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Board business 

Officials pick purchaser/developer for 

Triangle property, as residents continue 

discussion of Pace Dial-a-Ride loss, Pages 3, 4 

Pushing their buttons 

The results of the 2018 General Election, 

as they relate to Orland Park, see 

incumbents largely retaining seats, Page 9 

Gator get that funding 

Knickknacks for sale at Village of Orland 

Park’s indoor garage sale bolster budget 

for Special Recreation programs, Page 12 

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THURSDAY 

Eating With the Seasons: 

Culinary 

4-5:30 p.m. Nov. 15, The 

Bridge Teen Center, 15555 

S. 71st Court. Revel in the 

fall season with a sweet pear 

vanilla jam, sweet potato 

dumplings and biscuits, and 

maple baked pears. This is a 

free event for teens in grades 

7-12. For more information, 

call (708) 532-0500 or visit 

www.thebridgeteencenter. 

org. 

Inside the Human Eye 

4:15-5:45 p.m. Nov. 15, 

The Bridge Teen Center, 

15555 S. 71st Court. Teens 

grades 7-12 can get a tour 

of an optometrist’s office 

and try out their professional 

equipment, take measurements 

of a friend’s eye and 

practice giving the “puff” 

test. This is a free event. For 

more information, call (708) 

532-0500 or visit www.theb 

ridgeteencenter.org. 

Creative Painting 

4:15-5:45 p.m. Nov. 15, 



grades 7-12 can let intuition 

and emotions guide them in 

the creative process of painting, 

experience the calming 

power of art to reduce stress 

and anxiety. This is a free 

event. For more information, 

call (708) 532-0500 or visit 


org. 

Very Special Night Owls: 

Family Fort Night 

6:30 p.m. Nov. 15, Orland 

Park Public Library, 14921 

S. Ravinia Ave. In honor of 

Family Reading Night, children 

ages 0-47 months along 

with the family can enjoy all 

the things about Night Owls 

with blanket forts. 

DIY Drop-In: Clothespin 

Holiday Trees 

7 p.m. Nov. 15, Orland 


S. Ravinia Ave. For adults. 

Craft supplies provided. 

Space is limited. Priority 

given to OPPL cardholders. 

FRIDAY 

Special Needs Parent Group 

Meet-Up 

10:30 a.m. Nov. 16, Orland 

Park Public Library, 

14921 S. Ravinia Ave. 

Adults can meet fellow parents 

and learn about how the 

library can help. The library 

will be working with community 

organizations who 

work with special needs 

children to present an informational 

session at each 

meeting. 

Showcase - Reid Spears 

Performs Billy Joel/Elton 

John 



S. Ravinia Ave. Reid Spears 

is the lead singer, pianist 

and founder of Billy Elton, 

a band celebrating the music 

of Billy Joel and Elton John. 

Harry Potter Trivia & Bertie 

Bott’s Jelly Bean Guess 

7:30-10:30 p.m. Nov. 16, 


15555 S. 71st Court. The 

music duo Golds will be providing 

music on the stage, 

and TruGurt will be serving 

chocolate and vanilla frozen 

yogurt. This is a free event 

for teens in grades 7-12. For 



ridgeteencenter.org. 

SATURDAY 

Happy Illinois Bicentennial 

Birthday Bash 



S. Ravinia Ave. In this program, 

Terry Lynch will discuss 

everything from Illinois’ 

early years, historical 

happenings and famous Illinoisans. 

MONDAY 

Behind the Scenes: Bridge 

Teen Center 

2-3 p.m. Nov. 19, The 


S. 71st Court. A hot chocolate 

bar with Bridge Teen 

Center founders, Rob and 

Priscilla Steinmetz, a behind-the-scenes 

tour and information 

on how the community 

center got started. 

This is a free event for teens 

in grades 7-12. For more 

information, call (708) 532- 

0500 or visit www.thebridgeteencenter.org. 

Apple Cider & Bingo (Middle 

School Only) 

3:30-4:30 p.m. Nov. 19, 



grades 7-12 can warm up 

with some hot apple cider 

and play bingo with Bridge 

friends. This is a free event. 

For more information, call 

(708) 532-0500 or visit 


org. 

TUESDAY 

Adult Book Discussion 

10 a.m. Nov. 20, Orland 


S. Ravinia Ave. Discussion 

of “Anatomy of a Miracle” 

by Jonathan Miles. 

eBooks, eMagazines, 

eReaders, oh my! 

10 a.m. Nov. 20, Orland 

Park Public Library, 

14921 S. Ravinia Ave. 

Adults can drop by the 

Adult Services reference 

desk for a one-on-one lesson 

with an available librarian. 

They should be sure to 

bring device(s) with them 

and have account log-in information 

on hand. 

Project Serve: Thrift Store 

4-6 p.m. Nov. 20, The 


S. 71st Court. Teens grades 

7-12 can volunteer at the 

thrift store by helping sort, 

clean and shelve donated 

items. This is a free event. 

For more information, call 

(708) 532-0500 or visit 


org. 

eSkills: Kitchen Herb Garden 

4-6 p.m. Nov. 20, The 


S. 71st Court. Grow your 

own culinary herbs by preparing 

the soil and planting 

seeds for a potted indoor 

herb garden. This is a free 

event for teens in grades 

7-12. For more information, 

call (708) 532-0500 or visit 


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Cheers to Charity 

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Bottom Restaurant & Brewery, 

16156 S. LaGrange 

Road, Orland Park. Join 

22nd Century Media, publisher 

of The Orland Park 

Prairie, for its annual 

Cheers to Charity event. 

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items for Orland Township 

Food Pantry or a new unwrapped 

toy for Toy Box 

Connection and receive 

$5 off the bill. During the 

event, 10 percent of food 

sales will be donated to 

the Orland Township Food 

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School Chamber Singers are 

slated to perform 6:15-7:30 

p.m. For more information, 

call (708) 326-9170 ext. 16. 

Our Land Between the 

Rivers, Illinois in Story & 

Song 



S. Ravinia Ave. Barry Cloyd 

provides an in-depth focus, 

both through narrative and 

song, into some of the most 

important events and people 

who have shaped the history 

of our State. 

WEDNESDAY 

Popcorn Bar & Movie 

4-6 p.m. Nov. 21, The 


S. 71st Court. Teens grades 

7-12 can catch a movie with 

Bridge friends, and share a 

popcorn bar with sweet and 

salty toppings. This is a free 

event. For more information, 

call (708) 532-0500 

or visit www.thebridgeteencenter.org. 

Holiday Scrapbooking 

4:30-5:45 p.m. Nov. 21. 



grades 7-12 can use scrapbooking 

tools to cut and 

shape paper, and add inspirational 

phrases and embellishments 

to card stock pages. 

After the holidays, teens 

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the orland park prairie | November 15, 2018 | 3 

Orland Park Village Board 

Officials pick purchaser, developer 

for Main Street Triangle property 

Jon DePaolis 

Freelance Reporter 

Orland Park has chosen a 

company to move forward 

with the Main Street Triangle. 

The Orland Park Village 

Board voted 6-0 Nov. 5, to 

move forward with Structured 

Development LLC as 

the purchaser and developer 

of the Village-owned property 

within the Triangle. 

The vote came after a 

closed session. Trustee 

James Dodge was absent. 

As part of the vote to select 

Structured Development, 

the board members 

directed Village staff to begin 

negotiating a real estate 

purchase and master development 

agreement with the 

Chicago-based company. 

In her comments prior 

to the vote, Trustee Carole 

Griffin Ruzich said this process 

began back in February. 

“We were successful in 

that we had several responses 

to the [Request for Qualifications],” 

she said. “We 

ended up with two quality 

developers, and we were 

very fortunate to have had 

those proposals before us.” 

Ruzich said she was excited 

about moving forward 

with Structured Development 

because of the company’s 

experience. 

“They are going to be able 

to complete the Triangle 

and the project, I think, with 

minimal incentives from 

the Village,” she said. “Our 

consultant, SB Friedman, 

has analyzed the project, as 

well. In addition, it was their 

recommendation to proceed 

with [Structured Development].” 

Trustee Dan Calandriello 

thanked staff and the committee 

who looked into the 

proposals. 

“I know it’s a tough process 

that we’re halfway 

through,” Calandriello said. 

“We’ve picked a dance partner, 

and now it’s time to 

dance. I appreciate all your 

hard work. We started with 

the train station, Ninety7Fifty, 

University of Chicago 

and now Structured. I think 

it’s going to be a great seed 

and a great foundation for a 

great Triangle project.” 

Trustee Patricia Gira said 

the project has been “a long 

ride.” 

“Who could have foreseen 

what would happen in 2008, 

where the whole plan got derailed 

from its original partner 

that we had back then,” 

she said. 

Gira said she and other 

board members recently took 

a “field trip” to see other developments 

from Structured 

and liked what they saw. 

Meanwhile, Trustee Kathleen 

Fenton said she hopes 

Structured will take into account 

suggestions that have 

been received from residents 

and board members. 

“Concentrating more on 

mom-and-pop [stores] and 

entertainment, and less on 

rental space for housing,” 

she said. “I’ve always had 

a vision for down there of 

the mom-and-pop shops, so 

people can go have a place 

to go during a warm summer 

evening or even a cool fall 

night.” 

Mayor Keith Pekau said 

a lot of money has been 

spent already in the Triangle 

project, and it has produced 

“good infrastructure.” Now, 

the task is putting a successful 

project there. 

“To me, success is defined 

as a unique and interesting 

project that all the residents 

of Orland Park enjoy — not 

just those people that are in 

newly constructed apartments 

in and around the TIF 

district,” he said. “It’s got to 

be something for all the residents.” 

Pekau commended the 

board members for going to 

a Request for Proposals for 

all of the remaining property, 

not just parcel by parcel. 

“I think that was the right 

thing to do, and it was a departure 

from the past,” he 

said. 

Pekau also said the drawings 

for this project will not 

look like those shared with 

the public in the past, “because 

this is a new development 

based on the current 

market conditions.” 

For example, he said he 

does not think the “restaurant 

pads” underneath the 

parking garage will be restaurants 

anymore. 

Reached by phone Nov. 

6, Village Manager Joe La 

Margo expressed excitement 

about moving forward with 

Structured. 

“Both proposals were very 

good,” La Margo said. “But 

we’re excited about working 

with Structured because 

of their experience and the 

uniqueness about what they 

presented. We’re looking 

forward to negotiating an 

MDA with them and getting 

to the next steps, so we 

can really start getting that 

downtown moving.” 

Jeff Berta, senior director 

of real estate development 

at Structured Development, 

was at the meeting. 

“The vision is for a mixeduse, 

downtown type project, 

and that’s very much what 

we’ve done in our history,” 

Berta said after the meeting 

concluded. “Ground-up development, 

and so we felt 

this was a perfect fit for us.” 

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Orland Park Village Board 

Residents upset about Pace Dial-a-Ride 

cancellation take argument to officials 

Jon DePaolis 


A group of residents upset 

over the loss of a Village 

service took their complaints 

straight to officials 

last week. 

In response to the recent 

decision by the Village of Orland 

Park to discontinue the 

Dial-A-Ride Pace bus service, 

three residents spoke in 

favor of the program Nov. 5 

during a regularly scheduled 

Village Board meeting. 

Nancy Gorman, whose 

nephew Bob Connors is a 

30-year-old Orland Park 

resident with cerebral palsy, 

addressed the board alongside 

Connors during the 

nonscheduled public speakers 

portion of the meeting. 

“I believe this is a heartless 

move to deny the most 

vulnerable residents a muchneeded 

service,” said Gorman, 

also an Orland Park 

resident. “Bob has worked 

his whole life, overcoming 

his disability. He graduated 

from Sandburg High School 

and now attends classes at 

Moraine Valley Community 

[College].” 

Gorman said Connors 

uses the Dial-A-Ride service 

to go to physical therapy, 

work part-time, go to 

see his doctor, go shopping, 

banking, to church and for 

recreation. 

“This is a service that 

Bob desperately needs,” she 

said. “The alternatives that 

were suggested do no work 

for Bob. He is not a senior 

citizen, so he cannot use the 

Township service. He was 

told he must be 60 years 

old to use that. The RTA 

service run by Pace is also 

not a good option, because 

it serves a wide area, and 

these trips can take much 

longer. Bob also receives a 

very modest income from 

the state, so the idea of using 

Uber or Lyft as suggested 

would be a financial 

burden. In addition, Uber 

and Lyft does not have cars 

that will take care of wheelchairs. 

Those are available 

in the City of Chicago, but 

there’s no such thing out 

here in the suburbs.” 

Gorman said she has 

heard this discontinuation 

of the Dial-A-Ride service 

will save the Village roughly 

$130,000 annually. 

“That does not seem like 

a significant amount to me,” 

she said. 

Connors also said the 

Regional Transit Authority 

service will lead to longer 

travel times and doesn’t go 

everywhere in Orland Park. 

“The 25 people that need 

the service, you’re basically 

saying they don’t count in 

your community,” Connors 

said. “But we still support 

the community. … So 

please, help us out.” 

Diane Mackowiak, an Orland 

Park resident, said she 

has two adult children who 

use the Dial-A-Ride service 

“to try to be as independent 

as they possibly can.” 

Her son has vision loss, 

which occurred later in his 

life. 

“Dial-A-Ride is the way 

he can get independently to 

and from,” she said. “The 

ADA Paratransit does not 

go everywhere in Orland.” 

She gave an example of 

when her son had a job interview 

near 179th Street 

and Wolf Road, but he could 

not get there using the paratransit 

service. 

Meanwhile, her daughter, 

who has autism, uses the 

paratransit service when she 

can. But the limited boundaries 

also mean she cannot 

use it all the time. 

“They want to be out in 

the community,” Mackowiak 

said of her children. 

“We’ve resided in this community 

for 27 years. We’re 

taxpaying, active participants. 

They want to continue 

to be [active in the community], 

but we do need 

help. The transportation is 

the biggest help.” 

Mayor Keith Pekau said 

no one on the Village Board 

took the decision to discontinue 

the Dial-A-Ride service 

lightly. But he pointed 

out the other options that 

are available to some of the 

regular riders of the service, 

including Pace’s three different 

transit options for 

those with medical disabilities. 

“But you do have to get in 

the program, and 4-6 weeks 

it takes to get into to the 

program,” he said. “Anyone 

who is eligible for that 

should apply now, so before 

we stop our service they are 

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eligible. They do get an interview, 

and the interview 

can take a while to get set 

up. But they do come out 

and pick you up and bring 

you back for the interview.” 

Still, Pekau acknowledge 

there could be gaps in that 

solution. 

“It is possible, because 

they do drop within only 

a certain distance of their 

routes, that there are some 

areas that maybe don’t get 

coverage,” he said. “If that 

is the case, please let the 

mayor’s office know, because 

I’ve spoken with a 

couple of the car dealers in 

the area. They are not going 

to be able to take all 24 or 

25, but if there is one or two 

special circumstances that 

are not covered.” 

Regardless, Pekau urged 

those riders who fall into 

one of those service gaps to 

reach out to the Village. 

“If you don’t let us know, 

we can’t help you,” he said. 

“We’re more than happy to 

try and help and find a solution, 

because I don’t think 

anyone here wants to leave 

anyone without service.” 

After the residents spoke, 

Trustee Carole Griffin 

Ruzich asked if staff had 

reached out to RTA to see 

if it was willing to expand 

service in Orland Park. She 

also asked if UberWAV 

— which has wheelchairaccessible 

vehicles — can 

expand to Orland Park. 

Assistant Village Manager 

John Keating said staff 

reached out to Uber to inquire 

about this but were 

told the “volume of calls for 

that type of service didn’t 

necessitate or warrant those 

Uber drivers who have 

that ability for handicap or 

wheelchair [use] out in the 

suburbs.” 

Ultimately, Ruzich suggested 

staff look into more 

options. 

“If you can come back 

to us with options that we 

as a Village can do, short 

of reinstating the whole 

programs,” she said. “Let’s 

think outside of the box and 

see if we can do something 

for these people.” 

Trustee Dan Calandriello 

said he was in favor of looking 

at ways to help, including 

raising funds or even 

donating his trustee salary. 

Trustee Patricia Gira suggested 

it might be useful 

to reach out to neighboring 

communities to see if resources 

can be combined. 

She also raised the possibility 

of raising funds to purchase 

a transportation vehicle 

that could accommodate 

those with disabilities. But 

to know what type of vehicle 

was necessary, she said 

users of the service would 

need to reach out to the Village 

to let them know. 

Trustee Kathleen Fenton 

also asked if it was worth 

asking the regular riders 

of the service if they were 

willing to pay the actual 

cost of the fare each ride, as 

opposed to the current subsidized 

fee they are paying. 

During his comments to 

the board near the end of 

the regular meeting, Trustee 

Michael Carroll addressed 

the topic on a macro level. 

Carroll, the finance committee 

chairman, said it has 

been a long budget process 

this year. 

“There’s been a reluctance, 

and no one wants to 

Round It Up 

A brief recap of action 

and discussion from 

the Nov. 5 meeting of 

the Orland Park Village 

Board. 

• As part of the Consent 

Agenda, Village Board 

members voted 6-0 to 

approve the property 

annexation agreement 

for the Villas of Tallgrass. 

The developer plans to 

build a 22-lot, 38-unit 

duplex subdivision on 11 

acres, located at 10851 

W. 167th St. 

• Also as part of the 

Consent Agenda, board 

members approved the 

2018-2019 road salt 

purchase. The vendor 

is Compass Minerals 

America Inc. The price is 

$43.41 per ton of salt. 

talk about raising taxes,” 

he said. “So, what we’ve 

talked about instead the last 

few months has been cut, 

cut, cut.” 

