Oak Park police arrested a man earlier this month in connection with a reckless firearm use incident in April.

The Little Theater at Oak Park and River Forest High School will be known, for the next 10 years, as the Armstrong Family Little Theater.

Oak Park’s village board unanimously approved village funding for a new affordable housing project on Clinton Avenue.

Community members had another chance to learn more about local leaders’ vision for the future of Roosevelt Road.

Collaboration for Early Childhood sponsors the box and a whole team of elfish volunteers ply their trade to make it seem magical ...

Oak Park’s forgotten commercial corridor on Roosevelt Road is getting some attention. We suppose that’s a good thing. But working again with Berwyn, and interestingly not with Cicero, Oak Park is ...

Peter David Armstrong, 19, of Oak Park, died on Nov. 12, 2025, in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Born on Feb. 17, 2006 in Chicago, he grew up in Oak Park, attended Grace Lutheran School in River Forest ...

Politics and religion make for wonderful conversations during the holidays … if you don’t feel like you have to win. Here’s where I’m coming from. For several years I was the religion reporter for ...

I grew up in a law enforcement family, attended OPRF High School and Triton College, and earned my degrees from Lewis University. My connection to Oak Park and River Forest is lifelong. That is why I ...

When my first-grade daughter didn’t qualify for math acceleration despite scoring 99th percentile on standardized testing, I thought I’d misunderstood the rubric. Then I checked the Illinois Report ...

I’m sure I am not unique in always wishing there was something I could do to fight against gun violence. I acknowledge that I do not have wealth or political influence to solve the problem, but I ...

I’m responding to Carolyn Righeimer’s letter [Legalizing physician-assisted suicide, Viewpoints, Nov. 12], which implied that Medical Aid in Dying was snuck through by attaching the issue to a food ...