New voluntary design guidelines will be available to downtown business owners and developers if the village council approves the Downtown Facade Improvement Plan January 20 as expected. The plan, which is the result of a strategic plan goal to create and maintain an “authentic downtown,” also would provide grants for facade improvements that conform to [...]
Editor’s note: Despite the fact that some in the community apparently view me as a nattering nabob of negativity (how’s that for a blast from the past?), I truly and deeply appreciate this town. Here are some Downers Grove blessings I’m counting today. Feel free to add your own to the list. And enjoy that [...]
The village council grappled with the stickiest of wickets Tuesday night, entertaining nearly two and a half hours of comments for and against Fairview Village’s petition to re-zone Lynn Gremer Court on the west side of Fairview Avenue from R-3 single-family to R-5a townhouse use. A respected corporate neighbor, Fairview Village proposes building four eight-unit [...]
Score one for the moms. Along with other Lester School PTA members and school and district administrators, they convinced the Transportation and Parking Commission that Lincoln Avenue should be designated a one-way street during school hours. Commission members voted unanimously Oct. 8 to recommend that the council designate the street as an eastbound one-way between [...]
The Illinois Housing Development Authority will hold a meeting for real estate brokers and lenders next Monday as the first step in the agency’s program to help first-time home buyers purchase local properties valued at up to $325,000. The Mortgage Credit Certicate program was made possible by the village council’s decision to cede $1.3 million [...]
When it comes to those Acadia on the Green residents who are disturbed by the Post Office’s inhuman clanging at all hours of the night, well, let’s just say I feel their pain. For the third summer in a row there’s major construction on our street and it’s loud, particularly at 7 a.m. when, if [...]
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