Wright-Way Rescue Coming To Morton Grove, Mayor Says

Towards the end of Monday evening's Morton Grove village board meeting, Mayor Dan DiMaria held up a flyer advertising a Nov. 16 benefit for Wright-Way Animal Rescue at Lincoln Square Lanes in Chicago and asked people to support it. 

"Please stop by," he said. "It looks like Wright-Way will be moving to Morton Grove. They have started the process with (Economic Development Director) Nancy (Radzevich) to get this rolling."

"I think it’ll be a plus for the village. This is the number one no-kill (animal) shelter in the United States."

Wright-Way lost the use of the building it leased on Touhy Avenue in Niles when a runaway school bus crashed into it Oct. 2. It generally gets a shipment of about 75 dogs and cats from southern Illinois each weekend, which it says would otherwise be euthanized, president Christy Anderson told Patch earlier. 

Earlier: Animal Shelter Clearing Debris After Bus Crashed Into It 

Radzevich said the current Morton Grove zoning ordinance has no provisions in it for animal shelters, so Wright-Way has filed for a special use permit. At the November Plan Commission meeting, commissioners will look at filing an amendment to the ordinance to permit that use, she said. 

Radzevich said Wright-Way's new location will be on Lincoln Avenue, somewhere in the vicinity of Austin Avenue, but she did not have the exact address Monday night. 

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