The board of directors of the Oak Park-River Forest Community Foundation is pleased to announce that Carrie Summy has been ...

For more than 110 years Pompei has been a family-run, Taylor Street icon in Chicago. Now, a new generation is stepping up to ...

Oak Park, it seems, is about to have another debate about the use by local police of license plate reading technology provided by the Flock Safety Corporation. Oak Park first installed these cameras ...

In honor of Wednesday Journal’s 45th anniversary, we are recognizing former news carriers who made sure subscribers received ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Despite repeated signals from the community, Oak Park trustees voted, with one dissent by Trustee Jim Taglia, to approve a controversial bike plan that many residents simply did not want. The vote has ...