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Relax kids, Halloween is on Brookfield, Riverside, North Riverside issue trick-or-treating guidelines By BOB UPHUES Editor

With the CDC and Illinois Department of Public Health issuing guidelines for keeping Halloween festivities safe during a pandemic, leaders in Brookfield, Riverside and North Riverside won’t discourage trick-or-treating on Oct. 31, but they are urging residents to take commonsense precautions. In addition, each of the villages’ parks and recreation departments will host safe Halloween-themed activities to put a little sparkle in what has been an extraordinary year, bereft of most traditional community events and celebrations. “I think this is great news,” said Brookfield Trustee Michael Garvey during a discussion of the subject at that village board’s meeting on Sept. 28. “I think it’s great to be able to save this.” The decision not to interfere in the time-honored tradition of trick-or-treating was made in Brookfield even before the state issued its guidelines, with officials knowing there would be little they could do to enforce a ban, even if they’d wanted one. The best solution, they felt, was to provide their own guidance to help trick-or-treaters avoid congregating in groups and to help identify which homeowners would be giving out See TRICK-OR-TREAT on page 16

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OFF AND RUNNING: Cross country runners from Riverside-Brookfield High School and Northridge Prep make their way around the course in Ehlert Park in Brookfield on Oct. 3. With their home course unavailable due to the pandemic, RBHS has had to make do at parks in Brookfield and Riverside this fall.

Strange days for high school sports

For athletes allowed to compete, odd season is better than no season By BOB SKOLNIK Contributing Reporter

While high school football, boys soccer and girls volleyball players have had

their seasons postponed until February due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, high school athletes in six fall sports have been competing this fall in what the Illinois High School Athletic Association has

deemed low-risk sports. But their seasons this year have been far from normal. The IHSA has cancelled See SPORTS on page 13

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Take a ride on the Veltway

Trio of restaurants bring reliable fare to north Berwyn

Time for freestyle Thai Bodhi Thai Bistro, 6211 W. Roosevelt Road, is a quaint eatery that flies low under the radar of the local restaurant scene, but foodlovers in the know are regulars at this affordably-priced gem on the “Veltway.” Since opening in 2009, Bodhi Thai has been turning out reliable Thai dishes using passion-driven freestyle cooking techniques. This inthe-moment cooking style makes use of seasonal ingredients and ensures quickFood Writer thinking cooks can create all dishes to order. As a result, most of Bodhi’s dishes are easily adaptable to vegan, vegetarian and gluten-free diets. The well-appointed dining room offers a tranquil setting to explore an array of Thai specialties. When selecting an appetizer, pay special attention to Gui-Chai. The steamed and pan-fried chive dumplings served alongside a sweet and spicy soy sauce are crispy on the outside and pillowy soft inside. Diners can round out their meal with an array of curries, noodles, or rice-based dishes. Classics like Pad Thai are complemented by a secret menu, rotating specials, healthy salads, and warming soups.

Brendan O’Connor, owner of Big Guys Sausage stand shows off his soup and sandwich combo with his daughters, Michaela (L) and Reilly.

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An assortment of Bodhi Thai menu items. Clockwise from upper left: Gui-Chai, Pad Khee Mao, Pad Thai and Spicy Beef Salad. Melissa Elsmo

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Tuesday Soups Day and family fare at Big Guys Carryout-focused Big Guys Sausage Stand, at 7021 W. Roosevelt Road, has turned toward family-style meals, slow food and hearty fare to welcome autumn. “We’ve kicked up the family meals again because there is a real need out there and people appreciate it,” said sausage stand owner, Brendan O’Connor. “Our Oktoberfest dinner was really popular because it is just a stupid amount of food. They are designed to serve six hungry people with leftovers.” Oktoberfest meal makes good on the

The Big Guys club sandwich features a half-pound of whole roasted turkey, bacon, lettuce, tomato, and mayo. As part of “Tuesday Soup Days” this bad boy comes with a free cup of soup..

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Rosanne Saleh presents a duo of DiNico’s pizzas restaurant’s moniker by offering both bratwurst and knockwurst in addition to pork loin. Soft Bavarian pretzels, potato pancakes, apple sauce, sweet cabbage and spaetzle round out the menu. Meals rotate weekly and include homey offerings like meatloaf, shrimp and chicken creole pasta, and turkey with all the trimmings. In addition to feeding hungry families, Big Guys is serving up chili and other assorted soups. Chicken noodle, cream of potato, split pea and chicken and rice are popular offerings. Every Tuesday, as part of “Tuesday soup day,” customers receive a free cup of soup with every sandwich purchase.

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DiNico’s also offers an assortment of breakfast, pasta and sandwich options. The grilled chicken focaccia sandwich is flavorful and generously sized.

Feeding generations at DiNico’s For 37 years, DiNico’s Pizza, at 6627 W. Roosevelt Road, has been serving up giant pizza slices and assorted Italian fare. A mainstay in the Berwyn culinary community, the pizza-focused establishment has cultivated generational loyalty. For 10 years, Rosanne Saleh, who “does a bit of everything” at DiNico’s, has been overseeing operations at the restaurant known for being open 24 hours per day. In fact, customers often refer to her as “Mrs. DiNico’s.” “People in the community have been raised on DiNico’s Pizza,” said Saleh proudly. “We’re an old family restaurant and I love watching

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families grow and children grow up. They keep coming back.” DiNico’s employs 32 people, many of whom are high school and college students. Saleh indicates the restaurant embraces a family atmosphere and takes pride in providing employment opportunities to younger people. “I love working at DiNico’s,” says college student, Yaritza Rivera. “The schedule is awesome because they do it by semester and I never have a conflict.” Cooks at DiNico’s turn out more than 500 pizzas every day brimming with freshly shredded cheese and both house-made crust and sauce — portions sold by the slice are equivalent to one quarter of an extra-large pizza. Stuffed pizzas and specialty pies like taco and BBQ chicken pizzas complement newer menu items like gluten-free and cauliflower crust.

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Bringing art to communities during a pandemic RAC gallery director leads panel about importance fulfilling cultural mission By MICHELLE DYBAL

nity to take photos of people in the neighborhood. Pictures were then put up on abandoned buildings. Instead of seeing the blight, they see hope, Veal said. With the pandemic, different needs arose. Alt_ created an exterior market space at an abandoned building in Austin. Using reclaimed wood, solar lights and other supplies, the location was transformed to shelve resources – groceries, toiletries, plants -- for the Austin community, which was especially important early in the pandemic when some supplies were scarce. Other organization have partnered to help

that people in a community can access opportunities to be creative, do creative things Arts Editor and engage with creative ideas,” Chilsen said. “These are essential activities.” Community-based arts centers throughout Chilsen went on to say having access to art Illinois have not stopped bringing art and and art-based activities can do more. art-based activities in one way or another to “Creativity is inherently optimistic, and their neighborhoods since the pandemic hit creative expression can help with things like in March. depression, fear, confusion, anxiety, PTSD.” The offerings have evolved to include some The Riverside Arts Center, 32 E. Quincy in-person events, classes and gallery exhibiStreet, Riverside, has continued to serve its tions with safety protocols in place. They also neighbors, too. fill a need for creative expression during dif“These times call on us to be nimble and reficult times. sourceful,” Chilsen said. “The Riverside Arts This was the topic of a One State Arts ConCenter has long and deep ference panel held Sept. 29 connections in our commucalled “Support and Amplinity and we are committed fy – the Role of Communityto keep supporting this combased Arts Centers in the munity that has supported Age of Pandemic and Social us so much through the Change,” conceived and years. moderated by Liz Chilsen, “For me, coming up with FlexSpace Gallery director ways we can keep providing at the Riverside Arts Center. inspiration at the arts cenThe annual conference ter is key. Being involved in was free this year, held via creative activities both gives Zoom and attracted 960 atus a break from the anxiety tendees, more than past inand also puts us in touch person conferences. with the part of ourselves “I wanted to have a conthat solves problems and versation with leaders from finds light.” community arts centers The Freeak and FlexSpace about what we’re all doing galleries are showing the art to keep serving our comof Jerry Bleem through Oct. munities during this very 17. challenging time,” Chilsen “Humor Us,” which opens said. “The arts center is the Oct. 25, brings together “artcreative hub of the commuists who make work that’s nity, and local arts centers funny as well as smart,” are increasingly important. according to Chilsen. The We are part of the local fabFlexSpace Gallery will fearic and civic life.” ture new work by Chicago The panel included Betsy artist Kelly Kristin-Jones Dollar from the Springfield that honors Illinois women Art Association; Doug JohnPROVIDED who worked to ensure passon of the McLean County sage of the 19th AmendArts Center, Bloomington; Liz Chilsen, director of the Freeark Gallery at the Riverside Arts Center. ment, guaranteeing women Ciera McKissick of AMFM the right to vote. and the Hyde Park Art Censtock the shelves, such as Grocery Run Chica“Her work also engages humor,” Chilsen ter, Chicago; and Jon Veal of Alt_, Chicago. Members of the panel discussed how they go and Compound Yellow, itself a community- said. Two visitors at a time are allowed to view are currently serving their communities and based arts center, located in Oak Park. At Hyde Park Art Center, 5020 S. Cornell the exhibits by appointment (email info@ the opportunities and challenges their organiAve., Chicago, programming is people-driven, riversideartscenter.com). Masks and social zations are facing during these times. “The confluence of challenges we are facing according to McKissisk. Offerings are inter- distancing are required. Galleries are open right now is difficult, but times like these also generational and include, classes, public pro- Thursdays through Saturdays, 1 to 5 p.m. All exhibitions are free. are an opportunity to think in new ways and grams and exhibits. They have learned that providing virtual Other art experiences offered by the Rivercreate new solutions,” Chilsen said. Alt_ has been responding creatively to the classes on a pay-what-you-want basis makes side Arts Center include a Radial Symmetry way things are since its inception and is “ded- their offerings more accessible to the commu- paper-folding art workshop on Oct. 13, ceramicated to revitalizing communities through nity. Hyde Park Art Center is also open to the ic jewelry workshop with supply kit on Oct. public now, following protocols, and exhibit- 16. Ceramic-making Boredom Buster Boxes art and culture,” according to their website. During the panel discussion, Veal talked ing Artist Run Chicago 2.0, featuring works and Painting Parties in a Box for five or 10 about asking people of the community, such from 50 area art centers, including three from are options for pick up or delivery to Riverside, North Riverside, Brookfield, Berwyn, as the Austin neighborhood of Chicago, Oak Park and one from Austin. “One clear message is that art is a human Oak Park and Austin. where Alt_ is based, what they want. For more, visit riversideartscenter.com or An example is Project Stamp. Alt_ cofound- necessity and that locally based arts centers er Jordan Campbell worked with the commu- are one of the most direct and powerful ways call 708-442-6400.

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BIG WEEK October 7-14

BLAIR IMANI

Deeply Rooted Book Club discussion

North Riverside Public Library invites the community to a Zoom discussion of the book “Making Our Way Home” by Blair Imani, the latest title tackled by the Deeply Rooted Book Club, which explores the history of inequality and civil rights in the United States through a mixture of fiction and non-fiction. The discussion will be held on Thursday, Oct. 8 at 6:30 p.m. To obtain Zoom access info, RSVP to bodenl@northriversidelibrary.org or visit northriversidelibrary.org/events.

Army general talks vets’ benefits

Riverside American Legion Post #488 invites the public to attend a special presentation by retired Brigadier Gen. William H. Weir of the U.S. Army National Guard, who will offer his thoughts, informed by more than 30 years of experience, on military and V.A. benefits for veterans and retirees. The presentation, which will include a short Q&A session, will be streamed live on Friday, Oct. 9 at 6 GEN. WILLIAM H. WEIR p.m. on the post’s Facebook page. (facebook.com/AmericanLegionRiverside). More information can be found at americanlegionpost488.weebly.com.

