Activities for all ages, outdoors and indoors, draw a crowd every year to the Park District of Oak Park’s annual Winter Fest.
Oak Park Winter Fest organizers hoping to ‘keep it cold’ for Feb. 8 event
Category: Parenting and Family
Heidi Stevens: We can’t go it alone despite America’s notion of rugged individualism
We’re living in a country where needing help is for losers and providing it is for suckers, writes Heidi Stevens.
Decisions on Oak Park’s new Field Center due Thursday
Oak Park residents have expressed concerns over the Field Center’s cost, the location of the center and its effects on traffic.
Big Brothers Big Sisters, NabrU team up to link mentors to youth in Dolton
NabrU teamed up with Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metropolitan Chicago for programs in Dolton and other south suburbs.
‘Mama Meagan’ uses childhood experiences with DCFS to help youth in need
Richton Park resident Meagan Sims is working on her doctorate degree at Governor State University and helping people along the way.
Heidi Stevens: Yes, 2025 is off to a heartbreaking start. And we can help heal it
We should resist the urge to wall ourselves off from what’s painful, and instead take improv’s “yes, and” approach, writes Heidi Stevens.
Teens are ‘showing up,’ helping out via growing Palos Leo Club
Teens who started the Palos Leo Club in Palos Heights are disproving the ‘bad rap’ that kids only want to be online.
Flossmoor woman helps fight loneliness by regifting holiday cheer
Flossmoor resident Jennifer Molski is helping stave off loneliness among older people by giving them regifted presents.
Duo from Andrew ‘making history,’ heading to D.C. to advocate for Unified Sports
Two Andrew High School athletes have been invited by Special Olympics to Lobby Day in Washington to promote Unified Sports programs.
Heidi Stevens: His wife told him to jump in the lake. More than 4 years later, he still is. ‘There’s just a lot of joy in jumping in the water’
In the summer of 2020, when a pandemic gripped the globe and civil unrest filled city streets and dread clouded the air like a low-hanging fog, Dan O’Conor would get up every morning, drive to a parking lot at Montrose Beach and stick a hand-scrawled sign inside his windshield: WENT TO JUMP IN THE LAKE. The sign was to keep his car from getting towed. The lake was to keep his sanity. Both …