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Riverside Public Library set for full reopen July 6 Building closed through July 2 as staff moves materials By BOB UPHUES Editor
The Riverside Public Library, 1 Burling Road, will close briefly this week in anticipation of fully reopening – including the newly renovated lower level – on July 6. The library building was slated to be closed from June 29 through July 2 in order for staff to move materials into their proper places following the 10-month, $1.5 million renovation of the lower level, which houses Youth Services, the genealogy research center, public meeting room and staff offices. Curbside pickup services will still be available while the library is closed, but reference and reader’s advisory services will not be. You can request to pick up materials curbside at 708-4426366, ext. 109. Early learners, children and teens now have their own separate areas in the lower level and all adult library materials will be located on the upper level. The public meeting room can now be divided to accommodate more than one program at a time. Library officials had intended to christen See LIBRARY on page 11
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MOVING UP: Brookfield Deputy Police Chief Michael Kuruvilla, a 15-year veteran of the police department, will assume the top job on July 12, replacing Edward Petrak, who has been chief since early 2019.
Kuruvilla will be Brookfield’s next top cop 38-year-old deputy chief was sole internal candidate interviewed By BOB UPHUES Editor
Michael Kuruvilla, who has served as Brookfield deputy police chief since September 2019, has been selected by Brookfield Village Manager Timothy Wiberg to
be the village’s new police chief. A 15-year veteran of the force, the 38-year-old Kuruvilla takes over from Chief Edward Petrak on July 12. He was the only candidate interviewed for the job and had been recommended by Petrak for the post.
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Streets, basements flood after June 26 deluge More than 3 inches of rain fell in about an hour
By BOB UPHUES Editor
Streets, backyards and basements throughout Brookfield, North Riverside and Riverside took on water June 26 when a strong storm dumped more than three inches of rain onto the area in the span of just over an hour. That rainfall followed in the wake of about an inch the day before, taxing local sewer systems, including the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District’s Deep Tunnel system. On Saturday before the worst of the rain came, the MWRD issued an Overflow Action Day alert on its Twitter feed, asking citizens to refrain from washing dishes, doing laundry and taking showers because of the strain already on the system. Riverside Public Works Director Dan Tabb said that National Weather Service data indicated 3.25 inches of rain fell between 10 and 11:15 a.m. on June 26, while Brookfield resident Allen Goodcase’s weather station at his home on the village’s south end recorded about 3.5 inches on Saturday. “I’m not sure any system can handle that,” Tabb said. Residents of all three villages took to social media in the wake of the street and basement flooding that followed, decrying the ability of sewer systems to handle the storm water. But, the flooding was not isolated to any one municipality. Similar basement and street flooding was reported throughout the suburbs and in the city of Chicago, where some streets became impassable, including First Avenue, which was closed to traffic between 31st Street and Ogden Avenue from about 12:30 to 6 p.m. after storm water flooded the area around the BNSF railroad bridge. One vehicle, which had tried to make it through the high water, had to be towed from under the bridge. Unlike previous flood events, the viaduct was flooded by river water. “The sewer system couldn’t take that amount of water out quickly enough,” Tabb said.
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DEEP WATER: A tow truck operator gets his rig in place to haul out a car from the deep water on First Avenue under the BNSF Railroad bridge on the afternoon of June 26. The roadway was closed for about five and a half hours after storm runoff overwhelmed the sewer systems in the area. Brookfield and North Riverside both experienced sporadic street flooding as sections of the combined sewer system – meaning the pipes collect both sanitary waste and storm runoff – quickly reached capacity, backing up into streets and basements without some sort of flood-prevention system. Even in areas of Brookfield and Riverside that have separate storm sewers, there’s no way to guarantee they won’t completely fill up during heavy storms, said Brookfield Village Engineer Derek Treichel. “There’s always a limited capacity for the storm sewers,” Treichel said. “Even if you replace them all, you still have the issue of getting it into [Salt Creek] when it’s high.”
That’s because if the level of Salt Creek, or the Des Plaines River for that matter, rise above the level of storm sewer outfalls, the water can’t exit the system. That’s why Brookfield a few years ago installed a pump station at the corner of Washington and Forest avenues, a particularly flood-prone area. On Saturday, said Brookfield Public Works Director Carl Muell, all five of the station’s pumps were activated, keeping Forest Avenue and the low-lying Washington/Prairie intersection dry. “The pump station worked phenomenally,” Muell said. Among those buildings taking on water in the basement was the Brookfield Village
Hall, 8820 Brookfield Ave. According to Village Manager Timothy Wiberg, about two inches of water covered the entire lower level of the building. Officials suspect the flooding resulted from a drain backup on the flat roof of the building. That blockage was cleared, but the basement flooded, forcing the Brookfield Parks and Recreation Department to relocate its summer camp programs to S.E. Gross Middle School and Riverside-Brookfield High School. The lower level of the village hall will be closed to the public for about two weeks, Wiberg said, as officials determine the source of the flooding and fix it.
LTHS board votes to withdraw from TTO Township Treasurer’s Office declines to appeal circuit court ruling
By BOB SKOLNIK Contributing Reporter
The day that officials at Lyons Township High School have dreamed about for more than two decades is just about here. On July 1, LTHS District 204 will no longer
be part of the Lyons Township School Treasurer’s Office, after township treasurer’s’ trustees decided not to appeal the ruling of its lawsuit against the high school, a major win for LTHS. When the 30-day period to file an appeal expired last week, the District 204 Board of
Education called a special meeting June 24 to approve a resolution to withdraw from jurisdiction and the authority of the township treasurer’s office, also known as the TTO. Copies of that resolution were hand delivered to the TTO’s office in downtown LaGrange the next day by LTHS Business Man-
ager Brian Stachacz, who has been named the high school’s treasurer. District 204 Superintendent Tim Kilrea said high school officials were happy the TTO did not appeal Cook County Circuit See TTO on page 9
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Villages welcome back Independence Day parades, events
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After 2020’s pandemic hiatus, Brookfield, Riverside and North Riverside are ready to celebrate By BOB UPHUES Editor
A year ago at this time, there was precious little to celebrate as Independence Day approached. Brookfield, Riverside and North Riverside had all long since scrapped their traditional parades and community celebrations. The lone nod to July 4 was a parade of sorts in Riverside. Lasting about one minute, a handful of police and fire vehicles followed by a pickup truck hauling a flatbed on which a zydeco band played incongruously festive music snaked through the village, bringing The Fourth to people who waved from porches and parkways. In 2021, the towns are coming out of their COVID-imposed hibernation. With positivity rates microscopic and the state of Illinois in Phase 5 of its reopening plan, all three villages will be celebrating Independence Day in more or less normal fashion.
Riverside A highlight of Riverside’s Fourth of July celebration each year is the Concert in the Park, which always takes place the night before the parade. In 2020, the night before The Fourth was a silent one – unless, of course, you count the outrageous numbers of fireworks explosions that accompanied last summer. But once Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced June 11 that the state was moving to fully reopen, the Riverside Friends of the Fourth, who raise the funds to host the concert, were able to quickly put together a Concert in the Park that will take place from 6 to 10 p.m. on Friday, July 2 at Guthrie Park, at Riverside and Bloomingbank roads. The musical entertainment will be by ’90s party band Run Forrest Run and the band Hail Caesar. Food and beverages will be available for purchase. Riverside’s Independence Day parade will be a day early this year, on Saturday, July 3, stepping off from its traditional starting point at Longcommon and Delaplaine roads at 8:45 a.m. The parade will wind down Longcommon Road and cross the tracks onto Riverside Road, ending at Guthrie Park.
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Brookfield Like Riverside, the Independence Day parade in Brookfield will take place on Saturday, July 3. The parade will more or less follow its traditional route, heading south on Grand Boulevard from Garfield Avenue starting at 10 a.m. With the Brookfield Avenue bridge under construction, however, the parade will end when it reaches the Grand/Prairie/ Brookfield intersection. Due to the uncertainty of the pandemic and the state’s reopening plans this spring, local officials decided to call off the Party in the Park following the parade, making it two years running that the village has not been able to celebrate its post-parade Fourth in the usual manner.
North Riverside Unlike its neighbors, the village of North Riverside is waiting to celebrate Independence Day on its proper date, Sunday, July 4. The three-part celebration kicks off 10 a.m. with a parade down 26th Street, which steps off from 9th Avenue and heads east to Veterans Park, near the entrance to North Riverside Park Mall. After the parade, you can rest up and then return to the North Riverside Village Commons, 2401 Desplaines Ave., for the village’s July 4 Fest on the front lawn of the Village Commons from 6 to 9 p.m. There will be food and beverages for sale at
the event, and Saturday June Band will perform live from 7:15 to 9:15 p.m. and attendees can then settle in on the lawn, in the parking lots or along the curb to watch the fireworks display courtesy of the Riverside Golf Club. Bring your own blankets and lawn chairs.
Other nearby events The village of Lyons will host an Independence Day parade on Sunday, July 4 at 1 p.m. The parade starts at 46th Street and Lawndale Avenue and then heads east to Joliet Avenue before turning north and ending at the Lyons Fire Station, 4043 Joliet Ave. You’re also invited to attend a Party in the Park from 6 to 9 p.m. at Veterans Park, 4100 Lawndale Ave., which will feature food vendors, a beer tent, kids’ activities and live music, with the headliner ARRA taking the stage at 7:30 p.m. A fireworks display begins at dusk. There will be a fireworks display in Berwyn on Friday, July 2 at 9 p.m. at Morton West High School football stadium, 2400 S. Home Ave. Prior to the show, the Morton High School marching band will play and there will be a raffle and Independence Day ceremony at 8:30 p.m. There will also be a pop-up COVID-19 vaccination clinic onsite from 4:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Morton West High School. Enter via Door 29 on the east side of the campus off Home Avenue.
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BIG WEEK
June 30-July 7
Parking lot bingo in North Riverside North Riverside Public Library, 2400 Desplaines Ave., invites you to hop in the car and Thursday, July 1. drive over for Parking Lot Bingo on onThursday, The event is open to the public and the popcorn is on the library. Choose one of four sessions: 3 to 4 p.m.; 4:30 to 5:30 p.m.; 6 to 7 p.m.; or 7:30 flash your lights to 8:30 p.m. Honk your horn and flash when you get a bingo. Register at northriversidelibrary.org/eventsnew, by calling 708-447-0869 or by visiting the library’s front desk.
Veterans virtual hiring event
The Cook County Department of Veterans Affairs, Cook County Workforce Partnership, National Able Network and the Illinois Department of Employment Security will host a veterans’ virtual hiring event on Monday, July 12 at 10 a.m. The free event is intended to connect Chicago area veterans with employers who are actively hiring across an array of industries, including information technology, healthcare, finance and more. Registration deadline is July 8, so email your resume to vets@nationalable.org by that date. Visit VeteransForward. org/HiringEvent for event registration.
RBHS tennis tournament fundraiser The Riverside-Brookfield High School tennis teams will host a tennis tournament fundraiser in July to benefit the boys and girls tennis teams. The tournament is open to all ages and the plan is to have singles, mixed doubles and doubles tournaments. The fee is $35 for singles players and $30 each for those playing doubles. Participants signing up for both singles and doubles will receive a $15 discount.
Students 8-18 will receive a $10 discount ($25 off for both singles and doubles). The tournament is double elimination, so everyone is guaranteed two matches. Prizes awarded for first, second and third place. Singles tournament is July 8-10. Doubles will be July 22-24. Both will take place at the tennis courts at RBHS, 160 Ridgewood Road in Riverside. Register by July1 for singles and by July 15 for doubles at tinyurl.com/RBTennisFundraiser.
And more The Riverside Farmers Market continues every Wednesday from 2:30 to 7 p.m. at Centennial Park, 10 Pine Ave., in downtown Riverside. The layout will remain the same as 2020, with an entrance and exit and one-way traffic along with social distancing. Face coverings are required for those who are not vaccinated and no pets are allowed. The Brookfield Farmers Market continues every Saturday, from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Brookfield Village Hall, 8820 Brookfield Ave. Face coverings are required and please practice social distancing. Enter ■
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and exit at Brookfield Ave. via the northeast corner of the market. No pets allowed. Park in front of or behind village hall or along Brookfield Ave. North Riverside Public Library, 2400 Desplaines Ave., offers a number of virtual programs through Facebook Live (facebook.com/NRPL2400), conference calls and the teleconferencing app Zoom. Adults can get a Wits Workout Grab and Go Bag with new puzzles to keep your mind sharp every week of the summer. Kids still have time to register for the Tails & Tales Summer Reading Program. Visit northriversidelibrary.org for more 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. For adults, there’s Chair Yoga via Zoom on July 1 at 11 a.m. and the Facebook Live program Passport to Our Stories, focusing on immigrant stories from people around the world on June 30 and July 7 at 1 p.m. Call 708-485-6917, ext. 130 or visit brookfield. evanced.info/signup to register for programs. Riverside Public Library, 1 Burling Road, invites ■
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Teen Conservation Leadership Conference
Teens from around the world will have the opportunity to hear from a wide range of speakers and participate in conservation-themed activities as part of the fourth annual Teen Conservation Leadership Conference, presented by the Chicago Zoological Society, in partnership with Lincoln Park Zoo. Running July 7-9, the virtual conference, themed to “bring the world home,” will feature presentations on a variety of topics, including youth conservation voices, environmental justice, and technology and innovation, from both industry experts and teens across the globe. Dr. Seth B. Darling, director of the Center for Molecular Engineering and a senior scientist in the Chemical Sciences & Engineering Division at Argonne National Laboratory and direcDR. SETH B. DARLING tor of the Advanced Materials for EnergyWater Systems Energy Frontier Research Center, will be a featured keynote speaker. Pioneering chimpanzee researcher Jane Goodall will also participate in a JANE GOODALL panel answering and discussing teen-generated questions about the role young people can play in environmental activism on local and international scales. Registration for the event, which will be held online via the Whova platform, is now open. Participants must be between the ages of 14 and 19. A registration fee of $5 per person per day is required, which will contribute to CZS’s conservation initiatives and programs. This fee can be waived on a case-by-case basis. Visit CZS.org/teenconference to register. kids and adults to Friday Outdoor Storytime on July 2 at 10 a.m. (weather permitting) and invites kids to an Outdoor/Zoom Book Discussion: “Who Was/What Was” Series on July 6 at 11 a.m. The discussion will take place outside, but will move to Zoom in the case of bad weather. Registration is required. There’s also the third entry in the four-part Museum of Bad Art virtual series on July 7 at 7 p.m. “Dopplehangers: Intentionally or Not” includes efforts to capture likenesses of famous people, some accidentally. Via Zoom. Visit riversidelibrary.libcal.com/calendar more info.
