Vicki Scaman and Ravi Parakkat, the two candidates for Oak Park village president, were combative Monday night during an ...

Virginia “Ginny” Short, 82, died peacefully at her home in Oak Park on Feb. 7, 2025. Born on Nov. 22, 1942, in Chicago to ...

The hub of Oak Park’s non-governmental support for migrants arriving in Oak Park has been the Migrant Ministry. This group rose out of an activist local Catholic community but has been fully inclusive ...

The saga of Lake and Lathrop in River Forest continues. The venue these days is the court room. At this moment the tilt toward resolution of this absurd situation leans toward village government. On ...

What if our moral evolution ever caught up to our breathtaking physical evolution?What if? Brian DoyleGrace Notes A recurring reaction to my column last week, “What we learn from loss,” involved my ...

Village spending is out of control, and it’s about to get terribly worse. Your vote or a decision not to vote for village board president on April 1 will significantly affect village affordability.

We all need to remember (if we ever really knew) that Elon Musk grew up in an all-white area of apartheid South Africa. He knows nothing of the USA’s democratic (lower case “d”) traditions and ...

In its recent editorial [Anthony Clark’s contributions, Our Views, Viewpoints, Jan. 29] Wednesday Journal irresponsibly speculated that Anthony Clark’s departure from the high school may have been ...

As political candidates, authoritarians typically exploit fear, in their hunt for enough votes to impose punitive controls. Take, for example, the bloc candidacy of Nathan Mellman and Joshua Gertz for ...

With the Trump administration’s crackdown on undocumented immigrants, a local Oak Park agency that once focused mainly on ...

Winning IHSA regional titles is becoming routine for the Trinity High School basketball team. The Blazers notched their fifth ...

The Fenwick and OPRF boys swimming teams both had a strong showing Saturday at the sectional finals at Fenwick, and several swimmers from each team are heading to the state finals.