DuPage County briefs
District 88 construction tours:
DuPage High School District 88 is more than halfway finished with the most significant renovation of its two schools in 30 years. The district invites interested residents to see what's been done so far at a series of community building tours: 9 a.m. today, Oct. 24; 6 p.m. Nov. 5 and 6 p.m. Nov. 18 at Addison Trail High School, 213 N. Lombard, Addison (park on Army Trail Road and enter at Door 22) and 10:30 a.m. today, Oct. 24; 6 p.m. Oct. 27 and 7 p.m. Nov. 11 at Willowbrook High School, 1250 S. Ardmore, Village Park (enter at Door 6). The $115.3 million project includes upgraded science labs, new classrooms and additional athletic facilities. The work is scheduled to be finished in fall 2010.
Halloween fest:
Glendale Heights Parks and Recreation's Halloween Fun Fest is from 3 to 5 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 25, at the Sports Hub, 250 Civic Center Plaza. Includes games, music and food. Free admission; game tickets cost 25 cents, five for $1. Info: (630) 260-6060 or glendaleheights.org/parksrecreation.
Piano concert:
Friends of the Oak Brook Public Library host a free Evergreen Concert featuring Reginald R. Robinson at 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 25, at the library, 600 Oak Brook Road. Robinson is a pianist/composer of semiclassical, ragtime, Latin American and early jazz and blues music. He received a fellowship grant from the John D. & Catherine MacArthur Foundation for his innovation in ragtime music and has four albums, including "Man Out of Time" (2006). Seating is limited to the first 120 attendees and refreshments will be served after the performance.
Free H1N1 seminar in Wheaton:
A free H1N1 seminar will be held at 5:30 p.m. Monday in Room 166 of the Dan and Ada Rice campus of the Illinois Institute of Technology, 201 E. Loop Road, Wheaton. The seminar is meant to inform and educate people about the newly discovered strain of influenza. Preregistration is required for the event. Speakers include Dr. Mayer Eisenstein, whose presentation is titled "Don't vaccinate before you educate," as well as a DuPage County Health Department representative.
Political analyst to speak:
Gil Hoffman, the chief political correspondent and analyst for The Jerusalem Post, will speak 5 p.m. Monday at Wheaton College. His lecture, titled "Red States, Blue States, and the Jewish State," will take place in the Phelps Room in the lower level of the Beamer Center on Wheaton College campus. The event, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by Wheaton's student group Tikvaht Israel Club (The Hope of Israel). Hoffman has been covering Palestinian issues in the West Bank and Gaza for more than two decades. He is a frequent guest on CNN, BBC and Al-Jazeera. For more information, call (630) 752-5015.