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Newspaper
Matteson Star
Location
Matteson, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1994
Page
5
Crete village trustees weigh restricting door to door fundraisers hours after disputes with Illinois Public Action canvassers. Officials cite safety concerns in poorly lit areas while ACLU warns the move curtails First Amendment rights.
Will County moves toward a permanent juvenile detention facility housing juveniles from across the county. Currently male youths are held in a crowded pod at the Will County Adult Detention Facility in Joliet under a special court order, while female juveniles are housed outside the county. The Judicial Committee approved a plan for a facility with at least 50 beds, two juvenile court rooms, and space for court support services.
Sears Roebuck and Co may move from The Centre to Lincoln Mall in Matteson after a decade long renovation funded by Park Forest 1.5 million dollars in 1987 via Cordish Embry and Associates. Village officials question the deal while Sears denies any agreement exists.
Patricia Welch, 42, selected after a brief interview process to replace resigning Hillcrest Principal Gwendolyn Lee. Welch, previously humanities division chair at Rich Central High School Olympia Fields, will lead Bremen Community High School District 228 with praised experience and fit.
Lee departs after two years to become Thornridge High School principal in Dalton. City officials plan a June 1995 move to a larger City Hall in Country Club Hills after Bergen Construction Corp. of Palatine won a 3,197,200 contract to finish the project. Mayors and aldermen express relief as 31 percent years of planning conclude.
A Senate Executive Committee in Illinois deadlocked 7-7 on renaming Interstate 57 from Cairo to Chicago in honor of Thurgood Marshall. The measure needed nine votes to advance, with opponents citing tradition of naming interstates for presidents or Illinois residents.
Work continues on a book about the Friends of the Indian Boundary Prairies with Bill Patterson as booklet editor. It will feature artwork and histories of Harvey, Markham and Midlothian and celebrate the group's 10th anniversary founded by Carl Barber. The environmentalists group will meet on July 14 at 7 p.m. in the Anderson Oglesby Public Library in Markham.
Rich East High School science teacher Jim Kramer won a $32,000 Christa McAuliffe Foundation grant for developing an archaeology based teaching method. He gathered artifacts from Hickory Creek in Will County and used them to engage students in the scientific method.
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