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Deidra Jenkins shares her thoughts on diversity and what she'd like to see in a new superintendent for School District 97.

Community weighs in on District 97 superintendent search

May 25, 2019 at 12:30 p.m.

Oak Park Elementary School District 97 parents are interested in a new superintendent who values the diversity of an involved community, knows how to share power and can implement research-based...

Committee: Roosevelt Middle School parking lot must stay open for library

May 13, 2019 at 2:44 p.m.

After months of contentious debate, a River Forest committee says a Roosevelt Middle School parking lot must remain open to the public against School District 90's wishes. The plan now...

Meet the candidates: River Forest Village Board hopefuls talk top issues

May 13, 2019 at 2:44 p.m.

The River Forest Service Club and the Oak Park River Forest League of Women Voters will host a candidate fair at 7 p.m. and candidate forum at 7:30 p.m. Feb....

River Forest says Bruce Rauner’s proposed budget ‘crippling’

May 13, 2019 at 2:44 p.m.

Gov. Bruce Rauner's first budget is drawing sharp criticism from village officials in River Forest, but local education officials were split on the proposal. In a speech announcing his proposed...

District 97 School Board President Bob Spatz (left), Superintendent Albert Roberts (center) and Village Board member Peter Barber (right) leave Peter Traczyk's funeral at United Lutheran Church in Oak Park Feb. 14.

Mourners reflect on Oak Park School Board member Peter Traczyk’s life at funeral

May 25, 2019 at 12:30 p.m.

In the days that followed the Feb. 7 death of Oak Park Elementary District 97 Trustee Peter Traczyk, his friend and neighbor Dan Greenstone listened to what the children in...

Roosevelt Middle School parking plan unpopular with River Forest review board

May 13, 2019 at 2:44 p.m.

An eleventh-hour amendment to add eight parking spots to River Forest School District 90's Roosevelt Exterior Plan may not be enough to persuade River Forest's Development Review Board to recommend...

In this 2011 file photo, Peter Traczyk, then running for District 97 Board of Education, speaks at a forum sponsored by the League of Women Voters of Oak Park and River Forest. Traczyk, 48, was found dead Saturday in a Melrose Park forest preserve.

Funeral set for Oak Park School Board member Peter Traczyk

May 8, 2019 at 10:56 a.m.

Since gathering over the weekend for a candlelight vigil in the aftermath of the death of Oak Park Elementary School District 97 Trustee Peter Traczyk, Oak Park residents continue trying...

In death, Peter Traczyk leaves ‘legacy of service’

May 8, 2019 at 10:56 a.m.

On Dec. 18, Oak Park Elementary District 97 School Board member Peter Traczyk marched triumphantly into the tail end of a board meeting, elated. After nearly a year, the district...

Passwords secure: Local schools unlikely to follow downstate district in requiring social media access

May 23, 2019 at 10:03 p.m.

Local school districts are unlikely to follow the lead of Triad Community Schools Unit District 2 in downstate Madison County, whose officials have interpreted a new law as meaning they...

Students and faculty at Oak Park and River Forest High School work on a spinoff music video mimicking Meghan Trainor's hit video, "All about that Bass," Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2015. Senior Rachel Pospisil leads a group of cheerleaders during the filming of a scene. (J.Geil/Pioneer Press)

Students show they’re ‘All About’ OPRF in video

May 13, 2019 at 2:43 p.m.

Oak Park and River Forest High School senior Kiana Beverly, wearing a black leotard, tights and sparkly stiletto platforms, practices her Beyonce shimmy before she's joined by her background dancers,...

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