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Triton hire is ‘concerning,’ says faculty union

Trustees did not post open position for administrator

By MICHAEL ROMAIN

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he recent appointment of a new highlevel administrator at Triton College has drawn the ire of the college’s faculty union and sparked a debate about the institution’s commitment to diversifying its administrative ranks and tackling chronic issues like low graduation rates among students of color.

During a regular meeting on Jan. 22, the Triton College Board of Trustees appointed Sue Campos vice president of Academic Af Affairs. Campos, who previously served as dean of Health Careers at the college, will replace Debra Baker, the outgoing Academic Affairs vice president who recently announced her retirement, effective May 31.

The appointment, officials with the Triton College Faculty Association said, marks at least the second time that the board has hired someone to fill the critical position without conducting a search process or posting the position publicly — actions the board president said are within the rights of the college’s president.

In a statement released on Jan. 22 and read during the meeting by Joe Dusek, the Faculty See CAMPOS on page 10

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SECOND TIME’S THE CHARM: Harris narrowly lost the mayor’s race in 2015.

Harris runs again, outlines platform

Former commissioner and mayoral candidate also ran for state rep

By NONA TEPPER Staff Reporter

Chris Harris is running for Forest Park’s highest office again, outlining for the first time to the Forest Park Review his platform of long-term planning, economic development and public engagement in the village.

“I ran four years ago because I thought

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the village could be doing better. We were lacking in economic development, things had kind of stalled, the sales tax revenue was always running lower than expected, and village finances had been in the red,” Harris said. “I think it takes some creative thinking and it still needs to be done.

Things I’ve been concerned about for years in this town still need attention. I had people asking me to run and it’s in my heart. I

want to be mayor.”

When he first entered the race, Harris submitted nominating petitions for both the mayor’s office and commissioner spot. He said he was convinced to run for mayor after Mayor Anthony Calderone announced he would not be seeking his sixth term come April.

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Staying young through financial insecurity

t a gathering of my high school classmates, some complained they suddenly felt old. They were pre-occupied with their pensions, investments and, above all, keeping their health insurance coverage. They were financially comfortable but feared they would run out of money in retirement. Me? I never felt younger. I think it’s because I’m still riding the financial rollercoaster I first boarded when I was young.

While some are winding down their careers, I’m working harder than ever. My detective business is crazy-busy. I haven’t hustled like this since I was 26. I’ve been told that the detective business is a young man’s game but I’m still knocking on basement windows and climbing rickety porches. Being busy is a blessing.

My living circumstances also bring back memories of my youth. Remember the thrill of renting your first apartment?

How you had to buy all the basics. We’ve downsized to a place about the size of a ’70s crash pad but much nicer. It’s also better furnished. We’re not sitting on bean bag chairs, inflatable furniture, or futons.

The property also feels a bit like a ’70s commune. I’m not talking about free love

and drug-fueled parties but the fact that we all share the shoveling duties. Shoveling snow — now there’s a youthful activity.

But the greatest gift of our new place is that we feel like roommates. Remember college roommates, or sharing an apartment?

We’ve recaptured that feeling and refer to each other as “roomie.” We are very respectful of each other because we’re living in closer quarters. We don’t want to be the roomie who leaves a mess in the kitchen. I must admit I’m the roomie who blasted my keyboard at 1 a.m. because I had the headphones plugged into the wrong hole. We all laughed at this “youthful” misadventure.

Another hallmark of our youth was working entry level jobs. What could be more entry level than driving for a ridesharing company? I have another friend who delivers pizzas. One of my relatives is pushing 60 and proclaims she’s part of the working poor. She claims that commuting a long distance to her minimum wage-job is keeping her young.

I’m not suggesting that it’s good to be old and broke, which isn’t difficult to achieve.

I’m just saying that financial challenges can keep us from becoming too comfortable.

They can even rekindle young love. I know an older guy who recently drove a ride-

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share shift through the snow, just so he and his sweetie could split a deep dish pizza.

That kind of hustle is impressive but it’s not exactly what we envisioned for our “golden years.” I was picturing retiring to a warm climate, where my days would be filled with playing golf and my evenings with playing cards. I suppose that would get old and wouldn’t be as invigorating as scraping ice off my windshield.

Fighting winter keeps the blood circulating. Navigating icy sidewalks without falling, what an adrenaline rush! Staying active keeps the cobwebs from forming. I even picked up a basketball yesterday. I couldn’t shoot it or dribble it but I did pick it up.

I thought my premise — that financial challenges keep us young — was solid, until I proposed it to my oldest daughter. She countered that being rich actually keeps us young. She said that rich people eat the best quality food, exercise in exclusive clubs and vacation in exotic locations. They don’t have to fly commercial, or perform mundane tasks. They pay other people to shovel the snow.

Now she tells me!

■ John Rice is a columnist/private detec-

tive, who has seen his business and family thrive in Forest Park. He thoroughly enjoys life in the village and still gets a thrill smelling Red Hots, watching softball and strolling through cemeteries. Jrice1038@aol.com

CURIOSITIES OF FOREST PARK

Certainly, Forest Park has long taken civic pride in its snow removal, but when did sidewalk snow removal start and why?

In years following World War II, the village of Forest Park was bitterly divided over whether to have parking meters on Madison and the side streets. Meter discussions started (1947), meters were installed (1949), citizens organized and voted them out (December 1949) and after the dust settled, they came in again (February 1952).

Just a few months later, the village council, led by Mayor Vernon Reich, discussed snow removal for the upcoming winter. According to the Oct. 30, 1952, Forest Park Review, the mayor stated that meter funds would be ample to remove snow from streets and sidewalks, and not just along Madison. Commissioner Lambke expressed concern whether the village would have enough equipment, but Commissioner Henry Mohr assured

wondered if the village was “spoiling people” with such excellent service.

Then on Jan. 26, 1967, Chicagoland got hit by the Big One, 23 inches of white snow in 29 hours, which shut down stores, schools, factories, and streets everywhere — except in Forest Park. Commissioner Lambke’s department cleared the streets with the help of heavy equipment from a local business, Thomas McQueen Co. Park Courtesy Forest Park Historical Society District Director Jim Sarno JOB 1: Thursday, Feb. 2, 1967 headline in Forest Park permitted dumping of snow in Review celebrates the Forest Park snow removal after The Park after it was removed one of the greatest snowfalls recorded in Chicagoland from the streets, and local scouts cleared fire hydrants. history.

Many stories of Forest Parkthe council there was adequate equipment ers coming to each other’s aid, to remove snow from all the village side- rocking cars, shared food, and “running” walks, as they had two sidewalk scrapers errands brought the village together in available. the 1967 storm, and most locals still can Snow removal jeeps were used by the tell a story about how Forest Parkers village to manage the sidewalks, which pitched in together when it was needed. included the occasional complaint about the trailing snow piles left on driveways, Submit your question to Curiosities of about which, in 1965, then-Mayor Mohr Forest Park to jill@forestparkreview.com.

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Jabria goes to college Jabria Smith said she was cleaning her father’s Forest Park restaurant around 9 p.m. on Jan. 26 when her phone beeped with a notification: Thanks to an outpouring of support from the community, the Oak Park and River Forest High School graduate would be able to stay in school.

“I felt relieved. In the beginning of winter break I was struggling to not worry about it. As time started to wind down, I thought I wouldn’t be able to go to class this semester,” Smith said. “I’m trying to set a good example for my little sister and niece so I’m relieved I can finish and I can finish on time.”

After two jobs Smith secured for winter break fell through, the college junior fell $2,800 in debt to St. Xavier University and was overwhelmed by the high cost of living on campus at the new school and an overloaded course schedule. The Chicago university wouldn’t let her register for classes until her account balance was less than $450. Smith started a GoFundMe and Facebook fundraiser as a last resort on Jan. 12, and said 26 people — “a lot” of whom were from Oak Park or were fans of her father’s Pit Zone BBQ restaurant in Forest Park — donated $2,880 for her to stay in school.

“To give from their hearts is wonderful so

I’m extremely appreciative of that,” Smith said.

She received approval from all her professors to register for two classes in political science, one in English, Religion and the Media, and sociology on Jan. 27. She is most excited to take the sociology course, which will focus on racial and ethnic relations — a topic Smith intently studied during her junior year at OPRF, eventually presenting her final essay on the subject to students at the University of Illinois Champaign Urbana. She dreams of following in her favorite OPRF teacher’s footsteps and teaching sociology to high school juniors.

Now that she has paid off this final amount, Smith said she should be good for the rest of her college career. This summer, she will live at home in Oak Park and take classes at Triton University, which she said will be much cheaper than attending classes at St. Xavier. Next school year, she will work as a resident advisor, which will offset all her living costs.

She plans to attend her first class of the semester at St. Xavier on Jan. 29.

“I really do want to thank everyone,” she said.

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FUNDRAISE: After residents donated more than $2,800 to Smith, the college junior was able to register for classes.

Housing Forward opens shelter sites during deep freeze Agency serving the homeless also faces government funding insecurity

By NONA TEPPER Staff Reporter

As temperatures dip to what could be record-breaking lows, Housing Forward has opened shelter sites to serve as warming centers for those in need, while also facing uncertainty over what federal funding will look like in the coming months. Housing Forward is a Maywood-based nonprofit that serves those who are homeless or housing insecure.

“Between the confluence of weather conditions and another impending federal shutdown in three weeks, with funding and furloughed employees, that could potentially be disastrous,” said Lynda Schueler, executive director.

About 40 percent — or $3.3 million — of Housing Forward’s $8 million budget comes from U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) grants, an agency that closed during the longest government shutdown in history earlier this month. President Donald Trump and Congress agreed to temporarily reopen closed federal agencies without providing additional funding for the president’s border wall on Jan. 25.

