Brookfield's village manager has recommended imposing a series of initiatives -- from imposing a local tax on food and drink purchases at restaurants and bars to raising fees on vehicle stickers, parking tickets, liquor licenses, business licenses and ambulance fees – in order to solve a "structural imbalance" that led to a large budget shortfall in 2018 and will lead to another in 2019 if it's not addressed.

Sears Holdings Inc. board chairman Eddie Lampert appears to have come out on top in an auction for substantially all of the struggling former retail giant's assets, but creditors believe that the company is doomed in any case and that Lampert's $5.2 billion bid will simply serve to delay its demise while Lampert profits.

When Sophia Marhoul was taking the ACT Exam last year, she sensed that it was going well.

"I felt like I was doing well, I felt like I knew what I was doing," Marhoul recalled recently.

How well did it go?

A high-tech, rapid transit bus route from Elmwood Park to Bridgeview along Harlem Avenue is one step closer to reality with the recent completion of Pace Suburban Bus and the Regional Transportation Authority's Central Harlem Avenue Corridor Study.

Plentiful snowfall Jan. 18-19 brought out swarms of kids to Swan Pond Park in Riverside last weekend, who took to the hill on sleds and, in at least one case, an inflatable horse.