Both Forest Park and Oak Park will be represented this Saturday as a defiant opposition to President Donald Trump rises up across America in the No Kings protest.
That Oak Parkers will crowd Scoville Park and Lake Street is hardly a surprise. It was just in April that a large crowd gathered in the same place to object to the early months of the second Trump presidency. We expect a large, boisterous and peaceful crowd at Oak Park’s effective town square.
More interesting to us is the nascent effort to draw a crowd to protest Trump at Constitution Court in Forest Park. We don’t doubt Forest Park’s increasingly progressive mindset. This is the week the village enthusiastically supported an exuberant Pride event and marked Juneteenth as well.
Turns out that Tom Holmes, a longtime Review opinion columnist, has a hand in this along with others. We’ll be curious to see who gathers at Forest Park’s “town square” on Madison Street.