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Former Cook County commissioner charged with extortion PAGE 2 District 96 inks lease for Hollywood Association land PAGE 11

Sells won’t seek 3rd term as Riverside president

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Ben Sells, who is entering the home stretch of his second term as Riverside’s president, will not run for re-election in 2021, instead throwing his support behind Joseph Ballerine, who has confirmed he will be running for the village’s top post. Ballerine, 61, who has been involved in village government in some form almost continuously for

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60 percent of D96 teachers oppose in-person learning Recent union survey shows growing support for remote start

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As Riverside Elementary School District 96 teachers prepare to be reunited with their students inside their classrooms for the first time

since March, the faculty’s union leadership on Aug. 19 made clear that a solid majority of teachers did not support the school district’s hybrid in-person learning plan. Riverside Education Council co-presidents Katie Kayastha and Jen Ohlman informed the

school board that in a survey just days before last week’s school board meeting that 60.2 percent of District 96 teachers did not support the in-person learning plan. According to Kayastha, who summarized the survey results for the school board, just

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Former Cook County commissioner Jeffrey Tobolski charged with extortion Feds also say McCook’s former mayor filed false income tax return By BOB UPHUES Editor

Jeffrey Tobolski, the former mayor of McCook and Cook County commissioner for the 16th District, has been charged with extortion and filing a false tax return, the latest to fall amid a sweeping federal corruption investigation of Chicago and suburban officials. The brief, two-page document filed Aug. 21 in U.S. District Court in Chicago is what’s known as a criminal information, meaning Tobolski likely will plead guilty to the charges. Tobolski will appear before Judge Harry

when he knew “that the total D. Leinenweber on Sept. 1 at income substantially exceeded 10:15 a.m., according to court that amount.” records, for “arraignment and That Tobolski has been plea,” suggesting a plea agreecharged by federal prosecutors ment may have been reached. is no surprise. Federal agents Cook County’s 16th District raided Tobolski’s offices at Mcincludes all of North Riverside, Cook Village Hall and his home, a small section of Riverside and along with the homes and officparts of the north and south es of other suburban officials, ends of Brookfield. on Sept. 24, 2019. It was later reThe document states that beJEFFREY TOBOLSKI ginning around 2016 and conported that the feds had seized tinuing through 2018, Tobolski more than $51,000 in cash from conspired with another McCook official a safe inside Tobolski’s home. to extort an unspecified amount of money Two other close associates of Tobolski’s from someone identified only as Individual have already been charged by federal auA, who was “induced by the wrongful use thorities. of actual and threatened fear of economic In February, Tobolski’s county board harm.” chief of staff Patrick Doherty was indictSeparately, Tobolski has been charged ed for his alleged role in a bribery scheme with filing a false federal income tax return to influence an Oak Lawn trustee to supfor 2018. Tobolski reported his income to be port extending a contract with the red$214,270 that year, according to the charge, light camera company SafeSpeed LLC.

Doherty worked as a consultant for the red-light camera company, getting a small cut of ticket revenue the company collected. On March 6, the same day Tobolski announced he was resigning as mayor and county commissioner, a political ally of his named William Helm, who had served as deputy aviation commissioner for the city of Chicago, was indicted. Federal prosecutors charged Helm with giving more than $5,000 in bribes to former Illinois state Sen. Martin Sandoval to influence approval of a road and traffic signal construction project in East Dundee. Sandoval, the formerly powerful chairman of the Senate Transportation Committee, pleaded guilty in January to taking $70,000 in bribes in exchange for serving as the red-light camera industry’s “protector” in the state Senate and taking more than $250,000 in bribes in exchange for benefitting the business interests of others.

Riverside to unveil food truck event this month

Curbside Cuisine set for Aug. 29 at Centennial Park By BOB UPHUES Editor

As summers go, it’s been one bereft of the traditional community events that bring residents together. Now, as the season winds down and families begin turning their eyes toward an uncertain school year, the village of Riverside will send it off with some spice. On Saturday, Aug. 29 from 2 to 6 p.m. everyone is invited to come on down to Centennial Park, Longcommon Road and Forest Avenue in downtown Riverside, for the inaugural Curbside Cuisine food truck event organized by the Riverside Economic Development Commission and the Riverside Department of Parks and Recreation. “Honestly, all summer we’ve been trying to figure out a way to provide as much as we can to the community,” said Ron Malchiodi, the village’s recreation director, who was instrumental in organizing the

pandemic-year revamped Riverside July 4 parade. “This wasn’t the vision for a food truck event, but it’s the best we can do under the circumstances. We’d like this to become an annual event.” According to Malchiodi, the event will feature four to six food trucks – he was still nailing down confirmations as of late last week – as well as food tents for two local business, Aunt Diana’s and Empanadus. As of last week, said Malchiodi, he had food truck confirmations from vendors offering Puerto Rican cuisine, tamales and “decadent desserts.” The two local food tents will be set up inside Centennial Park itself, said Malchiodi, with the food trucks parked on East Avenue, facing Centennial Park. The event will follow the same distancing guidelines and mask requirements used by the Riverside Farmers Market, which is held at Centennial Park weekly.

There will be hand sanitizer at each station, markings on the pavement will guide social distancing and the event will be a strictly grab-and-go affair. There will be no tables or chairs available in order to discourage people from gathering. The food truck event idea actually had its origin earlier this year, said Malchiodi, when rules regarding reopening farmers markets were still unclear. Malchiodi said

the food trucks were seen as a possible weekly event to replace the farmers market, if those were prohibited. It turned out the state treated farmers markets as essential businesses, like grocery stores, and the Riverside Farmers Market has been able to operate every week this summer, drawing about 400 people every Wednesday afternoon/evening to Centennial Park.

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Riverside American Legion seeks to build ‘virtual’ community

Post has built membership, attracted notice from afar through online offerings By JACKIE PISANO

“What I’m trying to turn the Legion into is a virtual, community-oriented, Riversidecentric organization that’s primarily designed for veterans,” Topinka said. “Frankly, the hardest thing today about keeping an organization like this together is because people are so busy. This is so important because, where can you go then as a veteran to find your community? It’s really about veterans communities having some type of feeling like they belong and they matter.”

for the Fourth of July, and an upcoming Sept. 11 memorial day video chat with Allen James Lynch, a retired Army sergeant, Vietnam veteran and Medal of Honor recipient. Though the novel coronavirus pandemic According to Topinka, outside of growing has thrown a major curveball at life, millions local membership from Riverside, Brookfield of Americans are working from home thanks and North Riverside, the post’s strong digital to the internet and personal laptops, replicatpresence has caught the attention of vetering the classroom through digital learning, ans from outside the area, with participants visiting with loved ones via Facetime and viewing content from as far as Ohio, Massagetting groceries delivered to their doorsteps chusetts, Texas and Arizona. with just the click of a button. “I’m making the comment to Life may not be easier than it was everybody that Riverside is everypre-pandemic, but if COVID-19 has one’s hometown,” said Topinka, proved anything, it’s that a move who still maintains a home in from the real world to the virtual Riverside but works as an assoworld is entirely possible -- and can ciate professor in the School of be done effectively. Health Administration at Texas While no one could have predicted State University in San Marcos, this new way of the world less than Texas. “Riverside is so magical; a year ago, last fall one local organiit’s always been magical, and a zation was surprisingly ahead of its little bit of that Riverside magic time in determining ways to shift has helped our small American its focus to meeting virtually rather Legion post grow.” than in-person. Outside of the virtual nature of The group? Riverside American Lethe post, Topinka also hopes area gion Post 488. veterans will come to view the Since taking the reins as post comAmerican Legion as a career netmander back in 2017, Joseph Baar AMERICAN LEGION POST 488 RIVERSIDE/YOUTUBE.COM working and wellness outreach Topinka -- son of lifelong Riversider organization for them and their and late Illinois politician Judy Baar VIRTUAL COMMAND: Riverside American Legion Post #488 Topinka -- has made it his mission to Commander Joseph Baar Topinka presides over a recent virtual families. “It’s not so much about a buildturn the 101-year-old group from a ing anymore where you can go. disappearing relic into a rejuvenated meeting, a move that has helped grow membership and attract It’s about a community that you community focused on providing vet- participants from beyond Riverside. represent,” he said. “And, if erans and their families with a sense To join the American Legion, you must be a you’re going to meet online, you can still creof community. During one of his first American Legion veteran of the U.S. armed forces. But Topinka ate that community. In true Riverside fashion, Topinka says one meetings as post commander, Topinka said says the group is also working to create an only four members showed up to P.J. Klem’s American Legion Auxiliary, a partner group local service project still remains paramount restaurant in Lyons for an afternoon discus- which, while traditionally for wives of veter- to the group -- fundraising for continued improvements to the Gold Star Memorial in sion. Three years later, he says membership ans, has now been opened up to all spouses of downtown Riverside’s Guthrie Park. has steadily grown to 40 members, crediting veterans and other family members. According to Topinka, the Legion needs to Today, with monthly meetings and a weekthe group’s success to going virtual. For Topinka, a retired U.S. Army major, the ly commander’s call which takes place via pledge about $4,000 more for upkeep and renidea to move Riverside’s American Legion Zoom, a full resource website and a dedicated ovations at the memorial. He said $1,000 from Facebook page, American Legion Post 488 the post’s virtual Poppy Day last spring has post to an online format was two-fold. Older members, who hadn’t attended meet- has been up and running and picking up mo- already been earmarked toward the effort. In the end, Topinka’s message about Riverings in years, could be introduced to meeting mentum. Along with online meetings and video side’s American Legion is simple. virtually by receiving webcams, and younger “This is not your father’s or grandfather’s local veterans -- who often work long hours chats, the post also offers speaking events, and have family commitments that leave lit- including an Abraham Lincoln imperson- American Legion. This is something for the tle time for in-person meetings -- could jump ator offering a reading of Lincoln’s second 21st century.” For more information about American Leon at their convenience for a few minutes to inaugural address for Memorial Day, a vircheck in with other veterans and build a new tual Poppy Day sale via Facebook, a Theodore gion Post 488, visit americanlegionpost488. Roosevelt impersonator sharing a message weebly.com. digital community. Contributing Reporter

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BIG WEEK

August 26-September 2

WSSRA Derby Day

West Suburban Special Recreation Association invites the community to its Annual Kentucky Derby Gala on Saturday, Sept. 5 at 5 p.m. This year the gala, presented by the WSSRA Foundation, is virtual and will include a silent auction, raffle and paddle raise. The online auction opens at 5 p.m. on Sept. 2. Tickets are $25 and can be purchased online at wssra.net. Call 847-455-2100 for more information.