Their agreement keeps the government open until Feb. 15, providing time for negotiators to try to compromise on border security and immigration policy, arguments over which essentially caused the original

shutdown. If representatives are unable to agree on policy issues by then, the government could close again.

“There was a feeling of a little bit of insecurity,” Schueler said during the last shutdown.

She said Housing Forward uses its grant funding to provide housing vouchers and pay landlords for more than 200 at-risk tenants in several communities, including Forest Park, Oak Park and Maywood. During the 35-day shutdown, Housing Forward still received grant funding from HUD’s reserves but heard there could be delays in receiving housing voucher funding.

“Our concern was that, if those landlords don’t get paid and there’s a delay, that that could put a household at risk of losing their housing and they would be displaced, and we would be impacted that way,” she said.

Because federal employees were furloughed during the shutdown, they did not respond to Housing Forward’s requests about how long the funding would last or any plans they had for the future.

“Had this gone into the spring, and let’s hope it doesn’t do that, there will absolutely be an eminent threat because I’m sure HUD doesn’t have several months of reserve at its disposal,” Schueler said. “If the shutdown happens again, and that’s what they’re pre-

dicting in another three weeks, hopefully we’ll get some guidance from the staff at HUD.” During the shutdown, she said Housing Forward wrote letters to members of Congress, asking representatives to negotiate a deal and pressing the importance of keeping federal funding to the nonprofit flowing. Funding uncertainty also hit during the winter, traditionally the most dangerous time for those who are homeless to stay outside. “I do expect the shelters to be packed, I’m sure we’re going to be at full capacity,” Schueler said.

She urged community members to call their representatives — Danny Davis (7th District) is the congressperson for Forest Park, Oak Park and River Forest — and also noted that the nonprofit is always accepting donations and volunteers. Housing Forward accepts financial donations, and is also looking for winter gear like boots, socks and gloves.

“HUD alone is not going to resolve [housing insecurity]; the federal government is not going to resolve this issue on its own,” Schueler said. “Having community-level support to make sure that our agency itself is sustainable is important because too many people rely on our services.”

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Warming shelters As of press time on Jan. 29, Housing Forward arranged the following warming sites and shelters. The nonprofit was still working to coordinate transportation to sites beyond public transportation.

■■Jan. 29: Oak Park Temple, 1235 N. Harlem, will open be open from 3 to 7 p.m.

Coffee and snacks will be provided. The regular shelter at the site will be open from 7:30 p.m. to 7:30 a.m.

■■Jan. 30: Grace Episcopal Church, 924 Lake St. in Oak Park, will be open from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. as a warming center. Volunteers and staff will be on hand. Coffee, hot lunch and snacks will be provided.

The site’s regular shelter will open from 7:30 p.m. to 6:45 a.m.

■■Jan. 31: Oak Park Temple, 1235 N. Harlem Ave., will be open at 3 p.m. Coffee and snacks will be provided.

■■Housing Forward’s Support Center will also open a warming center at 1851 S. Ninth Ave. in Maywood, on Jan. 29 from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.; Jan. 30 from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.; and Jan. 31 and Feb. 1 from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.

■■Housing Forward’s office, 6634 W. Roosevelt Road in Oak Park, will also open a warming center on Jan. 31 and Feb. 1 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.; Jan. 29 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and then from 3 to 7 p.m.; on Jan. 30 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

■■Call their main number with questions at 708-338-1724 or by email at contactus@housingforward.org.

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Snatches phone, shows gun A Chicago man reportedly approached a boy at 1101 Harlem Ave. about 4:16 p.m. on Jan. 10, asking if he could use the 15-yearold’s phone. The boy was walking to meet his mother at the dentist’s office and replied no.

Darius Long, 21, of Chicago, allegedly snatched the phone from the boy’s hands, walked away, dialed a number and started talking to someone, saying “C’mon let’s go get the keys so I can get inside.” The boy followed, asking for his phone.

Long lifted up his shirt, and showed the boy a gun on his right hip. “Get the [expletive] out of here,” he told the 15-year-old.

The boy ran to the dentist’s office, where his mom called 911. He told police what happened, talking the incident through several times before he could provide an accurate account.

On Jan. 14, the victim’s father provided police with two numbers that had been dialed on the phone. Police traced the calls, and found they came from a Chicago address that Long had used prior to an arrest for a similar crime. Four days later, the 15-year-old positively identified Long as the robber in a photo lineup for police.

On Jan. 21, police went to the Austin neighborhood in Chicago, where Long’s ad-

dress was listed. They took him into custody, and police say he admitted to taking the phone. He received a felony charge of robbery, as well as aggravated robbery.

Mechanic pinned under Chevy A mechanic was working on a Chevrolet Silverado at Elite Tire and Auto Repair about 2:44 p.m. on Jan. 22, when the car slipped off the lift and fell on the River Grove man. He yelled for help and coworkers rushed over, using a jack to lift the vehicle. The mechanic was transported to Loyola University Medical Center for treatment.

Car stolen near the Blue Line Two men stole an Arlington Heights woman’s Chevrolet Prizm, after she gave them a ride to the Forest Park Blue Line station about 11:28 a.m. on Jan. 22. She said she saw the men walking at Concordia Cemetery and drove them to the Blue Line parking lot.

When she got out of the car to smoke a cigar, she said the men drove off with her car. Police observed the woman acting “erratically and unfocused, likely due to drug abuse,” according to the report.

Burglary at Mom’s Place

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Sometime between 4 p.m. on Jan. 21 and 7:30 a.m. on Jan. 22, someone broke the front window of Mom’s Place, 819 Harlem Ave., and stole $3,390 in cash from the restaurant’s cash register and owner’s office.

These items were obtained from police reports filed by the Forest Park Police Department, Jan. 21-27, 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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Armed men charged after police chase One possessed an AK-47, the other a handgun while fleeing in Oak Park, Forest Park

By TIMOTHY INKLEBARGER Staff Reporter

Two men who were arrested, one in Oak Park the other in Forest Park, after a police chase through the city of Chicago, have been charged with committing numerous crimes, including unlawful use of a weapon, on the morning of Jan. 23.

Chicago police spokesman Howard Ludwig said in a telephone interview that Chicago residents Rubin Tart, 19, of the 4900 block of West Gladys Avenue, and Terrence Reed, 22, of the 3500 block of West Adams Street, were taken into custody around 8:27 a.m. on Jan. 23.

The two were arrested after Chicago police spotted their vehicle near South Pulaski Road and West Gladys Avenue. Police identified the four-door sedan Hyundai as a stolen vehicle and began pursuit, Ludwig said.

He said that the vehicle previously had been involved in an attempted armed robbery. The car chase ended in Oak Park when the stolen Hyundai became disabled.

Earlier police reports noted that the stolen car had struck a fixed object after colliding

with police vehicles.

Reed and Tart fled on foot in separate directions. A home surveillance camera caught Tart, armed with a rifle, running past a home in the 800 block of South Maple Avenue in Oak Park.

Ludwig said Reed, who was identified as the driver of the vehicle, was arrested in the 600 block of Marengo Avenue in Forest Park.

A handgun with an extended-clip magazine was found in the driver’s side of the vehicle, following the arrest, Ludwig said.

Tart was captured not far from the stolen vehicle and an AK-47 assault rifle was recovered a few feet from him, Ludwig said.

Tart was charged with criminal trespass to a vehicle, possession of a stolen motor vehicle and unlawful use of a weapon.

Reed was charged with aggravated fleeing, aggravated possession of a stolen motor vehicle, aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, three counts of aggravated assault of a police officer, two counts of aggravated battery to a police officer, reckless driving and multiple traffic citations.

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D209 challenger touts unity, resources for all students

Sandy Aguirre, of Melrose Park, says district needs to do more for Spanish-speaking students

By MICHAEL ROMAIN Staff Reporter

The race for three open seats on the Proviso Township High Schools District 209 school board has been dominated by two threeperson slates with eerily similar names — Proviso Together and Proviso United — so the average voter might be forgiven if they fail to recognize that there are actually seven people in the running.

Sandy Aguirre, a longtime Melrose Park resident, said in a recent interview that she’s hoping to distinguish herself from the field by focusing on issues like providing more resources for Hispanic students in the district and reaching out to feeder districts and local elected officials.

Aguirre said that she was recently approached by two young people who attend Proviso West and don’t speak English, because the school lacks resources, such as ESL teachers, for Spanish-speaking students.

“Inclusion is how we make this work,” she said. “All of our children have to attend these high schools. When we unite resources and we’re inclusive, our kids will see it and feel that they’re being heard and appreciated.”

Aguirre added that, if elected, she’ll commit to attending the board meetings of D209’s feeder districts and reaching out to mayors and trustees in various municipalities in Proviso Township — something, she said, she’s already started to do during her campaign.

“I’ve already talked to several mayors,” she said. “I’m trying to reach out to all of them.”

That outreach has prompted speculation among some political observers in the township that Aguirre could be Melrose Park Mayor Ron Serpico’s way of reasserting political influence on the D209 board just as the district gears up to spend nearly $100 million on phase one construction projects related to

Serpico in the past shouldn’t rule its facilities master plan. out their present collaboration.

In 2017, Proviso Together — a “If all of us sit down and listen to grassroots coalition of community each other, we will understand how activists from various Proviso much common ground we have,” villages with a strategic base in she said.

Forest Park — won a 7-person As for the facilities master plan, supermajority on the board. Since Aguirre said that she hopes that then, one of the party’s members, the board is developing the capital board member Della Patterson, improvements “for the next 50 of Maywood, has withdrawn her years.” support and is backing Proviso On Jan. 8, the D209 board voted United. unanimously to accept the scope Complicating the party’s efforts of work in the final plan, and to to maintain unity, board member initiate the preliminary design and Sam Valtierrez, a Melrose Park construction phases of a first round resident elected in 2017 on the of improvements that could cost an Proviso Together slate, helped estimated $77 million and take until circulate petitions for Aguirre.

