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Plans for a new Fire Station 2, or the North Station, are underway after a vote by Oak Park’s village board at a special ...

Reports emerged Thursday morning that ownership of Oak Park’s troubled West Suburban Medical Center owes nearly $70 million to the state of Illinois. The Chicago Tribune reported that Resilience ...

Several high-profile cases related to violence in Oak Park have been progressing through the Cook County court system. According to county records, several people awaiting charges stemming from Oak ...

In a marathon of a meeting that lasted past 1 a.m. Wednesday, Oak Park’s village board unanimously referred a consultant’s ...

The event, which is scheduled to start at 5 p.m., Aug. 13 (rain date Aug. 14), serves as the unofficial start of the cross-country season.

Andrew Joseph Zeh, age 11, was the youngest of five children spread across 14 years. As an explanation for his eye rolls, hip ...

Comedian Richard Pryor advised his fans never to admit to infidelity even if caught in the act: “Who you gonna believe, your lyin’ eyes or me?” The River Forest Planned Development Review Board took a ...

The new physical education wing in the southeast portion of OPRF will not be open when the new school year starts.

At the beginning of the Oak Park Village Board meeting on May 19, 2026, during the non-agenda public comment phase, an Oak Park resident of 39 years named Rick Easty contributed his voice to the ...

The expression “It takes a village …” is commonly used. I would like to amend it to “It takes everyone” in my case. A year ago, I suffered a severe hemorrhagic stroke. Over the course of this past ...

Oak Park’s zoning debate has lost its moorings. The fight over it has become the sorcerer’s apprentice scene from Fantasia: the brooms multiplying, the water rising, no one able to make it stop. Can ...