As a 42-year resident of 

the Village, Carroll said the 

cuts that have been made 

have cut into quality of life. 

Pekau agreed that it has 

been a tough budget cycle, 

but he differed with Carroll’s 

point. 

“The reality is that this 

board faced the situation 

where we try to keep a 20 

percent operating reserve, 

and we were actually going 

to be out of reserve 

money by 2023,” he said. 

“When your costs are going 

up, and your revenue [isn’t 

changing], you have to do 

something to [fix that]. That 

means working more on the 

cost side of the equation 

than the revenue side.” 

Pekau said the board 

worked as best it could to 

solve the issue with making 

as few cuts as possible. 

“We’re committed to trying 

to find solutions for the 

few people who may slip 

through the cracks on this,” 

Pekau said.

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Vets honored during ceremony, names added to wall 

Laurie Fanelli 


Bruno G. Quagliani waves to the crowd Sunday, Nov. 11, during Orland Park’s Veterans 

Day ceremony, as his name is read as one of those recently engraved on the Ara Pace – 

Place of Peace Veterans Memorial. Photos by Laurie Fanelli/22nd Century Media 

Orland Park’s Ara Pace 

– Place of Peace Veterans 

Memorial displays engraved 

names of veterans, from all 

military branches and all 

wars throughout the years, 

but it holds a special significance 

on Veterans Day. 

Sunday, Nov. 11, Village 

officials joined past and 

present members of the military, 

friends and neighbors 

at the Civic Center to hold 

Orland Park’s annual Veterans 

Day ceremony. Beginning 

at 11 a.m., the event 

featured several speakers 

who honored the bravery 

and sacrifice of all veterans, 

before acknowledging the 

names recently added to the 

memorial. 

Veterans’ Commission liaison 

Tom Dubelbeis, who 

served as the event’s master 

of ceremonies, welcomed 

the opportunity to recognize 

members of the military from 

every era. 

“Today, we honor all veterans, 

regardless of when 

we served,” Dubelbeis said. 

“What I hope people take 

away from this is an appreciation 

for the sacrifice our 

soldiers have made, regardless 

of whether or not they’re 

in combat. But for the grace 

of God, any one of us could 

be put in harms way.” 

Dubelbeis enjoys participating 

in the ceremony each 

year and finds the Ara Pace 

– Place of Peace Veterans 

Memorial to be a source of 

reflection. 

He said, “Every name on 

the memorial is someone 

who served. It’s a way to 

thank them and their families 

for their service. A lot of 

times, when the family members 

have a name engraved, 

a serviceman or woman has 

passed, and there’s so much 

emotion, respect and admiration. 

It’s wonderful to be able 

to do this for people.” 

The family of late-veteran 

Frank C. Wic — who served 

in the United States Army 

from 1943-1945 — were 

brimming with emotion, as 

their loved one’s name was 

announced as one of those 

recently engraved on the memorial. 

Ara Pace – Place of 

Peace holds a special significance 

for the family, as Wic’s 

late-son-in-law Bill Widmont 

helped to construct the memorial 

with his metal fabricating 

company. 

Wic’s wife, Emily, said of 

the ceremony, “This is very 

exciting, memorable, heartwarming 

and heartbreaking.” 

Linda Erickson, Wic’s 

daughter, added, “This 

means a lot to me, and I feel 

very proud and very overwhelmed.” 

Pride was also an overriding 

emotion for Orland Park 

resident Glenn Ohlquist, 

whose name was added to 

the memorial, as well. He explained 

that being drafted in 

1958 served as a catalyst for 

many good things in his life, 

while also giving him a focal 

point for his youth. 

“I’m very proud,” Ohlquist 

said . “I served in the Army, 

and it was a good life for me. 

I really learned a lot being on 

my own after I got out of high 

school. It was a great experience.” 

During the ceremony, 

Mayor Keith Pekau thanked 

all members of the military 

for their service, spoke of the 

sacrifice of veterans and their 

families, and shared a bit of 

history surrounding how Veterans 

Day came to be. Before 

reading the recently engraved 

names, he also recognized 

local Army veteran Rachell 

Sierzega, whose children 

— Ava, Nolan and Kevin 

— presented the ceremonial 

wreath laying. 

American Legion Orland 

Memorial Post 111 and Orland-Palos 

Reber-Tesmond 

VFW Post 2604 were front 

and center throughout the 

event, serving as members of 

the color guard and participating 

in the rifle volley. 

Post 2604 Cmdr. Ron 

Raimbault explained that he 

continues to be inspired by 

the next generation of servicemen 

and women, and he 

reflects on the legacy of military 

service when he sees the 

eyes of young children light 

up at the sight of a veteran in 

uniform. 

“I see the faces of the children 

when they come in here, 

and I see them staring at us 

and looking at all the different 

ribbons and the uniforms,” 

Raimbault said. “It 

reminds me of when I was 

a kid, and when the veterans 

would come to my school. I 

would go home and be excited 

about that, and I can see 

that excitement in the faces 

of kids today.” 

He added that this and every 

Veterans Day is an opportunity 

to think about those 

who’ve served, and all that 

Ellie (left) and Greer Meeks look at photos of their 

grandfather, Orland Park resident Glenn Ohlquist, from the 

time he served in the United States Army. 

New Names 

The Village of Orland Park added 22 names to its Ara 

Pace — Place of Peace Veterans Memorial for Veterans 

Day 2018. The list follows. 

Name 

Years Served Branch 

Dr. Dennis R. LaMonte Sr. 1968 - 1974 Air Force 

Edward L. Kasper II 1941 - 1945 Army Air Corps 

Dr. Edward L. Kasper III 1968 - 1972 Air Force 

Yuriy Zmysly 

2002 - 2006 Marine Corps 

James Kirkwood 1967 - 1969 Army 

George A. Kuczero 1965 - 1969 Marine Corps 

John Sylvester Ponce 1952 - 1955 Army 

Italo A. Quagliani 1946 - 1947 Army 

Bruno G. Quagliani 1943 - 1945 Army Air Corps 

James Patrick Floyd 1968 - 1969 Army 

Stephen James Murphy Jr. 1092 - 1954 Navy 

Edward J. Pawlak 1943 - 1946 Army 

Glenn Ohlquist 

1959 - 1965 Army 

Ronald B. Goff 

1953 - 1955 Army 

Leonard F. Brennan 1942 - 1945 Navy 

Charles Joseph Hadad 1965 - 1972 Marines 

Felipe Gonzalez Jr. 1954 - 1956 Army 

John W. McGonigal 1951 - 1953 Army 

Michael Kosteczko 1968 - 1973 Army 

Frank C. Wic 

1943 - 1945 Army 

Kenneth Robert Johnston 1971 - 1973 Navy 

Joseph Bernard Goldyn 1944 - 1946 Army 

they’ve accomplished for the 

greater good of every American. 

“Today is a day to acknowledge 

all veterans, past 

and present, for all the deeds 

they did, while remembering 

the one’s that aren’t here with 

us and the friends that we’ve 

had who can’t enjoy this 

day,” Raimbault said. “That’s 

Veterans Day to us.”

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State Rep. Margo 

McDermed Photo submitted 

State Rep. 

Margo 

McDermed wins 

third term 

T.J. Kremer III 

Contributing Editor 

Republican incumbent 

State Rep. Margo Mc- 

Dermed was given a second 

term by Illinois voters, 

defeating Democratic challenger 

Matthew J. Hunt. 

Out of 46,113 total votes 

in the races, McDermed received 

26,863 votes (58.25 

percent) to Hunt’s 19,250 

(41.75), according to unofficial 

results from the Will 

and suburban Cook County 

Clerks’ websites, as of Friday, 

Nov. 9. 

McDermed had 6,205 

votes (55.24) to Hunt’s 5,027 

(44.76) in suburban Cook 

County with 20 of 20 precincts 

reporting. Will County 

saw her up 20,658 (59.22) to 

14,223 (40.78) with 100 percent 

of precincts reporting. 

In a statement emailed to 

22nd Century Media, Mc- 

Dermed wrote, “Thank you 

to everyone that supported 

my election bid. I have focused 

on what I know to be 

the priorities of residents of 

the 37th District: education, 

property tax relief and transportation 

investment. I will 

double-check those priorities 

for the next term and focus 

on the needs of this district 

for the next two years. 

Thank you again.” 

Turnout of registered voters 

for this race in suburban Cook 

County was 59.04 percent. In 

Will County, turnout was at 

57.05 percent for the race. 

Morrison holds off Rashid in D17 county commissioner race 

Cody Mroczka 


Lipinski easily retains D3 

Congressional seat against 

Holocaust denier Art Jones 

Cody Mroczka 


United States Representative 

Dan Lipinski, an incumbent 

conservative Democrat, 

soundly defeated neo-Nazi 

and white supremacist Arthur 

J. Jones and three writein 

candidates in the General 

Election on Nov. 6. 

A 14-year veteran of Congress, 

Lipinski dominated 

the competition on election 

night. Out of a total 217,799 

votes cast, Lipinski earned 

160,501 (73.69 percent), 

while Jones got 57,298 

(26.31), according to unofficial 

results from the Chicago 

Board of Elections, as well 

as clerk’s offices in suburban 

Cook, Will and DuPage 

counties, as of Friday, Nov. 

9. 

In Chicago, Lipinski 

earned 55,813 votes (83.69) 

to 10,876 (16.31) for Jones. 

Lipinski had 86,159 (71.31) 

in suburban Cook, with 252 

out of 252 precincts reporting, 

where Jones had 34,670 

(28.69). In Will County, 

Lipinski earned 18,198 

Republican incumbent 

Sean M. Morrison defeated 

Democratic challenger Abdelnasser 

Rashid in the Nov. 

6 General Election for Cook 

County Commissioner to 

represent the south suburban 

17th District. 

Morrison received 61,005 

votes (50.72 percent), compared 

to Rashid, who garnered 

59,262 (49.28), with 

257 out of 257 precincts reporting, 

as of Friday, Nov. 9. 

Rashid conceded the race 

and congratulated Morrison 

on the victory, according to a 

statement released Wednesday 

morning. He called the 

day “bittersweet,” but was 

proud of his “hard-fought 

campaign with an underdog 

spirit.” 

The race was too close to 

call the evening of the election, 

with 238 out of 257 

precincts reporting as of 

10:15 p.m. Nov. 6. 

“It it not the outcome we 

U.S. Rep Dan Lipinski 

Photo submitted 

(55.90), while Jones gained 

11,576 (38.11), with 100 

percent of precincts reporting. 

And in DuPage, Lipinski 

had 331 votes (65.29), 

while Jones 176 (34.71). 

Following his victory, 

Lipinski issued a statement. 

“I want to thank the voters 

for giving me the honor of 

representing the Third District 

for another two years in 

the U.S. House of Representatives,” 

he wrote. “The results 

demonstrate that voters 

want more of my commonsense 

leadership that brings 

people together, and has produced 

results for the district 

and the country.” 

In suburban Cook County, 

the turnout for the district 

was 52.19 percent. In Will 

County, it was 57.05. 

hoped for,” Rashid said in 

the statement. “I offer my 

congratulations to Sean 

Morrison and hope that he 

will be the commissioner 

that all Cook County families 

need.” 

Morrison’s campaign issued 

a statement around 1 

p.m., Nov. 7 and thanked the 

voters for electing him to a 

four-year term. 

“I’ve worked hard over 

the past three years to protect 

the interests of Cook County 

taxpayers by taking on and 

defeating terrible tax policies 

and irresponsible spending,” 

Morrison said in the 

statement. “I look forward 

to working with my board 

colleagues to move Cook 

County forward in a positive 

and productive direction. 

Our residents deserve nothing 

less.” 

It was Morrison’s first 

election battle since appointed 

to fill a vacancy in July 

2015. He also was elected 

Chairman of the Cook 

County Republican Party in 

Voters ‘Rush’ to polls to re-elect 

D1 Congressional incumbent 

T.J. Kremer III 


Incumbent Democrat 

Bobby Rush is getting another 

term to represent the 

First Congressional District 

from Illinois. 

Of 248,387 total votes cast 

across the district, Rush received 

181,265 (72.98 percent) 

to Tillman’s 50,315 

(20.26) and Rudbeck’s 

16,807 (6.76), according to 

unofficial tallies from the 

Will and suburban Cook 

County Clerks’ offices, as 

well as the Chicago Board of 

Elections, as of Friday, Nov. 

9. 

In Chicago, Rush earned 

125,119 votes (92.73) to Rudbeck’s 

5,648 (4.19) and Tillman’s 

4,164 (3.09), securing 

the race with the city votes 

alone. In suburban Cook 

County, Rush picked up an 

additional 41,304 (56.88) 

to Tillman’s 24,225 (33.36) 

and Rudbeck’s 7,083 (9.75), 

2016 and Palos Township 

Republican Committeeman 

in 2012. Rashid is a Justice 

resident and former deputy 

chief of staff to Cook County 

Clerk David Orr who was 

seeking his first elected office. 

U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush 


with all 158 precincts reporting. 

In Will County, Tillman 

led vote-getters with 21,926 

(53.68). There, Rush took 

second with 14,842 (36.34), 

with Rudbeck behind at 

4,076 (9.98), with 100 percent 

of precincts reporting. 

In suburban Cook County, 

turnout of registered voters 

for the race was 50.55 percent. 

In Will County, it was 

57.05 percent. 

Frerichs retains State Treasurer’s job over 

Orland Park’s Dodge, Libertarian Leheney 

Bill Jones, Editor 

State Treasurer Michael 

Frerichs, an incumbent 

Democrat, bested local Republican 

Jim Dodge and 

Libertarian challenger Michael 

Leheney to retain his 

seat on Election Day, Nov. 

6. 

Several publications reported 

statewide totals for 

Frerichs gave him roughly 

57.3 percent of the vote total, 

compared to Dodge at 

39.3 percent and Leheney at 

3.4 percent. 

Dodge, who serves as a 

trustee for the Orland Park 

Village Board, conceded the 

race and around 8 p.m. posted 

to his campaign Facebook 

page the following note, 

“Tonight was a tough night 

for Republicans, including 

myself. The stakes, however, 

are simply too high to 

walk away. The taxpayers 

of Illinois need a viable Republican 

Party. The work of 

Cook County Commissioner 

Sean Morrison 


rebuilding our party will not 

happen overnight. I look forward 

to being a part of this 

effort.” 

Shortly thereafter, Frerichs 

posted on his campaign 

Facebook page, “Victory! 

Ours was a campaign of 

people and policy, not personalities 

and name calling. 

To the people of Illinois, I 

thank you for your trust and 

support. I look forward to 

four more years of serving 

as your treasurer.”


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In Memoriam 

Edward Albert Gee Jr. 

Edward “Ed” Albert Gee, 

Jr, 90, died Nov. 4. 

He was born Nov. 12, 

1927, in Orland Park, the 

son of Edward and Helen 

Gee Sr. He was united in 

marriage to Caryl Euler on 

July 29, 1950, in Orland 

Park. 

Ed attended Orland Park 

High School. After high 

school, he joined the family 

business, Gee Lumber 

Company, and later went 

into business with his father 

at EG Home Centers. 

Ed was a member of 

Good Shepard Lutheran 

Church in Palos Heights. 

He enjoyed the art of photography 

and participated 

in Palos area camera clubs. 

Ed entered several of his 

photographs in local competitions. 

Ed and Caryl both 

loved to travel, and the trips 

were well documented. 

Ed spent as much time as 

possible “up at the lake” in 

northern Wisconsin at Big 

Portage Lake, where he 

enjoyed fishing, skiing and 

boating. He will be remembered 

for his easygoing personality 

and dedication to 

his family. 

He is survived by his 

daughters, Alice (Forrest) 

Muehlethaler and Louise 

(Jim) Turner; his grandchildren, 

Joe (Brandi) Muehlethaler, 

Katyann Muehlethaler, 

Adam (Dena) Turner 

and April (Jim) Kelly; and 

several great grandchildren. 

He was predeceased by his 

loving wife of 64 years, 

Caryl Gee, and their son 

Tom Gee. 

Visitation was held Nov. 

10 at Moss-Norris Funeral 

Home. A funeral service 

was to follow at the funeral 

home. Interment Orland 

Memorial Park. 

FROM THE FRANKFORT STATION 

Frankfort teen charged after 

17-year-old fatally shot 

A 17-year-old Frankfort 

resident faces unlawful use 

of a weapon charges after 

another Frankfort teenager 

was fatally shot Nov. 4 while 

the two teens were handling 

a loaded revolver, the Frankfort 

Police Department confirmed 

in a statement on Nov. 

6. 

Officers responded to the 

19900 block of Lily Court 

around 6:13 p.m. Nov. 4 

in response to a report of a 

male juvenile with a gunshot 

wound to the chest, according 

to the release. The 17-yearold 

victim was transported to 

Silver Cross Hospital via ambulance 

and later pronounced 

dead by medical staff. 

During the investigation, 

police learned the victim had 

been visiting a 17-year-old 

male friend at the Frankfort 

residence, according to the 

release. The two teens reportedly 

had a .357-caliber 

revolver and several rounds 

of live ammunition in their 

possession. While they were 

handling the gun, a live 

round discharged and struck 

the victim, police said. 

An 18-year-old male at 

the home reportedly learned 

about the incident, dialed 911 

and began performing CPR 

until first responders arrived. 

Evidence technicians with 

the Frankfort Police Department 

were able to collect evidence, 

including the firearm 

and ammunition, according 

to the release. 

