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New contract approved for D209 superintendent Henderson given new deal through 2026

By MARIA MAXHAM Editor

Nearing the close of the first year of his original three-year contract, Proviso Township High School District 209 Superintendent James Henderson was given a five-year contract with an increased salary during the June 8 school board meeting.

Henderson’s initial contract, which began in August 2020, was a three-year, $250,000 annual employment agreement.

The new contract runs through the end of the 2025-26 school year, according to information on the district’s website.

Henderson’s increased salary is $262,500 plus an unspecified pension contribution paid by the school district. The contract also contributes $32,129 in health insurance premiums annually, a $12,500 annual annuity and a $6,000-per-year vehicle allowance. He is entitled to 14 sick days and 25 vacation days.

The basics of the new contract can be found on the district’s website at www.pths209.org/ Page/4489. The Review has requested copies of both Henderson’s original and new contract, and it is uncertain at this time if there are any changes to the out clause or any other major amendments made.

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CELEBRATING FREEDOM: Jonathan and Justin Banks perform at Forest Park’s Juneteenth flag raising ceremony at village hall on June 7. The village has other events planned.

The Juneteenth pool party is back Plus other ways Forest Park is commemorating Juneteenth

By TOM HOLMES Contributing Reporter

Mayor Rory Hoskins was happy to announce recently that, after a one-year hiatus, the annual Juneteenth Pool Party will be held at the park district this Saturday, June 19 from 7 to 10:30 p.m.

The announcement read, “Based on current safety guidelines, the pool at 7501 Harrison St. will have limited capacity (max of 200 guests and six per household to allow as many families to

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attend as possible). As an added bonus this year, we will be featuring the blockbuster film, Black Panther, on the park district lawn at 8 p.m.”

When Hoskins first hosted the Juneteenth Pool Party in 2008, he had a lot of explaining to do.

Is Juneteenth a typo? Didn’t all slaves gain their freedom when General Lee surrender to General Grant on April 9, 1865 or even earlier when the Emancipation Proclamation was signed? Why should white people celebrate Juneteenth — I mean, besides getting into the pool without paying?

Now, 13 years later in 2021, if you say the word Juneteenth, most Forest Parkers will at least free associate it with the words “pool party,” and some will even know about General Order See JUNETEENTH on page 8

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Local police raise money for Special Olympics

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me; he didn’t tell me what to do,” says Paul. “It was evident I was having problems, and he went through all of my options with me, including not performing surgery at all.”

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Paul was up and walking the same day as the surgery, though he stayed in the hospital overnight so his care team could monitor him for some pre-existing health conditions.

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Championing ‘The Greatest Game on Dirt’

l Maag has had 16inch softball in his blood ever since he first played it on the gravel playground of his Northwest Side grammar school. Maag went on to help found the 16-inch Softball Hall of Fame (HOF) in Forest Park.

Now he has published a book titled, The Greatest Game on Dirt, which chronicles the game from its inception in 1887 to its current state in 2021.

Maag learned the history of softball from the many pioneers of the game he’s interviewed. He wants to pass on their collective knowledge to the next generation. His book is 132 pages and contains hundreds of historic photos. It can be purchased for $35 from the HOF website.

He will also be selling copies of the book at the HOF Museum, when he comes to town on July 18 to celebrate the HOF’s 25th Anniversary.

Forest Park is an epicenter in the world of softball, so Maag devoted an entire chapter to the No Gloves Tournament. Maag played in the tournament back when he was a scrappy second basemen, playing for the Baggers. “When we first saw The Park, we were like in heaven,” Maag recalled. “It was like a major league field.”

Maag isn’t the only player to feel this way.

The Park has been dubbed “The Wrigley Field of Softball.” The softball diamonds are pristine and the competition is fierce.

He first played in the 3rd No Gloves Tournament. The Baggers qualified four more times but the best they could do was to make it to the quarterfinals.

Hanging up his spikes in the early ’90s, he found he could contribute more as a manager than a player. He already had been filling out lineup cards since he was in Little League, and he manages teams to this day. He also organizes tournaments from his adopted hometown of Scottsdale, Arizona.

His Yuma tournament draws 30 teams from all over the U.S., including Chicago, and he runs a popular tournament in Las Vegas.

The key difference between these tournaments and the Forest Park tournament is that the players are permitted to wear gloves. “If we want the sport to grow outside of Chicago, gloves are imperative,” Maag declared. He once fielded a team of Arizona All Stars who “couldn’t catch a cold” without gloves.

Allowing gloves has made 16-inch softball increasingly popular in the western states.

The tournaments aren’t just for fun; the profits they generate help fund Maag’s nonprofit “Smiles for Kids,” which conducts annual toy drives. He also raises money from the two golf tournaments he hosts. Since 1991, “Smiles for Kids” has raised over a million dollars and distributed 15,000 toys to kids in need.

Al Maag But he isn’t just a fundraiser and an HOF organizer; he

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has become the sport’s historian. In 1995, he released a documentary titled, “Chicago’s Game – 16-inch Softball.” It is narrated by legendary broadcaster Jack Brickhouse, who grew up playing the game. Maag also helps preserve the game’s history through the HOF Museum.

Some HOF members are concerned about the future of the game. It once was played on summer nights at parks throughout Chicago but those days are long gone. Maag remains optimistic, though, because the game is enjoying a resurgence. The Chicago Park District is reviving softball in the parks. The CPS high schools have softball programs and over 20,000 players are playing co-ed softball in Chicago.

The Greatest Game on Dirt is a must-read for those who grew up in the glory days of 16” as well as newcomers to the game who want to learn how “Chicago’s Game” came to be.

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Harrison apartment project continued once more Developer frustrated with lack of direction from plan commission

By MARIA MAXHAM

enough for the plan commission and residents, stronger direction on what they’re looking for is necessary.

In July, the commission will meet to develop more specific direction for the developers. During the June meeting, several issues were discussed.

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The Harrison Street apartment project discussion was continued once more, this time to July 6 at 7 p.m., giving village staff and plan commissioners an opportunity to come up with more specific guidance for the developer, 7400-7412 Harrison Street Properties LLC. The original meeting was held in March, with a continuation scheduled for May, but a Comcast outage prevented the May meeting, which would have been held via Zoom.

After the March meeting, the developers came up with new plans that reduced the unit count from 58 apartments to 48 to address residents’ concerns about density, parking and traffic and included more information about traffic and green initiatives.

But plan commissioners and residents were still not satisfied, insisting that the project remains too big, the developers didn’t make enough changes to the original proposal, and saying there are still outstanding questions and issues.

Developer Tim Loucopoulos expressed frustration, saying that more specific guidance would go a long way in terms of him further amending the plans and knowing if additional decreases in units would even be financially feasible for him. He said he reduced the unit number, which increased the parking ratio, but if that’s still not good

In terms of aesthetics, it was plan commissioner and architect Scott Whitebone who came down hard on the design of the building. Although he had expressed similar concerns at the previous meeting, this time he was more direct in sharing his dissatisfaction with the look of the building.

“I don’t suggest that you have to … look traditional,” Whitebone said. “I don’t think you have to have brick. You don’t have to have a cornice … I mean, I appreciate, for example, what you’re trying to do with the sort of cloud design at the base. I don’t think that works with the existing neighborhood.”

He added that some of the “pops of color and some of the stripes” on the outside of the building “will not look contemporary in a few years.”

His advice to the developer and architect was to “back up and look at the overall context.” He said, “That may help you arrive at a design that works a little better.”

Loucopoulos expressed frustration, however, stating although they aren’t tied to the current design, the look and feel of a building are largely based on opinion. “What would be right? What is wrong? That’s the part I struggle with,” Loucopoulos said.

“Would there be a committee? Would you guys want to review different alternatives?

And then pick one?”

Forest Park does not have an architectural review board, and aesthetics isn’t directly within the scope of what the plan commission oversees.

During the meeting Courtney Kashima, the village’s planning consultant, spoke about that, stating, “We talked about this in March, that the purview here is zoning matters, in particular the plan development standards. And yes, we can have a discussion about does architecture, including materials … affect some of the standards, but the bottom line is, this board in particular is not an architectural review committee and Forest Park does not have one.”

Still, the developer has been asked to provide contextual drawings of how the building would look within the current neighborhood.

Traffic A concern raised several times at the meeting was the developer’s proposal that the portion of Thomas Avenue between Harrison Street and the public alleyway would allow two-way traffic, which, according to their plans, would “drastically reduce the number of vehicles who would otherwise use the public alley for access to the parking garage when coming off Harrison Street.”

Commissioner Diane Brown said she thought it was “a good idea” to have Thomas Avenue run both ways between Harrison Street and the alley, but her concern was that people would begin to drive the entire block in the wrong direction. A berm, she suggested, might prevent that problem.

The developers added a designated dropoff and delivery zone near the main entry door to help maintain the proper flow of

traffic along Harrison Street, thus alleviating concerns about deliveries of packages and drop-offs and pick-ups of residents by ride-share vehicles blocking traffic.

Traffic studies continued to be an issue at the meeting, as those presented in previous meetings had been criticized for not gathering current data. Done during the COVID-19 pandemic, traffic patterns may not have been typical and wouldn’t represent non-pandemic use of the nearby streets.

Residents and plan commissioners also questioned whether it is fair to look at the original uses of the now-defunct buildings and the traffic they would have generated in comparing potential traffic from the new apartments.

The developer clarified, however, that the traffic studies were done in 2018, when the lounge was still open at certain times, although the restaurant was closed then. Additionally, he said, with the auto repair shop being eliminated, associated traffic from that establishment would no longer be an issue.

“This development is substantially less traffic than the lounge, the restaurant and the auto repair if we put those back into life,” Loucopoulos said.

The plan commission asked that traffic from the Roos Recreation Center, which is across the street and opened in 2018, also be considered.

Stormwater The developers have asserted that an underground water storage system would decrease flooding in the area, even with the addition of 48 new units with sinks and showers and toilets contributing to water flow.

As an engineer from Eriksson Engineering explained, there is a difference between dry weather flow and the runoff from a stormwater event. Dry weather flow is wastewater that is flushed or leaves apartments through the plumbing system. It isn’t the dry weather flow that creates flooding in residential neighborhoods like Forest Park, said the engineer; it’s stormwater that does that.

The development includes an underground water storage tank that would retain water during a storm, and then, when full, slowly dissipate that water out until the soil is saturated. At that point, saturation and flooding could occur. But, said the architect, that proposed maximum discharge is still less than as the site currently exists, without any underground water storage to mitigate effects of heavy rainfall.

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TRAFFIC: The site plan from Pappageorge Haymes shows the flow of traffic around the proposed apartment project on Harrison Street.

Whitebone asked whether the developers had considered affordable housing, an issue that has been raised previously.

Loucopoulos said with needing to scale down the project, it would be difficult for See HARRISON on page 12

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Event space served emergency liquor license suspension Urban Pioneer Group in trouble for May 9 and June 6 incidents

By MARIA MAXHAM Editor

Urban Pioneer Group (UPG), a private event space at 7503 Madison St., was issued a notice of emergency closure of liquorrelated business activities from Mayor Rory Hoskins, who serves as the liquor commissioner of Forest Park.

The order states that effective June 8 at 5 p.m., UPG has been ordered to “cease all alcoholic liquor sales, service and delivery.”

A hearing before the liquor commissioner is scheduled for June 15.

The notice of closure states that the liquor commissioner has “cause to believe that continued sale, delivery and service of alcoholic liquor presents an imminent threat to the health and welfare of the community.”

Alleged problems stemming from UPG itemized in the closure notice are repeated sale of liquor to intoxicated people, repeated playing of loud music, and failure of the liquor licensee to stop patrons from causing public disturbances.

All other operations not involving liquor are not affected, according to the notice.

The notice was delivered after police responded to incidents on Sunday, June 6, around 7:54 p.m. involving patrons of an event at UPG. According to police reports, officers were called to the 400 block of Marengo Avenue because a group of people was “tailgating, being loud, and passing drinks back and forth before getting into their vehicles,” according to the police re-

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TEMPORARILY CLOSED: Urban Pioneer Group, 7503 Madison St., was issued an emergency suspension of its liquor license last week. port.

