When Berkeley and Harvard-trained architect Steven Huang came to Oak Park looking for a home to renovate and sell, he was ...

Oak Park will pay U. of I. $100,000 for a project involving building energy assessments and village-wide energy efficiency ...

In a troubled America where traditions are diminished or knocked cock-eyed for sport, Memorial Day feels more meaningful this year. Three things: River Forest will celebrate the 100 th anniversary ...

Jordan B. Rifis, Esq., 79, died on Feb. 20, 2025. Born in Chicago on March 26, 1945 to Albert and Edith Rifis, he was educated at Austin High School, and attended Roosevelt University for his ...

Ah, rhetoric? As much as I agree with Greg Pulliam’s commentary, “Those pesky pronouns” [Viewpoints, May 14], maybe I’ll lean in a little further and read John McWhorter’s latest ...

Lillian “Lil” Vail, 89, died on May 9, 2025, in Asheville, North Carolina. Born and raised in the Chicago area, she moved to Newtown, Connecticut in 1961 with her husband, Tom, and their young ...

I saw that Village President Vickie Scaman said she “won’t hurry through the process of appointing Susan Buchanan’s successor, and that it’s important to her that all the sitting trustees ...

Continually enhancing quality of life in River Forest is one of the village’s main priorities, and this happens, in part, through new development that attracts businesses, services and amenities.

I join Wednesday Journal in “Thanking Tom Cofsky” [Our Views, Viewpoints, May 7] for his 12 years of service on the OPRF High School board and for changing District 200’s policy of always ...

River Forest officials were recently dealt a setback by a Cook County Circuit Court judge in their ongoing legal battle… Read more: No demolition ordered by judge at Lake and Lathrop Help The ...

Mary Anne Brown, a tireless children’s advocate and former executive director of Hephzibah Children’s Association, passed ...

The committee would like to be informed of the police department’s use of license plate reading cameras in their ...