Three students in Riverside Elementary School District 96 have tested positive for COVID-19 in the first two weeks of the new school year. The school district reported the first case in an email sent to parents on Sept. 11, the second case in an email on Sept. 13 and the third on Sept. 15. 

It's been a tough year for the North Riverside Park Mall, which has spent 2020 weathering a prolonged shutdown due to a pandemic, civil unrest that resulted in looting and a second shutdown, two shootings, the closure of Sears and the uncertain future of J.C Penney.

Over the past two weeks, 34 more Brookfield residents tested positive for COVID-19, pushing the village's total number of cases to 344 since the global pandemic first became a local reality in March.

A student at Brook Park School in LaGrange Park has tested positive for COVID -19 and has been instructed to quarantine at home. 

Class rank will be eliminated at Riverside-Brookfield High in three years. On Sept. 8 the District 208 Board of Education voted 6 to 1 to eliminate class rank beginning with the class of 2024, this year's freshman class.