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...

For more than 30 years — and think for a moment about just how long that is — the largest and most visible storefront on Harrison Street has sat vacant. Multiple other storefronts in the...

Three massage businesses in Oak Park were shut down last week, at least temporarily, after Oak Park police and Cook County Sheriff's police collaborated on an investigation into alleged prostitution....

In a county government that has had little to recommend it to citizens over the decades — taxes too much, innovates not at all — we are enthusiastic about both Toni Preckwinkle, the...

It's not often that a government body so quickly corrects an obvious whiff. But Oak Park's village board did that Monday night when it voted to put a fee on the use of plastic or paper bags in any...

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.

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...

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...