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June 24, 2020

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North Riverside, mall officials examine options after second shooting PAGE 3 Lincoln School in Brookfield has a new assistant principal PAGE 14

Brookfield Zoo sets sights on July 1 reopening

Members can return first, general public a week later By BOB UPHUES Editor

After an unprecedented hiatus of more than three months due to the COVID-19 crisis and its shutdown of popular attractions statewide, Brookfield Zoo will reopen its gates on a reservation-only basis beginning July 1 for members and on July 8 for the general public. Visitors are welcome to enjoy the outdoor areas of the zoological park, but all indoor spaces, including gift shops, restaurants and indoor animal exhibits will remain closed for now. “Brookfield Zoo has been closed for nearly four months and we are eagerly looking forward to welcoming guests back to reconnect with animals and nature,” said Stuart Strahl, president and CEO of the Chicago Zoological Society, which operates Brookfield Zoo. “We have been following guidelines set forth by local, state and federal See ZOO REOPENING on page 20

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TAKING TO THE STREETS: More than 100 people marched through North Riverside and Riverside on June 19, the latest in a series of demonstrations demanding racial justice and an end to police brutality against people of color in the wake of George Floyd’s death in May.

Racial justice march also marks Juneteenth More than 100 walk through North Riverside and Riverside to demand racial justice By BOB UPHUES Editor

It may not be an officially recognized holiday in Riverside, but the village marked Juneteenth – a holiday that marks the offi-

cial end to the institution of slavery in the United States – for the first time on Friday afternoon. Standing in Guthrie Park under an oak tree that may well have stood in that spot back in 1865, Riverside resident Em-

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WATCH YOUR STEP: A group of kids on June 19 walks on the Swan Pond Park path along the Des Plaines River past fencing where the asphalt has collapsed due to erosion from flooding.

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Riverside officials are hoping that they’ll be able to replace the narrow asphalt walking path that winds along the river bank in Swan Pond Park with a wider exposed aggregate concrete path in 2021, using either grant funding or funds earmarked by the state in 2019 for a permeable concrete path. According to Public Works Director Edward Bailey, constructing a permeable concrete path along the riverbank would cost about $445,000. That is not only far greater than the $350,000 the state set aside for such a path in the 2019 capital bill, it also would provide no real benefit, said Bailey. Permeable surfaces, like the village’s two permeable-paver parking lots, are used to store storm water and divert it from the sewer system. Much of Swan Pond Park, including the area where the walking path is located, is a floodplain. Typically, permeable surfaces require regular inspections and maintenance to make sure water can filter through them. When Swan Pond Park floods, the water can cover much of the path for days and would clog a permeable path. “Since no storm water benefit will be realized from installing a permeable Swan Pond path, it is unclear whether it is feasible or possible (or whether there would be any requirement) to maintain the concrete’s permeability,” Bailey wrote in a memo to Village

Manager Jessica Frances earlier this month. During a discussion of the village’s options for Swan Pond Park at the June 18 village board meeting, Bailey told trustees that constructing an impervious exposed aggregate concrete path that was 8- to 10-feet wide would cost far less than $350,000 and provide the best solution from a durability standpoint. “I’m very satisfied that the best option is a concrete material,” Bailey said. Since it was constructed in 2012 as part of a major regrading project of Swan Pond Park by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the roughly 2,100-foot long, 4- to 6-foot wide asphalt path has been a source of frustration. The path is not wide enough for bicyclists and pedestrians to share and is even difficult for two people with baby strollers to pass one another side by side. Flooding has eroded the earth beneath areas of asphalt, causing sections to collapse. Orange hurricane fencing routinely is used to mark off the danger zones where the path has collapsed. The most recent flood came in May. Bailey is firming up cost estimates for an exposed aggregate path along the riverbank before Village President Ben Sells approaches state Rep. Michael Zalewski (D-Riverside) to see whether the village might be able to use the funds set aside for a “permeable” path for an impervious one instead. The village would also like to know whether that money might be able to be split between a couple of different projects. In addition to the Swan Pond path, the village would like to pave the commuter parking lot behind the commercial property at 20 E. Quincy St. with permeable pavers. “If we can apply [the state money] to more than one project, we’d like to do that,” Sells said.

The Landmark, June 24, 2020

Man wounded in shooting at North Riverside Mall ‘Every option on the table,’ says mayor, after second such incident in three weeks By BOB UPHUES

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North Riverside officials and police command staff will meet with management of the North Riverside Park Mall on June 25 to address recent violent incidents there, including multiple fights and two shootings, including one inside the shopping center on the afternoon June 21 that left a man in his 20s wounded. Mayor Hubert Hermanek Jr., whose wife was shopping for a Father’s Day gift for him inside J.C. Penney when police began locking down the mall as they aided the shooting victim and searched for the shooter, said in a phone interview on Monday that “everything was on the table” in terms of stopping repeat incidents. “Whether it’s metal detectors or limiting entrances, I’m not sure, but it’s just not acceptable to have someone inside the mall with a gun,” Hermanek said. “Times have changed, unfortunately, and every option is on the table.” On Monday afternoon, Hermanek sought to reassure North Riverside residents that the village was acting to stop the violent incidents by sending out an Everbridge emergency notification to all residents. “The events of yesterday have not gone unnoticed by village officials,” Hermanek said in the notification. “I assure you that this type of criminal behavior will not be tolerated or allowed. I have directed our police command staff to work with mall security and develop a proactive plan to make sure these crimes do not reoccur. “Our mall, which is now open, is a staple of North Riverside and should be a safe and enjoyable place to visit and shop.” Harvey Ahitow, general manager of North Riverside Park Mall, said that as the shopping center reopened its doors to the public on June 12 after being closed for almost three months due to the COVID-19 pandemic, he had hired additional security guards in light of the looting and deadly shooting at the mall on May 31. Armed off-duty police officers had been hired to bolster the security presence at the mall, said Ahitow, and more will be hired in light of the June 21 shooting. “We’re going to put more off-duty police here for the next couple of weeks to see where this thing is going,” said Ahitow. “I’ve been here for 12 years, and I haven’t seen this before.” While North Riverside police have re-

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Police vehicles sit outside the lower level entrance of J.C. Penney at North Riverside Park Mall after one man was wounded in a shooting on the lower level near the department store on June 21. leased little information about the June 21 shooting, the mayor’s notification to residents indicated that police believe the victim was targeted and likely gang-related. The shooting victim appears to have sustained non-life threatening injuries, and police attempted to interview him, said Hermanek, but he was uncooperative. At least two other witnesses police interviewed were also uncooperative, Police Chief Carlos Garcia told the Landmark on Sunday. No one has been taken into custody for the June 21 shooting, which took place on the lower-level of the mall outside Kicks and Fits, a shoe store near J.C. Penney on the south end of the shopping center. There is no indication that the shooting was related to the fatal shooting of a 22-yearold man outside Olive Garden on the mall property on the afternoon of May 31, amid a looting spree there that was part of a wave of national unrest in the days following the death of George Floyd. That shooting, caught on surveillance video, appeared to be an execution. The gunman fired multiple shots at the victim, who fell as he ran from his assailant, at close range. That case remains under investigation and no one has been taken into custody. In the days just prior to the June 21 shooting, however, there were other troubling violent incidents. Police responded to at least three fights on consecutive days, from June 17-19.

On June 17, police issued local ordinance citations to three boys, ages 13, 14 and 15, for their involvement in a fight at about 7:15 p.m. involving two groups of juveniles near the entrance to the mall food court. The following day, North Riverside charged a 19-year-old woman with battery and disorderly conduct after she allegedly punched a 25-year-old woman in the face after the victim made a comment about the offender almost knocking into her daughter on an escalator. On June 19 at about 1:40 p.m., police and paramedics responded to the mall for a fight that left a 27-year-old man’s nose bloodied. Police cited a 21-year-old man for disorderly conduct, while mall security issued him and the victim notices banning them from the mall property. They also banned a 26-yearold man who also allegedly was involved in the fight. Ahitow said that at least one of the two fights involving the male offenders was related to the May 31 shooting, though the Landmark could not get that confirmed by North Riverside officials. Since the mall has reopened, Ahitow said, officials there have noticed a “different crowd” coming to the shopping center. “It been much more challenging, for sure,” Ahitow said. “It seems like these are individuals who are not necessarily coming to the mall to look for trouble, but they’re running into people from the neighborhood that they’ve had issues with.”

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State eyes Phase 4 as new COVID cases continue to decline For second straight week, just 4 total new cases in Landmark area By JERRY NOWICKI Capitol News Illinois

SPRINGFIELD — Restaurants across the state are set to open for indoor dining Friday among other additions to allowable activities under the state’s Restore Illinois plan. The state released new guidance for reopening businesses on Monday. Restaurants must arrange their seating facilities so that tables are 6 feet apart, and parties larger than 10 people will not be allowed, per state guidelines. Standing areas such as bars will be allowed to operate at no more than 25 percent of capacity, and staff is required to wear face coverings when serving customers. As well, gatherings of 50 people — up from 10 — will be allowed in Illinois, including at weddings and funerals; and fitness centers, movie theaters, museums and zoos will be allowed to reopen with capacity limits and health guidelines in place. Industry-specific guidelines from the state can be found at Illinois.gov/businessguidelines.

The state continues to see downward trends in hospitalizations and positivity rate of those tested for the COVID-19 virus. The number of new cases has leveled off to about 450 to 700 daily over the past 10 days, even as more businesses and activities get the green light to reopen. Hospital bed, intensive care bed and ventilator use by COVID-19 patients on Monday all were at lows since the state began reporting the numbers daily on April 12, with 1,628, 419 and 256, respectively. The state continues to report about 18,000 to 30,000 test results daily, and the positivity rate for tests conducted over the past seven days is approximately 2 percent, according to the Illinois Department of Public Health. Monday’s 462 new cases among 18,219 tested made for a positivity rate of about 2.5 percent, and the new cases reported were the lowest in one week’s time. In Brookfield, Riverside and North Riverside the number of new cases remained very low for the second straight week. As of the morning of June 23, just one new cases each were reported in Brookfield and North Riverside, while Riverside saw an increase of two new cases week over week. No new deaths as a result of COVID-19 have been reported for any of the villages since June 6. “The state of Illinois has made great prog-

ress in slowing the spread of COVID-19, largely because of the measures our administration enacted to protect residents and communities during this public health crisis,” IDPH Director Dr. Ngozi Ezike said in a news release. “Our strategy to encourage social distancing and expand testing and contact tracing will enable Illinois communities to continue to take steps to reopen, to return to work and to resume daily activities.” While each of the second, third and fourth phases of the plan lasted 30 days, there is no timetable for moving from Phase 4 to Phase 5, the final phase of the plan when the state’s economy fully reopens, including conventions, festivals and large events. Per the current plan, Phase 5 cannot begin without a coronavirus vaccine or “highly effective treatment” being widely available, or without new cases of the virus being eliminated for a sustained period. When Phase 4 begins Friday, venues will be able to host up to 50 people or 50 percent of their overall room capacity — whichever number is less. Multiple groups are permitted at certain facilities as long as there is space to social distance and limit interaction between groups. Bowling alleys, skating rinks and clubhouses are on the list of allowable indoor and outdoor recreation under Phase 4, pro-

vided they also operate at the lesser of 50 customers or half capacity. Groups of 50 will be allowed for outdoor recreation, and multiple groups can gather if they can remain separated. Museums and zoos can reopen at 25 percent capacity or less, but interactive exhibits and rides must be closed. Guided tours will be allowed but must be limited to 50 people or fewer per group. Indoor-seated theaters and performing arts centers would be allowed to open with 50 guests maximum or 50 percent capacity, whichever is less, in each of the theater’s screening rooms or performance spaces. The guidelines also included revisions for youth and recreational sports. Those include allowing competitive gameplay and tournaments with venues operating at half capacity and 20 percent seating capacity for spectators. Group sizes of up to 50 would be allowed with multiple groups permitted during practice and competitive games as long as interaction between groups is limited. Gyms and fitness centers can open at half capacity and can have group fitness classes of up to 50 people with new indoor safety guidelines. Multiple groups, provided interaction between them is limited, would be permitted at these facilities as well Bob Uphues contributed to this report.

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Gunman robs Riverside store of cash, cigarettes A man who robbed a Riverside convenience store clerk at gunpoint on June 19 is the same man responsible for similar robberies in Chicago, Oak Park and Westchester, according to police. Riverside responded to 7-Eleven, 2600 Harlem Ave., at about 4:05 a.m. on June 19 after the clerk dialed 911 to reported he just been held up. According to the clerk, the man entered the store and requested a box of cigarettes. When the clerk turned his back, the man reportedly pulled a black handgun from a white bag and ordered the clerk to put all of the money from both registers into a blue bag that he produced. After the clerk emptied the registers, the man demanded cigarettes as well. According to the police report, the clerk handed over 23 packs of cigarettes. The man then ordered the clerk to a corner of the store and fled southeast through the parking lot. The clerk reportedly described the offender as a light-skinned Black man, wearing a light blue surgical mask, a gray shirt, gray pants with a black stripe and a blue baseball cap with the words “King of ” on it. Surveillance video indicated that the robbery took place between 3:42 and 3:45 a.m. During their investigation, Riverside police learned that a man matching the same description attempted to rob a BP gas station minimart in the 880 block of Mannheim Road, Westchester, at about 3:25 a.m. that same morning.

Woman injured in crash Paramedics transported a woman to the hospital after a 2007 Buick Lucerne driven by a 40-year-old Bourbonnais woman, traveling northbound in the 2900 block of Harlem Avenue, crossed the center line and struck the victim’s 2020 Toyota Camry. The impact of the crash forced the Lucerne off the roadway, where it struck shrubbery in front of 2901 Harlem Avenue. The woman driving the Camry complained of neck pain and was taken to MacNeal Hospital in Berwyn. The driver of the Lucerne initially refused medical attention. According to police, the driver of the Lucerne said she reached down for a pack of cigarettes, causing her car to veer over the center line. She did not appear impaired by alcohol or drugs, police said, though officers summoned paramedics again when the woman began falling asleep while talking to them, perhaps indicating a medical issue. The extent of the victim’s injuries was unclear from the police report. Police cited the driver of the Lucerne for driving in the wrong lane and having no proof of vehicle insurance.

DUI suspect flying down Harlem Riverside policed charged a 21-year-old Chicago man with drunken driving and aggravated speeding after an officer on patrol reported seeing a Toyota traveling at 76 mph in a 35 mph zone while southbound on Harlem Avenue from Longcommon Road on June 19 at about 12:25 a.m. The officer caught up with the vehicle at Olmsted Road and reported that the driver showed signs of intoxication and failed field sobriety tests. At the police station a breath test reportedly revealed the man’s blood-alcohol content to be .175, which is more than two times the legal limit of .08.

Hitting the gas ■ A 30-year-old Lombard man was cited for aggravated speeding and other offenses after he was stopped by police for driving a motorcycle 85 mph in a 35 mph zone while eastbound in the 8000 block of Cermak Road on June 14 at about 4:30 p.m. An officer on patrol caught up with the motorcycle when it reached heavy traffic near Harlem Avenue and arrested him. According to police, the man was not licensed to operate a motorcycle. He was cited for that offense as well as for driving an uninsured vehicle. ■ North Riverside police arrested a 19-yearold Berwyn man and cited him for speeding more than 35 mph over the limit after an officer on patrol clocked his black Volkswagen going 71 mph in a 35 mph zone while northbound on First Avenue at 26th Street on June 14 at about 9:25 p.m. The driver reportedly told the officer he was driving so fast because he was trying to get home to his pregnant girlfriend. Another juvenile in the vehicle was not cited, but was given a ride to the police station in order to wait for the driver to get his citation issued. Police towed the vehicle from location of the stop on First Avenue.