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Curbside Cuisine strikes again

Riverside Parks and Rec and the Riverside Economic Development Commission invite you to come on down to Centennial Park (beneath the water tower at 10 Pine Ave.) on Tuesday, Oct. 13 from 1:30 to 5:30 p.m. for Curbside Cuisine featuring a variety of food trucks and local vendors. Trucks will be lined up along East Avenue with local vendors in the park itself. Masks are required and social distancing will be enforced. The event is designed to be grab-and-go to avoid people congregating in numbers.

And more The Brookfield Chamber of Commerce continues its 60-to-Win raffle drawings every Thursday through Nov. 19 at 4:30 p.m. at Joe’s Saloon, 9220 47th St. in Brookfield. You can also watch a livestream on the Brookfield Chamber of Commerce Facebook page (facebook.com/BrookfieldIllinois). Winners’names will be posted each week at brookfieldchamber.net. ■

Riverside Arts Center, 34 E. Quincy St., presents “Still,” featuring the work of Jerry Bleem through Oct. 17. The exhibit is a continuation of Bleem’s extended series “Nationalism,” begun in response to the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq. Masks and social distancing required. Anne Harris will discuss Bleem’s work during a performance/conversation ■

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Jazz – live and in person

Comics who broke barriers Brookfield Public Library invites you to learn about comediennes – like Carol Burnett and Lucille Ball -- who made their marks in the industry, as well as younger comedians like Tracey Morgan, Hassan Minaj and Hannah Gadsby during “Comedy and Humor 2.0: A New Generation” via Zoom on Monday, Oct. 12 at 2 p.m. Registration required at brookfieldlibray.info or by calling 708-485-6917, ext. 130. with the artist via Zoom on Oct. 10 at 2 p.m. Visit riversideartscenter.com for a registration link and more information. Tune in to Lyons Township High School’s radio station WLTL (88.1 FM) every Friday at 7 p.m. for “Friday Night Lights Classic Games,” featuring classic broadcasts of football and soccer games from the 1970s and 1980s. 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, ■

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Vocalist Terry Sullivan will perform a live concert of mainstream jazz on Sunday, Oct. 11 at 4 p.m. at Sts. Peters and Paul Lutheran Church, 250 Woodside Road in Riverside. Sullivan will be joined by pianist Tom Muellner, Brazilian percussionist Luiz Ewerling and bassist Rob Kassinger, who is a member of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Admission is $20 per person ($15 seniors/students), cash only at the door. CDC guidelines will be followed. The church offers ample room for distancing; face coverings required. Call 708-488-1701 for more information.

8820 Brookfield Ave. For details, visit their website at brookfieldfarmers.org. North Riverside Public Library is offering the following virtual programs through Facebook Live, conference calls and the teleconferencing app Zoom. Programs include Makerspace Mondays on the first and third Mondays of the month at 7 p.m. and Talented Tuesdays on the second and fourth Tuesdays of the month at 5:30 p.m. both via Facebook Live on North Riverside Public Library’s Facebook page; and Game Night Wednesdays every Wednesday at 7 p.m. via Zoom. Other programs include a Resume Workshop via Zoom on Oct. 8 at 7 p.m.; Crafternoons: Fuzzy Monster Wreath via Zoom on Oct. 10 at 1:30 p.m. Register 3 days in advance and pick up supplies ■

curbside; Seated Tai Chi Moving Meditation via Zoom on Oct. 12 at 6:30 p.m.; and NRPL Book Club discussing “The Woman in the Window” by A.J. Finn on Oct. 13 at 6:45 p.m. via conference call (800-747-5150, code 1453322). RSVP to bodenl@ northriversidelibrary.org or visit northriversidelibrary.org/events for all Zoom meeting access info. Brookfield Public Library offers virtual classes and programs for patrons of all ages throughout the week. Most youth activities will be presented live on the library’s Facebook page at facebook.com/BrookfieldPublicLibrary. For adults, there’s Chair Yoga via Zoom on Oct. 8 at 11 a.m. and Helping Your Immune System Stay Healthy via Zoom on Oct. 14 at 7 p.m. Register for Zoom access info by visiting brookfield.evanced.info/signup. ■

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Man says he was robbed making curbside delivery The owner of a kiosk business selling vaping products at North Riverside Park Mall, 7501 Cermak Road, alleges he was robbed at gunpoint of $500 in merchandise and his wallet, which contained $1,500 in cash and his passport while delivering the products to a customer in a vehicle in the lower-level parking deck on Oct. 1 at about 6:10 p.m. According to police, the victim said he received a phone call from a customer, who ordered three items for curbside pickup and that she was in a blue Chevy parked in the parking deck. The victim said he went to the parking deck and saw the customer standing outside the car and that she told him to come over to her vehicle and get inside to make the transaction. After the victim entered the rear area of the vehicle, two men entered the car and sat next to him. One reportedly put a handgun to the victim’s head and demanded him to empty his pockets. The victim told police he tried to wrestle the handgun away from the man and that he was eventually able to escape the vehicle without being harmed, but without his wallet. The victim ran back inside the mall and called police. According to police, the victim received a phone call from the customer at about 9:30 p.m. that night asking for $3,000 in exchange for his wallet. Police advised against setting up a meeting to do that.

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Riverside police charged a 33-year-old Chicago man with reckless driving and aggravated speeding after an officer on patrol clocked his white Nissan Maxima traveling at 105 mph in a 35 mph zone while eastbound in the 8200 block of Cermak Road on Sept. 29 at about 12:40 a.m. The car turned southbound onto Desplaines Avenue, where the officer made a traffic stop and arrested the driver. ■ A man who reportedly told police he suspected his girlfriend of cheating on him and who said he was on his way to her house was pulled over by police and charged with aggravated speeding for allegedly driving his Dodge Charger 94 mph in a 30 mph zone while southbound on Harlem Avenue from Lawton Road in Riverside on Sept. 28 at about 8:55 p.m. Police stopped the vehicle at Ogden Avenue and arrested the driver.

DUI charge in rollover crash Brookfield police charged a 24-year-old Chicago man with drunken driving and cited him for other offenses after he allegedly

crashed his 2020 Kia into a parked pickup truck in the 3100 block of Harrison Avenue on Oct. 2 at about 11:25 p.m. The impact of the crash caused the truck to be pushed onto the parkway and the Kia to roll over, landing on its roof. The driver, who reportedly told police he was talking on his cellphone at the time of the crash, was not injured. According to police, the driver admitted drinking alcohol prior to getting behind the wheel. His blood-alcohol content was reported to be .161, which is more than twice the legal limit of .08. ■ North Riverside police charged a 25-year-old Blue Island woman with drunken driving after she reportedly drove her vehicle off the roadway and onto the railroad tracks, where it got stuck, near the intersection of Cermak Road and First Avenue on Sept. 27 at about 4:20 a.m.

Riverside vehicle break-ins Riverside police responded to the 300 block of East Burlington Street on Sept. 30 at 1:40 a.m. after a resident called to report that his vehicle had just been burglarized. The victim said he heard footsteps outside and then heard a door shut. When he looked outside he saw man with a flashlight. When he asked the man what he was doing, the person walked away westbound on East Burlington Street. The victim went to check his vehicle and observed it had been burglarized. Police were unable to locate a suspect, but they did find another vehicle on the block that had been entered and rummaged through. Neither vehicle showed signs of forced entry, according to police. ■ A resident of the 400 block of Longcommon Avenue called police on the morning of Oct. 5 to report that her son observed a man inside their vehicle at around 7:20 a.m. When the son asked what he was doing, the man made a few evasive statements before running off toward Harlem Avenue. A Coach purse containing $20 in cash, prescription medication and miscellaneous items was taken from the vehicle. ■

These items were obtained from police reports filed by the Riverside, North Riverside and Brookfield police departments, Sept. 27-Oct. 4, and represent a portion of the incidents to which police responded. Unless otherwise indicated, anybody named in these reports has only been charged with a crime. These cases have not been adjudicated.

— Compiled by Bob Uphues

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Congressional hopefuls square off in 3rd District debate Newman is the favorite as Fricilone seeks to siphon Lipinski Dems

By BOB SKOLNIK Contributing Reporter

The presidential debate wasn’t the only political one that occurred last week. On Oct. 1, the two candidates vying to become the new representative for the 3rd Congressional District, which includes the southern portion of Brookfield, got to together via Zoom for a virtual debate sponsored by the League of Women Voters of the LaGrange Area. The differences between Democrat Marie Newman, who edged eight-term incumbent Dan Lipinski in the March primary, and Republican Mike Fricilone were apparent from the start in the low-key debate. In his opening statement Fricilone, the clear underdog, made a bid to appeal to supporters of Lipinski, saying that if he is elected he would model himself after the outgoing congressman and join the bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus and characterizing Newman as a far-left radical. “When Dan Lipinski lost his primary election, we lost one of the most commonsense, bipartisan voices in Congress and replaced him with my opponent, socialist Marie Newman,” Fricilone said. “Marie’s plans aren’t focused on the 3rd District; they’re taken from

the most extreme leftists in Washington. Her plans for health care, the environment, the economy and every other issue are aligned with socialist Bernie Sanders and AOC. They certainly don’t reflect the mainstream values of our community.” Newman, a former businesswoman and activist from LaGrange, rejected Newman’s characterization of her. “Name calling is unproductive and makes things worse,” Newman said. Newman, who challenged Lipinski from the left during the primary campaign with the support of many progressive activist groups, took pains throughout the debate to stake out mainstream positions. Newman said that she was not in favor of defunding the police, calling instead for more training for police officers. “I do not believe that we should abolish or get rid of policing or public safety in any way,” Newman said. When Fricilone attacked Newman for supporting the Green New Deal, a set of environmental proposals unveiled last year by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) and other progressives in Congress, Newman replied that the Green New Deal is aspirational. “The Green New Deal, as we all know, is just

a resolution,” Newman said. “It was a commitment to address this crisis. It is not a plan, obviously not a plan, and is not a law. A resolution is just an agreement to address a critical problem, and I believe we should address it with renewables and investments in transportation and infrastructure.” On gun control Newman said that while she supported the 2nd Amendment right to bear arms, she wants universal background checks, an assault weapons ban and red-flag laws. Fricilone, the minority leader of the Will County Board who lives in Homer Glen, said that he supports stronger enforcement of laws against those who commit crimes with guns but was not enthusiastic about banning certain types of guns. “My concern is that it’s a slippery slope,” Fricilone said. “If we start banning one thing, then we start banning the next thing and then before you know it we’ve banned all guns, and I don’t think that’s fair to those people who are responsible. We definitely need to take the guns away, but we need to take them away from criminals.” While Newman said that systemic racism is a continuing problem in the United States, Fricilone said that racism seemed to be more of a problem when he was growing up in the 1970s.

“Racism is a huge problem in our country, period,” Newman said. “It is part of every minute of every day of every hour and it must be addressed.” Newman also said that she supported a gradual transition to Medicare for All. “We should prop up the ACA as we migrate to Medicare for All,” Newman said. Fricilone said that Medicare for All is too expensive and increase the tax burden on most Americans. He said that he wants to improve the Affordable Care Act. “What I think we should do is keep the good parts of Obamacare and retool,” Fricilone said, adding that many union members do not want to lose the health insurance that their unions had bargained for. Fricilone is opposed to abortion and said that he didn’t think contraceptives should be covered by insurance plans. Newman is a strong supporter of abortion rights. “I trust women and they should have domain over their own bodies,” Newman said. Newman is the heavy favorite in the district that runs from the Bridgeport neighborhood in Chicago to near Joliet. The district leaned Democrat and in the 2016 presidential election, with Hillary Clinton carrying the district with 55 percent of the vote.

