Oak Park News

It's time to kick off summer again with a Memorial Day barbeque, maybe a little picnic and a special tribute to the men and women who serve and have served our country.

An Oak Park man has been charged with aggravated battery for attacking a passer-by in downtown Naperville around 2:30 a.m. Sunday morning after the victim made a remark about a passenger in the man's car urinating on a nearby building, the Daily Herald reports .

Michael D. Cruze, 54, is wanted on a theft charge. Bail was set at $10,000. His last known address was in the 500 block of North Forest Avenue in River Forest.

Tom and Susan Wilkens of Forest Park are living proof of the benefits of yoga. They run the Dancing Cranes Yoga & Massage studio on Madison Street and have been longtime instructors at other places in the area.

The annual Memorial Day ceremony will start at 9 a.m. Monday, May 27, in Scoville Park, Lake Street and Oak Park Avenue.

The following incidents were listed among the official reports of the Oak Park Police Department.

As the temperature rises, the number of bike thefts in the area tends to as well.

THURSDAY, MAY 16 Heroin Arrest Whitney O. Westbrooks, 23, of the 2700 block of Cherie Lane in Ottawa, was charged with possession of a controlled substance.

The Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust's House Walk was Saturday, May 18, and this week we'll be featuring one of the homes each day.

April 28: Marcus Conner, 39, of the 2000 block of Wheatfield, Romeoville, was charged at 12:11 a.m. with DUI while driving his 2005 Chevrolet on Clarendon Hills Road at southbound I-55, police said.

The village governments in Forest Park, Oak Park and River Forest have sent notices to residents recently to inform them that federal aid could be available for victims of the April flooding.

For architecture buffs in Chicago and around the world, the phrase "houses in Oak Park" conjures up one name and one name only: Frank Lloyd Wright.

LA GRANGE Prescription drug dust-up A woman caused a disturbance at Walgreens, 2 N. La Grange Road, around 1:58 p.m. after her insurance declined to cover a prescription she was picking up for her mother, police said.

That's because they haven't decided exactly how to spend the $25,000 check they received recently in Nicor Gas's first Community Challenge.

They were among 25 students at Lincoln Elementary School who helped plant a bald cypress at the school on Monday, May 13.

SUNDAY, MAY 12 Drunk Minor Resists Arrest Ian R. Sutherland, 18, of Oak Park, was charged with resisting arrest and underage consumption and possession of alcohol by a minor after police stopped him at 1:11 a.m. in River Forest.

Bring a blanket and a picnic lunch and enjoy the beautiful spring flowers during the free Happy Birthday Cheney Mansion celebration, 1 to 3 p.m. Sunday, May 19 at 220 N. Euclid, Oak Park.

The Park District of Oak Park has been awarded a $400,000 matching grant to develop an Environmental Learning Center and other improvements at Austin Gardens .

Sometimes a business idea comes organically. That's the case with Three Queens Organic , a new art gallery in the Oak Park Arts District, which grew out of two far-away happenings: a love for art developed in Europe, and a discovery of maple trees on a farm in Wisconsin.

There's been a few new businesses blooming in the Oak Park Arts District lately, and this weekend you can enjoy the district at the "What's Blooming" festival.