There has been much discussion of last year’s gang shooting in the Brunswick Zone parking lot at 103rd Street and Cicero Avenue.
Trustee Tom Phelan, in whose Dist. 6 the shooting occurred, has been strident in his arguments to keep Brunswick’s early closing on Fridays and Saturdays. In exchange, Brunswick has to continue following safety measures implemented by the village.
Phelan called Brunswick’s math “a misrepresentation of facts.”
Trustee Bob Streit (Dist. 3) quickly put an end to another potential village board filibuster saying that he was sick of talking about it.
“I honestly think we beat this issue to death,” Streit said. “I think it’s an unfortunate discussion that we’ve had over and over at this board table.”
Streit said he has visited the Brunswick Zone many times since the safety measures were put into place to keep non-bowling gang members out, and “I can report that I witnessed an atmosphere conducive with what you’d expect at a bowling alley" and not the menacing nightclub atmosphere described before the shooting.
“All this talk has probably had an adverse effect,” Streit said. “I’d like to see Brunswick remain an effective core business in our community.”
With that endorsement, village trustees voted 4-2 not to rescind their first vote allowing Brunswick to expand its weekend operations.
You write some very good and interesting columns, however I think if you want people to comment on the articles you write, people should only be able to say something like they agree or disagree and use some alias name. If they are going to Grand Stand or Level Charges against someone, especially an Elected Official, they need to sign a real name, stand up and be counted, or they should SIT DOWN and BE QUIET, but they should never be able to hide behind some pseudo identity. People read these comments, and could possibly deem them to be 100% accurate, even though the writer that is commenting might be embellishing some thing that is only 20% accurate or factual, but because he or she has some hidden agenda, and being accurate about the statements they expound on does not even come under purview, and that is not being fair to the person or persons' that they are spewing their venom, for one it borders on being libel and slanderous. It amounts to nothing more then character assassination. I certainly don't want to trample on anyone's 1st Amendment Rights, but if they truly want to exercise their rights, they should also be made to identify themselves too. J. J. Zurek Oak Lawn, Illinois
I'll bet that some of the Trustees frequent that establishment after they've imbibed at Deja Brew. Difference is ...they're easily identifiable.