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August 17, 2022 Vol. 43, No. 3 ONE DOLLAR @wednesdayjournalinc
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Architect spotlight: Henry Fiddelke Page B1
Debating crime and 24-hour gas stations
Side by Side ... again Next-door neighbors Joan Sanye and Sue Quinn STORY BY JESSICA MACKINNON, PAGE 12
Neighbors of BP on Chicago demand changes By STACEY SHERIDAN Staff Reporter
Since the June murder of 18-year-old Jailyn LoganBledsoe, the 24-hour BP gas station at 100 Chicago Ave. has been at the center of debate for the Village of Oak Park and neighbors alike. But problems at the station have existed much longer. With recent incidents of violent crime, many residents immediate to the BP feel the village board is not moving quickly enough to address the situation. “It is dismaying that we have had to push so hard to get the village to take any action at all to address the most violent gas station in Oak Park,” reads a letter to the village board signed by 66 residents. That letter appeared last week in the Journal’s Viewpoints section. The polite but firm letter, which calls for more aggressive action from the village, was drafted and submitted shortly after the village board’s sole August meeting, ALEX ROGALS/Staff Photographer
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