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Thomas W. Ruscik, 75 of Bokeelia, Florida passed away peacefully with his wife at his side on March 20, 2024. Ruscik was born on December 10, 1948 to Phyllis Ju

An Oak Park Board of Trustees meeting Tuesday erupted in anger and high tensions after members of a group supporting a permanent ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war pressed the board to take a voice vote on the issue during a time they could not do so.

The house at 703 Thatcher in River Forest was built in 1937, and less than 100 years later, the home was showing its age. The brow n brick home was built in the French Eclectic style, and old-world influences showed through in the wood-paneled library and some of the original tile that remained. 

Covering nonrecurring expenditures with reserves for the second year in a row allowed River Forest officials to present a balanced general fund budget for Fiscal Year 2025 at the April 8 Village Board meeting. 

Former Republican State Congressman Joe Walsh is a firm gun rights advocate. Fred Guttenberg is a well-known gun safety activist whose 14-year-old daughter Jaime was killed in the 2018 Parkland school shooting. For a while, the two men fought and insulted each other over social media and on television.