Thursday, May 16, 2013
Bridal store owners say they were about to ink lucrative lease agreement, but village manager steered prospective tenant to another location.
The owner of an Oak Lawn bridal shop is claiming that the village manager interfered with a $5 million lease agreement by steering the prospective tenant to another vacant storefront up the street. The newly inducted village board approved parking and landscape variances for JenCare to open one of its senior neighborhood medical centers in the old Men’s Wearhouse space at 6101 W. 95th St., based on a referral from the Oak Lawn Planning and Development commission. Sign up for the Oak Lawn Patch newsletter and follow us on Facebook. Attorney Michael Balourdos representing the owner of House of Brides was ready to close on a seven-year lease with the senior medical care provider to rent the Oak Lawn bridal store at 5433 W. 95th St. When …
Friday, April 26, 2013
The Oak Lawn Village Board will meeting at 6 p.m. tonight (Friday) to discuss a proposed ethics ordinance barring the hiring or appointment of former elected officials for two years after their term ends.
Claiming that their proposed ethics ordinance was barred from Tuesday’s village board agenda out of political retribution, Oak Lawn Trustees Bob Streit (Dist. 3) and Carol Quinlan (Dist. 5) have called for a special board meeting at 6 p.m. tonight (Friday) at village hall. The proposed ethics ordinance would prohibit the hiring or appointment of former elected officials for a period of two years after official’s term of office ends, pursuant to state law. Sign up for the Oak Lawn Patch newsletter and follow us on Facebook. Village Manager Larry Deetjen told Patch that the oridinance missed last week's Tuesday cutoff date for placement on the agenda. Items that come in after the regular deadline are considered on a case-by-case basis. …
Monday, February 25, 2013
Oak Lawn Village Manager Larry Deetjen orders another meeting with Chuck E. Cheese's parent company to discuss security concerns before Tuesday's village board meeting.
Three adults were arrested on multiple charges of battery, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct stemming from a disturbance at Chuck E. Cheese’s on Saturday night. Sign up for Oak Lawn Patch breaking news alerts and follow us on Facebook. Oak Lawn Village Manager Larry Deetjen confirmed the arrests, stating that proactive safety measures taken by the village kept a bad situation from becoming worse. In wake of Saturday's spate of arrests, Deetjen said he is calling for another meeting with the franchise's parent company--CEC Entertainment of Irving, TX-- to discuss ongoing safety concerns at the Oak Lawn Chuck E. Cheese's before the village board meets on Tuesday. An off-duty, Oak Lawn police officer was parked in a police cruiser …
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Monday, January 7, 2013
Oak Lawn village manager says that time for a "proactive" response from Chuck E. Cheese's corporate management after December parking lot shooting is "running out."
Oak Lawn Village Manager Larry Deetjen says he has "mandated" a meeting with corporate representatives from CEC Entertainment to come to Oak Lawn and discuss the most recent spate of violence that occurred in the parking lot of the company’s Oak Lawn Chuck E. Cheese’s franchise on Dec. 22. Sign up for the Oak Lawn Patch newsletter and breaking news alerts. “I’ve always stressed that Oak Lawn is a family community and we won’t condone this type of activity,” Deetjen said. “I want to see a proactive response on [CEC’s] part under the village business license and liquor license.” The evening of Dec. 22, a 20-year-old Chicago resident and admitted member of the Gangster Disciples street gang, was celebrating his child’s birthday with family …
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Friday, December 14, 2012
FBI subpoenas communications and documents stemming from bid process and selection of contractor to replace Oak Lawn public works building roof. Village officials pledge to fully cooperate with criminal investigation.
Several Oak Lawn village officials were served slapped with federal subpoenas on Thursday after the FBI launched a criminal investigation into possible conract bid tampering. Sign up for the Oak Lawn Patch newsletter and breaking news alerts. Oak Lawn Village Manager Larry Deetjen confirmed that members of the village board and executive staff, were served at the Chicago law office of the village’s legal counsel. “We’re cooperating fully with the investigation and turning over all the requested documents,” the village manager said. The FBI has requested all documents, including meeting minutes, proposals, bid specifications, bids, internal and external correspondence and email communications concerning the bid process and selection of a …
Monday, December 3, 2012
Village is likely to rescind bid awarded to company to replace the Oak Lawn public works' facility roof because bid specifications were not clear.