The 17-year-old friend was 

subsequently charged with 

unlawful use of weapon and 

transferred to the River Valley 

Juvenile Detention Center 

in Joliet, where he awaits 

a hearing, according to the 

release. Frankfort Deputy 

Police Chief Kevin Keegan 

said the teen was charged as 

a juvenile. 

The Will-Grundy Major 

Crimes Task Force is assisting 

with the investigation, 

which remains active, and 

crime lab and pathology reports 

were still pending as of 

press time. 

Reporting by Nuria Mathog, 

Editor. For more, visit Frank 

fortStation.com. 

FROM THE NEW LENOX PATRIOT 

Injury-plagued 2017-2018 

inspires bounce-back year for 

Knights girls basketball 

Abi Baumgartner has 

played behind great forwards 

in Courteney Barnes and 

Lauren Kraft the past two 

seasons on the varsity girls 

basketball team, and now 

this is her time to be the goto 

scorer for Lincoln-Way 

Central. 

The senior showcased her 

abilities in the second half 

of last season, when Kraft, 

the leading scorer, suffered a 

season-ending injury. In her 

absence, Baumgartner averaged 

15.6 points per game 

and 10.6 rebounds per game. 

During that stretch, she had a 

few 20-plus point efforts, as 

well as a Dennis Rodmanlike 

22 rebound game against 

Thornton. 

She will be alongside another 

returning starter, Regan 

LoConte. While Baumgartner 

is a force inside, Lo- 

Conte makes opponents pay 

from behind the arc, finishing 

fourth in the area with 

63 3-pointers made last year. 

The junior averaged 9.1 PPG 

and started all season. 

The youth resurgence of 

sophomore Megan Hutchinson 

and junior backup Abbey 

Ward will handle point guard 

duties. Hutchinson is already 

a Division I-committed athlete, 

having committed to 

Purdue University in soccer 

as a freshman. 

The Knights lost three 

starters in Kraft, Natalie 

Spudic and Haley Ragland. 

Both Kraft and Spudic hovered 

around 5-foot-10, but 

the Knights retain their reach 

with new center Lily Zopf 

and sophomore forward Haley 

Stoklosa, who played key 

minutes on varsity last year. 

“I think we match up 

well with all the teams in 

our conference,” Baumgartner 

said. “We’re tall; we’re 

quick. Really, all five players 

on the court are versatile. 

With that being said, 

we have a pretty good season 

ahead of us.” 

Reporting by James Sanchez, 

Editor. For more, visit New 

LenoxPatriot.com. 

FROM THE LOCKPORT LEGEND 

Lockport resident to remain 

Will County Sheriff 

Lockport resident Mike 

Kelley will be serving a 

second term as Will County 

Sheriff after defeating challenger 

Jim Reilly in the Nov. 

6 General Election, according 

to unofficial results from 

the Will County Clerk’s website. 

Kelley was named on 

57.83 percent of ballots, 

while Reilly received 42.17 

percent of votes. There were 

240,669 total votes cast, with 

Kelley receiving 139,188 as 

of tallies Thursday, Nov. 8. 

“We basically ran on our 

accomplishments of the last 

four years,” Kelley said. “We 

just wanted the people of Will 

County to know our message 

and what we accomplished 

the last four years and what 

they had to look forward to if 

they re-elected us.” 

Kelley began his career 

with the Will County Sheriff’s 

Office in 1988. He said 

he plans to continue to focus 

on the opioid crisis in his second 

term, adding that his administration 

has had success 

fighting the epidemic in the 

unincorporated areas of Will 

County, and he wants to expand 

their efforts into county 

municipalities. 

“We started a lot of great 

programs in the last four 

years to combat this heroin 

epidemic,” Kelley said. 

“What I really want to do is 

extend our resources into the 

municipalities and get them 

involved in our prevention 

coalition, so it can be a joint 

effort, where everybody is on 

the same page” 

Kelley expressed gratitude 

for the support he received 

from voters. 

“We’re going to make 

them glad that they voted us 

back in for four more years,” 

he said. 

Reporting by Max Lapthorne, 

Editor. For more, visit Lock 

portLegend.com. 

FROM THE HOMER HORIZON 

Homer Glen couple’s mini 

therapy horses bring joy to 

others 

Two Homer Glen residents 

have made it their mission to 

bring smiles to people’s faces, 

regardless of age. 

As a 5-year-old and 7-yearold 

duo, they might look a little 

different than their peers, 

but do not let the four legs, 

tail and fluff be a distraction 

from the positive impact they 

have had on those they meet. 

Tex and Wally are two 

miniature therapy horses 

owned by Dave and Tina 

Durbin. Over the last year, 

they have visited foster children, 

nursing homes, hospitals, 

schools, memory care 

facilities and veteran homes. 

“It’s every age,” Tina said. 

“I mean, you can see when 

we walk into a hospital, these 

people who just look so sad, 

smile. Their eyes light up. 

This is really very cool. 

“People in memory care 

facilities, inevitably someone 

will remember something 

and share a story with us. 

[Tex and Wally] make people 

remember. The children at the 

schools who don’t speak talk 

to them. I mean, it’s amazing 

the impact they have.” 

The Durbins got Tex and 

Wally last October from a 

woman in Wisconsin who fell 

ill and needed to find a new 

home for the mini horses. 

“They were together,” Tina 

said. “I mean, we didn’t intend 

to have two originally, 

but then it’s like, how can we 

split them up? And we’re so 

glad, because they definitely 

are a team, and they’re very 

bonded.” 

Reporting by Jacquelyn Schlabach, 

Assistant Editor. For 

more, visit HomerHorizon.com. 

FROM THE MOKENA MESSENGER 

No politics, just patriotism at 

Mokena Elementary Veterans 

Day assembly 

With roughly half of the 

students in the elementary 

school gymnasium, one 

might expect it to get a bit 

rowdy in the space that normally 

hosts a variety of sports 

and extracurricular activities. 

But that was not the case at 

Mokena Elementary School 

on Nov. 7. 

Students invited their own 

special veterans — whether 

grandparents, aunts, uncles 

or parents — to join them as 

the they sang songs and read 

letters and poems during their 

assembly. 

Efren Dizon, of Mokena, 

who served in the Navy from 

1968-1974 after being recruited 

from the Philippines, 

said the assembly was a nice 

opportunity to meet other 

veterans, build a bit of camaraderie 

and take a minute to 

remember the past. 

Though most of the students 

are likely too young to 

understand the veterans’ experiences 

and sacrifices, Dizon 

said the event provided 

an opportunity for people to 

reflect on how war affects 

people and families, and 

how veterans help make this 

country what it is today. 

“We have this freedom we 

are enjoying in the United 

States,” he said, “Not like 

other countries, especially in 

the [developing nations], just 

like where I came from, the 

Philippines.” 

Reporting by Amanda Villiger, 

Assistant Editor. For more, visit 

MokenaMessenger.com. 

William Leahy 

William J. 

“Bill” Leahy, 89, 

of Orland Park, died Nov. 1. 

Please see obit, 17

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Township not running a ‘bus 

service’ 

Orland Township provides 

many programs and 

services to residents. By 

and large, the community 

members who utilize the 

majority of our programs 

are our seniors. We offer 

several different types of 

fitness classes, competitions, 

luncheons and dinner-dances, 

in which many 

seniors participate. One of 

our most utilized services 

is our Senior Transportation 

Program. 

First, I want to stress that 

the Orland Township Senior 

Transportation Program is 

not ending. The program 

that has been reported as 

ending is the Pace Dial-A- 

Ride program that has been 

available through the Village 

of Orland Park. 

Since it became public 

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From Page 16 

He was a United States 

Army veteran who served 

during the Korean War. 

Husband for 64 years to 

the late Gertrude L. “Trudy”; 

father of Kathy (Joe) 

O’Connor, Margie (John 

Poppe) Leahy, Maureen 

(Frank) Conrad and the late 

Patsy (Jim) Wilson; grandfather 

of nine and great-grandfather 

of seven; brother of 

the late Joanne “Patsy” Jandacek; 

uncle of two nephews 

and one niece; and friend to 

many. 

Retired from AT&T after 

40 years. Visitation was 

held at Colonial Chapel. A 

Funeral Mass was held at St. 

Elizabeth Seton. Interment 

Mt. Olivet Cemetery. 

Helen Sagel 

Helen S. Sagel (née Lenko), 

102, of Orland Park, 

died Oct. 31. 

ending, my office has been 

inundated with calls. While 

we want nothing more than 

to assist everyone, our current 

fleet is running at capacity 

with transporting seniors 

only and, unfortunately at 

this time, we do not have 

the resources to expand our 

transportation service. 

I also would like to correct 

the depiction of our 

Senior Transportation Program 

as a bus service as 

[suggested by the article]. 

Orland Township does not 

have a bus; it has a fleet of 

10 vehicles, consisting of 

nine cars and one 1-passenger, 

handicapped-accessible 

PACE van. We provide curbto-curb 

service to seniors, 

ages 55 and older who reside 

within the boundaries 

of Orland Township, which 

includes the portions of the 

villages of Orland Park, Tinley 

Park and all of Orland 

Hills. 

The Orland Township Senior 

Transportation Program 

She was the grandmother 

of Lynda (Robert) Van Dyck, 

Susan (Jerry) Yozze, Denette 

(Greg) Gallman, Kathy-Jo 

and Edward (Andrea) Sagel; 

great-grandmother of 8; and 

great-great-grandmother of 

2. 

Visitation was held at 

Thornridge Funeral Home. A 

Funeral Mass was held at St. 

Michael Church. Interment 

Resurrection Cemetery. 

Arthur Stout 

Arthur W. Stout Jr., age 

71, of Orland Park, died 

Nov. 6. 

Husband for 43 years to 

the late Starr Ann Stout; father 

of Kristen (Michael) 

Drain and Carolynn (Joseph) 

Ventimiglia; grandfather of 

Katelyn, Michael, Madelyn 

and the late Joseph; son of 

the late Arthur and Leona 

Stout; friend, cousin and 

uncle of many. 

Visitation with a memorial 

service to celebrate Art were 

held at Colonial Chapel. In 

transports an average of 700 

individuals each month, with 

the majority of the trips being 

to and from doctor and 

therapy appointments, which 

are given priority. However, 

with careful scheduling, we 

are also able to transport seniors 

to and from shopping 

trips, meetings, and to and 

from the Township for classes 

and events. We do this and 

all of our other programs and 

services on a budget that is 

much less than the Village 

budget. 

Again, I want to reassure 

the seniors who utilize the 

Orland Township Senior 

Transportation Program that 

it is still up and running, and 

I hope the individuals who 

are not seniors and are affected 

by the discontinuation 

of the Village’s bus services 

can find a viable alternative 

transportation program. 

Paul O’Grady 

Orland Township Supervisor 

lieu of flowers, memorials 

to Ann & Robert H. Lurie 

Children’s Foundation, Attn. 

Kara Frost, 225 E. Chicago 

Ave., Box 4, Chicago, IL, 

60611. 

Stanley Vana 

Stanley C. 

Vana, 86, of Orland 

Park, died Nov. 5. 

He was a United States 

Army veteran who served 

during the Korean War. 

Husband of the late Sylvia 

B.; father of Eric (Mary); 

grandfather of Julianne, Eric 

and Colleen; brother of Ron 

(Pat); uncle of Don (Lisa), 

Doug (Iris), Dave, Dan 

(Kate); Donna (late Johnny), 

Gary (Pat), Randy (Karen), 

Mark (Rose) and Robin 

(Don). 

Retired research scientist 

for Illinois Institute of Technology 

Research Institute 

with more than 35 years of 

service. Visitation and a funeral 

service were held at 

Colonial Chapel. 

Poetry in OP 

‘A post 

election view’ 

Lin Peterson 

Contributing Columnist 

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In the phone calls pour 

Robocalls and visits 

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Finally! It’s over 

Choosing at its end 

Dare we watch TV 

Or walk outside again? 

Its like it never happened 

The signs all fall away 

And life goes on 

A new, more hopeful day. 

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Pastor Column 

Fear or faith 

The Rev. Caleb Hong 

Faith United Methodist Church 

is no fear in 

love, but perfect 

“There 

love casts out 

fear.” (1 Peter 4:8) 

I have a friend named 

Khalid. This weekend, he is 

participating in the Human 

Library project at the Frankfort 

Public Library. 

This is an opportunity 

when people can check out 

a “human book.” Book 

subjects include: “A Jew,” 

“A Muslim,” “A Latina,” “A 

Hard of Hearing Person,” 

etc. 

Khalid participated in 

this event last year as “A 

Muslim.” He explained why 

being part of this learning 

experience was so important. 

“Last year, I had a woman 

who finally got the courage 

to come to my table, shaking, 

and she was terrified of 

Muslims, because she was 

sure I was a nasty person, 

required to kill infidels,” he 

said. “But after 15 minutes 

of talking to her and addressing 

her fears, when she 

was leaving, she said she 

was feeling so terrible that 

she had felt that way before, 

and then proceeded to invite 

me to her home for dinner. 

That experience shook me 

up — that a small program 

in a small town could change 

the heart and mind of one 

person. It’s all about communication 

and dialogue!” 

In the face of fear and 

ignorance, Khalid is doing 

his part to make a difference 

in our world. 

This past Tuesday, I went 

to an InterFaith healing 

service at Shir Tikvah, the 

Jewish synagogue in Homewood. 

I entered the synagogue 

with a heavy heart 

— grieving and wondering 

what could be done about 

the ignorance and violence 

plaguing our society today. I 

left the service wanting say 

something, share something, 

do something that might 

make a difference — even a 

small one. 

Whenever and whenever 

I can, I’ll try to offer hope, 

encouragement and kindness 

to friends and enemies alike. 

I’ll speak up when others are 

being put down. I’ll go out 

of my way to serve and care 

for neighbors (regardless of 

their race, religion, political 

affiliation. I’ll do my part to 

reflect God’s love — whenever, 

wherever, however I 

can — because God’s love is 

the answer to fear. 

The Bible reminds us that 

perfect love casts out fear. 

Love (which we see most 

perfectly in Jesus Christ) is 

God’s answer to the hatred/ 

ignorance/bigotry of our sinsick 

world. 

Friends, I don’t know the 

answer to stopping all the 

hate and violence. I don’t 

know how we can prevent 

the next mass shooting in 

a school, shopping center 

or synagogue. However, I 

know we can all do our part. 

We can all do something to 

shine light in the midst of 

darkness, to offer hope in the 

midst of pain, to offer love, 

which casts out fear. I promise 

to do my part. I hope you 

will, too. 

The opinions of this column are 

those of the writer. They do not 

necessarily reflect those of The 

Orland Park Prairie. 

FAITH BRIEFS 

Christ Lutheran Church (14700 S. 94th Ave., 

Orland Park) 

NAMI Grief & Loss 

Challenges During the 

Holidays 

6:30 p.m. Nov. 30. This 

workshop is designed to 

inform, empower, provide 

support, educate and give 

insight to feelings and issues 

around grief, loss, bereavement 

and mental illness. 

For more information, 

contact christinejaksy@ 

comcast.net. 

St. Elizabeth Seton Catholic Church (9300 W. 

167th St., Orland Hills) 

Fair Trade Holiday Craft Fair 

9 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday, 

Nov. 17, and 8 a.m.-1 p.m. 

Sunday, Nov. 18. Ten Thousand 

Villages Fair Trade 

Craft and Pop-Up Store is 

to take place in O’Mara 

Hall. Free refreshments 

and Fair Trade samples. 

Hundreds of treasures, including 

scarves, bags, toys, 

knits, home accents, jewelry, 

candles, wall decor, baskets, 

ornaments, tabletop, 

spa and skincare, teas, coffees, 

chocolates, music and 

musical instruments — all 

created by artisans from developing 

countries around 

the world. 

St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church (15050 

S. Wolf Road, Orland Park) 

Thanksgiving Day Mass 

10 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 

22. Followed by coffee. 

‘Rejoice! Advent 

Meditations with Mary’ 

Journal 

The “Rejoice! Advent 

Meditations with Mary” 

journal, is available for $3 

after Masses in the Narthex 

or in the Parish office. People 

can follow the journal on 

their own at home or sign up 

for the evening (Monday) or 

morning (Friday) sessions 

at church. For more information, 

visit shop.ascen 

sionpress.com/collections/ 

rejoice. 

Overeaters Anonymous 

9:30 a.m. Wednesdays. 

Enter through main church 

doors, follow signs to meeting 

room. Overeaters Anonymous 

meetings are for 

anyone who has a problem 

with food addiction/compulsion. 

There are no dues, 

fees or weigh-ins. All meetings 

are confidential. 

St. Michael Church (14327 Highland Ave., 

Orland Park 

Women’s Club Drive for 

Manteno Veterans 

7-9 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 

15, Center Commons. The 

Women’s Club will be sponsoring 

a collection drive for 

the veterans at Manteno. 

The special guest speaker 

will be Howard Manning, 

who served our country and 

also was awarded a trip on 

the Honor Flight to Washington, 

D.C. A list of items 

is available in the parish office. 

The group also will be 

including “thank you” notes 

with small monetary gifts 

for the veterans’ personal 

use. Members are free, nonmembers 

will make a donation 

of $5. Refreshments 

will be served. 

Holiday Event 

1:30-7:30 p.m. Saturday, 

Dec. 15. A trip to see 

“Miracle on 34th Street” at 

the Theater in the Center in 

Munster, Indiana. The bus 

will leave St. Michael at 

1:30 p.m. and return at 7:30 

p.m. Dinner after the play 

is included. Tickets are $80 

for adults, and $55 for children 

12 and younger. The 

deadline to purchase tickets 

is Friday, Nov. 16. Tickets 

can be purchased in the 

parish office. For more information, 

contact Mary at 

(708) 349-5407 or Paulette 

at (708) 460-6535. 

