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Ledbetter out as OPRF baseball coach Huskie baseball community has mixed reactions about dismissal

BY MARTY FARMER Sports Editor

Chris Ledbetter’s return as the head coach of the Oak Park and River Forest High School baseball team won’t be happening after all. Ledbetter, who took a leave of absence last season, was slated to return to the Huskies this spring.

However, the administration at OPRF made the decision that Joe Parenti will serve as the team’s interim head coach, effective March 22. At the end of this season, OPRF will conduct its search to hire a permanent head baseball coach per the school district’s hiring process.

OPRF baseball players and their parents were notified of the head coaching change via an email on the evening of March 22 from Principal Nathaniel Rouse and Athletic Director John Stelzer.

Ledbetter, an OPRF alumnus, was successful as the program’s head coach. In 17 seasons, he coached the Huskies to a 443-170-2 overall record and five state final appearances, highlighted by a 4A state championship in 2012.

See LEDBETTER on page 16

ALEXA ROGALS/Staff Photographer

UNVEILED: Artist Jesse Howard with Jim Madigan, the Oak Park Public Library’s deputy director, during a March 22 unveiling of Howard’s “Rennie in Rhapsody,” held at the library. To view more artwork, visit oakpark.com.

The library is nobody’s museum With a nearly $1M art collection, officials say public takes priority

By MICHAEL ROMAIN Editor

Artist Jesse Howard was a patron at the Oak Park Public Library’s main branch long before his work was included in the library’s permanent collection last week.

“To me, this library is like a cultural center,” Howard said during a March 22 unveiling ceremony for his work, “Rennie in Rhapsody,” which will be displayed on the library’s second floor.

“I’ve been coming here for 10 or 15 years,” he said. “This place is incredible.

They’ve always taken care of me.”

Library staff member Kelly Knowles said during the unveiling that library officials “ask that every work in our permanent collection be enduring, intriguing See ART COLLECTION on page 15

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The Moe the merrier The late Virginia Moe, longtime naturalist of the Trailside Museum in River Forest, recently got a shout out in Dig the Dunes for her work to establish a national park in northwest Indiana.

Dig the Dunes is a blog about the Indiana Dunes in Northwest Indiana.

Moe, then a Gary, Indiana, resident who lived in a Frank Lloyd Wright home, was part of the committee who obtained the land for the original state park, according to Dig the Dunes.

The blog interviewed author Jane Morocco about Moe’s legacy in Indiana and River Forest. Morocco wrote “Trailside Museum: The Legend of Virginia Moe,” which retails for about $20 on Amazon.com.

In the interview, Morocco talks about Moe’s belief in letting children

Malnati enjoying Ramblers’ run

Most casual basketball fans around the area know that, prior to becoming the boys head basketball coach at Fenwick High School, Rick Malnati excelled as the head coach at his high school alma mater, New Trier.

But did you know that, sandwiched between those two plum high school hoops gigs, Malnati worked for two years on the Loyola University Chicago men’s basketball staff ? Yes, those beloved Ramblers, who have captured the imagination of not only college basketball fans but folks

run Trailside. As a child, Morocco volunteered for 10 years alongside Moe at Trailside, eventually becoming a licensed wildlife rehabilitator by the Illinois Department of Natural Resources “Many of the children would be considered “at risk” kids,” Morocco said in an interview with Dig the Dunes. “I believe by giving children a chance to care for animals and plants, many of those children grew up to be caring adults to their own families and communities.”

All proceeds from the book help fund the Virginia Moe Scholarship, which is awarded to high school students interested in studying botany, biology, zoology and environmental sciences in college.

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who love inspirational stories, with their improbable run to the NCAA Tournament Final Four.

In 2011, Malnati worked as assistant to Loyola head coach Porter Moser and became an assistant coach the following season.

“I learned a ton from Porter,” Malnati said. “I was also able to watch a lot of film of what other coaches and teams do. The experience I had at the college level broadened my understanding of the game.”

The Ramblers (32-5), one of the best Cinderella stories in NCAA tournament history, join perennial powers Michigan, Kansas and Villanova at the Alamodome in San Antonio for this weekend’s Final Four.

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Virginia Moe and friend.

Loyola is vying for its second NCAA Division I championship. The Ramblers beat two-time defending national champion Cincinnati 60-58 in overtime in the 1963 NCAA championship game.

River Forest resident John Egan started at point guard for Loyola that magical season.

While Moser, top players Clayton Custer and Donte Ingram and, of course, team chaplain Sister Jean share the headlines for this year’s Ramblers, Malnati can feel pride knowing he helped build this basketball powerhouse that nobody saw coming.

As for Moser, he has always been a fan of Malnati, who has made a seamless transition from the Jesuits at Loyola to the Dominicans at Fenwick.

“Not only was he a valuable member of the staff, but he was also a good friend,” Porter said about Malnati’s hiring at Fenwick. “Rick has the ability to impact people’s lives and I know he will do just that at Fenwick.”

Loyola takes on Michigan, Saturday, March 31, in the first national semifinal game. The game will be televised at 5:09 p.m. on TBS. FitzGerald’s Nightclub will show the game on their big projection screens in

the nightclub, SideBar and tent. FitzGerald’s is located at 6615 W. Roosevelt on the Berwyn side. For more information, call 708-788-2118 or visit www.fitzgeraldsnightclub.com.

Go Ramblers!

Marty Farmer

Soul Force for change

Resheeda Graham-Washington and Shawn Casselberry, authors of Soul Force – Seven Pivots toward Courage, Community and Change, will lead a presentation titled, “Soul Force Training Experience: Equipping Leaders for Courageous Community Transformation” on Wednesday, April 4, marking the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. The event, co-sponsored by the Community of Congregations, will be held at 1019 South Blvd. from 6 till 8:30 p.m. Admission is $20, which includes preordering the book. Register at www.livExclamation.com/events.

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March 28 - April 4

BIG WEEK Doggie Egg Scramble

2018 Academy Award Nominated Live Action Shorts Tuesday, April 3, 10 a.m., noon and 7 p.m., Lake Theatre: The First Tuesday Film Club gives audiences a chance to see the four drama and one comedy live action, short-film Oscar nominees. Total running time is 96 minutes. $6, matinee/seniors; $8.50, evening. More: classiccinemas.com. 1022 Lake St., Oak Park.

Burnham, Wright and Mahony Solve a Problem: The Chicago Grid Thursday, March 29, 7 p.m., Unity Temple: For civic leaders in early 20th Century Chicago, the city’s grid was a vexing issue.

Author and Assistant Professor at the School of the Art Institute, Shiben Banerji, will examine how Daniel Burnham, Frank Lloyd Wright and Marion Mahony Griffin defined the problem of the Chicago grid and will reveal how reflecting on these theories can shape contemporary urban planning. Brought by the Frank Lloyd Wright Trust. Register: flwright.org/programs/chicagogrid.

Free. 875 Lake Street, Oak Park.

“The Letter: A Family’s Tale Unplugged” Saturday, March 31, 2 to 4 p.m., Veterans Room, Main Library: Meet author Terri Guldan and hear the true story of her family’s struggle through loss and back to normalcy after the death of her older brother in the Vietnam War. More: oppl.org/ calendar. 834 Lake St., Oak Park.

Tech Bookmark Making Tuesday, April 3, 6:30 to 7:30 p.m., Computer Classroom, Main Library: Use digital tools at the Maker Series: Create a Bookmark to laser cut or vinyl cut an original creation. Basic computer/internet skills required. Grades 6 through adult. Free. Register: oppl.org/ calendar. 834 Lake St., Oak Park.

Saturday, March 31, 10 to 10:30 a.m., Maple Park Friendly dogs and owners: hunt to find the most treat- and prize-filled eggs. A special visitor will stop by for photos. Dogs stay on leash and adults accompany children at this family-friendly event.

Every Two Seconds, Rain or shine. Free. Held in partnership with the Animal Someone Needs Blood Care League. Questions: 708-725-2000, 708-848-8155.

Obtain tickets at Ridgeland Common, 415 Lake St., the Wednesday, April 4, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Centennial Room, Rush Oak Park Hospital: Gymnastics and Recreation Center, 21 Lake St., or the Help make a difference by donating blood. Prepare are by Animal Care League, 1011 Garfield. eating well, staying hydrated and having your ID. I

Egg Hunt

Register: lifesource.org (group code 774B), 877-543-3768 or LifeSource app. 520 S. Maple St., Oak Park.

Saturday, March 31, 9 to 9:45 a.m., 10 to 10:45 a.m., or 11 to 11:45 a.m., Maple Park: Children (ages 3 – 10): bring your baskets, don your bonnets and rabbit ears and grab your parents to find what the Easter Bunny hid in the he park. Family photos with the Bunny. Themed games before and after each hunt. Rain or shine. Questions: 708-725-2000. Free. Timed tickets required. Pick upp at Ridgeland Common, 415 Lake St., the Gymnastics and Recreation Center, 21 Lake St., or Geppetto’s Toy Box, 730 Lake St., Oak Park.

Free Breast Cancer Prevention Event Wednesday, April 4, 5 to 6 p.m., Community Room, West Suburban River Forest Medical Center: Women are never too young to get ve, breast cancer. At this informative, fun evening, females 21 and older lder can get a bra fitting from Victoria’s oria’s ds Secret and enjoy healthy foods and beverages from Whole Foods, including wine. And, Dr. Rabia Bhatti, medical director of the breast program, will discuss genetics, self-breast exams and key risk factors for breast cancer. Attendees receive $25-value care packages with Whole Foods and Victoria’s Secret gift cards, products and more plus chances to win gift baskets.

Register: 844-454-9203. 420 William St., River Forest..

Brooks Jazz Night with NIU Jazz Orchestra Wed, Apr. 4, 7 p.m., Auditorium, Gwen Gwendolyn Brooks Middle School: Mi See a top college jazz ensemble Northern No Illinois University’s Un Jazz Orchestra, O under the direction d of Reggie Thomas, along with the Brooks Jazz Ensemble and Jazz Lab Band, led by Jayme Barnard. Barbershop, Beautyshop and Shoppettes vocal ensembles also perform. $10; $5, students 16 and under. Tickets: oakpark.revtrak. net/Middle-Schools/BMS. 325 S. Kenilworth Ave., Oak Park.

Be a Frank Lloyd Wright Trust Volunteer Enroll now for training sessions in April: Interpreter training involves online study, class lectures and workshops leading to certification. Interested individuals attend an informational orientation and qualify for enrollment. Unity Temple volunteer guide training takes place Thursday evenings and one Saturday, April 5 to 19 at Unity Temple, 875 Lake St., Oak Park. Training for Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio volunteer guides takes place Tuesday and Thursday evenings and two Saturdays, April 10 to 26, 951 Chicago Ave., Oak Park. Apply: flwright. org/volunteer, lguzman@flwright.org, 312994-4045.

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ART BEAT

An evening with Henry Fogel

By MICHELLE DYBAL

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hen the Nineteenth Century Charitable Association wanted to create a new spin on the classical music events offered in their restored ballroom in Oak Park, they turned to someone who has made classical music his life for more than 50 years — Henry Fogel.

Dean of the Chicago College of Performing Arts (CCPA) at Roosevelt University since July 2009, Fogel previously served as president of the League of American Orchestras, visiting more than 190 orchestras Photo by Layne Dixon across the country. Before that, he was president of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Henry Fogel, music ambassador. for 18 years, where his signature achievements took place. ican Orchestras, he was ready to stay put.

“Managing the Chicago Symphony OrPrior to living in River Forest, he lived chestra,” he said, “renovating the building to in Oak Park for 12 years. Collaborating on make it Symphony Center, hiring [conductor] events at the Nineteenth Century ChariDaniel Barenboim, and something that con- table Association gives Fogel a chance to tinues after I left in 2003 and for which they bring music to his home community while are leaders in the country for doing — expand- also working with soloists and small chaming community outreach and education pro- ber groups. Musicians are selected by Fogel, grams — are all things I am proud of doing.” based on Nineteenth Century’s recommenFogel, 75, got his start in radio in Syra- dations or musicians contacting Fogel. cuse, New York, in 1963, as a founder of “If it is not an artist I have seen or heard classical music station WONO-FM. That’s perform, I will go to them,” he said. Planalso when he began ning ahead, Fogel is curcompiling his record colrently hearing artists for Henry Fogel Presents, an lection, something that season three. evening of great music and has turned into “an adThe audience size has conversation with Jana diction,” 20,000 to 25,000 been growing during the Pavlovska, Thursday, April LPs and CDs of classical first season, which started 5, 7:30 p.m. Doors open at 6:30 music recordings, inin the fall. More than 90 p.m. at the Nineteenth Cencluding the unusual — in people attended the Februtury Club. Admission: $35, $30 repertoire or location of ary piano recital by Conley members, $20 students (two the recording. The colJohnson. Each concert lasts for one of the same price). lection also features jazz, slightly more than an hour Tickets: nineteenthcentury. folk and Broadway. and includes conversations org, 708-386-2729 or at the door.

Unlike many couples, between the performers 178 Forest Ave., Oak Park.

Fogel said he and his and Fogel about the music. wife moved into a bigger At the end of the evening, home as they got older, concert-goers are invited to in order to house his collection, which has mingle with Fogel and the artists. its own room in their four-bedroom River Next season begins with a Russian vocal Forest dwelling where they have resided for ensemble, Golasa, in September, singing sa20 years. His wife uses another bedroom as cred and secular folk songs. Three other perher sewing room where she makes her own formances are planned, including two piano clothing. The guest room is the smallest. soloists and a soprano.

Fogel’s recording library gets widely The inaugural season concludes with a shared when he hosts Collector’s Corner on performance next week by award-winning WFMT (98.7 FM, Sundays, 10 p.m.).

Macedonian pianist Jana Pavlovska, who “I’ve always had a close relationship with will play Chopin and Schumann. PavlovWFMT,” Fogel said. “They are the model of ska teaches at the CCPA and is a doctorate what a classical radio station should be. … fellow at the University of Illinois UrbanaEighteen years ago, I suggested doing this Champaign. [show].”

Having an influence on young musicians, Sometimes the opportunities come to sharing his collection over the airwaves and him, like the current CCPA post. Fogel said bringing music to the community engages he “loved working with young musicians,” music lovers of all ages as well as performwith whom he interacted while teaching Or- ers. chestral Studies at Roosevelt. But after six “I believe classical music can have an imyears of traveling with the League of Amer- pact on people’s lives,” Fogel said.

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Boykin’s concession and a legacy

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alked Monday afternoon to Richard Boykin. He had just wisely and inevitably conceded his re-election battle for the 1st District county board seat to Brandon Johnson, the chosen candidate of Toni Preckwinkle, Don Harmon and multiple unions.

It may have been just 436 votes out of 50,000 cast in the Democratic primary but when a week out the gap isn’t closing and the number of ballots left to count is dwindling, it is past time to be gracious and exit.

In a 20-minute interview, Boykin covered some emotional and political ground.

Starting with some bluster about the loss (“It’s not a problem. We’ve done some great work. If people don’t recognize it then …”) to some truth (“I’m sad, too. But life goes on”), Boykin said not to assume he will inevitably run for office again. He has a lucrative practice in law and lobbying and said there are “other ways to continue to make a contribution.”

Boykin, an Oak Parker, was candid when I asked if he was surprised that he had lost Oak Park — and by a lot, 2,100 votes. “I didn’t think [state Sen.] Don Harmon would choose not to back an incumbent. It took me by surprise.”

Harmon is also the Democratic Committeeman for Oak Park Township and simply followed the same path as four years ago when the Democratic Party of Oak Park backed Blake Sercye, a young lawyer, Fenwick grad, and the chosen candidate of both Toni Preckwinkle and Rahm Emanuel.

Sercye clocked Boykin in Oak Park in 2014. Johnson was simply following suit.

“The number of other elected officials who backed Johnson surprised me,” Boykin said Monday.

But this is where Boykin has blind spots. He has a long and profound connection to Cong. Danny Davis, having served for years as his chief of staff. But beyond Davis, it is hard to find Boykin fans among the elected. The visceral dislike between Preckwinkle and Boykin, going

way back before his first run, is something to behold. And in my multiple exchanges with each of them over the years, I’ve been surprised by how readily they acknowledge it.

No effort to spin it.

And that was long before the trench warfare over the reimposition of a higher county sales tax, the lead role Boykin played in battling the pop tax, the months-long empty threat that Boykin would skip re-election to the county board and take on Preckwinkle directly.

Toni Preckwinkle was politically wounded in those fights, but this week she is far more than whole. Joe Berrios is gone and Preckwinkle is looking to consolidate control as she works to become the chief of the local Democratic party.

Boykin didn’t see this coming.

“I never really thought we were in trouble,” he said Monday. But then a last wave of union money began to roll in and a strong closing effort to call him out as a Republican had what he thinks was a decisive impact in a very close race.

I don’t know Brandon Johnson yet. And four years back the Journal endorsed Sercye over Boykin. Yes, there are moments when Richard Boykin is too full of himself. The “listening tour” of the state nine months into his term to discern an underwhelming call for him to run for the Senate was off-putting.

But I know for the interminable Earlean Collins era that Oak Park and Austin were not represented in a huge county government that is key to health care and criminal justice in these neighborhoods.

I know Boykin changed that and fast. He was omnipresent in these communities from Garfield Park to Maywood and Bellwood. He brought real county resources home for the first time in forever.

Finally, most critically, he took on the profound and fully ignored catastrophe of gun violence in Chicago. When no one talked of this, when fear overtook any action, when we split in our racial divides, Boykin talked about guns and the real impact of those guns in communities we call home, on families we choose not to know.

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OPRF-based film to become a learning tool

Social-impact campaign to form around Steve James’ ‘America to Me’

By MICHAEL ROMAIN Staff Reporter

A 10-part documentary series exploring the racial equity gap at Oak Park and River Forest High School, titled America to Me, is set to debut on Starz this fall, but the film’s producers aren’t content with a massive viewing audience.

During a regular school board meeting on March 22, Oak Park resident Steve James, who directed the film, and representatives from Participant Media, the company that co-produced the film along with Chicagobased Kartemquin Films, laid out what they said will be a comprehensive social-impact campaign designed to get people, particularly youth, to grapple with the numerous social issues the film spotlights.

“Collectively, we have this opportunity to use the stories in the film to do the kinds of things we don’t do in the film, which is to engage in issues,” James said.

Carolyn Henderson, of Participant, told District 200 board members that the film series “provokes these interesting, thoughtprovoking, engaging and challenging con-

versations” that resonate beyond Oak Park.

Henderson and Lesedi Shebane, another Participant representative, said they spent the last six months on a listening tour, engaging education leaders “about the issues and about what media can do for them,” Shebane said.

They’re currently working on building a national advisory committee comprising education experts and leaders. D200 board President Jackie Moore has offered to be on the committee so that Oak Park is represented.

The committee, Henderson and Shebane said, will help create discussion tools and curated resources that will guide conversations with “key audiences,” including students, teachers and parents, across the country.

Shebane said each episode of the docuseries, which will air once a week over 10 weeks, might accompany a theme for discussion groups to explore. Some guiding questions, she said, might include, “How does housing influence what schools look like?” or “How do you inspire parent engagement and what does that look like?”

Henderson said Participant regularly creates social-impact campaigns to run alongside the films its produces, including Lincoln, Spotlight, and An Inconvenient Truth.

“Stories can help inspire us and move us to understand the world, but the social-impact campaign can be a little more didactic in pur-

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LENS ON EQUITY: Steve James films at the football field during the making of his 10-part series, “America to Me.” pose,” Henderson said, “helping us understand what’s the context or data or what are things people can actually do to make a change.”

Henderson recalled screening the first five episodes of America to Me for a group of educators in San Francisco. One educator, she

said, “was appreciative of the vulnerability [that appears on screen] and how we so rarely see that onscreen, which inspired him to be more vulnerable and humble when it comes to having these conversations.”