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Juvenile charged with aggravated assault in North Riverside North Riverside police charged a 17-yearold from Berwyn with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, unlawful use of a weapon and criminal damage to property after he allegedly tried to stab an 18-yearold Berwyn man with a knife and then used the weapon to puncture his victim’s car tire during an altercation in the parking lot of the North Riverside Post Office, 7300 25th St., on June 20 at about 4:30 a.m. The victim told police he knew his assailant and that he had parked in the post office lot while waiting to pick up someone getting off work from Wendy’s, because the alleged offender was also a Wendy’s employee and he wanted to avoid him. While the victim was waiting in his vehicle, the juvenile offender allegedly approached with a pocket knife and unsuccessfully tried to stab the victim, who struggled with the offender inside the vehicle before being able to drive away. The offender then reportedly used the knife to puncture the rear driver’s side tire, and he also allegedly threw a brick at the vehicle as it drove away. The victim called police, and a police officer located the offender nearby and ordered him to the ground at gunpoint. Police reported finding a knife in the offender’s pants pocket.
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police charged a 26-year-old Oak Lawn woman with drunken driving and other offenses after she reportedly drove her gray 2005 Honda Accord into a boulder at the west end of the Rockefeller Avenue parking lot outside Riverside-Brookfield High School at about 6:15 a.m. on June 22. A witness told police he was getting ready for work when he heard a loud crash outside. He looked outside and saw that the vehicle had struck the boulder and that a woman was the driver. She subsequently took the temporary plates off the vehicle and was picked up by a red vehicle, which drove away, leaving the Honda at the crash scene. Police stopped the red vehicle at Forest Avenue and Kimbark Road in Riverside, where they arrested the woman suspected of driving the Honda. Security camera video reportedly showed the Honda turn west on Ridgewood Road from northbound First Avenue at 6:06 a.m., the car the turns right on Golf Road and then west into the Rockefeller Avenue parking lot before driving straight into the boulder. ■ Riverside police charged a 34-year-old Chicago woman with drunken driving and aggravated speeding after an officer stopped her blue Ford Mustang, which he had clocked traveling at 86 mph while south-
bound on Harlem Avenue from East Burlington Street on June 20 at about 3:20 a.m. The officer first observed the car traveling at 81 mph in the 3200 block of Harlem Ave., and began following it after the car stopped for a red light at Burlington. When the light turned green, the Mustang reportedly accelerated quickly past 80 mph, nearly hitting another vehicle at Joliet Road before pulling over a short distance later. The woman reportedly was in possession of two receipts, one from a Chicago nightclub and another from Round One in North Riverside, showing purchases of alcohol. ■ A 27-year-old Lyons man was charged with drunken driving June 25 after allegedly driving his car over a traffic light before his vehicle, which had sustained heavy front-end damage, was stopped by police at the intersection of Bloomingbank and Barrypoint roads in Riverside. The driver told police he believed he hit a fire hydrant in front of a middle school, but police later observed the traffic light down at Woodside/Kimbark/Park Place near Hauser Junior High. The man reportedly told police he had been drinking at a bar prior to driving. In addition to DUI, police charged him with leaving the scene of a crash and damage to village property.
Catalytic converter stolen North Riverside police responded to the 2200 block of 7th Avenue on the morning of June 24 after a resident called to report that the catalytic converter had been removed from his 2008 Honda CR-V. The vehicle had been parked overnight on the street.
Water balloon ambush A 34-year-old Riverside man went to police on the afternoon of June 23 to report that he was riding his bike at about 1:45 p.m. in the 400 block of Nuttall Road when someone in a passing car threw a water balloon at him, hitting him in the chest. The man wasn’t hurt and said he didn’t want to pursue charges, but he got a photo of the vehicle and asked police to talk to the occupants, who were described as teenagers. These items were obtained from police reports filed by the Riverside, North Riverside and Brookfield police departments, June 20-27 and represent a portion of the incidents to which police responded. Unless otherwise indicated, anybody named in these reports has only been charged with a crime. These cases have not been adjudicated.
— Compiled by Bob Uphues
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Burlington Ave. apartments get preliminary thumbs up Brookfield Planning/Zoning Commission recommends variance for 14-unit development
By BOB UPHUES Editor
A 14-unit apartment building proposed to be built at 8845 Burlington Ave. in Brookfield will head to the village board for discussion and a vote after planning and zoning commissioners voted 5-0 to recommend approving a zoning variance at a public hearing on June 24. The recommendation came a month after commissioners had requested developer Jason Huang and his team revise the plans to more closely mirror the design guidelines outlined in the Station Area Zoning Code, which the village adopted in 2017 to encourage transit-oriented development near the Brookfield’s three Metra stations. The proposed three-story apartment building would stand within steps of the Prairie Avenue station and replace an existing frame, two-story building that houses four apartments. The garage at the rear of the property would also be demolished as part of the new plan. “We listened to the neighbors as well as the commissioners at the last public hearing on May 20,” said Mike Mallon, the land-use planner hired as a consultant by the developer and who served as the main spokesman for the project at both Planning and Zoning Commission hearings. “We’ve tried to address all of those concerns and to come up with a plan that we think very much meets your needs, as well as our needs, in terms of your overall [downtown] plan.” The revised plan presented June 24 limited the number of zoning variances being sought to just one – an allowance to construct what the developer is calling a “hybrid” building that incorporates elements of both townhome and apartment building types. Because the property at 8845 Burlington Ave. is located in the SA-6 district, general apartment buildings are not allowed, but
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RECOMMENDED: After the developer tweaked the design to more closely match guidelines in the zoning code and addressed some neighbor concerns about parking and potential noise, the Brookfield Planning and Zoning Commission voted to recommend approval of a 14-unit building at 8845 Burlington Ave. townhomes are. The proposed building’s design suggests rows of townhomes and also provides for ground-floor units to be accessed directly. Mallon also outlined other changes made to the plan in response to neighbor and commission concerns, which obviated the need for any further zoning variances. While the building still includes 14 units, the design now incorporates only one- and two-bedroom apartments. The three-bedroom apartments have been eliminated and the footprint of the building has shrunk slightly. Part of the reduced footprint resulted from the architect setting the building back 10 feet
from the Burlington Avenue property line to meet the code requirement. Shrinking the building also allows the developer to provide two additional onsite vehicle parking spaces at the rear of the property. The development, if approved will have 13 spaces versus the 11 in the original proposal. The new design also shrinks the number of long-term onsite bicycle parking spaces from 39 to 27. Village officials are likely to change the section of the code that allows the use of bike spaces as credits for vehicle parking in order to avoid abuse of that provision in future developments. The change, however, would not impact the use of bike parking
credits in this case. In addition to eliminating the need for setback variances, increasing vehicle parking and revising some design features, the developer has also eliminated a rooftop deck amenity in response to neighbor concerns about potential noise from the building. “The proposed use is in accordance of the zoning regulations with the exception of the building design,” Mallon said. “Secondly, the redevelopment of the property is consistent with the objectives and goals of the village’s Station Area districts, which provide for higher density, multifamily residential uses and pedestrian redevelopment in the downtown area. Lastly, the redevelopment and proposed project are provided for in your village’s comprehensive plan, as outlined in the Brookfield downtown sub-area plan.” There were far fewer residents at the June 24 meeting than had been present in May, but those attending were still skeptical of the development’s density and its close proximity to the single-family homes located directly east. However, apart from the building type itself, the development meets the requirements of the zoning code. “We don’t really feel we’re overbuilding for this site,” Mallon said. “I think we’re beginning what’s going to be happening in the area, which is to probably look towards providing additional density to take advantage of the downtown area and its proximity [to the train].” As for a complaint of potential noise coming from the development’s construction site, the developer’s attorney, Ellen Raymond, said the building would be assembled offsite in modules and delivered to Brookfield and hoisted into place by a crane before being put in place “like Legos.” “It should be far less noisy than construction from scratch on the street,” Raymond said.
Brookfield looks to repeal archaic anti-trans law Resident alerted officials after finding 1940 ordinance still on books
By BOB UPHUES Editor
When Brookfield resident Mark McCann learned about a protest planned this week in Elk Grove Village over their government’s failure to act to repeal an outdated law prohibiting people from wearing clothes of the opposite sex in public, he thought he’d have a look at what was on the books in Brookfield. “I just went into the [online] code, typed in ‘indecent’ and it was the first thing that popped up,” McCann said.
Turns out under Article V of the Brookfield Municipal Code, which defines “Offenses Against Public Decency and Morals,” there’s a provision for “Indecent exposure, dress or acts” which reads, “If any person shall appear in a public place in a state of nudity, or in a dress not belonging to his sex … he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.” The language of the Brookfield code mirrored almost exactly what was in the Elk Grove Village Code. McCann followed up that discovery by sending an email to all of the members of the Brookfield Village Board under the
heading “Being trans is illegal in Brookfield?!?!” In the email, McCann asked for prompt action from elected officials. “I know this law is outdated and not enforced, but this needs to be changed immediately,” McCann said. “It is Pride month, let’s hope this gets quick attention from village leadership.” The protest called for June 30 in Elk Grove Village resulted from the reported inaction of that local government after they were tipped off about the archaic law more than a year ago. The Windy City Times quoted the person
who had brought the matter to that village’s attention, saying she was assured by the Elk Grove Village mayor the law would be changed. When elected officials dragged their heels, the protest was called to force some action. It reportedly had the intended effect, and the village board was expected to act by the date of the June 30 protest, according to the Windy City Times. McCann won’t have to wait so long to see the Brookfield law off the books. “The village has been very responsive,” said McCann, who said Village President
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Lawsuit over Grand Blvd. property sale, construction ‘nuisance’ Complaint over downtown Brookfield development seeks monetary damages, stop work order By BOB UPHUES
UNWELCOME NEIGHBOR: Paulette Delcourt says construction of a building (right) next door has damaged her property (left). She’s filed suit to halt construction and seeks damages from the sellers and their realtor for allegedly not informing her of the impeding development.
cealment and fraudulent misrepresentation. The lawsuit alleges that both the previous owners and Tyler knew of RMG Realty Group’s development, which was approved by the Brookfield Village Board in December 2018, and failed to inform Delcourt of it when she bought the house in October 2019. Tyler and Cucci Realty are also accused in the lawsuit of consumer fraud and breaching the Real Estate License Act. For the counts leveled against the previous owners and their real estate agent, Delcourt is seeking monetary damages in excess of $280,000. Delcourt referred questions about the lawsuit to her attorney, Centracchio, who declined further comment. The village of Brookfield, which has been vilified in multiple social media comment threads for allowing the construction of the building since Delcourt took to Facebook in May to draw attention to the situation, is not named as a defendant in the lawsuit. In both the complaint itself and in multiple exhibits that are attached to it, Delcourt says that the problems started in August 2020 when RMG Realty Group demolished the one-story building that previously stood at 3704-08 Grand Blvd. During demolition, the suit alleges, Delcourt could feel her home shake. Last September she used a seismometer to gather readings regarding how much the ground was vibrating. Later, the lawsuit states, Delcourt noticed her gangway sidewalk separating from her home’s foundation, reported “severe” cracking to her patio and gangway concrete, damage to the concrete steps to her home’s basement, a stress crack in one window and bulging in a bedroom wall adjacent to the project site. Delcourt also complains in the suit of construction debris falling onto her property, including a piece of PVC pipe that fell into her yard and a two-by-four board that fell onto her property, nearly striking someone. On June 5, the lawsuit states, the sawdust was so severe that Delcourt required medical treatment at an urgent care facility for
individuals, though they likely would have had knowledge of transvestites. In any case, it wasn’t a law present-day village officials knew remained on the books, and it certainly wasn’t enforced. “It’s one of those things no one really knew was there,” Wiberg said. “But, when it comes to your attention, you need to take the appropriate action and rectify the wrong.” Brookfield Police Chief Edward Petrak said he assigned an officer presently on light duty to research the village code for other possibly archaic laws. “It’s embarrassing to have something like
that in there,” Petrak said. “We want to do everything we can to get this corrected.” Neither Riverside nor North Riverside have such provisions in their municipal codes, though Riverside’s does make it illegal to for people to be “wandering about the streets by day or night without any lawful means of support or without being able to give a satisfactory account of themselves.” In North Riverside, meanwhile, it’s against the law “for any person to utter or use any lewd or profane language in any public place within the village.” So, watch your mouth.
