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Proviso teachers continue strike Page 3

Village approves tree project Page 4

MARCH 16, 2022

Tap Room reopens after one-week suspension

RESIDENTS GATHER TO SUPPORT UKRAINE

Oft-cited bar had its liquor license reinstated by state commission in January after village attempted to shut down operation By BOB SKOLNIK Contributing Reporter

The Forest Park Tap Room reopened last weekend following a one-week suspension of its liquor license for failing to maintain the bar “in a peaceable and orderly manner.” On March 4, Forest Park Mayor Rory Hoskins, acting in his capacity as the village’s liquor commissioner, suspended the Tap Room’s liquor license for one week following a hearing earlier that morning. The Tap Room, located at 7321 Madison St., was forced to close from March 4 through 11, a suspension that meant the bar was closed during the village’s popular St. Patrick’s Day parade on March 5. After hearing from five witnesses: Forest Park Chief of Police Ken Gross, police officer Andrea Caines, neighbor Jason Lumsden, Forest Park Tap Room co-owner Hansel Law and Forest Park Tap Room Security Director Alex Williams, Hoskins ruled that the Tap Room violated five sections of the village’s liquor code. Hoskins found that not only did the Tap Room not maintain the bar “in a peaceful and orderly manner,” but that it did not “[Em]ploy sufficient agents or employees in order to maintain the peace,” permitted fighting, did not immediately notify police when any See TAP ROOM on page 6

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Anna Cook, center, residents and community leaders gather near the flag pole and sing the Ukrainian national anthem as the flag is raised during a rally in support of Ukraine outside of village hall in River Forest.

Judicial candidates with clout face off Relatives of House speaker, county clerk in running By BOB SKOLNIK Contributing Reporter

Two lawyers with local ties are vying to become a judge. But to get to the bench they will have to defeat the wife of the Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives.

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ShawnTe Raines-Welch, who is married to House Speaker Chris Welch (DHillside), will face three opponents in the June 28 Democratic primary race to fill the Rogers vacancy in the 4th Judicial Subcircuit which covers western Cook County from just south of O’Hare Airport to Palos Township, including

Riverside resident Chloe Pedersen, former Brookfield resident Jerry Barrido and Patrick Campanelli, an attorney with a solo practice. Pedersen and Raines-Welch both have strong political connections. Pedersen See CANDIDATES on page 7

John Rice: ‘Songs for Ukraine” in Oak Park

Lookback: Aeneas Horton and the Snug

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Classes canceled another week as teachers strike continues Proviso teachers, on strike since March 4, generating widespread community support By MICHAEL ROMAIN Editor

Monday, March 14, marked the seventh business day of the teachers strike in District 209, as the Proviso Teachers Union (PTU) and District 209 administration remain at odds over salary increases, class sizes and other working conditions. The strike will likely last most of the week, with the next bargaining session scheduled for Thursday, March 17. At this rate, the current teachers strike could last longer than the teachers strike of 2000, which lasted for 10 days. Teachers were planning to rally in Hillside before the D209 school board meeting Tuesday, after this publication’s print deadline. As the strike continues, the teachers seem

to be winning the messaging wars, with local and national union leaders, elected officials, police officers, businesspeople and other community leaders extending their support for the PTU. For instance, walk inside of the Dunkin Donuts at 7660 Madison St. in Forest Park and you’ll see a sign in support of the striking teachers posted to the door. Last week, PTU members took their picketing to area businesses, with car caravans of teachers honking past the Target in Broadview Square. Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson joined the picket lines last week, speaking to teachers at Miller Meadows in Forest Park, which has been the union’s staging grounds since March 4. Also last week, Acting Westchester Village President Nick Steker released a letter addressed to D209 Superintendent James

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Henderson to express his “strong support of the students and teachers” in District 209. Steker said the strike “is a direct result of the continued lack of comitteemen, transparency and urgency by [Supt. Henderson] and the [school board] in safeguarding a fair contract with the Proviso Teachers Union.” After last week’s bargaining session, PTU President Maggie Riley said Henderson and the school board “refuse to meet the needs of the community and provide the resources necessary to recruit and retain high-quality educational employees.” Riley said the district “received $94 million in revenue this year and banked a budget surplus of $14 million last year. They are on track to bank an additional $8 – $12 million this year according to their budget documents. The Union has reduced its demands and now the parties are even closer with the

teachers compromising their wage demand even at a time when inflation is nearly 8%.” In a statement released last week, D209 school board President Rodney Alexander said both sides met with a federal mediator for more than six hours without reaching an agreement. “Informal communications between the District and the union, both directly and through the federal mediator, will continue … as we continue to work toward resolution,” Alexander said.

Striking District 209 teachers stand in Miller Meadow, a forest preserve across the street from Proviso Math and Science Academy in Forest Park last week.

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Residents rally to support Ukraine

Locals gathered in solidarity with the citizens of Ukraine during a rally outside village hall in River Forest on March 9. The rally was believed to be one of the first of its kind in the suburbs, following several demonstrations in Chicago in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24. The March 9 rally was attended by around 40 people and included the raising of the Ukrainian flag on a pole outside village hall. River Forest Village President Cathy Adduci

credited residents Mindy Credi, Marta Kozbur and Anna Cook for organizing the rally. Kozbur and Cook are Ukrainian. Adduci spoke at the rally and five days later, on March 14, village officials approved a resolution supporting an independent and democratic Ukraine. The Ukrainian flag is scheduled to fly outside village hall through at least April 9.

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Forest Park approves tree inventory, delays some planning Plan on trimming larger trees will wait for inventory By IGOR STUDENKOV Contributing Reporter

Forest Park’s Village Council voted unanimously to accept a $9,375 Morton Arboretum grant to help cover the costs of doing a village-wide tree inventory and developing a tree management plan. The grant will reimburse the village for half of the cost of hiring a contractor to do the tree inventory. That cost-sharing doesn’t include the $750 fee to put the inventory information into the village’s Geographic Information System [GIS] database, which the village would have to pay out of its own pocket. In response to concerns about the project costs, the village will hold off on some tree-

related projects. Most notably, it will delay developing a maintenance plan for trimming larger trees. Forest Park will still be doing regular maintenance such as removing dead trees. Under the grant conditions, the inventory must be completed no later than July 1, 2022. Morton Arboretum issues Urban and Community Forestry Core Grants, which use funding from the USDA Forest Service and Illinois Department of Natural Resources (IDNR). Under the terms of the grant agreement, the contractor will catalogue every tree in public spaces in the village. Then, they would use the information to develop a plan for how to best manage the trees that are there, including possible priorities for where new trees can be planted and what kind of trees should be planted. One of the conditions of the grant is that the village would need to contract an Arboretum-approved vendor. According to the grant documents, this was done at IDNR’s request “to achieve economies of scale.” The

