W E D N E S D A Y
September 25, 2024 Vol. 45, No. 13
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Fall
2024
Performing Arts Guide
What's Inside
Chicago a cappella | Comedy Plex | Dominican Performing Arts | International Mansion | La Caccina | North Riverside Players Oak Park Concert Chorale | Robert's Westside | The Symphony of OPRF | Trinity High School
On the cover: Sones de Mexico Ensemble, photo provided by Dominican Performing Arts
of Oak Park and River Forest
Fall Arts Guide Page 20
Traffic-calming comes to Gunderson Residents express concerns about safety but data doesn’t agree By LUZANE DRAUGHON Staff Reporter
Sweet blessings TODD BANNOR
Ronnie Preston, American Indian Center Cultural and Education Programs director, blesses sweet grass before harvesting by sprinkling tobacco on it at the Food is Medicine event at Thatcher Woods Trailside Museum on Sept. 20. See more photos on page 6.
Building Community since 1993
Oak Park trustees approved a staff recommendation to install traffic-calming measures on Gunderson Avenue after residents on the 600 block expressed concerns about excessive speed, increased traffic and general safety in the area. “The adults on the block, and I expect this commission as well, would be completely remiss and entirely heartbroken if we did not petition for a traffic-calming measure and one of the children on the block were struck by a speeding car,” Alissa Nowinski, a resident of that block, wrote to the transportation commission in September 2021. Ron Burke, chair of the transportation commission, did not immediately reply to a Wednesday Journal inquiry about the delay in action regarding those concerns. Trustees unanimously opted for a more limited staff recommendation that contrasted with a transportation commission recommendation with stronger measures. A motion to do both failed on a 3-4 vote. See TRAFFIC-CALMING on page 10
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