Oak Park artist Joe Abboreno puts the final touches on the Val Camilletti Memorial Mural on the Union Pacific railway retaining wall on South Boulevard just east of South Oak Park Avenue on Aug. 15.

What you get with your real estate dollar depends on where you are doing your shopping.

Oak Park's Gunderson Historic District comprises two areas of single-family homes and two-flat apartments in south Oak Park developed by the firm of S.T. Gunderson and Sons in the early 1900s. 

In his book Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life, author Eric Klinenberg argues that what counts as social infrastructure.

On Aug. 7, school officials, parents, students and community members gathered on the grounds of St. Catherine-St. Lucy School for a ribbon-cutting ceremony held to celebrate the installation of a small park on the school's playground.

Oak Park will soon make housing his-tory with the opening of Sojourner House, the first dedicated bridge housing in suburban Cook County.

Visitors to the Dole Learning Center are now welcomed by a new art installation, created by teen Oak Park Public Library volunteers last month. Standing tall amidst a small garden, it cannot be missed by anyone entering the west doors.

According to Stephen Morales, a member of Oak Park's Environment and Energy Commission, the Plastic Free July Program went very well.

Who doesn't smile when they see a monarch butterfly flitting through their yard?

Locals call it the Boathouse, and current owner Jeff Baron says the sign designating it as such has been there a long time.