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Bruce Samuels, 82, a longtime Oak Park resident, dedicated public servant, community organizer, husband and father, died on ...
Constance Maria Rakitan, 74, died on Aug. 2, 2025. Born on July 15, 1951, she ran the Faith & Fellowship Ministry for people ...
On Tuesday, Aug. 5 at 11 a.m., a funeral will be celebrated at St. Edmund Church for a young Guatemalan migrant who died July ...
Thanks to Congressman Danny Davis. Thanks for the work you have done over decades, from Chicago’s city council to the county board and for nearly 30 years in Washington as the 7th District’s ...
Oak Park’s village trustees gave every indication they were ready to pass a 1% tax on groceries at a meeting held after press time. Good decision. This tax will replace the state’s 1% grocery tax, ...
Occupying a shaded bench in the southeast corner of Mills Park, late last Saturday afternoon, the first good-weather weekend of this blistering summer, I found myself in the company of many. Everyone, ...
At an event in New Hampshire on April 28, our governor made an appeal for all of us to channel our anger and discontent toward meaningful protest and direct action against the terrible policies of our ...
I support what another letter writer said last week about Oak Park not needing to give subsidies to a profitable, expanding, nationwide company like Barnes & Noble. So it’s troubling that Oak Park ...
As a mom who calls River Forest home, I’ve been watching the debate around term limits with growing concern. I’ve read the op-eds, letters to the editors and even the Facebook conversation. What I’ve ...
The Cook County Board of Review has announced that it will be accepting appeals of the 2025 assessed valuations of Oak Park properties from now until Aug. 19. The township can help Oak Park residents ...
Add my name to the many Oak Park residents, living on Harvard or elsewhere, who oppose the presumptuous bike plan passed by village trustees on July 22 (and Jim Taglia, thank you for voting against it ...
I recently heard Rahm Emmanuel say that he told presidents Clinton and Obama that “sound is not always fury, sometimes it’s just sound, and don’t assume just because someone is screaming at you that ...