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School District 97, teachers union cut new contract deal

May 8, 2019 at 10:55 a.m.

Oak Park Elementary District 97 and the Oak Park Teachers Association reached a tentative agreement on a contract Dec. 16, a month after OPTA's membership voted down a previous agreement....

The Oak Park and River Forest High School boys swimming team practices in the East Pool after it was reopened in 2011. The school is considering building a new pool on the campus.

Committee leans toward April referendum on new OPRF pool

May 8, 2019 at 10:55 a.m.

Oak Park and River Forest High School District 200 may include up to three questions on the April 7, 2015 ballot seeking permission to build, permission to bond and community...

Fifth-grade math student Asantewaa Jones holds her iPad up so her solution to a problem can be projected onto a whiteboard for her classmates to see.

Roosevelt named ‘Apple Distinguished School’ for tech

May 13, 2019 at 2:43 p.m.

Beth Mecucci's seventh-grade reading class quietly reads the novel "Hidden Talents" on iPads while students in Sonny Mann's fifth-grade math class use theirs to demonstrate they know how to multiply...

Baseball and swim supporters wait their turn to comment before the District 200 Pool Committee on Dec. 8.

Baseball backers: Don’t replace fields with new OPRF pool

May 8, 2019 at 10:55 a.m.

Supporters of local baseball and softball programs were out in force Dec. 8 to persuade the Oak Park and River Forest High School District 200 Pool Committee to abandon a...

YMCA’s annual Christmas tree sale comes with perks, helps poor

May 8, 2019 at 10:53 a.m.

Ruby the beagle led Nora Fitzgerald, Art Soudek, their son Judd Soudek and daughter Charlotte Soudek to a Christmas tree at the West Cook YMCA on Friday. This was the...

BRAVO! theater students applaud one of their own at Brooks Middle School in Oak Park Tuesday Oct. 28, 2014.

Tony-nominated duo coach Oak Park, River Forest theater students

May 8, 2019 at 10:54 a.m.

Cait Egan belted out her sassy rendition of "Showoff" from the musical comedy "The Drowsy Chaperone," kicking up her leg in a mock can-can and winning a standing ovation from...

Hundreds attend a gala to celebrate the opening of a new Mariano's in Harwood Heights in April 2013.

Mariano’s unveils plans for North and Harlem; Sears would be knocked down, rebuilt

May 25, 2019 at 12:30 p.m.

Rumors of a Mariano's Fresh Market at North and Harlem were confirmed Wednesday, when officials from the grocery store and Sears presented their new plans for the corner to the...

Mariano’s unveils plans for North and Harlem; Sears would be knocked down, rebuilt

May 23, 2019 at 10:02 p.m.

Rumors of a Mariano's Fresh Market at North and Harlem were confirmed Wednesday, when officials from the grocery store and Sears presented their new plans for the corner to the...

National teacher’s union head visits Oak Park schools

May 8, 2019 at 10:54 a.m.

Lily Eskelson Garcia, president of the National Education Association, tugged at a string to move a robot as seventh-graders Rachel Young and Isabelle Meyer, both 12, explained how it works....

Kaya Scodelario, Dylan O'Brien and Will Poulter answer questions from the audience of over 350 students in The Little Theatre. Oak Park and River Forest High School hosted an appearance Thursday by three young actors appearing in upcoming movie "The Maze Runner," opening Sept. 19.

Stars of movie ‘The Maze Runner’ visit OPRF High School

May 8, 2019 at 10:54 a.m.

It was standing-room only in Oak Park and River Forest High School's Little Theater Thursday as three film stars visited the school to promote a fall blockbuster. Dylan O'Brien (the...

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