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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Ravi Parakkat’s recent One View [Our zoning debate should not divide us, Viewpoints, Sept. 2] calls for a pilot study of zoning changes before we embark upon a village-wide rezoning project. This ...