![]() ![]() Katherine Jemsek, the president of Cog Hill Golf and Country Club, 12294 Archer Ave., said her family chose Palos Park because of the lake water. Palos Park will allow them to develop those properties however they want. "But what you have here are properties owned by families that have been there a long, long time, and they want to do things their way. We want to annex their properties into our municipality if they are willing and would be content to have them remain unincorporated if they are not. Reaves said the landowners may have had difficulties with prior administrations, "but since I have been mayor we have gone out of our way to cooperate with them. McNulty emphasized that his family has no plans to turn Gleneagles into anything but a golf course for "at least the next 25 years." He said his wife, brother and children continue to be involved in the business and will be for the foreseeable future. Access to Lake Michigan water increases the value of our properties and would make them much easier to develop in the future." For another thing, Palos Park can give us access to Lake Michigan water. When you've been lied to nine times, you don't go back to see if they will tell you the truth the 10th time. "For one thing, we don't trust the government officials there. We would never, ever consider annexing to Lemont. We all want to annex to Palos Park, we've signed the paperwork and Palos Park wants us. "Let me make one thing clear, there is no dispute over the land. It's been in the planning stages a long time. We've all been discussing this ever since. "And Howie came to the rest of us - Cog Hill, Gleneagles and Mid-Iron - and suggested annexing to Palos Park. "Howie Ludwig had been a community leader in Lemont for years and went to them with a plan, and they just turned him down flat," McNulty said. ![]() ![]() Mike McNulty, a spokesman for the McNulty family that owns Gleneagles Country Club, 13070 McCarthy Road, has a different version of events. "We have very strict development standards and are very proud of how our community has controlled development, and he wasn't willing to accept them," Reaves said. Reaves said Howard Ludwig came to Lemont with a plan to develop the property with "very high density residential housing" and it was rejected. ![]() Without the forest preserve annexation, none of the dominoes fall."Īll of the parties seem to agree that the dispute goes back several years, beginning with the Ludwig farm, on 131st Street west of Bell Road. "Through that they connect to Cog Hill and Gleneagles and the Ludwig farm. By annexing that small forest preserve parcel, that would connect them to Mid-Iron and that's when the dominoes begin to fall. "They have no contiguous land to any of these properties. "You have to understand what Palos Park is trying to do here," Reaves said. Reaves said he met with Preckwinkle and Morrison, and that Preckwinkle indicated it was her policy to defer to the commissioner representing the communities involved in such matters and Morrison made it clear he favored the annexation. Morrison, who lives in Palos Park, said he has talked to all the interested parties, including the mayors and the landowners, and decided "the case made by the landowners for annexation into Palos Park was compelling, in my view." However, Sean Morrison, the new county commissioner for the 17th District, which includes Lemont and Palos Park, told me he has decided to support the Palos Park request. ![]()
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