Residents push back as Amoco gas station eyed in Georgetown
Georgetown residents raise concerns over a proposed Amoco gas station in a C-2 zone near Route 30 and a planned park. They fear increased traffic, safety issues for children, and loss of quiet 1890s charm, while village officials stress site plans and buffering.
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Frankfort
Georgetown
Wallrich
Amoco
McDonald’s
Harlem
George Sarris
Three arrested in multi-town purse snatching spree
Park Forest Police Chief Robert Maeyama announced at a Chicago Heights court press conference that three suspects received 300000 bonds Friday. The group, implicated in six purse snatchings across Chicago Heights Park Forest and Olympia Fields, targeted seniors including a 90 year old woman, with crimes driven by narcotics demand. Police credited witnesses and coordinated efforts by Chicago Heights Park Forest detectives and officers for arrests and apprehensions.
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Taylor
Chicago Heights
Park Forest
Robert Maeyama
Maeyama
Olympia Fields
Karla Osantowski
Frank Marsala
Osantowski
Robert Pinnow
Pinnow
Michael McNamara
Thomas Fleming
Hill
Hicks
Sesto Park
John Murphy
Joseph Petrarca
Bernardin to preside at St. Agnes rededication
Cardinal Bernardin will preside over the rededication of 100-year-old St. Agnes Church at 1515 Chicago Road in Chicago Heights next year. renovations costing 500000 will be funded entirely by parishioners, with completion slated before the June 3 rededication, per Pastor Rev. Robert Weilesinski. The pledge drive aims to avoid borrowing, showing the parish’s grassroots commitment to the community.
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Cardinal Joseph Bernardin
St. Agnes
Chicago Heights
Robert Weilesinski
Chicago Road
Weilesinski
Justice Uniting Many People March Protest in Matteson
Matteson area residents gathered for a solidarity march organized by two local churches to protest gang violence and keep the neighborhood free of crime along U S Route 30. Bennie Lillybridge hugs her son Curtis as Marilyn Hearns hugs her daughter Caitlin during the event.
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Matteson
Bennie Lillybridge
Curtis
Marilyn Hearns
Caitlin
Writer Black Reflects on Craft and Community
Black discusses fiction writing as a solitary practice and time investment. He recalls taking a Moraine Valley Community College writing class a decade ago, which inspired a long-running group that still welcomes new members. He credits the class with sustaining his writing and notes readers’ impact on his work. His first grade school story was a detective tale about a cop as villain, told with humor.
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Black
Moraine Valley Community College
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