A Monday night meeting of the District 209 Board of Education was not without its share of controversy, as board and audience members repeatedly questioned many of the 51 items on the agenda.

A 76-year-old Forest Park resident told police she was carjacked while pulling into her driveway at 210 Circle Ave. Aug. 16.

The Forest Park Village Council and the Park District Board of Commissioners will hold a closed session meeting on Sept. 12 to discuss two recently completed appraisals of the Roos building, located at 7329 W. Harrison St.

A spending report released last week to members of the District 209 Board of Education shows the district to be at least $5 million short of projections regarding money left over from the $40 million bond set aside for the new Proviso Math and Science Academy.

Though Rose Gronko, the new director of Special Education for District 91, is always seeking new challenges, a part of her will always miss the classroom.

The recently announced $4.8 million in federal appropriations earmarked for an engineering study of a possible cap over the Eisenhower Expressway has been the center of local attention lately. But several other long planned local projects will be funded as part of the massive $238 billion federal transportation bill signed into law recently. River Forest, Oak Park and Forest Park will receive money for several long awaited projects important to local planning efforts.

A motion to release alleged Mafia Insane Vice Lord gang member and high-ranking drug dealer Jermaine Banks into his mother’s custody in Forest Park was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois on Aug. 15.