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D91 plans to ditch letter grades

Standards-based report cards begin next school year

By MARIA MAXHAM Staff Reporter

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CAMILLE ET FAMILLE: RoseMary Gange, owner of Camille et Famille at 7418 Madison St., is retiring after owning the business for almost 30 years. The experience, she says, “has been a real gift.” See story on page 6.

Five years after Proviso East fire, court says pay up Appellate court reverses circuit court ruling

By MICHAEL ROMAIN Staff Reporter

An Illinois Appellate Court ruled earlier this year that Proviso Township High

School District 209 has to pay the roughly $1.4 million it owes Restore Construction Company for emergency repairs that took place after a fire that broke out at Proviso East High School in 2014. The appellate court’s decision reverses a 2017 decision by the Circuit Court of Cook County, which dismissed a lawsuit Restore had filed in order to secure the balance.

The two-alarm fire on May 10, 2014

broke out in the second-floor social room at the high school, with smoke spreading to the third-floor chemistry labs. Roughly two weeks later, on May 22, former D209 Supt. Nettie Collins-Hart signed two contracts on behalf of the district — one with “Restore Restoration to mitigate and remediate fire damage and the other with

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District 91 will transition away from letter grades and switch to standards-based report cards (SBRC) beginning in the 2020-2021 school year.

Math and ELA (English and Language Arts) will be graded using a rubric that descriptively assesses a student’s grasp of different concepts rather than a letter grade, such as A, B, C or a percentage.

Other subjects may still be graded in the traditional way, so parents and students can expect a hybrid report card initially as the district transitions to standards-based reporting for all subjects.

James Edler, director of Innovative Instruction for D91, said standards-based reporting has the benefit of assisting teachers in being very clear and specific about what students are expected to learn and pinpointing where students need more work.

“Teachers can look for misconceptions that arise and determine how to integrate what needs work into learning opportunities,” said Edler about classes where standards-based learning and reporting is the norm. “Homework is more intentional. It supports learning and connecting to what’s being taught in the

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Crossing guard crosses over

olidays can bring joy or sorrow, togetherness or loss. Our Forest Park family lost a gentle soul, when longtime crossing guard, Karen Stuart, passed away from cancer on Nov. 22 at the age of 59. Karen had manned her post at Desplaines & Jackson for 15 years.

She was our neighbor and we frequently saw her. Sometimes she would walk with us to festivities at The Park. Last summer, Karen and I sat with Mayor Hoskins at the No Gloves Tournament and chatted through an entire game.

Not that Karen said much. She rarely talked about herself. Her cousins, Mary Carnis and Dorothy Stuart, recounted Karen’s life for me. Mary still remembers the day “Karie Lou” was born. She was the only child of Tom and Joan Stuart.

Karen’s father was a pioneer in computer programming. Her mom was a homemaker who also suffered from cancer. Because of her mom’s poor health, Karen was initially raised by her grandparents. When she was 5, she rejoined her folks in Forest Park and attended the public schools. Joan died when Karen was 10, and she moved with her father to Oak Park.

A graduate of OPRF High School, she attended Word of Life Bible College in Pottersville, NY. Karen wasn’t preachy or pious but she was deeply religious. It ran in her family. Her grandfather, Benjamin Stuart, was a prominent Presbyterian minister, who toured with Billy Sunday (now buried

attitude and told people not to worry about in Forest Home Cemetery). her, that she would be fine. But the cancer Karen became a churchgoer progressed rapidly and she entered hospice. after attending a Bible camp as Even then, she remained in good spirits. a teenager.

This time of year was Karen’s favorite.

The camp was near Green She loved going downtown to see the departBay, Wisconsin, where Karen ment store windows, was very outgoing and spent summers with her cousloved to laugh. Nothing seemed to bother ins. During these visits, Karen her. She was very excited about moving displayed her artistic talent from her garden apartment to a newly-conat drawing and painting. She structed apartment at Forest Oaks. painted words and logos for Karen was ever-vigilant about our vilan awning company and also lage. She talked often about the students sold artwork at the Women’s she safeguarded and complained about Exchange in Oak Park. goofy drivers, ugly graffiti and Karen never married rowdy funeral processions. but developed many friends.

Last week, the police deShe was a member of Calvary partment invited residents Memorial Church in Oak to write messages to KarPark, where she met her en on her crossing guard lifelong friend, Beverly stop sign. Mayor Hoskins Andre. They were roomand Karen’s colleague, mates in Forest Park for Dora, were planning to seven years. Karen showed present it to her but this Beverly how to get around wasn’t to be. on the CTA. We will have another Karen never drove. She chance, though, to honor Karen. walked everywhere, or took Forest Park Baptist Church, public transportation. She didn’t Karen Stuart which Karen attended for 15 smoke, rarely drank a beer, and years, is hosting a memorial for her on Dec. cooked wholesome meals. Karen hadn’t 7, from 3 to 6 p.m. Family, friends and resiseen a doctor in 40 years. So when Dorothy dents are invited. It will be the kind of getcalled Beverly because she couldn’t reach together that Karen wouldn’t have missed.

Karen, her old friend became concerned.

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Making way for progress

Remember Bishop’s Chili, a successful Chicago restaurant opened by Mary “Ma” Bishop in the 1920’s on 18th and Damon?

Her son, George branched off and continued the family business by opening a second location to the west in Forest Park at the intersection of Roosevelt and Elgin in the 1950’s.

Joe Janouch, Vice President of Bishop’s was interviewed in 1992 and said, “I think some of our success comes from the fact that we’ve kept this a family business and we’ve stuck to one recipe all these years.”

Janouch was careful not to reveal the secret mixture that gave Bishop’s chili its spicy kick.

He only shared that the secret recipe included meat, beans, onions and spices. The chili does not include tomato paste, flour or brown sugar.

This favorite restaurant on the south end of town expanded west again in 1970’s to Westmont.

In the early 1990s, Bishop’s Chili, after 36 years in Forest Park, was demolished to make way for Walgreens, now at the corner of Roosevelt and Harlem, which fills the corner all the way to Elgin.

In November of 1966, Vogel’s, a Forest Park landmark, was demolished to make way for progress.

George Vogel Sr. had opened a tavern-roadhouse and picnic grounds at the corner of Harlem Avenue and Harrison Street around 1895, when much of the land was still a prairie. Around 1911, he built two bowling alleys, which were so successful he expanded the business. When George Vogel Sr. passed away in 1923 his two sons, George Jr. and William, took over the tavern.

The two-story building had been built in four stages with a dining room and bowling alley. The Vogel brothers added a baseball field where they hosted semipro baseball games. Later, the stadium was named Parichy Stadium, home to the Parichy Bloomer Girls of the National Girls’ Baseball League during the 1940s and 1950s. The creation of the Eisenhower Expressway eliminated some of the land that once was the stadium.

Replacing Vogel’s in this 1966 photo was a Chrysler dealership, which was replaced by U-Haul in 1978. Visit ForestParkReview.com for more photos.

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New housing for those with disabilities opens soon IFF project consists of three properties

By MARIA MAXHAM Staff reporter

Three brand new properties geared for people with disabilities are almost ready for occupancy in Forest Park. These newly constructed units, part of a project three years in the making, will be finished by the end of November, according to Dena Bell, lead developer of IFF, the organization responsible for funding and building the housing. The homes are located at 1006 Circle Ave. and 903 and 906 Ferdinand Ave. IFF, which was originally known as Illinois Facilities Fund, began in 1988. When the organization expanded services beyond Illinois into other states, it changed its name to IFF, describing itself as “a mission-driven lender, real estate consultant, and developer that helps communities thrive by creating opportunities for low-income communities and people with disabilities.” It’s a Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) as certified by the U.S. Department of the Treasury. The CDFI Fund was established to provide economic development opportunities in low-income communities

through funding and tax credit allocation.

Bell said the Forest Park facilities are part of a bigger network that includes Bellwood, Berwyn and Maywood.

“There are a total of 16 buildings for people with disabilities of all types,” said Bell. The Forest Park and Maywood buildings should be completed by the end of November, and the Bellwood properties by the end of 2019. The application process for the units is finished; residents will rent the homes from IFF. In Forest Park, the organization purchased three vacant and foreclosed properties and demolished the existing structures.