JJoin oin tthe he LLeague eaguue ooff W Women omen Voters Voters ooff tthe he LaGrange LaGrange AArea rea for for a sspecial pecial Zoom Zoom performance “From Parlor to Politics: Women’s Fight for the Right to Vote” featuring Annette Baldwin. Learn about the conditions that provoked 19th century women to organize and demand their right to vote and about the leaders of the suffrage movement, including Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony.

Animal Care League Trivia Night

Help raise money for pets in need at the Animal Care League’s Virtual Trivia Night on Thursday, Aug. 27 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Grab a drink, your pet and a computer and compete for the trivia grand prize of a new Nintendo Switch Lite. Not a trivia whiz? No problem. The Animal Care League will also be doing several drawings for a $100 Amazon gift card and more. Minimum donation to participate is $20 and gets you two raffle tickets. For each additional $10, you get another entry into the raffle. Zoom info and game instructions will be emailed prior to the event. Register at tinyurl.com/y5enxpmn.

And more Aging Care Connections hosts Aging Well Neighborhood Online Classes for seniors via Zoom every week. Coming up is Senior Strong Fitness on Aug. 28 at 11:15 a.m. Email AWN@agingcareconnections.org for participation links and questions. North Riverside Public Library is offering the following virtual programs through Facebook Live, conference calls and the teleconferencing app Zoom. Programs include Talented Tuesdays every Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. via Facebook Live on North Riverside Public Library’s Facebook page; Game Night Fridays ■

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The event will take place on Aug. 27 at 7 p.m. Register to attend at lagrangehistory.org/events/from-parlor-to-politics-virtual-presentation.

Farmers markets continue

Riverside Reads returns The Riverside Public Library, 1 Burling Road, will resume its inperson Riverside Reads book club on Tuesday, Sept. 5 at 2 p.m. for a safe, socially distanced discussion of“The Overstory” by Richard Powers. The club will meet outside in front of the library. Bring a chair or blanket and dress for the weather. The rain location will be the auditorium of the Riverside Township Hall next door.

Visit the library’s website at riversidelibrary.org, Call 708-442-6366 or email informationservices@riversidelibrary.org to place a hold on a copy of the book.

It’s high summer, which means tomatoes, sweet corn, peaches and much more at local farmers markets, which are adhering to COVID-19 protocols and require all visitors to wear face coverings and follow special rules in place this year. The Riverside Farmers Market is open for business every Wednesday from 2:30 to 7 p.m. in Centennial Park – in the shadow of the village’s downtown water tower at 10 Pine Ave. – through Oct. 7. For more info, visit riverside.il.us/369/Farmers-Market. The Brookfield Farmers Market continues through Oct. 10 every Saturday from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the parking lot of the Brookfield Village Hall, 8820 Brookfield Ave. For details, visit their website at brookfieldfarmers.org.

every Friday at 7 p.m. via Zoom; and Spanish-Language Book Club/Club de Lectura en Espanol via Zoom on Aug. 28 at 10:30 a.m. RSVP to bodenl@ northriversidelibrary.org or visit northriversidelibrary. org/events for all Zoom meeting access info.

weekly sidewalk art challenge on Sundays. Each week’s winner will receive a gift card to a local business. For adults, there’s Chair Yoga via Zoom on Aug. 27 at 11 a.m. Register for Zoom access info by visiting brookfield.evanced.info/signup.

Brookfield Public Library offers virtual classes and programs for patrons of all ages throughout the week. Most youth activities will be presented live on the library’s Facebook page at facebook.com/ BrookfieldPublicLibrary. Events include literacy classes and Geek Labs, Zumba for Families and Mammals & More. Youth Services will also host a

Riverside Arts Center is offering Boredom Buster Boxes and Virtual Party Boxes to give the kids some hands-on fun. Each box all the materials needed to complete an art project and instruction sheets. Order online and RAC will deliver the boxes to your front porch (no contact). Order at riversideartscenter.com/category/classes/kids-classes.

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You can also enjoy the annual Members’ and Kids’ Exhibition virtually. Visit the RAC website at riversideartscenter.com, scroll down the home page to the exhibit information and click the“download” button. The exhibition includes all manner of styles and media, from figurative and abstract painting to photography, sculpture, glass and ceramics. Riverside Public Library offers virtual programs for adults, kids and families, including Virtual Storytime via Zoom on Aug. 28 at 10 a.m. Visit riversidelibrary.evanced.info/signup/calendar to register and get Zoom access info. ■

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P O L I C E

R E P O R T S

Burglars hit downtown Riverside pub

Riverside police responded to Mollie’s Public House, 31 Forest Ave., on the morning of Aug. 17 after an employee called to report that the business had been burglarized during the overnight hours. The employee told police he’d locked up the pub when he left, but when he returned around 10:20 a.m. to let some utility workers in, he found the back door open. Inside the cash register was open and cash was missing from the drawer. Also taken were numerous bottles of alcohol from behind the bar. Police reported that the back door appeared to have been pried open. Surveillance video reportedly showed two men entering the pub a little after midnight. ■ Whoever broke into the concession stand at Veterans Park, 7600 26th St. in North Riverside, during the overnight hours of Aug. 19-20 left plenty of DNA evidence behind in the form of blood, police reported. Police responded to the park on the morning of Aug. 20 after a public works employee called to report that the concession stand’s front gate had been forced open and there was blood all over the floor. There was also blood on all of the door handles, according to police. Two glass panels of the concession stand window were broken, and police observed the first aid kit and some boxes thrown to the ground. A trail of blood was seen on the ground westbound on 26th Street from the park.

and other violations after she reportedly crashed her white 2012 Chevy into a metal barrier protecting the gas pumps at Amstar, 3416 Harlem Ave., and then tried to flee the scene on Aug. 23 at about 3:20 a.m. An officer on patrol while eastbound on East Quincy Street reported hearing what sounded like a crash in the direction of Harlem and went to investigate. He reported seeing a white Chevy back up after striking a protective barrier at Amstar and drive away southbound on Harlem Avenue. The officer pulled the Chevy over in the 3400 block of Harlem Avenue and reported that the driver appeared intoxicated and failed sobriety tests. When asked to submit to a breath test at the police station, the woman reportedly told police, “I have a lawyer from my last DUI arrest and he told me not to blow.” The crash did not damage the gas pumps to the extent that they needed to be taken out of service, police reported.

Suspect wanted in alleged home invasion

Sharpie vandalism spree

North Riverside police have directed a man to turn himself in after he allegedly forced his way into his ex-girlfriend’s apartment by breaking the lock on the rear door on Aug. 21, prompting the woman to run out the front door and call police. The victim told police that the alleged offender is the father of her two children, and that he did not have permission to enter the apartment in the 2400 block of Desplaines Avenue. When she told him to leave, the man reportedly grabbed her cellphone to prevent her from calling police. She fled the apartment through the front door and ran to Commons Park and located someone with a phone to call 911. The woman fled the apartment with her children still inside. Police who responded to the scene reported finding them in a bedroom, unharmed. The offender was no longer on scene. As of Aug. 24, he was not in custody.

DUI crash at gas station Riverside police charged a 35-year-old Chicago woman with drunken driving and cited her for leaving the scene of an accident

Vehicle break-in A resident of the 2900 block of Desplaines Avenue, North Riverside, called police on the morning of Aug. 17 to report that someone entered her unlocked vehicle, which was parked in front of her residence overnight, and removed two antique items valued at $150 from the glovebox.

Riverside and North Riverside police reported a rash of vandalism involving someone using a magic marker to write on three vehicles and one building. All of the incidents appear to have occurred during the overnight hours of Aug. 16-17. One of the incidents took place in Riverside, where someone wrote in magic marker on a white pickup truck parked in a driveway in the 400 block of Desplaines Avenue. Someone reportedly drew “obscene images and phrases” on a vehicle parked in a driveway next to the alley in the 2400 block of Westover Avenue, North Riverside, Similar images were scrawled on a vehicle and a business in the 7900 block of 26th Street. These items were obtained from police reports filed by the Riverside, North Riverside and Brookfield police departments, Aug. 1723, and represent a portion of the incidents to which police responded. Unless otherwise indicated, anybody named in these reports has only been charged with a crime. These cases have not been adjudicated.

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North Riverside looks to upgrade website, post meeting videos Firms to present proposals to trustees in September

ing COVID-19 information to the community in an effective manner through our website,” said Scarpiniti, explaining the reason why the project qualifies for such funding. Scarpiniti said she was optimistic Cook County’s supplemental CARES Act funding would pay for the remaining 25 percent of the cost for the website redesign. The village earlier this year sought proposals for web design services and received submission from four firms. The cost for those services ranges in price from about $30,000 to about $75,000, according to Scarpiniti. Next month Scarpiniti wants to arrange for each firm to formally present their proposals to the village board during a meeting of the board’s administrative committee via Zoom. The village board could then compare services and design options and choose a preferred vendor. Upgrading the website would allow the village to make video recordings of village board meetings, or any meeting that takes place inside the council chamber, available to the public for the first time. Scarpiniti told the Landmark she has already ordered two cameras, at a cost of about $5,000. The cameras – it’s unclear whether one will be sufficient – will be mounted on the ceiling of the council chamber. The room is already equipped with the

By BOB UPHUES Editor

When the North Riverside Village Board passed its 2020-21 fiscal year budget last month, two line items struck from the document were funding for a redesign of the village’s website and the purchase of cameras that would allow the village to record and post videos of village board meetings. But, both of those initiatives are moving forward now after Village Administrator Sue Scarpiniti told trustees that she’s got preliminary approval of a funding source through the federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, which was signed into law by President Donald Trump in March in response to the nationwide COVID-19 pandemic. According to Scarpiniti, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), which manages federal CARES Act funding has given her at least verbal approval to use those funds to cover 75 percent of the cost to overhaul the North Riverside village website. “The village has difficulty communicat-

IT infrastructure needed to hook up the cameras and compatible sound equipment. While the production values of such a setup will be limited – nothing like the twocamera, quasi-professional cable TV operation of the Riverside Cable Commission – it will at least make meetings easily available to the public. To start with, meeting videos will be uploaded after the fact, but the future goal, said Scarpiniti would be to livestream meetings. Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the North Riverside Village Board has made meetings available to the public via Zoom. The present North Riverside website, said Scarpiniti, can’t accommodate large video files, so the new website will be the first step in making video available. More recently, a village staff member has used an iPad to provide live Zoom video of the meeting in progress. Scarpiniti said the village could continue to do that in the absence of a better livestream option. “The village has so much work to do infrastructure-wise, I’d like to get the ability for people to watch meetings on their own time first – we’ll still offer Zoom – until there’s a good solution we can focus on,” Scarpiniti said. Scarpiniti said the goal was to get the new website and the video camera system up and running by Jan. 1.

