Eagle Scout's arboretum to be dedicated
JOLIET — The city will hold an official dedication of the arboretum at the Broadway Greenway at 5 p.m. Tuesday.
The arboretum completes a goal of the city Joliet’s Tree Advisory Board and City Forester Jim Teiber.
Labels have been strategically placed on many of the 35 species of trees at the site to help the public learn more about the urban forest and to learn which trees might be suitable to plant on their property.
Four new tree species —katsura, catalpa, hemlock and bald cypress — were planted along the walkways to add to the ecological diversity at the site.
The addition of a “Food Forest” at the northern border of the Greenway is in the planning stages. This educational demonstration area will include trees, shrubs and plants that provide yields useful to humans, such as fruit and nuts.
Cool Joliet and the University of Illinois Extension Service will be involved in planning and creating this section of the arboretum.
The project was undertaken by Dan Harvey as an Eagle Scout Project in 2010. Harvey, a JCA graduate who is enrolled this fall at the Illinois Institute of Technology majoring in architecture, surveyed tree species, mapped out their location at the Greenway, ordered materials and organized volunteers to plant and mulch trees and properly label them.
More than 188 hours of volunteer time went into the project.
He achieved the rank of Eagle Scout in 2010.
New tree species were donated by Chicagoland Speedway and labeling materials were donated by Computer M.D. of Joliet, J.F. Aviation, Palmer Florist and Carlson-Holmquist-Sayles Funeral Home.
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WASHINGTON – The Department of Justice today filed a lawsuit against the city of Joliet, Ill., alleging that the city violated the Fair Housing Act and the Housing and Community Development Act by taking a series of actions, culminating in the taking through eminent domain a federally-subsidized affordable housing development, that would displace more than 750 residents with low incomes, more than 95 percent of whom are African-American.
The complaint, filed today in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, alleges that the city of Joliet violated the Fair Housing Act when it took actions to condemn the Evergreen Terrace apartment complex, which provides 356 units of affordable housing in Joliet. Due to the lack of affordable housing in and around Joliet, and because the city has failed to produce a meaningful plan to counteract the effect of eliminating 356 units of affordable housing, many of the residents would be left with nowhere in the city to live if the condemnation action is successful.
The complaint alleges that the effect of the city’s actions and proposed actions is “to limit or reduce the number of Black or African-American residents residing within the city of Joliet. Such actions, if carried out, would have a disproportionate adverse impact on African-Americans and operate to perpetuate segregation in Joliet.”
“Particularly in today’s economy, the city of Joliet’s proposed actions would have a devastating and unacceptable impact on Evergreen Terrace residents, who are disproportionately African-American,” said Thomas E. Perez, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights. “Today’s action is a reminder that when local governments take unjustified actions that reduce opportunities for affordable housing, they risk violating federal anti-discrimination laws.”
“The city of Joliet continues to try to condemn Evergreen Terrace while neglecting to propose any realistic plan for relocating its residents within the city, making it necessary for the federal government to take steps to protect the housing rights of these residents,” said Patrick J. Fitzgerald, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois.
The rents at Evergreen Terrace are subsidized by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) under the Section 8 program. Approximately 731 of 764 residents, or 95.6 percent, are African-American, while approximately 16 percent of Joliet’s 147,433 residents identified themselves as Black or African-American in the 2010 census.
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