:53 p.m. that a subject is attempted to view their bank account.
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Bail denied for man charged with armed habitual criminal, narcotics possession Eugene Wil liams, 34, of Dolton, appeared at a bond hearing where Judge Ann Celine O’Hallar en Walsh granted the state’s mo tion to deny bail. In all, Williams has been charged with one count of armed habitual criminal (Class X felony), one count of armed vio lence (Class X felony), one count of possession of MDMA with intent to deliver (Class X Felony), one count of possession of heroin with intent to deliver (Class 1 felony), one count of unlawful use of a weap on by a felon (Class 2 felony) and one count of unlawful possession of cannabis with intent to deliver (Class 3 Williamsfelony).iscurrently out on bond awaiting trial on unlawful use of a weapon by a felon and aggravated unlawful use of a weapon charges. On Aug. 11, a Naperville police officer pulled over a vehicle with tinted windows for allegedly failing to signal when changing lanes. As the officer approached the vehicle, he Eugene Williams
Aug. 18 Christina M. Pickle, 36, of Villa Park, was charged with possession of a controlled substance, unlawful pos session of drug paraphernalia, trans portation of open alcohol by a driver, improper lighting/head or tail lights, improper display of license plates or registration stickers, operating a ve hicle with a cancelled, suspended or revoked Illinois registration and no insurance in the 500 block of S. Wis consin at 1:32 a.m. A complainant at a store in the 1600 block of S. Ardmore reported at 5:23 p.m. that a subject was causing a dis turbance and wanted them trespassed. The subject was issued a no-trespass notice.
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Aug. 17 Armed robbery was reported at a pharmacy in the 200 block of E. Roo sevelt at 1:03 p.m. A complainant re ported that a suspect removed several over-the-counter medications from display shelves and threatened an em ployee with a knife. Retail theft was reported at a store in the 1-100 block of E. North at 12:47 p.m. A complainant reported that a sus pect removed a vacuum from a display shelf and left the story without paying for it.
Aug. 16 Jose A. Santiago, 22, of Villa Park, was charged with resisting or obstruct ing a police officer at a store in the 1-100 block of E. St. Charles at 10:06 p.m.A complainant at a restaurant in the 300 block of E. St. Charles reported at 2:48 p.m. they were a victim of theft.
DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert B. Berlin and Naperville Chief of Police Jason Arres have announced that the state’s motion to deny bail for a convicted felon ac cused of illegally possessing a load ed firearm and illegal drugs has been granted.
White noted that one benefit of the grant was the archives’ staff learning all that the collection contained. For example, when the grant began, Ar chives’ staff estimated that there were 21,000 negatives in the collection; however, the collection contains more than 40,000 negatives, almost twice the size of the original estimate. The funding for the project came from the NHPRC’s Access to Histor ical Records Grant, which promotes access to records that highlight a better understanding of our state’s or coun try’s democracy, history and culture.
John Crowder Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White announced that the Illinois State Archives has placed more than 21,000 historic photographs from the Eddie Winfred “Doc” Helm Photo Collection online. The photos are from the 1940s to the The1980s.collection is available on the Illinois Digital Archives website
Man accused of disarming police officer at Target Suspect has been charged with several felonies two air mattresses valued at approx imately $340 into the trunk of a car. It is alleged that the officer ap proached Crowder and began speak ing to him at which time Crowder kicked the officer’s leg out from under him causing him to fall. It is alleged that while lying on his back, the officer pulled out his taser at which time Crowder grabbed the tas er from the officer’s hand and threw it across the parking lot.
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“It is alleged that instead of con ducting himself within the legal lim itations placed upon him due to his past criminal behavior, Mr. Williams thumbed his nose once again at the law and decided to not only illegally arm himself with an untraceable gun, but also possess illegal narcotics,” Berlin said. “This is the second time this week and the seventh time with in one month that a DuPage County judge has denied bail for a defendant accused of serious crimes. “To be blunt, the message coming from DuPage County is crystal clear, felons who illegally possess a gun will be prosecuted to the fullest ex tent of the law.”
seen. This new online collection will changeWhite,that.”who serves as the state ar chivist and the state librarian, said the Illinois State Archives received a $60,000 grant from the National His torical Publications and Records Com mission (NHPRC) in 2020 to scan the photographs, create a finding aid for them and place them online for public use. The photos are now on the Illinois Digital Archives website that is operat ed by the State Library. The grant funded the purchase of a scanner and the salaries of contractu al workers, most of whom were mas ters-level students from the University of Illinois-Springfield History Depart ment.Included in the photographs are pic tures of at least six U. S. presidents on visits to Springfield (Presidents Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter and Joe Biden, who at the time was a U.S. Senator), as well as Illinois politicians and government officials.There are also photographs of the state fair, local parades, state institu tions and visitors to the state Capitol, including school groups, fraternal or ganizations and celebrities.
