Teenagers in north Oak Park recently painted a #BlackLivesMatter mural during their block party (photo by Jake Fine).
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- After multiple reports of sightings, the Oak Park Health Department has been tracking a lynx, a medium-sized wild cat, for about a week. “It’s kind of roaming throughout the community,” said Theresa Chapple-McGruder. By @StaceyPSheridan oakpark.com/2022/04/22/lyn…
- The Friars won the IHSA Class 2A state championship at Peoria’s Detweiller Park for the program’s first top-three state trophy. “We didn’t know if we could win or not, but we had intentions to be in the top five,” said Junior Grayden Rill. By Bill Stone.
- A couple hundred students at OPRF walked out of the school midday Friday as a protest against what organizers called "a culture at OPRF that allows sexual violence and discrimination to continue without response." The Journal's Amaris E. Rodriguez will post a story shortly.
00:00 - Fenwick defeated Sycamore 17-6 on Nov. 20 in the IHSA Class 5A state semifinals at Triton College. It is the first time in program history that the team has advanced to an IHSA state championship game in football. By @MelvinLTate
- The Fenwick High School football team is for real. Just ask defending state champs Montini and Phillips who have... fb.me/1ul1gFvbV
- Madeline Connelly, who went missing in Montana on May 4, and her dog, Mogie, have been found alive. oakpark.com/News/Articles/…
- “I was a 13-year-old freshman here [at Fenwick] when Eisenhower was president,” Roger Finnell said. “I was thinking, this is the 93rd year of the school, and the 63rd year that I’ve been here as a student and 59 as a teacher.” By @writefelissa. oakpark.com/2021/11/23/fir…
- Kaden Cobb is one of four Fenwick players who signed letters of intent to play at NCAA Division 1 schools. The others are Jimmy Liston (Purdue), Eian Pugh (Illinois) and Max Reese (Eastern Michigan). By Melvin Tate.
- Oak Parker Julia Nash, whose father co-founded #WaxTrax! Records, is set to release her doc about the famed Chicago record label. oakpark.com/News/Articles/… #industrialmusic @waxtraxchicago
- John Polka is the reason Fenwick High School has a cross country program. When the longtime biology teacher was hired at Fenwick in 1966, he saw the school had no cross country team, so he created it and coach the boys team until 2009. By Bob Uphues.
- BREAKING: Fenwick High School entered into a purchase and sale agreement Dec. 3 with Dominican University for the Priory Campus, beating out Oak Park and River Forest High School and several others vying for the multi-acre parcel. By @writefelissa oakpark.com/2021/12/03/fen…
- Though she lived in Cicero, for many people Val Camilletti, 78, was the most recognized face in Oak Park. An institution and vibrant presence in the village for the past 50 years, she died on July 24, 2018 at the end of a two-year battle with breast... oakpark.com/News/Articles/…
