Caitlin Mullen

Food waste is the current focus of a local network of green-minded congregations, and an upcoming workshop addresses the small changes that make a difference. The Interfaith Green Network’s food...

The developer behind a hard-to-miss building in the Oak Park Arts District has picked up another property in the area. Brand & Company, which owns the lime green Harrison +...

Oak Park artist Hai S. Lam, 48, has come a long way: Lam was born on the island of Phu Quoc, South Vietnam, fled with his family to a refugee...

An alumna of Trinity High School, Dr. Victoria Brander, 57, of River Forest is a co-founder and co-director of Operation Walk Chicago, which works globally to provide free hip and...

Longtime Oak Park resident Kevin O’Mara, 60, an associate professor of educational leadership at Concordia University Chicago, has been named to governor-elect J.B. Pritzker’s Educational Success Committee. O’Mara joins advocacy...

Kamau “Maui” Jones’ first exposure to “Free To Be … You and Me” was seeing Rosey Grier sing “It’s All Right to Cry.” It’s fitting, then, that Jones will perform...

Former Oak Park resident Marianna Crane, 76, who now lives in Raleigh, N.C., has written a memoir about her experience as a gerontological nurse practitioner working with elderly low-income patients...

Transformative proposals are being sought for the fourth annual The Big Idea contest. One of the program’s facilitators said current conversations around recent racist and anti-Semitic incidents in the community...