Teens learn options for participation at OPRF's first civics fair
Last week a number of prominent local politicians and leaders of local non-profit groups stopped by Oak Park and River Forest High School for the school’s first Civics Service Learning Fair. Congressman Danny Davis, State Senate President Don Harmon, State Representatives Camille Lilly and La Shawn Ford, and Oak Park Village President Vicki Scaman all attended the event. About 550 OPRF juniors and seniors are taking civics this semester.“You don’t have to have gray hair before you engage,” Congressman Davis told the students, according to a news release from OPRF. “There are many p...