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Article: Group-homes proposal stirs boos in Wilmette
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- September 9, 1988
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The controversial proposal to allow group homes in Wilmette
sparked a sometimes raucous public hearing Thursday night in the
north suburb.
Some 700 residents, a majority of them group-home opponents,
packed the Regina Dominican High School auditorium for the first
long-awaited hearing on the village's proposed zoning ordinance.
"I have to ask the question: Why change Wilmette?" said Perry
Kuzma, an opponent of the draft of the zoning proposal. "Every
resident has the same question I do."
Kuzma was among the speakers who were roundly cheered by the
majority of ordinance opponents, who also booed and jeered advocates
at the three-hour hearing.
Under the proposal, group homes for up ...