The corporate owner of an adult bookstore in Lombard and two former employees were found guilty of obscenity by a Du Page County court jury Friday.
Page Books Inc., which owns Bachelor`s Library at 2N044 N. Illinois Highway 53, Lombard; its former manager, Jerome Jackson of Mt. Prospect; and a former clerk, Chris Miklovic, were found guilty of two counts each of obscenity. One count was for selling magazines, the other for making video tapes available for viewing in booths in the store.
The magazines and tapes contain photos and films of adults engaging in sexual activity, according to testimony in the trial.
The verdicts were returned after a four-day trial in the courtroom of Associate Judge Donald J. Hennessy in Wheaton.
The jury apparently did not accept the defense argument that surveys show the majority of Illinois residents have no objection to making sexually explicit materials available to adults.
Defense lawyers also sought to portray the case as a matter of freedom of expression. They also argued that Miklovic and Jackson didn`t select the store`s inventory and weren`t responsible for the type of material available there.
Miklovic and Jackson were arrested when authorities raided the store on Nov. 14, 1989.
![The Arlington Heights Village Board granted developers of the planned Arlington 425 project in downtown Arlington Heights another construction-related extension – making this at least the second one – even as financing for the work has still not been secured. The mixed-use development, planned for 225 W. Campbell St., has been in the works for five years. “We’re looking to get it going,” Stephen Messutta, general counsel for Norwood Builders of Park Ridge, told the board at the April 15 meeting. The developer requested a zoning extension for the proposed redevelopment on the longtime empty land parcel located just steps […]](https://www.chicagotribune.com/wp-content/uploads/migration/2023/05/09/E6SSECNLL5F4JLRU4GG4CNMQ2A.jpg?w=535 "The Arlington Heights Village Board granted developers of the planned Arlington 425 project in downtown Arlington Heights another construction-related extension – making this at least the second one – even as financing for the work has still not been secured. The mixed-use development, planned for 225 W. Campbell St., has been in the works for five years. “We’re looking to get it going,” Stephen Messutta, general counsel for Norwood Builders of Park Ridge, told the board at the April 15 meeting. The developer requested a zoning extension for the proposed redevelopment on the longtime empty land parcel located just steps […]")