Party tent stolen Brookfield police responded to a residence in the 3100 block of Prairie Avenue on June 20 at about 12:50 p.m. after a resident called to report that sometime in the past hour, someone had stolen a black pack-away party tent, which she’d left outside of her fence near the alley. These items were obtained from police reports filed by the Riverside, North Riverside and Brookfield police departments, June 14-21, 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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LEGAL NOTICE VILLAGE OF RIVERSIDE ANNUAL TREASURER’S REPORT FOR THE TWELVE MONTHS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2019 REVENUE SUMMARY Property Taxes Intergovernmental Utility Taxes Charges for Services Sales Taxes Fines and Forfeitures Places for Eating Taxes

5,445,620 1,348,673 565,253 1,457,983 508,577 219,118 82,454

Licenses Permits and Fees Investment Income Miscellaneous Water and Sewer Charges Gain on Sale of Capital Assets Grants

636,923 412,533 388,375 931,834 3,079,553 870,715

Surcharge Taxes Motor Fuel Taxes Employer Contributions Employee Contributions Net Investment Appreciation

$ 291,152 1,400,208 198,197 1,122,759

Total

18,959,927

SUMMARY STATEMENT OF CONDITION Beginning Fund/Net Position as Restated Balance at 1/1/2019 General Fund Special Revenue Funds Debt Service Fund Capital Projects Fund Enterprise Funds Trust Fund Total

4,266,377 383,019 378,015 606,574 16,078,628 9,085,203 30,797,816

Revenues/ Additions $

Expenditures/ Expenses /Deductions

9,965,990 625,289 608,913 271,767 3,902,333 2,998,334 18,372,626

Subscribed and sworn to this 24th day of June, 2020. I, Cathy Haley, Village Clerk of the Village of Riverside, Cook County, Illinois, do hereby certify that the above is a true copy of the Annual Treasurer’s Report for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2019.

9,661,981 322,477 582,861 636,259 3,292,947 1,210,451 15,706,976

Other Financing Sources/(Uses)

$ (447,627) (50,000) 497,627 524,335 524,335

Ending Fund/Net Position Balance at 12/31/2019 $

4,122,759 635,831 404,067 739,709 17,212,349 10,873,086 33,987,801

_______________________ Karin Johns, Treasurer _________________ Cathy Haley Village Clerk

COMPENSATION SUMMARY Under $25,000.00: ADAMS, JOSEPH; ADLER, MICHAEL; ALLISON, SHANNYN; ANGARITA, EDWARD; ANGELOPOULOS, MICHAEL; BALDERAS, YULISSA; BARAJAS, ALEJANDRO; BARTIK, MICHAEL; BARTOLONE, CAROLYN; BARTOSIK, PETER; BIRMINGHAM, MARK; BLAYLOCK, SANDRA; CABALLERO, MIA; CABALLERO, ANI; CALAMIA, HENRY; CAMERON, ZACH; CAMPBELL, JACOB; CARLSON, JESSICA; CAVANAUGH, MADELINE; CHAPMAN, KIRSTEN; CLARK, DAVID; CLARKSON, VICTORIA; COLVIN, CHRISTOPHER; CORDOVA, LORENZO; CORRIGAN, NINA; CZUBIK, DEBORAH ; D’ALTORIO, GIANNI; DAVIS, DVOUZIER; DELEONARDIS, MICHAEL; DELIRA, NATALIE; DONAHUE, ZAVIER; DOODY, EMMERSON; DOORNEBOS, SAMANTHA; DORIA, JOSEPH; DUBANOWICH, RYAN; DUBANOWICH, KYLE; DURSO, GARY; DUVE, MAX; FAVELA, LILIANA; FEARY, LANE; FERRARO, CARLO; FORTMAN, EMMA; FORTMAN, GRACELYN; FRUSHOUR, MICHAEL; GARCIA, GERARDO; GARDNER, MICHAEL; GEORGOPULOS, SUSAN; GILHOOLY, SAMANTHA; GONZALEZ, LAURA; GOO, JASON; GRESIK, HENRY; GRYCZAN, TATIANA; HAGMAN, ERIC; HERNANDEZ, SELENA; HERNANDEZ, JESSICA; HERRERA, MONICA; HIGGINS, ABIGAIL; HOBART, WILLIAM; IZZO, JOHN; JAROS, DARLENE; JENKS, TYLER; JOHNSON, DEREK; JOHNSON, ALGER; JONES, JEROLD; JOSEPH, ANDREW; KAUFMAN, VIOLET; KOSCIELNIAK, KATARZYNA; KRAUS, KEVIN; KRUCE, JOSEPH; KUJAWOWICZ, PIOTR; KURATKO, KEVIN; L’ODENSE, AMY; LAMBROS, LAUREN; LEON, ELIAZABETH; LEON, NATALIE; LOFTUS, BRENNA; LOULOUSIS, JAMES; MALIZZIO, NICOLETTE; MANGANIELLO, ANDREW; McCARTHY, MADELINE; MCNISH, JOHN; MEINDL, ALEXANDER; METCALF-REYES, JOSEPH; MICHALIK, ANTHONY; MORENKO, GENE; MULLIGAN, JAMES; MULLINS, ISABELLA; MUNGUIA, JOANNA; MURPHY, ELIZABETH; NASER, AMINA; NGO, KAILYN; NIESLUCHOWSKI, WILLIAM; NIKISCHER, MICHAEL; ODELL, ALLISON; OWANO, JEANNETTE; PALAFOX, CESAR; PALKA, DIANE; PHYFER, SARA; PINEDA, JESUS; PIPAL, TIMOTHY; POLLOCK, DANIEL; POLLOCK, BENJAMIN; POSS, SCHUYLER; PRZYBYLSKI, WILLIAM; RANGEL, ANTHONY; RAUSCH, HENRY; RENDA, MARIA; RESTO, LISANDRO; RESTO, ANDRES; RINGO, FRANCIS; RINGO, CECILIA; ROBINSON, RYAN; RODRIGUEZ, JULISSA; ROMAN, MARGARET; ROMAN, GRACE; ROMAN, EMMA; RUSKA, WILLIAM; RUSKA, ANTON; SAGANICH, GREG; SALETTA, NINA; SCHIEMANN, SCOTT; SEDIVY, BRENDAN; SEGURA, JORGE; SELENICA, ANISA; SHEEHAN, CONNOR; SPLITT, IAN; SPRAU, BRIANNA; SROKA, MEGAN; STUCZYNSKI, DEBORA; TABB, DANIEL; TESCH, TIMOTHY; TODOROVIC, KATARINA; VACEK, SARA; VALENTE, JOHN; VALENZUELA, NATALIA; VAN NICE, WILSON; VAZQUEZ, TITO; VILLANOVA, RYAN; WALDENGA, STEVEN; WILLIAMSON, RAYMOND; WITTEMAN, MATTHIAS; ZELENY, MAGGIE $25,000.00 to $49,999.99: BAMOLA, MEGHA; MCMAHON, KEVIN; NELSON-SIFUENTES, ELIZABETH; PIERDINOCK, DAVID; REIMER, MARIBETH; SEGURA, JORGE; SISKA, MEGAN; WALTER, DEBRA $50,000.00 to $74,999.99: CATHERINE; HANRAHAN, ANNE; JURCZEWSKI, MICHAEL; KUDLA, CHRISTOPHER; KURATKO, KEVIN; LAMICH, DONNA; LAWLER, NICOLE; MANGANIELLO, JOSEPH; MCCALL, PAMELA; MICHALIK, DONALD; NORMAN, JERRY; RINI-LARA, SHERYL; RIVERA, JOSE; SHELDON, DAIVA; SHERMAN, WILLIAM; $75,000.00 to $99,999.99 COLLINS, MICHAEL; FERANEC, JOHN; JOHNSON, DECARLO; MALCHIODI, RONALD; MORAN, JESUS; TABB, DANIEL; $100,000.00 to $124,999.99 ABT, SONYA; BAILEY, EDWARD; BUCKLEY, MATTHEW; GUTSCHICK, WILLIAM; HAMILTON, ISAAC; JOHNS, KARIN; KATZIN, ERIC; MAHANNA, JOSEPH; MARRELLO, JR., DANIEL; MILLER, JEFFREY; NAVARRO, FABIAN; PANEK, JOHN; PONTRELLI, FRANK; ROBERSON, TAMMY; SIMPSON, JEFFREY; TEUNE, JOSHUA $125,000.00 and over CAIRO, JOHN; FRANCES, JESSICA; GREENENWALD, BRIAN; KOTOR, LEO; LARA, FRANK; LAZANSKY, JAMES; WEITZEL, THOMAS TOTAL COMPENSATION $ 5,222,344.86

DISBURSEMENTS BY VENDOR IN EXCESS OF $2,500.00 ACCELA, INC. 3,914; AFTERSCHOOL ENRICHMENT SOLUTIONS 16,364; AIR ONE EQUIPMENT, INC. 7,545; ALTERNATIVE ENERGY SOLUTIONS 3,291; ASSOCIATED TIRE & BATTERY 3,461; AXON ENTERPRISE, INC 4,680; B & H PHOTO AND VIDEO 6,431; BENCHMARK CONSTRUCTION 4,000; BENNETT & BROSSEAU 83,369; BIO-TRON, INC. 3,192; BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD 381,652; BLUE STAR POTABLES LLC 2,600; BS&A 100,905; BURKE LLC 464,766; CALL ONE (1204727-1109962) 40,044; CARGILL INC. SALT DIVISION 34,079; CASE LOTS, INC. 6,846; CDW GOVERNMENT, INC. 7,604; CHESS SCHOLARS 20,689; CHICAGO TITLE AND TRUST 231,260; CHICAGOLAND PAVING 658,537; CHRISTOPHER B. BURKE 134,711; CHRISTY WEBER LANDSCAPES 21,280; CINTAS #769 5,002; CINTAS FIRST AID & SAFETY 4,428; CIVIC PLUS 3,727; CLIENTFIRST CONSULTING GROUP, LLC 86,493; COMCAST CABLE 10,000; COMED 23,208; CONSTELLATION NEW ENERGY, INC 14,102; COOK COUNTY TREASURER 4,483; CORE & MAIN LP 13,156; CROWN TROPHY 3,460; D. RYAN TREE & LANDSCAPE 72,012; DANIEL KELLEY 3,500; DATA MANAGEMENT INC 6,873; DELL MARKETING L.P. 32,116; ECKERT ENTERPRISES 32,858; ECO CLEAN MAINTENANCE, INC 26,016; ELMHURST OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH 3,747; ELMUND AND NELSON CO 12,280; EMERGENCY 4,156; EMERGENCY REPORTING 2,528; F.H. PASCHEN , S.N. NIELSEN & ASSO 84,758; AIRBORN EQUIPMENT CO OF ILLINOIS 5,220; FIRE SAFETY CONSULTANTS INC 2,615; FIREHOUSE INNOVATIONS CORP 7,165; FIRST BANKCARD 91,330; FIRST STUDENT 6,070; FLOOD BROTHERS DISPOSAL CO. 11,212; FOREST PRESERVE DISTRICT COOK CO 5,495; FOX VALLEY FIRE 6,402; FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE 7,380; FRUIT PUDDING GROUP INC 5,974; FULLER’S AUTO BODY 4,886; GALL’S, INC. 4,935; GARVEY’S OFFICE PRODUCTS 12,185; GAS DEPOT 51,094; GBJ SALES LLC 3,329; GIVING ARTFULLY LLC 3,816; GORDON FLESCH CO., INC. 4,811; GRIFFON SYSTEMS INC 87,042; GUARDIAN PEST CONTROL 3,732; HEALTH ENDEAVORS, S.C. 13,622; HEALTH INSPECTION PROFESSIONALS INC 9,000; HEARTH AND HOME, INC 17,758; HENRY SWADE 13,590; HOP, SKIP & JUMP PRODUCTIONS, INC 15,000; HOUSE OF DOORS, INC. 5,948; ICMA RETIREMENT TRUST 27,108; IL DEPT TRANSPORTATION 5,270; IL ENVIRONMENTAL 104,860; ILLINOIS MUNICIPAL RETIREMENT FUND 194,672; ILLINOIS STATE TREASURER- 2,601; INFRASEARCH, INC. 5,400; INTERDEV LLC 12,398; IRMA 270,127; JACK PHELAN CHEVROLET 33,485; JAKE THE STRIPER 5,965; JAMES LAZANSKY 4,160; JEFF MILLER 6,450; JOHN MICHAEL PANEK 5,190; JULIE MELIDIS 4,850; KANE, McKENNA ASSOCIATES, INC. 2,850; KEEN EDGE COMPANY 3,171; K-FIVE CONSTRUCTION CORP. 11,236; KIESLER’S 4,578; KLEIN, THORPE & JENKINS 155,276; KNICKERBOCKER ROOFING & PAVING CO. 4,534; LAKESHORE ATHLETIC SERV. 4,329; LAUTERBACH & AMEN LLP 21,950; LEXIPOL LLC 8,707; LYONS-PINNER ELECTRIC, INC. 4,250; M RUGGED MOBILE TECHNOLOGY 3,674; M.A.B.A.S. DIVISION 10 7,840; MADISON NATIONAL LIFE INS. CO. 3,092; MARATHON SPORTSWEAR, INC. 10,552; MARTAM CONSTRUCTION INC 11,648; METAL MITES 8,977; MIDWEST OFFICE INTERIORS, INC 5,093; MINUTEMAN PRESS OF LYONS 2,658; MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS INC 3,686; MPC COMMUNICATIONS 17,386; MUNICIPAL GIS PARTNERS INC 40,668; MUNICIPAL SYSTEMS, INC. 10,615; NATIONAL POWER RODDING 19,959; NICOR GAS 51,599; NINA ENGEL 2,500; NORTH EAST MULTI 2,575; NORTH SUBURBAN EMPLOYEE BENEFIT COO 300,984; NORTHERN ILLINOIS POLICE 6,313; OFFICE TEAM 9,437; PARAMEDIC SERVICES OF ILLINOIS 465,796; PAUL CONWAY SHIELDS 20,104; PERSONNEL STRATEGIES LLC 4,500; PITNEY BOWES, INC. 3,207; PIZZA BAR RIVERSIDE LLC 50,575; POMP’S TIRE SERVICE 3,309; POSTAL SERVICE, U.S. 3,008; PROVEN BUSINESS SYSTEMS LLC 3,042; PURCHASE POWER 15,150; QUALITY INTEGRATED SOLUTIONS INC. 4,661; RAY O’HERRON CO., INC. 24,813; RICK DANDAN 14,556; RIVERSIDE GARAGE 18,039; RIVERSIDE POLICE PENSION BENEFIT DISBUSEMENT 1,176,3564; RIVERSIDE POLICE PENSION INVESTMENT FEE 67,813; RIVERSIDE POLICE PENSION ADMINISTRATIVE FEE 34,097; RIVERSIDE PUBLIC LIBRARY 10,557; RIVERSIDE PUBLIC SCHOOLS 8,085; RIVERSIDE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH 6,875; ROMEOVILLE FIRE ACADEMY 25,740; ROSCOE COMPANY 9,209; RUSSO POWER EQUIPMENT 4,824; RYDIN DECAL 3,545; SCHAEFFER MANUFACTURING CO 3,743; SCOTT KOPACH 5,095; SEMPER FI LAND SERVICES INC 3,600; SERVICE EMPLOYEE’S LOCAL 73 3,896; SERVICE FORMS & GRAPHICS 2,745; SERVPRO OF LAGRANGE PARK/N. RIVERSI 21,116; SHI- GOVERNMENT SOLUTIONS INC. 7,638; SHI INTERNATIONAL 2,675; SHOREWOOD HOME & AUTO INC. 3,894; STANDARD EQUIPMENT CO. 23,430; STATE DISBURSEMENT UNIT 2,618; STEINER ELECTRIC COMPANY 3,181; STEPHEN A. LASER ASSOC. 19,400; STERLING CODIFIERS 6,400; STRAHM AUTOMATION AND MAILING 14,785; TELECOM INNOVATIONS GROUP 4,904; THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON 981,553; THOMAS ENGINEERING GROUP, LLC 56,926; THOMAS J. BRESCIA 21,300; THOMPSON ELEVATOR 2,949; TRACY LAPSHIN 3,884; TRADEMARK ELECTRIC 5,753; TRAFFIC CONTROL & PROTECTION 5,525; TRAFFIC CONTROL CORP 7,500; TREASURER,STATE OF IL. 210,888; TWILIGHT PARTY RENTALS 9,157; TYLER TECHNOLOGIES INC (INCODE) 35,937; UNITED STATES TREASURY 221,030; VERIZON WIRELESS 30,748; VERMONT SYSTEMS 4,674; VILLAGE OF MC COOK 1,166,636; VILLAGE OF NORTH RIVERSIDE 72,474; VILLAGE OF NORTHFIELD 3,333; VISIT OAK PARK 5,000; W. S. 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The Landmark, June 24, 2020

D96 board gives superintendent 5-year deal Elected officials like the stability, calm Ryan-Toye has brought to Riverside

By BOB SKOLNIK

from here.” Ryan-Toye says that she is proud of having a cohesive and collaborative leadership team. No building principal has left the district since Ryan-Toye has come aboard as superintendent. She brings a warm, friendly demeanor to her job and always seems to project calm and confidence. She will be paid $199,449 next year, a 3-percent raise from her current salary of $193,640. Other district administrators, who all have one-year contracts, also are receiving 3-percent raises next year. Future raises for Ryan-Toye are at the discretion of the school board.