Two officers initiated contact with members of the group, but the drivers of the vehicles pulled their cars out of the parking spaces they were in and drove at a high rate of speed northbound on Marengo Avenue, which runs one-way in the opposite direction. After the first car began driving the wrong way down Marengo Avenue, officers allegedly advised the other car drivers that the street was one-way, but the drivers proceeded northbound anyway. The incident was captured on squad car video, and citations have been sent via certified mail to the owners.

According to the police report the same

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New contract awarded from page 1 During the June 8 meeting, board member Claudia Medina made a motion to table the discussion and vote on the new contract. Although board members Amanda Grant and Ned Wagner supported the motion to table, the other four members voted it down.

The contract was approved 5 to 2, with Medina and Grant voting against it.

While Grant did not share the rationale behind her vote during the meeting, Medina, who has had a history of friction with Henderson and the rest of the board, including filing a libel lawsuit against them on May 11, was vocal in her opposition, stating the new contract is not “in any way shape or form” like actions taken with previous superintendents.

“It’s an excess amount of money,” Medina said. “And we don’t have … any data points whatsoever presented to substantiate such a raise and to give a five-year contract. There are no metrics at all. And I think that the amount of money

vehicles were involved in a parking complaint and a party complaint earlier in the day as people exited an event at UPG. Additionally, the police department received two calls, one at 2:21 p.m. and a second at 3:24 p.m. regarding loud music from the rooftop deck at UPG, after which the DJ and music were moved inside. An employee on the scene told police that there was a miscommunication regarding the location of the DJ, who should never have been outside, according to the police department call log.

At 6:20 p.m., police were called because a group from a party at UPG were allegedly drinking outside on the 7500 block of Madison Street and leaving empty bottles on the

sidewalk.

UPG owner Tom Kunkel said that the party held at 7503 Madison St. on June 6 was not a UPG event but an event coordinated by a family member of the building owner.

Kunkel leases space at that location for UPG but does not own the building. The liquor license at the space, however, is in Kunkel’s name, and he said that going forward, he and UPG will be managing all events and vetting anyone who wants to have an event in the space.

Kunkel said the following in a statement to the Review: “We are proud to be a venue that offers a unique space in Forest Park and look forward to many more years of providing an amazing experience for our clientele, At the same time we are acutely aware of the recent disturbances on Madison Street.

We have always been conscientious of security, noise and crowd control issues and are confident we will be able to work with the village to implement additional policies, safeguards and protocols that will assist our local government and police in ensuring the safety of our citizens and businesses.”

UPG is also in the spotlight for Mothers’ Day incidents that allegedly involved patrons from a party at the event space. After that event, UPG was issued citations and appeared in local ordinance court on June 9. Kunkel’s attorney Nir Basse and village attorney Sharon O’Shea asked for a continuance to allow time for discovery. The hearing for the May 9 incidents will be continued on July 14 at 5 p.m. Kunkel has previously denied that patrons of events at his establishment were involved in the May 9 altercation, which involved a man allegedly choking a woman and a group of people verbally and physically harassing police officers engaged in breaking up the attack.

being put on this contract is unacceptable.”

Wagner thanked Henderson for his “leaderBoard member Theresa Kelly, on the other hand, ship through an immensely difficult and chalsaid that although she typically doesn’t approve of lenging times in a very difficult and challengfive-year contracts, she sees the need to make an ing environment. … I really honor and respect exception right now, given the extraordinary conthe work that you’ve done.” ditions COVID-19 has presented to the district and Wagner said he’d voted to table the discusthe need to bring stability to the schools. sion on the new contract because he thought “Normally, I do not vote to approve five-year that more information about Henderson’s goals contracts,” Kelly said. “But this year and a half and plans would be helpful to have before the has been anything but normal. And I truly believe vote, referencing an upcoming board retreat. that having and keeping stability in District 209 is JAMES HENDERSON “We’re about to have a retreat and talk about more important than having a hardline stance on five-year contracts.” vision, mission and goals and a long-term plan for the future Kelly also expressed confidence in Henderson’s ability to of the district,” Wagner said. “I just feel like that it would improve the district, stating, “I believe that Henderson is have been beneficial to have that conversation prior to votthe right person to move this district forward and should be ing on the contract.” given the opportunity to see his strategic plan through the Since tabling the vote was voted down, however, Wagner five years requested.” said he chose to approve the contract.

Board member Della Patterson echoed Kelly’s statements During the superintendent’s report, Henderson thanked about stability, saying she’d had conversations with previthe board members for showing their confidence in him by ous superintendents in the district about how lack of conissuing the new contract. sistency in leadership may have contributed to a lack of “I love you all,” he said. “We’re going to continue to work improvement.

“You cannot build stability if you start and stop, and that’s in tandem to move this district forward.”

He added: “Ms. Medina, I’m waiting on you.” what this district has been notorious for,” Patterson said.

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Over 21 vehicles issued citations in rowdy funeral processions On June 4 at 2:22 p.m., police were called about a funeral procession traveling westbound on Roosevelt Road. A vehicle was observed driving in both lanes of traffic and had passengers hanging out of the car windows. The owner of the vehicle was issued a local ordinance citation for reckless driving, which was sent via certified mail.

The registered owners of 21 vehicles in a rowdy funeral procession at 900 Desplaines Ave. on June 9 around 3:10 p.m. were sent citations. According to the police report, units had been alerted that the funeral procession was heading into Forest Park, and they positioned themselves along Roosevelt Road.

Many cars in the large procession were driving into oncoming traffic head on, unnecessarily blocking traffic by cutting off other cars and taking up multiple lanes, and had people sitting on windowsills and hanging out of car windows, “yelling and throwing their arms in the air,” according to the police report.

Those receiving tickets have a court date on July 14 at 5 p.m. in the lower level of village hall.

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vard Street on June 8 at 3:58 a.m. to assist the fire department at an apartment where a man had fallen and possibly broken his foot. The fire department was able to gain access to the apartment using a deadbolt spreader. They temporarily re-secured the door, and the man was transported to the hospital.

Woman steals hundreds of dollars of memory supplements A man at Walmart, 1300 Desplaines Ave., put $399 of bottled Prevagen pills into his girlfriend’s purse while they walked through the store on June 8 at 2:52 p.m. She then exited past the last point of purchase without paying for them. She was taken to the loss prevention office, then placed into custody by police who issued her a local ordinance citation for retail theft. She has a July 14 court date.

Thief, employee fight over liquor and candy An employee of CVS, 7216 Circle Ave., was hit by an alleged thief on June 8 at 8:13 p.m. The suspect had entered the store carrying a backpack and went into the alcohol

A woman leaving work on the 7800 block of Industrial Drive on June 8 at 5:15 p.m. called police after she observed a small black pickup truck with red stripes reverse toward her at a high rate of speed as she was walking to her vehicle. She said the driver, a male wearing a black ski mask, yelled at her and pointed an object at her. She believes the object was a gun, but she couldn’t describe it because she told police she was too scared to look back at it a second time. When another employee exited the building, the suspect quickly drove away, according to the woman. She was very upset, and police told her if she feels unsafe again, she can call the department to request an escort to her vehicle.

Garage fire most likely caused by cigarettes, cigars Forest Park police and fire units were

called to the 600 block of Harlem Avenue on June 7 around 8:46 a.m. for a fire on the side of a garage. Upon arrival, an officer discovered smoke coming from the side of a detached garage. It appeared to be coming from the mulch and looked like heat from a fire had melted the siding near the ground.

The property is under construction, according to the police report, and currently vacant. The fire department forced entry since no doors were unlocked and put out the fire inside.

The man who’d called in the fire lives next door. He said he saw small flames in the morning and put them out with water from bottles in his car. Later, he saw bigger flames “climbing the outside of the north wall of the garage.” He poured a bucket of water on the fire and called 9-1-1. He related there had been a party the night before, and some of the attendees had been smoking.

Firefighters “discovered numerous smoking materials,” such as cigarettes and cigars, and believe they were the likely cause of the fire, which they think was accidental.

Man urinates in front of Christian bookstore A man in full view with his penis exposed was caught urinating in front of the Christian Book Store at 7610 Roosevelt Rd. on June 4 at 11:42 a.m. Even when police approached with emergency lights on, he continued to urinate, according to the police report. He also smelled like liquor. He refused to comply with verbal direction, so he was handcuffed. He was issued a local ordinance citation for public urination and has a July 14 court date. He was released from the scene.

These items were obtained from police reports filed by the Forest Park Police Department, June 4-9, 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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section, briefly out of view of the employee, who heard what he thought was the sound of alcohol bottles being concealed in the backpack.

The employee said he approached the alleged thief, told him he’d seen him stealing alcohol, and grabbed the backpack. The suspect allegedly smacked the employee’s arm with such force that it caused the backpack strap to break. The suspect fell to the floor, then got up and headed toward the exit. On his way out, though, the suspect allegedly grabbed a box of Reese’s candy bars.

The employee approached the suspect again, this time smacking the Reese’s box out of the suspect’s hands, causing the candy bars to scatter over the floor. The employee allegedly bent down to begin picking up the candy bars when the suspect hit him in the back of the head with his backpack before exiting the store. He was last seen walking southbound on Harlem Avenue and was not located by the police.

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Urban planning career program seeks participants Proviso Township students invited to apply

By MICHAEL ROMAIN Contributing Reporter

The Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning (CMAP) is trying to recruit students who attend Proviso Township High School District 209 to attend its Future Leaders in Planning (FLIP) summer program this year.

The FLIP program is “a free leadership development program for students to learn about the issues that shape our region and gain an interest in urban planning,” according to CMAP’s website.

“This is really about exposing students to this field of urban and regional planning, and we would love to have students from your communities and specifically from the Proviso high schools,” Jane Grover, CMAP’s public engagement principal, told attendees during the Proviso Township Ministerial Alliance Network’s monthly breakfast on June 12. The event was held virtually.

The deadline to apply for the program is Friday, June 18. The program consists of four 90-minute online sessions on July 9, July 16, July 23 and July 30.

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BIG PLANS: Students participate in CMAP’s FLIP summer program, which is recruiting students to apply this year.

CMAP is seeking 40 participants this year.

Eligible participants must be enrolled in high school or college; live or study in one of the state’s seven northeastern Illinois counties, including Cook County; and “possess a desire to learn more about the region and our communities,” according to CMAP’s website.

Students receive a certificate once they

complete the program, along with an optional letter of recommendation and the chance the build their resumes, CMAP officials explained.

“There’s an application process, but it’s not a very competitive application process,” Grover said.

For more information, visit cmap.illinois. gov/about/involvement/flip.

Leadership Lab offers professional development Program taking applications through June 30

By MICHAEL ROMAIN Contributing Reporter

The Oak Park-River Forest Community Foundation’s Leadership Lab is now accepting applications for its 2021-22 program, but this most recent cohort will be a lot different from the past, the Lab’s organizers said.

“We’ve really wanted to expand the experience,” said Jenny Yang, Leadership Lab coordinator.

This year, Yang explained, the program is looking to recruit fellows from beyond Oak Park and River Forest, including communities on Chicago’s West Side and in suburbs located throughout western Cook County.

During the program, participants meet once a month over 10 months for personal and professional coaching and skills development. This year, the sessions will be offered both virtually and in-person.

The deadline to apply is June 30 or until spots are filled. Tuition is $2,000, but scholarships are available based on need.

“One of our key objectives is to expand our reach,” Yang said. “We want to talk to fellows, give them leadership experience and provide them with a personal journal and help them curate that journey.

“You don’t have to be a mayor or in some high position in a company to be a leader.

We know anyone can be a leader and we want to make sure we meet them where they are because the skills we’ll offer are applicable wherever they want to serve.”

Yang said the program has evolved since its inception, adding that the Lab is “much more approachable, more actionable and more flexible” than in the past, when participants were largely drawn from Oak Park and River Forest.

