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Park Ridge-Niles School District 64 administrators recommended that school board hire an additional special education coordinator.

Hire additional special education coordinator to improve program, District 64 administration recommends

May 23, 2019 at 4:55 a.m.

Park Ridge - Niles School District 64 administrators recommended that school board hire an additional special education coordinator, acknowledging that its program for elementary school students who have significant disabilities...

District 64 urged to consider options to ease crowding at Emerson Middle School

May 23, 2019 at 4:55 a.m.

Park Ridge - Niles School District 64 administrators warned the school board that they expect Emerson Middle School to be overcrowded by the next school year. They urged board members...

Park Ridge-Niles School District 64 school board members met last week.

New group launched for parents of District 64 special education students as officials examine program

May 23, 2019 at 4:54 a.m.

Parents of Park Ridge-Niles School District 64 students who have significant disabilities can join a new support group designed to address concerns about the district's special education programs. Several parents...

The Park Ridge-Niles School District 64 Board of Education discussed a plan to station school resource officers at Emerson and Lincoln middle schools.

District 64 board members reconsider placing resource officers at middle schools

May 23, 2019 at 4:54 a.m.

Three school board members are reconsidering their support of a pilot program that would station police officers at Park Ridge-Niles District 64's middle schools after reviewing a legal opinion about...

Members of the Park Ridge-Niles School District 64 Board of Education on Monday discuss a proposal to require parents to undergo a background check to prove they live in the district.

Background check to be used to verify families’ residency in District 64

May 23, 2019 at 4:54 a.m.

Parents soon will be required to submit to a background check to prove they are residents of Park Ridge-Niles School District 64 before they can register their children for school....

Elmwood Park woman found dead after a week in snow-covered car; no foul play suspected: police

May 23, 2019 at 10:24 p.m.

No foul play is suspected in the death of a woman in her 60s found Friday morning in her snow-covered car outside her Elmwood Park home, police said. The woman,...

Oak Park Mayor Anan Abu-Taleb, speaking at a September 2015 event.

Oak Park trustees to hear complaint about mayor’s role in stalled Madison Street redevelopment

May 8, 2019 at 12:12 p.m.

The Oak Park Village Board of Trustees will hear a complaint this week on whether Mayor Anan Abu-Taleb's role with the Oak Park Economic Development Corporation poses a conflict of...

Michael Kulhanek laughs as he realizes that he did not bring enough reusable totes to bring home all of his groceries at Pete's Fresh Market. To avoid paying a fee of 10 cents for a paper or plastic bag, Kulhanek carried some items to his car in his arms.

In Oak Park, rollout of new bag fee going ‘a lot smoother’ than some expected

May 8, 2019 at 12:11 p.m.

The rollout of Oak Park's new 10-cent fee for disposable paper and plastic bags last week was surprisingly smooth with few hiccups, village officials, environmental advocates and store owners said....

Tina Miller displays some plastic shopping bags after she paid a 10-cent-per-bag fee at Pete's Fresh Market after a new Oak Park ordinance went into effect Jan. 1, 2018.

Oak Park shoppers adjust to new fee: bring own bags or be prepared to pay

May 8, 2019 at 12:11 p.m.

Loading nearly a dozen plastic shopping bags full to bursting with groceries into her car Saturday in the parking lot of Pete's Fresh Market in Oak Park, Tina Miller was...

No injuries in fire that damaged home on South Humphrey Avenue in Oak Park

May 8, 2019 at 12:11 p.m.

No one was injured in a Tuesday afternoon fire that damaged a single-family home in the 800 block of South Humphrey Avenue in Oak Park, village officials said. Fire crews...

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