Do you miss your "blankie" or the stuffed animal you loved? Local author Katie McElligott celebrates the relationship children have with their "lovies" in her book, Nothing is Scary with Harry.

Three years ago, before everyone was on to the con of red-light cameras, Wednesday Journal, Forest Park Review and the Riverside-Brookfield Landmark did a deep dive that made clear these cameras have...

It is going to be a long spring, summer and fall on Lake Street in Oak Park. 

Affordable housing, goes the rap, winds up in Oak Park's less desirable neighborhoods.

February is Black History Month. What initially began as Negro History Week in 1926 by Carter G. Woodson soon morphed into an entire month-long celebration because the contributions of African...

My friend Reesheda Washington, of Live Café and Creative Space, talks about the necessity of having both "intention" and the ability to hold things "in tension" with regard to equity work.

Everybody dies. We are all mortal, beings limited in space and time. Unlike animals, we are the only species that knows we and everyone we love, will die.

Recently I profiled a courageous Iraqi woman named Alyaa Shakir [Changing the world, one piece of litter at a time, Viewpoints, Jan. 15].