“When this was started, it was really designed between the Community Foundation and Dominican University to be a leadership program that helped people become defined as community leaders and it was focused on the Oak Park and River Forest area,” said Cathy Yen, a longtime nonprofit executive and a Leadership Lab facilitator who has also completed the program herself.

“The program has come a long way since then,” Yen said, adding that the program is focused on “a bunch of C’s,” including competencies, coaching, context and COVID. Yen said, for those looking to apply, “your demonstrated commitment to the greater good is more important than your resume.”

She said the program typically attracts midcareer professionals looking to strengthen their core competencies and sharpen their core values.

DeRondal Bevly, a Leadership Lab mentor, said the program is particularly necessary in today’s fraught political climate.

“If you look at the energy that was kicked up as a result of the 2020 election, people

were looking for an outlet to do something but just didn’t have the skills, the toolkit and the networks to be agents of change,” Bevly said. “This program really fits the times to help those people who know they’re leaders and have the potential, but don’t quite know how to pull it out themselves.”

Yang said Leadership Lab fellows who complete the program get access to a resource library that’s available to all Lab participants and alumni. They also get to tap into a network of more than 200 Lab alumni.

Yen said Leadership Lab’s desire to expand its reach beyond two suburbs is consistent with an expanding definition of community, one rooted less in one particular municipal boundary than in a much larger geographic region.

That regionalism is also consistent with the Community Foundation’s evolving mission, said Antonio Martinez Jr., the Foundation’s president and CEO. “The big thing is that we realize the interconnectedness that we share with our surrounding neighbors and communities,” he said. “We know that what affects us affects others and vice versa, so it’s important for us, when we take a look at this leadership program, to look at west Cook County, the city of Chicago, and, in particular, Austin, and do our part to help people in those communities increase their leadership capacity.”

For more information on Leadership Lab and/or to apply, visit: oprfcf.org/leadershiplab.

As this Father’s Day weekend approaches, I want to give some appreciation to all my fellow dads.

It is an honor to carry the title of ‘Dad’ because, as Hall of Fame baseball player Wade Boggs put it, “Anyone can be a father, but it takes Scott someone special McAdam Jr. to be a dad.”

It may not always be easy, but it is infinitely rewarding. In our kids’ eyes, we are viewed as superheroes; they give life new purpose and meaning. We scare away the monsters in their room, we give a helping hand, and we make terribly dry, pun-filled jokes.

We also admire our lawns more than any person should, click our grilling tongs three times every time we touch them, and say things like “who let this guy in here?”

So, to all those dads getting eye rolls and sighs from their kids (and wives, too) for yet another bad dad joke—I appreciate you! Keep being the same, rad guys that you are.

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Gilbane awards internships to two D209 students Students will get handson experience in district

By MARIA MAXHAM Editor

Dulce Rivera from Proviso Math and Science Academy (PMSA) and Mark Robinson from Proviso East were awarded paid summer internships at Gilbane, the construction management company overseeing the facilities upgrades at Proviso Township High School District 209 schools.

Earlier in the school year, Gilbane invited D209 students to apply for the internship positions by submitting an application and an introductory video.

At the June 9 board meeting, Gilbane project executive Michelle McClendon said over 20 applications had been submitted by students, and she announced the two students who had been awarded the internships.

JUNETEENTH

A welcomed event from page 1 #3 which General Gordon Granger read to the former slaves and slave owners in the Galveston, Texas area on June 19, 1865, in-

“I look forward to growing professionally and personally with this team and seeing the needs of our district come to fruition,” Rivera said at the meeting. She thanked her family for their support and Gilbane for the internship. “I am so excited to see how this opportunity will help me to grow,” Rivera said.

Robinson said he plans to go into the field of architecture, so the opportunity at Gilbane will provide him with invaluable experience.

“I really thank God for allowing me to get this, and I thank Gilbane for the opportunity,” Robinson said. He also gave a shout-out to his principal, Dr. Patrick Hardy, for pushing him to pursue the internship.

Each student will be assigned to a school this summer, Rivera at East and Robinson at West. Both were handed safety vests during the board meeting, and they will also be provided with hard hats and work boots. The students will be paid $15 per hour.

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Front row, from left: Board vice-president Theresa Kelly, Proviso East student Mark Robinson, PMSA student Dulce Rivera. Back row, from left: Board member Sam Valtierrez, Gilbane project executive Michelle McClendon, board secretary Amanda Grant, board president Rodney Alexander, Proviso East Principal Patrick Hardy, board member Ned Wagner, Superintendent James Henderson

forming them that the war had effectively ended two months earlier.

To show how far the concept of Juneteenth has come in those 13 years, SB1965, passed by both legislative branches in Springfield, is sitting on Gov. Pritzker’s desk. If he signs it, each year the third Saturday of June will be observed in Illinois as Juneteenth National Freedom Day. In addition, a coalition, including Forest

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FLAG CEREMONY: Steve Rummel, left, and his son Owen Rummel, ready the Juneteenth flag to be raised at village hall on June 7.

Park Against Racism (FPAR), the Midwest Juneteenth Committee, the Forest Park Public Library and the Forest Park Historical Society, is sponsoring a project they are calling Ribbons in the Sky “in Celebration of Juneteenth.”

Marjorie Adam, a co-founder of FPAR, described Ribbons in the Sky as “a community interactive art project” in which Forest Park residents obtain a ribbon and an Accountability Pledge at the Park District of Forest Park or the Forest Park Library and sign it. Then they tie it to the park district’s fence on the southeast side of The Park as a sign of commitment to anti-racism.

A Synopsis of the Accountability Pledge: I pledge to work toward eliminating the injustices, inequities, and misconceptions that come from the systemic racism rooted in our society. I personally will work toward positive and transformational change through education, active listening, stepping up and speaking out against racist remarks, and acknowledging that I have privilege and power that can be used toward building a more just and equitable community where we can all hold each other accountable.

In a 2017 interview with the Review, Mayor Hoskins observed that most people in this country avoid talking about unpleasant topics like slavery and race, but “I think our country is evolving now to a point where we can have discussions about slavery and the symbols that are associated with slavery.”

“Our purpose,” he said, “is to teach children and families about the Juneteenth tradition and its origins. Since our committee began hosting the annual pool party, a generation of kids in Forest Park and neighboring communities have learned about the tradition.

“The event has consistently been welcomed by important institutions in Forest Park, including village government, the park district board and management staff, and most importantly District 91 [Forest Park’s public school district]. I’m thankful to D91’s excellent team of principals for helping us to teach our kids about the Juneteeth tradition.”

Hoskins grew up in Galveston and was therefore familiar with the history of Juneteenth. He explained that because most slaves had not been taught to read or write standard English, instead of saying June 19th, they called it “Juneteenth,” so since 1866 it’s been celebrated as a day of freedom.

The freed slaves had no connection with the North so the Fourth of July was meaningless to them.

As a child he was fascinated with slavery, how slavery in the U.S. differed from slavery in other parts of the world, and how a big war was fought over it. “In the South,” Hoskins recalled, “they taught us that the Civil War was about states’ rights. That always mixed me up as a kid.”

Luckily for Hoskins, he grew up with educated parents who helped him not swallow the false narrative he heard in school. His mother had a master’s degree from Iowa State and taught sociology and anthropology at a college in Galveston.

On a field trip with his class to a museum, he saw some souvenir Confederate money for sale. When he got home, he told his mother that he wanted to buy some. He recalled, “She didn’t like that too much.”

Earlier this month, on June 7, Hoskins held a Juneteenth flag-raising ceremony outdoors at village hall.

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D209 selects Black history curriculum District partners with Dominican University for dual-credit course

By MARIA MAXHAM Editor

The Proviso Township High School District 209 board voted to adopt a Black history textbook and curriculum at the June 8 meeting. The recommendation to contract with Black History 365 (BH 365) for a total cost of $303,780 for textbooks and digital licenses was presented by Dr. Nicole Howard, assistant superintendent of academics and student services.

An advisory council formed in February 2021, comprised of board members, community representation, administrators and teachers, was charged with “making program, curriculum, and policy recommendations to address issues of inequity,” according to an action item on the meeting agenda.

The advisory council came up with a list of what they wanted to see in a textbook.

“They want our students to understand that there is a huge impact with Black people, civilization and culture over time,” said Howard during the meeting. “It’s not just about slavery. We want to reframe that discourse. And we want to make sure they understand that Black history did not start here.”

Understanding the structural impact of bias and discrimination and a thorough history from multiple perspectives with real stories were other aspects of Black history that the council listed as important.

The council also wanted a “variety of thought and perspective, including research and evidence-based information,” a sensitive and modern collection of photos, and questions to provoke and encourage independent thinking to promote “appropriate and meaningful social action.”

According to Howard’s presentation during the meeting, BH 365’s documentation of Black history begins in ancient Africa and continues to modern events and movements.

Not only does BH 365 come with a textbook, but the company also provides an eBook/app and has exclusive access to thousands of documents and artifacts from the Freeman Institute Black History collection, with pieces dating back to 1553, according to Howard.

Another feature Howard said the council liked is BH 365’s “Elephant Experience,” a chance for students to stop on important topics and get more deeply engaged.

“This is what as an educator really excited me,” Howard said. “With the Elephant Experience, the students have these places in the curriculum where they stop, they really think about what they just learned and how they can apply that to their lives. It sets up

the engagement process … And d that’s what’s really going to gett all of our students, whether they’re Black or Brown or white, really involved in the conversation.”

The council took student engagement even farther, securing a dual-credit partnership through Dominican University. Seeking advice from experts in the field led them to Dr. Nkuzi Nnam, director of Black World Studies at Domin-

iican University.

Nnam has offered D209 sstudents the opportunity ffor a dual credit Black history course called Africa and to African American Thought A through Dominican Universith ty. Six teachers, said Howard, will wi be training with Nnam, and an groups of students are slated to take the dual-credit course in the t fall and spring.

Opportunities for students O don’t don end there. BH 365 itself

has a student advisory committee, and according to Howard offered the chance for Proviso students to serve on that committee. “[BH 365] includes an advisory board of prominent African Americans who contribute to the content of the courses, and they have a student advisory board, and they contribute to the ongoing updates to it. And they said that we can have a couple of spots for our Proviso students on their board as well,” Howard said during the meeting.

Visit blackhistory365education.com for more on the new textbook and pths209.org for district news and information.

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Park district entering ‘Phase Fun’ As Illinois enters Phase 5, pool and Roos relax rules

By MARIA MAXHAM Editor

With Illinois moving into Phase 5 of the Restore Illinois plan, COVID-19 restrictions are more relaxed throughout the state. The Park District of Forest Park has announced that as a result, many restrictions at the aquatic center, the park’s administration building, and Roos Recreation Center have been lifted.

For starters, vaccinated individuals don’t have to wear a mask inside the administration building at 7501 Harrison St. or inside other park district facilities. Unvaccinated people should continue to wear a mask indoors.

At the pool, normal operations will resume, which means that the staggered twohour open swim blocks are no longer being implemented. Daily open swim now runs

from noon to 5 p.m. and from 6:30 to 9 p.m.

Adult swim is from 5:15 to 6:30 p.m.

Pool capacity has increased to 1,000 people.

Masks are not required anywhere at the pool for vaccinated individuals; unvaccinated people should wear a face covering when in the locker room.

Similar guidelines apply at the Roos Recreation Center, 7329 Harrison St., where masks are no longer required for vaccinated members. Unvaccinated members are asked to continue wearing masks.

The locker rooms at the Roos are now fully reopened, including showers, and lockers are once more available.

“This move into Phase 5 leaves us extremely hopeful for what’s to come,” wrote the Park District in a communication to residents and facility users. “While we’re certainly not out of the woods yet, we’re as close as we’ve been in a year and a half …

We may have just entered Phase 5, but we’re ready for the next phase … Phase Fun this summer of 2021!”

