Oak Park police arrested a Chicago man over the weekend on multiple felony charges related to child sexual abuse.

Information about the ownership of the former Our Lady Help of Christians Catholic Church in Austin is sparse. The City of ...

Oak Park’s plan to acquire a U.S. Bank branch for its new police station moved forward last week, but the bank is still ...

Oak Park Township had to postpone its annual meeting last night as too many people came out to vote than the meeting space ...

We are parents of children in District 97 – from kindergartners to middle-schoolers – and we share a growing concern: our children are spending too much time on screens at school and not enough time ...

My forecast for this column is “partly sunny.” Talking about the weather is considered, by some, a waste of time. “Everybody talks about the weather,” they say, half-kidding, “but nobody does anything ...

I write to my fellow River Forest neighbors as the dust settles on the lengthy River Forest District 90 teacher contract negotiations. Recently, resident Steve Goldhaber published an essay in ...

Growing up in Oak Park, Jaden Cone, Ben Kremer and Ralph Porter ran in similar social circles and were all graduates of both ...

Last week, Viewpoints published a letter to the editor from a resident who raised questions about the proposed Madison-Ashland development. I want to take some space to address these questions. To be ...

Carole Ann Collins (nee Downs), 79, of Indian Head Park, died on April 4, 2026. Born on June 20, 1946 in Oak Park, she ...

Wednesday Journal recently reported that the village approved a study to determine “whether or not red tape tied to the historic districts has had a chilling effect on development.” The study was ...

According to JAMA Pediatrics, an estimated 6 million American children now have Long Covid. This makes Long Covid the most common chronic disease in children, surpassing asthma. We know how to manage ...