North Riverside police Facebook page goes live North Riverside’s official plunge into the social media environment came Aug. 17, when Facebook flipped the switch on a verified North Riverside Police Department page. In the works for weeks, the page is be one of two new Facebook pages the village will be using to disseminate information to the public. The North Riverside Department of Parks and Recreation has communicated its events through a common Facebook group page, but Village Administrator Sue Scarpiniti said she wanted the municipal government and police department pages to be official, clearly verified sources of information. It’s not clear when the village of North Riverside’s verified Facebook page will go live, and the village won’t necessarily get notification that it has. The police department’s Facebook page simply appeared online Monday after weeks of waiting for Facebook to verify all of the information it requested. As of Aug. 24, the police department’s page had about 450 followers. One of its first posts was a photo announcing the promotion of Sgt. Theodore Roberson and his K-9 unit partner, the German shepherd Gunner. — Bob Uphues

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Riverside chief talks policing present and future

Special ‘conversation’ addressed use of force, funding priorities, solutions By BOB UPHUES

Weitzel said local police departments need social workers, but that departments lack funds to hire such personnel. He said Riverside Police Chief Thomas Weitzel he would like to see departments utilize said the best way to reduce crime in the “health response teams” that could respond to calls for domestic violence or menfuture is to begin repairing problems of poverty, education and systemic bias that tal health-related calls. Such teams would have trained profesplague the United States and have resulted in distrust and tension between police and sionals, who could respond quickly at all hours, bringing expertise to situations that the people they are supposed to serve. While fixing those large systemic imbal- police officers lack. “We need a tremendous ances are likely beyond the amount of funding for mencapacity of a small town tal health issues and welllike Riverside, those are being checks, because that’s the key to lowering crime, the spike we’re seeing,” WeitWeitzel said at a special, zel said. “I know of no chief hour-long conversation on that would turn down a sopolicing at the Riverside cial worker, a mental health Township Hall on Aug. 20, worker. They would welcome prior to the regular village that.” board meeting. One member of the audi“You would absolutely see ence, via a written question, crime go down in every maasked why, if the need for jor metropolitan area in the mental health professionUnited States of America if als are so great, were police we could produce more jobs, simply going to wait for state address the poverty issue, funding? address proper education, While the question might address systemic types of have suggested police use biases that are out there,” existing funding to redirect Weitzel said. “[That] would dollars to that end, Weitzel drastically make our job took the question to imply easier and reduce crime.” police leaders weren’t pressModerated by Village THOMAS WEITZEL ing state legislators actively. President Ben Sells and atRiverside police chief He assured the questioner, tended in person by about a that police were working dozen people, most of them hard to find that funding at comprising the core group the state level and suggested of young adults who led lostate legislators would likely cal protest marches calling for racial justice and an end to police bru- be open to such funding. The one question that seemed to start tality in the wake of the death of George Floyd, the question-and-answer session ap- getting at the kinds police actions that fuel peared to scratch the surface of the wider resentment and can sometime escalate to something like the George Floyd case was national conversation about the future of one asking how police respond to “suspipolicing and its funding. About half of the session touched on cious person” calls. more mundane aspects of the police deIn a predominantly white community partment, such as the process by which of- like Riverside, the questioner surmised, ficers are hired, their training both before the likelihood of “suspicious” person bebeing sworn in and after as well as chal- ing a person of color was high. lenges police face adapting to changing “There is a lack of diversity in Riverside technology and the increased expectation that cannot be ignored,” said the questionthat they also act as social workers and er through Sells. How does the department treat such mental health professionals. “Without question, the biggest non-po- calls? Weitzel said police are obligated to relicing calls for service we are experiencing are two things: well-being checks or mental spond to all 911 calls and that responding health issues,” Weitzel said. “Quite frankly, officers do attempt to locate and make conwe don’t have enough training. There needs tact with someone matching the descripto be more state-mandated training, for sure. tion of a suspicious person. Officer will try to engage those people There’s a need for that without a doubt.” Editor

“I know of no chief that would turn down a social worker.”

and ask for identification. If the officer observes no wrongdoing and the “suspicious” person declines to speak with police, the officer will take no further action, Weitzel said. That said, according to Weitzel, “There’s room for improvement.” He suggested 911 dispatchers might try to obtain more information from callers about the supposed suspicious person and what they are doing. Someone walking down the sidewalk vs. someone walking through backyards makes a difference. “I can see the day when there’s a more detailed protocol for reporting suspicious activity, noise,” Weitzel said. “I believe there’s a legitimate concern there.” Weitzel also addressed the Riverside Police Department’s policy regarding use of force, saying that any level of force used by an officer must be documented and that police must use only the force necessary to make an arrest. “Once they’re in custody,” Weitzel said, “the force stops. We don’t have a lot of those situations.” Weitzel reiterated that there have been no use-of-force complaints against Riverside police since he has been chief. He was named chief in 2008 and is in his 36th year as a police officer. He added that he supported developing a standardized use of force policy for the entire nation, initiating a national decertification process to weed out bad cops and the creation of a national police misconduct certification database to make sure those officers can’t move from one department to another. As far as the future of policing, Weitzel said that change is on the way. “It’s already changing,” Weitzel said. “I think you’re going to see a new model of policing. … I think it’s going to be a more just police force, a more compassionate police force and a better-trained police force.”

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Virus going nowhere as some regions face new restrictions Suburban Cook County still OK, but Kankakee and Will hit ‘trigger’ levels By BOB UPHUES

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As some areas of the state are seeing new restrictions being imposed on businesses and gatherings due to increased cases of COVID-19, the Chicago suburbs, including Brookfield, Riverside and North Riverside continue to flirt with danger. Brookfield saw new cases of COVID-19 increase for the first time in a month, adding 20 more during the seven-day period ending on the morning of Aug. 25. That number marks the third-highest number of new cases in Brookfield during a one-week period since Cook County started gathering that data back in March. The total number of Brookfield residents testing positive for COVID-19 since the pandemic began in March is now 290, with four people dying from COVID-19. North Riverside, meanwhile, has added enough cases in the past two weeks that the Cook County Department of Public Health has flagged the village as a hotspot on its online map displaying municipal “recent percent change” metric. As of Tuesday morning, new cases in North Riverside during the most recent two-week period had increased 117 percent compared to the prior two weeks. During the most recent seven-day period, five more North Riverside residents tested positive for COVID-19, bringing the village’s total to 106, including three deaths. Riverside saw its rate of new COVID-19 cases fall for the second straight week, with seven new cases reported in the seven-day period ending the morning of Aug. 25. The

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village has had 151 residents test positive for the disease since the pandemic’s appearance locally in March. Two Riverside residents have died from COVID-19. According to the Illinois Department of Public Health, the test positivity rate for suburban Cook County – the area has been identified as Region 10 for the purposes of tracking COVID-19 data in the state – has hovered between 6 and 7 percent for the past month. That is perilously close to the 8-percent positivity rate within any region for three straight days the state has set as a trigger for imposing new restrictions. Until Monday, the only region affected by such restrictions was near St. Louis, but things moved closer to home on Aug. 24.

Will, Kankakee counties see new restrictions Gov. J.B. Pritzker and the Illinois Department of Public Health on Monday announced increased restrictions for residents of Will and Kankakee Counties as the COVID-19 positivity rate there remained at or above 8 percent for three consecutive days. Bars, restaurants and gatherings in those counties, demarcated as Region 7 in the Restore Illinois Plan, are fac-

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ing similar rules to those implemented over the past five months by state officials trying to limit the spread of COVID-19. The new restrictions, which will take effect Wednesday, are stricter than ones being enforced in Region 4, or the Metro East area of Illinois along the Missouri border. They do not apply to schools. Establishments serving food and alcohol cannot serve customers indoors, and all outdoor consumption must end at 11 p.m. Patrons must be served at tables placed six feet apart, in observation of social distancing guidelines. Reservations will be required. Employees cannot allow customers to assemble inside or outside while waiting for a table, alcoholic beverages or to leave. Bars must remove stools to discourage patrons from congregating. Other rules include limiting social events to 25 people, or one quarter of a space’s capacity. Party buses will be banned and casinos and other gaming establishments must close at 11 p.m. If, over a two-week period, the virus positivity rate drops to 6.5 percent or below, both regions 4 and 7 can reopen to the degree allowed under the Restore Illinois Plan. Capitol News Illinois contributed to this report.