Faith United Methodist Church (15101 S. 

80th Ave., Orland Park) 

Overeaters Anonymous 

8:30 a.m. Saturday, 3 p.m. 

Sunday. Overeaters Anonymous 

meetings are for anyone 

who has a problem with 

food addiction/compulsion. 

There are no dues, fees or 

weigh-ins. All meetings are 

confidential. 

Presbyterian Church in Orland Park (13401 

S. Wolf Road, Orland Park) 

Thursday Evening Bible 

Study 

7-8:30 p.m. Thursdays 

Southwest Seventh Day Adventist Church 

(15760 Wolf Road, Orland Park) 

Revelations Study 

7 p.m. Tuesday. Attendees 

can learn more about 

the Seventh Day Adventist 

Church. For more information, 

call (618) 556-8002. 

Living Word Lutheran Church (16301 S. Wolf 

Road, Orland Park) 

PUSH Prayer 

9:30 a.m. Tuesdays. All 

are welcome to take part in 

person or take 10-15 minutes 

to pray for the country, 

church, community and individual 

needs. Meetings 

take place the second Tuesday 

of the month. 

Calvary Church (16100 S. 104th Ave., 

Orland Park) 

Men’s Barnabas Bible Study 

7-8:30 a.m. Thursdays. 

Study various books written 

by Christian authors. Coffee 

and light refreshments are 

served. For more information, 

email info@calvaryop. 

org. 

Ashburn Baptist Church (153rd Street and 

Wolf Road, Orland Park) 

Bible Study 

9:45 a.m. 

Hope Covenant Church (14401 West Ave., 

Orland Park 

Services 

10 a.m. Sundays 

Our Lady of the Woods Church (10731 W. 

131st, Orland Park) 

Eucharistic Adoration 

9 a.m.-1 p.m. Fridays. 

The church invites all to 

spend some quiet time with 

the Lord. Eucharistic adoration 

will be held in the Day 

Chapel. First hour is vocal 

prayer, followed by silence. 

For more information, contact 

the front office at (708) 

361-4754. 

Standing Stone Church (Robert Davidson 

Center, 14700 Park Lane, Orland Park) 

Sunday Services 

9 a.m. and 11 a.m. 

Have something for Faith 

Briefs? Contact Editor Bill 

Jones at bill@opprairie.com 

or call (708) 326-9170 ext. 20. 

Information is due by noon on 

Thursdays one week prior to 

publication. 

Resident Poet 

‘What If?’ 

Susanne Cabrini Marie 

Contributing Columnist 

What if the sun shined 

365 days a year? 

It already does, but 

sometimes hides behind 

clouds, my dears! 

What if it rained a little 

every single day? 

Some places, like 

Hawaii, are always that 

way. 

What if both external 

and internal wars could 

cease? 

The world would have 

a delightful and lasting 

peace! 

What if each unborn 

child was made welcome— 

And, orphans and all 

displaced people found 

homes? 

What if Jesus Christ 

came down from heaven 

then? 

He’d rejoice with us, for 

all evil would end!

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Capturing the world — and 

the attention of Orland Park 

Orland Park to welcome 

season with Holiday 

Festival & Tree Lighting 

Outdoor festivities return to the 

Village Center 

Photography on display 

at Orland Park Public 

Library throughout 

November 

Jesse Wright, Freelance Reporter 

Marian Kraus was born in 

Czechoslovakia and grew up in 

Germany. And it was there, as 

a teenager, he fell in love with 

photography through the lens of 

a Pentax 35mm. 

It was a common enough 

hobby with a common enough 

camera. But since then, Kraus 

has traveled the world, and for 

the last 20 years he has made a 

living — and a name for himself 

— as a professional photographer, 

specializing in architecture 

and design photography. 

Now, his photos have landed 

him in Orland Park, with his 

first show at the Orland Park 

Public Library. Through the end 

of November, Kraus’ photos are 

lining the second-story walls, 

blown up to several feet in size, 

taking up most of the wall and 

arresting the attention of passersby. 

Kraus lives is Naperville, 

and library department assistant 

Duke Phelps said staff discovered 

Kraus’ work through his 

website. Phelps said the library 

regularly hosts artists and uses 

the second-story wall as a gallery 

of sorts. 

“We liked the way he photographed 

the natural landscapes 

and the environment,” Phelps 

said. “The way he photographs 

nature is similar to the way he 

photographs the manmade work, 

and we appreciated that. So, we 

liked his photography, and he 

agreed to show with us.” 

Kraus focuses on texture and 

light, so whether the subject is 

Orland Park resident Laureen Lesiak (left) speaks with photographer Marian Kraus Nov. 2 during a 

Meet the Artist event at the Orland Park Public Library. Jesse Wright/22nd Century Media 

iron and concrete, or sand and 

bark, his work has a through 

line that illustrates how close to 

nature the built-up world really 

is. Yet, even though his photos 

are blown up to nearly half the 

size of the viewer, they are of the 

minute and vanishing. Whether 

the subject is a brief ray of lateday 

sun or the white edge of a 

sand dune before dawn burns 

away the frosty rim, these are 

images easily ignored in life but 

captured here for posterity. 

On Nov. 2, the artist was on 

hand to meet with the public. 

“I feel very lucky to have an 

opportunity to show my work 

here,” he said. 

Professionally, Kraus shoots 

mostly for hotels and hospitality 

firms, but he said he tries to 

bring the same aesthetic sensibilities 

to those subjects as he 

would a sand dune or tree in a 

forest. 

“To me, I try to bring the fine 

art aspect into the commercial 

work,” Kraus said. “I combine 

both. It’s about expressing the 

energy of the subject matter and 

the confluence of shape, form, 

light, shadow, geometric shapes, 

and to see how they come together.” 

With his photography, Kraus 

has traveled to New Zealand, 

Australia, India, Costa Rica, 

throughout North America and 

in Europe, and the artist said he 

is not done traveling just yet. 

“It’s a long, long list [of places 

I’d like to go] — a very long 

list,” he said. “In the immediate 

future, I would love to go back 

to Australia and New Zealand. 

Those were two very, very magnificent 

places. My wife is from 

Mexico, and Mexico, in and of 

itself, has a lot of beauty. I have 

not had a chance to explore it, 

other than the Mexico City region. 

South Africa is on my list. 

Russia is on my list. I would 

love to go back to India; that’s a 

fascinating country.” 

But he also is happy in the 

Chicago area. 

“I’ve been living here longer 

than I’ve been living in Europe,” 

he said. “And I am a U.S. citizen, 

too.” 

One Orland Park woman, 

Laureen Lesiak, said she is happy 

he is here. 

Lesiak stopped by the library 

to pick up some Norman Vincent 

Peale books and realized 

there was an artist showing that 

evening. She ended up being so 

taken with Kraus’ work that she 

stayed to meet the man. 

Lesiak encouraged others in 

the community to come out to 

see the photos. 

“I would say to stop by, because 

these picture are like 

you’re standing right there,” she 

said. 

The Orland Park Public Library 

is located at 14921 S. Ravinia 

Ave. For hours and more 

information, visit orlandparkli 

brary.org. 

To get a taste of Kraus’ work, 

visit www.mariankrausphotog 

raphy.com. 

Submitted by Village of Orland Park 

The Village of Orland Park officially welcomes 

the holiday season each year on the 

Sunday after Thanksgiving. The community’s 

annual holiday festival and tree lighting 

ceremony will be held this year on Sunday, 

Nov. 25. 

The holiday market with food, crafts and 

holiday items opens at 3:30 p.m. outside at 

the Orland Park Village Center, 14700 S. 

Ravinia Ave. 

The festivities are to begin with the tree 

lighting outside of the Village Hall at 4:30 

p.m. Once the tree and displays are lit, the 

holiday festival will continue inside and outside 

until 7:30 p.m. 

The event features the Sandburg High 

School Chamber Choir, the Jerling Jr. High 

School Choir, the Orland Park Comedy Improv 

Team, the Village’s Junior and Senior 

Dance Companies, Orland Park Library 

Story Telling and “Beyond the Nutcracker” 

performance by Ballet 5:8. 

Attendees also will enjoy visits with 

Santa, sleigh rides, seeing live reindeer, kiddie 

car train rides for $1 per child per ride, 

make-and-take crafts and more. 

Scout troops, churches, athletic organizations, 

youth groups and local clubs are invited 

to adopt community trees to decorate 

on the Village green. A limited number of 

trees are available, and there is no cost to 

participate. 

Trees will be assigned on a first come, first 

served basis, and are approximately 5 feet 

tall and will include lights and a sign with 

the organization’s name. 

Participating groups must provide the 

decorations, handmade or store-bought. 

Organizations are asked to have their trees 

decorated by Nov. 25, in time for the holiday 

festival. 

Vendor spots remain available for the holiday 

market, with a variety of sellers welcomed, 

including ready-to-eat food, crafts, 

jewelry and holiday decor. Interested vendors 

may contact Doreen Biela at dbiela@ 

orlandpark.org or call (708) 403-6266. 

For more information about Orland Park’s 

holiday festival is available by calling the 

Village’s Recreation Department at (708) 

403-7275.

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Former Orland School D135 teacher 

publishes third math teaching book 

Orland Park World War II veteran 

honored by Gary Sinise Foundation 

Cody Mroczka, Contributing Editor 

Jeanne White is a teacher who 

teaches other teachers how to teach. 

A 25-year veteran in the profession, 

the Tinley Park native has 

been a professor of math methods 

at Elmhurst College for the last 13 

years after spending the previous 

12 years as an elementary teacher at 

Orland School District 135. White 

recently published her third book, 

along with co-author and colleague 

Linda Dauksas, tilted “Engaging 

Preschoolers in Mathematics,” 

which offers strategies and methods 

for early student engagement in 

mathematics. 

“The idea behind the book is using 

the routines that are typical in 

a pre-K setting,” White said. “How 

you can get math into all those areas 

— for example, when children 

are painting or at snack time or in 

the outdoors. It’s about how to have 

a mathematical theme in all these 

typical situations.” 

A native of Harvey, White got 

her first taste of teaching in high 

school as a math tutor for the National 

Honor Society. Although she 

initially planned to major in journalism 

at the University of Illinois 

in Champaign, White switched her 

major to elementary education and 

went on to earn a master’s degree 

and doctorate in the educational 

field. 

“From the minute I tutored someone, 

I said, ‘This is it. I’m going to 

be a teacher,’” she said. “And even 

though I loved teaching, I always 

wanted to be on the teacher preparation 

side of it. Teach the teachers 

— that was my goal.” 

White broke into the publishing 

business when she was asked 

to review another academic book 

and returned the assignment with 

a few pitches of her own. Her first 

two books also deal in early education, 

though focus on kindergarten 

through second grade and kindergarten 

through six grade, respectively. 

They focus on using children’s 

literature to teach problem 

solving skills in math. 

The publisher suggested partnering 

with Dauksas, an expert in 

Jeanne White. Cody Mroczka/22nd 

Century Media 

early childhood development, to 

extend that theme to the preschool 

level on the third book published 

last month. 

“We were really in tandem,” 

Dauksas said. “It really was a coauthored 

book. It couldn’t have 

been written without one or the 

other. Hopefully, it will have some 

impact on students and families.” 

The book is for both in-service 

and pre-service teachers, meaning 

those currently licensed and those 

still in school, said White, who also 

serves as chairperson of the college’s 

graduate program for her department 

and regularly supervisors 

student-teachers. 

She said it helps having taught 

in both the elementary and college 

settings when it comes to 

writing for a specific educational 

audience. 

“Having been a teacher myself 

and being a professor who teaches 

math methods helps me see what 

teachers have a hard time trying to 

figure out,” White said. “Some of 

the methods being taught now are 

not the methods that we learned 

in school. It’s about being able to 

explain something enough so that 

a teacher can be able to explain it 

better to their students.” 

Brianne Dougherty 


Veterans Day is a time to celebrate 

and pay our respects to the 

brave war heroes who have put 

their lives on the line to fight for 

our freedom. 

One heroic individual to celebrate 

is Orland Park’s own James 

Rizzo, a 92-year-old World War II 

veteran. 

Rizzo recently was honored for 

his service by participating in the 

Gary Sinise Foundation’s Soaring 

Valor program — an initiative to 

bring WWII era veterans together 

at the National World War II Museum 

in New Orleans. 

The Gary Sinise Foundation 

partnered with several organizations 

to provide these veterans 

with a memorable experience to 

say thank you for defending our 

country. The program promotes 

community building by encouraging 

veterans to interact with their 

fellow heroes and educate a new 

generation by sharing their stories 

with high school students. Rizzo 

was accompanied by his daughter, 

Donna, for this four-day trip in 

September. 

“The best thing that I can say 

about this trip was how absolutely 

wonderful everyone at the Gary 

Sinise Foundation ... was in organizing 

this trip of a lifetime,” 

Donna said. “These veterans were 

happy to share their stories with 

people who were willing to listen. 

If their stories aren’t told, they will 

be gone.” 

Each veteran was paired with a 

high school student who was eager 

to hear their stories and will 

one day carry on their legacy to 

future generations. The group featured 

roughly 40 WWII era veterans, 

their families and friends, 

as well as students from the Chicago 

area. James was paired with 

a young woman from Deerfield 

High School named Haley with 

whom he and Donna spent most of 

the trip. 

James Rizzo (right), of Orland 

Park, poses for a photo with his 

daughter, Donna, and Gary Sinise 

during a Soaring Valor program. 

“My father and most of the other 

vets were able to finally open up 

and talk about their experiences,” 

Donna said. “It was truly amazing 

to hear all their stories and talk 

to all of the veterans who lived 

through what we were seeing in 

the museum. I have nothing but 

the deepest respect and admiration 

for all veterans who serve our 

country and their families who 

sacrifice with them while they wait 

at home.” 

Rizzo was in high school when 

he enlisted in the United States 

Army Air Corps after the attack on 

Pearl Harbor. He received a deferment 

until finishing his education. 

As he finished basic training 

several months later and prepared 

to go to Saipan in the Northern 

Mariana Islands to fight in the 

Pacific, the war came to an end. 

Rizzo instead was called to duty 

as part of the Occupation Army in 

Japan. 

“We were in California getting 

ready to go to Japan when we 

learned that they had dropped an 

atomic bomb on Hiroshima,” Rizzo 

said. “We all looked at each other 

and asked, ‘What is an atomic 

bomb?’ Soon after, another bomb 

James Rizzo enlisted in the U.S. 

Army Air Corps during World War 

II. Photos submitted 

was dropped on Nagasaki, and Japan 

surrendered.” 

Rizzo was trained to be an airplane 

mechanic but, upon arriving 

in Japan, learned that they did not 

need any. So, he served as a cook. 

He worked hard and lent a helping 

hand wherever it was needed. In 

fact, he met someone who offered 

him the opportunity to work in an 

80-room military rest and recreation 

hotel on the shores of Mount 

Fuji. 

“I have never turned anything 

down that I thought I could maybe 

do,” Rizzo said. “I wanted to give 

everything a try.” 

Rizzo spent roughly two years 

in Japan before being honorably 

discharged. It turned out being a 

cook was a lucrative experience 

for him, because after returning 

home and working in the printing 

business for nearly 25 years, Rizzo 

opened a small restaurant and catering 

business in Chicago. He was 

in business for himself for roughly 

35 years. 

Now, Rizzo works part-time, is 

an active community member and 

a tenor in his church choir, and enjoys 

ballroom dancing and watching 

football. 

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Coming together over a meal 

Orland Park mosque opens its doors to the community for dinner, message of peace 

A member of The Prayer Center, Malik Ali (left), of Orland 

Park, gives a warm welcome to Sen. Mike Hastings at the 

annual SWIFT dinner. 

Humza Said, of Orland Park, serves food during the annual SouthWest InterFaith Team dinner held Nov. 1 at The Prayer 

Center of Orland Park. Photos by Mary Compton/22nd Century Media 

Diana Khattab, a member of The Prayer Center from Orland 

Park, listens to Orland Park Mayor Keith Pekau during the 

annual SWIFT dinner. 

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RIGHT: Jafar Hawa, an Orland Park resident who serves 

as director of the Quran Academy, listens to the guest 

speakers at the annual SWIFT dinner. 

Bashar Abuseini, of Tinley Park, carries food prepared at 

The Prayer Center of Orland Park for the annual SWIFT 

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The Dish 

At the Fox’s on 

Wolf, the focus 

is on families 

Nuria Mathog 


Fox’s on Wolf has been a 

Mokena staple for roughly a 

dozen years, but the restaurant’s 

story is half a century 

in the making. 

Tom and Therese Fox 

opened up the original location 

in Beverly in 1963 with 

a focus on pizza, sandwiches 

and “good food, fair price, 

good service.” The Beverly 

restaurant on Western Avenue 

is still up and running, 

and Fox’s has since expanded 

to several additional sites, 

including Orland Park in 

1973 and Mokena in 2006. 

Today, Tom and Therese’s 

grandson Ryan Fox manages 

the Mokena and Orland Park 

locations, and is the third 

generation to help run the 

family-owned business. He 

started by washing dishes 

when he was 13 and worked 

his way up, becoming general 

manager roughly a year 

ago. 

“The restaurant was a 

huge part of my life,” Ryan 

said. “It was a good learning 

experience, definitely. ... [It 

required] hard work, dedication. 

