As it had been more than 45 years since our alley received any attention, the 200 South blocks of East (east side) and ...

I want to share my lamentation for the loss of one of my favorite features of the Farmers Market: the lovely tree under which the musicians of the Farmers Market Band (& their fans) found shaded ...

Monday evening, June 23, state Senator Don Harmon held the annual summary of last year’s legislative session, with his cohort state Representative Camille Lilly. After reviewing the state’s new budget ...

I thought DEI was dead. It is straight-up reverse racism. Your article with mention of a DEI chief was disappointing. Such positions across the country have been removed due to the obvious racism DEI ...

Since the people of River Forest have spoken and voted for term limits of elected officials, one would think the village board would move to ratify the vote. Or perhaps going on three months isn’t ...

The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America: When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them ...

TaskForce Prevention and Community Services led Chicago’s Pride Parade on June 29 as the first Out Front Leader, marking a ...

Kudos to my friend, colleague and editor, Ken Trainor, for his column in last week’s Wednesday Journal titled, “What my 83-year-old says.” Just the fact that he wrote about that topic is, in and of ...

I worry we are skipping over the careful reasoning that got us the proposed bike plan. Instead it seems we are reacting only to the change of use to a public space. How we treat Harvard Street is a ...

Congressman Danny Davis (D-7th) spoke out against federal health care cuts and urged senators to reject such reductions on ...

My mother, like many mothers of my youth, was a stickler for proper behavior, to say nothing of being a world-class expert on what was good for me. She told me to eat my spinach because it was good ...

Member of the economic development team at Oak Park’s village hall has departed. Cam Davis, announced his retirement ...