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Hinsdale Village Board Among other business Tuesday, trustees: • approved a 2019 village tax levy for $13.7 million, which includes $3.42 million for the Hinsdale Public Library. After approved debt service abatements of about $3.18 million, the total levy will amount to just over $10.5 million. • affirmed village support for a pedestrian bridge at 47th Street as part of the Illinois Tollway’s expansion of the Central Tri-State Tollway. The Hinsdale and Western Springs communities were given surveys by the Tollway to deter...
Get the holiday cheer cranked up at the Hinsdale Christmas Walk from 5 to 8 p.m. tomorrow, Dec. 6, in downtown Hinsdale. The 54th annual event, sponsored by the Hinsdale Chamber of Commerce, will feature Cookie's Carousel, the Kiddie Express train, animated characters, strolling carolers, giveaways and more. Eva Field, the chamber's president and CEO, said visitors will recognize most of the attractions. "We haven't really added anything new," Field said. But she added that...
The new Bill Jacobs Jaguar and Land Rover dealership on Ogden Avenue is ready to open for business next month, but residential neighbors oppose the village issuing a certificate of occupancy until a permanent concrete barrier fence is in place. At Tuesday’s village board meeting, trustees voted unanimously to approve a second major adjustment to the site plan and exterior appearance for the 336 E. Ogden Ave. facility. The adjustment includes relocations of sections of the fence and a light pole but does not grant a c...
Hinsdale's Paige Glendinning is the first to admit she loves technology. But she and other residents who are part of Stop 5G Hinsdale & Neighbors are working to stop Verizon and other carriers from bringing 5G to Hinsdale - at least until the radiation associated with the technology can be deemed safe. "We started essentially because one of our friends had a wooden stake with the white flag in her front yard - technically the easement," said Glendinning, one of the organizers...
Trinity Sober Living LLC has filed a federal lawsuit claiming the village of Hinsdale is discriminating against residents of The Sober House at 111 N. Grant St. “Under the Fair Housing Act of 1968, as amended by the Fair Housing Amendments Act of 1988 and the Americans with Disabilities Act, the residents of Trinity Sober Living are protected as disabled recovering alcoholics and addicts,” Michael Owens, executive director, wrote in an email responding to questions from The Hinsdalean. The lawsuit, filed Nov. 6 in the U.S...
The Hinsdale Village Board unanimously approved a new contract with the Fraternal Order of Police Tuesday, the same day Community Consolidated Elementary District 181 and the Hinsdale-Clarendon Hills Teachers Association announced they had reached a tentative agreement on a new four-year contract. Village staff and representatives of the Fraternal Order of Police Labor Council have been negotiating since the previous contract expired April 30, Trustee Jerry Hughes said. “It’s the definition of a successful outcome bec...
It’s Halloween in Hinsdale. A time of revelry for both young and old as children finally get to don those carefully chosen costumes, while parents make them put a jacket over because it’s 37 degrees. But lurking in the shadows, just beyond the glowing jack-o-lanterns and illuminated front yard water features, frightful events are stirring in our imagination that would cause anyone’s hair to stand up. Even without a visit to the blow bar. We turn our shielded eyes to the downtown parking deck now under construction, a shini...
Hinsdale trustees Tuesday signaled unified support for prohibiting recreational cannabis-related businesses within the village. During a first read discussion of an ordinance to ban such establishments, trustees said the village should opt out of allowing dispensaries under the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act that Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed into law in June. “This is not a way that the village should be pursuing a revenue-generating opportunity,” Trustee Scott Banke remarked. “This is just not what this commu...
The imminent proliferation of small cell towers in Hinsdale to support new 5G cellular technology has raised fears among village residents over potential health and aesthetic detriments. But with federal and state regulations governing installation of such infrastructure, local officials say they have virtually no power to block it. A number of residents gathered at Tuesday night's village board meeting to express their concerns. Many were alerted to the issue by the sight of...
Hinsdale trustees signaled their support for proposed changes to the site plan and exterior appearance of the new Bill Jacobs Jaguar and Land Rover dealership being constructed at 336 E. Ogden Ave., prompted by noise and light pollution concerns among adjacent residents. The changes to the prior plan, discussed during the board’s first read Tuesday, include relocating the west section of the eight-foot fence further north and the south section of the fence parallel to Franklin Street further east. The extent of tree r...
A home for recovering alcoholics and addicts at 111 N. Grant St. violates Hinsdale’s zoning code, contends Village President Tom Cauley, and is the subject of a complaint in DuPage County Circuit Court. The R-4 residential district in which Trinity Sober House is located stipulates that no more than three unrelated people can live in one home. “It’s meant for families,” Cauley told The Hinsdalean last week. “While they don’t have more than three now, or at least the last ti...
With only two members currently serving on the village’s economic development commission, Hinsdale trustees wonder whether the group has outlived its purpose. “There have been challenges with both recruiting members to the commission and getting a quorum and meeting regularly,” Trustee Jerry Hughes, chairman of administration and community affairs, told his fellow village board members Tuesday. The EDC is scheduled to meet at 7 p.m. the fourth Thursday of each month. Five...