Contributing Reporter

When Martha Ryan-Toye was hired in 2016 to be the superintendent of Riverside Elementary School District 96, the Board of Education was looking for someone to bring some stability and calm, as well as educational leadership, to the district. On June 17 they rewarded Ryan-Toye with a new five-year contract, the longest contract a school board can legally enter into with a superintendent in Illinois. “We’re definitely familiar with her work, we’re definitely very appreciative of her work and look forward to continuing to work with her for the next five years,” said Dan Hunt, the president of the District 96 school board before the school board voted 5 to 0 to approve the contract. Ryan-Toye said she appreciated the new contract and is looking forward to doing more work for the district. “I know that when I started in the summer of 2016 we had set a goal that leadership stability would be important for District 96,” Ryan-Toye told the Landmark. At the end of the June 17 school board meeting, Ryan-Toye thanked the board for the new contract. “This is just a tremendous district,” RyanToye said. “It is really what I had wanted when I thought of being a superintendent, in terms of working with a very engaged community.” Ryan-Toye still had one year remaining on her current contract. Like pro sports teams, school boards typically don’t want to have a superintendent go into the final year of their contract without an extension in place. Ryan-Toye’s new contract runs through June 30, 2025. Board member Jeff Miller, who was president of the District 96 school board in 2016 when Ryan-Toye was hired, said the superintendent has worked out very well. “I think it’s a very good thing for the

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Martha Ryan-Toye district to have that stability,” Miller said. “That was one of the intentions for the longer contract.” Unlike some school administrators, who move frequently from job to job and district to district in search of more pay and a broader platform, Ryan-Toye has a track record of staying in one place. Before being hired by District 96, RyanToye worked for River Forest School District 90 for 22 years. She was District 90’s director of special education for 16 years before moving up to become director of student services for six years.

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“I’m a stayer,” Ryan-Toye said. Hunt said Ryan-Toye has helped the district take steps to improve its facilities. This summer a major addition to Ames School is being built and small additions or improvements are being made at the district’s three other elementary schools. “She’s already had a great impact on the district in terms of what we’ve been able to do with our facilities,” Hunt said. “Now I guess we’re getting to a point where facilities are finished here, we’re looking for the other side to flesh out. She has the palette, I guess, we’ll see how the picture is painted

At the June 17 school board meeting, board members also voted 5-0 to approve a new one-year contact with the district’s custodians, who are represented by Teamsters Union Local 700. Given the uncertainty around the coronavirus pandemic, the administration and the union decided that a one-year contract, which is basically an extension of the current contract that was scheduled to expire on June 30, made the most sense right now. “We really don’t know where we’re going to be right now in a year, so we’re looking to just set this for a year and then move forward, see where we’re at a year from now,” Hunt said. Each custodian working for the district will receive a 3-percent raise on July 1 so long as they have worked for District 96 for more than six months. Any custodian reaching their 10th, 15th or 20th anniversary of employment with the district after July 1 will receive a one-time longevity bonus equal to 3.5 percent of their annual pay. The new starting pay for any new custodian hires will be $16.05 an hour.

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The Landmark, June 24, 2020

Robert Molaro, former state legislator, dies at 69 Championed horse racing industry, promoted animal welfare

By BOB SKOLNIK Contributing Reporter

Former state legislator Robert Molaro, who once represented large swarths of Riverside and Brookfield, died of pancreatic cancer on June 15, 2020 at his home in the Garfield Ridge neighborhood of Chicago. Molaro, 69, served as a state senator from 1993 until 2002. After legislative districts were redrawn following the 2000 Census, he served as a state representative from 2002 until he resigned in the summer of 2008, a few months after a successful primary election. His resignation paved the way for party leaders to select the then 29-year-old Michael Zalewski to replace him on the general election ballot, and Zalewski has served in the Illinois House of Representatives ever since. The timing of Molaro’s resignation meant that Zalewski, who now calls Riverside home, didn’t have to face a contested prima-

I tried to do that, but there’s alry in his first run for office. Zalewski said Molaro, who ways more work to do,” Zalewski founded his own lobbying firm recalled. after leaving the General AssemMolaro was most known for bly, served as a friend and menhis work promoting animal weltor to him. fare and his work to help the “He had a very good ability to horse racing industry in Illinois. listen and digest difficult issues Molaro sponsored and passed and break them down and give laws banning shooting preserves you good advice on any number in Illinois and outlawing the of topics. I’m forever grateful slaughter of horses for human ROBERT MOLARO to him for everything he did for consumption. me,” Zalewski said. In 2007 he also introduced a After Molaro’s resignation greased the bill outlawing the consumption of foie gras, way for Zalewski to succeed him, Molaro a liver delicacy that depends on force feedtold the new state rep that it was now up to ing ducks or geese, but never could round up him to make the most of the opportunity the votes to get that bill out of committee. provided to him. Another quixotic cause that Molaro un“He said, ‘When you get this job don’t just successfully championed was his attempt to coast, and realize that a lot of people put ban aluminum baseball bats. in a lot of effort to put you in a position to “He was an interesting guy, for sure,” Zasucceed and you got to go out and earn it.’ lewski said.

As a legislator and lobbyist, Molaro advocated for the horse racing industry in Illinois. “He singled handedly, I think, saved the horse raising industry [in Illinois],” Zalewski said. He was also a thoughtful chairman of the House Judiciary/Law Committee who often was skeptical of the then-popular drives for penalty enhancements. “He was not afraid to tell a colleague when he was chair of Judiciary/Law that if you didn’t have any empirical data to back up a penalty enhancement, if you were just doing this for very limited reasons, you weren’t going to get your bill called,” Zalewski said. “That was unheard of in the 2000s.” Most of all, Molaro loved to get together and talk, often over coffee. “Coffee for him was life,” Zalewski said. “It was an opportunity to talk and listen and bond.

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The Landmark, June 24, 2020

Riverside Library will reopen, with limits, in July

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Patrons must register to visit in hourly blocks

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As the state moves into Phase 4 of the Restore Illinois plan for helping limit the spread of COVID-19, officials at the Riverside Public Library are busy writing up protocols that will allow the library to open its doors to patrons on a limited basis next month. Library Director Janice Foley confirmed last week that the tentative plan is to open the library on July 8, employing a reservations-only system where patrons will be allowed into limited areas of the building for a maximum of 45 minutes. “We’re not encouraging hanging out in the library,” Foley said in a telephone interview with the Landmark. “You come in, get what you need and go.” At least initially, the library will be open Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Tuesday and Thursday from 1 to 7 p.m.; and on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. The library’s curbside pickup service, initiated June 3, will continue, said Foley. Anyone wishing to visit the library can request to be either upstairs or downstairs. The library will limit upstairs access to eight people per hour and downstairs access to 10 people or two families in the Youth Services area. Parents who accompany children to Youth Services will not be allowed to go upstairs and browse the stacks. If they wish to do so, they need to make a separate appointment, Foley said. If patrons wish to use the library’s computers, they need to register to do so. Patrons will be let into the library every hour on the hour and

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Riverside Public Library, 1 Burling Road will be allowed inside for 45 minutes. That will give library staff time to sanitize areas, furniture and devices used by patrons. The only exception to the 45-minute rule is for people who register to do research in the lower-level genealogy area. Those patrons will be allowed 1 hour, 45 minutes to do research, but only two people will be allowed in that area at a time. You can make reservations to visit a day in advance or up to five minutes before the hour, if there’s room to accommodate you. People can still get reference questions answered by calling or emailing. Everyone, both employees and patrons, must wear face coverings while inside the library after it reopens, said Foley. “People will also need to keep social distance, and there will be plastic shields [between patrons and employees] at the service desk up front and by the reference desk,” Foley said. Children will not be able to play with toys in the Youth Services area and many of the chairs will be removed in order to ensure social distancing. In addition, the Quiet Reading Room will remain closed to the public, as will the Public Meeting Room, which is being used as a quarantine room for library materials returned by patrons. When materials are returned they are placed in the Public Meeting Room for seven days, said Foley. “We’re taking this very seriously, because we don’t know what the future is,” Foley said. “We want to keep both patrons and staff safe.”

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Former Mater Christi Parish pastor appointed bishop

ater Christi Parish’s former pastor, the Rev. Louis Tylka, was named Coadjutor Bishop of Peoria by Pope Francis on May 11. Tylka, a native of Harvey, graduated from St. Joseph School in Homewood in 1984 and from Marian Catholic High School in Chicago Heights in 1988. After a year of study at Purdue University, he transferred to Niles College Seminary of Loyola University, graduating in 1992. Tylka was ordained to the priesthood by Joseph Cardinal REV. LOUIS TYLKA Bernardin at Holy Name Cathedral in Chicago on May 18, 1996. “He has proved himself to be a compassionate and inspiring pastor and a strong advocate for priests and the priesthood,” said Cardinal Blase Cupich, archbishop of Chicago, in a press release. “We look forward to the contributions he will make to the Church in the coming years.” Tylka has served as associate pastor at

St. Michael Parish in Orland Park and at Ss. Faith, Hope and Charity Parish in Winnetka. He was pastor of Mater Christi Parish in North Riverside from 2004-14 and currently serves as pastor of St. Julie Billiart Parish in Tinley Park and as the chair of the Presbyteral Council of the Archdiocese of Chicago. Tylka is expected to begin his ministry as Coadjutor Bishop and relocate to the Diocese of Peoria later in 2020.

LTHS teacher earns national award Lyons Township High School science teacher Jason Crean received a 2020 Distinguished Teacher Award from National Science Teachers Association (NSTA). The award honors NSTA members who are JASON CREAN classroom teachers who have made extraordinary contributions to the field of science teaching.

Crean has been teaching biology at LTHS for more than two decades. As an awardee, Crean will receive a formal citation, three nights’ hotel accommodation and $500 toward expenses to attend the NSTA National Conference.

On campus ■ Abigail Zabrodsky, of Brookfield, was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree, summa cum laude, in forestry during a virtual commencement this spring at Iowa State University. ■ Among those graduating with bachelor’s degrees from Ohio University in Athens this spring were North Riverside resident Daniel DeLeonardis (communication) and Brookfield resident Alicia Heninger (education). DeLeonardis also was named to the 2020 spring semester dean’s list for earning a semester grade-point average of at least 3.5 on a 4-point scale. ■ Brookfield resident Brittney Paeth was among the more than 6,300 students awarded degrees from the University of Alabama this spring. Paeth earned a Bachelor of Arts degree. ■ Collin Taylor, of Brookfield, graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree and a Bachelor

of Philosophy degree from Dominican University in River Forest in May. He was also presented with the Distinguished Senior in Philosophy Award. ■ Riverside native Kelly Ely received a Doctor of Physical Therapy degree in May from Regis University in Denver. ■ Gregory Bernasek, of Riverside, will receive a Bachelor of Arts degree, cum laude, from St. Norbert College in De Pere, Wisconsin when that school holds its commencement ceremony, postponed from May, in October. Bernasek was also named to the 2020 spring semester dean’s list for attaining a semester GPA of at least 3.5. ■ North Riverside resident Andrew LeMesurier and Riverside resident Emily Pitts are part of the Cedarville (Ohio) University 2020 graduating class, which will celebrate commencement in October. LeMesurier will be awarded a bachelor’s degree in finance. Pitts will receive a bachelor’s degree in professional writing and information design. ■ Brookfield resident Matthew Nicolai, a May graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, will receive his diploma for earning a Bachelor of Science degree during the school’s rescheduled commencement ceremony in October.

Custom coffee mugs honor North Riverside’s ‘heroes’ North Riverside resident Tony Novak and the rest of the families who live in the 2400 block of 7th Avenue said “thanks” to the village’s firefighters, paramedics, police officers, emergency dispatchers, public works employees, village hall staff, recreation department staff and elected officials last week, delivering 89 specially designed coffee cups to them in appreciation for keeping the village working dur-

ing the COVID-19 crisis. On June 17, Novak displayed all 89 coffee mugs on the front lawn of his home before delivering them to the village the next day. Each mug has a photo representing a village department, with the employee’s name and title on the other side. Novak and his wife, Joni, have lived on 7th Avenue for 40 years but have lived in North Riverside even longer. Novak served as a member of the North Riverside Fire Department for 28 years, retiring in 1997 at the rank of lieutenant. The inspiration for the coffee mugs was a mug Novak made for himself upon his retirement from the fire department. It has served as a memento of that important time of his life, and the 89 new mugs will be a memento of this time in the current employees’ lives. The printing on the mugs was done by T-Shirts and Trophies in Brookfield. “After I retired from the fire department, I ordered a coffee cup with North

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MUGGING: Tony Novak holds up one of the 89 mugs he and his neighbors funded and presented to North Riverside village employees as a thank you and a memento of the work they did during the COVID-19 crisis. Riverside Fire on one side and my name on the other, Lieutenant Tony Novak. This is my favorite coffee cup I use each day,” Novak wrote in a letter to neighbors explaining his initiative and asking for their financial support to make it happen. “Each day I hold that coffee cup brings

back great memories of all the people I (we) helped during my career. “Knowing how much joy this gives me each day, I told Joni this would be a great tribute for all our N.R. employees working during the COVID-19 to have their own personal coffee cup.”

