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Vol. 32, No. 19
May 10, 2017
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David Axelrod will talk about memoir in June finale By BOB SKOLNIK Contributing Reporter
With politics on many people’s minds the days and months after the November presidential election, the leaders of the Brookfield Public Library have chosen a political book this year for the third annual Brookfield Reads! program. This year’s book is Believer: My Forty Years in Politics by David Axelrod, the Chicagoan who served as Barack Obama’s chief strategist from Obama’s 2004 Senate campaign through two successful presidential campaigns and played as important a role as anyone in electing the United States’ first black president. The highlight of a month of events revolving around See AXELROD on page 11
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Roisin Maloney smacks a double during a Riverside Little League softball game at Big Ball Park on Longcommon Road in Riverside on a cool but sunny Saturday, May 6, a far cry from the previous weekend’s complete rain-soaked washout. For more photos, visit online at wwwRBLandmark.com.
North Riverside’s first Hispanic trustee sworn in Flores hopes to be a voice for growing segment of population
By BOB UPHUES Editor
When Fernando Flores swore his oath of office and took his place at the board table
on May 1, he made history. The 17-year resident of North Riverside became the village’s first Hispanic trustee. Flores finished second in a six-person race for three village trustee seats on April
4. He and fellow VIP Party candidates Theresa Sarro, who was the top vote-getter, and incumbent Joseph Mengoni rounded out the field of winners, topping the fourth-place finisher by more than 400 votes.
The three joined Mayor Hubert Hermanek Jr., who won a second term, taking the oath of office from Cook County Circuit Court See FLORES on page 11
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