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DN Chicago Tribune, Thursday, August 5,1999 Section 2 3 isl llci psirtfi 1 ss iii'Ofs Id shoulder Naperville to give tattooers the co Council pledges stiff restrictions on body-piercing businesses closest any city code came fo addressing the establishments was' to lump them with businesses such as tanning salons. Naperville would not be the, first DuPage County town to take a tough stand on tattoo and body-piercing parlors. Westmont treats' the establishments like adult bookstores, limiting how close they can be to schools, cemeteries; hospitals, parks, playgrounds, churches, government offices arid homes. Winfield also requires that piercing and tattooing only take place in the presence of a licensed physician. State legislators, DuPage County officials and Chicago authorities also have considered limiting the businesses recently.

By Jeff Coen Tribune Staff Writer Naperville leaders Tuesday night lined up behind some of the Chicago area's toughest restrictions on tattoo and body-piercing parlors, promising to vote to effectively ban the establishments later this month. Rules that the City Council reviewed this week would not prohibit the businesses outright, but city leaders said the new ordinance would all but guarantee that no parlor will find a home in the suburb. "You will not have a business in this town if they have to have a physician around to tattoo someone's body," said Councilman Richard Furstenau. Jerry Dudgeon, a chief planner towns from Washington to Maryland when organizing the new restrictions, and that Naperville's ordinance all but declares tattooing and piercing to be "minor surgical procedures," and parlors to be medical practices. "That's essentially what we're saying," Dudgeon said Wednesday.

The new ordinance would make the businesses a conditional use in Naperville, and include a lengthy list of health and public-safety requirements. Besides the rules on physicians, the restrictions would mandate that no one under age 18 receive services unless that customer is jewelry store offers piercing. "Piercing is piercing you can't distinguish between the two," Dudgeon said. "They have to be treated equally since our underlying intent is to prevent communicable diseases." Naperville does not have a tattoo establishment in town, but city staff members have indicated that the town has handled some inquiries. One such question from a person who wanted to know where a parlor could be opened in Naperville prompted the latest review, along with a noted increase in the popularity of piercing and tattooing.

With no specific regulations, the in Naperville; said the new city ordinance, as proposed, would go that far and beyond. The new rules, to be voted into place Aug. 17, also would require that the operator of any tattoo or body-piercing parlor be a doctor or an osteopath licensed by Illinois, Dudgeon said. City leaders said they don't expect any area physician to be interested in running such a business on the side. "If someone chooses to meet these requirements by all means," said Councilman Kevin Gallaher.

Dudgeon said'that city staff reviewed local ordinances in Lisle board votes in to keep road open; Green Trails residents sought closure ft accompanied by a parent who authorizes the procedure in writing. No one suffering a skin infection or any communicable disease would be allowed to have their skin pierced, and each business would be required to keep records for two years. Also, no one under, the influence of alcohol or drugs could be tattooed or pierced. The only pause in the city's review of the proposal came as Council member Mary Ellingson asked about the ordinance's effect on ear-piercing at jewelry stores. City staff members said that all piercing would be subject to the new rules, but a survey of Naperville businesses showed that no about 10 p.m.

The lines at the cash registers didn't get to a manageable length until about 2 a.m. Wednesday, Kerrigan said. The store, which carries everything from groceries to electronics, clothes and auto supplies, is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The Meijer store in Bolingbrook is only the second in Illinois, and the first in the Chicago area Three more Chicago-area stores, in St. Charles, Aurora and Lisle, are scheduled to open in 2000.

Not every Meijer store has received as enthusiastic a welcome as the one in Bolingbrook. For more than a year, Lisle residents have fought Meijer's plans to build a $12 million superstore in the village, on a site west of Benedictine Image made of suspect in bank heist Naperville police on Wednesday were distributing a composite sketch of a man suspected in the Tuesday afternoon robbery of an Old Kent Bank in the city. Investigators were circulating an image of the suspect at other banks in the area and at businesses in the vicinity of the targeted bank at 1296 Rickert Drive. Police Sgt. David Hoffman said the legwork was taking place in conjunction with an FBI probe of the robbery, which officers responded to just after 12:40 p.m.

Tuesday. The most prominent feature in the sketch released Wednesday is the baseball hat worn by the suspect. Police investi Police sketch gators have said the cap, which had "2000" and the word "millennium" on it, is a distinctive article of clothing they may be able to capitalize on. The man being sought also wore dark sunglasses and a long-sleeve, tan shirt. Police have described him as about 40 years old, 6 feet tall and weighing about 185 pounds.

