Oak Park wary on Forest Park mall plan
Oak Park leaders voice mixed views on a possible Forest Park mall across the river. Village officials predict limited impact on Oak Park Village Mall while noting strategic planning and lender concerns.
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Newspaper
Forest Park World
Location
Forest Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1978
Page
3
Chaddick outlines mall plans at postal site
Chaddick discussed converting the postal site into a 360000 square foot mall with three anchors. He noted sewer and water adequate but questioned insurance constraints and suggested basement use for industrial needs. Completion would begin about 60 days after applications, with about 18 months until first tenants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Page
Chaddick
Marinier
Postal Service
First American Realty
Chadwick
Snow closes Forest Park 91 schools for two days
Forest Park School District 91 canceled classes for Thursday and Friday after more than 12 inches of snow. Superintendent Arthur Jones used a telephone chain to notify the 970 elementary students and PTOs helped spread word.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Forest Park
Arthur Jones
Board of Education
Jones
Organi
Community center offers multiple upcoming events
The Howard R. Mohr Community Center announces an after school arts and crafts class starting February 22 and running eight weeks from 4 to 5 p.m. at four dollars per child led by Brenda Henderson. A ski trip to Alpine Valley is planned for February 25 with departures at 1 p.m. and returns by midnight. Member price is eighteen dollars, non member nineteen. a ten dollar deposit is due February 8. A Broadway trip to see Chorus Line in Chicago is scheduled for June 22 with tickets at seventeen dollars and fifty cents. reservations due by February 22. Dorothy Madden at 771 7737 handles information. Auditions for Our Hearts Were Young and Gay occur February 6 and 7 with performances April 26-29. eight men and nine women needed for acting plus backstage, makeup and props. A cooking class titled cooking with Crisco continues, with Greece lessons on filo pastry and moussaka, and next week plans to move to France for crepes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howard R. Mohr Community Center
Brenda Henderson
Alpine Valley
Chorus Line
Chicago
Doro
Thy Madden
Jackson Boulevard
DesPlaines Avenue
Crisco
Greece
France
Oak Parkers Visit Soviet Dissidents Tour
Oak Parkers from Oak Park and River Forest visited Lenin grad and Moscow with Martin and Belle Silverman describing impressions of refuseniks and their lives. They met Felix Aronovich and Vladimir Slepak, noting fear, censorship, and limited information access amid emigration bans. The trip highlighted rigid control, yet revealed resilience and curiosity among refusenik families.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Terry Levin
Oak Park
River Forest
Soviet Union
Martin
Belle Silverman
Har Zion
Leningrad
Moscow
Silvermans
Silverman
Maple Furriers
Lake St
Imperial
Russia
Kremlin
Aronovich
Anna
Chicago
Slepak
Israel
Belle
Shopper poll favors Oak Park Mall over Forest Park plan
WORLD poll finds only one of 40 shoppers would abandon Oak Park Village Mall for a Forest Park mall. About half would shop there if it drew major department stores, though few expect such stores. Oak Park officials and merchants express skepticism about Forest Park viability.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Village Mall
Moroney
James T. McClure
Oak Park
McClure
Charles Gardner
Forest Park
Gardner
Oak Park Village
Myles Spaulding
Oak Park River Forest
Marshall Fields
Sarah Bode
Maureen O'Brien
River Forest
Elmwood Park
Chicago
Berwyn
Lord and Taylor's
Leona Glowinke
Glowinke
Arthur Replogle
Oak Park Development Corporation
Winter Vacation Reading at Forest Park Library
The Forest Park Public Library offers travel books and guides to world destinations including Paris and Europe by Train. The collection features Fodor's guides, cultural city books, and four color maps, plus a cinema loan program with 16mm travel films available to cardholders for 50 cents insurance per reel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fodor
Suburban Library System
Forest Park
Thrift shop set to open at Walther High in Maywood
The Bronco Thrift Shop opens at 10 a m Saturday February 4 benefiting Walther Lutheran High School Melrose Park. Located at 9 N 5th Ave Maywood hours 10 a m to 4 p m Monday Tuesday Thursday Friday Saturday. Velma Beyer Forest Park will manage and volunteers may call 366-0399 after 6 p m. Donations of clean pressed usable items accepted during hours. large items such as stoves and refrigerators not accepted. Board includes Marvin Schlichting River Forest chair Jan Beauchamp Bellwood Lil Carroll Brookfield Virginia Lippig Lombard Lois Butscher Melrose Park Don Lellke Hinsdale Joan Grotelueschen River Forest Edith Rush Maywood Velmé Beyer Forest Park.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bronco Thrift Shop
Walther Lutheran High School
Melrose Park
N. 5Th Ave
Maywood
Thrift Shop Board of
Marvin Schlichting
River Forest
Jan Beauchamp
Bellwood
Also Mentioned on This Page
Roosevelt Mall
Sara Bode
Bode
North Riverside
Des Plaines Avenue
Roosevelt Road
Paul Moroney
Economic Development Commission
Forest Park Mall
Wiebolts
Real Estate Research Corporation
Oak Parkers
Ionesco
Orwell
Paris
Robert S. Kane
Andre Chestel
Europe
William J. Dunn
Time-Life Multimedia
Dublin
Edinburgh
Venice
London
Amsterdam
Madrid
Hong Kong
Vienna
Velma Beyer
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