The Landmark, June 24, 2020

PEOPLE ■ More than 2,500 students received their degrees from Northern Illinois University in May, including Brookfield residents Madeleine Barrett (B.A., communication, journalism); Kaylee Jasinski (B.S., management, marketing); Fabian Pacheco (B.S., accountancy); and Donell Valdez (B.S., rehabilitation and disability services) and North Riverside residents Kiera Donnamario (B.A., history) and Andres Garcia (B.S., nursing). ■ David Suriano, of Riverside, was awarded the Olive B. White Award for fiction, one of 61 students honored by the Bradley University College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in the 2020 spring semester. ■ Julia Keller, of Riverside, became one of DePauw University’s record 76 studentathletes earning induction into the Chi Alpha Sigma National College Athlete Honor Society in May. The organization recognizes student-athletes who earn a varsity letter in at least one sport while maintaining a 3.4 or higher GPA throughout their junior and senior years. ■ Brookfield resident Autumn Rajcevich-Schwer and Riverside resident Alyssa Schwarz have been inducted into the Carthage College (Kenosha, Wisconsin) Chapter of the National Society of Leadership and Success. ■ Brookfield residents Samantha Hauser (medical laboratory sciences) and Kaylee Jasinski (leadership and management) along with North Riverside residents Andres Garcia (nursing) and Mary Kober (health sciences) were named to the 2020 spring semester dean’s list at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb. ■ Several local students were named to the 2020 spring semester dean’s list at Marquette University in Milwaukee, including Brookfield residents Jordan Gatsos (environmental engineering) and Calista Lopez (anthropology) and Riverside residents Guillermo Arroyo (mechanical engineering), Maya Diaz (sociology), Andy Jiang (mechanical engineering), Haley Legan (biomedical sciences), Jonathan Ricchio (civil engineering) and Kate Suess (nursing). ■ The University of Wisconsin-Madison named Riverside residents Nick Pavlakovic (College of Engineering), Natalie Skiest (Collage of Engineering) and Cathy Yuen (College of Letters and Sciences) to the 2020 spring semester dean’s list. ■ Brookfield resident Abigail Hosack and Riverside resident Louie Marcou were named to the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater dean’s list for the 2020 spring semester after earning GPAs of at least 3.4 for the semester. ■ Fifteen local students were among the more than 8,500 undergraduates named to the 2020 spring semester dean’s list at the University of Iowa in Iowa City. They included Brookfield residents Alex Contreras, Marissa Cruz, Alyse Malikowski,

Katelyn Malikowski, Julia Melone and Lauren Paisker and Riverside residents Lizbeth Casillas, Sarah Dorenbos, Robert Holubek, Sara LaMantia, Gabrielle Nolan, Averie Robertson, Jake Vaia, Zachary Vaia and Caroline Willinger. ■ Michael Gruber, a design engineering technology major, was named to the president’s list for the 2020 spring semester at Trine University in Angola, Indiana, for attaining a semester GPA of at least 3.75. ■ More than 2,600 students were named to the 2020 spring semester dean’s list at Bradley University in Peoria, including Riverside residents Jocelyn Navarro (communication advertising), Killian Klotz (construction) and David Suriano (interactive media game design); North Riverside resident Isabelle Echevarria (creative writing); and Brookfield resident Anthony Landahl (communication television arts). ■ Brookfield resident Michele GeorgeGriffin and Riverside resident Abigail Freel were named to the 2020 spring semester dean’s list at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee, for earning a semester GOA of at least 3.5. ■ Ryan Jones, of Riverside, and Emma Pizana, of Brookfield, were named to the 2020 spring semester dean’s list at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana, for achieving a GPA of at least 3.5 for the semester. ■ Riverside residents Madelyn Hopek, Lauren Lambros and Margaret Shereck have been named to the 2020 spring semester dean’s list at St. Mary’s College in Notre Dame, Indiana, for earning a semester GPA of at least 3.6. ■ Jeremy Kolasa, of Brookfield, and Kailyn Ngo, of Riverside, were named to the 2020 spring semester dean’s list at Olivet Nazarene University in Bourbonnais for attaining a semester GPA of at least 3.5. ■ Owen McManus, of Riverside, was named to the College of Charleston (South Carolina) 2020 spring semester 2020 president’s list for earning a GPA of at least 3.8 for the semester. ■ Augustana University in Rock Island has announced that Ryan Encher, of Brookfield, has been awarded a scholarship for the 2020-21 academic year in recognition of his achievements both inside and outside of the classroom. ■ A number of local students were named to the second semester honor roll for the 2019-20 school year at Nazareth Academy in LaGrange Park. Those making the A Honor Roll (3.8-4.0 GPA) were Brookfield residents Michal Feng, Greta Nelson, Sarah Newmann and Jannelle Steger and Riverside residents Michael Almeida and Elizabeth Selover. Named to the B Honor Roll (3.33-3.79 GPA) were Brookfield residents Gianni Moran, Trea Notz and Elijah Pesek and Riverside resident Michael Gentile.

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The Landmark, June 24, 2020

16th Street Theater fundraiser

16th Street Theater in Berwyn has set a fundraising goal of $50,000 by the end of the night on Saturday, June 27, and is looking for your help to accomplish that. Join them virtually on June 27 starting at 7 p.m. for the 2020 Benefit Bash. There’s no limit on attendees and it’s free to join in the fun – though you may want to splurge on some silent auction items. The night begins with a “Cocktail 30” half-hour with staff from Autre Monde, who will show you how to mix fabulous alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks. At 7:30 p.m., you’ll be entertained by a musical number, surprise guests, excerpts from past productions and live performances. Bidding on silent auction items, which include original artwork by Tony Fitzpatrick, has begun. To register to attend the virtual event, to donate or to get in on the silent auction, visit bit.ly/2YMsWjB.

BIG WEEK

June 24-July 1

Feng Shui for Today During the workshop you’ll take live tours of space and Juister will discuss why now is a great time to apply this ancient art into your life and how the bagua map works as a guide tool for your space and yourself.

Film discussion via conference call North Riverside Public Library invites all classic film buffs to participate in their next Films by Phone, a conference call discussion of a film you watch at home before the phone session. On Tuesday, June 30 at 6:30 p.m., the discussion will be about the 1942 biopic “Pride of the Yankees” about the life and baseball career of Lou Gehrig, starring Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright, Walter Brennan and Babe Ruth himself. The movie is available for free with your library card on the Hoopla app. To participate in the call, dial 800-7475150 and punch in the code 1453322. No smartphone or internet access needed.

North Riverside Public Library is offering the following virtual programs through Facebook Live, conference calls and the teleconferencing app Zoom. Programs include Talented Tuesdays every Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. via Facebook Live on North Riverside Public Library’s Facebook page; Game Night Fridays every Friday at 7 p.m. via Zoom; Spanish Language Book Club/Club de Lectura en Español discussing “Luna Azul” by Colleen Cross via Zoom on June 26 at 10:30 a.m.; and Stretching and Meditation on June 29 via conference call at 800-747-5150, code 1453322. RSVP to bodenl@northriversidelibrary. org for all Zoom meeting access info. Brookfield Public Library offers virtual classes and programs for patrons of all ages throughout the week. Most youth activities will be presented live on the library’s Facebook page at facebook. com/BrookfieldPublicLibrary. Events include literacy classes and Geek Labs, Zumba for Families and Mammals & More. Youth Services will also host a weekly sidewalk art challenge on Sundays. Each week’s winner will receive a gift card to a local business. Adults can participate in programs by signing up for events, including Chair Yoga via Zoom on June 25 at 11 a.m. and a Zero Waste Program on June 29 at 7 p.m. SCARCE will share tips on how you and your family can reduce your environmental impact. Register to get access info at brookfieldlibrary.info/virtual-events. Riverside Arts Center invites you to participate in a free community project – a Community Quarantine Quilt – that allows you be creative and virtually connect with others in the community. Text Bridget at 773-860-2267 and leave your name, address and email. A quilt square package and instructions will be delivered to your door. Accepting quilt squares through June. You can also order Boredom Buster Boxes to give the kids some hands-on fun. Each box contains 6 pounds of clay, a scoring tool, a sponge, six underglaze colors, a slip, a paintbrush and project and instruction sheets. Order online and RAC will deliver the boxes to your front porch (no contact). Boxes are $36 members/$40 non-members. Order at riversideartscenter.com/boredom-buster-boxes Riverside Public Library offers virtual programs for adults, kids and families, including Sunrise Meditation via Zoom on June 25 at 7 a.m. Visit riversidelibrary. evanced.info/signup/calendar to register and get access info. ■

Riverside Public Library invites you to join Bridget Juister for a special Zoom presentation Feng Shui for Today on Thursday, June 25 at 7 p.m.

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Solar energy workshop Brookfield Public Library invites everyone interested in going solar to attend a special virtual presentation on Thursday, June 25 at 2 p.m. A representative from the Citizens Utility Board will discuss the state’s new solar energy programs. Find out if your home is right for solar panels and learn about a new program that allows you to enjoy the benefits of solar without installing panels on your home. Register to attend by visiting online at brookfieldlibrary.info/ virtual-events.

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Curbside pickup at North Riverside Library North Riverside Public Library cardholders can once again get their hands on books and more via a curbside service program that kicked off June 16 and will continue for the foreseeable future. You can place orders of materials from the library’s collection only by visiting online at catalog.swanlibraries.net/client/en_US/nrs and placing a hold on them. Or, you can call the library at 708-447-0869 during curbside hours, give your library card number and library staff will place the holds for you. When your materials are ready for pickup, library staff will call you to set up a pickup time and parking spot in lot of the library, 2400 Desplaines Ave. Staff will walk your materials out to you and place them in the trunk of your vehicle. If you walk or bike to the library, let them know and they’ll place the bag outside the door for contact-less pickup. Curbside hours are Tuesday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Thursday from noon to 6 p.m. and Saturday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

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DISTRICTS DONE: Riverside trustees voted on June 18 to create a pair of new business districts along Harlem Avenue to encourage redevelopment and create a source of revenue to help that effort. One district centers on the area near the BNSF tracks, the other wraps around the corner of Harlem and Ogden. Street. Those properties include the vacant Bank of America building and the long-vacant mixed-use building at 363-69 E. Burlington St. The other new business district runs along Harlem Avenue from Blackhawk Road to Ogden Avenue and then west on Ogden Avenue to Lionel Road. The district is probably the one that has the best potential for future redevelopment, with large commercial properties that could be assembled to accommodate a significant development. Included within the business district are the Loyola Medicine Professional Building at the corner of Harlem ad Ogden and an adjacent medical office building to the west. Both properties include sizable parking lots. The district includes the White Fence Farm restaurant property at Harlem and Blackhawk. It also in-

cludes a residential property at the corner of Ogden and Lionel, which was included to allow public infrastructure improvements that can be funded by the business district to extend all the way to that intersection. Riverside created its first business district on Harlem Avenue from Berkeley to just south of Longcommon Road in 2017. Business districts are governed by state statute and are similar in some ways to tax increment financing (TIF) districts, although they do not sequester property taxes in order to create a source of funds to promote redevelopment. Like a TIF, a business district lasts for 23 years and during that time municipalities can collect a special 1-percent sales tax that goes into a separate business district fund. That money can only be spent for initiatives within the business

district, for things such as property acquisition and assembly, public infrastructure improvements, construction costs for buildings, offering financial incentives for development or conducting planning or marketing studies. The Business District Act allows municipalities to designate areas as business districts in order to foster economic activity in areas where commercial properties are underutilized or blighted, whose platting is obsolete or have inadequate street layouts. The village undertook the effort to create the business districts last July, holding a pair of public hearings as well as a meeting with property owners in the proposed business districts (via Zoom due to the COVID-19 pandemic) before trustees voted to create the districts last week.

Brookfield launches online community portal

Site is part of larger GIS tool to aid in village planning, mapping By BOB UPHUES Editor

The village of Brookfield has launched a one-stop portal where Brookfield residents and prospective residents can quickly and easily find out information about the places where they live or are looking to live – from property records to property tax information and zoning details, state and federal government representation, school district and legislative district maps and more. The Brookfield Community Portal, which can be found online at bit. ly/2BeR06t launched June 16 and is

part of a much larger Geographic Information System (GIS) mapping tool that will also be used extensively by village staff to streamline work flow and aid in planning. A link to the portal can also be found on the village of Brookfield website (brookfieldil.gov), by clicking “Address Search” under the “About” tab. “All of the information is publicly accessible, but what’s cool is that it’s in one spot, with easy-to-read maps,” said Assistant Village Manager George Issakoo, who is leading the onboarding process in conjunction with an analyst assigned to the village by Municipal GIS Partners (MGP). MGP is the vendor for the GIS Consortium, a partnership of more than 30 suburban Chicago municipalities, which share resources and

technology to electronically organize public data. Brookfield sought to join the GIS Consortium last summer as officials planned for the 2020 budget. Municipalities are charged an annual membership fee, which pays for an analyst to work onsite in Brookfield one day a week. According to Issakoo, the village budgeted $50,000 dollars to be part of the GIS Consortium. Of that amount, “$42,000 is the allocation charge based the actual service provided and the additional amount was onboarding costs for licensing and hardware,” he said. Village staff will prioritize tasks for the analyst, including larger data mapping projects like sewer and water line maps, street light, street sign and public tree inventories. But the analyst also might be tasked to

complete special projects – a villageproduced map of Brookfield restaurants offering carryout and curbside service during the pandemic was one such example. While the GIS mapping will be of particular use to the Public Works Department as a comprehensive warehouse for storing data related to public infrastructure, other departments might also benefit from access to the tool. The police department might use the system for crime mapping or to help plan operations. The fire department could use it for pre-planning purposes for incidents at highprofile locations like Brookfield Zoo. “Finance and community development might like to connect projects and permits and feed that information into GIS so there’s interplay,” Issakoo said.

While staff interactions with GIS will play out behind the scenes, the public can use the Brookfield Community Portal to get answers to questions that might otherwise take some hunting on the web. Type your address into the portal’s search field and you’ll get a screen with information on trash pickup and links to more detailed property and school district records. Other tabs on that page will take you to information on government representation, local zoning information and a breakdown of how your property tax dollars are spent. There is also a tab that will take you a map gallery, showing school and legislative district boundaries, a FEMA flood map and other easy-to-read maps for Brookfield and other members of the GIS Consortium.

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Hispanic and 70.4 percent are classified as low-income, according the most recent Illinois State School Report Card. Lappay was headed out of District 99 even before being hired by District 103. The District 99 approved her resignation, effective June 30, along with a host of others, at its By BOB SKOLNIK March 11 meeting. Contributing Reporter Unity Junior High School principal Aldo Lincoln Elementary School in Brookfield Calderin did not respond to an emailed interwill have a new assistant principal this fall view request. Before coming to Cicero District 99, Lappay after the Lyons-Brookfield School District 103 Board of Education 4 to 3 to hire Beatriz Lap- worked as long-term substitute special education teacher for a couple months in the spring pay on May 26. Lappay, a former assistant principal at Uni- of 2018 for Hawthorn District 73 in Vernon ty Junior High School in Cicero, will replace Hills. She spent her longest time, Catherine Eichhammer, who was nearly three years, working for reassigned to a position as a social the Acero Charter School Networker after serving as the assiswork in Chicago from August 2015 tant principal at Lincoln School until January 2018. At Acero she for the past two years. worked for one year as a special Before being transferred to education teacher and then was a Lincoln School in 2018, Eichhamcase manager for 1.5 years. mer was an assistant principal at District 103 Human Resources George Washington Middle School Director Brian Towne worked at for more than a decade. Acero as the charter network’s Lappay was the best candidate chief administrative officer/chief among the applicants for the posiBEATRIZ LAPPAY external affairs officer for a coution, said Lincoln School Principal ple years after leaving the Cook Theresa Silva. “She has a vast range of experience in bi- County sheriff ’s office in 2014, but said that he lingual education, special education and also didn’t know Lappay there. Acero operates 15 administrative experience, and we thought schools and serves 8,000 students. Lappay has also worked as a special educathat her combined knowledge and experience in these areas best suited the needs of our di- tion teacher in Villa Park, Bolingbrook, Elgin, verse school community,” said Silva, who led Proviso West High School and Glenbard North the interview committee that recommended High School. Her frequent movement from district to dishiring Lappay. Silva said that the interview committee trict also concerned Hubacek during the May consisted of herself, a few Lincoln teachers 26 school board meeting where Lappay was and staff members, and District 103 Human hired. “It is really hard for me to believe that she Resources Director Brian Towne. All interviews were conducted by Zoom, and Lappay was the best candidate,” Hubacek said. Lappay earned a bachelor’s degree in art was chosen from two finalists who had second from Northern Illinois University in 2003. interviews. Voting against hiring Lappay was the famil- She has two master’s degrees, one in special iar board minority bloc of Sharon Anderson, education from Lewis University in 2009 and another in school leadership that she earned Marge Hubacek and Shannon Johnson. They questioned why Lappay had moved from Concordia University in 2012. She earned an endorsement in English as around so much in her career. Lappay has worked for eight different school districts in a Second Language and bilingual education from Illinois State University in 2014. She is the last 10 years. “Thirteen positions since 2010 and most now studying for a doctorate in education at of those only lasted a year,” Anderson said National Louis University. On her LinkedIn of Lappay’s resume, which includes a couple page, Lappay describes herself as a relationship builder, dreamer, and advocate. summer school principal positions. Lappay will be paid $83,000 in her new For the last two years Lappay, who could not be reached for comment, worked for Cicero 10-month position at Lincoln, which begins in August. School District 99. According to a posting on the District 99 In 2018-19 she was an assistant principal at Cicero West Elementary School, a pre-K website, Lappay’s salary was $65,902 last year. Silva declined to comment when asked through fourth-grade school. Last year, she was one of eight assistant principals at Unity whether she had recommended that EichhamJunior High, a massive school with about 2,500 mer be reassigned. But, she said she is excited students in Cicero. The school has a predomi- to welcome Lappay to Lincoln. “We’re excited to welcome her to the Linnantly Hispanic student population and a large percentage of student from low-income coln community, and we’re just excited to start a new year together, however that happens,” families. About 58.5 percent of Lincoln students are Silva said.

