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April 6, 2022
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Brookfield eyes permanent economic development specialist Preliminary plan also calls for creation of advisory commission By BOB UPHUES Editor
Brookfield trustees last month signaled support for hiring someone on a permanent basis to tackle economic development initiatives. It’s not clear at this time whether such a person would be employed on a full-time or part-time basis, but the new staff position is a key recommendation in an economic development plan discussed at the village board’s March 28 committee of the whole meeting. The draft economic development plan being
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Spotlight scholar College Board awards RBHS senior $40,000 scholarship on national TV broadcast STORY ON PAGE 3
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Harlem Avenue road work largely avoids North Riverside, for now
Harlem/Cermak intersection redo looks to be on tap for 2023 By BOB UPHUES Editor
A roadway resurfacing project that has just kicked off for Harlem Avenue between 26th Street and North Avenue will largely avoid the North Riverside section of the roadway, for now. The Illinois Department of Transportation on April 4 informed the village of North Riverside that it was omitting the
stretch of Harlem Avenue between roughly 21st Street and 25th Street from the resurfacing project, because that section will be overhauled in 2023. Next year, not only will that section be resurfaced, but the intersections of Cermak Road and Harlem Avenue as well as 23rd Street and Harlem Avenue will be reconfigured to improve vehicle and pedestrian safety. Village officials had been unsure exactly when those intersection improvements would take place – they were included on IDOT’s 2022-27 Highway Improvement Program – but now it’s clear that work is imminent. Maria Castaneda, a spokeswoman for
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The Illinois Department of Transportation’s resurfacing project for Harlem Avenue will continue through October. Work will avoid the area between 21st and 25th streets, which is due to be overhauled either late this year or in 2023. IDOT, told the Landmark last week that the agency will seek construction bids for the North Riverside/Berwyn intersection configuration work in August. “The work itself will not start until the end of 2022 or early 2023,” Castaneda said. At Harlem and Cermak, the triangular right-turn lane islands at each corner will be removed. Each of the four approaches will be striped for dual left-turn lanes and countdown traffic signals will replace the existing ones. The intersection’s sidewalks will also be made more handicapped-accessible. The intersection of 23rd Street and Harlem Avenue, which serves as an entry/exit into the North Riverside Plaza and Cermak Plaza shopping centers, will also be reconfigured and traffic signals will be replaced. The roadway will not be widened anywhere to accommodate the reconfigured intersections. IDOT’s new timetable for the Harlem/ Cermak work also gives the village of North Riverside and the city of Berwyn a more exact idea of when they will lose the red-light cameras at that intersection. In 2020, the village was informed by IDOT that the intersection improvements would trigger removal of the cameras, which have brought North Riverside
more than $13 million in revenue since they were installed in 2015. The village will be able to reapply to have the cameras installed, IDOT told North Riverside in 2020, but local officials are not confident they’ll ever return.
Resurface going north to south Meanwhile, Castaneda told the Landmark that IDOT plans to tackle the roughly 4.5-mile Harlem Avenue resurfacing project beginning at North Avenue and then working in sections southward. The first phase of the project will involve completing the installation of ADA-accessible sidewalk ramps and replacing deteriorating sections of curb and gutter along that stretch of Harlem Avenue. When crews do begin actually milling off the existing pavement and resurfacing the roadway, Harlem Avenue will remain open to traffic in both direction, although there may be periodic lane closures. However, the asphalt work won’t really begin to affect travel on Harlem Avenue until later in the summer, perhaps as late as August, said Castaneda. Resurfacing work, minus the North Riverside/Berwyn section between 21st and 25th streets, is expected to wrap up in late October.
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RBHS senior awarded college scholarship on national TV
Brookfield resident one of 25 awarded $40,000 during ‘Good Morning America’ broadcast By BOB SKOLNIK Contributing Reporter
A Riverside-Brookfield High School senior was one of 27 students nationwide recently awarded $40,000 scholarships from the College Board. Abbey Castelino learned that she was getting the scholarship on March 24 when she was one of 25 students appearing in a fiveminute live segment on the ABC television morning show “Good Morning America.” Castelino, 17, thought she was on the show via Zoom to discuss the college application process and had no idea that she was going to receive a scholarship until they were announced on live TV. “I was like, forty thousand, are we sure about that?” Castelino told the Landmark last week in a telephone interview. Castelino and the other scholarship winners were chosen in a random drawing after completing all six steps in the College Board’s Big Future search process. Big Future is mobile-friendly online tool developed by the College Board in 2012 to help guide students through the college selection and application process. “They were all pretty simple tasks that you had to do,” said Castelino, who was the only $40,000 scholarship winner from Illinois. To encourage students to complete the Big Future process, once a student completes a step the College Board enters the student’s name in a random drawing for a $500 scholarship. When a student completes all six steps, they are eligible for a random drawing to win a $40,000 scholarship. “The more steps that students take and the earlier they begin, the more chances they have to earn money for college from Big Future,” said Richard Green, the senior director of Big Future student engagement for College Board. “What sets these scholarships apart is that there is no application, there is no test score requirement. Rather, students
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are entered into the monthly drawings for scholarships when they complete actions on Big Future.” Castelino almost missed out on appearing on “Good Morning America” and perhaps even getting the $40,000 scholarship. After her name was drawn to be one of the $40,000 scholarship recipients, an official from the College Board tried to get hold of her by phone. However, Castelino ignored his messages because she didn’t know what they were about and she was accustomed to getting lots of emails from the College Board. Since the College Board wanted the students to be surprised on “Good Morning America” the College Board official didn’t specify why he wanted Castelino to get in touch with him. “When we hear of College Board, we think only of AP Exams and nothing really else,” Castelino said. After not hearing back from Castelino, the College Board official contacted her counselor at RBHS, Mike Reingruber, and told him about the scholarship. The College Board official told Reingruber not to spill the beans but to make sure she contacted him. “I called [the College Board] and they said we want to interview kids about the college process,” Castelino said.
Castelino plans on attending Dominican University in River Forest next fall. She wants to become a pediatrician. “I just really enjoy working with kids,” Castelino said. Castelino’s mother, Premila, works as a nurse for the V.A., and as child Castelino would use her mother’s medical kit to play doctor with her stuffed animals. She was also influenced by her own pediatrician, Dr. Elizabeth Smith. “Whenever I got to see my pediatrician yearly for school, she always would remember me and she would always make everything so easy and never scary,” Castelino said. Last summer, Castelino, a resident of Brookfield, worked in the Brookfield summer day camp as a counselor. Castelino is an honor roll student, plays on the badminton team and is on the yearbook staff at RBHS. She was born in India and spent to first few years of her life in an orphanage founded by Mother Theresa. She was adopted when she was 4 by a couple who had grown up in India but had immigrated to the United States. They brought her to Brookfield. Castelino says many teachers have influenced her but specifically mentioned Lori Glazik, her eighth-grade science teacher at S.E. Gross Middle School; Michelle Carmona, her freshmen year biology teacher at RBHS; and her Advanced Placement statistics teacher, Lindsay Mynaugh, as being big influences. “She’s the absolute best,” Castelino said of Mynaugh. “She’s always so encouraging but she’s always so chill and funny at the same time. It’s always a really fun class to go to.” Castelino chose to attend Dominican because she was impressed by medical internship possibilities there and a simulated hospital room the school has. She is still a bit stunned that she is getting a $40,000 scholarship, to be used over the course of her college career at her discretion, just for completing basic tasks in the college search process. She knew she was eligible for drawings to receive some money for completing the six steps but never imagined such an award. “I didn’t really expect to be winning the $40,000,” Castelino said. “I was like, oh, maybe I’ll get partially some of that money.”
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Egg hunt in Riverside
April 6-13
BIG WEEK
Riverside Parks and Rec will host its annual Egg Hunt on April 9 at Big Ball Park, Delaplaine and Longcommon roads, starting at 10 a.m. sharp. Kids can hunt for candy-filled eggs scattered through the park. If you’re lucky, you’ll find a prize ticket in your egg and can select the prize you’d like. Each age group will also have one golden ticket for a $25 gift certificate for Riverside Parks and Rec. No registration required. Kids age 10 and under must be accompanied by an adult.
Landscape workdays return
The Frederick Law Olmsted Society is once again teaming up with Riverside Public Works to host a season of landscape workdays to spruce up the village’s public greenspaces. By reducing shrub growth, eliminating weeds and opening up river views, volunteers can help better realize Olmsted’s plan for Riverside. The first workday will be held April 9 from 9 a.m. to noon at Big Ball Park. Look for the public works dump truck. Come for as long as you like; supervised children welcome. Bring works gloves and a water bottle. All other supplies and snacks provided.
A Titanic rescue mission
Harmony through meditation
North Riverside Public Library invites to learn how a network of wireless operators on land and at sea desperately sent messages across the frozen North Atlantic to mount a rescue mission for the passengers of the doomed ocean liner Titanic during “160 Minutes: The Race to Save the RMS Titanic” on April 8 at 7 p.m. The program will be conducted virtually. Registration required. Visit northriversidelibrary.org/events-new.