2022 to complete.

Mayor Serpico also helped Aguirre “This is a once in a lifetime circulate petitions. opportunity and there’s no room for During last weekend’s interview, error,” Aguirre said. “Construction is Aguirre eagerly addressed the a beast in itself. Do they have money speculation, explaining that allotted for all the problems that will she and Valtierrez have been most likely arise? Are we looking, community activists in Melrose for instance, into renewable energy Park for years.

“Sam and I started out together,” SANDY AGUIRRE for the future and technological improvements that will come along? she said. “I canvassed the street Are they certain that that this plan during his election and he’s helped will be sustainable?” canvass during mine. We have been Aguirre attended Melrose Park working together for a long time. He Elementary School (before it knows me. When I decided to run, I called all of my colleagues and friends and became a middle school) before moving to Mexico to attend high school. Both of her told them that this is what I wanted to do.”

She added that during her previous daughters attended Melrose Park, she said. attempts to run for a Melrose Park trustee Her oldest graduated from Proviso East while seat and for a seat on the Maywood-Melrose her youngest is currently a senior at Walther Park-Broadview District 89 school board, she Christian Academy in Melrose Park.

“I’ve always had a passion for public ran against candidates backed by Serpico.

Aguirre said that she approached Serpico service,” Aguirre said. “I want to be part of the as a constituent, just as she’s approached structure of positive change that will hopefully other mayors in Proviso Township, and the continue within our district, because good two “found common ground” in the schools. schools are valuable for all of us.”

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“If all of us sit down and listen to each other, we will understand how much common ground we have.”

Welch named chair of powerful House committee The Executive Committee is a prized appointment

By MICHAEL ROMAIN Staff Reporter

An area lawmaker was recently named to head a powerful committee in the Illinois House of Representatives, according to a report by Rich Miller’s Capitol Fax blog.

State Rep. Emanuel “Chris” Welch (7th), whose district includes much of Proviso Township as well as River Forest, was recently named chairman of the powerful House Executive Committee, replacing state Rep. Dan Burke (1st), who resigned earlier this month, more than a week before

his term ended.

Burke, who had held the seat since 1991 before losing in the Democratic Primary last year, is the younger brother of powerful 14th Ward Chicago Ald. Ed Burke, who was recently charged with extortion.

Welch won his fourth term last year after running unopposed. He has chaired the House Higher Education Committee for the last two years and sat on Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s education transition committee.

According to Miller, the “House Executive has always been where the real action is at the committee level and the

D209 asst. supt. withdraws name weeks after hire An educator hired earlier this month to fill a high-level administrative position with Proviso Township High Schools District 209 has abruptly withdrawn his name from consideration for the position.

During a regular meeting on Jan. 8, the D209 school board unanimously voted to approve an employment contract for Michael Tanner to become the district’s new assistant superintendent of finance and operations.

It was discovered that Tanner had withdrawn after district officials reposted the position on Jan. 23.

When contacted on Wednesday evening, D209 officials confirmed that Tanner had, in fact, backed out of the job offer, adding that they did not have an explanation for the decision. Tanner could not be contacted on Wednesday evening for comment.

Tanner’s contract was supposed to run from Jan. 7 through June 30, 2020. He would have received a salary of $164,000, which included his contribution to the Teachers’ Retirement System.

Before he was hired by D209, Tanner worked for Fremont School District 79, where he served as associate superintendent for finance and operations.

Tanner would have replaced Todd Drafall, D209’s former chief business officer, who resigned last year. The district has employed an interim to fulfill that role since Drafall left.

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panel has always been tightly controlled by [Illinois House Speaker Michael] Madigan.” Miller added that Welch “has a much defter touch than his predecessor.”

In a statement, Welch said he’s honored to be appointed to the position, which “will allow me to have a direct impact on a wide range of important legislation that will impact our district and state.

EMMANUEL “The Executive Committee will “CHRIS” WELCH likely hear many of the new goverState Representatvie nor’s top priorities, including legalization of cannabis, gambling expansion, ethics reforms and much more. Excited to be at the table for this historic opportunity to move Illinois forward.”

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BIG WEEK Books on the Chopping Block

Knitting With Friends Join Forest Park Public Library officials in knitting warm clothes for their Little Free Pantry from 7 to 8:30 p.m. on Feb. 6 at 7555 Jackson Blvd. Beginning and advanced knitters welcome. Supplies will be limited.

If you bring your own yarn, please make sure it is washable.

The Producers Join officials from the Howard Mohr Community Center in travelling from 9:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Feb. 6 to the Paramount Theater in Aurora for The Producers, a play about a musical so horrible it closes after opening night. Cost is $79 for residents and $83 for non-residents. Lunch at Blueberry Hill in Aurora is included. Reservations required. Call the Howard Mohr Community Center at 708-771-7737 to sign up.

Hawaiian Luau Daddy Daughter Dance Families and children age 4 to 12 can enjoy the Park District of Forest Park’s annual “Daddy Daughter Dance” from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. on Feb. 1 at the park district’s second and third floors, 7501 Harrison St. Night includes dinner, games and dancing to your favorite tunes. Dress for the occasion in favorite luau outfits. Each child will receive a special gift and couples will receive a photo to remember the occasion. Tickets $36 per couple for residents; $46 per couple for nonresidents. Extra children cost $9.

CALENDAR EVENTS ■ As you’ve likely noticed, our Calendar has changed to Big Week. Fewer items, higher profile. If you would like your event to be featured here, please send a photo and details by noon of the Wednesday before it needs to be published. We can’t publish every everything, but we’ll do our best to feature the week’s highlights.

Email calendar@wjinc.com.

Are you anti-censorship? Love to read widely? Experience a performance by City Lit Theater showcasing readings of short excerpts from the top 10 most frequently challenged books of 2017, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. on Jan. 30 at the Forest Park Public Library, 7555 Jackson Blvd. A brief discussion and question and answer session with the audience and actors will follow the performance.

Super Bowl Fundraiser Enjoy food, drinks, a raffle and more at the Super Bowl Fundraiser for the American Legion at 4:30 p.m. on Feb. 3 at 500 Circle Ave. Tickets $25 and include food, a draft beer and a raffle ticket. Call 708-846-8700 for more information.

Love Your Library Party Celebrate “Love Your Library” month at an all-ages party at the library from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. on Feb. 2 at the Forest Park Public Library, 7555 Jackson Blvd. The party will be “love-themed” and include music by Elvis tribute singer Hugo Colin, crafts, activities and snacks.

Middle-schoolers win Future City award Eighth-graders from Forest Park Middle School’s Challenge Program placed fourth regionally at the National Engineering Week Future City Competition on Jan. 19. They also received the “Best Model” award and a special award from the American Society of Civil Engineers.

Future City is a project-based learning program where students in grades 6-8 build futuristic model cities.

Submitted phto For their project, FPMS students designed a city simulation, CITY ON A HILL: FPMS students designed a wrote a team research and narra- model city. tive paper, built a scale city modGasse, Kelvin Grezlak, Malaya Pascual, el and presented their vision of the future to more than 35 engineers. D91’s and Finnur Shelton.

Nona Tepper team included Mekai Fountain, Ernesto

Pirate Pride Pirate David Spencer maintains composure on the court as East hands Downers Grove South a loss in their Friday night game 68-61. Pirates are undefeated in the West Suburban Gold Conference.

Photo by Jill Wagner

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A Mammoth in Forest Park

By ROY POTNICK

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Contributing Reporter

magine a time, some 16,000 years ago, when the city of Chicago and much of the nearby area was covered by a lake, the ancestor of today’s Lake Michigan. The northeastern shore of this lake is the retreating edge of the huge glacial ice sheet that had until recently covered the area. The western shore is a low beach ridge, running through what is now Forest Park and Oak Park, made of sand and gravel left behind when the glacier retreated. And walking near the beach is a mammoth, who is soon to die and leave its carcass along the shore. Its decayed remains will become part of the gravel in the ridge. Some 2,000 years later the lake will retreat from the area, forming another shoreline just to east, before eventually reaching its current extent. By that time all mammoths, as well as their distant cousins the mastodons, will have vanished not only from Illinois, but from the Earth.

The mammoth’s remains would lay in the ground until the mid-19th century. In 1856, Ferdinand Haase opened a picnic ground on what are now the Forest Home and German Waldheim Cemeteries. As described by the guide to the cemeteries published by the Historical Society of Oak Park and River Forest, Haase mined the old beach ridge for gravel to sell to a railroad, that in return built a spur line to his park.

At some point he unearthed the fragment of the mammoth; as described by his daughter-in-law Pauline Haase in 1906 in the Oak Leaves: “These fragments of bones tell of animals of immense proportions, undoubtedly the mastodon.

These specimens are apparently pieces of the tusk. They were found on the Haase property about 150 yards east of the Desplaines river in a gravel bed. They were contained in a stratum about 10 feet below the surface of the ground.” Beyond this notice, the remains were never mentioned again or scientifically described. The ridge itself is gone.

I first became aware of the mammoth when I noticed a fragment of tooth displayed at the Hemingway Museum in Oak Park, with a label indicating it came from the Forest Home Cemetery and was on loan from the Forest Park Public Library. Intrigued, I made my way over to the library, where there were on display numerous fragments of mammoth teeth, as well as a tusk. Mammoth teeth are easily distinguished from those of the mastodons; the teeth of the former resemble old-fashioned washboards, whereas the lat-

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MAMMOTH: Bones of the pre-historic creature displayed at the Forest Park Public Library. ter look like small hills. The specimens were in poor condition, with the ivory of the tusk crumbling. Along with a suite of archeological artifacts, the fossils were donated by the Haase family in 1968.

