Turlington Homes will redevelop 10 city-owned properties along 151st St. and Turlington Ave., with sale prices ranging from $168,000 to $248,000.
Enrollment has increased by 44 students in the district, and a new slate of substitute teachers have been approved to address a district-wide teacher shortage.
An ordinance will advance 157th street renovations through county investment.
A law firm connected to the McCaskill family, which now runs the city’s library and park districts, was tapped to investigate the trustee. Pending those findings, the board vacated her seat. Now, she and another trustee are suing.
As the McCaskill family seizes influence over the city’s library, trustees are resorting to filing public records requests, seeking state intervention, and suing the library to fulfill their duties as library fiduciaries.
Residents called for a financial audit of the township’s finances and more transparency. Amid a public records backlog, the township’s attorney said the FOIA process is slow but steady in providing residents information due to a lack of a centralized place for information.
Just two days ahead of the new school year, South Holland School District 151’s board acknowledged past-year successes in student programming and performance, including a 3 percent decline in absenteeism districtwide.
The board of trustees recently repealed an Henyard-era ordinance prohibiting officials from promoting their image on township-funded materials. Supervisor Napoleon Harris claimed that the ordinance is irrelevant to the current administration.
Newly elected board members and Supervisor Napoleon Harris fielded public calls for transparency and the release of a forensic audit into the township’s finances at its meeting on May 27.
The Harvey Public Library District board fired its information technology manager at the same meeting in which it reinstated the employment of Carol Morris, an administrator whom he filed a harassment complaint against months earlier.
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