In their place, energy efficient and ADAcompliant residences have been built. IFF housing focuses on accessibility for a variety of disabilities, including apartments with visual alarms for deaf people.

In addition, IFF has partnered with the Progress Center for Independent Living in Forest Park to make sure the residents in the new homes are connected to the organization and the community.

Bell said working in Forest Park to develop the housing was a positive experience.

“Tim Gillian [village administrator] and Steve Glinke [director of Public Health and Safety] were amazing to work with,” she said.

The village, in turn, is happy to have IFF

ALEX ROGALS/Staff Photographer

BRAND NEW: Three new properties in Forest Park, including this one at 1006 Circle Ave., will provide well-built ADA accessible homes for people with disabilities. as a partner in the community.

“It’s great that IFF will continue to manage the properties. They have skin in the game,” said Glinke. “IFF has been a pleasure to work with. They brought in great architects and replaced troubled properties

with quality, well-built housing.”

The village benefitted from the teardowns in other ways as well. Glinke said they were used by the Forest Park police and fire departments for training and practice prior to demolition, as properties in the village sometimes are.

No to armed teachers in Illinois schools School boards vote against guns in classrooms

By MARIA MAXHAM Staff Reporter

For the second year in a row, Illinois school boards voted against a proposed resolution that would force the Illinois Association of School Boards (IASB) to support legislation allowing educational districts to decide for themselves whether to allow teachers to be trained and armed at school.

This year’s vote, which took place on Nov. 23 at the IASB annual meeting, was 198 in favor of adopting the resolution and 249 against. Had it passed, the IASB would actively work to support legislation that would allow local school districts to choose for themselves whether they want to arm teachers. It would not mandate that they have to do so.

According to a press release from the IASB, “The intent of the proposed resolution was to give local school districts the authority to decide what is best for their communities in the areas of school safety and student protection. The resolution was sup-

ported primarily by rural school districts with concerns about emergency response time and lack of financial resources to employ school resource officers.”

Local school districts, including District 91 (Forest Park), District 97 (Oak Park) and District 90 (River Forest) all sent delegates to the IASB meeting on Nov. 23 to vote against the resolution.

Kyra Tyler, D91 board president, verified that board member Kim Rostello, the district’s delegate at the meeting, voted against the resolution.

“We are saddened that this is something that people think is a viable solution because we would never want to put that responsibility on our teachers,” said Tyler.

“They have enough to contend with as edu-

cational professionals, and we don’t see this as an appropriate use of their talents. We are thrilled it didn’t pass and hope it will be defeated should it come up again.”

At an October board of education meeting, River Forest D90 board Vice President Barb Hickey said she would be serving as delegate this year as she did in 2018 when the topic was previously voted on.

With the board’s approval, she voted against the resolution in 2018 and planned to again in 2019, but she said the discussion at the IASB meeting on the topic was “valuable and interesting.” Hickey stated that most of the school districts supporting the resolution in 2018 were from rural communities where 911 response time could be up to half an hour.

“They have different concerns,” she said.

But she expressed in no uncertain terms how River Forest school board members stand on the issue. “Our district does not want guns in our schools,” said Hickey.

A related resolution was passed at the IASB meeting on Nov. 23. This resolution calls for the IASB to support legislation that would provide state school safety grants for hiring school resource officers or security personnel.

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Brick with note thrown through window tin Boulevard and entering the I-290 expressway.

A brick was thrown through the front living room window of a home on the 8200 block of Roosevelt Road, Nov. 22 around 6:45 p.m. The victim saw the offender running west on Roosevelt Road toward First Avenue, but police were unable to find the assailant, who was described as a black male wearing black “khakis” and a black hoodie.

The brick was wrapped in a piece of paper with writing on it, but the police report did not indicate what was written on that paper.

Man violates parole with cognac

Red Ford tricks officer The driver of a 2013 red four-door Ford sedan eluded police on Nov. 21 just after midnight. The officer observed the car, with window tints in obvious violation of law, and an expired registration. When the officer pursued the car, he activated his emergency lights, and the red car continued onto I-290, where it pulled over onto the right shoulder. When the officer pulled over behind the car and got out of his vehicle, the red car sped away. The registered owner of the car currently has four suspensions of his Illinois Driver’s License, according to the police report.

Black Jeep flees police A black Jeep Cherokee with a “not issued” temporary registration plate fled from police on Nov. 23 at 10:24 p.m. The driver, upon seeing the police officer, quickly got into the car and drove from the parking lot of the Thornton’s gas station at 500 Harlem Ave., heading north on Harlem Avenue. The offi-

cer pulled his squad car behind the vehicle and activated the emergency lights and sirens to initiate a traffic stop, but the vehicle continued on. The Jeep turned east onto Madison Street and accelerated “at a high rate of speed” away from the police car, running through a red light in Oak Park, where Oak Park Police Department units reported seeing the vehicle driving “extremely recklessly” on Madison before turning onto Aus-

Lead Bus Driver Wanted Forest Park School District 91

A man on parole for aggravated robbery using a fake handgun was pulled over on Nov. 23 at 11:36 p.m. A magazine for a Smith & Wesson handgun with live ammunition and an open container of Martel cognac were found in his car. The driver, who was stopped for speeding, did not have any photo identification on him. At the police station, he refused to speak. He was issued citations for failing to signal before a turn and transporting open alcohol. A parole violation warrant is being issued by the Illinois Department of Corrections.

These items were obtained from police reports filed by the Forest Park Police Department, Nov. 18-24, and represent a portion of the incidents to which police responded.

Unless otherwise indicated, anybody named in these reports has only been charged with a crime. These cases have not been adjudicated.

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‘Familiar’ boutique closing after three decades Camille et Famille owner retires on her own terms

By MARIA MAXHAM Staff Reporter

After almost 30 years as the owner of Camille et Famille, RoseMary Gange is retiring and closing the doors of an apparel and accessories shop that became a gathering place.

“It has been a real gift,” said Gange about her long-running business. “When I first opened Camille et Famille, my goal was income, not the rich wonderful life I’ve had.

Not the glorious coworkers and customers that have become like family.”

Gange is the kind of person who makes you feel at home. Her welcoming energy belies her 69 years.

“I want people to know they’re capable of anything. I want women to feel good about themselves no matter their age. I want them to feel better when they leave my store, to buy things that make them look great now, not after they lose the 20 pounds they’ve wanted to lose for years.”

Her passion to make her customers feel at home and better about themselves began when she started her business in 1990, opening a shop in Oak Park.

“I knew nothing when I first opened,” said Gange with a laugh. “I wanted to surround myself with beautiful things that were mostly American made.

“I sold lots of Christmas ornaments then.

People would send me photos of their family opening Camille boxes. They would come into the store to buy ornaments that represented facets of their lives. Being part of people’s celebrations was incredibly meaningful.”

She added purses and jackets, which sold well. When she moved into a bigger space in 1992, she decided to add clothing.

“Again, I knew nothing about it.” She started going to apparel shows to look for clothing she liked. “I wanted a good price

ALEX ROGALS/Staff Photographer

LIKE FAMILY: RoseMary Gange, owner of Camille et Famille at 7418 Madison St., is retiring after almost 30 years. range so it could be a community store.”

The day she began selling clothes, almost everything sold, and she knew the decision was a good one.

In 1994, Gange opened a branch of her store in Oak Brook. In 1996, as business kept picking up, she expanded her Oak Park shop into the space next door. Two years later, she opened another shop in Park Ridge.

“I had my three-store chain.” But by 2000, she knew she either had to “go big or go home.” Going big meant she’d have to open at least two more shops, since that was the formula for success for chain stores. Instead, she decided to “go home” and focus on her Oak Park shop. She closed all but that location.

Business was good, but in 2008 when her landlord doubled her rent and the economy collapsed, she closed shop. When the stock market crashed, she knew she’d made the right decision.

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I’ll tell them, but always with a suggestion of something I know will look great on their body shape.”

Despite some sadness, she’s happy to be retiring on her own terms. “Financially, it’s been our best year ever in Forest Park,” she said.

The shop will be open into December, and she’s planning a retirement party at Camille et Famille on Dec. 12 at 5 p.m. “I want customers to wear something they bought at the store. Even if it’s something from decades ago,” she said.