Excited by this discovery, I informed the expert on mammals and mammoths at the Illinois State Museum. He told me that there was a mastodon from the same site at the Chicago Academy of Sciences. At the first opportunity I made my way to the Academy and found a fragment of tusk, with the label “Mastodon americanus; Portion of Tusk; Forest Home Cemetery, Chicago, Il.; Carl Dilg”. The label contained two errors; first, the cemetery is not in Chicago! Second, it was not a mastodon. An examination of the ivory showed a pattern that was distinctly that of a mammoth. My assumption is that the tusk belongs to the same animal as in the Forest Park Library. Carl Dilg, by the way, was an amateur archeologist from Chicago. Perhaps he convinced the Haase family to donate the tusk fragment to the museum.

It is exciting to think that these ancient elephant relatives once walked so close to our homes. Unfortunately, the fossils are no longer on display. The Hemingway Museum is closed and the Forest Park Public Library has put its

specimens into storage.

What you can see at the library is a beautiful updated display of the archeological materials that also come from the Forest Home cemetery; much of this is “trade silver” from about 1800. These artifacts have a distressing back story.

There once was a Native American burial mound on the land. As again described by Pauline Haase: “four scores of graves have in the course of local improvements been unearthed and their contents of peace and warfare have been exposed…each mound contained about 10 bodies…unfortunately the entire hill has been removed and the material used in the reclamation of the river lowlands.” Records kept at the library suggest that this “material” included the skeletons. Only two skulls, whereabouts currently unknown, were saved, as was the trade silver and other artifacts.

This was a typical fate for the numerous Native American mounds and remains throughout the Midwest. Grudging respect for the remains of our predecessors in this country is only of recent vintage.

Roy Plotnick is a resident of Oak Park and a professor of paleontology at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Village looks for new collection agency Forest Park officials anticipate hiring a new firm soon

By ROBERT J. LIKFA Contributing Reporter

Forest Park is expected to have a new collection agency in the near future.

Village Administrator Tim Gillian said the village “parted ways” with Genesis Business Group in early 2018 because village officials “just didn’t feel they were giving us the service we needed.” Gillian said the firm served as the village’s collection agency for at least five years.

Leticia Olmsted, village finance director, cited the pending change to a new collection agency as a contributing factor to the shortfall in fines revenue for fiscal year 2018 that was disclosed in the annual audit. Fiscal year 2018 stretched from May 1, 2017 to April 30, 2018.

According to the audit, fines were budgeted at $1,330,000 but actual revenue was $972,811. In addition to the change in collection agencies, Olmsted tied the decrease to the fact that RedSpeed cameras on Roosevelt

Road were not operating during the reconstruction project there. She also said past due fines are not being collected currently but village officials expect that some past due debt will be realized once the new collection agency is in place. The collection agency also collects overdue parking tickets.

Gillian explained that village officials have been in the process of interviewing collection agencies and looking at the firms’ references but noted the complexity of the effort.

“It should be simple but it’s not,” he said, explaining that each agency does things differently which makes comparisons difficult.

Most firms charge a fee based on amounts collected.

Gillian said the amounts collected varied annually but were in a range of between $100,000 and $200,000.

“We’re starting to whittle it down,” he said, noting officials hope to have a new collection agency in place “in the near future.”

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Monday, February 4 – 1:15pm The Columbian Exhibition – AwardǦ winning musicians – violinist Kate Carter, pianist Chris White and baritone Brad Jungwirth offer a front row seat to the sights and sounds of the Columbian Exhibition.

Monday, February 11 – 1:15pm Substances of the Gods: Natural Materials in Ancient Egypt Thomas F. Mudloff, Ph.D. will explore the use and significance of metals and minerals for early Egyptian craftsmen. Materials with various attributes are linked with goddesses or deities.

Monday, February 25 – 1:15pm Lifting As They Climbed The hidden histories, places and lives of Black women activists and artists from Chicago’s South Side are revealed. Essence McDowell presents a visual journey into her selfǦpublished guided tour of their history featuring thirtyǦthree historically relevant locations and ten additional sites of interest.

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Monday, February 18 – 1:15pm 1968: A Personal Account of a Turbulent and Terrifying Year In May, 1968, Brian Flora, retired career diplomat, graduated from a liberal arts college in Boston. By September, he was a draftee on his way to Vietnam.

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Sunday, February 17 – 3:00pm Free Readers presents Property Known As Judy Garland Her talent is legendary. Her true story more electrifying than you’d ever imagine. She is Judy Garland.

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Thursday, February 13 – 7:30pm Henry Fogel Presents Jonita Lattimore Ms. Lattimore is an American operatic soprano and a faculty member of Roosevelt University’s Chicago College of Performing Arts who has performed a wide range of operatic roles, as well as oratorio performances with major worldwide orchestras. Members and their guests $20, NonǦmembers $25, Students $10. Pay at the door.

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UNION: A Jan. 22 regular meeting of the Triton Board of Trustees, which voted to appoint a new high-level administrator, bypassing a search process.

Photo by Michael Romain

CAMPOS

Triton College from page 1 Association president, the union explained that it “takes no issue” with Campos becoming the next Academic Affairs vice president, “finding her eminently qualified and well known to be a fair-minded administrator. Rather, our concern is with the process, or lack of, used to select the next VP of Academic Affairs.”

The union said that, “in accordance with standard practice and general fairness,” the college should fill administrative positions only after a search process happens “in which positions are publicly posted, a search team representing members of the Triton College community assembled, and candidates thoroughly evaluated and vetted.”

The union explained that many challenges Triton is facing fall under the Academic Affairs vice president’s purview, including “declining enrollment, significant achievement gaps for minority students, and new mandates from the state.”

Those problems, they said, is “why it is critical that senior executive-level positions are selected from a diverse candidate pool through a fair and transparent interview process.”

During follow-up interviews, faculty union officials were critical of the lack of diversity among high-level administrators at the college and decried the low graduation rates among African American and Hispanic students.

According to college data, 59 percent of the college’s 11,627 students are minority — 16 percent African-American and 40 percent Hispanic or Latinx. But 70 percent of the college’s 30 top administrators, and 76 percent of the college’s full-time faculty members, are white.

Meanwhile, only 7 percent of full-time, first-time, degree/certificate-seeking African American undergraduates who matriculated in 2014 completed their programs of study within three years, according to Triton data. For Hispanics and whites in that group, the completion rate was 18 percent and 27 percent, respectively.

Union officials said the Campos appointment was indicative of Triton’s lackluster

commitment to hiring more minority faculty and administrators, citing the example of Harper College, a community college in Palatine.

All three of the final candidates vying to become the college’s president are African American — despite the fact that 57 percent of Harper College’s student body is white.

In its statement, the union said when hiring, “the college should compare candidates on the basis of merit, qualifications, experience, background, and consideration of the college’s short- and long-term strategic goals; this is not possible without a proper search.”

During the Jan. 22 meeting, however, Triton’s board president, Mark Stephens, explained that Campos came highly recommended by Triton President Mary-Rita Moore.

Stephens said that Moore “was well within her rights under the rules of the school to” recommend hiring Campos and bypassing a search process, adding that, due to the suddenness of Baker’s decision to retire, it was important to get someone in the position swiftly.

Stephens added that the college is “starting to do better” and “starting to close up” the achievement gap. He added that the school is also improving in the area of enrollment and state mandates.

Given the improvements, Stephens said, “How we would help the school by going through a five-month process to replace [Baker] is questionable.”

But union officials explained that a search process would also help the college avoid the appearance of corruption.

“As Triton’s top-tier administrative positions are among the highest paid in the state,” union officials said, “the appointment of inside employees not only obstructs the inclusion of diverse talent, it creates an appearance of cronyism that jeopardizes the college’s reputation.”

When reached for comment on the hiring, President Moore issued a statement, explaining that she is looking forward to Campos serving as the college’s next chief academic officer.

“With 13 years as a full-time Triton College faculty member and 1.5 years as academic dean, her experience makes her uniquely qualified to continue Triton College’s success into the future,” Moore said.

CONTACT: michael@oakpark.com

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Piercing studio to open on Madison St. Luxe Piercing will open the first week of April

By LUCIA WHALEN Contributing Reporter

Ask any teenager where they got their first piercing, and chances are the answer will be either the mall or their friend’s bathroom. These piercings often result in infection, due to a lack of sanitation and piercing experience. Madison Street’s first piercing studio—Luxe Piercing is set to open in April at 7439 Madison St.—aims to change that.

“People can expect safe piercings,” said Luxe owner Jeff Clark, adding that he uses an aseptic piercing technique where the piercing instruments are sterilized in front of the client. A member of the Association for Professional Piercers (APP), Clark adheres to a strict set of guidelines set by the group, which requires that him to use certain materials and follow a set of steps to ensure safety.

“Piercings that get infected or don’t heal are usually because they have been done in unsafe conditions,” explained Clark, adding, “We want to be able to offer high-quality piercings.”

Clark, currently a piercing artist at Venture Tattoo in Oak Park, has been a body

piercer for eight years. Raised in southwest the APP website, these implant materials suburban Plainfield, Clark got his start in include surgical steel, titanium, niobium, gold, platinum, biocompatible the body art industry when a polymers, and glass. friend opened a tattoo studio.

“When most people think Clark was offered an apprenbody piercing, they think ring ticeship for piercing, and after and barbell,” said Clark. a few weeks at the studio, found He said Luxe will offer a wide his passion. range of jewelry, including 14 to Body piercing, much like tat18 karat gold and genuine stone too artistry, is one of the few jewels, which will be customcareers left that still requires sized for each individual. apprenticeship as the path to Those interested in piercings expertise. must start by visiting the studio “You find a mentor and learn and choosing the jewelry. Artfrom there,” Clark said, adding: JEFF CLARK ists at Luxe will help individu“There is technically schooling Luxe Piercing owner als choose jewelry appropriate out there, but you’re not getting for the individual’s desired the full experience. You’re not piercing. Once jewelry has been learning the history behind it.” selected, the necessary paperClark honed his craft in Plainwork is filled out, followed by field before moving to Oak Park the actual piercing process. with a friend to join the team at Piercing, like tattooing, has Venture Tattoo.

