Sporting a fresh black and white Fenwick long-sleeve shirt, Matt Battaglia was greeted by Friar nation on Nov. 11 before being publicly introduced as the program's next football head coach.

16th Street Theater in Berwyn has mounted a very exciting and elaborate production, A Xmas Cuento Remix

Two teenage boys approached an Oak Park woman from behind, put a hard object against her and demanded she turn over her purse and keys 6 p.m. Dec. 2 in the 100 block of Washington Boulevard. The estimated loss is $43.

Entrepreneur Leaders Philanthropy (ELP) will not have its annual "Big Idea" event nor will the group award a $50,000 seed grant next March. 

Beginning Jan. 13, 2020, visitors at Julian, Hatch and Longfellow will be asked to sign-in and present identification, such as a driver's license, that will be scanned into District 97's new LobbyGuard visitor management system. 

Hephzibah Home, as its name implies, strives to make the displaced children living there feel well and truly at home.

Keystone Montessori School was saved from imminent foreclosure when an anonymous benefactor bought the school's mortgage bonds at the end of November.

Tre Sorelle Ristorante, located at 1111 Lake St. in Oak Park and formerly known as the original Mancini's, is scheduled to open on Tuesday, Dec. 10. 

Concerns over the impact of the expiring downtown Oak Park and Madison Street Tax Increment Financing Districts on the tax levy didn't escape the Park District of Oak Park's Dec. 5 Committee of the Whole meeting.