The Brook Park School community turned out in force on Aug. 14 to officially christen the new playground, which is the result of a two-year fundraising effort by the Brook Park Council and Brookfield-LaGrange Park School District 95. Parents and the district administration partnered to fund the roughly $258,000 playground, which features a poured-in-place synthetic rubber play surface and separate play areas for kids 2-5 and 6-12.

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Today we live in a world all the more connected to one another.

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School is going to start all too soon. Remember how easy it was? What we needed was No. 2 pencils, a pink pearl eraser (how many of you chewed on them or ate them?), a box of Crayola crayons, a folder (can't I please have a Trapper Keeper?), a ruler, lined paper (wide-rule or college-rule depending on the grade) and we were good to go. Today it goes way beyond that -- can you say Chromebook? 

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School is back in session this week, believe it or not, and, as is customary, Riverside's police chief sent out a note to residents via email on Tuesday with a word about safety as classes resume.  

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It takes a village to put on a bake sale, and the Aug. 5 charity fundraiser at the North Riverside Village Commons was no exception ("North Riverside teen cooks up recipe for giving," News, July 31). 

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Jose R. Luna Jr., 51, of North Riverside, died on Aug. 5, 2019. Born on Aug. 2, 1968, he was a project manager for Fed Ex. 

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Liana Elizabeth Foster-Zamojski, 58, of North Riverside, died on July 20, 2019. She worked in the IT department at MacNeal Hospital in Berwyn.

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Weather on Aug. 10 appeared perfect for the Riverside Lions Club's Hot-Air Balloon Affair celebrating Riverside's 150th birthday, and scores of people showed up to ride the balloon and just watch.

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North Riverside may earn the distinction of being the circus capital of the western suburbs if 2019 is any sign of the future. In April, a traveling circus set up its big top in the east parking lot of the North Riverside Park Mall and staged performances for a month.

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