At a Sept. 22 regular meeting, the Oak Park and River Forest High School District 200 board voted unanimously, if somewhat grudgingly, to enter into a settlement agreement with the Village of Oak Park and District 97 that allows the village to use funds from the Downtown Tax Increment Finance District to cover the cost of cleaning up a contaminated development site.

A River Forest teenager has been charged with two counts of aggravated battery following an altercation outside the Oak Park Public Library in June that resulted in the death of a 60-year-old Chicago man.

Oak Park Trustee Peter Barber, who formerly served as president of the District 97 elementary school board before being elected to the village board in 2013, has announced he will run for reelection next April.

A tax increment finance district for Madison Street in River Forest is probable. But whether taxing districts that are part of the proposed TIF will see any surplus distributions is uncertain.