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We can't be everywhere and neither can you. The "Week in Review" is designed to bring you up to speed on local news in Oak Park and River Forest. Let's get to it: Drink Up: Changes to Oak Park's liquor laws, including expanded package liquor sales and service of beer and wine before theater performances, were given tentative approval at Monday's village board meeting. Related: Downtown Oak Park, a business group representing the downtown area, is collecting answers to a survey soliciting opinions about local alcohol service. Survey here; ends Saturday. Fireworks Fracas: One Chicago man was charged with battery and another hospitalized after a fight broke out on Lake Street and Ridgeland Avenue after the grand finale of the fireworks …
Chef, TV personality talks with Patch about the long road to an MBA at Dominican University.
Christopher Koetke has fallen behind on learning Japanese flower arranging. Which might seem weird — considering he’s an award-winning chef and was recently awarded 2011 Outstanding Alumni Award from Dominican University’s Brennan School of Business. But Koetke, an Oak Park resident and the executive director of Kendall College School of Culinary Arts, said he’s never finished learning, and that includes non-culinary trades as well. “You have to be learning all the time,” he said. “That’s the way you stay relevant.” Koetke put this practice into play when he pursued his MBA for nearly five years at Dominican while he was an associate dean at Kendall College, completing the program in 2007. “It was an incredibly slow path to getting my MBA…
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Kimberly Humphrey
5:21 pm on Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Bead In Hand is still here and plans to stay. The owner, Doris Weinbaum, announced that she is ready to sell, but we expect to be in this very spot for many more years. more ›