Hoffman Estates poised to approve plan for Birch Park improvements Hoffman Estates village officials have recommended site plan approval for the Hoffman Estates Park District s proposed improvements to Birch Park, the former site of Twinbrook School. Courtesy of village of Hoffman Estates
Posted2/10/2021 5:30 AM
Hoffman Estates village trustees voiced support Monday for the Hoffman Estates Park District s proposed improvements to Birch Park former site of the now-demolished Twinbrook School.
The plan, for which the park district received a $225,000 state grant last year, would include a biking and walking trail, a shelter with picnic tables, a sledding hill, and courts for basketball and four square.
Reopening debate fuels school board candidacies in Northwest suburbs
School board candidates from across the suburbs lined up early Monday to be among the first to file paperwork with the Cook County clerk s office at Old Orchard Country Club in Mount Prospect. Rick West | Staff Photographer
Updated 12/15/2020 7:40 PM
Amid the heated debates in recent months over school reopenings, some Northwest suburban school districts are seeing larger-than-usual fields of candidates who intend to run for their local school boards in April.
More than 480 school board candidates submitted paperwork on the first official filing day Monday across four locations set up by the Cook County clerk s office. That included 140 candidates who stood in line to hand in their petitions at Old Orchard Country Club in Mount Prospect.