The Landmark, June 24, 2020

Gallery’s closed but there’s no stopping art Riverside Arts Center offers exhibits, projects for the community By MICHELLE DYBAL Contributing Reporter

Art-based institutions remain closed for now, but that has not stopped Riverside Arts Center (RAC) from bringing what they do to the community. From gallery installations seen from outside to crafters being able to work at home, the door has not been shut on creating and enjoying art or experiencing thought-provoking work. Come by RAC, 32 E. Quincy St., and look at their FlexSpace window. Currently a citizen’s statement is displayed, “Black Lives Matter.” What was going to be the second installment of a two-part art exhibit addressing healing and repair during COVID-19, changed for both artist Stacia Yeapanis and curator, FlexSpace Director Liz Chilsen, when current events made both think differently about what was planned. “The scheduled exhibit was organized as a response to the isolation of the stay-at-home

order, but after the murder of George Floyd, the work seemed not only irrelevant, but also potentially harmful,” said Yeapanis. “‘Solace Supercut,’ made in a very different collective moment, could have been interpreted as a pollyannaish response to the protests, sadness and rage, which would have downplayed the suffering of millions of Black people.” Yeapanis did not put up “Black Lives Matter” as an artist, but as a citizen. Her name does not appear. She stressed it is a sign like any other sign, but she chose to use the space available to her to amplify the message. “As an artist, I operate as an individual,” she said. “My work is about how internal, intangible experiences manifest in the tangible world. But as a citizen, I have to think of myself in relation to those around me. I have to consider my responsibility to those with whom I share space. That is what is called for now.” Yeapanis and Chilsen are having a community conversation on Saturday, June 27.

Riverside Arts Center to reopen on a limited basis With the state of Illinois moving into Phase 4 of the governor’s Restore Illinois plan in response to the coronavirus pandemic, the Riverside Arts Center, 32 E. Quincy St., has announced it is reopening its doors to visitors on a limited basis beginning June 26. The Freeark Gallery and outdoor sculpture garden will open on Fridays and Saturdays from 1 to 5 p.m. Oli Watt’s exhibition, “What?” which was up in the Freeark Gallery when the pandemic forced businesses and cultural centers to shut

down, remains on display. Anyone wishing to visit the Riverside Arts Center is encouraged to schedule an appointment by calling 708-442-6400. The gallery is allowing just one or two visitors at a time. Visitors and staff will be required to wear face coverings and maintain physical distances of at least six feet. Gallery staff will wipe down all surfaces after each visit and hand sanitizer will be available to all who visit. — Bob Uphues

The previous work viewable through the window, “Unison (Radiant Frisson)/Unison (Typecasting)” by Mayumi Lake, was inspired in part by mythical Japanese flowers and it projected colored lights, “type-casting” written on one side of the rotating work. According to Chilsen, ““This is a reference to anti-Asian sentiment and xenophobia that saw an increase at the start of the pandemic.”

Quarantine quilt RAC is also coordinating a Community Quarantine Quilt organized by Bridget Juister, RAC board member. Interested stitchers can text her or respond on Instagram and they will receive supplies to create a quilt square. Silver linings, a tribute to a lost loved one or a written message are suggested themes. “I feel like this is a time capsule piece,” Juister said. “I find it interesting that Coronavirus, a force of nature, came through and gave us perspective. … Change and transition are daunting; healing is uncomfortable; a quilt in itself demonstrates how we’re better together, and of course, it’s a symbol of comfort. We’ll get through this together, and in the end, life can be better than before.” While most requests have come from Riverside, squares have been delivered around Chicagoland and even Milwaukee. Oak Park and River Forest residents can also participate. The squares are being distributed through the end of June and finished squares will be collected during July and August. If all 100 squares are distributed and returned, the finished quilt will be 8-by-8 feet. Its destination has not been determined, but the quilt may end up in Riverside’s township hall, RAC’s Freeark Gallery or could become an auction item in November. Another opportunity to create art are Boredom Buster Boxes. Clay sculpture boxes

PROVIDED

HIP TO BE SQUARE: Riverside Arts Center invites stitchers to complete a square like the one above for a quilt that will document this unusual moment in history. include six pounds of clay, enough to make “several ceramic masterpieces,” according to the RAC website. The box arrives by contactless delivery and is picked up by RAC staff for kiln firing. The delivery zone includes Riverside, North Riverside, Lyons, Brookfield, Berwyn, LaGrange, Oak Park, Austin and Belmont Cragin. Boxes can also be purchased for donation in an underserved community. Summer Camp boxes for kids will kick off soon and contain five different art projects. “We feel a deep commitment to continue sharing the vitality of art despite any challenges,” Chilsen said. “We expect many of the innovations we’ve been engaged in now will continue to be a part of what we offer into the future, maintaining new avenues of communication and engagement.” For more information, go to riversideartscenter.com.

Brookfield Library plans limited reopening on July 8 Patrons can use computers, copier, scanner, notary service

By BOB UPHUES Editor

One takeaway from the pandemic response that shut down public buildings, including the Brookfield Public Library – Brookfield library card holders really like this curbside service idea. Since curbside service was launched June 3, according to Library Director Kimberly Coughran, staff have served an average of about 50 patrons daily. “The library is covered in brown paper bags,” Coughran said. So, when Brookfield Public Library, 3609 Grand Blvd., opens its doors for limited

indoor services on July 8, the curbside service program will remain a priority. But, the library will offer – on an appointment-only basis – use of some services for an hour at a time. The library’s hours will remain the same as curbside pickup, Monday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Library officials are allowing patrons to reserve time to use computers, the photocopier and scan/fax station and notary public services. Patrons can use computers for one hour at a time, although that could be extended if there are openings in the schedule, Coughran said.

Patrons will not be allowed to browse the stacks or use other rooms in the library. “It’s basically for folks who don’t have home internet service, and things people can’t otherwise get access to,” Coughran said. To make a reservation, patrons can call 708-485-6917, ext. 130 or email reference@ brookfieldlibrary.info. Patrons won’t not be allowed to enter the library unless they’ve made an appointment. Employees and patrons must wear face coverings while inside the library and staff will sanitize computers, door handles and all high-touch surfaces often daily. All materials returned to the library will be

placed in quarantine for 72 hours before making them available again to the public. In addition to the curbside service and limited onsite services, patrons can still avail themselves of the library’s digital collections of movies, e-books and more 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The library will also continue to offer virtual events and presentations on its Facebook page and via Zoom. Patrons looking to talk to a librarian can schedule a one-on-one “Book a Librarian” appointment, which can be held over the phone or via Zoom, by calling 708-485-6917, ext. 130. More information is available on the library’s website at brookfieldlibrary.info.

The Landmark, June 24, 2020

Riverside trustees OK long-term extension for trash hauling Multifamily building owner questions rates charged for larger properties By BOB UPHUES Editor

Riverside trustees voted 5-0 on June 18 to extend the village’s waste hauling contract with Flood Brothers Disposal Co., agreeing on a seven-year deal that will freeze customer rates for 2020 and offer additional services to residents at no charge. Beginning in 2021, rates will increase by 2.75 percent annually. The contract is retroactive to June 1 and will expire June 30, 2027. Single-family residential customers through the first year of the deal will continue to be billed $41.96 on a bimonthly basis for curbside pickup of trash, recycling and yard waste. Backdoor pickup is available for both trash and recycling for an additional charge of $6.15 per billing period. Senior citizens qualify for a 15-percent discount on waste hauling services. In obtaining a long-term deal with the village, Flood Brothers agreed to offer its yard waste/food scrap mixed collection for composting to all single-family and multifamily residential customers at no extra cost. Composting was a service Flood Brothers previously charged for. The company has also agreed to provide

pumpkin composting events anenough that he doesn’t use indinually at no extra charge to the vidual trash containers, but invillage and to host a household stead uses dumpsters for trash shredding and hazardous items collection. Yet, the cost for Flood collection event at no cost. It will Brothers to collect trash from continue to offer recycling of his dumpsters is far in excess electronics, lightbulbs and batof what the company charges teries. commercial customers that use While trustees were unanidumpsters. mous in agreeing to the deal, the That additional cost for trash contract was met with some propickup, Weaver said, is passed test by the owner of a multifamialong to tenants, resulting in ly building who complained that higher rents. multifamily customers were un“We would ask that you add a THOMAS WEAVER fairly being charged rates that, line … that allows the owner the Apartment building owner in effect, went to subsidize waste option to be priced as commerhauling for other customers in cial or not,” Weaver said. “We Riverside. would choose commercial, beThomas Weaver, who is presicause we’re using a commercial dent of a property ownership and manage- service.” ment firm that owns a 26-unit apartment Michael Flood, municipal manager for building at Lincoln Avenue and Park Place, Flood Brothers, told trustees that the mulsaid he was surprised at how expensive multifamily building rate structure, which tifamily waste hauling rates were. Flood Brothers negotiated when it won the For buildings of eight units or more, Flood contract in 2015, predated his company’s inBrothers charges $17.49 per unit for twice- volvement in Riverside. The previous waste weekly pickup of trash. Recycling pickup is hauler had a similar rate structure, he said. In addition, Flood said Riverside and its weekly and costs $4.10 per unit. Weaver said that his buildings were large multifamily customers get access to the ad-

“We just want to be treated like anybody else that uses this kind of service.”

ditional services, such as composting, that are not available to municipal customers elsewhere. Trustee Edward Hannon said the rate structure for multifamily buildings wasn’t a new concept and that he understood that in order to obtain the revenue target it was looking for, Flood Brothers had to divide costs in a way they felt worked best. If multifamily building owners were looking to obtain lower rates, that cost would either be passed on to the rest of Riverside customers or the company would have to eliminate extra services. “It’s a zero-sum game,” Hannon said. Flood Brothers is looking for a bottom-line number and the question I’d ask the apartment owners is, what additional services are they willing to cut? … What would they put on the table to offset that rate reduction? Or is this just a way to avoid cutting into the margins or having the decision of having to increase the rental rates.” Weaver said his point was that he wanted multifamily building owners to be treated equitably. “We just want to be treated like anybody else that uses this kind of service,” Weaver said.

Riverside adds planned unit developments to zoning code Allows more flexibility for developers, leverage for village

By BOB UPHUES Editor

Real estate developers who once may have bypassed Riverside because its zoning code lacked flexibility may now give the village another look, officials hope, after trustees voted 5-0 on June 18 to amend the code and add a planned unit development (PUD) process to it. Instead of simply making developers go through unpredictable zoning variance hearings or having to accept substandard developments that fit the letter of the zoning code, Riverside officials hope a planned unit development process will benefit both developers and the village. “In general a PUD provides options to get a quality product everybody will be happy with,” said Riverside Community Development Director Sonya Abt. “With infill development, there can be factors that make it prohibitive to a developer. Having a PUD

in the code is helpful in showing that the village is willing to look at options for a developer, and it gives us a fair bit of leverage to get what we want in terms of a quality product.” While some municipalities, like Brookfield, require planned unit developments to be a certain size, Riverside will have no such limitation. They can also be a tool used in any zoning district, including residential districts, although the process can’t be used to construct single-family homes. Planned developments are also subject to the underlying zoning of a particular district, unless an exception is granted. For example, there are churches and schools that have existed for decades in single-family zoning districts. Riverside School District 96 is in the midst of a major expansion at Ames School, a project that may have benefitted from a planned unit development process rather than a straight zoning review.

“Those unique legacy uses, I think make for opportunities to provide more workable solutions,” Abt said. The planned development process, however, will be most useful in commercial and mixed-use redevelopment in the village’s downtown and Harlem Avenue business districts, where developments might seek exceptions to height, bulk and density standards in exchange for the village obtaining high-quality design and/or public amenities, such as underground parking, park space, a reduction in the use of impervious materials, additional landscape screening or preservation of historical features. Planned unit developments are allowed as special uses in all zoning districts and are subject to a public hearing in front of the Planning and Zoning Commission during the preliminary design review stage. Trustees also agreed to add language to the code that will require planned unit

developments to get a hearing before the Riverside Preservation Commission, after that advisory group raised concerns that such developments might harm the village’s designation as a national historic landmark. Once those groups consider the preliminary review and submit their recommendations, it will go to the village board for a vote. If village trustees approve the preliminary design, the developer will then submit a final design, which the village’s zoning administrator – in this case Abt – will analyze to make sure it’s in conformance with the preliminary plan. If it is, the village board will vote to approve or deny the final plan. Any changes to the plan after that final approval will need to be reviewed. Minor changes can be handled by Abt, but major changes trigger another public hearing before the Planning and Zoning Commission and a vote of the village board.