I enjoy the restaurant 

business, I enjoy dealing 

with people on a daily basis. 

I enjoy making people 

happy.” 

While Fox’s is primarily 

an Irish restaurant, the menu 

offers a variety of Italian-inspired 

dishes, and its handmade 

pizzas are always a 

popular choice with diners. 

Customers often opt for the 

Fox’s Special ($29.99 for a 

Fox’s on Wolf 

11247 W. 187th St. in 

Mokena 

Hours 

• 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Sunday 

through Thursday 

• 11 a.m.-10 p.m. 

Fridays and Saturdays 

For more information ... 

Phone: (708) 478-8888 

Web: www.foxspubs.com 

large pizza), which is topped 

with sausage, mushroom, 

onion and green pepper, 

Ryan said. 

“The pizza’s been the 

same since 1963,” he added. 

Another standout entree is 

the Italian combo ($13.99), 

which features three types 

of pasta dishes on a single 

plate: the restaurant’s signature 

lasagna, penne pasta and 

cheese ravioli topped with 

homemade marinara sauce. 

Other bestselling items are 

the fish and chips ($16.99), 

featuring hand-battered Icelandic 

cod, dipped in a Guinness 

batter and then flashfried; 

and the charbroiled 

rib-eye steak ($19.99), a 

12-ounce cut with garlic lemon 

butter. Pasta entrees come 

with a soup or salad, while 

other entrees also are served 

with a choice of two sides. 

For appetizers, diners can 

dig into delicacies such as 

the pretzel bites ($9.99), 

served with a cheddar Guinness 

cheese sauce, and Reuben 

rolls ($11.99), a culinary 

fusion consisting of shaved 

corned beef, Swiss cheese, 

sauerkraut and cream cheese, 

The fish and chips dish ($16.99) at Fox’s on Wolf in Mokena features Icelandic cod made with a Guinness batter and flashfried. 

Photos by Nuria Mathog/22nd Century Media 

The Italian combo ($13.99), comes with the restaurant’s 

signature lasagna, penne pasta and cheese ravioli topped 

with homemade marinara sauce. 

stuffed into crisp wontons 

and served with Thousand 

Island dipping sauce. 

The restaurant aims to a 

family-oriented experience, 

complete with live entertainment 

for customers of 

all ages, Ryan said. There 

are coloring contests for 

children, and entertainers — 

such as balloon artists and 

magicians — regularly perform 

at the restaurant on the 

weekends. 

“We kind of stick to our 

roots ... we have bands, single 

entertainers,” Ryan said. 

“St. Patrick’s Day is huge 

The charbroiled rib-eye steak ($19.99) is a 12-ounce cut 

with garlic lemon butter and the diner’s choice of two sides 

(pictured are the baked potato and rice pilaf). 

for us, because we’re an 

Irish restaurant.” 

First-time customers can 

expect a meal crafted entirely 

from fresh ingredients and 

based on family recipes that 

have stood the test of time, 

he said. The dishes served at 

Fox’s on Wolf are the same 

ones that Ryan grew up eating. 

“I think one of the biggest 

things that I’m proud of is 

that I am third generation,” 

he said. “There’s not many 

restaurants that can say, ‘It’s 

been in the family for three 

generations.’”

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ORLAND PARK 

Girl in the Park 

(11265 W. 159th St., 

Orland Park, IL; (708) 

226-0042) 

■■8 p.m. Thursdays: 

Bingo 

■■8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays: 

Live Music 

The Brass Tap 

(14225 95th Ave. Suite 

400, Orland Park; (708) 

226-1827) 

■■8 p.m. Tuesdays: Trivia. 

Prizes awarded 

■■9 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays: 

Live music 

Dan ‘D’ Jac’s 

(9358 171st St., Orland 

Hills; (708) 460-8773 

■■9 p.m.-1 a.m. Wednesdays: 

acoustic open 

mic night 

■■9:30 p.m.-1:30 a.m. 

Thursdays: karaoke 

■■9:30 p.m.-2:30 a.m. 

Fridays and Saturdays: 

karaoke 

Fox’s Restaurant and Pub 

(9655 W. 143rd St., 

Orland Park; (708) 349- 

2111) 

■■6-9 p.m. Thursday, 

Friday, and Saturday: 

Eman 

Papa Joe’s 

(14459 S. LaGrange 

Road, Orland Park; (708) 

403-9099) 

■■5-9 p.m. Thursdays: 

Gene Infelise and Francesca 

■■6-10 p.m. Fridays: The 

keyboard stylings of 

Roger Pampel 

Square Celt Ale House & 

Grill 

(39 Orland Square Drive, 


9600) 

■■8 p.m. Tuesdays: Free 

Bar Bingo 

■■8 p.m. Wednesdays: 

Free Trivia 

■■9 p.m. Fridays or Saturdays: 

Live Music 

■■10 p.m. Sundays: 

Karaoke 

Traverso’s Restaurant 

(15601 S. Harlem Ave., 


2220) 

■■8 p.m. Wednesdays 

and Saturdays: Karaoke 

To place an event 

in The Scene, email 

a.stoll@22ndcenturymedia. 

com. 

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Distinctive Home Builders Introduces New Craftsman Homes 

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New designs are a result of buyer feedback 

Two refreshing designs mark 

the beginning of a new series 

of Craftsman-style homes 

available from Distinctive Home 

Builders at its latest new home 

communities: Prairie Trails; 

located in Manhattan within the 

highly-regarded Lincoln-Way 

School District and at WestGate 

Manor in Peotone within 

the desirable Peotone School 

District. 

“Craftsman homes were 

introduced in the early 1900s 

in California with designs 

based on a simpler, functional 

aesthetic using a higher level 

of craftsmanship and natural 

materials. These homes were a 

departure from homes that were 

mass produced from that era, 

“according to Bryan Nooner, 

president of Distinctive Home 

Builders. 

“The Craftsman design has 

made a comeback today for 

many of the same reasons it 

started over a century ago. Our 

customers want to live in a home 

that gets away from the “mass 

produced” look and live in a 

home that has more character. As 

a result of our daily interaction 

with our homeowners and their 

input, we are excited to introduce 

these two homes, with additional 

designs in the works.” 

Nooner, who meets with 

each homeowner prior to 

construction, has been working 

on these plans for a while and felt 

that the timing was ideal for the 

debut. “Customers were asking 

for something different and 

simple with less monotony and 

higher architectural standards.” 

The result was the Craftsman 

ranch and the Prairie twostory, 

now available at Prairie 

Trails and WestGate Manor. 

The Craftsman ranch features 

an open floor plan with Great 

Room, three bedrooms, two 

baths and a two-car (optional 

three-car) garage. The Prairie 

features a two-story foyer and 

Great Room, three bedrooms 

and one and one-half baths, a 

convenient Flex Room space 

on the main level and a two-car 

(optional three-car) garage. The 

Craftsman architectural elements 

on both homes include brick and 

stone exteriors with cedar shake 

accent siding, low-pitched gabled 

bracket roofs, front porches with 

tapered columns and stone piers, 

partially paned windows, and a 

standard panel front entry door. 

Distinctive Home Builders 

offers a Craftsman-style trim 

package offering trim without 

ornate profiles and routers. The 

trim features simplicity in design 

with rectangles, straight lines and 

layered look trims over doors for 

example. The front entry door 

will have the standard Craftsman 

panel style door. Distinctive has 

also created a Craftsman color 

palate to assist buyers in making 

coordinated choices for the 

interior of their new Craftsman 

home. Colors, cabinet styles and 

flooring choices blend seamlessly 

with the Craftsman trim package 

and are available in gray tones 

package and earth tones. 

Distinctive offers custom maple 

kitchen cabinets featuring solid 

wood construction (no particle 

board), have solid wood drawers 

with dove tail joints, which is 

very rare in the marketplace. 

“When you buy a new home 

from Distinctive, you truly are 

receiving custom made cabinets 

in every home we sell no matter 

what the price range,” noted 

Nooner. 


works to achieve a delivery goal 

of 90 days with zero punch list 

items for its homeowners. “Our 

three decades building homes 

provides an efficient construction 

system,” said Nooner. “Many of 

our skilled craftsmen have been 

working with our company 

for over 20 years. We also 

take pride on having excellent 

communicators throughout our 

organization. This translates into 

a positive buying and building 

experience for our homeowners 

and one of the highest referral 

rates in the industry.” 

Nooner added that all homes 

are highly energy efficient. Every 

home built will have upgraded 

wall and ceiling insulation 

values with energy efficient 

windows and high efficiency 

furnaces. Before homeowners 

move into their new home, 


conducts a blower door test that 

pressurizes the home to ensure 

that each home passes a set of 

very stringent Energy Efficiency 

guidelines. 

With the addition of these two 

new designs, there are now 15 

ranch, split-level and six twostory 

single-family home styles to 

choose from each offering from 

three to eight different exterior 

elevations at both communities. 

The three- to four-bedroom 

homes feature one and one-half 

to two-and-one-half baths, twoto 

three-car garages and a family 

room, all in approximately 1,600 

to over 3,000 square feet of living 

space. Basements are included in 

most models as well. Distinctive 

also encourages customization 

to make your new home truly 

personalized to suit your lifestyle. 

Oversize home sites; brick 

exteriors on all four sides of the 

first floor; custom maple cabinets; 

ceramic tile or hardwood 

floors in the kitchen, baths and 

foyer; genuine wood trim and 

doors and concrete driveways 

can all be yours at Prairie 

Trails and WestGate Manor. 

Most all home sites at Prairie 

Trails and WestGate Manor 

can accommodate a three-car 

garage; a very important amenity 

to the Manhattan homebuyer, 

said Nooner. 

“When we opened Prairie 

Trails and WestGate Manor we 

wanted to provide the best new 

home value for the dollar and 

we feel with offering Premium 

Standard Features that we do 

just that. So why wait? This is 

truly the best time to build your 

dream home!” 

Prairie Trails is also a beautiful 

place to live and raise a family 

featuring a 20-acre lake on site, 

as well as direct access to the 22- 

mile Wauponsee Glacial Prairie 

Path that borders the community 

and meanders through many 

neighboring communities and 

links to many other popular 

trails. The Manhattan Metra 

station is less than a mile away. 

Besides Prairie Trails, 


has built homes throughout 

Manhattan in the Butternut 

Ridge and Leighlinbridge 

developments, as well as in the 

Will and south Cook county 

areas over the past 30 years. 


chose the Will County village 

of Peotone for its newest 

community of 38 single-family 

homes at WestGate Manor 

within walking distance of the 

esteemed Peotone High School. 

Its convenient location between 

Interstate 57 and Illinois Route 

50 provide easy access to I-80 

and commuters enjoy several 

nearby train stations and a 

35-minute drive to Chicago. 

Visit the on-site sales 

information center for 

unadvertised specials and view 

the numerous styles of homes 

being offered and the available 

lots. Call Lynne Rinck at (708) 

737-9142 or (708) 479-7700 for 

more information or visit www. 

distinctivehomebuilders.com. 

The Prairie Trails and WestGate 

Manor new home information 

center is located three miles 

south of Laraway Rd. on Rt. 

52. The address is 24458 S. 

Rt. 52, Manhattan, IL. 60422. 

Open Daily 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 

p.m. Closed Wednesday and 

Thursday and always available 

by appointment. 

Specials, prices, specifications, 

standard features, model 

offerings, build times and lot 

availability are subject to change 

without notice. Please contact 

a Distinctive representative for 

current pricing and complete 

details.

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• 12055 Lake View Drive, 

Orland Park, 60467- 

1045 - John A. Bradtke to 

Bozena M. Hajnos, Marek 

R. Hajnos, $333,500 

Sept. 26 

• 15241 Catalina Drive 3, 

Orland Park, 60462-6797 

- James E. Lopez Jr. to Jan 

Bobak, Joanna Bobak, 

$128,000 

• 9327 Bradford Lane, 


- Pawel Leja to Christine 

Chow, Fong Chow, 

$177,000 

• 13610 Elm St., Orland 

Park, 60462-1508 - 

Joseph D. Piecuch to Fred 

J. Marek, Diana M. Marek, 

$250,000 

• 15508 Sunset Ridge 

Drive, Orland Park, 

60462-4924 - Frank 

M. Maloney to Bilal 

Shalan, Amanie Shalan, 

$360,000 

• 11732 Bolton Lane, 


1476 - Kevin E. Schmidt 

to Thomas C. Accomando, 

Maryam S. Accomando, 

$445,000 

• 7831 Sioux Road, 


1894 - Micho Srdanovic 

to Genaro Balcazar, Gloria 

Balcazar, $495,000 

• 35 Silo Ridge Road 

N, Orland Park, 60467- 

7381 - Joseph Trust 

to Mohammed W. 

Ibrahim, Niveen Ibrahim, 

$835,000 

Sept. 27 

• 6975 Heritage Circle 

2, Orland Park, 60462- 

5408 - First Midwest Bank 

Trustee to Ryne Thomas 

Smith, $150,000 

• 11231 Melrose Court, 


- William L. Hargesheimer 

Trustee to Cynthia L. 

Sullivan, $290,000 

• 11740 Brook Hill Drive, 


7502 - Lonergan Trust to 

Hannan Chaudary, Iftikhar 

Ahmad, $310,000 

• 14932 S. 81st Court, 


2956 - Daniel Pierson to 

Daniel S. O’Rourke, Asta 

O’Rourke, $370,000 

Sept. 28 

• 9040 W. 140th St. 2C, 


- Intercounty Judicial Sales 

Co to Izabela Szwajnos, 

$88,000 

• 15751 Ravinia Ave 

1N, Orland Park, 60462- 

4500 - Cheryl Mizera to 

Catherine M. Ohle, James 

L. Ohle, $121,500 

• 15705 Deerfield Court 

2N, Orland Park, 60462- 

5946 - Marjorie A. Del 

Priore Trustee to Carolyn 

B. Messino, $175,000 

• 16720 Chaucer Drive, 


5484 - Chicago Title Land 

Trust Co Tr to Ronald E. 

Katarzynski, Mary Lou 

Katarzynski, $387,000 

Oct. 2 

• 15056 Highland Ave., 


- Chicago Title Land Trust 

Co Tr to Alex P. Polino, 

$140,000 

• 11516 Lake Shore 

Drive, Orland Park, 

60467-5228 - Weaver 

Land Trust to Julie A. 

Fredrick, $282,000 

• 14625 Highland Ave., 


2439 - Chicago Title Land 

Trust Co Tr to Steven 

Fountas, Lauren Fountas, 

$330,000 

Oct. 3 

• 15628 Orlan Brook 

Drive 144, Orland Park, 

60462-4884 - Michael 

Stahmer to Alessandra 

Teodari Jensen, $133,000 

• 15703 Brassie Court, 


4944 - Loreta Tvrdy to 

Ann Marie Kurylowicz, 

$142,000 

• 17940 Settlers Pond 

Way 1B, Orland Park, 

60467-5256 - George 

Schletz to Jamie Odierno, 

$165,000 

• 7226 W. 154th Place, 


- Robert Madsen to Eric 

M. Elget, Nicole L. Blalock, 

$180,000 

• 10721 Louisiana Court, 


8835 - Anthony J. Sealise 

to Virginia Bolarakis, 

$215,000 

• 14012 Timothy Drive, 


- Grandview Capital LLC 

to Andrzej Guros, Zuzana 

Guros, $227,000 

• 13852 86th Ave., 


- Lund Trust to Timothy C. 

Kehoe, Linda L. Kehoe, 

$230,000 

• 15115 Narcissus Court, 


- Robert S. Bender to 

Pawel Stanula, $276,500 

$438,000 

The Going Rate is provided by 

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Inc. For more information, 

visit www.public-record.com 

or call (630) 557-1000.

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Sale 

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OFCOOK 

COUNTY, ILLINOIS 

COUNTY DEPARTMENT -CHAN- 

CERY DIVISION 

BANK OF AMERICA, NA 

Plaintiff, 

-v.- 

LYNETTE M. MCDONALD AKA LY- 

NETTE MCDONALD, DAVID J. 

MCDONALD AKA DAVID MCDON- 

ALD, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND 

NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS 

Defendants 

18 CH 4262 

18014 CROOKED CREEK COURT 


NOTICE OF SALE 

PUBLIC NOTICE ISHEREBY GIVEN 

that pursuant to aJudgment ofForeclosure 

and Sale entered in the above cause 

on August 13, 2018, an agent for The 

Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 

AM on December 11, 2018, at The Judicial 

Sales Corporation, One South 

Wacker Drive, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, 

sell at public auction to the highest bidder, 

as set forth below, the following described 

real estate: 

Commonly known as 18014 

CROOKED CREEK COURT, Orland 

Park, IL 60467 

Property Index No. 

27-31-402-009-0000. 

The real estate is improved with asingle 

family residence. 

The judgment amount was $158,764.81. 

Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid 

by certified funds at the close of the sale 

payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. 

No third party checks will beaccepted. 

The balance in certified funds/or 

wire transfer, is due within twenty-four 

(24) hours. The subject property issubject 

to general real estate taxes, special 

assessments, or special taxes levied 

against said real estate and is offered for 

sale without any representation asto 

quality or quantity of title and without 

recourse toPlaintiff and in AS IS condition. 

The sale is further subject to confirmation 

by the court. 

Upon payment in full ofthe amount bid, 

the purchaser will receive aCertificate 

of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to 

adeed to the real estate after confirmation 

of the sale. 

The property will NOT be open for inspection 

and plaintiff makes no representation 

astothe condition ofthe property. 

