It's been a long road renovating the 104-year-old theater building, once known as "The Playhouse," in Oak Park, but following a few minor renovation setbacks, Wild Onion Brewery has opened its newest location.

Two of the owners of the Buona Beef restaurant chain, headquartered in Berwyn, were arrested on Monday, Aug. 14, and charged with battery over an altercation with union members protesting their business practices on a public sidewalk adjacent to the restaurant.

Carol Kelley, first hired in 2015, received a $219,440 contract through 2022

The village of Oak Park has temporarily shut down three massage parlors in Oak Park after a sting by local and county law enforcement revealed that two of the businesses allegedly were engaging in prostitution and one was operating without a state massage license.

As a design professional, the architect of the Austin Gardens Environmental Education Center, and a 16-year resident of Oak Park, I am writing to voice my opposition to the proposed Albion project at Forest and Lake. 

Neighborhood streets in Oak Park have their own time. Over decades, the residents of the houses on a street turn over from longtime residents to start-up families.

Some members of the press have bemoaned the fact that Wisconsin and not Illinois was chosen by the Taiwanese electronic supplier Foxconn as the location of their new manufacturing plant. Some have insinuated that this is just additional proof of the incompetence of our political leadership.

In early January 2007 on a New York City subway platform, a man convulsed and fell on the tracks. As others watched, a 50-year-old construction worker, in a split-second decision, leapt from the platform and lay on top of the man as four subway cars passed them overhead. 

At the end of the second Plan Commission meeting, five community members who are proponents of the Albion development spoke about how it will benefit Oak Park.

With apologies to Hamilton, I was "in the room where it happened," in this case, the village hall chamber on Aug. 10 where the Plan Commission held its fourth marathon meeting concerning Albion's proposal for an 18-story building at 1000 Lake St.