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Twenty years of music education in Forest Park Gasse School of Music celebrates two decades of teaching

By MARIA MAXHAM Editor

On June 1, Forest Park’s Gasse School of Music celebrated its 20th anniversary. The school, named after founders Daniel and Sarah Gasse, has run out of the same location on Polk Street the entire time, and has learned to adapt over the years, adjusting to changes in the economy and the pandemic.

But one thing has stayed the same: Daniel and Sarah’s belief in the importance of music, not just for the sake of music itself, but the impact it has on the quality of life of people who play and perform.

“When you start learning music young enough, it creates a whole different world,” Daniel Gasse said. “It provides skills, yes, but also leadership and stage presence, teamwork and confidence.” The brain labor necessary to read music while at the same time transmitting signals to the body to play the notes is above what it takes to simply read a book, Gasse said. He referenced studies that show that kids who play a musical instrument tend to do better in school and even in sports.

“Music should be mandatory, like math or language,” said Gasse.

When the school opened in 2001. Daniel and Sarah were living in an apartment in downtown Forest Park, and they started looking for houses. They found their current home, though at that time it had no upstairs, and the basement, which now houses lesson and practice rooms, was just a concrete floor and two pillars.

But Daniel saw the potential immediately.

“This is our school,” he said. Six months later, the school was built, and Sarah and Daniel, who had both been performing and teaching at other institutions, started taking on students. First, they taught one day a week. Then they slowly added days. A year later, they were up to full capacity.

Now, they have about 80 students, ranging in age from three to an 84-year-old cello student.

“I say we teach students from age three to 93,” Daniel joked. “If you’re 94, you’re out of luck.”

Daniel teaches cello and chamber music, and Sarah instructs students in the violin and viola. Early on, they hired piano and guitar teachers.

But both Sarah’s and Daniel’s love for music started long before they opened the school. Daniel, who’s from Argentina, earned his diploma in cello there in 1968.

The following year, he began to play in the symphony orchestra, working his way from last to first cello over the next 15 years. But

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TEAMWORK: Daniel Gasse (left) and Sarah Gasse celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Gasse School of Music on June 1. They have been teaching students for over two decades in their Forest Park school. he hit the ceiling there, he said. He wanted to learn more.

At a summer camp in Brazil, he met the head of the string department at Yale University, who took Daniel under his wing.

Yale was too expensive for Daniel to attend, but he got names and references of other professors and programs in the United States, and he sent handwritten notes to all of them.

He was awarded a full scholarship from the University of Illinois in Urbana.

He borrowed money from his father for a plane ticket to the United States, and with $200 in his pocket, one suitcase and two cellos, he landed in Miami. He was supposed to board another plane to fly to Urbana, but the airport wanted him to check both his cellos, including one in a soft case, and he knew it would get broken, so he got on a Greyhound bus and traveled from Florida to the Midwest.

“I was the oldest student in my classes,” Gasse said. Two years later, he’d finished his master’s degree. He was 33 years old.

Gasse moved to Chicago, where he performed, playing chamber music, and taught at different schools, eventually moving to Oak Park.

Daniel and Sarah’s own two sons, who will be a junior and a freshman in high school in the fall, grew up playing music, and Daniel reiterated the importance of music in the lives of children, including those with

learning disabilities.

“When we communicate with them, and when we have high expectations for them, they feel respected. They can do it. It changes the tide,” Daniel said. He told a story of teaching in a Suzuki school years ago where there was a student who was disruptive.

He’d break things and wouldn’t listen to the teachers. Daniel said he figured out how to communicate with that student on his level, and he let the student know he believed in him. He set expectations. And after a while, one day something changed.

“It clicked for him. And when he clicked on the cello, he clicked at school too,” Daniel said. It was a moment where the goal setting and practice and confidence all came together, not just when it came to music, but when it came to life.

At the next recital, the director of the school was sitting behind Daniel in the audience while the boy played. Astounded by the change, she whispered to a friend, “Nothing but a miracle.”

That was one of his proudest moments, Daniel said, and one of the things that drives him is helping students learn and grow.

Moving forward, Daniel said he’s hoping to take some time to visit family in Argentina and England and may use technology learned during COVID-10 to achieve that goal. If teaching remotely worked during a pandemic, it can work other times too. Hiring more teachers is something else he’s

considering. He also wants to continue to collaborate with groups in the community.

Recently, he and Sarah and their son Antonio played music outdoors during the Forest Park Chamber of Commerce and Forest Park Arts Alliance art stroll.

Daniel is 70 and had hip replacement five years ago and then again last year, which has made it more difficult physically for him to play the cello for long periods of time. It’s also impacted the way he teaches – less playing, more singing, he said.

He referenced Jacqueline Mary du Pre, regarded by many as one of the greatest cellists ever. Born in 1945, she died in 1987 at the age of 42, suffering from multiple sclerosis which ended her performing career at the age of 28. But even after she couldn’t perform, she was widely sought after as a teacher.

“I have to be like her,” Gasse said. “I will keep playing and teaching until I die.”

After 20 years teaching, Daniel and Sarah have some second-generation students, kids whose parents took lessons from them. They have previous students who have gone on to become performers and music teachers too. There are teachers who taught for the Gasse’s and now own their own schools.

“It’s much more of a legacy than just music,” said Gasse. “I’m sad they’re not with us, but I’m happy they are successful and spreading music.”

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Police raise money and awareness for Special Olympics Torch Run ends in Constitution Court

By MARIA MAXHAM Editor

The local leg of the Law Enforcement Torch Run was held on June 13, beginning at the Westchester Police Department and ending at Constitution Court on Madison Street in Forest Park.

The run is a fundraiser that benefits Special Olympics Illinois, with the goals of raising money for the event and spreading awareness of the athletes who participate in Special Olympics.

An intrastate relay, the run covers 1,500 miles through thousands of Illinois’ communities via 23 different legs or routes, according to the Torch Run website. The final destination is the Opening Ceremony of the Special Olympics Illinois Summer Games in Normal.

Locally, participating police departments included Forest Park, North Riverside, Broadview, Maywood, Bellwood and Westchester.

Forest Park Police Officer Mike O’Connor coordinated the event, and Forest Park runners were Police Chief Tom Aftanas, Deputy Police Chief Ken Gross, Officer Daysi Riglos and desk clerk Maria Jimenez.

Along the route, fire trucks sprayed runners with water during the 4.5-mile course.

The run finished at Doc Ryan’s on Madison Street, where owner Matt Sullivan hosted runners, athletes and their families, which he’s been doing since 2017, said Aftanas. Sullivan donated pizza, beer and soda to the runners and their families.

Photo by Jason Maxham

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A GREAT TRACK RECORD: (Clockwise from top left) Law enforcement runners from Forest Park and surrounding areas make their way east on Madison Street to Constitution Court. (Left ot right)Deputy Police Chief Ken Gross, clerk Maria Jimenez, Officer Daysi Riglos, Police Chief Tom Aftanas. Eddie Sitzman (right) runs with the torch down Madison Street. Runners cool off in spray from a fire engine on Roosevelt Road during the Law Enforcement Torch Run on June 13.

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Negotiating a resolution from page 4 him to integrate affordable units while still keeping the development economically feasible.

“We are not against affordable housing; we are all for it,” Loucopoulos said. “But we took down the unit count, [and] the project has to make sense financially … I’m going to say it would be very difficult to put affordable housing in this project as it stands now, without a higher unit count. Typically, the way you do that is you increase your unit count, and then you add affordable housing.

But we went the other way, we’re reducing the unit count to basically where we think we can still make this project work.”

Forest Park, however, does not have a problem with affordability of housing stock. State law under the Affordable Housing Planning and Appeal Act requires that cities in Illinois with at least 1,000 residents and less than 10 percent affordable housing submit a plan to the state on how they will increase affordable properties within their boundaries. According to the Illinois Housing Development Authority, 49.1 percent of Forest Park’s housing stock is considered affordable by the standard definition, said Kashima.

What constitutes “affordable?” According to the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), given an area’s

median income, people don’t need to spend more than 30 percent of their income for housing.

happen. The site will be fenced off, and he said he doesn’t anticipate needing to block off the sidewalk.

Timing and construction

Size and density

If approved, Loucopoulos said he doesn’t think they would break ground this year, because financing still needs to be put into place, and materials are difficult to obtain right now. Another project, he said, is on hold because they can’t find appliances for the units. “Next year, we think the tightening of the supplies will have dissipated,” he said.

In terms of staging of the work, he said he’s worked on a lot of lot-line to lot-line projects, and he anticipates beginning work in the back, where staging and storage will

Overwhelmingly, plan commissioners and residents still felt that the proposed building is too big and would add too many residents to the block.

“I think everybody’s loathe to say it, but I’ll go ahead and say it,” said Brown. “I still believe it’s far too dense.” She added that she understood that economic feasibility of a project is based on the unit count. “And so I understand you’re trying to maximize the space, but I think that’s part of the problem.

So I would like to see less density,” Brown said.

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June 16-23

BIG WEEK Summer Solstice Outdoor Yoga On June 21 from 7 to 8 p.m., join the library and Marissa from And Then There Was Well for yoga at The Grove on Van Buren Street just south of Madison Street. Register at fppl.org/events. Please wear comfortable clothing, and bring a yoga mat or towel, as well as water and bug spray (if you would like). Attendees must wear a mask that covers their nose and mouth and adhere to social distancing by maintaining at least six feet between yourself and others. This program is subject to change based on weather and Restore Illinois guidelines.

Movie in the Park Join the Park District of Forest Park for a movie on the front lawn at 7501 Harrison St. on Friday, June 18. The movie is “Goonies,” and it will begin at dusk, roughly 8:15 to 8:30 p.m.

Your Dog Could be Famous!

“The Long Shadow” Screening Event

Submit a picture of your dog, and it could be featured in Schauer’s Hardware’s 2021 August ad. Photos are due

by June 30. You can bring your dog into the store for a picture or submit one on Facebook at https://www. facebook.com/schauerhardware.

From June 21 to 28, the library will be hosting a special virtual screening event of “The Long Shadow” in recognition of Juneteenth. The PBS film “The Long Shadow” follows former CNN Senior Producer, TED contributor, and Emmy-Award winning director Frances Causey as she traces her family’s legacy of white privilege, placing it in the context of the history of anti-Black racism in the United States that began with slavery and continues to impact our society today. The film has been broadcast nationally on PBS, and now the filmmakers are partnering with libraries for this special screening event and live Q&A. Watch the film from June 21 to 28 and sign up for the live Q&A here: thelongshadowfilm.com/illinois-libraries

Learn about the Museum of Bad Art On Wednesday, June 16 at 6:30 p.m., join the Forest Park Public Library for a free online event dedicated to the Museum of Bad Art (MOBA), the world’s leading cultural institution dedicated to art in which something has gone wrong. In this event, learn how and why MOBA was established.

MOBA will present pieces from their collection, each with an insightful, pithy, and often humorous commentary.

MOBA collects, exhibits, and celebrates art that will be seen in no other venue. Since 1993, they have collected art from thrift stores, yard sales, sidewalk trash, and even the artists who create it. They analyze, compare to classic art, and share with thousands of fans around the world. Register at fppl.org/events to get the link to the online event.

Under the Rainbow Storytime The library’s Under the Rainbow Storytime continues, and participants can register to receive a create-yourown stuffed animal kit featuring a rainbow unicorn.

Learn more at fppl.org/events.

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Henderson’s too long contract

he once stellar school board at Proviso Township High Schools continues to perplex and disappoint us. This was a district on the make. Coming back purposefully from rock bottom.

And then through a lack of united support, it lost a superintendent in Dr. Jesse Rodriguez who had led the comeback, working off the reform energy of the school board.

A year ago a board search process resulted in the hiring of Dr. James Henderson. His deeply blemished record in a succession of previous — and short — career stops gave us caution from the start. His efforts in Proviso since his arrival have only intensified our doubts.

Our negative view is not across the board. Today’s Review carries two stories of solid outcomes within the district this spring. One is the hiring of two Proviso students as paid summer interns with the general contracting firm leading the district’s necessary physical renovations. Very cool. The other story is about the open process which led the district to adopt a new Black history and equity curriculum while also

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teaming with Dominican University in River Forest on offering Proviso students dual credit for participating in this program.

