River Forest village trustees made the right call — the only call — when they approved District 90's application to renovate the exterior of Roosevelt Middle School conditioned on the...

Later this month, the school board at Oak Park and River Forest High School will talk again and likely decide whether to allow noted documentary filmmaker Steve James wide access to the school to...

You have to stop a moment and think about this. The West Cook YMCA has taken delivery of 40 mid-sized refrigerators. Sixty more are on the way. 

We've seen it just a handful of times in our decades covering Oak Park. A small fever of fear builds in a narrow community. It starts in opposition to some proposed change and is translated into...

Last Friday afternoon, some 350 black students, teachers, staff and administrators crowded into the Little Theater at Oak Park and River Forest High School for a candid conversation about being black...

Years back I'd have some fun with River Forest, calling it Sleepy Hollow (no, not a reference to the current FOX television show), because nothing much ever happened. And if something did happen, any...

Sally Stovall is a recognized local leader in the cause of lowering our collective carbon footprint through cooperative community action. In 2010 as a co-founder and leader of Oak Park-based Green...

There's nothing funny about the fact that at all ages, African-American children drown at dramatically higher rates than white, Hispanic, or Asian children. Recent data from the Centers for Disease...