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Aurora Beacon-News
September 18, 2002
Creekside site: Home on 192 acres northwest of Plano
By Dave Parro
STAFF WRITER
A moving date hasn't been set, but the office of U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert confirmed Tuesday that the Yorkville
Republican has purchased a 192-acre piece of property northwest of Plano.
Hastert closed Monday on the property, which rests along the Little Rock Creek in northwestern unincorporated Kendall
County, said spokesman Brad Hahn. The exact address wasn't disclosed by Hahn for security reasons, but he confirmed
the property is the same land identified earlier this month by Citizens Against the Sprawlway.
The group, which was organized to fight the proposed Prairie Parkway backed by Hastert, said the farm is near the
45-acre Jay Woods about a mile south of Little Rock.
Hastert has not yet sold his Yorkville home along Route 34, a single-story ranch on the market for $849,900. The
speaker bought the three-bedroom home in 1986, the year he was first elected to Congress.
"He's just moving a few miles down the road, but it will still be the same Dennis Hastert," Hahn said.
"He'll still be around, as he always has been."
Yorkville Mayor Art Prochaska said "it is nice to say the speaker of the House is from Yorkville," but
he said Hastert always technically has lived in unincorporated Kendall County just outside town.
"I don't think we're any less proud of our community because of this," Prochaska said. "He's still
our representative. He still does a good job."