Read it online at www.rblandmark.com

The Landmark, June 24, 2020

LEGAL NOTICE VILLAGE OF BROOKFIELD, COOK COUNTY ILLINOIS ANNUAL TREASURER’S REPORT FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2019 General BEGINNING FUND BALANCE/NET POSITION AT JANUARY 1, 2019 REVENUES/ADDITIONS EXPENDITURES/EXPENSES/DEDUCTIONS OTHER FINANCING SOURCES AND USES ENDING FUND BALANCE/NET POSITION AT 12-31-2019

Special Revenue

Debt Service

Capital Projects

Enterprise

Trust and Agency

Total

1,770,989 17,316,239

1,917,185 1,202,132

8,801 1,838,117

3,351,458 240,381

20,968,234 9,094,738

34,713,228 9,937,527

62,729,895 39,629,134

(17,543,798) 248,995 1,792,425

(481,485) (600,000) 2,037,832

(3,210,352) 1,400,000 36,566

(3,946,900) (355,061)

(7,764,364) (1,069,061) 21,229,547

(3,112,529) 41,538,226

(36,059,428) (20,066) 66,279,535

Subscribed and Sworn on this 24th day of June, 2020

DOUGLAS E. COOPER, VILLAGE TREASURER RECEIPTS SUMMARY: PROPERTY TAX - CORPORATE LEVIES, $5,244,413.91, PROPERTY TAX - POLICE PENSION LEVY, $1,921,129.51, PROPERTY TAX FIREFIGHTERS PENSION, $1,093,090.72, PROPERTY TAX-TOWNSHIP ROAD & BRIDGE, $31,175.25, PROPERTY TAX - OGDEN AVE. TIF, $351,477.32, PROPERTY TAX - 2016 GO BOND ISSUE, $1,039,756.92, PROPERTY TAX 2018 G O BOND ISSUE, $763,324.17, PROPERTY TAXES 8 CORNERS TIF, $187,755.15, PROPERTY TAX-SSA #7, $31,626.79, UTILITY TAXELECTRIC, $447,885.53, UTILITY TAX-NATURAL GAS, $278,100.14, TELECOMMUNICATIONS TAX, $271,699.21, WATER UTILITY TAX, $259,747.14, HOTEL MOTEL TAX, $15,167.71, PLACES FOR EATING TAX, $143,466.66, VIDEO GAMING TAX, $162,763.78, SALES TAX, $864,963.13, NON-HOME RULE SALES TAX, $666,397.76, INCOME TAX, $2,020,000.60, LOCAL USE TAX, $640,348.83, PERSONAL PROPERTY REPLACEMENT TAX, $80,011.78, MOTOR FUEL TAX, $622,590.42, OTHER STATE SHARED TAXES, $1,069.25, LICENSE - SOLICITORS, $775.00, LICENSE-CONTRACTORS & RELATED TRADES, $98,300.00, LICENSE-VIDEO GAMING MACHINE, $1,700.00, BUSINESS LICENSE REVENUES, $45,633.00, LICENSE-ALCOHOLIC LIQUOR CLASS 1, $7,830.00, LICENSE-ALCOHOLIC LIQUOR CLASS 2, $33,600.00, LICENSE-ALCOHOLIC LIQUOR CLASS 3, $24,000.00, LICENSE-ALCOHOLIC LIQUOR CLASS 4, $1,400.00, LICENSE-ALCOHOLIC LIQUOR CLASS 5, $3,000.00, LICENSE-ALCOHOLIC LIQUOR CLASS 6, $1,000.00, LICENSE-ALCOHOLIC LIQUOR CLASS 7&7A, $14,000.00, LICENSE-ALCOHOLIC LIQUOR CLASS 13, $1,100.00, LICENSE-ALCOHOLIC LIQUOR CLASS S, $4,860.00, LICENSE-PASSENGER CAR, $580,203.45, LICENSE-LIQUOR CLASS 10, $2,200.00, LIQUOR CLASS 11, $1,250.00, LICENSE - CLASS 12 BYOB, $1,000.00, PERMIT-BUILDING, $314,438.67, PERMIT-OTHER BUILDING, $3,150.00, PERMIT-COMMUTER PARKING, $61,490.00, PERMITDUMPSTER, $8,100.00, PERMIT-PICNIC, $11,045.00, PERMIT-RB PARKING, $1.00, FRANCHISE FEECABLE TV, $271,195.52, AMBULANCE & EMS FEE, $425,262.07, ANIMAL IMPOUND FEE, $55.00, SPECIAL REGISTRATION FEES - PD, $870.00, DAILY PARKING FEE, $51,064.59, FILING & VARIANCE FEE, $675.00, GARBAGE CHARGES, $2,208,484.51, INSPECTION FEE, $14,400.00, POLICE/FIRE REPORT FEE, $50.00, POLICE/FIRE REPORT FEE, $2,680.00, POLICE/FIRE REPORT FEE, $75.00, 50/50 SIDEWALK REPLACEMENT SALES, $9,362.50, 50/50 TREE REPLACEMENT SALES, $5,440.00, WATER SALES, $5,456,697.00, WATER METER INSTALLATION/REPLACEMENT, $25,779.55, SEWER CHARGES, $1,252,762.98, WATER TURN ON FEES, $24,395.00, PROGRAM FEES-TOT PREP 3'S REC HOUSE, $7,850.00, PROGRAM FEES-TOTS PREP 3'S WATER TOW, $6,328.00, PROGRAM FEES-TOTS PREP 4'S-REC HOUSE, $12,399.00, PROGRAM FEES-TOTS PREP 4'S-WATER TOW, $11,208.00, PROGRAM FEES-YOUTH ART, $2,032.00, PROGRAM FEES-REC HOUSE CAMP 3'S & 4'S, $9,911.00, PROGRAM FEES-REC HOUSE CAMP 5'S & 6'S, $1,416.00, PROGRAM FEES-KAMP KIWANIS, $96,648.65, PROGRAM FEES-MENS BASKETBALL, $1,929.60, PROGRAM FEES-COED VOLLEYBALL, $2,350.30, PROGRAM FEES-COOP LA GRANGE PARK, $9,622.00, PROGRAM FEES-CONTRACT WHITE WOLF ACADEMY, $2,361.67, PROGRAM FEES-CONTRACT KIDS FIRST SPORTS, $(62.00), PROGRAM FEES-CONTRACT ELITE DANCE, $6,939.50, EVENT SPONSORSHIP SALES, $4,050.00, PROGRAM FEES-OTHER RECREATION, $38,968.07, LATE PAYMENT PENALTY, $121,868.10, NSF CHECK CHARGE, $714.80, CIRCUIT COURT FINES, $25,539.71, PARKING TICKET FINES, $380,345.48, ADMIN TOW FEES, $18,000.00, POLICE FORFEITURE INCOME, $132,937.49, BUILDING CODE VIOLATION FINES, $50,880.00, ANTENNA SITE LEASE, $48,771.52, BROOKFIELD AVE TRAIN STATION RENTALS, $7,734.52, STATE GRANTS, $1,100.00, TOWNSHIP GRANTS, $21,900.00, OTHER GRANTS, $145,314.97, SPECIAL ASSESSMENT CLEARING ACCOUNT, $26,190.76, Special Assessment #359, $105,247.37, INTEREST -POLICE PENSION FUND, $3,334,190, FIREFIGHTER’S

PENSION FUND - $3,033,827.26, INTEREST FROM DEPOSITS, $103,324.53, Special Assessment #361, $33,303.37, GASOLINE TAX REIMBURSEMENT, $2,802.72, EXPENSE REIMBURSEMENT, $159,145.91, INSURANCE REIMBURSEMENT, $2,629.60, STATE REIMBURSEMENT, $17,181.07, WORKERS COMPENSATION REIMBURSEMENT, $61,514.96, OTHER REIMBURSEMENTS, $15,000.00, EMPLOYER CONTRIBUTIONS, $3,014,220.23, ACTIVE MEMBER CONTRIBUTIONS, $486,655.49, DONATIONS, $14,190.00, IRMA SURPLUS REVENUE, $43,876.01, CASH OVER/ SHORT, $11.71, MISCELLANEOUS, $21,907.41, TRANSFER IN FROM GENERAL FUND, $360,000.00, TRANSFER IN FROM MFT FUND, $600,000.00, PROCEEDS FROM SALE OF FIXED ASSETS, $8,994.69. TOTAL REVENUE $40,720,557.73. DISBURSEMENTS SUMMARY: VENDOR PAYMENTS GREATER THAN $2,500:-Aclara Technologies LLC, $9,510.00, Air One Equipment, Inc., $3,954.00, Airgas USA LLC, $7,538.21, AJLM Construction, Inc., $3,000.00, Alexander Equipment Co., Inc., $5,854.17, Alta Construction Equipment LLC, $3,824.81, Alternative Energy Solutions, $3,029.00, Amalgamated Bank of Chicago, $3,133,195.00, American Fidelity Assurance, $15,667.97, American Solutions for Business, $2,604.82, AT&T, $44,797.38, Atlas Companies, $3,753.57, Avalon Petroleum Co., $117,521.20, B & F Construction Code Services, Inc., $51,808.47, B Allan Graphics, $6,569.56, BENISTAR/HARTFORD, $9,282.46, Best Technology Systems Inc, $5,800.00, Blue Cross Blue Shield of IL, $1,824,037.90, Breakaway Basketball, $7,532.00, BRIGHTLEAF HOMES LLC, $4,900.00, Brookfield Chamber of Commerce, $7,019.29, Brookfield Public Library, $12,331.66, Brookfield/North Riverside Water Commission, $3,495,411.67, Call One, $46,638.14, Calumet City Plumbing Co., Inc, $5,980.00, Car Reflections, $2,780.00, Cargill Incorporated, $78,790.43, Case Lots, Inc., $12,410.35, Ciorba Group, $197,006.15, CLARK DIETZ, $10,850.00, Comcast, $4,830.84, ComEd, $93,307.14, Communications Direct Inc., $6,379.10, Constellation NewEnergy, Inc., $56,200.57, Cook County Dept of Public Health, $16,700.00, Copenhaver Construction, Inc, $36,606.63, Core & Main, $9,568.78, County of Cook, Illinois, $2,587.46, Cummins Npower LLC, $2,934.96, De Lage Landen Public Finance, $22,941.09, Delta Dental Of Illinois , $106,289.12, Desitter Flooring, Inc, $3,148.93, Digital Assurance Certification, LLC, $2,750.00, Douglas Auto Body, Inc, $8,148.16, Du Page Topsoil Inc., $8,310.00, Eagle Uniform Co, Inc, The, $11,484.25, Electrical Resource Management, $5,493.01, Elmhurst Occupational Health, $3,900.00, Emergency Reporting, $2,527.00, Factory Motor Parts, $6,100.87, Fire Service, Inc., $3,725.47, First National Bank of Brookfield, $388,908.39, FRASCO INVESTIGATIVE SERVICES, $7,034.60, Freeway Ford Truck Sales Inc., $33,209.87, Full Circle K9 Solutions Inc, $3,025.00, Future Industrial Technologies, Inc, $5,504.00, Future Technology Systems, $8,039.00, Gallagher Materials, $5,891.80, Garvey's Office Products, $12,390.87, Gasaway Distributors Inc, $4,991.24, GBJ Sales, LLC, $2,872.30, GC Pivotal LLC, $4,707.77, Gear Wash, LLC, $6,374.96, GIS Consortium, $4,000.00, GovTempsUSA, LLC, $49,224.00, GRANDE DAME CONDOMINIUMS/DT GROUP, $3,000.00, Groot Industries, Inc., $1,540,456.98, GROSSDALE PROPERTIES, $3,000.00, Growing Community Media, NFP, $21,024.00, Grund & Riesterer Architects Inc., $11,400.00, Hancock Engineering, $814,216.10, Healy Renovations, $3,000.00, Heat Engineering Co, The, $23,380.36, Hitchcock Design Group, $9,420.88, HL Landscape, $92,051.25, I/O Solutions, Inc, $9,266.00, Illinois EPA, $6,000.00, Impact Networking, LLC, $21,865.64, IMRF, $777,325.37, Ingenii, LLC, $2,726.42, Interstate Battery System of Central Chicago, $2,887.90, IRMA, $87,021.46, JCM Uniforms Inc., $8,513.72, Julie, Inc., $3,306.76, K.C. Mechanical, Inc., $19,257.79, Kane, Mc Kenna and Associates, Inc., $56,156.00, Kiesler's Police Supply, $5,642.18, KLF Enterprises, $50,000.00, Lakeview Bus Lines Inc, $9,588.00, Lauterbach & Amen, LLP, $83,660.00, Law Offices of John L Fioti, $20,837.50, Lawson Products, Inc., $6,495.20, LEHIGH HANSON, $23,373.39, Lenartson, Ann, $5,137.20, Lindahl Brothers, Inc, $4,208,402.58,

Lindco Equipment Sales, Inc, $12,585.00, Living Waters Consultants, Inc., $8,200.00, Lyons Pinner Electric Co, $46,755.16, M.E. Simpson Co., Inc., $69,281.00, MABAS Division 10, $6,340.00, Madison National Life Insurance Co., $8,070.40, Marathon Sportswear, $5,828.48, Menards, $5,624.72, Metropolitan Industries Inc, $26,700.23, Midwest Meter Inc., $74,733.71, Miles Chevrolet, $39,343.00, Miner Electronics Corp, $14,002.95, Monroe Truck Equipment, $7,749.75, Montedor, Inc, $4,695.60, Morning, Noon & Night Plumbing, $11,325.00, Motorola Solutions, Inc., $4,057.00, MRugged Mobile Technology, $7,842.45, Municode, $5,099.00, MYS, Inc., $5,000.00, NAPA Auto Parts, $13,281.15, National Seed , $4,580.00, NICK'S METAL FABRICATING, $4,058.20, NICOR, $4,448.95, North East Multi Regional Training, $7,095.00, NORTHERN LIGHTS DISPLAY, $4,896.99, Nutoys Leisure Products, $12,027.02, Orkin Inc., $7,909.02, Otis Elevator Co., $4,045.75, Paramedic Billing Services, $3,379.03, PassportParking Inc, $4,882.25, Perfect Mulch Products, $4,451.36, PERSONNEL STRATEGIES. LLC, $2,700.00, Petrak, Edward, $3,588.85, Physio Control, Inc., $5,198.40, Portable John, Inc., $5,296.81, Priority Print, $8,759.25, Prism Entertainment LTD, $2,500.00, ProxIT Technology Solutions, $183,031.94, Quadient, $14,113.97, Quadient Leasing USA, Inc, $4,682.76, Ray O'Herron Co., Inc., $16,748.06, Red Arrow Sales, $8,300.00, RelaDyne, LLC, $4,302.68, RS Masonry Restoration Inc, $4,168.00, Rubino Engineering Inc., $14,502.00, Rush Truck Center Chicago, $9,794.66, Russel's Painting, $13,700.00, Sam's Club, $3,404.99, Schomig Land Surveyors LTD, $3,825.00, Schroeder & Schroeder Inc, $88,011.00, Scot Decal Co., Inc., $11,851.80, SEASPAR, $92,288.38, Sherwin Williams Co., $6,751.86, Six F Studio, LLC, $7,985.00, Smart Energy Water, $17,500.00, SNI Solutions, $3,850.00, Southwest Spring Inc., $3,151.79, Special T Unlimited, $4,096.00, Sports Kids Inc, $3,704.40, St. Aubin Nursery & Landscape, $14,775.00, Standard Equipment Co., $28,136.45, Storino, Ramello & Durkin, $305,172.60, Suburban General Construction, Inc., $3,500.00, Suburban Laboratories, Inc., $5,819.00, Suburban Truck Parts, $5,569.40, Superior Road Striping Inc, $38,883.25, Third Millennium Associates, Inc, $46,351.08, Three Oaks Ground Cover, $4,425.00, Tischler Finer Foods, $4,951.04, Traffic Control & Protection, $23,997.00, Treasurer, State of Illinois, $340,350.90, Triggi Construction, Inc., $425,670.09, Truenorth Consultants, $8,350.00, Tyler Technologies, $50,132.73, Unified Roof Restoration, $2,650.00, Unifirst Corporation, $26,679.61, University of Illinois, $2,567.00, Verizon Wireless, $39,288.13, Vermont Systems, Inc, $3,359.57, Village of Brookfield Police and Firefighter Pension Funds-Village Contributions, $3,011,385, Village of La Grange Park, $3,439.86, Village of North Riverside, $32,474.10, Village of Romeoville Fire Academy, $5,205.00, Visa, $105,297.43, Visit Oak Park, $19,000.00, W.S. Darley & Co., $5,060.13, WC3, $318,998.59, Wentworth Tire Service, $7,624.14, West Central Municipal Conference, $39,246.44, West Cook County Solid Waste Agency, $251,866.53, Westfield Ford, $4,492.33, Wholesale Direct Inc., $6,066.74, Windy City Lock & Safe Service, $3,444.80, Winter Equipment Company, Inc., $6,380.52, COMCAST, $2,709.72, Fifth Third Bank, $30,065.36, Illinois Public Pension Fund Association, $4,310.00, Illinois State Treasurer, $3,567.91, Illinois State Treasurer, $3,298.06,K Five Construction Corp, $3,104.52, Matt Dubik, $8,575.00, MB Financial Bank, $14,782.54, Mesirow Insurance Services, Inc, $4,304.00, Reimer Dobrovolny & Karlson LLC, $3,749.88, Sawyer Falduto Asset Mgmt LLC, $65,487.00. TOTAL VENDOR PAYMENTS $2,500 OR GREATER--$27,365,475.32. VENDOR PAYMENTS LESS THAN $2,500 - $226,741.98. TOTAL VENDOR PAYMENTS - $27,592,217.30. EMPLOYEE COMPENSATION SUMMARY: EMPLOYEE COMPENSATION SUMMARY: Under $20,000: BYKOWICZ, STEVEN, SLINKMAN, HAROLD, FREEMAN, ROGER R, LARSON, JOHN, CURIN, JOHN J., DOSEK, PATRICIA, BOZZI, TRINA, TACKETT, LESLIE A, ROQUE, JOSIAH J, EVANS, RYAN, RYAN, MICHELLE, SCHMIDTHUBER, LINDA LOUISE, CLEVENGER, JENINE L., SITTON, ELAYNA E, OBERT, LAUREL D, GOMEZ, OLIVIA M, SCHAFFER, MELISSA, MORRISS,

