A 66-year-old Bellwood woman is suing Rush Oak Park Hospital for unspecified monetary damages, claiming she contracted Legionnaire's Disease there during a visit to the hospital's emergency room in July.

Oak Park artist Joe Abboreno has almost finished the Val Camilletti Memorial Mural. 

The Oak Park Police Department has arrested a Chicago man and charged him with one count of misdemeanor battery in connection with an incident on Monday, Aug. 12, where he allegedly groped a woman from behind.

Oak Park's Gunderson Historic District comprises two areas of single-family homes and two-flat apartments in south Oak Park developed by the firm of S.T. Gunderson and Sons in the early 1900s. 

In August 2001, former Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn walked across the state with his doctor, Quentin Young, to bring awareness and advocate for affordable healthcare for all.

Oak Park Elementary School District 97 officials will convene two engagement sessions this month focusing on implementing the racial equity policy that the D97 board passed in March.

There are dimensions to Mayor Anan Abu-Taleb that often are obscured by the tall buildings he champions, by the "open for business" mantra he recites, by the seeming lack of passion he has for social issues that spur so many in Oak Park.

In his book Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life, author Eric Klinenberg argues that what counts as social infrastructure.