🌱 Why a Franklin Park plant features in USDA’s latest recall list
Franklin Park, Illinois Patch AM: a 4 min readHi Franklin Park! We have the latest buzz right here. Let's keep you in the loop and get this morning started right! ☕️️
In today's newsletter:
- Why a Franklin Park plant features in USDA’s latest recall list
- How a Franklin Park meat plant ended up in a multistate outbreak
- How does Franklin Park’s pension tax burden rank statewide?
Also on today's calendar: Crafted with Pride, Wolfden's Summer Market and 6 more events.
Today's riddle: What did the carpenter ant say when he walked into the bar? 🤔 (Answer below!)
- Wednesday: Mostly sunny and warm, with a high of 82 and low of 64 degrees.
- Thursday: Partly sunny and very warm, temps: high: 88, low: 69. 🌶 Hot!
- Friday: Thunderstorm, with a high of 88 and low of 68 degrees.
📰 News we're reading
• USDA Recall Update for May 2026 (powderbulksolids.com) — Franklin Park’s Olympia Food Industries is again singled out in a USDA update, with its beef kofta tied by genome testing to an E. coli outbreak traced to a restaurant chain. The affected products were produced in January and are no longer for sale, but the case keeps Franklin Park on federal food safety investigators’ radar. 
• FSIS Confirms Beef Kofta Link to E. Coli Outbreak (meatingplace.com) — A Franklin Park meat processor, Olympia Foods, was the source of beef kofta linked to an E. coli outbreak affecting at least nine people, according to federal testing. While the contaminated product went only to Kebab Shop restaurants in other states and is no longer sold, the confirmation puts a local company at the center of a high-profile food safety investigation.
• $292 paid per household in property taxes for Orland Hills local funds in 2024 (southcooknews.com) — Franklin Park homeowners are paying an average of $10,720 per household in property taxes toward police and fire pensions, one of the highest burdens in Illinois, according to new state data. A statewide ranking shows how Franklin Park compares with hundreds of other towns, highlighting growing pension obligations and how much of the cost is being shifted onto local taxpayers.
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Crafted with Pride, Wolfden's Summer Market →
Wolfden Brewing Company, 112 W Lake St, Bloomingdale
12:00 pm
Saturday June 6
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Storypalooza →
Franklin Park Public Library, 10311 Grand Ave, Franklin Park
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Summer Concert Series →
North Park, 10040 Addison Ave, Franklin Park
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Leyden Student Summit
Leyden High School District E-LTHEATER, East Leyden-2-D200-Student Cafeteria Mezzanine (150), East Leyden-1-D111-Student Cafeteria (450), District-Events, E-AUD
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Board of Education Meeting @ Administration Office
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Leyden Student Summit
Leyden High School District E-LTHEATER, East Leyden-2-D200-Student Cafeteria Mezzanine (150), East Leyden-1-D111-Student Cafeteria (450), District-Events, E-AUD
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Storypalooza →
Franklin Park Public Library, 10311 Grand Ave, Franklin Park
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Summer Concert Series →
North Park, 10040 Addison Ave, Franklin Park
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🗓 Events Nearby
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5th Grade End of Year Ceremony!
Greene Gymnasium
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8th Grade Graduation - Alcuin Montessori School
Oak Park Public Library 834 Lake St., Oak Park, IL, 60301, US
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Arbor West Neighbors NFP monthly Board Meeting
Oak Park Public Library 834 Lake St., Oak Park, IL, 60301, US
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Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi Office Hours
Wood Dale Public Library District Wood Dale Public Library - Lobby
10:00 am
Wednesday June 3
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💬 Chatter
What your neighbors are talking about on social media
- The Retail Odyssey Company posted a job opening for Traveling Retail Merchandiser - Overnight in Maywood. Apply here.
- UGI Utilities, Inc. posted a job opening for ACE Production Worker in Hillside. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Franklin Park here.
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-- The Patch AM Team
P.S. The answer to today's riddle: Is the bar tender here? (Thank you W. M. for sending it in!)
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