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orland park’s Award-Winning Hometown Newspaper opprairieDaily.com • November 7, 2019 • Vol. 14 No. 25 • $1<br />

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The background image is a painting commissioned by Orland Park resident William<br />

“Bill” Nicholson of the “Top of the Mark” B-24 Liberator Nicholson’s crew flew over<br />

Germany during World War II, by artist Mike Bailey. INSETS: Nicholson is pictured<br />

far right with his crew while stationed in England during the early 1940s and in<br />

September of this year with his wife, Loretta, outside of the United Center, where he<br />

was honored before a Chicago Blackhawks game. Photos submitted<br />

Closing up<br />

shop Customers<br />

lament impending<br />

shuttering of Walgreens<br />

on 159th, Wolf, Page 3<br />

Haunting the<br />

house Custodian<br />

uses his own time,<br />

money to deck out<br />

school for Halloween,<br />

Page 4<br />

Orland Park resident who flew bombing raids over<br />

Germany, took part in Manhattan Project recounts<br />

history of engineering, flight, war and more on<br />

verge of Veterans Day, Pages 6-7<br />

More in the<br />

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THURSDAY<br />

Portrait Photography<br />

4:30-5:30 p.m. Nov. 7,<br />

The Bridge Teen Center,<br />

15555 S. 71st Court. Teens<br />

grades 7-12 can focus on<br />

the colors, setting, lighting,<br />

poses and more that<br />

go into taking pictures<br />

of people. This is a free<br />

event. For more informatio,<br />

call (708) 532-0500 or<br />

visit www.thebridgeteen<br />

center.org.<br />

Soul Café: Hulk Smash!<br />

(Guys Only)<br />

5-6 p.m. Nov. 7, The<br />

Bridge Teen Center,<br />

15555 S. 71st Court. Teens<br />

grades 7-12 can identify<br />

what is causing emotional<br />

reactions and how to better<br />

communicate with others.<br />

This is a free event.<br />

For more information, call<br />

(708) 532-0500 or visit<br />

www.thebridgeteencenter.<br />

org.<br />

Volunteens Book Buddies<br />

6 p.m. Nov. 7, Orland<br />

Park Public Library, 14921<br />

S. Ravinia Ave. Students<br />

grades 6-12 can sign up at<br />

the teen or youth services<br />

desk to earn service hours<br />

by being a reading buddy<br />

for a small child. Registration<br />

required with teen’s<br />

Orland Park Public Library<br />

card. Limit 15.<br />

A Very Special Night Owls:<br />

Book Buddies<br />

6:30 p.m. Nov. 7, Orland<br />

Park Public Library, 14921<br />

S. Ravinia Ave. Children<br />

ages 3-8 years old with a<br />

parent or adult caregiver<br />

can buddy up with a teen<br />

to read stories in a quiet<br />

corner of the library.<br />

FRIDAY<br />

Meet the Artist-Roslyn<br />

DeBoer<br />

7 p.m. Nov. 8, Orland<br />

Park Public Library, 14921<br />

S. Ravinia Ave. Roslyn<br />

DeBoer of Orland Park<br />

uses a wide range of fabric<br />

manipulation techniques to<br />

create her nature-inspired<br />

pieces. For adults.<br />

Classic Game Night<br />

7:30-10:30 p.m. Nov. 8,<br />

The Bridge Teen Center,<br />

15555 S. 71st Court. As<br />

Sonic the Hedgehog hits<br />

the movie theaters, The<br />

Bridge is celebrating with<br />

some classic video and<br />

board games. This is a free<br />

event for teens in grades<br />

7-12. For more information,<br />

call (708) 532-0500<br />

or visit www.thebridgete<br />

encenter.org.<br />

SATURDAY<br />

Ballet 5:8’s Beyond the<br />

Nutcracker<br />

10-11 a.m. Nov. 9, Ballet<br />

5:8, 11545 183rd Place,<br />

Suite 101. Children ages<br />

3-10 and their families<br />

get an exclusive in-studio<br />

performance of excerpts<br />

from Ballet 5:8’s “Beyond<br />

the Nutcracker.” After the<br />

performance, families can<br />

meet the performers, take<br />

pictures, and have light<br />

refreshments. To learn<br />

more about this event or<br />

to purchase tickets, visit<br />

ballet58.org or call (708)<br />

329-8773 for more information.<br />

Teen Escape Room<br />

Noon and 2 p.m. Nov.<br />

9, Orland Park Public<br />

Library, 14921 S. Ravinia<br />

Ave. Participants are<br />

locked in the game, and<br />

nobody leaves until the<br />

murderer is caught. Registration<br />

in person or over<br />

the phone at the Youth or<br />

Teen Reference desks is<br />

required. Sign up for one<br />

session. Limit of 10 attendees<br />

per session.<br />

These Streets are Holy<br />

Fundraiser<br />

6-9 p.m. Nov. 9, House<br />

of Music, 14400 John<br />

Humphrey Drive in Orland<br />

Park. These Streets are<br />

Holy, a Tinley Park-based<br />

nonprofit, is having its annual<br />

fundraiser. There will<br />

be food, entertainment and<br />

music with the Medinah<br />

Highlanders and the These<br />

Streets Are Holy band featuring<br />

Steve Haberichter.<br />

The organization seeks to<br />

curb violence in at-risk<br />

communities via music,<br />

mentoring and urban gardening.<br />

Tickets available<br />

through EventBrite.com.<br />

Contact Jill at (779) 216-<br />

5661 for more information.<br />

MONDAY<br />

Kitchen Sceience<br />

6:30 p.m. Nov. 11, Orland<br />

Park Public Library,<br />

14921 S. Ravinia Ave.<br />

Grades K-2 can come play<br />

with everyday kitchen and<br />

food items to create fun<br />

science experiments.<br />

TUESDAY<br />

Launch Your Productivity<br />

4-5 p.m. Nov. 12, The<br />

Bridge Teen Center,<br />

15555 S. 71st Court. Teens<br />

grades 7-12 can balance<br />

their lives so they can enjoy<br />

them more by tracking<br />

how they use their time<br />

and learn how to prioritize<br />

tasks. This is a free event.<br />

For more information, call<br />

(708) 532-0500 or visit<br />

www.thebridgeteencenter.<br />

org.<br />

Welding<br />

4-5:30 p.m. Nov. 12,<br />

The Bridge Teen Center,<br />

15555 S. 71st Court. Teens<br />

grades 7-12 can weld together<br />

small pieces of metal<br />

using high heat to create<br />

an original sculpture. This<br />

is a free event. For more<br />

information, call (708)<br />

532-0500 or visit www.<br />

thebridgeteencenter.org.<br />

How to Draw Hair<br />

5-6 p.m. Nov. 12, The<br />

Bridge Teen Center,<br />

15555 S. 71st Court. Teens<br />

grades 7-12 can play with<br />

shading, blending and<br />

proportions by drawing<br />

diverse hairstyles and textures.<br />

This is a free event.<br />

For more information, call<br />

(708) 532-0500 or visit<br />

www.thebridgeteencenter.<br />

org.<br />

Wild Board to Baconfest:<br />

Pigs in History & Popular<br />

Culture<br />

7 p.m. Nov. 12, Orland<br />

Park Public Library, 14921<br />

S. Ravinia Ave. Patrons<br />

can discover the colorful<br />

and fascinating international<br />

and domestic history<br />

of pigs.<br />

WEDNESDAY<br />

Archery<br />

4-6 p.m. Nov. 13, The<br />

Bridge Teen Center, 15555<br />

S. 71st Court. Teens grades<br />

7-12 can shoot a bow and<br />

arrow, and practice target<br />

accuracy at an indoor archery<br />

range. Signed waiver<br />

required. This is a free<br />

event. For more information,<br />

call (708) 532-0500<br />

or visit www.thebridgete<br />

encenter.org.<br />

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Culinary: Cake Decorating<br />

4-5:30 p.m. Nov. 13,<br />

The Bridge Teen Center,<br />

15555 S. 71st Court. Teens<br />

grades 7-12 can decorate<br />

mini bundlets with butter<br />

cream frosting and create a<br />

custom tower to take home<br />

and enjoy. This is a free<br />

event. For more information,<br />

call (708) 532-0500<br />

or visit www.thebridgete<br />

encenter.org.<br />

Frozen Hot Chocolate<br />

5 p.m. Nov. 13, Orland<br />

Park Public Library, 14921<br />

S. Ravinia Ave. Teens can<br />

learn how to create frozen<br />

hot chocolate. Each participant<br />

will receive a mug<br />

to decorate and take home.<br />

Limit of 20 attendees.<br />

Design a Dress<br />

5-6 p.m. Nov. 13, The<br />

Bridge Teen Center, 15555<br />

S. 71st Court. Teens grades<br />

7-12 can gain insight from<br />

a boutique owner and<br />

sketch their ideas to make<br />

a one-of-a-kind dress<br />

come to life. This is a free<br />

event. For more information,<br />

call (708) 532-0500<br />

or visit www.thebridgete<br />

encenter.org.<br />

ONGOING<br />

Mahjong<br />

9:30 a.m.-noon Thursdays,<br />

Cultural Center,<br />

14760 Park Lane. Beginners<br />

welcome.


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the orland park prairie | November 7, 2019 | 3<br />

‘Big mistake’ — Longtime customers<br />

bemoan pending drug store closure<br />

Walgreens to close<br />

159th and Wolf<br />

location on Nov. 13<br />

Erin Redmond<br />

Freelance Reporter<br />

Little by little, products<br />

inside the Walgreens on<br />

the corner of 159th Street<br />

and Wolf Road are being<br />

boxed up.<br />

Employees and customers<br />

alike feel the same<br />

melancholy looming in<br />

the air,as the Walgreens<br />

at 11349 W. 159th Street<br />

in Orland Park prepares<br />

to close its doors permanently<br />

on Wednesday,<br />

Nov. 13.<br />

“Within the four walls<br />

of that building are human<br />

beings that have<br />

compassion,” Orland Park<br />

resident and Walgreens<br />

customer Lora Mendoza<br />

said. “You can see it when<br />

customers of all ages, sizes,<br />

colors, backgrounds,<br />

differently abled [and] seniors<br />

feel the compassion<br />

in the air from the individuals<br />

who have been in<br />

that store for a number of<br />

years. It was just shocking<br />

to me.”<br />

In August, Walgreens<br />

announced it will close<br />

approximately 200 stores<br />

nationwide — which accounts<br />

for roughly 3 percent<br />

of its 9,600 U.S. locations<br />

— in an SEC Filing.<br />

The 159th and Wolf location<br />

is one of the closures.<br />

“Walgreens has operated<br />

this store for about<br />

DRIVE<br />

CAR BUYERS<br />

12 years, and the decision<br />

to close it was not<br />

easy,” Walgreens spokeswoman<br />

Alexandra Brown<br />

said. “Please be assured<br />

that the community will<br />

remain well-served by<br />

Walgreens. ... Prescription<br />

files will automatically<br />

transfer to our store at<br />

17955 Wolf Road in Orland<br />

Park.”<br />

Orland Park resident<br />

and Walgreens shopper<br />

Teresa Shinnick said she<br />

thinks the decision is a<br />

“big mistake,” given how<br />

populated the strip mall<br />

surrounding the Walgreens<br />

is.<br />

On a personal level,<br />

Shinnick said she grew especially<br />

close to the staff<br />

— including her pharmacist<br />

— who have gone<br />

above and beyond for her<br />

and her family over the<br />

years.<br />

“The people at that<br />

particular Walgreens really<br />

connected with my<br />

family,” Shinnick said. “I<br />

was really sick for awhile.<br />

… One of the pharmacists<br />

was amazing. She<br />

explained the medication<br />

and questioning— like<br />

they’re supposed to —<br />

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this medicine,<br />

but this other doctor prescribed<br />

the same thing,<br />

basically. Do you mind if<br />

I make a phone call to find<br />

out if they really want you<br />

to be taking double of the<br />

same thing?’”<br />

And when her her teenage<br />

daughter was denied<br />

her migraine prescription<br />

because of age restrictions,<br />

she said the pharmacists<br />

and technicians<br />

continued to follow-up<br />

with her to see if it had<br />

been approved and stood<br />

by her side as the family<br />

filed appeal after appeal<br />

to get the medicine her<br />

daughter was prescribed.<br />

Mendoza has only lived<br />

in the area for a few years,<br />

but said she it has been a<br />

place of comfort for her as<br />

she and her family settled<br />

into their new surroundings.<br />

“It’s a store that will<br />

forever be [one of] those<br />

beacons where people<br />

can go and get hugs and<br />

be warm, get their needs<br />

taken care of,” Mendoza<br />

said. “I know [the Walgreens<br />

employees] quite<br />

well, and they know me.<br />

They always thank me,<br />

but it’s really me who’s<br />

thankful for their kindness<br />

and gentility.”<br />

Both women found out<br />

from employees the store<br />

would be closing and said<br />

the staff have been reminding<br />

people their next<br />

prescription refill will<br />

need to be picked up elsewhere.<br />

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that’s where I’m going<br />

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Custodian transforms school overnight for Halloween<br />

Bill Jones, Editor<br />

Bill Pluta, in his Halloween best, stands near the graveyard he crafted on his own<br />

time and money inside of Liberty School to help the students celebrate Halloween.<br />

Pluta has worked in the district for 20 years, serving today as a custodian at Liberty.<br />

Photos by Bill Jones/22nd Century Media<br />

When students at Liberty<br />

School leave the building<br />

on Oct. 30 every year, they<br />

start to see hints of what<br />

custodian Bill Pluta has<br />

done there for Halloween<br />

the past five years. It’s not<br />

until Halloween morning,<br />

though, that anyone but<br />

Pluta truly understands the<br />

scope of it. And by Nov. 1,<br />

it vanishes as if it was never<br />

there.<br />

“First thing in the morning,<br />

I love standing out in<br />

that hallway and watching<br />

them freak out,” Pluta said<br />

of seeing students react to<br />

Liberty’s Halloween transformation.<br />

“That’s the best<br />

part.”<br />

Pluta — on his own time<br />

and his own dime — this<br />

year outfitted the elementary<br />

school with roughly<br />

40 inflatables, which could<br />

be found arching over each<br />

entryway, in the multipurpose<br />

room and around the<br />

gymnasium/lunchroom.<br />

Keeping in mind the students<br />

there run from grades<br />

3-5, some of the displays<br />

— which include animatronics<br />

and ghosts that zip<br />

on wires overhead — provide<br />

little scares but feature<br />

zero gore.<br />

“I keep things fun,” Pluta<br />

said.<br />

The piece de resistance<br />

is a graveyard scene tucked<br />

into a corner near the multipurpose<br />

room. There, bat<br />

props hang overhead, a<br />

vulture rests on a perch, an<br />

inflatable tree is haunted by<br />

ghosts, and several other<br />

haunts both spook and delight<br />

the students who pass<br />

them.<br />

“The graveyard is just<br />

cool,” Pluta says with<br />

pride.<br />

Pluta, a self-described<br />

“car guy” whose prized<br />

possession is a 1970 Plymouth<br />

Barracuda, pays tribute<br />

to this second greatest<br />

love — his wife is first, but<br />

it’s a close contest, he joked<br />

— with vehicle-based Halloween<br />

inflatables in the<br />

gymnasium. Among them<br />

is a prototype of a monster<br />

food truck.<br />

“I try to look for the odd<br />

stuff — things you don’t<br />

see too often,” Pluta said.<br />

Though he claimed he<br />

does not go as wild at home<br />

with the decorations, anyone<br />

who came across his<br />

home this year would have<br />

seen a full-sized Halloween<br />

stagecoach traveling across<br />

his front lawn. He also<br />

decorated his archway and<br />

had several other conspicuous<br />

decorations around the<br />

property.<br />

Pluta, a 20-year employee<br />

of D135, has his own<br />

definition of “low-key,”<br />

and he admitted what he<br />

has been doing for the past<br />

half-decade at Liberty has<br />

taken on a life of its own.<br />

“It gets a little bigger and<br />

crazier each year,” he said.<br />

Going all-out with decorations<br />

is a tradition he said<br />

was passed down to him by<br />

family.<br />

“I got the bug from my<br />

grandfather back in the<br />

day,” he said.<br />

The internet has helped<br />

him track down unique<br />

pieces he regularly has<br />

shipped to his house. And<br />

while he does smaller displays<br />

throughout the school<br />

year for other holidays,<br />

Halloween remains his<br />

main focus, which helps<br />

explain why he spent fourand-a-half<br />

hours before his<br />

shift finishing this year’s<br />

display.<br />

Pluta said he is just happy<br />

the school has allowed<br />

him to do it and that an announcement<br />

is made so the<br />

students know he is behind<br />

Pictured are an animatronic display (top) and one of<br />

the many inflatables Bill Pluta places around Liberty<br />

School for Halloween.<br />

it, but the true reward remains<br />

seeing the reactions<br />

of everyone entering the<br />

building.<br />

“First thing in the morning,<br />

it’s just fabulous,” he<br />

said. “It’s just to have a<br />

little fun.”<br />

Night of a Thousand Lights fundraiser for My Joyful Heart coming to Orland Park<br />

Submitted by My Joyful Heart<br />

Tickets are still available for<br />

the My Joyful Heart fundraiser<br />

Night of a Thousand Lights, set<br />

to take place from 6-11 p.m.<br />

Saturday, Nov. 16, at Silver<br />

Lake Country Club, 14700 S.<br />

82nd Ave. in Orland Park.<br />

The cost to attend is $50<br />

per person or $400 per table<br />

of eight, but prices go up after<br />

Nov. 11.<br />

Price includes family-style<br />

dinner, dancing, cash bar and silent<br />

auction. There are more than<br />

60 gift baskets for the silent auction.<br />

The nonprofit organization<br />

is a children’s charity that provides<br />

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Service and honor: Orland Park veteran talks<br />