NOAH H, COOPER, GRACE L, PICTON, ZACHARY S, PETRUNCIO, ALEXANDRA L, GONZALEZ, AMAYA S, CLARKE, BRENDAN M, COOPER, ELEANOR C, BAULOS, PATRICIA E., CONROY, BRIAN G, KALUZNY, KATHRYN S, RURKA, ISABEL A, KWILAS, MEGAN R, WESTEL, MARCIE L, KWILAS, RYAN R, WOODS, CLAIRE M, MARCHAN, ANIKA G, MORRILL, MARY M., MEEKS, SARA K, CHMURA, PATTI D, LARSON, SUSAN, KENNING, JOAN, COTE, EDWARD, GARVEY, MICHAEL J., GILHOOLEY, NICOLE, LECLERE, DAVID P., DEL FIACCO, DANIEL L, PETRAK, EDWARD J, WEBER, BRIGID, MORRISS, CAROLYN, WURST, DARLENE C, COOK, TINA, COOK, BEVERLY J., SLINKMAN, SHARON L., DIGIOVANNI, KATHLEEN, CIESIELCZYK, SUZANNE, MORRILL, THOMAS, ANGELL, KATHRYN L, CONNELL, ANNA V., CULVER, DIANA, MUDJER, MARIJA, DE STEFANO, ANITA T, CABALA-LOWRY, GAIL, DUFFEK, MARK, PETRILLO, NICHOLAS, COSTABILE, JOHN R, KETCHMARK, KIT P., PAINTER, JOSEPHINE, BOKSA, VINCENT G, PICTON, KELLY, $20,000 to $39,999: THIESSE, DANIEL C., GORNIAK, JOANNE, MC MAHON, LISA, MICHAELS, DIANA L, KLICKER, ROSS C, GUARINO, RICHARD, KONOVSKY, WILLIAM, HULL, MARY, PECK, JOSEPH, CERVENKA, WILLIAM, CICHON, THOMAS A, PALERMINI, TERESE, RYAN, JILLENE, $40,000 to $59,999: MC DONALD, TRAVIS R, ZAK, CHARLES, MAJTHOUB, HASSAN, DUFFEK, CURTIS J, VARGAS, FREDDY, NOTHNAGEL, ROGER W., SHEEHAN, CAROLINE K, KELLY, GLORIA, REED, CHARLES D, OLIVER, FRANK, SHILNEY, MEGAN D, VUKELICH, ELYSE M, ZAHROBSKY, ALICE, REICH, THOMAS, SANDERS, DAVID, JOHNSON, SANDRA, VILLALOBOS, HILDA M, LOWERY, ANDREW, CONRAD, JOYCE, MIKOWSKI, FRANK, $60,000 to $79,999: HARRINGTON, ANDREW, POWERS, DAVID J., COADY, THERESA M., ESTERLINE, DEREK, BENSFIELD, BENSFIELD, GJONDLA, JOAN, POLICH, TYLER, KUTELLA, LAWRENCE, RADDE, RICHARD, EPISCOPO, JAMES, ROVNER, JESSICA L., AIRDO, VINCENT, FRAGA, VINCENT M, KROSS, KENT G., ISSAKOO, ADLIL A, WEBB, LORI A., GAHR, KEVIN, BROWN-LUCE, MICHELLE C., CHAPKOVIC, RICHARD, FERRARI, STEVIE J, MORRISON, SCOTT, GREIFER, NICHOLAS W., CONRAD, RICHARD S., SCHOENFELD, THOMAS, $80,000 to $99,999 HULTMAN, JON, SEBEK, RICHARD, KISSANE, JOHN MICHAEL, WALKE, MARK, RYAN, MARK, TRUDEAU, PAUL R., UDSTUEN, MICHAEL D., YACOVACCI, ANTHONY, HAYNES, SPELMON, KROSS, KENT, MAREK, FRED, MARINO, JOHN, GOLDEN, KATHLEEN A., KOPEC, DAVID, LEH, JEFFERY, MORONEY, TIM, TOKMANIAN, KARNIG G., PORTER, ERIK C, BERMANN, PAUL, LENZI, PATRICK, STAROSTA, JOSEPH, BRETZ, MICHAEL J., SWIERCZYNSKI, ROMAN, KRECEK, JAMES, MITIU, WILLIAM, POLLARD, MARK R., ZONTOS, ANDY, JANUSZ, VICTOR H., HILDEBRAND, KENT, MUELL, CARL S, $100,000 to $119,999: BURRELL, DWAYNE A., JIMENEZ, CARLOS, BERRY, KEVIN J., MC CARTHY, DANIEL M., ROCHE, DANIEL P., ARNISH, ZAK A., HARRISON, DAVID J., LIVERMORE, HERBERT, MANESCALCHI, MICHAEL, FLORES, DANIEL M., MC GRATH, ROBERT, KUNCL, ARTHUR, JELINEK, BRIAN T., EPISCOPO, JAMES L., MC MAHON, MATTHEW, ZEMAN, ANTHONY J., COOPER, DOUGLAS E, BANDOLA, CHRISTOPHER M., MC BRIEN, PATRICK, KUDLA, DAVID A., WEISSGERBER, EDWARD J., DUBIN, RICHARD, KLOSS, BRIAN W., KURUVILLA, MICHAEL J. $120,000 to $140,000, BURDETT, JAMES R., MIHALIK, JAMES M., DUBIK, MATTHEW P., FISHER, MARC S., POSKUS, DAVID J., HARTNETT, KEVIN M., TESKA, MICHAEL J., ROBBINS, MICHELLE L., WITTEMAN, NICHOLAS G., ANDEL, DAVID J., HAHN, NICHOLAS R., WONSOWSKI, KEITH R., ALVARADO, RAFAEL R., BAUMRUCK, JASON T., SAULTERS, SCOTT R., BALSIGER, DANIEL C., PETRAK, EDWARD A., PACYGA, BRADLEY N., SHAMASKO JR, ROBERT L., PALOS, ROBERT H., ROMEO, CHARLES E., BALDWIN, BRIAN K., MC EWAN, MARK A., REYES, ANTHONY A., PATON, RAYMOND J., SCHREIBER, TERRY S. $140,000 and ABOVE: WIBERG, TIMOTHY C, DUFFEK, MARK S.

The Landmark, June 24, 2020

Opinion KOSEY CORNER

THE LANDMARK VIEW

Why not a Juneteenth holiday?

ow was your Juneteenth? What’s that? You’re not familiar with that term? It’s not surprising. Many people, especially white people, have been unaware of Juneteenth for well over a century, though among the country’s Black population it’s a sacred day. In short, Juneteenth commemorates the day when the institution of slavery ended, for good, in the United States. More than two months after the Civil War ended and more than two years after Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, on June 19, 1865, Union General Gordon Granger landed with his troops at Galveston, Texas, to enforce Lincoln’s abolition of slavery. Granger read aloud General Order No. 3: “The people of Texas are informed that in accordance with a Proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between employer and hired laborer.” In the century plus that followed, particularly in Texas but elsewhere in the U.S., June 19, or Juneteenth, became a day of celebration for Black Americans. The rest of the population, however, ignored it. Does anyone over the age of 40 remember being taught about Juneteenth in high school American history class? We sure can’t remember it. Our recollection of 19th American history class was the less said about slavery, the better. Slavery existed in the South, there was a war, the Union won and slavery was abolished. Reconstruction followed and at some point ended. Carpetbaggers were involved. That approach to American history is now changing, and it’s about time. It’s past time we as Americans, particularly white Americans, confront that history. In Riverside on June 19, more than 100 people – mostly in their teens and 20s – sought to do that, marching from the North Riverside Police Department to Guthrie Park in Riverside. Perhaps the date was coincidental, but those who organized the demonstration to demand racial justice and police accountability recognized its significance. After kneeling silently for almost nine minutes in memory of George Flood and other people of color who have died needlessly at the hands of police, a recent high school graduate picked up the bullhorn and read aloud the Emancipation Proclamation. Raise your hand if that was the first time you’d consumed the entire contents of that document. The moment also marked, we’re guessing for the first time in its history, Riverside’s first Juneteenth celebration. It was a solemn commemoration. Juneteenth is recognized as a ceremonial holiday in 47 states, including Illinois, and Gov. J.B. Pritzker says he’ll push for making Juneteenth an official state holiday. Federal legislation may also be in the works to make Juneteenth a national holiday. It’s kind of amazing that it’s taken this nation 155 years to think to formally mark the end of its most shameful chapter. Although that’s probably the reason; we don’t like to reflect on things that don’t make us look good. But the day marking the end of the enslavement of a large swath of this nation’s people? We can’t think of a more fitting reason to celebrate.

Riverside ready for very different festive Fourth

iverside, this parade is for you. The Friends of the Fourth along with the village of Riverside will be bringing the parade to your home on the morning of July 4. Despite the coronavirus epidemic, the Friends of the Fourth wanted to maintain the village’s tradition of celebrating Independence Day. It is a continuation of an effort the group started 10 years ago when the village was going to discontinue the parade citing a lack of funds. In 2020, Riverside’ parade will be much shorter, but no less meaningful. This year is a tribute to the first responders of our village -- our police and fire departments. The parade will assemble and start at 9 a.m. with a fire truck driven by Fire Chief Matt Buckley, followed by Police Chief Tom Weitzel driving a police car. Following them in a Riverside Recreation Department truck will be Recreation Director Ron Malchiodi and Public Works transporting a Zydeco band. Riverside TV will travel along, capturing the event. The parade will wind through the streets of the village, with the intent of making an appearance on every street – both east and west of First Avenue -- thus bringing the parade to you. How can you participate? Decorate your homes,

fly the flag, wear your most festive patriotic clothes, make ‘thank you’ signs, because Riverside TV will be televising residents as much as possible, and you might see yourself on TV. July 3 will be quieter than other years, but Riverside TV has put together highlights of the past 10 years since the Friends of the Fourth became involved with the Concert in the Park. The special will be played on Riverside TV that night at a time yet to be determined. The show, along with the parade, will appear periodically on Riverside TV throughout the year. This event could not be brought to you without the cooperation of the village of Riverside, in particular the Recreation Department. The Friends of the Fourth would also like to thank Village President Ben Sells, whose message to the residents can be seen on the July 3 telecast, and Jennifer Pollock, whose recording of the National Anthem will kick off the show. We hope you will enjoy another Riverside July 4 celebration, knowing that it will not be quite the same as former years, but will be celebration of cooperation, thanks and good will. Remember to be safe and know the Friends of the Fourth will be working towards a great Riverside July 3 and 4 of 2021.

JOANNE KOSEY

LETTERS

Allowing gravel driveways the right call I was surprised and pleased to read that the Riverside Board of Trustees has voted to allow gravel driveways to remain instead of requiring them to be replaced with paving. Their comments, however, are another example of how totally “unwoke” the board, and Riverside in general is, about environmental issues. When properly installed, gravel drives are very effective in water management, because they allow water to percolate into the earth, instead of streaming off into lower areas, like yards, and flooding them. They are a much better alternative than the ubiquitous asphalt or concrete paving and even more historically accurate. If more Riverside residents had gravel drive-

ways, it would be a big step toward helping alleviate the flooding problems that have become annual events here. While permeable pavers are good, they are more expensive to install and do require maintenance, which is never cheap, because they can silt up over time and thereby lose effectiveness. Obviously that is why the village obtained federal grants for the Burlington and train station parking lots. It is gratifying to see the board making an environmentally sound decision even if they are unaware of it.

Jacquelyn Paine Riverside

The Landmark, June 24, 2020

OBITUARIES

Kathleen Gaughan, 97 Homemaker Kathleen “Kitty” Gaughan (nee Hayden), 97, of Brookfield, died June 8, 2020. Ms. Gaughan was born Feb. 11, 1923 on a farm in in Oldleighlin, County Carlow, Ireland to Eamon and Anne (nee Doran) Hayden. She was one of nine children. She never was at a loss for companionship, and her childhood tales are the fabric of Irish lore. Kitty traveled to London to get her nursing certificate and KATHLEEN GAUGHAN then immigrated to America where she married her long-term sweetheart, John T. Gaughan, who preceded his wife in death. From her family, her furry friends and her gardens, she did it well, always bringing that glorious Irish smile to make you feel safe and loved. Ms. Gaughan was the mother of the late John J., Edmund (Susan), the late Kevin, Gerald and Barry (Maureen); the grandmother of Kenzie, Shane, Gerald, Ashley, Jack, Layla, Dayton Darby; and the great grandmother Owen. Due to COVID-19 regulations, the family has elected to keep visitation and services Private for family members. Interment is at Queen of Heaven Cemetery, Hillside. If you would like to express your condolences to the family, visit HitzemanFuneral.

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Kay Krakora, 83 Longtime Brookfield resident Kay Krakora (nee Greco), 83, a resident of Brookfield for over 50 years, died June 6, 2020. Ms. Krakora was born in Berwyn to the late Anthony and Violet Heisman. She adored every moment that she spent with her grandchildren, great grandchildren, family and friends. She simply enjoyed reading a book to feeding the birds, knitting, sewing and even going out to lunch. Ms. Krakora took pride in her many years working at University of Illinois-Chicago in the Department of Graduate Medical Education with a group of ladies who became lifelong friends. She was married for 61 years and preceded in death by the love of her life, the late Joseph Krakora. She was the mother of Pam (Tom) Ackerman, Kathy (Tony) Mogorovic, and Dina (Kevin) Cox; the grandmother of Louie (Jessica), Zachary and Anna Dietz; Megan and Sarah Mogorovic; Jason and Katelyn Cox; the great grandmother of Teagan Dietz; the sister of Joanne (Jim) Guastella; the cousin of MaryAnn Baur; the aunt of Dan and Mike (Chrissy) Guastella; and the great aunt of Grace and Samantha Guastella. Funeral services are private and arrangements have been made by Woodlawn Funeral Home, Forest Park.

Why Black is now capitalized in our stories A small but notable change These are days of mighty change that we are reporting on in our seven neighborhoods. Our reporting has never been more vital. And our thoughtful use of words takes on greater importance. That is why Growing Community Media, like many other news organizations, last week updated our editorial style guidelines to begin capitalizing the words Black and Brown when used in our pages. This change reflects recognition of systemic racism in our work over decades in reporting on people of color. It is a small but notable adjustment which acknowledges with respect the contributions to our history and to our culture of Black and Brown people. It equalizes references to Hispanics, Asians, Italian-Americans, Irish-Americans and other communities. The word white, which typically describes a skin color and not a distinct cul-

ture, will continue to be lower-case. Growing Community Media publishes under four flags in seven neighborhoods – the Austin Weekly News, Wednesday Journal of Oak Park & River Forest, Forest Park Review and Riverside-Brookfield Landmark.

