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Developer: POD cameras to be Sears being installed on NW Side by WILLIAM SWANSON and partnerships with the community,” BRIAN NADIG tactical lieutenant Terry Forbes renovated The installation of “POD” cameras said. About 30 residents along with is planned in Portage Park, Glad- aldermen Nicholas Sposato (38th) by BRIAN NADIG stone Park and possibly in other and James Gardiner (45th) partici- The former Sears Department communities. pated in the walk. Store at 4730 W. Irving Park Road The “Police Observation Device” Sposato announced that a POD is apparently being reused as part program was discussed at the 16th camera recently was installed at the of a yet-to-be-announced redevelop- (Jefferson Park) Police District’s intersection of Irving Park Road and ment project for the site. Jan. 15 “Walk and Talk with Tact” Central Avenue. Its installation cost “Everyone loves (interior) demo event held at Lockwood and Belle about $27,000 and was funded day. The Novak team is hard at Plaine avenues, where a fatal shoot- through the 38th Ward’s annual work to renovate the 81-year-old ing occurred last month. (See picture $1.32 million discretionary budget, Art Deco building at Chicago’s Six from event on Page 11.) which can be used for a variety of Corners, previously occupied by The neighborhood walks, which infrastructure improvements. Sears. Big things to come,” Novak are held periodically in response to Sposato said after the walk that Construction, which owns the prop- crime patterns and other problems, the Irving-Central camera is the erty, said in a recent Tweet. allow residents to ask the district’s only one in the ward and its location Details of the site’s redevelop- tactical officers questions. In what was chosen in part because fleeing ment plan have not been released. police have described as a targeted criminals often use Irving Park Road In recent weeks crews have been shooting, a 33-year-old man on Dec. to access the Kennedy Expressway. gutting portions of the building. 28 died from a gunshot wound he Several of the reported homicides Alderman James Gardiner (45th) suffered while in a parked car in the and shootings in the district since said that any proposal for the site 4000 block of North Lockwood 2019 have occurred along Irving will be subject to public input and Avenue, police said. Park or a nearby side street. that he is looking for “a communi- Billed as a new way to “share A POD also is being installed at ty-based development that will NOVAK Construction posted this picture on its Twitter The company said it would make an announcement about information to solve existing crimes the intersection of Milwaukee and improve the walkability of Six page from the interior demolition at the former Six Corners “Big things to come” in the near future. and prevent future crimes,” the Elston avenues due to crime-related Sears building at 4730 W. Irving Park Road. (Photo from Novak’s Twitter page) (Continued on Page 8) walks help “build bridges and create concerns expressed by the communi- ty, Alderman Samantha Nugent (39th) said in an interview. On June 29, 2020, a woman was fatally shot at the Esquire Motel, 6145 N. Elston Ave., during a reported drug trans- action, and a man was arrested about two months later in connec- tion with the incident. The camera along with one at Bryn Mawr and Kedzie avenues in the 17th (Albany Park) District are being funded through the “Invest in Cook” (Continued on Page 8) Man charged ‘Cultural District’ in breach at proposed for U.S. Capitol by CYRYL JAKUBOWSKI A Northwest Side man drove for more than 11 hours to attend President Trump’s rally Jefferson Park in Washington D.C. on Jan. 6 and when he returned to by BRIAN NADIG The Chicago Art Center is a new Chicago the FBI came knocking A proposed “Northside Cultural exhibit-focused entity. on his door a week later and he District” across from Jefferson “It is based on the experience of is facing charges in connection Memorial Park would include the Ed providing world-class exhibitions at with the riot on Capitol Hill. Paschke Art Center, the Chicago Art the Ed Art Paschke Art Center and The Gladstone Park man was Center and the National Veterans realizing the need for equitable arrested on federal charges Art Museum. access to art and artists, especially Wednesday, Jan. 13, at his home The complex would consist of an Chicago artists,” project officials in the 5500 block of North Mason existing building at 5415 W. Higgins said. Avenue, after he allegedly partic- Ave. that currently houses the The Ed Paschke center opened in ipated in last week’s riot at the Paschke center and a new three- Jefferson Park in 2014 and his art U.S. Capitol and was one of 20 to story structure that would be built at often features intricate patterns and 