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June 19, 2019 Vol. 39, No. 46 ONE DOLLAR @oakpark @wednesdayjournal
JOURNAL of Oak Park and River Forest
Garden Walk blossoms this weekend Page B1
Wright Trust to build new education center Demolishing older home to make room for 20,000-square-foot building By TIMOTHY INKLEBARGER Staff Reporter
The Frank Lloyd Wright Trust has announced that it is building a new state-of-the-art visitor and education center adjacent to the Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio in the 900 block of Chicago Avenue. The multimillion project will bring a 20,000-square-foot facility and outdoor space to the property now occupied by a residential building at 925 Chicago Ave. That building will be demolished, according to Frank Lloyd Wright Trust President and CEO Celeste Adams. The new visitor center also will incorporate a building directly east of the home and studio, which is now used as office space for the trust. The trust selected architect John Ronan, who designed the Chicago Poetry Foundation building in downtown Chicago, to design the new visitor center. “This is the most important initiative since the trust’s founding and restoration of the Home and Studio,” Frank Lloyd Wright Trust Board Chairman Bob Miller said in a press release. “It will ensure that Wright’s legacy remains vital to future generations. See WRIGHT TRUST on page 12
ALEXA ROGALS/Staff Photographer
BEST BAGGER: Jeremy Schumann, of Lombard, talks to a customer as he packs up groceries on June 13, at Jewel-Osco on Lake Street in River Forest.
Bagger celebrates two decades at Jewel Jeremy Schumann has been working at the River Forest store since he was 26 By NONA TEPPER Staff Reporter
Jeremy Schumann has seen the JewelOsco, 7525 W. Lake St. in River Forest, remodeled five times, adding 10 selfcheckout lanes. “This Jewel is the largest store in the Albertson chain, from a revenue standpoint, so it’s the busiest,”
said Patrick Schumann, Jeremy’s father. Jeremy, 46, has also seen the rise of reusable bags. But it’s the regular customers that the Lombard resident remembers most, those who have made his job as a bagger one worth keeping. On May 28, Schumann celebrated 20 years at Jewel-Osco. “Every day, I’ll see this one guy who
comes in with his mom and he always says hi to me,” Schumann said. “I’ll have repeat customers who come up and say hi. … They come up and we talk sports and that kind of stuff, and it’s fun.” A “huge Cubs fan,” Schumann once had a customer who worked as an usher at See SCHUMANN on page 13