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MARCH

Emancipation Proclamation read from page 1 North Riverside to protest police brutality and demand racial equity and justice. It might not have been the kind of Juneteenth celebration you might see in Texas, where General Gordon Granger of the Union Army landed at Galveston on June 19, 1865 to announce that the Civil War was over and that those who had been enslaved were now free, but it was notable in its own way. “It felt like it was something important to be heard,” said North Riverside resident Elizabeth Amaya, a 2019 graduate of RiversideBrookfield High School who organized the march and demonstration. “That’s what we were celebrating today.” Amaya said she took steps to organize the march after participating in one at Kiwanis Park in Brookfield and seeing others that were organized in Riverside and nearby communities. “I asked myself, ‘Why hasn’t this happened in North Riverside?’” said Amaya, who just finished her freshman year studying sociology at DePaul University. “So I just kind of took the leap.” After posting her intentions on social media, others who had been involved in local demonstrations in the wake of the death of George Floyd, the Black man who died May 25 after a white Minneapolis police officer knelt

ZOO REOPENING

Reservations only policy from page 1 government and health agencies to ensure the well-being of our zoo guests, staff, volunteers and the animals.” Anyone wishing to review the new protocols and procedures for visiting Brookfield Zoo can visit online at CZS.org/KnowBeforeYouGo. People who were already Brookfield Zoo members when the park closed its doors due to the pandemic have had their memberships extended to account for that closure. Perhaps the biggest single change in planning your visit to Brookfield Zoo, is that there will limits on guest capacity and anyone visiting must purchase admission and parking tickets in advance at CZS.org. Ticket sales will be begin soon at that website. Limited numbers of reservations will be available in 20-minute increments. No tickets will be sold onsite, and the zoo will offer no refunds or rain dates once tickets are purchased. You will be asked to indicate which gate you prefer to enter from, north or south. Inside the park, face coverings will be required for anyone age 2 or older. In addition to indoor restaurants, gift shops and animal exhibits, a number of other attractions and areas will also remain closed, including

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ON THE MARCH: Demonstrators hold signs in support of Black Lives Matter and calling for change during their June 19 march through North Riverside and Riverside. on his neck for nearly nine minutes, reached out to her. “We all started working together to put this thing together,” Amaya said. Among those who spoke to demonstrators both before and after the march, in addition to Amaya and Kowal, were recent RBHS graduates Anysiah Taylor, Devin Conrath, Shalah Russell and Seymone Russell as well splash pads, water misters, drinking fountains, the carousel, Motor Safari rides, the butterfly exhibit and the goat yard at Hamill Family Play Zoo, although visitors will still be able to feed the goats. Food, drinks and gifts will be available for purchase from stands and carts that will be located throughout Brookfield Zoo, but vendors will not be accepting cash. All transactions will be via debit or credit cards. Visitors will also notice hand-sanitizing stations throughout the zoo, as well as signage reminding them to maintain physical distance from other visitors. Indoor restrooms will be open and staff will be sanitizing those spaces and other high-touch surfaces frequently, using hospital-grade cleaners. If you’re new to the zoo and need a map to get around, you will need to download and print a map from the zoo’s website or take a photo of the large maps at either of the zoo’s entrance gates. Zoo employees will also be wearing face coverings and will have their temperatures checked at the start of each shift. Those handling food and merchandise will be wearing gloves. Visitors for the first time will be able to see the two new African lions, Brutus and Titus, and get reacquainted with their old favorites. They’ll also be able to enjoy a special summer exhibit “Dinos Everywhere!” on the West Mall of the zoo. The interactive exhibit features more than 40 animatronic dinosaurs, including the massive Argentinosau-

as Brookfield resident Tony Williams. Taylor spoke to demonstrators, who were mostly white, about the difficulty of growing up Black in a community with few other people of color and despite excelling in school as a student leader, scholar and athlete. “I am just like you in all these aspects, but my Blackness, well that’s not like you,” said Taylor outside the North Riverside Po-

lice Department. “You fail to understand the scope of my devastation and suffering being in America. “To America, its institutions, justice system and police officers, I am no scholar nor a community service leader. I am just a Black girl whose life can be taken out … whose body can be discarded like a carcass of roadkill.” Between 100 and 125 marchers walked down Desplaines Avenue from the North Riverside Police Department to Woodside Road and into downtown Riverside, where they crossed the tracks and ended in Guthrie Park. Almost all were in their teens or early 20s, and Amaya said they are working to make sure the positive, peaceful momentum seen nationwide since the end of May doesn’t fizzle. “Many of us, the youth of the community, are talking about what we can do in the future,” Amaya said. “We don’t want this to just die down. The big takeaway for me is that we are demonstrating to the community, that even though we don’t see this [kind of police brutality] in our community, that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be fighting [against] it.” Amaya also asked demonstrators to consider donating money to a Minneapolis group called Young Peoples Action Coalition, who were successful in removing police officers from public schools and are raising funds to provide alternatives for improving education, from hiring more counselors to hiring more staff of color The group’s GoFundMe page can be found at bit.ly/2YR2wNx.

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Brookfield Zoo’s South Gate, 3300 Golf Road rus, which measures more than 100 feet in length and stands 30-feet tall. Brookfield Zoo, which has been open 365 days a year – with a couple of exceptions due to extreme weather events – since it first opened in 1934 has been closed to the public since March 19. The loss of revenue during a time when the zoo normally sees a resurgence of visitors resulted in about a third of its employees being furloughed as of April 5. In early

June, the zoo announced that it was permanently eliminating the equivalent of more than 50 full-time employees. Some of the furloughed staff, particularly grounds crew workers, began returning to work at the end of last week, said zoo spokeswoman Sondra Katzen in order to prepare for the reopening. “Many of those furloughed will be coming back throughout [the weeks ahead].” Katzen said.

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RBHS athletics get OK to work out Fenwick football cancels Ireland trip

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Since the spring sports season came to a halt a few months ago, the IHSA has been working with the state to figure out how to get athletes back on the field. Two weeks ago, the IHSA released its Return to Play guidelines that allowed athletes to participate in strength and conditioning workouts. However, the guidelines had stated that athletic programs needed permission from the school before teams could partake in these workouts. In a conversation last week with RBHS’ assistant principal of athletics, Brendan Curtin, he said that the school has approved guidelines similar to what was outlined by the IHSA. “The IHSA allows you to work out for three hours and we’re capping our [workouts] at approximately 90 minutes,” said Curtin. “There are a lot of kids that have been disciplined and doing the right things to stay in shape, but it can take a little bit of a longer period to get the other student athletes to where they need to be to push them for upward mobility, if you will.” Curtin added that he and other coaches felt it was important to keep intensity of workouts to a “minimum” early on so that the athletes can get back in shape. The 90-minute workouts are also a way for more teams to get into the weight room or on the field since they create more time in the day for teams to practice. Curtin has created a Google spreadsheet to coordinate times in which teams can use certain spaces without having overlap with each other. “It’s been pretty smooth so far,” said Curtin. “Coaches can walk in and pick a time. We can double up two programs at one time since one group can be on the football field and the other is using the weight room. If there’s a schedule conflict, we will try to rectify that as quickly as we can but it’s been good.” While all sports will have the opportunity to work out during this time, multi-sport ath-

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Episode 2: Tricia Liston letes have been instructed to participate in workouts for their fall sport teams. The athletes also had to sign a waiver before participating in the workouts. Even with all of the nuances and difficulties that come with planning out a workout schedule during a pandemic, getting back to work brings a certain normalcy athletes and coaches have lacked in recent months. “It was great being back on the field,” said Curtin, who is also RBHS’ varsity football coach. “You could tell the kids were excited to be back in each other’s presence and be back on the field. That was fulfilling. There’s always that electricity in the air when it’s the first day of being back together, even if it is strength and conditioning workouts.”

Fenwick cancels Ireland trip With the global outbreak of COVID-19 now lingering into summer, Fenwick High School’s football program will not be traveling to Dublin, Ireland on Aug. 28 like it initially planned earlier in January. The Friars were set to play Scottsdale, Arizona’s Notre Dame Prep during a trip organized

by the school. “As time moved on, it was inevitable that the trip would be canceled,” said Fenwick’s athletic director, Scott Thies, in an interview last week. “It was just a matter of communicating with the players’ families, the organizing group and the travel company and ending it in a proper manner but we knew that once the winter and spring sport seasons were canceled that it was going to be tough to make this work.” The showcase was to have included two days in Dublin (Aug. 26-27) along with the players being in attendance for the matchup between Navy and University of Notre Dame at the Aviva Stadium on Aug. 29. That game has also been canceled. Junior wide receiver Max Reese and his teammates understood the decision but were hoping for a different outcome. “[Finding out the news] stunk,” said Reese in a phone interview. “The whole team was looking forward to Ireland, experiencing the Irish culture and being able to play Notre Dame Prep. But we have a good week one game against a very talented Simeon team, so we are focused on that.”

“You could tell the kids were excited to be back in each other’s presence and be back on the field.” BRENDAN CURTIN

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Former Fenwick and Duke basketball star Tricia Liston details her experience in women’s basketball and how difficult it is to make it in the WNBA with the league’s lack of resources. She has gone on to do amazing work with athletes who tried to find their path after sports.

Episode 3: Paul Zilinskas RBHS basketball player Paul Zilinskas discusses his journey from Lithuania to the United States and how basketball has taken him places he only dreamed of as a child. His mother is a former basketball player on Lithuania’s national team and he goes through her influence on him and her book on how parents should go about coaching their children.

Episode 4: Maggie Hendricks After graduating from Fenwick in the mid-90s, Chicago sports journalist Maggie Hendricks has gone on to do amazing work for publications like Yahoo! Sports, The Athletic, theScore and USA Today. She discusses how the industry has changed and how to navigate it.

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PARCEL 2 (16-33-400-005-0000): THAT PORTION OF THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER OF SECTION 33, TOWNSHIP 39 NORTH, RANGE 13 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEGINNING AT A POINT ON THE EAST LINE OF SAID SOUTHEAST QUARTER OF SECTION 33, WHICH IS 1174.48

FEET NORTH OF THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF SAID SECTION AND RUNNING THENCE NORTH ALONG SAID EAST LINE OF THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER A DISTANCE OF 38.70 FEET TO A POINT 1213.18 FEET NORTH OF SAID SOUTHEAST CORNER; THENCE WEST PERPENDICULAR TO SAID EAST LINE OF SOUTHEAST QUARTER A DISTANCE OF 40 FEET; THENCE SOUTHWESTERLY ON A LINE WITH AN ANGEL OF 164 DEGREES 24 MINUTES, MEASURED FROM EAST TO SOUTHWEST FROM LAST DESCRIBED LINE, A DISTANCE OF 259.98 FEET TO A POINT WHICH IS 290.41 FEET (MEASURED PERPENDICULAR WEST OF SAID EAST LINE OF THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER AND THENCE EASTERLY A DISTANCE OF 292.08 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING; EXCEPTING FROM THE ABOVE DESCRIBED LAND THE EAST 50 FEET THEREOF FALLING IN CICERO AVENUE, IN COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS. PARCEL3(16-33-400-040-0000): A STRIP OF LAND 20.00 FEET WIDE AND 1705.1 FEET LONG IN THE SOUTHEAST 1/4 OF SECTION 33, TOWNSHIP 39 NORTH, RANGE 13 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN BOUNDED AND DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEGINNING AT A POINT IN THE WEST LINE OF SAID SOUTHEAST 1/4, 957 FEET SOUTH OF THE NORTHWEST CORNER THEREOF; THENCE SOUTH ALONG SAID WEST LINE 1705.1 FEET TO THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF SAID 1/4 SECTION; THENCE EAST 20 FEET; THENCE NORTH PARALLEL WITH SAID WEST LINE 1705.1 FEET; THENCE WEST 20 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING; EXCEPTING THEREFROM THE SOUTH 606.82 FEET OF THE ABOVE DESCRIBED LAND IN COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS. PARCEL 4 (16-33-501-001-0000) as applicable: A STRIP OF LAND TWENTY (20) FEET WIDE AND THROUGH, OVER AND ACROSS THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER OF SECTION THIRTY-THREE (33) TOWNSHIP THIRTY-NINE (39) NORTH RANGE THIRTEEN (13) EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, BEING TEN (10) FEET ON EACH SIDE OF THE CENTERLINE THEREOF, WHICH CENTERLINE IS DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEGINNING AT A POINT TEN (10) FEET EAST OF THE

SOUTHWEST CORNER OF THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER OF SAID SECTION THIRTY THREE (33) AND NINE HUNDRED FIFTY-SEVEN (957) FEET SOUTH OF THE NORTH LINE OF SAID SOUTHEAST QUARTER, THENCE NORTHEASTERLY ALONG A SIX DEGREE (6°) CURVE TO THE RIGHT THREE HINDERED TEN AND NIN-TENTHS (310.9) FEET; THENCE NORTH EIGHTEEN DEGREES THIRTY-NINE MINUTES THIRTY SECONDS (18°39’30”) EAST ALONG A LINE TANGENT TO SAID CURVE THREE HUNDRED TWENTY-NINE AND EIGHTTENTHS (329.8) FEET; THENCE NORTHEASTERLY ALONG A THIRTEEN DEGREE (13°) CURVE TO THE RIGHT FIVE HUNDRED FORTY-NINE (549) FEET; THENCE EAST PARALLEL TO THE NORTH LINE OF THE SAID SOUTHEAST QUARTER AND THIRTY-EIGHT (38) FEET SOUTH THEREFROM TWO HUNDRED THIRTY-FOUR AND EIGHT-TENTHS (234.8) FEET; THENCE NORTHEASTERLY ALONG A THIRTEEN DEGREE (13°) CURVE TO THE LEFT ONE HINDERED EIGHTY-TWO AND NINE-TENTHS (182.9) FEET TO A POINT ON THE NORTH LINE OF SAID SOUTHEAST QUARTER NINE HUNDRED NINETY-SEVEN AND THREE TENTHS (997.3) FEET EAST OF THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF SAID SOUTHEAST QUARTER, IN COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS. All persons in attendance at the foregoing hearing shall have an opportunity to give testimony, be heard, and ask questions regarding the project. Further information regarding the applications are available through the Zoning Administrator, Josh Brniak (708-749-4490), whose office is located at Village of Stickney Village Hall located at 6533 West Pershing Road, Stickney, Illinois 60402. Any changes related to the location or manner of attendance of the hearing resulting from any local or national emergency, including but not limited to COVID-19 related state, federal and local restrictions or other emergency declarations by the Village President, the Governor of the State of Illinois or the President of the United States of America, shall be posted on the Village’s website. Publication Date this 24th day of June, 2020. Village of Stickney Zoning Board of Appeals

Published in Landmark June 24, 2020

REAL ESTATE FOR SALE

NORMANDY MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST, SERIES 2016-1 Plaintiff, -v.LATANIA LOVE A/K/A LATANIA R LOVE, A/K/A LA TANIA LOVE, KENNETH LOVE A/K/A KENNETH R LOVE, MIDLAND FUNDING LLC, LAKEDRA LOVE A/K/A LAKEDRA GARDLEY-LOVE, A/K/A LAKEDRA C. GARDLEY, A/K/A LAKEDRA C. LOVE Defendants 13 CH 07379 933 ELGIN AVENUE FOREST PARK, IL 60130 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on July 10, 2018, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on July 10, 2020, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at a public sale to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 933 ELGIN AVENUE, FOREST PARK, IL 60130 Property Index No. 15-13-414-0290000 The real estate is improved with a orange brick one story single family home with a two car detached garage.

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

inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g1). 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) 236SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales. MCCALLA RAYMER LEIBERT PIERCE, LLC One North Dearborn Street, Suite 1200 Chicago IL, 60602 312-346-9088 E-Mail: pleadings@mccalla.com Attorney File No. 7865 Attorney ARDC No. 61256 Attorney Code. 61256 Case Number: 13 CH 07379 TJSC#: 40-1775 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 # 13 CH 07379 I3151648

REAL ESTATE FOR SALE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY AS TRUSTEE FOR HIS ASSET SECURITIZATION CORPORATION TRUST 2007OPT1, MORTGAGE PASSTHROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2007-OPT1; Plaintiff, vs. CHARLES T. GRANT; JUANITA J. GRANT AKA JUANITA LACOURT; PRAIRIE PLACE AT 6436 ROOSEVELT CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS; Defendants, 19 CH 14415 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Thursday, July 23, 2020 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. 16-18-428-043-1019 & 16-18428-043-1064. Commonly known as 6436 Roosevelt Road, Unit 311, 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) 3609455. W18-0641 INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION intercountyjudicialsales.com I3151594

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