With two months remaining to file petitions for next spring’s local elections, I wanted all Oak Parkers — including those thinking of running for office — to know that I will not be seeking a third term as an Oak Park village trustee.

PART II None of the newly-built high-rises offer relief from high rents in Oak Park. As detailed last week, most current Oak Parkers cannot afford the rent in the newly-constructed high-rises, let alone buy a new condominium. 

After years of subsidizing every private development and commercial infrastructure improvement scheme they could find, even to the point of outsourcing most development negotiation and decisions to the Oak Park Development Corporation to put together fait accompli deals for the village board and the Plan Commission to approve (or else), they are now trying to position themselves as the guardians of property tax efficiency with classic austerity property tax cap and citizen fiscal review board limits to public spending, mostly focused on those “other” taxing bodies.