Posted on: April 5, 2021
The Village of Itasca will be hosting a Green Day recycling event this year, with additional sponsorship by the Itasca Bank & Trust Co. The event will be held on Saturday, May 8th (8:00 a.m. to noon) at the Itasca Metra Lot located on Irving Park Road.
Please note, this offer is for Itasca residents, Itasca Bank & Trust Co. customers and their associates, and in-home businesses only.
Questions regarding this event can be e-mailed to byarbrough@itasca.com.
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Posted on: April 2, 2021
The next Haymarket Public Hearing is scheduled to resume this Wednesday, April 7th at 7:00 p.m. The hearing will be live streamed on the Village's YouTube channel, which can be accessed here. To view past recordings, meeting tra...
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Posted on: April 2, 2021
After years of planning, the Village of Itasca is taking another major step in revitalizing the downtown area by acquiring an anchor property in the middle of the block of Walnut Street.
For more information on this development, please click here.
Village of Itasca News Alert
Posted on: March 31, 2021
Unfortunately, last month, many Itasca customers received Village Utility Bills that were significantly higher than normal.
Large snowfall events early this year caused significant delays in reading utility meters. While the Village strives to keep service periods at approximately 29-31 days, last month the average service period was 39 days.
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Posted on: March 29, 2021
The proliferation of political signs in the Village has led to numerous complaints from residents. As a result, the Village has requested that all candidates comply with the established laws and Village Zoning Code.
The Village respects the First Amendment rights associated with political signs. At the same time, the Village has placed a few reasonable restrictions for the safety of its residents. Importantly, the parkway areas should stay clear of obstruct...
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Posted on: March 23, 2021
The Village of Itasca Public Works Department is hiring several seasonal laborers. The candidates must be available to 2-3 weekend shifts (4 hours/day). Applicants must be able to listen and complete assigned tasks.
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Posted on: March 18, 2021
Governor J.B. Pritzker and the Illinois Department of Public Health announced a metrics-based, vaccination-informed framework for Illinois to advance to Phase 5 of the state’s Restore Illinois Plan.
On March 18, 2021, Governor J.B. Pritzker announced a plan and guidelines to bridge from Phase 4 (current phase) to Phase 5 of the Restore Illinois Plan. According to the announcement, once 70% of residents 65 and older have been vaccinated and barring an...
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Posted on: February 23, 2021
The Village of Itasca has partnered with The Regional Transportation Authority (RTA) to create a Strategic Action Plan for its downtown with the support of The Lakota Group, Fish Transportation Group and Market & Feasibility Advisors.
The purpose of this plan is to create a vision for Downtown Itasca and the surrounding area that leverages existing transportation facilities and infrastructure, real estate development opportunities, and community involvement to create a downtown that is...
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Posted on: February 22, 2021
The next Haymarket Public Hearing is scheduled to resume this Wednesday, February 24th at 7:00 p.m. The hearing will be live streamed on the Village's YouTube channel, which can be accessed here. To view past recordings, meeting transcri...
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Posted on: February 5, 2021
The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) has announced that due to decreased COVID-19 positivity rates, Region 8, including Itasca, has left the tiered resurgence mitigations and has moved to Phase 4 of the Restore Illinois Plan.
Phase 4 permits indoor service at restaurants using social distance. Standing areas in bars or restaurants should be limited to 25% capacity. Personal care, health and fitness, and retail store businesses can operate at 50% capacity, and groups of 50 or 5...
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Posted on: January 27, 2021
Yesterday, Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) announced that Region 8 (DuPage and Kane) moved into Tier 1 effective January 26, 2021.
Mitigation measures have been revised as follows:
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- Indoor service limited to the lesser of 25 guests or 25% capacity per room
- Establishments offering indoor service must serve food
- All bar and restaurant patrons should be seated ...
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Posted on: January 25, 2021
On Tuesday, January 26, 2021 at 7:00 p.m. the village will be convening a Community Development Committee meeting to discuss redevelopment of the property commonly known as the Itasca Country Club.
Bridge Development Partners requested this predevelopment meeting to discuss its interest in redeveloping a portion of the property for use as a data center. It is the Village of Itasca’s practice to provide developers this forum to seek input from board ...
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Itasca Country Club Redevelopment
Posted on: January 22, 2021
On January 18, the state announced that several regions in Illinois, including ours, met the requirements to move back into Tier 2, which provides less restrictive mitigation efforts.
The chart to the right from the Governor's office, highlights the primary differences between the three tiers. Most notably, in Tier 2 organized group recreational activities are now allowed with a limit of lesser of 25 guests or 25% of overall c...
