🌱 Mayor Visits White House + Irish Film Festival

Good morning! Let's get to the news for Tuesday.

First, today's weather: Turning sunny; warmer. High: 76 Low: 59.

🏡 Attention, real estate pros in Oak Park-River Forest! We're now offering an exclusive sponsorship opportunity for an agent interested in attracting local clients and standing apart from the competition. Click here to learn more.

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

1. Chicagoland children's hospitals are seeing a surge of respiratory infections as students return to school, the Tribune reports. “This is the most challenging period we’ve experienced since March 2020,” Comer Children’s Hospital physician Dr. John Cunningham said. (Paid source: Tribune)

2. Forest Park Mayor Rory Hoskins heads to Washington, D.C. today to celebrate the Inflation Reduction Act being signed into law. Hoskins was invited by the Biden administration and told the Review he “intends to connect with a White House liaison to the Pentagon to discuss the village government’s interest in a military facility on Roosevelt Road.” (Review)

3. The 8th Annual “Irish American Movie Hooley” will be held at Lake Theatre this weekend. Three films will screen along with in-person visits from their writer-directors. (Hibernian Media)

Today in Oak Park-River Forest:

• Beyond Hunger CEO Dr. Michele Zurakowski joins a discussion on “Food as Medicine.” (Noon)
• The Park District of Oak Park offers a virtual Facebook course. (Noon)
• The River Forest Township Board of Trustees meets. (6 p.m.)
• Discuss work written by Latinx authors with the Oak Park Public Library’s monthly “Latinx Author Book Cafe.” (6 p.m.)
• Learn about landscaping with native plants at a virtual Oak Park Public Library event. (7 p.m.)
• Cooper’s Hawk Winery & Restaurant hosts an East Coast Seafood Fest. (7 p.m.)

From my notebook:

• Sunshine returns to the forecast today after record-breaking rainfall Sunday and Monday. (NBC)
• Online registration ends Thursday for this weekend's "Makin' Tracks" 5K at Concordia University. (Park District)
• Oak Park Temple is open during construction updates on its HVAC system. (Temple)
• The OPRF Infant Welfare Society is planning its annual “Tee It Up For Healthy Kids” Golf Classic, set for Sept. 26 at Riverside Golf Club. (OPRFIWS)

More from our sponsors — thanks for supporting local news!

Featured businesses:

• Laurie Christofano, Realtor | RE/MAX In the Village — (Visit website)
• Laura Ruiz, REALTOR® at REALTY OF CHICAGO — (Visit Website)
• Add your business here

Events:

• Taxes in Retirement Webinar (September 13)
• BHHS Chicago Sponsors Free Community Shred Event and Food Donation Drive on Sept. 17 from 9 a.m. - noon (September 17)
• Art Market @ HopGarten Itasca (September 17)
• Imperial Oak Brewing Artisan Market (September 18)
• Add your event

Gigs & services:

• Personalized Italian Language Lessons (Details)
• Add your gig or service

That's all for today! Thanks 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.