village will have to pay $19,500 up front, but the grant reimbursement will bring the cost down to $10,125. The village memo indicates that the $750 GIS charge may be reimbursed at a later time, but the grant documents don’t have any language guaranteeing that. When Village Administrator Moses Amidei asked the council if he should apply for the grant during the Feb. 28 meeting, Commissioner Maria Maxham had concerns about costs and wondered if it would be cheaper to do the survey in-house. During the March 14 meeting, Commissioner of Public Property Jessica Voogd, whose purview includes oversight over village forestry, said that the village was able to reduce some of expenses to help offset the costs. The village council approved the grant agreement without further discussion. In a follow-up interview, Voogd said she talked to Sal Stella, the village’s public works director, about items that could be postponed for another year or two. She said that, since the budget for the public works

department hasn’t been approved yet, “things are a bit fluid” – but she emphasized that the delays wouldn’t affect any pressing issues, such as removal of dead trees. “We identified several line items pertaining to our trees and parkway maintenance that made a lot of sense to wait on implementing until after a tree survey and management plan are established,” Voogd said. One item that’s definitely going to be on the list is developing plans for maintaining larger trees. Voogd said while the village regularly trims and maintain trees within its rights-of-way, it has to call in a professional tree trimmer for trees “that reach certain height and scale.” She said that she and Stella agreed that it made sense to wait for the tree inventory to be completed, so they’d know exactly how many trees need professional trimming. “It could even lead to savings as we will know the status of each and every villagemaintained tree,” Voogd said.

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Bar open after suspension from page 1 employee of the bar observed criminal activity and failed to report a criminal incident within two business days. The ruling states that Hoskins did not find the testimony of Law or Williams credible. The incident that sparked the hearing was a brief fight outside the Tap Room that occurred around 12:40 a.m. on Feb 13. According to the order suspending the Tap Room’s license, Law testified that because the Tap Room’s security cameras did not have any footage of the fight, the fight must have emanated from other location. But Law also testified that the Tap Room does not have any security cameras filming the exterior of the bar and that in most instances fights outside a bar usually begin inside the bar. Neighbors who live in the condominiums across Madison Street from the Tap Room notified police about the fight, which was over by the time the police arrived. The Tap Room opened in late 2020 in the

space that formerly housed Healy’s Westside and has been a source of controversy in Forest Park for much of that time. The bar has been cited by the liquor commissioner on numerous occasions since its opening, including in August, when Hoskins revoked the Tap Room’s liquor license after ruling the bar had stayed open after hours. But in January, the Illinois State Liquor Control Commission reversed the village’s license revocation, ruling that the there was no evidence that the bar was selling liquor after hours. During the hearing on March 4, Lumsden testified that he and his wife have experienced many disturbances caused by patrons of the Tap Room. Lumsden testified that at times he and his wife have feared for their safety, and he said that that he had not experienced such problems while Healy’s was in operation. There were apparently no major incidents at the Tap Room this past weekend. “Saturday was a bit rowdy, but with St. Patty’s day, we expected it,” said Hannah Boudreau, a resident of a condominium across Madison Street from the Tap Room who has been a leading critic of the bar. “We’ll see how things go with the warmer weather.”

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CANDIDATES

Four vying for judgeship from page 1 is the niece of Cook County Clerk Karen Yarbrough. Some might see the race as sort of a rematch of a 2006 primary when Chris Welch, then the president of the Proviso Township High School District 209 Board of Education, challenged then state Rep. Yarbrough in the Democratic primary. Yarbrough handily won that matchup with nearly 73 percent of the vote. Pedersen, who is an equity partner and head of the labor and employment law practice at Chicago law firm of Fletcher & Sippel, says political connections and the past Yarbrough-Welch race are not relevant in this race.

asked that the Review submit questions for her by email. The review emailed her campaign 11 questions on Monday afternoon but had not received a response prior to deadline. Raines-Welch lent her campaign $100,100 on Feb. 2 and has received $20,000 campaign contributions from the carpenters’ union political action committee and from the Chicago Land Operators Labor-Management political action committee. “I don’t know what a labor union PAC has to do with electing someone for judge,” said Barrido, who unsuccessfully ran for judge countywide in 2018. Barrido, a veteran public defender who tries cases at the Maybrook Courthouse, said he deliberately filed to run against Raines-Welch because he said he wanted to give voters an opportunity to give voters an opportunity to pick someone who is independent of the Democratic Party machine.

that the depth and breath of her litigation experience distinguishes her from the other candidates. “I am confident in my candidacy,” Pedersen said. “The depth and breadth of my experience sets me apart.” When Yarbrough became Cook County Recorder of Deeds, she hired Pedersen as her chief labor and legal counsel. Pedersen said she worked hard in that job and was hired for a specific purpose. “I committed to doing one year with them to help them get in and stand up a legal department and a functioning HR department,” Pedersen said. “I was hired into an exempt position; I was vetted by the State’s Attorney’s office as well as the Shakman monitors and was highly recommended for the position.” Last year, Pedersen applied to fill a vacancy on the Riverside-Brookfield High School

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SHAWNTE RAINES-WELCH “I don’t see it that way,” Pedersen said. “Karen Yarbrough wasn’t out circulating petitions for me. I’m the one who’s on the ballot. It’s my experience, my background, my time, energy and effort that will be put to the voters. It doesn’t matter who my family might be, that’s not what the voters are going to vote on.” Raines-Welch is a partner at the law firm of AncelGlink, a law firm that specializes in municipal law. According to her campaign website, Raines-Welch represents multiple municipalities and suburban school districts. Raines-Welch graduated from the John Marshall Law School and started her career as a plaintiff ’s lawyer. She earned her bachelor’s degree from UIC. Raines-Welch ran for public office once before but was unsuccessful finishing fifth in a field of seven candidates in a 2015 race for the Proviso Township High School District 209 Board of Education. Both Raines-Welch and Pedersen have served on the Proviso Township Mental Health Commission. The Forest Park Review reached out to Raines-Welch for an interview, but a representative of her campaign said on March 14 that Raines-Welch had promised to do her first interview with another reporter and

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“I picked this race to go against the speaker’s wife,” Barrido said. “I deliberately wanted to give the people a choice as to whether or not they wanted to go with the status quo Democratic politics or to have someone who is a fighter in the courtroom, who has a reputation as a zealous advocate and a hard worker period.” Barrido, who graduated from DePaul Law School in 1999, said that he sees becoming a judge as a logical next step in his career. “A judge can do the right thing,” Barrido said “A lawyer has to advocate for the position of their client.” Barrido says his decades of trial experience makes him the best qualified candidate in the race. “People may have fancy titles,” Barrido said. “I’m proud to be an assistant public defender, I’m proud to have been a victim witness coordinator. I’m proud to be a trial lawyer who can navigate a courtroom.” Pedersen, 39, is also a graduate of DePaul Law School and earned a bachelor’s degree in commerce from DePaul. As an undergraduate she was co-captain of the DePaul Demon dance team. Pedersen, who has lived in Riverside for nearly four years and lived for four years in Brookfield before moving to Riverside, said

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District 208 Board of Education but was not selected. She says she has long aspired to be a judge. “Becoming a judge has always been a passion of mine going back even as far as grade school,” Pedersen said. “I worked as a peer mediator, and the ability to solve their problems and reach a resolution is something that I’ve been passionate about.” Campanelli, 64, is from LaGrange and has an office in Palos Heights. He is a criminal defense lawyer who is married to Amy Campanelli, the former Public Defender for Cook County and Barrido’s one-time boss. The tagline of his law firm website is “Everybody makes mistakes, including the police.” Campanelli, who unsuccessfully ran for judge nearly 30 years ago, began his career as a prosecutor and now has a general law practice with a focus on criminal defense. He said that he has tried thousands of cases, including hundreds of jury trials. “I believe that the 4th Subcircuit in which I’m running has an extremely intelligent community,” Campanelli said. “That they can look at the backgrounds of the people involved, that money being thrown at a race is not important.”

