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Plans for a new Fire Station 2, or the North Station, are underway after a vote by Oak Park’s village board at a special ...

The event, which is scheduled to start at 5 p.m., Aug. 13 (rain date Aug. 14), serves as the unofficial start of the cross-country season.

In a marathon of a meeting that lasted past 1 a.m. Wednesday, Oak Park’s village board unanimously referred a consultant’s ...

Still going strong in its 41st edition, the Taste of Elmwood Park lays out a family feast of delicious bites and activities Aug. 6-9 in Central Park, at the corner of 75th and Fullerton. This local ...

Andrew Joseph Zeh, age 11, was the youngest of five children spread across 14 years. As an explanation for his eye rolls, hip ...

Bonnie Jean von Ebers (nee Laper), 67, of Oak Park, died peacefully on July 19, 2026. She spent her final days surrounded by ...

Comedian Richard Pryor advised his fans never to admit to infidelity even if caught in the act: “Who you gonna believe, your lyin’ eyes or me?” The River Forest Planned Development Review Board took a ...

You were in your 90s. We got introduced by a mutual friend who likely knew that we were kindred activist spirits. A longtime River Forest resident, you now were at Brookdale Senior Living and played a ...

Oak Park’s zoning debate has lost its moorings. The fight over it has become the sorcerer’s apprentice scene from Fantasia: the brooms multiplying, the water rising, no one able to make it stop. Can ...

On July 9, River Forest’s Development Review Board (DRB) unanimously approved a 5-story, 72-apartment building at Madison and Ashland. The proposal has 79 residential parking spaces, 8 retail spaces ...

Have you ever considered serving on a local village, school or park board? The League of Women Voters of Oak Park-River Forest is sponsoring a program to encourage area residents who are considering ...