30 people who were in House 5374 W. Lawrence Ave., where a vibrant colors, and his works have Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s ran- house was demolished in 2019 for a been shown in some of the most SHOWN is a rendering of the proposed “Northside Cultural The complex would be attached to the Ed Paschke Art Center, sacked office on Jan. 6, according nine-flat apartment proposal that famous art museums in the world. District” across from Jefferson Memorial Park, 4822 N. Long Ave. 5415 W. Higgins Ave. (Rendering by the Chicago Art Center) to a federal complaint. failed to materialize. Paschke, a Chicagoan who died in THE SUSPECT was identi- The 20,628-square-foot complex 2004, belonged to a group known as fied in a U.S. District Court com- also would include a rear addition to the imagists who were influenced plaint filed in the District of the building on Higgins, and the two by abstract and expressionist art Taft LSC resolution calling for Columbia as Kevin James Lyons, museum buildings may be connected and the pop movement of the age 40, of the 5500 block of North via a walkway over an alley that sep- 1960s. Mason Avenue. arates the two parcels. The Milwaukee-Lawrence busi- He is charged with one count of The project is being designed by in-person learning delay fails ness district includes other cultural knowingly entering or remaining Chicago-based John Ronan attractions, the Copernicus Center by BRIAN NADIG in favor, four against and four absten- reopen for in-person learning until the in a restricted building or Architects, which was one of the at 5216 W. Lawrence Ave. and the A non-binding resolution calling for tions. “The vote definitively reflects high school opens for all students. grounds without lawful authori- finalists for the Obama Presidential Gift Theatre at 4802 N. Milwaukee the delay of in-person learning at where we all are (on the issue),” LSC Some LSC members said that their ty, and one count of violent entry Library. Ave. Chicago schools failed to pass at the chairwoman Kathy Fern said. child is struggling with remote learn- and disorderly conduct on Plans also call for a nearby cafe Both the Gift and the advisory Jan. 12 meeting of the Taft High Fifty-eight LSCs have approved ing and hope Taft can safely reopen. Capitol grounds. He appeared on inside the 135-year-old Esdohr council would serve as affiliates of School Local School Council. similar resolutions, according to LSC LSC parent member Chris Raguso Jan. 13 before U.S. Magistrate House, 4820 N. Long Ave., which is the cultural district. The vote was evenly split, with four teacher representative Bridget said that she worries the teachers Judge Gabriel A. Fuentes in located on the grounds of the park Doherty Trebing. The resolution union will continue to have objections Chicago via video and was and once served as the park’s craft called for a delay so that “councils, no matter how much additional dia- ordered released to face the shop. The cafe would be operated in parent and community organizations logue there is on the issue. “They’ll be charges in D.C, according to partnership with the Jefferson Niles manager leaving for and teachers, staff and school admin- something else,” she said. “I feel we Joseph Fitzpatrick, assistant Memorial Park Advisory Council. istrators” can work to formulate a are caught in the middle. ... Why can’t U.S. attorney for Northern A zoning proposal is required for return plan that is “safe, equitable we figure it out?” District of Illinois. the project, and Alderman James job with FEMA in February and installs trust for all parties.” LSC community member Julieta The complaint states that Gardiner (45th) will hold a virtual by JASON MEREL agement is a wonderful profession The intent of the resolution is to Pasko said that intensifying efforts to scores of people captured videos community meeting on the project at Longtime Village of Niles man- that has given him a lot of oppor- ensure that any return is based on col- get teachers vaccinated would go a and took pictures on their cell 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 28. ager Steven Vinezeano will leave tunities and he is looking forward laborative input, Trebing said. “We long way in facilitating a safer return phones after they entered the “By bringing together three incred- the village at the end of the month to serving a larger area. are a team together ... with teachers to in-person learning. Capitol building illegally on Jan. ible arts organizations operating for a position with the Federal He said that he has had FEMA working with administrators.” LSC community member Anita 6 as the events were being broad- under a shared roof we will all real- Emergency Management Agency in the back of his mind for a while.

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