Oak Park village trustee candidate Anthony Clark will not appear on the April ballot per the ruling Monday from the Oak Park Municipal Officers Electoral Board. In a written statement sent to Wednesday Journal, Clark denounced the process under which his candidacy was found ineligible.

Oak Park's village board was split across ideological and gender lines during its heated, emotional and, at times, tearful discussion on Jan. 19 of whether to include on the April 6 ballot a non-binding but controversial referendum: "Shall the village of Oak Park defund its police department?" 

Oak Park resident Sheila Nix has been appointed chief of staff for the U.S. Department of Education's secretary in the Biden-Harris presidential administration. 

The Oak Park Public Health Department has not yet progressed into the second phase of the state's multi-phased COVID-19 vaccination allocation program.

In the past year, the locus of power in the Illinois General Assembly has moved from the city of Chicago to the near west suburbs. 

In the early months of the pandemic Jimmy Chen, owner of Poke Burrito, did not know if his restaurant would survive.