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The basics of voting, especially by mail

What to do, what you’ll need and who to contact By MICHAEL ROMAIN Staff Reporter

The Nov. 3 presidential election will be unprecedented in U.S. history, with many people forced to rely on mail-in voting to cast their ballots just as the United States Postal Service appears to be in a state of disarray. Here is some basic information about voting by mail that may ease some of those concerns. How do I register to vote? You can register to vote online, in person or through the mail. The deadline for registering in person and through the mail is Oct. 6. The deadline for online registration is Oct. 18. You can also register to vote on Election Day, but only at your home precinct, which is the place where you’re assigned to vote based on your residency. You can find the details at the Cook County Clerk’s website at cookcountyclerk. com/agency/register-vote But what about voting by mail? You can register to vote by mail by going online to the Cook County Clerk’s website at cookcountyclerk.com/agency/vote-mail. All you need is your driver’s license, state ID and/or the last four digits of your Social Security number; the address where you want your ballot mailed; and your email address. You may request a mail ballot by emailing mail.voting@cookcountyil.gov or

by calling 312-603-0946. Once you complete your vote-by-mail application, you should receive an official mail ballot “no more than 40 days and no less than 30 days before the election,” according to the Cook County Clerk’s website. Applications for mail ballots are available in at least 12 different languages. If you don’t receive a mail ballot within that time period or if you questions, email mail.voting@cookcountyil.gov or call 312603-0946. You can also check the status of your mail ballot by visiting cookcountyclerk. com/service/your-voter-information. Your ballot “must be postmarked no later than Election Day and received at the Cook County Clerk’s office within 14 days after Election Day,” the clerk explains. What if I’m anxious about mailing my ballot? You actually don’t have to put your ballot in the mail if you don’t want to. Those who applied for mail ballots will start receiving them by Sept. 24, according to the clerk’s office. You’ll get a postage-paid return envelope if you want to mail the ballot, and the clerk is urging voters to do that as early as possible once they receive their ballots. But if you want to avoid the mail, you can take your ballot to a secure drop box located in at least 50 early voting sites across Cook County. The drop-off hours will be from 8:30 a.m. to 7 p.m., Monday through Friday; and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekends. “Mail ballots will be collected on a daily

basis and will be time stamped,” the clerk’s office explains. Drop boxes for mail ballots will be available starting Oct. 9, at 69 W. Washington St. in Chicago, and at the five Regional Courthouses in suburban Cook County, including the Maywood Courthouse, 1500 Maybrook Dr. In Maywood. Drop boxes will be available at all early voting sites -- including Brookfield Village Hall, 8820 Brookfield Ave. -- starting Oct. 19. When, if ever, will I need ID? You only need an Illinois driver’s license or a state ID to register to vote online or in person before Election Day. In order to register to vote in person on Election Day, you need two pieces of ID, one of which must show your current address. You may be asked to show ID if an election judge challenges your right to vote (i.e., if you’re voting at a precinct on Election Day that is different from your home precinct).

But even if you can’t show ID at that exact moment, you can still cast what’s called a provisional ballot, which is a ballot that doesn’t get counted until you prove your eligibility. For more information on when ID is needed and when it isn’t, visit cookcountyclerk. com/service/when-voters-do-and-dontneed-identification-id. What’s the difference between a mail ballot and an absentee ballot? An absentee ballot is necessarily a mail ballot cast by someone who can’t vote in person. In Illinois, there’s functionally no difference between the two. I went to prison. Can I vote? Yes, if you’re a formerly incarcerated individual, you can vote in Illinois. You can also vote from jail while you’re awaiting trial, since you haven’t been convicted of a crime.

Man accused of 2016 murder on electronic monitoring One of three charged with Michael Smith killing posts bond

By BOB UPHUES Editor

One of three men accused of the 2016 murder of a Brookfield man has been released from Cook County Jail and was placed on electronic home monitoring after posting 10 percent of his $250,000 bond on Aug. 18. DeJuyon Johnican, 33, will appear again in court at the Maybrook courthouse on Aug. 28. He and two other men are accused of plotting to kill 33-year-old Michael Smith, who on Jan. 27, 2016 was gunned down as he sat in his car in front of his home in the 3600 block of Forest Avenue. Johnican and two others, Comfort K. Robinson and Jermaine Douglas, were arrested in November 2016 following a lengthy inves-

tigation. All three face first-degree murder charges. Prosecutors alleged that Douglas was the gunman, who pulled up in a blue hatchback alongside Smith’s car and fired several rounds at point-blank range at Smith. Police located the blue hatchback the following day in Chicago. At the time of the arrests, police said they had also uncovered evidence showing the three men met at different locations both before and after the shooting. Smith was targeted, prosecutors say, because he was a security guard scheduled to testify as a witness in a criminal case involving Robinson. On the date of his murder, Smith had appeared in court, but the case was continued and Smith did not testify. Prosecutors allege Smith was killed to

prevent him from testifying in the future against Robinson. The bonds for Johnican and Robinson initially were set at $250,000, but in December 2016 a Cook County judge ordered both men held without bond after Robinson was freed, which outraged Brookfield police. Robinson and Douglas have been held without bond ever since. But in August 2017, a judge reduced Johnican’s bond to $250,000, and last week the court convened a source of bail hearing. A day later, Johnican posted 10 percent of the $250,000 bond amount and was placed on electronic monitoring. Brookfield Police Chief Edward Petrak angrily responded to Johnican’s monitored release. “I think it’s outrageous. This isn’t a

non-violent crime. DeJuyon Johnican was charged with first-degree murder,” Petrak said. “The murder of a man in the prime of his life, a devoted husband, son and father of a 3-year old boy. Killed because he chose to testify against a violent gang member in a Cook County courtroom. This is sickening.” Johnican is one of a host of alleged violent offenders who have been released from Cook County Jail and placed under electronic monitoring. The Chicago Sun-Times last week reported that as of Aug. 9 – a week or so prior to Johnican’s release -- 43 people charged with murder were on electronic monitoring. That number was 40-percent more than those charged with murder on electronic monitoring exactly a year earlier.

The Landmark, August 26, 2020

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Riverside Elementary School District 96 has nailed down a long-term solution for separating play and parking areas at Hollywood School in Brookfield, with school board members voting 6 to 1 on Aug. 19 to approve a long-desired lease agreement with the Hollywood Citizens Association (HCA). The 30-year lease gives District 96 access to about 10,300-square-feet of land north and west of the Hollywood House for the sum of $1 a year. The land sits immediately south of Hollywood School, 3423 Hollywood Ave., and a portion of it has served for years as a playground used by students. The agreement concludes more than a year of negotiations between the two entities, which began in June 2019 with an unsolicited offer by District 96 to buy the HCA property outright. “It an imperfect agreement, which is definitely why it took so long to hammer out,” said District 96 school board president Dan Hunt. “But I do think overall it’s a very positive agreement, a great agreement to have, and it opens up so many possibilities for Hollywood School.” HCA President Gonzo Schexnayder in a press release called the lease agreement a “win-win” for the two entities, with the resulting playground becoming “a valuable asset for Hollywood School students and the entire community.” “The HCA preserves the historic Hollywood House property as a community resource, the school board achieves their objectives for separating play and parking and Hollywood Elementary children will get an expanded playground and more green play spaces,” said Schexnayder in the press release. The lease will allow the school district to roughly triple the amount of open space students can use as a play area, and it also includes formal access to the driveway that runs along the Hollywood Community Association’s east property line from Washington Avenue to the Hollywood School parking lot. While the rent on the property is nominal, the lease requires the school district to shoulder all of the cost for improving and maintaining the leased property. The deal also calls for District 96 to pay the HCA’s legal and title fee costs, up to $7,500, for negotiating the deal. According to the terms of the lease, the school district has agreed to improve and expand the width of the driveway from 12 to 20 feet at its own expense. The lease gives the HCA permission to use the school parking lot when classes are not in session and the school district is responsible for maintaining

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Hollywood School playground size to triple and be separate from parking

and snow-plowing the driveway. While the lease states that the school district “will consult and seek input” from the HCA regarding playground improvements it plans to make, the school district has sole discretion over the final design. School board member David Barsotti, a resident of the Hollywood neighborhood, cast the lone vote against the lease, saying it was one-sided and amounted to a taxpayer giveaway to the HCA. “People may think the HCA is being magnanimous in granting this lease; however, the HCA is receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxpayers’ money,” Barsotti said prior to casting his vote. “The benefits that will be made to leased land will equally benefit the HCA and the school, but provide the HCA with an improved driveway, better parking and a playground for the residents.” Barsotti also complained that the school district is accepting more liability in the agreement than the HCA. “This lease provide far more protection to the HCA than it does to the district,” Barsotti said, referring to a clause in the deal that says the school district will indemnify the HCA under all circumstances, while the HCA will indemnify the school district only if a claim arises from the HCA’s negligence or willful misconduct. Barsotti also expressed frustration at the HCA’s unwillingness to offer the school district the right of first refusal if the HCA ever decides to sell the property in the future. “[It] only solidifies that they are using the district moneys to improve their property at taxpayer expense,” Barsotti said. “By signing this lease, the district will assume an unequal amount of risk without having an equal amount of say.” As for the right-of-first-refusal issue, Schexnayder told the Landmark in an email, “The HCA board didn’t want a future school board to determine what a future HCA board could do with the Hollywood House. “Neither the HCA board nor the Hollywood House are a part of the D96 school board. The HCA board’s allegiance is to the house and the land it sits on, the kids at Hollywood Elementary and the Hollywood neighborhood.” Barsotti’s colleagues on the school board, while acknowledging those issues, were enthusiastic to approve the lease. “This is a very exciting foundational step for a really great addition to the Hollywood community,” said school board member Lynda Murphy. The lease deal paves the way for not only the construction of a new, expanded playground and wider driveway, it also will allow the school district to build a multipurpose room addition onto Hollywood School. The multipurpose room, which will serve as a lunchroom, music room and space for multi-grade level activities, will occupy part of what is now the school’s parking lot, which has done double duty as both a place for cars and as an outdoor play space for Hollywood

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Washington Ave. ILLUSTRATION BY JAVIER GOVEA DONE DEAL: The Hollywood Citizens Association has agreed to lease about 10,300 square feet of land north and west of the Hollywood House to District 96 for an expanded playground. The school district will also improve the association’s driveway, which leads to the Hollywood School’s parking lot. school students. District 96 Superintendent Martha RyanToye said the playground and driveway improvements, as well as construction of the Hollywood School addition, will be completed in summer 2021. But, there’s still more work to do in finalizing plans for the playground and also solving the parking issue. While the school district will now be able to separate park-

ing and play spaces, the construction of the multipurpose room will eliminate some parking spaces from the existing lot. The school district has been consulting with the village of Brookfield and Brookfield Zoo on possible alternatives to help solve that parking shortfall. “The lease with the HCA is a great step, but we have more to resolve before making this a reality,” said Ryan-Toye in an email.

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RBHS nails down remote learning plan Traditional 7-period day offers about 24 hours of instructional time per week

By BOB SKOLNIK Contributing Reporter

Students at Riverside-Brookfield High School started the school year from home on Monday after the school make a late switch on Aug. 14 to all-remote learning. At a special meeting Aug. 19 called in response to the abrupt decision by the administration to shift to 100-percent remote learning, the District 208 Board of Education unanimously approved a revised remote learning plan that significantly increases instructional time compared to the backup remote learning plan that developed over the summer. The unanimous school board vote came just six days after the board approved a plan that had combined in-person and remote learning. The new plan features the traditional seven-period class day, with each period meeting every day. Under the new plan, teachers

“COVID-19 has turned our world upside down, and we’re still trying to figure this out.”

