Some 500 teens crowded into Downtown Oak Park Halloween evening. Police received a call of shots fired at 7:49 p.m. No injuries were reported from the shots.

Sustainability is a calling card for Oak Park Apartments. Vintage apartments are updated with help of local firm Energy ...

Oak Park Police Commander Schonella Stewart has been selected to serve as the next police chief of Beloit, WI.

River Forest officials learned that the Illinois Attorney General’s Office ruled that they did not violate the Illinois Open ...

Oak Park is looking for help running its warming center program this winter. With temperatures beginning to turn, Oak Park’s ...

LaTonya Applewhite, the director of equity and student success at Oak Park and River Forest High School, has resigned her job ...

Every child deserves a champion—someone who celebrates their victories, guides their choices, and helps them build essential skills. For many, that champion is a parent or caregiver. But for children ...

For five years, Gabriela (name changed for privacy) a single mother had been bringing her two children to the IWS Children’s Clinic for medical and dental care. But the Clinic has been more than a ...

Over a decade and a half, One Earth Collective has reached diverse communities with impactful programs centered around environmental sustainability and justice, inspiring individual and systemic ...

In front of one River Forest house, 706 Ashland, the homeowners don’t scare so much as they share their love of puppet ...

Freedom Middle School students have been painting a mural in a 105-foot tunnel along Ridgeland Avenue and 31st Street.

The “American Dream” of homeownership is increasingly out of reach on the Greater West Side. Take Austin for example: between 2019 and2024 the median sale price of a 1-4 unit building grew from ...