John McCombs hasn’t spent much of any time around the political punchbowl, but he’s been out on the road working on ...

Several Oak Park trustees weighed in on the village’s Flock license plate readers, saying they want the cameras turned off.

Hello, neighbors I am writing to share the amazing experience I had advocating for the Alzheimer’s Association in Washington ...

Oak Park police have arrested several individuals over the last week on charges of assault or battery in connection with ...

Annie Harnett (née Healy), 95, of River Forest, died on July 17, 2025. Born in Killacloran, Aughrim, County Wicklow, Ireland, ...

With the uncertain future of West Suburban Medical Center a West Side-based committee has formed, La Shawn Ford helped ...

Lantero, 90, a resident of University Park, Florida, formerly River Forest, who never forgot a birthday, an anniversary, or ...

There are many complex issues facing Oak Park. The use of Flock surveillance cameras is one we wrote about in the editorial just above. Perhaps a debate over tensions between brick-and-mortar ...

Mathew Takashi Kanno, 62, formerly of Oak Park, died from lung cancer on July 22, 2025 at Northwestern Prentice Hospital in Chicago. In his Chicago hospital room, Oak Park friends’ voice messages of ...

On Thursday, July 24, I sojourned to Scoville Park to take in some sun. As I approached the park via the entrance at Lake Street and Oak Park Avenue, by the fountain, I found homeless people ...

We were happy to read an article in last week´s Wednesday Journal celebrating Ali ElSaffar´s 25 years of wonderful service as assessor for the Oak Park Township, and would like to add our enthusiastic ...

During the “Good Trouble” protest honoring the late John Lewis, two weeks ago at Longfellow Park, it dawned on me that we are now the keepers of his flame. Protesters lined both sides of Ridgeland ...