On Saturday, Sept. 5, an echo of Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory opened in Oak Park. Chocolat by Christina is a new brick-and ...
The Oak Park and River Forest High School girls swimming and diving team has gotten accustomed to practicing and competing ...
Summer’s over. We mark it unofficially with Labor Day, as if to say, “Time to get back to work.” Summer ends not with a bang but with a whisper. Some bid farewell with a hushed “good riddance,” others ...
The Sept. 2 Shrubtown cartoon about two referendums was quite the mixed bag: 1. Good messaging on civic engagement: On one hand, the cartoon’s message, that we need to think about where we put our ...
Six recent graduates of The Children’s School have won a $500 Environmental Activism Award (Local) in the One Earth Young Filmmakers Contest for their short film, “Generating Our Future.” Holly Murphy ...
A year ago, OPRF’s Lucy Stein finished fourth in Class 2A state, losing a tough third-place match in three sets.
On behalf of retailers serving Oak Park residents, we strongly oppose the village’s escalating single-use bag fee and planned 2030 plastic-bag ban [Oak Park ramps up fee for single-use bags leading to ...
The severely damaged apartment building on the corner of Taylor and North Avenues is finally getting demolished after a ...
I don’t need to say how important it is that we all turn out to vote and that independents need to be persuaded to vote. With ...
The village trustees are considering a proposal to change Oak Park’s zoning code, allowing single-family lots to be converted into multi-family lots. The main reasons are to reverse a 1921 policy that ...
The much needed police station seems to be in the preliminary design process. I don’t know a thing about what it should contain, but I have a suggestion about its exterior. Take a look at the one in ...
Thank you for last week’s story about the new mural on Beyond Hunger’s future North Avenue HQ [Meal by meal & piece by piece, News, Sept. 2]. I’m writing to clarify how this striking mural came to be.
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