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the highland park landmark | October 3, 2019 | 3
Highland Park City Council
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City unveils HP150 quilt at regular meeting
Ella Lee, Freelance Reporter
Celebration was abundant
at a regular City
Council meeting held Sept.
23 where the council proclaimed
a new observance
for the month of October,
unveiled the HP 150 Quilt,
presented several awards
and approved significant
amendments.
Abby Block, a Highland
Park resident of 55 years,
stood to introduce the
quilt she and several other
women had worked on for
months and finally finished
in honor of Highland
Park’s 150th anniversary.
When her husband came
home from an arts committee
meeting and asked
her to make a quilt to commemorate
the anniversary,
Block said she was reluctant
to undertake the project
and put it on the backburner.
But when a friend
from water aerobics who
attended that same meeting
told Block she knew
several other women who
were interested in getting
involved with the quilt, the
project “quickly moved to
the front burner.”
The quilt features Highland
Park landmarks like
the Metra station with each
car seating a present or
former mayor of the city,
Ravinia Festival, Highland
Park High School and
other iconic locations. The
quilt will be hung in the
main lobby of the library
for residents to enjoy.
After the quilt was unveiled,
several men from
the Highland Park Property
Owners Association
stood to award the Len
Colby Award to two businesses.
Among those men
was Mitch Colby, Len’s
son.
The two businesses to
receive the award were
Michael’s Grill & Salad
Bar and Franco & Pino
Hairstyling.
Donning purple, Mayor
Nancy Rotering and the
rest of the council proclaimed
October to be
Domestic Violence Awareness
Month at the beginning
of the meeting, inviting
experts to the podium
to speak to the recognition’s
importance.
Rebecca Weininger, director
of domestic violence
practice at the North Suburban
Legal Aid Clinic,
opened her remarks with
a statistic that gave way
to audible gasps from the
crowd. While in June of
2018, the young clinic took
in 4 Highland Park victims
of domestic violence, that
number had jumped to 39
by June 2019.
“Domestic violence has
not abated and will not
abate,” she said. “I urge
you not to look away, because
it hurts everyone in
the community.”
Other local domestic
violence resources, like
Safe Place and SHALVA,
shared how their businesses
can assist victims and
noted their 24-hour domestic
violence hotlines.
The council then moved
onto it’s action agenda.
Carolyn Hersch, business
development manager of
the City of Highland Park
gave a presentation regarding
the proposed extension
of Special Service Area
number 17, the Ravinia
District.
She explained that the
district was established
on Jan. 1, 2014 and set to
end Dec. 31, 2016, but was
extended for 3 more years.
That contract will expire in
November, she said.
After highlighting the
benefits of the Ravinia
District, like Food Truck
Thursdays, the Arbor Day
celebration and the opening
of 14 new businesses
in the area, the council and
attendees were allowed to
ask questions. Since none
were asked, the council acknowledged
Hersch’s proposal
and moved on.
The council also considered
a recommendation
to deny a zoning map
amendment to change the
boundaries of the Pedestrian
Oriented Overlay Zone
(POSO) located at Port
Clinton. Rick Strusiner,
a partner at Port Clinton
Square, made the case that
the boundaries should be
redrawn so that Port Clinton
Square could accept a
bid for the space by a pediatric
group.
The council agreed with
Strusiner, noting that the
pediatric group would be
a great addition to Port
Clinton Square, and voted
to have an ordinance made
to overturn the denial of
the zoning change. That
ordinance will lead to the
council approving the rezoning,
they said.
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Round it up
Action taken by the council at the Sept. 23 regular meeting
• Highland Park Police Chief Lou Jogmen addressed the town’s tornado system
and its new updates, along with the institution of a new program which will
allow citizens to become certified weather watchers for the city.
• The council approved items one through four on the docket under ‘Items for
Omnibus Vote Consideration’ without any discussion in front of the crowd. Those
items included the approval of a third amendment to the lease agreement with
the Highland Park Community Nursery School & Day Care Center for the Karger
Recreation Center 2, the authorization of the sale of the Karger Recreation
Center Property and Adjacent, the approval of the relocation of an easement,
and the approval of full depth asphalt patching on Park Avenue West, East of
US Route 41 to J.A. Johnson Paving Company of Arlington Heights, Illinois, the
council agenda says.
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