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observed the driver, later identified as Williams, allegedly moving about the front interior of the car. Upon making contact with Wil liams, the officer allegedly observed a strong odor of cannabis coming from the vehicle. It is alleged that following a search of the vehicle, the officer found a backpack in the front seat of the vehicle containing a loaded Polymer 80 9mm pistol (ghost gun), 34 pills of ecstasy, ap proximately one gram of heroin and approximately 140 grams of canna bis. Williams was taken into custody at this time.
• Bail (Continued from page 6) DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert Berlin and Woodridge Chief of Police Brian Cunningham have announced that bond has been set for a Woodridge man accused of disarming a police officer after al legedly stealing merchandise from a Woodridge Target store. John Crowder, 29, appeared at a bond hearing where Judge Ann Ce line O’Hallaren Walsh set bond at $250,000 with 10 percent to apply.
Crowder has been charged with one count of disarming a police officer (Class 1 felony), one count of ag gravated battery to a police officer (Class 2 felony), one count of retail theft (Class 3 felony), one count of resisting a police officer causing in jury (Class 4 felony) and one count of criminal damage to government supported property (Class 4 felony). On Wednesday, Aug. 24, officers with the Woodridge Police Depart ment responded to a call of a retail theft in progress at the Target store located on 63rd Street. Upon his ar rival, a Woodridge police officer al legedly observed Crowder placing
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“Day in and day out, our officers quietly do their jobs protecting the residents and businesses of DuPage County,” Berlin said. “This incident is yet another example of their pro fessionalism and dedication to public safety. Thankfully, no one was seri ouslyCrowder’sinjured.”next court appearance is scheduled for arraignment on Thursday, Sept. 22 in front of Judge O’Hallaren Walsh.
Crowder then allegedly started walking away. It is alleged that the officer gave multiple commands to Crowder to stop walking, but Crowder refused and entered his car. After a second officer arrived on scene, it is alleged that Crowder con tinued to ignore the officers’ com mands and resisted as the officers attempted to place him in handcuffs. After a brief struggle, Crowder was taken into custody.
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Jim Nowlan is a former professor, politician, government executive and newspaper publisher. His recent gigs have been as a senior fellow at the University of Illinois Institute of Government and Public Affairs, and as a foreign expert (visiting professor) at Fudan University in Shanghai. He lives in Princeton, Ill.
You don’t make me cry
To deal with the never-ending vagaries of life, societies have developed cultural underpinnings: communities, religion, charitable organizations, liberal arts studies, libraries, governments and political parties, all to help us navigate life. As we thread our way through the “minefield,” we tend to quest for a combination of order, harmony and prosperity.The17th century English philosopher Thomas Hobbes observed, to illustrate, that the job of religion was “to soothe the human heart and restrain the beast within us,” certainly helpful in navigating life. As for political philosophies, I sense that, generally, liberals see the world as they wish it to be, while conservatives see the world as it is. A moderate conservative myself, I tend to like liberals better, as they are trying to make the world a better place. Yet, I find conservatives generally more practical. I sense a blend of the two perspectives would be most productive in navigation. These thumbnail musings offer to me a couple of guidelines. First, aim high, but don’t expect or shoot for perfection, which is beyond our reach; improvement will be success. Second, life is tough, always will be. So, rather than simply helping others, help others help themselves, as best they can. That will be more productive for others in the long run.
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I draw for substance here on works like Stanford neuroscientist Robert Sapolsky’s Behave and Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker’s The Better Angels of Our Nature, among others. To start, I review some baseline human drives, which provide context, at least for me. Like other animals, we strive to pass our DNA to successive generations. To increase our chances of success, we pursue increased “fitness,” that is, the capacity to survive, even flourish, and become more attractive to possible mates. To display and boost our “fitness,” the ambitious among us partake of something akin to the backyard childhood gamee “king of the hill.” There are many “hills.” Some aspire to reach the top of their profession, or to pile up more wealth than others, or to win a Nobel, Pulitzer or other validating prize. All this signals high levels of attractive fitness to other Nationshumans.andnational leaders have drives similar to those of their citizens—to increase national wealth, expand territory, build technological prowess, all this obviously increasing the stature and power, or fitness, of their nations. In the backyard game, youngsters tried not only to ascend to the top of the pile, but also to pull others down from the top. So it is in the adult game of Thelife. best example I that I can think of is about the Jews. As a group, over the centuries, Jews have been disproportionately successful in achieving wealth as well as acclaim in science and the performing arts. Unfortunately, the incredibly powerful “us versus them” predisposition in humans, embedded in our brains over millions of years, dominates the midpart of our noggin. Tyrants like Hitler have drawn upon this prejudice to try to pull Jews down from the hill. Life is, as we observe firsthand, rough and tumble, never easy, or fair. Steven Pinker develops the thesis that since the Middle Ages the world has actually become less violent and homicidal. A thousand years ago, summer was “campaign season,” that is, the recurring, hideously violent military campaigns of one king striving to take over the territory and wealth of another people. Life was cheap.Pinker posits that over time humans are evolving to be nicer, for the reason that nice is, overall, a more successful strategy for humans and nations than is laying waste to people and property. But we are evolving slowly, so violence still breaks out widely, frequently.Ithinkof life as a continuing walk through a minefield. Some of the mines you can see, sticking up, and avoid them. Sometimes you can follow in the footsteps of another, who has found a path through part of the minefield, thus sidestepping many of the mines, if you’re careful. But there are other mines we can’t see; some of us bypass them, through good fortune; others step on a mine, no matter careful, blowing themselves to smithereens, even causing havoc among friends nearby.