Camille is Gange’s middle name, and “Et Famille” means “and family.” And family has been a big part of her business over the years. “Everyone’s worked here,” she said. Her daughter and two sons have contributed, as have her mother-in-law and father-in-law, husband and grandchildren.

“But ‘family’ also applies to my employees and customers,” she said. “It’s been a wonderful experience.”

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Gange, who has lived in Oak Park since 1971, enjoyed her time in Forest Park. “It has a more urban vibe,” she said. “The village is incredible. [The administrators and staff at village hall] have been so easy and accommodating.”

“I feel like I’ve become part of the fabric of the town,” she said. Customers, hearing about her retirement, have come into the shop hugging her and crying. Over the years, she’s received invites to parties from customers who were buying new clothes or partyware for their events.

“There are people I will never see again,” she said. “It breaks my heart. I will miss them.”

She’ll also miss being an integral part of people’s lives when they come in to shop for important events. “My goal has always been to make women feel good about themselves,” said Gange. “I’m always honest about how clothes look on people who try things on. If something doesn’t look good,

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Panda Café holds grand opening on Madison Asian restaurant’s chef trained in China

By MARIA MAXHAM Staff Reporter

Panda Café celebrated its grand opening, Nov. 19, at 7600 Madison St., replacing Big Boss, which temporarily changed its name to Nichi before closing entirely.

New owner John Zhou has taken over. It’s the first restaurant Zhou has owned, though he has extensive kitchen experience.

The face of the restaurant, however, is the vibrant and friendly Simon Wu, manager and head chef. Longtime friends with Zhou, he was invited to help with the opening and establishment of the Forest Park restaurant.

Wu, who has over 20 years working professionally in kitchens, is passionate about cooking.

“If you are a cook, you have to care,” said Wu. He runs an online group where he gives recipe and cooking advice, and one of his greatest joys is teaching people how to prepare dishes. He regularly travels to China to discover new recipes and learn how to cook them.

“One of the most important things about being a chef is knowing that if you yourself wouldn’t eat it, you shouldn’t serve it,” said Wu. “When I learn to make a dish, I make it again and again until it is perfect.”

He brought out a sample of the fried wontons with cream cheese served at Panda Café and explained how he bought as many wonton wrappers locally as he could find, then tried them all until he found the best one to serve.

The same standard applies to sauces, too.

“Our sauces are different because we put a lot of focus on them,” said Wu. For the orange chicken at Panda Café, he uses orange

Revolving restaurants Over the years, many different restaurants have rotated through the building at 7600 Madison St. Since the days of the 24-hour Venture Restaurant, it has housed Ambrosia Café, Bistro Marbuzet, Madison Street Grill and Rocco’s.

In the past decade, there have been six restaurants occupying the space prior to the newest Panda Café: Coral Sushi & Thai 2009-11 Yilin 2012 Bistro Sake 2013-15 Shogun 2016 Big Boss 2016-18 Nichi 2019 Panda Café 2019

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NEW RESTAURANT: Panda Café, 7600 Madison St., opened on Nov. 19. Manager and chef Simon Wu says the cream cheese wontons and sesame chicken are his specialties juice and rind from the fruit to get the right flavor. “The details are important.”

“It’s about bringing quality,” Wu said, adding that the first step is making sure everything is clean. “Washing hands. Cleaning everything all the time. People don’t always realize how important that is.”

Panda Café has a party room available for private events, and their liquor license will be ready to go by Dec. 2, with drink specials including domestic beers. But everything will revolve around the food.

Special orders are not a problem at Panda Café, and Wu plans to allow customer demand to shape the menu. When asked what he’d recommend, he mentioned the cream cheese wontons and chicken wing appetizers and the sesame chicken as an entrée.

“You know sesame chicken is good if, five hours after cooking it, it’s still crispy,” said Wu. Five hours later, it was.

20,000 ice cream cones And other fun facts from the park district Danette Krajewski from the Park District of Forest Park presented these fun facts about how much food was served at the concession stand during the summer of 2019: ■ 20,000 servings of ■ 4,000 slices of

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■ 2,400 orders of

nachos

■ 2,200 hot dogs ■ 2,000 giant pretzels ■ 1,050 funnel cakes ■ 187 gallons of

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■ 744 packages of

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Holiday shopping just for kids

Storytime coffee break Regular story times at the Forest Park Library may be on break, but parents and caregivers can still catch up at our meetup in the cozy downstairs lounge at Counter Coffee, 7324 Madison St. on Dec. 2 from 10:30 to 11 a.m. Bring the kids and grab a coffee or a cafe treat with us. We will have some books and toys available to entertain the kids while the grown-ups chat.

Lantern Haus is sponsoring a shopping event for kids up to age 16 on Nov. 30 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Lan 7414 Madison St. Kids 6 and over are invited to shop under elf supervision, while parents enjoy a break (on premises). Kids 0-6 can shop with their parents and make final purchases in the secret checkout lane. All gifts will be below $15. A free gift-wrapping station is available, and hot cocoa and snacks will be served.

Clothing and toy drive Riveredge Hospital, 8311 Roosevelt Rd., is accepting donations for a Chance the Rapper and SocialWorks collaboration to collect clothing and toys for people in need. Now through Feb. 7 you can drop off new or gently used clothing, ties, socks, gloves, toys, board games and electronics at Riveredge. Call 708-2094181 with questions.

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BIG WEEK Miyazaki Mondays

Join Forest Park Public Library’s Miss Amy for Miyazaki Mondays in the month of December in the YA Lounge at the library, 7555 Jackson Blvd.

Works of anime legend Hayao Miyazaki will be explored, including My Neighbor Totoro, Spirited Away, Howl’s Moving Castle and Princess Mononoke. Participants must be between 12 and 18. The events will be held on Dec. 2, Dec. 9, Dec. 16, Dec. 23 and Dec. 30 from 4 to 6 p.m.

Proviso Township Facility Master Plan meeting

Independents Day Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 Madison St., celebrates independent bookstores with visits from local and national authors who will sit with readers one-on-one to talk about their books. Nov. 30 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Tuesday, Dec. 3 at 6 p.m. at Hillside Village Hall, 425 N. Hillside Ave. in Hillside Thursday, Dec. 5 at 6 p.m. at the Village of Maywood Board Room Chambers, 125 S. 5th Ave. in Maywood The Proviso Township High School District 209 is holding two town hall meetings to inform the public about the new Proviso East and Proviso West Math & Science Academies and the Facility Master Plan.

Christmas Bazaar Shop for ornaments, gifts, soaps, lotions, cookies and candy from the nuns at the famous St. John Chrysostomos Greek Orthodox Monastery in Wisconsin. The event is held at Always in Style at 7516 ½ Madison St. on Dec. 5, 6 and 7 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Contact Irene at 708-366-9583 for more information.

Polar Express and Snowman storytime Join the Forest Park Public Library at Junction Diner, 7401 Madison St., from 12 to 1 p.m. on Dec. 6 for a special reading of favorite winter stories. To guarantee a space, sign up here: bit.ly/37ttmP5

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Zoning proposed for recreational marijuana Village takes steps toward bringing cannabis to town

Permitted use allows businesses to open “by right,” meaning that the two public meetings required for conditionaluse businesses do not apply.

Following is a breakdown of the proposed zoning for recreational cannabis:

By MARIA MAXHAM

Community Shopping District

Staff Reporter

Forest Park moves closer to bringing the production and sale of recreational marijuana to town by taking the first steps toward zoning for cannabis-related businesses.

The Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBA) will hold a public hearing on Dec. 17 at Forest Park Village Hall, 517 Desplaines Ave., 7 p.m., to consider zoning amendments related to recreational marijuana in the village.

Five proposed changes to already existing code will be discussed in consideration of a request by the village of Forest Park, the petitioner.

The first proposed change establishes definitions of the types of cannabis-related operations to be zoned. They include the following: ■ Adult-Use Cannabis Business Establishment ■ Adult-Use Cannabis Craft Grower ■ Adult-Use Cannabis Dispensing Organization ■ Adult-Use Cannabis Infuser Organization ■ Adult-Use Cannabis Processing Organization ■ Adult-Use Cannabis Transporting Organization The other changes involve designating where recreational marijuana dispensaries and processing facilities can open, and whether these businesses will be zoned as permitted or conditional use.

