Friday night, the American Writers Museum, a new enterprise based in Chicago, will co-host a fundraiser with the Oak Park Public Library in the second-floor Veterans Room at 7. Writer and media personality Rick Kogan (Chicago Tribune, WGN Radio) will be on hand to interview two of Oak Park's best known writers, novelist Elizabeth Berg and journalist/author Alex Kotlowitz. 

After all is said and done, usually, more is said than done.

— Lou Holtz

Last Friday afternoon, some 350 black students, teachers, staff and administrators crowded into the Little Theater at Oak Park and River Forest High School for a candid conversation about being black – in life, in high school, in America, in Oak Park.

The Oak Park and River Forest  Huskies Hockey Varsity Team won the 2015 Founders Cup Championship with an exciting 4-3 victory over league rival Lyons Township on Sunday, March 1 at the Darien Sportsplex.

Some residents of River Forest might feel uncomfortable calling village hall about their concerns. But Richard Cooke, who is running for trustee, sees his role as a bridge between residents and the village board and administration.

Riverside police arrested an Oak Park man on Saturday afternoon at Brookfield Zoo, after an argument with his girlfriend escalated into a physical fight with the man allegedly punching the woman in the face as she held an 11-month-old child.

A Chicago firm familiar with River Forest's economic development issues will assess what kinds of businesses would work best in the Tax Increment Finance districts being created on Madison Street and North Avenue.

Rick Gillis believes that River Forest needs to look toward the future while it deals with issues in the present to continue offering the quality of life residents have come to expect.

The commercial and retail side of things can be stronger by expanding the tax base, while local entities throughout River Forest together ought to find ways of reducing costs to make government more efficient. This all won't happen overnight and the community must be patient, said Gillis, who is running for village trustee in the April election.

As a member of the U.S. Naval Reserve, Daniel L. Gard has been accustomed to hitting the ground running when he gets an assignment.

It's been the 61-year-old's approach almost from the moment he came to Concordia University in August to become the institution's 11th president. Since then, he's been taking in every aspect of the university and its intricacies.

Guillermo "Gil" Cabancungan III says that, if elected to the District 200 school board, he'll introduce what he calls a "Vision of World-Class Excellence and Curiosity 2025," a 10-year master plan "that creates a safe, open, innovative, continuous and connected campus on the same District 200 land."