As COVID-19 continues to transform daily life in the village, the Oak Park village board voted to extend the declaration of emergency at a virtual April 6 board meeting. The original emergency declaration was set to expire April 6; with the extension, the declaration now lasts until May 5

With the rising number of COVID-19-related fatalities in Cook County, the ice rink at Ridgeland Common could eventually be converted into an emergency morgue should the increased need exceed the capacity of the Cook County morgue.

OPRF, Triton and Dominican have given thousands of goggles, masks, other PPE

Due to the global outbreak of COVID-19, Elsaid Youssef's time with the AFS-USA and Youth Exchange Study (YES) exchange programs has been cut short months before he was supposed to head back to the suburbs of Cairo, Egypt.

Melrose Park institution will be able to house up to 230 patients