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Vol. 36, No. 12
March 24, 2021
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D96 moving to full-day, in-person school in April Hybrid option will end as students choose classrooms or full remote By BOB SKOLNIK Contributing Reporter
Beginning on April 12 elementary school students in Riverside District 96 will have the option of attending school in person on a modified full-day schedule. Despite the opposition of most of the See D96 on page 30
With temperatures warming into the 60s on Sunday, March 21, visitors flocked to Brookfield Zoo, which opened at the beginning of the month, to get reacquainted with their animal friends and see life-size dinosaur models scattered throughout the park. ALEX ROGALS/Staff Photographer
Riverside’s new Parks and Rec HQ opens to the public Village board will talk about construction cost overruns next month
By BOB UPHUES Editor
March 15 was something of a homecoming for staff of Riverside Parks and Recreation when they unlocked the door to their
new headquarters building at 43 E. Quincy St. The village of Riverside, which bought the one-story brick building with a rear twostory garage addition for $227,000 in August 2019, had owned the property three decades earlier.
In fact, as Memorial Hall, the building housed recreation programs between 1968 and 1988, when it auctioned the property off to a local resident who used it as office space for his business. Prior to the village’s first ownership, Memorial Hall served as the
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lodge for the Riverside American Legion. Recreation Director Ron Malchiodi was able to obtain a photo – unfortunately just a copy of a photocopy – of the building when See PARKS & REC on page 31
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