Oak Parkers will have access to larger energy grants and interest free loan opportunities for energy efficiency home projects ...

Representatives from Oak Park’s garbage hauler met with the village board for a performance review earlier this month ...

A four-bedroom, two-bathroom home at 1120 N. Lockwood is currently listed at $349,900. The single-family home has a fireplace ...

Oak Park will not break ground on its newest major streetscaping effort until at least early next month due to weather.

A recent Zillow listing for Frank Lloyd Wright’s J.J. Walser Jr. House in Chicago’s Austin neighborhood for $350,000 is a ...

Approximately 200 students at OPRF walked out of school. on Jan 20 to mark one year of the inauguration of Donald Trump as ...

Murawski, 69, a 40-year resident of Oak Park and staunch advocate of diversity and multiculturalism, died after a 21-month ...

Richard Jude Hank, 89, of Riverside, formerly a longtime resident of River Forest, died on Jan. 6, 2026 surrounded by his ...

Sr. Melissa Waters OP, DMin, 95, a longtime educator and student advisor at Dominican University in River Forest, was called ...

DeLacy Ann Phinizy Brubaker Sarantos, 91, died peacefully on Jan. 7, 2026 in Oak Park. Born on Oct. 24, 1934 in Rangoon, ...

Transparency is a pretty subjective word when it comes to governance. And our local institutions can waver in their own definitions of what transparency looks like, depending on the issue and the era.

Only when it is dark enough can you see the stars. Martin Luther King Jr.April 3, 1968 When I started writing newspaper columns 41 years ago this month, I wrote mostly from my head. Some columns, I ...