Party Place at Home: Entertaining Spaces and Real Estate Listings
A breeze through at home entertaining ideas and a roundup of real estate listings. Features a possible special room idea for hosts and a peek at property options.
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Newspaper
Matteson Star
Location
Matteson, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1995
Page
1
A breeze through at home entertaining ideas and a roundup of real estate listings. Features a possible special room idea for hosts and a peek at property options.
Bloomberg Personal explores used car buying in a special section. It covers cheaper checking, mutual fund strategy, taxes for seniors, and other money matters in a concise automotive economy overview.
Columnist Tom Houlihan warns Illinois cannot pay Medicaid or fund public education and is now set to oversee school lunches for needy children. The piece questions fiscal capacity and policy implications of the grant.
Local newspaper provides contact numbers for main office and advertising circulation. No additional context or events described.
Grant helps Matteson hire cop Robin Tanko as trustees debate public safety and budget. The village council approved a new officer under the COPS grant covering three years with staged payments totaling about 38k first year, 23k second year, and 13k third year, after which 63k annually becomes village responsibility. Domestic officials warned about affordability even as balance favored safety.
Residents split on Matteson’s push to attract a racially diverse home population. White residents criticize the effort as insulting while others defend the town’s outreach and say it should welcome all buyers. The village plans a $30,000 PR campaign to lure white homeseekers amid controversy over past targeting. See REACTION Page A-4
Emergency Services chief John Dobner reports to the Village Board on purchasing tornado warning sirens. A survey shows two sirens cover the area, with Federal Signal in University Park as the recommended supplier.
Kathleen McClain’s second grade class at Matteson School District 162 built a classroom rain forest using shower curtains a humidifier and student made plants to study tropical biology. The project revealed temperature variations and improved plant growth while bringing geography and science to life.
The Illinois Commerce Commission likely will approve a three way geographic split for Chicago area codes at its March 20 meeting. Most of south and west suburban Cook County and parts of Will County would keep 708, with 630 assigned to DuPage and parts of Kendall Will Cook Kane, and a yet undetermined third code for Lake Kane McHenry Cook Du Page. Chicago remains 312.
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