Paul Collins has coached the OPRF wrestling program – ten as an assistant, followed by ten as the varsity head coach.

River Forest officials voted at the July 14 village board meeting to ban gas-powered leaf blowers but will phase in the ...

An OPRF teacher who was the subject of an investigation into allegedly touching a female student inappropriately has been terminated.

When Ann Farrell finds a flavor she likes, it becomes more than food. She sees it as treating herself to something that makes ...

Both Heather Nelson and Sophie Schauer Eldred have lived in Oak Park. And now, in just six weeks, they are planning to open a ...

West Suburban Medical Center abruptly and indefinitely shuttered its labor and delivery, postpartum and nursery units on July 3 ...

Dr. Tyra Manning, 78, died on July 6, 2025 following an 18-year battle with cancer. A lifelong educator, author, adventurer ...

First reading of gender care ordinance follows calls for more support for transgender people, task force may help develop final version ...

Tyra Manning was a consequential superintendent for River Forest’s public elementary schools. She led the schools from 1992 to 2000 and, in our view, brought a modern and more ambitious vision of what ...

We are unclear when or how the prevailing view changed at River Forest’s village hall when it comes to responding to the April 1 referendum vote in favor of imposing term limits on future village ...

I’m willing to bet everyone reading this knows a giver, a taker, and a matcher, even if you’ve never heard those terms before. Coined by organizational psychologist Adam Grant, these reciprocity ...

Re: “Senate embarks on long day of votes on Trump’s big bill,” Chicago Tribune, July 1, 2025 I never thought I would agree with Elon Musk after he single-handedly demolished most of the infrastructure ...