Luxe Piercing will primarily offer body an age restriction, and individuals under piercing and high-quality jewelry made the age of 18 must have parental consent. from implant-grade materials, meaning ma- Because certain cartilage piercings are terials are certified to meet the standards for harder to heal, staff at Luxe will help clisurgical implant applications. According to ents decide which piercings are appropri-

“You find a mentor and learn from there.”

ALEXA ROGALS/Staff Photographer

PIERCING: Owner Jeff Clark said children’s lobe, cartilage and nose piercings are the most popular in the area. ate for younger age groups. Clark said most people in this area come in for children’s ear lobe piercings, along with cartilage and nose piercings, and that very few request more extreme body modifications, like large gauges.

While Luxe will offer most body piercings, safety always comes first, making certain piercings off-limits.

“If it’s not going to heal properly, like horizontal tongue piercings, it’s not viable or a good idea,” said Clark.

OPRF junior gets ‘Hamilton’ master class MacKenzie Jamieson has been dancing since she was 3

By NONA TEPPER Staff Reporter

A group of young dancers spun into Principle Dance Studio in Forest Park on Jan. 27, preparing for a master class taught by performers from Hamilton, a global musical sensation about the life of one of America’s founding fathers, Alexander Hamilton.

MacKenzie Jamieson, a 17-year-old at Oak Park and River Forest High School, said she received the gift from her parents for Christmas.

“It was chill — calm, yet educating,” Jamieson said of the master class.

When the Hamilton performers arrived on Sunday, she said they started by going through a light warm-up — stretching, yoga, a little ballet. The class then discussed the different types of dance, going through everything from African to modern expression. Once they finished their warm-up, they spent the next 45 minutes learning the story and steps behind “The Room Where It Happens,” the popular jazzy show tune from the musical, which tells the story of a secret political deal that moved the country’s capital.

Jamieson tried not to think too hard about the steps and feel the music instead.

“I think a lot of people are like, ‘Count in your head.’ But I gotta feel the music, I gotta

Photo provided by Principle Dance Studio

ROOM WHERE IT HAPPENED: ‘Hamilton’ cast member Kyle Weiler leads a master class at Principle Dance Studio in Forest Park. go with the flow,” she said.

Afterward, the Hamilton performers divided the dancers into groups, and offered advice such as, “When you walk into an audition,

try not to portray yourself as someone you aren’t. Go in there and be yourself; that will show off more than being another person.”

The advice resonated with Jamieson,

who’s been dancing since she was 3 years old. She started by studying basic ballet and went on to compete in jazz and tap competitions — and win.

“Tap is my main genre. For me it’s the best way to go out and express myself,” she said.

After a few years, Jamieson realized she needed to move on from her Westchester studio, agreeing with her teachers and parents that there was nothing more for her to learn. She heard about Principle, went to the studio and eventually saw one of the owners perform a tap routine, striking his feet in combinations she hadn’t yet learned.

“This is at a higher level than I’m at,” she thought, and enrolled in the classes.

As she finishes her junior year of high school, Jamieson has now been dancing for 14 years. Originally, her plans post-OPRF were to go on to college and major in business and minor in dance. But now she’s looking at schools outside of Chicago where she can focus on her art.

“I want to own my own studio, I want to have my own competition team, I want it all, I want everything,” she said. “If it’s Latin fusion, if I’ve never taken it before, I’ll try it.

Tap, jazz, ballet, I’m always trying to expand my horizons.”

CONTACT: ntepper@wjinc.com

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A revenue source

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orest Park, as regular readers know, is actively looking for new revenue sources. Turns out there is an old revenue source — and don’t you dare say video gaming — that is ready to be rejuvenated.

We’re talking about the collection of past due

fines.

The village government is closing in on hiring a new firm to handle its collection services after having parted ways with its old firm a year ago. The absence of an active collection effort coupled with the loss of speed camera revenues on Roosevelt Road during construction put a $300,000 dent in last year’s fine revenue line item.

We’re no fans of speed cameras — highway robbery is our usual definition. But if you’re going to have them, then you might as well get your money.

When it comes to growing revenue, Forest Park has already found most of the low-hanging fruit. But in the short term there may be a boost to cash flow just ahead.

Hiring at Triton

Triton College, our community college, has a deserved reputation as an insular, family-run operation.

That perception will happen when the chairman of the board seemingly has the position for life and comes from the most politically connected family in the district. It happens when the school continues to fail to graduate three-quarters of its students, and better than 90 percent of its African American students. And it happens when 60 percent of your students are black or Latinx and 70 percent of your top administrators are white and 76 percent of your full-time faculty are white.

This issue bubbles up now as the school’s faculty union is objecting to the decision of Mary-Rita Moore, Triton’s president, to promote a longtime faculty member and more recently dean of health careers, to the critical post of VP of Academic Affairs. The faculty notes that it respects Sue Campos but that such a critical position should have been filled after a legitimate search process.

We agree entirely. Triton, of all places, should always opt for an open hiring process. Its traditions of insider hiring necessitate it. And the logic of actively recruiting a diverse set of potential candidates is too strong to simply promote another white candidate.

That moment is seemingly past as Campos is set to step up following the spring retirement of the incumbent in the Academic Affairs post. But Triton, which usually operates off the radar of most voters, and is increasingly not covered by shrinking local newspapers, needs to be poked and prodded to do better.

Let’s also acknowledge that Triton is not alone among community colleges with poor records on graduating its students. This is a widespread problem. We hope Ms. Campos can make headway against an academic achievement gap, the poor graduation rates and the innovation challenges that plague this critical institution.

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Process over policy

here’s an election coming up on April 2, so we are going to be bombarded with arguments about why we should vote for one candidate or another.

I suspect that much of what we hear will be proposals regarding policy.

For example, the Village of Forest Park is more than $1 million in the hole. Video gambling is out of the picture, so we’ll probably hear that we have to cut services or raise taxes or eliminate waste or, for those who believe in miracles, a promise to pull revenue rabbits out of the fiscal hat.

Or, all of the above.

I’ve decided that what I want to hear from candidates is not so much policy proposals—ie what we need to do—but process promise— ie how decisions will be made.

EXAMPLE ONE: GOOD PROCESS Do you remember how we made the decision to go on record as being a welcoming village? To his credit, Mayor Calderone presided over an open, inclusive process. There were town hall meetings, letters to the editor, interviews in the Review and arguments over beers in Forest Park’s many watering holes.

That open, inclusive process made almost everyone feel that their voices were heard—not always agreed with, mind you—but heard, so that when the resolution was passed by the village council, most everyone felt it was “good enough,” not perfect but acceptable.

EXAMPLE TWO: BAD PROCESS I don’t have to go through all the details regarding the referendum on video gambling, which you already know. The point I want to make was that the decisionmaking process regarding what to do about video gambling began as an inclusive process and then morphed into decisions made by a few.

The result was contention and polarization in a community which usually values its small-town charm. . .and civility.

The irony was that many Forest Park residents saw no problem with having video gambling in their town.

The reason many voted yes—which really meant no— on the referendum was because they were upset with the decision-making PROCESS. Not all decision-making processes, of course, need to be preceded by town hall meetings. We don’t need a referendum to decide whether or not to change the oil in the Sterling dump truck that the Public Works Dept. uses.

We want leadership which discerns the difference between minor problems which don’t need our input, bigger issues which we want to be notified of so we can attend council meetings and voice our concerns dur-

ing the time designated for public comment, and issues which are more strategic--issues regarding what values we want upheld and in what direction we want the village to go.

The candidates I will vote for are people who show me that they genuinely believe that governing is not a contest in which you fight for what you want. It’s not a competition like a football game in which fans north of the Wisconsin/Illinois border wear green and gold on game day and those south of the state line where orange and navy blue.

Pay attention to the imagery candidates use when talking about process. If they use words like “fight” and “win,” they are picturing the decision-making process as a competition or worse a war. If I’m going to win, you have to lose. That’s what seems to be going on in Washington regarding the potential for another government shutdown. President Trump wouldn’t compromise because it would “make him look foolish” to his base, and the Democratic leadership wouldn’t bend because it would anger their base.

The people on the other side of the aisle are the enemy.

In contrast, if the image you have in your mind for decision-making is a family discussion, you’ll find yourself using language like “inclusive” and “compromise.” Imagine a family gathering in which two adults and three children try to figure out whether the whole family should move because one of the parents has a job offer which will increase revenues by 20%. Each of the five people at the table have invested themselves in different things.

One of the children might be in the middle of her senior year of high school. One might hate racist elements in the community and be ready to go “anywhere but here.” The youngest might feel, “I’ll go anywhere as long as I’m with mom and dad.” One parent might get a lot of ego strokes by taking the new job not to mention the higher standard of living, while the other might value the group of supportive friends he has nurtured more than acquiring a bigger house.

Clearly everyone won’t get everything they want, but it is so important for the long-term health of the family that when the decision is made and implemented, everyone is satisfied that their voices have been heard and their desires taken into consideration.

Most likely, all of us will have to give a little in order to get the village back in the black. I will vote for the candidate who assures me that somehow I will be included in the process of deciding who gives what and how much.

R-E-S-P-E-C-T. Aretha nailed it. I can adapt to a lot of changes I don’t like so much if I feel like my voice has been heard and my values taken seriously.

TOM

HOLMES

What I want to hear

from candidates is not so much policy proposals—ie what we need to do—but process promise — ie how decisions will be made.

