Search Your Brain & Attic for Hanover Park Memories

Hanover Park is planning a yearlong celebration to mark its upcoming 50th anniversary. To prepare for all the festivities in 2008, it’s asking residents to take a trip down memory lane.

The village wants to know who’s lived in the area the longest. It’s also in search of old photographs and memorabilia to display at village hall. Residents are even asked to share any special memories they have of their time in Hanover Park.

So head up to the attic and get lost in nostalgia. Let the village know what you’ve got, plus any suggestions for the celebration.

Call (630) 372-4218 or e-mail Kim Benedix, executive coordinator to the village manager, at kbenedix@HanoverParkIllinois.org.

Craig Joins Regional Mayors to Address Foreclosure Problem

Mayor Craig joined area Mayors at a meeting of the Metropolitan Mayor's Caucus for a meeting entitled, Innovative Foreclosure Prevention Strategies: Keeping Communities Stable. This meeting focused on the growing foreclosure rates (up nearly 36% in in Illinois from 2005 to 2006) that faces communities around the region and around the nation. Hanover Park is not immune. We've had 199 foreclosures in the past year. Therefore, we need to plan to resolve the issues that face our residents. Much of the current rate is a result of the sub-prime mortgage industry that gave loans to people who could not afford them over time. The Mayor's Caucus led by Mayor Daley made a statement calling for the Illinois Congressional delegation to help seek solutions to this problem that include foreclosure relief, consumer education and requirements for lenders to follow stricter guidelines when lending.
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Happy 4th of July

Drafted by Thomas Jefferson between June 11 and June 28, 1776, the Declaration of Independence is at once the nation's most cherished symbol of liberty and Jefferson's most enduring monument. Thomas Jefferson has expressed the convictions in the minds and hearts of the American people. The political philosophy of the Declaration was not new; its ideals of individual liberty had already been expressed by John Locke and the Continental philosophers. What Jefferson did was to summarize this philosophy in "self-evident truths" and set forth a list of grievances against the King in order to justify before the world the breaking of ties between the colonies and the mother country. (From the National Archves)

This week, we celebrate our Independance by sharing time together with family and friends at picnics, parades, and time away from the day-to-day routine activities. We celebrate our freedom as blessed people of a God loving society.

Enjoy your family, your friends, and celebrate in a safe manner.

Rod...