Go behind-the-scenes in the basement of Pilgrim Congregational Church to watch how those delicious Oak Park Farmers Market donuts are made each Saturday morning.

Plans for the downtown Oak Park parcel commonly known as the Colt site (the Colt building formerly occupied that site) will move ahead as recommended in April, potentially bringing a mix of retail, luxury apartments and parking from Lake Street to North Boulevard.

Meatless Mondays won't be the law of the land, but there will be an official proclamation from the village of Oak Park encouraging its residents to be more mindful of their meat-eating practices.

So, folks, we brought the Will Loomis Memorial Trophy home to Oak Park on Friday. That's the prize the Illinois Press Association gives out to the top paper, the sweepstakes winner, among large circulation weeklies in the state. And this year it came our way.

Oak Park used to be known as the place "where the saloons stop and the churches begin." A quick stroll down Lake Street and you'll see that's changed. It's about to change again with a shift in the liquor law that will allow alcohol to be served earlier on weekends and holidays.

Local Independence Day festivities have been given an overhaul this year in the western suburbs as local park districts and villages confront financial constraints and crowd control.

You're walking along Lake Street in River Forest and come across a really nifty old building, but you can't quite remember what it is and don't have a guidebook that might have the answer. Well, if you have a smart phone with an app that can read a commonly-used bar code, you'll learn that it's the Harlem School building.

Village Manager Cara Pavlicek reported Monday that Oak Park is on its way to finalizing its building code updates, but this time around restrictions have eased.

Dorothy Spourdalakis, 50, once the owner of The Eyeglass Shop in Oak Park, has been accused of murdering her autistic teen son in their River Grove Home.

Oak Park police arrested a 47-year-old Bensenville man at his home June 11 and charged him with a residential burglary that occurred in the 100 block of S. Kenilworth Avenue on April 10, 2011.