Title/Name/Summary
Park School Historic Marker - Historic Marker Program
History
QUICKFACTS
Project
Park School Historic Marker - 2014-0017
Petitioner
Development Services Department
Orland School District 135
Purpose
The purpose is to approve the text of a historic marker for Park School at 9960 W. 143rd Street and to authorize the execution of a License Agreement for Orland Park Historic Markers between the Village of Orland Park and Orland School District 135.
Requested Actions: Historic Marker for an Orland Park Landmark
Project Attributes
Address: 9960 W. 143rd Street
P.I.N.(s): 27-04-414-015
Existing Zoning: R-3 Residential District
Comprehensive Plan Planning District: Downtown Planning District
Comprehensive Plan Designation: Community and Institutional
OVERVIEW AND BACKGROUND
The Historic Marker Program was established in 2008 to install educational historic markers at the various sites of Orland Park Landmark buildings. In 2009, the Village Board approved a Historic Marker Program Phasing Plan, which listed out each of the twenty-one (21) Orland Park Landmark sites that are intended to have historic markers.
Program Summary to Date
Phase I of the program included the Twin Towers, Cox House and Lutheran Church buildings at a cost of $4,470.
Phase II of the program included the Hostert Cabins, Orland State Bank and Loebe General Store at a cost of $4,899. Part of Phase II implementation included private funding for 14330 Beacon Avenue, which is listed as a Phase III marker according to the plan.
From 2010-2012 the program was unfunded until the Board resumed funding for Fiscal Year 2013.
Program Resumption
Current funding for the Historic Marker Program is rolled over from FY2013. In FY2013, two historic markers for the Stellwagen Family Farm were prioritized and completed, one of which was paid for privately. The cost to the Village was $1,740.
$4,260 remains in the Historic Marker Program account to complete additiona...
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