In honor of Wednesday Journal’s 45th anniversary, we are recognizing former news carriers who made sure subscribers received ...

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

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

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 ...

During the “Good Trouble” protest honoring the late John Lewis, two weeks ago at Longfellow Park, it dawned on me that we are now the keepers of his flame. Protesters lined both sides of Ridgeland ...