0 Real Estate Peek inside the latest properties in the local open-house circuit. Real Estate News Patch Staff Posted Reply OAK PARK-RIVER FOREST, IL — Sifting through homes up for sale on the web can make you feel like you're going in blind. While listing photos can help, they're no replacement for the real thing. That's why you should always take advantage of a local open house: A chance to try before you buy! For all the house hunters in the Oak Park-River Forest area, we've listed the five most recent homes to hit the local market, with information included on the next scheduled open house. Here is an address, photo, price and bedroom/bath information for each property listed — including one in the Oak Park area with 5 beds and 3.5 baths for $1.0 million, and another in the Oak Park area with 3 beds and 2 baths for $349,000. Looking for more information on one of the houses listed below? Just click on any … [Read more...]

0 Sports Friars vs. Meteors, and other high school sports matchups coming soon in the Oak Park-River Forest area. Sports News Patch Staff Posted Reply OAK PARK-RIVER FOREST, IL — Prep sports are well underway in communities across the U.S., and Patch and ScoreStream have partnered to give you upcoming schedules for your favorite local teams. Illinois and the Oak Park-River Forest area are filled with high school rivalries and top tier teams that make for some great local matches. Among the local games coming up soon, the Fenwick High School Friars are facing the De La Salle Meteors on Friday, September 17th. Reach out to schools for the latest information on possible venue restrictions and admission policies. Here's the schedule for the next two weeks of high school games: Fenwick High School Friars — Boys Varsity Football Vs. De La Salle Meteors When: Friday, September 17th, 7:30 p.m. Where: De La Salle … [Read more...]

Dubai (CNN) Mineralizing rivers, desalinating oceans, drilling into the ground. There are many different ways to access drinking water in places where it's in short supply. But with overpopulation, climate change and increasing water scarcity, innovators have been on the lookout for a new solution -- and some are convinced the answer is up in the air. SOURCE Global is one of the many companies around the world extracting water from the air, with the hope of helping water-scarce communities. However, its technology has a sustainable twist. Named Hydropanels, its devices are powered by built-in solar panels. "You're able to harvest water from the air using solar and nothing else, no need for electricity, no need for (a) grid, no need for infrastructure -- it's perfectly self-sufficient," explains Vahid Fotuhi, the company's vice president for Europe, Middle East and Africa. Solar powered Atmospheric water generators (AWGs), like SOURCE's, are … [Read more...]

NEW YORK - Pearl Sun, who plays Bonnie, contracted covid. Sharon Wheatley, the musical's Diane, rented an RV for the first time in her life and drove her family cross-country. Tony LePage, a standby as several characters, wrote a musical. Q. Smith, who plays Hannah, gave birth. Joel Hatch, in the spirit of his role, the mayor, kept the company in touch via weekly group Zooms. Tales of 18 months of isolation, simple joys and big anxieties spill out of the actors and creative team of "Come From Away" in rivers of anecdotes - a narrative mosaic of what living through this coronavirus pandemic has been like for all of us. But, especially, for the people who earn their keep in the performing arts and found themselves, most of the time, with no living at all. The Tony-winning musical, which opened on Broadway on March 12, 2017, and was forced to shut down three years later, to the day, was like so many other shows - a family. The pandemic broke up the family - but it didn't break it. … [Read more...]

0 Schools The River Forest university was also named #1 Best Value in Illinois. Press Release Desk News Partner Posted Reply Press release from Dominican University: Sept. 15, 2021 U.S. News & World Report ranks Dominican University #10 in the Midwest in its prestigious 2022 Best Colleges publication. This is the second year in a row that Dominican has been ranked #10, after being included in the top 20 of Midwest Regional Universities for more than 20 years. Widely considered to be the leader in the college rankings field, U.S. News & World Report evaluates nearly 160 universities in the Midwest. The university also is ranked #6 in Best Undergraduate Teaching, an impressive increase from #11 last year. Dominican was named #1 Best Value in Illinois, a category that compares, among other factors, a school's academic quality and the percentage of full-time undergraduates receiving needs-based financial aid. … [Read more...]

2 Traffic & Transit Seven projects represent a total investment of more than $140 million for the region, according to a release from the state. Andrea Earnest Patch Staff Posted Replies WILL COUNTY, IL — Multiple improvement projects are scheduled to begin this spring in Will County, the Illinois Department of Transportation announced Monday. The seven projects represent a total investment of more than $140 million for the region, with $75 million from Gov. J.B .Pritzker's bipartisan Rebuild Illinois capital program, according to a release from the state. "With the Rebuild Illinois capital plan, we are restoring and transforming Illinois's aging infrastructure," Pritzker said in a release. "Rebuild Illinois is not only about investing in infrastructure but about investing in people and communities as well. In the coming months, IDOT will undertake projects that will ultimately create safer roads and bridges and … [Read more...]