Bill Jones, Editor<br />

Inside a house that from<br />

the outside looks much<br />

like any other in the Brook<br />

Hills subdivision is some<br />

of the richest history Orland<br />

Park has to offer. The<br />

American flag raised on a<br />

pole out front offers a hint<br />

of the stories waiting to be<br />

told.<br />

“I always tell people<br />

there’s a flag out front, and<br />

if it’s still up, we haven’t<br />

surrendered yet,” William<br />

“Bill” Nicholson said with<br />

a laugh.<br />

Like many veterans,<br />

Nicholson — a 95-year-old<br />

who has lived in that Orland<br />

Park home for the past<br />

31 years with his wife of 71<br />

years, Loretta — was not<br />

always keen on telling the<br />

stories of his involvement<br />

in World War II.<br />

“He didn’t talk much<br />

about it,” his daughter Jan<br />

Adamo said of when she<br />

was a child. “He always<br />

kept it more to himself.”<br />

But Adamo said her father<br />

has remained proud of<br />

his service, and opened up<br />

in recent years to his grandchildren<br />

and others.<br />

“Whenever he gets talking<br />

now, everyone is mesmerized,”<br />

Adamo said.<br />

It is not hard to see why.<br />

Nicholson, born and<br />

raised in the Back of the<br />

Yards, maneuvered his<br />

way into flight training at<br />

an early age, worked on<br />

the Manhattan Project and<br />

threw out a deferment he<br />

received to end up part of<br />

an Army Air Force crew<br />

that dropped bombs over<br />

Germany. And he can talk<br />

for hours about any of these<br />

topics, but it all goes back<br />

to his love for engineering.<br />

“This starts a story,” as<br />

Nicholson put it. “And<br />

I have to go back to my<br />

childhood, because it starts<br />

there.”<br />

Taking flight<br />

“I laughingly say I was<br />

probably born to be an engineer,<br />

with a slide rule in<br />

my hand or something,”<br />

Nicholson said. “I was always<br />

fixing things — taking<br />

things apart, putting<br />

them back together. I mean,<br />

when I was 6, 7 years old.<br />

Making things work when<br />

they didn’t work.”<br />

He and Loretta were<br />

schoolmates then, having<br />

met in the first grade. But<br />

before any of that came<br />

Nicholson’s love of flight.<br />

“I had a keen interest<br />

in airplanes or aeronautics,<br />

probably since I was<br />

5 or 6,” Nicholson said.<br />

“I remember being so impressed<br />

with [Charles]<br />

Lindbergh, and that was<br />

1927 when he flew over to<br />

Paris. I was born in 1924,<br />

so I was 3 years old. I remember<br />

every plane that<br />

flew over, I’d be hollering,<br />

‘Hey, Lindy!’ thinking he<br />

was in the airplanes.”<br />

Nicholson’s fascination<br />

led him on trips to what is<br />

now Chicago Midway International<br />

Airport, where<br />

at the time he could just<br />

wander near the planes and<br />

take photographs.<br />

It was there that he met<br />

Bernard DeWitt, the owner<br />

of a now-defunct flying<br />

field in Ashburn. DeWitt<br />

gave Nicholson, at a time<br />

when his family was struggling<br />

with the Great Depression,<br />

a job at the flight<br />

training school.<br />

Cars pulled into the<br />

parking lot so people could<br />

watch the planes. Nicholson’s<br />

job was to sell them<br />

12- to 15-minute flights for<br />

$1.50. He got 10 percent,<br />

which added up.<br />

“I would make maybe $2<br />

or $3 on weekends, which<br />

was a lot of money,” Nicholson<br />

said. “During the<br />

week, there wasn’t much to<br />

do, so I would be hanging<br />

William “Bill” Nicholson,<br />

of Orland Park, was<br />

involved with the<br />

Manhattan Project in the<br />

Met Lab at University of<br />

Chicago and flew B-24<br />

Liberator bombers over<br />

Germany during World<br />

War II. Photos submitted<br />

out with the pilots. I’d pull<br />

the planes into the hanger,<br />

out of the hanger, gas<br />

’em up, wash them, grind<br />

valves in the engines, fix<br />

flats — do anything to be<br />

around airplanes, listen to<br />

the pilots talk. … I learned<br />

a lot from them, just listening.”<br />

One slow summer afternoon,<br />

DeWitt invited Nicholson<br />

up in a two-seater<br />

that sat one behind the other,<br />

with dual controls. Once<br />

airborne, DeWitt asked him<br />

a question.<br />

“He turned around to me<br />

and said, ‘You think you<br />

can fly this?’” Nicholson<br />

said.<br />

Nicholson had no experience<br />

inside of a cockpit,<br />

but from ages 9-13 educated<br />

himself the only way<br />

he could, “reading and<br />

devouring all the books I<br />

could read on the famous<br />

flyers of the time.”<br />

“I said, ‘sure,’” Nicholson<br />

recalled. “I was supremely<br />

confident. It’s hard<br />

to explain. I could visualize<br />

myself when I was reading<br />

these stories, how people<br />

did this and did that, the<br />

maneuvers.”<br />

He kept the plane flying<br />

in a straight line. DeWitt<br />

took care of the landing and<br />

asked Nicholson what else<br />

he could do.<br />

“I said I could do an outside<br />

loop, an inside loop,<br />

and I’d only read about<br />

these things,” Nicholson<br />

said. “He decided he is going<br />

to teach me how to fly.”<br />

For two years — during<br />

the school year only<br />

on weekends — Nicholson<br />

learned how to take off and<br />

land under DeWitt’s tutelage,<br />

all before he entered<br />

St. Rita High School, which<br />

he chose for its aeronautical<br />

engineering curriculum<br />

and where he earned a preengineering<br />

certificate.<br />

“If my mother knew<br />

it, she would have died,”<br />

Nicholson said. “She never<br />

knew I was off the ground,<br />

and I wouldn’t tell her.<br />

But I was thrilled to be out<br />

there.”<br />

Starting a chain reaction<br />

When Nicholson graduated<br />

from high school in<br />

1942, he got a job at the<br />

University of Chicago. As<br />

far as anyone else knew, he<br />

was working as a machinist.<br />

In fact, he was working<br />

on the “extremely secret”<br />

Manhattan Project, “rubbing<br />

elbows” with “the<br />

greatest minds of the 20th<br />

century.”<br />

While the west stands of<br />

Stagg Field are famous because<br />

that is where the Pile<br />

was built and the first repeatable<br />

chain reaction was<br />

achieved, Nicholson was<br />

under the north stands. In<br />

small laboratories known<br />

as the Met Lab, he worked<br />

with uranium, thinking<br />

he might be developing<br />

atomic engines rather than<br />

a bomb.<br />

Nicholson described the<br />

scene as serious, with a perception<br />

that the Germans<br />

were ahead in the race to<br />

harness atomic energy and<br />

spies were all around them.<br />

“Somewhere around the<br />

early part of December of<br />

’42, I came to work one<br />

day, and these quiet, sedate,<br />

intelligent, no-nonsense<br />

guys — all these scientists<br />

and whatnot — were dancing<br />

in the corridor, jumping<br />

up and down, hootin’ and<br />

hollerin’, almost like it’s<br />

New Year’s Eve,” Nicholson<br />

recalled. “What happened<br />

is they got the first<br />

chain reaction — repeatable<br />

chain reaction. A big<br />

part of the project was accomplished<br />

right there.”<br />

The only other time he<br />

recalled such enthusiasm<br />

was the following February,<br />

when British Commandos<br />

successfully destroyed<br />

a heavy water plant in Norway,<br />

effectively setting the<br />

enemy back in developing<br />

atomic power. That’s when<br />

he knew it was time to go,<br />

as the Allies had hope they<br />

could win the race to atomic<br />

power.<br />

“I thought, no more purpose<br />

of me being here,”<br />

Nicholson said.<br />

Still angered by the attack<br />

on Pearl Harbor, Nicholson<br />

had a plan.<br />

“I was supremely confident<br />

that I could fly and<br />

shoot down Japanese<br />

[planes],” Nicholson said.<br />

“I just knew I could do it.<br />

... So, I gave up my deferment.”<br />

But things did not go according<br />

to plan.<br />

Volunteering for the Navy,<br />

ending up in the Army<br />

Because of his involvement<br />

with the Manhattan<br />

Project, Nicholson received<br />

a deferment “where they<br />

would have taken women<br />

and children before they<br />

took me.”<br />

In ridding himself of it,<br />

he did not want to wind up<br />

just anywhere. So, he and<br />

some friends volunteered<br />

for the Navy, where Nicholson<br />

hoped to be part of its<br />

Air Force, back when each<br />

branch had its own.<br />

“I told them I was going<br />

to leave, which changed<br />

my draft status,” Nicholson<br />

said of his job at University<br />

of Chicago. “And within a<br />

couple weeks of reporting<br />

to them what I wanted to<br />

do, the draft board called<br />

and said they wanted me to<br />

go for an examination.<br />

“Long story short, I was<br />

the only one who was accepted<br />

out of our group.”<br />

He was scheduled to<br />

go to Pensacola, Florida,<br />

but when his draft status<br />

changed to 1-A, the Army<br />

came calling. The Navy<br />

kept telling him they would<br />

take care of it.<br />

“Sure enough, two weeks<br />

later, I got a notice, special<br />

delivery,” Nicholson said.<br />

“It said report to Camp<br />

Grant Illinois … on such<br />

and such date for induction<br />

into the U.S. Army.”<br />

“I was really disappointed.<br />

I want to fly.”<br />

A few days into training,<br />

his mother received a telegram<br />

that the Navy wanted<br />

him in Pensacola for flight<br />

training. He entered his<br />

colonel’s office and explained<br />

the situation.<br />

“He said, ‘Tough [luck],<br />

soldier. We’ve got you<br />

now,’” Nicholson recalled.<br />

As part of the Army Air<br />

Force, he was sent to the<br />

Royal Air Force Horsham<br />

St. Faith station in Southeast<br />

England, where he<br />

ended up part of crews flying<br />

B-24 Liberator bombers<br />

— most notably one<br />

they called “Top of the<br />

Mark” — over Germany<br />

with the Second Division,<br />

Eighth Air Force, serving<br />

his country from February<br />

of 1943 to October of 1945.<br />

While he got a chance to fly


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the bombers as a backup pilot,<br />

his main role was that<br />

of an engineer, doing what<br />

he could to patch up planes<br />

at 30,000 feet.<br />

“The irony of the thing<br />

is instead of me shooting<br />

down the Japanese, the<br />

Germans were shooting<br />

me down, as it turned out,”<br />

Nicholson said.<br />

Everything goes black<br />

As an engineer on a<br />

bomber, Nicholson said<br />

every day was “an adventure.”<br />

Any given run might<br />

mean flying all the way to<br />

Berlin, getting shot up to<br />

such a degree that the plane<br />

had to crash-land in France<br />

but getting no credit for it<br />

because they failed to drop<br />

a payload on the target.<br />

“It was never normal,<br />

but you got oblivious to<br />

the whole thing,” Nicholson<br />

said. “You did what<br />

you had to do. You almost<br />

went through the motions<br />

without giving it too much<br />

thought.”<br />

Whether credited or not,<br />

Nicholson was regularly<br />

airborne in turbulent skies,<br />

the worst of it over Berlin<br />

and the Ruhr valley, which<br />

were heavily fortified, especially<br />

as the Germans<br />

pulled back their anti-aircraft<br />

guns to defend those<br />

locations.<br />

“The Germans had so<br />

many guns in some of these<br />

targets, and they were controlled<br />

by radar,” Nicholson<br />

recalled. “They could<br />

have 100 guns, all pointed<br />

at the same spot in the sky<br />

— or 1,000. And they just<br />

go boom, boom, boom,<br />

boom, like that.<br />

“It would wind up like a<br />

cube, above you and below<br />

you, left of you, right of<br />

you, in front of you, to the<br />

back of you. The whole sky<br />

would just turn black, just<br />

explode all at one time, not<br />

one shell but thousands at<br />

“I made it through several single<br />

incidents where I should have<br />

been killed long ago.”<br />

William “Bill” Nicholson — Orland Park resident,<br />

on his service during World War II<br />

one time.<br />

“Nothing comes out of<br />

that cube. We were behind<br />

that one time, where right<br />

in front of us it occurred.<br />

We flew right through all<br />

of the black smoke from<br />

the explosions. You looked<br />

ahead [and] you could see<br />

from the bottom of that<br />

cube, wheels and wings<br />

and airplanes, people falling<br />

out, all just blown up.<br />

When we came out of that<br />

cube on the other end, there<br />

was a big space between us<br />

and the next airplane, way<br />

up there. It just wiped them<br />

all out, took them all out.<br />

… They’re no longer there.<br />

The ones right in front of<br />

you just disappeared.”<br />

Nicholson never stopped<br />

long enough to think about<br />

it at the time.<br />

“It never bothered me,”<br />

he said. “What could I do<br />

about it? It’s just another<br />

day. This is what happens.<br />

We’re lucky; they weren’t.<br />

“I made it through several<br />

single incidents where<br />

I should have been killed<br />

long ago.”<br />

The hazards in the sky<br />

were endless.<br />

“You’re on oxygen,”<br />

Nicholson said. “Oxygen<br />

gets shot up, you die. You<br />

don’t have anything to<br />

breathe. The heated suits,<br />

they get shot up, you freeze.<br />

Besides, the Germans were<br />

shooting at you all the time<br />

anyhow.<br />

“There were a few things<br />

you had to overcome.”<br />

Still, Nicholson kept getting<br />

on the planes.<br />

“I was always positive<br />

we’ll make it through,” he<br />

said. “This may sound silly<br />

— and I thought of this<br />

several times since — I was<br />

never scared. I was never<br />

afraid. I was comfortable<br />

flying in aircraft.”<br />

Part of that comfort came<br />

from having a crew Nicholson<br />

described as “family,”<br />

which helps to explain<br />

why he was upset to be<br />

pulled from it at one point<br />

to be given a gig as a flight<br />

instructor, away from the<br />

action, where he was seen<br />

as more valuable. But even<br />

there, Nicholson encountered<br />

dangers, flying “war<br />

weary” planes — aircraft<br />

too battered to be effective<br />

on a mission, sent back for<br />

training — with green recruits.<br />

“I’m going to be flying<br />

with green guys with<br />

equipment that’s terrible,”<br />

Nicholson said. “I’m taking<br />

a big chance.”<br />

Nicholson learned six<br />

weeks later that the crew<br />

from which he was taken<br />

was shot down over the<br />

Adriatic Sea. All on the aircraft<br />

perished.<br />

“That was an early, early<br />

miracle — an angel that I<br />

had on my shoulder,” Nicholson<br />

said.<br />

Nicholson stopped complaining<br />

about his role after<br />

that but still longed to be<br />

back on a crew.<br />

“The colonel kept warning<br />

us, ‘You screw up, and<br />

you’re going to get on a<br />

crew the next day,’” Nicholson<br />

recalled. “I wanted<br />

to go. So, myself and one<br />

other guy didn’t quite steal<br />

a Jeep, but it’s like stealing<br />

a Jeep. We took the<br />

sergeant major’s Jeep from<br />

the noncommissioned officer’s<br />

club, and I took it and<br />

drove it around the base<br />

for about 20 minutes, passing<br />

MPs. We thought the<br />

warning would be out and<br />

they’d be looking for us.<br />

Nobody bothered.<br />

“So, we agreed, me and<br />

this other guy, we were going<br />

to have to wreck this<br />

Jeep a little bit. We put it in<br />

low gear, and we ran it into<br />

a light pole — very lightly,<br />

didn’t do much damage,<br />

hardly anything. And then<br />

we just sat there and waited<br />

for the MPs.”<br />

They found themselves<br />

in front of a colonel who<br />

berated them and then put<br />

the duo on a crew together<br />

as punishment — just as<br />

they had hoped.<br />

“In four weeks we were<br />

on our way east,” Nicholson<br />

said. “I had to steal a<br />

Jeep to do it. I don’t brag<br />

about it. It is kind of goofy.<br />

I could have been put in<br />

a jail, dishonorable discharge.<br />

I was put on a crew.<br />

That was the worst thing<br />

you could threaten a guy<br />

with — you’re going to go<br />

get shot at. And that’s what<br />

I wanted.<br />

“I don’t know why I’m<br />

alive.”<br />

Putting down roots<br />

While serving, Nicholson<br />

worked to keep his<br />

mind fresh in math, physics<br />

and chemistry, with textbooks<br />

offered by the Army.<br />

He rose to the rank of technical<br />

sergeant. And when<br />

he was discharged, he went<br />

to the Illinois Institute of<br />

Technology.<br />

“Boy, did we learn,”<br />

Nicholson said. “It was the<br />

hardest work I ever did in<br />

my life.”<br />

He started seeing Loretta,<br />

the two married and ultimately<br />

had five children,<br />

passing on Nicholson’s<br />

passion for engineering.<br />

“I’m the first one in my<br />

huge family to go to college,”<br />

Nicholson said. “I<br />

feel like I might have inspired<br />

somebody, motivated<br />

them.”<br />

Nicholson continued to<br />

work, spending years in<br />

Geneva, Switzerland, for<br />

his last job, with Amoco,<br />

manufacturing and marketing<br />

chemicals to all of Europe,<br />

the Middle East, Africa<br />

and several Communist<br />

countries. When that<br />

wrapped up, he and Loretta<br />

decided to put down their<br />

roots in Orland Park, where<br />

they lived years prior.<br />

They arranged for a<br />

home to be built, moved<br />

back in 1988, and the rest is<br />

mostly history.<br />

But almost three decades<br />

in, Nicholson received a<br />

notice that anyone with an<br />

in-ground sprinkler system<br />

has to have a backflow<br />

valve inspected and recertified<br />

annually. Nicholson<br />

called Chicago Backflow<br />

Inc. of Alsip for prices, and<br />

it ended up being the start<br />

of a special relationship.<br />

The company sent inspector<br />

John Keating to<br />

Nicholson’s home for a survey.<br />

The two started talking<br />

about old war stories, and<br />

the inspector went back<br />

to the office and told CBI<br />

President Doug Eisenhauer<br />

of Nicholson. Eisenhauer<br />

told Keating to go back and<br />

do the job, no charge.<br />

“I just couldn’t believe<br />

it,” Nicholson said. “Why<br />

would anybody do that for<br />

me?”<br />

The relationship continued<br />

when Chicago Backflow<br />

invited Nicholson to<br />

its Christmas party, “a hell<br />

of a Christmas party,” according<br />

to Nicholson.<br />

“We just formed a relationship<br />

in that sense,”<br />

Eisenhauer said. “Everybody’s<br />

thrilled every time<br />

his name comes up.”<br />

The icing on the proverbial<br />

cake came when Chicago<br />

Backflow, season ticket<br />

holders with the Chicago<br />

Blackhawks, asked if they<br />

could nominate Nicholson<br />

to be honored at center ice<br />

as Jim Cornelison sang the<br />

national anthem during a<br />

Sept. 25 game. The company<br />

ended up getting tickets<br />

for Bill, Loretta and more<br />

of the family, with children,<br />

grandchildren and greatgrandchildren<br />

ultimately<br />

seeing him honored. Chicago<br />

Backflow sent a limo<br />

to pick them up and four<br />

employees who helped<br />

them get around. CBI also<br />

treated them to dinner.<br />

“Now, that’s generosity,”<br />

Nicholson said. “No one’s<br />

ever done that for me.”<br />

Those moments on the<br />

ice were hard to describe.<br />

“It was awesome,” Nicholson<br />

said. “I was almost<br />

paralyzed.<br />

“The whole thing was<br />

kind of like a blur. I was<br />

proud, a bit emotional. ... It<br />

was a night to remember.”<br />

For Adamo, who took an<br />

Honor Flight with her father<br />

a few years ago, it does<br />

not get much better than<br />

seeing him recognized.<br />

“He deserves all the recognition<br />

he’s getting and<br />

more,” Adamo said. “He’s<br />

served his country well.<br />

He’s a real patriot.”


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Consolidated High School D230 Board of Education<br />

Officials address expected teacher<br />

shortage with pipeline program<br />

Rochelle McAuliffe,<br />

Freelance Reporter<br />

The state of Illinois is<br />

facing a teacher shortage,<br />

and the Consolidated High<br />

School District 230 School<br />

Board and administration<br />

are trying to proactively<br />

address the shortage by<br />

encouraging students to<br />

pursue education, and provide<br />

support and partnership<br />

during their journey,<br />

as well as attracting highly<br />

qualified staff by creating<br />

a Teacher Pipeline Project.<br />

There has been a 3.4<br />

percent decrease in the<br />

total number of teachers<br />

within the state over the<br />

past decade, which outpaces<br />

the decline in student<br />

enrollment (3.4 percent of<br />

teachers to 2.2 percent of<br />

students), according to the<br />

Illinois State Board of Education.<br />

Additionally, a recent<br />

informational meeting<br />

held by D230 for teachers<br />

considering retirement<br />

within the next nine years<br />

generated interest from<br />

more than 100 teachers,<br />

or just under 20 percent of<br />

the teaching staff.<br />

The project is designed<br />

to help future educators by<br />

providing career experience<br />

while in high school,<br />

creating pathways to colleges<br />

and universities, offering<br />

teaching internships<br />

and expanding the student<br />

teaching program for current<br />

college students, in<br />

turn creating a rich pipeline<br />

for D230 to connect<br />

quality teacher candidates<br />

with anticipated vacancies.<br />

“This should be a great<br />

opportunity to bring in<br />

new teachers, as well as<br />

encourage our students<br />

who want to pursue education,”<br />

Board President<br />

Tony Serratore added.<br />

Andrew High School’s<br />

Executive Functioning<br />

Skills pilot program demonstrates<br />

“Tools for Success”<br />

Andrew has partnered<br />

with Loyola University,<br />

using Title 1 funds to train<br />

teachers on how to work<br />

with students on an executive<br />

functioning skills<br />

8<br />

program called “Tools for<br />

Success.”<br />

Abir Othman, associate<br />

principal of Andrew, and<br />

her team shared with the<br />

School Board the work<br />

they are doing to support<br />

executive functioning<br />

skills with students.<br />

The executive functions<br />

are a set of processes that<br />

use all parts of the brain,<br />

all having to do with managing<br />

oneself and one’s resources<br />

in order to achieve<br />

a goal, as well as maintain<br />

mental control and selfregulation.<br />

The program was implemented<br />

this year with the<br />

incoming freshman class<br />

and will continue as this<br />

class moves up, as well<br />

as with future incoming<br />

classes.<br />

Student feedback has<br />

noted students are more<br />

organized and feeling less<br />

anxious about managing<br />

schoolwork, as well as<br />

achieving higher grades.<br />

Additionally, teachers are<br />

noticing less missed assignments.<br />

Coat drive has Orland Park drop-off spots<br />

Staff Report<br />

In an effort to help those<br />

in need this winter season,<br />

Tinley Park Village Trustee<br />

Michael Glotz and Village<br />

Clerk Kristin Thirion<br />

have put together a holiday<br />

coat drive.<br />

Running through Dec.<br />

21, the drive will benefit<br />

Together We Cope, a<br />

homelessness prevention<br />

agency located in Tinley<br />

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Scarves, gloves, boots,<br />

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• Orland Toyota, 8505<br />

W. 159th St.<br />

• Bettenhausen Automotive,<br />

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Orland Park Village Board<br />

