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6 | June 14, 2018 | The Lockport Legend News
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Lockport City Council
Officials approve plans for Prologis park, water main project
Jessie Molloy, Freelance Reporter
During the June 6 City Council
meeting, officials voted unanimously
to approve the final development
plans and final subdivision
plat for the Prologis industrial
business park.
The park is to be located west
of Interstate 355, south of 143rd
Street, east of Archer Avenue, and
north of 151st Street. The 200-
acre site will eventually include
five buildings and was approved
initially in 2017.
The Prologis development is
to have significant construction
start in mid- to late-summer with
completion of Phase I estimated
for sometime in 2019. Phase I of
the project will include the roadway
which will connect the site to
Archer and 143rd Street, the first
two buildings in the development
with parking lots and landscaping,
and two permanent detention
basins, as well as two temporary
detentions basins for the construction
period.
The council also voted unanimously
to approve a contract for
the Exeter and Deerwood Drive
Water Main project. The project
will connect two water lines
which currently dead-end because
of how they were developed separately.
According to Public Works Director
Brent Cann, the project will
ease water movement and improve
water quality in the affected area.
The project was awarded to Cox
& Sons Excavating, for a cost of
$141,825, which is about $92,000
under the budgeted price of the
project. Work on the main is to begin
this summer and is slated for
completion in mid-August.
Cann also announced plans during
the Committee of the Whole
meeting to expand the city’s roadwork
plan for the year, due to the
amount of money that had been
saved by projects coming in under
budget.
Two major projects which had
been slated for completion between
2019 and 2020 are now
likely to be done late this summer,
including the Victoria Crossing
West subdivision.
“It will get everything back on
track,” Cann said. “It makes more
sense, for instance, in the subdivision
to have it all done at once
instead of spreading it out over a
couple of years, so when it comes
time for it to be worked on again,
it will all need the work at the
same time.”
The second major area being
pushed up is a portion of the city
west of the canal between the
Chevron property to the north and
9th Street to the south. The two
projects combined, along with a
The Prologis park is to be just south of Lockport Heights and just north
of four other local subdivisions. image submitted
handful of other individual street
sections, are to cost an estimated
$1.8 million, most of which will
be covered by savings from low
bids on other projects this year.
“Some of the rest will need to
come from moving funds forward
which we’d set aside for later
years, but hopefully we will continue
to get good bids and economy
of scale will come into play
with how many streets we’re doing
at once,” Cann said.
The extended slate of roadwork
will likely be completed by mid-
September once the board approves
work contracts.
Police, advocacy recognitions
The Lockport City Council took
time at the start of the Committee
of the Whole meeting to recognize
Police Chief Terry Lemming, who
received an award for his service
to the city.
The Illinois State Bar Association
Law Enforcement Award is
given each year to law enforcement
officers for conduct that
promotes justice and whose service
to the public brings honor
and respect to the criminal justice
system. Lemming was nominated
for this year’s award by
Village Attorney Sonni Choi
Williams, a member of the ISBA
Board.
Lemming received the award
for his work co-creating the Lockport
Love foundation, which raises
money for local residents struggling
to pay their bills, and for his
creation of the Lockport Police
Department’s Safe Passage program.
The Safe Passage program
allows heroin addicts to come to
the police station voluntarily to
seek help without fear of prosecution.
Choi Williams presented the
award to Lemming along with
alderwoman Catherine Peretta,
ISBA president Russell Hartigan,
mayor Steven Streit, and former
ISBA president Vince Cornelius,
the only ISBA president to ever
serve from Will County. A dozen
members of the Lockport Police
Department also attended the
meeting for the award ceremony
along with Lemming’s wife Cammie
and daughter Holly.
Thanking the ISBA, Lemming
said he was “flattered and honored”
to be recognized with the
award, but stated he could not
have received it without the work
of the officers of the Lockport Police
Department.
“Really each of you should be
receiving this award,” Lemming
said. “What you do in the community
every day and the relationships
you go out and build is what
makes it possible for me to win
this.”
Wednesday was a special night
for another member of the police
Please see city council, 7
old canal
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exhibits and activities and
even the theater performances,
all that go back to Lockport’s
history.”
In addition to all the educational
aspects, there are
plenty of other leisure activities
to enjoy. Due to the State
Street construction, some
events have changed location.
On Friday, the annual
parade will take place from
6-7 p.m. on the west side of
town instead of State Street
like in past years. The Tuffy
Car Show from 10 a.m.-3
p.m. on Saturday, June 16, is
to now be on 10th Street between
State Street and Commerce
Street.
The craft show, which is
to be held from 10 a.m.-5
p.m. on Saturday and from
10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday, will
feature more than 100 vendors.
There are to be several
musical performances, including
South City Revival
from 7-9 p.m. on Friday and
Libido Funk Circus from
9:30-11:30 p.m. on Saturday.
New events this year include
a performance by
Limestone Stage inside the
Roxy Theater on Saturday
and Sunday. There will also
be a juggler on Saturday and
a magician on Sunday.
Near Heritage Village,
there will be the first-ever
exotic animal show at noon
and 2 p.m. on Saturday.
Executive president at
the Will County Historical
Society Sandy Vasko, said
the rose bud that laid on
Abraham Lincoln’s funeral
bier in 1865 will be on display
for one day only. This
past February, there was an
exclusive event held for 55
people to see the flower that
Vasko discovered in December
2017. From 5-8 p.m. on
Friday, people can pay $8 —
or $15 for a family or group
— and get up close to see
the rose bud. Included in that
cost will be the chance to see
a replica of Lincoln’s tomb,
which stands 16 feet tall, as
well as to enjoy music from
a band that will be playing
on the porch of the Will
County Historical Society.
The Lockport Sister City
Program will have a booth
near the main stage on Hamilton
Street Friday through
Sunday, where attendees can
purchase imported cheeses
and organic jams from Italy,
as well as Italian beer.
Lockport has been sister cities
with Asiago, Italy since
2014.
“We are very fortunate to
have established that relationship,”
said Patty Pastore,
Lockport Sister City Program
president.
About 30 families immigrated
from Asiago to Lockport
in the early 1900s, with
many family names still in
the city, including her own,
Pastore said. She initiated
the relationship with Asiago
because she has many
relatives living there, and
thought it would be a great
partnership between the two
cities.
“Lockport is just blooming
right now, I’m so proud
of everything going on,”
Pastore said. “This is just
another thing to be proud of.
This is why I did it, I love
Lockport, I do.”
For more information
on Old Canal Days and to
see the schedule of events
and carnival times, visit old
canaldays.com.