“Teachers should be on camwill be expected to teach their pus for remote learning with all classes virtually five days a their teaching tools at their disweek and students will be exposal unless accommodations pected to be in attendance on have been made,” said District their school issued Chrome208 school board President Wes books. Smithing. Classes will be 40 minutes Remote learning this year long every day. The plan offers will be more robust than the nearly 24 hours of instrucemergency remote learning tional time a week, four hours that took place last spring, said more instructional time per HECTOR FREYTAS week than another option the Principal Hector Freytas. Last RBHS principal board rejected. spring it was rare for teachOn Mondays students will ers to teach a class in real time have class from 9:10 a.m. unwith their students. Grading til 3:05 p.m. Tuesday through was flexible and many students Fridays first period will begin at 8 a.m. and didn’t work very hard. Teachers and counthe final period will end at 2:20 p.m., although selors were sometimes hard to reach. teachers will be available for office hours “I take full responsibility for what hapfrom 2:30 until 3:05 p.m. pened in the fourth quarter,” Freytas said in Faculty will be expected to teach from a statement he made at the board meeting. their RBHS classrooms unless permission Freytas said dealing with the challenges is granted to allow them to teach from home. of conducting school during a global pan-

demic has been the most difficult challenge of his professional career. “COVID-19 has turned our world upside down, and we’re still trying to figure this out.” Freytas said. The school is hoping to allow small groups of students to come to school to attend classes virtually if they do not have internet access at home or if it would be easier for them to focus on school from the school building instead of at home. Teachers will be able to meet with small groups of students at the school, if they are willing to do so. Dan Bonarigo, a math teacher and president of the Riverside Brookfield Education Association, the teachers’ union at the high school, said teachers are anxious to begin work. “We have a very passionate and dedicated staff, and we’ve got the schedule and we’re going to do our absolute best to deliver some pretty great instruction and make connections with students,” Bonarigo said.

RBHS boys cross country gets all clear to resume By BOB SKOLNIK

Team member who displayed COVID symptoms tests negative

Contributing Reporter

The nearly weeklong quarantine for members of the boys cross-country team at Riverside-Brookfield High School has ended as the member of the team who reported symptoms tested negative for the presence of the novel coronavirus.

RBHS Principal Hector Freytas and Assistant Principal for Athletics Brendan Curtin shared the good news with families the evening of Aug. 24. “Great news,” Freytas and Curtin wrote in an email sent to families. “Our student-athlete has tested negative for COVID-19 twice and we couldn’t be happier. Our students’ safety and health continues to be our No. 1 priority.”

On Aug. 18, the school administration received word that a member of the boys crosscountry team had reported two or more symptoms of COVID-19. Symptoms include cough, fever, shortness of breath, muscle aches, severe headache, extreme fatigue, loss of the sense of smell, and loss of the sense of taste. Members of the team were then instructed to quarantine for two weeks or until the re-

sults of the COVID-19 test came back negative. Now that the test has been confirmed as negative, the boys team can again have group practices, which resumed on Aug. 25. Boys cross country is one of the six fall sports that the Illinois High School Association is allowing to compete this fall, along with girls cross country, boys and girls golf, girls tennis, and girls swimming.

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SELLS

‘I’ve seen a lot’ from page 1 the past 30 years, would be a formidable opponent should anyone choose to run against him. “I don’t want people to think that this is old to me, because of that [experience],” Ballerine said. “I’ve seen a lot and have a lot of institutional knowledge. … I’ve forged some good relationships and think a lot of people in town respect the way I work with them, even if we disagree.” The 2017 Riverside Person of the Year and co-founder with Sells and others of the Riverside Friends of the Fourth, Ballerine was elected twice, in 2011 and 2015, as village trustee and served two more years after being appointed to that post in the 1990s. Ballerine also spent 15 years on the Riverside Parks and Recreation Board, serving as its chairman. “Once Joe determined he wanted to run, then I didn’t see any reason to,” said Sells, who served as a village trustee for six years before running for his first term as president in 2013. “The idea of a contested election between me and Joe doesn’t make any sense to me.” Sells said he had been talking to Ballerine about his plans for months, but that it was only in the past couple of weeks that Ballerine informed him that he’d be going through the Riverside Community Caucus’ candidate interview process and seeking

SURVEY

Many rethink preference from page 1 option, where students can attend the same classes as their schoolmates from home. The Riverside Education Council conducted its first survey of teachers on Aug. 3, just prior to the school board approving the hybrid plan to start the 2020-21 school year. At that time, the union got a 76 percent response rate, which indicated that a slight majority of teachers – 52 percent – did not favor in-person learning, while 48 percent did. The most recent survey, conducted early last week, received a 98-percent response rate, said Kayastha. The stronger opposition to the in-person option was fueled not only by more respondents to the survey, said Kayastha, but also by teachers who over the prior two weeks had changed their minds due to increasing numbers of COVID-19 cases locally and in suburban Chicago. Fifty-two people who had previously said they were OK with in-person learning indicated that they no longer did, favoring fully remote learning instead. Kayastha, student support coordinator at Hauser Junior High School, said 2.1 percent of teachers intended to take a leave of absence during the 2020-21 school year rather

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JOSEPH BALLERINE

their support. “People know what kind of a man he is, his judgment,” Sells said of Ballerine. “You know exactly what you’re getting. He has a stellar record of serving his town.” Ballerine said that were he to be elected, the transition between Sells’ administration and his would be smooth. Ballerine is familiar with and has longstanding relationships with the village’s department heads, and as a trustee faced many of the issues that will remain for the new president to tackle. “We’ve spent a lot of work getting together the administrative team we have,” Ballerine said. “It’s important for [the transition] to be seamless.” Ballerine said that if he were elected president, he would work to forge closer ties with other taxing bodies, like Riverside Township and the local school districts. He pointed to successes such as the Riverside TV Commission broadcasting District 96 and township board meetings as an example of that kind of cooperation. He also pointed to the village’s recreation department providing

before and after school services for District 96 students. “That’s the kind of stuff we have to do to mitigate the tax issues we have,” Ballerine said. “The more we work together, the better.” Ballerine said “it’s really time” to engage with landlords in the village to try to make progress on addressing longstanding problem properties. “If we can sit down and find mutual, common ground, I think we can do that,” Ballerine said. The transition between administrations in Riverside has not always been smooth. Sells was elected running unopposed in 2013, but his candidacy was in opposition to the sometimes tumultuous one that immediately preceded it. Ballerine was on that village board for two years before Sells was elected president. The two were allied on that board, along with then-Trustee Jean Sussman, and have become close friends. When Sells was unable to preside over village board meetings, Ballerine stepped into the role as presidentpro-tem. In September 2018, Ballerine got firsthand experience in handing a hostile crowd, which had come out to complain about a home being used as a vacation rental on Michaux Road. “I believe I did what Ben would have done, defuse the crowd,” Ballerine said. Sells introduced a sense of calm to village board proceedings. While the village has faced some contentious issues in the past seven years – from video gambling to recreational cannabis to residential holiday rentals to a still-pending flood wall initiative – Sells has

D96 school year start pushed back to Sept. 2

Students in Riverside Elementary School District 96 will get a couple more days of summer vacation before the start of the 2020-21 school year after the school board voted last week to push back the first day of classes to Wednesday, Sept. 2. The move will allow teachers to meet on Aug. 31 and Sept. 1 for what are being called Remote Learning Planning Days. Those two days of additional preparation for the coming school year will supplement the professional development teachers received during two Institute Days scheduled for Aug. 27 and 28. The Institute Days covered a variety of topics, from staff and students’ mental health needs to adjusting curriculum to account for “potential learning loss” due to the rushed, emergency remote learning of last spring. than risk being in classrooms with students amid a pandemic. “As we know during these difficult times, people’s feelings and perspectives change,” Kayastha told the school board at the Aug. 19 meeting. “These changes are influenced by virus data, both in the District 96 community as well as the communities in which staff members reside, the closing of other edu-

With so much packed into the two Institute Days, that will “leave little time for teachers to prepare their lessons and instructional delivery, whether in-person or remote, and their instruction before students’ arrival,” wrote Angela Dolezal, the district’s director of teaching and learning in a memo dated Aug. 19. “Moving the first day of student attendance to allow for these additional planning days, recognizes the District 96 staff time to prepare for a safe and academically rigorous school year,” Dolezal wrote. The last day of school will remain June 10, 2021. That date was established as the last day of the school year – it was previously June 9 – last month in response to a new law that designates Election Day on Tuesday, Nov. 3 as a school holiday. — Bob Uphues cational institutions, situations in our own households and districts and other factors.” Ohlman, a second-grade teacher at Ames School, offered the board teacher perspectives collected by the union, outlining their concerns about in-person learning. First, she said, the positivity rate for new COVID-19 cases has been on the rise during the past month.

shown a knack for disarming hostility by demonstrating that he’s open to hearing opposing points of view. “I wanted to create a shift in village government,” said Sells, who said he took his cues from Riverside’s founder, Frederick Law Olmsted. “I wanted to use beauty as a touchstone, beauty in the deeper sense of things being well-ordered and carefully crafted,” Sells said. “I wanted to try to show people what government can be, how it can be run to maintain its purpose. It’s about empowering residents and leaving a better place than you came in with.” Ballerine, said Sells, “has the same kind of depth of attachment and friendship in this town that I do. It’d be a seamless transition.” If Ballerine ends up running unopposed, said Sells, that transition would begin sooner than Election Day next April. “I told Joe, once we get past filing [in December], if he’s unopposed, the transition will begin more formally,” Sells said. The closeness between the two men will be an asset, Ballerine said, if he is elected. “The other quality I think I have is, I have Ben. … I’ll have a friend to rely on to give me his advice,” Ballerine said, referring to past administration changes that were less cordial. “I think that’s important, especially in the first two years of those administrations,” Ballerine said. “Those were tumultuous, and it sucks a lot of the oxygen out of the air in a community that small. If we’re working for two years just trying to get through the day, we’re not getting anything done.”

