Volume 86. Number 78$1.00 FRIDAY, MOUNT PROSPECT JUNE 10, 2016 ******ECRLOT 0038A**C071 MT PROSPECT PUBLIC LIBRARY 10 S EMERSON ST STE 1 0000084 MT PROSPECT, IL 60056-3295 JOURN 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 Glad Grad Village: Tykables OK To Stay MP Hears Residents' Concerns By RICHARD MAYER all zoning and village code Assistant Managing Editor regulations. Some residents, who do Nearly 30 Mount Prospectnot live far from the business, residents filled the villagewhich caters to individuals boardroom Tuesday nightwho need or desire to wear where some shared concernsadult diapers, requested the about a new local businessbusiness be removed from that owner's YouTube video. location if not completely out In the end, village officialsof town. stated there is nothing they can Village attorney Lance do legally to stop Tykables,Malina stated if the village 512 W. Northwest Hwy., fromtried to push the business out operating since nothing illegalor even try to stop it from op- is occurring and owner Johnerating after it had submitted Williams is complying with (Continued on page 8A) St. Viator Lions Park Reaches Leads Way Class of 2016 Co -President Michael Miceli sits next to Elk Grove High School PrincipalPaul Kelly (left) before addressing students at Sunday's commencement ceremony in theElk Grove Final Four For Central High School gym. See more photos on page 5A. (Tom Robb/The Journal) » Page 14A » Page 10A Page 2A I Friday, June 10, 2016 I The Journal www.journal-topics.com Settlements Of $27 Million Shred Your Docs At Ordered In Caputo's LawsuitJuno Lot June 18 No Recent Movement To Fill Vacant Groups with outstanding If you have sensitive documents you'd like to have shred- claims settled in the case includ- ded -- free of charge -- then mark your calendar for 9 a.m. Elk Grove Town Center Location ed the PACATrust, representing to noon Saturday, June 18. produce wholesalers, claiming State Rep. Marty Moylan (D -55th) is sponsoring the event By TOM ROBB Heights roads. $5.6 million in outstanding at the Juno Lighting parking lot at Wolf and Algonquin roads Journal & Topics Reporter The Piggly Wiggly groceryinvoices, MB Financial Bank in Des Plaines. Other sponsors include the Journal & Top- store company, owned by theclaiming $22.2 million in unpaid ics Media Group and Des Plaines Aid. Dick Sayad (4th). A federal court approvedButera family which also ownsloans to Caputo's and Mid - Interested persons are invited to bring their documents to settlements totalling more than Butera Foods, purchased severalCounty Equipment Finance of the Juno lot to have them properly disposed of. $27 million and appointed aCaputo's properties including Minnesota claiming $1.8 million Moylan has sponsored similar shredding days with much receiver in a federal case againstThe Oaks shopping center atin bills for leased equipment at success. It's an opportunity for area residents to have their Des Plaines -based Joe CaputoLee and Oakton streets in Des the Des Plaines and Elk Grove important personal documents destroyed so they don't get & Sons Fruit Market late lastPlaines and much of Caputo's Village stores. into the wrong hands. month for outstanding unpaidother stock and assets for $32 Settlements were reduced with Moylan, a resident of Des Plaines, serves parts of Des invoices, loans and lease pay-million at the auctions. Judge Der-Yeghiayan ordering laines, Mount Prospect, Park Ridge and Elk Grove Vil- ments. The Elk Grove Town Center$5.3 million to PACA, $21.6 ge. Two auctions were held May store was leased by Caputo's andmillion to MB Financial Bank, 24 and May 25 to sell off prop-not part of the auctions. $200,000 to MidCounty and erty and assets of the family - Before the two auctions heldnearly $219,000 to other parties owned company. The followingMay 24 and May 25, Elk Groveincluding attorneys and those Want to Contact City Hall, day, Thursday, May 26, FederalVillage Mayor Craig Johnsonhired by the trustee administer- Your School District Judge Samuel Der-Yeghiayansaid nothing would happen toing assets to facilitate and close issued orders approving settle-bring in a new grocer to thereal estate and asset sales. or Township? ments and distributions of assetsclosed Elk Grove Town Center After Dominick's stores Maine Township to several groups, according tospace until claims in court caseclosed across the Midwest in court records. are resolved. 2013, Caputo's purchased those Can Help. Visit Late last month, two auctions With assets of the grocer nownew vacancies in Elk Grove were held to dispose of Caputo'ssold, Johnson said WednesdayVillage, Arlington Heights and www.journal-topics.com assets and property, includinghe had not heard anything inNorthbrook, opening them & Click on Vitals! the assets but not the property ofthe intervening weeks, but saidbriefly as Caputo's markets. the Elk Grove Town Center store there was a great deal of interest at Biesterfield and Arlington before the auctions. Gott Meet & Greet June 15 WMAIC Villager Dan Gott, Republican candidate for the 55th State House Dis- trict, will host a meet and greet event from 7 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Celebrating 25 Years of Serving June 15 at the Friendship Park Conservatory, 395 W. Algonquin Rd., Des Plaines. the Chicagoland Market! Gott is challenging incumbent State Rep. Marty Moylan (D - 55th) in the Tuesday, Nov. 8 Presidential Election. 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"There are still some plants Journal & Topics Reporter current board members will gaining steam, according toproject, he hopes to bring the be interviewing candidates on Ald. Malcolm Chester (6th)community together and feedleft that we could plant at this Dr. Terry Lindsay's spot on the Monday, June 13. Requirements who proposed the project lastsome of the residents who are late a date." Des Plaines Elementary School for the position include U.S. citi- month. losing access to services. Food Chester envisions this year's Dist. 62 Board of Education zenship, residence within the dis- Chester has teamed up withwould be donated to the Desgarden project as a pilot pro- will be filled by one of nine ap- trict's coverage area for at least Erin Moy Doerr of the DesPlaines Self -Help Closet &gram, which could be expanded plicants at the Monday, June 20one year, and voter registration. Plaines Youth Commission toFood Pantry and other orga-if it proves successful. City school board meeting, accord-Registered child sex offenders research the costs of creating anizations. staff has already identified ing to board secretary Margaretwill not be considered. garden enclosure and purchas- Doerr has met with represen-five pieces of city property that Goodchild. Lindsay resigned from the ing safe soil. "There is a risk oftatives from Maryville Acad-could be used for the garden, After a public invitation forboard in May to take a teaching contamination of the soil, evenemy and Oakton Communityincluding 477 S. Des Plaines candidates, applications wereposition at a university in New at open spaces that were previ-College to determine the mostRiver Rd., 30 E. Thacker St., received from: former boardYork, Goodchild said. He was ously a retail location," said the cost and time efficient options 1660 Prospect Ave., 195 Oak - of education member Steven first elected to the board in 2011 alderman. "The cost of testingfor the project. Both institutions ton St., and a large parcel at 877 Adams, Paul Beranek, Mary and re-elected in 2015 for a term that would be beyond our reach,have experience running com-Central Rd. purchased several Byker, Brian Inzerello, R. Razzthat would have ended in 2019. so it is easier bring it in." munity garden programs. Inyears for the construction of a Jenkins, former Des Plaines Zon- The replacement board mem- Contaminated soil is a major their research, Doerr and Ches-fire station.