Neighborhood Watch gathers for village meeting in Richton Park
Police chief James VanSchepen announces a village wide Neighborhood Watch meeting at 7 30 p m in the Richton Park Village Hall to discuss crime prevention community policing citizen academies patrols and speed control plus updates on policing activities. The program covers Lakewood Meadow Lake Estates Lincoln Crossing Richton Hills Lion Crest and the East Side as officers coordinate efforts with residents. The town has seen multi year declines in part one crimes and introduces a fifth year bike patrol to assist with calls traffic and arrests. Residents are urged to join and participate.
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Richton Park
James VanSchepen
VanSchepen
Ering
Lakewood
Meadow Lake Estates
Lincoln Crossing
Richton Hills
Lion Crest
East Side
Douglas Nieukirk
Citizen Police Academy
Citizen Patrol
FBI
Park Forest police run youth center to curb crime
Park Forest Police Athletic and Activities Center at Forest Trail Junior High serves 140 children ages 10 to 16 with a free summer program running 5:30 to 9 p.m. Tuesday through Friday. Corporal Lane Linder and Officer Brian Tas supervise 10 team leaders and six adult volunteers. The program, expanding from 120 to 140 participants, promotes teamwork, good citizenship, and nonviolent outlets through basketball, soccer, golf, swimming, tennis, and arts, with activities at the junior high, Aqua Center, Racquetball Club, and golf course. Community service earlier in the year renovated the recreation center.
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Robert Milka
DeAngelo Ridley
Park Forest
Forest Trail
Police Athletic and Activities Center
Forest Trail Junior High School
Lane Linder
Brian Tas
Linder
Tas
Chicago Heights
Aqua Center
Brian
Park Forest Police
Matteson arts committee plans October festival
Arts and humanity committee member Kuechmann aims to organize a Matteson October arts festival with bi weekly meetings starting June 17. The festival, tied to National Arts and Humanities Month, seeks diverse cultural events and hopes to expand to neighboring communities with support from residents and village officials.
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Matteson
Kuechmann
Denise Graham-Zahn
Bill Clinton
National Endowment For the Arts
National Endowment For the Humanities
Institute of the Museum and Library Services
Cording
Graham Zahn
Thompsons Show Strong Family Tithe Across Chicago Suburb
The Thompson family from Chicago moved to Harvey in 1979 and built a multigenerational unit centered on work, faith, and education. Glen and Barbara raised Bernard Debbie and spouses while balancing jobs at Peoples Gas and a teaching role, stressing responsibility and mutual support. Their children pursued college, marriage, and careers as they maintained close family ties.
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Glen
Thompsons
Barbara
Bernard Price
Bernard
Fermi National Laboratories
Harvey
Angela
Thompson
Debbie
Chicago
Oeeneaivh
Peoples Gas
St. Mark’s' Missionary Baptist Church
Barbara ‘Ates
Christopher
Thornwood High School
Tashana
Cheryl
Ae Information Services
Coyola
Tennessee
Ita
Halsted Street
Sibley Boulevard
Teens push for local skate park amid space and cost hurdles
Flossmoor and Homewood teens say skateboarding is a lifestyle not a sport and want a nearby public park. They name vacant Hines Lumber and the old Army Reserve base on 187th Street as possible sites while noting the district does not own the land. They cite enforcement in downtown areas, neighbor complaints over driveways ramps, and the lack of near facilities beyond New Lenox’s Drop In Skateboard Park. Recreation officials and park districts discuss design, cost, maintenance, safety, and insurance for such a park.
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Flossmoor
Norby
Phil Aronson
Pete Snyder
Aronson
Hines Lumber
Army Reserve
187Th Street
Meyer
Snyder
Sths
Homewood
Parker Junior High School
New Lenox
Jill Bartholomew
Mary Paleologos
Trail vandalism snarls Matteson trail residents react
Hiley criticizes graffiti and 600 pound concrete trash bins after vandalism on the trail in Matteson. Commissioner Jim Sharp says residents aid prevention and repairs within 24 hours. MacNeil reports 100 bluebird houses funded by grants were damaged and stolen with mixed jurisdiction among State Police Cook County Sheriff’s Office and Department of Natural Resources.
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Hiley
Puley
Jim Sharp
Matteson
Sharp
MacNeil
Cook County
Department of Natural Resources
Cook County Sheriffs Police
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Cook County Sheriffs Office
David Fedro
STAR
Norman A. Rosinski
Franklin Shuftan
Audit Bureau of Circulations
U.S
U.S.P.S
Illinois
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