REPORT CARDS No more grades from page 1 classroom. Teachers aren’t collecting homework for grades in a gradebook. They’re assigning work based on evidence that surfaces that helps them know what a student needs to learn next.”

Changing the way students are assessed can have the effect of changing the way subjects are taught. If teachers need to assess children based on a standards-based rubric, assignments and instruction will more tightly align in order to make sure kids are meeting goals in specific areas.

Edler said the district is still in the planning stages, but the report cards will include a “level of learning” with a description and, just as important, what the expectations are.

“This presupposes,” said Edler, “that those expectations have been made clear to the student. It’s a way of breaking down the state standards into ‘I can’ statements for the students.”

“We’re not talking about a checklist of skills,” Edler added. “We’re talking about how the particular skills connect to the bigger concepts, which are connected to the standards the students need to master.”

Ultimately, standards-based reporting can assist in a better understanding between

In these areas, adult-use cannabis dispensing organizations will be added as conditional use within a 500-foot distance of schools and churches. This district includes sections of Roosevelt Road and Harlem Avenue.

Light Industrial District In the light industrial district, growing, cultivating, infusing, processing and transporting cannabis businesses will be allowed as conditional use. This district includes the area south of Roosevelt Road to 16th Street between Hannah Avenue and Circle Avenue.

Downtown Business District Conditional use is given to business types that can apply to open and operate in the appropriate zone but must first be approved in two public meetings, one held by the ZBA and one by the village council. At these meetings, the public is invited to attend and voice opinions, but the board or council make the final decision through a vote.

Notice of the public hearing for a conditional-use application/hearing is sent to every taxpayer within 200 feet of the proposed business, and a notice is run in the newspaper.

teachers and students.

“It supports a better student-teacher relationship,” said Edler. “Students don’t feel like they’re being punished by getting a bad grade.” Instead, they’re given a clear set of expectations and concrete ways to achieve their goals of meeting or exceeding grade level standards.

“With so many innovations in learning, it doesn’t make sense that we’re still using such an old-fashioned system of grading,” Edler said.

The shift is underway in D91. According to Scott Dunnell, public relations and communications manager for the district, between now and early spring lots of work will be done by the teachers and administrators in the district to identify and create a rubric for standards-based reporting.

“The district is reviewing each phase of development with the Citizens’ Advisory Council,” said Dunnell. The Citizens Advisory Council (CAC) serves as D91’s improvement planning committee, with members sharing information from the school board to their representative group and vice versa.

The CAC strives to have membership that represents the Forest Park community, including the business community, community organizations, members-at-large, parent organization presidents or a designee from each of the schools, teachers, and a representative from the village of Forest Park.

The last CAC meeting was attended by Mayor Rory Hoskins.

In the DBD, marijuana dispensaries will be allowed as conditional use. The DBD is primarily the Madison Street shopping area of Forest Park.

Heavy Industrial District In the heavy industrial district, growing, cultivation, dispensing, infusing, processing and transporting will be a permitted use. This district includes the Forest Park Mall on Roosevelt Road and the U.S. Postal Service facility. It also includes the businesses along Industrial Drive.

Dunnell added that there will be a lot of communication with parents and the community about the new standards-based grading before the next school year. The April Connections newsletter, distributed to all residents and businesses in Forest Park, will focus on the district’s move to a SBRC. At the end of April or early May, there will be event nights at all of the D91 schools where information on the new report cards will be presented and parents can ask questions.

Over the summer, as progress continues, updates will be made available on the school website. And back-to-school nights and open houses at the beginning of the 2020-21 school year will be another opportunity for schools to talk more about the new assessments.

Edler said one of the biggest concerns people have is whether high schools will accept an SBRC instead of a traditional one with letter grades.

Many high schools use a variety of measurements during the admission process, including the PSAT and other entrance exams. Middle school grades are only one part of that.

“When we’ve talked to local high schools about it, they’ve all said, ‘We can figure it out,’” said Edler, adding that it’s not a brand-new system. The school he taught at previously began implementing standardsbased reporting in 2011, and other districts have been using it as well.

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Artist’s work focuses on the human condition Works were displayed in the Forest Park National Bank gallery

By MARIA MAXHAM Staff Reporter

You may have missed them, but the works of Forest Park artist Charles Brown were on display at the Oak Park Area Arts Council (OPAAC) gallery at the Forest Park National Bank, 7348 Madison St. in November.

Brown has lived in Forest Park since 1993. Since retiring from his career as a college professor in 2014, he has dedicated his time to art, primarily drawing in graphite, charcoal and pen.

In 2017, Brown joined the Oak Park Art League, where he was instructed by artist Jesse Howard. His goal is to provoke thought through his art, but he brings a sense of humor to his works as well.

“I believe art is an excellent medium for communicating a message and/or evoking a feeling within a short span of time,” said Brown. “[My works] are intended to provoke, inspire and cause the viewer to laugh a little at the human condition. Art can do all these things and more because art asks us to think outside the box, to go beyond our ordinary, conventional thinking and to imagine possibilities.”

Brown considers himself a drawer rather than a painter, and he believes that although drawing can be the step taken before painting, it is his preferred style.

“While drawing can be a preliminary step before painting, drawing can also stand on its own as art in itself,” he said.

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A tough decision was made a few weeks ago, to retire at the end of year.

I have loved my business for 29 years but the store needs remodeling badly. Moving out, closing, then moving back just seems daunting.

Finding I need foot surgery just sealed the deal.

My fabulous co-workers current and past have been a blessingdedicated, patient and generous. Of course I could not have done it without your hard work. I am so grateful for you!

And you, my loyal customers, some of whom I have known now for nearly 3 decades, have filled my days with photos and tales of family and adventures. We have laughed, hugged and cried through all of life’s stages. I have attended parties and funerals, watched families grow, have had children grow up to be customers themselves. Together we have supported many charities. It has been wonderful to be part of the fabric of these lovely communities.

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STRONG MESSAGE: “No Human Is Illegal” was temporarily displayed on the digital billboard outside the Howard Mohr Community Center on the corner of Desplaines Avenue and Jackson Boulevard.

Mural vandalism leads to digital response Mayor puts ‘No Human is Illegal’ on Community Center billboard

By MARIA MAXHAM Staff Reporter

In response to repeated incidents of vandalism to a mural on the Circle Avenue bridge over I-290, Mayor Rory Hoskins on Nov. 20 directed village staff to display “No Human is Illegal” on the Howard Mohr Community Center’s digital billboard at the corner of Desplaines Avenue and Jackson Boulevard.

This followed at least the seventh incident since April 2019 of vandalism of the “No Human is Illegal” mural on the bridge.

The Nov. 20 vandalism, which was discovered early in the morning, involved paint covering parts of the wording of the mural.

Previously, the mural was defaced either by paint or by cardboard and/or plywood glued over some of the words.

According to Village Administrator Tim Gillian, a police report was filed, and John Doss, director of Public Works, was on the bridge with his crew on the morning of Nov. 20 to repair the mural.

When Hoskins was informed of the vandalism, he asked Community Center Director Karen Dylewski to add the message to the billboard.

Hoskins said he wants the public message to “affirm the dignity of people.”

“We don’t use the Community Center sign for political reasons, but I thought about how undocumented people in our village must feel. I wouldn’t want to feel targeted like this,” said Hoskins, who planned to have the message on the bulletin board for several days.

On Nov. 25, resident Betty Alzamora from Forest Park’s Diversity Commission spoke during the public comment section of the village council meeting to thank the village, particularly the Public Works Department, Village Administrator Tim Gillian and Hoskins, for the response. She said they showed “empathy and compassion.”

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Restore filed a lawsuit in Circuit Court on October 2015, but that lawsuit was dismissed a year later. The company then appealed the decision.

According to a summary of the case by attorneys with the labor law firm Franczek from page 1 P.C., which doesn’t represent either side, ReRestore Construction to repair the fire-dam- store “sought payment for what it was owed aged school. The agreement based on equitable principles, did not go through the typical not the existence of a valid concompetitive bidding process,” tract. The Appellate Court held according to the appellate court that even though there was no opinion. valid contract in place, it would On Aug. 12, 2014, former D209 be unjust to allow the school school board president Dan Addistrict to retain the company’s ams signed an amended agreet remains to be services without paying the reament with Restore Construction sonable value for them. Thus, a seen if the decision for emergency repairs, but that contract implied in law could amended agreement was never will stand be enforced against the school presented to the full school district.” board for approval and a vote.

