🌱 Mayor Applies For County Board Seat + 'The Bear' Is Back

Happy Wednesday! In today's Oak Park-River Forest Daily:

• Heather Mack pleads guilty to federal charges.
• The Oak Park Police Department makes a change.
• A beloved Chicagoland TV series is back.

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

1. Attorneys for Heather Mack said she “hoped to avoid a life sentence” when she plead guilty last week to federal conspiracy charges in the murder of her mother. The 27-year-old from Oak Park previously served seven years in an Indonesian prison after her mother Sheila von Wiese was killed in Bali in 2014. (AP)

2. Six candidates are in the running to fill Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s now-vacant seat on the Cook County Board, including Forest Park Mayor Rory Hoskins. The finalists were interviewed yesterday at The Carleton in Oak Park, according to the Tribune. (Paid source: Tribune)

3. “The Bear” is back. The streaming sensation returns to Hulu tomorrow for what Rolling Stone calls an “electrifying” second season. The Chicago-set series stars Jeremy Allen White as a highly trained chef tasked with taking over his family’s Italian beef restaurant. Oak Park native Amy Morton was featured in an episode of season one. (Rolling Stone)

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Today in Oak Park-River Forest:

• Oak Park Public Library is now accepting book donations for its July sale. (9 a.m.)
• The Oak Park Citizen Police Oversight Committee meets. (7 p.m.)
• Illinois Libraries present "Braiding Sweetgrass:" A Conversation with Robin Wall Kimmerer. (7 p.m.)

From my notebook:

• Sgt. Traccye Love will now lead the Oak Park Police Department’s community policing division, Village Manager Kevin Jackson announced in his weekly report. (VOP)
• More than 400 Triton College students were honored at graduation earlier this summer. (Paid source: Elm Leaves)
• Mayor Brandon Johnson visited Austin libraries in honor of the city library system’s 150th anniversary. (AWN)

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You're all caught up, Oak Park and River Forest!

— 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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