Prospect Heights News

09-12-16 Prospect Heights City Council Meeting
This webpage contains short video clips of the key items from this meeting. Instead of having to watch the video of the entire meeting, you are able to watch just the portion of the meeting that is of interest to you! Simply scan down the page, read the agenda item description and click on the video to watch it. To stop the video, just click on it again. Once you start the video you will be able to use the controls at the bottom to start, stop, fast forward, rewind, switch to full screen and change your volume as well.

Thornton's Presentation (23 minutes)
Presentation by Senior Manager of Development Joe Ballard of Thornton's regarding their proposal to build a gasoline and convenience store at Rand and Thomas Roads.

Discussion of City Owned Land (1 hour 9 minutes)
Discussion of city owned land located at 25-35 East Piper Lane and a proposal and presentation by Peter Carlis and Ron Reese of Cornerstone Commercial Partners regarding selling this property for the city.

Review of Liquor License Code (28 minutes)
Discussion regarding the possibliliy of rewriting the city liquor license code to make it more streamlined and less confusing. Also discussed is the large number of video gaming locations that the city currently has.

Metra Agreement Update (5 minutes)
Metra is requesting an additional assistance package from the city to help maintain the metra train station on Wolf Road. Our 20 year agreement with them expires in November of this year.

Full Length Meeting Video (1 hour 51 minutes in length)
For those of you with more time on their hands, here is the entire video of this meeting! This video has built in controls that allow you to easily move around within it as well as providing for full screen viewing if desired.

09-12-16 Prospect Heights City Council Meeting