Skokie Mayor George Van Dusen highlighted Skokie’s new and incoming businesses at the village’s State of the Village address. The speech was given at a Skokie Chamber of Commerce event …
Skokie Mayor George Van Dusen delivered his State of the Village Address on June 14 at a luncheon hosted by the Skokie Chamber of Commerce. Skokie Mayor George Van Dusen highlighted Skokie’s successes in economic development and looked forward to future projects in his State of the Village address, delivered to the Skokie Chamber of Commerce June 14 at Urnina Banquets in Skokie.
“Some of you may have seen the publicity of the opening of the new Rick Bayless restaurant. You don’t get that kind of investment if there isn’t something about your community,” he said. He added that the outdoor shopping mall will add six more stores before the end of the year. “Multifamily housing is exploding. If you take Skokie Boulevard, probably within the next two years… We will probably add close to 750 units of rental housing,” Van Dusen said. In February 2023, the Board of Trustees approvedHighpoint at 8000 North, a highrise apartment complex at 8000 N. Lincoln Ave., Skokie, is 98% leased, Van Dusen said. He also said that an Italian restaurant is slated to open its doors off the building’s lobby in the fall.
“When we began a flood control program… it was the first in the nation to have the water in the streets as a way of ensuring that that water would not be in your basement,” Van Dusen said. “‘Better in your streets than in the basement,’ is what the engineers used to tell us.”
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