I spent time at a class reunion with friends I don’t see every day (but wish I stillTheydid.)were the friends who knew me when. And I knew them in the same way. We were innocent and young. Not yet adults, but on the budding cusp. Growing up together creates an enduring bond that can only come from experiencing pivotal years together.Thisbond we created has only grown stronger through the years, and I think it is now like a snowball rolling downhill: only getting bigger and stronger. It’s pretty amazing when you live it up close.The friends at my class reunion knew me when I was only a girl named Jill. Before I became a wife or mother or grandmother. And they knew the boy who was to become my husband as well. He and I graduated from the same high school class together. We met when we were 15 and became instant friends. Some of our classmates didn’t realize our close relationship back then because we didn’t date; we were just best friends. But I think they appreciate it now. Most of them realize we were soulmates and all of them know he died much too soon.And they care about me. Sometimes, when we talk about him and their memories and my memories, I might tear up. Some of the friends from my reunion have apologized for making me cry.No apologies are necessary, because you don’t make me cry. You can’t make me cry. Truly. Not Don’really.tworry about it. Don’t let it burden you. Don’t let my burdens weigh you down. I try not to let my burdens weigh me down. It does no good. So, when I cry, please understand: it’s okay. I’m okay. Crying is Sometimesokaycrying is warranted. Sometimes it is needed. Tears can be a release. Holding them in does much more damage than letting them out ever could. Sometimes I cry, but don’t avoid me because you’re afraid I’ll cry. Don’t worry about your words or sharing memories because you think they make me sad. Please, don’t stop saying his name. Not ever. I love hearing his name and I love hearing about memories of him. They may make me cry; they may make me laugh. Sometimes I’ll laugh through my tears. It’s all okay. I cry sometimes because of the love I’ve experienced in life, and because that love is gone for this very brief moment and that can feel terribly sad. When we humans feel sad sometimes tears flow— beyond our control, beyond your control or my control. Tears just flow, as emotions flow and love flows. As life flows. So don’t worry if you think you make me cry. Because you don’t. Nor do LoveI.makes me cry. I have loved. I do love. And the temporary loss of it right now brings tears to my eyes. But that does not rest on you or even me. It rests on love. And love conquers all. It really does. It really will. In just a moment, however long that moment may be. Jill Pertler is an award-winning syndicated columnist, published playwright and author. She invites readers to follow the Slices of Life page on Facebook.
By Jim Nowlan As I move into my 80s, I find myself standing back from barbarismtolocalaroundmayhemhurly-burlytheandoflifeme,fromviolencethemedievalinUkraine.
The story of life explained, rather briefly
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I can thus view matters with some detachment and, I hope, some understanding.
STAFF REPORT The Willowbrook football team opened its 2022 season with Friday’s 28-0 home loss to Notre Dame Col lege Prep School of Niles. The visiting Dons scored two first-half touchdowns to build a 14-0 halftime lead. Notre Dame added two more touchdowns in the second half.
Willowbrook’s offense struggles in a 28-0 loss to Notre Dame
Willowbrook’s girls volleyball team started its 2022 season with last week’s 25-14, 25-10 victory over Bartlett in Villa Park on Aug. 22. Junior Calli Kenny (above - No. 9) contributed six kills, eight assists, two aces and five digs in the win. Sophomore Hannah Kenny (be low - No. 6) provided five kills, 11 assists and four digs. Sophomore Anna Marinier (top left - No. 15) delivered five blocks. Willowbrook improved its record to 2-0 following its 25-12, 25-6 win at East Aurora on Aug. 24. This year’s Warriors are trying to build on the success of the 2021 team, which captured conference, regional and sectional titles. Last season’s Willowbrook team compiled an overall record of 37-2. The Warriors’ 2021 season ended with a loss to Mother McAuley in an IHSA Class 4A super-sectional.
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Willowbrook begins new season with wins over Bartlett and East Aurora assists, three aces and five digs. Ci priano, Bruschuk and Marinier each bashed three kills. Conley made six digs.Willowbrook’s schedule this week includes home matches against Fen wick and Lyons Township, along with the Warriors’ own invitational, which takes place this Friday and Saturday. Willowbrook will open its West Suburban Gold Conference season with a home match against Addison Trail on Sept. 6.
