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Protecting their children from sexually explicit material was on the minds of mobile home park residents who gathered Tuesday to hear more about efforts to stop an adult bookstore from going up across the street. More
Residents of the Touhy Mobile Homes Park are not blind to the stigma society places on trailer living. But, they say, that doesn't make it right for a 24-hour adult bookstore to open across the street from a school bus stop where hundreds of children gather each day. More
The City of Des Plaines, with help from Elk Grove Township Elementary School Dist. 59, will try to convince an Illinois appellate court that it should prevent an adult bookstore from opening for business on Touhy Avenue between York and Mt. Prospect roads. More
PEORIA - Cedar siding, stone fireplaces and skylights. Or how about French doors leading into a master bedroom with a huge walk-in closet and a master bathroom with both a two-seat shower and a separate whirlpool tub. More
When Patricia Yauch moved to the Sunset Village trailer park in Glenview, she thought she and her husband, a retired janitor, had found a haven for their golden years. She never dreamed that stiff rent increases eventually would force her to seek handouts from the food pantry. More
Comedians still jokingly refer to them as places where trailer trash live. This view of manufactured/mobile home parks is not entirely unwarranted. The negative view, especially of park residents, is changing, albeit slowly. More
SATURDAY MEETING: About 150 hear about ways to combat problems with management. More
ELGIN — Residents of Willow Lake Estates, a 55-and-older manufactured home community on the bank of the Fox River, have seen their rent climb steadily for the past three years. More
When Nancy O'Reilly's mobile home caught fire, Bridgeview firefighters opened a hydrant in her front yard. And a trickle of water drizzled out of the hydrant, hooked to a privately maintained pipe operated by the Rosebud Mobile Home Community. More
AURORA TOWNSHIP — Six years ago, Dale Seidelman said despite the sewer problems, water-line breaks and other quality of life complaints he received from tenants at Margaret's Parkview Trailer Park, he would take care of the problems. More
Last week, the Appellate Court ruled against the Mobile Home Owner's Association of Illinois, allowing an adult bookstore to operate within 1,000 feet of two school bus stops at the Touhy Manufactured Homes community in Elk Grove Township. More
The Illinois Appellate Court has rejected an appeal to stop the building of an adult book store across the street from the Touhy Mobile Home Park. More
A small and faded American flag still flaps in the breeze as it sits on a severely scorched mobile home in Des Plaines. Authorities believe the fire that consumed the black-and-white sided trailer early Thursday killed its owner, 51-year-old Glen Koehler. More
SPRINGFIELD -- They say they're not "trailer trash" or "freeloaders," and they resent being called that. More
Sterling Estates Mobile Home Park residents fed up with its condition. More
Residents of the Sterling Estates Mobile Home Park in Lyons Township are fed up with living conditions at the park. In an often raucous meeting Tuesday, more than 300 people crammed in the Justice Village Hall demanding that elected officials hear their pleas. More
Mobile home park activists plan to lobby state lawmakers to pass a law that would fine park owners who fail to provide proper maintenance at their communities. More
Salvation Army-Jackson Jr. plan to feed residents of mobile park met with resistance More
A fire sparked by the aluminum foil on the tamales about 11:30 a.m. Monday destroyed six homes, damaged five other homes and ravaged five vehicles in the Des Plaines Mobile Home Park in Elk Grove Township near Des Plaines, fire officials said. (links to story at the Daily Herald website). More
Faced with complaints that a new asphalt plant would be a noisy, dusty threat to the health of 1,500 mobile-home residents, the Des Plaines City Council is set to decide the project's fate Monday evening. More
Residents of Willow Lake Estates are fighting to draw attention to what they say are exorbitant rents charged by the owner of the mobile home park for senior citizens. More
As a final vote on the controversial Touhy Road asphalt plant nears, two state elected officials have urged Des Plaines leaders to reconsider their support of it. More
PARK CITY — If Park City's mobile home residents joined thousands of others in Illinois they could send a powerful message to Springfield, said Terry Nelson, president of the Illinois Mobile Home Owners Association, speaking Thursday at a meeting of the new Park City Manufactured Home Owners Association. More