As of Aug. 19, suburban Cook County saw four days of positivity increases, with a positivity rate of 6.4 percent. Ohlman acknowledged that the school’s plan “has been carefully crafted,” allowing the district to “seamlessly pivot from hybrid to remote.” Until Aug. 19’s meeting, however, teachers were unsure what metrics District 96 leaders would be using to make a decision to go fully remote. Superintendent Martha Ryan-Toye earlier in the meeting announced that the district would be using data for all of suburban Cook County as its measure for when to pull the trigger on fully remote learning. According to the governor’s Restore Illinois plan, a regional positivity of 8 percent would trigger fully remote learning. A number of families are also concerned about in-person learning, with 27.5 percent choosing the district’s all-remote option when the school year starts. In response to an email from the Landmark, Kayastha and Ohlman said the purpose of the union’s presentation to the school board on Aug. 19 was to communicate its members’ feelings, but there was no indication the union will take further steps to force a remote start. “As educators, we will do anything to maintain a nurturing environment where we challenge our students to reach their highest potential and are looking forward to a successful beginning of the school year,” Kayastha and Ohlman said in a joint response.

The Landmark, August 26, 2020

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Just a start

iverside convened a conversation on policing last week, after a summer of unrest and protest nationwide in response to repeated incidents of police brutality against Black citizens – incidents that continue to stoke resentment and violence, as evidenced by the events that have played out in the last couple of days in Kenosha. The village is not alone in its introspection – other nearby suburbs have had similar conversations – but it’s really just a start. A re-examination of the role policing plays in communities and what it will look like in the future is sure to be a long-term process, one municipal leaders need to confront. While the conversation in Riverside last week featured little back-and-forth between top brass and residents, there was value in the exercise and it revealed that, at least in Riverside, leaders are cognizant that there are some things that need to change. There’s no call to “defund” police locally, but even Police Chief Thomas Weitzel suggested that the community and police themselves might benefit from a rethink of how towns allocate resources. Throughout time, police officers have had to take on roles they are not necessarily equipped to handle. They are almost always the first and sometimes only responders sent to mediate incidents of family turmoil and abuse. They are often the first line of response for incidents involving those addicted to drugs and alcohol. When someone addicted to opioids overdoses on heroin, a police officer is almost always the first person there to render life-saving medication. If a child refuses to go to school and parents feel they have nowhere to turn, they call police. If there’s someone clearly suffering from a mental health issue and acting unusually while walking around Riverside’s downtown, if someone calls 911, a police officer will respond. Just as fire departments have shifted over time to predominantly agencies providing emergency medical response, police departments have morphed into social service providers. Riverside Police Chief Thomas Weitzel admitted as much last week when he proposed incident response teams that might include a social worker or mental health professional who could take the lead on such calls while police officers stayed in the background. It’s an interesting idea, but one that would need funding. But from where? The chief suggested that such funding and training come from the state. And while that might be a source of some revenue, municipalities are going to have to wrap their heads around staffing a new kind of police department – maybe a renamed police department – that includes the resources that residents really need in times of crisis. Sometimes a police officer is the wrong person for the job. We’re glad Riverside had the conversation, and we hope that conversation will be ongoing and public and collaborative. It is, after all, the community’s police department, and it will be residents, through their elected leaders, who will determine its best version of a public safety and health department. But, the past is over and change is on the way. Instead of feeling threatened by such change, communities need to look at this as an opportunity to improve public safety on their own terms.

Pandemic or not, Cubs-Sox rivalry still hot

here are the Hatfields and the McCoys, the Montagues and the Capulets, the North and the South, the Democrats and the Republicans. However, one of the longest running feuds -- and I say that because I can’t think of a better word -- is the feud that exists between Cubs and the Sox fans. I and most of my family are Cubs fans. I don’t know why, we just are. My mother took the grandkids to the games and loved to sit in the bleachers (notice I said grandkids). We seemed to plan a lot of our summer TV watching around the team. Our children proudly wore Cubs gear. As it happened, not all the kids in the neighborhood were Cubs fans. There were some vehement Sox fans and they let you know it. Now, I can root for the Sox and be happy for their wins, except when they play the Cubs, yes. But Sox fans cannot root for the Cubs. It wasn’t unusual for mom to step in every once in a while and proclaim, “It’s only a game!” Crosstown classic time was an exceedingly tense time, and we won’t discuss this past weekend. My “W” didn’t fly as often as

it should have. Even as an adult I’m cautious. Recently, when I encountered a friend wearing a Sox mask, I was relieved I was not wearing my Cubs mask, thus avoiding any possible discussion. Some things are better left unsaid, although I am proud to be a Cub fan. Granted, this has been an unusual season, so all teams have excuses (and I hope Chris Bryant’s finger gets better, soon). I applaud my favorite Tribune sports columnist Paul Sullivan, who was able to put out a daily column when there were no games and kept me in touch with what or wasn’t happening. He writes column every day when I sometimes have a problem coming up with 400 words once a week. All in all, the friendly rivalry -- weird season or not -- will continue. Just remember: may your words be tender, because you may have to eat them tomorrow. Go Cubs! Sports trivia question: Do you know who the first ball girl for the Sox was? She was the ball girl at the last night game in the old park and the ball girl for the first game in the new park. Think!

JOANNE KOSEY

LETTERS

Voting does not need to be lethal The president, through his appointed lackey, is slowing the post office to prevent mail-in voting. He claims, with no proof at all that mail -n voting is corrupted and has led to false votes. The truth is there has never been widespread voter fraud through the mail. The last voter fraud was attempted in North Carolina, in 2018, by a Republican operative named Mark Harris. He collected unmailed ballots from Democratic neighborhoods and threw them away. He was charged with voter fraud for his interference. This attack on the post office is also disrupting the normal deliveries of mail, bills, prescriptions and packages. It’s an attempt to cheat in the election and shows how lacking the current administration and GOP is in morals. The post office has been around longer than our constitution, and is now a constitutional right. The talking points of Republicans about voting in person with a pandemic on the loose are absurd. They have

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compared it to going to the grocery store, but it’s hardly the same. If you are sick and know it, you can go shopping when you get better, or maybe a family member can go for you. My mother in-law has not been to the grocery store since the pandemic started; my wife goes for her. However, you can’t send someone to vote for you, and you can’t wait to get better, so that means COVID-19 carriers will surely be at the voting booths. This is actually the best time to be voting by mail. It’s the safest way we can vote during a pandemic. We can also ensure the elderly safety, the ones who have built this country, the grandpas and grandmas, the mothers and fathers, my mother in-law and all those that are most vulnerable to the virus. Not to mention, we need our mail!

Joseph Diethelm

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The Landmark, August 26, 2020

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Be sure swim club site is free of contaminants When I was looking over the Riverside Swim Club plans for the Zoning and Planning Commission meeting this week, I remembered a conversation I had with a longtime Riverside resident concerning the swim club site. He said that it had been a coal storage yard when he was growing up in the 1940s and ’50s. For your convenience I am attaching a 1930 Sanford map of this site from the University of Illinois library, showing the coal yard previously located there. The 1950 Sanford map shows the coal yard as well. I think a hazmat survey needs to be done before the Planning and Zoning Commission starts the review of these plans in case there are any environmental issues with the site, which would necessitate changes to the plans. Since the EPA wasn’t established until 1970 and the swim club was built prior PROVIDED to 1970, I think it is safe to A LOOK BACK: Th e 1930 Sanford map of Riverside shows the assume that no remedialocation of a former coal yard, labeled as “Th os. Martin Coal tion was done to the site at that time and that the soil Yard” in the lower right-hand corner of the top section of the may contain hazardous map, on the site of what is now Riverside Swim Club. contaminants. The demolition of the pool site and the that the swim club was built where the coal excavations for the new facility could re- facility used to be. There may be other Riverlease any remaining contaminants into the side residents who remember this. Jacquelyn Paine air. With the proximity of the central busiRiverside ness district with the outdoor dining at our restaurants and to Central Elementary Ed. note: According to Riverside Commuand Hauser Junior High School, residents could be exposed to hazardous airborne nity Development Director Sonya Abt, “The consultants for the swim club did conduct contaminants. While the Sanford map may not be conclu- an environmental assessment of the site sive, I don’t think you can disregard it. When and building as well as some geotechnical I compared it with a Google map of the site, testing of the site and have an IEPA Unconit really looks like my friend was correct and taminated Soil Certification.”

County makes sure it’s easy to cast ballots My family and I recently registered to vote by mail -- just in time to see the current occupant of the White House launch his sabotage mission on the U.S. Postal Service. Fortunately, the Cook County Clerk’s Office is on top of the situation. Here’s their reply when I asked about their plans: “If you are concerned about the Post Office returning your ballot, there are other options for you this election: You can hand deliver your ballot to any of our Early Voting Sites, beginning Oct. 19-Nov. 2, 2020. The ballots will be picked up

daily from the Early Voting Sites and time stamped. Please check our website on Oct. 1, 2020 for the list of Early Voting Sites in Suburban Cook County. “There will be sanctioned sites on Nov. 3, 2020 throughout Suburban Cook County where you can drop off your completed ballots.” Whatever method you choose, be sure to register and vote – the stakes have never been higher.

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Joseph J. Aguirre, 98 Retired draftsman Joseph J. Aguirre, 98 of Brookfield, died Aug. 17, 2020. Mr. Aguirre was born April 28, 1922 and served in the U.S. Army during World War II. He worked as a draftsman for a refinery. He was the husband of Marlene JOSEPH J. AGUIRRE Aguirre (nee Rantala); the father of Rita Aguirre, Janice (Rich) Zaloudek, Alan (Catherine) Aguirre, James (Rachael) Aguirre, Joyce (Don) Rogers, Sharon (Al) Frieh, Paul Aguirre, the late Joan Aguirre and John Aguirre; the grandfather of 22; the great grandfather of 10; the brother of the late Frederick (the late Diane) Aguirre, James (the late Mary) Aguirre and Maria Markech; and the uncle of many nieces and nephews. Services and interment are private for immediate family. Interment is at Chapel Hill Gardens West, Oakbrook Terrace. Hitzeman Funeral Home, Brookfield, handled arrangements. Anyone wishing to express your condolences to the family online, visit HitzemanFuneral.com and you can leave the family a message. 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 Joseph J. Aguirre Family.