Mason noted that last year’s suc cess has led to high expectations for the Warriors, who attracted a large and spirited student section for their season opener against Bartlett.
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“Seeing these girls and how they step up under the pressure situations is exciting, and it makes things fun,” said Mason of the team’s players. Willowbrook junior Calli Kenny provided six kills, eight assists, five digs and two aces in last week’s win over Bartlett. Her sister—sophomore Hannah Kenny—added five kills, 11 assists and four digs. Senior Natalie Cipriano supplied five kills, two aces and three digs. Sophomore Anna Ma rinier contributed five blocks, while junior Elle Bruschuk had two kills, four aces, five digs and four assists. Junior Eliza Ramey delivered three kills and two blocks in the War riors’ season-opening victory. Senior Grace Conley had two digs and two assists.Calli Kenny had four kills, seven assists and four digs in the Warriors’ win at East Aurora on Aug. 24. Han nah Kenny piled up four kills, 11
The Willowbrook girls volleyball team began its 2022 season with last week’s 25-14, 25-10 win over Bart lett in Villa Park. Two days after beating Bartlett, the Warriors improved to 2-0 when they earned a 25-12, 25-6 win at East Aurora.This year’s Willowbrook team is trying to build on the success of last year’s spectacular season. The Warriors posted an overall record of 37-2 in 2021. The team won the West Suburban Gold Conference ti tle with a perfect 6-0 record during the regular season. Willowbrook proceeded to win the program’s first regional title by claiming the cham pionship plaque at a regional on its home court. The Warriors then won a sectional title, beating Wheaton Warrenville South in a sectional final to earn the plaque at the IHSA Class 4A Bartlett Willowbrook’sSectional.memorable 2021 season ended with a loss to Mother McAuley in an IHSA super-section al match on the Mighty Macs’ home court.Willowbrook head coach Irene Mason said this year’s team, which includes several returning players from last season, has discussed the success of 2021. Most of the War riors’ focus, however, is concentrated on the current season. “We talked about it, just to re member the feeling of what it was like when we were one game away with that super-sectional loss,” said Mason after Willowbrook’s sea son-opening win over Bartlett on Aug. 22. “Other than that, we’re for getting about last year, and we’ve got a new team that’s doing things and our goal is to be better than last year.”
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“We never really established any thing offensively,” said Willowbrook coach Nick Hildreth after the game. “We couldn’t do anything to take the pressure off of our defense.” Hildreth noted that a couple of Wil lowbrook miscues gave the Dons great field position on their first two touch down drives. One of those miscues took place when the Warriors were at tempting a punt and missed a blocking assignment. Willowbrook also turned the ball over on an interception to put the Dons in position for another touch downNotredrive.Dame scored its first touch down on a 7-yard run in the first quar ter. The Dons added another 7-yard touchdown run in the second quarter. A 9-yard touchdown run at the start of the fourth quarter helped the Dons push their lead to 21-0. Notre Dame scored its final touchdown of the night on a 20-yard pass with about five min utes to play. The Warriors’ season continues with another home game this week. Willowbrook will face Downers Grove North (1-0) this Friday in Villa Park. The Trojans began their season with a 36-13 win over Hoffman Estates. The Warriors will begin their West Suburban Gold Conference schedule when they travel to Proviso East on Sept. 9.
The Willowbrook girls tennis team edged Glenbard East 4-3 in last week’s dual meet in Villa Park. The Aug. 25 competition between nearby schools featured three singles matches and four doubles contests. Willowbrook senior Molly Brennan (above left) earned a 6-2, 6-1 win in the No. 1 singles match. The Warriors’ No. 1 doubles team of juniors Lauren Carson (above mid dle) and Jasmine Langston (above right) delivered a 6-2, 6-4 victory. Willowbrook’s tandem of senior Maggie Anderson and junior Brenda Martinez prevailed at No. 2 doubles. Anderson and Martinez won the first set 7-6 and lost the second set 6-2. The pair of Warriors secured a 10-7 win in the tiebreaker. Willowbrook’s No. 3 doubles team of sophomores Ella Lopez and Avery Solis also won in a tiebreaker. Like their teammates at No. 2 doubles, Lopez and Solis won the first set 7-6, lost the second set 6-2 and prevailed 10-7 in the tiebreaker. The Warriors opened their season with a 7-0 win over Elmwood Park on Aug. 22.
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“And if you did the math at the time, the math would show that East St. Louis literally could not tax itself enough to generate the funds needed to say that the school district has an adequate level of spending to achieve the results that we as a state expect of that school district. They literally could not tax themselves into equity. It was mathematically impossible.”
History of inequity Illinois has traditionally relied on local property taxes to fund most educational spending. That has au tomatically led to built-in inequities because districts with relatively low levels of property wealth per-pupil must levy higher tax rates to raise the same amount of money as wealthier districts.Tooffset those differences, pri or to adoption of the EBF formula, the state used a complex formula to distribute state aid that was supposed to guarantee districts with modest tax bases a certain minimum level of “foundational” funding, although even the wealthiest districts received aid under that formula, even if they were more than able to raise ade quate funding on their own.