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March 16-22

BIG WEEK Make Dog Toys for the Animal Shelter

An Afternoon with Eleanor Roosevelt Sunday, March 20 at 2 p.m., virtually through League of Women Voters Spend an Afternoon with Eleanor Roosevelt and the League of Women Voters. What better way to celebrate Women’s History Month than to hear Eleanor Roosevelt’s story, told in her own words through a one-woman show presented by Schaumburg’s Lynn Rymarz, who performs as famous women in history, such as Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Hamilton. The Zoom program will be followed by a Q&A with Rymarz. Tickets are $25 and proceeds will be used to support League programs. To order, go to https://www. lwvoprf.org/store/p9/Eleanor_Roosevelt_Tickets.html

More Than Muses: Female Composers Through History Sunday, March 20, 2:30-3:30 p.m., in-person, Forest Park Public Library Austin Room This live concert by the Sapphire Woodwind Quintet showcases music composed by women, including works by Maddalena Casulana (1500s), the first woman to have her music published, as well as German composer Fanny Mendelssohn, and French composers Cecile Chaminade and Elsa Barraine. Also featured are living composers such as Alexandra Molnar-Suhajda, Francine Trester, and Amy Riebs Mills. Forest Park Public Library, 7555 Jackson Blvd., 708-366-7171, fppl.org.

FitzGerald’s Annual St. Patrick’s Day Celebration Friday, March 18, 4-5 p.m., in-person, Forest Park Public Library Austin Room An in-person event for youth, age 7-13. Make treat-filled toys for the dogs at the Animal Care League. Use upcycled household materials (toilet and paper towel rolls, plastic bottles, etc.) to create sustainable pet toys for the local shelter. If you have empty plastic bottles, empty shoe boxes, toilet paper rolls, and/or paper towel rolls you can donate, please bring them with. The library will have supplies ready, but every little bit helps.

Saturday, March 19, Noon, FitzGerald’s There is no way the state of Illinois will let the month of March pass without a massive St. Patrick’s Day celebration. Featured will be the music of Switchback, the Shannon Rovers, Fitz & the Celts, the Belvederes, and the Mayer School Stepdancers. $5-15. 6615 Roosevelt Road, Berwyn.

Natalie Moore at Centuries & Sleuths ORiHANA Sunday, March 20, 3 p.m., Good Shepherd Lutheran Church Moldovan violinist Olya Prohorova and Japanese pianist Hana Fujisaki combine for this tribute to J-Pop, the contemporary Japanese pop music heard frequently in anime cartoons. $15 general, $10 students/kids. 611 Randolph St., Oak Park.

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Sunday, March 20, 2-4 p.m., Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore Author Natalie Y. Moore will discuss and sign her book, The Billboard about a fictional Black women’s clinic in Chicago’s Englewood neighborhood on the South Side and its fight with a local gadfly running for City Council who puts up a provocative billboard. The Billboard is a cultural force that treats abortion as more than pro-life or pro-choice. Natalie Moore covers segregation and inequality. Her enterprise reporting has been broadcast on the BBC, Marketplace and NPR’s Morning Edition, All Things Considered and Weekend Edition. She writes a monthly column for the Chicago Sun-Times. She has an M.S.J. in Newspaper Management from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. 7419 Madison St., Forest Park.

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C R I M E

Police suspect drug use in DUI crash A 41-year-old Bellwood man faces felony DUI-drug charges after he allegedly drove off the roadway on First Avenue and into a fence at Forest Home Cemetery on March 9 at 10:45 p.m. The Cook County State’s Attorney approved charging James B. Billips III with aggravated driving under the influence of drugs. He was also charged with manufacture/delivery of cannabis and illegal possession of cannabis after police reported finding a large zip-top bag containing 12 similar bags that held about 40 grams of cannabis. According to police, Billups’ driver’s license was suspended for a prior DUI arrest when his 2014 Chrysler Town and Country minivan was traveling southbound on First Avenue and veered across the northbound lanes of traffic, off the roadway and into the cemetery fence. Billips reportedly appeared intoxicated and had pinpoint pupils leading police and paramedics to believe he was under the influence of an opioid. Billips declined medical treatment and refused to submit to chemical testing after reportedly failing field sobriety tests. A breath test indicated he was not under the influence of alcohol.

Aggravated battery to an officer A 24-year-old Melrose Park man was charged with two felony counts of aggravated battery to a police officer, possession of a controlled substance and five counts of obstruction after an officer tried to detain him during a traffic stop in the 900 block of Harlem Avenue on March 10 at about 11:45 p.m. Harold Jones was a passenger in a 2006 Ford Explorer that a Forest Park police officer pulled over for having no license plates, a broken tail light and heavily tinted windows. The driver of the vehicle, a 29-year-old from Chicago, reportedly did not possess a valid driver’s license and was cited for several traffic infractions. When asked for his identification, Jones reportedly gave police a phony name on two occasions. When an officer attempted to handcuff him, Jones allegedly elbowed her in the face and then continued to resist. He then fled on foot before officers from Forest Park, Oak Park and North Riverside were able to detain him in an alley behind the 900 block of Circle Avenue. According to police, Jones was wanted on three warrants, including for unlawful use of a weapon and manufacture/delivery of cannabis out of Chicago, and for escape from Cook County Sheriff ’s Police. While processing Jones’ arrest, police reported finding seven suspected ecstasy pills

in a pouch on his keychain. The pills were sent to the Illinois State Police crime lab for testing.

‘Visiting a friend’ Forest Park police issued a citation for negligent driving to a 19-year-old Berwyn man after responding to a report of a vehicle stuck in the Jewish Waldheim Cemetery on March 8 at about 1:20 a.m. Officers arrived to find a 2005 Mazda 6 in the grass near several headstones east of Hannah Avenue between 16th Street and Greenberg Road. Tire marks clearly showed the vehicle had turned into a grassy area of the cemetery and attempted to travel behind the headstones into a secluded, dark area. The driver reportedly told police that he and his 21-year-old female passenger came “to visit their friend” and had gotten stuck in the mud driving through the grass. The driver could not name the late “friend” he had come to visit, according to police. Every headstone in the vicinity recorded a date before the driver was born, police reported. A tow truck was able to free the vehicle from the mud.

