Fire academy teaches kids safety at Lake Station event
Bradley Boeckman and classmates attended a week of hands on lessons at Fire Station No 2 4455 Sauk Trail. Students learned safety procedures used Amicus rescue saws and airbags set up ladders operated aerial ladder and practiced first aid water day deck guns hose lines and 911 posters.
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Bradley Boeckman
Spencer Spathis
Joseph Schramanti
Ark Hawkenson
Christopher Bragg
Nick Shugarts
Samantha Cook
Nicholas Jenkins
Ginney Anson
Taylor Trent
Ahmed Shalabi
Vinnie Baus
Megan Rimius
Corey Guess
Zachary Dogi
Katie Spain
Jared Sparks
Dalton Sparks
Solick
Sauk Trail
Fire Academy
Amicus
Glenwood Fire Department
Local official Limas praised as village manager candidate
Banovich commends Limas as a local tie to the area and capable problem solver. Limas chaired the I 57 Corridor Planning Council during its start and plans to relocate his family from Chicago Heights to Richton Park. He holds memberships in key planning and management associations.
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Limas
Illinois City/County Management Association
American Planning Association
The
American Institute of Certified Planners
Chicago Heights
Richton Park
Hobo Jungle camp builds ships castles and memories
Young campers at Homewood Flossmoor Park District run two three week sessions at a 6 acre Army base site. They use scrap lumber to craft a submarine and a Camelot style castle with a drawbridge dungeon and stocks. Safety rules guide every build and demolition ends each session with a picnic.
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Homewood-Flossmoor Park
U.S. Army Base
187Th Street
Center Avenue
Rod Browder
U.S.S
Hobolot
Camelot
Arthur
Ari Watman
Flossmoor
Sean Stanford
Homewood
Jonathan Sisk
Chicago Heights
Charlie Michaels
Steven Tydd
Chrissy Miller
Country Club Hills
Allison Poh
Spencer Dye
Jay Tieri
Aaron Baska
Zach Nelson
Tim McKinnon
Doug Pavel
Browder
Mike Abramczyk
Charles Shaelton
Charles Frelix Jr
Arsenal tract sale nears as major developer eyed
A Joliet arsenal industrial park tract may be sold to a large developer. Transport Development Group negotiates the deal while officials and representatives from state and federal offices await a formal announcement. The plan shifts from prior landfill and quarry proposals to potential light industry and a rail center, with officials noting no current landfill or quarry plans.
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Arsenal Industrial Development Tech
Joliet Arsenal
Arsenal
Transport Development Group
Danny Kohrdt
Mary Kay O’brien
Coal City
Joliett Arsenal
Jerry Weller
R-Morris
Chicago
Maggie Lockwood
O’brien
Transport Development
California
Detroit
Arsenal Development Board
Arsenal Board
Congress
Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie
Lincoln Veterans Cemetery
Kohrdt
Lockwood
Weller
Dave Neal
Racial Steering Case May Return To District Court
The South Suburban Housing Center seeks to force Ann Berry to comply with a 1994 consent decree over racial steering by ReMax-All of Richton Park. Berry allegedly failed to meet reporting and payment obligations, prompting SSHC to appeal after Judge Shadur rejected enforcement. The brief from Chicago Lawyers’ Committee supports SSHC.
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University Park
Ae Center
Ann Berry
Berry
U.S. District Court of
Illinois
ReMax
Richton Park
John Petruszak
SSHC
Park Forest
SSCH
Petruszak
U.S
Milton Shadur
Shadur
Richton
SLCH
Sai
Chicago Lawyers’ Committee
Ing
Bloom Township high school students join long term smoking survey
Bloom Township High School District 206 will host a three year study led by DePaul University psychologist Richard Katz sampling 100 students per grade. The 53 question anonymous survey covers tobacco and other drugs to assess teen use and influence of community policing. Parental consent required. nonparticipation results in no participation. Chicago Heights Police Department backs the study for data context.
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Bloom Township
DePaul University
Richard Katz
Ronald Patton
Katz
Pat
Yes
Patricia Bush-Martin
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