Developer's word broken once again

The Antioch Corporate Park development of 199 acres (permit 16/08, PHASE I, from Antioch Village) is well under way using Ryan Central Excavation from Janesville, Wisc., and portable toilets from Pit Stop of West Chicago. The Route 173 parking lot of the development is full of employee vehicles with Wisconsin license plates. On Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2006, at 7 p.m. IDI officials invited more than 50 residents of the development area to attend a meeting at the Pedersen Farm to explain the rezoning and development of the acreage. There was not much the Lake County residents could do at this meeting except to demand quiet, green zones, specific setbacks and high dirt hills with 6,000 tall trees bordering Route 173 and their homes that would protect the rural area between Route 41 and Route 45, which has been deemed the Antioch Corridor Development Project by local officials and corporate interests

The residents also asked if IDI would use local Lake County businesses and services to help build the development. Of course officials stated that they would use local Newport Township and Lake County businesses. At a time of home foreclosures, high unemployment, and increasing costs for Lake County families, it looks like IDI joins the list of developers who break their promises to residents of Lake County. And, this is merely PHASE I.

Kathleen V. Shea

Antioch