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Public input sought for Riverside commercial zoning update Weeklong interactive online workshop kicks off Oct. 13 By BOB UPHUES Editor

If you are a Riverside resident, business owner or commercial property owner interested in having your voice heard with respect to updating the zoning code for the village’s downtown and Harlem Avenue commercial districts, now is your time to engage. For a full week this month residents can participate in a virtual public workshop that is part of a grant-funded examination of commercial zoning in Riverside. The public workshop will be available online at egretandox. mysocialpinpoint.com/riversidezoning# at any time between Oct. 13 and Oct. 19. This will be the only time prior to planners drafting code amendments that the public will be able to provide feedback on what they believe is most important for future transitoriented development in those areas. According to Sonya Abt, community development director for the village, the workshop won’t be a live presentation, it will be available to the public 24 hours a day, will provide information about the process and include prompts where participants can provide feedback and comment. A press release announcing the workshop last week stated, “In addition to providing comments on an interactive map, partici-

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TRANSIT-ORIENTED OPPORTUNITY: Redevelopment sites, like the former Bank of America building and parking lot on either side of East Burlington Street at Harlem Avenue will be examined as part of the commercial zoning update that’s just kicked off in Riverside. The grant-funded effort will look at both the Harlem Avenue corridor and the village’s central business district. pants will be able to review informational resources to learn about the project goals, transit-supportive zoning and key zoning issues in the CBD and along Harlem Avenue.” The village of Riverside has created a special zoning update web page at riversidezoning.com, which includes links to documents, video and other information related to meetings of the steering committee created for the project, links to Riverside’s zoning code and information about other local and regional transit-oriented planning initiatives.

The local initiative is being funded by a $35,000 grant from the RTA. The planning firms chosen to lead the Riverside effort are Savoy Consulting Group and Egret and Ox Planning. Consultants met with the local steering committee, comprising Riverside Planning and Zoning Commission members Jill Mateo and Jennifer Henaghan, Village Trustee Doug Pollock and Riverside resident Jeff Cermak, on Aug. 6 to kick off the project. The meeting set project objectives, which

included walkability and transit-oriented development in the central business district and preparing the Harlem Avenue/Burlington Street corridor not only for rail-oriented development but also Pace’s plan to bring high-tech rapid-transit bus service to Harlem Avenue. Abt said the steering committee will meet again after the public provides input during the weeklong workshop. “Then comes the long part, which will be [the planning consultants] drafting changes to the code for village staff and the steering committee to review,” Abt said. That part of the process could take five to six months, according to the project timeline, with consultants delivering a preliminary document in early 2021. It’s likely the village board will get an update on the project at that time, and it could request the Planning and Zoning Commission to convene a public hearing to consider the proposed changes. “Once we have actual amendments, those meetings are public,” Abt said. “There will be a village board update first, and then they can direct the Planning and Zoning Commission to review them if they are comfortable with what’s there.” The public will get a chance to provide more feedback as code amendments are considered at public hearings by the Planning and Zoning Commission and village board. The project is expected to wrap up next summer.

North Riverside board OKs contract for website design New community site ought to be live by end of 2020

By BOB UPHUES Editor

The village of North Riverside will have a new website up and running by the end of 2020, according to Village Administrator Sue Scarpiniti, after village trustees voted last month to award a contract for the design and development to CivicPlus, a Manhattan, Kansas-based technology company that specializes in developing websites for municipal clients. Trustees on Sept. 21 voted 5-1, with Trustee Marybelle Mandel casting the lone vote against, to hire Civic Plus to overhaul the village’s website at a cost of just under $30,000. Civic Plus was the lowest of four proposals submitted to the village. CivicPlus and two other firms made detailed presentations about their services and capabilities at the village board’s Administrative Committee meeting on Sept. 8, with committee members Terri Sarro, Fernando Flores and Joseph Mengoni unanimously agreeing to select CivicPlus. Com-

mittee members H. Bob Demopoulos and Deborah Czajka, who both voted to award the contract two weeks later, were absent from the meeting. Mandel and Mayor Hubert Hermanek Jr. also consented to select CivicPlus as the preferred vendor, according to a summary of the meeting submitted to the village board by its chairwoman, Sarro. “We want the website to be easily maneuverable by the general public and give a clear picture of the community,” said Scarpiniti. “It will be extremely user-friendly and we want it to attract businesses by letting them know what North Riverside is all about.” The go-live date for the new website is important, because the village is hoping that the website will qualify for substantial reimbursement for the expense through FEMA under the federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act. Anything hoping to qualify for such funding must have been paid for prior to Dec. 31, said Scarpiniti, who had to submit an appli-

cation with information justifying CARES reimbursement by Oct. 5. A website redesign was stricken from the village’s 2020-21 budget this summer due to financial constraints. But when Scarpiniti learned it likely would qualify for CARES Act reimbursement, she convinced the village board to move ahead. “We feel confident this will qualify for CARES funding based on the requirement that it be used for COVID crisis communications,” Scarpiniti said. A more robust website would allow greater flexibility in getting such information to residents quickly, she said. The new website would also allow residents more opportunity to conduct village business online and receive mobile alerts in the event of another COVID-related shutdown, such as the village experienced in the spring. One of the reasons the village chose CivicPlus for the website redesign, apart from the price, was the company’s experience drafting justification letters for CARES reimbursement.

“We’ve been working with CivicPlus directly,” said Scarpiniti. “They’ve helped create justification letters for other communities, and CivicPlus has provided them to us, not just for the design but for add-on modules as well.” The add-on modules are part of the company’s CivicEngage package, which includes options such as agenda management software to provide the public greater access to current and archived village board and commission meeting agendas and documents. It also allows the ability to livestream meeting video and provide them on demand afterward. There’s also software that allows residents to submit complaints, problems or requests and then track the village’s response to them, creating a direct line of communication with village staff without routing such requests through elected officials. Scarpiniti said that if the add-on modules are also approved for CARES reimbursement they will go live along with the new website later this year.

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Riverside public works chief bids farewell after decade of service Brought in as an interim, Bailey ended up staying a decade By BOB UPHUES Editor

When Edward Bailey accepted the job of public works director in Riverside, his impression was that he’d be a short-timer. Hired as an interim director, Bailey was there to bring some stability to a department whose director had just been pinkslipped after 18 months in what was described as a “mutual” decision. That was more than a decade ago. On Oct. 16, Bailey will bid farewell to Riverside, retiring after a three-decade career in public service. “There’s nothing magic about the specific date,” Bailey said. “I just wanted to know I had some time to do something else.” Riverside Village Manager Jessica Frances and the village board recognized Bailey’s years of service with the village, presenting him with a watch at the Board of Trustees’ meeting on Oct. 1. According to Frances, Bailey was Riverside’s longest-serving public works chief of the last 25 years. His replacement has already been named. Public Works Superintendent Dan Tabb, hired about a year ago for the job after five

years as the village’s water operaBailey came to Riverside in tor, will take over immediately. June 2010 after nine years as Bailey informed Frances a more city manager in Countryside. than a year ago that he likely A U.S. Air Force veteran, the would be retiring by the end of native of Michigan’s Upper 2020, and for the last six months Peninsula served as the direcor so he’s been grooming Tabb for tor of operations and maintethe role. nance at the K.I. Sawyer Air “He’s been off-loading a bunch Force Base Development Auof [information], telling me what thority in Gwinn, Michigan, to expect,” Tabb said. “It’s defibefore heading south to the EDWARD BAILEY nitely been a mentoring position.” Chicago area. Bailey told the Landmark that For the past 15 years, Baithe department is in good hands with Tabb ley’s lived in the Greektown neighborhood at the helm. in Chicago, and said he has no plans to head “I have all the confidence in the world in back north. Dan,” Bailey said. “He’s up to the job. I have “I’ve had enough time up there,” Bailey zero reservations about the department’s said. future with him in charge.” Frances said Bailey recognized RiverTabb got his start in public works as a side’s special nature and embraced the part-time seasonal employee in Riverside in volunteers who have been instrumental in 2000. Two years later, he was hired full time helping the village care for its green spaces. and also became a paid-on-call Riverside He also was open to working collaboratively firefighter. He has remained a Riverside to find solutions. “His demeanor is so welcoming to resifirefighter ever since. However, in 2007 Tabb left his public dents,” Frances said. “He’s great at taking works job to work as an options trader. He feedback and seeing how it can be turned left that job in 2014, returning to Riverside into action.” Bailey improved the department’s organiPublic Works as a water operator.

zation and commitment to workplace safety. He also was committed to green infrastructure initiatives. “It was something he took very personally,” Frances said. While Bailey oversaw the full range of public works initiatives during his decade in Riverside, he said the one his cherishes the most is the repair and restoration of the Riverside train depot. “I oversaw a number of projects there,” he said. “That’s my baby, so to speak. It should be good for the next 50 years.” As he heads into retirement, Bailey said he’s been yearning to take an extended camping trip to the southern states, although the COVID-19 pandemic may put that on hold until at least next year. “One thing I’ve had on my mind is throwing the camping gear in the truck and taking a deep dive into the Deep South,” Bailey said. “I’ve been wanting to explore that for years.” Until then, Bailey has some time to reflect on his time in Riverside. “It’s been a very fulfilling, stimulating, challenging 10 years,” Bailey said. “There’s a richness to the community that other communities don’t have.”

LTHS superintendent to retire at school year’s end Kilrea leaving after 12 years as chief; school board to hire search firm By BOB SKOLNIK Contributing Reporter

Lyons Township High School District 204 Superintendent Tim Kilrea will be retiring at the end of the 2020-21 school year. The 55-year-old Kilrea is in his 12th year as superintendent at the school, which serves the south half of Brookfield. “My decision comes with mixed emotions,” Kilrea said. “Personally, I look forward to spending more time with my family. Professionally, I will miss the relationships I have built with the LT community. I have been fortunate to have a job I truly love.” Kilrea said that he is retiring because of family reasons. “There are things that I want to do and there are things with my family that I would like to spend more time with,” Kilrea said. “Family is really, really important. When you’re in a job like this, like any busy job, it does take time away from your family and that does add up after a while.” District 204 school board President Tom Cushing said Kilrea will be missed. “Tim is a wonderful person,” Cushing said. “He cares about all of the students at LT. He knows all of the staff by their first name, all of our special education kids ob-

viously know Tim and he knows construction of a performing them by their first names. They arts center at the school’s South are always very excited to see Dr. Campus, the construction of a Kilrea. He is just an outstanding swimming pool at South Campus superintendent and LT has been and the complete renovation and lucky to have his services in that modernization of eight science capacity. He’s a wonderful huclassrooms. man being.” Under his watch LTHS, durKilrea is known for being diing its pre-COVID schedule, rect and speaking his mind. introduced a 25-minute study “He’s straight-up guy,” Cushperiod with all lunch periods so TIM KILREA ing said. “He’s a very honest, students can do homework, meet straightforward person and he’s with teachers or just relax in an been a wonderful superintendent for us.” attempt to reduce student stress. To his administrators, Kilrea has been an LTHS has added more elective courses, involved boss who has a collaborative lead- including scuba diving and American Sign ership style. Language, and eliminated class rank. Under “He has high standards and he expects Kilrea’s watch, the school has taken steps the best from his team,” said Scott Eggerd- to try to close an achievement gap that has ing, the director of curriculum and instruc- seen low-income and minority students lag tion at LTHS. “He wants answers, he wants significantly behind their white peers in questions, he wants people to be collabora- academic performance. Some have said that LT needs to be much tive. He definitely trusts his team. He definitely likes to have his finger on the pulse more aggressive addressing the achievement gap and what some perceive as a of things.” In his 12 years leading the district, Kilrea school culture that is often hostile or indifhas overseen improvements to the physical ferent to minorities. Kilrea, who grew up in New Jersey before plant including the complete overall of the school’s Reber Center, a performing arts moving the Flossmoor at the age of 14, bespace at the school’s North Campus, the gan his career in 1987 as a history teacher

at Lincoln-Way High School. He quickly became the chairman of the school’s social studies department and also served as a dean and the director of student activities. He helped open Lincoln-Way East High School and served as the assistant principal for curriculum and instruction at that school. After 15 years in the Lincoln-Way district, Kilrea left to become the principal of Thornton Fractional South High School in Lansing. After serving as a principal for one year, he was promoted to assistant superintendent of the Thornton Fractional School District. He came to LTHS in 2007 as the school’s director of human resources and was named superintendent two years later in 2009, replacing Dennis Kelly who retired after 17 years at the helm. LTHS has had unusual stability at superintendent, having only two superintendents over the past 29 years. Cushing said the school board intends to hire an educational executive search firm to lead the search for a new superintendent. Kilrea said the COVID-19 pandemic played little to no role in his decision to retire at the end of the current school year. “I would say this has been a challenging time, but I certainly wouldn’t say this was a driving factor,” Kilrea said.

