John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces is a humorous account of the calamities of a corpulent misanthrope.

@JMurtaugh: the Plan Commission has been seeded with a majority of pro-development members, culled from the local real estate industry. For the past 10 years, I have monitored the Plan Commission membership, and learned it has been populated with...

I am not usually very pro suburban police, but Oak Park police really are wonderful. Whenever I see something reported, they are there usually in a minute or two and they tend to come in numbers. OP only has like 110 officers to cover 24x7x365 and...

@JCoughlin: by razing the site, Pope & Johnson have painted themselves in a corner of no return. The lesson from the 1989 Block 37 debacle in Chicago was that a municipality should never allow a site to be razed without evidence of guaranteed...

Done puts it better than I did. Yes, it needs maintenance. As much as people like to, we can't blame this all on the kids.

It became it a mud pit because it was never maintained. Julian has been resodded twice in the past 7 years in the heat of the summer and it wasn't watered nearly enough and maintained in order to take hold, the grass died and it became dirt....

@overburdened, why not just ask someone from village hall (letter, phone call, email) instead of goofing around on this forum?

What a fantastic tribute for such an inspirational person! Happy 105th Uncle Paul! We love you very much! Mark, Laurie, Marlee & Hudson

I wish someone from village hall would respond to the previous qustion.

They don't stretch or lay down because they aren't allowed on the grass. I agree that kids need a play to play, run around, talk to their friends. The middle-schoolers don't have that. I agree that Julian has always looked bad, and...