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Fight on the el platform One man suffered a bloody nose while another sustained a small cut from a knife during a fight involving three men on the CTA Blue Line platform at 711 Desplaines Ave. on March 10 at about 3:05 a.m. According to the police report, two men armed with broken broom handles were fighting a man armed with a stainless-steel kitchen knife, an altercation that started when the man with the knife allegedly tried to steal money from one of the other men while he was sleeping on the train. The altercation started out verbally between the Cicero Avenue stop and Forest Park and ended up with a physical confrontation when the train reached the Desplaines Avenue terminal. Police recovered the knife from a trash can at the train station. One of the combatants was transported by paramedics to Rush Oak Park Hospital for treatment. No one was charged or ticketed as a result of the incident. These items were obtained from police reports filed by the Forest Park Police Department, March 7-13, 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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ith federal infrastructure money slopping around like never before, here is the single, most obvious project that needs to get done. The railroad underpass at Harlem Avenue between North and South Boulevards is fully obsolete. The clearance is too low for many trucks. The lanes are too narrow for Harlem’s heavy traffic. The center support clogs up any traffic flow. And it is an absolute bottleneck at a critical juncture of three villages — Forest Park, River Forest and Oak Park. The obstacle, and the opportunity, for the fierce lobbying that must be done to gather in the estimated $30 million it will cost to fully reimagine and rebuild this underpass is that there are three villages determined to get it done. First proposed in 2008, the rebuild has never gotten past some initial engineering studies. And those studies make clear the complexity and the necessity of the work. Now Forest Park Mayor Rory Hoskins, River Forest President Cathy Adduci, and Oak Park President Vicki Scaman are unified in the effort and working with both state and federal legislators to secure the funds. This underpass is now 100 years old. Built originally to carry Chicago and Northwestern tracks over Harlem Avenue, it is now a workhorse carrying Metra and CTA commuter lines as well as the Union Pacific (UP) freight trains. It is Union Pacific that owns the underpass. In a typical cheapskate, offloading maneuver, an early hang-up in the planning discussions is that the UP does not want to own the underpass and does not want responsibility to maintain it once the work is done. A railroad that has clearly not invested a nickel in this vital piece of infrastructure over the course of a century should not get off scot-free when the real work gets done. With the president of the state senate, Don Harmon, and the speaker of the Illinois house, Chris Welch, living in or adjacent to our communities, and with Democratic senators representing Illinois, this is the moment to get this project funded and rebuilt.

Forest Park’s urban forest

Smart move by the Forest Park Village Council to seek a grant from the Morton Arboretum to undertake a full inventory of all the trees in the public way in the village. The arboretum would pay half of the roughly $20,000 cost of a professionally done audit. Creating a baseline of the number and location of trees, the variety of species, and the size and condition of those trees is an essential starting point for Forest Park’s continued investment in this great community asset. It is a progressive move by a Forest Park administration and council that is more ambitious in seeking out support for green initiatives. We are all in favor.

Waiting rooms and missing missed connections

Sat waiting in the empty doctor’s office last night and there was a single magazine in the waiting room. It was a real, honest to goodness magazine with pages that turn, bound with a narrow spine. It was the New York Times Book Review magazine supplement which gets printed and published weekly and inserted into the Times. Like a glove, I slipped into the act of waiting, sitting in the dedicated space reserved waiting. Magazine racks and tables were barren to prevent microbes from transmitting between readers, yet there was this single magazine, on a chair, calling to me. Turning and scanning pages of something as foreign to me as the latest books reviewed by NYT allowed me to take a brief trip far away from Ukraine, the Proviso schools and Jussie Smollett. After scanning each page, the classified section on the final page drew me in — ads for wrinkle creams, ghost writers for hire, French-English songwriter for hire and ads for companionship. The mostly sweet-sounding middle-aged romantics in New York or the Bay Area looking for a partner to share wine, theater, poetry and a dance in the living room had me lost in a daydream of other peoples’ lives. Struck by nostalgia, and an itch for the beauty of humanity, I took a chance to see if missed connections still existed locally. Indeed, Craigslist has a place for those who are desperately seeking interconnectedness. Missed connections, once a regular part of classified ads, are a personal ad that flashes a moment when there might

have been a missed relationship, a distinctive moment that someone is stuck reliving and wishing they would have reacted differently and, odds against them, they are seeking to reconnect. In case you haven’t checked, and you recently winked at someone at Menards in Melrose Park or if you were nice to someone at the Blue Line train in Oak Park, head over to the local missed connections on Craigslist, someone is looking for you. A little bit of hope, a flash of faith, even a nudge of anticipation. I was recently reminded of Winnie the Pooh’s take on anticipation. “‘Well,’ said Pooh, ‘what I like best,’ and then he had to stop and think. Because although eating honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn’t know what that was called.” The constant reminders of fear, mistrust and what is going wrong both locally, nationally, and globally sure make a jar of honey seem trivial and even suspicious. Watching egos clash globally and locally, and powers destroy the very things they want to protect-both globally and locally, and watching broken systems produce broken results-both globally and locally, sure, can take the wind out of anticipation. So for at least a moment every day, I am going to indulge in the trivial, the simple jar of honey, a crocus making its way out of the ground or a random act of kindness, just enough to replenish my faith in the interconnected and that magic that I do not want to miss.

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No Park Forest Park An Open Letter to those who run Forest Park: If you want people to patronize the shops in your village, perhaps do something about all of the broken meters along Madison Street that won’t take change, so your only choice is pay the exorbitant 45-cent fee on a 25- to 50-cent parking cost, or use a CC, or stop ticketing people until they get fixed. It was pitiful enough that Forest Park decided to sink to the level of Oak Park and implement paid parking via the use of the inconvenience meters that are few and far between. When I called (the police department apparently) to report a broken meter, the answer I got was: “We’re aware they’re broken, we’re looking into it, we’re going to ticket you if you don’t feed the meter, we won’t give you a pass because the meter you must use is broken, go elsewhere to park.” And then they hung up. They literally told me to park elsewhere. Like where, Oak Park? I’m a customer and that response is unacceptable and will keep me from patronizing anyplace in Forest

Park until it’s warm enough to ride my bike as I refuse to put any more money into the police department or village coffers. If you’re wondering why people continue to shop online and aren’t coming back to the brick & mortar stores, you only need to look at the policy of your local police department. The meters were broken last July, but then the FPPD was responsive and sent out someone to look at it and asked me for my license plate. So this is a long running issue, which they don’t seem motivated to fix. Why fix a meter that’s collecting $0.25-$1 at a time, when you can just ticket unsuspecting customers and reap $25 or $30 or more in parking fees/customer? I feel sorry for your chamber of commerce members, who try and eke out a living during these challenging times in a “village” that seems to enjoy putting up road blocks to their customers. This is one customer who won’t be back.

