At The Book Loft Oak Park, we believe a bookstore should be more than just shelves filled with books. It should be a place to ...

Community, family, tradition and a love of parties all went into Oriana and Larsen Oshana’s decision to buy The Elmcrest ...

On Saturday, Sept. 5, an echo of Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory opened in Oak Park. Chocolat by Christina is a new brick-and ...

On Saturday, Sept. 5, an echo of Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory opened in Oak Park. Chocolat by Christina is a new brick-and ...

Summer’s over. We mark it unofficially with Labor Day, as if to say, “Time to get back to work.” Summer ends not with a bang but with a whisper. Some bid farewell with a hushed “good riddance,” others ...

A year ago, OPRF’s Lucy Stein finished fourth in Class 2A state, losing a tough third-place match in three sets.

Six recent graduates of The Children’s School have won a $500 Environmental Activism Award (Local) in the One Earth Young Filmmakers Contest for their short film, “Generating Our Future.” Holly Murphy ...

The Sept. 2 Shrubtown cartoon about two referendums was quite the mixed bag:  1. Good messaging on civic engagement: On one hand, the cartoon’s message, that we need to think about where we put our ...

Major film festivals have long taken center stage as vital cultural and commercial launchpads connecting visionary directors ...

The village trustees are considering a proposal to change Oak Park’s zoning code, allowing single-family lots to be converted into multi-family lots. The main reasons are to reverse a 1921 policy that ...

The much needed police station seems to be in the preliminary design process. I don’t know a thing about what it should contain, but I have a suggestion about its exterior. Take a look at the one in ...

Plans for the village to move ahead with a new police station at the site of the U.S. Bank building at Madison Street and Austin Boulevard closer to reality.