🌱 1 Dead In Eisenhower Crash Near Oak Park + Heat Advisory

Hello, Oak Park and River Forest! I’m so happy to be back curating your guide to local news. Let’s get to today’s Daily.

First, today's weather:

Humid; breezy in the p.m. High: 99 Low: 81.

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Here are the top 5 stories in Oak Park-River Forest today:

1. A person died in a car crash Monday on I-290 near Oak Park. The collision happened around 8:50 a.m. near Harlem Avenue and involved a delivery van and semi-truck trailer. (ABC)

2. In case you missed it last week: 193 people in the village tested positive for COVID-19 between June 2 and 8. Cases are down more than 50 percent from 30 days ago. (VOP)

3. The Dole Branch Library will be closed today for air conditioning repairs. The temperature is expected to reach into the high 90s and the heat index could climb to 110. (OPPL)

4. Oak Park Village Hall is now serving as an early voting site for the Illinois gubernatorial election. Early voting ends June 27 and is open to all suburban Cook County residents. Click here for Village Hall hours. (Wednesday Journal)

5. Oak Park and River Forest High School junior Maya Souden is competing this week in the International BioGENEius Challenge. She won the Illinois competition in May for prototyping a surgical device to lower blood flow. (OPRFHS)

Today in Oak Park-River Forest:

• Take a storybook nature walk in Scoville Park. (9 a.m.)
• Catch "Jurassic World Dominion" at Lake Theatre. (12:35 p.m.)
• Make a sit-upon at River Forest Public Library. (3:30 p.m.)
• Learn about seeds at Austin Gardens Environmental Education Center. (6 p.m.)
• Cooper’s Hawk hosts a 1960s Steakhouse Tribute dinner. (7 p.m.)

From my notebook:

• Oak Park vehicle licenses must be obtained by July 15. (VOP)
• Rehm Pool capacity is now listed on the park district website. (PDOP)
• Brookfield Zoo will kick off a new summer concert series “Twilight Tunes” on Fridays and Saturday in July. (Instagram)
• Save the date: the Oak Park Micro Brew Review is set for Aug. 20. (Seven Generations Ahead)

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You're all caught up! Thanks for reading. See you tomorrow for more local news!

— Georgi Presecky

About me: Georgi is a Chicago-based newsletter writer and partner content curator. She spent five years on the entertainment beat for FF2 Media covering film festivals across the U.S. Her feature articles have been recognized with awards from the Illinois Women's Press Association and National Federation of Press Women. As editor-in-chief of the Lewis University newspaper, she and her staff earned honors from the Associated Collegiate Press and American Scholastic Press Associations. She began working for Patch in 2019.

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