Donna Oswald

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‘Songs for Ukraine’ raised funds for relief duction by Dariusz and Matilda, the audience stood as Evan, Liam and Duncan Campbell performed an instrumental rendition of Ukraine’s national anthem. Titled “Ukraine Has Not Yet Perished,” it contains the line, “We will lay our soul and body down for the cherished freedom.” Pastor Nolte then narrated a brief video for one of the charities the concert benefitted: “The Voices of Children Charitable Foundation.” This organization helps Ukrainian children express their feelings and fears about wartime violence. It also promotes a lifelong love of sports. In the video, a 6-year-old Ukrainian boy shoots baskets in a gym, while calmly talking about staying safe from gunfire and landmines. He doesn’t seem personally afraid but is afraid for his parents. The concert then commenced. It featured 20 classical pieces for piano and strings. Good Shepherd’s sanctuary has superb acoustics and Daniel Gasse describes their grand piano as “fantastic.” This is why the Gasse School of Music holds its annual spring recitals at the church. Unfortunately, the recitals here have been on hiatus for several years. The church suffered a devastating fire in 2018. During reconstruction of the sanctuary,

any Ukrainian children are traumatized by the violence caused by the invading Russian army. So it’s only fitting that a group of young musicians from this area put on a concert to benefit the young victims of this war. “Songs for Ukraine: A youth piano and strings concert to support the children of Ukraine” was held on March 12 at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Oak Park. Among the musicians participating were five students from the Gasse School of Music, in Forest Park. The concert was the brainchild of two young musicians, Dariusz Radziszewski and Matilda Murphy. Two weeks ago, Dariusz’s mother contacted Good Shepherd Pastor Kathy Nolte to see if holding a benefit concert for Ukraine would be possible. Though it was short notice, the church and the musicians pulled it together. They decorated the pews with yellow and blue ribbons, and performers wore pins with the Ukrainian colors. A collection basket was placed near the entrance to the sanctuary. It overflowed with cash and checks. The pews were packed with musicians and their families. The 20 students who performed were from 10 local music schools. Following an intro-

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Remembering the man behind the Snug By JILL WAGNER Contributor

Aeneas Horan, who immigrated to the United States from Ireland, was known for his generous spirit and hearty character during the 20 years he owned Horan’s Snug at 7218 Madison St. Prior to owning the Snug, as it was known, Horan also owned the Elgin Tap (Elgin Avenue and Roosevelt Road) and Pat’s Pub (now Blueberry Hill at 427 Des Plaines Ave.). Horan retired in 1999 and sold the Snug, which continued to operate under that name for another decade. New ownership took control of the restaurant in 2010 and implemented several menu changes, including cooking fries in duck fat and offering Kobe beef burgers. Fat Duck, as it is now known, has kept the well-known corned beef from Horan’s Snug on the menu.

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The Village of Oak Park is seeking qualified candidates for the position of Budget and Revenue Analyst in the Development Customer Service Department. This position will Serve the public with professional administrative and analytical duties in the areas of budget preparation, purchasing, payroll, data analysis and process improvement. Provides, prepares and maintains records, and financial and statistical reports and analysis which assist in the Village’s ability to improve business processes and gain efficiencies through better use of technology. Budget duties include assisting in the development, analysis and application of performance measures with regard to Village services and resources; preparing, modifying, tracking and monitoring Village expenses and transfers; and conducting budget-related research and analysis. Applicants are encouraged to visit the Village of Oak Park’s website http://www.oak-park. us/jobs. Interested and qualified applicants must complete a Village of Oak Park application.

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The Riverside Department of Public Works is seeking energetic, responsible, and motivated applicants who enjoy working outdoors. This is a part-time, seasonal position lasting from approximately May through September. Applicants will be expected to work up to 40 hrs. per week or as scheduled by staff. Primary tasks will include, but not limited to: cutting grass, maintaining athletic fields, general facilities maintenance, flushing hydrants, reading water meters, installing water meters, assisting full-time employees, and other duties as assigned. Applicants must be 18 years old, possess a valid Illinois driver’s license and high school diploma or equivalent. Applicants will be subject to a criminal background check, pre-employment physical and drug/ alcohol screening. Applications can be downloaded from the Village website at www. riverside.il.us or picked up at the Riverside Village Hall located at 27 Riverside Rd, Riverside, IL 60546. Completed applications should be submitted to the Riverside Village Hall or the Riverside Public Works Department, 3860 Columbus Blvd, Riverside, IL 60546. Applications will be accepted until all positions are filled. Pay rate is $15/hr. The Village of Riverside is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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The Village of Oak Park is seeking qualified candidates for the position of Covid-19 Epidemiologist in the Public Health Department. This position will serve as a subject matter expert on communicable diseases of public health concern, including COVID-19. This position will work on the surveillance and investigation of infectious diseases and other public health threats; rapid response to disease outbreaks including assisting the community’s emergency preparedness and response team. Applicants are encouraged to visit the Village of Oak Park’s website http://www.oak-park. us/jobs. Interested and qualified applicants must complete a Village of Oak Park application. This position is open until filled.

ACCOUNTANT CLERK

The Village of Oak Park is seeking qualified candidates for the position of Account Clerk II. This position which performs a variety of accounting clerical duties involving financial record keeping and/or transactions including accounts payable and receivable and to provide a variety of accounting support to the Development Customer Services Department. Applicants are encouraged to visit the Village of Oak Park’s website http://www.oak-park.us/.

PUBLIC HEALTH NURSE

The Village of Oak Park is seeking qualified candidates for the position of Public Health Nurse in the Health Department. This position will provide professional public health nursing services including health education and promotion which includes disseminating information, making referrals, and counseling as well as managing caseloads, and performing a variety of tasks relative to assigned area of responsibility. Applicants are encouraged to visit the Village of Oak Park’s website http:// www.oak-park.us/jobs. Interested and qualified applicants must complete a Village of Oak Park application. This position is open until filled with first review of apps 2/2/22.

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in development and implementation of MultiTiered Systems of Support (MtSS) social/ emotional interventions, and may provide some school-wide SEL programming and parent outreach. Interested candidates, please complete an online application at www.district90.org/about/employment

PARKING ENFORCEMENT OFFICER

The Village of Oak Park is seeking qualified candidates for the position of Parking Enforcement Officer in the Police Department Field Services Division. This position will perform a variety of duties and responsibilities involved in the enforcement of Village parking regulations; and to provide general information and assistance to the public. Applicants are encouraged to visit the Village of Oak Park’s website http://www.oakpark.us/. Interested and qualified applicants must complete a Village of Oak Park application.

SEASONAL FARMERS’ MARKET MANAGER

The Village of Oak Park is seeking qualified candidates for the position of Seasonal Farmers’ Market Manager in the Health Department. This position manages the Oak Park Farmer’s Market including the vendors that sell directly to the public within established guidelines. This is a part-time seasonal position with work from January-mid November and work required on Saturday’s from May through October. Applicants are encouraged to visit the Village of Oak Park’s website at http:// www.oak-park.us/jobs. Interested and qualified applicants must complete a Village of Oak Park application. Open until filled.

