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State AG announces milliondollar retail crime bust
Attorney General Kwame Raoul calls recent retail crime sting ‘first major bust’ resulting from the work of the Organized Retail Crime Task Force By JERRY NOWICKI Capitol News Illinois
SPRINGFIELD – An unrelated arrest by the Chicago Police Department on Sunday led to a state task force this week seizing millions of dollars’ worth of goods stolen from retailers in what Attorney General Kwame Raoul described as an organized retail crime operation. Raoul announced the raid in a news conference Friday, Dec. 3, calling it the “first major bust” resulting from the work of the Organized Retail Crime Task Force overSee RETAIL CRIME on page 8
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vfpress.news A family enjoys the Electric Lights Festival along the Prairie Path near Taft Avenue in Berkeley on Dec. 2. The Festival runs through Jan. 9. See more holiday photos around Proviso Township on page 2. Michael Romain
Maywood exploring park district control of Fred Hampton pool
Park district officials also looking at taking over operations at two multipurpose buildings in village By MICHAEL ROMAIN Editor
Back in June, the village of Maywood’s Board of Trustees finally hammered out an agreement to turn over six parks to the Maywood Park District, as part of a refer-
endum that a majority of voters approved in 2006. Now that an agreement is in place that would hand over the remaining parks, the village is entertaining turning over responsibility for other recreational assets that it still controls — namely the Fred Hampton Aquatic Center and two multipurpose
buildings at 200 S. 5th Ave. and 1100 S. 11th Ave. According to a June memo drafted by the village’s law firm, Maywood Park District officials are requesting that the village allow the district to “manage, operate, maintain and use” the two buildings. District officials
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