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Expectations should be high Background I’m Daniel Gasse, a 20 year resident of Forest Park, running for an opening on the District 91 School Board.

For 18 years I have owned and directed the Gasse School of Music in Forest Park.

I hold a doctoral degree in music and education and have taught students of all ages for more than 38 years. I am the father of five; the two youngest are currently students in District 91.

For nine years I have connected deeply with four of the five schools in town, interacting with principals, teachers, social workers and the superintendent. I have been involved for the last four years in the transformation of District 209, and I was a member of the PMSA Student Achievement and Student Innovation committee and the PMSA Entrance Process Re-examination Committee for 1.5 years.

Scores and instruction must be improved Despite strong financial management for many years, District 91’s academic results and scores are not where they should be. With the student to teacher ratio and the dollar to student ratio we have, our schools should be at the top of the rankings. Changes must be made at the leadership level, including the School Board. Some improvements have been made this academic year, following many years of demands from dedicated parents, but there is still a long way to go. The level of instruction in Math, English, Science, Music and Foreign Languages are far below the ideal. It’s imperative to eliminate instructional gaps. The district needs to develop an overarching plan, so there is continuity from grade to grade and from school to school.

The expectations should be high; we should not aim the teaching to the lowest level so no one fails. The assignments should be at grade level and the teaching should be done in the classroom, not assigned as homework. Our eighth graders deserve to graduate with a solid education.

Discipline Discipline in District 91 is an ongoing issue and can be radically improved with Restorative Justice, which coaches students on how to resolve problems in constructive ways, including anger management, active listening, and understanding both sides of the issue. New programs should be created before and after school to offer alternatives to students who either need help or are at the top of the class and need challenges to continue growing.

Communication Communication in the district has improved, but there is more to do. We need to involve parents and empower them to be major partners in their children’s education, encouraging them to be the leaders at home that champion the interest for learning, working and following directions. We also need their feedback about what is working and what isn’t, and to bring concerns as well as suggestions.

As an experienced teacher, coach, business owner and involved citizen of Forest Park I am stepping up to the responsibility and challenge of participating in the decision-making board that can change the performance of our schools. I will strive for excellence and won’t settle for anything less.

Daniel Gasse Forest Park School District 91 board of education candidate

No FOIA, no budget I viewed with interest the recent (1/23/19) article “Auditor declares negative village fund balance.” Some of my fellow residents at The Grove were interested in viewing the budget. One of the residents went to the village website and found only the audit. “An audit is not a budget,” said this resident.

When this same resident called the Village and asked, “Where is the actual budget?” they were asked to submit a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.

This baffled me. Shouldn’t the citizens of a village be able to view the budget whenever they want to?

I shared this experience with the candidates on the Forest Park Forward Village Commissioner slate. They told me that one of their supporters had actually gone

through the trouble of submitting a FOIA, and when they received the Village budget, it had many redacted lines. What is going on here? Any advocate of good government would expect transparency in this matter. Most villages publish their budget on the website as a matter of course.

The Forest Park Forward commissioner candidates (Julianne Bonwit, Mark Boroughf, Jon Kubricht, and Jessica Voogd) have pledged Transparency, Responsiveness, and Inclusivity. They have also endorsed Rory Hoskins for Mayor of Forest Park. Read more about them here: http:// www.forestparkforward.com/ Let’s give them our votes.

Carol Gulyas, Resident who is volunteering for the Forest

HARRIS Mayor

from page 1 Last election cycle, in April 2015, Harris challenged Calderone for the village’s top spot and lost by just 113 votes, according to the Cook County Clerk’s Office. Toward the end of that race, Harris said things “got very ugly, very personal” with “internet trolls attacking me.”

But after the results were in, Harris said he met with Calderone, who told him that “none of that came from him, it was people supporting him, a relative was involved in that.” Now Harris said he holds “a lot” of respect for Calderone, who reportedly isn’t sure who he will endorse as Forest Park’s next mayor.

“He’s been the mayor for 20 years. I think he’d be silly not to have a conversation,” Harris said. “There’s going to be a lot of turnover on the village council and he’s been mayor a long time. He knows where everything is, everything that happened in the last few years.

We shouldn’t isolate him from the process.

He should be a part of the discussion.”

When asked if current Commissioner Tom Mannix and former commissioner Mark Hosty would be backing his campaign, Harris replied: “I hope not.” He said roughly 20 friends and neighbors are supporting his campaign, noting that he does not have a campaign manager — rather, a group of advisors, including resident Karen Rozmus — and is not running with a slate.

“I consider myself an extremely independent person, politically as well, although I think I lean more toward Democrat,” he said.

“Independence is fading away in this country; representatives are battling party over policy. I think that hurts everybody.”

His political action committee, “Citizens for Chris Harris,” holds approximately $2,100, with most coming in small donations from “residents and friends” and $1,000 coming from A&P Com, a Chicago-based marketing firm that Harris said he has done some work for. Harris 46, owns his own small marketing agency.

“It’s a lot of work to be mayor; it’s a 24hour, seven-day-a-week job. I know I have the time commitment to do it and I’m excited about the opportunity if voters feel I’m worthy enough. My background is in business; it’s about relationships, making those calls.”

He added: “When I came in on the village council, we were in the red. Then in the four fiscal years I was on the board, we were in the black. Now we’re back on this trend, in the red again; it’s a major concern. Borrowing from other funds that aren’t intended for that is not alarming but it’s concerning.”

During his four years on the village council, Harris said he was part of the team that helped secure the grants for the beautification of Roosevelt Road, which updated the sidewalks and street. He said now Roosevelt Road needs to further develop its business community — particularly after Home Owners Bargain Outlet (HOBO) closed in late 2018 — and said he’s been talking with Liv-

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ing Word Christian Center about a bowling alley, laser tag, Safari Land or other family entertainment venue leasing the space.

“The day of the big box retail is dying; you can’t expect another Kmart to move in. We were fortunate enough to get that HOBO and that was a devastating loss,” Harris said. “I think we need a strong economic development committee backed by the village; everyone needs to be all in on it.”

He named fiscal health as the village’s greatest challenge and said Forest Park needs to increase its sales tax revenue and renegotiate benefit agreements with some of the car dealerships.

Harris also believes there needs to be more long-term thought about the village’s sewer systems, which he described as crumbling.

When he was on the council, he said people jokingly called him the “green commissioner” since he was a strong advocate for water soluble pavers and other green development.

“I think we can do better at exploring grants. Last I checked, and it wasn’t that long ago, we were getting grant money at like a 60 percent less rate than other towns,” Harris said, adding that the village relies on its engineering firm to apply for grant funds.

During his time on and off the council, Harris said he also helped organize public forums, exploring such topics as medical marijuana, effective development of the villageowned Altenheim property and, of course, video gaming. Harris said he was “neutral” in that debate.

“It’s settled law. There’s nothing we can do. The citizens spoke and the citizens’ voice needs to be respected,” he said. “Having friends for it and against it, I would love to get everyone in a room and get past this. At community events, let’s all come together and support each other as opposed to putting our fists behind a keyboard and continuing to battle.”

After serving on the council and running an unsuccessful bid for mayor, Harris went on to challenge state Representative Emanuel “Chris” Welch for the seventh district spot in March 2016. Harris said he was inspired to run because he was unsatisfied with Welch’s influence at Proviso Township High Schools District 209. He thought a friend, Antoinette Gray, was going to run, but when she dropped out “at the last minute,” Harris decided to step up. Welch collected nearly twice as many votes as Harris, according to the Cook County Clerk’s Office.

“I think he spent 10 to 20 times as much as me; every week there was a mailer in a mailbox saying things about me,” he said. But now he thinks Welch is doing a “good job of rehabbing his name down in Springfield.”

Harris faces challenger Rory Hoskins in the mayor’s race. Hoskins is a former commissioner who also went on to battle Welch for the seventh district state representative spot. Hoskins holds $4,400 in his political action committee, “Hoskins for Mayor.”

“The great thing about this campaign is we have two people who have been on the village council and there’s a record of what they did, record of [how] they voted, how much effort they put in,” Harris said. “I hope it’ll be civil. I don’t see it going negative.”

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RELIGION GUIDE Presbyterian

Check First.

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.

Refreshments and fellowship follow the service.

708-344-6150 firstchurchofmaywood.org When you're looking for a place to worship the Lord, Check First.

You’re Invited to A Church for All Nations A Church Without Walls SERVICE LOCATION Forest Park Plaza 7600 W. Roosevelt Road Forest Park, IL 60130

William S. Winston Pastor

ELCA, Lutheran

Good Shepherd

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

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

Lutheran—ELCA

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.

LIVE Webcast - 11:15AM Service Believer’s Walk of Faith Broadcast Schedule (Times in Central Standard Time) Television DAYSTAR (M-F)

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West Suburban Temple Har Zion

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

Interfaith families are welcome.

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

744 Fair Oaks Ave. Oak Park 386-4920 Sunday Schedule Christian Education for All Ages 9:00am Worship Service 10:00am

Child care available 9-11am

fairoakspres.org 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

Roman Catholic

Ascension Catholic Church

www.unitedlutheranchurch.org

708/386-1576

(708) 697-5000 Sunday Service 7AM, 9AM & 11:15AM

Fair Oaks

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

Lutheran-Independent

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.

Childcare Available

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 Sacrament of Reconciliation 4 pm Saturday Taize Prayer 7:30 pm First Fridays Feb.– Dec. & Jan. 1

Rev. James Hurlbert, Pastor

Roman Catholic

St. Edmund Catholic Church

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

Sunday Masses: 9:00 & 11:00 a.m., 5:30 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

St. Giles Family Mass Community

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

Roman Catholic

St. Bernardine Catholic Church

Upcoming Religious Holidays

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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

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Understand the issues we face My wife and I have lived in Forest Park since 2006, and our two children have attended District 91 schools since they were old enough to do so.

