Bradley’s Summerfield neighborhood residents still waiting for promised park

When Laura Krooswyk moved into her home in 2007 as one of the first homeowners in Bradley’s east side Summerfield subdivision, residents were promised a park.Almost 20 years later, there is still no park, nor do plans for one exist.“When we moved here, we were told there would be a park for the kids,” she recalled. “They would have a place to play.”It’s been an unfulfilled promise.Located east of Bradley Boulevard and immediately north of Larry Power Road, the subdivision originally was developed by Centex, then picked up by Curwick Construction and most recently taken over by Lennar Builders of Schaumburg.This trio, however, did not move to build a single swing set, slide or ball field. Not even a simple sandbox dots the landscape.Instead, about a 1.2-acre site – the size of three house lots – eyed for the park near the center of the subdivision and acquired by the village years ago for the park remains untouched.Bradley, home to 18 village-owned-and-maintained parks, is being asked t