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Roosevelt Road groundbreaking this Friday
| Wednesday, September 01, 2010
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Roosevelt Road is about to get a $9.5 million facelift courtesy of federal, state and local dollars. A groundbreaking ceremony to mark the kick-off is set for this Friday. |
Oak Park front patio - Social experiment or a good place for a glass of wine?
|  | | Meet your neighbor: Steve Bankes’ front yard patio on Grove Avenue has become a meeting ground and common place for neighbors who stop by to chat. |
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
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Steve Bankes insists that he wasn't conducting some sort of social experiment in the front yard of his Oak Park home. He just wanted somewhere to sit around and watch the kids play. But Bankes has caught the attention of newspaper columnists and nonprofits alike. They're heralding the little stone patio he put right outside his single-family home on the 700 block of North Grove, which he has dubbed the "conversation curve." |
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| Me Llana |  | Edgar Rice Burroughs’ great-granddaughter, Llana Jane Burroughs, traveled from Tarzana, Calif., for a gathering of Burroughs’ fans and received a tour of the exhibit at the Historical Society of Oak Park and River Forest from board president Kelli Kline.
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News
| | Oak Park Township's 'interventionists' funding questioned | Tuesday, August 31, 2010
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Unlike most of Austin Gardens' patrons, who are sunning themselves or walking their dogs obliviously, Melissa Potrawski and Robert Simmons are at work. As Oak Park Township's Youth Interventionists, they're on the front lines of the fight to keep Oak Park and River Forest's kids from getting into trouble - and to pull kids already in trouble back on track. | | | Expulsions, drug offenses up at OPRF | Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Expulsions and drug-related offenses were up in the 2009-2010 school year at Oak Park and River Forest High School, according to discipline figures released last week by the school. | | | Oak Park and River Forest private schools see slight uptick in enrollment | Tuesday, August 31, 2010
The Great Recession appeared to have taken a bite out of enrollment at local private elementary schools - with job losses and shrinking pocketbooks forcing some parents to take their kids public. | | | D97 eyes therapeutic day school for Oak Park special needs kids | Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Should Oak Park create a therapeutic day school within District 97 to allow it to keep more students from outside placements? The district's special ed director says yes, and the school board is open to the concept. | | | Oak Park duo bike 930 miles to New Orleans. Why? Why not? | Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Patrick Sugrue could have easily hopped a plane from Oak Park to New Orleans. He could have boarded a bus or hitched a ride. But instead, on an impulse, the 21-year-old Oak Parker decided to bike the roughly 930 miles to make it to his junior year of college. | | | Elected officials break silence on Oak Park TIF lawsuit | Tuesday, August 31, 2010
First reported 8/31/2010 12:44 p.m.
Oak Park's Village Hall and the two local school districts have been embroiled in a lawsuit since February, in a dispute over $3.3 million that the high school believes it is owed by the village government. | |
| | | | Sports
| | Friars lose Hart, fall to Notre Dame | Tuesday, August 31, 2010
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Sam Ainsworth showed his worth and Fenwick followed his lead against Notre Dame at Soldier Field on Sunday night. Listed as a 6-foot-4 junior tight end/linebacker, Ainsworth actually replaced injured quarterback Pat Hart (shoulder) and tossed two touchdown passes to rally the Friars from a 13-0 halftime deficit to a 13-13 tie. | | | Briner and Co. take to the court | Tuesday, August 31, 2010
With the high caliber of conference competition this season and several difficult tournaments, by the end of the 2010 schedule the OPRF volleyball team will either be flying high or welcoming a break in the action. | | | Huskies stymied in season opener | Tuesday, August 31, 2010
The OPRF football team seems to have taken a cue from the Chicago Bears. The Huskies, who were highly touted in the preseason for their big and experienced offensive line much like the Bears, were unable to gain ground against Glenbard North on Friday night. | | | OPRF ready to racket things up | Tuesday, August 31, 2010
There may only be three sectional qualifiers back for the OPRF girls tennis team this season, but those three are sure to have plenty of company in the postseason. | | | |
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