Wheeling wetlands dispute on settlement track

Sep 23 2009 No Comments

(IL) Chicago Tribune – In July, the Chicago District of the Corps found that village-owned wetlands west of Mark Smith’s Prairie Park condominium development at 700 N. Wolf Rd. had been filled improperly. Smith and village officials agree Smith’s company, Smith Family Construction Inc., did the filling without authorization or approval from village officials.“We encroached on some village property slightly,” Smith said last week of the work he said his company mistakenly did on the land east and south of the Rogers Memorial Diversion Channel that takes water to the Des Plaines River. More

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