And more Lyons Township High School’s Eurythmic Dance Company hosts a Day of Dance for children in grades K-8 on April 9 from 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. at the North Campus Dance Gym, 100 S. Brainard Ave. in LaGrange. Fee is $40 per child. Register online at lths.revtrak.net/activitiesclubs/activities-clubs-edc. Riverside Arts Center, 32 E. Quincy St., presents “Unseen Things Are Still Here” featuring the ■
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work of Alexandra Antoine, J.B. Daniel, Kate Ingold, Esau McGhee and Elsa Munoz in the Freeark Gallery and outdoor Sculpture Garden through April 9. Proof of vaccine required. Hours areThursdaySaturday from 1 to 5 p.m. RAC also presents a photography exhibition, “Love You Bro” featuring the work of Stephanie Graham in the lobby of the Riverside Township Hall, 27 Riverside Road, Riverside, through June 30. Hours are Mon.-Thurs. 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Friday 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
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Linda Sokol Francis Brookfield Library, 3541 Park Ave., invites you to learn how meditation tunes you in to greater harmonies of nature during “Meditation: The Path for a Sustainable Life” either via an in-person livestream or Zoom on April 11 at 7 p.m. Registration required by calling 708-485-6917, ext. 130 or at brookfield.evanced.info/signup. North Riverside Public Library, 2400 Desplaines Ave., invites you to the virtual program Crafternoons: Terra Cotta Fairy Houses courtesy of Age Options on April 9 at 1:30 p.m. and Telephone Book Club via conference call (800-747-5150, code 1453322) discussing “Anxious People” by Fredrik Backman on April 12 at 6:45 p.m. Register for programs at northriversidelibrary.org/events-new. Linda Sokol Francis Brookfield Library, 3541 Park Ave., invites families to discover college tuition-reduction strategies during Grants ■
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The Lyons Township High School Pinball Club will host a tournament on April 12 at 5:30 p.m. at The Corral, 4940 Willow Springs Road in Western Springs. Each player plays each of the club’s four games once. Top four advance to the finals. Prizes include pinball-related giveaways and gift cards. Games are set to free play. Entry into the tourney is $15 for students and other tournament players. Scholarships & Loans via Zoom on April 13 at 6 p.m. Call 708-485-6917 or visit brookfield. evanced.info/signup to register for programs. Riverside Public Library, 1 Burling Road, invites you to Create with Cricut on April 7 at 7 p.m. where you can learn about the library’s new Cricut machine, including designing and cutting projects. There’s also Mindfulness Together meditation in person or via Zoom on April 8 at noon. To register for programs visit riversidelibrary.org/events. ■
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Man suspected of 2020 mall shooting arrested again Remains on electronic monitoring after new gun charge By BOB UPHUES Editor
A 31-year-old man free on electronic monitoring while awaiting trial for allegedly shooting another man inside North Riverside Park Mall in SepJAMES SUTTON tember 2020 was back in front of a judge last month after being charged with another weapons offense. James Sutton was charged by Chicago police with being a felon in possession of a firearm after arresting him during a traffic stop on March 9, according to CWB Chicago, a news website that covers crime in the city. Sutton reportedly was pulled over in the West Garfield Park neighborhood of Chicago for running a stop sign. When asked if there were any guns in the car, Sutton allegedly admitted there was a pistol in his jacket pocket, according to CWB Chicago, which added Sutton’s attorney said his client had permission to leave his home while on electronic monitoring. A judge set Sutton’s bond at $150,000 for the Chicago gun charge, and the Cook County Jail’s website indicates Sutton posted bail and is once again on electronic monitoring await-
ing an April 6 hearing date at the Branch 44 courthouse in Chicago. He is scheduled for another hearing on the North Riverside incident on April 21 at the Maybrook courthouse. On Sept. 25, 2020 Sutton reportedly shot a 27-year-old man during an altercation in the mall’s upper-level concourse near the former Sears store. The victim, who was shot once through the thigh, was hospitalized but released from treatment the following day. North Riverside police at the time said the two men knew each other and that the altercation was connected to an earlier dispute between them. The victim reportedly was not cooperative, at least initially, with police. Sutton fled the scene with another man in a vehicle that police stopped a short time later at Harlem Avenue and 16th Street in Berwyn. Police also reported finding drugs and $1,700 in cash inside the vehicle. The Cook County State’s Attorney charged Sutton with aggravated battery with a firearm, an offense that carries a prison sentence of between six and 30 years, if convicted. Sutton was also charged with reckless conduct, unlawful use of a weapon and possession of a controlled substance. The September 2020 shooting capped a particularly violent year at the mall, which was the scene of looting on May 31 amid the widespread protest and civil unrest that followed the murder of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police a few days earlier. A 24-year-old man was shot dead outside Olive Garden that day and another man was wounded by gunfire inside the mall on June 26. Both victims were targeted, police said. No one has been arrested in connection with the first two shootings.
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DUI charge after driver careens through circle A 29-year-old Palos Hills woman charged with driving under the influence of alcohol reportedly smashed her 2019 Ford Fusion into a trash can before crashing into the Veterans Memorial Circle at Eight Corners and making it almost all the way through to the other side on March 30 at about 10:30 p.m. Police said surveillance video showed the vehicle traveling northeast in the 9200 block of Broadway Avenue through the diagonal parking lane and then jumped the curb, hitting a trash can and sending it flying before running through a landscaped area, over the roadway and into the circle. The car continued on over the grass, glanced off the fountain and ran over an electrical box before coming to rest against the Korean War memorial marker. The driver was not seriously injured but was taken to the hospital by paramedics, where she reportedly refused to submit to a blood draw to reveal her blood-alcohol content. Police reported locating one open and two empty 50 ml containers of cinnamon whiskey in the car’s center console. In addition to DUI, she was cited for illegal transportation of open alcohol, damage to village property, operating an uninsured vehicle and other traffic offenses.
Attempted robbery North Riverside police responded to Classy Nails at North Riverside Park Mall, 7501 Cermak Road, on March 28 at about 5:50 p.m. after a 35-year-old woman reported someone had tried to rob her. The victim told police she was getting her nails done when she observed two other woman, who were wearing full winter ski masks, getting pedicures across from her.
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The two made the victim uneasy, she said, because they were staring at her and then whispering to each other. As the women in masks walked out of the room, one of them reportedly grabbed a wallet from the victim’s purse. The victim punched the offender and got the wallet back, but the offender then reportedly shoved the victim hard enough that it knocked her to the ground. The two masked women, who had paid for their pedicures in cash, then fled the store.
Car allegedly stolen by carjacking suspect Brookfield police say that a person suspected of stealing a car from an Ogden Avenue gas station on March 30 is believed to be involved in about 15 carjacking incidents in the Chicago area. Security camera video from the BP gas station at 8856 Ogden Ave. captured the theft on video, said police, and the suspected thief was spotted driving the car around 24th Street and Washtenaw Avenue in Chicago on March 31 at about 1:15 p.m. but eluded police by speeding away. The victim, a 43-year-old Brookfield man, told police he left his car unlocked and running in front of the BP gas station minimart on March 30 at about 3:35 p.m. When he exited the minimart, he found the vehicle had been stolen. Security video showed a silver sedan pull into the gas station lot at 3:33 p.m. One person wearing a black facemask is seen getting out of the silver car and entering the victim’s black Kia Optima, driving off eastbound at 3:34 p.m. with the silver vehicle following. Police used GPS to track the Kia to several locations in Chicago before police were able
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to locate it in the Marshall Square area of the city’s Southwest Side. The investigation continues.
Gun displayed during road rage incident North Riverside police reported a road rage incident last week where one motorist allegedly displayed a gun and threatened to shoot another driver on April 1 at about 2:50 p.m. on Harlem Avenue just south of 16th Street. The 25-year-old victim said that after a white Jeep cut off her vehicle while southbound on Harlem Avenue, the victim positioned her car in front of the Jeep and applied the brakes. The Jeep then pulled alongside, according to the victim, and the driver pointed a handgun in her direction saying “Bitch, I’ll shoot you!” before driving off.
Apartments, vehicles burglarized Brookfield police are investigating a pair of residential burglaries at apartment buildings on March 31 on the south end of the village. Police responded to a building in the 4400 block of Eberly Avenue on March 31 at about 11:05 p.m. after a tenant called to report numerous items missing from his apartment. There were no signs of forced entry, but a PlayStation 5 game system was missing, along with two videogame controllers, three games and a pair of Nike Air Force One shoes. Police also responded to a building in the 4500 block of Elm Avenue after a tenant called to report four watches and a digital camera had been taken from the residence. Police did not report seeing any signs of forced entry.
Brookfield police are also reporting that two vehicles on the south end were burglarized, one during the overnight hours of April 1-2 and another sometime between evening on April 1 and the morning of April 3. The incidents occurred in the 4000 and 4100 blocks of Grove Avenue and both vehicles were unlocked. Taken from the vehicles were cash and loose change, an old radar detector, Bose headphones and a COVID-19 vaccination card.
Catalytic converter thieves chased away Two men in the midst of sawing off a catalytic converter from a Toyota Prius parked in the 4000 block of Sunnyside Avenue early on April 1 fled after being confronted by the car’s owner, leaving behind the jack and Sawzall they were using. The victim told police he was awakened by the sound of the saw at about 3:45 a.m. and went outside to learn it was coming from his driveway where two men with a flashlight were under his vehicle. He yelled at the two men who ran to their vehicle, which was parked out front and drove away westbound on Windemere Avenue. Police said the Sawzall the offenders were using was left dangling from the exhaust system. These items were obtained from police reports filed by the Riverside, North Riverside and Brookfield police departments, March 28-April 3, 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.
— Compiled by Bob Uphues
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D96 ending music teacher job-share with RBHS Riverside schools will employ an additional full-time elementary music instructor
By BOB SKOLNIK Contributing Reporter
Riverside Elementary School District 96 has decided to end its job-sharing agreement with Riverside-Brookfield High School for orchestra teacher Matthew Loeb after just a year. District 96 superintendent Martha RyanToye said the decision had nothing to do with Loeb’s work as a teacher, but the agreement no longer served District 96 staffing needs. With the addition of full-day kindergarten next year, District 96 will hire an additional full-time elementary school music teacher giving them three full-time music teachers. Presently, the district employs two full-time elementary music teachers and two part timers. That leaves Loeb and RBHS choir teacher Kayley Smetana’s future at RBHS in limbo. Since both were technically part-time teachers this year they were, like all part-time teachers at the high school, officially notified
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last month that they were not rehired for next year. However, that does not mean that Loeb and Smetana won’t be back next year. “The high school is in the middle of the staffing process for the next school year, we will have a better idea of teacher schedules and FTE assignments in the coming weeks,” said RBHS District 208 Superintendent Kevin Skinkis in an email. This year Loeb taught three classes at RBHS while teaching nearly half time in District 96. Smetana was a 0.9 full-time equivalent at RBHS and band director James Baum
taught four music classes as well as serving as the instructional coach, akin to a department head, for the fine and applied arts departments at RBHS. According to student course selections for next year, RBHS has a need for 2.4 FTE music teaching positions next year. Those positions are likely to be distributed among Baum, Loeb and Smetana in some fashion. Neither Smetana nor Loeb responded to requests for comment for this story. Staffing is determined by course enrollment, but Baum says the lingering effects of the coronavirus pandemic has reduced enrollment in music classes for the last couple of years. “As we continue to rebuild the music programs in this community following the pandemic, my biggest hope is for all stakeholders to realize that the process of building back our programs will take several years,” Baum said in an email. A few years ago, RBHS eliminated the Fine Arts Survey class as a graduation require-
ment. Since music was an integral part of the Fine Arts Survey, eliminating the class reduced the numbers of classes music instructors teach. Ever since former band director Kevin McOlgan retired in 2012, RBHS has rarely had three full-time music teachers. Baum said that he hopes Loeb and Smetana both will be back at RBHS next year. “Mr. Loeb and Ms. Smetana are really solid music teachers,” Baum said in an email. “RB is a rather unique building where music teachers have to be able to teach more than just band, choir or orchestra, and this goes way back through the Angelo Ivonelli era. This year, Ms. Smetana was asked to teach choir, band and general music. Mr. Loeb was called on to teach orchestra, band and general music, in addition to running the beginning orchestra program for District 96. He taught nearly 500 students across six school buildings, he’s truly exceptional. We’re fortunate to have them as not every music teacher is so versatile.”
