Schaumburg officers assume to finalize programs following thirty day period for an intensive renovation of the Jack Siegel Memorial Plaza between the two properties on the village’s municipal campus, a timeline supposed to be certain its completion by following Memorial Working day weekend.
The undertaking is aimed at not only restoring deteriorating parts of the outside room, but also enhancing the 27,000-sq.-foot plaza’s aesthetics and usefulness with facilities this kind of as new lights, seating, natural landscaping and shade.
Design is anticipated to begin in the tumble and be mostly finished by the close of the 12 months, while all the supposed facilities may possibly not be mounted right before subsequent spring.
The village has obtained two unique value estimates for design dependent on the conceptual style and design. Cordogan, Clark & Associates, which made the structure, has estimated its construction at $838,486. But Chicago-based construction company F.H. Paschen approximated it at $640,000 centered on its critique of the strategy.
The plaza lies in between the Robert O. Atcher Municipal Centre and Al Larson Prairie Centre for the Arts, amenities named after the village’s two longest-serving mayors.
The village board renamed the plaza in 2016 in honor of the town’s 1st legal professional, who died in September 2014 right after extra than 50 many years of support. Siegel began his assistance to the village by defending it versus a lawful problem to its 1956 incorporation, and never retired.

























“He saved Schaumburg,” then-Mayor Al Larson said at the time of the plaza’s 2016 commitment. “He was our knight in shining armor. A comfortable-spoken gentlemen, but when it arrived to a legal make a difference in court docket, that’s when the difficult Jack Siegel came out.”
The plaza named in his honor performs an vital purpose in these types of annual particular gatherings as the Prairie Arts Competition, Septemberfest and the village’s holiday break tree lights. The planned enhancements are hoped to enhance its day-to-day usefulness for worker breaks and residents’ use of the grounds.
Trustees hope to keep on and comprehensive the discussion started final week at their committee meeting on Aug. 17.