Once our kids were in school, we had more time available and wanted to get more involved in the community. I started going to school board meetings to get a feel for the district leadership and following public discussions of school related issues. I had occasion to talk to Dr. Cavallo and some of the board about some specific concerns and it became clear to me that there was a disconnect between what is being done and what many of the community see. After much consideration, I determined there were two problems: issues are complex and many people not involved with the board do not do the necessary homework to really grasp the issues at hand, and the board does not do a good enough job of proactively engaging with the community. Things have changed a little - we have since hired an experienced Communications Director, which helps, but I think there is more work to be done.

A good example is test scores. We as a district struggle, especially in the middle school, which is rightfully frustrating to district residents.

There are many components that go into raising them, some of which we can control, some we cannot. It is important to ask the right questions, in order to determine how to find potentially effective solutions. For example: Are test scores generally low, or do we have a small number of students with unusually low scores, pulling the average down? I asked Dr. Cavallo this, and he provided the data showing that scores were generally low, suggesting we have a problem with our curriculum - either the curriculum is not aligned with the testing regime, or we are not implementing the curriculum properly.

The district spent time talking to other schools to choose the curriculum that faculty and leadership felt would work best in D91, suggesting that the curriculum is not in and of itself bad.

The teachers are now doing ‘gap analysis’ to see where students are missing key components of the curriculum, and performing immediate interventions to gill those gaps. This is challenging work, and the district is continuously training and monitoring the teaching staff to ensure they are successful. The January board meeting featured an overview of this process. If the residents of District 91 were more aware of just what the board has been doing in this area, I believe they would be less frustrated and more engaged in the process.

My goal in running for the D91 board is to understand the issues we face and communicate those issues, our analysis and the solutions we implement to the public. I have made a career out of designing and implementing solutions to complex financial, operational, and governance-related problems, while ensuring all stakeholders understand the elements and tradeoffs of the solution and have their concerns heard and addressed.

Steve Rummel

Forest Park District 91 board of education candidate

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PUBLIC NOTICES LEGAL NOTICE ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS RIVER FOREST, ILLINOIS Public Notice is hereby given that a public hearing will be held by the Zoning Board of Appeals of the Village of River Forest, County of Cook, State of Illinois, on Thursday, February 14, 2019 at 7:30 p.m. at the Community Room of the Municipal Complex, 400 Park Avenue, River Forest, Illinois on the following matter: The Zoning Board of Appeals will consider a zoning variation application submitted by Hank Haff, owner of the property at 1427 Jackson Avenue, who is proposing to construct a detached garage on the property. The applicant is requesting a variation to Section 10-9-5 that would allow the property to have a Lot Coverage equal to 31.96% of the Lot Area. The Zoning Code allows a maximum Lot Coverage equal to 30% of the Lot Area.

The legal description of the property at 1427 Jackson Avenue is as follows: LOT 7 IN BLOCK 6 IN WILLIAM BECKMANS SUBDIVISION OF THE WEST 1/2 OF THE WEST 1/2 OF THE NORTHEAST 1/4 OF SECTION 1, TOWNSHIP 39 NORTH, RANGE 12 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, IN COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS. All interested persons will be given the opportunity to be heard at the public hearing. A copy of the meeting agenda will be available to the public at the Village Hall.

Clifford Radatz Secretary Zoning Board of Appeals

LEGAL NOTICE The Village of Oak Park will receive sealed proposals at the Office of the Village Engineer, 201 South Boulevard, Oak Park, Illinois 60302, until 10:00 a.m. on Thursday February 14, 2019 and at that time will be publicly opened and read aloud for the following Village Project: 19-4, 2019 ALLEY IMPROVEMENTS. In general, the improvements consist of the removal of the existing alley pavements and garage aprons; installation of storm sewers and drainage structures; installation of concrete alley pavements and garage aprons; parkway restoration; and all appurtenant work thereto.

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Plans and proposal forms may be obtained from the office of the Village Engineer starting on Thursday, January 31, 2019 at 12:00 pm. A non-refundable deposit of $50 is required for each set of plans and specifications. The Village of Oak Park reserves the right to issue plans and specifications only to those contractors deemed qualified. No bid documents will be issued after 4:00 p.m. on the working day preceding the date of bid opening.

All prospective bidders must prove they are pre-qualified by the Illinois Department of Transportation before receiving bid documents. This project is financed with local Village funds and federal Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds and thus is subject to all federal rules, regulations and guidelines, including Davis-Bacon and Related Acts, Section 3, and Equal Opportunity requirements. Locally funded phases of the project are subject to the Illinois Prevailing Wage Act, 820 ILCS 130/0.01 et seq.

THE VILLAGE OF OAK PARK Bill McKenna Village Engineer Published in Wednesday Journal 1/30/2019

A community meeting will be held Monday, February 18, 2019 at 6:30 pm in the Community Room in the Grove Apartments of Oak Park located at 442 S. Grove Avenue in Oak Park, Illinois. The meeting will be to discuss the proposed senior living facility development project located approximately at 711 - 725 Madison Street in Oak Park.

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: Y19000348 on January 15, 2019. Under the Assumed Business Name of FÁS TRÍ COMHAR with the business located at: 7214 JACKSON BLVD APT 1D, FOREST PARK, IL 60130. The true and real full name(s) and residence address of the owner(s)/partner(s) is: CHRISTINE FLYNN, 7214 JACKSON BLVD APT 1D, FOREST PARK, IL 60130

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VILLAGE OF OAK PARK, ILLINOIS HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION LEGAL NOTICE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a public hearing will be held by the Village of Oak Park Historic Preservation Commission on February 14 at 7:30 p.m. in Council Chambers at the Oak Park Village Hall, 123 Madison Street, Oak Park, Illinois on an application for a Certificate of Appropriateness filed by Alan Rossell to demolish two residential buildings at 1014 and 1018 Pleasant Street, Oak Park, Illinois (P.I.N.s: 16-07-302019-0000 and 16-07-302-0180000), which are located in the Ridgeland-Oak Park Historic District.

All interested persons will be given an opportunity to be heard at the public hearing. The public hearing may be adjourned by the Historic Preservation Commission to another date without further notice other than a motion to be entered upon the minutes of the hearing fixing the time and place of the date. The Historic Preservation Commission shall issue or deny the Certificate of Appropriateness within fifteen (15) days following completion of the public hearing.

For further information on this matter contact the Department of Development Customer Services, Planning Division, Village of Oak Park, 123 Madison Street, Oak Park, Illinois during normal business hours in person, by telephone at (708) 358-5420 or by email historicpreservation@ oak-park.us.

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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: Y19000281 on January 8, 2019. Under the Assumed Business Name of CAREER ENTERPRISES with the business located at: 300 NORTH MAPLE #3, OAK PARK, IL 60302. The true and real full name(s) and residence address of the owner(s)/partner(s) is: ROBIN ANN SHEERER, 300 NORTH MAPLE #3 OAK PARK, IL 60302.

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Owner: Park District of Oak Park 218 Madison St, Oak Park, IL 60302 The Park District of Oak Park seeks bids related to the building addition and renovations of the Carroll Center in Carroll Park. The addition is slab-on-grade, Type V-B construction consisting of CMU bearing walls with steel truss structure.

The addition is highly-insulated with TPO roofing, exterior fiber cement cladding, wood and drywall interior finishes, fiberglass energy-efficient windows. The addition is 3,400 square feet at a height of 20’. The renovations to the existing building will be to the interior finishes, added insulation and upgraded MEP’s. The Park District of Oak Park will receive individual sealed Bids until 2:00 p.m.

(CST) on Wednesday, March 13th, 2019, at 218 Madison St., Oak Park, Illinois. The bidding documents and requirements will be available on the Park District’s web- site as of 5:00 pm Wednesday, February 13th, 2019. A non-mandatory pre-bid walk-thru is scheduled for Wednesday, February 20th at 1:00 pm (CST) at 1125 S. Kenilworth, Oak Park, IL. Copies of the bidding specifications are available via the Park District of Oak Park website at: http://www.pdop.org/ bids-and-rfps/ For additional information, contact Chris Lindgren at chris.lindgren@pdop.org or (708) 725 2050. Only the bids prepared in compliance with the bidding documents will be considered. This project must adhere to the Prevailing Wage Act of 2018. The Park District of Oak Park encourages minority and women owned business firms to submit bids for this project.

Park District of Oak Park By: Kassie Porreca, Secretary Park District of Oak Park 218 Madison St. Oak Park, IL 60302 Published in Wednesday Journal 1/30/2019

REAL ESTATE FOR SALE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION CITIZENS BANK NA F/K/A RBS CITIZENS NA Plaintiff, -v.SHEILA ARMOUR, FIRST AMERICAN BANK Defendants 18 CH 05513 2106 18TH AVENUE BROADVIEW, IL 60155 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on November 26, 2018, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on February 28, 2019, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 2106 18TH AVENUE, BROADVIEW, IL 60155 Property Index No. 15-15-330-0170000.

The real estate is improved with a residence.

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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 or contact Plaintiff’s attorney: CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876 Please refer to file number 14-18-04423.

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. 14-18-04423 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 18 CH 05513 TJSC#: 38-9260 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.

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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 or contact Plaintiff’s attorney: CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876 Please refer to file number 14-14-11449.

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. 14-14-11449 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 14 CH 010505 TJSC#: 39-487 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.

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION HSBC BANK USA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION AS TRUSTEE FOR WELLS FARGO HOME EQUITY ASSET-BACKED SECURITIES 2007-2 TRUST, HOME EQUITY ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2007-2 Plaintiff, -v.THERESA JACKSON, ILLINOIS HOUSING DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY Defendants 14 CH 010505 239 N. HILLSIDE AVENUE HILLSIDE, IL 60162 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on June 26, 2017, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on February 28, 2019, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 239 N. HILLSIDE AVENUE, HILLSIDE, IL 60162 Property Index No. 15-18-214-039.

