Assistance from Attorney General's Office Sought to Resolve Rich East Storage Questions - eNews Park Forest

Additional worldly has been stored astatine the erstwhile Rich East High School tract and a impermanent obstruction has present been erected. (Photo John Hudzik)

Park Forest, IL-(ENEWSPF)- As reported past week, eNews Park Forest submitted a bid of questions to District 227 regarding the gathering worldly stored successful the parking batch of the erstwhile Rich East High School. This enactment was taken aft the territory responded to a FOIA petition connected the subject, stating it had nary documentation oregon correspondence successful its possession astir the matter. As this is nationalist land, we see that effect inadequate. Has the spot of the erstwhile flagship schoolhouse of District 227 been relegated to a retention lot?

To date, those questions person gone unanswered, and calls to District 227 Superintendent Johnnie Thomas and Elliot Echols, Director of Facilities and Operations, person not been returned. eNews Park Forest made interaction connected Friday, November 18, with Percy Scott, a spokesperson for the territory and President of Global 360 Marketing. Scott stated that the territory had “no comment” connected the submitted questions and considered them to beryllium irrelevant.

Accordingly, per the Illinois guidelines regarding FOIA requests, eNews Park Forest has submitted a petition for a reappraisal of the district’s effect with the Public Access Counselor successful the Illinois Attorney General’s office. All pertinent inheritance information, including the district’s response, photos of the storage, and previous eNews articles connected the matter, were included successful our submission to the Attorney General’s office.

The magnitude of worldly being stored astatine the tract continues to grow, and a impermanent obstruction has present been erected astir the material.

eNews Park Forest is hopeful that the territory volition yet beryllium forthcoming astir the retention statement and that this contented tin yet beryllium enactment to rest. While we stay hopeful that determination is simply a dependable concern rationale for permitting the retention of materials for a commercialized endeavor being built successful Matteson, the district’s continued deficiency of openness connected the taxable leaves america concerned.