COMMUNITY SERVICE OFFICER

The Village of Oak Park is seeking qualified candidates for the position of Community Service Officer in the Police Department. This position will perform a variety of public service, customer service and law enforcement related duties and responsibilities that do not require the services of a sworn police officer; and to perform a variety of administrative duties. Applicants are encouraged to visit the Village of Oak Park’s website http://www.oakpark.us/. Interested and qualified applicants must complete a Village of Oak Park application.

POLICE RECORDS CLERK

The Village of Oak Park is seeking qualified candidates for the position of Police Records Clerk in the Police Department. This position will perform a wide variety of specialized clerical duties in support of the Police Department including processing and maintaining documents, correspondence and coding reports; and to provide information and assistance to the public. Applicants are encouraged to visit the Village of Oak Park’s website at http:// www.oak-park.us/jobs.

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SANITARIAN

The Village of Oak Park is seeking qualified candidates for the position of Sanitarian in the Health Department. This position will perform a variety of duties including education and enforcement activities for the promotion and protection of the public health environment. Applicants are encouraged to visit the Village of Oak Park’s website http:// www.oak- park.us/jobs.

PART-TIME FORESTRY INTERN

The Riverside Department of Public Works is seeking energetic, responsible, and motivated applicants who enjoy working outdoors. This is a part-time, Forestry intern position lasting from approximately May through September. Applicants will be expected to work up to 40 hrs. per week or as scheduled by staff. Primary tasks will include monitoring of Village Trees for disease and insect issues, updating tree inventory records, maintaining woody and perennial plantings in parks and parkways, record keeping and administrational duties related to forestry operations, and assisting the Forester with various forestry related activities and ecological restoration. Applicants must be 18 years old, possess a valid Illinois driver’s license and high school diploma or equivalent. Course work and/or experience pertaining to urban forestry or a related field are desirable for the position. Applicants will be subject to a criminal background check, pre-employment physical and drug/alcohol screening. Applications can be downloaded from the Village website at www.riverside. il.us or picked up at the Riverside Village Hall located at 27 Riverside Rd, Riverside, IL 60546. Completed applications should be submitted to the Riverside Village Hall or the Riverside Public Works Department, 3860 Columbus Blvd, Riverside, IL 60546. Applications will be accepted until all positions are filled. Pay rate is $15/hr. The Village of Riverside is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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Sealed bids will be received up to the hour of 11:00 A.M. on Wednesday, the 30 th day of March, 2022, in the office of the Village Manager in the Village Hall located at 8820 Brookfield Avenue, Brookfield, Illinois. All sealed bids received will be publicly opened and read at 11:00 A.M. on the same day, Wednesday, the 30 th day of March, 2022, at the Village Hall.

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Electronic copies of bidding documents, consisting of the bid proposal, project specifications, and project plans are available from the Edwin Hancock Engineering Co., 9933 Roosevelt Road, Westchester, Illinois 60154. Bidding documents can be requested by emailing info@ ehancock.com . No bidding documents will be issued after 4:30 P.M. on Wednesday, the 23 rd day of March, 2022. All bidders wishing to obtain bidding documents must be approved by the Village prior to obtaining bidding documents. All bidders must provide proof that they are prequalified with the Illinois Department of Transportation to perform at least 40% of the value of the work before being issued bidding documents. A non-refundable fee of Thirty dollars ($30.00) will be required to obtain bidding documents. Proposals will only be accepted from bidders that have obtained bidding documents from the Edwin Hancock Engineering Company. All bid proposals offered must be accompanied by a bid bond, cashier’s check or certified check in an amount not less than Five Percent (5%) of the total amount of the bid, as a guarantee that if the bid proposal is accepted, a contract will be entered into and the performance of the contract properly secured. Checks shall be made payable to the Order of the President and Board of Trustees of the Village of Brookfield. No bid proposal shall be considered unless accompanied by such bid bond or check. Any bidder in doubt as to the true meaning of any part of the bidding documents may request an interpretation thereof from the Village. The bidder requesting the interpretation shall be responsible for its prompt delivery. At the request of the bidder, or in the event that the Village deems the interpretation to be substantive, the interpretation will be made by written addendum issued by the Village. In the event that a written addendum is issued, either as a result of a request for interpretation or the result of a change in the bidding documents issued by the Village, a copy of such addendum will be emailed to all prospective bidders. The Village will not assume responsibility for receipt of such addendum. In all cases it will be the bidders’ responsibility to obtain all addenda issued. The Contractor and Subcontractor shall comply with all regulations issued pursuant to Prevailing Wage Act (820 ILCS 130), and other applicable Federal Laws and regulations pertaining to labor standards. The Village of Brookfield reserves the rights to determine the lowest, responsive, responsible bidder, to waive irregularities, and to reject any or all bid proposals.

Published in RB Landmark March 16, 2022

PUBLIC NOTICE Public notice is hereby given that the Board of Education of Riverside School District 96 in Riverside, Illinois will receive sealed bids for: Roof Replacement and Building Envelope Project Copies of the Bid Documents including plans and specifications will be available starting March 16, 2022. Bidders can download electronic Drawings and Specifications from the BHFX Plan Room, www. bhfxplanroom.com. Printed sets may be ordered and paid for by the contractor. All bids offered must be accompanied by bid security in the form of certified check or bid bond made payable to the Owner in the amount of not less than ten percent (10%) of the amount of the aggregate of the bid as a guarantee that if the bid is accepted, a contract will be entered into and the performance of the contract properly secured. The successful bidder for the project is required to furnish Performance and Labor and Material Payment Bonds in an amount equal to one hundred percent (100%) of the bid amount, with sureties to be approved by the Owner, and in the form required by the Bidding Documents. The successful bidder is required to pay the general prevailing wage for work under this Contract as ascertained by the Illinois Department of Labor, and shall submit certified payroll records, in compliance with the Prevailing Wage Act (820 ILCS 130) and the requirements of the Bidding Documents. A pre-bid meeting will be held on March 21, 2022 at 10:00 AM at Riverside District Office at 3340 S. Harlem Ave. Riverside, IL 60546. A pre-bid site visit and walk through is scheduled for Bidders on March 22, 2022 at 3:00 PM beginning at Ames Elementary School, 86 Southcote Rd, Riverside, IL 60546. Bidders must allow sufficient time to register at the building prior to being permitted to proceed to the meeting location. Bids will be received until 1:00 PM, March 30, 2022, at the District office at 3440 S. Harlem Ave, Riverside, IL 60546. A public bid opening will take place afterwards at 1:30 PM, March 30, 2022 at the Hauser Middle School, 65 Woodside Road, Riverside, IL 60546 in the Hauser Auditorium. The Board of Education reserves the right to reject any or all bids or any part thereof. Published in RB Landmark March 16, 23, 2022

