Three floors of an apartment building at 12 Washington Blvd. in Oak Park were engulfed with smoke after a small kitchen fire broke out in a fifth-floor apartment at approximately 4:40 p.m. on Sept. 18.

West Cook YMCA is reaching out to the River Forest Park District to see if it might be willing to contribute money and work as a partner to build a second location in Melrose Park.

The Village of Oak Park is rethinking its plan to install a $200,000 granite planter in front of the village's newest high-rise at the corner of Lake Street and Forest Avenue.

Motorists on Madison Street will have to slow it down by five miles per hour, following a split vote by the Oak Park Board of Trustees.