Halloween! - Guess Who?

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Sue Wiggins, MPHS Jan 66

Sandy Schuessler Wright - MPHS Jan 66 - Looking Good! 

John Meeks MPHS Jan 66 is terrified.  This is on Willow street in Old Town in Chicago. 

There were two of those things at that house. Must have been twelve feet tall.

Peace and Love

Taffy Cannon MPHS 1966

It was a fun day at church.  Half the folks dressed up, including the minister.  Here is my wife and I with "the other man".

Will Hepburn MPHS 66

Judy, these photos never go away.

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Thanks, Craig.  I needed the laugh.  Five weeks post Hurricane Ian, and I still don't look quite that bad.  

I also needed the reminder of happier days in the past and yet to come -- that photo was from our first year here in Fort Myers when we attended ZombieCon downtown, just a short walk from our condo.  There's a different kind of frightful sight downtown today, but we'll come back.  Hopefully it won't take as long as it has taken for the people in New Jersey to recover from Sandy...talk about a horror story!

Hope everyone is well.  Don't eat all your grandchildren's candy...

Judy Halligan Willingham

HAHAHAHAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

Marie Buti

Ron McComb (Might be St Patrick's Day instead of Halloween, but close enough)

Anyone else have terrifying photos they wish to share? Send them to craighullinger@gmail.com and I will post them on this blog.

Happy Halloween

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   History of Halloween

   Halloween is a holiday celebrated on the night of October 31.  The word Halloween is a shortening of All Hallows' Evening also known as Hallowe'en or All Hallows' Eve.
   
   Traditional activities include trick-or-treating, bonfires, costume parties, visiting "haunted houses" and carving jack-o-lanterns. Irish and Scottish immigrants carried versions of the tradition to North America in the nineteenth century. Other western countries embraced the holiday in the late twentieth century including Ireland, the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico and the United Kingdom as well as of Australia and New Zealand. 

   
   

   
   

   
   

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   Halloween has its origins in the ancient Celtic festival known as Samhain (pronounced "sah-win"). The festival of Samhain is a celebration of the end of the harvest season in Gaelic culture. Samhain was a time used by the ancient pagans to take stock of supplies and prepare for winter. The ancient Gaels believed that on October 31, the boundaries between the worlds of the living and the dead overlapped and the deceased would come back to life and cause havoc such as sickness or damaged crops.

   
   The festival would frequently involve bonfires. It is believed that the fires attracted insects to the area which attracted bats to the area. These are additional attributes of the history of Halloween.

   Masks and costumes were worn in an attempt to mimic the evil spirits or appease them.

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   Halloween - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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   Halloween or Hallowe'en 5] also known as All Hallows' Eve, is a yearly celebration observed in a number of countries on October 31, the eve of the Western ...

Morgan Park Korean War Memorial 113th and Western

The neighborhood is home to one of the first monuments to honor those who served in what has been called “The Forgotten War”.

The Korean war began in 1950 and lasted three years.

Although the fighting ended, experts say there has never been a formal peace treaty.

Thanks to Albert Linsenmeyer MPHS 66 for sharing 

https://abc7chicago.com/korean-war-end-of-flag-raising-ceremony-forgotten/6334502/

Record Player

 

Thanks to Taffy Cannon MPHS 66 for sharing.

Everygreen Plaza

 

Thanks to Larry Herman MPHS Jan 66 for sharing the photo above on Facebook.

Evergreen Plaza 95th Street and Western Avenue

The Plaza opened in 1952 and was developed by Arthur Rubloff.  The open air mall was anchored by two grocery stores with shops.  Other stores included The Fair, Woolworth’s, Lytton’s and Walgreens.  Chas A. Stevens, an upscale small department store chain based in Chicago, opened in 1962, and Carson Pirie Scott followed not long after.  In the 1970s The Fair store became Montgomery Ward.  The mall was enclosed in 1966 and was expanded several times.

When it opened it was a premier shopping center in the Chicagoland area and was a destination mall for many years, courting shoppers from all over the area. Competition from larger suburban shopping centers caused its decline. 

Click for a history of the Plaza

https://malls.fandom.com/wiki/The_Evergreen_Plaza

https://www.labelscar.com/illinois/evergreen-plaza

Beveraly Area Planning

 

Expanding Access to Military Exchanges

 

Click to Read More:

https://www.dodlodging.net/documents/Patron_Expansion_FAQs.pdf

Heliport

"The heart of the operation will be at Vertiport Chicago, an existing downtown heliport facility. In the UAM world, heliports are Vertiports, where eVTOLs take off, land, collect passengers and recharge their batteries. Eve has assembled an impressive group of participating stakeholders to facilitate the three-week simulation and make it meaningful. These include Blade, Republic Airways, Halo Aviation, SkyWest Inc, Speedbird Aero, ACCIONA, Vertiport Chicago, and Tinley and Schaumburg villages.

Replicating Eve's future eVTOL, the helicopter will transport passengers from the vertiport to two helistops located northwest and southwest of Chicago. Two routes will be operated, the first from Vertiport Chicago to Schaumburg Municipal Helistop and the second connecting Tinley Park Helistop to the vertiport. By involving a broad range of stakeholders, Eve hopes their differing views and feedback will help it develop the right solution for cities like Chicago."

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I had to look up where Vertiport Chicago was (1338 S Wood St if you are interested) after this article about EV helicopter commuting tests being run there.

https://simpleflying.com/eve-first-north-american-uam-simulation-chicago/

This sounds like exciting stuff, but raises some questions.  Why are EV helicopters any safer, faster, more useful than existing helicopter technology?  And why doesn't someone have a heliport there for regular helicopters?  And who wants to fly into that neighborhood?  Inquiring minds want to know.