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But state courts have consistent ly declined to get into the school fi nance fray. As far back as 1973, the Illinois Supreme Court ruled that that provision was merely “a hortatory expression of a goal to be achieved” and not a mandate for the state to take over school funding.
Many districts complained that the formula never lived up to its promise of guaranteeing adequate funding to all districts, in part because the Gen eral Assembly did not fully fund the formula. Instead, it distributed “pro rated” amounts, based on how much money was available in the state bud get at the time. Manar cited the example of Har risburg High School, in southern Illi nois, where the ceiling of the library
By Peter Hancock CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS
The EBF formula After more than a year of nego tiations, Illinois lawmakers finally struck a deal that would, over a pe riod of years, put more state mon ey into public schools to bring the least-funded districts up to a level of adequacy – assuming, of course, that the General Assembly lives up to its obligations.Thefinal vote came during a spe cial summer session in August 2017, during which lawmakers also ended the two-year budget stalemate with Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner. The goal of the new formula is to gradually bring all districts up to an “adequate” level of funding, or having enough resources to cover the cost of providing the educational services the state expects. That takes into account a district’s total enroll
Five years ago last month, Illinois lawmakers passed legislation that overhauled the way public schools in the state are funded. The so-called Evidence Based Funding formula, or EBF, was de signed to calculate the actual cost for each district to provide the kind of education the state expects, and then gradually increase the share of that cost that’s paid for by the state. Over time, it was also supposed to narrow the disparity between the best-funded and worst-funded dis tricts in the state, with the hope of lowering property taxes and improv ing academic achievement in the most underfunded districts.
New money slowly closing state funding equity gap for public schools had been removed because the dis trict didn’t have enough money for basic repairs and maintenance.
“I use the example of East St. Louis, that I think at the time had the highest property tax rate but was no where near adequate spending,” said Andy Manar, a former state senator and now deputy governor who was a chief architect of the plan.
In 1990, a group of 50 school districts calling themselves the Committee for Educational Rights sued the state claiming the system produced vast disparities in educa tional resources between rich and poor districts in violation of several provisions of the Illinois Constitu tion, including its equal protection clause and a clause requiring the state to provide “an efficient system of high-quality public educational institutions and services.”
“And, you know, we held a town hall on school funding in that li brary—the location underscored the need for the bill,” he said. “And Har risburg High School wasn’t unlike so many other places across Illinois, not just rural parts of the state. It was a result of years of proration of general state aid, and years of the inability to tackle the very complicated nature of school funding.”
But when that case reached the Il linois Supreme Court six years later, the justices ruled there were no judi cial standards to determine whether the state was providing “high-qual ity” education and that the decision about how to fund schools—and how to balance the competing interests of equity and local control—was a leg islative matter, not a judicial one.
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In fiscal year 2018, the first year under the formula, the East St. Louis district was funded at 66 percent of adequacy. This year, it is funded at 96 percent of Republicanadequacy.state Sen. Chapin Rose, who represents a largely ru ral area in east central Illinois, said many of the districts in his area faced the same challenge. “I do think that for many of the areas I represent, it was a lifeline,” he said. “It’s kept doors open and, in some instances, provided a much needed infusion, because they simply couldn’t keep going back to the prop erty tax well. That was dried up.”
For decades, school districts across Illinois tried to turn to state courts to correct the inequities, argu ing among other things that the 1970 Illinois Constitution provides that, “The State has the primary respon sibility for financing the system of public education.”
Five years later, huge disparities still exist among districts, both in funding and academic performance, but lawmakers from both parties who were part of negotiating the new law say it has provided huge benefits, es pecially to those schools that were most underfunded.
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I hope Trump is eventually pros ecuted and goes to jail, but if Trump somehow gets through this, I bet the Trumpians will force Republicans to nominate him in 2024. And to that I say go right ahead. Nothing would gal vanize me and millions of others more than to go into the voting booth and casting my vote for whoever is running against him.
I see a judge has allowed Oakbrook Terrace to reactivate the red-light cam eras and the amount of corruption with these red-light cameras is ridiculous, as these are nothing but more reve nue-generating attacks against citizens of this country. These red-light camera operators need to have their licenses revoked. Lawsuits against them, for milking the citizens, need to be initi ated.