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f stating “No Human is Illegal” on a 5-foot digital sign board, run under the auspices of Forest Park’s village government, is political speech, then count us in. We’d call it basic decency. A Christian virtue. A declaration of shared humanity.

This happened last week after the same language, included in the Circle Avenue public art project, was defaced for the umpteenth time. While the village and volunteers keep restoring this affirmative message on the bridge, Mayor Rory Hoskins also placed it out of vandals’ reach by posting the message on the sign board at the Community Center for a week.

It was gratifying to see the positive response on social media to the digital sign messaging. Many, who have seemingly felt outside the norm in Forest Park, spoke up with enthusiasm and pride. We share that feeling.

There were, of course, detractors. That’s good. It is an opportunity — ignore the haters, that is a given — for dialogue with people, mainly it seems older, whiter, but the children of European immigrants nonetheless, who feel threatened by a national immigration battle that is both real and also actively ginned up to fuel Trump’s base.

Forest Park is a village of immigrants. How often do we celebrate and recall our German, Italian, Greek and Irish roots with pride, maybe some nostalgia. Let’s revel in it. Every immigrant story is rooted in risk, hope, grit and celebration.

It’s still the case. But now our immigrant brethren are brown and escaping danger and oppression in countries in South and Central America and Mexico more so than from Europe. The hopes and the risk are the same. The needs of America for hard workers are the same. Maybe they’re not laying railroad track, working in dangerous factories or mills. But today’s immigrants are still processing meat and poultry in dismal conditions, same as those Chicago Stock Yard decades. They’re still harvesting bounty for our dinner tables. They’re still graduating into entrepreneurs. They’re still pushing their kids to new heights.

Those of us in the old white immigrant rut need to open our eyes wide. The American dream is the American dream unless we end it out of our fear and our racism.

Old Proviso bites new Proviso We’ll wait for the Illinois Supreme Court to debate an Appellate Court ruling related to a years-long lawsuit between the District 209 high schools and the politically connected Restore Construction Company.

After a major fire in the south portion of Proviso East in 2014, the school district — its over-politicized school board and its under-competent administration — rushed to hire Restore to make major repairs.

Contracts were never bid. The school board never voted on the contract.

And when the bill reached $7 million, our newly-elected reform-minded school board finally got its back up and said, “Enough.”

The board refused to pay the final $2 million, a lawsuit has been lingering, and in a legal outcome we are sure we don’t fully grasp, an appellate court seems to be making a new legal interpretation that might force the school to pay up. That’s where the Supreme Court will come in.

Meanwhile we are left with this possibly expensive reminder of just how poorly and politically our public high schools were run a halfdecade back. As the schools now move forward on decades of overdue capital projects, we are heartened by how far we have come.

In search of a Thanksgiving myth

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hen I was a boy — I know, I know, that’s how so many stories from septuagenarians begin, but I’m trying to make a point that will bring what we do on Thursday up to date.

When I was a boy, the reason for the season of Thanksgiving was told in a myth or story about Squanto teaching the Pilgrims how to farm in this new world, the Pilgrims putting on a big feast after a bountiful harvest in 1621, and the little colony of 53 people from England inviting their native neighbors to join them.

When anthropologists use the term “myth,” they don’t mean a story that’s fake news. Rather, they mean a story that people tell to explain who they are and why they do what they do.

We learned what I will call the Pilgrim-Squanto Myth (PSM) in grade school to promote the idea that we are a nation of immigrants and that we should all get along with and help each other. I loved PSM then and still do now. For me, it’s sort of like Dr. King’s “I Have a Dream” speech. To switch metaphors, it paints a picture of how I want life to be.

In fact, I went through a stage in grade school when I wanted to become an Indian. My parents drove me up to the town of Kahena in the Menominee Nation northwest of Green Bay for one of my birthdays, where I met some real Indians, and my parents bought me a 12-inch-high teepee made out of birch bark.

Squanto was a role model for me.

In 1863, Abraham Lincoln declared Thanksgiving a national holiday, 242 years after AngloSaxons and Native Americans enjoyed an hour or two of harmony. He did it partly because he wanted to begin healing the wounds of war even before the conflict had ended.

Here’s the problem: Dr. King referred to what he said — “I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood” — as a dream.

The problem with PSM these days is that historical facts get in the way of that narrative working as a compelling, unifying myth, and that will always be the case when myths are based on historical individuals or events .

For white nationalists, it portrays white people as the immigrants and completely dependent on Indians for their survival. So they can’t buy into it.

For Native Americans and progressive advocates of marginalized people, PSM neglects to tell the whole story.

What I was not told, for example, was that

Squanto spoke English because he was kidnapped and enslaved in 1614 by Englishmen who were exploring along the New England coast. I wasn’t told that when he got back to the “new world” he was shocked to discover that his whole tribe had been wiped out by smallpox which the colonists had imported from England.

What PSM failed to note was that in the Pequot War in 1637, 16 years after the “first Thanksgiving,” the settlers burned a Wampanoag village and killed hundreds of men, women and children in retaliation for the murder of a white man whom they believed was killed by a member of that tribe.

What was left out of the narrative was that indigenous Americans had been holding “thanksgiving” feasts for centuries if not millennia before 1621.

For people who don’t want this myth to work, it won’t. Here’s what I mean. As I listen to people talk in coffee shops, local taverns and in the impeachment inquiry hearings, I have come to the conclusion that people don’t really want what the Pilgrim-Squanto Myth portrays, i.e. a table where everyone is included, where our mutual interdependence is celebrated.

What we want is for our side to win. What we want — you and me, somewhere deep in our secret selves — is expressed in the following joke: “When two people get married, the two become one. The question is which one.” James Hoggan put that way of approaching differences in the title of his book: I’m Right and You’re an Idiot.

And finally, the myth is not compelling for the average Joe and Mary because they have their attention focused on enjoying a delicious meal tomorrow and shopping till they drop on Friday.

The two subjects we avoid like the plague that killed Squanto’s people are religion and politics.

Here’s the irony: If, in the picture of Thanksgiving we try to paint, we omit our human vulnerability to forces beyond our control, our need for other forces beyond our control to smile on us, the acknowledgment that we are interdependent, the admission that for the political process to work we have to be open to the other as a potential ally and the conviction that our differences can be complementary — if we avoid those essentials, there isn’t much emotional/spiritual room left for gratitude.

Those essentials are the very things the Pilgrim-Squanto Myth was trying to inspire us with. If PSM is a vehicle that is no longer capable of carrying the freight, then we desperately need to find a dream to replace it — a dream that most of us can buy into.

TOM

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Filling our heads with nonsense I wonder if some third-grader could explain how a plastic straw that I put into the trash in Forest Park ends up in the ocean.

When I went to school, I was taught about the hydrological cycle, which explains how water evaporates in one place and precipitates in another, but that doesn’t happen with plastic. My plastic straws are never going to end up in the ocean unless someone in the waste collection/recycling chain dumps them there. And if that is happening with straws, it is happening with other trash as well.

So the problem would not be with straws at all and we should deal with the real problem and not be distracted with feel-good green religion penance. I don’t fault the third-graders at all but the adults who are filling their minds with this propaganda and the editors of this paper who support it.

The climate activists are shamelessly filling the heads of children with nonsense and

turning them against their parents. Read up on the Hitler Youth if you want to know how that turns out. Let’s have an adult debate on plastic straws if you want but leave the children out of it. Does anyone really believe that third-graders are smarter and wiser than adults? If you do, then put them in charge of everything. I guess they’re wiser than the school board who was convinced by them. But we all know they are just repeating what they’ve been told. Too bad they can’t add and subtract, but I guess that’s just old-fashioned, unenlightened education.

Let’s teach our children instead of abusing them by using them as political pawns. Let’s teach them basic skills and critical thinking instead of political activism.

