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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Herta Lisicic, 104, of Oak Park, died on Aug. 23, 2026. Born in Poland in March 1922, she was raised in a German household.

The Honorable Arthur C. Perivolidis, 84, of Mount Prospect, died peacefully in his home, surrounded by family on Aug. 29, ...

Douglas Stewart, 85, a loving husband, father, grandfather and friend to so many in Oak Park, died Aug. 30, 2026. Born in ...

A year ago, OPRF’s Lucy Stein finished fourth in Class 2A state, losing a tough third-place match in three sets.

Twenty-five years ago, September 11 became a date forever associated with tragedy. For my family, it also became deeply personal. My uncle, Stephen Lefkowitz, was among the nearly 3,000 people whose ...

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 ...