PUBLIC NOTICE OF COURT DATE FOR REQUEST FOR NAME CHANGE STATE OF ILLINOIS, CIRCUIT COURT COOK COUNTY. Request of Jessica Nero on behalf of Mason Lee Carter 2021CONC001688. There will be a court date on my Request to change the name of the minor child from: Mason Lee Carter to the new name of: Mason De’Andre Robinson The court date will be held: On April 18, 2022 at 9:30am via Zoom Video Conference Meeting ID: 963 3970 2551 Password: 395850 Call in # 312.626.6799 Published in Wednesday Journal March 9, 16, 23, 2022

PUBLIC NOTICES 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: Y22008743 on March 4, 2022 Under the Assumed Business Name of THE CARIOSCIO GROUP with the business located at: 7915 OAK AVENUE, RIVER FOREST, IL 60305. The true and real full name(s) and residence address of the owner(s)/partner(s) is: MIKE CARIOSCIO 7915 OAK AVENUE RIVER FOREST, IL 60305, USA Published in Wednesday Journal March 9, 16, 23, 2022

LEGAL NOTICE STATE OF ILLINOIS) COUNTY OF COOK )ss Circuit Court of Cook County, County Department, Domestic Relations Division. In re the marriage of YANET FLORES, Petitioner and RENE ALONSO OCAMPO-BENITEZ, Respondent, Case No. 2022D001624. The requisite affidavit for publication having been filed, notice is hereby given to you, the above named Respondent, that a Petition has been filed in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, by the Petitioner, for Dissolution of Marriage and for other relief; and that said suit is now pending. Now, therefore, unless you, the said Respondent, file your response to said Petition or otherwise make your appearance therein, in the Office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, Room 802, Richard J. Daley Center, 50 West Washington Street, in the City of Chicago, Illinois, on or before April 8, 2022, default may be entered against you at any time after that day, and a judgment for Dissolution of Marriage entered in accordance with the prayer of said Petition. DOROTHY A. BROWN, Clerk. Published in Wednesday Journal March 9, 16, 23, 2022

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: Y22008741 on March 4, 2022 Under the Assumed Business Name of DIANA’S FINE THINGS with the business located at: 7512 W. MADISON ST., FOREST PARK, IL 60130. The true and real full name(s) and residence address of the owner(s)/ partner(s) is: CARLITOS PEREZ 4702 S KENNETH AVE CHICAGO, IL 60632, USA Published in Wednesday Journal March 16, 23, 30, 2022

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: Y22008769 on March 9, 2022 Under the Assumed Business Name of THIRD EYE VEWZ PUBLISHING with the business located at: 1115 NORTH LARAMIE AVENUE, CHICAGO, IL 60651. The true and real full name(s) and residence address of the owner(s)/partner(s) is: MARC N JOHNSON 1115 NORTH LARAMIE AVENUE, CHICAGO, IL 60651, USA. Published in Wednesday Journal March 16, 23, 30, 2022

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING VILLAGE OF OAK PARK ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS HEARING DATE: April 6, 2022 TIME: 7:00 p.m. or as soon thereafter as the Agenda permits CALENDAR NUMBER: 09-22-Z APPLICATION: The Zoning Board of Appeals (“Board”) will conduct a public hearing on a special use permit application filed by the Applicant, Chetranda Grey, to operate a reception/banquet facility pursuant to Section 8.3 (“Table 8-1: Use Matrix) of the Oak Park Zoning Ordinance at the property located at 6435 North Avenue, Oak Park, Illinois, Property Index Numbers 16-06206-005-0000, 16-06-206-0060000, 16-06-206-007-0000, and 16-06-206-008-0000 in the NA North Avenue Zoning District. A copy of the application and applicable documents are on file and are available for inspection at Village Hall, Development Customer Services Department, 123 Madison Street, Oak Park, Illinois 60302, Monday through Friday between 8:30 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. The Board will conduct the public hearing remotely with live audio available and optional video. The hearing will be streamed live and archived online for on-demand viewing at www.oak-park.us/ commissiontv as well as cablecast on VOP-TV, which is available to Comcast subscribers on channel 6 and ATT U-Verse subscribers on channel 99. The remote public hearing is authorized pursuant to Section 7(e) of the Open Meetings Act. The Village President has determined that an in-person public hearing is not practical

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING VILLAGE OF OAK PARK ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS

or prudent due to the COVID-19 outbreak during Governor JB Pritzker’s current disaster proclamation. It is also not feasible to have a person present at the public hearing due to public safety concerns related to the COVID-19 outbreak. All interested persons will be given an opportunity to be heard at the public hearing. Interested persons may provide written evidence, testimony and public comment on the application by email to Zoning@oak-park.us or by drop off in the Oak Park Payment Drop Box across from the main entrance to Village Hall, 123 Madison Street, Oak Park, Illinois, to be received no later than 5:00 p.m. on April 6, 2022. An individual’s name and their testimony or comment will be read aloud into the record at the public hearing if received no later than 30 minutes prior to the start of the public hearing. Interested persons may also sign up to participate in-person in the hearing to cross examine the applicant and its witnesses, present evidence, testimony or public comment by emailing Zoning@oak-park.us before 5:00 PM on the day prior to the public hearing. Individuals who sign up to participate in-person will receive an email from Village staff with information about how to join the hearing online through Zoom web-conference means or by phone. The public hearing may be adjourned by the Board to another date without further notice by public announcement at the hearing setting forth the time and place thereof.

HEARING DATE: April 6, 2022 TIME: 7:00 p.m. or as soon thereafter as the Agenda permits CALENDAR NUMBER: 10-22-Z APPLICATION: The Zoning Board of Appeals (“Board”) will conduct a public hearing on an application filed by the Applicant, Compass Illinois, Inc., seeking a variance from Section 8.3 (Table 8-1: Use Matrix) of the Oak Park Zoning Ordinance which section prohibits office uses from being located within the first 50 feet of the street lot line at grade level or on the ground floor of any building within the DT-1 and DT-2 Sub-Districts of Downtown to allow Compass Realty (office use), a real estate brokerage firm, to occupy the ground floor within 50 feet of a street line at the premises commonly known as 803 Lake Street, Illinois, Property Index Number 1607-129-016-0000 in the DT Downtown Zoning District. A copy of the application and applicable documents are on file and are available for inspection at Village Hall, Development Customer Services Department, 123 Madison Street, Oak Park, Illinois 60302, Monday through Friday between 8:30 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. The Board will conduct the public hearing remotely with live audio available and optional video. The hearing will be streamed live and archived online for on-demand viewing at www.oak-park.us/commissiontv as well as cablecast on VOP-TV, which is available to Comcast subscribers on channel 6 and ATT U-Verse subscribers on channel 99. The remote public hearing is authorized pursuant to Section 7(e) of the Open Meetings