Prospective bidders are admonished 

to check the court file to verify all 

information. 

If this property isacondominium unit, 

or a unit which is part of acommon interest 

community, the purchaser of the 

unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a 

mortgagee, shall pay the assessments 

and the legal fees required by The Condominium 

Property Act, 765 ILCS 

605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). In accordance 

with 735 ILCS 5/15-1507(c)(1)(h-1) and 

(h-2), 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(5), and 765 

ILCS 605/18.5(g-1), you are hereby notified 

that the purchaser ofthe property, 

other than amortgagee, shall pay the assessments 

and legal fees required by 

subsections (g)(1) and (g)(4) of section 

9and the assessments required by subsection 

(g-1) of section 18.5 of the Illinois 

Condominium Property Act. 

IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR 

(HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE 

RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION 

FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF 

AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN AC- 

CORDANCE WITH SECTION 

15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS 

MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. 

You will need a photo identification issued 

by a government agency (driver's 

license, passport, etc.) in order togain 

entry into our building and the foreclosure 

sale room in Cook County and the 

same identification for sales held at 

other county venues where The Judicial 

Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure 

sales. 

For information, contact the sales department, 

Anselmo Lindberg &Associates, 

LLC, 1771 W. Diehl Road, Suite 

120, NAPERVILLE, IL 60563, (630) 

453-6960 For bidding instructions, visit 

www.AnselmoLindberg.com. Please refer 

to file number F18030111. 

THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORA- 

TION 

One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, 

Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 

236-SALE 

You can also visit The Judicial Sales 

Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a7 

day status report of pending sales. 

Anselmo Lindberg & Associates, LLC 

1771 W. Diehl Road, Suite 120 

NAPERVILLE, IL 60563 

(630) 453-6960 

E-Mail: foreclosurenotice@anselmolindberg.com 

Attorney File No. F18030111 

Attorney ARDC No. 3126232 

Attorney Code. 58852 

Case Number: 18 CH 4262 

TJSC#: 38-7158 

NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection 

Practices Act, you are advised 

that Plaintiff s attorney is deemed to be 

adebt collector attempting tocollect a 

debt and any information obtained will 

be used for that purpose. 




CERY DIVISION 

COUNTRYSIDE BANK, FORMERLY 

KNOWN AS STATE 

BANK OF COUNTRYSIDE, ANILLI- 

NOIS BANKING 

CORPORATION, 

Plaintiff, 

vs. 

STATE BANK OF COUNTRYSIDE 

AS TRUSTEE UNDER 

TRUST AGREEMENT DATED DE- 

CEMBER 18, 2013, AND 

KNOWN AS TRUST NUMBER 

13-3259; JAMES HUGHES; 

NOREEN HUGHES; CRYSTAL 

RIDGE ESTATES 

ASSOCIATION, A VOLUNTARY 

UNINCORPORATED 

ASSOCIATION; UNKNOWN BENE- 

FICIARIES; UNKNOWN 

OWNERS AND NON-RECORD 

CLAIMANTS, 

Defendants, 

17 CH 13449 


PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that 

pursuant to aJudgment ofForeclosure 

entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty 

Judicial Sales Corporation will 

on Thursday, December 6, 2018, at the 

hour of 11 a.m. in their office at 120 

West Madison Street, Suite 718A, Chicago, 

Illinois, sell to the highest bidder 

for cash, the following described mortgaged 

real estate: 

P.I.N. 27-08-104-001-0000. 

Commonly known as 10848 Crystal 

Ridge Court, Orland Park, IL 60467. 

The mortgaged real estate is asingle 

family residence. If the subject mortgaged 

real estate is a unit ofacommon 

interest community, the purchaser of the 

unit other than amortgagee shall pay 

the assessments required bysubsection 

(g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium 

Property Act. 

Sale terms: Bidders must present, atthe 

time of sale, a cashier's or certified 

check for 10% of the successful bid 

amount. The balance of the successful 

bid shall bepaid within 24 hours, by 

similar funds. The property will NOT be 

open for inspection. 

For information call Ms. Jennifer M. 

Dunbar at Plaintiff's Attorney, Ruff, 

Freud, Breems & Nelson, Ltd., 200 

North LaSalle Street, Chicago, Illinois 

60601. 312-263-3890. 

INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES 

CORPORATION 

Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 

I3102521 




CERY DIVISION 

NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC 

Plaintiff, 

vs. 

DONNA HAMMOND, AKA DONNA 

M. HAMMOND; GEORGE 

HAMMOND; DEBBIE GARDNER; 

CAPITAL ONE BANK 

(USA), N.A., SUCCESSOR IN INTER- 

EST CAPITAL 

ONE BANK 

Defendants, 

16 CH 12501 




and Sale entered in the above entitled 

cause Intercounty Judicial Sales 

Corporation will onMonday, December 

10, 2018 at the hour of 11 a.m. in their 

office at 120 West Madison Street, Suite 

718A, Chicago, Illinois, sell at public 

auction to the highest bidder for cash, as 

set forth below, the following described 

mortgaged real estate: 

P.I.N. 27-11-112-003-0000. 

Commonly known as 14313 Woodedpath 

Lane, Orland Park, IL 60462. 

The mortgaged real estate is improved 

with asingle family residence. If the 

subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of 

acommon interest community, the purchaser 

of the unit other than amortgagee 

shall pay the assessments required 

by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of 

the Condominium Property Act. 

Sale terms: 10% down by certified 

funds, balance, by certified funds, 

within 24 hours. Norefunds. The property 

will NOT be open for inspection. 

For information call Sales Department 

at Plaintiff's Attorney, Manley Deas Kochalski, 

LLC, One East Wacker Drive, 

Chicago, Illinois 60601. (614) 

220-5611. 18-016580 F2 


CORPORATION 


I3102982 




CERY DIVISION 

WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A., AS 

TRUSTEE FOR 

HARBORVIEW MORTGAGE LOAN 

TRUST MORTGAGE LOAN 

PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, 

SERIES 2007-1, 

Plaintiff, 

vs. 

JAWAD SAID, NARIMAN RAFATI, 

MORTGAGE 

ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS, INC. AS 

NOMINEE FOR MILA, 

INC., DBA MORTGAGE INVEST- 

MENT LENDING 

ASSOCIATES, INC., ADVANTAGE 

ASSETS II, INC., 

UNKNOWN OWNERS, GENER- 

ALLY, AND NON-RECORD 

CLAIMANTS, 

Defendants, 

15 CH 9803 





cause on May 31, 2018 Intercounty 

Judicial Sales Corporation will on 

Wednesday, December 12, 2018 at the 



Illinois, sell at public auction to 

the highest bidder for cash, as set forth 

below, the following described mortgaged 

real estate: 

P.I.N. 28-28-306-015-0000. 

Commonly known as 5513 Jessica 

Drive, Oak Forest, IL 60452. 












will NOT be open for inspection 

For information call Mr. Anthony Porto 

at Plaintiff's Attorney, Kluever & Platt, 

L.L.C., 150 North Michigan Avenue, 


981-7385. 


CORPORATION 


I3103021 




CERY DIVISION 

U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIA- 

TION, AS TRUSTEE, 

SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST TO WA- 

CHOVIA BANK, 

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS 

TRUSTEE FOR WELLS 

FARGO ASSET SECURITIES COR- 

PORATION, MORTGAGE 

PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, 

SERIES 2003-J 

Plaintiff, 

vs. 

STANLEY S. LATEK; BOBBIE 

LATEK; FIFTH THIRD 

BANK; U.S. BANK NATIONAL AS- 

SOCIATION; SILO 

RIDGE ESTATES HOMEOWNERS 

ASSOCIATION, INC.; 

UNKNOWN OWNERS AND 

NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS 

Defendants, 

15 CH 2300 






Corporation will on Friday, December 







P.I.N. 27-07-403-007-0000. 

Commonly known as 71 SILO RIDGE, 

ORLAND PARK, IL 60467. 

















220-5611. 15-002926 F2 


CORPORATION 


I3103280 




CERY DIVISION 

WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SO- 

CIETY, FSB IN ITS 

INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY, BUT 

SOLELY AS TRUSTEE 

FOR BCAT 2017-19TT 

Plaintiff, 

vs. 

SHARON N. TUMAN, MICHAEL G. 

TUMAN 

Defendants, 

18 CH 6009 





cause on August 24, 2018 Intercounty 

Judicial Sales Corporation will 

on Monday, December 17, 2018 at the 



Illinois, sell at public auction to 

the highest bidder for cash, as set forth 

below, the following described mortgaged 

real estate: 

P.I.N. 27-27-105-043-0000. 

Commonly known as 16738 Haven 

Ave, Orland Hills, IL 60487. 












will NOT be open for inspection 

For information call Mr. Anthony Porto 

at Plaintiff's Attorney, Kluever & Platt, 

L.L.C., 150 North Michigan Avenue, 


981-7385. 


CORPORATION 


I3103699 




CERY DIVISION 

WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. 

Plaintiff, 

vs. 

RANDALL J. GUZIOR 

Defendants, 

18 CH 4791 






Corporation will onMonday, December 







P.I.N. 27-09-115-018-0000; 

27-09-115-019-0000; 

27-09-115-020-0000; 

27-09-115-021-0000 and 

27-09-115-022-0000. 

Commonly known as 14508 HIGH- 

LAND AVENUE, ORLAND PARK, IL 

60462. 

















220-5611. 18-011138 F2 


CORPORATION 


I3103700 




CERY DIVISION 

COMMUNITYAMERICA CREDIT 

UNION 

Plaintiff, 

-v.- 

MATTHEW D. ANDRIOLA, PEGGY 

A. ANDRIOLA 

Defendants 

16 CH 11229 CONSOLIDATED WITH 

11 D 630392 

15201 LARAMIE AVENUE Oak Forest, 

IL 60452 





on September 24, 2018, an agent for 

The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 

10:30 AM on December 26, 2018, at 

The Judicial Sales Corporation, One 

South Wacker Drive, CHICAGO, IL, 

60606, sell at public auction tothe highest 

bidder, as set forth below, the following 

described real estate: 

Commonly known as 15201 LARAMIE 

AVENUE, Oak Forest, IL 60452 


28-16-202-001-0000. 
















recourse toPlaintiff and in "AS IS" condition. 


by the court. 





of the sale. 






information. 


the purchaser ofthe unit atthe foreclosure 

sale, other than amortgagee, shall 

pay the assessments and the legal fees 

required by The Condominium Property 

Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If 

this property is a condominium unit 

which ispart ofacommon interest community, 

the purchaser ofthe unit atthe 

foreclosure sale other than amortgagee 

shall pay the assessments required by 

The Condominium Property Act, 765 

ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). 












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Under $100 


Under $100 

sure sale room in Cook County and the 




sales. 

For information, contact The sales clerk, 

SHAPIRO KREISMAN & ASSOCI- 

ATES, LLC, 2121 WAUKEGAN RD., 

SUITE 301, Bannockburn, IL 60015, 

(847) 291-1717 For information call between 

the hours of 1pm - 3pm. Please 

refer to file number 16-080124. 


TION 


Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 

236-SALE 





ATES, LLC 

2121 WAUKEGAN RD., SUITE 301 

Bannockburn, IL 60015 

(847) 291-1717 

E-Mail: ILNotices@logs.com 

Attorney File No. 16-080124 


Case Number: 16 CH 11229 CON- 

SOLIDATED W/ 11 D 630392 

TJSC#: 38-7947 



that Plaintiff's attorney is deemed to be 

adebt collector attempting to collect a 



I3103870 




CERY DIVISION 

NEW PENN FINANCIAL, LLC D/B/A 

SHELLPOINT MORTGAGE SERVIC- 

ING 

Plaintiff, 

-v.- 

MICHAL M. CHUCHERKO, ZBIG- 

NIEW CHUCHERKO, SHIBUI 

SOUTH CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIA- 

TION, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND 

NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS, UN- 

KNOWN OCCUPANTS 

Defendants 

18 CH 3031 

15718 PEGGY LANE, UNIT 9 Oak 

Forest, IL 60452 










60606, sell at public auction to the highest 



Commonly known as 15718 PEGGY 

LANE, UNIT 9, Oak Forest, IL 60452 


28-17-416-009-1021. 


















by the court. 





of the sale. 






information. 













ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). 

















sales. 

For information, contact The sales clerk, 


ATES, LLC, 2121 WAUKEGAN RD., 

SUITE 301, Bannockburn, IL 60015, 

(847) 291-1717 For information call between 

the hours of 1pm - 3pm. Please 

refer to file number 18-085981. 


TION 


Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 

236-SALE 





ATES, LLC 

2121 WAUKEGAN RD., SUITE 301 

Bannockburn, IL 60015 

(847) 291-1717 

E-Mail: ILNotices@logs.com 

Attorney File No. 18-085981 



TJSC#: 38-7697 



that Plaintiff's attorney is deemed to be 

adebt collector attempting tocollect a 



I3103925 




CERY DIVISION 

MTGLQ INVESTORS, LP 

Plaintiff, 

-v.- 

ESTERA LISAUSKIENE A/K/A ES- 

TERA L. WILSON, ERLANDAS LI- 

SAUSKAS, MORTGAGE ELEC- 

TRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS 

INC. AS NOMINEE FOR COUNTRY- 

WIDE BANK NA, US BANK NA- 

TIONAL ASSOCIATION ND, UN- 

KNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RE- 

CORD CLAIMANTS 

Defendants 

11 CH 21288 

15600 SOUTH WOLF ROAD OR- 

LAND PARK, IL 60467 










60606, sell at public auction tothe highest 



Commonly known as 15600 SOUTH 

WOLF ROAD, ORLAND PARK, IL 

60467Property Index No. 

27-18-425-007-0000. 

The real estate is improved with atwo 

story single family home; two car attached 

garage. 











sale without any representation as to 




by the court. 





of the sale. 






information. 













ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). 

















sales. 

McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce, LLC, 

Plaintiff's Attorneys, One North Dearborn 

Street, Suite 1200, Chicago, IL 

60602. Tel No. (312) 346-9088. Please 

refer to file number 11957. 


TION 


Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 

236-SALE 




McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce, LLC 

One North Dearborn Street, Suite 1200 

Chicago, IL 60602 

(312) 346-9088 

E-Mail: pleadings@mccalla.com 

Attorney File No. 11957 

Attorney ARDC No. 61256 



TJSC#: 38-8131 

I3103936 

STATE OF ILLINOIS ) 

COUNTY OF COOK ) SS 

COUNTY OF WILL ) 

VILLAGE OF ORLAND PARK ) 

NOTICE OF 

PUBLIC HEARING 

ON TENTATIVE 

ANNUAL BUDGET 

NOTICE ISHEREBY GIVEN that 

the President and Board of Trustees 

of the Village of Orland Park, 

Illinois will hold a public hearing 

on Monday, December 3, 2018, at 

7:00 p.m. atthe Orland Park Village 

Hall, 14700 South Ravinia 

Avenue, Orland Park, Illinois, 

60462 on the Village's Tentative 

Annual Budget for the fiscal year 

commencing January 1, 2019, and 

ending December 31, 2019. 

The Tentative Annual Budget has 

been ordered published by the 

President and Board of Trustees 

and will beavailable for public inspection 

on and after Friday, November 

16, 2018 at the Village 

Clerk's Office of the Village ofOrland 

Park, Illinois, 14700 South 

Ravinia Avenue, Orland Park, Illinois, 

60462 from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 

p.m., Monday through Friday, except 

for aday being alegal holiday. 

Disabled persons needing assistance 

or to attend said hearing 

should contact the Office of the 

Village Clerk before the hearing by 

calling (708) 403-6150. 

Said hearing may be continued 

without further notice except as required 

bythe Illinois Open Meetings 

Act. 

PRESIDENT AND 

BOARD OF TRUSTEES 

VILLAGE OF 

ORLAND PARK, ILLINOIS 

By: John C. Mehalek 

Village Clerk 


Under $100 

1/2” reversible heavy duty 

drill, adjustable top handle rear 

spade handle are removable 

$40. 2 RCA power super 

woofed speaker, like new $35. 

Ask for Lou 708.448.9597 

13 strap ontree climbing steps 

for deer hunting, like new. Paid 

$7.50 ea. at Cabelas, selling for 

$2 ea or $20 for all. 

708.614.8148 

2high top wicker back chairs 

from Pier One $50 43’H 19’W 

29 seat. Call Cindee 

708.212.1514 

2 very comfortable wicker 

back high top chairs, measuring 

42H 20W bought from Pier 

1. Set $50. Silverware silver 

plated service for 8 uncluding 

chest $25. 708.212.1514 Orland. 

7’ green artificial Christmas 

tree $25. Heatmate kerosene 

heater 23,000 BTU $50. 

815.469.6554 

7inch electric tile cutter machine, 

used once $35. 

708.479.0193 

American Girl doll with a 

backpack of clothes & accessories. 

Doll is in good shape $50. 

Call for photos. 630.235.9381 

Beaver fur jacket size medium 

$100. 815.463.0282 

Christmas train $20. Camera 

stand $20. Car cover $10. Sper 

8 projector & screen $50. 

815.463.0282 

Craftsman small deluxe router 

table, like new $45. 

708.479.0193 

Dining room orkitchen light 

made in Italy. $250 retail. New 

in box, never installed $65. 

815.485.6008 

FREE 9ft. Christman tree, individual 

branch assembly, in 

box with stand. 708.478.3454 

Gear wrench 20 pc wrench set 

$55. B&D 50 pc screw driving 

bits $19. 3inratcheting clamp 

$5. 10 pc deep wall socket set 

$12. 708.460.8308 

Hand made one of a kind 

cuckoo crafted clock. The gift 

that keeps ongiving $25 firm. 

