Thursday, February 14, 2013
Each district to receive about $750,000 each for summer infrastructure repair projects as Build American bonds come to an end.
Oak Lawn trustees voted to divide remaining funds for infrastructure improvements equally among the village’s six districts, delaying the traffic signalization project at Central Avenue and Southwest Highway indefinitely. Sign up for Oak Lawn Patch breaking news alerts. Following an appearance by Cook County Commissioner John Daley (11th District) at Tuesday’s village board meeting to clarify remarks made by another Oak Lawn trustee that the county no longer considered the project a priority, the village board postponed voting on the project until it could discuss allocating the remaining Build America bonds. The village has until 2016 to utilize the available funds through Cook County, which would pick up 50 percent of the costs for …
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Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Cook County still considers traffic signalization project at Southwest Highway and Central Avenue a priority, Commissioner John Daley says.
Cook County Commission John Daley (11th District) made a surprise visit at Tuesday’s village board meeting to clarify remarks made by an Oak Lawn trustee that the county no longer considered the traffic signalization project at Central Avenue and Southwest Highway “a priority.” Sign up for Oak Lawn Patch breaking news alerts. Daley said he had received several calls after the Jan. 22 village board meeting that the county was no longer committed to installing a left turn lane at Central Avenue and Southwest Highway. The village has about $7 million left in Build America bonds, part of which was to be used for building a left turn lane northbound on Central Avenue turning west on to Southwest Highway. Oak Lawn trustees previously passed a …
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Is the traffic signal project at Southwest Highway and Central Avenue being purposely stalled until after the April 9 election? We’ll find out at tonight’s village board meeting.
It’s a light and lively agenda when the Oak Lawn Village Board takes the dais tonight at 7:30 p.m. With the upcoming election, we’re sure that all the politics will be left at the door as board members hunker down and work together in a calm and cooperative manner for the betterment of Oak Lawn. Read the light and lively village board agenda. Here’s what we’ll be watching: Southwest Highway/Central Traffic Signalization: Is the left turn lane/signalization project at Southwest Highway and Central Avenue being held hostage until after the April 9th election? Trustee Alex Olejniczak (Dist. 2) noted that after reading the last public works committee minutes from Dec. 12 that Cook County supposedly no longer ranks the project as a priority. …
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Thursday, January 10, 2013
Mayor Dave Heilmann fights back charges from mayoral challenger that he broke the law by using his position as elected official to gain personally and financially from work on cable TV show.
Like the pesky speeders that once appeared before him on Speeders Fight Back, Mayor Dave Heilmann fought back questions that he used his position as an elected official to gain personally and financially from the cable TV series during Tuesday’s village board meeting. (107:17 for those recording the board meeting playbacks on Ch. 4.) Sign up for the Oak Lawn Patch newsletter and breaking news alerts. Charges that he may have broken the law by accepting payment for his role as the judge on the TruTV reality show featuring people’s bizarre excuses when caught breaking traffic laws, were lobbed by the mayoral challenger, Sandra Bury. Heilmann is running for his third term as mayor. In a blog post on Patch, Bury alleged that Heilmann possibly …
Thursday, December 20, 2012
Mayoral challenger Dr. Sandra Bury wins endorsements of four independent trustee candidates including two incumbents, who "collectively pledge to put the interests of Oak Lawn taxpayers first."
Trustee candidates have announced their runs in their respective districts for the Oak Lawn Village Board and are endorsing mayoral challenger Dr. Sandra Bury in the April 2013 election. Restaurateur and businessman Tim Desmond has announced his run in the special election for Dist. 1 trustee. Desmond is challenging incumbent Cindy Trautsch, who was appointed to the seat after the resignation of former Trustee Jerry Hurckes in August 2011. The term is for two years. Sign up for Oak Lawn Patch breaking news alerts. Desmond brings "a wealth of real-world business experience to the trustee office as the founder and owner of Jack Desmond's Pub in Chicago Ridge". Desmond is also a homebuilder in Oak Lawn and a stationary engineer with Local 399…
Sunday, October 28, 2012
Highlights of the Oak Lawn Village Board meeting.
Thursday, October 25, 2012
Trustee Alex Olejniczak on the defensive as Trustee Bob Streit claims project did not go through proper channels as Dist. 2 residents wait for alley to be fixed.
Oak Lawn Village Board members argued Tuesday whether an alley project was started without going through proper channels. Trustee Bob Streit (Dist. 3) said he discovered by accident another alley project was about to begin that was not on the summer’s street and alley repair list, which the village board had approved in February. Subscribe to the Oak Lawn Patch newsletter and breaking news alerts. Streit told the village board—and the Ch. 4 viewing audience—that he had learned about the estimated $125,000 alley project after talking to a field engineer on Oct. 10. At the very least, the project should have gone back to the public works committee, which he chairs. Streit accused a fellow trustee—Alex Olejniczak (Dist. 2)—of circumventing …
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Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Trustees reinstate 8 p.m. curfew for Halloween trick or treating--but with conditions.
Tuesday’s village board meeting lasted all of 29 minutes, much of which was spent discussing Oak Lawn’s curfew for Halloween trick or treating. Last year the curfew for trick or treating in the village was shortened to 7 p.m. after Trustee Alex Olejniczak (Dist. 2) said he received calls from a concerned parent that 8 p.m. was too long of a window for kids to be out running around in the dark. Olejniczak also said that 8 o'clock was a little late for seniors to be opening their doors at night. Some parents complained on Patch that they couldn't get home from work until 6 p.m. Under Olejniczak’s proposal to end trick or treating at 7 p.m., by the time they arrived home and got kids changed into costumes Halloween would be over. Oak Lawn …
Monday, August 20, 2012
Trustees agree to put electrical aggregation referendum on Nov. 6 ballot that could save residents between $200 to $400 annually on electricity bills but hiring a broker to negotiate a lower rate with electrical suppliers is still up for debate.
Oak Lawn trustees unanimously agreed to put an electrical aggregation referendum on the Nov. 6 ballot, but crossed swords over hiring a broker to negotiate a lower rate with an electrical supplier recommended by the public works committee. Trustee Alex Olejniczak (Dist. 2) questioned if a consultant—Progressive Energy Group of Evergreen Park—was actually needed to negotiate a lower rate on behalf of the village. Subscribe to the Oak Lawn Patch newsletter and breaking news alerts. “I’ve been buying energy on the open market in my business for 15 years,” Olejniczak said. “It’s complicated but when you really break down and look at what needs to be done, it’s clearly not that complicated.” Before municipalities can enter into electrical …
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
The mother of a Hometown eighth-grader who was killed crossing the intersection of Cicero Avenue and Southwest Highway asks for Oak Lawn Village Board's help to make corner safer for pedestrians.
In a room before sobbing parents and children, Krista Wilkinson spoke of the agony that her family has suffered in the six weeks since her daughter, Kaylah Lentine, 14, was struck by a pickup truck and killed crossing the intersection of Southwest Highway and Cicero Avenue. Watch the video of Krista Wilkinson's statement. Kaylah had missed the school bus the morning of May 24 and decided to walk the two miles from her family’s residence in Hometown to Oak Lawn-Hometown Middle School, where she was to have received a leadership award at the eighth-grade awards assembly. She never made it to school that morning and died before she was able to graduate from grammar school with her classmates. The accident is still under police investigation …
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10:12 am on Sunday, February 17, 2013
How about making it so you can't turn left off Central and making it a school safety zone with flashing lights?? Very simple solution. Making a left turn lane would require additional surface area (which would put cars closer to those houses on the north side of SW Hgwy) or tie up traffic more since an existing lane would need to be dedicated to this. more ›