Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Forest Park, Oak Park and River Forest remind residents to avoid parking in snow routes so crews can clear the streets.
Oak Park School District 97 has canceled all afterschool activities because of the snow. Tonight's presentations about the International Baccalaureate program have also been postponed. Hephzibah will be offering emergency care until 4 p.m. to give the parents/guardians of students who are enrolled in its program time to pick up their children. OPRF High School will close at 4:30 p.m. All activities are canceled from 4:30 onward. Any activities immediately after school still will be held, which includes the following teams from 3:15 p.m. to 4:30: track, basketball, badminton, water polo and volleyball. Fenwick High School was closed March 5, and all activities are canceled. Trinity High School was also closed Tuesday. River Forest …
Friday, July 1, 2011
Public reminders from the villages before the holiday weekend.
From the Village of Oak Park... The overnight parking ban will not be enforced on most Oak Park residential streets over the July 4 holiday. Overnight restrictions will be lifted at 2:30 a.m., Sat., July 2, and resume at 2:30 a.m., Wed., July 6. However, restrictions will remain in effect in overnight permit areas, such as Village-owned lots, on-street enclaves and on-street overnight parking zones. All other parking regulations also remain in effect, including all daytime posted restrictions and regulations related to traffic and public safety. For more information call 708.386.3800 or e-mail police@oak-park.us. Refuse, recycling and yardwaste collection services will be delayed by the July 4th holiday. Monday’s regular pick-up and all …
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
After initial support from plan commission, vacant building's developers asked to meet more conditions.
There is no issue that can exasperate residents in Oak Park quite like parking. Spaces are a scarce commodity; restrictions are tough. Overnight on-street parking is virtually prohibited; residents who live in condos or apartments have to buy permits for village-owned lots or rent space in private lots. And almost every time a developer wants to have fewer parking spaces than are required by zoning, residents flock to plan commission meetings to complain that finding parking would become impossible in their neighborhood. The affordable housing project proposed for the long-vacant Comcast building was no exception — but could parking problems doom the entire project? In addition to wanting a slightly taller building at the site — and …
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Village Board could recoup funds for snow removal and considers a new flat fee structure for some building permits.
If you missed Tuesday's Oak Park Village Board meeting, Patch has some of the highlights: CDBG resolution tabled: A resolution to keep Community Development Block Grant funding at current levels through 2012 was tabled after two trustees asked the measure be tweaked to reflect the current economic reality in Washington. With two trustees and Village President David Pope absent – and concern looming that a deadlocked board could mean the defeat of the resolution – trustees sent it back to be updated with language that reflected the call for shared pain in resolving the federal fiscal crisis. Supporting the resolution in its original form were Trustees Ray Johnson and Colette Lueck; seeking changes were Trustees Jon Hale and John Hedges, …
Monday, February 14, 2011
Fees for extra on-street passes are on the way.
For folks who have used up their alloted five on-street overnight parking passes, there soon will be new places where you or your guests can park — for a fee. Officials are mulling a plan where residents can park in 15 designated surface lots around town for $5 a night. Here's how it would work: For three of the locations — outside Grace Episcopal Church, 920 Lake Street, the 1100 block of North Boulevard and the 1100 block of Marion Street — motorists will be able to pop $5 into existing payment machines for parking between 6 p.m. and 8 a.m. In the 12 other designated lots, drivers would have to purchase overnight parking vouchers in advance at Oak Park Village Hall. Most vouchers would be good from 8 a.m to 8 p.m. Those lots under …
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Friday, January 7, 2011
Rounding up the best in local news.
We can't be everywhere and neither can you. Our new "Week in Review" is designed to bring you up to speed on local news in Oak Park and River Forest. Here goes: 2011's first baby born in Oak Park: Welcome to the world, Gabriella Mary Agnes Bickham. (h/t Oak Leaves) Lido's leaves: Wednesday Journal reports the departure of Lido's Caffe. Apparently, it was a bumpy ride to keep the Marion Street coffee shop's doors open. A former Lido's employee promised Patch an interview "once the smoke clears," but later backpedaled, saying — like the Journal's article says — Lido's "cat ran out of lives." Huskies eliminated from holiday tourney: OPRF boys hoops team is bumped from the annual Pontiac Holiday Tournament by the sharp shooting of the …
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
New year, new increases for permits, garages.
Motorists in Oak Park may find themselves surprised to see parking rates on the rise. The increases, which took effect Saturday, were part of the village's 2011 budget and include rate hikes at three municipal garages and for residential parking permits. Together, the increases are expected to bring in an additional $250,000 in 2011. Quarterly parking permits will increase on average of $9 per quarter, said interim parking manager Cara Pavlicek. A list of permitted parking areas is available at the village's website and a PDF of the permit fee schedule is included as an accompaniment to this story. Rates at Oak Park's three downtown garages also will increase for those using the facilities for extended hours. Drivers looking to park …
Saturday, December 11, 2010
Snow season means rules are back in effect.
After last week's snowfall, and more expected on the way, village officials in Oak Park and River Forest are reminding residents about parking and snow removal regulations. In Oak Park, "snow emergencies" are declared by the public works department after two inches of snowfall are recorded, triggering a ban on parking on all main streets that are designated snow routes, officials said. Violators face a $100 fine, officials said. The snow routes include most of Oak Park's main thoroughfares: Augusta Boulevard, Austin Boulevard, Chicago Avenue, Division Street, Garfield Street, Harlem Avenue, Harrison Street, Jackson Boulevard, Lake Street, Madison Street, North Avenue, Oak Park Avenue, Ridgeland Avenue, Roosevelt Road and Wisconsin Avenue, …
Common sense urged for street parking in case of snow storms.
Here is a look at River Forest's parking regulations during and after a heavier snowfall: As with snowfall parking regulations in most towns, residents are expected to become armchair meteorologists, guessing the accumulation totals. But Phil Cotter, interim public works director in River Forest, said common sense carries the day. "I guess a lot of it is listening to the forecast. If the forecast calls for one or two inches, you might be OK," he said. "If it's calling for three to five inches, be aware, be more cognizant of it. It's a guideline that's generally used for when we engage in a very serious plowing effort. I've never heard of [police] issuing tickets after measuring with a ruler a two inch snowfall."
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Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Save your money for other things. Like holiday shopping.
Shoppers, rejoice. Parking in Oak Park's three village garages will be free on the weekends through the end of December. (OK, it's already free on Sundays and the only time parking will be free on a Friday is on "Black Friday," but still.) There are three village-owned parking garages in Oak Park: The Lake and Forest garage located at Lake Street and Forest Avenue, the Holley Court Garage at Marion and Ontario Streets and The Avenue Parking Garage at Oak Park Avenue and North Boulevard. Together, that's more than 2,000 parking spaces. Village officials are also lifting the overnight parking ban on most residential streets from 2:30 a.m. on Thanksgiving day through 2:30 a.m. Monday. Parking restrictions will stay in effect in overnight …
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John Mulu
9:55 am on Tuesday, December 20, 2011
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