West Suburban Medical Center received a bomb threat early Wednesday morning that was determined to be unfounded, according to the Village of Oak Park. The Oak Park Police Department responded to the ...

Bernard Francis “Bern” Wheel of Oak Park, Illinois died July 16, 2026. He was born on August 12, 1929, in Burlington, Vermont to Irene Abair and Alfred Wheel. His father was a typesetter in a print ...

Newton’s Third Law of Physics states that every force is met with an equal and opposite force. Adopting a significant zoning change is a major change for any community to absorb. All significant ...

EcoWilde, located at 1046 Pleasant St., has called Oak Park home since February, selling flowers, houseplants and ...

One of my “Favorite Things” about Oak Park is discovering creative and unique places and spaces in our community. Many ...

To me, it seems the most common sense of conclusions: if you keep dumping any single thing into a confined space, eventually you’ll create a problem. Water is necessary for the human body. But ...

Oak Park residents concerned about the assessed values of their properties may appeal them with the Cook County Board of Review between Aug. 3 and Sept. 1. Residents should know that the Oak Park ...

Flying into Warsaw on July 5, Julie Klein knew her first-ever trip to Poland would be challenging emotionally.

I want to congratulate Karen Tardy on her retirement as program coordinator for the OPRF Community Foundation’s Future Philanthropists Program (FPP). Karen joined FPP as a mentor in the program’s ...

A few weeks back, I spent an enjoyable evening at the Ernest Hemingway Birthplace on Oak Park Avenue listening to Scott ...

For generations, we’ve organized our lives around a familiar sequence: school, work, retire. We spend our youth preparing for adulthood, devote our middle years to building careers and/or raising ...

Our village board members were elected to represent us, the citizens, in the running of our village. When they assert that referendums, whether for leaf bagging or overhauling zoning, will not be put ...