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Juneteenth picnic at Taylor Park in Oak Park Saturday, June 19, 2021. | Kevin Tanaka/Pioneer Press

Oak Park sets summer celebrations: Juneteenth, Day in Our Village, July Fourth

May 16, 2022 at 9:55 a.m.

While Oak Park's Day in Our Village is returning in robust fashion on June 5 following a pandemic shutdown, the new village-backed Juneteenth celebration is coming up fast to rank...

Bob Burkhart, left, of Ellis Family Farms helps a customer at the Farmers Market in Oak Park, Ill. on Saturday, Sept. 4, 2021.
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Oak Park Farmers Market returns with donuts, produce, artisanal breads, cheeses and more

May 15, 2022 at 7:00 a.m.

A long-running Oak Park harbinger of summer will sprout from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday when the 47th annual Farmers Market sets up shop in the Pilgrim Church parking...

Emin Safarov, left, organizer of the Azerbaijani cultural exhibit, performs traditional ethnic folk dance with, from left, Nisorakhon Usmonova, Nika Zarinebaf and Leia Zarinebaf at the Skokie Festival of Cultures on May 18, 2019.

Skokie Festival of Cultures May 21-22 to return to two-day event this year

May 13, 2022 at 3:10 p.m.

Some 27 nationalities and cultures will be represented at the 30th Annual Skokie Festival of Cultures May 21-22, consolidated at Oakton Park this year after being scattered through several dates...

After Harrer Pool in Morton Grove was closed for two years, the newly-rebuilt aquatic complex is scheduled to reopen June 4-5.

Morton Grove’s rebuilt Harrer Pool set to reopen June 4; swimmer from 1962 debut wants to dive in first

May 10, 2022 at 1:38 p.m.

Morton Grove's aquatic crowd is counting down the days until the rebuilt Harrer Pool complex opens after two years of closure. A swimmer who says he was the first into...

Racist, antisemitic graffiti found at Oak Park and River Forest High School

May 10, 2022 at 3:23 p.m.

Oak Park police and Oak Park and River Forest High School are conducting concurrent investigations into racist and antisemitic graffiti found Friday, May 6, in a school bathroom. Oak Park...

Oak Park native and Olympic medalist Emery Lehman shares his next steps

May 10, 2022 at 9:59 a.m.

The phone signal cutting out repeatedly as he pushed his bike 5,000 feet up a mountain in Utah, Emery Lehman's message still came through loud and clear. "I'm hoping 2026...

The Park Ridge Memorial Day Parade passes City Hall on May 28.

Park Ridge’s Memorial Day parade returns, but its future uncertain due to aging of American Legion members

May 9, 2022 at 9:49 a.m.

Park Ridge's Memorial Day Parade is returning after a two-year absence due to COVID, but with its future somewhat in question. The youngest member of the American Legion Post which...

Triton’s women’s softball team has winning season heading into playoffs

May 9, 2022 at 9:02 p.m.

Winners of 44 of their first 51 games, as of May 9, Triton's women's softball team has only one more logical goal this season — capturing the National Junior College...

Leyden high schools offer tribute to the late Andy Harmon

May 6, 2022 at 7:32 p.m.

For his friends, Andy Harmon was best summed up by not revealing his illness until after the last East Leyden High School social studies class he taught and the last...

The market has just opened. From left, patron Ken Baird of Morton Grove exchanges a transaction with vendors Chris Kerber and Frances Lyons of Lyons Fruit Farm & Greenhouse of South Haven, Michigan. Images from the opening day of the Morton Grove French Market in Morton Grove on June 6, 2020 at 6140 Dempster St.

Morton Grove French Market gears up for strong season after pandemic, pool construction

April 30, 2022 at 8:15 a.m.

Finally free from pandemic restraints and construction on the Harrer Park pool, backers of Morton Grove's French Market hope to establish normalcy in commerce in the spring, summer and into...

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