This year marks an incredible milestone for Oak Park Township: Ali ElSaffar, our dedicated Township Assessor, is celebrating ...

Oak Park kitchen designer Denise Hauser has been working on local kitchen and bathroom projects for more than two decades. While trends come and go in kitchen designs, Hauser says that a current ...

Oak Park police are investigating a reported sex crime that occurred near the village’s downtown last week, according to police.

The organizer of a direct democracy focused advisory referendum that passed overwhelmingly in Oak Park last fall is eager to ...

Oak Park has opened new ways for people to report issues to both police and village staff via the village’s website.

The report gives insights on Oak Park’s 2024 crime stats and the police department’s new initiatives it introduced over the ...

John Morrison, 87, formerly of Oak Park, died peacefully at home on July 5, 2025 in Washington D.C. A graduate of Hunter ...

If there was a moment’s doubt that there is a determined effort out of the Trump administration to upend independent, fact-based news reporting in America, the clawing back by Congress of $1.1 billion ...

As Oak Park moves forward, we hope, in adopting its thoroughgoing bike plan, we also appreciate the decision in River Foret to put at least some modest guardrails around the use of e-bikes and ...

There are a good many reasons to spend time sitting in the green amphitheater of Austin Gardens on a fine midsummer evening, ...

A Midsummer Night’s Dream, with young actors William H. Macy and David Mamet. Perhaps you came with your parents, who packed a picnic the way you pack one now for your kids. Or maybe one summer night ...

Bronze soldiers stand in solemn vigil at the World War I memorial as I stroll through Scoville Park enjoying my root beer float, and taking in the scenes, scenery, and woodsy aroma of the village’s ...