Art can be used to communicate. It can be used to heal. It can be used for good.

Oak Park Public Library announced that its main branch has reopened with a limited schedule for returns and holds pickups.

For the last 20 years, Oak Park resident Eric Gyllenhaal has kept the rock garden in his front yard stocked with polished stones, shells and fossils, free for children to explore and take home. 

In: In the dawn of this new era

Sur: Surfaces a count, so counted on,

Rec: Wreck and reek opposed at arms

District 200 could be on the hook for $500 million in pension debt. 

Social studies classes in Illinois public schools are about to get a major overhaul, with more emphasis on Black history and the contributions of other underrepresented groups to American culture.

Take 1 seemed accurate, but things were missing that mattered in River Forest during 2020. It blended into the rest of the Journal in a sunless way, when I was sure "a year like no other" had cast at least a few rays of light in little-old River Forest.

Anthony Clark was blocked Monday from the April ballot for Oak Park village trustee. The action came as the three-person local election board met to consider a challenge made to Clark's candidacy brought by an Oak Park resident best known for filing just such challenges.

The past few Sunday mornings, I've been triangulating with my son and my grandsons from Oak Park to Carol Stream to Camp Lemonnier in Djibouti, Africa.