Brookfield to add new public works supervisor position Superintendent will oversee facilities in addition to supervisory support By BOB UPHUES Editor
For the first time in nearly a decade, the Brookfield Public Works Department will be looking to hire a second non-union supervisor to assist Director Carl Muell and oversee maintenance of village facilities – from village hall to the fire stations to the recreation department’s two preschool buildings. Village trustees at their next meeting on April 11 are expected to vote to approve creating a public works superintendent job and amend the 2022 appropriations ordinance to account for the new, previously unbudgeted expense. “Once the job is approved, we’ll come up with a job description and post it as soon as
possible,” Muell told the Landmark, adding that the hope was to have a superintendent on board by mid-summer. The superintendent, who will report directly to Muell will add another non-union supervisory layer to the organizational chart. That person will be paid between $84,615 and $110,000 per year, according to a memo from Village Manager Timothy Wiberg included in the village board’s March 28 committee of the whole meeting packet. Muell and an administrative assistant are the only non-union public works employees. The other 17 employees in the department are represented by Teamster’s Union Local 705. In pitching the new position to the village board on March 28, Wiberg said having just one non-union public works supervisor in a village the size of Brookfield was unusual. “We looked into other comparable communities to Brookfield and found that the norm is to have a little bit more of a hierarchical organization with a little more supervisory assistance over the union laborers,” Wiberg said. “
In addition to helping the public works director oversee the operations of the department, the superintendent would also take on management of village facilities. “There is no dedicated person whose main responsibility is to oversee the facilities,” Wiberg said. Presently the person who oversees facilities is the public works foreman who heads up the streets and alleys division. According to Wiberg, it’s a lot to ask the foreman to manage at certain times of the year. “It’s a tall task, especially in the wintertime when there’s snow on the ground to expect that the person to oversee the removal of snow and ice on the streets and at the same time ensure our facilities are being adequately cared for,” Wiberg said. No trustees argued against creating the new supervisory position in public works, with Trustee Brian Conroy suggesting that perhaps the superintendent might be able to apply for grants to maintain and improve village facilities in the future. Village President Michael Garvey also expressed support for the new position.
“I think the facilities is the number one thing,” Garvey said. “It’s not just the day-today maintenance, it’s the long-term maintenance, long-term planning, long-term improvements. “I think it’s a good idea and it’s time for it.” Supervisory roles in Brookfield’s public works department have evolved through time. The village didn’t have a single public works director until 2001, when William Brandt was appointed to the job. Starting in 2007, the director was supported by a superintendent. But just two years later in a cost-cutting move, the village eliminated the public works director position, leaving the superintendent as the only supervisor, who reported directly to the assistant village manager. By 2012, the village created a non-union assistant superintendent position to support the superintendent, whose title was changed back to director around that same time. However, the assistant superintendent position was short-lived and the director has been the sole department supervisor since at least mid-2014.
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Longtime Fenwick teacher accused of misconduct
Former student accuses John Quinn of inappropriate hugging, rubbing his cheek, lips against her face By ANDY VIANO Staff Reporter
A Fenwick High School graduate has called for the firing of a prominent teacher and former boys basketball coach after what she says were multiple instances of inappropriate physical contact made by the teacher, John Quinn, in 2012 and 2014. Helen Quinn Pasin posted a YouTube video on March 28 detailing some of her allegations against Quinn, who she said she met in 2012. She called Quinn her “abuser” and accused him of hugging her tightly and rubbing his cheek and lips against her face while asking about her “love life” approximately 10 times between 2012 and 2014. In one instance, Pasin said, Quinn looked her up and down “and [made] noises that sounded like he was growling” while hugging her. Helen Quinn Pasin and John Quinn are not related. John Quinn released a statement through an attorney last week, touting his accomplishments as an educator and denying Pasin’s claims. “John Quinn has given his heart and soul to teaching at Fenwick High School for over 40 years,” the statement reads. “The recent accusation that John abused a Fenwick student over eight years ago is categorically false. John has never abused a Fenwick student, at any time or in any place. John looks forward to continuing in the profession to which he has devoted his entire career.” Quinn, the younger brother of former Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn and a longtime employee of the school, was Fenwick’s boys basketball coach from 1985 to 2013 before being abruptly fired as coach. He has continued to work at the school as a social studies teacher since then. Quinn was a decorated basketball coach before his firing, earning induction into the Illinois Basketball Coaches Hall of Fame in 2010 and the Chicago Catholic League Hall of Fame in 2009. He also won a Golden Apple Award for his work as a social studies teacher in 1992. In her video, which by the morning of April 5 had been viewed more than 42,000 times, Pasin read a letter she sent to Fenwick administrators in December 2021 that detailed the alleged abuse, calling for a full investigation and asking for Quinn to be fired from his job. The Oak Park Police Department confirmed that Pasin filed a police report with authorities last year and said the report was sent to the state’s attorney’s office, which declined to press charges. Pasin, in her video, and a police report completed late in 2021 both indicated charges could not be pursued because the statute of limitations had expired. According to a September 2021 police report, Pasin was made to feel uncomfortable on multiple occasions around Quinn, and she alleged that “Quinn was overly aggressive with her and would put his arm around her neck with such force it would pull her body closer to his. [Pasin] further related Quinn would put his face directly next to her face, ultimately making cheek to cheek contact with her.” In one incident, which occurred in the school’s basement
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John Quinn (above) was Fenwick High School’s boys basketball coach for 28 years before being abruptly fired in 2013. He was named to the Chicago Catholic League Hall of Fame and the Illinois Basketball Coaches Hall of Fame. He also won a Golden Apple Award as a teacher in 1992. after a school-sanctioned meeting Pasin was leading, Quinn allegedly hugged her and made comments that made Pasin uncomfortable, including “what is your love life like?” and “you are so beautiful.” “[Pasin] related she stated to Quinn that she was not interested in love or relationships like that and Quinn replied back to her, ‘Well we should change that,’” the police report says.
Fenwick responds Fenwick officials said Quinn remained in his teaching job through at least March 30, when the Landmark first reported the allegations. A school spokesman subsequently confirmed that Quinn has been placed on administrative leave. Rev. Richard Peddicord, who is Fenwick’s president, said that while Quinn was at work March 30, he was “not in the
building” late last year while Oak Park police conducted their investigation. Peddicord also added that the school’s probe into Quinn’s behavior was ongoing. Peddicord did not comment further, instead referring to a statement he released on the night of March 29, apparently addressing Pasin’s video. “As some of you know, [last week] a Fenwick alumna posted a video detailing her experience as a student at Fenwick and our handling of a serious matter involving a faculty member,” the statement reads. “Please be assured that we took, and are taking, her allegations seriously and the inquiry into the incidents she describes is ongoing.” In the statement, Peddicord also says the school had been in contact with Oak Park police and that the school had offered Pasin an opportunity to participate in a school investigation, something that was a point of contention with Pasin See FENWICK on page 12
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rookfield Elks Lodge #1510 on March 25 hosted an appreciation night for its members where they also presented Illinois Elks Association grants to benefit local; charities. The Elks are known for their charitable efforts that include supporting military veterans, awarding college scholarships and collecting coats and clothing for children at local schools, among others. At the March 25 event, Brookfield Lodge Exalted Ruler Anton Zeman presented David Wick of the Hephzibah Children’s Association located in Oak Park Illinois with a check for $500.
Hephzibah provides intensive therapeutic care for severely traumatized young children, supports foster children and their families and provides day care to families of all income levels just to name a few of the great services they offer. The Elks also awarded $1,000 to Jim Stein of the Fisher House at Hines V.A. Hospital. The facility opened in 2010 and has served more than 14,000 guests. The first of its kind in Illinois, the center offers 20-bedroom suites to accommodate the spouses and families of the vets that are hospitalized at Hines. Zeman presented an additional $1,000 grant check to Kerry Thomas of the Hines
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The Brookfield Elks presented checks benefiting local charities at the their March 25 member appreciation night, including a $500 grant to Hephzibah Children’s Association, which was accepted by auxiliary board member David Wick (second from right). Also pictured, from left are Elks Grant Coordinator Margaret DeGuide, Brookfield Lodge Exalted Ruler Anton Zeman and Leading Knight Ed Rentka. V.A. Food Pantry, which provides both perishable and non-perishable food to more than 500 veterans every Thursday. The Brookfield Elks Lodge, 9022 31st St., is funded through member donations as well as fundraising events and hall rentals. The lodge is open Wednesday, Friday and Saturday from 6 to 10 p.m. and welcomes visitors. Call 708-387-1510 or email brookfield1510@gmail.com with questions.
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Girls Scouts from many troops turned out March 12 at the Riverside Township Hall’s auditorium to celebrate 110th birthday of the organization, which was founded in 1912 by Juliette Gordon Low, who registered 18 girls in her troop in Savannah, Georgia. Two sessions of girls, from kindergarten to high school participated, filling the Riverside food pantry boxes with birthday bags and hand-making items to donate to five charities. They wrote cards for Meals on Wheels and Operation Care Package, made blankets for Loyola Hospital patients, cat toys for the Animal Care League and “God’s eyes” for residents at Caledonia Senior Living in North Riverside.
■ Brookfield resident Tommy Russell, a junior business major at Millikin University in Decatur, placed eighth and earned All-American honors competing at the 2022 NCAA Division III National Wrestling Championships in Cedar Rapids, Iowa on March 11-12. Russell opened TOMMY RUSSELL the tournament with a win by pin and then lost to the tournament’s No. 6 seed, sending him into the consolation bracket. He won two more matches there to place eighth in the 125-pound weight class.