A whopping 4.9 million illegal immigrants have crossed our border since Biden has taken office. This is according to a report from the Fed eration for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), and many have been released into American communities. Nearly 200,000 crossed the border in July alone. Also in July, 2,071 pounds of fentanyl, the equivalent of 469 mil lion lethal doses, and 12,989 pounds of methamphetamine were seized at the southern border. Keep those bor ders open and those illegal immigrants coming, Mr. Biden.* I heard the new IRS agents, all 87,000 of them, will be going after the rich so that they finally pay their fair share of taxes. Well, here’s a quote I found that pretty much debunks that hogwash: “The Joint Committee on Taxation, Congress’ official tax score keeper, says that from 78 percent to 90 percent of the money raised from under-reported income would like ly come from those making less than $200,000 a year. Only 4 percent to 9 percent would come from those mak ing more than $500,000.”***
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So now Trump says he would have given over all the documents he was hiding if he was asked. He was asked, he was subpoenaed and months went by. Of course, we had to go in and get them; there was top secret information there that he may have planned to give to Russia or some other enemy of our great country. I served six years in our military with a top-secret clearance; this information could have affected every one of us, our children and our grandchildren. He should be convicted and silenced.
It is always easier to talk about and solve future abstract problems than deal with the ones we are facing in the present tense.
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“There are none so blind, as those who will not see” is a quote that ap plies to so many in our community these days. We have hundreds of years of physical records and thousands of years of scientific records that show our climate is changing. Yes, it has changed many, many times, but the change we are now realizing is greater than any from the last couple of thou sand years. Wake up folks; we need to realize this, but not accept that it has to happen without us actually trying to slow it.
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Yeah, regarding the retort to the per son’s comment in last week’s Speak Out. OK, California is pretty much a Marxist state. So there you go. They’re making people do certain things, forc ing them to do certain environmental behaviors that should be voluntary. Basically, they’re whacked and their governor is as well.*
Willowbrook’s boys soccer team began its season with three matches last week. The Warriors earned two wins and a tie in the three contests. Willowbrook opened its season with a 5-1 home win over Elmwood Park on Aug. 23. Two days later, the Warriors faced Glenbard North in a match at the Joe Novy Tournament at Addison Trail High School. Willowbrook trailed the Panthers 1-0 late in the contest, but senior Dali Acuna scored with about 90 seconds to play to even the score; the match ended in a 1-1 tie. The Warriors played another match at the tournament on Saturday, when they faced Syc amore. Willowbrook beat the Spartans 4-0. Sycamore attempted a penalty kick less than two minutes into the match. Upper photo: Wil lowbrook senior goalkeeper Jack Voss dives to make a save on the penalty kick attempt by Sycamore. Above: senior Aiden Amin (No. 23). The Warriors are scheduled to continue play In the Joe Novy Tournament this week.
The Willowbrook boys soccer team opened its 2022 season with three matches last week. The War riors earned a pair of victories and a tie in those three matches to kick off their campaign with a 2-0-1 re cord.
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Team posts 5-1 win in its first match; Willowbrook then earns a tie and a win at the Joe Novy Tournament
Willowbrook began its season with a 5-1 home victory over El mwood Park on Aug. 23. The War riors played their next two matches at the Joe Novy Tournament at Ad dison Trail High School. Willow brook scored a late goal in playing Glenbard North to a 1-1 tie on Aug. 25. Two days later, the Warriors de feated Sycamore 4-0. Senior Aiden Amin scored two goals in Willowbrook’s sea son-opening win over Elmwood Park. Sophomore Vinni DaSilva, junior Liron Ebema and junior Lu cas Bohm scored one goal each for the Warriors, who held a 2-0 half timeGlenbardlead. North scored early in the second half of last week’s match in Addison to take a 1-0 lead over the WillowbrookWarriors.evened the score when senior Dali Acuna delivered the equalizer with about 90 seconds to play.Sycamore attempted a penalty kick less than two minutes into Sat urday’sWillowbrookcontest. senior goalkeeper Jack Voss dove to his left to make a save on the play. Voss also saved a penalty kick during the season opener against Elmwood Park. Senior Ricardo Acosta scored Willowbrook’s first goal of Sat urday’s match. DaSilva assisted Acosta’s goal. Bohm then scored on a penalty kick to give the Warriors a 2-0 lead during the first half. DaSilva pushed the lead to 3-0 when he provided a second-half goal with an assist from Voss. Bohm added his second goal of the match later in the second half. Amin assisted Bohm on the final goal of the contest. Voss and junior Carlos Garcia shared Willowbrook’s goalkeeping duties during Saturday’s shutout.
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Wake up, Americans. The FBI’s raid on Trump’s residence is just the begin ning of the country as a police state un der the Democrats who want to change America. Their next plan is expanding the IRS to attack their adversaries. Venezuela might not look like a bad place for future retirement.***
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* So there is a big bailout coming for student loan debt. Don’t get me wrong, I think college tuition is way too high, as are the interest rates, but the idea of those of us who either paid off our student loan debts, didn’t go to college because of the cost or are otherwise swimming in our own cesspool of fi nancial downfalls having to pay for someone else’s student loan debt is just ridiculous on its face. What a way to buy young voters. And what is to stop higher learning institutions from charging even more tuition, knowing that there will be some student loan debt forgiveness? I think it is time to restructure how student loans are set up, and definitely lower the interest rate. My own son’s rate went up from around 4 percent to 8 percent while he was in college in the mid-2000s, thanks to Obama.
