
Tuesday, February 21st, 2012 10:19 PM
Updated: Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012 12:32 AM
Oak Park Village Manager Tom Barwin announced at a village board meeting Tuesday that he's resigning from his post after five and a half years on the job. Village President David Pope said after the meeting that Barwin had told the board last week that he would resign.
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012 5:27 PM
A former Buildings and Grounds supervisor for Oak Park School District 97 was sentenced last month to six years in prison for stealing more than...

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012 5:19 PM
A controversial office building, slated to be built on Madison Street in Oak Park is still in the works, despite it appearing to be dead over ...

Tuesday, February 21st, 2012 10:00 PM
Indigo Smith got a front row seat in her preschool class Feb. 15, the day her dad was scheduled to read a book to the kids at West Suburban ...

Tuesday, February 21st, 2012 10:00 PM
It was by all accounts an ambitious art project for Longfellow Elementary School, one that took four years, hundreds of Oak Park students and...
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012 9:17 PM
After a valiant effort to keep up with the undefeated Proviso East in the first half, the OPRF boys basketball team succumbed to a 63-48 loss and...
Priests and pastors from Oak Park and River Forest took to the streets on Ash Wednesday to offer ashes marking the beginning of Lent. The Rev. Shawn M. Schreiner, who brought the idea to Oak Park from the Episcopal Diocese of Chicago, stood on the Harlem Green Line platform early Wednesday morning.
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OPEF's summer B.A.S.E. Camp registration now open
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012 12:37 PM
The Oak Park Education Foundation's exciting roster of summer B.A.S.E. Camp classes for students entering grades 1-9 is now...
Tuesday, February 21st, 2012 2:43 PM
Vanguard West Suburban Medical Center hosted Heart Fest 2012, where their doctors and medical professionals were on hand to inform the...

Monday, February 20th, 2012 2:21 PM
The Annual Empty Bowls Community Dinner will be held on February 24, 2012 from 6-8 p.m at Oak Park River and Forest High School. Bowls made by...
Monday, February 20th, 2012 11:45 AM
For many years now the last weekend of February has been a time when the extended First Baptist family marks the end of Black History month with a...

Friday, February 17th, 2012 10:29 AM
Due to the success of the Champion Grant in 2011, Community Bank is proud to announce that the Champion Grant will again be available...
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