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The woman who bought a Grand Boulevard home only to find herself living inches away from a construction site where a three-story apartment building is going up has filed suit in Cook County Circuit Court against the developer, her home’s former owners and the real estate agent and company who represented them. The 17-count lawsuit filed by Brookfield resident Paulette Delcourt seeks more than $50,000 in damages from RMG Realty Group, the firm developing the mixed-use building at 3704-08 Grand Blvd., for creating a nuisance and damaging her property. Delcourt has also asked a judge to halt construction in order ensure safe construction practices and to give a structural engineer access to the construction site assess the foundation. Delcourt’s attorney, David Centracchio,
filed the lawsuit in the Chancery Division of the circuit court on June 9. A petition seeking a temporary restraining order to halt construction was filed June 14 and is pending before Judge Alison C. Conlon. In addition to construction creating a “private nuisance,” Delcourt also accuses construction workers of trespassing on her property and seeks both monetary damages for past incidents and an order preventing future ones. The lawsuit accuses both RMG Realty Group and Modern Concrete Inc., the company that poured the development’s foundation, of negligence and seeks monetary relief for damage to her property at 3710 Grand Blvd., which she says resulted from work done by the contractor. In addition the lawsuit accuses the former owners of 3710 Grand Blvd., Susan O’Connell and Robert Chicoine, and their real estate agent, Fred Tyler, as well as his employer, Cucci Realty, of fraudulent con-
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Michael Garvey and at least two trustees contacted him personally to say the village board would act. Village Manager Timothy Wiberg said the item is scheduled to appear on the village board’s July 12 meeting agenda and that he will recommend that the village board repeal that section of the code. The section of the code where the prohibition against wearing “dress not belonging to his sex” was ratified in 1940 and amended a couple of times thereafter, in 1964 and 1966. It’s unlikely that village leaders of the time would have any awareness of transgender
sawdust in her eye. Unsure what overall impact the development is having on her home, Delcourt hired a structural engineer. She wants that engineer to have access to the construction site “to determine the depth and width of the excavation.” Delcourt alleges in the suit that the development’s foundation is located partially on her property.
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Manufacturer buys 1.5 acre parcel in the 9300 and 9400 blocks of Southview Avenue By BOB UPHUES Editor
Sweetener Supply Corporation, which manufactures food ingredients including corn sweeteners, honey, white and brown sugar, molasses and others in its Brookfield factory at 9501 Southview Ave. has enlarged its footprint in the village. On Feb. 4, Spy Glass Illinois LLC, which lists its address as 9501 Southview Ave., purchased a roughly 1.5-acre, pie-shaped parcel of land east of the factory along the south side of Southview Avenue between Morton and Raymond avenues. The land includes four buildings, including at least one, a one-story red-brick building at 9347 Southview Ave. that appears to have been converted already into Sweetener Supply offices. Spy Glass Illinois LLC bought the property for $700,000 from the previous owner, Jack Andersen, a Brookfield resident who
operated the company Riverside Concrete Pumping out of the building at 9345 Southview Ave. Andersen told the Landmark he bought the property from Boerman Moving and Storage 30 years ago and that it had been the site of a coal yard at one time. The red brick building that’s been converted into offices by Sweetener Supply was once the office for the coal yard, said Andersen. “We found old coal receipts from years ago in that building,” Andersen said. During Andersen’s ownership of the property, one longtime tenant was Ketchmark Landscaping and Brick Paving, which rented the cinderblock building at 9435 Southview Ave. for 22 years. That firm is owned by Kit Ketchmark, current village trustee and past village president. Ice Cream Planet was also a tenant of Andersen’s, leasing the building at the eastern end of the property. By the time the property closed on Feb. 4, Ketchmark was the only remaining tenant.
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EXPANDING: Sweetener Supply at 9501 Southview Ave. (above at far left) has increased its footprint in that part of Brookfield after purchasing 1.5 acres directly east (framed by dotted line) of their main plant in February. His company vacated the property March 1, having bought another property on 47th Street. Ketchmark said Andersen had approached him last October, telling him about the possible sale of the land. But, Sweetener Supply has been interested in that property for much longer than that. Andersen told the Landmark that Sweetener Supply had inquired about acquiring the land about six years ago, suggesting that Andersen could lease his building from them. Andersen wasn’t interested in doing that at the time, but he has since retired from the concrete business. What the long-range plans are for the property aren’t clear. Sweetener Supply CEO Joe Gardella did not return a phone call from the Landmark seeking comment. Andersen said he wasn’t sure exactly what the company wanted to do with the land, guessing that the company could not pass up the chance to acquire available property right next door to its factory. “They probably couldn’t pass it up,” Andersen said. “You don’t find an empty lot next
door to your property every day of the week.” Ketchmark said that in informal conversations he had with someone from Sweetener Supply before moving out, he’d heard that the company wanted to convert the old concrete business into a maintenance garage and use Ketchmark’s building as an employee lounge. There was some talk about paving much of the lot, Ketchmark said. It’s unclear any work has been done outside of the one office building. The company is using areas of the property to park vehicles. The factory at 9501 Southview Ave., which sits on about five acres, has been pumping out sweetening products since 1959, when it was known as the Great Western Sugar Company, according to a 2006 article on the history of the business by the late Chris Stach. In addition to its Brookfield headquarters, Sweetener Supply has manufacturing plants in Berwyn; Elkhorn, Wisconsin; and Reno, Nevada. The company’s new plant in Wolcott, Indiana, is expected to be fully operational in 2021.
Frustration remains at D96 over half-day kindergarten School district will form task force to study full-day option By BOB SKOLNIK Contributing Reporter
Half-day kindergarten can be a childcare nightmare problem for working parents, especially now that more offices are requiring that workers come to work in person. And
many parents in Riverside are frustrated that Elementary School District 96 is not more involved in facilitating care options for kindergarten students. Because District 96 is one of the few that does not have full-day kindergarten, parents of kindergartners have long scrambled to find daycare for the half day when their kids are not in school. “This is a real problem for working parents,” said Alison Costanzo, one of the See D96 on page 13
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Corporate grant paves way for robotics at Komarek Toshiba awards about $4,000 to buy 3D printer, kits
By BOB SKOLNIK Contributing Reporter
There is now a robotics club at Komarek School in North Riverside thanks to a $4,049 grant the school received from the Toshiba Foundation. The grant was awarded to Komarek in December and the robotics club got going in the fourth quarter of the school year. Because of social distancing requirements, only 10 kids were allowed in the club and eight students actually joined and met after school. The money from the grant paid for the purchase of a 3D printer with filament and 12 robotics kits from BirdBrain Technologies. “The kids were able to build different kinds of robotic creatures of their own design,” said Victoria Wilson, who just completed her third year teaching STEM classes at Komarek School and is the sponsor of the robotics club. Wilson was the driving force behind the grant application, but she received help from instructional coach Dani Bagdzius
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Smooth transition expected from page 2 Court Judge Jerry Esrig’s ruling in the longrunning lawsuit that was filed by the TTO in 2013. “We appreciate that this is moving forward,” Kilrea said. While Esrig ruled that the TTO could debit $764,789.33 from LTHS’ account for underpayment of its assessments from the TTO since 2014, he rejected the TTO’s major claim that LTHS owed it approximately $6 million for underpayments from 2000 through 2012. The TTO invests money and handles basic financial matters for all school districts in Lyons Township. Under legislation passed by the Illinois General Assembly a few years ago, LTHS was permitted to withdraw from the TTO after the lawsuit was resolved. Other school districts in Lyons Township must still use the TTO to invest its money and perform business functions, such as paying bills and cutting checks. At a special meeting of the TTO board on
and Library Media Specialist Karen Doyle. “We were looking for a way to get more robotics into our curriculum and purchase materials, so we started exploring different grant opportunities that were out there and we stumbled across on the Toshiba grant and we applied for it,” Wilson said. The initial grant application focused on a plan for eighth-graders but Wilson had to shift gears because of the pandemic. The robotics club met in person after school during the fourth quarter of the 2020-21 school year. Wilson said that she saw a big change in kids’ attitudes toward coding after they were able to design their own robots. Before that, they thought coding was hard and boring. That changed, she said, when they saw what they could get a robot to do. Wilson is looking forward to next year, when more kids will be able to join the club. “I think it’s gotten the kids very excited about coding and very excited about robotics in general,” Wilson said. “I’m excited to see that change in attitude come about for next year.”
CRACKING THE CODE: Komarek School robotics club participant Damian Marchand shows off his work from the fourth quarter of the 2020-21 school year, made possible by a grant from the Toshiba corporation.
June 28, TTO board President Mike Thiessen said he expected the LTHS withdrawal to go smoothly. “It will be nice to put this chapter behind us,” said Thiessen, who was the driving force behind the lawsuit, which reportedly cost the TTO more than $4 million in legal fees. TTO Treasurer Kenneth T. Getty said the TTO would liquidate part of its portfolio of short-term financial instruments to send LTHS its money and said the high school should get the bulk of the money it is due very soon. “I don’t foresee any problems,” Getty said. But it will take some time to come to a complete reckoning of interest allocation and other details, since the TTO pools funds from school districts to invest. “I think [incoming LTHS Superintendent] Brian [Waterman] and I will have no problem working out the direction of these funds,” said Getty, who added that the TTO would do a special interest allocation sometime in July or August. Getty acknowledged that the exact amount of money LTHS is due will take some time to figure out as old bills are paid and the separation process is completed. “There are always lingering issues,” Getty said.
Starting July 1, LTHS will be responsible for paying its bills directly and can begin investing its own money. Kilrea said that the district is prepared to do that with existing staff. “We’ve been equipped to handle our operations for decades,” Kilrea said. Kilrea said LTHS would likely hire outside portfolio managers to invest its reserve funds, which are typically invested in safe, short-term financial instruments. “It’s good for LT and we’re just happy that we can continue to move forward,” said Kilrea, who retires as LTHS superintendent June 30. “We hope that we can work with the TTO to have an orderly separation that is not contentious.” As a show of good faith, and to comply with the spirit of the judge’s ruling, at its June 24 special meeting the LTHS school board also authorized full payment of its 2020 bill from the TTO in the amount of $363,896.77. In May the board had voted to only make a partial payment of $193,630, but that action was rescinded to comply with the judge’s decision. LTHS had been withholding a portion of its assessment since 2013, because it did not feel it should pay for the TTO’s legal fees in the lawsuit filed against District 204.
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TTO board member resigns LTHS officials did express concern about the sudden resignation of TTO board member Nicholas Kantas on June 22, shortly after the last day to file an appeal. High school officials plan to carefully monitor the separation process to make sure that they get every dollar to which they are entitled. “We are procuring the services of a forensic accountant on our end to assist us with this separation,” Kilrea said. Kantas, who works as an assistant Cook County State’s Attorney, told the Landmark in a brief phone interview that he resigned for personal relations unrelated to the lawsuit or its aftermath. The remaining two members of the TTO board, Thiessen and newly elected Shakana Kirksey-Miller, will appoint someone to fill the vacancy at a special board meeting on July 15. Those interested in being considered for the position should send a resume and letter of interest to Michael Thiessen at thiessen@ lyonstto.net no later than 4:30 p.m. on July 12. Because no two TTO trustees can live in the same school district, applicants cannot live in either Lyons-Brookfield School District 103 or Willow Springs School Elementary District 108. Applicants must live in Lyons Township.
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Folks seeking a sweet treat in Brookfield will be happy to discover diminutive donuts rolling around town. The Chicago Donut Company, a food truck established in 2017, has been transforming traditional breakfast treats into miniature morsels designed to be shared among friends. “There is such joy in watching in watching kids do that warm donut bobble,” said Jose Balaguer, owner of Chicago Donut Company. “There is nothing that brings a smile to a person’s face faster than a hot, fresh donut.” Balaguer does not have a culinary background, but a trip to Maine changed his trajectory in 2016. He was working 80 hours a week in as the North American manager for a highend car company and when he discovered his friend was selling donuts from a food truck. “I didn’t even realize I was looking for worklife balance,” said Balaguer. “But once I saw the truck, I extended my stay to learn more about the business.” After spending a few days slinging freshly fried donuts and watching them bring happiness to countless customers, Balaguer decided to reorganize his life and bring his own version of the bite-sized treats to Brookfield. While he still works in the automobile sales industry during the week, Balaguer brings his matte black truck out on the evenings and weekends. The truck, emblazoned with a Dia de los Muertos inspired skull with some Chicago flag inspired details, churns out a rotating variety of silver dollar-sized, all-natural
donuts. They sold by the half dozen in ecofriendly packages made from 100-percent postconsumer use recycled cardboard. Cinnamon sugar and cocoa sugar varieties are always on the Chicago Donut Company menu and are fried fresh to order and packaged in a bright pink bag. They are delivered while piping hot to eager customers and come with a warning to wait a few minutes before digging in. Traditional chocolate and vanilla glazed options are popular and sold alongside colorful sprinkle topped rings and a maple bacon offering. Balaguer rotates his menu every two weeks and patrons can expect to find donuts topped with colorful cereal, crunchy cookies and even barbecue pulled pork. The truck is designed to be profitable, but Balaguer is clear that money is not the driver behind his passion for donuts. “I want to bring people together and sugar brings people together,” said Balaguer. “Cookies and cupcakes may come and go, but donuts are part of the American spirit.” Though they will take the July 4 weekend off, the Chicago Donut Company truck is typically found in a pair of Brookfield locations. Residents should expect to find the truck near Eight Corners on Saturdays and at Tom-nLou’s 34 Drive In, 8819 Ogden Ave., on Sundays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The truck is also available for private events. You can follow Chicago Donut Company on Facebook (facebook.com/thechicagodonutco) to stay up to date on their schedule and any weather related adjustments.