FBI representatives have said agents are examining the robber's method to determine whether he may be wanted in connection with any other Chicago-area robberies. "So far they have not linked him to any others," FBI spokeswoman Jennifer Segrest said. The man entered the Old Kent Bank with a notebook, stood in line and then approached a teller, police said. After showing the bank employee a note demanding money, the man ran away with an undisclosed amount of cash. Investigators said the suspect never hinted he had a weapon and no one was injured in the incident.

Detectives suspect the man may have left the area in a vehicle he had parked at a nearby strip mall near the intersection of Rickert Drive and 75th Street I fflIJt1 i. TnDune pnoio Dy jonn Knngas Irene Scaravilli (left) of Plainfield and Melissa Baumgartner of Bolingbrook shop Wednesday at the new Meijer store, which opened to an eager crowd in Bolingbrook Tuesday. Shoppers buy into grand opening By Ginger Orr Tribune Staff Writer After months of weighing resident complaints and sorting through reams of documentation, Lisle officials decided this week to keep a woodsy two-lane road open. By a 4-2 vote, the Village Board denied a request to close Green Trails Drive to all traffic except emergency vehicles. Frustrated residents who live along the stretch within Lisle's borders asked the Village Board to partially close Green Trails Drive just east of Carriage Hill Road to protect their children from speeders.

The stretch of roadway has no sidewalks or curbs, and residents say they fear children walking to a nearby bus stop will be hit by a car. Residents also say drivers use the road as a cut-through to avoid congestion on nearby Hobson Road. After numerous attempts to relieve the safety concerns failed, village officials considered narrowing or gating the road to pro-' hibit general traffic. "This has been my major concern for 10 years. I've tried improving the street, but there is no way to improve it," said Village Trustee Judy Yuill, who, along with Trustee Ann Duker, voted to close the road.

Yuill argued that additional traffic from future development east of the area will exacerbate the traffic problems. "I can't imagine the lifestyle of these people if that street isn't closed," she said. Though most board members agreed traffic in the area was a concern, they argued the road should remain open. "I think closing the street is inappropriate," said Trustee Ed Young. The road closure controversy has divided the small group of homeowners along the stretch of Green Trails Drive and other residents from Lisle, Woodridge and unincorporated areas, who use the road regularly and have fought any closure.

In recent weeks, homeowners along Green Trails Drive said they have been verbally assaulted and homes and the newly installed stop sign on Green Trails Drive have been vandalized. "As time goes on, I'm truly concerned about what's going on over there. I don't think the Village of Lisle has done enough to solve the problem," said Trustee Joseph Broda, who voted against closing the road. For months, village officials have searched for alternatives short of a road closure. Lisle-Woodridge Fire Protection District officials warned that clc ing the road would create una ceptable emergency response times for residents in the nearby Seven Bridges subdivision.

Hoping to persuade Lisle officials to keep the road open, Woodridge last month erected a stop sign and police have been enfare-, ing the speed limit Other governmental agencies have been reluctant to help cover, the costs of safety measures and. road renovations, and School District 203 denied a request for more frequent bus stops in the area A traffic study showed that nearly 80 percent of vehicles trav eling on Green Trails Drive nate from the surrounding neighborhoods and are not cut-througlv traffic Though residents say they have, clocked excessive speeding along the road numerous times, the study found 85 percent of the traf-, fie travels between 30 m.p.h. and 35 m.p.h. The speed limit is m.p.h. Mayor Ronald Ghilardi said the conditions are similar in other parts of the village and worried closing the road would set a prece-, dent for other neighborhoods with" traffic problems.

"The data says we have eight" other streets that have the same; characteristics, that have house close to the road, that have young; children, that have increased traffic," Ghilardi said. "We might a well close all the streets in town.1 New Meijer store packs in customers By Sandra Thompson Special to the Tribune When Naperville resident Judy Santiago had to wait in a line of about a dozen cars on Naperville Road just to turn into the parking lot of the new Meijer store that opened Tuesday in Bolingbrook, she knew she was probably making a mistake. But she had promised her 2-year-old daughter a visit with Winnie the Pooh, who was supposed to be in the superstore. As Santiago drove at a snail's pace around the packed parking lot she tried to convince Megan that she didn't really need to see the humble yellow bear, but Megan was determined. So Santiago braved the hordes of cars in the parking lot, only to find even larger crowds inside the huge supermarket and general-merchandise store.

Unable to And Pooh among all the shoppers, Santiago put a few items in her cart before trying to head toward the checkouts. But then, finding that she "could hardly turn around," she abandoned her cart and left. However, tens of thousands of hardier souls stayed, some waiting for more than an hour in checkout lines. The grand opening Tuesday of the Meijer store at Naperville and Boughton Roads turned out to be the biggest the Michigan-based chain has seen, according to store director Mike Kerrigan. Although he declined to give a customer count, he did say about 1,000 people were lined up at the store's entrance by 6:45 a.m.

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