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ForestParkReview.com Vol. 108, No. 21

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REVIEW MAY 28, 2025

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Finally, commissioners discuss Altenheim land use options

Two write-in candidates win seats on D91 school board

At special meeting, commissioners nix bike path, split on building water reservoirs at Altenheim or CTA parking lot

Incumbent Lyons returns, joined by newcomer By HOPE BAKER

By JESSICA MORDACQ Staff Reporter

Contributing Reporter

The state of the water reservoir under the Howard Mohr Community Center has been a hot topic of conversation among village commissioners and staff for over a year now. As the vessel that holds the village’s drinking water is deteriorating and needs to be replaced, officials are looking at locations for new reservoirs and are choosing between the village-owned CTA Blue Line parking lot and the Altenheim. Following a presentation by the village’s engineering firm, Christopher B. Burke Engineering, at a council meeting last month to show renderings of what the reservoirs would look like on both lots, commissioners voiced their frustration with a lack of discussion about

Four newly elected members of the seven-person school board at Forest Park’s District 91 elementary schools were sworn in on May 8. The four members include incumbents Steven Rummel and John Lyons, as well as newcomers Andrea Marello and Jed Brewer. Unusually, both Lyons and Brewer won the election as official write-in candidates. Candidates for the April 1 school board election gathered nominating petition signatures that were due to the Cook County Clerk’s Office or the County Board of Election Commissioners between Nov. 12 and Nov. 18, 2024. According to Nurys Uceta-Ramos, director of engagement for D91, not enough candidates were running to fill four open seats as of January 2025. “Once we, as a district, saw that we did not have

See ALTENHEIM on page 4

TODD BANNOR

Village Administrator Rachell Entler points to a map of the Altenheim property during a special village council meeting last week.

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A look back in time: 1899 new and secondhand bicycles

Tom Holmes: When old-fashioned is current and relevant

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