Oak Park and River Forest High School narrowly misses exemplary rating
Oak Park and River Forest High School still barely missed the exemplary designation on the annual Illinois School Report Card.
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Oak Park and River Forest students to represent at board meetings
Come January there will be a student at the table during meetings of the Oak Park and River Forest High School District 200 Board.
Area political volunteers hope to make a difference in swing states
Volunteers from Illinois traveled to Michigan last weekend ahead of the election. Most doors went unanswered.
Oak Park voters to mull switch to ranked choice balloting
A binding referendum on the Nov. 4 ballot asks Oak Park residents if they want to switch to ranked choice voting for village elections.
OPRF School Board cites one-time expenses in budget increase
The Oak Park and River Forest High School board recently approved a budget that projects an increase in operating expenditures.
New sixth graders at Oak Park District 97 get an early glimpse of middle school
Starting this school year, administrators of Oak Park Elementary School District 97 decided that they would do something to ease new sixth graders’ transition to middle school, implementing a program...
Ranked choice voting referendum may be on the ballot for Oak Park voters. Advocates turn in horde of signatures and hope so.
A referendum will likely be on the upcoming election ballot for voters in Oak Park to decide whether the west suburban villages switches to ranked choice voting to pick its...
The Book Table has been a ‘staple’ bookstore in Oak Park. The owners are set to close it soon.
The last remaining bookstore on Lake Street in Oak Park, the beloved locally owned Book Table, will be closing later this year.
Oak Park high school hires its 4th campus safety chief in just over a year
A new director of campus safety will start at Oak Park-River Forest High School next week, the fourth hire for the role in 14 months. On July 11, the Oak...
Longtime OPRFHS history teacher departs the school citing ‘the continued toll of antisemitism’ there
A veteran Oak Park-River Forest High School history teacher resigned recently because of what he said in his resignation letter was “the continued toll of antisemitism at OPRF – and...