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Bike advocates take a new route New group calls for more bike lanes, infrastructure before bike-share

By TIMOTHY INKLEBARGER Staff Reporter

It’s been more than two months since the Oak Park village board voted to end the Divvy bike-sharing program in Oak Park, and talk has already begun about replacing it with a cheaper alternative.

But some local bicycling advocates are telling officials to put the brakes on signing up for a different program and focus on the priorities laid out in the village’s 2015 Neighborhood Greenways plan, which calls for more bicycle lanes, bike-sharing and safer pedestrian access, among other things.

A new Oak Park group called Bike Walk Oak Park, formed under the guidance of the Chicago-based bicycling advocacy group, the Active Transportation Alliance, is pressing trustees to take the money saved by ending the Divvy program and put it toward something more important -- bicycle infrastructure.

Oak Parker Ron Burke, who is executive director of the Active Transportation Alliance and a member of Bike Walk Oak Park, said about $200,000 was budgeted for the rest of the year for Divvy.

“We’ve asked the trustees to include a dedicated line item in the budget for the bike-walk infrastructure, starting with the $200,000 that had been approved for Divvy in 2018,” Burke said in an email, adding that “biking and walking deserves a fair share of the budget.”

Brian Crawford, a Bike Walk Oak Park co-chair, said the village should do thorough research on bike-sharing before dedicating to another program that may or may not work out.

Divvy was largely declared a failure by a majority of trustees in January because of low ridership and the $26,665-a-month price tag. Burke said Divvy could have been successful had the village focused more on its bicycling in-

frastructure and adding more Divvy stations -- Oak Park had 13 total throughout the village, most in the downtown area.

He says Oak Park has the population density to support a bike-share program; the problem you need more people biking.

“You’re not going to get more people biking without better bike routes,” he said in a telephone interview.

Every community has “confident cyclists,” who are comfortable riding on File busy streets like Madison Street, but those SAFER STREETS: The new bicycling advocacy group, Bike Walk Oak Park, riders are an “extreme minority”, he said.

A network of side streets, particularly is pressing the village of Oak Park to use funds slated for the abandoned Kenilworth, Harvey and Lombard av- Divvy bike-sharing program to implement new bicycling infrastructure. enues, and Harvard and Pleasant streets, disarray. are “low stress” roadways that connect Maybe more importantly, Burke said, “We don’t want the across the village and have less traffic and are prime candivillage to use (dockless bike sharing) as an excuse not to dates for new bike lanes, Burke said.

The lanes would give riders more confidence and encour- build the bike network, which is most important.” age riders to take shorter trips through town, according to Crawford said the group will continue meeting with trustBurke. ees and other officials with various government entities to Jenna Holzberg, a co-chair of Bike Walk Oak Park, tells encourage more investment in bicycling infrastructure.

Wednesday Journal that while Bike Walk Oak Park supHolzberg said they’re working to build a base of people ports bike-sharing and wants to see it implemented in the who are knowledgeable, so they can advocate to various village eventually, her group wants to take a holistic ap- government entities. They’re partnering with the Interfaith proach toward bicycling in the village.

Green Network, a coalition of congregations throughout “For this to be a success there needs to be an infrastructhe village that promotes various environmental initiatives. ture investment,” she said. “We’re pushing back on a quick “We want the village to understand that this is imporrun toward dockless.” tant,” Holzberg said. “It’s helpful to have a handful of us Trustees have discussed taking a closer look at dockless talking to a trustee, but it’s more powerful when the whole bike-share programs because of the substantially reduced cost, but some cities have had problems with the cheaper group is saying the same thing about the same values.”

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Task force to look at cost savings, consolidation

Group plans to hold 10 meetings over the next five months

By TIMOTHY INKLEBARGER Staff Reporter

Work is just getting started on the new Oak Park village government Taxing Body Efficiency Task Force, which held its first organizational meeting on March 20 at the village’s Public Works Building, 201 South Boulevard.

Former Oak Park Village President David Pope, who is president of the Oak Park Residence Corporation, was chosen to chair the seven-member commission, which plans to hold two meetings a month over the next five months.

The next meeting is set for Tuesday, April 3, at 7 p.m. at the public works building.

The task force is charged with finding cost efficiencies among Oak Park’s various taxing bodies; the group was established by vil-

lage trustees largely in response to the rising tax burden in the village.

Task force members will search for possible efficiencies like making bulk purchases on office supplies between government entities to achieve economies of scale and reduce cost.

The 800-pound gorilla in the room, however, is the question of whether the village should pursue consolidation with Oak Park Township, a government entity that provides services including the local tax assessor and senior and youth services.

Task force member John Hedges, who served 20 years as executive director of the Park District of Oak Park, among many other civic positions, said the topic of merging the village and township is nothing new in Oak Park.

“That idea comes up about every eight to 10 years,” he said, noting it is but one of the topics that will be addressed at the meetings.

“That idea comes up about every eight to 10 years.” Noting it is but one of the topics that will be addressed at the meetings.

JOHN HEDGES

Task force member

He said the village has sought efficiencies with other taxing bodies, noting that School District 97 already shares space in the Public Works Department.

Pope said the task force will solicit recommendations from residents and business owners in the village, but he declined to voice his thoughts on the township consolidation question or any other specific efficiencies he hopes to see the task force discuss.

“I don’t have a set perspective on any of these issues at this point, since we haven’t collectively determined what we’re going to be looking at and what the underlying information would be that would relate to those issues,” he said.

The five other members of the task force are:

■ Brian Chang, a pathologist at Northwestern Medicine Delnor-Community Hospital and former commissioner on the village’s Environment and Energy Commission.

■ Joi Cregler, a tax attorney for Holland & Knight and former member of the village’s 2014-15 Fair Housing Task Force.

■ Judy Greffin, executive vice president and chief investment officer at Allstate and board member of the Community Foundation of Oak Park and River Forest.

■ Gary E. McCullough, a board member of TransDigm Group, Inc., who has served in a number of executive-level positions at various companies.

■ Jim Peters, a 42-year resident of Oak Park resident and organizer for the community group Oak Park Property Tax Watch.

More information about the task force members is available at https://www.oakpark.us/your-government/village-board/ taxing-body-efficiency-task-force/taxingbody-efficiency-task-force.

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Oak Park startup cooks meals at your home

Entrepreneur offers personalized meals aimed at gut health

By TIMOTHY INKLEBARGER Staff Reporter

An Oak Park entrepreneur is looking to expand his four-year-old business that provides custom meals, along with a healthy serving of encouragement, to those looking to improve their diets.

Tommaso Sanna, says he’s not a fan of the word “diet,” though, because he doesn’t believe in the concept.

His upstart company, Clean Meals Organics, takes a holistic approach to eating, he said, focusing primarily on the so-called microbiome levels in the intestine.

“Many vital hormones are produced in our gut,” Sanna says in his marketing material. “By design, low inflammatory wholesome plantbased foods contain the codes that our bodies recognize to decrease inflammation, regulate digestive flora, improve digestion, cognitive functions and other metabolic processes.”

He said in a telephone interview that he acts as a lifestyle coach and personal chef.

Clean Meals clients have two options, Sanna

said; they can have meals prepared offsite and delivered or they can opt to have Sanna come and cook the meals in their own kitchen.

Clean Meals sources their ingredients from local farmers markets and Sugar Beet Food Co-op. “Sometimes in an emergency, you’ll find me in Whole Foods,” he said.

“That’s for things that Sugar Beet doesn’t carry or I just can’t find anywhere else.”

He said the program has several options for ordering meals in increment of between two and 21 days.

Sanna also runs a business, Oak Park Fitness Studio, in the Oak Park Arts District that he launched in 2009, which includes outdoor exercise session as well as sessions in his private studio.

Sanna, 41, said he founded Clean Meals Organics about four years ago while working as a personal trainer. Sanna said he is not a nutritionist, but noted that he graduated from the Institute of Integrated Nutrition, a New York-based online school that offers courses in health coach training, and is certified through the school as a holistic health practitioner.

Sanna said he only handles a few clients at a time – meals for three days will cost you $195 for now, but that price point might change in the future as his business expands, he said.

He said the meals are largely plant-based

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Indiana Farm to table organic turkey mixed with turmeric, garlic and cilantro sliders over cauliflower mash and grilled zucchini squash. Clean Meals Organics, Tomasso Luca Sanna aimed at cleansing and detoxing the body.

Sanna said attended the 2018 Good Food Expo at UIC last weekend, 225 W. Hubbard, to spread the word about his business. The expo brings dozens of health food vendors from around the region to exhibit their

products and seek funding for expanding their startups.

“With the Good Food Expo, we’re looking to create a joint partnership, build relationships … and raise capital,” he said.

CONTACT: tim@oakpark.com

Recalling the ’63 Ramblers Jack Egan, of River Forest, was hard-charging point guard on championship team

By MICHAEL ROMAIN Staff Reporter

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WILL HISTORY REPEAT?: Jack Egan (pictured bottom left and above, driving to the rim), was the starting point guard on Loyola’s 1963 championship team. Back then, as now, times were tense.

As the Loyola University Ramblers roll into the NCAA Final Four (the first time since 1963), there aren’t many people who can say that they know how it feels to be in those Cinderella shoes.

And then there’s Jack Egan, the River Forest resident who was the starting point guard for the Ramblers when they won their first, and so far only, NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship — incidentally, the only team in Illinois that lays claim to one.

Back in 1963, the Ramblers upset twotime defending champion Cincinnati, 6058 in overtime. That run 55 years ago was every bit as, if not more, intense than the current one. The social conditions were similarly intense.

In a 2008 interview with Wednesday Journal, Egan recalled the atmosphere at the time, when the country was in the throes of the Civil Rights Movement.

Loyola “started four black players, a banned practice at the time,” Wednesday Journal’s Marty Stempniak wrote, adding that the “unwritten rule was to start no more than two black players at home, three on the road.”

There were racist chants, hate mail courtesy of the Ku Klux Klan, and projectiles thrown angrily from the stands.

As if the atmosphere wasn’t charged enough, Loyola’s nearly all-black starting lineup faced Mississippi State University in the second round.

Mississippi’s laws “forbid the school from playing integrated teams,” Stempniak writes. “So Mississippi had to defy the state’s governor, duck around an order forbidding them to play, and take a secret flight to Michigan for the game.”

The game ultimately “helped pave the way for an integrated league,” Stempniak pointed out, and Egan was at the center of the transformation.

Jerry Harkness, the captain of that historic team, told Wednesday Journal that Egan’s “drive was unbelievable. … His personality lent to that; he was just so determinedly aggressive” — all traits that the current crop of Ramblers overachievers might want to channel a few times more.

Loyola faces Michigan on March 31.

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Johnson upsets Boykin in 1st District race

Chicago teacher ran to the left of the incumbent

By MICHAEL ROMAIN Editor

On March 26, 1st District Cook County Commissioner Richard Boykin conceded to Brandon Johnson, a former Chicago teacher and union organizer. During a phone interview, Boykin said that he made the call Monday afternoon.

“I thought it was time to go on and put closure to this and I also pledged to work with him in a smooth transition,” Boykin said.

“I wished him well and told him I’m here if you need me. I plan to finish out my term and I hope we work together. I thought he was gracious in victory.”

By the time the polls closed on March 20, Johnson was up on Boykin by fewer than 400 votes,

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NEW COMMISH IN TOWN: Brandon Johnson, flanked by members of his family, speaks to supporters on election night, March 20, at the Chicago Teachers Union headquarters in Chicago. with no more than a dozen precincts still to be reported. Those outstanding votes left Boykin with an opening to stave off a concession call until provisional ballots had been counted.

Since last Tuesday’s election, however, Johnson’s lead had gradually opened up to 436, with all precincts in the city and suburbs reported, according to online election data from the Cook County

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Johnson’s campaign released a statement on March 26 confirming Boykin’s concession call.

“The incumbent made the concession this afternoon in a phone call and pledged to support commissioner-elect when he assumes office,” according to the statement. “There is no GOP challenger on the November ballot.”

In the statement, Johnson added that voters “on the West Side of Chicago and the Western suburbs have spoken. They want someone who will stand up to the harmful policies of President Trump, Bruce Rauner and corporations who prey on low-income people.

“I think people are looking for new voices and a new kind of progressive leadership in Illinois,” he stated. “I look forward to serving the interests of my constituents and fighting to bring equity and inclusion to all of Cook County.”

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Rosado beats Oak Parker Frankel in judge race

It was a hard-fought election in the race for 11th Subcircuit Judge, and Joanne Rosado prevailed over Oak Park lawyer Scott Frankel.

Countywide, Rosado captured 64 percent of the vote to Frankel’s 36 percent. Frankel did better in Oak Park, winning 44 percent of the vote to Rosado’s 55 percent.

In the race for Cook County Circuit Judge, Oak Parker Timothy John Leeming was defeated by Tom Sam Sianis, who captured 35 percent of the vote.

Corrie Diane Fetman came in second in that race with 34 percent of the vote, and Leeming finished third with 32 percent.

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Biss beats Pritzker in Oak Park

River Forest voters chose Kennedy, Forest Park goes for Pritzker

By TIMOTHY INKLEBARGER Staff Reporter

J.B. Pritzker handily defeated opponents Dan Biss and Chris Kennedy in last week’s gubernatorial primary, but the outcome would have gone differently had the only voters been in either Oak Park or River Forest.

Oak Park’s Republican voters — 1,090 of them, compared to 15,855 Democrats who voted in the primary — also deviated from the statewide results in the gubernatorial race, choosing challenger Jeanne Ives over incumbent Bruce Rauner by just 45 votes.

Oak Park Democrats favored Biss, with just under 42% of those who cast ballots choosing the Evanston-based state senator.

Pritzker came in second in Oak Park, capturing just under 30 percent of the vote and Kennedy third with 26 percent. The other three candidates in the Democratic primary — Tio Hardiman, Robert Marhsall and Bob Daiber — each won fewer than 200 in Oak Park.

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story in River Forest, where Kennedy prevailed with 37 percent of the vote to Biss’ 32 percent and Pritzker’s 29 percent.

An analysis by the Chicago Tribune and Associated Press put the results across the state at 45 percent for Pritzker, 27 percent for Biss and 24 percent for Kennedy.

Forest Park Democrats chose differently in the gubernatorial primary from their neighbors to the east and north, sending 38 percent of their votes to Pritzker. Kennedy, who came in second to Pritzker barely edged out Biss by just 14 votes.

Voter participation in the governor’s race was higher in Oak Park than in Cook County, River Forest or Forest Park. Over 44 percent of registered voters cast a ballot in Oak

Park, compared to River Forest at just under 38 percent, Forest Park at 36 percent voted and Cook County, where turnout was 29 percent.

In the Cook County Assessor’s race, Fritz Kaegi won the primary countywide DANIEL BISS with 47 percent of the vote. Incumbent Joe Berrios captured 32 percent and challenger Andrea Raila 21 percent.

Kaegi, an Oak Park resident, had the hometown advantage, winning over twothirds of the vote, with 68 percent of his neighbors voting for him. Both Berrios and Raila got about 16 percent of the vote in Oak Park, with Berrios tallying 2,376 votes to Raila’s 2,352.

The assessor’s race had similar results in River Forest, where 67 percent of voters chose Kaegi, 17 percent Raila and 16 percent Berrios. In Forest Park, Kaegi took just under 52 percent of the vote, Berrios just under 28 percent and Raila 21 percent.

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Oak Parker Fritz Kaegi, handily won the County Assessor’s race.

Davis sails to primary win

The congressman garnered nearly 76 percent of the vote against Clark

By MICHAEL ROMAIN Editor

Congressman Danny K. Davis (7th) easily prevailed over challenger Anthony Clark in the March 20 Democratic primary election.

As of March 25, Davis was up 76 percent to 26 percent, with 98 percent of precincts in the city and suburbs reporting.

Clark, however, fared much better in the suburbs, garnering around 40 percent of the vote, according to the Cook County Clerk’s Office. Davis won roughly 80 percent of the vote in the city.

On the West Side, in the 24th, 28th, 29th and 37th Wards, Davis garnered 89 percent, 84 percent, 83 percent and 87 percent, respectively.

At his election night headquarters at Avenue Ale House in Oak Park, Clark — an Oak Park resident, founder of the nonprofit Suburban Unity Alliance and an Oak Park and River Forest High School teacher — said

that the night was just a prelude for what’s to come.

“No question about it,” Clark said, when asked if he plans on running for Congress in the next election.

“You don’t run once,” Clark said. “You run, build a foundation, see where you are, learn from your mistakes and triumphs and move forward. I truly believe that in next election cycle we’re going to obtain what we want.”

The first-time political candidate had framed himself as a new, progressive alternative after being recruited and vetted by left-leaning political organizations Brand New Congress and Justice Democrats last May. Clark attributed his loss to a low turnout among younger voters and to Davis’ greater name recognition. Nonetheless, he said, the campaign was a win-win for what he called a political movement.

“Elections come and go but movements remain, so no matter what, this was a victory for us,” Clark said. “The incumbents are shaken up now.”

At the Carleton of Oak Park, where supporters of Cook County Commissioner Richard Boykin gathered anxiously during the night, Davis appeared nonplussed, as if

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SMOOTH SAILING: Congressman Danny K. Davis easily defeated challenger Anthony Clark in the Democratic Primary race for the 7th District Congressional seat. returning home from a typical day’s work.

“I never had any doubt about what the results would be in terms of my race,” Davis said. “It had to do with name recognition.

It had to do with the billions of dollars I brought back to Chicago. It had to do with the bills I passed. It had to do with the integration of myself into the life of the community.”

With the primary election over, Davis is

now poised to face Craig Cameron, a Chicago construction manager who beat River Forest physician Jeffrey Leef in the Republican Primary, 57 percent to 43 percent.

Around 6,300 voters cast ballots in the 7th District Republican Primary, compared to more than 105,000 ballots that were cast in the Democratic Primary. The general election is on Nov. 6.

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Woman fights off carjackers near Holmes Elementary

By TIMOTHY INKLEBARGER Staff Reporter

By TIMOTHY INKLEBARGER Staff Reporter

An Oak Park man was robbed at gunpoint in the 100 block of Garfield Street at 3:05 a.m. on March 23.

The man was walking along Garfield when he was approached by the robber, who displayed a small, black handgun and demanded his belongings.

The victim handed over his wallet, which contained $100, miscellaneous credit cards, and his cell phone. The robber was last seen headed eastbound across Austin Boulevard and then eastbound near the railroad tracks. The estimated loss is $130.

The robber was described as black, roughly 19 years old, 5-foot-5 to 5-foot-7, thin, with black hair and a small mustache. He wore a dark skull cap, a dark sweatshirt and dark pants.

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The mother of a student at Oliver Wendell Holmes Elementary School was the target of an attempted armed carjacking while sitting in her car near the school in the 400 block of North Kenilworth Avenue at about 2:15 p.m. on Friday, March 23.

The incident prompted Holmes Principal Christine Zelaya to issue a statement to parents saying police had contacted the school about the carjacking attempt. Zelaya identified the woman as the mother of a Holmes student in the letter to parents.

According to Oak Park police, the victim was sitting in her car when she was approached by two men, one of whom displayed a handgun. The gun-

man ordered the woman out of her vehicle, but she refused and a struggle ensued as the men tried to pull her out.

The two men eventually abandoned the carjacking attempt and fled in a silver sedan parked across the street, the victim told police. She suffered a minor abrasion but did not seek medical attention.

Zelaya said in her letter to parents

that police did not initiate a lockdown at the school or recommend any other emergency safety measures as a result of the incident.

“With that said, we had an increased staff presence outside of the building at dismissal to help ensure the safety of our students and their families,” she said in the letter. “As soon as our dismissal process was completed, we began collecting information about the incident in order to provide you with an update about what happened.”

Anyone with information about the incident can contact Oak Park police at 708-386-3800 or anonymously at 708434-1636 or online at www.oak-park.us/ crimetip.

