  Did You Know?
Citizens can view the
registered sex offender
database online?
Visit the
City of Chicago website:
www.
egov.cityofchicago.org
Click on
City Departments/Police
Right side of page, bottom,
under topic “Related Links”
or try this direct link:
Tuesday, August 5th
6:30PM
Near North Library, 310 W. Division St.
Join the 18th District Community Policing Office in their annual anti-crime
march, “National Night Out.” On this evening, residents and businesses
unite to demonstrate their union and commitment toward crime prevention.
The walk will wind through Police Beats 1821, 1822 and 1823 and finish
with a free barbecue held at Seward Park (375 W. Elm Street).
Help the 18th District Police Department show our Lincoln Park strength in
numbers. For further details, contact the 18th District Community Policing
Office at 312-742-5778.
18th Police District National Night Out
Inside this issue:
Parkway
Improvement Plan
2
President’s
Message
2
Welcome New
LCA Directors
3
Lincoln Park
High School
3
Membership
Application
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Send LCA Your E-mail Address!
In an effort to keep LCA members abreast of important
neighborhood issues and events, LCA is updating their
membership database to include e-mail addresses. Update your
renewal form, or visit www.lincolncentral.org home page and
click on “via e-mail.” You may also e-mail LeeAnn Rechtin,
Membership Chairperson, directly at erechtin@sbcglobal.net
Upcoming Articles
Next Issue:
Planning Update
Membership Committee
Goals & Update
Board of Directors
Mission & Strategic Plan
Editorial Exchange:
What is the most pressing issue facing our neighborhood? Why?
Write or E-mail US! We might publish your response in the
September/October issue.
Director, LeeAnn Rechtin, is coordinating a Newsletter Committee. The
goal is to publish, on a timely and consistent basis, a bi-monthly
newsletter. Standard articles will include schools, crime & safety, business
relations, and parks. Typically, the Board of Directors research and
prepare all the articles within the newsletter, but we are encouraging
neighbors to participate as reporters: call us and we’ll assign you a story,
send us an editorial, tell us what YOU want to read about. We will work
toward creating a newsletter that offers useful and interesting information
for everyone-from kids to seniors and singles to families. Watch for the
next issue in your mailbox soon!
Newsletter Committee Update
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  Board of Directors
President: Richard Rausch
Vice-President:
Deirdre Graziano
Secretary: Brant Serxner
Corresponding Secretary:
Nancy Kintzel
Treasurer: David Varnerin
Directors:
Dave Adams
Susan Burke
Jennifer Davenport
Anne Moore
LeeAnn Rechtin
A special THANK YOU to
Dave Lynam and Jim Rodgers
for their
outstanding contributions
during their tenure on the
LCA Board of Directors.
OPEN BOARD POSITIONS!
if you have time to donate,
please contact LCA
for more information.
President’s Message ~ Rick Rausch
The Lincoln Central
Association Newsletter
is published bi-monthly.
Press releases should
be mailed to:
Lincoln Central Association
Newsletter Editor
PO Box 14306
Chicago, Illinois 60614-0306
You may also email LCA
through its website
home page:
Contact LCA!
Voicemail:
312-409-2783
However, I was not aware of the
role the Association plays in the
“look” of the neighborhood. Did
you know that LCA reviews every
application for a zoning variance
and has the opportunity to
comment on the size and layout
of the proposed project? LCA is
also asked to review all requests
for sidewalk café licenses, curb
cutouts, etc, that come through
the Alderman’s office. I think the
future of our neighborhood will be
improved if the neighbors control
the “look” of their future
neighborhood. It is one of
Lincoln Central Associations
most important functions.
If you would like to participate in
the zoning review process,
please email me at
Rick_Rausch@msn.com. Our
Board of Directors welcomes all
comments regarding zoning
issues and requests
Have a nice summer.
~ Rick Rausch
For 25 years, my wife and I have
lived within the boundaries of
Lincoln Central Association
(LCA). We have always thought
this was a great neighborhood
and time has proven us right.
The stock of new homes that are
being built along with the
increasing value of our existing
real estate indicates what a
desirable neighborhood we all
call home.
With all of the past changes and
current trends, the question I ask
myself is whether or not we can
control the future development of
Lincoln Central Association? I
think we have to answer yes to
that question. If we don’t control
our future, who will?
Prior to joining the LCA Board in
2002, I was not aware of the
impact a neighborhood
Association could have on the
neighborhood. I had seen street
fairs and signs for clean up days
sponsored by Lincoln Central.
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Parkway Improvement Program
In the early 60’s, the
Urban Renewal Program
installed many of the red brick
parkways and cul-de-sacs in our
neighborhood. These efforts
improved the character of our
neighborhood. Today, many of
those parkways need repair and
updating. Lincoln Central
Association, in conjunction with
43rd Ward Alderman Vi Daley’s
office, has launched a “Parkway
Improvement Program”
designed to incorporate a
“uniform look” for the
parkways. Initial attention will be
paid to those parkways next to
public lands where no
homeowners are available to
maintain the area. The ultimate
goal is for every parkway within
LCA boundaries to be grass,
bricked, or plantings enclosed by
wrought iron fencing.
LCA has prepared a list of
vendors who sell products or
services related to parkway
improvements. We hope that
through enough interest, those
vendors will offer bulk pricing.
