Western Springs

And pull out a door.

Western Springs, Springdale.

And we didn't have Rubbermaids back then.

No, no, no. June wasn't using Rubbermaids like Colleen O'Connell back there.

And by encouraging the involvement of, again, those of us that are a little bit older in that decision-making process, hopefully refinements can be made in the system to make it really user-friendly, age-friendly for all ages.

So maybe LaGrange is doing something like this and Western Springs is doing something like this, but they haven't been talking to each other about it.

Maybe they could save money or be even more efficient or provide richer services, right?

Yes and yes, because it can be both money saving as well as functionally a more useful system.

I mean, in regards to kind of bringing those and bridging those communities together, it's one thing why the Mayor's Caucus was kind of created and informed.

It was to kind of bring those communities together for a dialogue and for a conversation.

And so that's one reason why we created our age-friendly collaborative, so that communities from the La Granges or Western Springs or West Chesters of the world can come together and share ideas and concerns and then work on those ideas together.

And concerns together and benefit the entire region.

Loved him.

We had a poster of him in our office in Western Springs in the Spanish office.

We had a big Jax Teller poster.

Speaking of creeps.

My dad.

Apparently he's the best shooter in Western Springs.

My dad wouldn't murder me in basketball.

Probably...

...

so we have a lot of young families, great schools, um, fun parks, a lot of, um, activities within the cities all along La Grange, Western Springs, Hinsdale.

They all have great downtowns.

They, they're vibrant.

Um, if it's a relocation client, you know, again, um, if they're coming to me, I like to take them out and give them a little taste of the different communities.

Hmm.

Because they may have heard, oh, Hinsdale or Western Springs, uh, I, I wanna live there.

And then when I give them a little taste of everything, they, they end up somewhere else, you know? So, um, that's, it's, and it's kind of fun, you know, 'cause then I can t- speak to all the differences in the towns.

It takes a little bit of portion of Burbank to the south, and then it keeps going west, uh, through La Grange.

It skips over Western Springs.

[laughs]

It takes in almost 98% of Hinsdale, and then about 5% of Burr Ridge.

But then it was weird because the district was Lipinski, then, you know, his son Lipinski, and then they had Marie Newman, and then they completely changed the district and all of a sudden it changed the dynamic with the gerrymandering.

But how do you skip Western Spri- how does that happen? [laughs]

So Western Springs has a forest preserve that is north of Ogden Avenue.

Right.

Um, it took about a year to determine the right location.

I mean, we had looked at Naperville, we looked in Western Springs, we looked in Oak Brook.

Um, and ultimately the space opened up for us and we felt like it was the right fit.

So-

They all smell like it.

You go to Ace Hardware in True Value in Western Springs.

You go to Ace Hardware up in Antioch.

You walk in and it's...

He's part of a vanishing breed in Illinois, a moderate Republican more interested in reaching across the aisle than giving the ruling Democrats the back of his hand.

But Western Springs Republican Jim Durkin is relinquishing his role as House minority leader, a largely thankless job as his party moves further to the right and the state moved further to the left.

And he said being called a RINO is a badge of honor.

That stands for Republican in name only, a taunt conservatives spit at moderates, and an idea that Durkin argues is killing his party," unquote.