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LTHS board chooses D102 member to fill its ranks Thomas likely the first Black school board member in high school’s history

achievement. “We believe he is a person of integrity with a long history of service to our community,” Cushing said. “He is passionate about the education of all students and wants equity and opportunity for every student.” Thomas’s appointment will run until April By BOB SKOLNIK 2021, but he said expects to run next spring for Contributing Reporter the two-year seat to complete Rosinsky’s term This week, Michael Thomas will become the on the school board. Thomas’s parents graduated from LTHS in first Black member of the Lyons Township High School District 204 Board of Education the 1965 and 1966, and his son is a junior at the in at least 50 years and, in all probability, the school. Thomas has served on the District 102 first African American to ever serve on the school board since 2017, when he was elected board in the 132-year history of the school. in an uncontested race. On Oct. 1, the school board “I really enjoyed my time workspent more than four hours ining with my colleagues as well as terviewing 17 applicants who had with the administration to really applied to fill the vacancy created help advance equity within the when Barbara Rosinsky resigned district,” Thomas said. “I believe in August. When they finally finthat the district has benefited back ished, they unanimously settled as it relates to equity and just the on Thomas, a LTHS alumnus and business of educating students a member of the LaGrange-Brookoverall.” field Elementary School District District 102 Superintendent Kyle 102 Board of Education. MICHAEL THOMAS Schumacher said Thomas was an Race and equity have been in excellent school board member. the spotlight at LTHS since the “He was always incredibly prepared, asked summer, amid pressure to better serve Black students and other students of color. Thomas great questions, was somebody who champihimself spoke at a July special meeting the oned the cause of all children but also was very much behind the work we were doing LTHS school board held to discuss equity. At that meeting, he told the school board it in the area of equity and diversity,” Schumneeded to focus on race, not just socio-econom- acher said. Thomas resigned his position on the District ic status, when trying to boost the academic performance of low-achieving students. At 102 school board on Oct. 2, and the District District 102, Thomas has been leader in the 102 school board will now seek applications district’s Committee on Equity and Minority from those who wish to serve out the final six months of his term. Achievement (CEMA). After graduating from LTHS in 1985, ThomLTHS school board President Tom Cushing told the Landmark he believes Thomas will as went on to the University of Iowa where he earned degrees in journalism and sociology. bring a valuable perspective. “I think it’s not just LT. I think the whole He later earned an MBA from the University country is in a moment right now of reflection of Chicago. He has worked in corporate marketing for and looking at things and realizing that there may be new ideas and new opportunities that more than 30 years and now manages the Solo haven’t been pursued in the past,” Cushing cup account for the Dart Corporation. He has said. “I certainly believe, that those new ideas previously served two terms on the LTHS and fresh looks are better attained with an ex- Community Advisory Council. One of the 17 people who applied to fill the panded perspective.” Thomas, 54 is a resident of LaGrange Park vacancy was former LTHS board member who grew up in LaGrange. He graduated Phil Palmer. Cushing had nothing but praise from LTHS in 1985 and was a star middle for Palmer who finished fourth in last year’s distance runner on the track team. He said school board election in an unsuccessful bid he wants to give back to the school that did for a third term. “He was an excellent board member at LT. so much for him. “I received a valuable education from LT, I hope that Mr. Palmer runs again in April,” and I want to give back to my alma mater in Cushing said. Cushing said that he was gratified the board service for all students,” Thomas said. Thomas’s experience as a board member had so many candidates to choose from. “There was a number of impressive canwas appealing to the current board members as they prepare to oversee the transition to a didates,” Cushing said. “It was a terrific evehybrid educational model this month, start ning, because of all of the community memto search for a new superintendent and deal bers who expressed an interest in serving on with issues of race, equity and academic the LT school board.”

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Landlord set to embark on former Jewel-Osco site renovation Identity of new grocery store tenant still under wraps By BOB UPHUES Editor

The firm that manages the North Riverside Plaza shopping center at the southwest corner of Harlem Avenue and Cermak Road expects to begin the initial build-out of the former Jewel-Osco store at 7201 24th St. within the next month. Alan Saposnik, president of Tower Real Estate Services, who manages the shopping center on behalf of its owner, Federal Construction Inc., said the landlord’s portion of the buildout would take “five to six months.” That work will be followed by another five to six months of construction, which would be handled by the future tenant, who Saposnik would identify only as a “national

grocer.” The landlord has already completed interior demolition of the Jewel-Osco space and is waiting for the village to complete its building permit review before launching the initial build-out phase. Construction plans on file with the North Riverside Building Department show that the store will be divided into two separate retail spaces. The larger of the two, which the grocery store will occupy, is 39,698 square feet. While there’s a signed lease for that space, said Saposnik, the smaller 14,196-square-foot retail space is still available for lease. Plans on file with the village show that in addition to the interior demolition, plans are to demolish and reconfigure the sidewalks and loading docks outside the building. Plans also state that the building facade’s front overhang and columns will be removed to make way for a new façade. Documents on file with the village do not

include any building elevations, nor do they indicate who the tenant’s architect is. The parking lot immediately north of the former Jewel-Osco – almost all the way to the shopping center entrance/exit to Harlem Avenue opposite the Cermak Plaza – is also slated to be improved and repaved. Work on the parking lot, however, won’t begin until sometime in spring or summer 2021. While Saposnik would not confirm the new tenant, the size of the new grocery space would appear to be in line with the size of the new Amazon Fresh grocery stores, only just now debuting elsewhere in the country, including the Chicago market. Amazon opened the first of its new “traditional” grocery stores to the public in September in Woodland Hills, California. The 35,000-square-foot store features both name brand products and Whole Foods’ 365 house brand products. Amazon purchased Whole Foods in 2017.

Its parallel Amazon Fresh concept is seen as a lower-price alternative to Whole Foods and it also boasts high-tech features like Alexa-enabled information kiosks and Amazon Dash Carts, which scan items as shoppers put them in bags and then completes the transaction as shoppers exit the store, skipping the checkout line. Amazon Fresh stores are in the works in other Chicago suburbs, including Oak Lawn, Naperville and Schaumburg, and will occupy spaces of between 35,000 and 45,000 square feet. It’s also believed that Amazon Fresh will be part of a development under construction in Chicago at the corner of North and Harlem avenues, formerly home to Sears. Asked about the North Riverside location as a possible Amazon Fresh site, a company spokeswoman declined to confirm or deny. “Amazon doesn’t comment on rumors or speculation,” the spokeswoman said in an email.

Riverside chief says cop prevented armed robbery

One man, on parole for weapons offense, arrested; loaded handgun recovered

rear of the AT&T store, 2518 Harlem Ave., and ordered them to stop. The two then began running back south towards the black Nissan, which was parked in the lot. At that time, the officer reported seeing a third person joining the other two. All three ran east, crossed Harlem Avenue and By BOB UPHUES ran between the buildings at 2601 Harlem Ave. Editor Another police officer responding to the scene located Woodland and took Riverside’s police chief said him into custody at gunpoint. one of his officers’ actions durWoodland reportedly possessed ing the early morning hours of one plastic bag containing a Oct. 1 prevented an armed robnumber of green pills, a sealed bery and led to the arrest of a bag of cannabis, a package of 22-year-old man who is suspected cannabis blunts and keys to the of being part of a crew that comNissan left in the Costco parking mitted a robbery in Oak Park lot. earlier that night. Police recovered candy and Dellis D. Woodland, of Chicacigarettes on the ground near go, has been charged with armed violence, aggravated unlawful DELLIS D. WOODLAND the AT&T store and then located more candy and a loaded 9 mm use of a weapon and possession Glock handgun magazine in the of a controlled substance with intent to deliver. At the time of his arrest, side yard of an apartment building in the Woodland was on parole for a January 2020 7100 block of 26th Street, Berwyn. A search of other yards in the vicinconviction for possessing a firearm with a ity turned up a loaded Sig Sauer handgun defaced serial number. He is being held without bond at Cook in a bush. Police reportedly obtained a search warrant for Woodland’s phone and County Jail. According to the police report, a police of- retrieved a text message that included a ficer on patrol at about 1:20 a.m. observed a photo of the Sig Sauer and a message indi2018 Nissan stopped in a traffic lane on 26th cating it was his. Woodland allegedly told police he was in Street about 75 feet west of 7-Eleven, 2600 the rear to sell drugs, not commit a robbery. Harlem Ave. As the officer pulled up his squad car But, Oak Park police said they had an armed behind the vehicle, it immediately made a robbery that night and that a description of left turn from the right lane into the Cost- one of the suspects matched Woodland. Proco parking lot. The officer drove into the ceeds from the Oak Park robbery allegedly 7-Eleven parking lot and reported observing were recovered in the Nissan used in the two people, dressed in black, walking to the Riverside incident. Riverside police believe Woodland was front entrance of the minimart. When the two saw the squad car, they responsible for numerous robberies in Chiturned around and started walking north to- cago and the west suburbs. ward Costco. The officer trailed them to the “There is no doubt midnight shift officers

prevented an armed robbery from taking place,” said Riverside Police Chief Thomas Weitzel in a press release. “Mr. Woodland was going into the front door of the 7-Eleven

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Kathleen Subaitis, 85, longtime North Riverside Library trustee Elected to first library board in 1985, she helped lead drive to build new facility By BOB UPHUES

ing with the North Riverside Women’s Club, which had established a lending library in the basement of the firehouse (now a law ofKathleen “Kay” Subaitis (nee Shannon), fice) at 25th Street and Desplaines Avenue. “She asked me to join, and we put our 85, who lived in North Riverside for 58 years and whose devotion to the North Riverside heads together to find out what the town Public Library led to her serving as a trustee needed to do, and we got there,” Corgiat said. The library district was created by referfrom the board’s establishment in 1985 until endum in 1983, and the first seven-person 2015, died on Oct. 2, 2020. board, with both Subaitis and Born Sept. 13, 1935, Ms. SubaitCorgiat aboard, was seated two is was a 1953 graduate of Immacyears later. ulate Conception High School in Subaitis and Corgiat at the Elmhurst and was retired from time were the “new blood” ena long career as the superintentrusted to carry out the mission dent’s administrative assistant of the North Riverside Women’s in Oak Park Elementary School Club and Byrd March, Subaitis’ District 97. neighbor whose home had served At home in North Riverside, as the “library” during the vilhowever, she was part of a small lage’s early days. group of women determined to “They looked toward us,” said establish a public library for the KATHLEEN SUBAITIS Corgiat of the library’s earliest village, and not only convinced supporters and founders. “Kay voters to create a taxing body to do so, but also convinced them again to fund and I just stayed with it.” The village assumed control of the library the construction of a suitable facility. “She was a wonderful co-worker,” said and transformed the firehouse into the liAnnette Corgiat, who was also elected as a brary in 1981, furnishing it through donamember of that original North Riverside tions, including funds from the Women’s Public Library District Board of Trustees in Club. Two years later, voters approved the 1985 and continues to serve as board presi- creation of the library district, a separate taxing body devoted solely to the library’s dent to this day. Corgiat said Subaitis was already work- operation. Editor

In 1995, the library board sought and won Kay Subaitis was the mother of Rick, voter approval to issue $2.95 million in bonds Cathy (Earl) Briggs and Dan (Judy); the to build a modern library facility on land grandmother of Shannon Briggs and Danipurchased from the Riverside Golf Club. elle, Alexandra, Hannah and Cole SubaitThe real estate negotiations is; the daughter of the late involved the village, golf club Francis R. and late Florence and the Cook County Forest Shannon; the sister of the Preserve District. late Frank (Joyce) Shannon, The library board cut the Barbara O’Neill, Jean (Frank) ribbon on the new library in Cupp, Peggy Shannon and Jim June 1999. Soon after opening Shannon; the aunt of many the new building, the board nieces and nephews; and the hired Bob Lifka as library diformer spouse of Richard W. rector. He would serve from Subaitis. 2001 until his retirement in Family and friends will be 2014. received at Conboy-Westches“Kay was a conscientious ter Funeral Home, 10501 W. board member, rarely missCermak Road, Westchester, on ing a board or committee Friday, Oct. 9 from 3 to 8 p.m. ANNETTE CORGIAT meeting and always doing her Due to COVID-19 restricNorth Riverside Library homework,” said Lifka, who tions the funeral Mass at MaBoard president ter Christi Church on Oct.10 is in retirement has worked as a private. Interment is at Queen freelance journalist for Growof Heaven Cemetery, Hillside. ing Community Media, which In lieu of flowers, donations publishes the Landmark. “In addition to serving on the library board, are appreciated to the North Riverside Public Library, 2400 Desplaines Ave., North Rivshe was very involved with the friends of the library and the library foundation. Un- erside 60546 or Mater Christi Church, 2431 like some board members who only set foot 10th Ave., North Riverside, 60546. Arrangements were handled by the in the library on board meeting nights, Kay was in the library often and stayed abreast Original Kuratko Family, Brian D. Kuratko, director. of what was happening.”

