In stressful times it can be hard to pull away from the conflicts in the world — local, national or international — and ...

OPRF boys basketball enters a transitional 2025 season, leaning on returning seniors, rising underclassmen, and a faster ...

Over the course of 2025, Sugar Fixé has transformed behind the scenes at 119 N. Marion St. in Oak Park. The first change was ...

All season long, the Fenwick High School football team felt it could reach the IHSA Class 6A title game.

Fenwick boys basketball coach Dave Fergerson is as happy as anybody in Oak Park about the school’s football team heading to ...

The Oak Park and River Forest High School boys wrestling program has a new leader this season as Jason Renteria, a 2017 OPRF ...

Oak Park’s forgotten commercial corridor on Roosevelt Road is getting some attention. We suppose that’s a good thing. But working again with Berwyn, and interestingly not with Cicero, Oak Park is ...

Peter David Armstrong, 19, of Oak Park, died on Nov. 12, 2025, in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Born on Feb. 17, 2006 in Chicago, he grew up in Oak Park, attended Grace Lutheran School in River Forest ...

Thanksgiving is a great holiday for me because I have a four-day weekend to be with family and a chance to relax. In fact, I am blessed to have family who loves me so much and friends and staff of OK ...

After just one frost, they found it both too cold and too hot to stay here. Poor guys. Their weapons didn’t protect them from insults, their uniforms were not appreciated, and their masks didn’t ...

I’m responding to Carolyn Righeimer’s letter [Legalizing physician-assisted suicide, Viewpoints, Nov. 12], which implied that Medical Aid in Dying was snuck through by attaching the issue to a food ...

I grew up in a law enforcement family, attended OPRF High School and Triton College, and earned my degrees from Lewis University. My connection to Oak Park and River Forest is lifelong. That is why I ...