Saturday, April 18, 2018 || By Michael Romain || @maywoodnews
Maywood officials are looking to join forces with Bellwood, Broadview, Melrose Park and Cook County in order to create the West Regional Enterprise Zone Collaborative — an expansion of the current Maywood Enterprise Zone that was created back in the late 1980s in order to bring new businesses into the village.
Thursday, April 26, 2018 || By Local News Curator || @maywoodnews
Property owners have until 11:59 p.m. on April 30 to pay their past due property tax bills or risk their houses, buildings or lots getting included in the annual delinquent tax sale that starts Friday, May 4.
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Wednesday, April 25, 2018 || By Michael Romain || @maywoodnews
Starting June 1, the City of Chicago will raise water rates by 1.54 percent, or $3.94 per 1,000 gallons. That’s an estimated $56,000 over the total it charged Maywood last year. The water rate hike is due to an increase in the Consumer Price Index inflation rate.
Continue reading “Maywood Signals It Won’t Pass Chicago’s Water Cost Increase Onto Residents”
Tuesday, April 24, 2018 || By Local News Curator || @maywoodnews || Updated: 5/9/18
Featured image: Maywood Public Library | File
Illinois Secretary of State and State Librarian Jesse White announced today that libraries across the state — including those serving Bellwood, Broadview, Maywood and Melrose Park — were allocated state grants to help purchase critical resources.
Continue reading “Area Libraries Awarded State Grant Funds Totaling Nearly $100K”
Friday, April 20, 2018 || By Michael Romain || @maywoodnews
The Maywood Board of Trustees recently approved a new collective bargaining agreement between the village and the Metropolitan Alliance of Police Sergeants, Chapter 486.
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Thursday, April 19, 2018 || By Michael Romain || @maywoodnews
Featured image: The multiunit building on 5th Ave. and Quincy in Maywood that village board members unanimously deemed a public nuisance. | Google Earth
A multiunit apartment building at the corner of 5th Ave. and Quincy St. in Maywood is in the crosshairs of village officials who have deemed it a “chronic public nuisance.”
Continue reading “Maywood Officials: Village Should Take Over And Clean Up ‘Nuisance’ Property”
Wednesday, April 18, 2018 || By Michael Romain || @maywoodnews
Featured image: Cardinal Blase J. Cupich visits Loyola Medical Center on April 17. | Courtesy Loyola Medicine
During a visit to Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood on April 17, Cardinal Blase J. Cupich, the Archbishop of Chicago, told a gathering of doctors, nurses and chaplains at the hospital that he supports the Gun Dealer Licensing Act (or SB 1657).
Continue reading “At Loyola, Cardinal Cupich Addresses Gun Violence Epidemic”
