Bob Uphues

JoAnne Kosey, a lifelong Riverside resident who served for decades as a volunteer and leader of numerous local organizations, an elected official, and a newspaper columnist for the Riverside-Brookfield Landmark and Suburban Life for decades, died Oct. 1. She was 81. Since early January, she had been under medical care at MacNeal Hospital in Berwyn and at Cantata Adult Life Services in Brookfield.

A real estate development team looking to construct a three-story, 12-unit condominium building at 8845 Burlington Ave. was asked to sharpen their pencils last week, as the Brookfield Planning and Zoning Commission deferred making a recommendation during a preliminary public hearing last Thursday. Commissioners were not thrilled with the design of the building for which the developers are seeking zoning relief through Brookfield’s planned unit development process.

Charges are pending against a 35-year-old Chicago man who remains hospitalized with severe injuries after he allegedly drove his Chevy Cruze across the center line of First Avenue and struck a pickup truck head-on at about 7:25 p.m. Aug. 26. Police say the Chevy was northbound, about midway between Forest Avenue and 31st Street in Riverside, when it crossed over the double yellow line into the path of the southbound truck, which was hauling a trailer full of old roofing shingles and lumber.