Officials back to bickering over pension regulations<br />

Dodge asks<br />

for repeal of<br />

ordinance; mayor<br />

goes on offensive<br />

Jon DePaolis<br />

Freelance Reporter<br />

The Orland Park Village<br />

Board did more than<br />

just revisit an old issue the<br />

evening of Oct. 21; it rehashed<br />

old arguments.<br />

On the agenda for the<br />

Oct. 21 meeting was a<br />

resolution to repeal Resolution<br />

No. 1908, which<br />

eliminated the ability for<br />

trustees and the Village<br />

clerk to participate in the<br />

Illinois Municipal Retirement<br />

Fund as of July 1.<br />

It also eliminated the Village<br />

president from being<br />

able participate in IMRF<br />

as of May 3, 2021.<br />

To Mayor Keith Pekau,<br />

the item — which was<br />

placed under the Officials<br />

portion of the meeting<br />

agenda — was a political<br />

move by Trustee James<br />

Dodge.<br />

“Trustee Dodge, you<br />

announced your run for<br />

mayor almost a year ago in<br />

November 2018,” Pekau<br />

alleged. “This action is<br />

meant to sneak in a provision<br />

to make that position<br />

eligible for a pension for<br />

you. If you want to make<br />

this part of your platform,<br />

run on it. Don’t sneak it<br />

in like the $150,000 pay<br />

increase you voted for in<br />

2016.<br />

“You want to make this<br />

seem like it is about me.<br />

I’ve said it before, and<br />

I’ll say it again: I’m not<br />

taking a pension now or<br />

ever for being mayor of<br />

Orland Park. We’ve lowered<br />

the salary to $40,000<br />

annually and made the<br />

mayor’s position ineligible<br />

for a pension at the<br />

next term.<br />

“If these actions are<br />

reversed and if you are<br />

elected mayor, you stand<br />

to gain $2.9 million in<br />

pension benefits for a<br />

measly $22,400 in contributions<br />

if you are elected.<br />

A vote to rescind this resolution<br />

makes the mayor’s<br />

position pension-eligible<br />

at the next election.”<br />

Pekau said it is a “privilege”<br />

to serve the residents,<br />

“not a right” or a<br />

mechanism “to vote for<br />

policies that serve your<br />

own financial and political<br />

interests.”<br />

“This resolution is about<br />

an elected official trying<br />

to line his own pockets at<br />

the expense of the citizens<br />

of Orland Park,” Pekau<br />

said. “Shame on you.”<br />

Dodge responded by<br />

asking Village Attorney<br />

Dennis Walsh what the<br />

rules were in Robert’s<br />

Rules of Order regarding<br />

Village Board members<br />

openly questioning the<br />

motives of other board<br />

members at a public meeting.<br />

He said the attorney<br />

could get back to him on<br />

that but wondered out<br />

loud if an apology would<br />

be in order from the mayor.<br />

Dodge said his character<br />

was “impugned” and<br />

that the running for mayor<br />

comment was a joke.<br />

“Apparently, that [joke]<br />

is now going to drive policy,”<br />

Dodge said.<br />

But Trustee Michael<br />

Milani also took issue<br />

with the item being placed<br />

on the agenda.<br />

“Here we go once again,<br />

wasting more and more<br />

time on the board floor<br />

about things we don’t<br />

need to worry about,” Milani<br />

said.<br />

Trustee William Healy<br />

agreed, saying he felt revisiting<br />

the pension issue<br />

was “a waste of time.”<br />

After a lengthy discussion,<br />

Dodge made a motion<br />

to amend the item<br />

to also repeal Resolution<br />

1722. Milani asked Walsh<br />

for an explanation of what<br />

the amendment would do<br />

to the ordinance on the<br />

floor.<br />

Walsh said he did not<br />

have Ordinance No. 1722<br />

in front of him.<br />

“So, I don’t know what<br />

the consequences of that<br />

amendment would be as I<br />

sit here,” Walsh said.<br />

Dodge said that because<br />

there were some questions<br />

that would need to be answered<br />

in writing by the<br />

attorneys, he suggested<br />

tabling the item.<br />

But the vote to table<br />

failed 4-3, with Pekau,<br />

Healy, Milani and Trustee<br />

Cynthia Nelson Katsenes<br />

voting against the motion.<br />

During discussion of<br />

the amendment pitched<br />

by Dodge, Trustee Kathleen<br />

Fenton said she had<br />

not had a chance to read<br />

more about what she was<br />

expected to vote on and<br />

therefore wanted to abstain<br />

from the vote on the<br />

amended motion.<br />

“I think it is pretty illinformed<br />

of people to vote<br />

on things they don’t have<br />

in front of [them],” she<br />

said. “That’d be like voting<br />

on a budget, and you<br />

never saw it.”<br />

Trustee Dan Calandriello<br />

also took issue with<br />

voting on the item without<br />

having enough time to research<br />

the issue fully. He<br />

asked if it was possible<br />

to just withdraw the item<br />

from the floor, because<br />

there were too many questions<br />

about it.<br />

“I can’t make an educated<br />

vote either way on<br />

this,” he said.<br />

Walsh said that because<br />

the motion to table the<br />

item failed, it needed to<br />

be voted on by the board<br />

members.<br />

Calandriello and Fenton<br />

both initially voted to<br />

abstain; however, Milani<br />

asked for a point of order.<br />

Milani stated that he<br />

thought the trustees had to<br />

vote on the issue. It was<br />

determined that unless<br />

the board members had a<br />

conflict of interest — or if<br />

the majority of the Village<br />

Board voted to allow the<br />

abstention — they would<br />

need to vote for or against<br />

the amendment.<br />

The vote to allow abstentions<br />

failed 3-3, with<br />

Dodge, Milani and Katsenes<br />

voting against allowing<br />

them.<br />

The vote on the amendment<br />

ultimately failed<br />

5-1, with Dodge being the<br />

only one to vote in favor<br />

of the amendment. During<br />

the vote, Fenton abstained,<br />

citing conflict of<br />

interest regarding her being<br />

a trustee and voting on<br />

trustee pension eligibility.<br />

Calandriello voted against<br />

the amendment but said<br />

his vote came “under duress.”<br />

Finally, the vote on the<br />

original motion to repeal<br />

Resolution 1908 failed<br />

5-2, with Dodge and Fenton<br />

casting the votes in favor<br />

of the repeal.<br />

The discussion continues<br />

During his comments<br />

to the rest of the Village<br />

Board at the end of the<br />

meeting, Dodge continued<br />

the conversation on<br />

pensions. In particular, he<br />

called out the mayor’s allegation<br />

that Dodge could<br />

earn up to $2.9 million in<br />

pension benefits.<br />

“I think someone used<br />

the number $2.9 million<br />

in pension, [and] I will<br />

call IMRF tomorrow and<br />

make sure they do a calculation,<br />

and I will bring<br />

it back to this full board,”<br />

Dodge said. “I think there<br />

will be an apology due,<br />

not the least of which is<br />

that I just think the math<br />

is wrong — including<br />

probably not accounting<br />

for the seven years<br />

that I served up here for<br />

free. I didn’t take a paycheck<br />

from the Village of<br />

Orland Park, so by definition,<br />

there’s no pension<br />

credit.”<br />

Dodge also said he<br />

would anxiously await the<br />

legal opinion from Klein,<br />

Thorpe and Jenkins on a<br />

few things, such as the language<br />

in Robert’s Rules of<br />

Order on not attacking the<br />

motives of another board<br />

member’s vote, and on the<br />

intersection of all of the<br />

Village’s ordinances regarding<br />

IMRF.<br />

Dodge said he would<br />

apologize if he was<br />

wrong, but he stated that<br />

because the current ordinance<br />

eliminates pension<br />

eligibility in May<br />

2021, the opportunity<br />

still exists that the Village<br />

Board members can<br />

vote to allow pension eligibility<br />

immediately after<br />

the April 2021 election.<br />

This would mean, in his<br />

eyes, that the mayor could<br />

be eligible for pension<br />

credit from his first term,<br />

a second term if re-elected<br />

and buy into military<br />

credit.<br />

“There is no opt-out<br />

provision under Illinois<br />

law,” Dodge said. “You<br />

are pension-eligible. A<br />

piece of paper and a signature<br />

would make you,<br />

on my math, a pension<br />

worth $1 million.”<br />

During her comments,<br />

Katsenes asked, “With<br />

all this talk of pensions,<br />

where was the concern a<br />

few years back?”<br />

Milani also revisited the<br />

topic.<br />

“How foolish would<br />

it be for us to sit up here<br />

[after running] on a platform<br />

saying we’re going<br />

to eliminate pensions and<br />

then a year later or two<br />

years later turn around<br />

and change our mind and<br />

make the mayor eligible<br />

for a pension or turn<br />

around and make ourselves<br />

eligible?” he said.<br />

Reached by phone Oct.<br />

23, Dodge confirmed<br />

that he was the one to<br />

place the IMRF item on<br />

the agenda.<br />

“That majority said<br />

they wanted to end public<br />

officials’ participation in<br />

pensions going forward,”<br />

Dodge said. “They did the<br />

exact opposite by allowing<br />

[the mayor] to stay<br />

pension-eligible. That’s<br />

the central policy question.<br />

That’s why I put it<br />

on the table.”<br />

Seritage granted specialuse<br />

permit<br />

In a 6-1 vote, the Village<br />

Board approved a<br />

special use permit for Seritage<br />

Growth Properties to<br />

allow for a 24-hour fitness<br />

facility to occupy part<br />

of the Sears redevelopment<br />

property at Orland<br />

Square. Trustee Kathleen<br />

Fenton voted against it.


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Contests<br />

Winners selected for Halloween costume, pumpkin-carving competitions<br />

Bill Jones, Editor<br />

The dust has settled on<br />

yet another Halloween,<br />

and with it another round<br />

of costume and pumpkincarving<br />

contests here at<br />

22nd Century Media.<br />

Winners were chosen<br />

based on creativity, successful<br />

execution of an<br />

idea, quality of craftsmanship<br />

and consideration of<br />

the holiday/season from<br />

Best Adult Costume-Creative<br />

entries submitted across<br />

our Orland Park, Tinley<br />

Park, Frankfort, Mokena,<br />

New Lenox, Homer Glen<br />

and Lockport coverage areas.<br />

The accompanying gallery<br />

includes information<br />

on the winners in each category,<br />

as well as the prizes<br />

they won. Thank you to<br />

everyone who took the<br />

time to enter this year.<br />

Best Children’s Costume<br />

Winners: The Luckhard Family, of Orland Park<br />

What they won: A $20 gift certificate from Short<br />

& Sweet-Tasty Treats, 9975 W. Lincoln Highway<br />

in Frankfort; a certificate good for $5 off any<br />

purchase $10 or more at Pop’s, 16600 W. 159th<br />

St. in Lockport; and a $25 gift card for Gizmos<br />

Fun Factory, 66 Orland Square Drive, Suite D, in<br />

Orland Park.<br />

Best Adult-Crafted Pumpkin<br />

Winner: Tim Keber, of New Lenox<br />

What he won: A certificate good for two tickets<br />

for Blue Man Group at the Briar Street Theatre<br />

in Chicago; a free, large cheese pizza from<br />

Aurelio’s, 19836 Wolf Road in Mokena; and<br />

coupons good for one free value basket and one<br />

free one-scoop sundae at Culver’s, 9130 159th<br />

St. in Orland Park.<br />

Photos submitted<br />

Winner: Jeff Eggener, of New Lenox<br />

What he won: A certificate good for two tickets<br />

for Blue Man Group at the Briar Street Theatre<br />

in Chicago; a certificate good for $5 off any<br />

purchase $10 or more at Pop’s, 16600 W. 159th<br />

St. in Lockport; and a $25 gift card for Gizmos<br />

Fun Factory, 66 Orland Square Drive, Suite D, in<br />

Orland Park.<br />

Unofficial Pet Costume Winner<br />

Roddi<br />

The Markett<br />

family’s<br />

5-year-old<br />

dachshund/<br />

scorpion<br />

from<br />

Lockport.<br />

Best Adult Costume-Scary<br />

Winners: Tom and Mike Lilleberg, of Homer Glen<br />

What they won: A $25 gift certificate for<br />

Chesdan’s Pizzeria & Grille, 15764 S. Bell Road<br />

in Homer Glen; a certificate good for $5 off any<br />

purchase $10 or more at Pop’s, 16600 W. 159th<br />

St. in Lockport; and a $25 gift card for Gizmos<br />

Fun Factory, 66 Orland Square Drive, Suite D, in<br />

Orland Park.<br />

Best Pumpkin Created by a Child<br />

Winner: Charlie<br />

Sang, of Lockport<br />

What he won:<br />

Two hours of<br />

free bowling for<br />

up to six people,<br />

including shoe<br />

rentals, along<br />

with a pizza and<br />

pitcher full of<br />

pop, at Laraway<br />

Lanes, 1009 West<br />

Laraway Road<br />

in New Lenox; a<br />

$25 gift certificate<br />

for Odyssey Fun<br />

World, 19111 Oak<br />

Park Ave. in Tinley<br />

Park; and coupons<br />

good for one free<br />

value basket and<br />

one free one-scoop<br />

sundae at Culver’s,<br />

9130 159th St. in<br />

Orland Park.


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Annual holiday auction to take place Nov. 8 in Orland Park<br />

Submitted by American<br />

Association of the<br />

University Women<br />

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School News<br />

Providence Catholic High<br />

School<br />

Orland Parker among<br />

Students of the Month<br />

John Harper, principal<br />

of Providence Catholic<br />

High, recently announced<br />

and met with the school’s<br />

“Students of the Month”<br />

for September.<br />

Every month, each academic<br />

department chairperson<br />

selects one student<br />

as its “Student of the<br />

Month” from a number<br />

of students nominated by<br />

faculty and staff. Students<br />

of the Month receive a<br />

certificate of recognition,<br />

have their photos<br />

displayed in Providence<br />

Catholic High School’s<br />

main hallway for the following<br />

month, and are<br />

invited as a group to have<br />

lunch with the principal.<br />

The Providence Catholic<br />

Students of the Month<br />

for September 2019 include<br />

Katianne Soltys, of<br />

Orland Park, for theology.<br />

holding its annual holiday<br />

auction on Friday,<br />

Nov. 8, at All Saints Lutheran<br />

Church, 13350 S,<br />

LaGrange Ave. in Orland<br />

Park.<br />

The doors are to open at<br />

6:30 p.m., and auctioneer<br />

Geisinger Commonwealth<br />

School of Medicine<br />

Student from Orland<br />

Park among Turkey Trot<br />

organizers<br />

Meredith Hanrahan,<br />

of Orland Park, is among<br />

the student leaders at<br />

Geisinger Commonwealth<br />

School of Medicine planning<br />

the school’s 10th annual<br />

Turkey Trot 5K/10K.<br />

Proceeds from the event<br />

will benefit the nonprofit<br />

charitable organization,<br />

Friends of the Poor.<br />

Hanrahan serves as race<br />

day co-chairperson on the<br />

student committee planning<br />

the event.<br />

The 5K/10K run in<br />

downtown Scranton,<br />

Pennsylvania, is to take<br />

place on Sunday, Nov. 3,<br />

beginning with race-day<br />

registration at 7 a.m. in the<br />

main lobby of Geisinger<br />

Commonwealth’s Medical<br />

Sciences Building located<br />

at 525 Pine Street,<br />

Scranton. The event also<br />

is to feature a Tiny Trot,<br />

including crafts, games,<br />

face painting and relay<br />

races for children ages 13<br />

and younger, beginning<br />

at 8 a.m. Both the 5K and<br />

10K runs will begin at<br />

8:30 a.m., and routes begin<br />

and end at the school’s<br />

Medical Sciences Building.<br />

All registrants will receive<br />

a T-shirt (while<br />

supplies last). For participants<br />

ages 14 and older,<br />

registration prior to race<br />

day is $25 for the 5K and<br />

$35 for the 10K. Prices<br />

for the 5K and 10K will<br />

increase to $30 and $40,<br />

respectively, on race day.<br />

For those aged 13 and<br />

younger, Tiny Trot registration<br />

is free, but a donation<br />

of two canned goods<br />

on race day is appreciated.<br />

Those not participating<br />

as a runner who still wish<br />

to donate can visit https://<br />

www.geisinger.edu/turkeytrot.<br />

People can register<br />

at the same website.<br />

University of Iowa<br />

Orland Parker performing<br />

with Hawkeye Marching<br />

Band<br />

Phil Bueche is one of<br />

260 University of Iowa<br />

students who are members<br />

of the 2019 Hawkeye<br />

Marching Band.<br />

The 2019 Hawkeye<br />

Marching Band will perform<br />

at Kinnick Stadium<br />

at each of the Iowa Hawkeyes’<br />

seven home games.<br />

The HMB typically travels<br />

to one or two away<br />

games each season and the<br />

bowl game, when Iowa<br />

qualifies for postseason<br />

competition. This year,<br />

the ban also will support<br />

the Hawkeyes when the<br />

football team visits to<br />

Ames for the annual Cy-<br />

Hawk Series game against<br />

intrastate rival Iowa State.<br />

Bueche, a sophomore<br />

from Orland Park, plays<br />

the tenors on the drumline.<br />

This is Bueche’s second<br />

year with the HMB.<br />

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George Mitchell is to begin<br />

the bidding at 7<br />

The parking is ample<br />

and well-lit.<br />

Proceeds from the auction<br />

go to local scholarships,<br />

the Anita Ritzler<br />

- Moraine Valley Community<br />

College Scholarship<br />

fund and the AAUW<br />

Foundation.<br />

A variety of holiday<br />

items and various attractive<br />

baskets will be offered.<br />

Refreshments will<br />

be served.<br />

contributions to the gameday<br />

environment inside<br />

Kinnick, the HMB performs<br />

pregame concerts in<br />

the UI Recreation Building,<br />

located immediately<br />

northwest of Kinnick Stadium.<br />

These concerts are<br />

free and always begin 90<br />

minutes prior to kickoff.<br />

Western Ilinois University<br />

Orland Park student earns<br />

bachelor’s degree<br />

A total of 386 students<br />

earned academic degrees<br />

or post-baccalaureate certificates<br />

after the Summer<br />

2019 semester at Western<br />

Illinois University.<br />

Bachelor’s degrees<br />

were awarded to 282<br />

graduates.<br />

Academic distinction<br />

was awarded to baccalaureate<br />

graduates who<br />

achieved high grade point<br />

averages. This includes:<br />

summa cum laude, 3.90<br />

GPA or higher on a 4.0<br />

scale; magna cum laude,<br />

3.75–3.89 GPA; and cum<br />

laude, 3.6–3.74 GPA.<br />

Among them was Mark<br />

Pedzimaz, of Orland<br />

Park — magna cum laude,<br />

Bachelor of Science, law<br />

enforcement and justice<br />

administration.<br />

Compiled by Editor Bill<br />

Jones, bill@opparirie.com.<br />

The Orland Park Prairie’s<br />

Standout Student<br />

Sponsored by Marquette Bank<br />

Graham Beaty,<br />

Prairie School<br />

kindergartener<br />

Graham Beaty was chosen<br />

as The Orland Park<br />

Prairie’s Standout Student<br />

because of his academic<br />

accomplishments.<br />

What is one essential you<br />

must have when studying<br />

and why?<br />

I like to have my puppies<br />

Henry and Beasey near me<br />

when I do my homework.<br />

What do you like to do<br />

when not in school or<br />

studying?<br />

I like to swing on the<br />

swings in my backyard.<br />

Sometimes, I jump and<br />

do flips on the trampoline.<br />

When I’m in my room, I<br />

build Legos.<br />

What is your dream job?<br />

I want to be a teacher<br />

when I grow up.<br />

What are some of your<br />

most-played songs on your<br />

iPod?<br />

I like the songs from<br />

“The Lego Movie.” I make<br />

some dance moves with<br />

my puppies.<br />

What is one thing people<br />

don’t know about you?<br />

I am good at science. I<br />

could make a rainbow out<br />

of food coloring when I<br />

was a little kid.<br />

Whom do you look up to<br />

and why?<br />

I look up to my mama.<br />

photo submitted<br />

She’s a teacher, and she always<br />

loves me. She kisses<br />

me every day and tells me<br />

she’s proud of me.<br />

What’s your favorite class<br />

and why?<br />

My favorite is writing<br />

books. You just use markers<br />

and draw new pictures.<br />

What extracurricular(s) do<br />

you wish your school had?<br />

I wish we could have a<br />

magic classroom to make<br />

new stuff and games.<br />

If you could change one<br />

thing about school, what<br />

would it be?<br />

I would want an underground<br />

fortress and soccer<br />

field.<br />

What’s your best memory<br />

from school?<br />

I think it’s playing Legos<br />

with Tommy.<br />

Standout Student is a weekly<br />

feature for The Orland Park<br />

Prairie. Nominations come<br />

from Orland Park area<br />

schools.


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Orland Park’s Veterans Day Ceremony set for 11 a.m. Nov. 11<br />

