Audrey Helen Ungaretti, 83, died peacefully on July 30, 2025 at Belmont Village Assisted Living under the compassionate ...

Roberta “Bobbi” Schaper Eastman, 50, a lifelong Oak Parker, died unexpectedly on July 30, 2025. Using her knowledge of her ...

Bruce Samuels, 82, a longtime Oak Park resident, dedicated public servant, community organizer, husband and father, died on ...

Oak Park residents deserve to know more about the Mohr Cement development project at Harlem and Garfield — the village goals, the site issues, and the pros and cons of possible uses — before the ...

Constance Maria Rakitan, 74, died on Aug. 2, 2025. Born on July 15, 1951, she ran the Faith & Fellowship Ministry for people ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...