🌱 Dom's Market Scraps Oak Park Plans + Local Church To Be Renamed

Welcome to the weekend, Oak Park and River Forest! In today's Daily:

• The historic Marshall Fields will stay vacant
• Bike rides, block parties and art projects are planned throughout the region
• An indoor playground opens for the season

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But first, today's weather: Mostly sunny and nice. High: 69 Low: 55.

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Here are the top 4 stories in Oak Park-River Forest today:

1. Dom's Kitchen & Market will no longer move into the historic Marshall Fields building on Lake Street, the Wednesday Journal reports. According to the Village, the space was deemed "ill-suited" for the grocer's plans. (Wednesday Journal)

2. Gov. J.B. Pritzker has given "a flurry of roughly $10 million in contributions" to Illinois Democrats in recent days, including Senate Democrats led by Oak Park's Don Harmon. Early voting is underway in some parts of the state ahead of the Nov. 8 midterms. (Paid source: Tribune)

3. The combined church community of St. Catherine-St. Lucy and St. Giles has narrowed down its potential new names to six. Options include Saint Sophia Parish and St. Clare of Assisi Parish. Parishioners will be surveyed on their top choice beginning Oct. 8. (SCSLSG)

4. An indoor playground at Stevenson Recreation Center will reopen today. The forest-themed "Cubhouse" is open to newborns up to five-year-olds. (PDOP)

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Today in Oak Park-River Forest:

• The annual Tour de Proviso bike ride will run through Riverside and Brookfield Zoo. (8 a.m.)
• A 5K and Community Block Party will be held in honor of Owen Shaker Petrzelka. Proceeds will benefit pediatric cancer research. (10 a.m.)
• Make a metallic autumn landscape or decorate wooden skeletons at Dole Center. (10 a.m. and 12:30 p.m.)
• Oak Park Public Library hosts a collaborative outdoor art project inspired by the Hindu art form Rangoli. (Noon)
• Trailside Museum hosts "Batty About Bats." (1:30 p.m.)
• Ascension Parish collects diapers and baby wipes for neighboring charities. (4:30 p.m.)

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From my notebook:

• Online registration opens today for the Park District of Oak Park's holiday events. (PDOP)
• The Symphony of Oak Park & River Forest will open its 91st season tomorrow with a performance at Concordia University. (Chamber)
• Screenwriter, actor and Oak Park native Thomas Lennon threw out the first pitch at the White Sox game Wednesday. (Instagram)
• Two Fenwick High School students were named National Merit Scholar Semi-Finalists. (Fenwick)
• The Forest Park Arts Alliance partnered with the library to publish essays on book censorship in honor of Banned Books Week. (Review)

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That's all for today! I'll be back Tuesday, Oct. 4 for another week of newsletters.

— Georgi Presecky

About me: Georgi is a Chicago-based newsletter writer and partner content curator. She spent five years on the entertainment beat for FF2 Media covering film festivals across the U.S. Her feature articles have been recognized with awards from the Illinois Women's Press Association and National Federation of Press Women. As editor-in-chief of the Lewis University newspaper, she and her staff earned honors from the Associated Collegiate Press and American Scholastic Press Associations. She began working for Patch in 2019.

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