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New PC/ZBA member a consensus builder
by Dennis Sullivan editor@ewcnews.com May 1, 2014 Crete’s newest Planning Commission/Zoning Board of Appeals member might prefer to forget meeting Crete’s mayor more than two years ago. Tim Brennan was rehabbing his new home on the 1600 block of Main Street when Mike Einhorn arrived in his role as assistant fire chief. “He was burning some […]
Crete nursing home to continue on Richton Road
by Dennis Sullivan editor@ewcnews.com March 27, 2014 A nursing home and assisted-living complex originally operated as a Catholic facility is up for sale by its current owner, Trilogy Health Services LLC. Attorney Janet L. Schwieters is representing both buyer and seller in the deal. Trilogy, a secular corporation, has operated St. James Manor, a 110-bed […]
Einhorn continues quest for e-w bi-state route
by Dennis Sullivan editor@ewcnews.com Jan. 31, 2014 Crete Mayor Mike Einhorn is asking local Illinois and Indiana officials to support his request for a $180,000 grant to study development of a local roadway linking Monee and Crown Point, Ind. Einhorn envisions building a seven-mile link between Crete-Monee Road’s current east end and the current west […]
Daycare center on track to receive TIF funding
by Dennis Sullivan editor@ewcnews.com Nov. 26, 2013 Crete trustees have unanimously agreed to spend up to $12,000 in tax increment finance funds to cover half the cost of replacing a local daycare center’s rear deck/play area. Monday’s 6-0 vote instructed Village Attorney Jim Stevenson to draw up an ordinance allocating the reimbursement to the Little […]
Crete planning, zoning panel endorses 2nd home request
by Dennis Sullivan editor@ewcnews.com Nov. 19, 2013 Crete’s Planning Commission/Zoning Board of Review has endorsed a family’s zoning request that would allow them to keep a second home on their property west/southwest of the intersection of Main Street and Burville Road in unincorporated Crete. Thursday’s unanimous vote eliminates one obstacle to a special use permit […]
‘It’s a dangerous little road’
by Dennis Sullivan editor@ewcnews.com Sept. 12, 2013 Crete trustees Monday tabled action on resurfacing a half-block-long stretch of road in the Lincolnshire Estates subdivision after a lengthy discussion that ranged from using an outside asphalt contractor, to performing the work in-house, to tearing up and removing the current road surface. Trustee Holly Milburn raised the […]
Crete takes aim at ‘uninhabitable’ houses in Lincolnshire
by Dennis Sullivan editor@ewcnews.com Crete wants the owner of the 2,900-square-foot Lincolnshire Subdivision house demolished last week to reimburse the village for tear-down costs. Mayor Mike Einhorn said Crete is filing a lien to recoup its expenses on the property just east of the intersection of Crete and Richton roads. A lien is a financial […]
Should the 6th Grade Ctr be demolished?
The Crete-Monee school board’s most senior member said Monday evening the Sixth Grade Center should be demolished. Tom Hysell said razing would be cheaper than renovating the facility near the corner of Exchange and Sangamon streets that served as Crete-Monee High School until 2007. Putting money into renovating the facility, he said, is “like me […]
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