Stacey Sheridan

The number of vacant churches in Oak Park has gone from two to one as a new congregation has moved into the former Parkview Presbyterian Church on the corner of Oak Park Avenue and Jackson Boulevard. Crews and congregants of Casa De Restauración Familiar, an evangelical Christian church under the Ebenezer ministry, are preparing to […]

Fans of WNYC’s “Radiolab” turned out in spades to Unity Temple for a special live storytelling experience this past Saturday led by the radio show’s senior producer Simon Adler. Adler took audience members through the wonders of the cassette tape, a piece of technology that changed the world — and gave rise to a new […]

Madison Street’s Whirlwind Coffee Co. is turning its unattached garage building into a new workspace, allowing for expanded services and coffee roasting events. “The garage and workspace is going to be for growing our roastery or cold brew offering, and also servicing a lot of our wholesale [business-to-business] customers,” said David Silverstein, Whirlwind founder and […]

Through a partnership with Cook County, Housing Forward will take over ownership of the Write Inn, which has been leasing the hotel since 2020 to provide shelter for unhoused individuals in the non-profit’s interim housing program. The purchasing agreement is still being finalized, but Housing Forward representatives confirmed the county is providing the funding to […]

Right after parking their car on the 300 block of South Taylor Street, an Oak Park woman and a Westmont man were chased by a group of three or four men at 1:50 a.m. Oct. 6. The men robbed the woman, but her companion was able to escape. The group had pulled up in a […]

The Oak Park Public Health Department is expecting an increase in the rate of COVID-19 infections this fall and winter as the chillier weather will cause more people to congregate indoors. People should take precautions, officials said. “Everyone should get vaccinated,” said Oak Park Public Health Director Theresa Chapple-McGruder. And while the rollout of the […]

Oak Park’s 221-page capital improvement plan lists the projects the village plans for the next five years and what their costs will be. The projected cost for all 2024 projects on the list is $22.4 million, although costs may change as the projects develop. Oak Park Public Works Director Rob Sproule walked Wednesday Journal through […]

Unity Temple Restoration Foundation, the non-profit that has functioned to keep the famous Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Unity Temple in good condition, will be dissolved Oct. 31. The restoration foundation, which has been active for half a century, worked side-by-side with the separate Unity Temple Unitarian Universalist Congregation, the congregation that worships in the temple. Through […]

Employees of the AT&T store at 425 N. Harlem Ave. were made to hide in the backroom while a man armed with a black handgun robbed the business at 8:03 p.m. Oct. 10. The man took an unreported amount of cash out of the cash register and took an unknown number of cell phones and […]

The Oak Park village board has opted to wait for a state taskforce report on ranked-choice voting rather than moving forward with putting a village government referendum on the March 19 primary election ballot. The move went against the wishes of local community group VOICE Oak Park, the Oak Park and River Forest faction of […]