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November 13, 2019 Vol. 39, No. 15 ONE DOLLAR @oakpark @wednesdayjournal
JOURNAL of Oak Park and River Forest
Special section page B21
Obama biographer David Mendell at Dominican, Nov. 20, page 14
Facing criticism, Rush Oak Park delays garage Commission asks hospital to meet with neighbors By STACEY SHERIDAN Staff Reporter
Consideration of Rush Oak Park Hospital’s plans to build a new 713-space parking garage is on hold until February, at the hospital’s request. At a Nov. 7 public hearing in front of the Plan Commission, the hospital proposed constructing the See GARAGE on page 16
SHANEL ROMAIN/Contributor
Romeo and Juliet and Muti
Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s Riccardo Muti, conducts the Symphony of Oak Park–River Forest during a rehearsal held at the Kehrein Center for the Arts in Austin on Nov. 10. For more photos, see page 12.
Oak Park native captures ins, outs of gun violence Dan Protess’ WTTW docuseries launches conversation on citywide epidemic
By MICHAEL ROMAIN Staff Reporter
Reality Allah, an outreach worker with READI Chicago, an organization dedicated to lowering the number of shootings and homicides in the city by engaging the peo-
ple most likely to shoot or be shot, walks into the home of a prospective client who is on house arrest and notices something. “Is that a bullet hole?” Allah said, pointing to the living room window. India Hart, a teenager in Chicago’s Auburn Gresham neighborhood, lives on a mani-
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cured block but attends a school eight blocks away where students play cards to pass the time because the teachers keep quitting. Hart has Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), the result of witnessing family See PROTESS on page 17
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