🌱 Gas Station Owners Sue Village + Bankruptcy For Hospital

Good morning, Oak Park and River Forest! In today's Daily, find out why:

• Some local schools are closed today
• Which Oak Parkers the Daily Herald said "made history"
• Who is speaking at this year's Barbara Ballinger Lecture

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Here are the top 3 stories in Oak Park-River Forest today:

1. A group of Oak Park gas station owners is suing the village over its ordinance preventing 24-hour operations at gas stations. The village is currently barred from enforcing the ordinance, which passed unanimously in an attempt to curb overnight crime. (Wednesday Journal)

2. The owner of West Suburban Hospital has filed for bankruptcy. California-based Pipeline Health System said it would continue paying employee salaries during the bankruptcy process. More than 860 people work at West Suburban. (Paid source: Tribune)

3. WBEZ reporter and playwright Natalie Moore will speak at this year’s Barbara Ballinger Lecture in Oak Park. She will speak Oct. 9 at the Main Library about her Chicago-set play, “The Billboard,” which was produced by the 16th Street Theater. (Library)

Today in Oak Park-River Forest:

• Housing Forward hosts a Guaranteed Income Application Clinic. (10 a.m.)
• KidCreate Studio hosts a tie-dye apron workshop for children 4-9. (1 p.m.)
• The River Forest Campus of West Suburban Medical Center offers free mammograms in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. (3 p.m.)
• The City of Berwyn offers a free shred event at the Rec Center. (5 p.m.)

From my notebook:

• Several Oak Park schools are closed today in observance of either Yom Kippur or Indigenous Peoples Day. (D97)
• Five Oak Park residents made the Daily Herald’s new list of “150 people from the suburbs who made history,” including Ernest Hemingway and Edgar Rice Burroughs. (Daily Herald)
• The Park District of Oak Park is seeking volunteers for the upcoming Frank Lloyd Wright Races. (Park District Facebook)
• The Forest Park District has applied for a $60,000 state grant to update Remembrance Park. (Review)
• Ascension-St. Edmund Parish was featured in Catholic Charities’ Spirit Magazine last month. (ASE)

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That's all for today! Thank you for reading.

— 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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