“We put our heads together to find out what the town needed to do, and we got there.”

New COVID-19 cases growing slowly, but steadily Rate of new positives trending higher over last 2+ months By BOB UPHUES Editor

As September turned to October, Brookfield, Riverside and North Riverside continued to see a slow but steady growth in the number of residents testing positive for COVID-19, though no local cases have been recorded as fatal in any of the villages since the third week of July. In both Riverside and Brookfield, 14 more residents tested positive for COVID-19 for the seven-day period ending on the morning of Oct. 6. While that kind of weekly figure has remained stable in Brookfield throughout the month of September, the 14 new cases in Riverside represented the first time more than 10 new cases were recorded in any one-week period since the last week of August. The total number of COVID-19 cases in Riverside now stands at 206 since the first cases were recorded in late March. It took 16 weeks for Riverside to reach 100 cases, and 12 weeks to record its second 100 cases. Brookfield’s total number of COVID-19

cases stood at 389 on the morning of Oct. 6, and the rate at which new cases are being added is not slowing. It took 17 weeks for Brookfield to record its first 200 cases of COVID-19. Based on the past month, the village will surpass 400 by next week. If that’s the case it will have taken Brookfield 12 weeks to record its second group of 200 cases. Five more North Riverside residents tested positive for COVID-19 in the sevenday period ending the morning of Oct. 6, bringing that village’s total to 127. From Sept. 1 through Oct. 5, North Riverside saw just 14 new cases of COVID-19. Two local school districts informed families in the past week that members of their communities had tested positive for COVID-19. On Oct. 2, Riverside-Brookfield High School Principal Hector Freytas informed parents that the administration had completed contact tracing after a student had tested positive for COVID-19. RBHS has been conducting classes remotely, and the student reportedly con-

tracted the disease outside of the school setting. On Oct. 5, Riverside Elementary School District 96 Superintendent Martha RyanToye informed families that a staff member at Blythe Park School in Riverside had tested positive. Ryan-Toye described that person as a certified staff member who was not a teacher. The staff member, according to an email sent to families, stated that “this situation is not connected to any of our previous cases of COVID-19. … The contact with students and other staff members was minimal to none.” It’s the fifth positive test within the District 96 community since the beginning of the school year. Classes are being held both in person and remotely in District 96, and so far no cases are believed to have been transmitted within a classroom setting.

State surpasses 300,000 cases, 8,800 deaths Illinois surpassed 300,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 8,800 virus-related deaths

over the weekend as it approached 6 million tests conducted since the pandemic first reached the state. The Illinois Department of Public Health announced 62 additional virus-related deaths from Saturday through Monday, bringing total casualties in the state to 8,805. There were 1,631 people hospitalized for the virus at the end of Sunday, including 382 in intensive care units and 155 on ventilators. While hospitalization numbers can fluctuate by the hundreds daily, a Capitol News Illinois analysis of IDPH data shows the weekly average for hospitalizations has crept slightly upward in all three categories in recent weeks as the state’s test positivity rate has remained roughly level. From Oct. 3-5, the state reported an average of 1,916 confirmed cases of the virus each day among an average daily test output of 53,942. That brought the rolling seven-day average test positivity rate to 3.4 percent. Capitol News Illinois contributed to this report.

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SPORTS

No fans in the stands from page 1 all state meets and has limited participation at any event to no more than 50 athletes, disrupting normal scheduling and limiting competitions. Schools have also instituted a range of protective measures to minimize risk to athletes. Boys and girls cross country, boys and girls golf, girls swimming and girls tennis are the sports that have been competing this fall. The athletes in those sports say that being allowed to have a season at all has been a valuable outlet, combatting the social isolation they’ve experienced due to remote learning. It’s a couple hours of normality each day for teenage athletes. “Being able to see my coach, my teammates, and my friends every afternoon in practice and at meets has made this situation better,” said Emma McVicker, a sophomore swimmer at Riverside-Brookfield High School during the public comment portion of a school board meeting last month. Sophomore RBHS cross country runner Bryce Pacourek feels the same way. After a day of sitting in front of her computer attending classes via Zoom, she is excited to go to the school for practice. “It’s so nice just to be able to talk to people and not have to do it online,” said Pacourek, the top runner on the RBHS girls cross country team. “Team bonding is so much fun, and it’s so great to just be with the team because they’re so supportive and it makes training so much easier.” But Pacourek, whose goal this year was to qualify for the state meet, will not have an opportunity to run that race, because the IHSA is ending the season at the sectional level. State meets draw hundreds of competitors and spectators. The IHSA does not want that

many people congregating in the same place. Other large invitationals have been cancelled and athletic directors have scrambled to fill out new schedules with smaller meets with nearby schools. To keep the numbers down, most competitions are dual meets, with the occasional meet featuring three or four teams. Lyons Township High School is only competing against fellow members of the West Suburban Conference. “It’s been different not being able to play all the teams that we typically do,” said LTHS Athletic Director John Grundke. Although the level of competition is not the same, athletes are happy to simply have the chance to compete. “Having a season is fulfilling in itself, and the fact that we’ve been able to do that speaks volumes for all those involved,” said Brendan Curtin, the assistant principal for athletics at RBHS. Many precautions are taken to minimize the risk of spreading the virus. Spectators are not allowed at most events, though they have been present at RBHS home cross country meets run at Indian Gardens Park in Riverside and Ehlert Park in Brookfield. The teams’ normal home course is at Sundown Meadow Forest Preserve. At LTHS, no spectators are allowed on the home cross country course at the school’s South Campus. “Most of the parents have been great about it,” Grundke said. “We try to livestream every race so they can watch on Twitter. If somebody wants to come and park their car in our parking lot and stay in their car that’s perfectly fine, they just can’t come out to the course.” The lack of spectators affects the atmosphere, said RBHS girls swimming coach Mike Laurich. Other swimmers cannot even be on the pool deck or in the bleachers when their teammates are competing. “It makes it a more sterile type atmosphere, because kids like to perform in front of their teammates,” Laurich said. “The times as a whole are a little off from what they nor-

ALEX ROGALS/Staff Photographer

GOING THE DISTANCE: The RBHS varsity boys cross country team competes on Oct. 3,against Northridge Prep during the team’s “senior celebration” meet at Ehlert Park in Brookfield.

mally would be, and I think a part of that is that when their peers are there in the stands watching.” Social distancing is practiced as much as possible at meets and during practices. As a result, relays, often the most exciting part of a swim meet, have been eliminated. At practice, the swimming pool is divided in two with half the team starts from one end while the other half starts from the other end. Typically, two or three swimmers are in a lane with staggered starts during workouts. “It’s missing something,” Laurich said. “Even though we’re together I think they miss that group dynamic when half the team is at the other side of the pool.” Once they come out of the water, swimmers have to put masks on right away. Other than swimmers, athletes at RBHS and LTHS generally don’t enter the school when they come for practices. Curtin had a couple of stationary bikes brought out to the football stadium so athletes could use them without going inside the building. Teams that normally do weight training are forsaking that this year. Of course, social distancing can’t be enforced during a cross country race, and runners often race next to or right behind each other, sometimes literally breathing down the neck of the runner ahead of them. At LTHS, cross country runners from each team each have their own finishing chute so that members of different teams are kept away from each other. In golf, precautions are taken to minimize contact. “They don’t use rakes to rake sand traps. They leave the pin in so they don’t touch the pin,” Grundke said. “We have them wearing masks until they strike the first ball on the first tee. Once they are out on the course, they don’t put masks on, [but] some choose to.” There are no post-match handshakes either. In tennis each team will often use only their own set of tennis balls. “You would only use the LT balls when you’re serving,” Grundke said. When you need to return a ball of the other team to your opponent you hit it back with your racket rather than pick it up. School officials at LTHS say that four athletes there have tested positive for COVID-19 this fall, but that no team has had to quarantine as a result. There have been no positive cases of COVID-19 reported among athletes at RBHS although the members of the boys cross country team had to quarantine for nearly a week in August after a team member reported symptoms. That team member ultimately tested negative for COVID and team practices were able to resume. All RBHS athletes have their temperature checked before practice and are asked about symptoms by a staff member, usually the coach. The IHSA has recently allowed football, boys soccer and girls volleyball coaches to have 20 contact days with athletes this fall for sport-specific training but no physical contact. The LTHS football team has already started drills, while RBHS teams are planning to start on Oct. 19.

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“Running backs are running in between cones and doing different moves, we can punt the ball, we can catch the ball. We don’t have any skin to skin contact, we don’t have any blocking, tackling,” Grundke said. Although practicing and competing with all the new protocols have changed things athletes and coaches agree that having some type of season is far better than having no season at all. “It’s been a ton of work; it’s been a lot stress. It’s been a lot of people working for a common goal, but I think for our kids it’s been a great experience,” Grundke said. “We’ve had about 420, 450 kids who were able to participate in their fall sports, so that’s been great.”

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Opinion KOSEY CORNER

THE LANDMARK VIEW

Here’s to a safe Halloween

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ruth be told, there was no stopping trick-or-treating this year, pandemic be damned. After all, Halloween isn’t some government-sponsored event; families are free to walk down sidewalks and visit private homes. Who was going to stop them? No one, of course. Trying would have been ludicrous. So, kids and their parents will be out for several hours on Saturday, Oct. 31, trying to capture some normal-year fun during what has been anything but a normal year. COVID-19, as the local case numbers have shown for the past couple of months, has not gone away. It hasn’t even slowed down. If anything, the rate at which new cases are being added in Brookfield and Riverside is slightly higher, even if the sheer number of cases is not overwhelming. If the past week – with the COVID circus playing out inside the White House as the nation’s prime example of irresponsibility – has taught us anything, is that the virus remains an ever-present threat. It is foolhardy to think that this extremely contagious and dangerous disease simply can be packaged as a political issue. People continue to get sick and die from COVID-19. This is a public health issue, not a political one. So, getting back to Halloween: Kids and parents, enjoy trick-or-treating, but please make sure you are taking precautions to maintain physical distance from others. Don’t bunch up at front doors, on sidewalks and in gangways. Homeowners, please wear face coverings at all times and, better yet, devise a safer way to distribute treats, whether that’s a table on the front lawn or driveway with treats spaced about on top of it or some other non-touch treatdelivery device. While we’re on the subject, kudos to the parks and rec departments in North Riverside, Brookfield and Riverside for coming up with fun, family-friendly and safe community events and alternatives to trick-or-treating. Whether it’s the drive-thru haunted house in Riverside, the drive-thru trick-or-treat at Veterans Park in North Riverside or the “Thriller”-themed parade in Brookfield, the parks and rec folks in these villages continue to make lemonade out of this lemon of a pandemic. Their efforts throughout this thing have been inspiring.