■ Clayton Stewart, of Brookfield, was named to the 2022 winter quarter dean’s list at the Milwaukee School of Engineering. Stewart, who is pursuing a degree in mechanical engineering, has a cumulative grade-point average of at least 3.2 on a 4-point scale. ■ Brookfield residents Avery Bowen, Max Issel, Suzana Jukic, Victoria Lozano, Nicholas Ortiz and Cameron Trimborn; North Riverside residents Maximiliano Alvarez, Anthony Huerta and Nicholas Novak; and Riverside residents Michael Adler, Noah Breit, Luca Franceschina, Daniel Gonzalez Patrick Hanley, Celeste Izaguirre, Claire Kawiecki, Daniel Kawiecki, John Kosner, Samuel Linhart, Lily Mosbrook, Malika Raffensperger-Schill, James Sacharski and Emily Xu were named to the 2021 fall dean’s list at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. ■ Kieran Hayes, of Riverside, a senior in the College of Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota, was named to the 2021 fall semester dean’s list for attaining a GPA of at least 3.66. ■ Modear B. LeClair, a Brookfield resident studying nursing at Mount Mary University in Milwaukee, was named to the 2021 fall semester dean’s list for earning a semester GPA of at least 3.6.
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Landscape volunteers recognized by Riverside forester Riverside Village Forester Michael Collins on March 17 recognized volunteer Carolyn Huson for her tireless physical and financial efforts to maintain the longcommon, which was a signature design element of Frederick Law Olmsted’s 1869 General Plan of Riverside. During a presentation at that evening’s village board meeting, Collins thanked all of the volunteers, in particular the members of the Frederick Law Olmsted Society, who help maintain Riverside’s green spaces who have donated thousands of hours of labor and tens of thousands of dollars for reforestation and other public plantings. The Olmsted Society’s workdays – some 160 of them throughout the past 17 years – have provided Riverside with 8,000 hours of volunteer labor. FLOS in that time has also donated $63,000 to the village for landscape maintenance and plantings. Collins personally thanked the FLOS Landscape Committee co-chairs, Cindy Kellogg and Holly Machina, and gave a shout-out to hardcore volunteers Sean McMullen, Ken Pearlman, Jim Burns, Joel Marhoul, Bob Finn, Tom Guardi and the late Mark Ross, along with
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FENWICK Felt bullied from page 8 in her video. Pasin said she felt bullied after a lawyer representing the school asked to speak with her last year, and she added that once she approached the school with her own attorney, the school “ghosted” her for two months before reaching out last week to conduct an interview, an opportunity Pasin said she declined. She called the school’s initial investigation inadequate and said it was “disappointing” and “immensely triggering.” Peddicord did not respond to a request for follow-up comments this week.
‘Weird behavior’ not taken seriously, accusers say Pasin spoke to the Landmark this week regarding her allegation, the attention that has arrived at her doorstep since the release of the video and the school’s response to her report. The Landmark also spoke to a second former student who said she complained to a school counselor about Quinn’s behavior but was ignored. Pasin said she spoke with her family immediately after the incident in the high school’s basement and considered report-
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‘Not enough time’ from page 1 considered by village officials was developed by Cindy Klima, an economic development consultant hired by the village last August while Village Manager Timothy Wiberg was in the midst of a search for a new director for the community development department. While that department, which nominally was responsible for economic development in the past, now has a director, Wiberg told trustees that with the amount of work the director does with respect to building, zoning and planning issues it’s not realistic to expect that person to also handle economic development in a comprehensive way. “I think it’s too much to expect, with all of the things a community development director has to oversee – that’s building, that’s planning and that’s economic de-
ing it to school administrators but declined to do so after Quinn was fired from his boys basketball coaching job, something Pasin believed was connected to an unrelated incident with a different student. Pasin said she assumed Quinn would not return to teaching either and she could put the incident behind her. Fenwick has never commented specifically on why Quinn was fired as boys basketball coach. “One night in 2019, my family was having dinner and my dad and my brothers were sharing fun stories from high school, and I just burst out crying because I felt like it hit me in the face that it wasn’t my experience and I felt like it wasn’t fair,” Pasin said. “I just burst out crying about this and it woke me up that this isn’t going to go away.” Pasin and the second former student, who asked to remain anonymous, told the Landmark about the “arm thing” Quinn would do frequently with students, where he would hug them unannounced as they walked into his classroom. Pasin did not have Quinn as a teacher but said that when Quinn would see her walking past in the hallway, he would often leave his classroom, call out to her and do the “arm thing.” “Everyone just accepted this behavior from him,” Pasin said. “The times where he didn’t do it to me [when I walked past his classroom], I most always saw him doing it to someone else.” In her video, Pasin claimed Quinn’s habit
of hugging her tightly was not unique to her and said that Quinn’s “arm thing,” which she called his “signature move,” was so widely known that students imitating Quinn in an annual school stage revue would act out the hug and headlock. Pasin added that Quinn “has harmed other people, and the school is well aware of his bad actions.” “He grabs students in front of the whole Fenwick community and even to the point where he’s famous for it,” Pasin told the Landmark. “It’s against the law to do that so he’s breaking the law in plain sight and a lot of people don’t think it’s a big deal.” The other former student the Landmark spoke with echoed that sentiment. She said she did not experience the kind of physical harassment Pasin described but said she was familiar with the “arm thing.” The former student, who had Quinn as a teacher and graduated from the school in 2015, said Quinn made comments to her in class that made her uncomfortable, telling her in one incident that she wasn’t going to be able to understand a concept he was teaching because she “grew up without a father.” When she reported those comments to a school counselor, she felt they were not taken seriously. “I reported that to my counselor and she said, ‘That’s kind of how he is,’” she said. “I told her that and it was just not really taken seriously at all.” In Peddicord’s statement, he asked that anyone else with concerns contact Fenwick
administrators. Peddicord’s statement did not mention Quinn or Pasin by name. “The safety of the young people entrusted to our care is of the utmost importance to us,” Peddicord’s statement reads. “If anyone feels he or she has suffered abuse or other misconduct at Fenwick, we ask them to come forward with any information and to receive the help and healing they deserve.” Peddicord said the school has received numerous responses to his March 29 statement. “We have gotten a whole lot of commentary, and we’ve got to figure out which of them would rise to the level of being part of any further investigation,” he said. Pasin cautioned against students cooperating with the Fenwick investigation, feeling that school officials were still not engaging in the process openly, and recommended that any other accusers contact the police. Pasin also was not encouraged by the fact that Quinn had apparently been placed on leave but left the door open for Fenwick to do what she felt was right and terminate Quinn from his teaching job. “I don’t trust Fenwick to fire him because this teacher has probably been put on leave so many times,” she told the Landmark. “If they fired him that would totally exceed my expectations. The history with him does not suggest they would fire him so if they did, I would be very happy and very grateful that I did everything I could to get a dangerous teacher out of the school. But I’m so weary because they have protected him for so long.”
velopment – the reality is there’s just not enough time in the day to really focus on those things,” Wiberg said. In addition to the hands-on outreach and relationship building required to move the needle with property developers and business owners, Community Development Director Emily Egan said combining community development and economic development into one role also can create conflicts. “Sometimes those roles are directly opposite,” said Egan, who is responsible for enforcing zoning and code requirements. “Sometimes you’re working with a business owner or property owner and you have to tell them ‘no,’ and that doesn’t always encourage a great relationship. “Not to say that it’s impossible, and I love to figure out ways to say yes to our business community, but it is a tremendous asset to have someone who’s solely focused on the ‘yes,’” Egan said. While Klima has provided an economic development focus, her main role has been to develop an economic development plan
that the village will be able to implement. Wiberg said she likely would not want to serve Brookfield in a staff capacity. Village President Michael Garvey and other elected officials said they were open to adding the position within the community development department. “There are so many things that are on the community development director’s plate, when this economic development comes larger and faster, I only see Emily’s position getting bigger and busier,” Garvey said. “I think out of necessity that has to be a separate position.” Trustee Jennifer Hendricks said that someone specifically focused on economic development would be necessary in order to act on whatever final economic development plan the village board adopts later this year. “The idea of having one person on staff take ownership of this plan and guiding the implementation of it, I think, is critical to seeing it implemented,” Hendricks said. She also suggested that the economic development specialist report back to the vil-
lage board regularly to illustrate how the plan is being implemented and what the near-term future focus would be. “I think that helps the board take ownership and helps keep this [plan] in front of the community, because it is that important,” Hendricks said. The draft economic development plan also strongly recommends the formation of an economic development commission, whose members would be appointed by the village president and whose role and responsibilities would be laid out formally. Such a commission would function as an advisory group working on initiatives important to the community and the village board. “It can be a very dynamic process,” Wiberg said. “I’m not saying that without [a commission] economic development won’t happen in the village. But, I will say I don’t think it will happen as effectively or as productively as it could if you had a group of dedicated volunteers working in conjunction with village staff to brainstorm, to bring ideas forward.”
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Good news, bad news Riverside family flips for new burger biz
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he good news is that the motorists and pedestrians who must navigate the obstacle course that is the intersection of Harlem Avenue and Cermak Road will perhaps have an easier time of it in the future, after the Illinois Department of Transportation reconfigures the intersection. Those triangular islands that form the right turn lanes will be eliminated and double left-turn lanes will be striped at all four approaches, hopefully eliminating some of the backups. Countdown signals are also in the plans, which will give pedestrians a better idea of just how long they have to traverse the wide roadway which, including turning lanes, is seven to nine lanes wide depending on which direction you’re headed. There are also plans to so some rejiggering of traffic and turn lanes on Harlem Avenue at 23rd Street – the Harlem gateway to both Cermak Plaza and North Riverside Plaza which can be especially tricky for pedestrians dodging turning vehicles and cars speeding down Harlem Avenue trying to beat the red light. While those projects aren’t part of IDOT’s resurfacing project for Harlem Avenue this summer, the agency has revealed that it’s seeking bids for the work in August, which means the work is imminent, probably kicking off early next spring. For North Riverside officials, that’s the bad news part of the story. While they knew a Harlem/Cermak redo was coming, it could have been as late as 2027. Now it’s on their doorstep. The project means IDOT is removing the red-light cameras at the intersection –permanently. While that’s great for motorists, it’s awful news if you’re an elected official in North Riverside, because the millions derived from red-light violation fines have paid for a large chunk of the village’s public safety pension obligation. That’s going to disappear overnight. North Riverside’s 2021-22 fiscal year ends April 30. That means trustees must make the loss of the revenue in one year – at the latest – a central focus of their budget discussion for the new fiscal year that begins May 1. While they may not need an immediate solution, one needs to be ready when the 2023-24 fiscal year begins May 1, 2023. For a village board that will need a third attempt later this month to try and implement a rat-control program, we’d say officials had best get cracking on crafting a solution – and leave their “we can’t possibly expect taxpayers or business owners to contribute a dime” act at home. This revenue loss of between $1.5 and $2 million per year is no joke and it needs serious officials offering serious solutions. This isn’t going to be an easy discussion, and it will require leadership and imagination from trustees. Of course, that’s the job they supposedly signed up for. Now it’s time for them to prove they’re up to the job.
