A majority of Development Review Board (DRB) members voted to approve development of Lake and Lathrop at long last.

The village of River Forest will cover partial buildout expenses for two businesses looking to relocate to Madison Street, after developer Lake and Lathrop LLC purchased and made plans to demolish their present locations.

River Forest trustees unanimously voted to create a tax-increment financing (TIF) district along North Avenue at a village board meeting on Aug. 20. Trustee Respicio Vazquez recused himself from the vote, since he works at the law firm that represents River Forest Elementary School District 90, part of which falls within the TIF area.

Forest Park Troop 107 will soon add a girls-only troop.

A hearing on a proposed senior home on Harlem will take place at 7:30 p.m. on Aug. 30 at River Forest Village Hall, 400 Park Ave.

Ten feet. Twelve feet. All the way to the ceiling of Tri-Star Gymnastics is how high the Wright kids would stack mats, competing to see who was brave enough to jump and flip from the highest point.

An anonymous local family has gifted the River Forest Public Library Foundation more than $150,000 over the next five years, the largest gift in the foundation's history. 

If you've walked down Chicago's Magnificent Mile recently, you may have spotted something you wouldn't expect to see so far inland: Lighthouses.

Members of the River Forest Development Review Board declined to comment on a building proposal for the intersection of Lake and Lathrop.

'Everybody's just like so serious and just goes through the motions. Why live life that way? It passes you by," said Alex Groesch.