John McCombs hasn’t spent much of any time around the political punchbowl, but he’s been out on the road working on ...

Several Oak Park trustees weighed in on the village’s Flock license plate readers, saying they want the cameras turned off.

Hello, neighbors I am writing to share the amazing experience I had advocating for the Alzheimer’s Association in Washington ...

Oak Park police have arrested several individuals over the last week on charges of assault or battery in connection with ...

Annie Harnett (née Healy), 95, of River Forest, died on July 17, 2025. Born in Killacloran, Aughrim, County Wicklow, Ireland, ...

With the uncertain future of West Suburban Medical Center a West Side-based committee has formed, La Shawn Ford helped ...

Lantero, 90, a resident of University Park, Florida, formerly River Forest, who never forgot a birthday, an anniversary, or ...

Mathew Takashi Kanno, 62, formerly of Oak Park, died from lung cancer on July 22, 2025 at Northwestern Prentice Hospital in Chicago. In his Chicago hospital room, Oak Park friends’ voice messages of ...

There are many complex issues facing Oak Park. The use of Flock surveillance cameras is one we wrote about in the editorial just above. Perhaps a debate over tensions between brick-and-mortar ...

Despite repeated signals from the community, Oak Park trustees voted, with one dissent by Trustee Jim Taglia, to approve a controversial bike plan that many residents simply did not want. The vote has ...

The July 16 issue of Wednesday Journal reports that, next summer, Barnes & Noble plans to open a bookstore and café in two levels of the old Marshall Field building. The article quotes the new ...

Rarely do our village officials and the public get a free educational opportunity like the one this Thursday evening. That’s when zoning experts from the Illinois Chapter of the American Planning ...