The Oak Park Board of Trustees Monday approved the village's first affordable housing ordinance, requiring developers along much of the two CTA el lines and on Madison Street to set aside affordable units or contribute funds for building such housing.

Following a last-ditch effort to save the historic Foley-Rice building at 644 Madison St., the Oak Park village board unanimously rejected a proposal approved by the Historic Preservation Commission to declare the building an historic landmark.

He started on the campaign trail two years ago but was appointed to a seat on the Oak Park Board of Trustees prior to the election.

Ralph Martire is a public policy professor and executive director of the Center for Tax and Budget Accountability — a nonprofit research and advocacy think tank in Chicago.

Below are links to candidate information in races for village government and school boards that will be contested in the April 2, 2019 Consolidated Election.