Laura Maychruk, owner of Buzz Café, 905 S. Lombard Ave. in Oak Park, is the first restaurant owner to apply for a new license in the village required to allow patrons to bring their own liquor, wine or beer to drink with meals. 

Last year, the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards announced that there were roughly 180 new National Board Certified teachers in Illinois — 20 of them, or 10 percent of the state total.

A group of residents who live near a yet-to-be-constructed 37-unit affordable housing building are suing the village of Oak Park, saying its approval of the development runs afoul of the village's zoning code.

Those with parking tickets and late fees in Oak Park prior to 2018 are expected to get some relief from the village through an amnesty program that will waive late fees temporarily later this year.

A Chicago priest who served at St. Giles Parish in Oak Park in the 1980s, has been removed from ministry in Chicago by Cardinal Blase J. Cupich, archbishop of Chicago, following allegations of sexual abuse of a minor, according to an archdiocese press release.