Arts are for all As long as we’re handing out compliments, we’d like to give a shout out to Riverside Arts Center, which has responded to the coronavirus crisis not but closing its doors and calling it a day but by expanding access to cultural programs and artistic activities. Last week, FlexSpace Gallery director Liz Chilsen moderated a panel of folks representing Chicago area arts organizations (you can read that story on page 3) and what it demonstrates is their commitment to the arts as essential to a functioning society and to making the arts available despite the crises we’ve faced in the past seven months. Riverside Arts Center remains a jewel of the community and worthy of every resident’s support. They’re proving that despite an uncertain future, the arts will be part of it.

Pandemic reacquainting us with classic TV, at all hours

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e are all doing different and even somewhat strange things during this COVID period, but if we talk with others we find that we are not alone in many cases as to what we do. At our house, ensconced in our La-Z-Boys, we have been watching a lot of TV, reading, working crossword puzzles, doing word searches and, of course, eating. Our TV selections have gone past our regular viewing, sometimes I am happy that “Law and Order” (the one with Mariska Hargitay) is on at almost all hours and “Family Feud” with Steve Harvey seems to be capturing a lot of TV time. In regards to “Family Feud,” have you ever asked yourself who in your family you would select to be part of your team? Talking with others I found that many of us like to watch the “oldies.” How about “Gunsmoke,” “The Big Valley,” “Dragnet” and “Highway Patrol”? Yeah, lots of you are watching them, too. Now I notice how many people smoked in those programs and how the cowboys never lose their hats during a fight. As for “Father Knows Best” and “Leave it to Beaver,” my dad never sat around in his jacket when he came home from work like the dads in those programs. Things were

great in Mayberry, but do you think Opie (Ron Howard) could have dreamed he would grow up to be an Academy Award-winning director? I’ve also been watching a lot of the Hallmark Mystery station. I love it! Nothing like waking up at 3 a.m. and watching “Magnum P.I.” with Tom Selleck, followed by “Matlock” with Andy Griffith and preceded by “Murder She Wrote” with Angela Lansbury. Sort of makes the insomnia bearable. Also like to check the casts to see who may have gone on to fame and stardom. George Clooney was one of those. And aren’t you able to sing some of the theme songs? Or know the catch phrases from some of the commercials? Vote! If you haven’t voted yet by mail or aren’t sure about early voting, I encourage you to consider either one. Those are the safest ways, particularly mailing your ballot. The early voting polling place at Brookfield Village Hall is large and has plenty of room. If you wait until Election Day, you may have to chance places like Riverside Township Precinct 8 at Blythe Park School. It’s in a small library; not the best. Check out your where your polling place is at cookcountyclerk.com/service/polling-places to see if it is a large and safe enough venue. Want you to vote and want you to be safe.

JOANNE KOSEY

LETTERS

Don’t skip voting for Cook County judge retention The retention of judges is nonpartisan. All voters, regardless of political affiliation, get to vote and retain good judges on the bench. Voters are simply asked to vote “yes” or “no” to retain a judge. Judges, who appear on the ballot for retention, were originally elected to the Office of Circuit Court six or more years ago. Under the Illinois Constitution, elected circuit judges must run for retention every six years and receive 60 percent “yes” votes to remain on the bench. This is why your vote is so very important. On Tuesday, Nov. 3, you will have the opportunity to vote to retain experienced and proven Cook County judges. The judges, whose names will appear on the retention ballot, include some of the most highly regarded judges in the State of Illinois. Cook County judges hear cases, including those involving diverse issues, such as child custody, crimes, domestic violence, and contract disputes. Judges enable people to obtain protection and vindicate their rights in court. As part of the retention process, judges have been interviewed, examined and evaluated by 18 or more independent and diverse legal bar associations. These associations have spent hundreds of hours evaluating the performance and character of each judge. Each association has made an independent determina-

tion as to whether or not a judicial retention candidate has demonstrated the ability and temperament to continue to serve on the court. The criteria considered in determining whether or not a judge should be retained includes the judge’s fairness (including sensitivity to diversity and bias), legal knowledge and skills (competence), integrity, experience, diligence, impartiality, judicial temperament, respect for the rule of law, independence from political and institutional influences, professional conduct, character, and community service. The findings and recommendations of most of the legal bar associations are available at chicgobar.org and isba.org. Why so many judges? Cook County is one of the largest unified court systems in the country. There are more than 400 judges who serve in the courts throughout the county. Judicial retention is just as important as any other election. Your “yes” vote is needed to keep good judges. Your “yes” vote ensures that we retain judges who have consistently demonstrated sound legal knowledge, ability, appropriate temperament and good character. Good judges ensure that our courts run effectively and justice is served. For more information about the judges up for retention, please go to cookcountyjudges.org.

John Allegretti

Riverside John Allegretti is a Cook County Circuit Court judge assigned to the Municipal Division, where he hears civil disputes.

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OBITUARIES

Emil Brkovic, 99 International Harvester retiree Emil Brkovic, 99, of LaGrange Park and formerly of Brookfield, died Oct. 1, 2020. Mr. Brkovic served in the U.S, Army during World War II and graduated from the Illinois Institute of Technology. He worked in management for International Harvester (subsequently Navistar) for over 30 years. Once retired he worked in real estate and construction. Mr. Brkovic was a member of the Masonic Lodge of Westchester #955 for over 50 years, serving as Master Mason. He was a longtime member of the Brookfield Moose Lodge #1599, serving as governor and business administrator. He was a volunteer for 21 years at Hinsdale Hospital. Mr. Brkovic was the husband of the late Rose Brkovic (nee Lenti) and Anne Pandola (nee Bronkema); the father of Karen (Jim) Siveira, Emil James Brkovic and Lynn (Gerard Linn) Brkovic; the grandfather of Heather Silveira; and the bother of the late Joseph (the late Joyce) Brkovic. Services and interment were private. A recording of the services is available to view at memorialslive.com/brkovic. Interment was at Queen of Heaven Cemetery, Hillside. Memorials appreciated to Mooseheart Child City and School, 155 S. International Dr., Mooseheart, Illinois, 60539 (moosecharities.org). Hitzeman Funeral Home, Brookfield, handled arrangements. You can express condolences online at HitzemanFuneral.com or send sympathy cards to the family by mailing to Hitzeman Funeral Home, 9445 31st St., Brookfield, 60513, c/o the Emil Brkovic family.

Madeline Carrell, 71 Former longtime Brookfield resident Madeline Carrell (nee Lippi), 71, of Lisle and a former longtime resident of Brookfield, died Oct. 4, 2020. She was the wife of Colin; the mother of Sean (Joe Hopkins) Carrell and Colleen (Dylan MADELINE CARRELL O’Toole) Carrell; the grandmother of Quinn and Tristan O’Toole; and the sister of the late Katherine (late John) Pelanek. Family and friends will be received at Conboy-Westchester Funeral Home, 10501 W. Cermak Road, Westchester, for a memorial visitation on Thursday, Oct. 8 from 2 to 6 p.m. Interment private.

Harold J. Kotora, 97

Jeanine K. Muzik, 63

Fighter pilot during WWII

Brookfield resident

Harold J. “Hal” Kotora, 97, a former longtime resident of Riverside, died Aug. 12, 2020 in Aurora, Colorado. Mr. Kotora served in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II. A second lieutenant, he HAROLD KOTORA piloted a P-51 Mustang fighter from an airfield in Fowlmere, England, a member of the 339th Fighter Group that provided escorts for bombers over the continent and carried out missions in support of ground operations from April 1944 through the end of the European campaign in 1945. The fighter group had a distinguished combat record and earned a Presidential Unit Citation for the actions of its pilots. Following the war, Mr. Kotora returned to the Chicago area, marrying Eileen Kalivoda and settling in Riverside and embarking on a career as a commercial artist. Mr. Kotora was preceded in death by his wife, Eileen Kotora (nee Kalivoda) and parents, James and Agnes (nee Rabiega) Kotora. He is survived by his daughter, Kim Criter; his son, Hal Kotora Jr.; his brothers, James (Leona) and Raymond; his sister, Geraldine Gregory; his grandsons, Kurt and Kip Criter; and his great granddaughters, Lilly and Kensley Criter. Services with full military honors have been held. Interment was at Chapel Hill Gardens West Funeral Cemetery, Oakbrook Terrace.

Jeanine K. Muzik (nee Allison), 63, of Brookfield, died Oct. 1, 2020. She was an expediter for a manufacturing firm. Ms. Muzik was the wife of Andrew Muzik; the sister of Jennifer (Dale) Link; the aunt of Jeffrey JEANINE K. MUZIK Link; the great aunt of Ryan and Lily Link; and the daughter of the late Hugh Allison and the late Doris Allison (nee Melvin). Visitation is Thursday, Oct. 8 from 3 to 8 p.m. and Friday, Oct. 9 from 10:30 a.m. until time of service at 11 a.m. at Hitzeman Funeral Home, 9445 31st St., Brookfield. Interment is private. All COVID-19 recommendations and guidelines are followed. All guests (maximum of 50 at a time) entering the building must wear a facial covering and maintain social distancing. In lieu of flowers, please make a donation to your favorite charity. You can express condolences online at HitzemanFuneral.com or send sympathy cards to the family by mailing to Hitzeman Funeral Home, 9445 31st St., Brookfield, 60513, c/o the Jeanine K. Muzik family.

John Radocha Jr., 97 Longtime Riverside crossing guard John Radocha Jr., 97, a resident of Stickney and a longtime crossing guard for the village of Riverside, died Sept. 23, 2020. Mr. Radocha was born Jan. 4, 1923 and served in the U.S. Army during World JOHN RADOCHA War II. He was a crossing guard in Riverside for 25 years, retiring in November 2013 at the age of 90. Upon his retirement, Village President Ben Sells presented Radocha with a certificate of appreciation at a village board meeting for his two-plus decades of dedicated service. “John took his job, protecting the children very serious and for those of us who knew him saw him on duty every day, rain or shine,” said Riverside Police Chief Thomas Weitzel. Mount Auburn Funeral Home, Stickney, handled arrangements.

Mary L. Weitzel, 84 Mother of Riverside’s police chief Mary Leonard Weitzel (nee Leonard), 84, of Hinsdale and a former 52-year resident of River Forest, died peacefully on Sept. 30, 2020, surrounded by her family. She was born March 5, 1936 in RockMARY WEITZEL ford, the daughter of Dr. Charles and Helen Leonard. She married Charles J. Weitzel and raised six children. Upon Charles’ death in 1982, Ms. Weitzel went to work for Madly Pop’n of Oak Park, Pilgrim Management Company of Oak Park, and then started her own company, MLW Property Management. Ms. Weitzel was a 52-year member of St Luke Catholic Church in River Forest. She loved to play the piano, play bridge, attend book club and cheer on the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame. She lived a long fulfilling life and always made everyone smile with her good humor and generosity. Ms. Weitzel was the wife of the late Charles J. Weitzel; the mother of Chuck (Gina), John, Megan, Riverside Police Chief Tom (Meg), Catherine Erhardt, Helen Patricia Sattler (Don) and Michael (Phoebe); the grandmother of Alex (Kaitlyn), Matthew and Peter Weitzel, Bridget, Kevin and Camryn Weitzel, Sarah and Anne Sattler, Shannon and Molly Erhardt, Charlie Weitzel, and Brandon and Caden Weitzel. She was predeceased by her sisters Nell (the late William) Sheila and Helen C. Leonard and

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brothers Charles Leonard Jr and John (Marsha) Leonard. She is survived by sisters Ann (Dave) Burton, Kate (William) Devers and brothers Tom (Paula) Leonard, Luke (Georgia) Leonard, Peter (Claudette) Leonard. Private interment services were at Queen of Heaven Cemetery, Hillside. Drechsler, Brown and Williams Funeral Home, Oak Park, handled arrangements.

