Caitlin Mullen

Oak Parker Eric Elshtain, 51, is the Field Museum’s first poet-in-residence. From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. each Wednesday, Elshtain sets up his desk and typewriter in a different location...

Bruce Jones, 51, who grew up in Oak Park, has traveled to 50 countries. Wanting to help other people travel abroad and experience other cultures, he founded the International TEFL...

An initiative to educate and inspire young people to advocate for sustainability was this year’s winner of The Big Idea contest. This was the fourth year for The Big Idea,...

Thirteen year old Autumn Ewing, an eighth-grade student at St. Catherine of Siena-St. Lucy School in Oak Park, was recently honored with this year’s outstanding individual student award at the...

Oak Park and River Forest High School English teacher Liz Farrow, 35, of Chicago is a finalist for the Golden Apple Award for Excellence in Teaching. After being notified of...

A shopping event this weekend is designed to celebrate the abundance of female-owned businesses in the Oak Park Arts District. In honor of March being Women’s History Month, WOW —...

Steve Saunders, a long-time River Forest resident who recently moved to Oak Park, has retired from the architecture firm he co-founded, Eckenhoff Saunders Architects. Saunders, 69, who recently published a...

A love of “Grey’s Anatomy” and a fascination with heart surgery led Fenwick High School student Xonhane Medina, 17, to look for summer internship opportunities last year. She was accepted...

Amid 3,300 entries, Oak Park resident Natalie Serratos, 16, took first place in the media arts category of the 2018 Walgreens Expressions Challenge for her short film, “Voices,” which portrays...