District Tax Hikes Spread Across Suburban Districts
Voters in multiple districts face education fund tax increases from 50 to 81 cents per $100 EAV amid declining property values and added borrowing. Several towns plan bonds for new schools and facilities while other measures seek to fund ambulance service, parks, library operations, senior housing, and a potential home rule for Monee with authority over local taxes.
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4 Worth
Education Fund
Walt Pleviak
Chicago Ridge
Oak Lawn
Pleviak
Kirby
Tinley Park
Dolton
Riverdale
Dorthea Fitzgerald
Fitzgerald
Community Consolidated
Sauk Village
Tom Ryan
Chicago
Bloom Township
Board of Education
George Michael III
Frankfort
Steger
Silver Cross Hospital
Joliet
Lou Sherman
Frankfort Square Park District
Mokena Community Park District
Dalton Park
Midlothian Park District
Housing program prompts move to northern suburbs
In a program described as a blessing, subsidy recipients in the South Suburbs eye relocation to north and northwest areas. Four of 23 participants joined after a Hendrix video and briefing. concerns include finishing college credits and transferring to nearby colleges. Towns labeled impacted span Blue Island to Justice, with 25 of 36 in the South Suburbs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hendrix
Glencoe
Cindy J. Horton
Chicago Heights
Horton
Hinsdale
Blue Island
Burnham
Calumet City
Country Club Hills
Dixmoor
Dalton
East Hazel Crest
Flossmoor
Ford Heights
Glenwood
Harvey
Hazel Crest
Lynwood
Markham
Matteson
Olympia Fields
Park Forest
Richton Park
Riverdale
Robbins
Sauk Village
South Holland
Posen
Justice
Housing Choice Partners
Students unite in anti violence concert and skits
A page A-1 violence feature describes Cecily Kiester and Sarah Rios honoring leaders and artists who promote nonviolence. Students including Chaitali Mukherjee and Tyanna McCann perform skits and poems, linking music to change while highlighting that love and unity can curb violence.
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America
Cecily Kiester
John F. Kennedy
Sarah Rios
Selena
Sarah
Chaitali Mukherjee
Mahatma Ghandi
Steven Burrell
Melissa Box
Tyanna McCann
Matteson District 162 students to build local history exhibit
The Illinois State Board of Education awards a 5180 grant to Huth Middle School teachers Anna Bowie John Bunrass and Donna Bell for a sixth grade history project. Students will study Matteson area history with Matteson Historical Society input and present an exhibit traveling to district schools and the Historical Society. Community members may help by calling Huth Middle School at 748-0470.
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Illinois State Board of Education
Matteson
Huth Middle School
Huth
Anna Bowie
John Bunrass
Donna Bell
Historical Society
Phoning Huth Middle School
Village Eyes Comprehensive Growth and Zoning Overhaul
Limas urges a total rewrite of zoning codes and development procedures to guide future growth. Banovich and Hughes stress advancing the Stamp-Altman project to revitalise Governors Plaza. Niemeyer calls for a workable action plan with staff involvement and a quality management approach.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dor Planning Council
Limas
Rudolph Banovich
Ben Hughes
Stamp-Altman
Governors Plaza
Sauk Trail
Governors Highway
Ames
Cook County
David Niemeyer
Niemeyer
Tim Hammond
Governors Highway Sauk Trail
Lakewood Plaza
Oak Park
Old Plank Road Trail to Extend Through Matteson Area
Plans, with Illinois Department of Transportation, call for a 12 mile plus extension of the Old Plank Road Trail from Western Avenue Park Forest through Matteson to Frankfort along old Penn Central lines. A new I 57 bridge on 205th Street and connections to Ridgeland Avenue and Butterfield Creek are planned. Construction may start in July and aims to link with Frankfort and other communities as part of a potential intrastate trail system toward Indiana and Michigan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Matteson
Butterfield Creek
Illinois Department of Transportation
205Th Street
Ridgeland Avenue
McNellis
Western Avenue
Park Forest
Frankfort
Penn Central
Illinois Department of Trans
Indiana
Michigan
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Patton
Essie Harris
Monee
Oak
Ing
Home Rule
Larry Kochel
Sherman
Don Graves
Park District
Oak Forest
Palos Heights
Metra
Ritmo Mundo
the Star Park Forest
Star Publications
Otto Boulevard
P.O
Illinois
Norman A. Rosi
Ires
James S. Meidell
Lester G. Sons
An American Publishing Co
Audit Bureau of Circulations
U.S
U.S.P.S
Itmaster
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Lee Rincker
Waddell & Reed
New Lenox Public Library
Martell
CROWN
ROYA
Seagram
Lincoln Hwy
Cook's
Cuervo
Seagram's
Beringer
Wwinik Zinfandel
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