Friday, December 28, 2012
Several vying to be River Forest trustee; River Forest library board will have to name one person to its board.
Candidates will vie to become village president in Oak Park and River Forest and there will be a contest for trustee in the latter community this spring. One other race in Oak Park will be competitive in the April 9 election as five people will be running for four seats on the library board, according to filing information provided by both communities. Three of them are incumbents. Several races will not be competitive including contests for Oak Park trustee and village clerk, park board in both communities and Oak Park Township. Information was not available on a slate for River Forest Township. As only one candidate filed documents to run for the River Forest library board of trustees, the sitting board will be required to fill the …
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Voluntary dismissal comes nearly 18 months after initial appeal filed.
A lawsuit that sought to toss out the results of Elementary District 97's successful tax rate referendum has finally been dismissed by an Illinois Appellate Court. After months of granting extensions to Taxpayers United of America to file documents related to the case and other matters, a three-judge panel entered the order Dec. 7. Documents related to this case are filed as PDFs. The motion to withdraw was filed by Andrew Spiegel, who represented Noel Kuriakos, an Oak Park resident and Herbert Sorock, from Wilmette who filed suits against their respective districts shortly after their referendums were approved in April 2011. Other moves to block the referendum from taking effect were also blocked. A Cook County Court judge in late May …
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Oak Park Elementary School District 97
970 Madison St, Oak Park, IL
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Wednesday, November 14, 2012
School, parks, library and township contests on ballot in April in addition to village board.
The Oak Park-River Forest area may have just gone through an election. But now it's time to gear up for the local ones in the spring. In addition to village board, there will be other contests on the ballot April 9, and residents interested in serving on any boards still have time to collect signatures before the filing deadline. Packets containing petitions and other election information are available at the respective administrative offices or on the State Board of Elections website. Filing dates are from Dec. 17 to Dec. 24. Slates have already announced for Oak Park and River Forest municipal races, to be held on the same day. Here are other contests on the ballot. Oak Park Elementary District 97 The administrative office at District 97…
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Oak Park Elementary School District 97
970 Madison St, Oak Park, IL
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Oak Park & River Forest High School
201 N Scoville Ave, Oak Park, IL
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch
834 Lake St, Oak Park, IL
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Park District of Oak Park
218 Madison St, Oak Park, IL
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River Forest Park District
401 Thatcher Ave, River Forest, IL
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River Forest School District 90
7776 Lake St, River Forest, IL
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River Forest Public Library
735 Lathrop Ave, River Forest, IL
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Oak Park Township
105 S Oak Park Ave, Oak Park, IL
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8020 Madison St, River Forest, IL
River Forest Township
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Saturday, November 19, 2011
Middle schoolers involved in different incidents within a 24-hour period.
Two Percy Julian Middle School students have been charged with aggravated assault in connection with separate incidents involving weapons, police said Friday. One, which took place on the playground at Longfellow School, 715 Highland Ave., involved a knife; the second, at the Middle School, 420 S. Ridgeland Ave., involved a starter, or fake, pistol, district officials and police said. “These types of incidents are relatively rare in our school district. Unfortunately these took place within 24 hours of each other,” said Elementary District 97 spokesman Chris Jasculca. Between 3 and 4 p.m. on Nov. 16, an argument between an 11-year-old fifth grader at Longfellow and a 14-year-old eighth grader at Julian escalated after the older boy started…
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Percy Julian Middle School
420 S Ridgeland Ave, Oak Park, IL
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Longfellow School
715 Highland Ave, Oak Park, IL
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Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Procedural move in appellate court will have little impact on the status of the case, attorneys on both sides agree.
Taxpayers United of America can seek one appeal against Oak Park Elementary District 97 and Wilmette District 39 instead of two, according to an order issued last week by the First District Illinois Appellate Court. TUA filed an appeal last month after Cook County Circuit Court judges dismissed both cases, which in effect sought to overturn the results of the districts’ successful tax referendums in April. Related: More Referendum Lawsuit Coverage The move will have very little impact on the issues at hand, said Andrew Spiegel, TUA’s attorney and Rob Swain, District 97’s attorney. “The appellate court realizes that both cases involve the same issues, so it decided to lump the two together and decide it once,” Swain said. “They just won’t …
Friday, July 15, 2011
Case so far has cost as much as educating three students, district says.
Oak Park Elementary District 97 will return to court – and be forced to spend more money - as anti-tax advocates who unsuccessfully attempted to overturn results of the April referendum have filed an appeal. An appeal was filed on July 7. Noel Kuriakos and Taxpayers United of America will now try to convince judges in the First District Appellate Court that ballot language intentionally misled voters about the impact of the referendum on their property taxes and that the district failed to use the equalizer in determining the real cost to the taxpayers. Cook County Circuit Court Judge Mary Mikva dismissed the case July 1 with prejudice, meaning that the only action that TUA can take in this case is to appeal. The initial suit was filed …
