The Oak Park Board of Trustees approved a 2019 budget at its Dec. 11 meeting that increases the tax levy by 3 percent. 

The Oak Park Board of Trustees is poised to again reject a proposal that would place a 6 percent tax on medical cannabis.

The Oak Park and River Forest High School District 200 Board of Education will consider adopting a 2.1 percent tax levy increase for 2018, which is the rate of growth in the Consumer Price Index. 

Tuesday evening, the school board at Oak Park and River Forest High School District 200 began discussing initial steps to implement portions of the Imagine OPRF master facilities plan. The board had recommendations from its administration on both construction priorities and ways to finance a first phase of work. 

In Oak Park, a gesture of unity came just in time for Hanukkah (or Chanukah), which ran Dec. 2-10. Community leaders gathered at the Oak Park Public Library, 834 Lake St., on Dec. 9 to mark the installation of a giant "Unity Peace Menorah" inside the public library.