Steve 708.403.2525 

Like new 5 drawer golden oak 

chest $50. 708.479.7537 

Like new Black and Decker 

lawn edger 2 years old. Electric 

powered $70 firm price. Call 

708.349.8569 Please leave 

message if no answer. 

Men’s brown bib overalls, size 

XL5, brand new. Were $72, 

will sell for $40. 708.460.4406 

Mens heavy duty boots, very 

good condition/hardly worn. 

Thinsulate size 11, Explorers 

size 9. Haband’s size 11. $10 

each. 708.403.2413 

Nice electric extension cord on 

a wheel $15. 708.479.0193 

Rocking chair $8. Lg table 

lamp $10. TV stand w/ shelf 

$10. Men’s Huffy bike $15. 

Samsonite luggage 2/$9. Mens 

golf clubs & bag $10. 

708.301.8880 

Shop early! All new cosmetic, 

beach &shopping bags, wallets 

& totes. $1-$25. 

815.838.9179 

Shopsmith Inc. Power Station 

M#515663. Shopsmith Inc. 4 

inch Jointer M#555463. $100 

815.463.9556 

Thomasville china cabinet, 

good condition $100. 85 year 

old wooden high chair, FREE. 

815.469.6338 

Used 18” Poulan chain saw in 

its case. Good condition $65. 

Steve 708.227.2939 Mokena 

Snap-on adjustable heavy duty 

10” pipe wrench USE made 

$40. New American camper 

kerosene lantern vintage 12” 

high sturdy metal construction 

$50. 708.466.9907 

Solid steel body wizard electric 

saber saw include 3feet 6 outlet 

power strip $30. 

708.466.9907 

Vintage UMCO tackle box 

with lures, fishing, lines, leaders, 

hooks, sinkers & floats 

$65. 708.466.9907 

Zoeller 137 1/2 HP sump 

pump, used for 1month $100. 

630.247.7535 

Nordic track SL710 Recumbent 

exercise bike $100. Did 

not see much use. Perfect 

working condition. Programmable 

for specialized work 

outs. Built in fan. Reasonable 

offers accepted. Kathy 

630.257.9231 

One 100 used golf balls. All 

brands $25. 708.301.7645 

Teal colored sofa bed $100 

obo. Very good condition. 

708.301.4533 

Thick Halloween, new doormat 

$9. Four new green wine 

glasses $15. 1960’s lazy susan 

revolving chrome tray w/ 

glasses, quality $35. 

708.460.8308 

Tires: 4 Champion tires 

195-75-14 like new. $50 Call 

Mike 815.838.2344 

Twin seat stroller, red. $100.00 

Like new. 312-969-0711 

Vintage UMCO tackle box 

with tackles, vintage lures, 

fishing lines, leaders, hooks, 

sinkers, floats $100. 

708.466.9907 

Weber round grill $22. Red 

Wing soft toe shoes 8.5D $55. 

Wood ladder 6 foot $12. 

708.798.9755 

Wicker rocking chair $30. 5ft. 

floor lamp $20. 708.444.4380 

Sears new halagen portable 

lamp, perfect $20. 24 AA batteries 

$5. Durcell 20 AA batteries 

$12. 3ft power strip $6. 

708.460.8308 

Solid steel body vintage wizard 

electric saber saw, include 3 

feet 6 outlet power strip $30. 

Antique vintage GENEVA ILL 

#8 star black flat cast iron nice 

condition $30. 708.466.9907 

Teal colored sofa bed $100 

obo. Very good condition. 

708.301.4533 

Tires: 4 Champion tires 

195-75-14 like new. $50 Call 

Mike 815.838.2344 

Two dog crates “42x30” and 

“48x30” $30 each. 

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Circle One:

42 | November 15, 2018 | The orland park prairie sports 

opprairie.com 

DePaul-bound Krasowski named 

SWSC Blue Athlete of the Year 

JEFF VORVA, Sports Editor 

Sometimes it’s hard for 

liberos in volleyball to get 

noticed. 

Like linemen in football, 

they rarely get paid attention 

to unless they make a 

mistake. 

But Sandburg junior Rachel 

Krasowski is an exception. 

Her acrobatic defensive 

plays have caused a few 

jaws to drop. 

And even though there 

are some heavy-duty hitters 

in the SouthWest Suburban 

Conference this season, 

it was Krasowski whom 

coaches voted as the Athlete 

of the Year. 

Krasowski set a school 

record with 541 digs this 

season and has 1,431 for her 

career, with another season 

to go. It will be impossible 

to tell where she ranks in 

the state as the Illinois High 

School Association does not 

feature digs among its record. 

She has verbally committed 

to DePaul. 

Teammate power hitters 

Shelby Stefanon, junior, and 

Erica Staunton, a senior, 

joined Krasowski on the allconference 

team. 

Staunton had 311 kills, 43 

blocks and 70 digs. Stefanon 

had 240 kills, 228 digs and 

THIS WEEK IN... 

SANDBURG VARSITY 

SPORTS 

BASKETBALL 

■Nov. ■ 16 – at Blue and Gold 

Scrimmage, TBA 

■Nov. ■ 19 – at Reavis 

Tournament vs Bremen, 5 

p.m. 

■Nov. ■ 20 – at Reavis Tourney- 

Morgan Park Academy, 5 p.m. 

■Nov. ■ 21 – at Reavis Tourney- 

Sandburg’s Rachel Krasowski, a junior libero, was named 

the SouthWest Suburban Conference Blue’s Athlete of the 

Year in volleyball. JEFF VORVA/22ND CENTURY MEDIA 

served up 28 aces. 

Soccer 

Three senior Sandburg 

soccer players made the 

SWSC Blue squad. 

Oak Lawn, 6:30 p.m. 

BOWLING 

■Nov. ■ 15 – hosts Stagg, 4:15 

p.m. 

■Nov. ■ 17 – at Oak Lawn 

Invite, 9 a.m. 

■Nov. ■ 20 – at Thornridge, 

4:30 p.m. 

GIRLS SPORTS 

BASKETBALL 

■Nov. ■ 15 - at Hinsdale 

Adam Azhari, Colin Kroll 

and goalie Connor Baker 

were named to the squad. 

Lockport’s Nick Kowalczyk 

was the league’s Athlete 

of the Year. 

South Invitational-Holiday 

Tournament, TBD 



Tournament –Hinsdale 

Central, 10 a.m. 



Tournament-Plainfield South, 

6 p.m. 

COMPETITIVE DANCE 

■Nov. ■ 17 – at Andrew, 8 a.m. 

ATHLETE OF THE WEEK 

10 Questions 

with Brielle Morris 

Brielle Morris is a sophomore 

cross country and 

track runner who is also on 

the competitive cheerleading 

squad. 

How did you get 

involved in cross 

country? 

My dad [Martin Morris] 

was a big runner and I 

always used to go on runs 

when I was younger with 

him. As soon as I could join 

a cross country team, I did. 

It’s the best thing that I have 

ever done. Running is now 

my favorite thing to do every 

day, and now my dad can’t 

keep up with me. 

What is your proudest 

moment in athletics? 

Winning the Reavis Invitational 

meet for the second 

year in a row. Also beating 

my own course record from 

last year as a freshman. I 

pushed so hard in the race 

to make sure that I was the 

back-to-back fresh/soph 

champion. 

Are there any 

embarrassing moments 

you had in sports? 

Last year my own teammate 

caught me at the finish 

line and accidentally stepped 

on me with her spikes. I still 

have a scar from it, and we 

still laugh about it to this 

day. It was pretty embarrassing, 

but pretty painful. 

Do you have a favorite 

pregame pump-up song? 

I always listen to music 

on the bus ride to the meet, 

My favorite pump-up song 

is “Don’t Stop Believin’” by 

Journey 

Do you have a hero, or 

someone you look up 

to? 

I look up to my mom [Susan 

Morris] and dad because 

they provide an amazing life 

for me and my brother. Also 

they work so hard just so that 

I can do what I love doing in 

life. They mean so much to 

me and are great people to 

look up to. 

Is there something 

people don’t know 

about you? 

I have traveled to over 10 

countries. Six of them were 

this past summer with the 

AP world history trip. We 

went to Sweden, Norway, 

Denmark, Russia, Finland, 

and Estonia. I love to travel 

because I feel like you gain 

so many experiences from it 

that you can’t get by staying 

in one place. 

Any superstitions? 

Before I race I make sure 

I have two pieces of tape on 

my legs, and after I finish my 

run outs I go behind the line 

and stretch quickly and pray 

for a good, healthy, and fast 

race every time. I also give 

all of my coaches two fist 

bumps before I race. I make 

sure I do this every time I 

race because it’s good luck. 

If you could have dinner 

with anyone — living 

or dead — who would 

it be with? 

JEFF VORVA/22ND CENTURY 

MEDIA 

I would have dinner with 

my grandpa and grandma 

[Earle and Carol Heinecke]. 

I would love to talk to them 

about how life has been and 

how I have been doing in 

cross country and school. 

I think they would be very 

proud of me and what I have 

accomplished. They both 

past away a couple of years 

ago. 

If they made a movie 

about your life, who 

should play you? 

I think Emma Watson 

would play me. She really 

has worked hard to get to 

the place she is at now in her 

career. I think that resembles 

my hard work in both school 

and sports. 

What would that movie 

be called? 

“One Stride At A Time”. 

Interview conducted by Sports 

Editor Jeff Vorva

opprairie.com sports 


VOLLEYBALL 

Mather sets the table for Class 4A state champs 


Katie Mather waited her 

turn. 

It wasn’t always easy, but 

the Orland Park native waited 

her turn. 

Her turn came this year. 

The senior Marist High 

School setter, who attended 

Cardinal Joseph Bernardin 

and Century Junior High 

School before her family 

moved to Oak Lawn, helped 

her team become the first 

Class 4A volleyball team 

win back-to-back titles 

since 2012 and 2013. 

The RedHawks beat 

Downers Grove North on 

Saturday, Nov. 10, at Redbird 

Arena on the campus 

of Illinois State University 

in Normal. Mather had 21 

kills and four aces in that 

match. 

One night before, Marist 

downed Benet 25-18, 25-15 

in the semifinals and Mather 

collected 20 assists. Benet 

is the only Illinois team to 

beat Marist during the regular 

season. Benet was also 

the last team to win back-toback 

titles in Class 4A. 

Mather is bundle of talent 

but last year, her playing 

time was scant (105 assists 

and played a few minutes 

in the RedHawk’s state 

championship win over 

Minooka) because she was 

playing behind Molly Murrihy, 

who not only dished 

out 1,132 assists, she blasted 

130 kills and added 132 

blocks, which is a great 

number for a front row 

player but more astounding 

for a setter. 

Rather than leave the 

program, Mather waited 

her turn and she became a 

trusted ball handler. She finished 

with 980 assists to go 

with a team-high 44 aces 

this season for the 38-3 

RedHawks. 

“I learned a lot from Molly 

and I learned that I had 

to constantly work harder,” 

Mather said. “In practice, I 

had to not care that I wasn’t 

playing, I just worried about 

getting better. That really 

helped me, even though it 

was hard at times. I learned 

so much from that experience 

to bring into this year.” 

Her strength is to “try to 

trick the defense so they 

don’t know where I’m going.” 

And she does that well. 

“She does a very nice job 

spreading out the offense 

and at any different time, 

it’s a different player putting 

the kills down,” Marist 

coach Jordan Vidovic said. 

“She’s opening thing up and 

mixing it up where the ball 

goes. The other side doesn’t 

know where it’s going. 

She’s just trying to put our 

hitters in the best spots possible 

and she does it consistently.” 

Orland Park native Katie Mather, celebrating Marist’s 

sectional win over Mother McAuley earlier in the 

season, was the starting setter on the RedHawks’ state 

championship team. JEFF VORVA/22ND CENTURY MEDIA 

AREA SPORTS ROUNDUP 

Giglio, Falsey heading to state in swimming 


Sandburg is sending two athletes 

to the Illinois High School Association 

State Swimming and Diving 

Meet, which starts Friday, Nov. 16 

at Evanston High School. 

One Eagle is familiar with the 

pressures of state competition – but 

not on the diving board. 

The other is making her state debut 

in the pool. 

Junior diver Maddie Giglio won 

the sectional championship with a 

413.55 score at the Sandburg Sectional 

on Saturday, Nov. 10. 

It’s her first sectional title and 

first state appearance. 

Gigilo also has competed in 

state competition her freshman and 

sophomore year in several gymnastics 

events and earned a thirdplace 

finish in the state on the balance 

beam in February. 

Sophomore Jenna Falsey earned 

a sectional championship in the 

200-yard individual medley with a 

time of 2 minutes, 12.61 seconds. 

Freshman Erin Berry took second 

in the 200 IM, senior Erin 

Falsey took second in the 200 

free and 100 back, Meghan Walsh 

took third in diving, Jenna Falsey 

claimed third in the 100 butterfly, 

Bridget O’Connor took second in 

the 500 free and Kristina Hurcikova 

took third in the same event. 

Sandburg finished second in the 

meet with 269 points while Lockport 

captured the title with 306 and 

had sectional titlists in eight events. 

Orland flavor to hot rivalry 

After winning their Class 8A 

football quarterfinal games on Saturday, 

Nov. 10, bitter rivals Marist 

and Brother Rice will square off at 

1 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 17 at Marist. 

Marist (11-1) has a host of players 

from Orland Park or who have 

played for the Orland Park Pioneers 

including quarterback Mike 

Markett, his brother receiver A.J. 

Markett, reveicers Declan Ryan, 

Jadon Thompson and Jack Detampel, 

backup QB Hayden Mikesell, 

kicker Ayden Domico, offensive 

linemen Collin Bartolotta and 

Ryan Meehan, defensive back 

Tristan Stefanos, linebacker Brendan 

Graham and defensive lineman 

Hugh Brennan. 

RedHawks coach Ron Dawczak 

also lives in Orland Park. 

Brother Rice (12-0) has a few 

players with Orland Park ties including 

backup quarterback Colin 

Smyth, defensive back Jacob Sullivan, 

linebacker Jack McMahon, 

defensive lineman Liam McElligott 

and tight end David O’Keeffe. 

The two teams met the first 

week of the season and Brother 

Rice came up with a 20-16 win at 

Marist. 

Alvarez makes history 

Sandburg graduate David Alvarez 

placed 80th in the nation 

among Division I runners in the 

National Junior College Athletic 

Association national cross country 

meet on Saturday, Nov. 10, which 

was the best finish in Moraine Valley 

Community College history. 

He had a time of 28 minutes, 24 

seconds over a course in Garden 

City, Kansas. 

More Moraine 

For the first time since 2013, 

Moraine’s volleyball team qualified 

for nationals. 

The 13th-seeded Cyclones open 

play at 2 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 

15, against fourth-seeded South 

Mountain. 

Freshmen Lauren Gausselin and 

Emily Stepanek, a pair of Sandburg 

graduates, are on the Cyclone 

roster. 

Shooters seeking players 

The Southside Shooters boys 

basketball team is looking for one 

or two players to fill their seventh 

and eighth grade teams. 

Games, leagues, and tournaments 

are all local with practices 

at Moraine Valley Community 

College. 

Sandburg sophomore Jenna 

Falsey (left) hugs freshman 

teammate Erin Berry before the 

two finished first and second, 

respectively, in the 200 IM at 

sectional on Saturday, Nov. 10. 

JEFF VORVA/22ND CENTURY MEDIA 

For a private tryout or more info 

contact coach Bill Finn at 708-508- 

0170 or email at finn@moraineval 

ley.edu. 

Visit the webiste at southside 

shootersbasketball.com

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newlenoxpatriot.com 

opprairie.com 

At the end of every boys soccer season, 22nd Century Media scours through stories, stat 

sheets and reporters’ notebooks to compile its Team 22 All-Star lineup. 

The team features student athletes from Lincoln-Way Central, Lincoln-Way West, Lincoln- 

Way East, Providence Catholic, Andrew, Tinley Park, Lockport Township and Sandburg 

high schools. 

Compiled by 22nd Century Media staff 

ForwardS 

Brett Hudak, senior, Tinley 

Park 

30 goals, 2 assists. All- 

Sectional, All-SSC. Hudak 

broke the TPHS singleseason 

record in goals and 

nearly doubled his scoring 

total from last season. 

MidFielderS 

Cory Pitlik, junior, LW East 


State, All-SWSC Blue. 

Leading the Griffins in goals 

is one thing, but Pitlik’s 

vision and passing range 

made him an elite player in 

2018. 

deFenderS 

First team 

Jacob Dirienzo, junior, LW 

East 

All-Sectional, All-SWSC Blue. 

Not only an excellent oneon-one 

defender, Dirienzo 

also has great positional 

awareness, which makes 

him great at anticipating the 

opponent’s attack. 

second team 

ForwardS 

• Jackson Seida, junior, 

LW East 


Sectional HM, All-SWSC 

Blue. 

• Nick Willner, junior, LW 

Central 

12 goals, 2 assists. 

• Justin Biela, senior, 

Lockport 


SWSC Blue. 

BUrNS PhoToGraPhY 

Goalkeeper 

Jayson Iniguez, senior, 

Lockport 


All-State, All-SWSC Blue. 

His ability to score and 

set up his teammates was 

valuable to the Porters’ 

15-3 season. 

Tristan Vidican, senior, 

Providence 

22 goals, 5 assists. All-CCL. 

Vidican was a game-changer 

who could create a scoring 

opportunity out of nothing. 