A bid to replace the leaking roof at the Oak Lawn Public Works streets and sewer facility at 98th Street and Central Avenue is likely to be rescinded after questions arose about ambiguous bid specifications. Sign up for the Oak Lawn Patch newsletter and breaking news alerts. The Oak Lawn Village Board voted 4 to 3 to award a $166,085 contract to Adler Roofing of Joliet at the Nov. 27 village board meeting—even though Adler was not the lowest bidder. Seven roofing companies submitted bids to the village in response to a request for proposals. Adler was the fourth lowest bidder, whose alternate bid of $166,085 was $4,909 more than the lowest bidder, DCG Roofing Solutions of Des Plaines, which bid $161,175. DCG also submitted an alternate bid…
Thursday, November 15, 2012
Oak Lawn Village Board battles over shift in game plan seeking service fee from Advocate Christ for public coffers to co-venturing with village on senior wellness center at Beaty property.
Oak Lawn Village Board members discussed—ad nauseam—a plan to explore partnering with Advocate Christ Medical Center on a new senior wellness center as part of a re-development plan at the former Beatty Lumber property. The state-of-the-art senior wellness center would be built by Advocate and owned by the village, possibly as an alternative to paying an impact or service fee to the village’s general revenue fund as a cost of doing business in Oak Lawn. Sign up for the Oak Lawn Patch newsletter and breaking news alerts. As a non-profit, the medical center does not pay the village property taxes or other fees, such as building permits. Oak Lawn trustees voted in December 2011 to begin negotiations with Advocate Christ for a service fee to …
Monday, August 6, 2012
Advocate Christ Medical Center officials are ready to pick up where they left off in May with the Oak Lawn Planning and Development Commission to discuss village-ordered impact study of hospital expansion plans.
Advocate Christ Medical Center will go to the mattresses over Phase II of its expansion plans at the Oak Lawn Planning and Development Commission meeting tonight, Monday, at Oak Lawn Village Hall. The medical center wants to add a 9-story inpatient tower to its 95th Street campus on the east side of Kostner Avenue on the site of an existing parking lot. Advocate Christ President Ken Lukhard said the new inpatient tower would increase capacity, including adding 14 new operating rooms. Last year, the hospital turned away between 5,000 and 8,000 patients because there were no available beds. The Oak Lawn Village Board approved plans for a similarly sized outpatient tower in 2011 that is currently under construction with a projected opening …
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Saturday, July 7, 2012
Oak Lawn experiences extremely low water pressure on Friday as emergency backup generator is installed at Harker Pumping Station. Normalcy expected to return to system by Saturday morning.
If you experienced dribs and drabs of water dripping out of your faucets yesterday there was a logical explanation. Subscribe to the Oak Lawn Patch newsletter and breaking news alerts. Oak Lawn residents and businesses reported extremely low water pressure throughout the village on Friday while an emergency backup generator system was installed at the Harker Pumping Station at 105th Street and Lockwood. Power at Harker was shut off while the portable emergency generators were being installed, causing levels inside of the village’s water towers to fall, thus causing the drop in water pressure. “[On June 30] I met with our engineering team and electrical contractor and informed the village board that I was taking emergency action,” Oak Lawn …
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Tuesday, June 5, 2012
Oak Lawn Planning and Development Commission stands firm in refusing to give its recommendation to medical center expansion plans until Advocate Christ sufficiently addresses neighborhood concerns.
The Oak Lawn Planning and Development Commission respectfully refused to reopen a public hearing for Advocate Christ because the hospital’s management team did not sufficiently answer the village’s questions on a proposed 9-story patient tower. Subscribe to the Oak Lawn Patch newsletter and breaking news alerts. Advocate Christ Medical Center and Oak Lawn planning commissions had agreed last month that the village would submit questions on specific aspects of the medical center’s planned expansion. The hospital management team skipped the last PDC meeting saying it needed more time to respond to the village’s questions. PDC chair Steve Radice said that the only reason the commission agreed to submiting questions in the first place was …
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andy skoundrianos
3:38 pm on Monday, May 20, 2013
Which legal motion OLG?? I had nothing to do with the failed Manager petition. I was part of the candidate challenge in the dist 3 race in jan of 2011. I know you feel like the manager should have contacted you personally about the beatty lumber project since you live right by it, but you are not an official. Heilmann didn't contact you when Streit,Brennan and Dave tried to do a run around with … more ›