Sylvia B. Arndt, 96 Homemaker Sylvia B. Arndt (nee Pravda), 96, of Homer Glen and formerly of LaGrange Park and Cicero, died Aug. 21, 2020. Born Oct, 28, 1923, Ms. Arndt was a homemaker. She was the wife of the late Raymond E. Arndt Sr.; the mothSYLVIA B. ARNDT er of Raymond E. (Barbara) Arndt Jr. and Patricia (George) Spies; the grandmother of Jeffrey (Danielle) Spies and Christopher (Theresa) Spies; the great grandmother of Taylor Spies, Emily Spies, Brendon Spies and Cody Spies; the sister of the late James Pravda, Mary D’Ercoli, Joseph Pravda, Otillia Wehry, William Pravda, Lillian Haas and Elsie Williams; and the aunt and great aunt of many nieces and nephews. Services have been held. Interment was at Woodlawn Cemetery, Forest Park. Hitzeman Funeral Home, Brookfield, handled arrangements. For those who would like to express condolences online, visit HitzemanFuneral.com. If you wish to send a sympathy card send

it to Hitzeman Funeral Home, 9445 31st St., Brookfield, 60513, c/o the Sylvia B. Arndt Family.

Norbert D. Kretz, 84 Retired from Argonne Lab Norbert D. Kretz, 84, surrounded by his family, died on Aug. 21, 2020 at his home of 55 years in Riverside. An avid sportsman, Mr. Kretz made a hole in one, bowled a 299 game and held the fishing trophy for years. While being NORBERT D. KRETZ a proud member of the Riverside Township Lions Club, his real passion was science, developing theories and working on formulae until the end. He was retired from Argonne National Laboratory. Mr. Kretz was the husband of Diane (nee Danaher); the father of Thomas (Stephanie), Margaret Kubik, Laurence and James (Sara) Kretz; the grandfather of Thomas, Steven, Martin, J. Connor, James “Jack”, Aubrey, Lauren, Jessica “Jessie” and the late Candace; the brother of Robert (Mary), Linda (late Don) Feeley and the late Margaret Mary Buerk; and an uncle and friend of many. Visitation Tuesday, Aug. 25 from 3 to 8 pm. at Ivins/Moravecek Funeral Home, 80 E. Burlington St., Riverside. A funeral Mass will be celebrated at St. Mary Church in Riverside on Wednesday, Aug. 26 at 10 a.m. Please arrive by 9:45 a.m. Interment is at Queen of Heaven Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, donations are appreciated to Riverside Township Lions Club, 27 Riverside Road, Riverside, 60546 or the American Heart Association at heart.org.

Leonardo Zavala, 55 Real estate broker Leonardo Zavala, 55, of Oak Brook and formerly Riverside, died Aug. 18, 2020. Mr. Zavala was a purchasing agent for his family’s restaurants and a real estate broker. He was formerly a member of the Berwyn Police Auxiliary. LEONARDO ZAVALA He was the husband of Maria; the father of Rebecca and Leonardo Alex; the son of Maria and the late Leonardo; the brother of Lourdes, Maricela, Leticia, Arturo, Jorge, Raul, Jose and Isaura; and an uncle, nephew and cousin to many. Services have been held. Interment was at Queen of Heaven Cemetery in Hillside. Ivins/Moravecek Funeral Home, Riverside, handled arrangements.

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PUBLIC NOTICES LEGAL NOTICE LAW OFFICE OF LINDA EPSTEIN Attorney for Petitioner 722 W. Diversey Parkway Ste. 101B Chicago, IL 60614 STATE OF ILLINOIS) COUNTY OF COOK )ss Circuit Court of Cook County, County Department, Domestic Relations Division. In re the marriage of Maria I. Martinez, Petitioner and Ruben Martinez, Respondent, Case No. 20 D 005511. The requisite affidavit for publication having been filed, notice is hereby given to you, the above named Respondent, that a Petition has been filed in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, by the Petitioner, Maria I. Martinez, for Dissolution of Marriage and for other relief; and that said suit is now pending. Now, therefore, unless you, the said Respondent, e-file your Appearance and Response to said Petition with the Office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County, on or before September 23, 2020, default may be entered against you at any time after that day, and a judgment for Dissolution of Marriage entered in accordance with the prayer of said Petition. DOROTHY A. BROWN, Clerk. Published in Wednesday Journal August 26, September 2, and September 9, 2020

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LEGAL NOTICE ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS RIVER FOREST, ILLINOIS Public Notice is hereby given that a public hearing will be held by the Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBA) of the Village of River Forest, County of Cook, State of Illinois, on Thursday, September 10, 2020 at 7:30 p.m. in the First Floor Community Room of the River Forest Village Hall, 400 Park Avenue, River Forest, Illinois on the following matter: The ZBA will consider an application for a major zoning variation submitted by Shaun and Julie Krueger, owners of the property at 346 Park Avenue, who are proposing to construct a second story addition onto the existing home. Section 4-8-5 of the Village Code provides the Zoning Board jurisdiction to hold public hearings and offer recommendations to the Village Board concerning variations to Zoning Ordinance. The applicants are requesting a major variation to Section 10-9-7 that would allow the north wall of the home, which has a non-conforming side yard setback of 2.98 feet, to increase in height from one story to two stories. The applicants are also requesting a variation for a roof overhang of 1’-6” at the second ﬂoor level, resulting in a setback of only 1.48 feet to the roof edge. The Zoning Ordinance prohibits any increase in height of a wall which maintains a non-conforming side yard setback. The Zoning Code requires the roof eave to have a minimum 3-foot side yard setback. The legal description of the property at 346 Park Avenue is as follows: LOT 25 IN RIVER FOREST PARK HOMES SUBDIVISION OF PART OF THE WEST HALF OF THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF SECTION 12, TOWNSHIP 39 NORTH, RANGE 12 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED AS DOCUMENT NUMBER 14446645 IN THE VILLAGE OF RIVER FOREST, IN COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS. A copy of the application will be available to the public at Village Hall and on the Village’s website at www. vrf.us/zoningvariation no less than 15 days prior to the public hearing. The Zoning Board of Appeals meeting packet will also be available at www.vrf.us/meetings no less than 48 hours prior to the public hearing. All interested persons will be given the opportunity to be heard at the public hearing. For public comments to be considered by the Zoning Board of Appeals and Village Board of Trustees in their decision, they must be included as part of the public hearing record. Interested persons can learn more about how to participation in the hearing by visiting www.vrf.us/zoningvariation. Sincerely, Clifford Radatz Secretary, Zoning Board of Appeals Published in Wednesday Journal 8/26/2020

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VILLAGE OF OAK PARK REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS The Village of Oak Park will receive sealed proposals via email at development@oak-park.us, until 4:00pm on Thursday, September 10, 2020 for the following project: Village of Oak Park Snow-Ice Removal for Public Parking Lots, Sidewalks and Snow Plowing Detailed specifications for this project may be obtained from the Development Customer Services Department via email at development@oak-park.us, or on the Village’s website www.oak-park.us. The Village of Oak Park reserves the right to accept or reject any and all proposals or to waive technicalities, or to accept any item of a proposal. The original RFP and any subsequent Addendum will be posted to the Village’s website. It will be the Contractor’s responsibility to obtain all addenda issued. Award of a contract shall not be final until a written contract has been approved by the Village of Oak Park Board of Trustees and entered into between the Parties. The Board of Trustees reserves the right to accept or reject any and all proposals or to waive technicalities, or to accept any item of any proposal. The Village of Oak Park Development Customer Services Department 123 Madison St., Oak Park, IL, 60302 Published in Wednesday Journal August 26, 2020

PUBLIC NOTICE Notice is hereby given, pursuant to “An Act in relation to the use of an Assumed Business Name in the conduct or transaction of Business in the State,” as amended, that a certiﬁcation was registered by the undersigned with the County Clerk of Cook County. Registration Number: Y20003966 on August 5, 2020 Under the Assumed Business Name of PRIVATE POOK GAMES with the business located at: 1016 S CUYLER AVE, OAK PARK, IL 60304. The true and real full name(s) and residence address of the owner(s)/ partner(s) is: MICHAEL GROSSO, 1016 S CUYLER AVE, OAK PARK, IL 60304, USA. Published in Wednesday Journal 8/12, 8/19, 8/26/2020

PUBLIC NOTICE Notice is hereby given, pursuant to “An Act in relation to the use of an Assumed Business Name in the conduct or transaction of Business in the State,” as amended, that a certiﬁcation was registered by the undersigned with the County Clerk of Cook County. Registration Number: Y20003983 on August 5, 2020 Under the Assumed Business Name of NEW AGE BABY with the business located at:400 KENT RD, RIVERSIDE, IL 60546. The true and real full name(s) and residence address of the owner(s)/partner(s) is: THERESA INTRAVARTOLO, 400 KENT RD, RIVERSIDE, IL 60546, USA. Published in RB Landmark 8/12, 8/19, 8/26/2020

Public Notice is hereby given that a public hearing will be held by the Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBA) of the Village of River Forest, County of Cook, State of Illinois, on Thursday, September 10, 2020 at 7:30 p.m. in the First Floor Community Room of the River Forest Village Hall, 400 Park Avenue, River Forest, Illinois on the following matter: The ZBA will consider an application for a major zoning variation submitted by Brad Ament and Georgina Fabian, owners of the property at 7820 Augusta Street, who are proposing to construct a one story addition onto the existing home. Section 4-8-5 of the Village Code provides the Zoning Board jurisdiction to hold public hearings and offer recommendations to the Village Board concerning variations to Zoning Ordinance. The applicants are requesting a major variation to Section 10-95 that would allow the addition to increase the Lot Coverage area from 3,107 square feet (31.68% of the Lot Area), to 3,569 square feet (36.39%). The Zoning Ordinance allows a maximum Lot Coverage of 30% of the area of the lot. The applicants are also requesting a major variation to Section 10-9-7 that would allow the north wall of the addition to the home to have a rear yard setback of 5’-6 3/8” from the north property line to the wall, and a setback of 3’-7 3/8” to the fascia board of the roof overhang of the addition. The Zoning Ordinance requires a minimum rear yard setback equal to 15 % of the Lot depth or 26’2”, whichever is greater. The legal description of the property at 7820 Augusta Street is as follows: THE EAST HALF OF LOT 13 (EXCEPTING FROM SAID TRACT THE WEST 6 INCHES THEREOF) AND THE EAST HALF OF THE SOUTH 40 FEEET OF LOT 14 IN HENRY E. GRAVES SUBDIVISION OF BLOCK 10 IN SNOW AND DICKINSON’S ADDITION TO RIVER FOREST, A SUBDIVISION OF THE WEST HALF OF THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF SECTION 1 AND THE EAST 17 ACRES OF THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER OF SECTION 2, TOWNSHIP 39 NORTH, RANGE 12, EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, (EXCEPT PARTS CONVEYED TO THE CHICAGO AND WISCONSIN RAILROAD COMPANY), IN COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS. A copy of the application will be available to the public at Village Hall and on the Village’s website at www. vrf.us/zoningvariation no less than 15 days prior to the public hearing. The Zoning Board of Appeals meeting packet will also be available at www.vrf.us/meetings no less than 48 hours prior to the public hearing. All interested persons will be given the opportunity to be heard at the public hearing. For public comments to be considered by the Zoning Board of Appeals and Village Board of Trustees in their decision, they must be included as part of the public hearing record. Interested persons can learn more about how to participation in the hearing by visiting www.vrf.us/zoningvariation. Sincerely, Clifford Radatz Secretary, Zoning Board of Appeals Published in Wednesday Journal 8/26/2020

