Franklin Park wins $1 million EPA grant

Franklin Park’s new police station has been awarded a grant for $985,000 by the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, Mayor Barrett Pedersen and Police Chief Michael Witz announced. The grant will help to provide storm water management improvements at the facility and to help reduce pollution flowing into the Des Plaines River. Funding for this project was provided, in part, by the Governor ...
http://franklinpark.suntimes.com/news/12556257-418/franklin-park-wins-1-million-epa-grant.html

Published: Mon, 21 May 2012 16:38:20 -0700

Franklin Park, other towns fight water-rate hikes

Community leaders are lobbying Illinois lawmakers on Senate Bill 3658, the water rate protection bill. Franklin Park Village President Barrett Pedersen, as well as LaGrange Park Village President James Discipio and Westchester Village President Sam Pulia of Westchester, have been vocal about Chicago rate increases for the next three years. Neil James, deputy director of the West Central ...
http://franklinpark.suntimes.com/news/11474922-418/franklin-park-other-towns-fight-water-rate-hikes.html

Published: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 13:23:24 -0700

Franklin Park families panic over proposed cuts in child care aid

Lidia Sanchez of Franklin Park is worried. Gov. Pat Quinn has proposed budget cuts to the Child Care Assistance Program, a program that covers the majority of the cost for three of Sanchez’s children to attend daycare while she works at Cook County hospitals, helping patients apply for insurance. “I will literally be out of a job,” if the program is cut,” Sanchez said. “I will end up on ...
http://elmwoodpark.suntimes.com/news/12323860-418/franklin-park-families-panic-over-proposed-cuts-in-child-care-aid.html

Published: Sun, 06 May 2012 21:19:54 -0700

Franklin Park families panic over proposed child care aid cuts

Lidia Sanchez of Franklin Park is worried. Gov. Pat Quinn has proposed budget cuts to the Child Care Assistance Program, a program that covers the majority of the cost for three of Sanchez’s children to attend daycare while she works at Cook County hospitals, helping patients apply for insurance. “I will literally be out of a job,” if the program is cut,” Sanchez said. “I will end up on ...
http://franklinpark.suntimes.com/news/12323860-418/franklin-park-families-panic-over-proposed-child-care-aid-cuts.html

Published: Fri, 04 May 2012 21:53:28 -0700

With the Illini: Beckman lets son call play on family’s new home

Illini football coach Tim Beckman listens to lineman Corey Lewis talk Monday at Franklin Middle School.
http://www.lincolncourier.com/sports/x624596041/With-the-Illini-Beckman-lets-son-call-play-on-family-s-new-home

Published: Mon, 21 May 2012 22:09:03 -0700

Illini's Beckman lets son call play on family’s new home

While Illinois football coach Tim Beckman, who appeared in Springfield Monday, went recruiting this spring, so did his son, Alex. A football player, the eighth-grader toured high schools near the U of I selected Urbana High School, which opened a new football stadium with artificial turf last season. So the Beckman family decided to build in a subdivision a few miles from campus.
http://www.sj-r.com/sports/x624596041/With-the-Illini-Beckman-lets-son-call-play-on-family-s-new-home

Published: Mon, 21 May 2012 22:04:07 -0700

BGA president: Tax dollars go down drain

Andy Shaw says governments need to be watched in the suburbs, not just Chicago. “I think some of the worst practices are in the suburbs and collar counties because no one is watching,” Shaw said. Shaw is the president of the Better Government Association. He spoke Tuesday during a meeting, partially sponsored by the Franklin Park/Schiller Park Chamber of Commerce, in Rosemont. Much of Shaw’s ...
http://elmwoodpark.suntimes.com/news/12642898-418/bga-president-tax-dollars-go-down-drain.html

Published: Mon, 21 May 2012 10:04:51 -0700

Summersville teacher honored with award

MT. VERNON — Cheers resounded throughout the Summersville Grade School gym this week as students expressed their gratitude and appreciation for first grade teacher Erin Franklin.
http://register-news.com/local/x241730513/Summersville-teacher-honored-with-award

Published: Fri, 11 May 2012 22:06:28 -0700

Have You Seen the Photo of Obama Dressed in ‘Colonial Attire’…in Front of a Gadsden Flag?

Didn’t several members of the mainstream media mercilessly ridicule the Tea Party for adopting colonial imagery?
http://news.yahoo.com/seen-photo-obama-dressed-colonial-attire-front-gadsden-003357037.html

Published: Wed, 23 May 2012 17:33:57 -0700

Future voters grill Park Ridge mayor on City Hall life

Park Ridge Mayor David Schmidt grew up singing in a church choir, got to skip the eighth grade and wasn’t really big on doing homework until he reached law school. These are some of the bits of trivia that fifth-graders at Franklin School in Park Ridge picked up when they sat down with the mayor as part of an exercise in civics and letter-writing. Students in Tony Belmonte’s class recently wrote ...
http://parkridge.suntimes.com/news/12362427-418/future-voters-grill-park-ridge-mayor-on-city-hall-life.html

Published: Sun, 06 May 2012 17:51:43 -0700