Submitted by Village of<br />

Orland Park<br />

The Village of Orland<br />

Park is to host its annual<br />

Veterans Day ceremony<br />

on Monday, Nov. 11.<br />

Newly added names<br />

will be unveiled on the<br />

granite walls bordering<br />

the Village’s Veterans Memorial,<br />

Ara Pace – Place<br />

of Peace, located in the<br />

Village Center, 14700 S.<br />

Ravinia Ave.<br />

The ceremony is to begin<br />

at 11 a.m.<br />

Orland Park’s veterans<br />

memorial displays<br />

the engraved names of<br />

veterans, living and deceased,<br />

from across the<br />

country who served in all<br />

branches and in all wars.<br />

It is during the Memorial<br />

and Veterans Day ceremonies<br />

that the newly added<br />

veterans’ names are announced,<br />

as the veterans<br />

and/or their families and<br />

friends stand as they are<br />

recognized.<br />

This year’s ceremony<br />

will begin with the Presentation<br />

of Colors by the<br />

American Legion Orland<br />

Memorial Post 111 and<br />

Orland-Palos Rebber-<br />

Tesmond VFW Memorial<br />

Post 2604. The Pledge of<br />

Allegiance will follow,<br />

before resident Tina Cucci<br />

Fischer performs our national<br />

anthem, “The Star-<br />

Spangled Banner.”<br />

Darryl Wertheim of the<br />

Orland Park Veterans’<br />

Commission will give a<br />

welcome before a blessing<br />

by the Rev. Don Borling,<br />

pastor of All Saints<br />

Lutheran Church in Orland<br />

Park.<br />

Orland Jr. High School<br />

students are to take<br />

part in a wreath-laying<br />

before Mayor Keith Pekau<br />

reads out loud the<br />

names of the 16 veterans<br />

newly engraved on the<br />

wall.<br />

Rep. Dan Lipinski is<br />

to serve as the event’s<br />

guest speaker. The honor<br />

guard’s rifle volley, a customary<br />

tradition in which<br />

three volleys of shots are<br />

fired in honor of deceased<br />

veterans, will follow. The<br />

event will close with the<br />

singing of “God Bless<br />

America” and the retiring<br />

of colors.<br />

Questions about the<br />

ceremony may be directed<br />

to Wertheim at (708) 403-<br />

6115.<br />

Free hearing, retinal screenings<br />

to be conducted Monday, Nov. 11<br />

Submitted by <strong>OP</strong> Lions<br />

Club<br />

The Illinois Lions Foundation<br />

Hearing Screening<br />

bus and mobile retinal<br />

screening unit will be in<br />

Orland Park on Monday,<br />

Nov. 11, for a free hearing<br />

and retinal screening at the<br />

Village Center, 14700 S.<br />

Ravinia Ave., immediately<br />

following the Village’s<br />

Veterans Day ceremony at<br />

the memorial.<br />

The bus and mobile unit<br />

are both sponsored by the<br />

Orland Park Lions Club as<br />

part of its year-round community<br />

service in sight and<br />

sound projects.<br />

The bus is staffed by<br />

an audiology technician<br />

and will be available to<br />

the public for hearing and<br />

retinal screening from 11<br />

a.m.-1 p.m.<br />

No advanced sign up<br />

is required. The test takes<br />

approximately 20 minutes<br />

and is free of charge to all<br />

who are interested.<br />

People younger than 18<br />

years old must be accompanied<br />

by an adult.<br />

FROM THE TINLEY JUNCTION<br />

Decorators take second at<br />

international competition<br />

It was two days of intense,<br />

fast-paced competition,<br />

and Ashley Spitzer<br />

and Robbyn Yuen proved<br />

to their fellow cake decorators<br />

that they deserved to<br />

be there.<br />

Representing Creative<br />

Cakes in Tinley Park, the<br />

duo placed second overall<br />

out of six teams at the<br />

The Pillsbury Bakers’ Plus<br />

Grand Champion Creative<br />

Decorating Competition<br />

held Sept. 7-9 in Las Vegas<br />

in conjunction with the International<br />

Baking Industry<br />

Expo.<br />

This was the second year<br />

that Yuen, a Tinley Park<br />

resident, and Spitzer, a resident<br />

of Midlothian, competed<br />

together — placing<br />

second last year in Atlantic<br />

City.<br />

“I enjoy travelling with<br />

Robbyn, because outside<br />

of work we’re actually<br />

friends, so it’s fun to be<br />

able to go out of town with<br />

her,” Spitzer said. “We lug<br />

all our luggage around. We<br />

bounce ideas off of each<br />

other. So, it’s fun to do this<br />

with a friend, not just a coworker,<br />

and I feel like that<br />

really helps.”<br />

During the first day of<br />

competition, the pair made<br />

a rolled fondant cake and<br />

sculpted cake, and the second<br />

day they made a wedding<br />

cake and a “surprise”<br />

cake, which was a threeteir<br />

buttercream cake that<br />

was announced to them<br />

when they arrived the day<br />

before.<br />

As a result of their scores,<br />

the duo won $4,000 collectively,<br />

which they split.<br />

“We just want to really<br />

build awareness of Creative<br />

Cakes,” Spitzer said.<br />

“I’ve worked here for 13<br />

years and this is my place<br />

and I couldn’t imagine myself<br />

working at any other<br />

bakery, honestly.”<br />

Reporting by Jacquelyn<br />

Schlabach, Editor. For more,<br />

visit TinleyJunctionDaily.com.<br />

FROM THE LOCKPORT LEGEND<br />

LTHS Marching Band wins<br />

state championship<br />

Sound the horns: the<br />

winners of the Class 6A<br />

2019 Illinois State Marching<br />

Band Championship<br />

are back in town.<br />

The Saturday night lights<br />

were shining on the Lockport<br />

Township High School<br />

marching band Oct. 19 at<br />

Illinois State University.<br />

Competing in Class 6A, the<br />

division which houses the<br />

largest schools, the LTHS<br />

band and its 175 members<br />

claimed first, along with<br />

supplemental awards for<br />

General Effect and Crowd<br />

Appeal.<br />

The win marks their<br />

third championship this<br />

decade, with the two others<br />

coming in 2013 and 2015.<br />

The 2019 group’s show is<br />

called “Tribe,” which features<br />

compositions from<br />

Nick Phoenix and Thomas<br />

Bergersen.<br />

“Most of our shows before<br />

were bright and colorful;<br />

this year we went for<br />

a darker and more unique<br />

take on the music,” said<br />

Rileigh Rubar, an alto sax<br />

player in her third year with<br />

the marching band.<br />

Citing the leadership of<br />

Covey, she said, “Our program<br />

has become stronger,<br />

and we’re far more unified.”<br />

Reporting by Derek Swanson,<br />

Editorial Assistant. For<br />

more, visit LockportLegend<br />

Daily.com.<br />

FROM THE MOKENA MESSENGER<br />

Agencies participate in<br />

train derailment exercise<br />

The average daily ridership<br />

across six counties on<br />

Metra’s commuter trains<br />

is approximately 177,000.<br />

There are two Metra stations<br />

in Mokena, at Front<br />

Street downtown and the<br />

Hickory Creek station on<br />

the east side of town.<br />

Now, imagine if one of<br />

those trains derailed. People<br />

are injured. The train<br />

is heavily damaged and<br />

could pose additional risks<br />

to both passengers and<br />

emergency responders.<br />

How would emergency<br />

personnel respond? What<br />

protocols are in place to attend<br />

to injured passengers?<br />

What systems are in place<br />

to quickly and efficiently<br />

respond to such a hypothetical<br />

disaster?<br />

On Oct. 26, Village officials<br />

teamed up with Metra<br />

and Department of Homeland<br />

Security Transportation<br />

Safety Administration<br />

officials at the Hickory<br />

Creek station for a training<br />

exercise based precisely<br />

on those concerns.<br />

The joint training exercise<br />

included members of<br />

Mokena police, fire and<br />

other support staff from<br />

the Village. And, according<br />

to Mokena Police<br />

Chief Steve Vaccaro, everything<br />

went “seamless.”<br />

Vaccaro said that all parties<br />

worked well together<br />

and that, from a preparation<br />

standpoint, Mokena<br />

“is prepared” in the event<br />

of this sort of emergency<br />

situation.<br />

While the Village and<br />

its partnerships with Will<br />

County, Metra and neighboring<br />

communities’<br />

emergency responders are<br />

strong, Vaccaro stressed<br />

the need to continue these<br />

sorts of training exercises<br />

to ensure each department<br />

is on top of the latest developments<br />

in technology<br />

to assist in emergency situations.<br />

Reporting by T.J. Kremer III,<br />

Editor. For more, visit MokenaMessengerDaily.com.<br />

FROM THE NEW LENOX PATRIOT<br />

Sold-out painting party<br />

benefits LWSRA programs<br />

Wine, painting and a<br />

good time made for the<br />

perfect mixture for a soldout<br />

crowd Oct. 27 at Gina’s<br />

Teardrop Cafe in New<br />

Lenox. Friends, families<br />

and athletes gathered to<br />

paint inspirational quotes<br />

on wooden boards as a<br />

fundraiser for the Lincolnway<br />

Special Recreation<br />

Association.<br />

“I’d do anything to be<br />

with these people,” Nicki<br />

Sweezer, a basketball<br />

player on the LWSRA<br />

wheelchair team, said<br />

while looking through the<br />

30 or so available quotes<br />

to use for her board.<br />

She landed on “it’s all<br />

just a bunch of hocus pocus.”<br />

“I’m all about Halloween,”<br />

Sweezer said.<br />

Proceeds from the event<br />

will go toward a scholarship<br />

program, the association’s<br />

sports teams or an<br />

adult day program, LWS-<br />

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BILL JONES<br />

bill@opprairie.com<br />

Would you believe<br />

me if I told you<br />

there is even<br />

more to our cover story on<br />

Pages 6 and 7 this week? I<br />

know we already dedicated<br />

a cover and two full<br />

pages to it, but William<br />

“Bill” Nicholson’s stories<br />

cannot be contained in a<br />

mere 2,900 words — and<br />

nfyn<br />

From Page 16<br />

RA Executive Director<br />

Keith Wallace said, adding<br />

that a specific allocation<br />

has not been decided<br />

yet. Gina’s Teardrop Cafe<br />

donated sandwiches and<br />

drinks for the event, and<br />

DIY Sign Party led the<br />

painting activities.<br />

“We love getting organizations<br />

that do fundraising<br />

on our behalf,”<br />

Wallace said, noting that<br />

it lifts a weight off the<br />

shoulders of LWSRA<br />

staff. “It brings people together.”<br />

Terrie Murphy, a codirector<br />

of the New Lenox<br />

Relay For Life, did a<br />

similar fundraiser for the<br />

American Cancer Society<br />

recently and wanted<br />

to do a similar event in<br />

support of the LWSRA.<br />

She teamed up with Gina’s<br />

Teardrop Cafe owner<br />

Gina Buck, whose son has<br />

participated in LWSRA<br />

programs for nearly 25<br />

I can’t fit much more.<br />

(I’m being serious.)<br />

While it is fantastic<br />

enough that Nicholson’s<br />

life included work on the<br />

Manhattan Project in the<br />

Met Lab at the University<br />

of Chicago, and his<br />

stories of survival at<br />

30,000 feet while flying<br />

B-24 Liberator bombers<br />

over Germany are harrowing,<br />

Nicholson also<br />

can talk for hours on his<br />

experiences trying to do<br />

business inside countries<br />

like Romania under<br />

Communist rule. He can<br />

explain, in detail at the<br />

age of 95, the work he<br />

did to help the launching<br />

of U.S. rockets when<br />

America was desperately<br />

years.<br />

“Keith is a great guy,”<br />

Buck said.<br />

She said her son, who is<br />

27, has enjoyed his experiences<br />

with the LWSRA.<br />

Reporting by Kyle LaHucik,<br />

Freelance Reporter. For<br />

more, visit NewLenoxPatriot<br />

Daily.com.<br />

FROM THE FRANKFORT STATION<br />

Track helped LW East<br />

twins adjust to America<br />

When twins Ibukun and<br />

Ore Ajifolokun moved<br />

from Canada to Frankfort<br />

before their sophomore<br />

year in high school,<br />

they decided to join the<br />

Lincoln-Way East track<br />

team.<br />

Showing up and earning<br />

a spot with of the most successful<br />

high school track<br />

programs in the country is<br />

no easy task, though, and<br />

the twins were certainly<br />

not naturals.<br />

“In practice the first<br />

day, they were getting<br />

lapped,” East coach Brian<br />

Evans said. “They struggled<br />

to do pretty simple<br />

drills. They couldn’t walk<br />

and chew gum. We were<br />

just scratching our heads,<br />

like, ‘What are we going<br />

to do with these two?’<br />

“They had a lot going<br />

on already, moving to a<br />

new country, trying to<br />

get things straight with<br />

school because some of<br />

their credits from their<br />

old school did not transfer<br />

over. Then you throw into<br />

the mix joining the Lincoln-Way<br />

East track team,<br />

trying to catch up with<br />

the Russians following<br />

the launch of Sputnik.<br />

He also is happy to tell<br />

people about the engineering<br />

bug that has been<br />

passed down through the<br />

family, and the success<br />

his children and grandchildren<br />

have found.<br />

He can speak to seven<br />

decades-plus of a marriage<br />

that endures to this<br />

day. And he is more than<br />

happy to give Chicago<br />

Backflow Inc. a plug for<br />

the kindness they have<br />

shown him.<br />

If given the opportunity,<br />

anyone would be wise to<br />

listen. Nicholson is of a<br />

generation of World War<br />

II veterans who are tooquickly<br />

dwindling. More<br />

than that, he is active and<br />

his mind is still sharp, and<br />

he is more than willing<br />

to share his history with<br />

others.<br />

If you enjoyed his story<br />

in this week’s paper, I<br />

highly recommend tracking<br />

down the video he<br />

recorded for the Atomic<br />

Heritage Foundation on<br />

YouTube. After that, if<br />

they’re willing, ask your<br />

grandparents and parents<br />

to share their stories with<br />

you this Veterans Day.<br />

I suspect you won’t<br />

regret the time you spent<br />

listening, only missing<br />

out on the opportunity to<br />

do so.<br />

which is a pretty daunting<br />

thing. We just figured they<br />

weren’t going to last.”<br />

The Ajifolokun twins,<br />

who were born in Nigeria<br />

and grew up in Canada,<br />

found a home on the track<br />

team. They were not about<br />

to quit, no matter how difficult<br />

it was.<br />

Both twins earned All-<br />

State honors this past<br />

spring.<br />

Reporting by Steve Millar,<br />

Sports Editor. For more, visit<br />

FrankfortStationDaily.com.<br />

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20 | November 7, 2019 | the orland Park Prairie faith<br />

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Children from St. Francis<br />

of Assisi are to sing with<br />

Lincoln-Way Area Chorale<br />

Submitted by Lincoln-Way<br />

Area Chorale<br />

The Lincoln-Way Area<br />

Chorale is to begin its holiday<br />

season with a concert<br />

called “Silver Sounds of<br />

the Season” at 3 p.m. Sunday,<br />

Nov. 17, at Lincoln-<br />

Way East Performing Arts<br />

Center, 201 Colorado Ave.<br />

in Frankfort.<br />

This concert is to include<br />

many new numbers,<br />

including some of favorites<br />

from over the past 25<br />

years.<br />

Chorale members include<br />

those from the Orland<br />

Park area, and children<br />

from St. Francis of<br />

Assis are to sing with the<br />

group.<br />

Tickets are $18 for<br />

adults, and $16 for seniors<br />

and students, and are now<br />

available from our website<br />

or from any Chorale<br />

member. There is a special<br />

ticket price for groups of<br />

10 or more. Individual and<br />

group tickets also can be<br />

purchased by calling (709)<br />

479-1863 or (815) 469-<br />

1010.<br />

For more information<br />

about the Chorale and the<br />

concert, visit www.lwac.<br />

com.<br />

The Next Knowledge and<br />

Prayer Series event is to<br />

focus on art, architecture<br />

Submitted by Multi-Parish<br />

Respect Life Ministries<br />

The Multi-Parish Respect<br />

Life Ministries recently<br />

announced “Sacred<br />

Art - A Blueprint for Saving<br />

Lives” to take place<br />

Tuesday, Nov. 12, at Annunciation<br />

Byzantine<br />

Catholic Church, 14610<br />

S. Will-Cook Road in<br />

Homer Glen.<br />

The Rev. Thomas Loya<br />

— pastor of Annunciation<br />

Byzantine, speaker,<br />

author and artist — is to<br />

3<br />

address these questions<br />

of messages behind art<br />

and architecture created<br />

by and for the church at 7<br />

p.m. Nov. 12.<br />

This program is part of<br />

the Knowledge and Prayer<br />

Series presented by the<br />

Multi-Parish Respect Life<br />

Ministries of St. Francis<br />

of Assisi, Our Lady of<br />

the Woods, St. Michael,<br />

St. Bernard, Our Mother<br />

of Good Counsel and<br />

Annunciation Byzantine<br />

Catholic parishes.<br />

visit us online at<br />

www.<strong>OP</strong>Prairiedaily.com<br />

FAITH BRIEFS<br />

Presbyterian Church in Orland Park<br />

(13401 S. Wolf Road, Orland Park)<br />

Arts & Crafts Festival<br />

9 a.m.-4 p.m. Nov. 9.<br />

Free admission. More<br />

than 50 crafters, “Split the<br />

Dollar” raffle and a bake<br />

sale. A luncheon of Sloppy<br />

Joe’s, chili, hot dogs,<br />

nachos, pulled pork and<br />

homemade pies.<br />

St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church<br />

(15050 S. Wolf Road, Orland Park)<br />

Overeaters Anonymous<br />

9:30 a.m. Wednesdays.<br />

Enter through main church<br />

doors, follow signs to<br />

meeting room. Overeaters<br />

Anonymous meetings<br />

are for anyone who has a<br />

problem with food addiction/compulsion.<br />

There are<br />

no dues, fees or weigh-ins.<br />

All meetings are confidential.<br />

Faith United Methodist Church (15101<br />

S. 80th Ave., Orland Park)<br />

Power Fitness<br />

7-8 p.m. Mondays and<br />

Thursdays. This free<br />

event is a 60-minute class<br />

that will strengthen and<br />

tone your muscles from<br />

head to toe for adult men<br />

and women. Class will<br />

include a warm-up segment,<br />

muscle-specific exercises,<br />

abdominal work,<br />

balancing and stretching.<br />

All exercises will have<br />

modifications for different<br />

fitness levels.<br />

Tai Chi<br />

10:30 a.m. Mondays and<br />

Wednesdays. Free classes<br />

offered in church gym.<br />

Church of the Transfiguration Episcopal<br />

(12219 S. 86th Ave., Palos Park)<br />

Sunday Services<br />

8 a.m. and 10 a.m.<br />

Childcare provided.<br />

St. Michael Church (14327 Highland<br />

Ave., Orland Park)<br />

Shawl Ministry<br />

9-10:30 a.m. second<br />

and fourth Tuesdays of the<br />

month. The group crochets<br />

and knits hats, shawls,<br />

scarves for adults and children,<br />

and donates those to<br />

neighbors, friends, cancer<br />

units, hospice, the food<br />

pantry and neonatal units.<br />

The group also meets six<br />

times a year in the evening.<br />

For more information,<br />

contact Donna at<br />

(708) 403-2122.<br />

Southwest Seventh Day Adventist<br />

Church (15760 Wolf Road, Orland<br />

Park)<br />

“The Blueprint” Bible<br />

Study<br />

7 p.m. Tuesdays<br />

“Desire of Ages” Bible<br />

Study<br />

10 a.m. Wednesdays<br />

St. Elizabeth Seton Catholic Church<br />

(9300 W. 167th St., Orland Hills)<br />

H.O.P.E. Employment<br />

Support Ministry<br />

7 p.m. first Tuesday of<br />

the month in the Parish<br />

Hall. Helpful Outreach for<br />

People seeking Employment<br />

welcomes all faiths<br />

and denominations and<br />

offers support, fellowship,<br />

guidance and information<br />

for the employed, unemployed<br />

or those in a career<br />

transition. Every month,<br />

H.O.P.E. also provide a<br />

guest speaker to support<br />

those in transition. For<br />

more information, call<br />

(708) 403-0137.<br />

Rosary Prayer Group<br />

9:30 a.m. every Tuesday<br />

and Thursday. The Rosary<br />

Prayer Group gathers in<br />

the church after mass to<br />

offer intentions with the<br />

intercession of Mary, and<br />

pray the decades of the rosary<br />

while contemplating<br />

the scenes of our Lord’s<br />

life, death and resurrection.<br />

Ashburn Baptist Church (153rd Street<br />

and Wolf Road, Orland Park)<br />

Bible Study<br />

9:45 a.m.<br />

Services<br />

11 a.m. and 6 p.m.<br />

Teen Programs<br />

7 p.m. Wednesdays;<br />

9:45 a.m., 5 p.m. Sundays<br />

Hope Covenant Church (14401 West<br />

Ave., Orland Park)<br />

Junior High Youth Group<br />

Noon-2 p.m. every other<br />

Sunday. This is an active<br />

group of children from<br />

fourth to seventh grades.<br />

It meets every other Sunday<br />

for a lesson, activity,<br />

games, treats and fellowship.<br />

Cafe<br />

11:45 a.m.-12:30 p.m.<br />

All are invited to share refreshments,<br />

fellowship and<br />

conversation after most<br />

Sunday morning services.<br />

Calvary Church (16100 S. 104th Ave.,<br />

Orland Park)<br />

Men’s Barnabas Bible<br />

Study<br />

7-8:30 a.m. Thursdays.<br />

Study various books written<br />

by Christian authors.<br />

Coffee and light refreshments<br />

are served. For<br />

more information, email<br />

info@calvaryop.org.<br />

Sunday Services<br />

9 a.m. and 10:30 a.m.<br />

Stretch and Balance<br />

6:30-7:30 p.m. Every<br />

second and fourth Tuesday<br />

of the month. All are welcome<br />

to an hour session of<br />

stretching and balancing.<br />

All are invited to bring water,<br />

beach towel and yoga<br />

mats. For more information,<br />

contact Elizabeth Kolada<br />

at elleof67@att.net.<br />

Christ Lutheran Church (14700 S. 94th<br />

Ave., Orland Park)<br />

NAMI Support Groups<br />

2-4 p.m. fourth Thursday<br />

of the month. Family<br />

support group meetings<br />

provide an opportunity<br />

to meet with others who<br />

have relatives and friends<br />

of individuals living with<br />

a mental illness. Feelings<br />

can be shared and issues<br />

discussed under the guidance<br />

of a trained facilitator.<br />

These meetings are<br />

free.<br />

Services<br />

5 p.m. Saturdays; 8 a.m.,<br />

9:30 and 11 a.m. Sundays.<br />

Sunday School and Bible<br />

study during the 9:30 a.m.<br />

service.<br />

Zumba Classes<br />

6 p.m. Every Wednesday.<br />

The cost to participate<br />

is $5. Attendees can bring<br />

their own towels and water<br />

bottles.<br />

Communion Service<br />

6 p.m. Every third<br />

Wednesday of the month.<br />

Our Lady of the Woods Church (10731<br />

W. 131st, Orland Park)<br />

Eucharistic Adoration<br />

9 a.m.-7 p.m. Thursdays.<br />

The church invites<br />

all to spend some silent<br />

time with The Lord in its<br />

chapel. For more information,<br />

call (708) 361-4754.<br />

Living Word Lutheran Church (16301 S.<br />

Wolf Road, Orland Park)<br />

PUSH Prayer<br />

9:30 a.m. Tuesdays. All<br />

are welcome to take part in<br />

person or take 10-15 minutes<br />

to pray for the country,<br />

church, community and<br />

individual needs. Meetings<br />

take place the second<br />

Tuesday of the month.<br />

Standing Stone Church (Robert<br />

Davidson Center, 14700 Park Lane,<br />

Orland Park)<br />

Hour of Prayer<br />

6:30-7:30 p.m. Tuesdays<br />

Children and Youth<br />

Activities<br />

7 p.m. Wednesdays<br />

Have something for Faith<br />

Briefs? Contact Editor Bill<br />

Jones at bill@opprairie.com<br />

or call (708) 326-9170 ext.<br />

20. Information is due by<br />

noon on Thursdays one week<br />

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Passport to Wellness makes healthy living a trip<br />

Laurie Fanelli<br />

Freelance Reporter<br />

Getting a passport<br />

stamped can represent a<br />

lot more than vacation<br />

destinations, as each mark<br />

symbolizes new experiences<br />

and lessons learned.<br />

On Saturday, Nov. 2,<br />

the Orland Fire Protection<br />

District invited area seniors<br />

to its Administration<br />

Headquarters for the latest<br />

Coffee and Conversation<br />

event, at which attendees<br />

traveled to booths hosted<br />

by health vendors during<br />

the first Passport to Wellness<br />

Health Fair.<br />

Aishling Companion<br />

Home Care — which cohosts<br />

each installment of<br />

the Coffee and Conversation<br />

series — the Orland<br />

Park Police Department,<br />

Will County Veterans Assistance<br />

Commission, and<br />

many more organizations<br />

and businesses shared<br />

information about everything<br />

from estate planning<br />

to home health care<br />

to reflexology. Free blood<br />

pressure checks and flu<br />

shots also were available.<br />

At each booth, attendees<br />

received a stamp,<br />

and those who filled their<br />

passports were entered in<br />

raffles to win additional<br />

prizes and giveaways.<br />

Betsy Dine, Orland<br />

Fire’s fire and life safety<br />

education coordinator,<br />

and Aishling Dalton-<br />

Kelly, owner of Aishling<br />

Companion Home care,<br />

explained the health fair<br />

was designed so that attendees<br />

could engage in<br />

in-depth conversations<br />

with vendors.<br />

Orland Park resident<br />

Carol Schlender and her<br />

husband, Bob, always enjoy<br />

attending the Coffee<br />

and Conversation events<br />

Attorney Eileen Kerlin Walsh chats with Passport to<br />

Wellness Health Fair attendees Paul and Jeanette Hiller,<br />

of Orland Park.<br />

not only to learn helpful<br />

advice for themselves but<br />

also to bring information<br />

back to their neighbors.<br />

“We started coming to<br />

the Coffee and Conversations<br />

in May, and we<br />

came to a presentation by<br />

Mark Levy from Senior<br />

Solutions about housing,”<br />

Carol said. “He got us<br />

thinking, because we’re<br />

looking into other housing<br />

for the future. We started<br />

coming every month. This<br />

is our fifth outing, and<br />

we’re looking forward<br />

to the Christmas party<br />

next month. It’s always a<br />

good educational event.<br />

It’s free, and they always<br />

have the fire [district]<br />

talk about something,<br />

also.”<br />

Information about ambulance<br />

rides, fire safety<br />

advice and smoke detector<br />

tips are among the<br />

subjects Orland Fire has<br />

covered this year.<br />

Anna Minkina, a benefits<br />

specialist with Healthcare<br />

Solutions Team, used<br />

Passport to Wellness to<br />

notify seniors about open<br />

enrollment for Medicare<br />

as well as changes that<br />

can be expected to the<br />

program in 2020.<br />

“Today, I’m working<br />

on the Medicare market,”<br />

Minkina said. “In 2020,<br />

the Part B deductible is<br />

going up about $8.80, and<br />

people who become eligible<br />

after Jan. 1, 2020, are<br />

not able to get the Plan F<br />

supplement. If they have<br />

it now, they can keep it,<br />

but if they become eligible<br />

after 2020, then they<br />

are unable to get it. There<br />

are other options available.<br />

I don’t want them to<br />

worry that there’s nothing<br />

else out there.”<br />

Event organizers Dine<br />

and Dalton-Kelly said<br />

they were grateful that<br />

vendors, firefighters,<br />

members of the community<br />

and area businesses<br />

worked together to make<br />

Passport to Wellness a<br />

success.<br />

Lunch was provided by<br />

Winston’s Market, and<br />

dessert came compliments<br />

of Nothing Bundt Cakes.<br />

The next Coffee and<br />

Passport to Wellness Health Fair co-organizers Betsy Dine (left) and Aishling Dalton-<br />

Kelly pose for a photo on Saturday, Nov. 2, during the inaugural Passport to Wellness<br />

Health Fair in Orland Park. Photos by Laurie Fanelli/22nd Century Media<br />

Bob Wisniowicz, of Orland Park, gets health information from CVS of Orland Park<br />

pharmacist Jennifer Brandon.<br />

Conversation event is<br />

slated to take place on<br />

Nov. 21 in the Orland Fire<br />

Protection District’s Administration<br />

Board Room<br />

at 9790 W. 151st St.<br />

For more information<br />

about upcoming events,<br />

visit www.orlandfire.org.


