Oak Park has joined a worldwide movement to encourage citizens and local restaurants to reduce their impact on the environment by giving up single-use plastics during July. 

Visual art can make viewers stop in their tracks. Maybe it's the masterful technique, or the images are really intriguing, or it sends a message that can't be ignored.

Oak Park Conservatory staff and the Park District of Oak Park had two reasons to celebrate on Saturday, June 22.

The principal of Mann Elementary School, 921 N. Kenilworth Ave. in Oak Park, announced on June 25 that she will resign to take an administrative position within District 97.

It is something to see when an essential, local nonprofit embraces the fullness of its mission.

Oak Park is one step closer to getting a new community recreation center with a $500,000 check from the state of Illinois.

The redevelopment of the former Sears at Harlem and North Avenues is close to taking flight now that community members have weighed in and Chicago Ald. Chris Taliaferro (29th) has given the redevelopment proposal his formal blessing.

ohn E. Ramm, 68, died on June 22, 2019.

Many months ago, the Parks Foundation of Oak Park invited us to participate in brainstorm discussions focused on the possibility of building a Community Recreation Center (CRC). 

On June 6, we observed 75 years since D-day, the battle of Normandy Beach, where thousands of our idealistic, heroic young people died in defense of democracy.