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Vol. 33, No. 28
July 11, 2018
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PARADING The Stock Yard Kilty Band, a crowd favorite, was a highlight of the Brookfield July 4 parade last week. For more photos from parades in Brookfield and Riverside, turn to page 10.
Results of regional realignment will be announced this fall By BOB UPHUES Editor
For the past several months, members of four west suburban Roman Catholic parishes have been working together with an archdiocesan facilitator on ways to streamline and reorganize. Essentially, they’re working on how best to reimagine the parishes – St. Barbara in Brookfield, St. Louise de Marillac in LaGrange Park and Divine Infant and Divine Providence in Westchester -- as one or two new congregations, putting the old parochial structure out to pasture. Now all anyone can do is wait. “It’s been difficult,” said Paul Sadowski, a Brookfield resident who was part of the St. Louise “discerning team” working with teams from the other parishes to provide recommendations to the archdiocese. It’s something of a shock to preside over a radical reorganization of a structure that’s so ingrained and beloved, but it’s something every single parish in the Archdiocese of Chicago will confront in the coming years. The local parishes simply happen to be in the vanguard of an archdiocesan initiative called Renew My See CHURCH on page 17
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Brookfield Library pumps brakes on addition Majority of trustees unhappy with most recent plan
By BOB SKOLNIK Contributing Reporter
The Brookfield Public Library Board of Trustees is pulling back from the
most recent expansion plan presented to them. At a special meeting on July 9, several library board members voiced reservations and some expressed outright oppo-
sition to a plan to spend $8.7 million to construct an 11,700-square-foot addition along Lincoln Avenue. See LIBRARY on page 9
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