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Mental health background from page 1 experience to run a department. He’s been successful at every level. He’s ready for it.” The son of Indian immigrants with a master’s degree in social work, Kuruvilla is the first person of color to ascend to the rank of police chief in Brookfield. “Coming into this, especially coming from an immigrant family, police work was not something on the radar as an option growing up,” said Kuruvilla, who earned his MSW from University of Illinois at Chicago in 2006. “I didn’t know anyone in law enforcement.” After college, Kuruvilla first worked as a civilian crisis worker with the Brookfield Police Department before becoming a cop. “I came here and wanted to do my best and go as far as I could, but I didn’t make the assumption that this was going to be my role,” Kuruvilla said. “But seeing where law enforcement and the Brookfield Police Department is headed, I quickly found that my passion for the work has grown over the years.” That future means a change in policing philosophy, something Petrak recognized as well. In Kuruvilla, he saw someone ready to lead that kind of change, and he tasked Kuruvilla with mentoring officers in crisis training. “His background in mental health has been so important, so helpful with us in the last five or six years,” Petrak said. The past year has highlighted calls for reform in many industries, but the spotlight has fallen on police in the wake of several high-profile police brutality cases, including the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis last year, something Kuruvilla does not shy away from. “Of course, racial equality, diversity and
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Almost ready from page 1 the lower level in April, but a requirement to install fire sprinklers in the newly renovated area delayed cutting the ribbon on the project, which was made possible when voters approved a construction bond issue in March 2020. The plan had been in the works, however, for many years, beginning in 2013 when the library board hired a space planner to study the lower level. The final design for the lower level was unveiled by the library board in 2017. While the board attempted to raise the necessary funds through special events and donations, they agreed in 2019 to go directly to voters, who overwhelmingly supported the bond issue. For the past 10 months, the Great Room
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UNANIMOUS CHOICE: Deputy Chief Michael Kuruvilla was not only recommended for the job by Chief Edward Petrak, the department’s lieutenants wrote a joint letter in support of his candidacy. inclusiveness are important, and we want to make sure we’re providing fair, equitable service,” Kuruvilla said. “But there’s a need for us to address more than just crime, and we’re being asked to widen our reach and services, and a lot of that has to do with the mental health component. “Part of that service is asking, ‘Why do people do the things we do?’ … Every act is not going to be repaired by incarceration. If it’s appropriate, we can address it in another capacity. “This isn’t something I brought to the department, but what I’ve brought here is a higher level of awareness, understanding and knowledge.” Kuruvilla said being a person of color is an undeniable aspect of his role as a police officer, something that informs his aphad been converted into the children’s department, and some adult materials had to be relocated to other parts of the upper level. In addition to moving all of those materials back into their proper places, the phone system needs to be installed in the lower level this week. “I’m exhilarated,” said library Director Janice Foley. “The patrons have been great, but cramping everyone into the upstairs was not ideal. I can see now why they wanted to build the addition in 1984.” When the library reopens its doors at 9 a.m. on Tuesday, July 6 it will more or less resume normal operations. The hours will continue to be Monday-Thursday from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Face coverings will continue to be required for anyone visiting the lower level, since vaccinations are not yet available to children. The library board at a special meeting called for July 1 was expected to consider lifting the mask mandate for visitors staying on the upper level.
proach to policing. “The plight of the African-American community versus the Indian-American community is not the same, but I can sympathize with what other minorities are faced with,” said Kuruvilla. In addition to the department’s emphasis on strengthening its mental health response training, Kuruvilla has led the department’s body camera initiative, a program that is expected to be fully implemented later this year. He had hoped for it to be implemented quicker – most of the equipment has already been delivered -- but a rush of departments throughout Illinois seeking to implement body camera programs has made it more difficult to coordinate onboarding and training with the vendor.
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Last fall, the International Association of Chiefs of Police named Kuruvilla one of its 40 Under 40 winners as an up-and-coming leader in law enforcement. At the time, Petrak said Kuruvilla’s “strong and progressive attitude is infectious and makes him a strong, naturally suited leader.” When he was named deputy police chief in 2019, Kuruvilla was one of three internal candidates for the job. When it came to the top job, however, Kuruvilla did not face any internal competition. Instead, all three lieutenants who would have been natural candidates for chief not only decided not to submit their names, they wrote a joint letter of support to Wiberg, backing Kuruvilla for the job. “It was humbling. I’m frankly at a loss for words at the gesture they performed for me,” Kuruvilla said. “It was not necessary, and I expected to be running against at least one or two of them. We’re all here to make the department better, and if there was a better candidate, I was OK with that. “What I can say about them is, what a class move and it gives me such confidence as we step into the future.” Lt. James Mihalik, who was one of those who applied for the deputy chief position in 2019, said his colleagues’ support for Kuruvilla was an easy decision. “Mike is proactive, he’s stepping up when it’s needed, and we all believe in him as a leader,” Mihalik said. “All of us felt that way, and he has the support of the department as a whole. He’s been our next and up-and-coming leader and continues to do that. ... Him at the helm is a good thing.” That support from his command staff colleagues had an impact on Wiberg’s decision to hire Kuruvilla for the job. “That was very unexpected,” Wiberg said. “The fact that [the other lieutenants] didn’t apply and unanimously voiced support for Mike was a very strong vote of confidence. He was a very strong candidate and I’m very comfortable turning over the reins to him.”
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BOOK IT: Amy Buric (foreground), of the Riverside Library’s Information Services department, and Steph Schulte, a Children and Youth Services staffer, shelve books on June 29 in preparation for the reopening of the renovated lower-level children’s area on July 6.
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LEGAL NOTICE VILLAGE OF BROOKFIELD, COOK COUNTY ILLINOIS ANNUAL TREASURER’S REPORT FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2020 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
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36,566 2,618,267
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21,229,547 9,543,311
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66,300,141 41, 605,495
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(175,280) (550,000) 2,994,956
(2,937,761) 800,000 517,072
(4,415,204) 6,696,888 2,018,984
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(36,319,626) 6,702,648 78,288,658
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DOUGLAS E. COOPER, VILLAGE TREASURER RECEIPTS SUMMARY: 50/50 SIDEWALK REPLACEMENT SALES, $0.00 50/50 TREE REPLACEMENT SALES, $7,050.00 ACTIVE MEMBER CONTRIBUTIONS, $521,726.83 ADMIN TOW FEES, $9,500.00 AMBULANCE & EMS FEE, $583,813.40 ANTENNA SITE LEASE, $53,795.14 BOND ISSUANCE PREMIUM, $696,887.60 BROOKFIELD AVE TRAIN STATION RENTALS, $8,188.90 BUILDING CODE VIOLATION FINES, $25,460.00 BUSINESS LICENSE REVENUES, $41,015.00 CASH OVER/SHORT, $-662.04 CIRCUIT COURT FINES, $16,863.39 CONCESSIONS SPACE RENTALS, $0.00 COUNTY GRANTS, $0.00 DAILY PARKING FEE, $13,642.94 DEVELOPER REIMBURSEMENT, $9,121.95 DONATIONS, $7,223.63 EMPLOYER CONTRIBUTIONS, $2,906,624.90 EVENT SPONSORSHIP SALES, $653.62 EXPENSE REIMBURSEMENT, $37,391.91 FEDERAL GRANTS, $5,078.50 FILING & VARIANCE FEE, $24,181.00 FRANCHISE FEE-CABLE TV, $258,524.90 GARBAGE CHARGES, $2,246,146.12 GASOLINE TAX REIMBURSEMENT, $0.00 HOTEL MOTEL TAX, $14,098.14 INCOME TAX, $2,224,346.27 INCREASE IN FAIR MARKET VALUE OF INV, $0.00 INSPECTION FEE, $9,200.00 INSURANCE REIMBURSEMENT, $5,196.53 INTEREST FROM DEPOSITS, $39,172.43 INTEREST FROM INVESTMENTS, $0.00 INTERGOVERNMENTAL REIMBURSEMENT, $64,222.03 IRMA SURPLUS REVENUE, $304,870.00 LATE PAYMENT PENALTY, $86,164.20 LICENSE - CLASS 12 BYOB, $500.00 LICENSE - SOLICITORS, $875.00 LICENSE-ALCOHOLIC LIQUOR CLASS 1, $2,700.00 LICENSE-ALCOHOLIC LIQUOR CLASS 13, $0.00 LICENSE-ALCOHOLIC LIQUOR CLASS 14, $3,000.00 LICENSE-ALCOHOLIC LIQUOR CLASS 2, $12,000.00 LICENSE-ALCOHOLIC LIQUOR CLASS 3, $22,000.00 LICENSE-ALCOHOLIC LIQUOR CLASS 4, $1,050.00 LICENSE-ALCOHOLIC LIQUOR CLASS 5, $2,500.00 LICENSE-ALCOHOLIC LIQUOR CLASS 6, $1,000.00 LICENSE-ALCOHOLIC LIQUOR CLASS 7&7A, $10,500.00 LICENSE-ALCOHOLIC LIQUOR CLASS S, $1,300.00 LICENSE-CONTRACTORS & RELATED TRADES, $112,150.00 LICENSE-LIQUOR CLASS 10, $0.00 LICENSE-PASSENGER CAR, $561,632.83 LICENSEVIDEO GAMING MACHINE, $1,675.00 LIQUOR CLASS 11, $625.00 LOCAL USE TAX, $918,757.72 MERCHANDISE RESALE, $0.00 MISCELLANEOUS, $11,920.39 MOTOR FUEL TAX, $756,110.44 NON-HOME RULE GASOLINE TAX, $31,213.85 NON-HOME RULE SALES TAX, $577,987.84 NSF CHECK CHARGE, $850.00 OTHER GRANTS, $585,724.21 OTHER STATE SHARED TAXES, $209,347.31 PARKING TICKET FINES, $316,635.50 PERMIT-BUILDING, $329,982.15 PERMIT-COMMUTER PARKING, $10,710.00 PERMIT-DUMPSTER, $8,000.00 PERMIT-OTHER BUILDING, $300.00 PERMIT-PICNIC, $5,725.00 PERMIT-RB PARKING, $1.00 PERSONAL PROPERTY REPLACEMENT TAX, $71,509.22 PLACES FOR EATING TAX, $194,330.22 POLICE FORFEITURE INCOME, $0.00 POLICE SPECIAL DETAIL FEE, $0.00 POLICE/FIRE REPORT FEE, $2,811.00 PROCEEDS FROM SALE OF BONDS, $6,000,000.00 PROCEEDS FROM SALE OF FIXED ASSETS, $1,915.00 PROGRAM FEES - TEEN TRAVELER'S CAMP, $0.00 PROGRAM FEES-BALLROOM DANCING, $0.00 PROGRAM FEES-COED VOLLEYBALL, $440.00 PROGRAM FEES-CONTRACT KIDS FIRST SPORTS, $67.00 PROGRAM FEES-COOP LA GRANGE PARK, $955.00 PROGRAM FEES-KAMP KIWANIS, $69,212.00 PROGRAM FEES-MENS BASKETBALL, $280.25 PROGRAM FEESOTHER RECREATION, $58,841.50 PROGRAM FEES-REC HOUSE CAMP 3'S & 4'S, $0.00 PROGRAM FEES-REC HOUSE CAMP 5'S & 6'S, $2,145.00 PROGRAM FEES-TOT PREP 3'S REC HOUSE, $6,474.00 PROGRAM FEES-TOTS PREP 3'S WATER TOW, $1,357.00 PROGRAM FEES-TOTS PREP 4'S-REC HOUSE, $14,346.50 PROGRAM FEESTOTS PREP 4'S-WATER TOW, $3,438.00 PROGRAM FEES-TRIPS & OUTINGS, $0.00 PROGRAM FEESYOUTH ART, $1,283.00 PROPERTY TAX - 2016 GO BOND ISSUE, $1,011,799.31 PROPERTY TAX - CORPORATE LEVIES, $5,633,886.27 PROPERTY TAX - FIREFIGHTERS PENSION, $949,565.51 PROPERTY TAX - OGDEN AVE. TIF, $392,326.27 PROPERTY TAX - POLICE PENSION LEVY, $1,957,059.39 PROPERTY TAX 2018 G O BOND ISSUE, $897,848.17 PROPERTY TAXES - 2020 GO
