Unhappy homeowners: Frustrated Brookside residents take complaints to Web and end up in court

From the Land of Lincoln:
A three-year struggle over the management of a Tinley Park townhouse association has escalated from letters, meetings and Web posts to Cook County Circuit Court. A faction of owners in the Brookside Glen townhouses questions the practices of the association's managing agent, Rosemary Schrank of Schrank & Associates in Orland Hills. They're mounting a campaign to oust three members of the association board whom they say are Schrank's puppets. Now, Schrank is suing two homeowners over allegedly defamatory comments posted on an open Web forum that focuses on the sprawling Brookside Glen subdivision in the fast-growing southwest area of the village. The townhouse area of the subdivision consists of 196 homes built in the late 1990s.