If you are a laborer or tradesman, every doctor, lawyer and professional thank you for paying for their college loan debt. This administration doesn’t care about you. Keep the shiny Trump ball in front of you as an excuse to pro vide handouts to those who don’t need them. Inflation, layoffs, bad interna tional deals, higher taxes and growing deficits. We cannot keep voting for these people who are only interested in taking care of themselves. Just because you have always voted blue doesn’t mean you need to continue. Orange Man was bad, but his policies provid ed lower taxes, no inflation, a growing economy and fuel *independence.**
“The kids are believing and working hard,” said Victor Lopez— the Warriors’ first-year coach—fol lowing Saturday’s victory over Sycamore.TheWarriors’ schedule this week includes a match at Wheaton Warrenville South, along with an other tournament match at Addison Trail. Willowbrook will face Provi so West in this week’s tournament match.Avictory in that battle could propel Willowbrook to this Satur day’s championship contest of the Joe Novy Tournament. If the War riors and Glenbard North both have 2-1 tournament records, a tiebreak er (most goals scored during the tournament) will determine which team will play in the championship match.
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The gap between the least-funded and best-funded districts has also nar rowed, if only slightly. During the first year, funding levels ranged from a low of 47 percent to a high of 288 percent of adequacy. This year, the gap ranges from 59 percent to 270 percent. Gov. JB Pritzker said during a re cent news conference he believes the state must continue to increase its investment in education to increase outcomes and decrease reliance on property taxes. “A lot of good has been done, there’s no doubt about it,” he said.
In the first year of evidence-based funding, there were 168 districts that were funded at less than 60 percent of adequacy. Those were the ones that were first in line for new funding when the EBF formula took effect.
So far, though, there is little evi dence that the new money has helped improve academic performance for students because the COVID-19 pan demic severely interfered with annual testing in 2020 and 2021. Prior to the pandemic, though, the connection between school funding and student achievement was evident. For example, in 2019, the last year before the pandemic, Central City School District 133, an elementary district in Marion County, was the least-funded district in the state at 52 percent of adequacy. That year, only 26.8 percent of its students met or ex ceeded state standards in English lan guage arts, and only 8.5 percent did so in Bymath.contrast, Rondout School Dis trict 72, an elementary district in Lake County, was the best-funded district, at 280 percent of adequacy. There, 65.1 percent met or exceeded state standards in English language arts while 49.4 percent did so in math. Like many states, Illinois did not administer state assessments in 2020 due to the pandemic, and results from the 2021 tests are believed to have been affected by the pandemic. Re sults of the 2022 tests will be released later this Barickmanyear. recalled there was a debate over whether to tie increased ence, CEJA backers praised planned transmission upgrades from MISO, noting “they must move faster to ap prove these renewable energy proj ects that will bring down prices and improve grid reliability.”
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NOTICE is further given that a Public Hearing on said Budget and Appropria tion Ordinance will be held at 6:45 p.m. on the 28th day of September, 2022, at the Bensenville Park District, 1000 W. Wood Street, Bensenville, IL and that final ac tion on said Ordinance will be taken by the Board of Trustees of said BENSENVILLE FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT NO. 1 at a meeting thereof, to be held at 7:00 P.M. on the 28th day of September, immediately following said Public Hearing. Published by Order of the Board of Trustees of Said District. (Published in the Addison Independent, Bensenville Independent & Villa Park Review Sept. 1, 2022) 424123
funding to improved student out comes, to hold districts accountable for the new money they would re ceive. In the end, he said, lawmakers chose to go another route by pairing the new funding system with a form of taxpayer-supported scholarships for private schools, what is now known as the Invest in Kids Act.
So far in the first five years, the state has met or exceeded that fund ing target in all but one year, raising the state’s share of school funding from $6.9 billion in fiscal year 2017, the last year under the old formula, to $9.8 billion allocated this year. It also drove the state’s percentage of K-12 education upward, according to ISBE data. In FY 2017, the state provided 24.4 percent of K-12 fund ing. In FY 2020, the latest year for which audited numbers are available, that number rose to 27 percent.
“It was a politically practical, prag matic decision,” he said. “I was very focused on getting something done. And it was very apparent to me that we weren’t going to get something done without a hold-harmless. So while I think a hold-harmless has pol icy challenges, we weren’t going to let perfection get in the way of getting something done.”
Jerry Nowicki is the bureau Chief of Capitol News Illinois, a nonprofit, nonpartisan news service covering state government that is distributed to more than 400 newspapers state wide. It is funded primarily by the Il linois Press Foundation and the Rob ert R. McCormick Foundation.
Republican Sen. Jason Barickman, of Bloomington, who was also a key negotiator in the process, agreed that it was politically necessary.