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Boss Burrito front glass window vandalized

Someone shattered the front glass window of Boss Burrito, 1110 Westgate St. by unknown means sometime between 9 p.m. on March 19 and 2:57 a.m. on March 20. The estimated damage is $500.

of South Maple Avenue sometime between 7 and 7:10 p.m. on March 19. The estimated loss is $90.

Theft

■ A residential garage was burglarized in the 900 block of Wenonah Avenue sometime between 9 p.m. on March 20 and 7 p.m. on March 21. The burglar gained entry through an unlocked side service door and took six bottles of wine and a 12-pack of Miller Lite beer. The estimated loss is $70.

■ A residential garage was burglarized in the 900 block of South Wesley Avenue sometime between 7 p.m. on March 18 and 8 a.m. on March 19. The burglar entered through an unlocked side service door and stole a black and green Kent Terra 24-inch boys 21-speed mountain bicycle. The estimated loss is $85.

■ Someone used a rock to break the driver’s side window to a vehicle in the 100 block of South Oak Park Avenue sometime between 12:15 and 12:30 p.m. on March 19.

The burglar then stole a purse, an iPhone 8, miscellaneous credit cards and cash. The estimated loss is $1,000.

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USPS package was stolen from a front porch of a residence in the 100 block of North Humphrey Avenue sometime between 3 and 5 p.m. on March 21. The package contained an Exogen bone growth stimulator medical device valued at $200.

■ A silver 2015 GMC Terrain that was reported stolen out of Oak Park on Feb. 25 was recovered by the Oak Park Police Department near the corner of Chicago and Kenilworth at 4:01 p.m. on March 21. No apprehensions were made.

■ A package containing black leather loafers was stolen from the front porch of a residence in the 200 block of South Cuyler Avenue sometime between 7 a.m. and 10 p.m. on March 12. The estimated loss is $80.

■ A FedEx package containing vitamins and herbal medicine was stolen from the front porch of a residence in the 1100 block of South Humphrey at 11:15 a.m. on March 20. The estimated loss is $20.

■ A nylon bag containing loose change, prescription medication, a checkbook and miscellaneous sanitary items, which was left unattended and unsupervised on a street curb, was stolen from the 200 block

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64-year-old Oak Park man, from the 400 block of North Ridgeland Avenue, was arrested at Courageous Bakery, 736 Lake St., at 2:48 p.m. on March 21, and charged with criminal trespass.

■ A 61-year-old Broadview man, of the 2100 block of West Roosevelt Road, was arrested in the 600 block of North Oak Park Avenue at 6:30 a.m. on March 19, and charged with criminal trespass to a residence.

Outside warrant arrest A Chicago man was arrested in the 1000 block of South Lombard at 6:40 p.m. on March 21, on an active Cook County warrant for domestic battery.

Unlawful soliciting A 45-year-old Oak Park man of the 400 block of South Clinton was arrested in the 700 block of South Harlem at 10:46 a.m. on March 20 and charged with unlawful soliciting of contributions on the highway.

Criminal damage

■ Someone damaged the glass window to a residence in the 400 block of South Lombard Avenue sometime between 5 p.m. on March 17 and 11:38 a.m. on March 19. The estimated loss is $38.

These items, obtained from the Oak Park and River Forest police departments, came from reports, March 17-22, and represent a portion of the incidents to which police responded. Anyone named in these reports has only been charged with a crime and cases have not yet been adjudicated. We report the race of a suspect only when a serious crime has been committed, the suspect is still at large, and police have provided us with a detailed physical description of the suspect as they seek the public’s help in making an arrest.

Compiled by Timothy Inklebarger

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‘I teach with books not guns’ Oak Park teachers take concerns, kids to March for Our Lives rally in D.C.

By MICHAEL ROMAIN Staff Reporter

Tom and Lisa Stukel had already planned to take a trip with their twin 13-year-old boys, Dante and Ezra, to Washington, D.C., before learning about the March for Our Lives rally against gun violence that took place on March 24.

“We were going to go anyway with our kids and weren’t supposed to be here until Saturday,” Stukel said in a phone interview from the nation’s capital earlier this week.

“When we heard about the march, we decided to leave a day early.”

Saturday’s demonstration resonated for the Oak Park couple, because both are teachers and neither want to be armed while in their classrooms.

“We weren’t trained to be sharpshooters,” Lisa, 46, said. “We were trained to teach.”

Lisa and her son, Ezra, an eighth-grader at Brooks Middle School in Oak Park, were interviewed by the BBC during the march.

The network’s cameras picked up on Lisa’s

neon green sign that read, “I teach with books not guns.”

“There was a time when I wasn’t sure that [the young people] were going to be able to stand up,” Lisa told the BBC reporter, “but they’re here and its heart wrenching and it’s moving. Perhaps we can get something done. Not gun control, but gun reform — commonsense laws.”

Ezra told the BBC reporter about the March 14 walkout at Brooks, which took place as part of the National School Walkout against gun violence held exactly one month after the shooting that left 17 dead at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida.

“A bunch of our students think that this movement is a great idea and that there could be change possibly,” he said.

During the phone interview with Wednesday Journal, Lisa said she was moved by the diversity and youthfulness of the protest — quite different from other mass demonstrations she’s joined, including the 2017 Women’s March.

“It was quite electric seeing such a large group of people of all ethnicities and ages, and having a whole day of speakers who were all under 17 years old,” she said. “That was pretty incredible.”

Lisa, a member of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, said that she’s di-

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‘I TEACH WITH BOOKS’: Lisa Stukel, left, holds her sign while posing with a 95-year-old demonstrator during the March for Our Lives anti-gun violence rally in Washington, D.C. on March 24. recting some of that energy locally.

On April 15, from 1 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., the group plans to screen the documentary film “Under the Gun” at the Oak Park Public Library’s main branch, 834 Lake St., and host a question-and-answer forum af-

terwards.

“We’re trying to get people involved in this topic,” she said. “It’s about educating people on current gun laws and how they can be changed.”

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ART COLLECTION People first from page 1 and challenging.”

Theodore N. Foss, library board vice president, said a committee comprising library board members, staff and community members were responsible for vetting Howard’s work, which was purchased through the library’s art fund.

“We had a little bit of money and we wanted something that really spoke to the values that Kelly talked about,” Foss told the crowd of roughly 60 people who attended the ceremony.

“We looked at Jesse’s work at an exhibition he had late last year at the University Club in downtown Chicago, then we visited his [home studio in Maywood],” he said.

For Knowles, who said she’s known Howard for close to a decade, the unveiling speaks to the library’s function as a public space that both showcases and cultivates the creation and appreciation of art.

“Oak Park is a creative community,” Knowles said.

But striking a balance between being a space for art and a space for people is not easy. So far, the library has managed the cohabitation through a combination of finesse, patience and ingenuity.

The Howard acquisition comes as the library is focusing on conserving and protecting the roughly two dozen works Photos by ALEXA ROGALS/Staff Photographer of art that are in its permanent collection — most of which DRUM ROLL, PLEASE: Kelly Knowles and Jim Madigan unveil “Rennie in Rhapsody” on March 22.

The work is the most were purchased between 2004 and 2006.

Jim Madigan, the library’s deputy director, said the col- recent addition to the library’s permanent collection, which was valued at $775,000 last year. Below, the library’s perlection’s total value was estimated at $775,000 when it was manent, second-floor art gallery welcomes local artists. appraised last year.

That valuation, which is nothing to sneeze at, is still not leidoscopic multidimensional work of wood, paper, acrylic an excuse to treat the library like a museum, Knowles said.

No work is too good or too valuable to be kept out of sneez- and nylon that courts curiosity.

“There were pencil marks in this area here,” Madigan ing, coughing or touching (that is to say, human) distance.

During a tour of the collection provided by Madigan and said, referencing a small section of the wall-sized work, which hangs on the third floor near the adminKnowles last Thursday afternoon, a patron’s istrative offices. book bag was propped on the edge of a table in “We’re in the process of rehanging a lot of a third-floor study room, slouching against the our pieces so that they’re all about 50 inches edge of “Rusty Brown: Where Will We Be in 2003,” a framed ink and blue pencil illustration ■ Library art collection off the ground, for security purposes,” he said.

The point again, Knowles emphasized, is to by the famous Oak Park cartoonist and graphic VISIT OAKPARK.COM preserve and protect the works without pronovelist Chris Ware. hibiting public engagement.

One of the jewels in the collection, Kehinde Wi“We want full viewership and full access in a ley’s “Easter Realness #2” — which hangs unassumingly on a wall on the third floor — has risen in value as space that can’t be protected,” she said. “So maybe staging is your best result.” the artist has grown in prominence.

The library purchased the painting for $16,000 from the library’s main entrance.

Rhona Hoffman Gallery in Chicago in 2004, when Wiley was “Then there was really no art for a long time,” Madigan Beginnings still an up-and-coming talent. said.

Art hasn’t always been as central to the library as it is

By January 2017, after Wiley’s work had appeared on the Things changed in the 1990s, when library officials began hit TV show Empire and the artist had been selected to paint now, although the seeds of the library’s current artistic fo- conversations with Joseph R. Shapiro, an Oak Park resident former president Barack Obama’s Smithsonian portrait, cus go back several decades, Madigan said. who was the founding president of the Museum of ContemIn 1959, the Village Art Fair, a now-defunct organization porary Art, a trustee at the Art Institute of Chicago and one the painting was appraised at $125,000.

During last week’s tour, a study carrel on wheels, oblivi- that held an outdoor art fair each year in the village, pur- of the country’s most renowned collectors of 20th century ous to that provenance, was positioned mere inches away chased a painting for an unknown amount of money and modern art. from the Wiley, an edge pointing in the direction of the 117 x donated it to the library.

“He and the director at the time, Carol Brey, said it would The work, by Claude Bentley — a well-known abstract be great to have a gallery space here in the library,” Madigan 117-inch oil on canvas.

Madigan and Knowles reacted with understated urgency, painter born in New York City who studied at Northwestern recalled. “The success with that gallery, for the five or six briskly rolling the desk away and taking mental notes for University and the Art Institute of Chicago under Louis Rit- years before we built this building in 2003, really changed man and Max Kahn — hangs in Madigan’s office. future reference. our thinking.”

In 1964, library officials ensured that architectural drawIt wasn’t exactly a close call. Much of the library’s furKnowles said that Brey and Shapiro’s influence “informed niture — mobile, sleek (the carrel wasn’t the typical boxy, ings for the second library building, built on the site of the the way we built this building.” The new library features a walled contraption) and soft — acts as an extra, non-intru- current main library, included a place “right outside of the permanent, second-floor gallery space that regularly showsive layer of protection for the art that doesn’t come at the door for a sculpture,” Madigan said. cases the work of local artists.

“There was a national competition for that piece of art,” expense of people’s comfort.

“The first thing we did in building this facility was have “This used to be in the Children’s Department, and some- he said. the [Carole Harrison] statue renovated and brought inside Carole Harrison, a Michigan-based artist, won for “Unity for protection so it could welcome people as they come into times children are inspired by the art and want to add to it,” said Madigan, pointing to Jacob Hashimoto’s “skip skitter and Growth,” a brass and copper sculpture that is the first the library,” Madigan said. start trip vault bounce - and other attempts at flight,” a ka- piece of art attentive patrons see when walking through the Read more online.

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Not everyone agrees from page 1 He remains a physical education teacher at OPRF. On Sunday, March 17, Ledbetter was interviewed by Wednesday Journal sports reporter Melvin Tate for the annual OPRF baseball season preview. Ledbetter said during the interview, “We started with a clean slate. Last year’s over with; we want to create new memories with this group.” The interview occurred four days before the email announcing the coaching change.

While OPRF currently will not reveal the reasons for Ledbetter’s firing, several sources confirmed issues of concern regarding the veteran coach.

Wednesday Journal sent a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) letter via email to OPRF on Friday, March 23. The letter included a handful of questions about Ledbetter, including whether the school has received any formal complaints about him.

OPRF, which has not responded yet to the FOIA, has until Friday, March 30 to respond.

The letter was initially sent to Stelzer, who forwarded it to Director of Communications & Community Relations Karin Sullivan. She sent it to OPRF’s FOIA officer Gail Kalmerton.

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OUT: Chris Ledbetter, who coached the Huskies for 17 seasons, will not return as head coach.

Ledbetter has been his erratic and disconcerting behavior during games. The behavior has manifested itself what these parents perceive to be peculiar mannerisms, capricious decision-making and excessively harsh verbal treatment of players. He has been deemed untrustworthy as well by several people critical of his behavior on and off the field.

Multiple OPRF baseball parents also stated that Ledbetter had an extremely negative effect on their son’s passion for the game, recruiting opportunities and overall experience as a varsity baseball player at OPRF. Beyond issues with Ledbetter, the parents also expressed frustration with the school, specifically Stelzer and his handling of the situation. They claim multiple letters have

been sent to the athletic department regarding Ledbetter with essentially no response.

Others were critical of the school when Ledbetter took his leave of absence and not a word of explanation was offered. In general, several parents feel there is no real channel provided for them through the athletic department in the event of concern.

“I feel like I’m very responsive to the (head coaching) situation,” Stelzer said. “I had three parents recently reach out to me via e-mail before the news release. I called all three back to have a personal conversation.

“I really feel that I, (OPRF Assistant Athletic Director) Courtney (Sakellaris) and the school try to be as responsive as possible to all parental queries,” Stelzer added. “Unfortunately, we can’t always share as much information as parents would like for us to share.”

While Ledbetter has detractors, he also has ardent supporters. On Saturday, March 24, a meeting was held at the Good Earth Greenhouse and Café in River Forest in support of Ledbetter. A statement of support was released by attorney Tom Cronin, and 45 people signed a document in agreement that Ledbetter should be reinstated as the head baseball coach.

A Wednesday Journal reporter was not allowed to attend the meeting.

“The OPRF baseball families received an email that came as a surprise to everybody, including Chris,” Cronin said. “The purpose of the meeting was to set forth two items, the statement of support for Chris and the signatures supporting his reinstatement as head coach.

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“We’re hoping for a dialogue; we’re hoping for an opportunity to address the parents’ concerns with OPRF. The hope is to keep Chris as head coach.”

As for Parenti, he served as the Huskies’ head coach in 2017 when Ledbetter took his leave of absence. He returns for his 12th season overall at OPRF and second year as the Huskies’ head coach this spring.

Baseball parents, former players support Coach Ledbetter A letter of support: On the heels of Thursday’s surprise announcement that OPRF Head Boys Baseball Coach Chris Ledbetter would be replaced, parents, players, former players and friends gathered to express support for the coach and to request that he remain head coach.

Ledbetter, who grew up in the area and attended OPRF, has served for 17 years as OPRF’s head coach and has led the Huskies to five state final championship appearances, including the Class 4A State Title in 2012, and numerous conference trophies. At 443-170-2, Coach Ledbetter is one of the most successful coaches in Illinois high school baseball.

The 2018 season is already well underway with Ledbetter leading the program through the pre-season training, team try-outs and selections, and opening weeks of practice. Due to inclement weather, two games had to be re-scheduled. Nonetheless, on Thursday, the OPRF baseball families were informed via email that the administration removed Ledbetter as head coach, stating simply that the administration “has made the decision to move in another direction.” Coach Ledbetter remains P.E. teacher in the physical education department at the high school.

Numerous members of the OPRF baseball community have expressed strong support for Coach Ledbetter. More than forty parents signed a statement asking that Coach Ledbetter be re-instated.

“Coach Ledbetter is and has been a loved and respected member of the OPRF family for decades,” said Tom Cronin, one of the baseball parents.

“Chris is a very caring and successful coach — both on and off the baseball diamond. We believe that the right direction for the program is keep our coach at the helm.”

“The season is underway and the boys have been working with Coach Ledbetter for months,” commented Pat Madden, baseball parent and OPRF graduate. “And the OPRF baseball family wants our excellent head coach — the one who built Oak Park baseball — to remain in charge.”

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ents at will. Our recipe called for Guinoddle is made of potatoes (of ness, but we had a Porter from Revolution course!), and usually some meat Brewery on hand, so that’s what we used. scraps, bacon, sausage, maybe GuinNot exactly a major creative variation, but ness and random root vegetables like it was good to know we could change up the onions and carrots. As with colcanclassic recipe in any way we wanted. Got non, boxty, champ, and other colorfully leftover cabbage, some Spam, a bit of lamb? named Irish foods, coddle is what you make It all goes in. on the day after the big dinner the night Our coddle was very simple: Irish bacon, before. bangers, potatoes, onions, scallions, salt Coddle can be a kind of stew, or it can be and pepper, dark beer. Carolyn served dry. It’s built on improchopped and browned the visation: you use what you have bacon and bangers, then in a near at hand. casserole, she put the meat on Coddle is a traditional dish top, containing the roughly beloved by Irish authors like cut potatoes, onions, scallions, Jonathan Swift and James Joyce. salt and pepper. The can of Every year around St. Patrick’s dark beer moistened it all. It Day, I go to Oak Park’s Irish Shop all went into the oven, covered to buy my favorite types of Irish with aluminum foil, for an Candy (Flake, Aero, etc.). This hour or so at 350. year I picked up some Irish bacon Coddle is a very, very satisfy(cured pork loin rather than belly) ing bowl of food, especially and bangers. Bangers are another on cold or cool evenings; I had example of foods born of a privathirds. tion period that have, over time, We traditionally have become beloved. During WWII, Local Dining corned beef for St. Patrick’s the Japanese mixed toasted rice & Food Blogger Day, but corned beef, like St. with green tea to stretch their faPatrick’s Day itself, is more vorite beverage, and now they’re an American than an Irish quite fond of genmaicha. During thing. Says Donal Crosbie, previously of WWII in Great Britain, folks stretched their Dublin and now chef at Hudson Hound, a meat rations by adding to their sausage a modern Irish restaurant in NYC, “Corned good measure of rusk (wheat or just bisbeef is pastrami; it was brought back to cuits, gone stale and crushed up). Now those the country by Irish immigrants from their who know their bangers will feel they’re Jewish delis.” missing something if rusk isn’t in the mix.

In Ireland, instead of corned beef, it’s For the bangers I bought at the Irish Shop, more likely Irish folks would be having rusk makes up 14%. The grain absorbs lamb — or coddle — which is as close as some of the meat fat, making the distinctive anything to a national food of Ireland. It’s texture of the bangers more soft and lush thus quite appropriate to consume on “Eat than other sausages.

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Morning Prayer - 8:30 a.m.

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Morning Prayer - 8:30 a.m.

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FRIDAY OF THE PASSION OF THE LORD (GOOD FRIDAY) • March 30 Morning Prayer at 8:30am • Children’s Prayer around the Cross at 12:00 noon Taizé Prayer around the Cross at 3:00 pm Solemn Celebration of the Lord’s Passion at 7:30 pm

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ROOM WITH A VIEW: When planning the rear addition to their Oak Park bungalow, Gil and Alma Cabacungan wanted to create a unique indoor/outdoor space that would be equally at home overlooking mountains in Colorado as it is looking out on a suburban Chicago backyard.

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or Gil and Alma Cabacungan, rehabbing their south Oak Park bungalow has been a labor of love. For most of the 25 years they have lived in the home, they have been slowly making it into the house of their dreams, for themselves and their four children.

A recent rear addition opened up a whole new living space for the family and gar-

nered a Historic Preservation Award from the village as well.

Gil says that he and his wife are only the fourth owners of the home, which was built in 1923. They moved to Oak Park in 1993 because they loved the neighborhood and the schools, and they have slowly been adapting their home to suit their family’s needs.

“I’ve been doing upgrades to it forever,” Gill said. “We’re now on phase seven.”

Previous phases included redoing the

kitchen, creating period-appropriate new windows and a curb-appeal makeover on the front of the house. The award-winning rear addition was phase six, followed shortly thereafter by phase seven: a heated brick paver driveway and patio.

