From the first day that Lively Athletics opened its doors at 109 N. Oak Park Ave. during the summer of 2014, the business was ...

Oak Park Police have responded to several burglary incidents over the last week, according to their published activity ...

It has been a more transparent and community-focused process than we have come, over decades, to expect from the Catholic Church. And still, the announcement on Sunday that St. Catherine-St. Lucy ...

Oak Park leaders don’t want you to give money to panhandlers, they hope that you’ll donate to Housing Forward instead ...

A lawsuit filed by a former Fenwick High School leaders had covered up and enabled sexual abuse by a teacher was settled ...

I love doing my village business virtually! I can pay fines, register my car and watch board meetings in my living room!

Rev. Martin Marty died last week at the age of 97. A prolific writer, teacher and preacher, he was the kind of Christian who gave Christianity a good name. When I interviewed him in 1997, he was ...

Unregulated THC poses a serious risk to our community. As parents, residents, and public health advocates, we support an Oak Park ban on products containing unregulated forms of THC, including Delta-8 ...

A recent letter to the Wednesday Journal [Viewpoints, Feb. 26] supports Nathan Mellman and Joshua Gertz’s candidacy for the District 200 school board stating, “What you want is a board member … who ...

Last week’s forum at the public library was ridiculous and poorly moderated. There is a reason the League of Women Voters are trained in conducting these candidate forums. That every candidate is ...

Turning Gaza into a U.S.-built “Riviera” was just another Trumpian grab for a headline. It’s long been obvious that Trump can’t stand to let a day go by without making “news,” no matter how ridiculous ...

From 2019 through 2024, the village of Oak Park paid a large sum to two architectural firms for multiple ideas/drawings for a new village hall, and we are still barely off the ground. The cost ...