These are worthy achievements and we are happy to give credit.

That said, the school board’s decision on June 8 to replace Henderson’s three-year contract before the first year is complete and to extend him a very generous five-year contract in its place is ridiculous and infuriating. Five-year superintendent contracts are far from the norm. Reupping a superintendent who has yet to go through anything approaching a normal school year, a superintendent who has taken a jackhammer to administrative staffing, a superintendent who blusters and runs roughshod over the school board, a superintendent who talks down the genuine progress this district has made rather than building on it, is impossible for us to explain.

We’re grateful that two board members, Amanda Grant and Claudia Medina, had the good sense to vote against this contract.

There is more trouble and disruption ahead.

Talk straight on Harrison project We get that there are neighbors who are just implacably opposed to the proposed apartment building on Harrison Street. Their minds were made up from the get-go. It is too big. Too much traffic added.

Worries over flooding. Don’t like the design.

We understand those concerns, though we think neighbors would do well to listen and possibly be persuaded that their efforts have led to some concessions and could lead to more.

It is the village’s Plan Commission which we don’t fully get. The hearing process is grinding on without moving toward compromise or resolution. The June meeting had too much talk from commissioners critiquing design elements Forest Park ordinance specifically does not delegate to the commission. Meanwhile the developers are asking for specific direction on what changes will get them to approval and if they can afford to make those changes. That’s the process.

The commission reconvenes in July. We expect to see a more focused and productive outcome.

What’s wrong with pointing out what’s wrong?

have a friend, well maybe she is an acquaintance … really on the concentric circles of relationships, she is a step above an acquaintance. More like a “friend-lite.” She said something years ago that has been running through my mind all week.

She said, “I am so good at telling others what they are doing wrong, and seeing errors in systems, that I should be hired to do this for a living.”

Without a hint of irony. That symphony of arrogance, naivete, pomp, and confidence make her my “friend-lite.”

Her gift from God, to share with all, is the ability to point out what is wrong. What a treasured skill! Everyone should have the good fortune of having someone like this around, one who can see flaws, and is willing to share proudly.

JILL WAGNER

How much fun she must be with her inner circle of true friends, wielding her talents of flaw-finding — raising awareness of those around her. A real gem. In a work environment, what a winning skill, judging and highlighting every missed step.

I admire her confidence, her self-awareness, her living demonstration of the DunningKrueger effect. She even proudly shares her gift on Facebook, for free, which is so generous of her.

I remember that day, hearing her words and being stunned into silence. Since I didn’t give a reply, it must have affirmed her; since she didn’t point out that my reply was deficient, I must have performed the correct, unflawed

response.

She is a successful person, and I am lucky to have her in my life, at a safe distance. I imagine that she sees me

as her charity case, her “lite” friend too, a bumble who prefers the company of those who can see strengths and value optimism.

The rose-colored glasses that are worn by my inner circles of friends must be a downer to her. I haven’t heard from her since I unplugged from Facebook and groups where we shared space. I value her insight and perspective and enjoy wondering how she is navigating the world these days.

Since I am 100% certain that she is not one of the 14 people who are reading this column right now, I will have to wait until we run into one another to catch up. She is not likely to attend an upcoming community event. It seems like the “I Heart Forest Park” event being planned, or any community litter cleanup, or First Thursday Art Walk or the Garden Walk are not her jam.

I know for certain, when we do run into each other, I will get caught up on the all the wrongs because it is her superpower, and she is proud of it.

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LEGAL NOTICE The Village of Oak Park --Office of the Village Engineer, 201 South Boulevard, Oak Park, Illinois 60302-- will receive electronic proposals until 10:00 a.m. on Thursday July 1, 2021 for Project: 21-3, Sidewalk Improvement Program. Bids will be received and accepted, and bid results posted via the online electronic bid service listed below. In general, this contract includes sidewalk angle-cutting, removal and replacement of public sidewalk, parkway and carrage walks, combination curb and gutter, driveways, and PCC basecourse; pavement adjacent to curbs, adjustment of drainage structures, buffalo boxes and all appurtenant work thereto. Sidewalk sequencing during the work and adherence to the completion date is of emphasis for this project as outlined in the plans and proposal forms.

Plans and proposal forms may be obtained via the electronic service starting on Thursday June 17th, at 4:00 p.m. Plans and proposal forms can be found at https://www.oak-park.us/your-government/budget-purchasing/requests-proposals or at www.questcdn.com under login using QuestCDN number 7879915 for a non-refundable charge of $30.00. 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 by providing a certificate of eligibility to the Engineering Division at which time a password will be issued for access to the online 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 DavisBacon 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 June 16, 2021

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AVISO DE REUNIÓN PÚBLICA

On June 24th, 2021 at 1:00 p.m., a meeting conducted by District 94 will take place at Komarek School.

The purpose of the meeting will be to discuss the district’s plans for providing special education services to students with disabilities who attend private schools and home schools within the district for the 2021 - 2022 school year. If you are a parent of a home-schooled student who has been or may be identified with a disability and you reside within the boundaries of Komarek School District, you are urged to attend.

El 24 de junio de 2021 a las 1 de la tarde, el Distrito 94 va a organizar una reunión en la escuela de Komarek. El propósito de esta reunión será discutir los planes del distrito de ofrecer servicios de educación especial a estudiantes con discapacidad que asisten a escuelas privadas o que aprenden en casa en el distrito, para el año escolar 2021-2022. Si usted es padre de un estudiante que participa en el aprendizaje en casa, que ha sido o quizas sera identificado con una discapacidad, y usted vive en los límites del Distrito Escolar Komarek, le alentamos a que asista a la junta.

If you have further questions pertaining to this meeting, or would like to attend in-person or virtually, please contact Caitlin DiLallo at 708-447-8030 ext. 115.

Si tiene alguna pregunta acerca de esta junta, o le gustaría asistir en persona o virtualmente, por favor comuníquese con Caitlin DiLallo al 708-447-8030 ext. 115

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING VILLAGE OF OAK PARK ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS HEARING DATE: July 7, 2021 TIME: 7:00 p.m. or as soon thereafter as the Agenda permits CALENDAR NUMBER: 12-21-Z APPLICATION: The Zoning Board of Appeals (“Board”) will conduct a public hearing on an application filed by the Applicant, Katie Costianis, seeking a variance from Section 8.3 (Table 8-1: Use Matrix) of the Oak Park Zoning Ordinance, which section prohibits medical/dental clinics 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 SubDistricts of Downtown, to allow a medical/dental clinic (chiropractor) use on the ground floor within 50 feet of a street line at the premises commonly known as 191 N. Marion Street, Oak Park, Illinois, Property Index Number 16-07-118-049-0000 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 meeting 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 July 7, 2021. 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 participate 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 to sign up. Individuals who sign up to participate in this manner will receive an email from Village staff with information about how to join the meeting 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.

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In re the marriage of BRUNILDA OTERO, Petitioner and IYAD ANWAR MOH’D MUSTAFA, Respondent, Case No. 2021D003027.

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 July 6, 2021, 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.

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In re the marriage of Bridgette Thatch-Nixon, Petitioner and Cedric Nixon, Respondent, Case No. 2021 D 004962.

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, on or before July 14, 2021, 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.

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Park District of Forest Park 7501 Harrison Street Forest Park, Illinois 60130 Aquatic Center Splash Pad The Park District of Forest Park does hereby invite sealed bids for Aquatic Center Splash Pad. Work will include removals, earthwork operations, asphalt paving, concrete curbs and paving, site furnishings, splash pad equipment, utilities fencing, seeding, planting, and subdrainage.

Project manuals, including bid form and specifications, and construction documents are available after 10:00 A.M. on June 16, 2021, from Accurate Reprographics 2368 Corporate Lane, Suite 100, Naperville, Illinois 60563, 630.428.4433 www.hitchcockplanroom.com. Bidding documents are available to download and print at the non-refundable cost of reproduction.

Bids will be accepted at the Park District of Forest Park, 7501 Harrison Street, Forest Park, Illinois 60130 during regular office hours.

All bids must be submitted in a sealed envelope marked with the Contractor’s name and address, and “Bid for Aquatic Center Splash Pad,” on the face of the envelope.

Bids must be received no later than July 14, 2021, 10:00 AM. Bids will be opened on July 14, 2021, 10:00 AM at the Park District of Forest Park, 7501 Harrison Street, Forest Park, Illinois 60130. All bidders will be required to submit Bid Security in the form of a Bid Bond in the amount of 10% of the Base Bid, payable to the Park District of Forest Park.

The successful bidder, as determined by the Park District of Forest Park, shall be required to pay, and to agree to pay no less than the Prevailing Rate of Wages, pursuant to the Illinois Prevailing Wage Act (820 ILCS 130) for the locality of the Park District of Forest Park (Cook County), to each laborer worker, or mechanic needed or used to complete the work as detailed in the contract to be let. The successful contractor, and all subcontractors shall be required to submit, to the Park District of Forest Park, certified payrolls no later than the tenth day of each calendar month for the immediately preceding month.

The Park District of Forest Park reserves the right to reject any and all proposals, parts of any and all proposals, or to waive technical errors or omissions in submitted proposals.

No submitted bid may be withdrawn until a period of ninety (90) days after the bid opening date, without written consent of the Park District of Forest Park. The Park District of Forest Park encourages minority business firms to submit bids on this project and the successful contract bidder to utilize minority businesses as subcontractors for supplies, equipment, services, and construction.

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PUBLIC NOTICE PUBLIC NOTICE OF ANNUAL BUDGET Notice is hereby given by the Board of Education of Riverside School District No. 96 in the Cook County, State of Illinois, that a budget for said school district for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2021, will be on file and available for public inspection by appointment Monday through Friday from 9 am to 3 pm starting the 18th day of June 2021, at the district’s administrative offices on 3340 South Harlem Avenue in Riverside Illinois. To schedule an appointment please email fittonj@district96.org.

Notice is further given that a public hearing on said amended budget will be held at 7:00 o’clock p.m. on the 21st day of July 2021 followed immediately by the scheduled regular board meeting.

Board of Education Riverside School District No. 96 Cook County, Illinois By: Wesley Muirhead, Board Secretary Published in RB Landmark June 16, 2021

PUBLIC NOTICE Notice of Special Riverside Township Meeting The Riverside Township board will hold a Special Meeting on Tuesday, June 22, 2021 6:00 p.m., Room 4, 27 Riverside Road Riverside, IL 60546 Agenda: 1. Call to order/Roll Call 2. Pledge of Allegiance 3. Bridge Bid Analysis and Award 4. Appointment of Deputy Clerk 5. Grant for Riverside July 2, 2021 Concert 6. Adjournment Michael C. Dropka, Clerk Published in RB Landmark June 16, 2021

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ELECTRICIAN’S HELPER Must have own transportation.

For more information CALL 708-738-3848 GRANTS SUPERVISOR The Village of Oak Park is seeking qualified candidates for the position of Grants Supervisor in the Development Customer Services Department. This position will perform a variety of responsible for developing. Administering and coordinating activities related to Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) and other grant-funded programs for the Village. 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 no later than June 25, 2021.

FLEET AUTOMOTIVE CREW CHIEF The Village of Oak Park is seeking qualified candidates for the position of Fleet Automotive Crew Chief in the Public Works Department. This position will supervise, assign, review and participate in the work of staff responsible for providing skilled mechanical duties involving repairs to automotive, heavy or light construction and other power-driven equipment; and will perform a variety of technical tasks relative to assigned areas of responsibility. Position assists Fleet Services Superintendent in planning, budgeting and scheduling in Fleet operations. 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. First review of applications June 23, 2021.

HELP WANTED HELP WANTED

PART-TIME FACILITIES MANAGER Oak Park Church seeks part-time Facilities Mgr to oversee daily operations of physical plant weekday mornings; on call for emergencies. Prior experience & computer skills a must. Basic knowledge of heating systems, plumbing & electrical. Supervise custodians, contractors, and space-sharing agreements. Send resume to churchoffice@firstumcoakpark.org JOB REQUIREMENTS • High school diploma (or equivalent). College or Technical Education preferred • A minimum of three (3) years of work-related experience • Computer skills including the ability to navigate and utilize internet and email communication • Strong organizational and communication skills • Driver’s license and reliable transportation with evidence of current insurance • Ability to lift and carry 50 lbs.