Originally, Gil, who calls himself a designer at heart, envisioned a rear addition with a master suite on the second floor.

He had plans drawn up for that work in 2000. As time went on, the family’s focus changed and, by 2015, they approached lo-

cal architect Mark Zinni about planning an indoor/outdoor family room, with gradelevel entry from the driveway.

The Cabacungans’ son requires the use of a wheelchair, so much of the addition was designed to accommodate him and visiting friends. Gil points out that his son can roll right into the room from the driveway and uses the new lift to access all three floors of the bungalow.

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OUTSIDE, IN: In addition to 12-foot sliding glass doors that allow the family to extend the indoor family room outdoors (top), it features a lift (lower left) to ease mobility for the Cabacungans’ son, who uses a wheelchair, and includes a new kitchen (lower right).

ADDITION

ADA accessible from page 23 In the process of designing a room that was easily accessible, Gil also charged Zinni with creating an indoor family room that brings the outdoors inside in all seasons. Not an unusual charge, but one that Zinni says was accomplished via a wall of 12-foot high glass doors -- something that is a bit unusual for the area.

“Gil wanted something a little different and unique for the area, like something you would see out west in Colorado or Utah,” Zinni said. “You rarely see people here wanting to use that much glass to surround a room.

You expect to see that overlooking a mountainscape.”

In spite of the vista of neighboring houses and suburban lawns, Gil says that the room achieves his desires.

The original brick exterior “I come home, and I feel wall is exposed as is the rear like I’m in Colorado,” said wall of the addition.

Gil. “I wanted a lot of light Above the bricks, wood sidand a lot of windows.” ing clads the addition, which Gil says that having lived rises up above the home, in the house since 1993, he creating a cathedral ceiling. knew where the light came Two walls are formed of in and where the sunrise was windows, and the third wall, visible. He turned to Zinni to which faces the back yard, is capture that in the addition MARK ZINNI constructed of 12-foot sliding while making everything Architect glass doors, which allows the ADA-compliant for his son. entire room to be open to the Gil also wanted to continue paver patio in nice weather. the design aesthetic that Gil notes that Marvin Winweaves throughout the rest dows recently began develof the house. oping the large-scale sliding The family room skews more modern than the 1920s era home, but re- doors just a few years ago, and he knew they lies on many of the same materials to make a would be perfect for his project.

He called on his contractor, George Duconnection with the original home.

“I like the idea of wood, stainless steel and erguyev of G&G Improvement, to help him achieve the precision necessary for the work. glass,” Gil said.

“He is one of the best in the business I think The stairwell is stainless-steel framed glass, creating open sight lines in the family room. in terms of being a master craftsman,” Gil

“You rarely see people here wanting to use that much glass to surround a room.”

said. “He did everything by hand. The doors had to be very precisely fitted.”

Through it all, Gil managed the project and documented it. He tried to anticipate every last detail. The radiant-heat flooring keeps the room warm during all four season, and the acoustics are another bonus.

The entire family loves music, and Gil notes that they space has already hosted several impromptu concerts. He envisions more taking place on the adjoining patio come summer.

The new driveway includes an ice-melt system, which allows his son to easily access the home from a car during inclement weather, and Gil made sure the workers installed the driveway at the appropriate pitch to drain into the yard when it rains. He also specified such details as burying the utility wires underground to create an unobscured view.

The entire family loves to use the space, and Gil says he already has a plan in mind for phase eight: the landscaping.

“I’m not in a hurry though,” he said. “This took 15 years from concept to build.”

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Oak Park | 5/4 | $915,000 313 S Elmwood Avenue

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5 bedroom, 3.5 bath single-family home in a nice location. Don’t miss this opportunity!

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Sun-filled, top-floor condo in an intimate 3-unit building. 3 br, 2 ba, prkg space.

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Oak Park | 4/3 | $750,000 311 N Elmwood Avenue

Westchester | 3/2 | $320,000 1927 Mayfair Avenue

Westchester | 4/2 | $279,000 1820 Downing Avenue

Hillside | 3/2 | $194,900 5154 Washington Street

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On park-like lot.

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New kit w/appl. 2 new ba. New furnace & a/c. Bsmt.

3 br, 2 ba brick ranch home w/total of 2,450 sq ft of living space. Fin English basement.

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Riverside | 5/3 | $799,000 286 Gatesby Road

Oak Park | 5/3 | $530,000 838 Clinton Avenue

Berwyn | 5/3 | $389,000 2429 Elmwood Avenue

Forest Park | 2/3 | $284,900 505 Grove Lane

Westchester | 3/3 | $272,000 1307 Newcastle Avenue

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PERFECT HOME FOR FIRST TIME BUYERS. 1st Floor includes newer kitchen, den, MBR, large LR. New windows, roof, central air, fireplace & hardwood floors. 2nd floor features 2 large BRs. Bsmt features office, workshop, laundry & storage. 2-1/2 Car garage. Lives BIG! .......................................................................................... $365,000

605 S ELMWOOD • OAK PARK

BEAUTIFUL BRICK TRI-LEVEL HOME nestled in the heart of the Oak Park’s Gunderson Historic district. Great layout with 4 bedrooms and 2 full baths. Family room in lower level plus Sub-basement.

Beautiful new cherry wood floors throughout. Two car garage. ....... ................................................................................................. $439,000

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WONDERFUL UPDATED HOME with all the amenities. This 3BR, 3BA home boasts a large foyer, hardwood floors, beautiful woodwork and high ceilings throughout. Eat-in kitchen, beautiful LR, DR and office complete the 1st FL. Upstairs includes 3 spacious BRs w/wood beam ceilings. ...................................................$377,000

RIVER FOREST HOMES

BURMA BUILT BUHRKE HOUSE combines Tudor revival & chateau style architecture elements. Gorgeous décor and impeccable attention to detail and care found in house and landscaped grounds, extends to fabulous in ground pool and patios. Perfect for entertaining. ............................................................................................................................$2,399,000 BEAUTIFUL RIVER FOREST ESTATE features a detailed stone and brick exterior leading to a timeless Interior. Two story marble foyer, spiral staircase, 5 fireplaces, banquet sized DR, Fam Rm, 2nd Floor Laundry, rear staircase. LL has an Exercise Room, Fam Rm. Large Landscaped Lot.......................................................................................................................$1,895,000 LEGENDARY 1883 ITALIANATE VILLA on Keystone available for the first time in 37 years! A one of a kind house with 7BRs, 3BAs, new hardwood floors, custom stain glass windows, eat-in kitchen. Meticulously preserved original features. AND unparalleled 2014 Guest House!............................................................................................................................$1,550,000 EXPERT DESIGN RENOVATION! The very best in contemporary design, finishes and mechanicals alongside exquisitely restored leaded glass doors and gleaming hardwoods create the ideal blend of old and new. Massive rooms and high end craftsmanship throughout. Oversized lot. ....................................................................................................................$1,499,000 A REAL STUNNER! This 4BR, 4 full, 1 half BA home was completely gutted and rehabbed in 2010. First floor features a much sought after open floor plan and chef’s kitchen.

Bedrooms feature full walk in closets. Fabulous basement has an addl BR, full high end bath and rec room............................................................................................................................$1,275,000 TIMELESSLY BEAUTIFUL & COMPLETELY UPDATED! Move in ready, luxurious home features high end finishes and flawless design. Chef’s kitchen. Brick 2 story addition offers 1st FL family room, mud room, attached 2 car garage, master suite. Sun porch, attached two car garage.......................................................................................................$1,049,000

GRACIOUS FRENCH PROVINCIAL, four bedroom, 3.1 bath home. This beautiful home will not disappoint you! Beautiful kitchen, elegant, sun-drenched LR & DR, 1st fl fam room and breakfast room. Finished LL, and unfinished attic available for further expansion.. ........................................................................................................................................................$999,000 HIGH QUALITY, HIGH DESIGN RENOVATION is complete on this stunning brick home. This impressive home features fine craftsmanship, meticulous attention to detail & custom quality finishes. Oak floors, walk-in pantry, mud room, bsmt & 2nd floor laundry, bsmt family room......................................................................................................................$980,000 UPDATED VICTORIAN with 5 Bedrooms, 4-1/2 Baths overlooking Thatcher Woods.

Besides the first floor having space for everyone in the LR/DR/Parlour, there is also a third level with BR, & full BA, and the LL has a large fin rec rm. Wrap around porch, two story, 4 car garage...........................................................................................................................................$885,000 THIS HOME HAS IT ALL! Open floor plan, hardwood flooring and natural woodwork.

High-end kitchen, first floor laundry area. Four large bedrooms. Large basement offers additional living space. 2-car attached garage. Tons of storage with lots of natural light throughout..................................................................................................................................$869,000 MAKE THE MOVE to this house where beauty and functionality meet to make this the perfect home. Four bedrooms and a laundry room on the second floor, fireplaces, stunning screened porch, three car garage and beautifully landscaped back yard. ...................$835,000 ELEGANT, GRACIOUS HOME with 4 BRs, 2-1/2 BAs offers a large formal LR w/gas fireplace, spacious DR, hardwood floors, beautiful molding, family room, eat-in kitchen, finished lower level and whole house generator. Outside includes back deck & 3 car garage.. ........................................................................................................................................................$799,000 RARE BRICK BURMA HOME with original coved moldings, leaded glass windows and wood floors accent well-built house. Enjoy sunroom view of park. 3-bdrm, 2-1/2 bath with large bonus room on 2nd fl, den on 1st fl. Authentic tile roof on house and two-car brick garage...........................................................................................................................................$689,000 THIS IS YOUR PERFECT HOME! Brick, three generous sized bedroom Georgian on a corner lot. Updated kitchen with open floor plan, first floor family room, finished basement with bar and fireplace, and separate laundry/storage room. Fenced in yard..............$609,000

BEAUTIFUL 3 LEVEL SINGLE FAMILY offers 3800+ sq/ft of living! Open concept on first floor. Second floor features four spacious bedrooms & a sunroom overlooking backyard. Third floor has great room w/separate guest BR and workout room. Finished basement.....................................................................................................................................$600,000 LOCATED ON A WONDERFUL BLOCK, this four bedroom, two full bath home faces the Oak Park Tennis Club. Bright open LR, DR & den combination. Two fireplaces, one in the living room and one in the master suite. The back yard is spacious and private with a beautiful deck..............................................................................................................................$575,000 CLASSIC, BRICK, SIDE ENTRANCE COLONIAL with deep in ground swimming pool. Formal LR w/ wood burning fireplace, formal dining room w/ bay window. Hardwood floors, leaded art glass windows, heated enclosed sun porch, 2 car garage w / 4 additional outside spaces. ............................................................................................................................$539,000

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UNPRECEDENTED ESTATE in the Wright Historical district of OP! Meticulously renovated 5 BR, 5 full / 2 half bath property offers exquisite details and refined finishes that boast timeless materials and over the top custom millwork. A showcase home!..$1,875,000 STUNNING & DISTINCTIVE QUEEN ANNE VICTORIAN will not disappoint.

Exquisite woodwork and molding, pocket doors, sophisticated designer lighting, generous sized rooms, 1st fl family room, designer kitchen, 2nd fl laundry room. 3 car garage with walk-up loft area.........................................................................................................................$927,500 THIS HOME HAS IT ALL! Bright, sunny north east lot located in Horace Mann School District. Freshly painted walls, refinished hardwood floors, over sized Master Bedroom with room for multiple seating arrangements. Beautiful gardening surrounds the home. $659,000 WELL MAINTAINED three story 4-5 bedroom, 3-1/2 bath home with plenty of space.

Includes family room, hardwood floors, fireplace in LR, dining room with built-in buffet.

Deck off family room, two car garage plus 3 extra outside parking spaces. Nicely landscaped yard. ...............................................................................................................................................$595,000 CLASSIC AMERICAN FOUR SQUARE on large lot with lovely original detail that includes natural wood floors, trim, curved banister, dining room buffet, art glass, and a decorative fireplace. Third floor has expansion potential. Basement family room w/full bath. .........................................................................................................................................................$499,900

SWEET NORTH OAK PARK 3 bedroom / 2 bath home. Lovely wood floors, bright white kitchen, large family room with huge deck for entertaining. Spacious bedrooms with brand new carpet and abundant closet space. Nicely updated bathrooms. Lots of basement living space. .............................................................................$349,500 SO MUCH TO SEE, LOVE & ADMIRE in this gorgeous 4 bedroom, 1-1/2 bath home in Historic Oak Park! Expansive open front porch, leaded glass windows, French doors, beamed ceiling formal dining room, oversized lower level rec room, large backyard deck....... .........................................................................................................................................................$479,900 CLASSIC 4+ BEDROOM BUNGALOW across from Euclid Park! Gleaming hardwood floors, crown molding in DR, built-in bookshelves and electric fireplace in LR. Updated full finished basement w/5th BR or home office. Outside is a two tiered deck and fenced in backyard. .....................................................................................................................................$449,000 CLASSIC THREE BEDROOM AMERICAN FOUR SQUARE located in the Arts District in Historic Oak Park! Gleaming hardwood floors, natural wood trim, leaded glass windows, formal dining room, oak cabinet eat-in kitchen, bsmt rec room, garage and extra parking space...............................................................................................................................$349,900

FOREST PARK HOMES

METICULOUSLY MAINTAINED NEW CONSTRUCTION built in ‘06. Open floor plan features 10 foot ceilings, hdwd flrs, many custom details from crown molding to door handles. High end kitchen, four bedrooms, open basement ready to finish.....$464,000

CONDOS/TOWNHOMES

OAK PARK 2 Flat...................................................................................................................$549,900 OAK PARK 1BR, 1BA. Prairie style. ...................................................................................$189,000 OAK PARK 2BR, 1-1/2 BA. Parking included. ................................................................$167,500 PRICE REDUCED OAK PARK 2BR, 1BA. ............................................................$159,500 OAK PARK 2BR, 1BA. In unit washer/dryer. ...................................................................$134,900 OAK PARK 2BR, 1-1/2 BA. Generous BR closets. ..........................................................$119,900 OAK PARK 1BR, 1BA. End unit. ........................................................................................$105,000 NEW LISTING FOREST PARK 2BR, 2BA. ..........................................................$298,000

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Maximizing Partnerships Between Nonprofits and For-Profits

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By CATHY YEN Executive Director

sn’t it fun to write a big check to a terrific organization? I just had the pleasure of sending a $1,000 donation to Hephzibah, courtesy of the independent retail businesses in the Chamber.

Small business is hard, and mom-and-pop boutiques have razor-thin margins. While many of their owners give personally to charity and generously provide silent auction gifts to local causes, writing a check to a nonprofit does not come easy.

Despite popular misconception, small business is not a cash-minting enterprise, with plenty of money to go around.

Scale is a beautiful thing, however. When businesses come together, great things can happen.

That check to Hephzibah? We sold one

hundred exclusive, pre-sale tickets to our February Retail Warehouse Sale, with proceeds going to charity. The retailers had an existing relationship with Hephzibah, and negotiated the honor of being the beneficiary for Hephzibah’s help marketing the event to their supporters. A win-win, as word of the event spread on social media, tickets sold out, and Hephzibah received $1,000.

That’s the power of the Chamber and its ability to connect nonprofits to business in a scalable, strategic way.

We had similar good fortune when our Young Professionals took a tour of the pickle-making facility at Opportunity Knocks. What started out as an informative, out-of-the-box social event turned into business people connecting to a nonprofit, identifying a need and filling it. The OK Warriors needed new commercial kitchen equipment, leading to a partnership between the Chamber, Opportunity Knocks and the fabulous Hambingo Fundraising night at Oak Park Brewing. Lots of fun, great networking

and enough money raised to purchase the equipment.

Partnerships aren’t always about raising money. The Chamber depends on local organizations to provide meeting space for our events. Attendees learn about the organization just by visiting it. We are grateful to Wonder Works Children’s Museum, which is hosting our after-hours networking event in April.

The West Cook YMCA is doubling down, donating use of its spacious facility to host our April 29 Community Health and Wellness Fair. These creative partnerships help both the businesses and the nonprofits - which is a good thing for the community.

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Oak Park police officers will soon be equipped with an anti-opioid overdose drug known as Narcan, confirmed Oak Park Deputy Police Chief Tony Ambrose.

A state law that went into effect in January mandates that all Illinois police departments begin carrying the drug in an effort to prevent overdoses from heroin and opioid-based prescription drugs.

Ambrose said in a telephone interview that the OPPD is working with the Oak Park Fire Department to receive training and grant funding for the Narcan program.

Oak Park Deputy Fire Chief Peter Pilafas said in a telephone interview that fire department paramedics have been trained to administer Narcan for some time and used it an average of four times a month in 2014 and 2015.

Pilafas applied on May 20 for the grant, which will cover 100 percent of the costs for the OPPD program, and it was approved three days later.

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n March 23, 1963 I was at Freedom Hall in Louisville, Kentucky when the Loyola Ramblers beat the Cincinnati Bearcats in overtime to become the NCAA Basketball Champions.

Born and raised in New Albany, Indiana, I was 14 years old in 1963. We had just moved to our new house in Sherwood Subdivision from the more modest one on Indiana Avenue. I was enjoying for the first time my own bedroom and air conditioning. Best of all, we had a hoop on a solid pole so you could drive to the basket, and not run into the garage door like at the old house. I loved basketball. I would shovel off the snow on the driveway, cut the finger tips off cloth gloves and announce buzzer beaters as I made fantasy winning shots.

So I went nuts when my dad, who worked every Saturday morning, came and announced he had two tickets to the game.

He was employed by the Marhoefer Meat Packing Company as the assistant manager. I don’t remember how he got the tickets, but it seemed like it was no big deal.

It was a big deal to me as it was the first college basketball game I or my dad had ever attended. My dad was not a big sports fan. He was too busy working and supporting his family. But I was.

So off we went to Freedom Hall in Louisville, which at the time was a preeminent arena — the Madison Garden of the Midwest. My memories of the game snap into focus about halfway through the second half. The Bearcats go on a run to take a 10-point lead.

They are the reigning champions, and their fans — who dominate the arena — sensing victory, are celebrating.

Prior to their premature celebration, I had no particular rooting interest in the game, but their arrogance must have triggered my underdog-contrarian streak. I began to cheer quietly for the Ramblers, who launched a furious comeback. My cheering grew louder, to the chagrin of my new enemy’s fans.

The rest is history. The Ramblers tie the game with a buzzer beater, and then win in overtime. It was a great day. It remains the only NCAA championship basketball game my dad or I ever saw. The confluence of events that resulted in us being in that place at that time speaks to the laws of possibility.

I had been to Freedom Hall once before. In the fall of 1962, President Kennedy keynoted a rally in support of Democratic Congressional candidates. Jack Kennedy was my hero. Then. So cool. So smart. So young. I asked my barber to cut my hair like his.

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Lord, we ain’t what we oughta be. We ain’t what we want to be. We ain’t what we gonna be.

But, thank God, we ain’t what we was.

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r. King Jr. was an ordinary man with an extraordinary capacity to love. As a young minister in Montgomery, Alabama, he reluctantly accepted the call to lead the historic Montgomery bus boycott. This act of resistance catapulted him into a visible and dangerous leadership role.

Montgomery, Alabama on Dec. 5, 1955, was the “moment” that transformed him into the man we so admire today.

From the moment the very young (26-yearold) Dr. King accepted his destiny as a “civil rights” leader, his life — and that of the millions of so-called “Negroes” — was unalterably changed. Inspired by Gandhi’s passive resistance movement in India, King went on to lead a persistent campaign of resistance and protest based on non-violence. At the time, Malcolm X, another young leader, posited “that the only thing nonviolence proved was how violent the white power was in its response.”

Despite vicious murders, assassinations, and bombings, King never gave up on his belief that “power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.” In King’s view, the Negro needed the

power to ensure equal opportunity and rights.

