Brookfield's Community and Economic Development Department plans to undertake a comprehensive land use plan and marketing analysis of Ogden Avenue in 2020, creating what officials hope will be a roadmap for remaking the streetscape and revitalizing the village's busiest commercial corridor.

Last week staff from a number of local school districts attended a threat assessment conference in Rosemont that focused on school safety. At the conference, a report prepared by the United States Secret Service and the National Threat Assessment Center was presented and discussed. 

Two local state senators are among the leading candidates to succeed the retiring John Cullerton as the president of the Illinois Senate.

North Riverside village trustees voted unanimously on Nov. 18 to ratify a settlement and release agreement with a firefighter who had filed an unfair labor practice complaint against the village in 2018 after he was fired from the job.

It looks as if the Brookfield Special Events Committee, launched in the early 1990s to organize, staff and manage the annual summer event Brookfest at Ehlert Park, will be phased out as early as next week at the Nov. 25 meeting of the village board.

Members of local school boards are poised to take a stand against allowing guns in schools.