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Vendors Include<br />

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• Comfy Threads Boutique<br />

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• LegalShield<br />

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• Matilda Jane Clothing<br />

• Mrs. Banton’s Cookies<br />

• Norwex<br />

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• Orland Park Crossing<br />

• Paparazzi (Glamour Bijoux)<br />

• Premier Designs Jewelry<br />

• RockNmom Art<br />

• Rock's #1 Gals Jewelry<br />

• Sterk Family Law<br />

• Surprise Parties<br />

• Tastefully Simple<br />

• The Little Red Donut Truck<br />

• Total Life Changes (TLC)<br />

• Totes & Taggies by Melinda<br />

• Usborne Books & More<br />

• Virtue Cider<br />

• Wine, Spirit, Butterbeer Mixes<br />

• Wicks & Wax<br />

• Women’s Healthcare of Illinois<br />

• Young Living Essential Oils<br />

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Children flock to Orland Square as Boo Bash returns<br />

Annual Halloween event provides activities for families inside shopping center<br />

ABOVE: Ethan Johnson, 10, of Homewood, ices his bundt cake Oct. 24 during the Boo Bash at<br />

Orland Square. Photos by Bob Klein/22nd Century Media<br />

T<strong>OP</strong> RIGHT: Face and body artist Margi Kanter, of Bloomingdale, paints a tattoo on Vanessa Sojka, 5,<br />

of Hickory Hills, during the Boo Bash.<br />

BOTTOM RIGHT: Raina Khurana, 5, of Orland Park, shows off her body art at the event.<br />

Orland Township’s Dancing with<br />

the Senior Stars returns Nov. 14<br />

Submitted by Orland Township<br />

Orland Township Supervisor<br />

Paul O’Grady is inviting<br />

residents to an evening of dinner<br />

and dance competition, as couples<br />

vie for the coveted Orland<br />

Township Mirror Ball Trophy at<br />

the annual Dancing with the Senior<br />

Stars of Orland Township.<br />

Modeled after the popular<br />

television show “Dancing with<br />

the Stars”, Dancing with the<br />

Senior Stars of Orland Township<br />

is to feature five couples,<br />

ages 55 or older, who will<br />

5 4<br />

perform two dances each. The<br />

winners will be chosen based<br />

on their scores from a panel of<br />

local celebrity judges (studio<br />

owners and dance instructors),<br />

audience vote and ballot box<br />

totals. Each couple will have a<br />

ballot box set up, and audience<br />

members are encouraged to fill<br />

the boxes of their favorite dancers<br />

with money. All ballot box<br />

money is donated to the Orland<br />

Township Scholarship Foundation.<br />

Dancing with the Senior Stars<br />

of Orland Township is scheduled<br />

for Thursday, Nov. 14, at<br />

Georgios Banquets, 8800 W.<br />

159th St. in Orland Park. Tickets<br />

are $30 and include a plated dinner,<br />

non-alcoholic drinks (cash<br />

bar available) and dessert while<br />

viewing the live show. Tickets<br />

must be purchased in advance at<br />

Orland Township, 14807 S. Ravinia<br />

Ave. in Orland Park.<br />

All proceeds from the event<br />

benefit the Orland Township<br />

Scholarship Foundation.<br />

For more information, visit<br />

orlandtownship.org or call (708)<br />

403-4222.<br />

Six Orland Park residents involved<br />

with ‘Laughter on the 23rd Floor’<br />

Submitted by Palos Village<br />

Players<br />

The Palos Village Players are<br />

to present the third production<br />

of their season, “Laughter on the<br />

23rd Floor,” by Neil Simon, at<br />

7:30 p.m. on Nov. 15, 16, 22 and<br />

23, and at 2 p.m. Nov. 17.<br />

The play is to be performed at<br />

Palos Recreation Center, 8901 W.<br />

123rd St. in Palos Park.<br />

“Laughter on the 23rd Floor”<br />

is a comedy that follows the writing,<br />

fighting and wacky antics<br />

that take place in the writers’<br />

room of a weekly variety show<br />

in 1953. The show follows Max<br />

Prince, the star of “The Max<br />

Prince Show,” and his ongoing<br />

battles with NBC executives who<br />

fear his humor is too sophisticated<br />

for middle America.<br />

Six Orland Park residents —<br />

Bryan Riess, Frann Carnivele,<br />

Sarah Callis, Matthew Walsh,<br />

Richard Thompson and Ray<br />

Fischer — are involved with the<br />

show.<br />

Tickets are $20 ($18 for students<br />

and seniors) and can be<br />

reserved by credit card at www.<br />

palosvillageplayers.com or by<br />

calling (877) 787-8497.


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Space reservation deadline:<br />

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or 3 canned food items for Orland Township Food Pantry<br />

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IN THE CLASSIFIEDS CALL 708.326.9170<br />

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The Dish<br />

Trio of friends collaborate to open Tavern in the Glen<br />

Homer bar and<br />

restaurant strives<br />

to be a comfortable<br />

neighborhood spot<br />

Thomas Czaja, Senior Editor<br />

Three friends spoke increasingly<br />

in recent years<br />

of realizing their dream to<br />

open a pub together.<br />

These buddies — Jeff<br />

Wood, Kevin Connolly<br />

and Greg Stefanon —<br />

found the right spot to<br />

make that goal a reality,<br />

opening Tavern in the<br />

Glen on Aug. 30 in Homer<br />

Glen.<br />

The trio of Orland Park<br />

residents envisioned a<br />

comfortable neighborhood<br />

gathering place they could<br />

call their own.<br />

“I worked for a family<br />

business that got bought<br />

out four years ago that<br />

manufactured mats; Kevin<br />

is an electrician; and Greg<br />

is retired from the FBI,”<br />

Wood said, noting none<br />

have any prior bar or restaurant<br />

experience. “We<br />

talked for years wanting to<br />

do this, and now seemed<br />

like the time.”<br />

With that mindset, they<br />

learned the industry as<br />

they developed Tavern in<br />

the Glen, with Connolly<br />

using his expertise as an<br />

electrician and builder to<br />

completely remodel the<br />

space. They increased the<br />

size of the bar its seating,<br />

upped the amount of televisions<br />

from four to 18<br />

and added a garage door<br />

that opens near an adjacent<br />

door to a new outdoor<br />

patio area.<br />

There is one more interesting<br />

new addition to<br />

Tavern in the Glen.<br />

“We have a church pew,”<br />

Wood said of the long pew<br />

“The most rewarding thing<br />

is seeing people coming<br />

in, actually telling us they<br />

feel comfortable and it’s a<br />

welcoming place. That’s what we<br />

love to hear.”<br />

Jeff Wood — co-owner of Tavern in the Glen<br />

stretching across several<br />

tables — part of new seating<br />

where the former entryway<br />

and front windows<br />

to the business are. “A<br />

church closed in Milwaukee.<br />

We bought [the [pew]<br />

online and drove up there<br />

and brought it back.”<br />

While maximizing<br />

space by adding to the bar<br />

and creating more seating<br />

was imperative, the main<br />

focus of any bar and restaurant<br />

is to provide quality<br />

food and drinks. Occupying<br />

the space that used<br />

to house Steamer’s Hot<br />

Dogs and then At Ease<br />

Craft Beer Pub, Tavern in<br />

the Glen’s ownera are confident<br />

they have the goods<br />

to stay.<br />

“It’s a simple menu right<br />

now,” Wood said. “Being<br />

brand new, we didn’t want<br />

to have too much on the<br />

menu. We wanted to make<br />

a good, small menu, and<br />

everybody has been very<br />

happy about it.”<br />

The partners plan to<br />

grow the menu as time<br />

goes on, but one of the<br />

most popular sandwiches<br />

so far is the smash burger<br />

($9), which comes with a<br />

6-ounce patty served on a<br />

brioche bun with cheese,<br />

lettuce, tomato and onion.<br />

Diners have their choice<br />

of American, pepper Jack,<br />

cheddar, Swiss, mozzarella<br />

or provolone, and all<br />

sandwiches include one’s<br />

choice of fries or coleslaw.<br />

“We get three deliveries<br />

a week for everything,”<br />

Wood said. “Our burgers<br />

and everything [are] made<br />

fresh daily.”<br />

The chicken tender<br />

sandwich ($9) has chicken<br />

tenders, bacon, cheddar,<br />

lettuce, tomato and<br />

onion, served on a black,<br />

charcoal-infused bun with<br />

chipotle mayo.<br />

The chicken tender<br />

sandwich also made the<br />

menu, because it was the<br />

meal Greg used to have<br />

regularly back when he<br />

was at the Naval Academy.<br />

“All our bread is bought<br />

from a bakery,” Wood<br />

said. “We spend a little<br />

more on that. We want<br />

to be above-average bar<br />

food.”<br />

On the appetizer side<br />

of things, the loaded fries<br />

or nachos ($9) — stacked<br />

with bacon, cheese, red<br />

onion, tomato and sour<br />

cream — have been a big<br />

hit.<br />

Of course, no tavern<br />

is complete without its<br />

alcoholic offerings, and<br />

Tavern in the Glen keeps<br />

a handful of beers on tap,<br />

with several rotating for<br />

The Italian beef ($8) is one of the popular sandwiches at Tavern in the Glen in Homer<br />

Glen. It is served on garlic bread au jus. Peppers or cheese can be added for 50 cents<br />

each. Photos by Thomas Czaja/22nd Century Media<br />

Tavern in the Glen<br />

15761 S. Bell Road in<br />

Homer Glen<br />

Hours<br />

• 11 a.m.-midnight<br />

Sunday-Thursday<br />

• 11 a.m.-1 a.m.<br />

Friday-Saturday<br />

For more information ...<br />

Web: tavernintheglen.<br />

com<br />

Phone: (708) 645-<br />

4763<br />

The loaded fries ($9) are made with a wedge-like fry,<br />

and feature bacon, cheese, red onion, tomato and sour<br />

cream.<br />

seasonal options. There<br />

also are a number of beer<br />

selections in cans at the<br />

revamped bar.<br />

In striving to be more<br />

than a dive bar, the owners<br />

have made sure to have<br />

something for the wine<br />

enthusiasts, too, with a red<br />

Mirassou Pinot Noir from<br />

California ($7 glass, $26<br />

bottle) being just one example.<br />

“We went a little higherend<br />

than what most bars<br />

have,” Wood said. “We<br />

have wine drinkers very<br />

happy when they come<br />

in.”<br />

The hope for the owners<br />

is the updated ambiance<br />

and selections — along<br />

with daily specials, such<br />

as pot roast on Mondays,<br />

and a $7 burger and draft<br />

beer deal on Wednesdays<br />

— will make Tavern<br />

in the Glen like the local<br />

“Cheers” for Homer Glen.<br />

“The most rewarding<br />

thing is seeing people<br />

coming in, actually telling<br />

us they feel comfortable<br />

and it’s a welcoming<br />

place,” Wood said. “That’s<br />

what we love to hear.”


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crosstown CROSSWORD & Sudoku The crosstowns: Frankfort, Homer Glen, Lockport, Mokena, New Lenox, Orland Park, Tinley Park<br />

Crossword by Myles Mellor and Cindy LaFleur<br />

Across<br />

1. Palm starch<br />

5. Dalai ___<br />

9. Shrubs with intoxicating<br />

leaves<br />

14. “Ghostbusters”<br />

character<br />

15. Historic Scott<br />

16. Japanese dog<br />

17. Castle barrier<br />

18. Be lazy<br />

19. Establish the<br />

truth of<br />

20. Ice house<br />

22. “Diary” singer,<br />

first name<br />

24. Circus performer<br />

26. Friend in France<br />

29. Abbr. in many<br />

org. names<br />

31. Lockport softball<br />

star, Haley<br />

33. Snare or bongo<br />

35. Gulf port<br />

39. Caspian Sea<br />

feeder<br />

40. Do followers<br />

41. “Black ___”<br />

1987 detective<br />

thriller with Dennis<br />

Hopper<br />

43. Ceremonial act<br />

44. Police dept. alerts<br />

45. Cosmonaut<br />

Gagarin<br />

46. Disfigure<br />

47. Attacks<br />

50. Dog pest<br />

52. Gibraltar, for<br />

one: Abbr.<br />

53. Recent LTHS<br />

graduates and triplets<br />

(family name)<br />

57. The beginning<br />

58. Moolah<br />

63. American worker<br />

66. Summer coolers<br />

68. Writer from<br />

Tenn.<br />

69. Photographer’s<br />

request<br />

70. Golf targets<br />

71. Son of Noah<br />

72. Road taxes<br />

73. Confirmation<br />

74. Sounds of disapproval<br />

Down<br />

1. Wimbledon contest<br />

before the final<br />

2. Excited<br />

3. Target<br />

4. Moved ___ the<br />

freeway<br />

5. “Bad” cholesterol<br />

letters<br />

6. Cacophonous<br />

7. ___ Yello (soft<br />

drink)<br />

8. Ignore a cue card,<br />

say<br />

9. Per ___<br />

10. Soup vegetable<br />

11. Tech exec, for short<br />

12. Off-road goer, for<br />

short<br />

13. Freelance writer’s<br />

encl.<br />

21. Bit in a horse’s<br />

mouth<br />

23. Top limit<br />

25. Tooth companion<br />

26. Safari country<br />

27. Mazda ___<br />

28. Danube tributary<br />

29. Musical selection<br />

30. Not quite right<br />

32. Hospital cry<br />

33. Becomes tiresome<br />

34. Plant transfer<br />

36. Handyman’s letters<br />

37. Part of some e-mail<br />

addresses<br />

38. “___ any drop to<br />

drink.” - Coleridge<br />

42. Wireless medium<br />

48. Banded gemstones<br />

49. Essay<br />

51. Screen type<br />

54. Collaborate<br />

55. Endow with a gift<br />

56. Vice presidents<br />

(sl.)<br />

57. Honey<br />

59. Drying kiln<br />

60. Grunts of distaste<br />

61. Computer expert<br />

62. Does some tailoring<br />

63. L.A. hours<br />

64. Texter’s “Here’s<br />

what I think”<br />

65. Rapper prefix<br />

67. Mach 1 breaker<br />

How to play Sudoku<br />

Each Sudoku puzzle consists of a 9x9 grid that<br />

has been subdivided into nine smaller grids<br />

of 3x3 squares. To solve the puzzle, each row,<br />

column and box must contain each of the<br />

numbers 1-9.<br />

LEVEL: Medium<br />

Crossword by Myles Mellor and Susan Flanagan<br />

answers<br />

ORLAND PARK<br />

Traverso’s Restaurant<br />

(15601 S Harlem Ave,<br />

Orland Park; (708) 532-<br />

2220)<br />

■5-7 ■ p.m. Mondays:<br />

Free bar bingo<br />

Girl in the Park<br />

(11265 W. 159th St.,<br />

Orland Park; (708) 226-<br />

0042)<br />

■8 ■ p.m. Wednesday-<br />

Saturday: Live music<br />

The Brass Tap<br />

(14225 95th Ave. Suite<br />

400, Orland Park; (708)<br />

226-1827)<br />

■8 ■ p.m. Tuesdays:<br />

Trivia. Prizes awarded<br />

■9 ■ p.m. Fridays and<br />

Saturdays: Live music<br />

Dan ‘D’ Jac’s<br />

(9358 171st St., Orland<br />

Hills; (708) 460-8773<br />

■9:30 ■ p.m.-1:30 a.m.<br />

Thursdays: karaoke<br />

Fox’s Restaurant and Pub<br />

(9655 W. 143rd St.,<br />

Orland Park; (708) 349-<br />

2111)<br />

■6-9 ■ p.m. Thursday,<br />

Friday, and Saturday:<br />

Eman<br />

■6-9 ■ p.m. Wednesdays:<br />

Gene Infelise and<br />

Francesca<br />

Papa Joe’s<br />

(14459 S. LaGrange<br />

Road, Orland Park;<br />

(708) 403-9099)<br />

■6-10 ■ p.m. Fridays: The<br />

keyboard stylings of<br />

Roger Pampel<br />

Square Celt Ale House &<br />

Grill<br />

(39 Orland Square<br />

Drive, Orland Park;<br />

(708) 226-9600)<br />

■8 ■ p.m. Tuesdays: Free<br />

Bar Bingo<br />

■9 ■ p.m. Fridays or Saturdays:<br />

Live Music<br />

■10 ■ p.m. Sundays:<br />

Karaoke<br />

Murphy’s on the Green<br />

(13100 Southwst Highway,<br />

Orland Park; (708)<br />

448-650<br />

■6-8 ■ p.m. Wednesdays:<br />

Free Bar Bingo and<br />

Cash Jackpot<br />

To place an event in The<br />

Scene, email a.datta@<br />

22ndcenturymedia.com.