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING VILLAGE OF OAK PARK HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION HEARING DATE: September 10, 2020 TIME: 7:00 p.m. or as soon thereafter as the Agenda permits APPLICATION: The Village of Oak Park Historic Preservation Commission (“Commission”) will conduct a public hearing on an application for a Certificate of Appropriateness filed by Focus Acquisition Company LLC to demolish one residential building and one garage at 203 South Marion Street, Oak Park, Illinois, P.I.N. 16-07-308-008-0000, which is located in the RidgelandOak Park Historic District. A copy of the application and applicable documents are on file and are available for inspection at Village Hall, Development Customer Services Department, 123 Madison Street, Oak Park, Illinois 60302, Monday through Friday between 8:30 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. The Commission will conduct the public hearing remotely with live audio available and optional video. The meeting will be streamed live and archived online for on-demand viewing at www.oak-park.us/commissiontv as well as cablecast on VOP-TV, which is available to Comcast subscribers on channel 6 and ATT U-Verse subscribers on channel 99. The remote public hearing is authorized pursuant to Section 7(e) of the Open Meetings Act. The Village President has determined that an in-person public hearing is not practical or prudent due to the COVID-19 outbreak during Governor JB Pritzker’s current disaster proclamation. It is also not feasible to have a person present at the public hearing due to public safety

concerns related to the COVID-19 outbreak. All interested persons will be given an opportunity to be heard at the public hearing. Interested persons may provide written evidence, testimony and public comment on the application by email to historicpreservation@oak-park. us or by drop off in the Oak Park Payment Drop Box across from the entrance to Village Hall, 123 Madison Street, Oak Park, Illinois, to be received no later than 5:00 p.m. on September 10, 2020. An individual’s name and their testimony or comment will be read aloud into the record at the public hearing if received no later than 30 minutes prior to the start of the public hearing. Interested persons may also participate in the hearing to cross examine the applicant and its witnesses, present evidence, testimony or public comment by emailing historicpreservation@oak-park.us before 5:00 PM on the day prior to the public hearing to sign up. Individuals who sign up to participate in this manner will receive an email from Village staff with information about how to join the meeting online through Zoom web-conference means or by phone. The public hearing may be adjourned by the Commission to another date without further notice other than a motion to be entered upon the minutes of the hearing fixing the time and place of the date. The Commission shall issue or deny the Certificate of Appropriateness within fifteen (15) days following completion of the public hearing.

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PUBLIC NOTICE Notice is hereby given, pursuant to “An Act in relation to the use of an Assumed Business Name in the conduct or transaction of Business in the State,” as amended, that a certiﬁcation was registered by the undersigned with the County Clerk of Cook County. Registration Number: Y20004121 on August 18, 2020 Under the Assumed Business Name of ALMOST ANYTHING IMPRINTING with the business located at: 62 NORTH HERBERT ROAD, RIVERSIDE, IL 60546. The true and real full name(s) and residence address of the owner(s)/partner(s) is: KATHRYN EILEEN MINAGHAN 62 NORTH HERBERT ROAD, RIVERSIDE, IL 60546, USA Published in RB Landmark 08/26, 9/2, 9/9/2020

REAL ESTATE FOR SALE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY AS TRUSTEE FOR HIS ASSET SECURITIZATION CORPORATION TRUST 2007OPT1, MORTGAGE PASSTHROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2007-OPT1; Plaintiff, vs. CHARLES T. GRANT; JUANITA J. GRANT AKA JUANITA LACOURT; PRAIRIE PLACE AT 6436 ROOSEVELT CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON RECORD

REAL ESTATE FOR SALE CLAIMANTS; Defendants, 19 CH 14415 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Tuesday, September 15, 2020 at the hour of 11 a.m. in their office at 120 West Madison Street, Suite 718A, Chicago, Illinois, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described mortgaged real estate: P.I.N. 16-18-428-043-1019 & 16-18428-043-1064. Commonly known as 6436 Roosevelt Road, Unit 311, Oak Park, IL 60304. The mortgaged real estate is improved with a condominium residence. The purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by subdivisions (g)(1) and (g) (4) of Section 9 of the Condominium Property Act Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection. For information call Law Clerk at Plaintiff’s Attorney, The Wirbicki Law Group, 33 West Monroe Street, Chicago, Illinois 60603. (312) 3609455. W18-0641 INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION intercountyjudicialsales.com I3153810

REAL ESTATE FOR SALE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR MASTR ADJUSTABLE RATE MORTGAGES TRUST 2007-1, MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2007-1 Plaintiff, -v.ELLEN M. RAVITZ, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants 18 CH 03457 123 S. EUCLID AVENUE OAK PARK, IL 60302 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on February 13, 2020, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on September 15, 2020, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at a public sale to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 123 S. EUCLID AVENUE, OAK PARK, IL 60302 Property Index No. 16-07-400-0160000 The real estate is improved with a single family residence. The judgment amount was $657,505.06. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial Sale fee for the Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/ or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. Where a sale of real estate is made to satisfy a lien prior to that of the United States, the United States shall have one year from the date of sale within which to redeem, except that with respect to a lien arising under the internal revenue laws the period shall be 120 days or the period allowable for redemption under State law, whichever is longer, and in any case in which, under the provisions of section 505 of the Housing Act of 1950, as amended (12 U.S.C. 1701k), and subsection (d) of section 3720 of title 38 of the United States Code, the right to redeem does not arise, there shall be no right of redemption. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information.

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If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. For information, Alexander Potestivo, POTESTIVO & ASSOCIATES, P.C. Plaintiff’s Attorneys, 223 WEST JACKSON BLVD, STE 610, Chicago, IL, 60606 (312) 263-0003. Please refer to file number 109484. THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales. POTESTIVO & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 223 WEST JACKSON BLVD, STE 610 Chicago IL, 60606 312-263-0003 E-Mail: ilpleadings@potestivolaw. com Attorney File No. 109484 Attorney Code. 43932 Case Number: 18 CH 03457 TJSC#: 40-924 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff’s attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. Case # 18 CH 03457 I3152293

Commonly known as 1185 S. LOMBARD AVE., OAK PARK, IL 60304. The mortgaged real estate is improved with a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection. For information call Mr. Ira T. Nevel at Plaintiff’s Attorney, Law Offices of Ira T. Nevel, 175 North Franklin Street, Chicago, Illinois 60606. (312) 357-1125. 18-04613 INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION intercountyjudicialsales.com I3153814

the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. MCCALLA RAYMER LEIBERT PIERCE, LLC Plaintiff’s Attorneys, One North Dearborn Street, Suite

1200, Chicago, IL, 60602. Tel No. (312) 346-9088. THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales. MCCALLA RAYMER LEIBERT PIERCE, LLC One North Dearborn Street, Suite 1200 Chicago IL, 60602 312-346-9088 E-Mail: pleadings@mccalla.com Attorney File No. 267501 Attorney ARDC No. 61256 Attorney Code. 61256 Case Number: 18 CH 12736 TJSC#: 39-8007 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff’s attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. Case # 18 CH 12736 I3151985

Defendants 10 CH 36359 500 EASTERN AVENUE BELLWOOD, IL 60104 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on December 3, 2019, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on September 22, 2020, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at a public sale to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 500 EASTERN AVENUE, BELLWOOD, IL 60104 Property Index No. 15-09-311-0580000 The real estate is improved with a single family residence. The judgment amount was $311,057.79. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial Sale fee for the Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/ or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real

estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g1).IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW.

You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. For information, Alexander Potestivo, POTESTIVO & ASSOCIATES, P.C. Plaintiff’s Attorneys, 223 WEST JACKSON BLVD, STE 610, Chicago, IL, 60606 (312) 263-0003. Please refer to file number 113876. THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales. POTESTIVO & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 223 WEST JACKSON BLVD, STE 610 Chicago IL, 60606 312-263-0003 E-Mail: ilpleadings@potestivolaw. com Attorney File No. 113876 Attorney Code. 43932 Case Number: 10 CH 36359 TJSC#: 40-1855 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff’s attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. I3154976

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION US BANK TRUST NATIONAL ASSOCIATION NOT IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY BUT SOLELY AS OWNER TRUSTEE FOR VRMTG ASSET TRUST; Plaintiff, vs. LORNA J. RANKER; CHARLES K. RANKER; CITIZENS BANK NA; Defendants, 18 CH 2459 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Tuesday, September 15, 2020 at the hour of 11 a.m. in their office at 120 West Madison Street, Suite 718A, Chicago, Illinois, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described mortgaged real estate: P.I.N. 16-17-327-034-0000.

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION SELENE FINANCE LP Plaintiff, -v.LARSENIA HORTON, NEIL SMITH, ASSURANCE RESTORATION & CONSTRUCTION, INC., PRAIRIE HOUSES OWNERS ASSOCIATION, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants 18 CH 12736 14 DIVISION STREET, # 14 OAK PARK, IL 60302 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on December 16, 2019, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on September 28, 2020, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at a public sale to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 14 DIVISION STREET, # 14, OAK PARK, IL 60302 Property Index No. 16-05-127-0480000 The real estate is improved with a brown brick, three story townhouse with an attached one car garage. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial Sale fee for the Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/ or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION MWD ASSET SERVICING, LLC Plaintiff, -v.TINA MCDONALD A/K/A TINA N. MCDONALD, JOANNE MCDONALD, MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC

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