The freshman course restructuring at Oak Park and River Forest High School, combining college prep and honors, is not a dismantling of those things that are best at OPRF. 

It is a good thing for Oak Park and River Forest High School to shift to 100 percent green sourcing for its electricity over the next three years. Also good that the school administration estimates a...

There are not many things we know for certain. But after 39 years of reporting on local hospitals trying to coexist with the residential neighbors that surround them in Oak Park, we know...

It has been a wrenching week at Fenwick High School as the longtime head football coach made a rapid exit on the eve of the team's appearance in the first round of the IHSA Class 5A playoffs. It is a...

Monday night Oak Park's village board marked the expiration, final gasps, or for their few fans, the heroic conclusion of the village's two major Tax Increment Finance districts.

I miss Mark Rogovin. We became buddies in 1995, when I wrote about a Forest Park guy who painted murals and did carpentry for La Rabida Children's Hospital. I had no idea that Mark would be a...

Imagine this. You go to some bureaucratic office to get some official form. You're told you'll need three forms of identification. You calmly smile and say, "My ass."

It's hard to love November. The penultimate month is the beginning of the end — not of life as we know it, but of life as we knew it … of summer so recently, so dearly and drearily,...

These are fervid times in Oak Park politics. Between the proposed elimination of freshman honors classes at the high school, and the dust-up over free speech and identity politics at the village...