Commuters marked with ‘Ashes to Go’

The symbolic start of Lent came to the masses Wednesday instead of the masses having to go to Mass. Oak Park and River Forest pastors and priests took to the streets on Ash Wednesday, marking crosses on the faithfuls’ foreheads with ashes. “Ashes to Go” …Read More

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• Former Oak Park schools manager gets 6 years for theft

  A former building and grounds superintendent who bilked $750,000 from Oak Park elementary schools was sentenced to six years in prison on Jan. 11. Jerome Malatesta, 64, was convicted of felony theft of more than $100,000 from Oak Park School District 97. He was fired …Read More

• Family seeks ‘justice’ in nursing home death

  

  The family of a 80-year-old dementia patient who was beaten to death by another resident of an Oak Park nursing home has retained an attorney. “Basically we’re talking about justice. So it doesn’t happen again,” Robert Calderon said Monday. His father, Anibal Calderon, died hours …Read More
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