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Anthony Clark was blocked Monday from the April ballot for Oak Park village trustee. The action came as the three-person local election board met to consider a challenge made to Clark's candidacy...

The call to "defund the police" in Oak Park was a polarizing concept when Trustee Arti Walker-Peddakotla made it months back after the murder of George Floyd by police officers in Minneapolis.

Oak Park, River Forest, Forest Park, Austin and Maywood are turning into the power vortex of Illinois government. 

Take 1 seemed accurate, but things were missing that mattered in River Forest during 2020. It blended into the rest of the Journal in a sunless way, when I was sure "a year like no other" had cast at...

I am grateful that I live in a community where starting with "we need to reaffirm commitment to democracy and hope" is stating the obvious. Unfortunately, that cannot be trusted today, just days...

When I joined the Oak Park Public Library in 2016, I was one of the first library social workers in the United States. My hiring as director of Social Services and Public Safety was also one of the...

Some folks have been up in arms that a white guy filed objections to the nominating petitions of two Black men for village trustee.