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here’s nothing like a good American hamburger, I always say, and no matter how you fix it, it always seems to taste better when you order your burger out. Maybe it’s the fact that someone else is making it and you just enjoy it, letting the juices run down your chin. While there are some fine local choices, you may also want to consider heading to Wayback Burgers in Darien. Wayback Burgers is owned by Riverside residents John and Julie Stack and it’s a family affair with their children, Charlie, Liam and Caitlyn, also part of the staff. Opened on Nov. 20, 2021 the couple had been seeking to operate a family business when it became apparent John would be having a career change. And, what is better than burgers? The Stacks are Wayback Burger franchisees, joining
a company that has locations across the country and internationally. The menu that is, of course, heavy on burgers but also includes chicken sandwiches, hotdogs, salad and a variety of sides. Top it off with an oldfashioned milkshake just like the ice cream shops used to make. Although the burger shop opened during might be considered a difficult time, it has proven to be a success. Much of the success can be attributed to a good product and a family that enjoys what they are doing. Because I would not endorse anything I haven’t tried, I can attest to the goodness of the classic hamburger from Wayback Burgers just like they used to make way back when courtesy of Brian Brennan. The restaurant is open seven days a week and is located at 2425 75th St. in Darien -- not a far ride and worth the trip. There is still time to get raffle tickets for the Riverside-Brookfield Educational Foundation cash raffle on April 9 at Aunt Diana’s and the St. Paul Parish Holy Name Easter Raffle also this weekend. Participating in these events makes you a winner in more than one way. Good luck. If I don’t win a ham, I can always order some Wayback burgers.
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Seniors, there’s lots to do out there Senior citizens, it’s so good to have fun and enjoy yourself. Here are some ideas: Get a favorite CD or ask someone to buy it for you and sing along with it or just listen and enjoy. Read to your grandchildren and dance with them. I do it all the time. If you’re in a wheelchair, sway to the music. Go Shopping. Look for clothes you love that look good on you. You may get compliments that will make you feel even better. Get exercise. You might go for a walk at one of your favorite places. There are chair exercises you can find on the internet that are easy and fun to do. The
library, the village hall and park districts have exercise classes and events where you can socialize, play games, have refreshments and just plain have fun. There are a lot of organizations where you can volunteer. Find one that you will enjoy doing. Go on a lake cruise, ocean cruise or guided tours. Visit restaurants, museums, zoo or other places you enjoy. Most places are wheelchair-accessible. Make phone calls and send encouraging notes. Pray for others to be blessed and pray to be a blessing.
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RBHS goalie wants to go from stopping shots to giving them Senior lacrosse player Ella Gomez dreams of medical career after college By BILL STONE Contributing Reporter
Riverside-Brookfield High School senior Ella Gomez entered high school trying lacrosse and athletic training like older brother Sam. Her effort and talent has forged her own path – and slightly different from her original plan. The Bulldogs’ fourth-year starting goalie now will continue lacrosse at NCAA Division II West Virginia Wesleyan College while pursuing sports medicine. “I was going to join the Navy and go to medical school there. After four more years [playing lacrosse], I’ll join the Navy for medical school,” Gomez said. “Freshman to sophomore year [in lacrosse], that’s when I really started realizing if I dedicate enough time, I could get good at something.” Gomez’s progress coincides with the growth of RBHS lacrosse. Her freshman year, the young program was one junior varsity team. Last season, the Bulldogs (10-7) made their first IHSA state tournament appearance. This season, she’s a team captain with seniors Alyssa Pencak and Sarah Wood and junior Ava Regan. “I feel like I’ve seen them build the program and it’s really nice to be a part of it from the ground up,” Gomez said. The Bulldogs (2-2) edged DePaul College Prep 13-12 last
week. Most of the scoring came from junior Maggie Durkin (6 goals) and Regan (5 goals). Last season, Gomez had a .530 save percentage, stopping 180 shots and allowing only one or two goals three times. “She’s been wonderful. It’s hard to find a goalie and she’s taken her game to the next level because she’s played with multiple travel teams just to get herself better,” coach Matt Bultas said. “There’s games I guarantee we wouldn’t have won without her stopping balls.” Sam Gomez, Ella’s brother, is a 2018 graduate and played for the Bulldogs. Ella began lacrosse in co-ed leagues with younger brothers, Xavier Alvarez and Alexander, an RBHS sophomore. Both also are goalies. Before her sophomore year, Gomez began playing traveling girls lacrosse with Yetti and currently plays with East Avenue after the clubs merged. She also coaches younger players. “It’s good for me to start teaching and be patient with people, showing them how to do something right,” Gomez said. “Straight from playing goalie, it’s helped me to move on. When you’re getting scored on like the 10th in a row, you have to just be able to forget it.” Last season during prom weekend, the Bulldogs lost to Maine South 19-3 minus several players. Gomez, who had a season-high 20 saves, remembers that now as a breakthrough. “It was very hard trying to keep everyone’s heads up,” Gomez said. “I feel like I matured a lot. It really helped me understand you can have a really good game but still lose.” Gomez also has grown through being a student athletic trainer. After what she’s seen, Gomez takes every precaution to keep herself healthy, especially using knee pads. She isn’t shy to share that knowledge.
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RBHS lacrosse goalie Ella Gomez is a team captain and emerged as a leader last year when the Bulldogs made their first-ever IHSA playoff appearance. “Maybe my teammates think I’m a bit much, but I’m very nitpicky about stretching and making sure we’re not pulling any muscles,” Gomez said. “[As a trainer] I’ve definitely learned how to work under pressure and be really precise with what I’m doing when somebody’s hurt. You have to be calm with them.” During one home varsity football game, several Bulldogs developed cramps. While head trainer William Frey tended to other players, another needed immediate assistance. On her own, Gomez went onto the field, helped the player to the sidelines and relieved the cramp. “I’m kind of shy,” Gomez said. “It seems so small now but it was a very big deal for me, kind of doing something independent like that.”
LTHS girls track looks to contend for outdoor league title
Lions 3rd at WSC-Silver indoor meet in March By BILL STONE Contributing Reporter
Though far from full strength, Lyons Township High School girls track and field
team came just 10 points from winning the indoor West Suburban Conference Silver Division Meet on March 18, placing third overall. While the 2021 Lions won their ninth straight sectional title, they are seeking to win arguably the state’s toughest conference outdoors since 2014. “This year, the conference has a lot of parity and almost any team has a shot at
being conference champs [outdoors],” coach Greg Frandsen said. “We are looking to get healthy and to keep progressing.” Juniors Becky Phillips and Emma Kwak and senior Ava Kuhlman competed at state last season. Phillips was part of the top-nine, allstate 1,600-meter relay (8th, 4:02.77). Kwak, Kuhlman and Phillips were with the statequalifying 400 relay (14th, 49.44) and Kwak
also advanced individually in the 100 (22nd, 12.75) and 200 (23rd, 26.87). On March 18, Phillips won the 400 (1:01.58) and Kwak and Kuhlman joined with senior Nora Gannon and junior Claire McVady in winning the 800 relay at the indoor WSC Silver Meet (1:50.04). Senior Kira Krzemkowski won high See GIRLS TRACK on page 15
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Deep RBHS girls track ready to challenge for MSC-Blue crown Bulldogs return six allconference athletes who seek first title since 2009 By BILL STONE Contributing Reporter
The Riverside-Brookfield High School girls track and field team already has six returning All-Metro Suburban Conference Blue Division performers in senior Remy Hilpp, juniors Bryce Pacourek, Ava Connerty, Quinn Kahle and Antonia O’Keefe and sophomore Maria Dalton. Now the Bulldogs hope to challenge for their first conference title since 2009. Last season, the Bulldogs were third behind champion Rosary and Aurora Central Catholic. “We are very excited about our team this year,” head coach Ian Robins said. “We are very deep in all events and are looking to take a jump into the invites and placing at conference. If some of our athletes can take
Continued from page 14 jump (5-1) and was second in long jump (16-6), an event she’s added to triple jump. Krzemkowski was second outdoors in high jump with 5-1, losing on a tiebreaker. Junior Catherine Sommerfeld earned top-25, all-state honors in cross country Nov. 6 (12th) after just missing a 2021 state track berth in the 1,600 (5:08.85) by .71 at sectionals. She already ran 5:13.9 early this indoor season before an injury and then returned at the indoor Silver Meet on the second-place 3,200 relay with sophomore Shannon Cranny, junior Scarlett Lestina and sophomore Anna Bylsma (9:39.45) that was the No. 7 best reported 3A time this indoor season. Senior Bella Mitchell is the defending WSC Silver champion in shot put (10.65m/34-11¼ feet) and was second indoors (34-7½). Others to watch include seniors Megan Quinlan and Brooke Chomko, juniors Molly Hill and Charlotte Lange, sophomores Kristina Findley, Madison Findley, Lauren Bohringer and Julianne Melby and freshmen Leigh Ferrell, Jordan Hoffenberg and Taya Ramana. Ferrell’s 9-6 set the froshsoph indoor pole vault record.
that next step and build off strong off-season work, they should be in for a great season.” Pacourek was the 2021 MSC Blue champion in the 800-meter run (2:33.28) and also is a threat in the 1,600 and 3,200. Pacourek also can be a distance threat in the 1,600 (4th, 5:54.34) and 3,200, as evidenced by her qualifying individually for the IHSA Class 2A girls cross country state meet last November. Dalton was second in the 3,200 (13:34.11), Connerty (100 high hurdles in 19.43), Hilpp (6-0 in pole vault), Kahle (4-4 in high jump) and O’Keefe (16.99m/55-9 in discus) all finished third. Sophomore Lily Kocourek (800), juniors Mia Wagner (3,200), Sophia Richter (pole vault) and Beatrice Spidale (triple jump), O’Keefe (shot put), the 400 relay with junior Aja McKay and senior Ashley Vazquez, the 1,600 relay with Dalton, Wagner and Pacourek and the 3,200 relay with senior Emma Brassil, and Richter also had top-five finishes. Other key contributors include junior Jenny Thomas, a triple jumper and pole vaulter
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Thomas M. Buess, 68 CPA enjoyed gardening, cycling Thomas M. Buess, 68, of Brookfield, died March 20, 2022 at his home. Mr. Buess was born March 6, 1954 in Racine, Wisconsin. He worked as a certified public accountant, and he enjoyed cycling and gardening He was the brother of Robert (Cecilia Ackmann) Buess, William (Roberta) Buess, Jean (Jeff) Mallory, James Buess, Elizabeth (Lance) Rhoades, Ellen Buess and Peter (Lori) Buess; the uncle of David, Kathryn and Christopher Buess, Nicholas and Maia Buess, Kevin and Jennifer Mallory, Jessica and Lori Rhoades and TJ and Brian Cole. A funeral service was held on March 31 at Our Lady Immaculate Church, Oak Park, followed by interment at Queen of Heaven Cemetery, Hillside. Johnson-Nosek Funeral Home, Brookfield, handled arrangements. Online condolences, memories and photos may be shared at JohnsonNosek.com.
who saw varsity action last season, and freshman Gianna Gelb, who joined Pacourek as a 2021 individual 2A girls cross country state qualifier.