Marjory B. Lagodny Thompson, 104 Former Brookfield, Riverside resident Marjory B. Lagodny Thompson 104, formerly of Brookfield, Riverside and Downers Grove, died Oct. 2, 2020 in Chatsworth, Georgia. She was the wife of the late LaRue Thompson and George Lagodny; MARJORY B. LAGODNY the mother of Margaret (late William) Kettlewell; the grandmother of Amy (Rickey Broome) Kettlewell, Kathleen (Steven) Sloan and Victoria (Kevin) Ashcraft; the great grandmother of John, III, Fred, Trent, Austin, Gavin and Ethan Hall, Hagen McOnathy, Aiden, Charles, Corbin and Easton Ashcraft; the sister of the late Marian Daley; and the aunt of Leslie (Bernie) Crawford. Visitation is Friday, Oct. 9 from 4 to 8 p.m. at Ivins/Moravecek Funeral Home, 80 E. Burlington St., Riverside. Will we gather on Saturday, Oct. 10 from 9 to 10 a.m. for final farewell remembrances at the funeral home. Interment is at Ottawa Avenue Cemetery.

George McMahon, 98 Owned McMahon Brothers Machine Works George L. McMahon, 98, of Burr Ridge and formerly of Brookfield and Berwyn, died on Sept. 29, 2020. Born on Feb. 17, 1922, he served as a U.S. Navy Seabee during World War II in both the Atlantic and Pacific theaters. GEORGE MCMAHON He was the longtime owner of McMahon Brothers Machine Works in Cicero. Mr. McMahon was the husband of the late Lorraine (nee Kalles); the father of Patrick M. McMahon; the brother of the late Mary (Albert) Muisenga, Edward (Gladys), James (Phyllis), Lorrine (Michael) Murray, and Joan McMahon; and the uncle of many nieces and nephews. Visitation was held on Oct. 5 at ZimmermanHarnett Funeral Home, 7319 W. Madison St., Forest Park, followed by Mass at St. John of the Cross Church, with interment at Queen of Heaven Cemetery, Hillside.

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TRICKORTREAT

book page on Oct. 29 at 3:30 p.m., and the department is also inviting the entire community to participate in a house/door decorating contest and pumpkin carving contest. Send your photos to riversidepr@riversideil.us. The best entries will be featured on Facebook and win prizes.

Masks at all times, please from page 1

treats that day. Those welcoming trick-or-treaters are being asked to download a color poster indicating “Trick-ortreaters welcome here” from the village’s website (brookfieldil.gov) or pick one up from Brookfield Village Hall, 8820 Brookfield Ave. The flip side of the poster will include village guidelines regarding trickor-treating. Trick-or-treating hours in Brookfield will be from 3 to 7 p.m. on Oct. 31. Residents are asked to place those signs in front windows or on doors. They are also being asked to wear face coverings while passing out treats or, better yet, devising a no-contact way to distribute treats. The Illinois Department of Public Health issued guidance on Sept. 30 that recommended setting up a table in driveways or next to sidewalks where kids can come by and take a treat and still maintain physical distancing. The IDPH also said that costume masks were no substitute for masks worn to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and that those coverings ought to be worn under costume masks. If that poses a problem breathing, according to the IDPH, ditch the costume mask. The Brookfield Recreation Department has launched a contest to give residents safe and fun ideas for distributing treats. The Tricks and Treats Socially Distanced Candy Contest seeks photos and videos demonstrating easy no- and low-contact ways to engage trickor-treaters. People can request and submit entry forms by emailing recreation Director Stevie Ferrari at sferrari@brookfieldil.gov. Submissions are due by Oct. 19 and Ferrari will post the winning submission and a photo/video compilation of all the ideas on the village’s and department’s Facebook pages a week before Halloween to give residents time to replicate an idea, if they choose. The Brookfield Recreation department is also hosting a Witch-

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SPREAD OUT: Local officials are hoping kids and families will do their best to maintain physical distance from other trick-or-treaters on Oct. 31 and avoid bunching up on sidewalks -- like they did during the carefree days of 2013 (above) during Monsters on Mainstreet in Brookfi eld -- and front doors. es Night Out on Oct. 30, an alloutdoor event for those 21-older, weather permitting. The night features live entertainment, tarot card readings, bonfires, photo booth, drinks, a merchant market and more. Space is limited and the cost is $40 per person ($50 non-residents). Call 708-485-1474 or visit rectrac. brookfieldil.gov to register and for more info. Ferrari said the department will also conduct a Halloween “parade’ on Oct. 31 featuring a costumed dance troupe that will travel throughout the village, performing a five to seven-minute routine to Michael Jackson’s “Thriller.” The Brookfield Recreation Department will publish the parade map listing the designated stops as early as this week. “It’s one way of getting through the community for kids who might not be able to go out trick-or-treating for one reason or another,” Ferrari said.

Riverside Like Brookfield, the village of Riverside will be creating a window sign that can be downloaded or picked up at the village offices

at the Riverside Township Hall, 27 Riverside Road. Residents who are welcoming children are encouraged to display the sign in their front windows and doors on Oct. 31. Trick-or-treating hours will be the traditional 3 to 7 p.m. and Village Trustee Edward Hannon urged village staff to make sure health and safety guidelines are well-publicized in advance of the day and for parents to make sure trick-or-treaters aren’t bunching up at doors. “I think it really falls upon the adults ... to use their better judgment on maintaining what we’ve been doing so far, which is social distancing and recommend that everyone wear masks, and if you are going to choose to hand out candy, recommend that you sanitize after every visit,” Hannon said. Trustee Cristin Evans said she would discourage door-to-door trick-or-treating and encouraged residents to be creative in finding more socially distant solutions for treat distribution. In the weeks leading up to Halloween the Riverside Department of Parks and Recreation will not only mark the season by lighting up the water tower at night with

a suitably spooky display, they’ll host a couple of events for residents as well. On Oct. 16, the department hosts a Drive-Thru Haunted House on Fairbank Road near the Scout Cabin. There will be two sessions, one for younger kids between 3:30 and 4:30 p.m. and one for older kids from 5 to 6 p.m. The street will be lined with decorations and costumed characters will be a spooky presence along the route, which cars ($13 per vehicle) can drive through at any time during each session. Each participating car will receive (in a no-touch fashion) a special surprise at the end of the path. In place of the canceled Easter Egg Hunt last spring, the department is rolling out a Spooky Season Egg Hunt from Oct. 12-30. Register for $9 (Riverside residents only) to have 50 candy- and toy-filled eggs dropped off at your home or pick a day and recreation staff can swing by (for $13) and scatter them in your front yard. Call 708-442-7025 or visit register. parksreconline.com/riverside.html to register. There will also be a Virtual Witch’s Brew Story Time streaming live on the department’s Face-

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North Riverside Mayor Hubert Hermanek Jr. announced Monday that families can trick-or-treat door-to-door in the village between 3 and 6 p.m. on Oct. 31, encouraging participants to wear face coverings at all times and maintain social distancing. By the end of this week, he said, the village will have signs – green for yes and red for no – residents can place in their front windows or on front doors to let kids know whether or not they are passing out treats this year. Residents who have vehicles bearing North Riverside vehicle stickers can also participate in the Boo-2-You Drive-Thru on Oct. 31 from 1 p.m. until supplies run out. For North Riverside residents only, families can drive through Veterans Park (on 26th Street at Veterans Drive; enter near the concession stand) and receive a goody bag filled with treats. Costumed characters will line the route. North Riverside Parks and Rec is also holding a Halloween home decorating contest, which is free to enter. The top three houses will be awarded prizes and a yard sign boasting the achievement. Houses will be judged Oct. 23. On Oct. 20 from 6:30-8 p.m., the department will hold its first-ever Family Pumpkin Float. Families can pick up their pumpkins ($10/$12 non-resident) from Oct. 14-16, carve them and then bring them to the Village Commons, 2401 Desplaines Ave., on Oct 20. Staff will light the pumpkins and set them afloat in the commons pond while visitors enjoy the spectacle while socially distancing. Finally, there will be a Family Pumpkin Carving event on Oct. 29 from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at the Village Commons. For $11 you get a table, pumpkin and a carving kit to work your magic. Space is limited. Register for events by calling 708-442-5515.

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River Forest Public Schools District 90 is seeking an Infection Control Officer, Registered Nurse (6 Month Position) Qualifications: a) Certified Registered Nurse license required b) Appropriate Bachelor’s Degree required; Master’s Degree is preferred c) Three years of successful infection control experience is preferred w/experience in a large institution, such as a hospital, school, or detention center. Job Duties: Provide direct support to the Superintendent in the area of COVID-19 prevention, surveillance, tracking/tracing, and outbreak containment. The Infection Control Officer will be instrumental in facilitating the District’s successful transition to in-person classroom instruction at the elementary and middle schools. Emphasis will be on establishing and implementing an infection control policy across the school district, overseeing the tracking and tracing of all student/staff COVID-19 cases, liaison with the area pediatricians and local testing centers, and management of district database for a district dashboard. Apply online at district90.org River Forest Public Schools District 90 is seeking a Permanent Traveling Substitute Teacher for Willard and Lincoln elementary schools Qualifications: a) Valid Illinois Professional Educator License with Elementary Grade School Endorsement b) Successful teaching experience preferred Job Duties: The traveling elementary substitute teacher will be assigned to classes at the elementary schools on a daily basis, as needed. Apply online at district90.org River Forest Public Schools District 90 is seeking a Long-Term Substitute PE Teacher (November 30, 2020 – March 19, 2021) Qualifications: a) Valid Illinois Professional Educator License with Grade-Appropriate Physical Education Endorsement b) Successful teaching experience in physical education preferred c) A Master’s Degree is preferred Job Duties: Physical Education Teacher will instruct a class in physical education in elementary grades and work cooperatively with other classroom teachers and support area staff. The teacher will be responsible for supervising and managing the class, effectively teaching the curriculum to meet individual needs of children. Apply online at district90.org

Oak Park Residence Corporation (OPRC) is looking for a skilled individual to provide high level administrative and project support to its CEO and VP of HR and Administration. This person will coordinate and/or perform a diverse set of administrative and HR support tasks to ensure the organization has the resources needed to operate smoothly and efficiently. The right candidate will have a bachelor’s degree and three to five years of experience in an administrative role in a professional environment and/or any combination of the above which supplies the required knowledge, ability and skills. This position requires excellent communication and organizational skills, attention to detail, and the ability to work independently, multi-task, and adapt to changing priorities. Must be proficient in Microsoft Office Suite. Acrobat Pro DC and Word Press experience a plus. For a complete position description go to www.oakparkrc.com/workoprc To apply, send cover letter and resume to bswaggerty@oakparkrc. com.

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DOWNTOWN OAK PARK Downtown Oak Park, on Marion St. Nice office with skylight. Heat and A/C included. Approx 220 sf. Call Mr. McNamara 630-215-3253

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OAK PARK 2BR 2BA CONDO Condo for rent on a great location near downtown oak park: 2 bedroom 2 bath condo, only electric bill not included. $1600 a month, $1600 deposit. For more information please call 224-475-7929.