Richard Wright Forest Park

Adults have a lot to learn from kids It’s true that for many years the Chinese accepted shiploads of our unsorted recycling so we never had to give a second thought to what we threw away. But now they are refusing to accept our unsorted and often contaminated “recycling.” Throwing all the items we now do into a single bin is not recycling and our unthinking trashing of whatever we choose in one bin is no lon-

ger feasible. I’m glad the village leaders are waking up to this real problem. It’s unfortunate that a bunch of schoolkids are embarrassing the rest of us into really revisiting how we can better care for our planet — and their future.

See what all the buzz is about.

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First Congregational Church of Maywood

400 N. Fifth Avenue (1 block north of Lake St.) Come join us for Sunday Morning Worship at 11 am Pastor Elliot Wimbush will be preaching the message.

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1040 N. Harlem Avenue River Forest Meet our Rabbi, Adir Glick Pray, learn, and celebrate with our caring, progressive, egalitarian community.

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Accredited Early Childhood Program Religious School for K thru 12 Daily Morning Minyan Weekly Shabbat Services Friday 6:30pm & Saturday 10:00am Affiliated with United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism 708.366.9000 www.wsthz.org

188 South Oak Park Ave. Saturday Mass: 5:30 p.m.

Sunday Masses: 9:00 & 11:00 a.m., 5:00 p.m.

Weekday Mass: 8:30 a.m. M–F Holy Day Masses: As Announced Reconciliation: Saturday 4:15 p.m.

Parish Office: 708-848-4417 Religious Ed Phone: 708-848-7220 stemund.org

Worshiping at 820 Ontario, Oak Park IL (First Baptist Church) 9:00a-Worship 10:30a-Education Hour

All are welcome. goodshepherdlc.org 708-848-4741

St. Giles Family Mass Community

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United Lutheran Church

409 Greenfield Street (at Ridgeland Avenue) Oak Park Holy Communion with nursery care and children’s chapel each Sunday at 9:30 a.m.

OAK PARK MEETING OF FRIENDS (Quakers) Meeting For Worship Sundays at 10:00 a.m. at Oak Park Art League 720 Chicago Ave., Oak Park Please call 708-445-8201 www.oakparkfriends.org

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St. Edmund Catholic Church

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Grace Lutheran Church

7300 W. Division, River Forest David R. Lyle, Senior Pastor David W. Wegner, Assoc. Pastor Lauren Dow Wegner, Assoc. Pastor Sunday Worship, 8:30 & 11:00 a.m.

Sunday School/Adult Ed. 9:45 a.m.

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Grace Lutheran School

Preschool - 8th Grade Bill Koehne, Principal 366-6900, graceriverforest.org Lutheran-Missouri Synod

St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church

305 Circle Ave, Forest Park Sunday Worship, 9:30am Christian Education Hour 8:30am Wednesday Worship 7:00pm Wheelchair Access to Sanctuary Leonard Payton, Pastor Roney Riley, Assistant Pastor 708-366-3226 www.stjohnforestpark.org Methodist

First United Methodist Church of Oak Park

324 N. Oak Park Avenue 708-383-4983 www.firstUMCoakpark.org Sunday School for all Ages, 9am Sunday Worship, 10am Children’s Chapel during Worship Rev. Katherine Thomas Paisley, Pastor Professionally Staffed Nursery Fellowship Time after Worship

808 S. East Ave. 708/848-2703 www.ascensionoakpark.com Worship: Saturday Mass 5:00 pm Sunday Masses 7:30, 9:00, 11 am 5:00 pm at St. Edmund Church Sacrament of Reconciliation 4 – 4:45 pm Saturday Taizé Prayer 7:30 pm First Fridays Feb.– Dec. & Jan. 1 Rev. James Hurlbert, Pastor Roman Catholic

St. Bernardine Catholic Church Harrison & Elgin, Forest Park

CELEBRATING OUR 107TH YEAR! Sat. Masses: 8:30am & 5:00pm SUNDAY MASSES: 8:00am & 10:30am 10:30 Mass-Daycare for all ages CCD Sun. 9am-10:15am Reconciliation: Sat. 9am & 4pm Weekday Masses: Monday–Thursday 6:30am Church Office: 708-366-0839 CCD: 708-366-3553 www.stbern.com Pastor: Fr. Stanislaw Kuca

We welcome all to attend Sunday Mass at 10 a.m. on the St. Giles Parish campus on the second floor of the school gym, the southernmost building in the school complex at 1034 North Linden Avenue.

Established in 1970, we are a laybased community within St. Giles Roman Catholic Parish.

Our Mass is family-friendly.

We encourage liturgically active toddlers. Children from 3 to 13 and young adults play meaningful parts in each Sunday liturgy.

Together with the parish, we offer Catechesis of the Good Shepherd, a Montessori-based religious education program for children in grades K-8.

For more information, go to http://www.stgilesparish.org/ family-mass-community or call Bob Wielgos at 708-288-2196.

Third Unitarian Church 10AM Sunday Forum 11AM Service Rev. Colleen Vahey thirdunitarianchurch.org (773) 626-9385 301 N. Mayfield, Chicago Committed to justice, not to a creed Upcoming Religious Holidays Nov 28 Ascension of ‘Abdu’l-Baha Baha’i Thanksgiving 30 St. Andrew’s Day Dec 1-24 Advent 6 Saint Nicholas Day

Interfaith USA Christian Christian Christian

8 Bodhi Day (Rohatsu) Buddhism

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT, COUNTY DIVISION IN THE MATTER OF THE VILLAGE OF BROOKFIELD, COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS, SPECIAL ASSESSMENT FOR ALLEY IMPROVEMENTS OF THE 4100 BLOCK BETWEEN DEYO AVENUE AND DUBOIS BOULEVARD

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NOTICE - CERTIFICATE OF FINAL COST AND COMPLETION Notice is hereby given to all persons interested that the Village of Brookfield, Illinois, having ordered the construction of improvements to a portion of the public alley located between the 4100 block between Deyo Avenue and DuBois Boulevard, has filed with the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, a Certificate of Final Cost and Completion and a Motion to Confirm the Certificate of Final Cost and Completion to have the court consider and determine whether or not the facts stated in the certificate are true. The hearing thereon will be held on the 23rd day of December 2019, at 10:30 a.m. or as soon thereafter as the business of the court will permit before the Honorable James Carroll in room 1710 of the Richard J. Daley Center, 50 W. Washington Street, Chicago, Illinois. All persons desiring to file objections to the Certificate of Final Cost and Completion may do so with the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County before that time and may appear at the hearing and have their objections heard.

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT, COUNTY DIVISION IN THE MATTER OF THE VILLAGE OF BROOKFIELD, COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS, SPECIAL ASSESSMENT FOR ALLEY IMPROVEMENTS IN A PORTION OF THE 3500 BLOCK BETWEEN FOREST AVENUE AND PRAIRIE AVENUE

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2018 COSA 000002 VILLAGE OF BROOKFIELD SPECIAL ASSESSMENT NO. 361

NOTICE - CERTIFICATE OF FINAL COST AND COMPLETION Notice is hereby given to all persons interested that the Village of Brookfield, Illinois, having ordered the construction of improvements to a portion of the public alley located between the 3500 block between Forest Avenue and Prairie Avenue, has filed with the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, a Certificate of Final Cost and Completion and a Motion to Confirm the Certificate of Final Cost and Completion to have the court consider and determine whether or not the facts stated in the certificate are true. The hearing thereon will be held on the 23rd day of December 2019, at 10:30 a.m. or as soon thereafter as the business of the court will permit before the Honorable James Carroll in room 1710 of the Richard J. Daley Center, 50 W. Washington Street, Chicago, Illinois. All persons desiring to file objections to the Certificate of Final Cost and Completion may do so with the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County before that time, and may appear at the hearing and have their objections heard.

DATED this 27th day of November 2019.

