Concerns over the impact of the expiring downtown Oak Park and Madison Street Tax Increment Financing Districts on the tax levy didn't escape the Park District of Oak Park's Dec. 5 Committee of the Whole meeting. 

River Forest's village board unanimously approved the Fiscal Year 2019 tax levy during its Nov. 25 meeting.

River Forest's plan to pay the Cook County forest preserve district to hire sharpshooters to cull a growing deer population were put on hold pending creation of a task force to study all aspects of the complex issue. 

The Chicago City Council unanimously approved the zoning change necessary to allow a mixed-use redevelopment of the former U.S. Bank building at 6700 W. North Ave., along with the parking lot to the east of it, at 6650 W. North Ave.