The real estate is improved with a 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.

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION SPECIALIZED LOAN SERVICING LLC; Plaintiff, vs.

TAWEE PIMSARN; SOTHSRI PIMSARN; PAKDEE YU; NOOPOTH STEVAUX; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS; Defendants, 17 CH 16942 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Tuesday, March 5, 2019 at the hour of 11 a.m. in their office at 120 West Madison Street, Suite 718A, Chicago, Illinois, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described mortgaged real estate: P.I.N. 16-17-111-026-0000.

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Commonly known as 617 South Lombard Avenue, Oak Park, IL 60304.

The mortgaged real estate is improved with a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection.

For information call Sales Department at Plaintiff’s Attorney, Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC, One East Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60601. (614) 220-5611. 18-008379 F2 INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I3110705

the above cause on July 8, 2015, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on March 5, 2019, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 1928 SOUTH 1ST AVE, MAYWOOD, IL 60153 Property Index No. 15-14-315-0210000; 15-14-315-038-0000.

The real estate is improved with a brown, brick, single family, two car detached garage.

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.

MCCALLA RAYMER LEIBERT PIERCE, LLC, Plaintiff’s Attorneys, One North Dearborn Street, Suite 1200, Chicago, IL 60602. Tel No. (312) 346-9088. Please refer to file number 252205.

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.

MCCALLA RAYMER LEIBERT PIERCE, LLC One North Dearborn Street, Suite 1200 Chicago, IL 60602 (312) 346-9088 E-Mail: pleadings@mccalla.com Attorney File No. 252205 Attorney ARDC No. 61256 Attorney Code. 61256 Case Number: 15 CH 01793 TJSC#: 39-482 I3111265

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 or contact Plaintiff’s attorney: CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876 Please refer to file number 14-17-15462.

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. 14-17-15462 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 2017 CH 14351 TJSC#: 39-395 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.

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION (‘’FANNIE MAE’’), A CORPORATION ORGANIZED AND EXISTING UNDER THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Plaintiff, -v.BENITO OJEDA A/K/A H. BENITO OJEDA A/K/A HORACIO B. OJEDA, LURDES MARTINEZ A/K/A LURDEZ MARTINEZ A/K/A LURDES OJEDA Defendants 15 CH 01793 1928 SOUTH 1ST AVE MAYWOOD, IL 60153 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION Plaintiff, -v.SHERRY M. FORD, ILLINOIS HOUSING DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY Defendants 2017 CH 14351 3911 GLADYS 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 February 2, 2018, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on February 26, 2019, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 3911 GLADYS AVE, BELLWOOD, IL 60104 Property Index No. 15-16-114-0260000.

The real estate is improved with a single family residence.

Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, D/B/A CHRISTIANA TRUST, NOT INDIVIDUALLY BUT AS TRUSTEE FOR CARLSBAD FUNDING MORTGAGE TRUST Plaintiff, -v.EDITH ROBLES Defendants 2018 CH 07038 3043 MARION AVE MELROSE PARK, IL 60164 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on December 5, 2018, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on March 7, 2019, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 3043 MARION AVE, MELROSE PARK, IL 60164 Property Index No. 12-30-215-0030000.

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

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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 or contact Plaintiff’s attorney: CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876 Please refer to file number 14-18-06081.

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. 14-18-06081 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 2018 CH 07038 TJSC#: 38-9620 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.

I3110851

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION US BANK NA SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE TO BANK OF AMERICA, NA SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST TO LASALLE BANK NA ON BEHALF OF THE REGISTERED HOLDERS OF BEAR STEARNS ASSET BACKED SECURITIES I LLC ASSET BACKED CERTIFICATES SERIES 2007-AQ1; Plaintiff, vs.

AMANDA MEATH AKA AMANDA K. MEATH AKA AMANDA K CRUEA; JEFFREY MEATH, JR. AKA AKA JEFFREY R. MEATH AKA JEFFREY MEATH; CAPITAL ONE BANK (USA) NA; AMERICAN GENERAL FINANCIAL SERVICES OF ILLINOIS, INC.; PORTFOLIO RECOVERY ASSOCIATES, LLC; HOUSEHOLD FINANCE CORPORATION III; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS; Defendants, 15 CH 10779 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Thursday, March 7, 2019 at the hour of 11 a.m. in their office at 120 West Madison Street, Suite 718A, Chicago, Illinois, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described mortgaged real estate: P.I.N. 15-29-404-037-0000.

Commonly known as 2823 Buckingham Ave, Westchester, IL 60154.

The mortgaged real estate is improved with a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection.

For information call Mr. Anthony Porto at Plaintiff’s Attorney, Kluever & Platt, L.L.C., 150 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60601.

(312) 981-7385. SPSL.0399F INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I3110785

Drive, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 3304 WILCOX AVENUE, BELLWOOD, IL 60104 Property Index No. 15-16-111-0350000.

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.

Where a sale of real estate is made to satisfy a lien prior to that of the United States, the United States shall have one year from the date of sale within which to redeem, except that with respect to a lien arising under the internal revenue laws the period shall be 120 days or the period allowable for redemption under State law, whichever is longer, and in any case in which, under the provisions of section 505 of the Housing Act of 1950, as amended (12 U.S.C. 1701k), and subsection (d) of section 3720 of title 38 of the United States Code, the right to redeem does not arise, there shall be no right of redemption.

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 or contact Plaintiff’s attorney: CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876 Please refer to file number 14-16-00440.

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. 14-16-00440 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 16 CH 004497 TJSC#: 39-353 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.

I3110854

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. Plaintiff, -v.LOUIS LITTLETON A/K/A LOUIS LITTLETON JR., UNITED STATES OF AMERICA–DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, STATE OF ILLINOIS–DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE Defendants 16 CH 004497 3304 WILCOX 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 July 21, 2017, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on March 7, 2019, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION BEAL BANK Plaintiff, vs.

PATRICIA NERI, AKA PATRICIA A. NERI Defendants, 18 CH 9182 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Tuesday, March 5, 2019 at the hour of 11 a.m. in their office at 120 West Madison Street, Suite 718A, Chicago, Illinois, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described mortgaged real estate: P.I.N. 12-33-106-018-0000.

Commonly known as 10106 BELDEN, MELROSE PARK, IL 60164.

The mortgaged real estate is improved with a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection.

For information call Sales Department at Plaintiff’s Attorney, Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC, One East Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60601. (614) 220-5611. 18-019351 F2 INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I3110710

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The Illinois Human Rights Act prohibits discrimination in the sale, rental or advertising of real estate based on factors in addition to those protected under federal law.

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317 N. HARVEY

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This top-to-bottom renovation offers the perfect marriage of high end updates and original charm. The attention to detail starts in the entryway with hand restored vintage wallpaper which leads to a gracious foyer, open living room, dining room and gourmet kitchen; all rehabbed with impeccable attention to detail. Custom built-ins compliment restored original woodwork on every floor. Large fenced in back yard with a new 2 car garage. ................................................................................. $777,500

1016 LATHROP AVE Cute

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Two bedroom, One bath A vintage cottage set on a country like lot with it's mature pine trees and decorative tile work on the front columns and decorative corbels. This one owner home has withstood the test of time.

Meticulously maintained, the home was converted to all electric in 1960.

At this time, unlike almost all bungalows, every wall was opened up and insulated. A modern touch of space pac central air was installed. The present owner maintained a temperature of 72 degrees in the winter and 70 degrees in the summer. The average bill for heat, AC, hot water domestic elect. was $161 per month. It is understood from the current owner that there is oak flooring throughout the living room, dining room, and of course the bedrooms.

The basement has surprisingly high ceiling height and is ready for the finishing touch. Also ready to be finished is the large open attic space. .. $ 229,900

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Six year young remodel top to bottom! Three bedrooms on the main floor and one in the fully finished basement. NEW plumbing/windows/HVAC/electric/and two car garage in 2012! Totally refinished kitchens and bathrooms! Granite counter tops, stone back splash, custom trim work. Just one block to the amazing park district tennis courts, aquatic center, and brand new fitness center! A short walk to the blue line "L" stop and downtown shopping, restaurants and night life! ......................................................................... $269,000

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Thursday, February 7, 2019, 6-7 pm Garfield Primary School 543 Hannah Avenue, Forest Park, IL 60130 Current and prospective preschool parents/guardians (20192020 school year) are invited to join us for some family activities and refreshments in the Garfield gym. Prospective families can learn about the Forest Park Preschool program, view the classrooms, and meet our Preschool staff.

For questions or for more information, please call the Garfield Primary School office at (708) 366-6945.

317 ELGIN NEW LISTING! 2,450 S.F. OF LUXURY! Center unit! 4 floors of living! Enormous master with a soaking tub and enclosed shower, walk in closet, and a private balcony. 2nd fl. offers 2 additional large bedrooms, walk in closet, storage, and full bath. 1st fl is all oak flooring, living room with a fireplace and eating area, and an eat in kitchen.

Bedroom #4 is located in the fully finished basement with a family room area, and full bathroom. 1 space garage. This is the LARGEST TOWNHOME on the market IN FOREST PARK!! $389,000

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IT DOES NOT GET MUCH BETTER than this home! A true Forest Park gem that checks everything off of your wish list. Highlights include: walkable to everything the area has to offer, seemingly endless storage options, 4 large bedrooms on the 2nd floor, high ceilings, wide staircase, second floor laundry, full basement, brand new wood windows, brand new over-sized garage, hardwood floors, crown molding, granite, marble, stainless steel appliances, and 42" kitchen cabinets in eat in kitchen! This home is turn key and ready for new owners! $549,000

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