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JULY 9, 2025
Prime Athletic Club open for baseball and softball training
Six indicted following intercepted coke delivery in Forest Park
Four local owners developed the space for off-season practice and mental performance offerings By JESSICA MORDACQ
Home on Beloit had been under police surveillance
Staff Reporter
Ever noticed how there’s no indoor training space in Forest Park for baseball and softball come the harsh Chicago winter? Well, that’s changed with the opening of Prime Athletic Club, which provides 11,000 square feet for baseball and softball practice, clinics and camps where there was once a T-shirt factory at 1401 Circle Ave. Hundreds of locals attended Prime Athletic Club’s ribbon cutting on June 30 to get a first look at the 70-by-56-foot turf infield, 70-foot-long retractable batting cages and a small area for strength and conditioning covering half the facility. Prime Athletic Club is hosting tryouts this week for its own baseball and softball teams for 8-yearolds to high schoolers. They will offer camps and clinics throughout the year. Four local owners – Scott DiGrazia of Chicago, Mike Ernst of Forest Park, Brian
The Wall of Renown gains 13 new members
By BILL DWYER Contributing Reporter
baseball and softball and, in the area as a whole, I think it’s short on player development and building athletes into young men and women outside of the sport,”
The interdiction last November of the delivery of one and a half kilos of cocaine at a Forest Park residence just two blocks east of the Forest Park police station has resulted in the indictment of six people on drug conspiracy charges. A superseding indictment filed in federal court June 10 lodged drug conspiracy charges against Andre DeBruce, 40, of Schiller Park, and Terrance Patton, 40, Craig Caldwell, 43, Timothy Belin, 48, Jennifer Word, 39, and Denomoius Wells, 41, all of Chicago. Patton, Caldwell and DeBruce all have prior criminal convictions, DeBruce for distribution
See PRIME ATHLETIC on page 7
See COKE INDICTMENT on page 10
TODD BANNOR
Forest Park Mayor Rory Hoskins and head baseball coach Scott DeGrazia cut the ribbon at Prime Athletic Club. Straw of Oak Park and Dan Anderegg of River Forest – launched Prime Athletic Club because an indoor space for off-season skill development was lacking in and around Forest Park. “This area is short on facilities for
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A look back in time: Patiomonium at F.I.M.
Ed McDevitt: There is hope — just not today
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