Response to “U.S. Bank opposes plan for police station at Madison branch” Wednesday Journal, Jan. 13:
While the Oak Park Village Board seems to run in circles around this problem, a ready solution exists at the former Mohr Concrete site with a more-than-willing seller and an opportunity to build a specially purposed facility for a 21st-century police department.
Wednesday Journal recently published an excellent analysis by Bill Dwyer detailing what other similarly-sized, Chicago-area municipalities have done to upgrade police facilities [What other towns have done when building a new police station, News, Oct. 15, 2025]. I urge anyone interested in this issue to closely read this article…