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HOME HEALTH ASSISTANCE River Forest family seeking overnight in-home healthcare assistance. Nursing students, Respiratory Therapists, CNAs, LPNs, RNs, etc. welcome. For more information, contact kpatterson10@gmail.com.

HOME HELPER HOME HELPER WANTED. NICE ELDERLY BROOKFIELD COUPLE, LIGHT DUTIES, 4 TO 8 PM. CALL (708) 341-4077

BLOCK SALE 900 N HUMPHREY SAT 6/19 8AM TO NOON NO EARLY BIRDS

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GARAGE SALE ALLEY BEHIND 7514 MADISON STREET SAT 6/19 9 AM-2PM GARAGE FULL OF ANTIQUES

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HEALTH DEPARTMENT 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. Interested and qualified applicants must complete a Village of Oak Park application no later than Until position filled.

RESIDENTIAL COUNSELOR Hephzibah Children’s Association is a social services agency in Oak Park, IL that helps children thrive and families flourish. We offer a variety of programs including residential group homes for children, family-based services (foster care and intact), and after school and summer day care.

We are hiring for a full time Residential Counselor to provide physically and emotionally nurturing care for the children in the Residence, a structured environment that provides consistency and predictability in a community-based setting.

This position will work weekdays (four 10-hour shifts) noon - 10:00 PM and every third Saturday. Flexibility to work other shifts is desired.

Requirements include: • Bachelor’s degree • Experience working with special needs children.

• Must be at least 21 years old.

•Valid IL driver’s license and good driving record • Experience with Medicaid documentation a plus Hephzibah Children’s Association is an equal opportunity employer.

We welcome qualified applicants from all backgrounds to apply. We embrace a respectful, multicultural, and inclusive environment for employees and the clients we serve.

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DIGGING IN: Oak Park Conservatory volunteers Martha Yount, left, and Mary O’Kiersey, both of Oak Park, work on the vegetable beds outside Cheney Mansion on June 9. The produce is donated to Beyond Hunger.

Oak Park Conservatory offers programs for all ages

By LACEY SIKORA

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he Oak Park Conservatory is a beloved local institution, so beloved, in fact, that it is one of the three most popular historic sites in Oak Park, welcoming over 50,000 visitors in a typical year. The past year was anything but typical. Nevertheless, the Oak Park Conservatory is welcoming summer (and visitors)

Beyond the greenhouse with open arms and a variety of programs for all ages.

Patti Staley, director of horticulture for the Oak Park Conservatory, says the building is again open for visitors, no reservations required. She also points out that the conservatory’s reach extends far beyond the greenhouse at 615 Garfield St. Programs spread throughout Park District of Oak Park system and involve numerous volunteers.

Master Gardener Program partnership The Oak Park Conservatory has a longstanding partnership with the University

of Illinois’ Master Gardener Program that Staley says began long before her decadelong tenure in Oak Park. She points out that master gardeners go through a tremendous amount of training, making them helpful in a variety of settings.

A master gardener designation is applied after participants complete an 11-week course of classes and an internship of 60 volunteer hours. Classes are taught by University of Illinois specialists and University Extension educators and include classes on botany, soils, vegetables, fruits, flowers, trees and shrubs, grasses, landscaping, insects, and diseases. Once certified, master

gardeners agree to complete 10 hours of education and 30 hours of volunteer service each year.

“Some of what they do includes providing hands-on plant care, working in our parks with specialty plants and perennials, educational programs, and planning special events for kids and adults,” Staley said of the volunteers who choose to work with the conservatory. “They are always able to put a different spin on nature education.”

One newer program aided by master gardener volunteers is the help desk at the Oak See CONSERVATORY on page B5

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4 BR, 2.1 BA, gorgeous Prairie home. Tons of character, incredible bathrooms, master suite, family rm off the eat-in kitchen and amazing deck and deep yard. Wow! ....................................................................$975,000

SOLD WITH MULTIPLE BIDS IN 4 DAYS

2 BR, 2 BA Bungalow in lovely condition. Refinished hardwood floors, beamed dining rm ceiling, updated kitchen with walk-in pantry & fantastic lower level. A beauty! ....................................................................$350,000

139 S GROVE, OAK PARK :: $1,235,000 :: 6 BED :: 4.5 BATH

4+ BR, 3 BA 2-story home on one of the largest lots in the area! 2 car garage & 3 pkg spaces, wrap around deck, open floor plan & finished basement with 8’ ceilings. ....................................................................$650,000

Majestic Victorian in central Oak Park Historic District.

SOLD WITH MULTIPLE BIDS IN 4 DAYS

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3 BR, 2 BA craftsman Bungalow with stunning natural woodwork, hardwood floors, living rm fireplace, family rm off the kitchen that overlooks the yard and finished lower level. ...........................................................$375,000 2 BR, 2 BA condo with balcony, in unit washer & dryer & deeded parking space, that is completely renovated! Central air, gorgeous kitchen & baths & great closet space. . ....................................................................$245,900

SOLD WITH MULTIPLE BIDS IN 5 DAYS

5 BR, 2.1 BA Victorian with huge 1st floor family rm off the Shaker style island kitchen with quarter sawn oak cabinetry.

Stunning new bathrooms, master suite Rec Rm & oak floors. ....................................................................$615,000 4+ BR, 2.1 BA brick Colonial with character galore: Paladian windows, stained glass, decorative plaster mouldings, hardwood floors, 2 fireplaces, master suite & much more! ....................................................................$639,000

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4-Unit building in a very convenient Forest Park location!

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CONSERVATORY

‘Everyone is over Zoom’ from page B1 Park Conservatory. Begun in 2018, the program offers a chance for local gardeners and plant lovers to get answers to pressing questions “Prior to COVID, the help desk was open every Tuesday for gardeners with any questions,” Staley said. “There were a lot of

questions about plant identification. Volunteers would also help home gardeners repot their houseplants.”

While the help desk went virtual during the pandemic, Staley says she is anxious to bring that in-person service back.

“People want to come back in person and connect with another person,” Staley said.

“Everyone is over Zoom.”

Cheney Mansion gardens Volunteers from the master gardener program, alongside other gardener volunteers,

also help keep the gardens at the Cheney Mansion, 220 N. Euclid Ave., in bloom. Staley says that the vegetable garden is completely volunteer-run.

“The whole show is theirs from planting, to weeding to harvesting,” she said.

All produce grown at the Cheney Mansion is donated to the local food pantry Beyond Hunger.

Oak Park Conservatory volunteers are also responsible for the care and upkeep of the Cheney Mansion’s substantial grounds.

Staley says that while volunteers partner with the Park District of Oak Park in many local parks, Cheney Mansion’s gardens really help show off the skills of the volunteers.

“We are able to take it to that next level with their help,” Staley said.

Other programming This summer, a number of other programs will help locals up their home-gardener game and develop future gardeners.

The Year of the Butterfly continues with educational programming geared towards families.

On Saturday, July 10 from 10 a.m. to noon, learn about bees, flies and wasps and on Saturday, Aug.14 from 10 a.m. to noon you learn about bats and other pollinators. While registration is required, the programs are free to attendees.

“It’s great way to make a weekend activ-

ity,” Staley said. “Go shop the farmers market and then come over with your kids for our programs.”

A July 30 succulent and cactus sale will be followed in the evening by a virtual opportunity to learn how to nurture succulents and help them thrive. Participants will also learn when and how to repot succulents and cacti and how to determine signs of stress in the plants.

The Uncorked series takes place on Fridays June 25, July 23, Aug. 27 and Sept. 24.

Adults 21 and over can enjoy an evening of music and drinks outdoors at the Oak Park Conservatory. Tickets cost $15 and include two drink tickets.

The conservatory is open again this summer for children’s birthday parties beginning in July.

“These parties were a hot ticket before COVID, and we’re really excited to bring them back,” Staley said. “The parties center on nature, with some input from our popular parrots, and the kids do fun nature activities like building terrariums.”

Staley emphasizes that the Oak Park Conservatory is a great place to nurture a love of nature in children and encourages locals to stop by for a visit.

“Our Discover Garden has a water feature,” she said. “It’s a fun, low-key place to visit this summer.”

More information and registration for events can be found at pdop.org/parks-facilities/oak-park-conservatory ALEX ROGALS/Staff Photographer

GROUP EFFORT: Kent Gentry (at left) puts together tomato cages at the volunteer-run vegetable garden at Cheney Mansion in Oak Park on June 9, while master gardener Mary Ellen Murphy, of Park Ridge, (below left) pulls weeds and Camille Fenk, of Oak Park, wheels away plant material that will be turned into compost for the garden.

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SEEING IS BELIEVING in this amazing house! Everything has been redone, rebuilt, or is brand new! This 4BR, 5 full and 1 half bath home has many amazing features including the gourmet kitchen, expansive family room, and a second full kitchen and wet bar in the basement.........................................................$1,099,000

STUNNING HOME that was expanded with the highest level of craftsmanship throughout. Features include built-in cabinetry, a spacious foyer, wood burning fireplace, stain-glass windows, screened porch, a study, timeless gourmet kitchen, family room, tall leaded-glass windows. ................................................$875,000

GREAT OPPORTUNITY to live on a beautiful tree lined street!

Spacious home with family room addition, updated kitchen that blends beautifully with the vintage charm of the formal LR & DR. 2nd floor includes 3 BRs including large primary with walk-in closet, balcony and laundry room. ................................... $749,000

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GREAT CURB APPEAL with a cute front porch & traditional charm! Includes large common spaces, combo LR/DR, eat-in kitchen, and flexible space for home office/nursery, a huge backyard with privacy fences, and a two-car brick garage. Rehabbed and move-in ready! ............................................................ $369,000

MOVEIN READY 3 BR, 2-1/2 BA red brick colonial. 1st FL features a LR with wdbg fireplace and built-ins, kitchen with granite counters, refinished hardwood floors and a family room overlooking the backyard. Basement has a playroom, home office and separate laundry room....................................................................... $715,000

BEAUTIFUL WINSTON PARK BEVERLY in move-in condition!

Upgrades include Lennox furnace (within 2 years), roof and gutters (3 years), updated kitchen with newer quartz countertops, center island, and newer appliances and updated baths. Large fenced yard. ..................................................................................... $339,900

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SIZE AND LOCATION! This large 4 BR, 3+ BA meticulously maintained home has everything you want. Extra-large kitchen, grand DR & LR with hardwood floors & fireplace, large finished LL with family room, full bath, OFFICE, & ample closets for storage! 2 car garage with loft storage above....................................$499,900

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PRICE REDUCED OAK PARK 3BR, 3.1BA .......................$464,900 OAK PARK 2BR, 1BA. Location, size, parking! ................. $299,999 UNDER CONTRACT OAK PARK 2BR, 2BA ..................... $239,900 OAK PARK 1BR, 1BA. Updated kitchen & bath.................$167,000

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P R IC E R E DU C E D COLONIAL REVIVAL STYLE with Tudor Revival influences built in 1909. This stunning six-bedroom home displays sophistication and tasteful elegant décor. It offers wonderful space for family and entertaining with beautiful views of the spectacular oversized corner lot. ......................................................................... $1,395,000 PRICE REDUCED OAK PARK 1BR, 1BA. .........................$164,000 UNDER CONTRACT OAK PARK 1BR, 1BA........................ $99,000 UNDER CONTRACT FOREST PARK Two Flat ................$358,000 UNDER CONTRACT FOREST PARK 3BR, 3BA. .............. $339,500

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ELMWOOD PARK

3 BR, 2.1 BA ..................................$349,900 Ed Bellock • 630-253-7000

OAK PARK

4 BR, 1.1 BA ..................................$425,000 Erica Cuneen • 708-220-2025

OAK PARK

2 BR, 1 BA .....................................$179,000 Erica Cuneen • 708-220-2025

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4 BR, 3 BA .....................................$425,000 Erica Cuneen • 708-220-2025

OAK PARK

2 BR, 2 BA .....................................$340,000 Martha Murphy • 847-977-3456

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5 BR, 2.1 BA ..................................$699,000 Erica Cuneen • 708-220-2025

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4 BR, 2.1 BA ..................................$375,000 Erica Cuneen • 708-220-2025

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5 BR, 2.2 BA ..................................$750,000 Erica Cuneen • 708-220-2025

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5 BR, 2.1 BA ..................................$399,000 Erica Cuneen • 708-220-2025

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4 BR, 2.1 BA ..................................$799,000 Erica Cuneen • 708-220-2025

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4 BR, 2.1 BA ..................................$875,000 Laurie Shapiro • 708-203-3614

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Introducing The Cheshire, Oak Park’s stunning new luxury condominium offering!

