Real estate careers lure with incentive and self-satisfaction
A Spring Showing of Homes promotes real estate sales as a rewarding career. The piece highlights incentives and opportunities in real estate, emphasizing self-satisfaction and profit potential for agents during a busy showing season.
Girls in gangs pose new problems for law enforcement
Dead end street reports that girls in gangs are becoming a fresh concern for law enforcement officials and social workers as they address evolving crime and street activity.
Western wheels showcase in Tinley Orland area
Automobile dealers in the Tinley Orland area roll out their best offerings for potential buyers in a special section highlighting models, prices, and financing options.
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Tinley-Orland Area
Have it your way column sparks schools’ tradeoffs
Columnist Tom Houlihan questions if schools should trade rank and reputation for cash revenue. The piece weighs commercial considerations against educational goals, hinting at impact on curricula and community values.
Richton Park approves Falcon Crest final phase and street vacate
Falcon Crest Estates developer Emil Marski wins village action to proceed with the final phase in Richton Park after a special hearing. Trustees OK vacation of streets and alleys and the final plat subject to park planning review and vegetation work, with grading seeding and removal requirements to be observed.
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Falcon Crest Estates
Richton Park
Richton Park Village
Emil Marski
Falcon Crest
Marski
Frankfort Eyes Linked Trail Network From OPRT to Matteson
Frankfort officials aim to connect the Old Plank Road Trail with a Pfeiffer Road extension and Charington trail to create a village wide network. Planning director Paula Wallrich said proximity to residents and future signalized intersections are goals. Construction shifts for 1996 with grants covering most costs and a 20 percent village share.
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Frankfort
Paula Wallrich
Wallrich
Board of
Pfeiffer Road
OPRT
Frankfort Public Library
Pfeiffer
Route 30
Baxter & Woodman
Ray Rossi
Charington
Detention Pond
Charington Subdivision
Penn Central Railroad
Park Forest
New Lenox
Joliet
Matteson joins I-57 corridor planning council meeting
Matteson Village Board unanimously agreed Monday to join the Interstate 57 Corridor Planning Council joining Richton Park which had already joined two weeks earlier The move aims to coordinate development transport growth management and environmental planning along I-57 from Interstate 80 to Kankakee County The group views growth as inevitable with or without an airport near Peotone and emphasizes preparedness and regional cooperation led by Village President Mark Stricker
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Matteson Village Board
Richton Park
Matteson
Kankakee
Mark Stricker
Stricker
Peotone
Patricia Backus
Rudolph Banovich
University Park
Mobile home living gains traction in Chicago area
In a series starter, Cecile Julian examines modern manufactured housing. The piece notes a shift from tainted trailer park images to respectable communities, profiles growth from 8 by 12 foot boxes to 18 foot wide homes, and cites strong sales from 171,000 in 1991 to projected 310,000 in 1994 with expectations to surpass 400,000 by 1996. Bruce Savage of the Manufactured Housing Institute details four growth drivers.
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Chicago
Federal
Department of Housing and
Bruce Savage
Manufactured Housing Institute
Arlington
Wall Street
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Tom Houlihan
Alberta
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Planning and Zoning Commission
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Mary Compton
Yazmin Norwood
Marya Yates School
Cecile Julian
Dave Dorsett