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Posted on: January 22, 2021
The DuPage County Health Department is providing those who live or work in DuPage County the opportunity register for a COVID-19 vaccine.
Signing up allows the DCHD to contact you with specific information when appointments or clinics are available. Visit the DCHD website to register.
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Posted on: January 20, 2021
Last night, the Village Board called a meeting of the Community Development Committee on Tuesday, January 26, 2021 at 7 p.m. to discuss redevelopment of the property commonly known as the Itasca Country Club.
Bridge Development Partners requested this predevelopment meeting to discuss its interest in redeveloping a portion of the property for use as a data center. It is the Village of Itasca’s practice to provide developers this forum to seek input f...
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Itasca Country Club Redevelopment
Posted on: December 1, 2020
In order to comply with State of Illinois Tier 2 COVID-19 Resurgence Mitigation restrictions, the meeting will be conducted remotely and live streamed on the Village’s YouTube Channel. The direct link for the live stream, along with the meeting agenda and...
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Holiday Inn - Haymarket Center Proposal
Posted on: November 13, 2020
The Itasca Country Club has withdrawn its petition for a Planned Development by Special Use, Class I Site Plan Approval, and a Preliminary & Final Plat of Subdivision for the development of a Data Center on a portion of the Itasca Country Club property.
A representative for the property owner indicated that it plans to submit a revised petition in the future, but did not provide a timeline for submittal.
Itasca Country Club Redevelopment
Posted on: November 11, 2020
Due to the increase of COVID-19 spread, heightened mitigation measures for our region, were put into place by the State of Illinois this morning at 12:01 a.m.
Tier 2 of the Restore Illinois Resurgence Mitigation Plan includes restrictions that effect bar/restaurant party sizes, decreases gathering sizes for meeting/event spaces and organized sports. These restrictions are in addition to those issued with Tier 1...
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Posted on: November 10, 2020
In order to comply with State of Illinois Tier 2 COVID-19 Resurgence Mitigation restrictions, the Haymarket Public Hearing scheduled for Wednesday, November 11, 2020 will be opened and continued. No presentations, evidence, or testimony regarding the publ...
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Posted on: October 23, 2020
Today, I met with Itasca restaurant owners and operators. Unfortunately, it is likely that some of our long-standing restaurants may never reopen, if the state persists in requiring them shut their doors again.
Our restaurants, most of whom are small businesses, locally owned and operated, have spent thousands of dollars this summer to meet state COVID protocols to keep their employees and patrons safe and healthy. Now they are being told that it is not enough. ...
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Posted on: October 23, 2020
On Tuesday, October 20th, the State of Illinois announced that Tier One mitigation efforts would be put in place on Friday, October 23rd. These measures further limit the size of meetings, social events, and gatherings from 50 people to 25. Although this ...
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Holiday Inn - Haymarket Center Proposal
Posted on: October 13, 2020
On October 28, 2020 at 7 p.m., the Itasca Plan Commission is scheduled to resume the public hearing on the application from Haymarket Center to convert the former Holiday Inn – Itasca property (860 W. Irving Park Road) into a mixed-use residenti...
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Posted on: October 6, 2020
At the request of the petitioner, the start of the Itasca Country Club Public Hearing on a proposed Preliminary Planned Development, Preliminary Class I Site Plan, and Preliminary and Final Plat of Subdivision will be postponed to Wed., Nov. 18 at 7 p.m.
In order to comply with state statutes on public hearing notices, the Plan Commission will convene on Wednesday, October 7, 2020 at 7 p.m. to open the public hearing and immediately continue the hearing to Wednesday, November 18, 2020. No presen...
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Itasca Country Club Redevelopment
Posted on: September 22, 2020
On October 7, 2020 at 7 p.m. the Itasca Plan Commission is scheduled to open the public hearing on an application for a proposed planned unit development to convert approximately 34 acres of the Itasca Country Club property to a data center.
The Meeting will take place at Itasca Village Hall, 550 West Irving Park Road. Access to Village Hall will be limited to comply with State of Illinois Covid-19 restrictions on gatherings. The public is encouraged to stream the hearing live on-line through...
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Itasca Country Club Redevelopment
Posted on: September 22, 2020
On September 16, 2020, the Itasca Plan Commission approved new protocols for conducting large scale public hearings during COVID.
Please click here to learn about the new protocols.
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Itasca Country Club Redevelopment
Posted on: August 13, 2020
On Friday, August 7, 2020, a representative from Haymarket submitted a cover letter and 10 new documents, to supplement the application previously filed on July 3, 2019. Haymarket also indicated that it is prepared to move forward with the public hearing....