Spectacular estate home in central Oak Park designed by the famous firm of Tallmage & Watson.

3 BR, 2.1 BA .................................................................................................................. $700,000 Zak Knebel • 773-290-9293

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3 BR, 1.1 BA ..................................$589,000 Hannah Gillespie • 708-203-2064 Jim Gillespie • 708-278-1766

6 BR, 5.2 BA .................................................................................................................. $950,000 Steve Scheuring • 708-369-8043

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The famed River Forest Women’s Club designed in 1913 by William Drummond, is now an efficient and glorious home!

Magnificent and sprawling brick Tudor is located in the heart of central River Forest.

4 BR, 4 BA ..................................................................................................................... $680,000

5 BR, 3 BA .................................................................................................................. $1,098,000

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Oak Park home sells for $975,000

The following property transfers were reported by the Cook County Recorder of Deeds from December 2020 to January 2021. Where addresses appear incomplete, for instance where a unit number appears missing, that information was not provided by the recorder of deeds.

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SELLER

BUYER

425 Home Ave 201 S Maple Ave 343 S Maple Ave 1138 Washington Blvd 9 Harvard St 1030 S Maple Ave 428 S Kenilworth Ave 603 N Grove Ave 1019 Washington Blvd 1008 S Highland Ave 8 Le Moyne Pky 1135 Schneider Ave 1043 N Humphrey Ave 212 S Maple Ave 521 N Humphrey Ave 732 S Cuyler Ave 1216 N Humphrey Ave 1036 N Lombard Ave 318 S Harvey Ave 156 N Oak Park Ave 725 S Ridgeland Ave 913 Home Ave 1140 Schneider Ave 6645 North Ave 1119 Paulina St 1151 S East Ave 833 S Lyman Ave 516 S Ridgeland Ave 643 S East Ave 6626 Roosevelt Rd 119 S Cuyler Ave 441 S Taylor Ave 318 S Humphrey Ave 907 South Blvd 259 Home Ave 628 S Elmwood Ave 1107 N Oak Park Ave 721 Clinton Ave 947 N Marion St 825 Woodbine Ave 926 Linden Ave 1200 N Oak Park Ave 735 Augusta St 912 N Oak Park Ave 401 N Cuyler Ave 417 S Oak Park Ave

$113,500.00 $134,000.00 $162,500.00 $187,500.00 $197,000.00 $200,000.00 $200,000.00 $200,000.00 $215,000.00 $236,000.00 $241,000.00 $253,500.00 $260,000.00 $290,000.00 $304,000.00 $355,000.00 $355,000.00 $370,000.00 $370,000.00 $375,000.00 $375,000.00 $385,000.00 $400,000.00 $400,000.00 $407,000.00 $425,000.00 $450,000.00 $459,000.00 $465,000.00 $475,000.00 $490,000.00 $50,000.00 $525,000.00 $530,000.00 $540,000.00 $545,000.00 $598,000.00 $620,000.00 $625,000.00 $645,000.00 $655,000.00 $665,000.00 $672,000.00 $680,000.00 $700,000.00 $710,000.00

Medina Esther Spyr Catherine M Battista James P Marshall Teri L Elm St Homes Llc Pimsarn Sothsri Henning William R Meyer Robert J Nissen Benjamin E Bonigut Kurt Cascade Alternative Holdings Kim Jihwan Claiborne David M Worley Christine A Tr Jones Brent Moroney Colleen Williamson Tuwanda Flanagan Ann T Brougham Reo Owners Lp Pierce Shannon O Yerling Mary Kelly Doyle Extr Dudek Stephen J Kovak Jason R The Magic Fdn Schulz Jeri A Tr Johnson Michael S Keeku Phillip P Nickolich Evanka Weimann Michael Lepkowski Joseph A Jr Robinson Mark W Tumblin Joseph L Belsoff Doris J Tr Clark Kathleen A Tr Hutchins Joseph Lee Jr Stephens Janet M Rogala Christopher R Mccarthy Timothy I Tr Lindgren Brian Rudd Megan C Tr Arnett L Allen Tr Wilson Erika S Woitel John F Riegler Nathan J Lindquist Alan V Tr 417 Op Llc

Roberson Courtney Hall Kadijah Owoc Patrick J Flores Francisco Javier Press Lamont D Jamisola Pachayarak Martinez Marissa Medrano William Coghlan Catherine Gray Louis T Jr Ingram Maurice Petalver Gulnara Honeybadger Holdings Llc Sorenson Dale R Tr Mccormack Josephine Hodge Natalie Ferrell Patrick Ohara Kathryn Pecoraizo Rosilie L Hernandez Paulas Richard A Tr Shouder Timothy D Smith Jessica L Branco Daniel James Oklo Ikaya Llc Sneed Kyle Himelhoch Heather Larson Keely L Paton Tyler J Vliem Justin M Roosevelt Dental Prop Llc Lopez Jose E Mcmahon Jason Scheffers Bryan Herman Gilbert Steadnan Brendan Whitmore Ryan Houts Kristin Bremer Lindsey T Tr Holberg Joseph E Holzer Gregory Mcinerney William P Schilicksup Edward Altier Robert R Saternus Brett Froehle Timothy Wardein Katharine

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703 N East Ave., Oak Park

OAK PARK ADDRESS

PRICE

SELLER

BUYER

439 S Taylor Ave 1209 N Harlem Ave 1107 Washington Blvd 703 N East Ave 114 S Kenilworth Ave 6643 North Ave 439 Madison St 211 N Marion St 2 Le Moyne Pky 7 Randolph St 949 Lake St 201 S Maple Ave 1025 Randolph St 346 Wisconsin Ave 1025 Randolph St 439 Home Ave 611 S East Ave 333 S East Ave 942 Washington Blvd 815 Washington Blvd 1116 S Taylor Ave 1102 S Taylor Ave 723 N Lombard Ave 702 S Maple Ave 1184 S Taylor Ave 521 South Blvd 616 S Oak Park Ave 1033 S Highland Ave 830 S Kenilworth Ave 833 Forest Ave

$75,000.00 $81,500.00 $83,500.00 $975,000.00 $997,000.00 Unknown $1,550,000.00 $100,000.00 $103,000.00 $107,500.00 $120,000.00 $122,000.00 $163,000.00 $175,000.00 $180,500.00 $198,000.00 $215,000.00 $220,500.00 $227,000.00 $280,000.00 $284,500.00 $286,000.00 $289,000.00 $290,000.00 $299,000.00 $302,000.00 $310,000.00 $310,000.00 $310,000.00 $322,500.00

Us Bk Trust Na Tr Cohen Dalia Manjarres Tr Lo Michael A Tr Stewart Chester L Baronger Dev Llc Village Of Oak Pk Mudjer Stephen J Almeida Jason Kotarba Jaqueline Setanta Llc Fonda Scott Jankowiak Aneta Doyle Steven D Molloy Kevin Koller Maggie Merritt Anne F Rodde Daniel J Gete-Derflingher Maria E Shaughnessy Christine A Tr Ocampo Raleigh Martinez Jose Luis Caples Kevin Extr Chicago Title Land Trust Co Tr Paul Theodore C Kowalski Bernard J Us Bk Trust Na Tr Toorak Cap Partners Llc Tr Drumm Kevin C Divane Jean T Tr Stamm Michael

Wu Hui Fang Obrien Anastasica M J N Q Z 1107 Llc Higgins Colin A Sobran Joanna Oklo Ikaya Llc Oak Pk Land Llc Goodwin Sharon Posten Chanel Hui Anmin Chicago Title Land Trust Co Tr Dsouza Melville Kungel Janet V Perry Ruth Ann Mendez Karina T Pett Carl Jmg Real Estate Grp Inc Clark James Herrera Mauricio Butler Bryan Wills Alexandra Michelle Richardson Scott Dyson Christina M Niewald Kyle E Solano Juan J Morrissey Robert J 616Oak Pk Llc Johnson Anne H Frumkin Theresa M Loftus Thomas