BONDS, $739,896.79 PROPERTY TAXES 8 CORNERS TIF, $168,337.55 PROPERTY TAX-TOWNSHIP ROAD & BRIDGE, $30,689.42 SALES TAX, $821,012.84 SEWER CHARGES, $1,332,397.59 Special Assessment #359, $57,383.48 Special Assessment #361, $67,813.94 SPECIAL ASSESSMENT CLEARING ACCOUNT, $9,155.91 SPECIAL REGISTRATION FEES - PD, $235.00 STATE GRANTS, $208,454.15 STATE REIMBURSEMENT, $52,292.52 TELECOMMUNICATIONS TAX, $253,260.71 TOWNSHIP GRANTS, $18,866.36 TRANSFER IN FROM GENERAL FUND, $0.00 TRANSFER IN FROM MFT FUND, $550,000.00 TRANSFER IN FROM OGDEN AVE TIF, $0.00 TRANSFER IN FROM WATER AND SEWER, $100,000.00 UTILITY TAXELECTRIC, $519,129.23 UTILITY TAX-NATURAL GAS, $252,990.43 VIDEO GAMING TAX, $106,015.69 WATER METER INSTALLATION/REPLACEMENT, $20,197.78 WATER SALES, $5,749,576.85 WATER TURN ON FEES, $14,985.00 WATER UTILITY TAX, $270,327.80 WORKERS COMPENSATION REIMBURSEMENT, $44,925.27, TOTAL RECEIPTS $43,376,104.45 DISBURSEMENTS SUMMARY: VENDOR PAYMENTS GREATER THAN $2,500.00: 8917 GRANT, LLC, 4,000.00 a5 Inc, 5,000.00 Aclara Technologies LLC, 9,686.00 AEP Energy, 37,043.06 Air One Equipment, Inc., 109,911.00 Airgas USA LLC, 4,327.94 Alexander Equipment Co., Inc., 3,050.72 All American Exterior Solution, 61,983.00 Alta Construction Equipment LLC, 106,007.04 Amalgamated Bank of Chicago, 3,082,852.50 American Fidelity Assurance, 24,238.79 AMERICAN SURVEYING AND ENGINEERING, PC, 9,480.00 Arthur P. O'Hara, Inc., 2,798.12 AT&T, 45,497.37 Atlas Companies, 4,637.57 Avalon Petroleum Co., 72,293.40 B & F Construction Code Services, Inc., 62,623.21 B Allan Graphics, 9,100.00 BECHSTEIN, 26,125.00 BENISTAR/HARTFORD-6795, 10,570.80 Betty's Flowers & Gifts, 3,935.00 Blue Cross Blue Shield of IL, 2,229,079.73 Bound Tree Medical, LLC, 4,884.67 BRIGHTLEAF HOMES LLC, 7,000.00 Brookfield Public Library, 15,331.14 Brookfield True Value Hardware, 2,823.91 Brookfield Zoo, 3,500.00 Brookfield/North Riverside Water Commission, 3,609,039.31 Building & Fire Code Academy, 2,875.00 Burlington Auto Body, 2,725.94 Call One, 59,190.24 Cargill Incorporated, 93,732.21 Case Lots, Inc., 18,175.38 Catarama Home Repair & Remodeling, 3,000.00 Chicago Parts & Sound LLC, 8,990.50 Ciorba Group, 11,407.16 Comcast, 5,921.79 ComEd, 6,997.91 Constellation NewEnergy, Inc., 126,547.68 Cook County Dept of Public Health, 6,200.00 Core & Main, 7,160.46 Crosstown Builders, 6,000.00 Cummins Npower LLC, 2,751.39 De Lage Landen Public Finance, 21,959.29 Delta Dental Of Illinois - Risk, 119,835.67 Desitter Flooring, Inc, 3,687.94 Digital Assurance Certification, LLC, 2,500.00 Diligent Corporation, 9,650.00 Dinges Fire Company, 7,123.91 Douglas Auto Body, Inc, 2,763.43 DuPage Topsoil Inc., 3,285.00 Eagle Uniform Co, Inc, The, 6,142.10 Elmhurst Occupational Health, 4,541.00 Emergency Reporting, 2,527.00 EXECUTIVE PARTNERS, 14,784.93 Factory Motor Parts, 5,940.37 First National Bank of Brookfield, 86,855.10 Freeway Ford Truck Sales Inc., 13,523.87 Full Circle K9 Solutions Inc, 3,300.00 Gallagher Materials, 2,858.22 Garvey's Office Products, 10,502.26 GBJ Sales, LLC, 3,398.15 GovTempsUSA, LLC, 34,056.75 GreenAirCare, 5,750.00 Groot Industries, Inc., 1,638,368.17 Growing Community Media, NFP, 16,438.00 Hancock Engineering, 1,009,108.28 Hauser, Tim, 4,747.00 Health Endeavors, SC, 8,524.00 Heat Engineering Co, The, 82,164.87 Hickey Home Remodeling, 3,000.00 Hitchcock Design Group, 35,301.85 HL Landscape, 87,675.00 I/O Solutions, Inc, 17,595.00 ICON Bronze LLC, 5,800.00 Illinois Department of Insurance, 6,865.97 Illinois EPA, 6,000.00 Illinois Public Safety Agency Network, 3,750.00 Impact Networking, LLC, 19,851.13 IMRF, 521,102.54 Internal Revenue Service, 388,658.21 Interstate Battery System of Central Chicago, 4,129.55 Interstate Power Systems, 16,217.98 IPPFA, 3,950.00 IRMA, 434,776.86 J & L Electronic Service, Inc., 12,549.94 J & M Fence, 2,719.00 J. Nardulli Concrete, Inc., 4,731,447.55 JCM Uniforms Inc., 9,396.08 Julie, Inc., 2,750.23 K.C. Mechanical, Inc., 3,940.00 Kane, Mc Kenna and Associates, Inc., 3,087.50
Kiesler's Police Supply, 5,549.05 KnowBe4, 4,465.01 KONEMATIC, 7,262.63 Kopec, David, 2,699.28 Kusper, Robert, 3,040.00 Lauterbach & Amen, LLP, 94,480.00 Law Offices of John L Fioti, 9,793.75 Lawson Products, Inc., 7,970.56 Lehigh Hanson Inc, 13,232.53 Lexipol, 17,718.00 Living Waters Consultants, Inc., 7,600.00 Lyons Pinner Electric Co, 18,933.62 M.E. Simpson Co., Inc., 19,185.00 MABAS Division 10, 6,347.00 Madison National Life Insurance Co., 8,886.40 Mc Adam Landscaping, Inc., 4,385.00 Menards, 8,322.92 Mesirow Insurance Services, Inc, 4,304.00 MGP, Inc, 32,818.44 Mid-Town Petroleum Acquisition LLC, 3,260.09 Midwest Meter Inc., 25,510.23 Midwest Office Interiors, 10,741.03 Miner Electronics Corp, 3,555.17 Muellermist Irrigation Co., 2,659.68 Municode, 10,022.00 Murphys Trans & Complete Auto, 4,282.13 MYS, Inc., 100,000.00 NAPA Auto Parts, 9,449.08 National Power Rodding Corp, 4,716.00 National Seed, 2,696.50 NICOR, 4,737.67 North East Multi-Regional Training, 5,010.00 Orkin Inc., 8,674.72 Otis Elevator Co., 4,593.59 Paramedic Billing Services, 13,705.14 Perfect Mulch Products, 3,660.00 PETERSON, NICK, 3,000.00 Planters Unlimited, 7,888.94 Plata Builders, 4,000.00 Priority Print, 6,853.20 ProxIT Technology Solutions, 146,740.04 Quadient Finance USA, Inc, 13,947.33 RAIL PROS, 12,235.00 Ray O'Herron Co., Inc., 2,700.16 Rebuilding Homes LLC, 3,000.00 Red Feather Group, 76,184.00 Reimer & Dobrovolny, PC, 3,078.60 Reliable Materials Lyons LLC, 3,366.00 Resicap, 3,000.00 Restore Construction Inc., 3,865.00 Rubino Engineering Inc., 2,866.00 Rush Truck Center - Chicago, 9,220.83 Russel's Painting, 17,600.00 Safeware, Inc, 8,244.45 Sawyer Falduto Asset Management LLC, 107,059.00 Schroeder & Schroeder Inc, 66,447.00 Scot Decal Co., Inc., 12,805.20 SEASPAR, 59,353.14 SERVPRO, 3,833.63 Sherwin Williams Co., 2,992.43 Six F Studio, LLC, 3,480.00 Smart Energy Water, 17,500.00 SMITH, ALEX AND COLLEEN, 3,000.00 Sports Kids Inc, 3,365.29 Standard Equipment Co., 15,947.67 Starr, Laura, 3,100.00 Stew Hansen Dodge City, 59,280.00 Storino, Ramello & Durkin, 353,735.83 Stryker Sales Corporation, 5,198.40 Suburban General Construction, Inc., 14,574.29 Suburban Laboratories, Inc., 6,743.50 Suburban Truck Parts, 5,274.41 TableBaseDepot, 7,675.60 THERMFLO, 3,184.00 Third Millennium Associates, Inc, 47,286.67 Three Oaks Ground Cover, 5,310.00 TINKERWORKS, 11,014.26 TKK Electronics, 5,245.00 Traffic Control & Protection, 23,354.40 Transportation Repairs & Services, Inc, 5,225.00 Treasurer, State of Illinois, 37,058.20 Triggi Construction, Inc., 133,057.15 Truenorth Consultants, 9,065.00 Tyler Technologies, 56,179.65 ULINE, 2,746.39 Unifirst Corporation, 28,044.91 Unique Plumbing Inc., 7,048.75 Vanderstappen Land Surveying, Inc, 3,900.00 Verizon Wireless, 40,240.78 Vermont Systems, Inc, 15,484.53 Village of Brookfield Health Insurance, 159,873.90 Village of North Riverside, 3,690.00 Viramontes, Martin, 6,610.00 Visa, 75,844.33 WC3, 302,140.28 Wentworth Tire Service, 16,451.41 West Central Municipal Conference, 39,849.63 West Cook County Solid Waste Agency, 274,360.58 Western Remac, Inc, 20,321.60 Westfield Ford, 6,934.03 Wholesale Direct Inc., 9,848.06 Winkler's Tree Service, 74,836.96 WOLDHUIS FARMS SUNRISE GREENHOUSE, INC., 4,275.00 Zoll, 3,659.00 TOTAL VENDOR PAYMENTS GREATER THAN $2,500 - $22,378,955.27 VENDOR PAYMENTS LESS THAN $2,500 - $287,585.79, TOTAL VENDOR PAYMENTS $22,666,541.06. EMPLOYEE COMPENSATION SUMMARY: under $10,000: KWILAS, MEGAN R, SLINKMAN, HAROLD, ULANOWICZ, SARAH E, WESTMORELAND, JOHNNY L, LARSON, JOHN, FREEMAN, ROGER R, CURIN, JOHN J., PETRAK, EDWARD J, REICH, THOMAS M. , BUCZKOWSKI, JACOB W, BLANKENSHIP, BRIAN A, KOLINSKI, JENNIFER F, OLIVER, FRANK J. , CLEVENGER, JENINE L., OBERT, LAUREL D, SITTON, ELAYNA E, CORTEZ, JENNIFER A, DOWNING, MALIANA G, GALLAGHER, MICHAEL K, MILLER, RYAN, HALMON, KAYLA R, LEON, ELIZABETH R, HUNT, MADELINE R, MUGNAINI, NICHOLAS F, CONNELL, ANNA V, SLINKMAN, SHARON L, KIRK, CAYLEE A, KUDLA, BRENDAN J, CARRAZCO, GISELLE R, MUDJER, MARIJA, KOSIAK, TAYLOR E, LIMA, CHRISTOPHER M, BOZZI,
TRINA, HALL, ELIZABETH, COTTS, CAROL L, COOPER, REBECCA A, COOPER, GRACE L, PEREZ-GRAHOVAC, JOSHUA J, COOPER, ELEANOR C, PICTON, ZACHARY S, RURKA, ISABEL A, BRUNO, TESS L, SANDERS, JENNIFER M. , LAZARSKI, ELIZABETH P, MORRISS, CAROLYN, GOMEZ, OLIVIA M, GILHOOLY, KAILEEN N, COOK, TINA, COTE, EDWARD, GARVEY, MICHAEL J, GILHOOLEY, NICOLE, LECLERE, DAVID P., CONROY, BRIAN G, KALUZNY, KATHRYN S, GONZALEZ, AMAYA S, WOODS, CLAIRE M, WEBER, BRIGID, WESTEL, MARCIE L, BROWN-LUCE, MICHELLE C, CIESIELCZYK, SUZANNE, CULVER, DIANA, DE STEFANO, ANITA T, DIGIOVANNI, KATHLEEN, PAYNE, MARQUIS E, WURST, DARLENE C, COOK, BEVERLY J, MORRILL, THOMAS, ROQUE, JOSIAH J, CABALA-LOWRY, GAIL , MIKESH, ERIC A, BURRELL, DWAYNE A. , KETCHMARK, KIT P, $10,000 to $19,999: DIGAN, SEAN D, PAINTER, JOSEPHINE M. , PICTON, KELLY, $20,000 to $29,999: THIESSE, DANIEL C, MC MAHON, LISA, GORNIAK, JOANNE M. , $30,000 to $39,999: GUARINO, RICHARD, SCHWARZ, MICHAEL J, HULL, MARY MARGARET , PECK IV, JOSEPH A. , CERVENKA, WILLIAM , MICHAELS, DIANA L, PALERMINI, TERESE M. , $40,000 to $49,999: RYAN, JILLENE M. , WHITE, BENJAMIN P, ZAK, CHARLES S. , ESTERLINE, DEREK, NOTHNAGEL, ROGER W, KELLY, GLORIA M. , VILLALOBOS, HILDA M, $50,000 to $59,999: SHEEHAN, CAROLINE K, OLIVER, FRANK J. , ZAHROBSKY, ALICE , DUMANOVIC, SASH, SHILNEY, MEGAN D, REICH, THOMAS M. , KLICKER, ROSS C, KONOVSKY SR, WILLIAM J. , ANGELL, KATHRYN L, JOHNSON, SANDRA J. , SANDERS, DAVID W. , POWERS, DAVID J, LOWRY, ANDREW R. , CONRAD, JOYCE S. , MC DONALD, TRAVIS R, $60,000 to $69,999: VUKELICH, ELYSE M, MIKOWSKI, FRANK J. , GJONDLA, JOAN, POLICH, TYLER, HARRINGTON, ANDREW, BENSFIELD, KENNETH C. , KUTELLA, LAWRENCE T. , RADDE, RICHARD R. , FRAGA, VINCENT M, $70,000 to $79,999: ROVNER, JESSICA L, AIRDO, VINCENT A. , GAHR, KEVIN P. , WEBB, LORI A, CICHON, THOMAS A, MORRISON, SCOTT P, CHAPKOVIC, RICHARD F. , VARGAS, FREDDY, DUFFEK, CURTIS J, TRUDEAU, PAUL R, MAJTHOUB, HASSAN, PORTER, ERIK C, CONRAD, RICHARD S, $80,000 to $89,999: HAYNES, SPELMON, YACOVACCI, ANTHONY, SCHOENFELD, THOMAS G. , UDSTUEN, MICHAEL D, WALKE, MARK, HULTMAN, JON J. , SEBEK, RICHARD C. , KISSANE JR, JOHN MICHAEL , RYAN, MARK E. , TOKMANIAN, KARNIG G, REED, CHARLES D, MAREK JR, FRED J. , MARINO, JOHN T. , KROSS, KENT G. , FERRARI, STEVIE J, BRETZ, MICHAEL J, $90,000 to $99,999: LEH, JEFFREY J. , SWIERCZYNSKI, ROMAN, MORONEY, TIMOTHY P. , ZONTOS, ANDY, DUFFEK, MARK S. , ADAMS, JAMES C, BERMANN, PAUL E. , JANUSZ, VICTOR H, STAROSTA, JOSEPH J. , KOPEC, DAVID, LENZI, PATRICK T. , EPISCOPO, JAMES L. , KRECEK, JAMES J. , MITIU, WILLIAM J., $100,000 to $109,999: POLLARD, MARK R, HILDEBRAND, KENT R. , BERRY, KEVIN J, WITTEMAN, NICHOLAS G, GOLDEN, KATHLEEN A, MC CARTHY, DANIEL M, ZEMAN, ANTHONY J, ROCHE, DANIEL P, MC GRATH, ROBERT, HARRISON, DAVID J, MC EWAN, MARK A, FLORES, DANIEL M, LIVERMORE, HERBERT C., JELINEK, BRIAN T, MANESCALCHI, MICHAEL J., $110,000 to $119,999: WEISSGERBER, EDWARD J, KUDLA, DAVID A, ISSAKOO, ADLIL A, KUNCL, ARTHUR C. , BALSIGER, DANIEL C, REYES, ANTHONY A, MUELL, CARL S, HARTNETT, KEVIN M, $120,000 and above: ALVARADO, RAFAEL R, BANDOLA, CHRISTOPHER M, SCHREIBER, TERRY S, PALOS, ROBERT H, KLOSS, BRIAN W, COOPER, DOUGLAS E, BURDETT, JAMES R, MIHALIK, JAMES M, MC MAHON, MATTHEW, FISHER, MARC S, TESKA, MICHAEL J, DUBIN, RICHARD, HAHN, NICHOLAS R, POSKUS, DAVID J, MC BRIEN, PATRICK, PATON, RAYMOND J, KURUVILLA, MICHAEL J, ANDEL, DAVID J, DUBIK, MATTHEW P, SAULTERS, SCOTT R, SHAMASKO JR, ROBERT L, PETRAK, EDWARD A, WONSOWSKI, KEITH R, ARNISH, ZAK A, BAUMRUCK, JASON T, BALDWIN, BRIAN K, JIMENEZ, CARLOS, ROMEO, CHARLES E, BURRELL, DWAYNE A, PACYGA, BRADLEY N, WIBERG, TIMOTHY C, - TOTAL EMPLOYEE COMPENSATION: $12,489,318.42