RBHS boys eye state meet glory The Riverside-Brookfield High School boys track and field team brings a strong state flavor into 2022. Seniors Paul Proteau and James Dalton and sophomores Jack O’Brien and Hayden Marrs were 2021 IHSA Class 3A state qualifiers. Proteau and O’Brien also were part of the Bulldogs’ fifth-place IHSA Class 2A finish at the state cross country meet last November. With a huge personal best at the state track finals, Proteau was 13th in the 1,600 (4:20.76) after a then-best 4:34.24 to win the Morton Sectional with the No. 30 sectional performance. Dalton, Proteau and O’Brien also were part of the 1,600 relay at state (21st, 3:36.82) and Dalton, O’Brien and Marrs return from the
Lillian M. Cimmer, 101 Lobbied for grandparents’ rights Lillian M. Cimmer (nee Esser), 101, of Riverside, died April 1, 2022 in Maywood. Ms. Cimmer was the co-founder of The Gift of Hope Grandparents Raising Grandchildren Foundation, and she lobbied in Washington D.C. and Springfield for grandparents’ rights. She was a member of The Berwyn Women’s Club and Trinity Community Church Women’s Group. She was also a volunteer for Gift of Hope Organ and Tissue Donation, the Loyola Chapter. She sang for the Czech Half and Half Singers Group. Ms. Cimmer was the wife of the late Frank J. Cimmer Jr.; the mother of Adrian Mary (late Ronald) Charniak and Jimmy Cimmer; the grandmother of Kathleen Cimmer-Donnelly, Jeffrey Cimmer, Timothy (Ellen) Nosal, the late Raymond Nosal, Ed (Megan) Charniak, and the late Joseph Charniak; the great grandmother of nine; and the sister of William Von Esser, Anthony Von Esser and Anna Garasic Cech. At Lillian’s request, her body will be donated to The Anatomical Gift Association for the advancement of science. A memorial service will be held at a later date. Kuratko-Nosek Funeral Home, North Riv-
state-qualifying 3,200 relay (24th, 8:25.71). At state cross country, Proteau once again delivered a personal-best 3.0-mile performance to finish third for top-25, all-state honors. O’Brien (30th), Marrs (139th) and junior William Kallas (142nd) were the No. 3, 4 and 5 team finishers. Proteau will continue running at NCAA Division III Wisconsin-Oshkosh. Dalton nearly was an individual state track qualifier as well in 2021, taking fourth at sectionals (400 in 52.70). Junior William Smithing (44.24 in 300 intermediate hurdles), who was 0.65 seconds from second place, and sophomore Muhammad Salem (2.74m/9-0 in pole vault) also were fourth at sectionals. The Bulldogs also captured the MSC Blue title 128-116 over Elmwood Park, their first conference title since 2017. Event champions were Dalton (400 in 52.62), Proteau (1,600 in 4:42.99), O’Brien (3,200 in 10:24.37), the 800 relay with Salem and senior Matt Agnew (1:38.05), the 1,600 relay with O’Brien, Proteau and Dalton (3:37.16) and the 3,200 relay with Dalton, Marrs and Proteau (8:31.63).
erside, handled arrangements. Online condolences may be offered at KuratkoNosek.com.
Thomas J. Walsh, 62 Assembler for manufacturer Thomas Joseph Walsh, 62, of Berwyn and formerly of Brookfield, died March 24, 2022 at his home. Mr. Walsh was born May 24, 1959 in Berwyn and worked as an assembler for a manufacturing company. He was the brother of John “Jack” L. (Gloria Wall) Walsh of Trout Valley, Illinois, and Donna C. (Robert) Morgan of Benecia, California and the uncle of John L. (Lucy) Walsh, Carrie A. (Adam) Madison, Colleen J. Walsh, Robert (Jessica) Morgan, Hillary (Ted) Ficklen, Samantha (Andrew) Freeman, Heather (Nahiyan) Ali and Brittany (Justin) Pebet. Private cremation services have been held. Memorials to the Anti-Cruelty Society, 510 N. LaSalle Drive, Chicago, 60654 are appreciated. Johnson-Nosek Funeral Home, Brookfield, handled arrangements. Online condolences, memories and photographs may be shared at JohnsonNosek. com.
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HELP WANTED POLICE RECORDS CLERK
The Village of Oak Park is seeking qualified candidates for the position of Police Records Clerk in the Police Department. This position will perform a wide variety of specialized clerical duties in support of the Police Department including processing and maintaining documents, correspondence and coding reports; and to provide information and assistance to the public. Applicants are encouraged to visit the Village of Oak Park’s website at http://www. oak-park.us/jobs.
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HELP WANTED • NETWORK SPECIALIST Class specifications are intended to present a descriptive list of the range of duties performed by employees in the class. Specifications are not intended to reflect all duties performed within the job. DEFINITION To perform various network/system administration, computer support, and operational activities for the Village including computer system setup, configuration, and testing. SUPERVISION RECEIVED AND EXERCISED Reports directly to the Information Technology Services Director. EXAMPLE OF DUTIES: Essential and other important duties and responsibilities may include, but are not limited to, the following: Essential duties and responsibilities 1. Ensure that best in class customer service is provided to both internal and external customers and also embrace, support, and promote the Village’s core values, beliefs and culture. 2. Configure, test, and deploy network systems, such as, firewalls, routers, switches, wireless equipment, network servers and storage arrays. 3. Configure, test, and deploy system servers, such as, file, print, Internet, e-mail, database, and application servers. 4. Configure, test, and monitor server and end-user systems for security, such as, user accounts, login scripts, file access privileges, and group policy management. 5. Configure, test, and deploy end-user systems, such as, workstations, laptops, mobile devices, printers, and software. 6. Test, configure, deploy, and support security systems, such as, facility access system, video & audio system. 7. Monitor and auditing of networks, systems, and user activities to ensure security and efficiency of systems. Create scripts and reports of detail activities for regular review. 8. Perform and participate in disaster recovery activities, such as, backup procedures, data recovery, and system recovery planning. 9. Assist end-users with computer problems or queries. Troubleshoot systems as needed and meet with users to analyze specific system needs. 10. Ensure the uniformity, reliability and security of system resources including network, hardware,
software and other forms of systems and data. 11. Prepare, create and update user/technical procedure documentations and provide computer training. 12. Assemble, test, and install network, telecommunication and data equipment and cabling. 13. Participate in research and recommendation of technology solutions. Other important responsibilities and duties 1. Train users in the area of existing, new or modified computer systems and procedures. 2. Participate in the preparation of various activity reports. 3. Travel and support remote facilities and partner agencies. 4. Operate, administer and manage the Village and Public Safety computer systems, including E-911 center, in-vehicle computer systems. 5. Prepare clear and logical reports and program documentation of procedures, processes, and configurations. 6. Complete projects on a timely and efficient manner. 7. Communicate effectively both orally and in writing. 8. Establish and maintain effective working relationships with those contacted in the course of work. 9. Perform related duties and responsibilities as required. QUALIFICATIONS Knowledge of: Principals and procedures of computer systems, such as, data communication, hierarchical structure, backups, testing and critical analysis. Hardware and software configuration of. computers, servers and mobile devices, including computing environment of Windows Server and Desktop OS and applications, Unix/Linux OS, VMware, iOS/Android. Network protocols, security, configuration and administration, including firewalls, routers, switches and wireless technology. Cabling and wiring, including CAT5/6, fiber network, telephone, serial communication, termination, and punch-down. Telecommunications theory and technology, including VoiP, serial communication, wireless protocols, PBX, analog, fax, voicemail and auto-attendant. Principles and methods of computer programming, coding and testing, including power shell, command scripting, macros, and
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VB scripts. Modern office procedures, methods and computer equipment. Technical writing, office productivity tools and database packages. Ability to: Maintain physical condition appropriate to the performance of assigned duties and responsibilities, which may include the following: - Walking, standing or sitting for extended periods of time - Operating assigned equipment - Lift 50 pounds of equipment, supplies, and materials without assistance - Working in and around computer equipped vehicles Maintain effective audio-visual discrimination and perception needed for: - Making observations - Communicating with others - Reading and writing - Operating assigned equipment and vehicles Maintain mental capacity allowing for effective interaction and communication with others. Maintain reasonable and predictable attendance. Work overtime as operations require. Experience and Training Guidelines Experience: Three years of network/system administration in the public or private sector, maintaining a minimum of 75 Client Workstation computers. AND Training: Possession of a Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university with major coursework in computer science or a related field. Certifications in Microsoft Server Administration, Networking, Applications and Cisco Networking. Possession of a valid Illinois Driver License is required at the time of appointment. Vaccination against COVID-19 strongly preferred. WORKING CONDITIONS Work in a computer environment; sustained posture in a seated position for prolonged periods of time; continuous exposure to computer screens; work in and around computerized vehicles outdoor and garage facility; lifting heavy equipment, communication cabling and wiring into walls and ceilings.
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BUDGET AND REVENUE ANALYST
The Village of Oak Park is seeking qualified candidates for the position of Budget and Revenue Analyst in the Development Customer Service Department. This position will Serve the public with professional administrative and analytical duties in the areas of budget preparation, purchasing, payroll, data analysis and process improvement. Provides, prepares and maintains records, and financial and statistical reports and analysis which assist in the Village’s ability to improve business processes and gain efficiencies through better use of technology. Budget duties include assisting in the development, analysis and application of performance measures with regard to Village services and resources; preparing, modifying, tracking and monitoring Village expenses and transfers; and conducting budget-related research and analysis. Applicants are encouraged to visit the Village of Oak Park’s website http://www.oak-park.us/jobs. Interested and qualified applicants must complete a Village of Oak Park application.