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Distinctive Home Builders Introduces New Craftsman Homes<br />

In Manhattan, Peotone, and Joliet – From the mid-$200’s<br />

New designs are a result of buyer feedback<br />

Two refreshing designs mark<br />

the beginning of a new series<br />

of Craftsman-style homes<br />

available from Distinctive Home<br />

Builders at its latest new home<br />

communities: Prairie Trails;<br />

located in Manhattan within the<br />

highly-regarded<br />

Lincoln-Way<br />

School District and at WestGate<br />

Manor in Peotone within the<br />

desirable Peotone School District.<br />

“Craftsman homes were<br />

introduced in the early 1900s in<br />

California with designs based on a<br />

simpler, functional aesthetic using<br />

a higher level of craftsmanship<br />

and natural materials. These<br />

homes were a departure from<br />

homes that were mass produced<br />

from that era, “according to Bryan<br />

Nooner, president of Distinctive<br />

Home Builders.<br />

“The Craftsman design has<br />

made a comeback today for many<br />

of the same reasons it started over<br />

a century ago. Our customers<br />

want to live in a home that gets<br />

away from the “mass produced”<br />

look and live in a home that has<br />

more character. As a result of<br />

our daily interaction with our<br />

homeowners and their input, we<br />

are excited to introduce these two<br />

homes, with additional designs in<br />

the works.”<br />

Nooner, who meets with each<br />

homeowner prior to construction,<br />

has been working on these plans<br />

for a while and felt that the<br />

timing was ideal for the debut.<br />

“Customers were asking for<br />

something different and simple<br />

with less monotony and higher<br />

architectural standards.” The<br />

result was the Craftsman ranch<br />

and the Prairie two story, now<br />

available at Prairie Trails and<br />

WestGate Manor. The Craftsman<br />

ranch features an open floor plan<br />

with Great Room, three bedrooms,<br />

two baths and a two-car (optional<br />

three-car) garage. The Prairie<br />

features a two-story foyer and<br />

Great Room, three bedrooms<br />

and one and one-half baths, a<br />

convenient Flex Room space<br />

on the main level and a two-car<br />

(optional three-car) garage. The<br />

Craftsman architectural elements<br />

on both homes include brick and<br />

stone exteriors with cedar shake<br />

accent siding, low-pitched gabled<br />

bracket roofs, front porches with<br />

tapered columns and stone piers,<br />

partially paned windows, and a<br />

standard panel front entry door.<br />

Distinctive Home Builders<br />

offers a Craftsman-style trim<br />

package offering trim without<br />

ornate profiles and routers. The<br />

trim features simplicity in design<br />

with rectangles, straight lines and<br />

layered look trims over doors for<br />

example. The front entry door<br />

will have the standard Craftsman<br />

panel style door. Distinctive has<br />

also created a Craftsman color<br />

palate to assist buyers in making<br />

coordinated choices for the<br />

interior of their new Craftsman<br />

home. Colors, cabinet styles and<br />

flooring choices blend seamlessly<br />

with the Craftsman trim package<br />

and are available in gray tones<br />

package and earth tones.<br />

Distinctive offers custom maple<br />

kitchen cabinets featuring solid<br />

wood construction (no particle<br />

board), have solid wood drawers<br />

with dove tail joints, which is<br />

very rare in the marketplace.<br />

“When you buy a new home<br />

from Distinctive, you truly are<br />

receiving custom made cabinets<br />

in every home we sell no matter<br />

what the price range,” noted<br />

Nooner.<br />

Distinctive Home Builders<br />

works to achieve a delivery goal<br />

of 90 days with zero punch list<br />

items for its homeowners. “Our<br />

three decades building homes<br />

provides an efficient construction<br />

system,” said Nooner. “Many<br />

of our skilled craftsmen have<br />

been working with our company<br />

for over 20 years. We also<br />

take pride on having excellent<br />

communicators throughout our<br />

organization. This translates into<br />

a positive buying and building<br />

experience for our homeowners<br />

and one of the highest referral<br />

rates in the industry.” Nooner<br />

added that all homes are highly<br />

energy efficient. Every home<br />

built will have upgraded wall and<br />

ceiling insulation values with<br />

energy efficient windows and<br />

high efficiency furnaces. Before<br />

homeowners move into their new<br />

home, Distinctive Home Builders<br />

conducts a blower door test that<br />

pressurizes the home to ensure<br />

that each home passes a set of<br />

very stringent Energy Efficiency<br />

guidelines.<br />

With the addition of these two<br />

new designs, there are now 15<br />

ranch, split-level and six two<br />

story single-family home styles<br />

to choose from each offering from<br />

three to eight different exterior<br />

elevations at both communities.<br />

The three- to four-bedroom<br />

homes feature one and one-half<br />

to two-and-one-half baths, two<br />

to three-car garages and a family<br />

room, all in approximately 1,600<br />

to over 3,000 square feet of living<br />

space. Basements are included in<br />

most models as well. Distinctive<br />

also encourages customization<br />

to make your new home truly<br />

personalized to suit your lifestyle.<br />

Oversize home sites; brick<br />

exteriors on all four sides of the<br />

first floor; custom maple cabinets;<br />

ceramic tile or hardwood floors<br />

in the kitchen, baths and foyer;<br />

genuine wood trim and doors<br />

and concrete driveways can all<br />

be yours at Prairie Trails and<br />

WestGate Manor. Most all home<br />

sites at Prairie Trails andWestGate<br />

Manor can accommodate a threecar<br />

garage; a very important<br />

amenity to the Manhattan<br />

homebuyer, said Nooner. “When<br />

we opened Prairie Trails and<br />

WestGate Manor we wanted<br />

to provide the best new home<br />

value for the dollar and we feel<br />

with offering Premium Standard<br />

Features that we do just that. So<br />

why wait? This is truly the best<br />

time to build your dream home!”<br />

Prairie Trails is also a beautiful<br />

place to live and raise a family<br />

featuring a 20-acre lake on site,<br />

as well as direct access to the 22-<br />

mile Wauponsee Glacial Prairie<br />

Path that borders the community<br />

and meanders through many<br />

neighboring communities and<br />

links to many other popular trails.<br />

The Manhattan Metra station is<br />

less than a mile away.<br />

Besides Prairie Trails,<br />

Distinctive Home Builders<br />

has built homes throughout<br />

Manhattan in the Butternut Ridge<br />

and Leighlinbridge developments,<br />

as well as in the Will and south<br />

Cook county areas over the past<br />

30 years.<br />

Distinctive has two early<br />

delivery homes available at its<br />

newest community, Cedar Creek<br />

in Joliet where you can choose<br />

your colors now and move in 45<br />

days. One is a three-bedroom<br />

Princeton ranch with two full<br />

baths in an open floor plan with<br />

kitchen and Great Room. Priced<br />

at $289,990 this home has over<br />

$20,000 in free upgrades. The<br />

second home is a Brentwood<br />

three-bedroom raised ranch with<br />

an oversized garage. Priced at<br />

$279,900, this home features<br />

many interior and exterior<br />

architectural details and over<br />

$30,000 in free upgrades.<br />

Visit the on-site sales<br />

information center for<br />

unadvertised specials and view<br />

the numerous styles of homes<br />

being offered and the available<br />

lots. Call Lynne Rinck at (708)<br />

737-9142 or (708) 479-7700 for<br />

more information or visit www.<br />

distinctivehomebuilders.com.<br />

The Prairie Trails and WestGate<br />

Manor new home information<br />

center is located three miles<br />

south of Laraway Rd. on Rt.<br />

52. The address is 24458 S.<br />

Rt. 52, Manhattan, IL. 60422.<br />

Open Daily 10:00 a.m. – 5:00<br />

p.m. Closed Wednesday and<br />

Thursday and always available by<br />

appointment.<br />

Specials, prices, specifications,<br />

standard features, model<br />

offerings, build times and lot<br />

availability are subject to change<br />

without notice. Please contact<br />

a Distinctive representative for<br />

current pricing and complete<br />

details.


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If you are looking for the perfect ranch home<br />

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Keating Point, in the Village of Channahon,<br />

offers ranch homes that are both beautiful and<br />

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These unique, detached townhomes feature<br />

two bedrooms and two baths in 1,308 to 1,621<br />

square feet. Each comes equipped with a full<br />

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These Ranch Villas start in the $230’s and<br />

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removal. If you’ve had enough of cleaning<br />

gutters, mowing the lawn, and shoveling the<br />

driveway, you’re ready to take the next step.<br />

The photos in this article feature The Roma,<br />

one of the floorplans you can choose from for<br />

your new ranch home. This 1,467 sq. ft. design<br />

features two bedrooms and two baths. Plus,<br />

you’ll get a flex room to use as you see fit.<br />

Office? Guest room?You tell us. The Roma also<br />

features ceilings that reach nine feet high and a<br />

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spaceforentertaining,andultimateconvenience.<br />

Speaking of convenience, a basement, two-car<br />

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Roma starts in the low $240’s, delivering quality<br />

in its construction and price tag.<br />

Looking to move into a new home sometime<br />

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To learn more about our detached ranch<br />

