With just two weeks until local voters go to the polls on April 2, a committee of parents advocating for the passage of a $22 million bond issue to overhaul Komarek School in North Riverside has been working overtime to convince neighbors the investment is worth the cost.

Riverside police have a man suspected of robbing a downtown bank in custody and continue to search for a red vehicle driven by a woman they say may have been involved.

Brookfield Village Manager Timothy Wiberg rolled out a concept plan for improving the area around the Congress Park train station at the village board's March 11 committee of the whole meeting, calling it a "high-priority" area "in dire need of assistance."

The hottest issue in the race for seats on the Lyons Township High School District 204 Board of Education seems to be air conditioning.

Former Lyons-Brookfield District 103 school board president and school board member Michael Bennett has withdrawn as a candidate in the April 2 school board election. His name will not appear on the ballot.