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Holiday Inn - Haymarket Center Proposal
Posted on: April 8, 2020
Yesterday, I received this letter from Dr. Lustig confirming Haymarket’s purchase of the Holiday Inn Itasca. In my experience, it is highly unusual for a property to be purchased prior to receiving the necessary zoning approval. This is why, I reached out...
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Holiday Inn - Haymarket Center Proposal
Posted on: April 6, 2020
Recently, the Village learned that Haymarket Center was seeking to move forward with purchasing the Holiday Inn Itasca prior to receiving its zoning approvals. It is our understanding that the closing on the property may have occurred today, April 6, 2020...
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Holiday Inn - Haymarket Center Proposal
Posted on: March 16, 2020
Today, the lawsuit filed by Haymarket DuPage LLC in December was dismissed by a DuPage County Court. While the additional legal costs were unfortunate for Itasca taxpayers, the courts dismissal of Haymarket’s challenge allows the Village to resume the Pla...
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Holiday Inn - Haymarket Center Proposal
Posted on: February 5, 2020
Earlier this week, the Village attorneys filed a Motion to Dismiss the lawsuit filed by Haymarket DuPage LLC in December. In the lawsuit, Haymarket argues that it should have been originally allowed to seek a special use permit to operate as a health care...
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Posted on: January 22, 2020
Dear Residents,
I wanted to take this time to inform you of an important development regarding the Plan Commission.
Mr. Larry Swets recently reached out to inform me that he has expressed interest in the Holiday-Inn Itasca property. Subsequently, Plan Commi...
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Posted on: January 15, 2020
At a recent court appearance, the Village’s Counsel requested that the Court stay (postpone) the pending public hearings before the Plan Commission while the litigation remains unresolved. Attorneys for Haymarket agreed to the stay through the n...
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Posted on: December 17, 2019
Today (December 17, 2019), the Village was advised that Haymarket filed a lawsuit against the Village of Itasca yesterday in DuPage County (Case Number 2019MR1373). Village spokesperson Lissa Druss responded to the news with the following statement: “The ...
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Holiday Inn - Haymarket Center Proposal
Posted on: November 6, 2019
Thank you for your continued interest in the Plan Commission meetings. As you know, tonight’s meeting will be held back in Itasca. If you were at the last meeting, you might have seen a decrease in attendance, but that is no reflection...
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Holiday Inn - Haymarket Center Proposal
Posted on: September 6, 2019
“Yesterday while at Oktoberfest, I was forwarded an email from Haymarket’s attorney regarding my questions. I will be reviewing Haymarket’s responses this weekend and the Village has posted the document online at for your review.”
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Posted on: September 3, 2019
The Village Board met in Committee of the Whole where the members unanimously recommended upholding the Plan Commission's denial of Haymarket's Zoning Appeal. The appeal was forwarded the the September 17, 2019 Village Board meeting for final action.
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Posted on: August 30, 2019
Haymarket's Appeal of the Zoning Administrator's Decisions will be discussed. Click here to link to the agenda packet in order to download the Haymarket agenda item. The agenda item includes a Plan Commission Cover Memo, Staff Report, P...
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Holiday Inn - Haymarket Center Proposal
Posted on: August 23, 2019
In a continuing effort to gain as much information about Haymarket as possible, Mayor Pruyn and Administrator Ergo went to the Haymarket facility at 932 W. Washington in Chicago on Friday, August 23 to meet with Dr. Lustig and Sr. Executive Vice President...
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Holiday Inn - Haymarket Center Proposal
Posted on: August 8, 2019
"It is important to keep you updated pertaining to the information we’ve received regarding Haymarket Center. My number one goal in this process is to provide as much information to our residents as possible. Honestly, this process has been very frus...
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Holiday Inn - Haymarket Center Proposal
Posted on: August 6, 2019
The Village announces that Haymarket's full application has been received and its petition to seek approval for a Planned Development Special Use is scheduled to be considered by the Plan Commission on Wednesday, September 18, 2019 at 7 p.m. at F E Peacoc...
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Holiday Inn - Haymarket Center Proposal
Posted on: August 2, 2019
On August 2, 2019, we received, from Haymarket’s legal team, supplemental information that was required for the application process. Haymarket also sent us the attached Haymarket DuPage information sheet, but it leaves the majority of our Village...
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Holiday Inn - Haymarket Center Proposal
Posted on: July 5, 2019
Haymarket submits certain applications and materials. The petition for a planned development for special use was incomplete, therefore it could not be scheduled for a public hearing before the Plan Commission. The Village rejected Haymarket's petition for...
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