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING AND MEETING NOTICE is hereby given that a Tenta tive Budget and Appropriation Ordinance for the Bensenville Fire Protection District No. 1, in the County of DuPage and State of Illinois, for the fiscal year beginning the 1st day of June, 2022 and ending on the 31st day of May 2023, is on file and conve niently available for public inspection at the Bensenville Park District, 1000 W. Wood Street, Bensenville, Illinois.
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“It’s a living breathing formula, and it changes year to year, and so the mechanics of the formula eventu ally fade that out,” Manar said. “But I think it brought a level of certainty. It brought a level of guarantee and, frankly, a level of comfort to a very complicated question of how we re form a very complicated and import ant system … so a lot of people didn’t like it. I personally did not. But it was necessary to get it done.”
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For the upcoming year, there are only two districts below that level— Washington Community High School District 308 in Tazewell County and Chaney-Monge School District 88, an elementary district in Will County. Both are funded this year at 59 per cent of adequacy.
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“And as you know, Evidence Based Funding was both necessary to get money to the schools that needed it most and to make sure that we’re im proving the education funding over all, across the state of Illinois. I per sonally think that we need to fund our education system even more.”
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Signs of progress According to data from the Illinois State Board of Education, it would still take another $3.6 billion in state funding this year alone to bring all districts up to 90 percent of “ade quate” funding, a goal set in statute. But the state has made some progress toward addressing the needs of the least-funded districts.
Another possibility is that gen erators who have been bidding into northern Illinois capacity markets see the higher premiums being paid downstate and decide they’ll sell their capacity commitments else where.Given the complexity of energy generation, those are just a few of numerous factors that will determine whether “brownouts” go from ab stract political talking point to reality in Illinois and elsewhere.
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Football watch parties Beginning Sept. 11, football fans are invited to the 37 Bar & Grill to watch football on Sundays. The fun begins at 11:30 a.m. and lasts until 8 p.m. A new buffet menu will be available.
Godfrey recommends starting the day off with a round of golf.
This is the time of year when bats are most active and the DuPage County Health Department is warn ing residents to never touch or try to catch a bat or wild animal, especially in your Rabieshome.isa virus that affects the nervous system of humans and oth er mammals. Humans can get rabies after being bitten by an infected an imal. Rabies can also be contracted when saliva from a rabid animal gets directly into the eyes, nose, mouth, or a wound. Without preventive treatment, rabies is typically a fatal disease.Bats are the primary carriers of rabies in Illinois. You cannot tell by looking at a bat if it is rabid. The an imal does not have to be aggressive or exhibit other symptoms to have rabies. Any wild mammal, such as a raccoon, skunk, fox, coyote, or bat, can have rabies and transmit it to hu mans.Several potential human exposures to rabies have been reported already in 2022, and preventive treatment has been recommended for 43 DuPage County residents to date in 2022, by their healthcare provider and/or pub lic health officials. Four bats have tested positive for rabies in DuPage County in 2022 to date. Changes in any animal’s normal behavior, such as difficulty walking or an overall appearance of illness, can be early signs of rabies. A bat that is active during the day, found on the ground, and unable to fly is more likely to be rabid. Such bats should never be touched or handled. If you have been bitten or exposed to a bat, seek immediate medical attention. Bat bites may not be felt while sleeping, and special con sideration needs to be taken when a person awakens to a bat and also when a bat is found in the room with a previously unattended child, men tally disabled person, or intoxicated person. Preventive treatment with ra bies immune globulin and a vaccine series must begin immediately.
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The course now offers a breakfast menu that includes a variety of fresh, made-to-order breakfast sandwiches, eggs, and pancakes as well as coffee and juices and more. Breakfast service will be available daily until 11 a.m. “Come on out before work or before you play for the breakfast at 37 Bar & Grill,” said White Pines PGA manager Andrew Godfrey. “The all-new breakfast menu will be available to patrons for a sit-down meal or to-go.”
“We are excited to have everyone over to White Pines to watch the games on Sundays,” he said. “With our new flat screen TVs and a buffet starting at 11:30 a.m., you’ll feel right at home watching your favorite team play.”
• Teach children never to handle unfamiliar animals, wild or domestic, even if they appear friendly. “Love your own, leave other animals alone” is a good principle for children to learn to reduce the risk of exposure to rabid animals.
County health department: Be safe, never touch a bat
The White Pines Golf Club has begun serving breakfast at its 37 Bar & Grill, located next to the pro shop within the club, 500 W. Jefferson, Bensenville.
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Beginning Friday evening, Sept. 16, and every Friday following, White Pines will host a fish fry from 5 to 8 p.m. Enjoy the great golf course views in the restaurant or bring it home.
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Club’s 37 Bar & Grill now offers breakfast service
“Fish fry is back every Friday—not just during Lent,” Godfrey said. “We will have a special menu for Friday nights in 37 Bar & Grill. We are looking forward to offering this all winter long.”
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