The Daily Herald from Chicago, Illinois • Page 337

Friday, December 10,1999 DuPAGECOUWY Section Itasca street to be renamed after former mayor Ketter i BY LESLIE CUMMINGS Herald Staff Writer Former Itasca Mayor Shirley Ketter was instrumental in the creation of. the Hamilton Lakes business park. Mayor Gigi Gruber said she "thought it only fitting that a new 'street in the Hamilton Lakes area be named after her. were considering names and -itwas up in the air when I just thought what better name than hers," Gruber said. "She created developed the whole Hamilton officials plan to name the street Ketter Drive.

The street is located in the newly developed area -of old Pierce and Arlington Heights said she was thrilled and pleased when she heard the news. called me, and I was really surprised," she said. "I'm very ipleased. It's quite an honor, and I'm -just overwhelmed." have been very kind to me," -she said. "Hamilton was one of my fbabies, and if I was going to have a 'street named after me this would be appropriate.

It's very flattering." served as village president Shirley Ketter from 1983 to 1997. During her village presidency, she helped slash the tax rate, revitalized the historical district and introduced Itasca residents to the concept of business parks. She helped transform Itasca from a sleepy village to a booming business town and became one of DuPage County's most powerful mayors.The Hamilton development is bounded by Arlington Heights Road, Route 53, and Devon and Thorndale avenues. It includes business offices along Pierce Road, a water treatment area and park as well as the most recently developed section near the Amerisuites Hotel. For all of that hard work, Ketter is being honored, Gruber said.

"I can't think of a more appropriate way than to honor her in a development she helped create," Gruber said. As to whether Ketter plans to ride on Ketter Drive, she said she will do it at least once. "I have to at least take a look at it," she said. Pair admit to producing, selling drugs 'By CHRISTY GUTOWSKI Daily Herald Legal Affairs Writer John Carter Bird won't be practicing law any time soon. former law school student and a second man pleaded guilty Thursday to growing marijuana plants in a Lombard house.

Bird admitted to growing cannabis plants in his house at 318 S. Grace then selling the drug I for profit. Jeffrey D. Forman, 31, of Gleridale Heights, aided in the illegal production. "They were growing marijuana Sin the basement and selling it on the street," said Scott Kent, assistant state's attorney.

Police found more than 350 mar- Tijuana plants, growing lights and a watering system during the July '16 search. 'They were led to the two friends during an earlier drug investiga- tion. Bird, 29, was a third-year student at The John Marshall School of Law in Chicago when arrested. Both men apologized Thursday before DuPage Associate Judge Nicholas Galasso sentenced them to three years of probation and more than $10,000 each in fines and fees. They were eligible for probation or up to 15 years in prison for felony possession of cannabis with intent to deliver.

But neither Bird nor Forman, of 496 E. Fullerton had prior criminal history. After the plants were dried and weighed, police recovered more than 4,000 grams of marijuana from Bird's house. "It was a real production," Lombard Police Chief. Leon Kutzke has said.

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