He genuinely felt that non-violence would more effectively appeal to the “better angels” of our white brethren. To be fair, King’s philosophy was not the consensus of many African Americans of that period. In fact even today, the debate simmers in the black community.

Still, under his stewardship starting in Montgomery, a robust national movement based on non-violence commenced. This movement was not dependent on traditional models of resistance. The leader was less a direction-giver and more a spokesman for the masses of black Americans suffering under America’s peculiar system of apartheid. The key to King’s effectiveness was his ability to “keep his ear to the ground,” to hear what his people were saying, and to articulate their grievances with a powerful and poetic voice. Regardless of its non-violent nature, the King-inspired movement was less a protest and more an uprising against blatant and structural racism. It took enormous courage to challenge America’s cultural norms and political institutions with songs and passive resistance.

Fifty years after his assassination, our struggle for full citizenship rights continues today. Thanks in part to King’s determined efforts, we have the right to sit where we choose on public transportation, to eat where we want

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t was a notable Democratic primary last week. And Oak Park, the West Side and the long stretch of the 7th Congressional District played active parts.

Here’s our take on three key, local races: Boykin-Johnson for the county board: Monday afternoon, 1st District Commissioner Richard Boykin finally conceded. That’s six days after a startlingly tight race left the first-term county commissioner 400+ votes behind Brandon Johnson, his union and Democratic organization-backed opponent.

Four years back we endorsed Blake Sercye, a young Toni Preckwinkle-backed contender in a wide open primary.

Boykin, though, took that race and, in our opinion, carried our long irrelevant chunk of Cook County back to the table by winning county resources, being a factor in moving the county forward on health care and criminal justice. Now succeeding the near worthless Earlean Collins was bound to make a newcomer shine, but Boykin, for all his smooth ways, had a substance that made our district relevant for the first time in decades.

Johnson is a bright and capable young man who rose with the backing of County Board President Toni Preckwinkle and state Sen. Don Harmon, two people we often admire.

But in taking this seat back from an independent like Boykin, Johnson will have to prove over time that the 1st District has not been subsumed back into an improved but still suspect Democratic Party apparatus.

Davis-Clark in the 7th: There have been a lot of deserved huzzahs for Anthony Clark, the Oak Park activist and public school teacher who took on the long-seated Danny Davis as our representative in Congress.

“Just his first race,” “He’ll be back,” etc. All true we believe, and also know because Clark himself has made the same comments.

When you look at the vote totals in the suburban half of the 7th District, you begin to understand the impact that this political newcomer had in his first time up for election. He won 40 percent of the Democratic vote in the suburbs. Six years ago, another Oak Parker, Jacques Conway ran against Davis and claimed just 21 percent of the suburban vote.

More remarkable, and this speaks to the nationwide tide of enthusiasm among progressive Democrats, is the raw total vote in the suburbs. Some 34,390 people voted in this primary in the district’s suburbs. That is nearly double the number of Democrats who took a ballot in 2012.

This is a moment.

Kaegi buries Berrios: Not a surprise that Fritz Kaegi, an Oak Parker and political newcomer, dropped the hammer on Joe Berrios, the longtime Cook County Assessor and Cook County Democratic Party leader. Don’t doubt the power of substantive, sustained reporting, mainly by the Tribune, in taking the lid off the corrupt practices of the arcane Cook County property assessment system. This system is perverted to favor the wealthy and crush the poor. It is bought and sold by lawyers and political insiders, including Speaker Mike Madigan.

Here’s the thing: The better, fairer job that Fritz Kaegi does in upending and rebuilding the property tax assessment system in this county, the more financial pain he will cause the well-off who voted him in — and that includes a lot of good-government Oak Parkers and River Foresters.

This is not a job for a career pol. This is a job for a clearheaded reformer determined to end this corruption and be content with the judgment of voters four years from now.

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Traffic calming on the left bank of Marion

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bright Friday morning, 9 a.m., the ald’s Stationery did not stay stationary and rush of commuters to the Metra now occupies what formerly housed the hat and the Green Line having already store. Comings and goings, the nature of subsided, the day’s commerce begins. life, the artifice of commerce. Only Luo’s With a half hour to “kill” and an hour Peking House is forever. So much changes, remaining on my meter, fortified by coffee, so much doesn’t.

I take a window seat at Lea, the restaurant And suddenly I find myself back in Amon Marion Street that specializes in “French sterdam in 1973, having arrived the wintry street food.” night before. By the next morning, March It’s not France, but I can imagine it from 21st, spring had arrived, perfectly punctual, here, French cafes being famous as sanctua day that looked just like this, except for aries from the mainstream, a harbor from the canals. It felt like this anyway, a beginwhich to watch the world flow by. Across the ning, like every layer of accumulated film street is Sugar Fixé, another establishment that makes us see life indistinctly has been with French pretensions. And this is Vision stripped away, revealing the world in its Fixé, my global positioning fixed point on unpolluted and clarified state. the left bank of Marion.

Forty-five years ago, I was 20, studying The late-March morning sun bastes the buildings abroad, on spring break, wandering about Western across the street, tree-branch shadows spider-webbing Europe, a lifetime ahead. The past and the present the walls, waving to and fro in the breeze. in equal measure, old world and new world and the The beat cop ambles up the block. Garbage trucks longing for both, living momentarily in peaceful cobarrel past at a healthy clip, which can’t be healthy existence. The freshness of then and now, memory and for the brick street, shining with sunlight reflected perception, two shining worlds co-habiting springoff storefront windows, the tessellation pattern of time’s annual miracle of refreshment, replenishment, the bricks mirroring the display of rolling pins, resting on metal latticework against Lea’s back wall as if they were being turned out of the ovens along with the brioche.

Out on the bluestone sidewalk, workers with day-glo vests trundle back and forth with wheelbarrows piled high with mulch for the trees and plant beds. A Turano Bakery truck parks across the street, which surely can’t be making deliveries to a French restaurant, and can’t be supplying Prairie Bread Kitchen, either, which presumably makes its own. So its Marion Street, before spring arrived. presence is the morning’s and renewal. Morning’s daily revival, the world rinsed first mystery. new again, another triumph of hope over experience.

In front of Munch, the vegetarian restaurant nearby, Here and Now, There and Then — a tug, not of war a staffer sweeps away debris from the front entrance. but of friendly give and take.

The broom plus the wheelbarrows, the cobbled curbs And I am the rope. and brick street, and the white glass orbs atop reminisAs it happens, on this day 55 years ago, the Loyola cent lamp-posts create an old-world air, a Disney-like Ramblers won the NCAA basketball tourney. I was 10, Main Street simulation from another era. Quaint. listening fervently on the radio in the kitchen. My dad’s What will someday be echoed from our era, legible alma mater. My future alma mater. Red Rush and “the awnings?

Gonnella scoreboard.”

Traffic builds. Errand-runners pass in a self-confiThe present is a busy intersection. dent flurry. The pace quickens. Quicken, that archaic The women behind the counter are oblivious to the term for stirring life. Commerce is another. People echoes. They can’t see the street outside as I have — quicken and tree buds thicken. Birds flit and … well, once paved, with diagonal parking; once malled, for watch out below. The temperature and the heavy coats pedestrians only; and now bricked, a traffic-calming of passersby say one thing, but the sunlight tells anbump in the middle. They have no way of knowing other story. what a busy street this is in my mind’s eye, busy beIt’s spring. Thermometer be damned. Full speed yond all traffic-calming. ahead.

The sunlight on this March morning tells two stories, A patrol-car cop shoves a ticket under the windshield of better times ahead and better times back then, of a BMW. Another satisfied customer. King & I Thai united under the glow of our great pilot light in the sky, Restaurant has a “DK For Lease” sign attached, which rising every morning to our occasion. tells the tale. Next door, Edible Arrangements posts a Global positioning indeed.

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rump’s latest one-man trade war on China and the rest of the world should convince any doubters that he is simply unhinged, a loose cannon. Trade wars will mean higher prices for U.S. consumers, damage our credibility in the civilized world, and make enemies we cannot afford to have. China buys more U.S. Government debt instruments than any other country.

If they felt so inclined, they could cripple our economy by simply not buying T-bills. Our interest rates would skyrocket, which would hurt American consumers with mortgages and car loans, and damage retirees on fixed incomes.

Inflation will zoom up. The stock market has already recognized that even a trillion-dollar infusion of tax breaks cannot make up for a deranged president, and when the decline becomes a rout, it will butcher everyone’s 401k, pension, and IRA. If we lived in a Hitchcock film where the U.S. president was replaced by a foreign agent, this saboteur would behave exactly the way Donald Trump behaves. The only reason Trump has not already been impeached is that the Republicans are willing to let him commit any crimes and even destroy the leadership role of the U.S. in the world because he is willing to sign whatever legislation they put in front of him. He will let them cut taxes on the rich and on corporations, causing trillions more in new debt. He will let them abolish Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid that we have all paid into our entire working lives.

He will let them outlaw freedom of speech, homosexuality, women’s rights, labor unions, minimum wages, child labor laws, abortion, victimless crimes, and freedom of religion. He will let them require school teachers to carry automatic weapons. He will let them legislate racist intolerance.

Trump the Saboteur has fired half the civil servants who keep the government running without anyone realizing who they are. He listens to no one. He has no expert advisors. He gets all of his information from Fox News and Breitbart ravings. Our Idiot King sits in his golden bed, tweeting out policy for the greatest nation in the world, without a shred of self-awareness, human decency, compassion, or any conception of what the impact of his royal edicts will be.

Will our nation survive until the next election?

Is there anything Trump could do that would cause the Republicans to censure him? It is hard to imagine what could be worse than wrecking the U.S. economy, colluding with a foreign enemy nation to steal a U.S. election, abusing dozens of women and bragging about it, insulting every foreign leader except his idol Putin, appointing his family to powerful positions in our government, using his presidency to extort money from political visitors to his golf course resorts.

Perhaps if he starts a nuclear war with North Korea? I fear our future is in the hands of Republicans, and they will let our country go straight to hell before they will admit the obvious.

Tom DeCoursey is a resident of Oak Park.

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Privilege and white female allies

t’s an interesting paradox. There are so many white women that I consider to be more than allies but my dear friends. Still somehow, despite the fact that I’m able to discuss race with an entire community in this monthly Wednesday Journal column, having conversations about race with my white female friends, at times, makes me feel uncomfortable.

I vividly recall one close friend, who is a white woman, discussing a verbal altercation she had with another woman.

She described the woman’s angry response toward her as, “going all ‘black girl’,” implying that the woman’s anger, aggression, or confrontation were somehow inherently tied to race. I wondered if she had forgotten that I was a black woman.

Why didn’t she realize her statement was offensive? I consider my friend to be a very progressive woman. Yet at that moment she made a racist comment and was completely unaware of it. Here was the perfect opportunity for me to have a meaningful dialogue with her. But instead of transforming that conversation into a teaching moment for both of us, I didn’t say anything in response. I

just nodded my head and went along because I was afraid to have a difficult conversation with a friend. I did not want her to feel judged, uncomfortable or like she was a bad person by pointing out that she made a racist comment.

This is a habit I am trying to break. I don’t want to be inappropriately accommodating to white progressive women by not pointing out the moments when they make racist comments.

Overlooking the micro-aggressions of white liberal progressives is a decision some make because they fear white fragility. I personally hate making people cry or uncomfortable and will even avoid doing it at the cost of my own comfort.

But as I reflect on Women’s History Month and the progress made by women of all races, I realize that correcting our white female allies when they are, knowingly or unknowingly, racially oppressive should never be avoided because it is a step toward unity.

Women as a collective cannot prosper

if some women do not reap the benefits of equity, especially when those benefits were attained by the collective effort and hard work of all women. White women can no longer accept being the sole beneficiary of the progress that all women have worked for.

Discussing my white female allies’ white privilege can be a sensitive topic because some feel that pointing out their white privilege dilutes the oppression they experience as women. But I believe we can point out the white privilege of white women while also acknowledging that all of us as women have shared the experience of oppression because of our gender.

However, we must acknowledge the sliding scale of that oppression. We must recognize that women of color experience a greater level of oppression than our white counterparts because of our race or ethnicity. Confronting that reality should not divide us. In fact, not confronting it perpetuates the system

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that we are all trying to combat, an oppressive system that thrives on women being divided.

Embracing intersectionality is one of the strongest forms of unity. Recognizing that the oppression and inequality we encounter as women is exacerbated when coupled with various other identities is a critical component of our movement toward equality.

Equity’s ladder places us on different rungs according to our race, LGBTQ status, disability, religion, and socio-economic status, with the most privileged women at the top. It is the duty of the women at the top to acknowledge their place in this country’s hierarchy and work together to ensure that we all make it to the top together.

Michelle Mbekeani, 27, is a lifetime resident of Oak Park. She is an attorney at the Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law. She is the mother of an energetic and loving 2 year old boy. Michelle enjoys singing and volunteering thoughout the community, supporting Oak Park public schools, and the Oak Park Festival Theatre.

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We need restorative justice practices in schools

or my nephew David, physical aggression, disrespect, and defiance started in kindergarten. He punched a teacher in the face on her first day back from maternity leave. Later, he aimed and threw a chair across the room. It took a principal and another teacher to physically remove him from the classroom. David needed help. That was obvious. At 6 years old, he was struggling with emotional and mental issues. He needed support and guidance. Instead, the system failed him.

What happened next was typical. His first-grade teacher pressured for a chart for tracking behavior but then refused to follow through and implement it with fidelity. There was phone call after phone call, meeting after meeting with David’s mother and the school leaders. He was suspended, sent to the office, yet nothing seemed to help. Finally, David was placed in an alternative school for the next three years of his elementary school experience.

As a teacher, I know that students like David are not unique. In my home state of Illinois, zero-tolerance policies focus on punishing a student rather than restoring the harm done. The policies allow for suspension after suspension, even though there is a direct correlation between school attendance and graduation rate. If we’re to ensure that students like my nephew who struggle emotionally and behaviorally succeed in school, we must change the way we approach school discipline in our school systems. With Senate Bill 100, we are in a position to do just that.

With SB 100, which the Illinois legislature passed in 2015, we have started to remove zero-tolerance and exclusionary discipline policies from our schools. Now we need new disciplinary protocols that rely on restorative practices. Which is why my cohort of Teach Plus Policy Fellows is putting forth a series of recommendations that will help schools transition these protocols under the new law. Our recommendations include: ■ Provide thorough, mandatory training on SB 100 and corresponding

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school discipline protocols ■ Implement disciplinary protocols that are informed by restorative justice and trauma-informed practices ■ Ensure ongoing support, accountability and consistency for teachers as they implement new discipline protocols ■ Allocate adequate funding and hold districts accountable for SB 100 implementation.

Restorative practices, which focus on building relationships and a community mindset within our classrooms, are a pivotal shift in the way we approach discipline in our schools. I believe that restorative practices work because I have implemented them in my own classroom and seen immediate positive results.

One of my classes has struggled with classroom community all year, with students pointing fingers at each other for wrongdoing. To turn negatives into positives, we recently started a peace circle, a core restorative justice practice, to focus on what we can all bring to our small community. We have already seen positive results by simply sharing how we feel. As a teacher, I can already see and feel a change in our classroom culture.

As for my nephew, David attended alternative programs through fifth grade, when he also began taking a few mainstream classes. In sixth grade, long after his initial struggles began, David enrolled in the mainstream program full time and also participated in his first peace circle.

This was a turning point for him. His behavior and outlook completely changed and he is now a thriving eighth-grade student.

I believe that restorative practices can help many more students like David. This is what our schools in Illinois need and teachers should have all of the tools and resources to learn how to implement these practices in our classrooms.

Keira Quintero is a K-5 general music teacher at Holmes Elementary School in Oak Park. She is a Teach Plus Illinois Teaching Policy Fellowship alumna.

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As a wheelchair-bound resident of Oak Park, I needed to do early voting in the recent primary. I want to publicly thank the Village Clerk’s Office for making it possible for me to come into the building from the front plaza off Madison Street and the gentleman who helped my husband get me into the building and to the room where I voted.

Really nice to be able to send a message of thanks to the people who keep the wheels of the village turning!

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I cannot imagine how there could be 74,000 delinquent motorists with citations totaling $565,000. That’s less than $8 per delinquent.

If that’s a real figure, you have to wonder how the village could even justify sending bills. At 50 cents per stamp plus the value of staff time to issue letters plus the cost of processing payments, the village loses money even if a deadbeat pays.

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A political win for Anthony Clark

n politics, sometimes when you lose, you actually win; and sometimes when you win, you actually lose.

Anthony Clark garnishing 40 percent of the vote, in west suburban Cook County, to a 20year Democratic incumbent, Congressman Danny Davis, is actually a political win.

Professional strategists look at who had the most votes and won the election. But there are other important numbers: who voted, where they voted, and how much money the candidates spent on those votes.

The power of money and name recognition in our political system is nothing new; candidates with more money, name recognition, and establishment support typically get more votes. It was expected that Cong. Davis would win this election because he had more money, more name recognition, and more support for the major political players.

A great example of Anthony Clark’s political win, is the other big race, in the same area, with the same constituency.

The race for Cook County Commissioner of the 1st District, Richard Boykin vs.

Brandon Johnson. In many ways, Boykin mirrored Danny Davis as the political insider and incumbent while Brandon Johnson mirrored Anthony Clark as the progressive, young, energetic new candidate. Johnson, the newcomer, managed to pull off a huge upset and win with 13,637 votes (46.73%) to Boykin’s 11,964 votes.

In the same area, Clark had 12,371 votes to Davis’ 19,926.

I posit that the only difference between the Brandon Johnson/Richard Boykin campaign and the Anthony Clark/Danny Davis campaign is money. Brandon Johnson, while a political newcomer, was backed by PAC organizations like the Chicago Teachers Union, and according to his financial reports had about $500,000, which came from the unions: both money and knowledgeable, experienced campaign staff. Now, I believe, Johnson’s win was still a huge political upset.

The Clark campaign, while it was full of love, passion and energy, was not a traditional political campaign. Intentionally. Clark made a pledge to not accept any money from PACs. His campaign was energy rich, financially poor. The Clark campaign, had a mere $70,000 total. Further, the Clark campaign sent out zero political mailers and only one commercial. He also works a full-time job as a special education teacher, and runs an amazing community organization, Suburban Unity.

Conversely, Davis, has been the congressman for the 7th District since 1996.

Due to his longevity, Davis is a household name in the 7th.

He had no reason to campaign, yet he still had his name on many political mailers.

Traditional political wisdom would dictate that Clark would lose big. Instead, by getting 40 percent in west suburban Cook County, he proved that Davis, is vulnerable to an adequately financed campaign and there is a large group of people unhappy with the congressman’s job performance.

Winning by such a small margin, Davis’ electoral win, was a political loss.

Politics is not a zero-sum game.

Sometimes when you lose, you actually win; and sometimes when you win, you actually lose. Political winners use their “political loss” as a lesson and re-strategize for the next election.

Case in point: President Barack Obama’s political trajectory.

When President Obama started his political career, he ran his first major campaign against Congressman Bobby Rush, who was, and still is, an institution on the South Side of Chicago. Obama was young, energetic, and had broad-based appeal, especially in Hyde Park, similar to Clark’s energy and support in Oak Park.

Then a community organizer, Obama decided to challenge incumbent congressman in the primary election. Rush had been a congressman for almost as long as Davis. He was popular and had all of the support of the Democratic machine.

Yet the young, energized, political newcomer decided to challenge Rush anyway.

Obama did not beat Congressman Rush, just like Clark did not beat Congressman Davis. To political outsiders, it looked like a complete political loss for Obama.

But after his defeat, Obama reassessed the political landscape, and ran the next election, relying heavily on the racial, ethnic coalition he built in Hyde Park during his losing campaign. Obama realized a better political strategy was going from state senator to U.S. senator and ultimately, president of the United States.

Although Clark did not win, he did something similar. He created a strong, diverse, powerful political base. He created name recognition and the political establishment is aware of his potential electability.

