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I am writing to express my support for Brian Straw’s proposed zoning change, specifically the proposal to reset the maximum building height…
I live in North Oak Park and spent some of Labor Day debating the “Shape Oak Park” zoning proposals among friends and…
As noted by Rhoda Bernstein [The middle isn’t missing, Viewpoints, Sept. 2] there is no “missing middle” of housing units in our…
Magicians use sleight of hand to focus an audience on one thing while something else happens out of view. In Oak Park,…
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I was in a movie theater in Hyderabad, India with my friend Chato when our phones started buzzing. At intermission, we checked them and realized something big was unfolding in New York. Details were sketchy, and my first thought was…
Oak Park passed its first zoning ordinance in 1921 and made race-based housing segregation a key part of its culture from then until passing the Fair Housing Ordinance in 1968. This includes hiring Harland Bartholomew to rewrite our zoning code…
Writing a story (short fiction) for the Off Campus Writers Workshop’s (OCWW) 80th Anniversary, TILT: Off-Kilter Stories For A Topsy-Turvy World, an anthology of 39 short stories, was one of the most challenging yet fulfilling writing experiences I’ve had. I’m…
The column “Politics is not a spectator sport” [Ken Trainor, Viewpoints, Sept. 2] addresses the need for a voter to become a lobbyist, not a hobbyist. Be active, not passive, when it comes to voting. It uses that opening to…
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Well, here’s a change at Wednesday Journal that we’ve talked about for a couple of…
We’ve long respected the hard work and active visibility of State Rep. La Shawn Ford. Over nearly…
Misguided. Daft. Inept. Disingenuous. Or a glorious expression of democracy at work? Just what was…
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