Community Corner
🌱 World‑record runner Gil Dodds rests at Oakbrook Terrace’s Chapel Hill Gardens.
Coming up on the Oakbrook Terrace Patch calendar: Farmland Owner Conservation Connections
Cheers Oakbrook Terrace! We're back, helping you stay up to date with what's happening. Let's take on the day together! ☕️️
In today's newsletter:
- World‑record runner Gil Dodds rests at Oakbrook Terrace's Chapel Hill Gardens.
Also on today's calendar: Farmland Owner Conservation Connections and 5 more events.
Today's riddle: What did one strawberry say to the other strawberry? 🤔 (Answer below!)
- Tuesday: Partly sunny and nice, with a high of 79 and low of 64 degrees.
- Wednesday: Humid with a stray t-storm, temps: high: 83, low: 64.
- Thursday: Mostly sunny, with a high of 79 and low of 61 degrees.
📰 News we're reading
• Gil Dodds, The Flying Parson (patheos.com) — Oakbrook Terrace readers may be surprised to learn that famed mid‑century runner and Christian minister Gil Dodds is buried at Chapel Hill Gardens Cemetery right in their community. This profile traces his rise from Nebraska pastor's son to world‑record‑setting "Flying Parson," highlighting how he balanced elite athletics with outspoken Christian faith and later coached at Wheaton College before his death in 1977. 
📸 Around Oakbrook Terrace
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🗓 Upcoming Events in Oakbrook Terrace
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★ Featured events ★
- Farmland Owner Conservation Connections →
The Morton Arboretum, 4100 IL-53, Lisle
6:30 pm
Tuesday September 1
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Other local events
- Local Liquor Control Commission Meeting →
Village of Villa Park -
7:00 pm - Village Board of Trustees →
Oak Brook, IL Calendar
7:00 pm - First Day of Preschool
Salt Creek SD 48 Villa Park, IL 60181 - Back-to-School Park Playdate →
Heritage Park, Oakbrook Terrace
4:30 pm - FTC Back 2 School Social @SMS →
John E Albright Middle School Villa Park, IL 60181
5:00 pm - Summer Concert Series →
Oakbrook Terrace Park District Terrace View Park, 17W063 Hodges Rd, Oakbrook Terrace
7:00 pm - 5th Annual Food Truck Social on Maple Street →
23 W Maple St, Lombard
4:00 pm
Tuesday August 25
Wednesday August 26
Thursday August 27
Friday August 28
Friday September 4
Saturday September 5
📣 Oakbrook Terrace Shout Outs!
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🗓 Events Nearby
- Auditions for Dare to Dream play
Monroe Middle School Wheaton, IL 60189
7:00 am - Board of Fire and Police Commission Meeting →
Village of Villa Park -
8:30 am - Women In Business Committee Meeting
Wheaton Chamber of Commerce Conference Room 301 W. Roosevelt Rd.
8:30 am - PTA Meeting
Elmhurst SD 205 Elmhurst, IL 60126
9:00 am - Park Move In Day
La Grange SD 102 La Grange Park, IL 60526
1:00 pm
Tuesday August 25
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💬 Chatter
What your neighbors are talking about on social media
- First Hospitality posted a job opening for Breakfast Server in Oak Brook. Apply here.
- Macy's posted a job opening for Beauty Sales Counter Manager - Kiehl's, Oak Brook Center - Full Time in Oak Brook. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Oakbrook Terrace here.
🗞 Nearby News
Oak Brook
- John Bonlender: Always Present, Always There (thewheatonrecord.com)
- Reddit Releases Its First Beauty-Specific Report: Conversations Around Beauty, Hair, Nail, and Skincare (modernsalon.com)
Lombard
- Man sought in alleged sexual assault of woman on Illinois Prairie Path in Elmhurst (cbsnews.com)
- Potty Training Hacks That Parents Swear By (parents.com)
- Two-bedroom house in Elmhurst sells for $1.37 million (shawlocal.com)
Elmhurst
- On North Shore, Stevenson tops U.S. News & World public high school rankings, New Trier lands fourth (chicagotribune.com)
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-- The Patch AM Team
P.S. The answer to today's riddle: If you weren't so sweet, we wouldn't be in this jam! (Thank you Patti F. for sending it in!)
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