Lombard-based DuPage for Progress to host candidate panels Feb 24-25 Local school board candidates, from left, Kathryn Padberg, Liz Brezinski, Sarah Novey and Kermit Eby gather signatures last November. On Feb. 24-25, DuPage for Progress is hosting virtual meet-and-greets with several of the local candidates running for election on April 6. Courtesy of Sarah Campagna
Updated 2/17/2021 5:35 PM
On Wednesday and Thursday, Feb. 24-25, Lombard-based DuPage for Progress will host two separate virtual meet-and-greets featuring local candidates running in the April 6, 2021 municipal election.
The Feb. 24 municipal candidate panel will be moderated by Lombard small business owner Catrina Kagel.
It will include Liz Brezinski (candidate for Lombard Village Clerk), Brian LaVaque (candidate for Lombard Village Trustee, District 1) and Julie Kowalski-Schmidt (candidate for Helen Plum Library Trustee).
Helen Plum Library zoning approval The new planned Helen Plum Library in Lombard, as seen in a rendering facing south east at the corner of Main Street and Hickory Street. Courtesy of Engberg Anderson Architects
Updated 1/24/2021 5:24 PM
Lombard officials unanimously approved rezoning and sign ordinances to allow for a new Helen Plum Library building during a virtual village board meeting Thursday.
The two-story, 50,000-square-foot facility is budgeted at $27.8 million and is to be located at 401-425 S. Main St. The site is currently home to a shuttered Mr. Z s supermarket and a professional building.
The purchase of the land was contingent upon the library getting zoning approval from the village. The current library building at 110 W. Maple St. is to remain open while construction progresses on the new building, which is slated to open in fall 2022.
Lombard discusses new library, former seminary site redevelopment The proposed new Helen Plum Library in Lombard, as seen in a rendering facing southeast at the corner of Main Street and Hickory Street. Courtesy of Engberg Anderson Architects This rendering shows the proposed new Helen Plum Library in Lombard, which would feature a drive-through lane for book drop-off and pickup on the east side of the building. Courtesy of Engberg Anderson Architects A rendering for a combined Moretti s restaurant and a golf driving range called GolfSocial that are part of a proposed $159 million mixed-use redevelopment of the former Lombard campus of the Northern Baptist Theological Seminary.
Executive director out at Plum library in Lombard Barb Kruser, right, is no longer employed as executive director of the Helen Plum Library in Lombard. Library leadership declined to comment on a reason why. Daily Herald File Photo, 2015
Updated 1/5/2021 5:35 PM
Barb Kruser is out as executive director at Helen Plum Library, library officials announced, without providing any reason for the leadership change.
Sue Kehoe Wilsey, the library s support services and communications director, did not elaborate on Kruser s Dec. 30 departure that was made in a carefully worded news release Monday.
Wilsey also declined to comment during a follow-up telephone call seeking clarification. However, she hinted that more information might be released after the next library board meeting Wednesday, Jan. 20.