VILLAGE OF BROOKFIELD By: Kit P. Ketchmark, President Board of Local Improvements Published in Landmark 11/27, 12/4/2019

PUBLIC NOTICE Notice is hereby given, pursuant to “An Act in relation to the use of an Assumed Business Name in the conduct or transaction of Business in the State,” as amended, that a certification was registered by the undersigned with the County Clerk of Cook County. Registration Number: Y19002550 on November 8, 2019 Under the Assumed Business Name of DB TAX AND BOOKKEEPING SERVICES with the business located at: 1001 EASTERN AVE, BELLWOOD, IL 60104. The true and real full name(s) and residence address of the owner(s)/partner(s) is: DONNA C. BINION 1001 EASTERN AVE, BELLWOOD, IL 60104

PUBLIC NOTICE Notice is hereby given, pursuant to “An Act in relation to the use of an Assumed Business Name in the conduct or transaction of Business in the State,” as amended, that a certification was registered by the undersigned with the County Clerk of Cook County. Registration Number: Y19002602 on November 14, 2019 Under the Assumed Business Name of GLOSS ADDICT with the business located at: 2110 S. 4TH AVE., MAYWOOD, IL 60153. The true and real full name(s) and residence address of the owner(s)/ partner(s) is: FELICIA SIMMONS 2110 S. 4TH AVE. MAYWOOD, IL 60153.

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LEGAL NOTICE SCOTT J. LEVY (32596) Attorney for Petitioner 1525 East 53rd Street, Suite 504 Chicago, Illinois 60615

VILLAGE OF RIVERSIDE, ILLINOIS NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

VILLAGE OF RIVERSIDE, ILLINOIS NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

Notice is hereby given to all interested persons that a public hearing before the Planning and Zoning Commission of the Village of Riverside will be held on Monday, December 16, 2019 at 7:00 p.m., or as soon thereafter as the business of the Planning and Zoning Commission may permit, in Room 4 of the Riverside Township Hall, 27 Riverside Road, Riverside, Illinois, to consider an application from the Village of Riverside for text amendments to the Village of Riverside Zoning Ordinance regarding gravel driveways.

Notice is hereby given to all interested persons that a public hearing before the Planning and Zoning Commission of the Village of Riverside will be held on Monday, December 16, 2019 at 7:00 p.m., or as soon thereafter as the business of the Planning and Zoning Commission may permit, in Room 4 of the Riverside Township Hall, 27 Riverside Road, Riverside, Illinois, to consider an application from Riverside School District 96 for an expansion of the existing Special Use Permit to allow for a classroom addition to the existing elementary school (Blythe Park Elementary) in the R1-A Zoning District for the property located at 735 Leesley Road.

STATE OF ILLINOIS) COUNTY OF COOK )ss Circuit Court of Cook County, County Department, Domestic Relations Division.

In re the marriage of MARCELO GONZALEZ-NUNEZ, Petitioner and MARIA MARTHA RUIZ, Respondent, Case No. 2019D-000393.

The requisite affidavit for publication having been filed, notice is hereby given to you, the above named Respondent, that a Petition has been filed in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, by the Petitioner, for Dissolution of Marriage and for other relief; and that said suit is now pending.

Now, therefore, unless you, the said Respondent, file your response to said Petition or otherwise make your appearance therein, in the Office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, Room 802, Richard J. Daley Center, 50 West Washington Street, in the City of Chicago, Illinois, on or before December 27, 2019, default may be entered against you at any time after that day, and a judgment for Dissolution of Marriage entered in accordance with the prayer of said Petition.

DOROTHY A. BROWN, Clerk.

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ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS PROJECT NAME: Riverside School District 96 is requesting Bids for the following project: RIVERSIDE SCHOOL DISTRICT 96 – CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM -All Trade Packages (see bid dates below) -Tentative Start Date: 1/27/2020 -Substantial Completion Date: 8/14/2020 -Owner’s Representative: Vistara Construction Services -Architect: DLA Architects -Construction Manager: Berglund Construction SUBMISSION DUE DATE: Bids for ALL Trade Packages must be delivered by 1:00 pm on Friday, December 20th, 2019 to the attention of Jim Fitton, Riverside School District 96. Bids must be addressed and delivered to Riverside School District 96, 3340 S. Harlem Ave, Riverside, IL 60546. Public Bid Opening will be held in the District Office Board Room on the 2nd floor immediately following receipt of bids.

Application No.: PZ19-008 Petitioner: Village of Riverside Text Amendments will be Applicable Throughout the Village Copies of the proposed text amendments are available for inspection at the office of the Village Clerk, 27 Riverside Road, Riverside, Illinois 60546. During the public hearing the Planning and Zoning Commission will hear testimony from and consider any evidence presented by persons interested to speak on these matters. Persons wishing to appear at the hearings may do so in person or by attorney or other representative and may speak for or against the proposed text amendments. Communications in writing in relation thereto may be filed at such hearing or with the Planning and Zoning Commission in advance by submission to the Village’s Building Department at 27 Riverside Road, Riverside, Illinois prior to 4:00 p.m. on the day of the public hearings.

The public hearings may be continued from time to time without further notice, except as otherwise required under the Illinois Open Meetings Act. Dated this 27th day of November, 2019 Jill Mateo, Chairperson Planning and Zoning Commission Published in Landmark 11/27/2019

Application No.: PZ19-006 Petitioner: Riverside School District 96 Property Commonly Known As: 735 Leesley Road PINs: 15-25-415-001, 15-25-415-002, 15-25-415-003, 15-25-415-004, 15-25-415-005, 15-25-415-006, 15-25-415-007, 15-25-415-008, 15-25-415-009, 15-25-415-010 Special Use Expansion: To expand the existing special use for an elementary school (Blythe Park Elementary) to allow the construction of an additional classroom at the southwest corner of the existing school in the R1-A Zoning District.

The above application is available for inspection at the office of the Village Clerk, 27 Riverside Road, Riverside, Illinois 60546. During the Public Hearing the Planning and Zoning Commission will hear testimony from and consider any evidence presented by persons interested to speak on these matters. Persons wishing to appear at this hearing may do so in person or by attorney or other representative and may speak for or against the expansion of the existing special use. Communications in writing in relation thereto may be filed at such hearing or with the Planning and Zoning Commission in advance by submission to the Village’s Building Department at 27 Riverside Road, Riverside, Illinois prior to 4:00 p.m. on the day of the public hearing.

The Public Hearing may be continued from time to time without further notice, except as otherwise required under the Illinois Open Meetings Act. Dated this 27th day of November, 2019 Jill Mateo, Chairperson Planning and Zoning Commission Published in Landmark 11/27/2019

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Proposed Text Amendments: Amend Section 10-7-3(E) (Driveways) to revise and/or clarify permitted driveway materials and regulations related to gravel driveways, amend Section 10-10-7 (Nonconforming Residential Driveways) to revise and/or clarify conformance timelines relative to existing residential gravel driveways, and to make such other conforming changes to other sections of the Village of Riverside Zoning Ordinance as may be necessary.

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION LOANCARE, LLC Plaintiff, -v.JORGE BAUTISTA, ROSALIA SANCHEZ Defendants 2018 CH 06558 149 RICE AVENUE BELLWOOD, IL 60104 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on October 2, 2019, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on January 6, 2020, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at a public sale to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 149 RICE AVENUE, BELLWOOD, IL 60104 Property Index No. 15-09-107-0930000 The real estate is improved with a single family residence.

Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial Sale fee for the Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/ or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale.

The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information.

If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required

by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4).

If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1).

IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE

FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales.

For information, examine the court file, CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. Plaintiff’s Attorneys, 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL, 60527 (630) 794-9876 THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales.

CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100 BURR RIDGE IL, 60527 630-794-5300 E-Mail: pleadings@il.cslegal.com Attorney File No. 14-18-05678 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 2018 CH 06558 TJSC#: 39-6480 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff’s attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

Case # 2018 CH 06558 I3138437

$1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/ or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale.

The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information.

If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required

by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4).

If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1).

IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE

WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales.

For information, examine the court file, CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. Plaintiff’s Attorneys, 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL, 60527 (630) 794-9876 THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales.

CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100 BURR RIDGE IL, 60527 630-794-5300 E-Mail: pleadings@il.cslegal.com Attorney File No. 14-17-17365 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 2018 CH 05883 TJSC#: 39-6512 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff’s attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

Case # 2018 CH 05883 I3138403

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION Plaintiff, -v.ANTOINE TAYLOR, AS INDEPENDENT ADMINISTRATOR OF THE ESTATE OF JACKIE WASHINGTON, DECEASED, UNKNOWN HEIRS AND DEVISEES OF JACKIE WASHINGTON AKA JACKIE GLASS, DECEASED, UNKNOWN CLAIMANTS AND LIENHOLDERS AGAINST THE ESTATE OF JACKIE WASHINGTON AKA JACKIE GLASS, DECEASED, UNKNOWN CLAIMANTS AND LIENHOLDERS AGAINST THE UNKNOWN HEIRS AND DEVISEES OF JACKIE WASHINGTON AKA JACKIE GLASS, DECEASED, ANTOINE TAYLOR, ANDREI TAYLOR Defendants 18 CH 03687 1126 N. TAYLOR AVE. OAK PARK, IL 60302 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on August 8, 2019, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on December 27, 2019, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at a public sale to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 1126 N. TAYLOR AVE., OAK PARK, IL 60302 Property Index No. 16-05-112-0090000 The real estate is improved with a single family residence.

The judgment amount was $234,738.77.

Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial Sale

fee for the Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/ or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale.

The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information.

If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required

by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4).

If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1).

IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR

(HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales.

For information, HEAVNER, BEYERS & MIHLAR, LLC Plaintiff’s Attorneys, 111 East Main Street, DECATUR, IL, 62523 (217) 4221719. Please refer to file number 2120-14737.

THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales.

HEAVNER, BEYERS & MIHLAR, LLC 111 East Main Street DECATUR IL, 62523 217-422-1719 Fax #: 217-422-1754 E-Mail: CookPleadings@hsbattys. com Attorney File No. 2120-14737 Attorney Code. 40387 Case Number: 18 CH 03687 TJSC#: 39-7107 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff’s attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

Case # 18 CH 03687 I3137936

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION AS TRUSTEE FOR THE REGISTERED HOLDERS OF ABFC 2007-WMC1 TRUST ASSET BACKED FUNDING CORPORATION ASSET BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2007WMC1 Plaintiff, -v.CLEVELAND ARMSTEAD, YVETTE PENNYMON ARMSTEAD A/K/A YVETTE PENNYMON, ILLINOIS HOUSING DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY Defendants 2018 CH 05883 309 SOUTH 22ND AVE BELLWOOD, IL 60104 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on October 3, 2019, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on January 6, 2020, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at a public sale to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 309 SOUTH 22ND AVE, BELLWOOD, IL 60104 Property Index No. 15-10-124-0110000 The real estate is improved with a single family residence.

Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial Sale fee for the Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each

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here was a superintendent of the Proviso Township High Schools, and there have been a good many of them over recent years, who confided to a local newspaper that all would be well in these failed public high schools if only 300 students could be permanently expelled.

You bet, we were told, it would be a dandy public high school if only 10 percent of the student body were turned out onto the street, left to their own devices. We mentioned it would be something less than a public school if administrators got to cherry pick who could attend. The superintendent agreed, acknowledging it was a fantasy.

But judging by the way discipline was dished out at Proviso East in the following years it was more reality than fantasy. The district did not permanently expel endless numbers of students but in the 2016 school year it did pass out 648 suspensions. Some of those were in-school suspensions, some out-of-school suspensions. Any way you parse those numbers, it reflected full failure in this district.

Now things have changed markedly and for the better.

In the school year that ended in the spring, just 249 suspensions were issued at East. That is a 62 percent decline.

It doesn’t mean there wasn’t bad behavior. It doesn’t mean there weren’t consequences. It does mean the entire approach to teaching our young people how to behave shifted from purely punitive to what has come to be called, a little grandly, restorative justice. Mainly it means creating new mechanisms, from teacher training to adding “interventionists,” which bring students who are acting out to account for those actions — mainly disruption, profanity, verbal fights. This process brings two students shouting down the hallway directly into a process of talking it through, of peer counseling.

Tossing students who are not succeeding out on the street did not ever result in a better outcome. Created more isolation and less accountability.

Who do we have to thank for this? Well, not surprisingly, Kimberly Lightford, our local state senator, drove statewide change on school suspensions. She forced every school district in the state to radically shift its discipline model.

And at Proviso high schools the statewide change synced up with a new school board and administration that saw the damage its archaic discipline system was creating.

The village treasurer

Who knew? Forest Park has a village treasurer.

And now, following the recent death of the beloved Andy Collis, it has a new village treasurer. Turns out Collis, who everyone thought the world of, has been the treasurer of our small burg for decades. He collected a very modest stipend and we suppose he signed some papers now and again.

Now Forest Park has a new village treasurer, duly appointed by the village council on Aug. 27. Her name is Georgia Rombakis Tsaganos. Most people paying attention to social media will know her simply as Gia Rombakis. A teacher the past several years, Rombakis Tsaganos will also, we’re confident, be an able signer of papers.

We remain uncertain why Forest Park has a village treasurer, why it’s not the village’s finance director or the village clerk. Life is full of mysteries.

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The flag belongs in our hearts

harissa Hawkins hadn’t warned Pastor Walter Mitty that she was going to drop a bombshell at last night’s Poplar Park Community Church council meeting.

“I move,” she said when it came time for new business, “that we remove the American flag from alongside the altar and put it hall.” social the in A loud silence hung like an ominous cloud over the meeting, like everyone was just waiting for thunder and lightning to strike at any moment.

Gerhardt Aschenbrenner reacted by fingering the American flag pin in his sport coat lapel, closing his eyes, bowing his head and thinking, “Here we go again.

Sharissa is on her idealistic high horse.

First it was the environment. Then Black Lives Matter. Then it was separating children from their refugee parents.”

Sharissa pulled Asch out of his emotional retreat by saying, “Asch, I know what you’re thinking. This is not about football players kneeling during the national anthem.”

The social worker couldn’t repress a smile as she watched the man sitting across the table startled into awareness of the group.

“What’s going on,” she continued, “is that I’ve been thinking about that hymn we sang last week.”

“You mean um …” Eric Anderson paused to search his memory, “that one that begins with ‘This is my song O God of all the nations’?”

The social worker smiled at the man who looked like he walked straight out of an Eddie Bauer catalogue.

“That’s the one,” she said. “And what really hit me were those lines that went ‘here’ — meaning America — ‘are my hopes, my dreams, my holy shrine. But other hearts in other lands are beating with hopes and dreams as true and high as mine.’”

Asch was shaking his head as he asked, “So are you putting our country down again, Sharissa?”

“C’mon Asch, you know better than most people that I love this country and that’s why I work for low wages as a social worker on the South Side. I work to …” she said, pausing to find the words to finish her sentence, “to enlarge the tent, to make it big enough so everyone in this country can be blessed.”

Another pause. Most of the people sitting around the table were afraid of open conflict and had retreated into their emotional shells.

Pastor Mitty finally decided to say something.

“Sharissa, are you saying the flag should not be respected, that it stands for something you are not proud of ?”

“No, Pastor,” Sharissa replied. “I understand how people can interpret what I’m saying that way, but that’s not what I mean.

Let me put it this way. Jesus was not an American, right?”

The council members, even Asch, slowly, one by one, nodded their heads in agreement.

“OK, so what I’m saying is that this whole kneeling during the national anthem has become a fashionable bandwagon for some folks to jump on, and for other people it’s a sign that those kneeling don’t love America.

“I don’t want to wave that red flag. What I’m saying is that the American flag is a symbol. A symbol of this country. And the cross is a symbol for us Christians of the love of God. Jesus commanded us to love God with all our heart, mind, soul and strength.”

She paused again to let that sink in, knowing that the council was now at least partly with her.

“And Jesus added that we should love everyone and everything else — not with our whole heart — but ‘as ourselves’. I’m not asking us to burn the flag or disrespect it. I’m just asking us to take it away from next to the altar and put it another prominent place, in the social hall … to kind of symbolically say that we know who is God and what or who is not.”

To everyone’s surprise, and relief, Asch responded with a quiet, almost affectionate tone, saying, “I think I get what you are saying, Sharissa, and it doesn’t bother me as much as it did a few minutes ago. You know I don’t agree with you and that I will vote ‘no’ when it comes to a vote. But the reason I’m not angry now is that I heard you acknowledging that you respected how I feel about the flag, partly by offering to move to the social hall instead of getting rid of it altogether.”

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