Villages Revisit North Ave Widening Plan With Changes
Elmwood Park Oak Park and River Forest officials meet with Illinois Department of Transportation to reconsider a five year old North avenue widening plan. The proposal adds three traffic lanes, bans rush hour parking, and improves intersections with safety islands while flagging possible cost and tree losses. Public hearings will be held and construction could start no earlier than 1978 with 70 to 80 percent funded by the federal government.
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North Avenue
Illinois Department of Transportation
Elmwood Park
Oak Park
River Forest
State Department of Transportation
North Ave
Ken Chaloupek
Dept. of Transportation
Lathrop
Oak Park Ave
Narragansett- Ridgeland
Austin Ave
Chaloupek
Public Works
Glen Sunde
North
Harlem
Thatcher Road
Housing needs debate at Chicago seminar on federal push
At a University of Chicago seminar, experts argued for an enforceable federal initiative to boost low income housing across the Chicago region. Polikoff urged forcing housing into suburbs, while others warned against forced removals and questioned real shortages.
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Chicago
University of Chicago
Metropolitan Institute
Alexander L. Polikoff
Polikoff
Jared Shlaes
Arthur Rubloff and Co
Woodrin Kee
The
Federal Housing
Real Estate Research Corp
Calcutta
Carriers of the Week Sue and Jim Gibson
Sue and Jim Gibson of 848 N Mapleton Oak Park are named Carriers of the Week. Sue, 13, eighth grade at Whitter, delivers Hayes Berkshire area and saves earnings for presents and clothes while planning Oak Park River Forest High School study. Jim, 12, seventh grade, delivers Taylor Augusta area and dreams of becoming a professional drummer as he saves for drums. Both will receive a $5 check from the World.
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Sue
Jim Gibson
Mapleton
Oak Park
Hayes
Berkshire
Jim
Taylor
Augusta
Gibson
Lynda
Whitter School
River Forest High School
Whitter
Fenwick Star Jeff Carpenter Chooses Notre Dame
Jeff Carpenter Fenwick High School Oak Park All state guard signed a scholarship with Notre Dame South Bend. He averaged 19 points eight rebounds and 12 assists per game this season and was unsigned but then he committed at home in Oak Park.
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Jeff Carpenter
Fenwick High School
Oak Park
Notre Dame University
South Bend
Ind
Carpenter
Fenwick
Notre Dame
Digger
Phelps
Clarence
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North Ane
the World
St. Vincent Ferrer Guild
Jackson and LeMoyne
Mary and
Pat Mc
Lewis W. Hill
Hill
Freddy Mills
Orchestra
Melodia
Mary
Sue Gibson
Sporting Goods
Riviera
Fue
W. North Ave
Melrose Park
Indiana University
Ed Galvin
Indiana
Galvin
Jeff
Kodacolor Film Developed
KODAK
Photo Service
Chicago, Ill
Midwest Bank
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