Welcome to a new month, Oak Park and River Forest! Let’s start October with the latest news in your neighborhood.
First, today’s weather: Very warm with clouds and sun. High: 87, low: 66.
Here are the top stories in Oak Park-River Forest today:
1. Fifty-four Oak Park residents tested positive for COVID-19 this week. Cases range in age from younger than four to older than 80, the Oak Park Department of Public Health announced. (VOP)
2. The OPRF High School board passed a $107 million budget for the 2022 fiscal year, Pioneer Press reports. District 200 was awarded about $2 million in federal COVID-19 relief grants; about 80 percent of revenue comes from property taxes. (Paid source: Oak Leaves)
3. The Village Board voted this month to devote more resources to rat control. Oak Park saw a higher-than-normal rate of rodent activity in the area this year. Public Health Director Theresa Chapple-McGruder said the health department is “alerting neighbors when the vermin have been spotted near their homes.” (Wednesday Journal)
4. Oak Park native and renowned Baltimore artist John D. Ferguson died this week at age 81. The Fenwick alum “found his love for the works of architect Frank Lloyd Wright and writer Ernest Hemingway” during his years in Oak Park. (Baltimore Sun)
5. Today marks the unofficial beginning of “Spooky Season,” with the Hemingway Birthplace and Oak Park River Forest museums making plans to celebrate Halloween throughout the month. Guests will read ghost stories for the monthly Friday @ Hemingways series, while the museum will offer a “Tale of the Tombstones Cemetery Walk” on Oct. 17. (OPRF Museum)
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Today in Oak Park-River Forest:
- Kids and teens in grades 5-8 can drop in to River Forest Public Library to watch a movie or play games. (3:30 p.m.)
- Health & Wellness Happy Hour at One Lake Brewing. (4 p.m.)
- “The Addams Family 2” opens at Lake Theatre. (4:35 p.m.)
- The Center for Serenity hosts an “Evening of Wine and Mindful Art” at Anfora Wine Merchants. (6 p.m.)
- Concordia’s University Band performs a concert with in-person and virtual options. (8 p.m.)
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- Village staff delivered 200 jars of honey to Beyond Hunger this week, grown from beehives on the rooftops of Village Hall and the Public Works Center. (VOP)
- Oak Park Township Senior Services offers free transportation to the Farmers’ Market. (Township)
- Chicago Magazine included four Oak Park doctors on its list of the city’s top surgeons. (Chicago Magazine)
- OPRF High School named eight National Merit Scholarship semi-finalists. (Paid source: Oak Leaves)
- It’s the last day to respond to the Park District of Oak Park survey about its new website. (PDOP)
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