Wednesday Journal

The following property transfers were reported by the Cook County Clerk  from May 2026. Where addresses appear incomplete, for instance where a unit number appears missing, that information was not provided by the clerk.

The post Prope...

Frank Lloyd Wright designed Nathan Moore’s first house in 1895, and like a lot of Wright stories, there was a bit of drama in the home’s early history.

At first, Wright was going to redesign the Victorian home on the corner of Oak Park’s Forest Avenue and Superior Street, but that plan was jettisoned and that original house moved off the lot. Moore instead tasked W...

The tentative budget for the 2027 fiscal year, ending June 30, 2027, that was unveiled at the Aug. 6 meeting of the Oak Park and River Forest High School District 200 Board of Education projects an operating surplus of a little more than $900,000 but when all funds, including capital expenditures for construction are taken into account, a total net deficit of nearly $7.5 mil...

Complaints continue to trickle in regarding the former IHOP restaurant at 6501 W. North Ave, which has been vacant since closing in 2016. Since that closure, residents have complained of rodents, debris, illegal garbage dumping, and more.

Records from the Village of Oak Park’s Permit Search indicate active ownership, but show no present records for building or dem...

As the legal battle over control of West Suburban Hospital continues its trudge through Cook County Chancery court, the case has been referenced in another Chancery court lawsuit involving the hospital’s River Forest medical campus on Lake Street.

The holder of that property’s $22 million mortgage, Computershare Trust Company, has asked a judge to appoint a receiv...