Despite being careful and taking every precaution, my beautiful, amazing mother, Jan Daley Brent, died from COVID complications.
Posted inOpinion
Older Americans need to be less invisible
Anybody remember going to the Lake Theatre?
Posted inOpinion
Giving thanks, then and now
When we were young kids in St. Mary of Celle Parish in Berwyn, our parents would often open the family meal with a prayer.
Posted inOpinion
Why the rec center should go to a vote
The Park District of Oak Park (PDOP) cites a 2019 survey of 618 households as rationale for building a Park District Rec Center.
Posted inLetters To The Editor, Opinion
The rare gift of majesty
I thought of you today, Ken, as I now do whenever I am fortunate enough to witness the sandhill cranes’ migration north in March, or south in November. As usual, I heard them before I saw them, but with a new twist today: I was actually inside my house this time, when it gradually crept […]
Posted inOpinion
Promise, and challenge, of managed school integration
By the mid-’70s Hawthorne School (now Percy Julian) at Washington and Ridgeland had 25 percent Black students.
Posted inOpinion
Why the rec center should go to a vote
The Park District of Oak Park (PDOP) cites a 2019 survey of 618 households as rationale for building a Park District Rec Center.
Posted inOpinion
We do not have an informed electorate
Does America have an informed electorate today?
Posted inOpinion
The judge’s wife rules in favor of suffrage
Grace Wilbur Trout moved to Oak Park in 1906 and began her campaign to win full suffrage for women.