Over the summer, north Oak Park's bed-and-breakfast was sold when longtime Bishops Hall proprietor Charles Tupta left the inn-keeping business to pursue religious studies. 

Oak Park Festival Theatre has a unique and seasonally eerie new production running now called The Madness of Edgar Allen Poe: A Love Story.

I've always loved to write, it wasn't until I'd finished law school and worked in legal aid for five years that I followed my heart and got an MFA in creative writing.

Oak Parker Jamael "Isaiah Makar" Clark is on a mission to show the corporate world just how beneficial spoken word poetry can be to workplace culture and, ultimately, the self-fulfillment of employees.

The near west suburbs share a lot -- proximity to I-290, public transportation to Chicago's Loop and the ability to brag about being close to the city with suburban amenities like lawns and easy access to shopping malls. 

Most of us have grown up watching a lifetime of movies on TV.

The OPRF High School Color Guard performs with the marching band during halftime of the Huskie football team's homecoming game on Oct. 11 at Oak Park Stadium.

When the Chicago Architecture Center hosts its 9th Annual Open House Chicago architectural festival on the weekend of Oct. 19-20, the West Side and near west suburbs will be a part of the event.

Artists can be motivated by many things — to create something beautiful or thought-provoking, to express emotion, to capture a moment in time.