P R O P E R T Y

T R A N S F E R S

OAK PARK ADDRESS

PRICE

SELLER

BUYER

1184 S Scoville Ave

$325,000.00

Knaga Christopher Tr

Andrson Michael

727 S Taylor Ave

$331,500.00

Gilley Sheri D

Langelan David R

1179 S Humphrey Ave

$334,000.00

Riveros Francisco M

Xu Jingyuan

745 S Humphrey Ave

$346,000.00

Kennedy Kathleen G

Carey David Andrew

1212 N Lombard Ave

$348,000.00

Alexander Eddie

Beckwith Kristin Michele

243 S Maple Ave

$355,000.00

Kostandyan Arpine

Walther Linda S

1045 Division St

$355,000.00

Casey Brian M

Leshyn Carrie L

1043 S Scoville Ave

$379,000.00

Sowers Erin H

Mosbey Michael

1182 S Maple Ave

$380,000.00

Lavery Terrence P

Wishne Jeremy B

725 S Grove Ave

$410,000.00

Schuster Theodore

Koll Kevin

1042 S Ridgeland Ave

$414,000.00

Flannick George

Ford Michelle

300 N Taylor Ave

$416,000.00

Krawchuk Keith W Extr

Ingram Kimball

418 S Elmwood Ave

$420,000.00

Snyder Eileen C Tr

Merchen Carolina

1037 N Humphrey Ave

$429,000.00

Hammond Torrence K

Glenn Malinda

626 Woodbine Ave

$430,000.00

Bagnall David

Stumbras Sarah

612 N Marion St

$432,500.00

Cady Wendall Extr

Burell Rachel

1159 S Lombard Ave

$435,000.00

1159Lombard Llc

Smith Michael D

624 S Grove Ave

$438,000.00

Considine Michael

Hill Diane

808 S Scoville Ave

$449,000.00

Fitzgerald Willian

Lindstrom Samantha

621 S Maple Ave

$45,000.00

Block Michael D Extr

Karlin Benjamin S

1126 S Lyman Ave

$452,500.00

Sibilano Dominic P

Braunstein Sarah

110 S Humphrey Ave

$459,000.00

International Dev Grp Llc

Dreis Michael P

933 N Oak Park Ave

$460,000.00

Zawisza Andrew D

Charkow Kristen

413 Wisconsin Ave

$465,000.00

Taylor M Kent

Adaranijo Toyin

1004 S Kenilworth Ave

$472,500.00

Casimiro Roy

Wray John

835 Lake St

$5,000,000.00

Chicago Title Land Trust Co Tr

Oak Pk Ii Land Llc

308 Home Ave

$512,500.00

Franklin Wayne H Tr

Siwak Joseph E

1129 Rossell Ave

$530,000.00

Fillmore William J

Krasinsky Stephen

501 Fair Oaks Ave

$540,000.00

Mcginn Matthew David

Janota Jessica Joy

606 Forest Ave

$565,000.00

Barrett Christopher G

Pagan Luis M

307 S Humphrey Ave

$565,000.00

Peters Michael

Wiersma Kendrick G

1223 Linden Ave

$567,500.00

Ingersoll Paui J

Marshall Kimberly C

209 Division St

$575,000.00

Wicklow Dev Grp Llc

Johnson Kelvenia

1125 Schneider Ave

$575,000.00

Levy David

Martz Nathan R

828 Clarence Ave

$580,000.00

Michaud David

Golden William H

222 N Lombard Ave

$595,000.00

Mcsheehy Margaret

Pelaprat Etienne

730 Woodbine Ave

$595,000.00

Golden Christian

Nees Scott

613 S Scoville Ave

$60,000.00

Cozzi Lawrence P

Cozzi Lawrence P Tr

538 N Elmwood Ave

$600,000.00

Connell Joseph

Avila Melissa

732 N Kenilworth Ave

$625,000.00

Aeschleman Paul E Tr

Raspatello Daniel

330 Home Ave

$640,000.00

Schuller Heinz

Martin Owen

338 S East Ave

$70,000.00

Chicago Title Land Trust Co Tr

Jaimes Robalba

948 Fair Oaks Ave

$710,000.00

Dolan Thomas G Tr

Verheecke Peter David

1119 N Oak Park Ave

$715,500.00

Petertil Kerry

Zontini Stephan

910 N East Ave

$751,000.00

Byrne Aaron T

Aksoy Soner

1008 Washington Blvd

$77,500.00

Fg Rlty Llc

Mas Nicholas A

804 Forest Ave

$780,000.00

Daniel Jeremy C

Achurra Francisco

333 N Euclid Ave

$810,000.00

Cohen Michael Henry Tr

Lesiowski Thomas

847 N Kenilworth Ave

$835,000.00

Feemster Tangela

Yang Wayne Tr

415 Wesley Ave

$90,000.00

Austin Kimberleigh P

Ford Michael

1129 N Harvey Ave

Unknown

The Judicial Sales Corp

Us Bk Natl Assn Tr

FOREST PARK ADDRESS

PRICE

SELLER

BUYER

205 Circle Ave 205 Circle Ave 315 Marengo Ave 315 Des Plaines Ave 918 Elgin Ave 7314 Randolph St 1117 Marengo Ave 226 Elgin Ave 148 Belvidere Ave 1117 Thomas Ave 7228 Elgin Ave 821 Hannah Ave 1124 Beloit Ave 1020 Lathrop Ave 1035 Harlem Ave 840 Lathrop Ave 1040 Lathrop Ave 126 Lathrop Ave 122 Circle Ave 850 Des Plaines Ave 1008 Beloit Ave 811 Beloit Ave 7652 Wilcox St 1017 Harlem Ave 1128 Marengo Ave 914 Lathrop Ave 1074 Des Plaines Ave 926 Hannah Ave 1008 Ferdinand Ave 1245 Marengo Ave 844 Beloit Ave 521 Elgin Ave 210 Brown Ave 516 Beloit Ave 1101 Hannah Ave

$116,000.00 $119,000.00 $120,000.00 $130,000.00 $135,000.00 $217,000.00 $230,000.00 $252,000.00 $259,000.00 $265,000.00 $286,500.00 $310,000.00 $347,000.00 $355,000.00 $398,000.00 $460,000.00 $490,000.00 $535,000.00 $75,000.00 $120,000.00 $139,500.00 $184,000.00 $190,000.00 $190,000.00 $210,000.00 $220,000.00 $225,000.00 $268,000.00 $271,000.00 $316,000.00 $325,000.00 $410,000.00 $435,000.00 $475,000.00 $50,000.00

Kubik Constance M Buerger Diane Dominguez Jaclyn Heydt Maria Ines Von Der Baggett Latrice M Harrison Andre Clark Philip C Tr Sr Spisiak Daniel R Tr Jr Homan Tami M Carris Nathan A Bell Gregory J Faley Andrew John Epic Prop Yorkville Llc North W Housing Ps Slagel Elizabeth Buss Robert Dimaano Michael Jacknow Matthew G La David Rutkowski Wieslaw Us Bk Natl Assn Tr Fannie Mae S & J Kolar Llc Toorak Repo Seller I Trust Rara Gabrina Ih3 Prop Illinois Lp Sykes Robyn B Condon Thomas J Barney Joseph D Frakes Tyler James Legare Alex J Grams Thomas M Wang Prosper L Dark Star Dev Llc Mellin L Timothy

Chicago Title Land Trust Co Tr Zw Asset Mgmt Llc Series 2 Doss Andrew W Pantoja Carla Almeida Brown Kathleen A Bellie Joann B Quizhpi Kelvin Menich Timothy Daniel Espersen Matthew D Halilovic Ajla Kariott Carla Lemier Ryan Lagunas Anthoula Honorable Ladarius D Salazar Santiago F Nowicki Robert Knapp Colin Carrick Scott Hopkins Lynn M Collier Maurice Burns Terry Kieta Adam Gk Home Inc Smith Venecia Mcginness Caitlin Rauzi Joshua N Coker Kenneth Letendre Joseph Rivera Erwin Reninger Adam Joseph Corral Alex Schrock Sarah B Cooney Matthew Farmer Sylvester 1101 Hannah Llc

RIVER FOREST 1403 Forest Ave 431 Edgewood Pl 7911 North Ave 231 Park Ave 1411 Keystone Ave 743 Clinton Pl 1401 Clinton Pl 923 Forest Ave 941 Keystone Ave 551 Keystone Ave 1130 Lathrop Ave 922 Jackson Ave 1541 Monroe Ave 7911 North Ave 1010 N Harlem Ave 434 Clinton Pl 424 Park Ave 7612 Vine St 1010 N Harlem Ave 1427 Thatcher Ave 111 Keystone Ave 1526 William St 307 Forest Ave 606 William St 7214 Oak Ave 1507 Keystone Ave 946 Keystone Ave 7310 Holly Ct 903 Bonnie Brae Pl

$1,156,000.00 $145,000.00 $208,500.00 $378,000.00 $452,500.00 $515,000.00 $530,000.00 $535,000.00 $625,000.00 $870,000.00 $945,000.00 Unknown $114,000.00 $175,000.00 $200,000.00 $229,000.00 $230,000.00 $420,000.00 $450,000.00 $480,000.00 $483,000.00 $560,000.00 $640,000.00 $682,500.00 $70,000.00 $786,500.00 $807,500.00 $850,000.00 $950,000.00

Siano Josh Mitchell Alberta Sam Lang K Glazer Sanford L Tr Mitchell Sherman C Walsh Mary J Tr Crispino Kathleen L Tr Chicago Title Land Trust Co Tr Stoffer John W Charkow Jeffrey B Martin Elizabeth P Sheriff Of Cook County Jva Two Llc Reynolds Brian P Jr Cross Haroleon S Meir Eran Tr Petrev Jaclyn M Trainor Charles J Cross Haroleon S Limperis Makis Liphardt Dorothy S Tr Kristen Scott M Sensemann Susan Tr Armstrong Leigh Burke Frances Palmer Geoffrey S Chicago Title Land Trust Elaydi Raed Mims John

Gerbrecht Arno R Rink Jusin M Jimenez Kiara Gonzalez Maguire Mary Stafford & Lockwood Inc Wenzloff Desta G Petersmarck Stephanie Honaman Lisa A Finn Kimberely Campbell Terence Hugh Ghadiali Quraish Raymond J Allen Trust Miller Colleen Acot Joseph Henry Foley Carol Ann Early Catherine E Tomal Daniel Brennolt Quinn Michael Foley Carol Ann Curtis Courtney C Cabrera Rogelio Ramirez Bavlsik Krysta M Varner Stephen Nicolas Keppler Michael J Rodriguez-Erdmann Foro Sullivan Suzanne Holle Kurtis Henfield Malik Britton Thomas P

June 16, 2021 ■ Wednesday Journal/Forest Park Review

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HAPPY FATHER’S DAY

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ADDRESS

OFFICE

LISTING PRICE

TIME

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ADDRESS

OFFICE

LISTING PRICE

TIME

834 N Marion St, Oak Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Baird & Warner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $540,000 . . . . . . . . Open Sat & Sun 1-3 12 S Greenwood Ave, Park Ridge . . . . . . . . Baird & Warner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$525,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . Open Sat 12-2

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Thanks to Melissa’s passion and experiencing our coffee first-hand by “cupping”, we thank Oak Park Eats for the positive exposure!

- Jacques, Kribi Coffee, Forest Park

Enjoy a cup at KribiCoffee.com Jacques Shalo, Kribi Coffee

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Under Contract!

946 N. Humphrey Ave., Oak Park 3 BR 1.5 BA. Large American 4-square.

Vintage details - modern sensibilities!

Stained glass, decorative fireplace, plus redone electric, plumbing, and mechanicals. Large yard........... $390,000 Stephanie Eiger | 708-557-0779 Stephanie.Eiger@cbexchange.com

Just Sold!

147 N. Euclid Ave., Unit 507, Oak Park Contact us for a free market analysis today!

Lisa Andreoli and Meredith Conn 708-557-9546 or 708-743-6973 teamgo2girls@gmail.com

Under Contract with multiple offers!

2042 N. 74th Court, Elmwood Park 3 BR, 1.1 BA. This charming brick cottage will capture your heart with its hardwood floors, built-in bookcases, circular captain’s window. ..................................... $299,000 Shea Kiessling | 708-710-5952 Shea@cbexchange.com

Just Sold!

554 Park Ave., River Forest 3 Bedrooms, 2.1 Baths…$675,000 The Market is still hot! Contact me today if you’re looking to buy or sell!

Sandi Graves | 708-752-6540 sgraves@cbexchange.com

Just Sold!

7509 Madison St. #4D, Forest Park ................................................... $241,000 Allow me to help you find your dream home!

Michelle Miller | 708-334-5833 michelle.miller@cbexchange.com

Just Listed!

937 Keystone Ave., River Forest Stunning! 5 BR, 4.1 BA architectural masterpiece. Huge landscaped yard. First floor in-law suite, home office, private master suite, screened porch with fireplace, hot tub and attached garage.

Sue Canepa I 312-203-0848 suecanepahomes@gmail.com Lisa Grimes I 708-205-9518 lisa.grimes@cbrealty.com

Just Sold!

5624 Murray Dr., Berkley ................................................... $330,000 Andrea “Bonnie” Routen | 708-544-8440 Andrea.bonnie@cbexchange.com

Just Listed!

426 S. Lombard, #Unit 304, Oak Park Spacious, updated with parking and in unit washer/dryer! Perfect location and walkable to transportation, stores, restaurants! ............................... $145,000

Just Sold for full list price!

1143 Clinton Ave., Oak Park 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms….$319,000 Shea Kiessling | 708-710-5952 Shea@cbexchange.com

Patty Melgar Hooks | 708-261-2796 patty.melgarhooks@cbexchange.com

Just Listed!

946 Home Avenue, Oak Park Great 3 BR/2.1 BA home with hardwood floors. Spacious rooms. Kitchen open to generous dining room. Luscious fenced yard with two-tier deck and patio. Great location near Blue Line, I-290 and Lincoln School........................................ $509,000

Congratulations to Kirstin Gloor, 2020 International President’s Circle Award winner for sales production and commitment to excellence.

Consistently been a top-producing agent in the western suburbs

Kirstin Gloor

John Haagensen

708-351-8977 Kirstin.Gloor@cbexchange.com

773-230-6995

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Sara Faust | 708-772-7910 sara.faust@cbexchange.com

COLDWELLBANKERHOMES.COM Oak Park 114 N. Oak Park Avenue, Oak Park | 708.524.1100 The property information herein is derived from various sources that may include, but not be limited to, county records and the Multiple Listing Service, and it may include approximations. Although the information is believed to be accurate, it is not warranted and you should not rely upon it without personal verification. Real estate agents affiliated with Coldwell Banker Realty are independent contractor sales associates, not employees. ©2020 Coldwell Banker Realty. All Rights Reserved. Coldwell Banker Realty fully supports the principles of the Fair Housing Act and the Equal Opportunity Act. Owned by a subsidiary of NRT LLC. Coldwell Banker and the Coldwell Banker Logo are registered service marks owned by Coldwell Banker Realty LLC.

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