His contribution was needed 

after the Celtics graduated 

two 30-goal scorers. 

Connor Baker, senior, 

Sandburg 

11 shutouts, 0.65 goals 

against average. All- 

Sectional, All-SWSC. The 

three-year starter led the 

Eagles to sectionals the 

past two years. 

Nick Kowalczyk, senior, 

Lockport 


All-State, All-SWSC Blue. 

The primary playmaker for 

Lockport improved his goal 

and assist totals from last 

year’s All-State season. 

Adam Azhari, senior, 

Sandburg 


Sectional, All-SWSC Blue. 

His speed and his strong 

shot was a dangerous 

combination for area 

opponents. 

Nolan McGrath, senior, LW 

West 


SWSC Red. The Warriors 

captain was the go-to guy 

when they needed a score. 

Reads the game extremely 

well. 

Tim Moriarty, senior, Tinley 

Park 

All-Sectional, All-SSC. 

While the Titans are 

a high-scoring team, 

Moriarty kept things in 

order on the back end the 

last two years. 

Tom McPeek, senior, 

Andrew 

All-Sectional, All-SWSC Red. 

The T-Bolts only scored 

nine goals this season, but 

they were still competitive 

each game, because of the 

defense led by their team 

MVP and captain McPeek. 

Honorable mention 

F: Colin Kroll, senior, Sandburg; Dan Repa, 

senior, Andrew. 

M: Jose Mendoza, senior, Lockport; Andy Cahue, 

senior, LW East; Branden Donovan, junior, 

Andrew. 

D: Logan Webber, senior, LW West. 

G: Connor O’Shaughnessy, senior, LW West; 

Adam Gaydos, senior, Tinley. 

MidFielderS 

• Jacob Purvis, senior, 

Providence 


Sectional, All-CCL. 

• Connor Erickson, senior, 

LW Central 


SWSC Red. 

• David Flores, senior, LW 

West 

1 goal, 11 assists. All-SWSC 

Red. 

• Breandan Brannigan, 

senior, LW Central 

3 goals, 3 assists. All-SWSC 

Red. 

deFenderS 

• Andrew Pellettiere, 

senior, Providence 

3 goals. All-CCL. 

• Dan Blaszkiewicz, senior, 

Lockport 

All-SWSC Blue. 

• Charlie Gainer, senior, 

Sandburg 

Goalkeeper 

• Victor Porada, senior, LW 

East 

4 shutouts, 1.2 GAA. All- 

Sectional HM, All-SWSC 

Blue.



ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT 

Orland Park’s Kenagy enjoys soccer hail at Yale 

PATRICK Z. MCGAVIN 


Soccer is both art and science. 

Kyle Kenagy learned another 

part of the equation is 

knowing the importance of 

timing and placement. 

On Oct. 13th, Kenagy 

blasted home a deflection 

outside of the top of the box 

in the first overtime as Yale 

stunned nationally-ranked 

Cornell 2-1 in Ivy League 

play. 

A senior midfielder from 

Orland Park, Kenagy earned 

the Ivy League Player of 

the Week distinction for his 

achievement. 

A goal-scoring machine at 

Benet Academy, scores have 

not come easy for Kenagy or 

his team the past four years. 

He finished the season 

with three goals and an assist. 

He had 10 career goals 

(including three gamewinners) 

and six assists for the 

team in 57 matches. 

The team averaged just an 

eyelash over one goal per 

game during his time there 

so any goal is huge. But the 

Cornell goal was monumental. 

“One of my teammates, 

Aldo Quevedo, created most 

of the play,” Kenagy said. 

“He got into the box and 

he shot it, and I was lucky 

enough to get the rebound. 

I was on the right side. It 

came off a deflection off a 

defender.” 

The Ivy League eschews 

a conference tournament. 

With his college career in 

the twilight, the recognition 

provided just the right context 

for reflection as Kenagy 

finished out his four-year 

career as a Division I soccer 

player on Saturday, Nov. 10 

against Princeton. 

He was one of none seniors 

honored on Saturday, 

Nov. 10 before his team 

gave Princeton its lone Ivy 

League loss of the season, 

1-0. 

Yale coach Kylie Stannard 

took over the program 

between Kenagy’s freshman 

and sophomore year. The 

school has improved its win 

total in each of the coach’s 

three years. In 2017, Yale 

had its best Ivy League finish 

(third) since 2005. Kenagy 

was a primary instigator of 

the team’s success. He tied 

for the team lead in points 

(seven) and assists (three). 

“He came in after my 

freshman year and he really 

shook up the program,” Kenagy 

said. “We had very few 

seniors my freshman and 

sophomore years. The last 

two years we had a lot more 

seniors. I think we have nine 

seniors now.” 

As a junior Kenagy earned 

second team All-Ivy recognition. 

“Drive is the perfect word 

for Kyle,” said Sean Wesley, 

his high school coach at 

Benet. “He is one of those 

relentless kids who just 

stays in the moment and 

just searches out success in 

a game. In soccer, you have 

so many variables, so many 

things working against you 

and it is typically so hard to 

score. 

“Kyle is always relentless 

and always positive. In 

high school, we always said 

about him, you always knew 

[a goal] was coming.” 

At Benet, Kenagy was a 

four-year starter who used 

his explosive speed, agility 

and creativity to earn allstate 

recognition. At 5-feet- 

11 inches, his game is more 

suited to the outside at the 

college game. 

“The college game tends 

to be much bigger and more 

physical, and you usually 

need taller guys at the forward 

position and faster 

guys out wide,” he said. 

Kyle Kenagy, of Orland Park, has been an important part of Yale’s soccer squad the past four years. 

PHOTO COURTESY OF YALE UNIVERSITY 

East Coast soccer is physical 

and aggressive. Everything 

happens at a faster 

speed, and there is less space 

to operate in and the windows 

close very fast. 

“College soccer in general 

is very physical, and 

the Ivy League specifically 

is very physical and sometimes 

more up and down 

than other conferences,” 

Kenagy said. 

Stannard’s system prioritizes 

possession and playing 

the ball in the middle. Kenagy’s 

game has flourished. 

“I went out to Yale and 

watched a game last year,” 

Wesley said. “Kyle picked 

a program that is not great 

historically. I think they had 

two wins the year before 

he got there. He chose the 

school for all the right reasons. 

His game has really 

grown with a new coach. 

He’s a senior leader and he 

has helped change the program 

around. He is scoring 

goals and changing the program 

around. 

“He is exactly the kind of 

kid you want to build a program 

around.” 

Soccer has always been 

natural. His mother Susan 

played in college and served 

as his first youth coach 

growing up. His father Scott 

played baseball at the University 

of Chicago. 

Kyle grew up playing soccer, 

baseball and basketball 

and even excelled in volleyball 

his eighth-grade year at 

Cardinal Joseph Bernardin. 

After the family moved 

to Orland Park when he 

was six years old, he gravitated 

toward the recreational 

leagues and the Orland Park 

Panthers. 

It all connected. 

“As a kid I had a very 

short attention span,” Kenagy 

said. “I played a bunch 

of sports, and I loved everything. 

Soccer was great 

because I got to just keep 

running. As I got older, it became 

more and more about 

understanding the tactics, 

always changing, always 

moving and knowing that 

you can make mistakes, and 

you are expected to move 

past them and go onto the 

next play.” 

He cherished the freedom 

and pure joy of his youth. 

“I loved Orland Park,” he 

said. “I could not have had 

a better childhood. I grew 

up in an awesome neighborhood 

with a lot of family 

friends that we are still really 

close with.” 

Soccer is his passion. The 

game has not been without 

consequence. Kenagy said 

he has suffered five concussions, 

the latest one last 

spring. 

A mechanical engineering 

major at Yale, Kenagy is 

set to return to the Chicago 

suburbs as a product designer 

for Radio Flyer upon 

his graduation in the spring 

2019. 

“I think most of all I am 

going to miss the players 

and being part of a team 

atmosphere,” Kenagy said. 

“You play for each other and 

make life long friends in the 

process. 

“It is something I have 

been grateful to be part of.”

46 | November 15, 2018 | The orland park prairie sports 

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Eagles counting on experience to pay off in close games 


The feeling around Sandburg’s 

girls basketball program 

is that experience is 

going to cure a lot of ails 

from an 11-18 record last 

year. 

“The big thing is that we 

have five seniors and eight 

juniors — six of them had 

varsity experience,” Eagles 

coach Nick Fotopoulos 

said. “We have experience 

and leadership, and we play 

hard. I’ve been impressed 

with that. 

“But like with any season, 

we have to get in shape, and 

that will help us all big-time. 

We’ll be exciting. We’ll be 

fast. We’ll be quick. We 

don’t have height, but we 

have some other intangibles 

that will help us out.” 

One of those intangibles 

is familiarity. 

“We have a strong chemistry,” 

said senior Natalie 

Stavropoulos, an Illinois 

Basketball Coaches Association 

All-State special mention 

player. “Last year, we 

were young, but this year 

we are older and have that 

varsity experience. We’re 

past that stuff of learning 

how everyone plays. We 

know who to pass the ball 

to when we need a big shot. 

We know the little details.” 

Another is the closeness 

of teammates. 

“I love all these guys and 

of all the sports teams I have 

been on, this is the closest 

team I have been on,” senior 

Molly Nolan said. 

Five of last season’s losses 

were by five points or 

less. Turn those games into 

wins, and the Eagles would 

have posted a 16-13 mark. 

This team plans on turning 

those types of games 

around. Some of them were 

lost in the closing minutes 

of those games. 

“We need to consistently 

Destiny Antoine stretches during a Sandburg girls 

basketball practice. The season is scheduled to open for 

the Eagles on Thursday, Nov. 15. 

keep our energy up,” senior 

Destiny Antoine said. “We 

can’t fall asleep toward the 

end of games.” 

Other seniors on the club 

are Courtney Hiler and 

Stephanie Faro. 

Juniors on the club are 

Stephanie Manthey, Konstance 

Delis, Grace Corluka, 

Margaret Manthey, Mallery 

Bellik, Grace Badon 

and Taylor Wasco. 

Freshman Erin O’Connor 

will make her varsity debut. 

During a summer league junior 

varsity game, she came 

up with a buzzer-beating 

basket for a thrilling victory. 

The season is to open at 6 

p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 15, 

at the Hinsdale South Invitational 

against St. Ignatius. 

Those two teams last 

met in the championship 

of the Hinsdale tournament 

in 2017, and the Wolfpack 

raced out to a 20-4 first 

quarter lead en route to a 

56-40 victory over the Eagles. 

Freshman Erin O’Connor (left) and junior Konstance Delis hope Sandburg can get a leg up 

on most of their opponents this year. PHOTOS BY JEFF VORVA/22ND CENTURY MEDIA 

“The girls are looking 

forward to seeing how they 

will do against a quality 

team right away,” Fotopoulos 

said. 

Two days after the opener, 

the Eagles continue with a 

tournament game against St. 

Edward. They will close out 

pool play on Monday, Nov. 

19, against Oak Park and 

will play against a team from 

the other pool on Nov. 24. 

The Eagles will go back 

to playing just one holiday 

tournament in December, 

dropping the Oak Lawn 

Tournament and just concentrating 

on the Hillcrest 

tournament Dec. 22, Dec. 

26 and Dec. 27. 

Some of their non-conference 

battles will be against 

Lemont, Schaumburg and 

Joliet Catholic Academy. 

It will be awhile before 

fans will be able to watch the 

Eagles play in Orland Park 

as their first home game is 

Dec. 11 in a non-conference 

game against Argo. 

The home games will be 

back-loaded on the schedule, 

as seven of the final 11 

games in the regular season 

are in the Eagles’ gym. 

The Eagles come into the 

season with a new mindset. 

“Some people played 

basketball to have fun last 

year,” Antoine said. “But 

this year, we want to have 

fun and to win. That’s everyone’s 

priority. We putting 

in some pretty good 

practices, so we should be 

more successful than we 

were last year.”



fastbreak 

THURSDAY MORNING QUARTERBACK 

Maybe IHSA will 

bring Sandburg and 

Andrew together 

JEFF VORVA/22ND CENTURY 

MEDIA 

1ST AND 3 

SOME FACTS ABOUT 

SANDBURG’S GIRLS 

BASKETBALL TEAM 

(ABOVE) 

1. Close shaves 

The Eagles lost five 

games last season 

by five or fewer 

points. 

2. Weird series 

Sandburg lost to 

Lockport, 44-43, 

at the Oak Lawn 

Tournament, beat 

the Porters 41-32 in 

Lockport and lost to 

the Porters, 55-32 

at home. 

3. The last time... 

The Eagles last won 

a regional in 2015, 

a sectional in 2006 

and the last time 

they made it to the 

state tournament 

was 2005. 

Jeff Vorva 

j.vorva@22ndcm.com 

Don’t look for Andrew 

or Sandburg 

to get together for 

a football game in the next 

couple of years. 

A few weeks go, there 

were whispers about the 

possibility of the two hooking 

up in a nonconference 

game in 2019. But Sandburg 

has two-year contracts with 

Morgan Park and Hillcrest 

next fall, so it doesn’t appear 

it’s going to be a go. 

It was a long shot anyway. 

Here’s another long shot. 

Maybe the Illinois High 

School Association will 

have a hand in bringing 

these neighboring schools 

on the same gridiron. 

In early December, the 

organization’s rank and file 

will be voting on a mess of 

proposals, including a football 

proposal that will shake 

up the football landscape if 

it’s passed. 

On the table right now is 

an idea to change the football 

structure from conferences 

to districts. There will 

be eight (or in some cases 

nine) teams in eight districts 

in eight classes. Everyone 

will get to play two nonconference, 

er, non-district 

games, which will not count 

toward playoff eligibility. 

However, since there is no 

proposal for which schools 

will be in which district, 

there might not be a lot of 

enthusiasm for this idea. 

Still, it’s on the books and 

as long as there is a vote, 

anything could happen. 

Checking the latest IHSA 

enrollment figures, Sandburg 

would be a lock to be 

one of the Class 8A teams. 

Andrew? Well, the 

Thunderbolts are 65th on 

that list. If some schools’ 

enrollments drop, Andrew 

could find itself in Class 8A. 

The two District 230 teams 

could be in the same class 

and would play again. 

So let’s see how this all 

plays out in the coming 

weeks. 

Eight is enough? 

Another football proposal 

features keeping the conferences 

but working with an 

Sandburg’s football team won’t be playing Andrew soon unless the IHSA goes to a district 

format and the two schools are in the same district. JEFF VORVA/22ND CENTURY MEDIA 

eight-week schedule and 

allowing more teams in the 

playoffs (from 256 to 384) 

and starting the playoffs in 

Week 9. Those teams that 

don’t make the playoff will 

be allowed to schedule their 

own games for Week 9. 

The Top 8 schools in each 

class would receive byes in 

Week 9. 

I don’t see much enthusiasm 

for this proposal, either. 

We know this 

That Catholic superleague 

that combined the 

Chicago Catholic League 

and East Suburban Catholic 

Conference still doesn’t 

have a name, but it has a 

schedule for 2019. 

Providence will be in the 

Green Division, with Niles 

Notre Dame, St. Rita and 

Montini, and will also play 

Brother Rice, Carmel, De- 

Paul Prep and Montini. 

Marist is in the Blue Division 

with Loyola, Mount 

Carmel and Brother Rice, 

and will play Niles Notre 

Dame, Fenwick, Nazareth, 

St. Patrick and Loyola. 

Mystery seeds 

There is plenty of criticism 

about how the IHSA 

seeds its football teams in 

the postseason. The top 

criteria is record, followed 

by the amount of victories 

of each team’s opponent. 

Some lousy teams get great 

seeds by winning nine easy 

games. Some great teams 

that play tough schedules 

and get two or three losses 

can get moved to the middle 

or lower end of the pack. 

To me, it’s not a great 

system, but it’s the best system 

we have. Trying to let 

a committee compare teams 

from the Chicago area with 

teams from downstate might 

cause more headaches than 

the current system. 

But thankfully, we don’t 

have the New Jersey system. 

That state decided to go 

with a Born Power Index, 

and no one really knows 

how it works, but point 

spreads play a role in it. 

Seventy-seven-year-old 

math teacher Bill Born 

came up with it, and when 

the pairings were announced 

in late October, a 7-1 team 

missed the playoffs and 26 

teams with losing records 

(including seven with two 

or less victories) made it. 

So, we should be thankful 

with what we have. 

It can be worse. A lot 

worse. 

LISTEN UP 

“I love all these guys and of all the sports 

teams I have been on, this is the closest team 

I have been on.” 

Molly Nolan — Senior Sandburg basketball player 

What 2 Watch 

Boys basketball, TBA, Monday, Nov. 16 

• Sandburg opens the season at the Reavis 

Tournament. 

INDEX 

45 - Alumni spotlight on Kyle Kenagy 

42 - Athlete of the Week 

Compiled by Sports Editor Jeff Vorva, J.Vorva@22ndCM.com

Orland Park’s Hometown Newspaper | www.opprairie.com | November 15, 2018 

Sandburg counting on experience 

for a huge girls basketball 

campaign, Page 46 

SOCCER STARS 

See how many 

Sandburg players made 

all-area, Page 44 

WHAT’S THE 

MATHER? Orland 

Park setter helps 

Marist’s volleyball 

team finish as state 

champions, Page 43 

Eagles (left to 

right) Natalie 

Stavropoulos, 

Destiny Antoine 

and Molly Nolan 

are leading a 

squad featuring 

a wealth of 

leadership and 

experience. 

JEFF VORVA/22ND 

CENTURY MEDIA 

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