Hanover Park officials faith that they could restore the once blighted Hanover Square Shopping Center has been rewarded. The village is expected to close on a deal Jan. 12 to sell the shopping center along Barrington Road to Wayne-based SIAINC LLC for $7.25 million.
Hanover Park s three re-elected village trustees Herb Porter, Liza Gutierrez and Jon Kunkel were sworn in Thursday by Porter s elder daughter Chantelle Porter, who in December became the first Black female judge in DuPage County.
The Greenbrook Tanglewood Homeowners Association in Hanover Park kicked off a $10 million upgrade to its 76 buildings with a ribbon-cutting and open house earlier this month attended by Mayor Rod Craig and other members of the village board.
Suburban officials and experts had mixed reactions to Gov. J.B. Pritzker s budget proposals Wednesday. There s a lot of ambiguity that must be explained, mayors said, though there was also praise for parts of the plan.