PART-TIME SEASONAL OPPORTUNITY
The Riverside Department of Public Works is seeking energetic, responsible, and motivated applicants who enjoy working outdoors. This is a parttime, seasonal position lasting from approximately May through September. Applicants will be expected to work up to 40 hrs. per week or as scheduled by staff. Primary tasks will include, but not limited to: cutting grass, maintaining athletic fields, general facilities maintenance, flushing hydrants, reading water meters, installing water meters, assisting full-time employees, and other duties as assigned. Applicants must be 18 years old, possess a valid Illinois driver’s license and
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high school diploma or equivalent. Applicants will be subject to a criminal background check, pre-employment physical and drug/alcohol screening. Applications can be downloaded from the Village website at www.riverside.il.us or picked up at the Riverside Village Hall located at 27 Riverside Rd, Riverside, IL 60546. Completed applications should be submitted to the Riverside Village Hall or the Riverside Public Works Department, 3860 Columbus Blvd, Riverside, IL 60546. Applications will be accepted until all positions are filled. Pay rate is $15/hr. The Village of Riverside is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
COVID-19 EPIDEMIOLOGIST
The Village of Oak Park is seeking qualified candidates for the position of Covid-19 Epidemiologist in the Public Health Department. This position will serve as a subject matter expert on communicable diseases of public health concern, including COVID-19. This position will work on the surveillance and investigation of infectious diseases and other public health threats; rapid response to disease outbreaks including assisting the community’s emergency preparedness and response team. Applicants are encouraged to visit the Village of Oak Park’s website http://www.oak-park.us/ jobs. Interested and qualified applicants must complete a Village of Oak Park application. This position is open until filled.
PARKING ENFORCEMENT OFFICER
The Village of Oak Park is seeking qualified candidates for the position of Parking Enforcement Officer in the Police Department Field Services Division. This position will perform a variety of duties and responsibilities involved in the enforcement of Village parking regulations; and to provide general information and assistance to the public. Applicants are encouraged to visit the Village of Oak Park’s website http://www.oak-park.us/. Interested and qualified applicants must complete a Village of Oak Park application.
The Riverside Department of Public Works is seeking energetic, responsible, and motivated applicants who enjoy working outdoors. This is a part-time, Forestry intern position lasting from approximately May through September. Applicants will be expected to work up to 40 hrs. per week or as scheduled by staff. Primary tasks will include monitoring of Village Trees for disease and insect issues, updating tree inventory records, maintaining woody and perennial plantings in parks and parkways, record keeping and administrational duties related to forestry operations, and assisting the Forester with various forestry related activities and ecological restoration. Applicants must be 18 years old, possess a valid Illinois driver’s license and high school diploma or equivalent. Course work and/or experience pertaining to urban forestry or a related field are desirable for the position. Applicants will be subject to a criminal background check, pre-employment physical and drug/alcohol screening. Applications can be downloaded from the Village website at www.riverside.il.us or picked up at the Riverside Village Hall located at 27 Riverside Rd, Riverside, IL 60546. Completed applications should be submitted to the Riverside Village Hall or the Riverside Public Works Department, 3860 Columbus Blvd, Riverside, IL 60546. Applications will be accepted until all positions are filled. Pay rate is $15/hr. The Village of Riverside is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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Payroll & Benefits Specialist
River Forest, District 90 is seeking an experienced Payroll & Benefits Specialist with a high school diploma supplemented by two years of college-level coursework in accounting or business administration, or equivalent combination of experience and training in payroll and benefits is preferred. Working knowledge of Windows, Word and Excel Programs. Accounting and payroll reporting software familiarity. Infinite Visions software is a plus. Responsibilities: Maintain a high level of confidentiality of all District and Boardrelated business. Work cooperatively with the township school treasurer’s office, thirdparty vendors and staff to project a positive,
service-oriented demeanor. Prepare and maintain payroll contracts for each employee annually. Complete bi-monthly payrolls including substitute and stipend pay; balance all payrolls to coincide with year-end W-2 forms. Ensure proper payment of insurance premiums, Flexible Benefits Plan premiums, Tax Sheltered Annuities, and RFEA Dues. Complete calculation, forms administration, and payment of TRS, THIS and IMRF reports; and complete quarterly reports for Federal and State taxes. Assist with annual financial audit and other audits, as necessary. Interested candidates should complete an online application at www.district90.org
COVID-19 RESPONSE INTERN
The Village of Oak Park is seeking qualified candidates for the position of COVID-19 Response Intern in the Health Department. This position will perform a variety of responsible and complex professional COVID-19 response support, as well as routine documentation of related tasks in support of the Emergency Preparedness & Response Coordinator. Applicants are encouraged to visit the Village of Oak Park’s website http://www. oak-park.us/. Interested and qualified applicants must complete a Village of Oak Park application.
COVID-19 RESPONSE COORDINATOR
The Village of Oak Park is seeking qualified candidates for the position of COVID-19 Response Coordinator in the Health Department. This position will perform a variety of responsible and complex professional COVID-19 response support, as well as routine documentation of related tasks in support of the Emergency Preparedness & Response Coordinator. Applicants are encouraged to visit the Village of Oak Park’s website http://www.oak-park.us/. Interested and qualified applicants must complete a Village of Oak Park application.
SEASONAL FARMERS’ MARKET ASSISTANT
The Village of Oak Park is seeking qualified candidates for the position of Seasonal Farmers’ Market Assistant in the Health Department. This position will provide administrative support to the Farmers’ Market Manager to allow growers and producers of food to sell directly to the public within established guidelines. This position requires work in inclement weather conditions; some heavy lifting of up to 50 pounds; walking or standing for sustained periods of time. Applicants are encouraged to visit the Village of Oak Park’s website at http://www.oak-park.us/ jobs. Interested and qualified applicants must complete a Village of Oak Park application. Open until filled.
WATER AND SEWER SUPERVISOR
The Village of Oak Park is seeking qualified candidates for the position of Water and Sewer Supervisor in the Public Works Department. This position will plan and supervise the day-to-day operations of Water and Sewer Division field personnel, including assigning duties of personnel, equipment, and materials. Typical responsibilities include the maintenance, operation and repair of the Village water pumping, storage and distribution systems and maintenance repair of the combined sanitary/storm sewer system and providing highly responsible staff support and assistance to the Water & Sewer Superintendent and the entire public works department management team. Applicants are encouraged to visit the Village of Oak Park’s website http:// www.oak-park.us/jobs. Interested and qualified applicants must complete a Village of Oak Park application. Open until filled.
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Driveways), Chapter 11 (Definitions) of the Riverside Zoning Ordinance and Title 4 Chapter 3 (Signs) of the Village Code of the Village of Riverside. Among the potential changes being considered are changes relative to the provisions regarding window signage and displays, exterior lighting, accessory structures and uses, landscaping and screening, nonconforming residential driveways, definitions, and updated sign regulations.
evidence presented by persons interested to speak on these matters. Persons wishing to appear at this hearing may do so in person or by attorney or other representative and may speak for or against the proposed variations. Communications in writing in relation thereto may be filed at such hearing or with the Planning and Zoning Commission in advance by submission to Village Planner Francisco Jimenez via email at fjimenez@riverside. il.us or delivered to the attention of Village Planner Francisco Jimenez at the Village Offices at 27 Riverside Road, Riverside, Illinois prior to 4:00 p.m. on the day of the public hearing.
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PUBLIC NOTICE VILLAGE OF RIVERSIDE, ILLINOIS NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Notice is hereby given to all interested persons that a public hearing before the Planning and Zoning Commission of the Village of Riverside will be held on Wednesday, April 27, 2022 at 7:00 p.m., or as soon thereafter as the business of the Planning and Zoning Commission may permit, in the Riverside Township Hall, Room 4, 27 Riverside Road, Riverside, Illinois, to consider proposed text amendments to the Village of Riverside Zoning Ordinance and to the Village Code of the Village of Riverside relative to the incorporation of concepts related to transit-oriented development best practices and to make certain other changes. The proposed text amendments have been reviewed and shaped by a Steering Committee consisting of Village staff, Village stakeholders and representatives from local mass transit agencies, and are, among other things, designed to promote transit-oriented development and transit-friendly design for purposes of enhancing accessibility, safety and accommodations for pedestrians, bicyclists and mass-transit users. The changes address a number of subjects, including the purpose and intent of zoning, development standards in residential and business districts, definition of terms, and signage.
PUBLIC NOTICE VILLAGE OF RIVERSIDE, ILLINOIS NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Notice is hereby given to all interested persons that a public hearing before the Planning and Zoning Commission of the Village of Riverside will be held on Wednesday, April 27, 2022 at 7:00 p.m., or as soon thereafter as the business of the Planning and Zoning Commission may permit, in the Riverside Township Hall, Room 4, 27 Riverside Road, Riverside, Illinois, to consider an application for a variation from Section 10-7-3(D)(2) (Accessory Structures and Uses) of the Village of Riverside Zoning Ordinance to allow the construction of a deck at five feet (5’) above grade and from Section 10-10-4(C) (Nonconforming Buildings and Structures) of the Riverside Zoning Ordinance to allow the expansion of two (2) existing nonconforming stoops/decks to form a single 280 square foot deck in the rear of the house at five feet (5’) from grade. Application No.: PZ22-03 Petitioner: Frank and Laura Serge Property Commonly Known As: 263 Blackhawk Rd, Riverside, Illinois PIN: 15-36-408-007-0000
Dated this 6th day of April, 2022.