Published in Wednesday Journal, March 16, 2022

PUBLIC NOTICE The Village of Oak Park will receive bids from qualified mechanical engineering firms to design a new boiler system for the north fire station located at 212 Augusta in Oak Park, IL. Bids will be accepted at the Public Works Service Center, 201 South Boulevard, Oak Park, Illinois 60302, until 11:00 a.m. local time on Friday, April 1st, 2022. Professional Mechanical Engineering Services for The Village of Oak Park North Fire Station Boiler System Replacement Project Bid Number: 22-103BM Issuance Date: 3/16/2022 Bid Due Date: 4/1/22 11:00 a.m. There will be a pre-bid meeting at the north fire station on Tuesday, March 22nd, 2022 at 9:00 a.m. Bid forms may be obtained by calling 708-358-5710 or by e-mailing vics@oak-park.us between the hours of 7:30 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. M-F. The Village of Oak Park reserves the right to issue proposal documents and specifications only to those contractors deemed qualified. No proposal documents will be issued after 4:00 p.m. on the working day preceding the date of proposal opening. THE VILLAGE OF OAK PARK Published in Wednesday Journal March 16, 2022

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Act. The Village President has determined that an in-person public hearing is not practical or prudent due to the COVID-19 outbreak during Governor JB Pritzker’s current disaster proclamation. It is also not feasible to have a person present at the public hearing due to public safety concerns related to the COVID-19 outbreak. All interested persons will be given an opportunity to be heard at the public hearing. Interested persons may provide written evidence, testimony and public comment on the application by email to Zoning@oak-park.us or by drop off in the Oak Park Payment Drop Box across from the entrance to Village Hall, 123 Madison Street, Oak Park, Illinois, to be received no later than 5:00 p.m. on April 6, 2022. An individual’s name and their testimony or comment will be read aloud into the record at the public hearing if received no later than 30 minutes prior to the start of the public hearing. Interested persons may also sign up to participate in-person in the hearing to cross examine the applicant and its witnesses, present evidence, testimony or public comment by emailing Zoning@oak-park.us before 5:00 PM on the day prior to the public hearing. Individuals who sign up to participate in-person will receive an email from Village staff with information about how to join the hearing online through Zoom web-conference means or by phone. The public hearing may be adjourned by the Board to another date without further notice by public announcement at the hearing setting forth the time and place thereof.

Published in Wednesday Journal, March 16, 2022

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING VILLAGE OF OAK PARK ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS HEARING DATE: April 6, 2022 TIME: 7:00 p.m. or as soon thereafter as the Agenda permits CALENDAR NUMBER: 08-22-Z APPLICATION: The Zoning Board of Appeals (“Board”) will conduct a public hearing on an application filed by the Applicant, Park District of Oak Park, seeking a variance from Section 9.3 (L) (2) (a) which requires that fences and walls located more than 35 feet from a front lot line cannot exceed eight (8’) feet in height, to construct a parking lot featuring a 12 foot wall at the rear of the property commonly known as 228-230 Madison Street, Illinois, Property Index Number 16-08320-018-0000 (“Subject Property”) and 16-08-320-017-000 (“Subject Property”) in the MS Madison Street Zoning District. A copy of the application and applicable documents are on file and are available for inspection at Village Hall, Development Customer Services Department, 123 Madison Street, Oak Park, Illinois 60302, Monday through Friday between 8:30 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.

The Board will conduct the public hearing remotely with live audio available and optional video. The hearing will be streamed live and archived online for on-demand viewing at www.oak-park.us/ commissiontv as well as cablecast on VOP-TV, which is available to Comcast subscribers on channel 6 and ATT U-Verse subscribers on channel 99. The remote public hearing is authorized pursuant to Section 7(e) of the Open Meetings Act. The Village President has determined that an in-person public hearing is not practical or prudent due to the COVID-19 outbreak during Governor JB Pritzker’s current disaster proclamation. It is also not feasible to have a person present at the public hearing due to public safety concerns related to the COVID-19 outbreak. All interested persons will be given an opportunity to be heard at the public hearing. Interested persons may provide written evidence, testimony and public comment on the application by email to Zoning@oak-park.us or by drop off in the Oak Park Payment Drop

Box across from the entrance to Village Hall, 123 Madison Street, Oak Park, Illinois, to be received no later than 5:00 p.m. on April 6, 2022. An individual’s name and their testimony or comment will be read aloud into the record at the public hearing if received no later than 30 minutes prior to the start of the public hearing. Interested persons may also sign up to participate in-person in the hearing to cross examine the applicant and its witnesses, present evidence, testimony or public comment by emailing Zoning@oak-park.us before 5:00 PM on the day prior to the public hearing. Individuals who sign up to participate in-person will receive an email from Village staff with information about how to join the hearing online through Zoom web-conference means or by phone. The public hearing may be adjourned by the Board to another date without further notice by public announcement at the hearing setting forth the time and place thereof.

Published in Wednesday Journal, March 16, 2022

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION MTGLQ INVESTORS, L.P. Plaintiff, -v.MARIA C. RIVERA Defendants 2019CH05114 1024 S RIDGELAND AVE OAK PARK, IL 60304 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on January 17, 2020, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on April 4, 2022, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker, 1st Floor Suite 35R, Chicago, IL, 60606, sell at a public sale to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 1024 S RIDGELAND AVE, OAK PARK, IL 60304 Property Index No. 16-17-308-011-0000 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. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. For information, examine the court file, CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. Plaintiff’s Attorneys, 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL, 60527 (630) 794-9876 THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236SALE 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. 14-19-03763 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 2019CH05114 TJSC#: 42-797 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff’s attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. Case # 2019CH05114 I3188285

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. MCCALLA RAYMER LEIBERT PIERCE, LLC Plaintiff’s Attorneys, One North Dearborn Street, Suite 1200, Chicago, IL, 60602. Tel No. (312) 3469088. THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236SALE 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. 20-06827IL Attorney ARDC No. 61256 Attorney Code. 61256 Case Number: 21 CH 01381 TJSC#: 42-447 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff’s attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. Case # 21 CH 01381 I3189602

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION WELLS FARGO BANK NA AS TRUSTEE FOR WAMU MORTGAGE PASS THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 2005-PR1 TRUST; Plaintiff, vs. MARY WOLFE; JPMORGAN CHASE BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FKA WASHINGTON MUTUAL BANK, FA; CITY OF CHICAGO, A MUNICIPAL CORPORATION; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS; Defendants, 19 CH 10876 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, April 12, 2022 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. 16-17-331-015-0000. Commonly known as 1028 South Austin Boulevard, 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. 21-009135 F2 INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION intercountyjudicialsales.com I3188797 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, NOT IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY BUT SOLELY AS OWNER TRUSTEE OF THE ASPEN G3 TRUST, A DELAWARE STATUTORY TRUST Plaintiff, -v.ERIC STARKS, JUSTIN STARKS, ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants 21 CH 01381 464 LENOX STREET OAK PARK, IL 60302 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on January 19, 2022, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on April 20, 2022, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker, 1st Floor Suite 35R, Chicago, IL, 60606, sell at a public sale to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 464 LENOX STREET, OAK PARK, IL 60302 Property Index No. 16-06-222-0180000 The real estate is improved with a brown brick, single family residence with no garage. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales

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