Will Hepburn MPHS 66

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Answer - I don't know about safety of the EV helicopters. I can address the other questions.

The Heliport in Tinley Park has existed since 1999 and has been and is used by regular helicopters. 

I worked on the heliport in Tinley Park north of I-80 when I was the assistant Village Manager. The Village was constructing a large Fire Department training facility with a tower and a very large parking lot for firetrucks to practice putting out fires. The facility was used by many fire departments in the region. Someone (I can't remember who but will try to find out) suggested that we put a heliport on the site. I think we had to have the FAA certify it and paint it to their standards.  

My boss David Dorgan led the charge, I think. We liked it because we were working to enhance and improve our business park clustered around I-80, Harlem (Rt 43) and LaGrange Road (Rt 45), 183rd St and 191st St.  We worked on developing the Tinley Park Convention Center with a number of hotels nearby. The World Music Theater was growing strong. We felt that the heliport would help us market our community as an upscale destination.

The Heliport was Part of our Comprehensive Plan

Tinley Park Comprehensive Plan

Village staff developed the Comprehensive Plan in house. The plan proposed the Downtown Improvement Plan / Transit Oriented Development Plan, the Housing Renovation Plan, the extension of 183rd Street, extensive landscaping improvements, the development of a Village wide bikeway system, forest preserve improvements, heliport, flood control improvements, the Tinley Park Convention Center and the Economic Development Incentives required to fund these improvements.

Comprehensive Plan Document

Craig Hullinger MPHS Jan 66

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Tinley Park Helicopter Activity

Pat Carr,Neighbor
Posted Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 9:02 pm
https://patch.com/illinois/tinleypark/tinley-park-helicopter-activity

The helicopter activity over the Mental health center today was law enforcement training. The airspace over Tinley Park is very active since we are in the flight pattern for Midway Airport. In addition, we have high tension power lines, underground pipelines and rail that traverse through our town. All of these have some sort of inspection from the air with helicopters. On any given day we have as many as 10-15 helicopters flying over our town. Tinley Park also maintains a public use helipad that is utilized frequently by public and private agencies. If we know there will be prolonged air activity we will notify the public.

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FAA INFORMATION EFFECTIVE 11 AUGUST 2022

Location

FAA Identifier:	TF8
Lat/Long:	41-33-33.0000N 087-48-21.0000W 41-33.550000N 087-48.350000W 41.5591667,-87.8058333 (estimated)
Elevation:	760 ft. / 232 m (estimated)
Variation:	02W (1995)
From city:	20 miles SSW of central business district of the associated city
Time zone:	UTC -5 (UTC -6 during Standard Time)
Zip code:	60477

Heliport Operations

Heliport use:	Open to the public
Activation date:	02/1999
Control tower:	no
ARTCC:	CHICAGO CENTER
FSS:	KANKAKEE FLIGHT SERVICE STATION
NOTAMs facility:	IKK (NOTAM-D service available)
Attendance:	UNATTENDED
Wind indicator:	lighted
Segmented circle:	no
Lights:	SS-SR

Heliport Communications

CTAF:	122.9
WX AWOS-AV at C56 (12 nm SE):	119.125 (708-534-5256)
WX AWOS-3PT at IGQ (12 nm E):	119.275 (708-889-6319)
WX AWOS-3 at LOT (13 nm W):	118.525 (815-588-4802)
WX ASOS at MDW (14 nm N):	PHONE 773-884-4424
WX AWOS-3 at JOT (17 nm W):	119.975 (815-730-9560)
WX AWOS-3PT at GYY (18 nm E):	134.575 (219-944-0010)

Nearby radio navigation aids

VOR radial/distance		VOR name		Freq		Var
CGTr284/10.9		CHICAGO HEIGHTS VORTAC		114.20		02E
EONr356/17.4		PEOTONE VORTAC		113.20		02E
JOTr086/23.0		JOLIET VOR/DME		112.30		02E
DPAr127/31.5		DUPAGE VOR/DME		108.40		02E

Heliport Services

Parking:

tiedowns

Runway Information

Helipad H1

Dimensions:	40 x 40 ft. / 12 x 12 m 60 FT BY 60 FT HELICOPTER PARKING PAD LOCATED 75 FT NORTH OF LNDG PAD.
Surface:	asphalt, in good condition
Runway edge lights:	PERI
Traffic pattern:	left		left

Heliport Ownership and Management from official FAA records

Ownership:	Publicly-owned
Owner:	VILLAGE OF TINLEY PARK 16250 S. OAK PARK AVENUE TINLEY PARK, IL 60477 Phone 708-444-5000 24 HR NON-EMERGENCY NUMBER 708-444-5300.
Manager:	PAT CARR, DIR EMER MGMT 17355 S. 68TH CT TINLEY PARK, IL 60477 Phone 708-444-5601 24 HR DISPATCH CTR 708-444-5300

Heliport Operational Statistics

Aircraft operations: 50/year * 100%  transient general aviation * for 12-month period ending 31 May 2021

Additional Remarks

-	32 FT UNLIT PLINES 95 FT SOUTH; 40 FT BLDG 120 FT NW; & 33 FT LGTD POLES 293 FT W; 90 FT LGTD TWR 250 FT NW OF PAD.
-	INGRESS/EGRESS ROUTES ARE 090 DEGS & 270 DEGS.
-	FOR CD CTC CHICAGO APCH AT 847-289-0926.
-	+31 FT TREES 190 FT E OF FATO AND 100' N OF APCH CNTRLN RESULTING IN 5:1 APCH CLNC TO THE E