PUBLIC NOTICE OF COURT DATE FOR REQUEST FOR NAME CHANGE STATE OF ILLINOIS, CIRCUIT COURT COOK COUNTY. Request of Hamed Aliabbasipoor Case Number 20225001309. There will be a court date on my Request to change my name from: Hamed Aliabbasipoor to the new name of: Sam Kaplan. The court date will be held: On May 19, 2022at 9:30AM at 10220 S 76 th Avenue, Bridgeview IL 60455, Cook County in Courtroom # 0203 Published in Wednesday Journal March 23, 30, April 6, 2022
PUBLIC NOTICE OF COURT DATE FOR REQUEST FOR NAME CHANGE STATE OF ILLINOIS, CIRCUIT COURT COOK COUNTY. Request of Matthew Murdock-Barriball Case Number 20224001174. There will be a court date on my Request to change my name from: Matthew Flanigan Murdock-Barriball to the new name of: Matthew Flanigan Bariball The court date will be held: On 05/17/2022 at 11:00am at 1500 Maybrook Drive, Maywood, Cook County in Courtroom # 0112 Published in RB Landmark March 23, 30, April 6, 2022
Published in Wednesday Journal March 30, April 6, 13, 2022
Application No.: PZ 22-04 Petitioner: Village of Riverside Proposed Text Amendments: Various changes to the Village of Riverside Zoning Ordinance regulations and sign regulations. Affected sections include, but may not be limited to, Section 10-4 (Residential Districts), Section 10-5-7 (Business Districts), Section 10-7 (Site Development Standards), Section 10-9 (Landscaping and Screening), Section 10-10-7 (Nonconforming Residential
The above application and proposed text amendments are available for inspection at the office of the Village Clerk, 27 Riverside Road, Riverside, Illinois 60546. The proposed text amendments may be added to or otherwise revised as a result of the public hearing. During the Public Hearing the Planning and Zoning Commission will hear testimony from and consider any evidence presented by persons interested to speak on these matters. Persons wishing to appear at this hearing may do so in person or by attorney or other representative and may speak for or against the proposed text amendments. Communications in writing in relation thereto may be filed at such hearing or with the Planning & Zoning Commission in advance by submission to Village Planner Francisco Jimenez via email at fjimenez@riverside.il.us or delivered to the attention of Village Planner Francisco Jimenez at the Village Offices at 27 Riverside Road, Riverside, Illinois prior to 4:00 p.m. on the day of the public hearing. The Public Hearing may be continued from time to time without further notice, except as otherwise required under the Illinois Open Meetings Act. The proposed amendments may be added to, revised, altered, or eliminated as a result of the Public Hearing and prior to final action by the Board of Trustees of the Village of Riverside. Dated this 6th day of April, 2022. Jill Mateo, Chairperson Planning & Zoning Commission Published in RB Landmark April 6, 2022
The Property is legally described as follows: THE EAST 1/2 OF LOT 231 IN BLOCK 2 IN 2ND DIVISION OF RIVERSIDE, IN SECTION 36, TOWNSHIP 39 NORTH, RANGE 12, EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, IN COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS. Proposed Variations: 1. A variation from Section 10-7-3(D) (2) (Accessory Structures and Uses) of the Riverside Zoning Ordinance, which states that decks shall not be raised more than four feet (4’) above the established grade. The current stairway stoops/decks are five feet (5’) from the established grade and the proposed replacement deck construction would match the existing stoops/decks in height from grade. 2. A variation from Section 10-10-4(C) (Nonconforming Buildings and Structures) of the Riverside Zoning Ordinance, which states that a building or structure that is nonconforming with respect to its bulk shall not be added to or enlarged, unless permitted by certain other specified subsections. The proposed construction and consolidation of the existing stoops/decks would be 280 square feet. The above application is available for inspection at the office of the Village Clerk, 27 Riverside Road, Riverside, Illinois 60546. During the Public Hearing the Planning and Zoning Commission will hear testimony from and consider any
The Public Hearing may be continued from time to time without further notice, except as otherwise required under the Illinois Open Meetings Act. The proposal and zoning relief sought may be added to, revised, altered or eliminated as a result of the Public Hearing and prior to final action by the Board of Trustees of the Village of Riverside.
Jill Mateo, Chairperson Planning and Zoning Commission Published in RB Landmark April 6, 2022
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Notice is hereby given that a Public Hearing will be held by the Joint Plan Commission/Zoning Board of Appeals of the Village of North Riverside on Thursday, April 21, 2022 at 6:00 P.M., in the Council Chambers located in the Village Commons, 2401 S. Desplaines Avenue, North Riverside, Illinois.
The Village of Oak Park will receive sealed Bids from qualified contractors at the Public Works Center, 201 South Blvd., Oak Park, IL 60302 Monday through Friday 7:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. local time until 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday, April 20, 2022 for the following:
At such time and place, the Joint Plan Commission/Zoning Board of Appeals will consider additions and amendments to Title 17 of the North Riverside Zoning Ordinance regarding short term rentals.
Village of Oak Park 2022 Parkway Tree Watering Contract Bid Number: 22-116
Applicant: Village of North Riverside 2401 S. Desplaines Avenue North Riverside, IL 60546 All persons desiring to appear and be heard for or against said petitions may attend the Public Hearing.
Bid documents may be obtained from the Village’s website at http://www.oak-park.us/bid. For questions, please call Public Works at (708) 358-5700 during the above hours. Published in Wednesday Journal March 23, 2022
Village of North Riverside Pat Ferriter, Chairman of the Joint Plan Commission/Zoning Board of Appeals Published in RB Landmark April 6, 2022
By The Joint Plan Commission/Zoning Board of Appeals Of The Village Of North Riverside Notice is hereby given that a Public Hearing will be held by the Joint Plan Commission/Zoning Board of Appeals of the Village of North Riverside on Thursday, April 21, 2022 at 6:00 P.M., in the Council Chambers located in the Village Commons, 2401 S. Desplaines Avenue, North Riverside, Illinois. At such time and place, the Joint Plan Commission/Zoning Board of Appeals will consider a request for a variance to Title 14 Section 14.01.050 (B13) to permit a changeable copy/electronic message center sign. Applicant: American Real Estate Management and Development Co., LLC 8400 W. 26 th Street North Riverside, Illinois 60546 All persons desiring to appear and be heard for or against said petitions may attend the Public Hearing. Village of North Riverside Pat Ferriter, Chairman of the Joint Plan Commission/Zoning Board of Appeals Published in RB Landmark April 6, 2022
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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING VILLAGE OF OAK PARK COMMUNITY DESIGN COMMISSION HEARING DATE: April 27, 2022 TIME: 7:00 p.m. or as soon thereafter as the Agenda permits CALENDAR NUMBER: 01-22DRC APPLICANT: Ashok Pandya ADDRESS: 217 Madison Street, Oak Park, IL REQUEST: The Applicant, Ashok Pandya, is seeking a variation from Sections 7-7-14 (B) and Section 7-7-15 (D) (1) (b) of the Village of Oak Park Sign Code, which sections require that menu board signs shall not exceed six (6’) feet in height and that there shall only be allowed one wall sign per street frontage, in order to install a 6’-10” Dunkin Donuts/Baskin Robins menu board sign and to install both a “Dunkin Donuts” sign and a “Baskin Robins” signs on the north elevation of the building at the premises commonly known as 217 Madison Street. 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 Community Design Commission will conduct a remote meeting 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 meeting 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 meeting due to public safety concerns related to the COVID-19 outbreak. Public statements of up to five minutes may be made during the meeting. A limited number of written comments will be read into the record at the meeting, all will be placed on the record. To provide public comment at the meeting, you must email a request to zoning@oak-park.us, indicating an intent to speak at the meeting. Requests must be received no later than 30 minutes prior to the start of the meeting. If email is not an option, you can drop comments off in the Oak Park Payment Drop Box across from the entrance to Village Hall, 123 Madison Street, to be received no later than the day prior to the meeting. The public hearing may be adjourned by the Commission to another date without further notice by public announcement at the hearing setting forth the time and place thereof.
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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC D/B/A MR. COOPER Plaintiff, -v.LATANYA WILSON A/K/A LATANYA PERKINS A/K/A LATANYA T. WILSON, 327 SOUTH WISCONSIN CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION Defendants 19 CH 14237 327 WISCONSIN AVENUE, UNIT 3B OAK PARK, IL 60302 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on January 26, 2022, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on April 27, 2022, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker, 1st Floor Suite 35R, Chicago, IL, 60606, sell at a public sale to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 327 WISCONSIN AVENUE, UNIT 3B, OAK PARK, IL 60302 Property Index No. 16-07-315-023-1007 The real estate is improved with a condominium. The judgment amount was $87,572.57. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial Sale fee for the Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s
license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. For information, contact The sales clerk, LOGS Legal Group LLP Plaintiff’s Attorneys, 2121 WAUKEGAN RD., SUITE 301, Bannockburn, IL, 60015 (847) 2911717 For information call between the hours of 1pm - 3pm.. Please refer to file number 19-092068. THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales. LOGS Legal Group LLP 2121 WAUKEGAN RD., SUITE 301 Bannockburn IL, 60015 847-291-1717 E-Mail: ILNotices@logs.com Attorney File No. 19-092068 Attorney Code. 42168 Case Number: 19 CH 14237 TJSC#: 42-496 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff’s attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. Case # 19 CH 14237 I3190817
without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. MCCALLA RAYMER LEIBERT PIERCE, LLC Plaintiff’s Attorneys, One North Dearborn Street, Suite 1200, Chicago, IL, 60602. Tel No. (312) 346-9088. THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales. MCCALLA RAYMER LEIBERT PIERCE, LLC One North Dearborn Street, Suite 1200 Chicago IL, 60602 312-346-9088 E-Mail: pleadings@mccalla.com Attorney File No. 20-04687IL_613739 Attorney ARDC No. 61256 Attorney Code. 61256 Case Number: 18 CH 12736 TJSC#: 42-1079 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff’s attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. Case # 18 CH 12736 I3191182
closure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Monday, May 2, 2022 at the hour of 11 a.m. in their office at 120 West Madison Street, Suite 718A, Chicago, Illinois, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described mortgaged real estate: P.I.N. 16-18-428-043-1032, 16-18-428043-1051and 16-18-428-043-1059. Commonly known as 6436 Roosevelt Road, Unit 415 and P-17 and P-25, Oak Park, IL 60304. The mortgaged real estate is improved with a condominium residence. The purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by subdivisions (g)(1) and (g)(4) of Section 9 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection. For information call Law Clerk at Plaintiff’s Attorney, The Wirbicki Law Group, 33 West Monroe Street, Chicago, Illinois 60603. (312) 360-9455. W19-0997 ADC INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION intercountyjudicialsales.com I3190604
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION SELENE FINANCE LP Plaintiff, -v.LARSENIA HORTON, NEIL SMITH, ASSURANCE RESTORATION & CONSTRUTION, INC., PRAIRIE HOUSES OWNERS ASSOCIATION, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants 18 CH 12736 14 DIVISION STREET, # 14 OAK PARK, IL 60302 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on December 16, 2019, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on May 2, 2022, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker, 1st Floor Suite 35R, Chicago, IL, 60606, sell at a public sale to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 14 DIVISION STREET, # 14, OAK PARK, IL 60302 Property Index No. 16-05-127-048-0000 The real estate is improved with a brown brick, three story townhouse, attached one car garage. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial Sale fee for the Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY AS TRUSTEE FOR AMERICAN HOME MORTGAGE ASSETS TRUST 2006-5; MORTGAGE BACKED PASS THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 2006-5; Plaintiff, vs. KARRI L. SPILLANE; PRAIRIE PLACE AT 6436 ROOSEVELT CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION; ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS; Defendants, 19 CH 14565 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Fore-
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