Got Questions? Get Answers

It's time for you, the residents of Oak Park and River Forest, to become our assignment editors for Patch.com

We're debuting a new feature here called "You Ask…Patch Answers," which will operate precisely as it sounds.

We'll solicit questions from you via e-mail, then we'll use our reporting skills to dig up some answers.  The answers to selected questions will be posted each Monday.

Why is OPRF's student paper called the Trapeze? What's the latest with that giant hotel being built Lake Street? Why did Carlos Zambrano leave his River Forest home? When will that roadwork end? When was the last time native daughter Betty White returned to the area?

For the most part, anything goes.

And if your question appears in our column, you will receive a gift from Patch.

So if you've got a question about Oak Park and River Forest, send it to casey@patch.com and we'll get to work.