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Education vs. child care from page 8 parents frustrated by the lack on involvement from District 96. “It’s great if parents can afford a liv- in nanny, it’s great if they can send their child to private school, [but] that’s not every parent in the district.” All other elementary school districts in Landmark’s circulation area provide allday kindergarten. Brookfield-LaGrange Park District 95 started full-day kindergarten two years ago, while LaGrange-Brookfield District 102 gives parents the option of sending their kids to full-day or half-day kindergarten. Western Springs District 101 and Hinsdale District 181 are the only nearby school districts that do not offer full-day kindergarten. The desire for all-day kindergarten has been constant among many District 96 parents for at least a decade. Next year, the district will convene a task force to study the issue and make a recommendation for the 2022-23 school year. In the past, District 96 has often not had the space to offer full-day kindergarten, but recent additions at the district’s schools lessen that issue. For the coming school year, however, social distancing requirements make full-day kindergarten unfeasible District 96 Superintendent Martha Ryan-Toye said. “We’re using every corner of our build-
ings still,” Ryan-Toye said. The kindergarten task force will look at the issue of full day kindergarten from three perspectives -- that of facilities, costs and educational and socio-emotional benefit. Ryan-Toye said research is inconclusive about the educational benefits of full-day kindergarten. “The academic and social-emotional research is complicated, because it both speaks to the value and some concerns,” Ryan-Toye said. Whatever happens in 2022-23 won’t help the working parents who are now scrambling to find care for their kindergarteners who will be in school for just half a day next year. Some parents enroll their kindergarteners at St. Mary School which has a full-day program. Many preschools have been shut down during the pandemic making this perennial problem even worse than normal. None of 23 preschools that the district contacted in February have responded to the district’s inquiries about whether they have a half-day option for kindergarten students. The LaGrange YMCA used to run a preschool program that accommodated kindergarteners from District 96, but has discontinued that program. To help provide some support, the Riverside Parks and Recreation Department stepped up to extend the hours of its KinderKids Club program by 2.5 hours so it
will run until 5:30 p.m.to accommodate the needs of kindergarten students. “We did want to address the urgency that many parents feel,” said Ron Malchiodi, the director of Riverside Parks and Recreation. “Basically, what we’ve done is take our existing KinderKids Club program and tack an additional extension at the end.” Under that program, kindergarteners who attend school in the morning can spend the rest of the day at the Parks and Rec program. Registration starts for the KinderKids Club program on July 6, when the department’s headquarters at 43 E. Quincy St. will be open for registration from 7:30 a.m. until 7 p.m. But the KinderKids Club program, which has been around for at least eight years, does not run in the morning and can’t help families with kids in afternoon kindergarten. Six of the nine kindergarten classes in District 96 next year will run in the morning next year. Costanzo and other parents have repeatedly emailed Ryan-Toye and members of the District 96 Board of Education trying to get district officials to be more proactive in addressing the needs of working families with kindergarten students. They have been frustrated by the responses they have received. “The district continues to kick this can down the road,” Costanzo said. After exchanging a number of emails, Ryan-Toye refused a request to meet with the parents, saying that that after commu-
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Setting a precedent? New day dawns for local Catholic parishes
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ood for the Lyons Township High School District 204 Board of Education. After seven long years, the school district was able to get out from under the thumb of the Lyons Township School Treasurer’s Office, one of several archaic entities created in the 19th century to handle investments and other financial aspects beyond the capability of school districts back in the day. About 20 years ago, Lyons Township High School told the Township Treasurer’s Office (TTO for short) that it was more than capable of paying its bills, cutting checks and managing its cash reserves. At the time, they worked out an arrangement to do so without having to pay the TTO for those services. In 2013, the TTO decided it wanted those service charges anyway and sued to get some $6 million they said was owed to them by LTHS. In the end, a judge disagreed and the TTO ended up with a fraction of what it sought. Due to legislation in the meantime by the General Assembly, whenever the TTO’s lawsuit concluded, LTHS was free to break its ties with the agency. Last week, after the lawsuit decision appeal period came and went, the LTHS Board of Education did just that. They ended their relationship with the TTO and are in the process of getting their funds transferred back to them. Exactly how this is going to affect the TTO financially is unclear, though District 204 is by far the largest single school district within the TTO’s purview and will take with it a large amount of cash. What we hope this paves the way for, since there is now precedent for it, is other school district’s challenging the authority of the TTO to handle their financial affairs and seeking to break with the agency as well. The time has finally come for the TTO, which only exists in Cook County, to dissolve and let school districts, which now have plenty of administrative capability to handle their own finances, do so. When you think of redundant governmental bodies, especially ones which spend $4 million to litigate a lawsuit that nets them less than $1 million, the TTO tops the list. This is an agency that’s supposed to be getting its members good returns on their investments. The TTO has demonstrated that it’s not a reliable partner when it comes to that job. It’s time for it to go.
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as it an ending and a beginning? On Sunday, June 27 a celebration of unification was held for the local parishes of St. Hugh, Mater Christi and St. Mary. It marked the final Mass and closing of St. Hugh Parish in Lyons and its former parishioners will join with those from Mater Christi Church in Riverside and St. Mary Church in Riverside to become the new St. Paul VI Parish. The parish’s new name becomes official July 1. Sunday began with the final Mass at St. Hugh followed by a dedication at Mater Christi of the new St. Hugh Faith and Formation Center, which is at the former Mater Christi School. The day ended with the dedication of the Bishop Timothy J. Lyne Pastoral Center and Parish Office on East Burlington Street in Riverside. The events were officiated by Bishop John Manz, auxiliary bishop of Chicago accompanied by the priests from the three churches, Father Robert Marchwiany of St. Hugh, Father Matt Nemchausky of Mater Christi and Father Tom May of St. Mary, who will remain the pastor of the unified parish.
JOANNE KOSEY
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North Riverside Rec summer camp is a blessing I would like to congratulate the North Riverside Recreation Summer Day Camp for our school children. Many of the neighborhood children attend the Summer Day Camp and excitedly talk about the fun they are having and the many activities they participate in. In this year of so much loss for the young, it is great to hear children laughing and making new friends
and just enjoying themselves and each other. This is an excellent service for the community and especially for the children and families. A big “thank you” to North Riverside Parks and Recreation for providing hope and memories in the midst of what has been a not so memorable year.
Sandra Buckley
North Riverside
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It’s been too long since we at the Landmark have been able to wave and say hello in person to all of our devoted and not-so-devoted readers. Our day to do that is typically at the parades in Riverside and Brookfield on the Fourth of July, and last year we didn’t get that chance. But, we’ll be back at both parades on July 3 with enough Dubble Bubble on hand (we hope) to say hi, wish you a fine Independence Day and toss you a piece of gum or two. It’ll be good to be back, and if the weather forecast is to be believed, it’s shaping up to be a beautiful day. Happy Fourth, all, we’ve missed you.
The events were the culmination of months of preparation by the three churches and their members through the archdiocese’s program Renew My Church, which is intended to strengthen parish life. During the reception at the Bishop Lyne Center, people were able to view the facility, enjoy some light refreshments and meet with members of the Lyne family, who had been invited to the dedication. I had the pleasure of meeting Fran Lyne, the sister-in-law of Bishop Lyne and related to her some of my pleasant experiences with her brother-in-law, the effect he had on St. Mary’s and why it was so important that he be remembered at the church in a special way. While St. Hugh has now closed permanently and the property is expected to be sold, masses will still be held at Mater Christi and St. Mary’s. The experience is new for most of us, and while we still hold our Churches as our own we’ll gather together to become a stronger parish. After seeing how people worked together through the process, meeting new people and making new friends, it is possible to get things accomplished when we work together and all are welcome.