The first parkway scheduled to
improve is on Wisconsin next to
Bauler Playlot. It was chosen
because it is one of the largest
areas of the old, red, bricks
sitting next to public lands. The
plan is to lay brick, install
wrought iron fences around the
trees and to plant ground cover.
The initial estimate for this
project is $15,000. If you are
interested in helping with this
project, or would like information
about our vendor list, please call
LCA at 312409-2783 or visit the
website at
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Lincoln Park
High School
LPHS art students took first
and third honors in the 2003
Congressional Arts
Competition.
LPHS has the distinction of
having the most National
Merit Scholars of any Chicago
area high school, public or
private. The students were
selected from a national pool
of 16,000 semi-finalists.
Senior Nealan Laxpati is one
of twenty-six student athletes
named to the Illinois High
School Association's All-State
Academic Team. Selection is
based on grade point
average, participation in
sports and outstanding
citizenship.
Junior Vanessa Wells won
First Place and a $5,000 cash
prize in the national Adidas
Moves Essay Contest for
student athletes.
LPHS is one of twelve high
schools nation-wide to be
featured on the website of the
National Association of
Secondary School Principals
at www.nassp.org as an
example of successful high
schools that are showing high
achievement data, especially
when these schools serve
high poverty students and
under-represented minorities.
The website gives each
schools demographic data
and information about
programs that make it
possible for students to
achieve success.
Welcome New LCA Directors
Susan Burke has lived in
Lincoln Park for the past 30 years
and has been a member of Lincoln
Central Association for most of
those years. She lives in the 2000
block of North Howe Street. She
recently completed service as a
parent representative (her
daughter is now an adult) and then
a community representative on the
Lincoln Park High School Local
School Council. She serves on the
board of the Oz Park Advisory
Council and on the Children's
Memorial Hospital Community
Forum steering committee. She is
an Assistant Dean at Loyola
University School of Social Work at
the Water Tower campus. Susan
commented that our community
has always been lively and
evolving into a more nurturing
place. She has found it to be easy
to participate in ways that she can
give back to the community what it
has given her over the years.
Jennifer Davenport is a
native Chicagoan and lives in the
300 block of West Wisconsin with
her husband and two daughters.
She received a B.A. in political
science and history from Fordham
University in New York and her
J.D. from the John Marshall Law
School in Chicago. She began her
legal career as a prosecutor in the
office of the Corporation Counsel
for the City of Chicago. In 1995
she opened her own law firm,
where she has a general practice
serving corporate, litigation and
bankruptcy clients. She is also an
Administrative Hearing Officer for
the Village of Park Forest, where
she presides over local ordinance
violation matters. In addition, she
hears cases as an Arbitrator on the
Cook County Mandatory Arbitration
Panel. She is on the advisory
board of the Actor's Center
Chicago and a member of the U.S.
Women's Chamber of Commerce
in addition to Lincoln Central
Association.
LeeAnn Rechtin lives with
her husband Mike and daughter
Isabella in a townhome
development along the 1700 block
of Larrabee. Her immediate
LCA interests include increasing
membership, organizing social
events and improving
communication. Future goals
include creating a program
utilizing high school students to
help senior citizens with spring
cleaning, snow removal, etc. She
has lived in Lincoln Park since
1995, when she moved here from
her hometown of Dearborn,
Michigan. Since then, she has
been involved with the Sheffield
Neighborhood Association,
Wrightwood Neighborhood
Association, RANCH
Neighborhood Association and
Lincoln Park Conservation
Association in both volunteer and
professional roles, performing
duties centered on membership,
newsletter, and secretarial.
Anne Moore is a recently
appointed director, filling a vacancy
for a term that continues through
2003. She served as a director of
the Bauler Playlot Advisory
Committee and saw the fruits of
time spent fund-raising. Because
Lincoln Central is a unique urban
area, joining the Lincoln Central
Association board seemed to Anne
a useful way to help maintain and
preserve the vibrancy and charm
of the neighborhood. She has lived
on the 1800 block of Cleveland for
nearly twenty years, twice
rehabbing an historic property to
create a single-family home. Her
priorities include density and
transportation issues, parks, and a
range of neighborhood social
events, such as movie nights in the
parks. A graduate of Barnard
College and a prize-winning poet,
Anne is an independent writer,
contributing regularly to local and
national publications. She and her
husband Harry Dent have three
school-age children.
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Home Address: __________________________________________________
Home Phone: _________________ Home E-mail: _______________________
If you are not currently a member of the
Lincoln Central Neighborhood Association, we’d like your support.
Please fill out this form and mail it with your contribution to:
Lincoln Central Association
PO BOX 14306
Chicago, Illinois 60614-0306
Areas of Interest:
Business Relations (o)
Crime & Safety (n)
Fundraising (w)
Newsletter (s)
Schools (r)
Community Planning (q)
Social Events (p)
Membership (u)
Web Site (v)
Parks (t)
Individual
$20 ____
Business
$25 ____
Patron
$50 ____
Family
$25 ____
Senior Citizen
FREE!
Benefactor
$100 ___
Type of Membership:
Thank you for your support, all contributions are tax deductible.
Please make checks payable to Lincoln Central Association.
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PO Box 14306
Chicago, Illinois 60614-0306
Board of Directors
meetings are open
to the public.
7PM
4th Thursday
of every month
Lincoln Park
High School
(main entrance,
first classroom
on your left)
Visit
lincolncentral.org
to see changes
in meeting times
or dates.
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