Anthony Clark may have lost this congressional race, but he is a political winner. Clark’s loss, like Obama’s, I believe, is just a starting point. I’m excited to see where he goes from here because he has as much potential as another Chicago community organizer: Barack Obama.

ShaRhonda Dawson is a resident of Broadview.

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50 years after 4/4/68 from page 37 in most American restaurants, and to stay in hotels/motels across the land.

However, given the economic discrimination most blacks still experience, the question is, do we have the financial wherewithal (the money) to enjoy these hard-earned rights? The movement for civil rights must continue and now includes guaranteeing the protection of our right to vote, unfettered by duplicitous laws, statutes, and pre-conditions.

As I reflect on the half-century since his death, I am saddened by how we, black and white Americans, have transformed the struggle from mass action to a series of dueling Twitter and Facebook messages.

Facebook “activists” write angrily about conditions from the safety of their homes.

Our fingers and wrists are more fatigued than our feet. We have outsourced the movement to talking heads debating on radio and TV. We are still looking for a “leader” to take us to the promised land.

Our youth think of Selma as a movie, our

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Now the Ramblers are back in the Final Four. There are reasons for basketball fans to celebrate: Their style of play — they defend really hard, share the ball, don’t complain to refs and aren’t focused on

elders have become jaded and cynical, and our allies are suffering from “compassion fatigue.” We celebrate a movie, The Black Panther, as a civil rights victory instead of a fantasy that bears no resemblance to the lives we daily live in America. Instead of marching to protest real conditions or going to the voting booth, we are going in droves to escape to “Wakanda,” the idyllic land of “black is beautiful.”

Now is the time to morph the movement from “civil” rights to human rights. Civil rights are legislated and depend on the political largesse of the ruling class — you don’t legislate human rights — you assert them.

It is time to re-energize the movement, to reconnect with our allies, and to dare to challenge racism in all its varied forms and manifestations. Fredrick Douglass, the great orator and abolitionist once said, “Power concedes nothing but to demand. It never has and it never will.”

So as we think about Dr. King’s contributions, and before we make him an exception, remember his quote about personal involvement: “Everybody can be great because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. … You only need a heart full of grace.

A soul generated by love.”

NBA — make them throwbacks to the now quaint and distant time when we fell in love with sports so long ago. They are like the Chip Hilton books I read as a kid with their heroic walkoff home runs and buzzer beaters.

None of these Ramblers have received under-the-table payments from shady agents, were not feted at stripper parties, or had someone take their tests. They are more like the Hickory team of Hoosiers than Kentucky’s lineup of “one and done.”

And everybody loves an underdog. Throw Sister Jean into the recipe, and you have an irresistible confection that, win or lose, we will all savor for a long time.

Angelo James (“Al” or “Pro”) Provenzano, 98, died on March 11, 2018. Born in Melrose Park, he was a longtime resident of Oak Park. He served his country during World War II (he said he landed at Normandy on D-Day) and was awarded the Purple Heart. He was known for entertaining everyone with stories and songs he drew from his remarkable memory. He was a dedicated member of his church.

Al Provenzano was the husband of the late Blanche (Bunny), nee Kmet, for 60 years, the brother of Florence Tantillo and Jeanne Holder, and the brother-in-law of Muriel Provenzano. He was also the uncle of many nieces and nephews and their many children and grandchildren, and dear friend of Judy and Lou Cardone and so many others. He was preceded in death by his two brothers, Frank and Casper, and four sisters, Rose Aiuppa, Theresa Carpino, Helen Tantillo and Josephine Karkula.

Visitation was held at Bormann Funeral Home in Melrose Park. He lay in state at Gethsemane Lutheran Church in Cicero, followed by interment at Forest Home Cemetery in Forest Park.

In Al’s memory, please make a donation to Gethsemane Lutheran Church Youth Camp or give something to someone you love.

Read Wednesday Journal’s profile of Al from January of 2015 at http://www.oakpark.com/News/Articles/1-20-2015/WorldWar-II-veteran-Al-Provenzano,-young-atheart-at-95/

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Arnold Hirsch, 69, of Oak Park, died on March 19, 2018 at his home after battling Parkinson’s and Lewy body disease. Born in Chicago, he became a professor of history at the University of New Orleans.

He grew up in Rogers Park and graduated from Sullivan High School in 1966. He received three degrees in history — bachelor’s, master’s and doctorate — at UIC. He was offered the job at the University of New Orleans in 1979 and also became a visiting professor at Harvard University.

Mr. Hirsch wrote Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago 19401960, considered the definitive book on segregation in Chicago, which was published in 1983.

The Hirsches returned to the Chicago area in 2013 after he retired. “He loved everything Chicago, from its cuisine to its teams,” said his wife in the Chicago SunTimes obituary.

Mr. Hirsch is survived by Rosanne, his wife of 46 years; his sons, Adam and Jordan; and two grandchildren.

Services were held last Friday at Oak Park Temple B’nai Abraham Zion.

Maureen Catherine Gamboney (née McCarthy), 66, of Oak Park, died too soon after a short but courageous battle with Cruetzfeldt-Jakob Disease on March 23, 2018. Born on Jan. 14, 1952, she was a graduate of MAUREEN GAMBONEY Ascension School and Siena High School in Chicago. After graduating from DePaul University in 1975, she married Bob Gamboney, and they settled in Oak Park and raised their children.

She ran a home day care before returning to school to earn her M.A. in Education from Rosary College (now Dominican University) in 1997. She spent the majority of her teaching career at Columbia Explorers Academy in Chicago, using her unique knowledge and endless compassion to

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O B I T U A R I E S Continued from page 43 shape the lives of countless students before retiring in June of 2017.

A lifelong parishioner of Ascension Church and a tireless volunteer for Misericordia Heart of Mercy, she was a shining example of how to care for and enjoy those who mean the most to you.

Maureen Gamboney was the wife and best friend of Robert P. Gamboney for 43 years; the mother of Michelle, Joseph (Jennifer), Nicole (Nick) Nichols, and Samuel. She was Moe Moe to J.J., Madelyn, Thomas Delaney, Isabelle, and Riley; sister of William (Cathy) McCarthy, Margaret (Joe) Bidinger, Sheila McCarthy and Jeannine (Steve) Sauck; niece of William (Barbara) Bourke; aunt and cousin of many; and friend to so many more.

Visitation was held from 2 to 9 p.m. on Tuesday, March 27 at Peterson-Bassi Chapels/ Gamboney & Son Funeral Directors. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10 a.m. on March 28 at Ascension Church, 808 S. East Ave., Oak Park, followed by interment at Mt. Carmel Cemetery.

The family appreciates memorials to Misericordia 6300 N. Ridge Ave., Chicago 60660 or the Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Foundation, P.O. Box 5312 in Akron, Ohio, 44334.

Joy Stastny, 76

Longtime Oak Park resident Joy Theresa Rose Stastny (nee Pollastrini), 76, a longtime resident of Oak Park, died peacefully on March 19, 2018. A wonderful friend to all the people she met in her life, she welcomed everyone into her home and enjoyed the many times they stayed at her “B&B.” She was a nurse to all.

Joy Stastny was the wife of Joseph for 52 years; the sister of the late John (Judi); the sister-in-law of Joana (the late Robert) Del Sarto; the aunt of Laurie Figlewicz and Rebecca (Erik) Whittenhall; and the great-aunt of Matthew, Katie and Emma.

Services were held on March 24 at Ascension Church with private interment.

Arrangements were handled by ConboyWestchester Funeral Home.

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Connie HendersonDamon, 69 Veteran, health care educator, volunteer

Connie Henderson-Damon, 69, a longtime resident of Oak Park, died on March 22, 2018 from ovarian cancer. Born in Wichita, Kansas, on Jan. 28, 1949, she graduated from Wichita East High School and atCONNIE HENDERSON- tended Wichita State DAMON University where she was in the Delta Delta Delta sorority. She transferred to the University of Kansas Medical Center and earned a B.S. in Nursing.

She was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study in New Zealand and lived and worked with Maori people to learn about their attitudes regarding health, wellness and illness. Upon completing her studies, she spent a year traveling overland around the world with a friend.

She served as a nurse in the Army Reserve’s 410th Evacuation Hospital out of Topeka, Kansas with the rank of captain. She returned to school and earned an MBA from the University of Kansas, then accepted a position in 1981 with the American Medical Association, Department of Practice Management in Chicago.

While working at the AMA, she met Christopher Damon. They were married in 1983 and the couple lived in Oak Park since 1987.

HendersonDamon & Associates, a firm she started, provided consulting services to physicians about practice management for 15 years. She also worked in a variety of health care administrative positions.

In 1984, she edited and self-published a book based on the recollections of her grandmother, Anna Mae Bair, who, at the age of 9, traveled with her family by covered wagon to New Mexico where they homesteaded.

She volunteered in a variety of local organizations — a member of First United Church of Oak Park, where she provided services to the homeless shelter and to the Food Pantry; a Cluster Tutoring tutor, then became the Cluster Tutoring librarian at First United Church; and served on a number of church committees and the Church Council.

She served on the board of the Historical Society of Oak Park-River Forest for several years, chairing several benefit events as well as helping the Historical Society plan its move to their new facility in 2017. She also volunteered with Chicago Honor Flight which takes World War II veterans to Wash-

ington D.C. Her passions were quilting and photography. Almost all of the quilts she made were given away as gifts, and two of her quilts were given to benefit ovarian cancer research. She enjoyed traveling internationally and in the U.S. with her family, and, in recent years, enjoyed tap dancing lessons with a group of local women.

Connie Henderson-Damon is survived by her husband, Christopher Damon; her daughter, Laura; six aunts and uncles; 24 cousins and their families; her nephew, Joe Henderson and his family; her in-laws, John and Betsy Damon and Patricia Damon; and her niece, Beth Damon and her family. She was preceded in death by her parents, William O. Henderson and Lenora Bair Henderson.

The family thanks all the people who loved and supported her during her life and her ovarian cancer journey.

A memorial service will be held at 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, April 7 at First United Church of Oak Park, with interment at Dexter Cemetery.

Memorial gifts may be made to the First United Church of Oak Park, 848 Lake St., Oak Park 60301; and the Historical Society of OP-RF, 129 Lake St., Oak Park 60302.

Charles Arends, 84 Longtime River Forest resident

Charles E. Arends, 84, a 60-year resident of River Forest, died on March 23, 2018. Born on Dec. 17, 1933 in Edmond, Oklahoma to the late Wade and Edwina Arends, he received a full wrestling scholarship from Northwestern University. He left college to serve with the U.S. Army in Germany, then returned to graduate from Northwestern in 1959.

He married Nancy Holland in 1957 and shortly after they moved to River Forest. He worked for many years in logistics for Chicago Diatetic and, most recently, Leaf Confectionary in Chicago before his retirement.

A longtime member of the River Forest Tennis Club and First Presbyterian Church of River Forest, he loved fishing, hunting, and watching his children and grandchildren participate in sports.

Charles Arends is survived by Nancy, his wife of 61 years; his children, Mary-Kirk (Robert) Reyff, Virginia (Robert) Palmer, Chuck (Susan) and Dan (Sue) Arends; his grandchildren, Kristy (Kyle) Wasser and Ryan Arends, Heather (Bryan) Welesko, Kelly (Luke) Kirsh, and Ryan (Stephanie) Palmer, Brittney (Steve) Berryman and DJ, and Taylor and John Arends; his greatgrandchildren, Tatton, Ruben, Ellen and Gwen, and Charlie and Jack; his siblings, Kathryn Arends and the late Wade (MaryLou) and Phillip Arends; and many nieces and nephews.

A memorial service is scheduled for 2 p.m., Monday, April 2 at First Presbyterian Church of River Forest, 7551 Quick Ave.,

with private interment at Rosehill Cemetery.

In lieu of flowers, the family appreciates donations to Special Olympics of Illinois (soill.org).

Charlotte Goossens, 96 Volunteer

Charlotte E. Goossens, 96, an Oak Park resident since 1949, died on March 20, 2018.

Born in Naugard, Germany in 1921 to Ida (Wille) Koepke and Max Koepke, the family immigrated to the United States in 1923 and settled in Kewanee, Illinois, where she married her late husband, Frank J. Goossens, in 1942. When he volunteered for the U.S. Army Air Force during WWII and spent three years overseas as a meteorologist/cryptographer, Charlotte became a volunteer Red Cross nurse’s aide working in two Kewanee hospitals in the evenings and weekends after working at her office job during the day.

In Oak Park, she was very active in her church, Christ Lutheran, holding offices for many years with Dorcas Ladies’ Aid and Altar Guild. She also volunteered in the community and was a charter member of Oak Park Township’s Meals-at-Home Program, delivering meals to shut-ins for 22 years.

For over 17 years, she and her husband volunteered in two area nursing homes where they organized parties at each major holiday.

Charlotte Goossens is survived by her son, Gregg (Margaret) Goossens; her granddaughter, Amanda; and a number of nieces, nephews, grandnieces and grandnephews.

She was preceded in death by her husband; her daughters, Elizabeth and Janet; and her siblings, Elsie Kudrna, Kurt Koepke, and her younger brother, Ensign Ernest Koepke, a Navy pilot, who was killed in action over Japan during WWII. Funeral services were held on March 27 at Christ Lutheran Church, with interment at Queen of Heaven Cemetery.

Arrangements were handled by Linhart Funeral Home.

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400 N. Fifth Avenue (1 block north of Lake St.) Come join us for Sunday Morning Worship at 11 am Pastor Elliot Wimbush will be preaching the message.

Refreshments and fellowship follow the service.

708-344-6150 firstchurchofmaywood.org When you're looking for a place to worship the Lord, Check First.

You’re Invited to A Church for All Nations A Church Without Walls SERVICE LOCATION Forest Park Plaza 7600 W. Roosevelt Road Forest Park, IL 60130

William S. Winston Pastor (708) 697-5000 Sunday Service 7AM, 9AM & 11:15AM

LIVE Webcast - 11:15AM Service Believer’s Walk of Faith Broadcast Schedule (Times in Central Standard Time) Television DAYSTAR (M-F)

3:30-4:00pm

Nationwide

WJYS-TV (M-F)

6:30-7:00am

Chicago, IL.

WCIU-TV (Sun.)

10:30-11:00am

Chicago, IL.

Word Network

10:30-11:00am

Nationwide

(M-F)

www.livingwd.org www.billwinston.org

West Suburban Temple Har Zion

1040 N. Harlem Avenue River Forest Meet our Rabbi, Adir Glick Pray, learn, and celebrate with our caring, progressive, egalitarian community.

Interfaith families are welcome.

Accredited Early Childhood Program Religious School for K thru 12 Daily Morning Minyan Weekly Shabbat Services Friday 6:30pm & Saturday 10:00am Affiliated with United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism 708.366.9000 www.wsthz.org

324 N. Oak Park Avenue 708-383-4983 www.firstUMCoakpark.org Sunday School for all Ages, 9am Sunday Worship, 10am Children’s Chapel during Worship Rev. Katherine Thomas Paisley, Pastor Professionally Staffed Nursery Fellowship Time after Worship Presbyterian

Lutheran—ELCA

United Lutheran Church

409 Greenfield Street (at Ridgeland Avenue) Oak Park Holy Communion with nursery care and children’s chapel each Sunday at 9:30 a.m. www.unitedlutheranchurch.org

708/386-1576

Lutheran-Independent

Grace Lutheran Church

7300 W. Division, River Forest David R. Lyle, Senior Pastor David W. Wegner, Assoc. Pastor Lauren Dow Wegner, Assoc. Pastor Sunday Worship, 8:30 & 11:00 a.m.

Sunday School/Adult Ed. 9:45 a.m.

Childcare Available

Grace Lutheran School

Preschool - 8th Grade Bill Koehne, Principal 366-6900, graceriverforest.org Lutheran-Missouri Synod

Christ Lutheran Church

607 Harvard Street (at East Av.) Oak Park, Illinois Rev. Robert M. Niehus, Pastor Sunday Bible Class: 9:15 am Sunday School: 9:10 Sunday Worship Services: 8:00 and 10:30 am Church Office: 708/386-3306 www.christlutheranoakpark.org

Fair Oaks

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

744 Fair Oaks Ave. Oak Park 386-4920 Sunday Schedule Christian Education for All Ages 9:00am Worship Service 10:00am

Child care available 9-11am

fairoakspres.org OAK PARK MEETING OF FRIENDS (Quakers) Meeting For Worship Sundays at 10:00 a.m. at Oak Park Art League 720 Chicago Ave., Oak Park Please call 708-445-8201 www.oakparkfriends.org

Celebrating Our Earth Family Day April 15

Join Oak Park Friends Meeting at the Oak Park Art League, 720 Chicago Ave. Worship 10am Potluck and intergenerational program to follow.

708-445-8201 www.oakparkfriends.org

Roman Catholic

Ascension Catholic Church

Lutheran-Missouri Synod

St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church

305 Circle Ave, Forest Park Sunday Worship 8:30am & 11:00am Adult Bible Class & Sunday School 10:00am Wheelchair Access to Sanctuary Leonard Payton, Pastor Roney Riley, Assistant Pastor 708-366-3226 www.stjohnforestpark.org

808 S. East Ave. 708/848-2703 www.ascensionoakpark.com Worship: Saturday Mass 5:00 pm Sunday Masses 7:30, 9:00, 11 am, 5:00 pm Sacrament of Reconciliation 4 pm Saturday Taize Prayer 7:30 pm First Fridays Feb.– Dec. & Jan. 1

Roman Catholic

St. Edmund Catholic Church

188 South Oak Park Ave.

Easter is here! Join us for our worship celebration April 1st at 11:30am. New Life Community Church in Brookfield’s purpose is to be a family of love that cooperates with God in making fully devoted fruitful followers of Christ.

Let us be your church family, you won’t be disappointed.

Children are most certainly welcome as well!

Sunday Masses: 9:00 & 11:00 a.m., 5:30 p.m.

3801 Madison in Brookfield 708.277.9191 • newlifebrookfield.org

Reconciliation: Saturday 4:15 p.m.

(meeting at Faith Lutheran Church)

St. Bernardine Catholic Church Harrison & Elgin, Forest Park

CELEBRATING OUR 107TH YEAR! Sat. Masses: 8:30am & 5:00pm SUNDAY MASSES: 8:00am & 10:30am 10:30 Mass-Daycare for all ages CCD Sun. 9am-10:15am Reconciliation: Sat. 9am & 4pm Weekday Masses: Monday–Friday 6:30am Church Office: 708-366-0839 CCD: 708-366-3553 www.stbern.com Pastor: Fr. Stanislaw Kuca

St. Giles Family Mass Community

We welcome all to attend Sunday Mass at 10 a.m. on the St. Giles Parish campus on the second floor of the school gym, the southernmost building in the school complex at 1034 North Linden Avenue.

Established in 1970, we are a laybased community within St. Giles Roman Catholic Parish.

Our Mass is family-friendly.

We encourage liturgically active toddlers. Children from 3 to 13 and young adults play meaningful parts in each Sunday liturgy.

Together with the parish, we offer Catechesis of the Good Shepherd, a Montessori-based religious education program for children in grades K-8.

For more information, go to http://www.stgilesparish.org/ family-mass-community or call Bob Wielgos at 708-288-2196.

Traditional Catholic

The Traditional Catholic Latin Mass

Our Lady Immaculate Church 410 Washington Blvd Oak Park. 708-524-2408 Mass Times: Sat. 8:00am Sun. 7:30 & 10:00am Operated by Society of St. Pius X. Confessions 1 hr. before each mass

Third Unitarian Church

Rev. James Hurlbert, Pastor

Your Church on Easter

Roman Catholic

Saturday Mass: 5:30 p.m.