Elsie K. Herdegen, 87 Retired administrative assistant
ELSIE K. HERDEGEN
Elsie Katherine Herdegen (nee Schmid), 87, a former longtime resident of Riverside, died peacefully in Richmond, Virginia, on June 21, 2021. Ms. Herdegen was a first generation German American, born to Katherine and John Schmid, formerly of Dachau, Germany, on Sept. 6, 1933. She was raised in the Lincoln
Park neighborhood of Chicago after her parents fled their Nazi-occupied home in Dachau. She graduated from St. Theresa’s Catholic Grade School in 1947. It was there that she met her childhood sweetheart and the love of her life, James Joseph Herdegen. She attended Waller High School, after which she went to Jones Commercial High School for secretarial studies. After graduating secretarial school, Ms. Herdegen worked in Chicago’s financial
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Why we should care about Wolf Road prairie
n the context of Chicagoland’s urban development, building yet another townhouse subdivision on a small piece of open land in Westchester should be matter of course. It’s only 15 acres, and sprawl has long ruled. But stop already! That parcel is integral to a vitally necessary buffer zone that shields Wolf Road Prairie, an Illinois Nature Preserve, from nearby development’s negative effects, while itself providing valuable ecosystem services. Wolf Road Prairie is one of the last remaining examples of undisturbed blacksoil grassland on earth. Its unusually intact ecosystem supports a large, interdependent community of wild animal, plant and other species. A legacy of the indigenous nations that formerly held sway, it is now protected for future generations. Scientists, students, and tourists visit from all over to admire and study this beautiful place. An unspoiled landscape like this
would be unusual in a wilderness area; that it exists in Cook County makes it even more remarkable. It’s so special, it’s shocking that anyone would consider doing anything to jeopardize its well-being. To help guard the prairie, the Illinois Department of Natural Resources, Cook County Forest Preserves and the Save the Prairie Society created the buffer zone by buying and restoring adjacent acreage. This particular parcel, apparently unavailable, borders 31st Street and forms part of an oak savanna full of 200-year-old trees. (Savannas, themselves, are among our region’s rarest ecosystems.) Besides sheltering myriad non-human species, this key parcel enables the buffer zone and prairie together to function as naturally-occurring green infrastructure that — through the interaction of plants and soil — cleans the air, manages storm
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OBITUARIES district on LaSalle Street. She and Jim Herdegen were married on Sept. 25, 1954. Later in her career, she served as a presidential administrative assistant at the university level. Throughout her life, Ms. Herdegen excelled at sewing, gardening and cooking. She will be lovingly remembered for her roast chicken, mashed potatoes and sunset cookies. As a parishioner of St. Mary Catholic Church in Riverside, she participated on the gardening committee and enjoyed working on the church grounds. She was a devoted caretaker of so many loved ones, including her mother, Katherine, for whom she cared in her own home during her final years; to her husband Jim during his long-term illness and passing in 1997; and to her grandchildren Kristen and Jimmy, for whom she cared from infancy to high school. During her final days, Ms. Herdegen was lovingly cared for by the staff at The Haven in Brandermill Woods, Midlothian, Virginia, and Crater Community Hospice Agency. While Elsie was preceded in death by her husband Jim, she is survived by her daughter, Karen Ann Kelley (Bob); son, Dr. James Joseph Herdegen Jr. (Sue); grandchildren, Katelyn Kelley Harris (Austin), Megan Elise Kelley, Kristen Elise Herdegen, and James Joseph Herdegen III; great-grandson, Anson; sister, Erna Baumgartner; and many beloved nieces and nephews. A funeral Mass was celebrated June 26 at St. Mary Church, followed by interment at St. Joseph Cemetery. Memorial donations can be made to the Alzheimer’s Association at www.alz.org. Ivins-Moravecek Funeral Home, Riverside, handled arrangements.
water, prevents flooding, and stores carbon. It’s also key to mitigating water and soil pollution from 31st Street and the closed Chicago Highlands Landfill. In 1985, the buffer-zone land was included on the IEPA Site Remedial Priority Action list, owing to dangerous levels of carcinogenic and neurotoxic chemicals. In 1996, the land was de-listed on condition that it remain undisturbed. There is no evidence the ruling has changed. Clearing, excavating and paving over much of this site would lead to newly released toxins, diminished biodiversity and shattered ecosystem functions. Flooding could increase, overwhelming Wolf Road Prairie’s wetlands, leading to further ecological degradation. And gray infrastructure along 31st Street might need modification, at taxpayer expense.
Furthermore, solving the twin crises of climate change and environmental destruction requires “nature-based solutions,” i.e., conservation, restoration and management of open lands. Not only do they offer refuge to wild species, but they are such potent carbon sinks that the federal government has pledged to conserve 30 percent of U.S. land by 2030, in support of its goal to reduce U.S. emissions 50 percent below 2005 levels by then. In Cook County we clearly should be redeveloping, not breaking, new ground. Wolf Road Prairie with its buffer zone intact offers vast, tangible benefits — to the wild species living there and to the citizens of Cook County and beyond. Let’s not pave paradise. Let’s understand and keep what we’ve got before it’s gone. Adrian Ayres Fisher is on the board of West Cook Wild Ones and serves as volunteer steward of National Grove Forest Preserve in North Riverside.
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Michelle A. Phillips, 67 Nanny Michelle A. “Mickie” Phillips (nee Pauley), 67, of Brookfield, died June 25, 2021. Ms. Phillips worked as a nanny. She was an honorary mother to the Sessler, Hamilton, Duncan, Jackson and Galloway families and was a special part of many children’s MICHELLE A. PHILLIPS lives throughout the community. She was a member of the Brookfield Elks Club Lodge 1510, was an avid Chicago Cubs fan and enjoyed bowling. She was the wife of the late Donald J. Phillips; the mother of Nicole (Cesar) Garcia; a grandmother to her grand dogs Wicket and Peach; the daughter-in-law of Mary Phillips; the sister of Carter, Thomas, Gilbert, JoAnn, Candace, Sandra, William, Lonny, Karen and Denise; and the aunt and great-aunt of many nieces and nephews. Services will be held at a later date, per the family’s wishes. Interment is at Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery in Elwood. If you wish to send a sympathy card to the family, send it to Hitzeman Funeral Home, 9445 31st St., Brookfield, 60513, c/o the Michelle A. Phillips family. Hitzeman Funeral Home, Brookfield, handled arrangements.
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T R A N S F E R S
Riverside Lawn land ceded to Cook County Forest Preserves
The following property transfers were reported by the Cook County Clerk from March 2021. Where addresses appear incomplete, for instance where a unit number appears missing, that information was not provided by the recorder of deeds.
Brookfield ADDRESS
PRICE
SALE DATE
3845 Blanchan Ave. 3221 Prairie Ave. 9120 Roach Ave. 9349 Southview Ave. 8818 Plainfield Rd. 9305 Lincoln Ave. 9012 29th St. 9536 Jackson Ave. 3721 Prairie Ave., Unit 202 4151 DuBois Blvd. 3318 Sunnyside Ave. 4233 Forest Ave. 9531 Jefferson Ave. 4214 Elm Ave. 9023 29th St. 4140 Madison Ave. 4007 DuBois Blvd. 4009 DuBois Blvd. 4235 Sunnyside Ave. 3804 Sunnyside Ave. 3637 Vernon Ave. 4626 Prairie Ave. 3913 Forest Ave. 4326 Blanchan Ave. 3115 Park Ave. 8845 Burlington Ave. 3508 Vernon Ave. 4218 Sunnyside Ave. 3126 Raymond Ave. 3726 Maple Ave.
$250,000 $217,500 $215,000 $700,000 $199,000 $205,000 $335,000 $312,500 $198,500 $412,000 $240,000 $240,000 $210,000 $237,000 $287,000 $389,000 $269,000 $175,000 $267,000 $445,000 $258,000 $305,000 $329,000 $295,000 $250,000 $432,500 $180,000 $274,000 $286,000 $285,000
12/10/2020 2/09/2021 1/28/2021 2/04/2021 10/13/2020 12/18/2020 2/22/2021 2/17/2021 2/06/2021 2/09/2021 12/28/2020 1/26/2021 2/24/2021 2/26/2021 2/17/2021 3/01/2021 12/31/2020 3/01/2021 12/18/20208 12/21/2020 1/08/2021 3/05/2021 3/01/2021 2/19/2021 12/28/2020 2/25/2021 1/11/2021 3/08/2021 3/11/2021 12/12/2020
2304 Westover Ave. 2226 8th Ave. 2251 Northgate Ave. 2329 Westover Ave. 7610 26th St., Unit 4 2504 Burr Oak Ave. 2352 14th Ave. 2352 5th Ave. 2332 Lathrop Ave. 2350 Lathrop Ave. 2332 6th Ave. 2426 1st Ave. 2321 12th Ave. 2542 6th Ave. 9001 23rd St. 8017 Edgewater Rd., Unit ER
$261,000 $225,000 $228,000 $163,000 $166,000 $315,000 $253,000 $275,000 $219,500 $305,000 $280,000 $200,000 295,000 $173,000 $249,000 $154,000
SELLER Kapolnek, Martin J Biring, Fred A TR Chicago Title Land Trust Co Andersen, Jack P Nowak, Henry P Chicago Title Land Trust Co Stasica, Adam J Q5 Prop LLC - Prop 2 Klemp, Casey Ruiz, Binggeser, Peter Kramer, Paul A Kubeczko, Dorota Holich, James A KCC Prop LLC CAS 2015 LLC Zimmerle, Asha O’Connell, James Farina, Mary E Cataneda, Aaron Curtin, Michael C Kraus, Carol A Smith, Ian M Lochridge, Collin Hall, Jeffrey K Sisson, David Reed Morrison, Rosemary L TR Barda, Doann Gildow, Kurtis Maritato, Fiori A Meade, Robin
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2/03/2020 1/08/2021 12/07/2020 11/10/2020 2/17/2021 2/23/2021 11/23/2020 12/15/2020 12/19/2020 9/30/2020 2/24/2021 3/05/2021 11/17/2020 11/17/2020 3/11/2020 2/08/2021
Dudzik, Michael J Reilley, Brian Lewis, Shawn J US Bk Natl Assn Dullum, Tammie Plaza, Andrew Allegretti, Paul Packett, James Fedison, Ira TR Kalinin, Igor Gajkowski, Edwin James Sheber, Rebecca Extr Kizilbash, Jeffrey Hasan J Calabria, Nicole R Augustine Cheryl M TR Shiplock, Kurt W
BUYER Weaver, Sarah McHugh, Kelly A Hanrahan, Adrienne Spy Glass Illinois LLC Gallardo, Abdiel Duran, Anita Chavez, Otoniel Haddad, Jessie G Crystal Alicia Fitzgerald, Debra A Ketchmark, Trent Villasenor, Juantia Dunkel, Elaine J Randelovic, Dejan Rodriguez, Rosa E Gray, Richard Allen Valenzuela, Amy Grandview Cap LLC Rapacz, Elizabeth Chicago Title Land Trust Co TR LeBlanc, Dylan Mark Zhao, Jingchang Ross, Michael Palmquist, Connor Donovan, Kevin Kang Xin LLC Series-5 Kolodziejski, Victoria G Rodriguez, Nereida Hedlund, April S Anaya, Victor E
Collymore, Gerald W Iii Parker, Gina L Velasco, Lorena K D Grp Enterprises LLC Hahn, Lawrence Regaldo, Gilbert F Medina, Elizabeth Rivera, Elias Ferez, Alberto Simpson, Jeffrey R Shumate, Micah Agmg LLC Murillo, Jose J Aguilar, Jose Alberto Soto, Raymond E Vogt, Andrew R
Riverside ADDRESS
PRICE
SALE DATE
300 Addison Rd. 153 Barrypoint Rd. 3744 Stanley Ave. 3804 Stanley Ave. 3803 Stanley Ave. 3807 Washington Ave. 3801 Stanley Ave. 406 Bartram Rd. 3747 Stanley Ave. 3808 Stanley Ave. 3800 Gladstone Ave. 3800 Stanley Ave. 3743 Stanley Ave. 3748 Stanley Ave. 475 Shenstone Rd., Unit 103 90 Lawton Rd. 3810 Stanley Ave. 3842 Washington Ave. 3809 Stanley Ave. 3802 Stanley Ave. 3805 Gladstone Ave. 114 Lincoln Ave., Unit 1101A 399 Audubon Rd. 112 E. Burlington St. 522 Longcommon Rd. 306 Shenstone Rd. 240 Fairbank Rd. 413 Desplaines Ave. 252 Gage Rd. 3706 Haas Ave. 125 Bloomingbank Rd. 331 Selborne Rd. 2936 Harlem Ave. 323 Bartram Rd. 496 Longcommon Rd. 195 Lawton Rd. 135 Lawton Rd. 50 West Ave., Unit 2S 740 Arlington Rd. 324 Olmsted Rd. 37 Longcommon Rd.