A disabled man died in 2002 when flames engulfed his Des Plaines mobile home. A fire last year that started when a woman heated tamales wrapped in aluminum foil in a microwave devastated an Elk Grove Township mobile home park. No one was injured when the fire spread, but it destroyed five other mobile homes and five vehicles. These incidents have spurred Cook County to propose changing its mobile home regulations to add space between mobile homes, and increase the distance new homes must be from the road. More
To prevent the quick spread of fires at mobile home parks, Cook County officials have proposed setting the homes farther back from the street and requiring fire hydrants at all of the parks within a decade. More
Terry Nelson, president of the Mobile Home Owners Association of Illinois, said residents are often left in the lurch when their trailer parks are sold for other uses. More
Mobile homes will have to be spaced farther apart in Cook County under a proposal to update the county's regulations for the first time in more than 30 years. More
Weeks after residents of a Harvard trailer park learned that they will be forced to move, a mobile-home owners group is pushing for legislation to protect the 300,000 people statewide who live in the parks. More
HARVARD – Buying a home for the first time is difficult enough. But what if you are low-income, speak little English, and the only home you have known for the past several years is an old, run-down trailer? That question was on the minds of some of the nearly 40 south-side trailer-park residents who attended a Hispanic Home Buyers workshop Thursday night at city hall. More
Q. We are looking for a manufactured-home community because these houses are not as expensive as those in other developments. Where can we find them in Illinois? A. Before answering your specific question, a little background information might be helpful. More
Terry Nelson and her neighbors at the Rand Road Mobile Home Community believe Des Plaines officials’ redevelopment plans will displace them. Nelson, who heads the Mobile Home Owners Association of Illinois, worries about the effect on her 80-year-old widower neighbor. The $480 monthly rent is something residents couldn’t find anywhere else, she says. More
Mobile-Home Owners fear losing their sites. Des Plaines officials said they won't release until spring their goals for redeveloping an area known as Five Corners, north of the suburb's downtown. More
Carol Marin reports residents are being forced to pay rent increases that can reach as high as 60 percent. More
SPRINGFIELD -- When I came to Springfield this week, I didn't expect some of my time would be spent chasing Victor Reyes through the rotunda of the state Capitol. But there he was and there I was running after him. More
From Las Vegas to the Tampa Bay area, the scarcity and rising price of land have made mobile home parks a hot commodity. More
ELGIN — The sponsor of a bill that would give residents of a local mobile-home park for seniors a way to challenge rent increases said she would seek to override Gov. Rod Blagojevich's recent veto of the measure. More
This spring, the state Legislature passed a measure that would have required two year leases and put in place other regulations to protect mobile home owners. But after heavy lobbying by the mobile home industry, Gov. Rod Blagojevich decided to veto the measure. More
SPRINGFIELD — An Elgin lawmaker says Gov. Rod Blagojevich was misguided in rejecting a proposed law offering increased consumer protections to area mobile home residents, and she’ll try to override his veto later this year. More
Local governments trying to condemn property to make way for private development will have heightened standards to meet under a new eminent domain law signed Friday by Gov. Rod Blagojevich. More
Fed up with alleged slow or no response from Parrish Properties regarding the new rules contained in its property leases, residents living in Sullivan’s North and South mobile home parks formed a homeowners’ association Monday in hopes of developing a line of communication with the new landlord. More
State Rep. Ruth Munson (R-Elgin) has stirred up quite a little hornet's nest. As I write this, Munson is down in Springfield fighting to override Gov. Blagojevich's veto of what amounts to a pretty small piece of legislation. But a phalanx of new lobbyists has descended on the Capitol, hired by an industry with deep pockets to defeat her. One of them is Bill Filan, cousin of the governor's budget director. More
Owners group claims [his] company is the leader in raising rental rates. More
Terry Nelson says, "People need to know the right place to go". MHOAI is one of them. More
The debate over low-cost housing has moved well beyond the inner city. More
Proposal aims to boost safety at mobile homes More