Weekday Mass: 8:30 a.m. M–F Holy Day Masses: As Announced

Parish Office: 708-848-4417 Religious Ed Phone: 708-848-7220

10AM Sunday Forum 11AM Service Rev. Colleen Vahey thirdunitarianchurch.org (773) 626-9385 301 N. Mayfield, Chicago Committed to justice, not to a creed Upcoming Religious Holidays

Mar 28 Khordad Sal (Birth of Prophet Zaranthushtra) Zoroastrian 29 Maundy Thursday Christian 30 Good Friday Christian 31-April 7 Pesach Jewish 31 Lazarus Saturday Orthodox Christian Hanuman Jayanti Hindu Lord’s Evening Meal Jehovah’s Witness Christian Magha Puja Day Buddhist Apr 1 Easter Christian Palm Sunday Orthodox Christian 3 Mahavir Jayanti Jain 6 Holy Friday Orthodox Christian

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2018 SUMMER SEASONAL STUDENT EMPLOYMENT The Village of Oak Park has openings for the 2018 Summer Seasonal Student Employment. Opportunities are in the Engineering, Water & Sewer, Streets Division, and Fleet & Forestry Divisions. Interested applicants must be 18 years old and actively enrolled in a post-secondary academic program. Applicants are encouraged to visit the Village of Oak Park’s website http://www.oakpark.us/. Interested and qualified applicants must complete a Village of Oak Park application.

BILLING & ADMIN SUPPORT Intermodal Logistics Company, located in central downtown Oak Park, seeking a full-time Billing and Administrative Support professional.

The ideal candidate must be detail oriented and possess a willingness to learn new skills in our growing organization.

DATA ENTRY/CUSTOMER SVC. Local business needs a Data Entry/ Customer Service Specialist. We will train you in the specifics of our operation, but you must be well organized, friendly, great with data and willing to learn. Start at $14/hr with benefits. Respond with resume and cover letter to datainputjob@ yahoo.com

PART TIME OFFICE Local company looking for reliable part-time office help. Hours 8:00am to noon. Please email kcounting123@gmail.com

Senior Developer needed by senior living co. based in Chicago, IL to dvlp, test, maintain & support applics including OBIEE & SSIS. Administer & configure OBIEE reporting platform including security. Performance tune application settings as provided by Oracle recommended settings. Maintain operational integrity of ETL processes & data warehouses. Must have Master’s deg in Comp Sci or equiv & 2 yrs related exp as Programmer Analyst. Send resume to: #ST2018, Attn: L. Tolentino, Assisted Living Concepts, LLC dba Enlivant, 330 N. Wabash, Ste 3700, Chicago, IL 60611.

ANIMAL CONTROL OFFICER The Village of Oak Park is seeking qualified candidates for the position of Animal Control Officer in the Health Department. This position will perform a variety of duties involved in enforcing Village ordinances governing the care and keeping of animals in the Village; and to impound, care for and assist with redemption of animals as appropriate. Applicants are encouraged to visit the Village of Oak Park’s website http://www.oak-park. us/jobs. Interested and qualified applicants must complete a Village of Oak Park application no later than April 11, 2018.

AUTO PARTS PART-TIME DRIVER & INVENTORY NAPA Auto Parts Stores looking for dependable and dedicated employees for part-time Driver and Inventory Worker openings. Most important is a friendly demeanor, good attitude, and ability to work with people. Availability right now.

If interested, call Cesar or Jim at 708-447-4980.

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Qualified candidates can email resume and cover letter to humanresources@icl-na.com SEEKING MOM’S HELPER Seeking experienced babysitter/ nanny for mom’s helper role in North Riverside home. Schedule is flexible but seeking late-morning, afternoon help a couple days per week. We have a month-old baby and need general assistance around home and with child. Non-smoking Riverside, Brookfield, North Riverside residents preferred. Nursing students a plus. Must have references.

Text 708-829-8292.

PART TIME EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS AND RESPONSE MANAGER The Village of Oak Park is seeking qualified candidates for the position of part-time Emergency Preparedness and Response Manager in the Health Department. This position will coordinate disaster response, crisis management and medical countermeasure dispensing/distribution activities for the Village of Oak Park, provide disaster preparedness training, and prepare emergency plans and procedures for natural (e.g., floods, earthquakes), wartime, or technological (e.g., nuclear power plant emergencies, hazardous materials spills, biological releases) or disasters. This single class position is also responsible for the complex administrative duties required for state, federal and local response processes and grant management. Applicants are encouraged to visit the Village of Oak Park’s website http://www.oak-park.us/jobs.

Interested and qualified applicants must complete a Village of Oak Park application no later than April 19, 2018.

Bookkeeping Accounting Assistant 6460 W Cortland St Chicago, IL 60707 (just north of Oak Park) Bookkeeping/Accounting assistant for a successful, fast growing national frame manufacturing company in Chicago, just north of Oak Park, IL. Candidate must possess accurate, fast typing and organizational skills.

You will learn about our frame business and do various tasks which may include the following: enter invoices for frame orders, work with FedEx and UPS online shipping software, write up frame orders, interact with and maintain the production floor schedule, help the sales team, correspond with our wonderful clients and suppliers by email and telephone.

We are an owner-operated fun and friendly growing company, treating employees with respect and kindness. We have clients nationwide and are a leader in our industry. Visit our website at www.fastchangeframes. com You’ll see our products in just about every retail store, hotel, restaurant in the U.S. Our beautiful, comfortable office, landscaped grounds, and manufacturing facility are near Oak Park in the Galewood neighborhood (near Cortland and Narragansett, next to Cobra Electronics). This flexible role is perfect for an energetic stay-at-home parent, recent graduate or a part-time student who is looking for a great part-time job. We can be flexible with schedule and no travel or weekend work. You will work in nice offices, with a friendly team, in casual attire, and with easy Metra and bus access. Hourly pay depending on experience. Please provide your hourly pay requirements. Submit confidential resumes by email only. Alpina Manufacturing LLC. 6460 W. Cortland St., Chicago, IL 60707.

See our company video at: www.fastchangeframes.com Email to: darius@fastchangeframes.com

McAdam is Hiring!! We want to add valuable members to our team: McAdam Nursery and Garden Center Full-Time Seasonal Sales Associate: Previous garden center sales experience is essential—this individual must be well beyond green-thumb status. Some horticultural knowledge, including how to maintain plants, is necessary. Candidate should have strong communication skills and ability to follow instructions quickly and accurately, to operate a cash register, and to provide outstanding customer service overall.

Ideal for someone looking for summer experience in the Green industry.

Full-Time Seasonal Nursery Laborer: This garden assistant will provide watering, weeding, deadheading and other forms of plant care.

Seeking an individual who is reliable, has good communication skills, and is a solid team player.

SAL’S POWER WASHING PART-TIME, FULL-TIME Seeking to fill 3-5 Fleet Washing positions. Positions Require: —Clean Appearance —Drug-Free —Valid Driver’s License —Clean Driving Record —Ability to Speak English CALL 708-351-5236 SCHAUER’S HARDWARE PART-TIME CASHIER 20-30 hours, weekends required.

No experience necessary, but looking for positive energy people. Must be outgoing, able to work with customers, deal with money & problem solving.

Send resume to schauerhardware@att.net. or Apply In Person Schauer’s Hardware 7449 W Madison, Forest Park Senior Developer needed by senior living co. based in Chicago, IL to dvlp, test, maintain & support applics including OBIEE & SSIS. Administer & configure OBIEE reporting platform including security. Performance tune application settings as provided by Oracle recommended settings. Assist in creating & deployment of reports using SSRS & configuring the SQL Server reporting. Oversee review & correction of data integrity & reporting issues. Must have Bachelor’s deg in Comp Sci or equiv & 5 yrs related exp as Technical Lead or Sr Programmer Analyst. Send resume to: #JM2018, Attn: L. Tolentino, Assisted Living Concepts, LLC dba Enlivant, 330 N. Wabash, Ste 3700, Chicago, IL 60611.

SUBURBAN REAL ESTATE NEW CONCEPT FOR MAYWOOD

In this quiet residential neighborhood

902 S. 3RD AVENUE (2 blks W of 1st Ave & 1 blk N of Madison)

Reserve your own affordable 2 or 3 BR condo unit of 1000+ sq ft of living space being built on this historic site. You’ll benefit from a unique 12 year tax freeze and lower monthly living expenses from energy saving systems/appliances, and you can help design your own individual unit.

Plans also include building 5 new townhomes onsite. For details Call 708-383-9223.

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Apartment listings updated daily at:

McAdam Landscaping Headquarters Full-time Office Receptionist: Must have at least two years of experience as a receptionist, with excellent problem-solving, customer service, telephone, computer, and overall communication skills.

Candidate should be adept at prioritizing tasks and working well in a team environment.

For all positions, submit your resume, work history and references to Lena at lena@mcadamlandscape.com. Please, no phone calls.

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CHURCH FOR RENT

2 BEDROOM FOREST PARK Updated 2 bed, 1 bath in Forest Park, 2 off street parking spots, close to trans well maintained $1250mo 1.5 mo sec.

Call 708-417-2650.

OAK PARK CLASSIC CHURCH FOR RENT

1 BEDROOM APT 1ST FLOOR 1 bedroom apt includes dishwasher, fridge, gas stove & small corner enclosed outdoor porch. Rent is $1,119 includes water & heat. Pets allowed! 8 min walk to Jewel Osco, 10 min walk to CTA Greenline, 10 min drive to downtown Oak Park & 12 min walk to the Ridgeland Common Recreation Complex Dog Park! On the first floor which makes moving a lot easier but not so near the ground where you have to worry about safety. Great place to call home!

Contact: Jesse Molina Phone: 708.289.2023 (call or text) OAK PARK: Studio Apartment.

Great Location. Heat and Parking included. $490/mo. plus 1 mo. security 708-848-8637 2 BEDROOM 1 BATH APT -2 bedroom, 1 bath avail. Immed.

-Quiet Building -Ideal for Senior or Single Professional -Spacious sunlight rooms -Large closets -Hardwood floors -No Pets -Off Street Parking included Call 773-383-7332

CITY RENTALS DELUXE 3BR APT 5955 W HURON First Floor. Near West Suburban Hospital. Near all public trans. $1150/mo. Call 773-637-8677 for appt, RENTERS OPEN HOUSE SAT 3/24 12PM TO 2PM

ROOMS FOR RENT AUSTIN CLEAN ROOM With fridge, micro.

Nr Oak Park, Super Walmart, Food 4 Less, bus, & Metra. $116/wk and up.

773-637-5957 Large Sunny Room with fridge & microwave. Near Green line, bus, Oak Park, 24 hour desk, parking lot. $101.00 week & up. New Mgmt.

773-378-8888

Includes Sanctuary, Fellowship Hall, Kitchen, Midweek Service/ Bible Study, Office Options.

708-848-9776

SPACE FOR RENT 4807 SQ FT In beautiful neighborhood in Oak Park. Varied uses possible for any kind of not-for-profit. Offices, community center, school, day care, etc.

Private Cell: 708-846-9776

FOR RENT

BUSINESS SPACE in SHOPPING CENTER FOREST PARK CALL OR TEXT FOR INFO: 708-828-6491 HIGH FOOT TRAFFIC AREA - SERIOUS INQUIRIES ONLY

OFFICE SPACE FOR RENT OAK PARK Office Suites 2 to 4 rooms

RIVER FOREST

2 Offices 220 to 1100 sq. ft.

Store 1100 sq. ft.

Strand & Browne 708/488-0011

ITEMS FOR SALE BEMIS AIR PURIFIER AND HUMIDIFIER Call 708-488-8755 LLADRO MOTHER & CHILD Lladro sculpture “Adoration” #12, mother & child. $1495. Call 708488-8755.

PICKARD CHINA 11 place settings, 5pcs each. Cream w/ platinum edge. $149 for set.

Serving pieces priced separately.

708-488-8755

WANTED TO BUY WANTED MILITARY ITEMS: Helmets, medals, patches, uniforms, weapons, flags, photos, paperwork, Also toy soldiers-lead plastic-other misc. toys.

Call Uncle Gary 708-522-3400 Lost & Found and To Be Given Away ads run free in Wednesday Classified. To place your ad, call 708-613-3342

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NOVENA TO ST. JUDE O, Holy St. Jude, Apostle & Martyr, great in virtue & rich in miracle, near kinsman of Jesus Christ, faithful intercessor of all who invoke your special patronage in time of need.

To you I have recourse from the depth of my heart & humbly beg to whom God had given such great power to come to my assistance.

Help me in my present & urgent petition. In return, I promise to make your name known & cause you to be invoked. Say 3 Our Fathers, 3 Hail Mary’s & Glories for 9 consecutive days. Publication must be promised. St. Jude pray for us all who invoke your aid. Amen. This novena has never been known to fail.

Thank you. rr

Let an American Veteran do your work

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We fix any electrical problem and do small jobs Home Re-wiring • New Plugs & Switches Added New circuit breaker boxes • Code violations corrected Service upgrades,100-200 amp • Garage & A/C lines installed Fast Emergency Service | Residential • Commercial • Industrial Free Home Evaluations | Lic. • Bonded • Ins. • Low Rates • Free Est. Sr. Discounts • 30 Yrs. Exp | Servicing Oak Park and all surrounding suburbs

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POWERFUL PRAYER TO THE HOLY SPIRIT,You who solve all problems, who light all roads, so that I can obtain my goals. You who give me the divine gift to forgive & forget all evil against me and that in all instances of my life You are with me.

I want in this short prayer to thank You for all things & to confirm that I never want to be separated from You even & in spite of all material illusions. I wish to be with You in eternal glory. Thank You for Your mercy towards me & mine. You must say this for 3 consecutive days.

After 3 days the favor requested will be granted even though it may appear difficult. This prayer must be published immediately after the favor is granted without mentioning the favor. s.m.

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PUBLIC NOTICE Attention Nissan Infiniti LT LSR & Aron Pagadala, you are the last indicated owners or lienholders on file with Illinois Secretary Of State. Our records show, your 2010, Nissan, Altima with the following VIN 1N4AL2AP8AN454395 was towed to our facility. The current amount due & owing is $1920.00. If payment is not received within 30 days, Nobs Towing Inc. will intent to enforce a mechanicâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lien pursuant to Chapter 770 ILCS 50/3. Sale of the aforementioned vehicle will take place at 1510 Hannah, Forest Park, IL, 60130 on 5/14/18.

Published in Forest Park Review 3/28/2018

PUBLIC NOTICE Attention Davelle Richardson & Ivan Auto Sales Inc., you are the last indicated owners or lienholders on file with Illinois Secretary Of State. Our records show, your 2005, Toyota, Camry with the following VIN 4T1BE30K55U537780 was towed to our facility. The current amount due & owing is $1920.00. If payment is not received within 30 days, Nobs Towing Inc. will intent to enforce a mechanicâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lien pursuant to Chapter 770 ILCS 50/3. Sale of the afore- mentioned vehicle will take place at 1510 Hannah, Forest Park, IL, 60130 on 5/14/2018 Published in Forest Park Review 3/28/2018

PUBLIC NOTICE PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME In the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, County Department, County Division. In the matter of the petition of Shirley Jones Suber for change of name to Shirley Jean Jones, Case #2018CONC000319.

Notice is given you, the public, that on March 21, 2018, I have filed a Petition For Change of Name in this Court, asking the Court to change my present name of Shirley Jones Suber to the name of Shirley Jean Jones. This case will be heard in courtroom 1707 at 50 W. Washington Street, Chicago, Illinois on Wednesday, June 6, 2018 at 10:30 a.m.

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STATE OF ILLINOIS) COUNTY OF COOK )ss Circuit Court of Cook County, County Department, Domestic Relations Division.

In re the marriage of Emeka Kingsley Ogbobegwu, Petitioner and Ccatherine Omolola Ogbobuegwu Respondent, Case No. 2018D-01513.

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 April 17, 2018, 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.

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LEGAL NOTICE Chertkow and Chertkow (22019) Attorneys for Petitioner 1525 East 53rd Street Chicago, Illinois 60615 STATE OF ILLINOIS) COUNTY OF COOK )ss Circuit Court of Cook County, County Department, Domestic Relations Division.

In re the marriage of Veronica Ramirez, Petitioner and Alvaro Magana Respondent, Case No. 2017D-010074.

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 April 17, 2018, 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.

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PUBLIC NOTICE Notice is hereby given, pursuant to â&#x20AC;&#x153;An Act in relation to the use of an Assumed Business Name in the conduct or transaction of Business in the State,â&#x20AC;? as amended, that a certification was registered by the undersigned with the County Clerk of Cook County. Registration Number: D18153723 on March 6, 2018. Under the Assumed Business Name of MUSIC TOGETHER OF RIVERSIDE with the business located at: 116 BARRYPOINT ROAD, RIVERSIDE, IL 60546. The true and real full name(s) and residence address of the owner(s)/partner(s) is: ALEXANDRA BLOMGREN 135 AKENSIDE ROAD RIVERSIDE, IL 60546.

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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: D18153769 on March 9, 2018. Under the Assumed Business Name of ANSWERS 2 HAIRLOSS with the business located at: 2600 S. MICHIGAN SUITE 314, CHICAGO, IL 60616. The true and real full name(s) and residence address of the owner(s)/partner(s) is: MELVINA COX 2600 S. MICHIGAN AVENUE CHICAGO, IL 60616.

Chertkow and Chertkow (22019) Attorneys for Petitioner 1525 East 53rd Street Chicago, Illinois 60615 STATE OF ILLINOIS) COUNTY OF COOK )ss Circuit Court of Cook County, County Department, Domestic Relations Division.

In re the marriage of Johanna Obando, Petitioner and Mainor Manuel Obando Acosta Respondent, Case No. 2018D-001741.

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 April 17, 2018, 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.

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NOTICE OF ANNUAL TOWN MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to the legal voters, residents of the Township of Oak Park, County of Cook, and State of Illinois, that the Annual Town Meeting of said Township, will take place on Tuesday, April 10, 2018, at the Oak Park Township Senior Services Center, 130 S. Oak Park Ave., in the Township of Oak Park, at the hour of 6:30 p.m., for the transaction of the business of the Township; and a Moderator having been elected, will proceed to hear and consider reports of officers, and decide on such measures as may, in pursuance of law, come before the meeting, following this agenda: I.Call to Order II.Pledge of Allegiance III.Procedures for Meeting IV.Supervisor’s Annual Financial Statements V.Township Year In Review VI.Election of Moderator VII.Resolutions to Come Before the Electors VII. Adjournment All interested citizens, groups, senior citizens and organizations representing the interests of senior citizens are encouraged to attend.

Oak Park Township does not discriminate on the basis of handicapped status in the admission or access to, or employment in its programs or activities. Those needing special accommodations are asked to provide 48 hours notice.

Given under my hand in the Town of Oak Park, County of Cook, State of Illinois, this 15th day of March, 2018.

LEGAL NOTICE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a Public Hearing will be held by the Village of Oak Park Historic Preservation Commission on Thursday, April 12, 2018 at 7:30PM at Village Hall, 123 Madison Street, Oak Park, Illinois on the following matter:

Gregory P. White Oak Park Township Clerk Published in Wednesday Journal 3/28/2018

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The Village of Riverside Open House Public Information Meeting Notice for Riverside Road/Bloomingbank Road Improvements (Metra Pedestrian Access Improvement Project) The Village of Riverside invites you to attend the Open House Public Information Meeting for the Phase I Engineering and Environmental Study for the proposed streetscape and resurfacing of Bloomingbank Road/Riverside Road from Burling Road to the BNSF Railroad. The proposed improvements consist of streetscape and resurfacing of Bloomingbank Road in front of the Train Depot and Riverside Road from Burling Road to the BNSF Railroad. Additional improvements include minor geometric modifications, pedestrian crossing enhancements, curb bump-outs, curb line modifications, and parking modifications. There will be a reorganization of parking in front of the Train Depot with the existing number of spaces being maintained. The purpose of this meeting is to present the proposed improvement plans, and provide an opportunity for public comment. The details of the Open House Public Meeting are as follows:

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING FISCAL YEAR 2019 BUDGET

Date: Thursday, April 12, 2018 Time: 4:30 pm to 6:30 pm Location: Riverside Township Hall -Room 4 27 Riverside Rd. Riverside, IL 60546

The Village of River Forest will hold a public hearing on Monday, April 9, 2018 at 7:00 p.m. in the 1st floor Community Room of the Village Hall, 400 Park Avenue, River Forest, Illinois concerning the Village of River Forest proposed budget for the fiscal period starting May 1, 2018 and ending April 30, 2019.

