An advisory referendum question that’s been debated for months will be on the Nov. 3 village of Oak Park election ballot.

Oak Park’s village government and its finance committee is putting added focus on financial management. The committee ...

Stegemann founded Centre Physical Therapy at 207 Harrison St. in Oak Park in 2018, and since has expanded to Riverside and ...

In his Aug. 12 column in Viewpoints [Stop calling us racist!], Josh VanderBerg makes an argument that I understand and do not ...

Whenever I tell people I live in Oak Park, I almost always get the same response. They say, “I love Oak Park. The homes there ...

When my parents dropped us off at college they sang … literally. My sister and I chose to be roommates and when we got to campus, we found out our dorm room was in a basement. The walls were cinder ...

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Hungry kids cannot learn. That is why I am so proud and impressed that Students Feeding Students (SFS) have taken on this issue by providing snack cabinets at OPRF High School. They have handled the ...

Michael Owen Kilmer, 77, of Kensington, Maryland, formerly of Ogden Dunes, Indiana, and River Forest, died on Aug. 14, 2026.

Oak Park residents have been asked to consider a significant change to our zoning that could fundamentally alter the character of our neighborhoods. Yet when residents ask some very basic questions ...

While I applaud the goal of increasing safety for bikers, I think recent steps taken by Oak Park are misguided. In the past week, I have three times seen bikers (all of whom were not wearing helmets) ...

The long lines of eager shoppers, snaking from the entrance of the main library past Scoville Park to First Baptist Church, was the first omen that the Friends of the Oak Park Public Library’s 54th ...