FOREST PARK 3BR 3 BR apt, 2nd oor, w/ dining rm and breakfast nook. New kitchen w/ granite & stainless. New baths central air, free laundry. Garage space included. 2 blks to blue line. $1800 + deposit & credit check required. 312-802-8291

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River Forest Public Schools District 90 has vacancies for Teacher Aides at Lincoln Elementary and Roosevelt Middle schools. Qualifications: a) Valid Illinois Professional Educator License with Endorsements; or Educator License with Stipulations with a Paraprofessional Endorsement. b) Successful instructional assistant experience is preferred in regular education or special education. Job Duties: The instructional assistant in Special Education will work with both general education and special education staff members to support learning for identified child(ren) with special needs. Responsibilities include instructing students in small groups and one-on-one settings. This will also encompass helping students to develop positive interpersonal relationships with peers and adults: utilizing and modeling school behavior management programs: and assist in communications between students, teachers and parents as requested. Apply online at district90.org

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING VILLAGE OF OAK PARK PLAN COMMISSION DOCKET NUMBER: PC 20-09 (Zoning Ordinance Text Amendment) HEARING DATE: October 27, 2020 TIME: 7:00 p.m. or as soon thereafter as the Agenda permits LOCATION OF HEARING: The Plan 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 Uverse 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. Written testimony or comments regarding the application may be provided prior to the public hearing by email to planning@oak-park. us. The 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. If email is not an option, written testimony or comment can drop comments off in the Oak Park Payment Drop Box across from the entrance to Village Hall, 123 Madison Street, to be received no

later than 5:00 p.m. on October 27, 2020. Questions regarding written testimony or comment can be directed to 708-358.5420 or email to planning@oak-park.us. PETITIONER(S): Village of Oak Park, 123 Madison Street, Oak Park, Illinois 60302 REQUEST: The Plan Commission will conduct a public hearing on the text amendment application of the Petitioner for amendments to the Oak Park Zoning Ordinance. The Petitioner seeks an amendment to Article 14 (“Zoning Approvals”), Section 14.5 (“Planned Developments”), Sub-Section G (“Effect of Approval or Denial and Expiration”) of the Oak Park Zoning Ordinance regarding changes to, or elimination of, some of the timelines for approved planned development permit submittal, construction and completion phases. A copy of the application and each of the applicable documents are on file and are available for inspection at the Village Hall, Development Customer Services Department, 123 Madison Street, Oak Park, Illinois 60302, during current business hours, Monday through Thursday, between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. The Plan Commission may continue the hearing to another date without further notice by public announcement at the hearing setting forth the time and place thereof. ALL INTERESTED PERSONS ARE INVITED TO BE HEARD OAK PARK PLAN COMMISSION Oak Park, Illinois 60302

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING VILLAGE OF OAK PARK PLAN COMMISSION DOCKET NUMBER: PC 20-10 (Zoning Ordinance Text Amendment) HEARING DATE: October 27, 2020 TIME: 7:00 p.m. or as soon thereafter as the Agenda permits LOCATION OF HEARING: The Plan 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 Uverse 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. Written testimony or comments regarding the application may be provided prior to the public hearing by email to planning@oak-park. us. The 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. If email is not an option, written testimony or comment can drop comments off in the Oak Park Payment Drop Box across from the entrance to Village Hall,

123 Madison Street, to be received no later than 5:00 p.m. on October 27, 2020. Questions regarding written testimony or comment can be directed to 708-358.5420 or email to planning@oak-park.us. PETITIONER(S): Village of Oak Park, 123 Madison Street, Oak Park, Illinois 60302 REQUEST: The Plan Commission will conduct a public hearing on the text amendment application of the Petitioner for amendments to the Oak Park Zoning Ordinance. The Petitioner seeks an amendment to Article 8 (“Uses”), Section 8.3 (“Use Restrictions”), Sub-Section A (“DT Districts”) of the Oak Park Zoning Ordinance regarding exceptions to the 50-foot setback retail use restriction in the DT-1 and DT-2 SubDistricts, including, but not limited to, art and fitness studios, health clubs, indoor recreation and business service centers. A copy of the application and each of the applicable documents are on file and are available for inspection at the Village Hall, Development Customer Services Department, 123 Madison Street, Oak Park, Illinois 60302, during current business hours, Monday through Thursday, between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. The Plan Commission may continue the hearing to another date without further notice by public announcement at the hearing setting forth the time and place thereof. ALL INTERESTED PERSONS ARE INVITED TO BE HEARD OAK PARK PLAN COMMISSION Oak Park, Illinois 60302

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING VILLAGE OF OAK PARK PLAN COMMISSION DOCKET NUMBER: PC 20-06 HEARING DATE: October 22, 2020 TIME: 7:00 p.m. or as soon thereafter as the Agenda permits LOCATION OF HEARING: The Plan 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 Uverse 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. Written testimony or comments regarding the application may be provided prior to the public hearing by email to planning@oak-park. us. The individual’s name and a reasonable part of 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. If email is not an option, written testimony or comment can be dropped off in the Oak Park Payment Drop Box across from the south entrance to Village Hall, 123 Madison Street, to be received no later than 5:00 p.m. on October 22, 2020. All written testimony and comments will be distributed to the Plan Commission and made a part of the official hearing record. Those wishing to provide public testimony at the hearing shall contact the Village Planner at planning@oakpark.us for instructions on attending the live Zoom meeting by 5:00 PM the day of the hearing. Interested persons may also participate in the hearing to cross examine the applicant and its witnesses by emailing the cross-examination form to clerk@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. Questions regarding written testimony or comment can be directed to 708-358.5420 or email to planning@oak-park.us.

PETITIONER(S): Oak Park Land II, LLC a corporation under the control of Michigan Avenue Real Estate Group, 1259 West Madison Street, Chicago, IL 60607 REQUEST: The Plan Commission will conduct a public hearing on a planned development application for a one building 84-unit multiple family complex in the R-7 MultiFamily Residential Zoning District. The Petitioner seeks the following allowances from the Oak Park Zoning Ordinance associated with the Planned Development application found in Article 4 - Table 4-1 Residential Districts Dimensional Standards; an increase in building lot coverage from a required 70% to 75%; an increase in density from an allowed 46 dwelling units to 84 dwelling units; an increase in height from the allowed height of 45 feet to 74 feet; a reduction in the west side yard setback from the required 10 feet to 5 feet; and a reduction in the required rear yard setback of 25 feet to 14 feet. The Petitioner is also requesting an indoor ATM use be allowed on the first floor within an R-7 Multi-Family Residential Zoning District.

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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: Y20004605 on September 24, 2020 Under the Assumed Business Name of DESIGN WORKS & GRAPHICS with the business located at: 1108 FERDINAND AVE, FOREST PARK, IL 60130. The true and real full name(s) and residence address of the owner(s)/partner(s) is: ROBERT KNUTH 1108 FERDINAND AVE, FOREST PARK, IL 60130 Published in Forest Park Review 9/30, 10/7, 10/14/2020

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SCOTT J. LEVY (32596) Attorney for Petitioner 1525 East 53rd Street, Suite 504 Chicago, Illinois 60615 STATE OF ILLINOIS ) ) ss COUNTY OF COOK ) Circuit Court of Cook County, County Department, Domestic Relations Division. In re the Marriage of ELVIA MENDOZA, Petitioner, and JOSÉ ELIAS ZAVALA ÁLVAREZ, Respondent, Case Number 2020D-006515. 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, for Dissolution of Marriage and for other relief; and that said suit is now pending. Now, therefore, unless you, the said Respondent, file your response to said Petition or otherwise make your appearance therein, in the Office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, Room 802, Richard J. Daley Center, 50 West Washington Street, in the city of Chicago, Illinois, on or before October 31, 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 9/30, 10/7, 10/14/2020

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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: Y20004554 on September 23, 2020 Under the Assumed Business Name of NGREEN PRIVATE INVESTIGATIONS with the business located at: 3013 S. WOLF RD #247, WESTCHESTER, IL 60154. The true and real full name(s) and residence address of the owner(s)/partner(s) is: NATALIE GREEN 2007 S. 8TH AVE. MAYWOOD, IL 60153.

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A copy of the application and each of the applicable documents are on the Village Website at www. oak-park.us and also on file and available for inspection at the Village Hall, Development Customer Services Department, 123 Madison Street, Oak Park, Illinois 60302, during current business hours, Monday through Thursday, between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. The Plan Commission may continue the hearing to another date without further notice by public announcement at the hearing setting forth the time and place thereof.

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LEGAL NOTICE Dr. Linda Oster DDS. and Marion Street Dental, LTD. will be closing November 1, 2020. After November 1, inquiries handled by custodian at: MSD2020@mail.com

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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: 20004498 on September 23, 2020 Under the Assumed Business Name of LAMAR’S T-SHIRTS with the business located at: 310 S. 7TH AVE., MAYWOOD, IL 60513. The true and real full name(s) and residence address of the owner(s)/partner(s) is: LAMAR DUGGER, 310 S. 7TH AVE., MAYWOOD, IL 60153 Published in Forest Park Review 9/30, 10/7, 10/14/12020

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: Y20004465 on September 22, 2020 Under the Assumed Business Name of SUGA BAKERS with the business located at 153 23RD AVE, BELLWOOD, IL 60104. The true and real full name(s) and residence address of the owner(s)/partner(s) is: KEELIE BANKS, V 153 23RD AVE, BELLWOOD, IL 60104 Published in Forest Park Review 9/30, 10/7, 10/14/2020

LAW OFFICES OF MALIKA T. ASSAR, P.C., Attorney for Petitioner, 420 West Huron Street, 1st Floor, Chicago, IL 60654. STATE OF ILLINOIS, COUNTY OF COOK, ssCircuit Court of Cook County, County Department, Domestic Relations Division In re the Marriage of Farzana Khan, Petitioner, and Mohammed Hussain, Respondent, No. 2020 D 006030. 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, for Dissolution of Marriage and for other relief: and that said suit is now pending. Now, therefore, unless you, the said Respondent, file your Appearance to said Petition and Response electronically to said Petition with the Office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, on or before November 3, 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 September 30, October 7 and October 14, 2020.

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CLASSIFIED PUBLIC NOTICES PUBLIC NOTICE OF COURT DATE FOR REQUEST FOR NAME CHANGE STATE OF ILLINOIS, CIRCUIT COURT COOK COUNTY. Request of HEIDI RUTH RUEHLE-MAY Case Number 20204004288 There will be a court date on my Request to change my name from: HEIDI RUTH RUEHLE-MAY to the new name of: HEIDI RUTH RUEHLE The court date will be held: On 12/01/2020 at 9:30 a.m. at 1500 Maybrook Avenue, Maywood, Cook County Illinois in Courtroom # 112. Published in Wednesday Journal 10/7, 10/14, 10/21/2020

PUBLIC NOTICE OF COURT DATE FOR REQUEST FOR NAME CHANGE STATE OF ILLINOIS, CIRCUIT COURT COOK COUNTY. Request of BERNEITA B. HINES-WILLIAMS Case Number 20204004264. There will be a court date on my Request to change my name from: BERNEITA B. HINES-WILLIAMS to the new name of: BERNEITA BRADDY HINES The court date will be held: On November 24, 2020 at 9:30 am at 1400 Maybrook Drive, Maywood, IL 60153 in Courtroom # 112 /s BERNEITA B. HINES-WILLIAMS Published in Wednesday Journal 9/30, 10/7, 1014/2020

REAL ESTATE FOR SALE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION AS LEGAL TITLE TRUSTEE FOR TRUMAN 2016 SC6 TITLE TRUST Plaintiff, -v.EDILBERTO V. VERZO, MARCELINA C. VERZO, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants 2019CH05533 300-302 NORTH CUYLER 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 January 23, 2020, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on October 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 300-302 NORTH CUYLER AVENUE, OAK PARK, IL 60302 Property Index No. 16-08-107-0090000 The real estate is improved with a single family residence. 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 mort-

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gagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. For information, examine the court file, CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. Plaintiff’s Attorneys, 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL, 60527 (630) 794-9876 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. CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100 BURR RIDGE IL, 60527 630-794-5300 E-Mail: pleadings@il.cslegal.com Attorney File No. 14-19-04111 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 2019CH05533 TJSC#: 40-2200 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 # 2019CH05533 I3156607

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 Wednesday, October 28, 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. 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 I3156269

The real estate is improved with a single family residence. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial Sale fee for the Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/ or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale

other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. For information, examine the court file, CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. Plaintiff’s Attorneys, 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL, 60527 (630) 794-9876 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. CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100 BURR RIDGE IL, 60527 630-794-5300 E-Mail: pleadings@il.cslegal.com Attorney File No. 14-12-14848 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 12 CH 019546 TJSC#: 40-2199 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 # 12 CH 019546 I3156592

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, D/B/A CHRISTIANA TRUST, NOT INDIVIDUALLY BUT AS TRUSTEE FOR PRETIUM MORTGAGE ACQUISITION TRUST Plaintiff, -v.ORA L. WADE, GERALD NORDGREN, AS SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR JESSIE BRUMFIELD (DECEASED) Defendants 12 CH 019546 1526 N. AUSTIN BLVD. 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 September 11, 2012, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on October 27, 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 1526 N. AUSTIN BLVD., OAK PARK, IL 60302 Property Index No. 16-05-106-020; 16-05-106-021

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