The Frank Lloyd Wright Trust's plan to build a new visitor and education center next to the famed architect's home and studio got off to a rough start this week with a presentation to the Oak Park Historic Preservation Commission.

Shari Noland, 49, of Oak Park, knew what she was getting into when, in 2017, she decided to leave her job as communications director for the Oak Park Education Foundation in order to become executive editor of the Chicago Defender.

Oak Park is a place "where small town charm meets urban attitude," according to the new website launched in mid-June by the local tourism organization Visit Oak Park.

River Forest may bring a team of sharpshooters to town, with the aim of reducing the growing number of deer in the village.

The village of Oak Park is set to get its first recreational cannabis dispensary at the beginning of 2020, when the state's law legalizing the drug goes into effect.