518,500 $555,000 Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown $755,000 Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown $125,000 $650,000 Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown $95,000 $605,000 $325,000 $510,000 $485,000 $775,000 $310,000 $337,500 $295,000 $775,000 $455,000 $295,000 $450,000 $258,000 $505,000 $375,000 $115,000 $305,000 $425,000 $970,000
2/02/2021 12/15/2020 3/05/2021 3/05/2021 3/05/2021 3/05/2021 3/05/2021 2/08/2021 3/05/2021 3/05/2021 3/05/2021 3/05/2021 3/05/2021 3/05/2021 2/17/2021 2/18/2021 3/05/2021 3/05/2021 3/05/2021 3/05/2021 3/05/2021 1/27/2021 1/08/2021 1/29/2021 1/19/2021 1/14/2021 2/23/2021 2/16/2021 12/17/2020 2/26/2021 2/19/2021 12/06/2020 2/28/2018 3/11/2021 2/25/2021 3/10/2021 1/06/2021 1/08/2021 3/01/2021 3/03/2021 2/08/2020
SELLER Fuentes, John Chicago Title Land Trust Co County of Cook County of Cook Cook County Land Bk Auth County of Cook County of Cook Chicago Title Land Trust Co County of Cook County of Cook County of Cook County of Cook County of Cook County of Cook BMO Harris Bk Na Tr Buzinski, Jami M County of Cook County of Cook County of Cook County of Cook County of Cook Ferrero, Giorgio U Fucinato, Mark J Volpe, Barbara H Sloger, Michael Marshall, Stephen A Ahmad, Syed U Welch, John R TR O’Brien, Megan Statler, Victoria Singh, Suzanne Valosek, Ashley The Judicial Sales Corp Brennan, Denise M TR HPA Borrower 2019-2 LLC Styrna, Paul R M Lion Dev II LLC Tagler, George J Chicago Title Land Trust Co Engel, Mack F Sion, Jonathan
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BUYER Manchester, Nathan Lee Purens, Kristopher Forest Preserve Dist of Cook County Forest Preserve Dist of Cook County Forest Preserve Dist of Cook County Forest Preserve Dist of Cook County Forest Preserve Dist of Cook County Weimer, Vincent J Forest Preserve Dist of Cook County Forest Preserve Dist of Cook County Forest Preserve Dist of Cook County Forest Preserve Dist of Cook County Forest Preserve Dist of Cook County Forest Preserve Dist of Cook County Cantu, Juan M Ward, Kaelan Anne Forest Preserve Dist of Cook County Forest Preserve Dist of Cook County Forest Preserve Dist of Cook County Forest Preserve Dist of Cook County Forest Preserve Dist of Cook County Matthews, Linda Denise Montgomery, James Bailey, Katherine Humphrey, Shalisa Nurczyk, Andrew Wyskiel, Richard Jr Wroblewski, Deborah Sandler, Joshua Doyle Hardy, Dominicc L Zak, Jason Ly, Jenny Joe Investments LLC Chicago Title Land Trust Co Kaczmarek, Donald R Dybel, Stephanie Rembis, Steve Casteneda, Eduardo Torres, Enrique Peterson, Anastacia Nicole Swiderski, Ed
In the February 2021 property transfer list published in the June 23 edition, one of the homes listed as having been sold was misidentified by the Cook County Clerk’s Office, which compiles those lists. The home listed as having been sold at 3512 McCormick Ave. should actually have been identified as 8540 Parkview Ave. The Landmark regrets the error.
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The Village of Oak Park will receive sealed proposals from qualified architectural firms at the Public Works Service Center, 201 South Boulevard, Oak Park, Illinois 60302, until 10:00 a.m. local time on Friday, July 16th, 2021 for the following: Village of Oak Park South Fire Station Restroom, Locker Room and Bunk Room Renovations Project Proposal Number: 21-714 There will be a pre-bid meeting on Wednesday, July 7th, 2021 at 9:00 AM at the south fire station located at 900 S. East Ave., Oak Park, IL 60302. Bid forms may be obtained from the Public Works Customer Service Center by calling 708358-5700 or by e-mailing vics@ oak-park.us between the hours of 7:30 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. M-F. The Village of Oak Park reserves the right to issue proposal documents and specifications only to those vendors deemed qualified. No proposal documents will be issued after 4:00 p.m. on the working day preceding the date of proposal opening. THE VILLAGE OF OAK PARK Published in Wednesday Journal June 30, 2021
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ITEMS FOR SALE KING SIZE MEMORY FOAM MATTRESS King size, nearly new firm memory foam mattress. (Used only 2 nights) Mattress only. $500 obo. 708-642-1408
River Forest Public Schools District 90
District 90 is seeking qualified and experienced applicants for the following positions:
• English Language Learners Teacher (Full-time at Roosevelt Middle School and Part-time FTE 0.50 at Lincoln Elementary School) • Social Worker (Roosevelt Middle School)
BLACK LEATHER COAT Beautiful black leather coat purchased at Saks 5th Avenue. Excellent condition. Size 6. $40. 708-488-8755
• STEM Teacher, Grades 6-8 (Roosevelt Middle School)
NEW AUDIX SPEAKERS PH-3S video shielded power speakers. $100 for both obo. Cash only. 708-383-7892
• Physical Education Teachers, ( Full-time at Roosevelt Middle School and Part-time FTE 0.77 at Willard Elementary School) • Instructional Specialist (Roosevelt Middle School)
• Kindergarten Teacher Part-time FTE 0.50 (Willard Elementary School) For detailed qualifications requirements and job duties, please visit our website at https://www.district90.org/about/ employment for our complete list of employment opportunities.
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General Duties: Provide excellence in education by developing and implementing activities that encourage students to be life-long learners. Possesses knowledge of District policies and regulations relating to areas of responsibilities. Create an environment that is conducive to learning and appropriate to the developmental maturity and interests of each student.
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General Qualifications: Valid Illinois Professional Education License with endorsement in field of study, a Master’s Degree is preferred and successful teaching experience with students in a classroom setting is preferred.
Application: Apply online at www.district90.org. Application Procedure: Interested candidates should complete the online application available at district90.org. Please do not send hard copies of supporting documentation, i.e. cover letters, resumes, licensure, etc. to River Forest Schools District 90; instead, upload these materials onto the online job application system for proper processing. HUMAN RESOURCE COORDINATOR The Village of Oak Park is seeking qualified candidates for the position of Human Resource Coordinator in the Human Resources Department. The ideal candidate will have a high level of customer service skills, Will provide routine to complex office, clerical, and administrative tasks. Applicants are encouraged to visit the Village of Oak Park’s website at http://www.oak-park.us/jobs. Interested and qualified applicants must complete a Village of Oak Park application. This position is open until filled. Applications will be accepted until July 1, 2021.
GRANTS SUPERVISOR The Village of Oak Park is seeking qualified candidates for the position of Grants Supervisor in the Development Customer Services Department. This position will perform a variety of responsible for developing. Administering and coordinating activities related to Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) and other grant-funded programs for the Village. Applicants are encouraged to visit the Village of Oak Park’s website http://www.oak-park.us/ jobs. Interested and qualified applicants must complete a Village of Oak Park application no later than July 16, 2021.
BAND SAW WELDER TECH, GENL LABORER OPENINGS Local sharpening service has two openings: Band Saw Welder Technician and General Laborer position. Apply at 1233 Circle Ave. Forest Park, IL 708-209-1636
HEALTH DEPARTMENT SANITARIAN The Village of Oak Park is seeking qualified candidates for the position of Sanitarian in the Health Department. This position will perform a variety of duties including education and enforcement activities for the promotion and protection of the public health environment. Applicants are encouraged to visit the Village of Oak Park’s website http://www.oak-park.us/jobs. Interested and qualified applicants must complete a Village of Oak Park application no later than Until position filled.
CASHIER—FINANCE DEPARTMENT The Village of Oak Park is seeking qualified candidates for the position of Cashier in the Finance Department. This position will perform all clerical tasks related to the cash receipt function. Collect process and deposit payments made to the Village received directly from customers, via mail, or lockbox or from other internal departments. Applicants are encouraged to visit the Village of Oak Park’s website at http://www.oak-park.us/jobs. Interested and qualified applicants must complete a Village of Oak Park application no later than July 6, 2021. EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS AND RESPONSE COORDINATOR The Village of Oak Park is seeking qualified candidates for the position of Emergency Preparedness and Response Coordinator in the Health Department/Village Manager’s Office. This position will coordinate disaster response, crisis management and medical countermeasure dispensing/distribution activities for the Village of Oak Park, provide disaster preparedness training, and prepare emergency plans and procedures for natural (e.g., floods, earthquakes), wartime, or technological (e.g., nuclear power plant emergencies, hazardous materials spills, biological releases) or disasters. This single class position is also responsible for the complex administrative duties required for state, federal and local response processes and grant management. Applicants are encouraged to visit the Village of Oak Park’s website http://www.oak-park.us/jobs. Interested and qualified applicants must complete a Village of Oak Park application. First review of applications will be July 7, 2021.
CHERRY WOOD CHAIRS 2 new cherry wood chairs with leather seat cushions. $70 each obo. Cash only. 708-383-7892 NEW STUDENT DESK New student desk. Cherry stain. 48w x 26d x 28.75h. $199 obo. Cash only. 708-383-7892 AREA RUG 8 FT X 9.5 FT very beautiful area rug. Design of natural figures in earth tones. $60. 708-488-8755
https://wintrust.taleo.net/careersection/2/ jobdetail.ftl?job=2100424&lang=en You can also learn about other career opportunities nearby.
OAK TV STAND Oak TV stand with w/ 2 cabinet doors, 1 shelf. 32”h x 27”w x 18”d. $25.00 708-488-8755 ELECTRIC YARD TOOLS Electric Leaf Blower $25 Electric Hedge Trimmer $25 708-488-8755 CHAIRS Small bedroom arm chair with plaid slip cover. $25.00. Comfortable upholstered chair with matching footstool from Pier1. Very light green. $60.00. 708-488-8755
WANTED TO BUY WANTED MILITARY ITEMS: Helmets, medals, patches, uniforms, weapons, flags, photos, paperwork, Also toy soldiers – lead, plastic – other misc. toys. Call Uncle Gary 708-522-3400 Lost & Found, Items for Sale, and To Be Given Away ads run free in Wednesday Classified. To place your ad, call 708-613-334
P/T SHAMPOO ASSISTANT Part-time Shampoo assistant salary plus tips please apply in person Anthony Lullo’s Hair Designs 721 South Blvd. 708 848 4455
CAREGIVER SERVICES WANTED CAREGIVER WANTED MCKINLEY AREA Looking for a caregiver (PA) to work nights 11p-7a and days 7a-4p, days needed will be discussed, to care for adult female with special needs. Training by mother approved by DHS HSP. Contact Maria 312 282-5760. HOME HEALTH ASSISTANCE River Forest family seeking overnight in-home healthcare assistance. Nursing students, Respiratory Therapists, CNAs, LPNs, RNs, etc. welcome. For more information, contact kpatterson10@gmail.com.
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Large Sunny Room with fridge, microwave. Near Green line, bus, Oak Park, 24 hour desk, parking lot. $125.00. New Mgmt. 312-212-1212
Small 1BR apartment in DTOP. Renovated and freshly painted. Harwood floors. Walking distance to El. No pets. $850/mo, utilities included.
708-657-4226
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RIVERSIDE 3 FLAT FSBO Three above grade 2BR apts. Unfinished basement w/ laundry & 1/2 BA. 4 car brick garage. Zoned for residential and office, if desired. Well maintained. $529,000 BY APPOINTMENT ONLY 708-446-1324
OFFICE /RETAIL FOR RENT RIVER FOREST–7777 Lake St. * 1116 sq. ft. * 1400 sq. ft. Dental Office RIVER FOREST–7756 Madison St. * 960 sq. ft. OAK PARK–6142-44 Roosevelt Rd. * 3 & 5 room office suites FOREST PARK–7736 Madison St. *2500 sq. ft. unit Strand & & Browne Strand Browne 708-488-0011 708-488-0011
COMMERCIAL/RETAIL RETAIL SPACE FOR RENT A RETAIL SPACE FOR LEASE IN SHOPPING CENTER! 315-325 S. Harlem Ave. Forest Park, IL. 1,000 sq ft. Good cond. *Recently Updated. Heavy Business/Traffic Area. (Min. Monthly Rent in the area: $17.50 sq ft.) OUR PRICE-NEGOTIABLE! TEXT, EMAIL or CALL Mr. B.(708)828-6491 If leave a message: Include Your Name, #, and Type of Business.
OFFICE /RETAIL FOR RENT LOCATION LOCATION LOCATION FOREST PARK HIGHLY VISIBLE OFFICE/STORE AVAILABLE FOR LEASE 1350 SF w/ AC & HIGHLY VISIBLE MADISON STREET EXPOSURE. 7607 Madison Street. Village parking lot next door. Bright, clean office. Great Madison Street exposure! Call Francis 708-3838574. OFFICE SPACE FOR RENT THERAPY OFFICE OAK PARK Free wifi; flexible leasing, and offices nicely furnished right down to the Kleenex. Secure building & friendly colleagues, often giving referrals to other office mates. Shared Waiting room, Conference room & option to join Peer Supervision Group. Ideal for new practice or 2nd location. 708-383-0729
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114 Lincoln Ave, Riverside $105,000
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555 Byrd Rd, Riverside $650,000
841 Robinhood Ln, LaGrange Park $849,900
290 Lawton Rd, Riverside $985,000
84 Riverside Rd, Riverside
7001 W 71st Pl, Burbank $249,000
152 E Burlington Rd, Riverside $364,900
2037 W Iowa St, Chicago $390,000
312 Downing Rd, Riverside $949,900
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5504 Barclay Ct, Clarendon Hills $239,000
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1104 N Harlem #1, River Forest $137,900
7722 Madison St, River Forest $18/sq ft
229 Park Ave #214, Clarendon Hills $2,950/mo
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300 Madison St,#433-1, Oak Park $1,625/mo
21 Walker Ave #1, Clarendon Hills $3,550/mo
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