🌱 Patch AM: How do Oak Park teachers’ attendance rates compare across Illinois?

Hello Oak Park! Here's our latest buzz. Let's get into it. ☕️️

In today's newsletter:

• How do Oak Park teachers' attendance rates compare across Illinois?

Also on today's calendar: Healing Field and 9 more events.

Today's riddle: I'm a rock group with 4 members; one member was assassinated. What am I? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

• Friday: Warm with plenty of sunshine, with a high of 81 and low of 67 degrees.
• Saturday: Partly sunny and very warm, temps: high: 85, low: 65.
• Sunday: Periods of sun; less humid, with a high of 77 and low of 63 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Batavia Unit School District 101 had 68.6% of teacher attendance rate during 2024-25 (kanecountyreporter.com) — State data comparing teacher attendance shows Oak Park Elementary District 97 at 99.2% and Oak Park and River Forest District 200 at 55.3%, alongside hundreds of other Illinois districts. While the story centers on Batavia's 68.6% rate, Oak Park families can use these figures to gauge how their local schools stack up statewide.
   

📸 Around Oak Park

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Oak Park

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★ Featured events ★

Friday September 11
• Healing Field →
  Sports Core Soccer Fields, 700 Oak Brook Rd., Oak Brook, IL 60523,
  6:00 pm
Saturday September 12
• Free Community Shred Event and Food Drive Sponsored by BHHS Chicago →
  7551 Quick Ave, River Forest
  9:00 am
• Fall Acting Workshop Intensive →
  LATTE Theater (Conservatory for Young Adult Creatives), 9008 Fairview Ave, Brookfield
  9:45 am
Saturday September 19
• Mint Cannabis Forest Park Grand Opening Celebration →
  7207 Roosevelt Rd, Forest Park
  8:00 am

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Other local events

Saturday September 12
• Pomilee Fashion Day →
  834 Lake St, Oak Park
• September - 2026! Dinner + A Show - STAND UP COMEDY OAK PARK →
  7128 Roosevelt Road, Oak Park
• Fenwick High School Scholarship Fair →
  Fenwick High School, 505 Washington Blvd, Oak Park
  10:00 am
• Dinner + a Show with Comedian Jeanie Doogan →
  Salerno's Pizza & Pasta of Oak Park, 7128 Roosevelt Rd, Oak Park
  7:00 pm
Thursday September 17
• Getting Out The Vote →
  Oak Park Public Library - Main Library, 834 Lake St, Oak Park
  6:00 pm
Friday September 25
• Automotive Basics: A Beginner-Friendly Class →
  240 S Oak Park Ave, Oak Park
  6:00 pm
Sunday September 27
• Illinois Rock & Roll Museum Hall of Fame Ceremony Comes to Chicago! →
  Harris Theater for Music and Dance, 205 E Randolph St, Chicago
  9:00 am
• U.S. History at 250 →
  Oak Park River Forest Museum, 129 Lake St., Oak Park
  3:00 pm

📣 Oak Park Shout Outs!

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Thank you 👏👏👏 to these businesses for making Oak Park PatchAM possible:

• Cathy Yanda | Baird & Warner | Oak Park & River Forest — (773) 315-7005
• British International School of Chicago, South Loop — (773) 312-3956
• Cathy Yanda | Baird & Warner | Oak Park & River Forest — (773) 315-7005
• Art Studio 928 - Oak Park, IL — (312) 371-9526
• Nickola Wells — 7736422454
• Oak Park Conservatory — (708) 725-2400
• RowCal - Arlington Heights — (630) 296-9991

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• Trinity Health posted a job opening for Service Coordinator FT in Maywood. Apply here.
• CVS Pharmacy, Inc. posted a job opening for Seasonal District Support Pharmacist in Cicero. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Oak Park here.

🗞 Nearby News

River Forest

• WoF Retro Recap: October 10, 1991 (wordpress.com)
• Knox's Late Push Not Enough to Beat Dominican (knox.edu)

Forest Park

• Swimmers Return to the Chicago River (newcity.com)

Berwyn

• Pigging out and pricing out at the rib cook off (thisisreno.com)

Ok Oak Park! So now you're in the loop about what's happening today. Thanks for reading, and see you in your inbox next time! Oh -- and if you like what you're reading, invite a friend to Patch AM!

-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: Mount Rushmore (Thank you J.J. W. for sending it in!)
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