BLUE ISLAND
Officials say plan won’t close street
Mayor Donald Peloquin assured residents this week that a stretch of Broadway Street would not be closed to make room for more light industrial development.
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“It would give a walled-in … feeling because we would be walled off from the rest of the community,” resident Nancy Madrigal told aldermen at this week’s City Council meeting.
Madrigal was joined by more than 50 residents who live around the stretch of Broadway between Francisco Avenue and Vine Street near some of the city’s rail yards.
But Peloquin said he would not allow development to encroach on the neighborhood near historic downtown Blue Island.
“They won’t close it,” he said.
Madrigal said that she believed Peloquin, but that she and other residents wanted to display how strongly they feel to ensure their neighborhood is not changed. She said closing the road also would increase cause increased traffic congestion through town because of the diverted traffic.
Carmen Greco Jr.
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HOMER GLEN
Board supports building hospital
The Village Board passed a resolution this week supporting the proposed construction of a new Silver Cross Hospital in New Lenox.
The hospital would replace the facility in Joliet and would be about 3 miles away along U.S. Highway 6 at the Interstate Highway 355 interchange. Proponents of the move say the new facility would be more central to areas experiencing the most growth.
If approved by the state, the plan calls for the new hospital to open in 2011. The new facility would provide state-of-the-art care and expanded services, according to hospital officials.
The villages of Lockport, New Lenox, Frankfort and Mokena also have passed resolutions supporting the move.
Joseph Hillenmeyer
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OAK FOREST
City weighs suit over Web site
Two Web site companies have agreed to turn over information to Oak Forest officials who want to find out who is behind a site they allege is defaming the city, officials said.
City Atty. Keri-Lyn Krafthefer said the city filed a lawsuit against Dot5Hosting of California and IPOWERWEB of Arizona in Cook County court late last month for records that could reveal who created www.oak-forest1.org.
Krafthefer and city officials said the Web site misrepresented the status of union issues. An e-mail sent to the Web site administrator, the only contact information on the site, was not answered.
It will take one to two months to identify who is involved, Krafthefer said.
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