Oak Forest residents rally outside private mayor press conference
About 50 residents gathered at the mayor James Richmond’s office after being barred from a city press conference at the Tuesday City Council meeting. Alderman Rollo Davis unlocked the door allowing entry. City Attorney Burton Odelson advised the meeting could remain private.
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Oak Forest
James Richmond
Richmond
Frank Smith
1St Ward
Star
Rollo Davis
Burton Odelson
Smith
Russia
David Griffin
Four TF 215 board seats up for election amid flag controversy
Thornton Fractional 215 faces four board seats on November 2 as Superintendent Kenneth Olsen urges candidates to focus on the big picture and avoid single issue campaigning over the Confederate flag emblem dispute. Karen Walker, former Confederate flag group leader, says she no longer supports keeping the flag after witnessing extremist use of the symbol.
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Thornton Fractional
Kenneth Olsen
Citizens For
Karen Walker
TF South
Ku Klux Klan
New life for ailing Orland Park Place mall
A major redevelopment will transform Orland Park Place at 151st Street and LaGrange Road into a value mall. Tri-Land Properties will oversee the project as the 740,000 square foot center stays partly vacant, with Wieboldt’s site empty for over six years. Local leaders see a revitalization path amid parallel talks of an expansion and references to Orland Square’s success.
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Orland Park Place Mall
151St Street
LaGrange Road
Tri-Land Properties, Inc
Wieboldt’s
Orland Park
Dan McLaughlin
Orland Park Place
Orland Square Mall
River Oaks
Calumet City
United
JMB Properties Co
BCU
Dennis Waite
JMB
W.E. O’neil
Glenn Harston
East Hazel Crest Mayor Elected to Regional Planning Board
East Hazel Crest Mayor Thomas Brown won a two year term on the Northeastern Illinois Planning Commission Board representing Cook County south of Roosevelt Road excluding Chicago. The 32 member agency covers five counties and advises on roads subdivisions sewers and mass transit. Brown also serves as East Hazel Crest mayor and South Suburban Mayors and Managers Association vice president.
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East
Hazel Crest
Thomas Brown
Northeastern Illinois Planning Commission Board
Brown
Cook County
Roosevelt Road
Chicago
NIPC
Cook
DuPage
Lake
McHenry
Kane
Will
Palos Heights
East Hazel Crest
South Suburban Mayors and Managers Association
Mokena District Reactivates 14-Member Facility Advisory
Mokena School District restarts its 14-member Facility Advisory Committee to explore long term space for 500-plus new students expected by 1996-97. Superintendent Roger Reardon says the three-school campus on 195th Street has no available classrooms and options may include sacrificing the band or computer room after a Board of Education meeting.
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Mokena
Roger Reardon
195Th Street
Board of Education
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Illiana Jewish Genealogical Society
Olympia Felds
Trudy Barch
Henry Landauer
Marcia
Arthur Meyers
Chicago Computer Society
SSC
South Suburban
South Suburban College
Indiana State Street
169Th Street
South Holland
George Gruenthaler
South Suburban Chapter
Disabled American Veterans
Isaak Walton League
Ridge Road
Homewood
Walter Strzelecki
Gruenthaler
Walter
DAV
Veterans Administration
Manteno’s
Veterans Hospital
Duggan’s Pub
S. Cicero Ave
Crestwood
American Heart Association
Otay Ae
ALSIP
D.M. Dykstra & Co
Chicagoland Htg. & A/C
Wantuck & Sons Htg. & A/C
Chicago Heights Hoekstra Heating Co
D'Andrea Heating & A/C
Flossmoor Hoekstra Heating Co
Spiekhout Htg. & A/C
Higgins Heating & Cooling
Homewood ' Hoekstra Heating Co
Matteson
M. Dykstra & Co
Olympia Fields
Palos Area
Orozco & Daughter Heating & A/C
Tinley Park Hoekstra Heating Co
Joseph Griffin
Griffin
Arlington Heights
Sol Rocke
Palos Hills
Metropolitan Water Reclamation District
Hickory Hills
John Stefans
4Th Ward
Stefans
82Nd Avenue
97Th Street
Sharry Phelan
Re Ian
Casita
Lincoln Mall
Club International
Perry Ellis
Andrew Frezza
Robert Stock
Cutter & Buck
Ralph Lauren
Structure International
CAA
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