When the Fenwick High School football team lost 30-20 at St. Ignatius, it marked the first time the defending IHSA Class 6A ...

A Cook County Circuit Court judge upheld a village of Oak Park electoral board decision to overrule an appeal to the ...

Robert Compton, 88, died peacefully in his sleep on June 1, 2026 after being on dialysis for 14 years. Born on April 11, 1938 ...

Bunny Mullins crossed the finish line on Sept. 16, 2026, three days after accomplishing her final goal, living to be 95, like her mother. She led an ordinary and remarkable life. Born on Sept. 13, ...

Marion Ann Boomer Hauser, 64, died on Sept. 20, 2026 at Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital, surrounded by family and friends ...

Luke Menacho scored three goals to lift the Fenwick boys soccer team to a 6-0 victory over Nazareth at the Fenwick Priory.

As noted by Rhoda Bernstein [The middle isn’t missing, Viewpoints, Sept. 2] there is no “missing middle” of housing units in our area: 43% of the housing units in Oak Park are in the “middle” style ...

The Monday before school started, 65 new middle-schoolers and a handful of parents gathered at elementary schools across Oak Park to practice their new commute by bike. The Middle School Connections ...

The homecoming football game always seems to have a different vibe. There’s that certain electricity in the air.

Magicians use sleight of hand to focus an audience on one thing while something else happens out of view. In Oak Park, our policy process can sometimes feel remarkably similar. Consider the current ...

As I write this, it has been exactly 17 years since the first OPRF Friday night football game was played “under the lights” at the school’s stadium. The lights had been installed during the second ...

Regarding “A modest proposal for our zoning pilot” [Viewpoints, Josh VanderBerg]: the satire is well-aimed, but it points in the wrong direction. The letter mocks residents who support Ravi Parakkat’s ...