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2701 Property for<br />

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Sale<br />

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Sale<br />

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Sale<br />

2701 Property for<br />

Sale<br />

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OFCOOK<br />

COUNTY, ILLINOIS<br />

COUNTY DEPARTMENT -CHAN-<br />

CERY DIVISION<br />

BANK OF AMERICA, NATIONAL<br />

ASSOCIATION<br />

Plaintiff,<br />

-v.-<br />

MICHAEL F. CARROLL, JENNIFER<br />

L. CARROLL<br />

Defendants<br />

19 CH 03185<br />

14242 MEADOWVIEW CT.<br />

ORLAND PARK, IL 60462<br />

NOTICE OF SALE<br />

PUBLIC NOTICE ISHEREBY GIVEN<br />

that pursuant to aJudgment ofForeclosure<br />

and Sale entered in the above cause<br />

on August 27, 2019, an agent for The<br />

Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30<br />

AM onDecember 2, 2019, at The Judicial<br />

Sales Corporation, One South<br />

Wacker Drive, CHICAGO, IL, 60606,<br />

sell at a public sale to the highest bidder,<br />

as set forth below, the following described<br />

real estate:<br />

Commonly known as 14242 MEAD-<br />

OWVIEW CT., ORLAND PARK, IL<br />

60462<br />

Property Index No. 27-02-400-021-0000<br />

The real estate is improved with asingle<br />

family residence.<br />

The judgment amount was $222,627.04.<br />

Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid<br />

by certified funds at the close of the sale<br />

payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation.<br />

No third party checks will beaccepted.<br />

The balance, including the Judicial<br />

Sale fee for the Abandoned Residential<br />

Property Municipality Relief<br />

Fund, which is calculated on residential<br />

real estate atthe rate of $1 for each<br />

$1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount<br />

paid by the purchaser not to exceed<br />

$300, in certified funds/or wire transfer,<br />

is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No<br />

fee shall bepaid bythe mortgagee acquiring<br />

the residential real estate pursuant<br />

to its credit bid at the sale or by any<br />

mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other<br />

lienor acquiring the residential real estate<br />

whose rights in and tothe residential<br />

real estate arose prior to the sale.<br />

The subject property is subject to general<br />

real estate taxes, special assessments,<br />

orspecial taxes levied against<br />

said real estate and is offered for sale<br />

without any representation as to quality<br />

or quantity of title and without recourse<br />

to Plaintiff and in "AS IS" condition.<br />

The sale is further subject toconfirmation<br />

by the court.<br />

Upon payment in full ofthe amount bid,<br />

the purchaser will receive aCertificate<br />

of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to<br />

a deed to the real estate after confirmation<br />

of the sale.<br />

The property will NOT be open for inspection<br />

and plaintiff makes no representation<br />

astothe condition ofthe property.<br />

Prospective bidders are admonished<br />

to check the court file to verify all<br />

information.<br />

If this property isacondominium unit,<br />

the purchaser ofthe unit atthe foreclosure<br />

sale, other than amortgagee, shall<br />

pay the assessments and the legal fees<br />

required byThe Condominium Property<br />

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

this property is a condominium unit<br />

which is part of acommon interest community,<br />

the purchaser ofthe unit atthe<br />

foreclosure sale other than amortgagee<br />

shall pay the assessments required by<br />

The Condominium Property Act, 765<br />

ILCS 605/18.5(g-1).<br />

IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR<br />

(HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE<br />

RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION<br />

FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF<br />

AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN AC-<br />

CORDANCE WITH SECTION<br />

15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS<br />

MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW.<br />

You will need a photo identification issued<br />

byagovernment agency (driver's<br />

license, passport, etc.) in order togain<br />

entry into our building and the foreclosure<br />

sale room in Cook County and the<br />

same identification for sales held at<br />

other county venues where The Judicial<br />

Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure<br />

sales.<br />

For information, HEAVNER, BEYERS<br />

&MIHLAR, LLC Plaintiff's Attorneys,<br />

111 East Main Street, DECATUR, IL,<br />

62523 (217) 422-1719. Please refer to<br />

file number LS632.<br />

THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORA-<br />

TION<br />

One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor,<br />

Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312)<br />

236-SALE<br />

You can also visit The Judicial Sales<br />

Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a7<br />

day status report of pending sales.<br />

HEAVNER, BEYERS & MIHLAR,<br />

LLC<br />

111 East Main Street<br />

DECATUR IL, 62523<br />

217-422-1719<br />

Fax #: 217-422-1754<br />

E-Mail: CookPleadings@hsbattys.com<br />

Attorney File No. LS632<br />

Attorney Code. 40387<br />

Case Number: 19 CH 03185<br />

TJSC#: 39-5519<br />

NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection<br />

Practices Act, you are advised<br />

that Plaintiff's attorney is deemed to be<br />

adebt collector attempting tocollect a<br />

debt and any information obtained will<br />

be used for that purpose.<br />

Case # 19 CH 03185<br />

I3131817<br />

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OFCOOK<br />

COUNTY, ILLINOIS<br />

COUNTY DEPARTMENT -CHAN-<br />

CERY DIVISION<br />

U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIA-<br />

TION AS TRUSTEE<br />

SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST TO WA-<br />

CHOVIA BANK,<br />

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS<br />

TRUSTEE FOR BANC OF<br />

AMERICA FUNDING CORPORA-<br />

TION MORTGAGE PASS-<br />

THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES<br />

2005-4;<br />

Plaintiff,<br />

vs.<br />

LOUIS CALDERON; YOLANDA<br />

CALDERON; MB<br />

FINANCIAL BANK, N.A., SUCCES-<br />

SOR IN INTEREST<br />

TO COLE TAYLOR BANK; CITY OF<br />

CHICAGO, A<br />

MUNICIPAL CORPORATION;<br />

WINDHAVEN WEST<br />

COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION;<br />

Defendants,<br />

19 CH 5239<br />

NOTICE OF SALE<br />

PUBLIC NOTICE ISHEREBY GIVEN<br />

that pursuant to aJudgment ofForeclosure<br />

and Sale entered in the above entitled<br />

cause Intercounty Judicial Sales<br />

Corporation will onMonday, December<br />

2, 2019 at the hour of 11 a.m. in their<br />

office at 120 West Madison Street, Suite<br />

718A, Chicago, Illinois, sell at public<br />

auction to the highest bidder for cash, as<br />

set forth below, the following described<br />

mortgaged real estate:<br />

P.I.N. 27-03-214-018-0000.<br />

Commonly known as 13508 South Tall<br />

Grass aka 13508 Tallgrass Trail, Orland<br />

Park, IL 60462.<br />

The mortgaged real estate is improved<br />

with asingle family residence. If the<br />

subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of<br />

acommon interest community, the purchaser<br />

of the unit other than amortgagee<br />

shall pay the assessments required<br />

by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of<br />

the condominium Property Act<br />

Sale terms: 10% down by certified<br />

funds, balance, by certified funds,<br />

within 24 hours. Norefunds. The property<br />

will NOT be open for inspection.<br />

For information call Sales Department<br />

at Plaintiff's Attorney, Manley Deas Kochalski,<br />

LLC, One East Wacker Drive,<br />

Chicago, Illinois 60601. (614)<br />

220-5611. 19-014402 F2<br />

INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES<br />

CORPORATION<br />

Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122<br />

I3135511<br />

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OFCOOK<br />

COUNTY, ILLINOIS<br />

COUNTY DEPARTMENT -CHAN-<br />

CERY DIVISION<br />

WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A.<br />

Plaintiff,<br />

-v.-<br />

GREGORY BARON A/K/A GREG-<br />

ORY G.BARON, ROBERTA BARON,<br />

ROBERTA BARON, AS TRUSTEE<br />

UNDER TRUST AGREEMENT<br />

DATED DECEMBER 22, 2014 AND<br />

DESIGNATED AS THE 11767 JUA-<br />

NITA DRIVE TRUST, UNITED<br />

STATES OF AMERICA<br />

Defendants<br />

18 CH 12564<br />

11767 JUANITA DRIVE<br />

ORLAND PARK, IL 60467<br />

NOTICE OF SALE<br />

PUBLIC NOTICE ISHEREBY GIVEN<br />

that pursuant to aJudgment ofForeclosure<br />

and Sale entered in the above cause<br />

on September 6, 2019, an agent for The<br />

Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30<br />

AM on December 9, 2019, at The Judicial<br />

Sales Corporation, One South<br />

Wacker Drive, CHICAGO, IL, 60606,<br />

sell at a public sale to the highest bidder,<br />

as set forth below, the following described<br />

real estate:<br />

Commonly known as 11767 JUANITA<br />

DRIVE, ORLAND PARK, IL 60467<br />

Property Index No. 27-19-102-010-0000<br />

The real estate is improved with asingle<br />

family residence.<br />

The judgment amount was $85,571.66.<br />

Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid<br />

by certified funds at the close of the sale<br />

payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation.<br />

No third party checks will beaccepted.<br />

The balance, including the Judicial<br />

Sale fee for the Abandoned Residential<br />

Property Municipality Relief<br />

Fund, which is calculated on residential<br />

real estate atthe rate of $1 for each<br />

$1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount<br />

paid by the purchaser not to exceed<br />

$300, in certified funds/or wire transfer,<br />

is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No<br />

fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring<br />

the residential real estate pursuant<br />

to its credit bid at the sale or by any<br />

mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other<br />

lienor acquiring the residential real estate<br />

whose rights in and tothe residential<br />

real estate arose prior to the sale.<br />

The subject property is subject to general<br />

real estate taxes, special assessments,<br />

orspecial taxes levied against<br />

said real estate and is offered for sale<br />

without any representation as to quality<br />

or quantity of title and without recourse<br />

to Plaintiff and in "AS IS" condition.<br />

The sale is further subject to confirmation<br />

by the court.<br />

Upon payment in full ofthe amount bid,<br />

the purchaser will receive aCertificate<br />

of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to<br />

adeed to the real estate after confirmation<br />

of the sale.<br />

Where asale of real estate is made to<br />

satisfy alien prior to that of the United<br />

States, the United States shall have one<br />

year from the date of sale within which<br />

to redeem, except that with respect to a<br />

lien arising under the internal revenue<br />

laws the period shall be 120 days or the<br />

period allowable for redemption under<br />

State law, whichever is longer, and in<br />

any case inwhich, under the provisions<br />

of section 505 of the Housing Act of<br />

1950, as amended (12 U.S.C. 1701k),<br />

and subsection (d) of section 3720 of title<br />

38 of the United States Code, the<br />

right toredeem does not arise, there<br />

shall be no right of redemption.<br />

The property will NOT be open for inspection<br />

and plaintiff makes no representation<br />

astothe condition ofthe property.<br />

Prospective bidders are admonished<br />

to check the court file to verify all<br />

information.<br />

If this property isacondominium unit,<br />

the purchaser ofthe unit atthe foreclosure<br />

sale, other than amortgagee, shall<br />

pay the assessments and the legal fees<br />

required by The Condominium Property<br />

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

this property is a condominium unit<br />

which ispart ofacommon interest com-<br />

munity, the purchaser ofthe unit atthe<br />

foreclosure sale other than amortgagee<br />

shall pay the assessments required by<br />

The Condominium Property Act, 765<br />

ILCS 605/18.5(g-1).<br />

IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR<br />

(HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE<br />

RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION<br />

FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF<br />

AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN AC-<br />

CORDANCE WITH SECTION<br />

15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS<br />

MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW.<br />

You will need a photo identification issued<br />

by a government agency (driver's<br />

license, passport, etc.) in order togain<br />

entry into our building and the foreclosure<br />

sale room in Cook County and the<br />

same identification for sales held at<br />

other county venues where The Judicial<br />

Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure<br />

sales.<br />

For information, The sales clerk,<br />

SHAPIRO KREISMAN & ASSOCI-<br />

ATES, LLC Plaintiff's Attorneys, 2121<br />

WAUKEGAN RD., SUITE 301, Bannockburn,<br />

IL, 60015 (847) 291-1717<br />

For information call between the hours<br />

of 1pm - 3pm.. Please refer tofile number<br />

18-087747.<br />

THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORA-<br />

TION<br />

One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor,<br />

Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312)<br />

236-SALE<br />

You can also visit The Judicial Sales<br />

Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a7<br />

day status report of pending sales.<br />

SHAPIRO KREISMAN & ASSOCI-<br />

ATES, LLC<br />

2121 WAUKEGAN RD., SUITE 301<br />

Bannockburn IL, 60015<br />

847-291-1717<br />

E-Mail: ILNotices@logs.com<br />

Attorney File No. 18-087747<br />

Attorney Code. 42168<br />

Case Number: 18 CH 12564<br />

TJSC#: 39-5753<br />

NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection<br />

Practices Act, you are advised<br />

that Plaintiff's attorney is deemed to be<br />

adebt collector attempting tocollect a<br />

debt and any information obtained will<br />

be used for that purpose.<br />

Case # 18 CH 12564<br />

I3135564<br />

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OFCOOK<br />

COUNTY, ILLINOIS<br />

COUNTY DEPARTMENT -CHAN-<br />

CERY DIVISION<br />

CITIZENS BANK NA;<br />

Plaintiff,<br />

vs.<br />

SAL MUSTAFA; JASMINE MUS-<br />

TAFA; AMERICAN<br />

EXPRESS NATIONAL BANK FKA<br />

AMERICAN EXPRESS<br />

BANK, FSB; UNIFUND CCR PART-<br />

NERS; ASHBURN<br />

SOUND OWNERS ASSOCIATION;<br />

Defendants,<br />

18 CH 15195<br />

NOTICE OF SALE<br />

PUBLIC NOTICE ISHEREBY GIVEN<br />

that pursuant to aJudgment ofForeclosure<br />

and Sale entered in the above entitled<br />

cause Intercounty Judicial Sales<br />

Corporation will onThursday, December<br />

5, 2019 at the hour of 11 a.m. in<br />

their office at 120 West Madison Street,<br />

Suite 718A, Chicago, Illinois, sell at<br />

public auction tothe highest bidder for<br />

cash, as set forth below, the following<br />

described mortgaged real estate:<br />

P.I.N. 27-17-302-004-0000.<br />

Commonly known as 10831 Jillian<br />

Road, Orland Park, IL 60467.<br />

The mortgaged real estate is improved<br />

with asingle family residence. If the<br />

subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of<br />

acommon interest community, the purchaser<br />

of the unit other than amortgagee<br />

shall pay the assessments required<br />

by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of<br />

the Condominium Property Act.<br />

Sale terms: 10% down by certified<br />

funds, balance, by certified funds,<br />

within 24 hours. No refunds. The property<br />

will NOT be open for inspection.<br />

For information call Sales Department<br />

at Plaintiff's Attorney, Manley Deas Kochalski,<br />

LLC, One East Wacker Drive,<br />

Chicago, Illinois 60601. (614)<br />

220-5611. 18-036038 F2<br />

INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES<br />

CORPORATION<br />

Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122<br />

I3135675<br />

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OFCOOK<br />

COUNTY, ILLINOIS<br />

COUNTY DEPARTMENT -CHAN-<br />

CERY DIVISION<br />

FEDERAL HOME LOAN MORT-<br />

GAGE CORPORATION, AS TRUS-<br />

TEE FOR FREDDIE MAC SEA-<br />

SONED CREDIT RISK TRANSFER<br />

TRUST, SERIES 2017-4, AS OWNER<br />

OF THE RELATED MORTGAGE<br />

LOAN<br />

Plaintiff,<br />

-v.-<br />

LYDIA LUYANDO, DAVID LUY-<br />

ANDO JR., THE BANK OF NEW<br />

YORK MELLON F/K/A THE BANK<br />

OF NEW YORK, INDENTURE TRUS-<br />

TEE ON BEHALF OF THE NOTE-<br />

HOLDERS OF THE CWHEQ INC.,<br />

CWHEQ REVOLVING HOME EQ-<br />

UITY LOAN TRUST, SERIES 2007-C,<br />

ORLAND PARK CROSSING CON-<br />

DOMINIUM ASSOCIATION<br />

Defendants<br />

2019 CH 00332<br />

13939 JOHN HUMPHREY DRIVE<br />

ORLAND PARK, IL 60462<br />

NOTICE OF SALE<br />

PUBLIC NOTICE ISHEREBY GIVEN<br />

that pursuant to aJudgment ofForeclosure<br />

and Sale entered in the above cause<br />

on April 30, 2019, an agent for The Judicial<br />

Sales Corporation, will at 10:30<br />

AM on December 6, 2019, at The Judicial<br />

Sales Corporation, One South<br />

Wacker Drive, CHICAGO, IL, 60606,<br />

sell at a public sale to the highest bidder,<br />

as set forth below, the following described<br />

real estate:<br />

Commonly known as 13939 JOHN<br />

HUMPHREY DRIVE, ORLAND<br />

PARK, IL 60462<br />

Property Index No.<br />

27-03-300-050-1005; (27-03-301-031,<br />

-005, -012, -018 underlying)<br />

The real estate is improved with a<br />

condo/townhouse.<br />

Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid<br />

by certified funds at the close of the sale<br />

payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation.<br />

No third party checks will beaccepted.<br />

The balance, including the Judicial<br />

Sale fee for the Abandoned Residential<br />

Property Municipality Relief<br />

Fund, which is calculated on residential<br />

real estate at the rate of$1 for each<br />

$1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount<br />

paid by the purchaser not to exceed<br />

$300, in certified funds/or wire transfer,<br />

is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No<br />

fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring<br />

the residential real estate pursuant<br />

to its credit bid at the sale or by any<br />

mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other<br />

lienor acquiring the residential real estate<br />

whose rights in and tothe residential<br />

real estate arose prior to the sale.<br />

The subject property is subject to general<br />

real estate taxes, special assessments,<br />

orspecial taxes levied against<br />

said real estate and is offered for sale<br />

without any representation as to quality<br />

or quantity of title and without recourse<br />

to Plaintiff and in"AS IS" condition.<br />

The sale is further subject to confirmation<br />

by the court.<br />

Upon payment in full ofthe amount bid,<br />

the purchaser will receive aCertificate<br />

of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to<br />

adeed tothe real estate after confirmation<br />

of the sale.<br />

The property will NOT be open for inspection<br />

and plaintiff makes no representation<br />

astothe condition ofthe property.<br />

Prospective bidders are admonished<br />

to check the court file to verify all<br />

information.<br />

If this property isacondominium unit,<br />

the purchaser ofthe unit atthe foreclo-<br />

sure sale, other than amortgagee, shall<br />

pay the assessments and the legal fees<br />

required by The Condominium Property<br />

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

this property is a condominium unit<br />

which is part of acommon interest community,<br />

the purchaser ofthe unit atthe<br />

foreclosure sale other than amortgagee<br />

shall pay the assessments required by<br />

The Condominium Property Act, 765<br />

ILCS 605/18.5(g-1).<br />

IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR<br />

(HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE<br />

RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION<br />

FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF<br />

AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN AC-<br />

CORDANCE WITH SECTION<br />

15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS<br />

MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW.<br />

You will need a photo identification issued<br />

by a government agency (driver's<br />

license, passport, etc.) in order togain<br />

entry into our building and the foreclosure<br />

sale room in Cook County and the<br />

same identification for sales held at<br />

other county venues where The Judicial<br />

Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure<br />

sales.<br />

For information, examine the court file,<br />

CODILIS &ASSOCIATES, P.C. Plaintiff's<br />

Attorneys, 15W030 NORTH<br />

FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100,<br />

BURR RIDGE, IL, 60527 (630)<br />

794-9876<br />

THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORA-<br />

TION<br />

One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor,<br />

Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312)<br />

236-SALE<br />

You can also visit The Judicial Sales<br />

Corporation atwww.tjsc.com for a7<br />

day status report of pending sales.<br />

CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C.<br />

15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD,<br />

SUITE 100<br />

BURR RIDGE IL, 60527<br />

630-794-5300<br />

E-Mail: pleadings@il.cslegal.com<br />

Attorney File No. 14-19-00009<br />

Attorney ARDC No. 00468002<br />

Attorney Code. 21762<br />

Case Number: 2019 CH 00332<br />

TJSC#: 39-6677<br />

NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection<br />

Practices Act, you are advised<br />

that Plaintiff's attorney is deemed to be<br />

adebt collector attempting tocollect a<br />

debt and any information obtained will<br />

be used for that purpose.<br />

Case # 2019 CH 00332<br />

I3135828<br />

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OFCOOK<br />

COUNTY, ILLINOIS<br />

COUNTY DEPARTMENT -CHAN-<br />

CERY DIVISION<br />

BAYVIEW LOAN SERVICING, LLC<br />

Plaintiff,<br />

-v.-<br />

JEANINE DAVIS A/K/A JEANINE<br />

SHEEHAN, OVATION SALES FI-<br />

NANCE TRUST, UNKNOWN HEIRS<br />

AND LEGATEES OF DONNA G<br />

HEINTZ A/K/A DONNA HEINTZ, IF<br />

ANY, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND<br />

NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS, DA-<br />

MON RITENHOUSE, SPECIAL REP-<br />

RESENTATIVE OF THE DECEASED<br />

MORTGAGOR, DONNA G HEINTZ<br />

Defendants<br />

19 CH 01176<br />

15528 NARCISSUS LANE<br />

ORLAND PARK, IL 60462<br />

NOTICE OF SALE<br />

PUBLIC NOTICE ISHEREBY GIVEN<br />

that pursuant to aJudgment ofForeclosure<br />

and Sale entered in the above cause<br />

on August 7, 2019, an agent for The Judicial<br />

Sales Corporation, will at 10:30<br />

AM on December 6, 2019, at The Judicial<br />

Sales Corporation, One South<br />

Wacker Drive, CHICAGO, IL, 60606,<br />

sell at a public sale to the highest bidder,<br />

as set forth below, the following described<br />

real estate:<br />

Commonly known as 15528 NARCIS-<br />

SUS LANE, ORLAND PARK, IL<br />

60462<br />

Property Index No. 27-13-303-008-0000<br />

The real estate is improved with a white<br />

brick, two story single family home


40 | November 7, 2019 | the orland Park Prairie classifieds<br />

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2701 Property for<br />

Sale<br />

2701 Property for<br />

Sale<br />

2900 Merchandise<br />

Under $100<br />

with an attached two car garage.<br />

Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid<br />

by certified funds at the close of the sale<br />

payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation.<br />

No third party checks will beaccepted.<br />

The balance, including the Judicial<br />

Sale fee for the Abandoned Residential<br />

Property Municipality Relief<br />

Fund, which is calculated on residential<br />

real estate atthe rate of $1 for each<br />

$1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount<br />

paid by the purchaser not to exceed<br />

$300, in certified funds/or wire transfer,<br />

is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No<br />

fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring<br />

the residential real estate pursuant<br />

to its credit bid at the sale or by any<br />

mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other<br />

lienor acquiring the residential real estate<br />

whose rights in and tothe residential<br />

real estate arose prior to the sale.<br />

The subject property is subject to general<br />

real estate taxes, special assessments,<br />

orspecial taxes levied against<br />

said real estate and is offered for sale<br />

without any representation as to quality<br />

or quantity of title and without recourse<br />

to Plaintiff and in "AS IS" condition.<br />

The sale is further subject toconfirmation<br />

by the court.<br />

Upon payment in full ofthe amount bid,<br />

the purchaser will receive aCertificate<br />

of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to<br />

adeed to the real estate after confirmation<br />

of the sale.<br />

The property will NOT be open for inspection<br />

and plaintiff makes no representation<br />

astothe condition ofthe property.<br />

Prospective bidders are admonished<br />

to check the court file to verify all<br />

information.<br />

If this property isacondominium unit,<br />

the purchaser ofthe unit atthe foreclosure<br />

sale, other than amortgagee, shall<br />

pay the assessments and the legal fees<br />

required by The Condominium Property<br />

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

this property is a condominium unit<br />

which ispart ofacommon interest community,<br />

the purchaser ofthe unit atthe<br />

foreclosure sale other than amortgagee<br />

shall pay the assessments required by<br />

The Condominium Property Act, 765<br />

ILCS 605/18.5(g-1).<br />

IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR<br />

(HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE<br />

RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION<br />

FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF<br />

AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN AC-<br />

CORDANCE WITH SECTION<br />

15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS<br />

MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW.<br />

You will need a photo identification issued<br />

by a government agency (driver's<br />

license, passport, etc.) in order togain<br />

entry into our building and the foreclosure<br />

sale room in Cook County and the<br />

same identification for sales held at<br />

other county venues where The Judicial<br />

Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure<br />

sales.<br />

MCCALLA RAYMER LEIBERT<br />

PIERCE, LLC Plaintiff's Attorneys,<br />

One North Dearborn Street, Suite 1200,<br />

Chicago, IL, 60602. Tel No. (312)<br />

346-9088.<br />

THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORA-<br />

TION<br />

One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor,<br />

Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312)<br />

236-SALE<br />

You can also visit The Judicial Sales<br />

Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a7<br />

day status report of pending sales.<br />

MCCALLA RAYMER LEIBERT<br />

PIERCE, LLC<br />

One North Dearborn Street, Suite 1200<br />

Chicago IL, 60602<br />

312-346-9088<br />

E-Mail: pleadings@mccalla.com<br />

Attorney File No. 268966<br />

Attorney ARDC No. 61256<br />

Attorney Code. 61256<br />

Case Number: 19 CH 01176<br />

TJSC#: 39-5034<br />

NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection<br />

Practices Act, you are advised<br />

that Plaintiff's attorney is deemed to be<br />

adebt collector attempting tocollect a<br />

debt and any information obtained will<br />

be used for that purpose.<br />

Case # 19 CH 01176<br />

I3135980<br />

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OFCOOK<br />

COUNTY, ILLINOIS<br />

COUNTY DEPARTMENT -CHAN-<br />

CERY DIVISION<br />

MIDLAND FEDERAL SAVINGS &<br />

LOAN ASSOCIATION<br />

Plaintiff,<br />

vs.<br />

GERALD NORDGREN SPECIAL AD-<br />

MIN. FOR DIANNE<br />

ADAMS DECEASED MORTGAGOR;<br />

RYAN D. ADAMS;<br />

VILLAGE OF ORLAND PARK, IL<br />

DEFENDANTS,<br />

17 CH 6233<br />

NOTICE OF SALE<br />

PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN<br />

that pursuant to aJudgment ofForeclosure<br />

and Sale entered in the above entitled<br />

cause Intercounty Judicial Sales<br />

Corporation will onTuesday, December<br />

10, 2019 at the hour of 11 a.m. in their<br />

office at 120 West Madison Street, Suite<br />

718A, Chicago, Illinois, sell at public<br />

auction to the highest bidder for cash, as<br />

set forth below, the following described<br />

mortgaged real estate:<br />

Commonly known as 8751 Robinhood<br />

Drive, Orland Park, IL 60462.<br />

P.I.N. 27-23-307-001-0000.<br />

The mortgaged real estate is improved<br />

with asingle family residence. If the<br />

subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of<br />

acommon interest community, the purchaser<br />

of the unit other than amortgagee<br />

shall pay the assessments required<br />

by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of<br />

the Condominium Property Act.<br />

Sale terms: 10% down by certified<br />

funds, balance, by certified funds,<br />

within 24 hours. Norefunds. The property<br />

will NOT be open for inspection<br />

For information call Mr. Robert M.<br />

Kamm at Plaintiff's Attorney, Law Offices<br />

of Robert M. Kamm, PC, 1502<br />

Sheridan Road, Highland Park, Illinois<br />

60035. (312) 726-9777.<br />

INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES<br />

CORPORATION<br />

Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122<br />

I3136246<br />

2900 Merchandise<br />

Under $100<br />

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1-5’6” Dynastar, 1-5’6” Resignol,<br />

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w/case $19, 7 1/2in circular<br />

saw blade $4ea, 3in ratcheting<br />

clamp $5, 45pc Hex key<br />

wrench set w/case wts 3lbs $29<br />

Call 708-460-8308<br />

Beautiful 10’ Christmas tree<br />

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bottle $2&$3, 1976 anniversity<br />

plate shows 12 months $15<br />

Call 708-460-8308<br />

Dyson vacuum $75, Large<br />

Scotts fertilizer spreader $15,<br />

4-slice toaster $10 Call<br />

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Equilizer weight transfer hitch<br />

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Johnson/Evinrude 6 gallon<br />

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Norman Rockwell plates $15<br />

each, genuine horseshoe set<br />

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Halloween new doormat $9,<br />

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shovel $22, Used snow shovel<br />

alum. blade $10, 20” wide<br />

Christmas tree stand red new<br />

$15 Call 708-460-8308<br />

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Devil in box $20 Call<br />

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bulbs $4 Call<br />

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sz large $15, Suit gray<br />

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cup holders $90 Call<br />

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ATHLETE OF THE MONTH<br />

Lockport soccer player<br />

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JEFF VORVA, Sports Editor<br />

“Here, have fun.”<br />

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ATHLETE OF THE WEEK<br />

10 Questions<br />

with Max Farley<br />

Max Farley is a senior at<br />

Sandburg who is a threetime<br />

state qualifier in boys<br />

golf.<br />

Do you play any other<br />

sports?<br />

Competitively no, but<br />

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all sports, but my dedication<br />

to golf has kept me<br />

from seriously pursuing<br />

any other sport since sixth<br />

grade.<br />

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involved in golf?<br />

My grandpa [Linval<br />

Chung] introduced me to<br />

the sport. He bought me a<br />

set of plastic clubs when<br />

I could barely walk and I<br />

would smack plastic balls<br />

in our backyard and basement<br />

from time to time.<br />

Do you have any<br />

college plans yet and<br />

do they involve golf?<br />

Golf would only be a<br />

part of them at the club<br />

level. Also, if I played golf<br />

and tried to major in engineering<br />

which is what I’m<br />

leaning towards, it would<br />

be nearly impossible and<br />

there would be no time in<br />

my schedule for anything<br />

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some schools.<br />

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What is your proudest<br />

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The achievement I am<br />

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that awards are worthless<br />

compared to relationships<br />

with people. For instance,<br />

no award is comparable<br />

to the relationship I have<br />

built with my high school<br />

golf coach, Jeff Kwilose.<br />

We achieved some<br />

amazing things over four<br />

years, but these are insignificant<br />

when set side by<br />

side with the journey we<br />

experienced together and<br />

the memories, and the relationship,<br />

that will last a<br />

lifetime. At one point in<br />

my life, I was an awardchaser.<br />

My achievement is<br />

realizing that relationships<br />

are more important than<br />

awards.<br />

Are there any<br />

embarrassing<br />

moments you had in<br />

sports?<br />

Not making it to down<br />

state this year was pretty<br />

embarrassing because<br />

most people, including<br />

myself, expected me to<br />

and were shocked to hear<br />

the news after I shot the<br />

worst round of my high<br />

school career at sectionals.<br />

It was hard to sit in school<br />

and follow the leaderboard<br />

during the state tournament,<br />

knowing I could<br />

make a final run at the title.<br />

Do you have a<br />

favorite pregame<br />

pump-up song?<br />

“Shine On You Crazy<br />

Diamond Pts. 1-5” by Pink<br />

Floyd. I listen to it when I<br />

want to get focused, even<br />

before some standardized<br />

tests.<br />

Do you have a hero,<br />

or someone you look<br />

up to?<br />

It pains me to say it, but I<br />

look up to my older brother<br />

Aidan. He’s a swimmer<br />

at Michigan State and<br />

even though I knew from a<br />

young age that I could beat<br />

him at most things and<br />

that I was the best athlete<br />

in the family, I’ve always<br />

admired the way he carries<br />

himself through life,<br />

waltzing through any circumstance.<br />

Hopefully he<br />

doesn’t read this because I<br />

don’t want it to go to his<br />

head.<br />

Is there something<br />

people don’t know<br />

about you?<br />

I was born in Dallas,<br />

Texas. So, if you ever hear<br />

me say “y’all,” just know<br />

that I’m allowed to.<br />

Any superstitions?<br />

If I’m playing bad on<br />

the course, I change something.<br />

It can be anything<br />

from not wearing my glove<br />

to changing my ball. But if<br />

I’m playing well, I don’t<br />

change anything which has<br />

led me to wear a pullover<br />

in 85-degree weather.<br />

Favorite food?<br />

Indubitably, a medium<br />

rare ribeye.<br />

Interview conducted by<br />

Sports Editor Jeff Vorva<br />

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AREA SPORTS ROUNDUP<br />

4<br />

Sandburg’s volleyball team claims 16th straight regional title<br />

JEFF VORVA, Sports Editor<br />

Sandburg’s state power<br />

girls volleyball team took<br />

care of business, winning<br />

its 16th straight regional<br />

title with a 25-14, 25-19<br />

victory over Lincoln-Way<br />

Central in the championship<br />

match in the Class 4A<br />

Thornwood Regional on<br />

Thursday, Oct. 31.<br />

The 32-5 Eagles, seeded<br />

first in their own sectional,<br />

were aiming for their first<br />

sectional title since 2004.<br />

They were scheduled to<br />

face Lockport on Monday,<br />

Nov. 4 and if they<br />

advanced, they would<br />

have been battling either<br />

Andrew or Homewood-<br />

Flossmoor for the title on<br />

Wednesday, Nov. 6. The<br />

Illinois High School Association<br />

supersectionals<br />

are slated for Friday, Nov.<br />

8, and if Sandburg is still<br />

alive, the Eagles would<br />

play either Marist, Mother<br />

McAuley, Oak Park or<br />

Argo at 7 p.m. at Blue Island<br />

Eisenhower.<br />

The Eagles opened postseason<br />

play with a 25-18,<br />

25-12 win over Thornwood<br />

on Oct. 29. Hailey<br />

Farrell had 14 assists,<br />

Rachel Krasowski had 11<br />

digs and Sidona Rao had<br />

eight kills.<br />

The DePaul-bound Krasowski<br />

was also named to<br />

the American Volleyball<br />

Coaches Association All-<br />

Region 6 Team.<br />

Krasowski and Shelby<br />

Stefanon were named to<br />

the SouthWest Suburban<br />

Conference Blue all-conference<br />

team.<br />

Maddie Giglio, shown diving in a meet earlier this year,<br />

is a SouthWest Suburban Conference champion and<br />

committed to the University of Toledo. JEFF VORVA/22ND<br />

CENTURY MEDIA<br />

Providence wins regional<br />

Orland Hills’ Juliana<br />

Warfield had nine kills<br />

and five aces as Providence<br />

Catholic won its<br />

fifth straight Class 3A volleyball<br />

regional with a 25-<br />

9, 25-11 win over Tinley<br />

Park on Thursday, Oct. 31<br />

in New Lenox.<br />

The Celtics (22-16)<br />

were scheduled to play<br />

Marian Catholic (25-10)<br />

at the Joliet Catholic Sectional<br />

on Monday, Nov. 4.<br />

Orland Park’s Tori<br />

Quinlan and Katianne<br />

Soltys are also on the Celtics’<br />

roster.<br />

Sandburg swimmers fourth<br />

Maddie Giglio set a<br />

personal record in diving,<br />

racking up 429.6 points to<br />

take first in the SouthWest<br />

Suburban Conference girls<br />

swimming and diving<br />

meet, which concluded on<br />

Saturday, Nov. 2 at Lincoln-Way<br />

Central.<br />

Giglio earlier in the<br />

week announced her intention<br />

of attending the University<br />

of Toledo for diving<br />

and academics.<br />

Sandburg finished fourth<br />

in the conference meet<br />

with 179 points behind<br />

champion Lincoln-Way<br />

East (289), Lincoln-Way<br />

Central (212) and Lincoln-<br />

Way West (209).<br />

Jenna Falsey took third<br />

in the 500-yard freestyle<br />

with a time of 5 minutes,<br />

33.36 seconds and was<br />

fifth in the 200 IM. She<br />

also joined Julia Barry,<br />

Maureen Flannery and<br />

Colleen Donnell to take<br />

fifth in the 200-yard medley<br />

relay and joined Erin<br />

Barry, Therese Jaeger and<br />

Maggie Caliendo to take<br />

fourth in the 400 free relay.<br />

The 200 free relay team<br />

Flannery, Erin Barry, Julia<br />

Barry and Donnell took<br />

third.<br />

Julia Barry claimed<br />

fourth in the 100 butterfly<br />

and fifth in the 100 back<br />

and Flannery took fifth in<br />

the 50 free.<br />

Sandburg is at the Lockport<br />

Sectional on Nov. 16.<br />

Sandburg’s volleyball team shows off its 16th straight regional plaque after winning<br />

the Thornwood Regional title. PHOTO SUBMITTED<br />

Providence Catholic won its fifth straight regional title and players joined the fans in<br />

the stands for a celebration. STEVE MILLAR/22ND CENTURY MEDIA<br />

Thanksgiving for Stevie<br />

The Do It Stevie’s Way<br />

Foundation, which runs a<br />

huge high school baseball<br />

tournament in the spring,<br />

is holding a huge fall event<br />

as well.<br />

Thanksgiving For Stevie<br />

will take place from<br />

3 p.m.-to-7 p.m. Nov. 29<br />

at Cork & Kerry, 10614<br />

Western Ave. in Chicago.<br />

The cost is $40 for adults<br />

which includes food and<br />

alcohol and $10 for children<br />

which includes food<br />

and soft drinks.<br />

There will be a designated<br />

driver shuttle from Mokena.<br />

For more information,<br />

call 708-870-2138.<br />

The foundation is named<br />

for Steven Bajenski, a former<br />

Illinois Sparks player<br />

who died in 2009 after<br />

living life with a series of<br />

serious health ailments, including<br />

having open-heart<br />

surgery performed on him<br />

when he was just 10 weeks<br />

old.<br />

The foundation provides<br />

scholarships for<br />

high school baseball players<br />

and donates money to<br />

many other causes.


