the village free press Vol. II No. 27
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JULY 4, 2018
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D209 ousts Aramark Sodexo to start serving meals in the fall By MICHAEL ROMAIN Editor
Starting in the fall, Proviso Township High Schools District 209 students and employees will be eating breakfasts and lunches provided by another food services management company. During a June 12 regular meeting, the D209 school board voted 6-0 to replace Aramark Education Services — the Philadelphiabased company with which the district had contracted for eight years to facilitate its free meals program — with Sodexo, a food services and facilities management company based in France. Board member Rodney Alexander abstained. Sodexo’s $1.4 million bid was the thirdhighest among five bids — three of which were accepted. Aramark’s $1.3 million bid was the second-lowest, but it was rejected by the district because it didn’t meet an important criteria in the bid document, which allowed district officials to reject the bid of a company that “has previously failed to perform properly” within the district. District officials said that, although Sodexo was not the lowest bidder, it was See D209 on page 4
SHANEL ROMAIN
MEN IN PINK: Bellwood District 88 Supt. Mark Holder was among the participants during the June 30 Pink Divas and Gents Walk/Run, an event planned by Village Clerk Janel Moreland to raise awareness about, and funds for, breast cancer. Read more on page 6.
Broadview wins court fight against strip club Judges dismiss Chicago Joe’s requests for relief, another appeal still possible By MICHAEL ROMAIN Editor
An 11-year-old conflict that pitted the village of Broadview against a deeppocked and purposefully obscure group of
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developers looking to build a strip club may have been resolved once and for all on June 29. That’s when a Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a federal judge’s decision
to dismiss a request for injunctive relief brought by Chicago Joe’s Tea Room, LLC. and Pervis Conway against the village. See BROADVIEW COURT FIGHT on page 6
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