Out my hotel window looms the purple mountain majesty of Pikes Peak in Colorado Springs, dominating the horizon. I imagine ...

Oak Park single-family home. Within the last few months, there was a shooting incident in the alley behind the 700 block of South Humphrey and a crowd of teenagers and young adults taking over the ...

My husband and I are in our mid-70s. We were lucky enough to buy our first house in 1976 when we were 25 and 26. Before that, we started out in a windowless “illegal” basement apartment on the ...

The River Forest Civic Center has played an important role in village life for more than three decades, providing a home for our beloved River Forest Community Center and other valued services. At its ...

I am writing to those elected village officials who can vote to make a difference so that Oak Park can continue to be a leading village in so many ways. You really make decisions to help various human ...

It’s past time to bear witness against the unaccountable, sadistic hoards of roving bullies, daily seen on our screens. It’s time to call them by their true names: Brownshirts. Pat Healey55-year resid ...

On Sept. 28 the River Forest Board of Trustees considered a takeover of the Civic Center Authority (RFCCA) and its building. The RFCCA, a non-taxing body, voted Aug. 4 to transfer itself to the ...

While local families are stretching budgets to buy groceries, tons of good food end up in landfills. According to the World Wildlife Fund, nearly one-third of food in the U.S. goes uneaten, with half ...

This is episode 12 in our series on the history of Oak Park housing as it relates to diversity and equity: Between 1968 and ...

During a widely acknowledged housing crisis nationwide, every local government should be looking for ways to lower housing costs. Doing so decreases local rates of homelessness (Pew) and increases the ...

I grew up on the 500 block of North Humphrey, which has a mix of housing types. It consists of mostly single-family homes of different sizes, several frame 2- and 3-flats, and a larger brick ...

My husband and I attended one of the recent Shape the Village presentations at the Community Recreation Center. The room was overflowing — far too small for the hundreds of concerned residents who ...