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Football<br />

Porto breaks out to lift Celtics past Normal West on the road<br />

4<br />

STEVE MILLAR<br />

Contributing Editor<br />

Lucas Porto has the size<br />

and speed to be a dominant<br />

receiver, but the 6-foot-5<br />

Providence senior has not<br />

been quite as productive as<br />

he would have liked this<br />

season.<br />

Hungry to have a big<br />

game, Porto and quarterback<br />

Kevin Conway have<br />

been putting in some extra<br />

time together at practice to<br />

make sure they are on the<br />

same page.<br />

“Me and Kevin worked<br />

hard all week to get that<br />

connection going,” Porto<br />

said. “And we had a<br />

game.”<br />

Porto had five catches<br />

for 126 yards and two<br />

touchdowns to lead the<br />

visiting Celtics to a 19-<br />

14 win over Normal in a<br />

Class 6A first-round playoff<br />

game Saturday, Nov.<br />

2.<br />

Providence (7-3) moved<br />

on to host 2018 state runner-up<br />

Crete-Monee (10-<br />

0) in the second round at 2<br />

p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 9.<br />

“Lucas was due for a<br />

breakout game,” Providence<br />

coach Mark Coglianese<br />

said. “I know the<br />

talent that he has. It’s just a<br />

matter of getting the quarterback<br />

some time and taking<br />

some shots with him.<br />

We don’t throw deep very<br />

often, but when we do, I<br />

have all the confidence in<br />

the world in Lucas.”<br />

Conway finished 9-of-<br />

15 passing for 160 yards<br />

and the two touchdowns to<br />

Porto. He also ran 13 times<br />

for 54 yards, including the<br />

go-ahead 11-yard touchdown<br />

in the fourth quarter.<br />

Conway hit Porto for a<br />

32-yard score with 1:07<br />

left in the first half to tie<br />

the game 7-7.<br />

“[Porto] did great,”<br />

Conway said. “We’ve been<br />

running sluggo [routes]<br />

and double moves in practice<br />

and we’ve just been<br />

timing up everything.<br />

“We started slow and we<br />

have to fix that in the second<br />

round, come out fast<br />

right away. But once we<br />

got going, things worked<br />

out. At the end of the day,<br />

we scored more points<br />

than they did and that’s all<br />

that matters.”<br />

The duo hooked up<br />

again on the first play of<br />

the fourth quarter, Conway<br />

finding Porto for a 34-<br />

yard touchdown to put the<br />

Celtics up 13-7. The extra<br />

point was no good.<br />

PROVIDENCE AT NORMAL WEST, NOV. 2<br />

1 2 3 4 F<br />

Providence 0 7 0 12 19<br />

Normal West 0 7 0 7 14<br />

Top Performers<br />

1. Kevin Conway, Providence, junior quarterback --- 9-of-15<br />

passing, 160 yards, two touchdowns; 13 carries, 54<br />

yards, game-winning touchdown<br />

2. Lucas Porto, Providence, senior receiver --- Five catches,<br />

126 yards, two touchdowns<br />

3. Anthony Prucha, Providence, senior linebacker --- Two<br />

sacks<br />

“I’ve been waiting a<br />

while for this,” Porto said.<br />

“It was a long time coming.”<br />

West (7-3) took advantage<br />

of a short field after<br />

a Providence fumble on<br />

a punt return as Carson<br />

Camp hit LaTre Billups<br />

for a 37-yard TD pass. The<br />

extra point gave West a 14-<br />

13 lead with 10:47 to go.<br />

Conway, though, provided<br />

some of the biggest<br />

plays of the game with his<br />

feet. First, he ran for an<br />

11-yard touchdown to put<br />

Providence back in front<br />

19-14 with 7:27 to go.<br />

After forcing a punt, the<br />

Celtics got the ball back<br />

with 4:20 left and were<br />

able to run out the clock<br />

as Conway picked up two<br />

huge first downs, running<br />

for 19 yards on thirdand-17<br />

and seven yards on<br />

third-and-7.<br />

“[On the third-and-17],<br />

we were ideally trying to<br />

throw it,” Conway said.<br />

“We were trying to set up<br />

the wheel route, but I saw<br />

a huge opening and I was<br />

like, I’ve just got to use my<br />

feet here. I did and got the<br />

first down.”<br />

Aaron Vaughn ran for<br />

148 yards on 19 carries for<br />

the Celtics.<br />

Meanwhile, the Providence<br />

defense stepped up<br />

in a big way. With a secondary<br />

decimated by injuries,<br />

the Celtics kept Camp<br />

relatively in check. The<br />

South Dakota recruit was<br />

14-of-26 passing for 136<br />

yards and two touchdowns.<br />

“We let up a big play<br />

Providence senior Lucas Porto goes up for one of his<br />

two touchdown catches during the Celtics’ 19-14 win<br />

over Normal West on Saturday, Nov. 2, in Normal.<br />

Steve Millar/22nd Century Media<br />

here or there, and they’re a<br />

good team so we knew they<br />

were going to get some,”<br />

Coglianese said. “Holding<br />

them to 14 points, I’m<br />

happy with that.”<br />

Senior linebacker Anthony<br />

Prucha led the way<br />

with two sacks.<br />

“The d-line, linebackers<br />

were all playing harder and<br />

faster,” he said. “We know<br />

we have to be more physical<br />

because we have some<br />

young guys in the back.<br />

“That just lights that<br />

fire. We came together as a<br />

team and got it done.”<br />

Our staff’s predictions for the top games in Week 2 of the playoffs<br />

Just two teams left from the land of 22nd<br />

Century Media. So, both of them will be featured<br />

as our Games of the Week. What a great time<br />

of the year!<br />

53-11<br />

51-13<br />

Tom Czaja |<br />

Senior Editor<br />

51-13<br />

46-18<br />

Sean Hastings |<br />

Contributing Editor<br />

47-17<br />

44-20<br />

GameS of the Week<br />

• Niles Notre Dame (8-2) at LW East (10-0)<br />

• Crete-Monee (10-0) at Providence (7-3)<br />

Jeff Vorva |<br />

Sports Editor<br />

• LWE 40, Notre Dame 17. On paper,<br />

this sounds like a pretty good game.<br />

On the field, it may not be so pretty.<br />

• Crete-Monee 36, Providence 29. This<br />

has the makings of a shootout but<br />

the Warriors will squeak it out.<br />

• LWE 34, Notre Dame 10. Griffins<br />

steamroll another opponent.<br />

• Providence 21, Crete-Monee<br />

20. Celtics pull off the upset at<br />

home to knock off the previously<br />

undefeated Warriors.<br />

Steve Millar |<br />

Sports Editor<br />

• LWE 31, Notre Dame 10. Despite<br />

some key injuries, the Griffins are<br />

still too deep, too determined and<br />

too good for the Dons.<br />

• Crete-Monee 26, Providence 24.<br />

The Celtics will be Crete-Monee’s<br />

first real test all year, but the Warriors<br />

have experience pulling off<br />

close playoff wins from last year’s<br />

run to the 6A title game.<br />

• LWE 31, Notre Dame 17. Offense<br />

keeps rolling and Griffins stay<br />

undefeated.<br />

• Providence 17, Crete-Monee 14.<br />

Celtics end Crete’s undefeated<br />

season with upset, but comes down<br />

to the wire.<br />

Joe Coughlin |<br />

Publisher<br />

• LWE 24, Notre Dame 10. Great<br />

matchup. Notre Dame is rock solid<br />

but Griffins are special and hold the<br />

Dons down.<br />

• Providence 38, Crete-Monee 35.<br />

Barnburner here but Celtics ride<br />

high from upset win in the first<br />

round and hold on at home.<br />

Heather Warthen |<br />

Chief Marketing Officer<br />

• LWE 21, Notre Dame 14. Home<br />

field advantage helps Griffins<br />

secure playoff win.<br />

• Providence 14, Crete-Monee 13. It<br />

will be a close call for the Celtics,<br />

but they will stay alive another<br />

week.


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Sandburg boys CC team wants to ‘dominate people’<br />

JEFF VORVA, Sports Editor<br />

3<br />

Talk about an unsweet<br />

16.<br />

After five straight years<br />

of finishing in the Top 10<br />

in the state in Class 3A,<br />

including a state championship<br />

in 2015, last year’s<br />

state run at Detweiller<br />

Park in Peoria found the<br />

Sandburg boys cross country<br />

team in 16th place, and<br />

that did not sit well with<br />

the team.<br />

A chance to erase that<br />

memory and start a new<br />

Top 10 streak and maybe<br />

even grab the third Top<br />

4 trophy in program history<br />

awaits on Saturday,<br />

Nov. 9, at the Illinois High<br />

School Association State<br />

Final in Peoria.<br />

“We’re really hoping to<br />

just go out there and dominate<br />

people,” senior Ben<br />

Giblin said. “We have big<br />

plans. We will see what we<br />

can do. Everyone wants it,<br />

and we will do whatever<br />

we can to get it.”<br />

Sandburg’s boys team,<br />

individual girls runners<br />

Paige Killen and Brielle<br />

Morris, and Orland Park<br />

resident and Marist star<br />

Thomas Leonard headline<br />

the local runners in the<br />

state meet as they qualified<br />

at the Hinsdale Central<br />

Sectional on Saturday,<br />

Nov. 2. Junior Ella Jeffries,<br />

a state qualifier last<br />

year, missed the sectional<br />

with an injury.<br />

Three Orland Park residents<br />

claimed the Top 5<br />

slots in the sectional. Will<br />

Giblin finished second<br />

with a time of 15 minutes,<br />

47.75 seconds, 2/100ths<br />

of a second ahead of this<br />

twin brother, Ben. Minutes<br />

after the race, neither<br />

one knew who finished<br />

second and third; it was<br />

that close. Leonard took<br />

Sandburg’s Ismail Tineh finished third among his<br />

teammates at the Hinsdale Central Sectional.<br />

fifth with a 16:10.48,<br />

28/100ths of a second<br />

away from a fourth-place<br />

showing.<br />

Sandburg, which had a<br />

hard time cracking Top 10<br />

polls in Illinois in the preseason,<br />

was ranked 13th<br />

in the nation by DyeStat<br />

Rankings in late October.<br />

St. Charles East was<br />

ranked eighth, and Wheaton<br />

Warrenville South was<br />

right behind the Eagles at<br />

14th and York 16th, so Saturday’s<br />

meet has not only<br />

local but also national intrigue.<br />

Sandburg coach John<br />

O’Malley said his squad<br />

is gunning to make a little<br />

more history and to put<br />

last year’s finish in the<br />

rearview mirror.<br />

“They are super excited<br />

to do that,” O’Malley<br />

said. “That was a bad performance<br />

last year. Honestly,<br />

it was more my fault<br />

than anybody’s fault in<br />

preparing them the wrong<br />

way. They are really fired<br />

up just to have a good experience.<br />

I don’t think it’s<br />

a mentality of trying to fix<br />

something. They want to<br />

express who they really<br />

are.<br />

“It’s been probably the<br />

most enjoyable season I<br />

have ever had,” O’Malley<br />

Sandburg’s boys cross country team warms up before the start of the Hinsdale<br />

Central Sectional. PHOTOS BY JEFF VORVA/22ND CENTURY MEDIA<br />

SANDBURG’S STATE RUNS<br />

Sandburg’s Class 3A<br />

state finishes the past<br />

six years<br />

2013 — 7th<br />

2014 — 2nd<br />

2015 — 1st<br />

2016 — 10th<br />

2017 — 9th<br />

2018 — 16th<br />

added. “The guys are fun<br />

to be around. And they are<br />

overachievers. I think the<br />

highest we were ranked<br />

in the preseason was<br />

ninth. Now we are near<br />

the top of the state and<br />

might be competing for a<br />

trophy.’’<br />

Sandburg won its eighth<br />

sectional title and first<br />

since 2015, scoring 61<br />

points at Lyons Township<br />

High School in Western<br />

Springs. The sectional<br />

was originally scheduled<br />

for Katherine Legge Park<br />

in Hinsdale, but the venue<br />

changed because the<br />

Hinsdale facility was in<br />

bad shape because of the<br />

snowy and wet weather<br />

from last week. Lyons was<br />

no picnic, as the muddy<br />

conditions kept some of<br />

the times in check.<br />

Ismail Tineh of Sandburg<br />

finished 16th overall,<br />

Sam Rodriguez 20th and<br />

Griffin Lehnhardt 25th.<br />

T.J. Cosler and Ahmad<br />

Alhayek ran but did not<br />

score points.<br />

Leonard is making his<br />

third state appearance. He<br />

finished 48th in the state<br />

in Class 2A in 2017 and<br />

98th in the state in Class<br />

3A last year.<br />

“Last year was a lot different<br />

than the 2A experience,”<br />

Leonard said. “I had<br />

my teammates with me in<br />

the 2A race, but I was by<br />

myself last year. The race<br />

got out really fast. It made<br />

me learn that I have to get<br />

out really fast and stay active<br />

in that last mile.”<br />

Juniors Killen and Morris<br />

are making their state<br />

debuts. Killen finished<br />

31st Saturday with a<br />

20:14, and Morris grabbed<br />

the final individual spot<br />

with a 36th-place finish<br />

with a 20:28.<br />

RIGHT: Sandburg’s Paige<br />

Killen (left) and Brielle<br />

Morris (right) qualified<br />

for state at the Hinsdale<br />

Central Sectional.


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fastbreak<br />

THURSDAY MORNING QUARTERBACK<br />

Even proposals about nothing are something<br />

JEFF VORVA/22ND CENTURY<br />

MEDIA<br />

1st and 3<br />

STATE CROSS COUNTRY<br />

TALK<br />

1. Back on track?<br />

Sandburg’s cross<br />

country team<br />

finished 16th in the<br />

state in Class 3A<br />

last year, breaking<br />

up a five-year streak<br />

of Top 10 finishes.<br />

The Eagles are gunning<br />

to make that<br />

right this year.<br />

2. Twin killing<br />

Twins Will and<br />

Ben Giblin (above)<br />

finished 2/100ths<br />

of a second apart<br />

at the Hinsdale<br />

Central Sectional<br />

on Saturday, Nov. 2<br />

as Will took second<br />

and Ben third.<br />

3. Look out for Leonard<br />

Orland Park’s<br />

Thomas Leonard,<br />

a senior at Marist,<br />

finished 48th in the<br />

state in Class 2A in<br />

2017 and 98th in<br />

the state in Class 3A<br />

last year. Leonard<br />

is back in Class 3A<br />

this year.<br />

Jeff Vorva<br />

Sports Editor<br />

was<br />

billed as a TV<br />

“Seinfeld”<br />

show about<br />

nothing.<br />

Jerry, George, Elaine<br />

and Cosmo (Kramer)<br />

may not have written a<br />

proposal to the Illinois<br />

High School Association<br />

about nothing, but one<br />

was written, and it is an<br />

interesting concept.<br />

Oct. 30 was the day the<br />

IHSA released 25 proposals<br />

on a wide variety<br />

of topics, and two take<br />

direct aim at zapping the<br />

recently approved football<br />

district and revamped<br />

playoff plan.<br />

Proposal 16 was a<br />

topic of discussion in this<br />

column a few weeks ago.<br />

That proposal, which has<br />

an army of administrators<br />

backing it, including<br />

former Sandburg Athletic<br />

Director Mark Krusz and<br />

former Andrew administrator<br />

Jennifer Doede,<br />

wants to expand the<br />

playoffs from 32 to 48<br />

teams in each of the eight<br />

classes and replace the<br />

district model with the<br />

current system of conferences.<br />

Proposal 15 is sort of a<br />

proposal about nothing.<br />

Minonk (Fieldcrest)<br />

Principal William Lapp<br />

and El Paso Principal<br />

Brian Quam spend most<br />

of their 400 words in safe<br />

and nice executive-ese<br />

basically saying how<br />

much the district system<br />

stinks.<br />

Their solution to some<br />

of the problems of the<br />

current system? Nothing.<br />

Come 2021, they want<br />

things to stay the same as<br />

they are now. That’s not<br />

crazy.<br />

In late December, the<br />

district proposal narrowly<br />

passed with 324 schools<br />

voting yes, 307 voting no<br />

and 69 school turned in<br />

ballots with no opinions.<br />

There were 116 schools<br />

that did not turn in ballots.<br />

All of that was voted<br />

on without any clue of<br />

who would be in which<br />

district.<br />

In May, the IHSA released<br />

a mockup of what<br />

the districts could look<br />

like and some schools<br />

had some sticker shock.<br />

Around here, it was a<br />

mixed bag.<br />

The Class 8A South<br />

District C group featured<br />

Andrew, Sandburg, Stagg,<br />

Marist, Brother Rice,<br />

Homewood-Flossmoor,<br />

Simeon, Curie and Bloom<br />

Township.<br />

The 5A North District<br />

D found Tinley Park<br />

mixed in with St. Laurence,<br />

Brooks, Chicago<br />

Vocational, Marian<br />

Catholic, Evergreen Park,<br />

Rich Central, Rich East<br />

and Rich South.<br />

But the geography got<br />

a little wild with some of<br />

the other schools in 22nd<br />

Century Media land<br />

The Class 6A South<br />

District A group had<br />

Providence Catholic<br />

lumped in with Bloomington,<br />

Hinsdale South,<br />

Kankakee, LaSalle-Peru,<br />

Lemont, Normal West,<br />

Ottawa and Wheaton St.<br />

Francis.<br />

And in the Class<br />

8A South District D,<br />

Lincoln-Way East was in<br />

with Joliet Central, Joliet<br />

West, Minooka, Belleville<br />

East, Edwardsville and<br />

O’Fallon.<br />

The smart money is<br />

on Proposal 16 passing,<br />

and there will be<br />

more teams making the<br />

playoffs. But Proposal 15<br />

of leaving things just as<br />

they are might pick up a<br />

little steam. It is human<br />

nature that people do not<br />

like change, and now that<br />

some schools have seen<br />

the dark side of districts,<br />

what we have now just<br />

might be OK.<br />

The current system has<br />

problems. With the pressure<br />

of trying to win five<br />

games to be playoff-eligible,<br />

we have scenarios of<br />

Sandburg playing a nonconference<br />

game in the<br />

St. Louis suburbs a few<br />

years ago and Andrew<br />

It appears that the SouthWest Suburban Conference<br />

Blue, featuring Lockport and Sandburg, will stay intact<br />

in 2021 if a proposal can knock out the district plan.<br />

JEFF VORVA/22ND CENTURY MEDIA<br />

opening this season at<br />

Kewaskum, Wisconsin.<br />

But it looks like districts<br />

are not going to be<br />

the answer.<br />

Proposals will be<br />

hashed out at meetings in<br />

the state through Nov. 20.<br />

Those proposals still on<br />

the board will be voted on<br />

in early December.<br />

Come 2021, we will<br />

either have more teams in<br />

the playoffs. Or the quo<br />

will remain status.<br />

Public vs. private schools<br />

If it gets on board for<br />

a vote, Proposal 12 will<br />

spark some debate. Carlinville<br />

Principal Patrick<br />

Drew drew up a proposal<br />

requesting separate<br />

state tournaments for<br />

boundaried (public) and<br />

non-boundaried (private)<br />

schools.<br />

Drew compared private<br />

vs. public school competition<br />

to a coin flip.<br />

“If a fair coin was<br />

flipped 7,454 times,<br />

the chances it would<br />

land heads 3,343 or<br />

fewer times is about 1<br />

in 3,440,000,000,000,<br />

000,000,” he wrote. “To<br />

put it another way, the<br />

chances that the coin was<br />

actually fair are not as<br />

good as a person<br />

winning the Illinois<br />

Lotto game two days in<br />

a row. It is, simply put,<br />

nowhere close to a fair<br />

system.”<br />

I get it, I guess. The<br />

bottom line is that private<br />

schools have a bigger<br />

advantage because they<br />

have bigger pools of students<br />

to choose from.<br />

It will be interesting to<br />

see if this proposal gets<br />

any traction.<br />

LISTEN UP<br />

“I think the highest we were ranked in the preseason<br />

was ninth. Now we are near the top of the state and<br />

might be competing for a trophy.”<br />

John O’Malley — Sandburg boys cross country coach<br />

WHAT2WATCH<br />

CROSS COUNTRY<br />

Various times, Saturday, Nov. 9<br />

• The state finals take place at Detweiller Park in<br />

Peoria for three classes of girls and three classes<br />

of boys.<br />

Index<br />

43 - Athlete of the Week<br />

42 - Athlete of the Month<br />

Compiled by Sports Editor Jeff Vorva,<br />

J.vorva@22ndcm.com


Orland Park’s Hometown Newspaper | November 7, 2019<br />

A NORMAL WIN<br />

Providence Catholic tops Normal West<br />

in a football thriller, Page 45<br />

THEY NORMALLY WIN<br />

Sandburg’s volleyball team wins its 16th<br />

straight regional, Page 44<br />

Three Orland Park runners gobble up Top 5 cross country spots at Hinsdale Central Sectional, Page 46<br />

Orland Park’s Thomas Leonard (left photo) of Marist finished fifth in the muddy Class 3A Hinsdale Central Sectional on Saturday, Nov. 2, while Sandburg’s Will Giblin (No.<br />

897) nudged his twin brother, Ben, out for second place by 2/100ths of a second. PHOTOS BY JEFF VORVA/22ND CENTURY MEDIA<br />

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