The meeting will be conducted in an open house format, meaning interested persons can attend at any time between 4:30 pm and 6:30 pm. Attendees will have the opportunity to view exhibits and submit comments. Village representatives and project consultants will be present to discuss the project and answer questions.

DATED AT OAK PARK, ILLINOIS ON March 28, 2018

A copy of the proposed budget is available for public inspection at the Village Hall during regular business hours or on the Village’s website at www.vrf.us.

For more information, please contact Finance Director Joan Rock at 708-366-8500.

For additional information, please contact: Sonya Abt Community Development Director Village of Riverside 27 Riverside Road Riverside, IL 60546 Phone: 708-447-1241

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• Historic Landmark Nomination for 400 N. Kenilworth Avenue The public hearing is being held in accordance with the regulations of the Oak Park Historic Preservation Ordinance.

The Historic Preservation Commission will take public testimony and forward their recommendations to the Village Board of Trustees following the conclusion of the public hearing.

For further information on this matter contact the Department of Development Customer Services, Planning Division, Village of Oak Park, 123 Madison Street, Oak Park, Illinois during normal business hours at (708) 358-5417 or historicpreservation@oak-park.us.

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. Plaintiff, -v.TERESA C. TRIPLETT, 1040 ONTARIO CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION Defendants 2017 CH 12734 1040 W. ONTARIO STREET #2H 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 9, 2018, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on April 27, 2018, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 1040 W. ONTARIO STREET #2H, OAK PARK, IL 60302 Property Index No. 16-07-113-0101012.

The real estate is improved with a 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 in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. 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 or contact Plaintiff’s attorney: CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE

ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876 Please refer to file number 14-17-13986.

THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE 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. 14-17-13986 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 2017 CH 12734 TJSC#: 38-474 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.

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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 or contact Plaintiff’s attorney: CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876 Please refer to file number 14-17-10412.

THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE 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. 14-17-10412 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 2017 CH 10351 TJSC#: 38-1155 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.

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the above cause on March 9, 2018, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on April 16, 2018, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 1111 N. HARLEM AVE. (UNIT 1B and P-1), Oak Park, IL 60302 Property Index No. 16-06-300-0511003.

The real estate is improved with a residential condominium.

The judgment amount was $166,648.30.

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 in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. 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, contact Plaintiff’s attorney: Michael W. Debre, CHUHAK & TECSON, P.C., 30 S. WACKER DRIVE, STE. 2600, CHICAGO, IL 60606, (312) 4449300 Please refer to file number MWD 23638.57231.

THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales.

Michael W. Debre CHUHAK & TECSON, P.C. 30 S. WACKER DRIVE, STE. 2600 CHICAGO, IL 60606 (312) 444-9300

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION CITIMORTGAGE, INC. Plaintiff, -v.WALTER PEEK, ERICA A.E. PEEK, JOI-NOMATHEMBA O. PEEK, EQUABLE ASCENT FINANCIAL, LLC, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants 2017 CH 10351 622 S TAYLOR AVE OAK PARK, IL 60304 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on January 30, 2018, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on May 2, 2018, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 622 S TAYLOR AVE, OAK PARK, IL 60304 Property Index No. 16-17-113-009.

The real estate is improved with a 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 in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. 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,

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION SCHAUMBURG BANK & TRUST COMPANY, N.A, AS SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST TO THE FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION, LEGAL SUCCESSOR AND RECEIVER FOR THE BANK OF COMMERCE Plaintiff, -v.CHICAGO TITLE LAND TRUST COMPANY, SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE TO FIRSTAR BANK, N.A., AS TRUSTEE UNDER TRUST AGREEMENT DATED AUGUST 4, 2000 AND KNOWN AS TRUST NUMBER 7375, U.S. BANK, N.A. F/ K/A FIRSTAR BANK, N.A. TRUST NUMBER 7375, SETTLER’S HOUSING SERVICE, INC., BOARD OF MANAGERS OF THE ASTOR HOUSE II CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants 12 CH 3947 1111 N. HARLEM AVE. (UNIT 1B and P-1) Oak Park, IL 60302 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in

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E-Mail: MDebre@chuhak.com Attorney File No. MWD 23638.57231 Attorney Code. 70693 Case Number: 12 CH 3947 TJSC#: 38-2190 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.

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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: Visit our website at service.atty-pierce.com. between the hours of 3 and 5pm.

McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce, LLC, Plaintiff’s Attorneys, One North Dearborn Street, Suite 1200, Chicago, IL 60602. Tel No. (312) 416-5500. Please refer to file number 7999.

THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales.

McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce, LLC One North Dearborn Street, Suite 1200 Chicago, IL 60602 (312) 416-5500 E-Mail: pleadings@mccalla.com Attorney File No. 7999 Attorney Code. 61256 Case Number: 10 CH 42289 TJSC#: 38-2536 I3081805

Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale.

Where a sale of real estate is made to satisfy a lien prior to that of the United States, the United States shall have one year from the date of sale within which to redeem, except that with respect to a lien arising under the internal revenue laws the period shall be 120 days or the period allowable for redemption under State law, whichever is longer, and in any case in which, under the provisions of section 505 of the Housing Act of 1950, as amended (12 U.S.C. 1701k), and subsection (d) of section 3720 of title 38 of the United States Code, the right to redeem does not arise, there shall be no right of redemption.

The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information.

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 or contact Plaintiff’s attorney: CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876 Please refer to file number 14-17-14024.

THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE 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. 14-17-14024 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 2017 CH 12897 TJSC#: 38-818 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.

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC Plaintiff, -v.UNKNOWN HEIRS AND/OR LEGATEES OF DORETHA GORDON, DECEASED, JULIE E. FOX, AS SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR DORETHA GORDON, DECEASED, MELVINA GORDON, VILLAGE OF MAYWOOD, AN ILLINOIS MUNICIPAL CORPORATION, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS, UNKNOWN OCCUPANTS Defendants 17 CH 1202 47 South 21st Avenue Maywood, IL 60153 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on December 15, 2017, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on April 10, 2018, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 47 South 21st Avenue, Maywood, IL 60153 Property Index No. 15-10-117-0300000.

The real estate is improved with a single family residence.

The judgment amount was $160,818.92.

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 in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. 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, contact The sales clerk, SHAPIRO KREISMAN & ASSOCIATES, LLC, 2121 WAUKEGAN RD., SUITE 301, Bannockburn, IL 60015, (847) 2911717 For information call between the hours of 1pm–3pm. Please refer to file number 16-081896.

THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales.

SHAPIRO KREISMAN & ASSOCIATES, LLC 2121 WAUKEGAN RD., SUITE 301 Bannockburn, IL 60015 (847) 291-1717 E-Mail: ILNotices@logs.com Attorney File No. 16-081896 Attorney Code. 42168 Case Number: 17 CH 1202 TJSC#: 38-2023 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.

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION (‘’FANNIE MAE’’), A CORPORATION ORGANIZED AND EXISTING UNDER THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Plaintiff, -v.EARL CHAMBERS, BETTY LAWSON Defendants 17 CH 12398 2314 CALWAGNER AVE Melrose Park, IL 60164 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on January 19, 2018, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on April 23, 2018, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 2314 CALWAGNER AVE, Melrose Park, IL 60164 Property Index No. 12-33-216-0130000.

The real estate is improved with a single family residence.

The judgment amount was $215,658.27.

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 in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. 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, contact Plaintiff’s attorney: JOHNSON, BLUMBERG & ASSOCIATES, LLC, 230 W. Monroe Street, Suite #1125, Chicago, IL 60606, (312) 541-9710 Please refer to file number 17-5280.

THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales.

JOHNSON, BLUMBERG & ASSOCIATES, LLC 230 W. Monroe Street, Suite #1125 Chicago, IL 60606 (312) 541-9710 E-Mail: ilpleadings@johnsonblumberg.com Attorney File No. 17-5280 Attorney Code. 40342 Case Number: 17 CH 12398 TJSC#: 38-775 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.

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION SUNTRUST MORTGAGE, INC. Plaintiff, -v.GREGORY GARMON Defendants 10 CH 42289 1170 SOUTH HUMPHREY AVENUE OAK PARK, IL 60304 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on August 19, 2016, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on May 11, 2018, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 1170 SOUTH HUMPHREY AVENUE, OAK PARK, IL 60304 Property Index No. 16-17-331-0070000.

The real estate is improved with a yellow brick two story single family home with a two car detached garage.

Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. 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)

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION REVERSE M O RT G A G E SOLUTIONS, INC. Plaintiff, -v.ARNOLD WALLACE A/K/A ARNOLD L. WALLACE, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA– DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, FIRST NORTHERN CREDIT UNION, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants 2017 CH 12897 1612 S. 18TH AVE MAYWOOD, IL 60153 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on January 17, 2018, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on April 27, 2018, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 1612 S. 18TH AVE, MAYWOOD, IL 60153 Property Index No. 15-15-125-0160000.

The real estate is improved with a 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 in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. 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.

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The Good Life Race promotes community Local event brings together runners, volunteers and supporters for good cause

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ot everyone loves RACING. The world is full of people who enjoy running, with no desire at all to compete, nor do they live enslaved to their Garmin watches; munching data, analyzing their performances and training rituals. They just enjoy the run.

Then, some enthusiasts can appreciate their casual runs, and relish spicing up the season with an occasional race, just for the heck of it.

There’s also a space, inhabited by fast, competitive and talented athletes who train smart and train hard. If we are lucky, we get to witness their talents and performances.

I live somewhere in the blurry middle of all those kinds of runners. I often say that I love to race, but that I hate the last 25 percent of any race I participate in, regardless of the distance. This is probably because I’m not one of those super-talented (or smart-training) athletes, but I push myself hard enough to where I have to argue with the internal Running Columnist voice shouting “let’s stop, c’mon, this hurts already!” But I love crossing the finish line—and then the pain is just a memory. And in the postrace cool down, I spot some friends, who share some of the horror // triumph of our race, and it’s all good.

The first time I ran a race, I was floored by how fun it was to take over the streets of my town, and by the sense of community that pervaded the scene. The best races create this kind of energy. Even though they may be super-competitive, they promote something more than winning. On Sunday morning, April 8, the Oak Park Runners Club will put on, with the help of approximately 225 volunteers, 25 sponsors and 1,600 participants, the 37th running of the Good Life Race, a family-friendly event that creates just that kind of energy, and more.

With separate 5K races for women and men, a Youth Mile, 5K Fitness Walk and a 200-meter Junior Dash for the under-5 age group, there is opportunity for anyone to get moving.

For yet another reason to celebrate, The Good Life Race is a not-for-profit event, which has raised over $100,000 over the past five years for its charitable partners. In 2017, Good Life was able to make a gift of $24,000 to the Collaboration for Early Childhood and $7,000 to the Oak Park River Forest Food Pantry. Even if you’re not a runner, that kind of community-building should inspire you… (say, still plenty of volunteer opportunities open, at press time!)

Not committed yet? Ok. I know that early April weather can be iffy, but odds are better than good that April 8 will be springlike, and –at least for me, that feels like a celebration, rain or shine. Like a good day to run down the middle of the street with a big smile on my face, (at least for the first 75 percent of the race, that is!). I hope you’ll join me—high fives at the finish!

For more event & volunteering details, visit http://goodliferace.com.

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ALEXA ROGALS/Staff Photographer

(Above) Senior attackman Robert Dombrowski looks to pass. (Right) An OPRF player collides with a Naperville Central player.

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Trending up from page 52 Team captain/goalkeeper Evan Friedman has been very effective early this season. A mix of upperclassmen will be called on to provide leadership and production. Seniors Rob Dombrowski, John Menzies and Conor Hartweg, along with juniors Jacob Siclau, Peter Galo, Ben Kotte and Liam Smart compose the nucleus of the team.

Promising sophomore Toby Kunkel, who also plays quarterback on the football team, is a good athlete with an ability to score.

Defensively, Milos Ewert, Paul Huber, Trey Mobley, Harry Wysocky, Matt Poulin and Sam Ciosek will see playing time as well.

“They are fast, mobile and can flat out get after people defensively,” Chierici said. “On top of that, they also have a great ability to move the ball, either via a pass or with their feet.”

The Huskies will face tough opponents throughout the season due to a mix of West Suburban Silver games, plus multiple nonconference tests.

“Our schedule is very competitive,” Chierici said.

“You can’t play a soft schedule and expect to go very far in the playoffs. Any conference game is big, especially now that we have a traveling trophy in the conference. If you get a conference opponent that has the trophy, it is on the line. We will also be playing Evanston for a traveling trophy. As far as winning it all, you have to look at Loyola and New Trier as the

favorites.”

Glenbard West won last year’s conference, but Chierici believes every team is beatable in the West Suburban Silver.

“As a program we play to win,” Chierici said. “Along the way we will learn a lot about ourselves and realize that the only things you can ever really control are your effort and attitude. If you want to play lacrosse at OPRF, you better bring a good attitude and best effort every day.”

Chierici, who has been playing and coaching lacrosse since the early 1980s, credits his assistants Jason Raad, James Borja, Joe Curtis, Brad Raad and Rich Fantozzi for much of the team’s development.

“I have been lucky to have a solid coaching staff that has been together for three seasons now,” Chierici said. “Because of this dedicated staff, I witness small victories every day as we continue to push these young men to be better lacrosse players, students and sons.”

OPRF has a couple of home games in early April.

The Huskies host Whitney Young (4/3) and Glenbard East (4/5). Both games start at 4:30 p.m. at the football stadium.

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Triton hoops wins first national title Trojans cap off dream season with a NJCAA Division II championship

BY MARTY FARMER Sports Editor

The Triton College men’s basketball team won the program’s first NJCAA Division II national championship after defeating Pima Community College (Tucson, Arizona) 89-85 in Danville on March 24.

In the final, the Trojans built a 39-26 lead at halftime.

Alondes Williams, from Milwaukee, led Triton in scoring with 22 points and also had seven rebounds and three steals.

Najee-Brown Henderson, of Detroit, scored 16 points, including 8-for-10 from the free throw line. Playing his final game for Triton, Deonta Terrell contributed 15 points and seven boards.

The Trojans (33-4) entered the tournament a No. 1 seed.

They earned a place in the championship game after beating Southwestern College 85-67 on March 23.

Terrell, an All-American candidate who led the team this season with averages of 16.3 points and 4.4 rebounds per game, was named the tournament MVP. Williams and Brown-Henderson were selected to the NJCAA All-Tournament Team.

Triton coach Steve Christiansen was named NJCAA Division II National Coach of the Year.

Ten of the 15 players on Triton’s squad are from Illinois, including area players Issaiah Hayes (Orr), Jerel Pitts (Proviso West), Greg Kester (Foreman), Martrell Barnes (North Lawndale), Devin Blake (Downers Grove North) and Terrell (Farragut).

OPRF softball Entering this spring, the Oak Park and River Forest High School softball team knew scoring runs wouldn’t be an issue.

With All-American players Fiona Girardot and Maeve Nelson in the heart of the batting order, plus a strong supporting cast, the Huskies have one of the most prolific offenses in the state.

OPRF put on an impressive power display against Maine South, hitting six home runs en route to a 14-6 win. Girardot went 4-for-5 with two homers, three MAEVE NELSON RBIs and four runs scored, while Senior shortstop Nelson belted a three-run homer.

Olivia Glass (3-for-4, 3 RBI), Carli Tucci (3-for-5, 4 runs), and Maddie Grant (2-for-4, 2 RBI) hit home runs as well.

Zoe Prouty allowed four runs and six hits with five strikeouts and a walk over four innings to earn the win. Taylor Divello allowed two runs and two hits and struck out three in three innings of relief.

OPRF (3-1) hosts Mother McAuley on Wednesday, March 28 at 4:30 p.m.

Fenwick softball The Friars split a pair of games against Nazareth and St. Viator last week. Alyssa Stramaglia went 2-for-3 with two RBIs in a 10-4 loss against Nazareth. Fenwick rebounded well in a 10-6 victory over St. Viator as Ciara Herbert and Gianna Amundsen drove in three runs apiece for Fenwick (2-3).

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Triton guard Najee Brown-Henderson dribbles past a Pima Community College player in the NJCAA Division II Finals. Triton won 89-85 as first-time champs.

Fenwick girls soccer The Friars remain unbeaten this spring with a 6-0 victory against Proviso West. Anissa Nourse and Kaylie Fredian powered a balanced attack by Fenwick (5-0), which had six players score on assisted goals.

Fenwick boys water polo The Friars won two of three games at the York tournament over the weekend. Fenwick defeated St. Ignatius 9-7 and Niles West 18-3. In their final match of the tourney, the Friars lost to Lyons Township 6-3.

Against Niles West, Payton Comstock scored a game-high five goals, with Dan Badja (4 goals), Ben Lulich (3 goals), Dan Lynch (2 goals) and Alex Figus (2 goals) contributing as well.

Goalies Manny Ruiz and Alejandro Perez had four and three saves, respectively. Nate Fischer and Lulich

scored three goals apiece in the team’s win over St. Ignatius.

Other notable victories earlier this season included a 13-11 win at Loyola to open the season and an 11-6 win over OPRF at the Dan Lynch Tournament.

Fenwick (11-3, 5-0 Metro Catholic Aquatic Conference) hosts St. Rita on Wednesday, March 28 at 6:30 p.m.

OPRF boys volleyball Junior left side hitter Kyle Rasmussen had six kills and junior outside hitters Lucas Schattauer and Quinton Kitzman added five kills apiece in the Huskies’ 25-19, 25-18 win over Morton.

Junior setter Sean Catliff ran the offense well with 24 assists in his first varsity match as a starter. Senior Jack Valenti also contributed with three kills, three block assists and one solo block for OPRF (1-0).

Fenwick boys volleyball

Photo by Don Bartecki

The Friars’ Payton Comstock scored five goals in an 18-3 win over Niles West.

The Friars lost their home opener against Brother Rice 13-25, 25-23, 13-15 on March 22. Jack Kenny had eight kills and Kevin Johnson dished out 12 assists to lead the Friars’ offense. Fenwick (0-2) also lost its season opener 18-25, 15-25 at Lane Tech.

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OPRF boys lacrosse expects better results

Huskies’ returning group of players raise hopes

BY MARTY FARMER

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ecords can be deceiving. That’s the outlook Oak Park and River Forest High School boys lacrosse coach Rocco Chierici has adopted this spring.

OPRF finished a dismal 3-14 and in fifth place in the West Suburban Conference Silver Division in 2017. And yet, the team was very competitive in multiple games. In fact, the Huskies even won a play-in game to qualify for the state playoffs. Their postseason stay was short lived, however, losing to Grayslake in the first round.

“Last year’s results looked worse than the team really played.” Chierici said.

“Seven of our losses were by one goal.”

Although the Huskies graduated multiple players after last season, the 2018 Huskies have talent and optimism. They believe the small margin between victory and defeat can turn in their favor this season.

“I am excited for this year’s team as there is a lot of physical talent,” Chierici said. “The program stresses and will push student-athletes to be two-way players and master the essential skills we have laid out to be complete players. I think our biggest challenge will be our ability to limit unforced errors, whether in action or thought.”

ALEXA ROGALS/Staff Photographer

OPRF midfielder Peter Clarkson (#7) and teammate Matt Poulin (#14) converge on a Naperville Central lacrosse player. OPRF won 12-8.

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