A special meeting of the La Grange Village Board has been set for 7 p.m. Tuesday, June 2 at Seventh Avenue School, 701 S. Seventh Ave., to discuss safety concerns along a busy stretch of 47th Street where a 30-year-old Countryside mother of two lost her life May 19.
Village Manager Robert Pilipiszyn has already made it clear the village not only wants the state to reduce the speed limit to 30 from 35 mph on 47th between Willow Springs Road and East/Eberly Avenue -- the fatality occurred in the eastbound curb lane at Eighth Avenue in broad daylight -- but wants the roadway turned over to village jurisdiction so it can be converted into a softer, 3-lane roadway with one lane in each direction and a center turn lane.
However, residents in the neighborhoods on both sides of 47th, including a group who held an impromptu memorial for the woman last week, have been urging the village to give them an opportunity to speak on that and related safety issues.
So, instead of holding such a forum during a regular Monday night board meeting where general village business is discussed and voted upon, it was decided to hold a special, non-voting neighborhood workshop meeting just to share and receive input on the topic.
State lawmakers, who are in the position of convincing the Illinois Department of Transportation to act on the matters at hand, have been invited to the meeting.
No tickets or charges were ever issued in the accident, which remains under investigation by the Illinois State Police and the Cook County State's Attorneys Office.
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