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The Groupon deal of the day is Oak Park's own Fly Bird. You get $30 worth of purchase for $15. For those not using Groupon already, here you go http://www.groupon.com/chicago/
yesterday
A group for sharing volunteer opportunities in Oak Park.
on Tuesday
The Wednesday Journal publish a community guide of childcare options every year. It has a lot of listings. You can find it here. Some of it is irrelevant for what you need (pre-schools and such) but should be helpful.
on Monday
A group for sharing volunteer opportunities in Oak Park.
on Saturday
A group for sharing volunteer opportunities in Oak Park.
August 20
A group for sharing volunteer opportunities in Oak Park.
August 18
Chris, we have a South East Oak Park Fantasy league going in our neighborhood but happy to join in with another Oak Park league as well. It has been a lot of fun being in a league with everyone being local. I am in. Let me know if you get enough pe…
August 16
The Housing Center is the Doughnut Day charity for Saturday August 28 at the Farmer's Market and we could still use a few more volunteers. If anyone is interested, please send me an e-mail or reply here. No one works the whole time (except me and a…
August 11
I found it interesting that the one tradition that has survived from the block in Oak Park that I grew up on to my current block wasn't mentioned yet. The keg. I have never lived on a block that didn't have a keg at the blockparty. Now clearly this…
August 11
Lots going on in this thread but I wanted to make one comment on the original post and some of the followups on trash and the question of asking if we have enough in the budget to keep things clean. One thing that makes this complicated is that thi…
August 10
A group for sharing volunteer opportunities in Oak Park.
August 9
A group for sharing volunteer opportunities in Oak Park.
July 12
It would be a blast to have one in Oak Park. There is a circuit in Chicago and literally hundreds of races in the Suburbs but still would be nice to see in Oak Park. The hard part is they 1) make little to no money so it would definitely be a showc…
July 12
Second on Zoeller & Swanson. Arden and family have lived here forever and do great work at very reasonable rates.
July 12
A group for sharing volunteer opportunities in Oak Park.
July 5
And you can just make out my son holding one end of the Village volunteer banner.
July 4

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Favorite thing about living in the Oak Park area
Easy access to food, parks, music and public transportation. My kids can go to schools that are truly diverse.
Least favorite thing about living in the Oak Park area
Taxes.
Interests & Hobbies
Cycling, running, swimming, cigars and counting potholes on my street.
Favorite local restaurant
George's, Turco's, Trattoria 225
Favorite local shop or business
Dan's Bike Shop
My Oak Park area business
Platform Public Affairs
My website
http://www.platformpublicaffairs.com

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Oak Park D97 in the Tribune Today

The Chicago Tribune ran a story today about school funding and the trend of school districts increasingly turning to parents to help fill the gap in budgets. The story used Oak Park's D97 as an example a few times in the story and quoted a number of PTO officers from around the district.

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Chicago-area schools turn to parents for help raising money
Guidelines adopted to guard against disparity in classroom

Hundreds of Oak Park parents cried foul last month when a school b… Continue

Posted on May 10, 2010 at 9:54am — 5 Comments

Jassen Strokosch

District 97 Superintendent Search - Public Forums

Just a quick reminder to everyone that tonight is the first of two forums seeking public input on selecting the next Superintendent for Oak Park Elementary School District 97. That means you! Even if you don't have kids in the school system, you might down the road and you certainly pay property taxes. Well this is your chance to be involved in deciding who runs District 97 for at least the next few years.

Tonight's meeting is at Julian Middle School @ 7PM. Tomorrow, May5th, is the second forum… Continue

Posted on May 4, 2010 at 4:24pm — 3 Comments

Jassen Strokosch

Oak Park and the Vex Robotics Club are Featured on ABC 7

Channel 7 News, with Judy Hsu reporting, did a nice story this morning on Oak Park Educations Foundation's Vex Robotics program. This is a wonderful program and it was nice to see it get some publicity.

From the online story:

For an entire school year, 80 students in the district work in teams of four. From the wheels to the arms, functionality to mobility, the kids design the robots starting from a generic kit. The rest is up to their imagination.

Much like in a real job, the teams have t
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Posted on March 15, 2010 at 11:49am — 1 Comment

Jassen Strokosch

Village Manager Has Strong Words for ORPF in Op-Ed

By now, most of you know that Oak Park River Forest School District 200 has filed a lawsuit against the Village of Oak Park. The lawsuit is related to a dispute over the amount of TIF money that the Village should be paying D200 (and ultimately D97 as well).

While there will be a lot of debate in the coming months about the lawsuit, I am curious what you think about the… Continue

Posted on March 4, 2010 at 9:26pm — 7 Comments

Jassen Strokosch

Pothole Gardening: Huge Potential in Oak Park

Peter Dungey, a final year Graphic Design student at the University of Brighton, is working on a project called Pothole Gardens.

He describes it as, "an ongoing series of public installations highlighting the problem of surface imperfections on Britain's roads." Such a polite way to put it.

Anyway, I could see Oak Parkers getting into this idea and having some fun with it. East Avenue (and plenty of others) would be very colorful.

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Posted on March 3, 2010 at 11:37am —

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At 9:11pm on July 13, 2010, Teresa Powell said…
And a good friend to have!
At 10:21pm on July 14, 2009, Jassen Strokosch said…
Thanks, I will give them a follow.
At 9:47pm on July 14, 2009, Becca said…
Hi Jassen, thanks for joining. I just took a peek at your website. It's pretty cool that you've figured out how to combine Public Affairs and new media. I'm sure that comes in pretty handy! Not sure if you follow @TrendTracker on Twitter, but I get a lot of good social media/new media info from his tweets. I highly recommend.
 
 
 

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