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Oak Park, Ill., is located in Cook County just west of the Chicago border. In 1837, Joseph Kettlestrings, a native of England, bought 172 acres of land in the area. The town became known as Oak Park in 1871 after first being called Oak Ridge, and the "Village of Oak Park" came into being in 1902. Its population in the 2003 census was 50,824. Famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright built his home in Oak Park in 1889, and many of his buildings still exist throughout the suburb. Oak Park is also the birthplace of writer Ernest Hemingway. Read more about Oak Park, IL
Oak Park, Ill., is located in Cook County just west of the Chicago border. In 1837, Joseph Kettlestrings, a native of England, bought 172 acres of land in the area. The town became known as Oak Park in 1871 after first being called Oak Ridge, and the "Village of Oak Park" came into being in 1902. Its population in the 2003 census was 50,824. Famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright built his home in Oak Park in 1889, and many of his buildings still exist throughout the suburb. Oak Park is also the birthplace of writer Ernest Hemingway. Read more about Oak Park, IL
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Dr. Patrick Staunton, 1928-2013
Patrick Staunton traveled from impoverished western Ireland in the early 1950s and rose to a leadership role in the treatment of the mentally ill in Illinois, always mindful of his boyhood as the son of a country doctor who treated patients, delivered...
Tags: Mental Health, Medical Specialization, Hospitals and Clinics, Colleges and Universities, Psychiatry
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Godspeed you, Father Greeley
Over my lifetime, I've become less and less of a fan of the Catholic Church. But I've always been a big fan of Andrew Greeley, the controversial Catholic priest who died last week at 85. I feel incredibly blessed to have known him since we met in 1981....Tags: Religion and Belief, Roman Catholicism, Christianity, Andrew Greeley, Oprah Winfrey
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Virginia K. Noren, 92
Virginia K. “Ginny” Noren, 92, of Hagerstown passed away Sunday, June 2, 2013, at Golden Living Center in Hagerstown after being in failing health for the past five months. Born Dec. 14, 1920, in Oak Park, Ill., she was the daughter of the...Tags: Religion and Belief, Roman Catholicism, Oswego, Christianity, Elmhurst
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The Rev. Andrew M. Greeley, outspoken Catholic priest, dies at 85
The Rev. Andrew M. Greeley, the irrepressible Roman Catholic priest whose broad talents drove him to prominence as a sociologist, novelist, newspaper columnist and voluble church critic, has died. He was 85. The controversial cleric died in his sleep...
Tags: Values, University of California, Berkeley, Christianity, Teachers, Heart Attack
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The Rev. Andrew M. Greeley dies at 85; outspoken Catholic priest
A self-described "loud-mouthed Irish priest" ("And may they carve it on my gravestone!" he once quipped), the Rev. Andrew M. Greeley rejected a conventional definition of his vocation. Denied a parish, the Roman Catholic priest created his own pulpits...
Tags: Values, University of California, Berkeley, Christianity, Arts and Culture, Heart Attack
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Health professionals split over allowing psychologists to prescribe drugs
Week in and week out for the last five years, Marlin Hoover has boarded a plane for New Mexico, where he sees patients Monday through Wednesday. Then, the psychologist flies home Thursday to treat patients at his southwest suburban office in Tinley Park....
Tags: Mental Health, Springfield, Pharmaceuticals, Illinois General Assembly, Psychiatry
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Learning center on tap for Austin Gardens
An environmental learning center and other improvements will be coming in 2015 to Austin Gardens in Oak Park, because of a $400,000 state grant that will fund half the cost. The Park District of Oak Park has received an Open Space Land Acquisition and...Tags: Arts and Culture, Austin (Chicago, Illinois)
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Oak Park student-actor wins musical theater award
When Oak Park and River Forest High School senior John Clay III goes to New York in late June as the male winner of the Illinois High School Musical Theater Award, he will have at least one friendly face to cheer him on. His girlfriend, Taylor Marie...
Tags: Schools, Water Tower Place, River Forest, Entertainment, Broadway Theater
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Back-door school subsidies
Oak Park's pricey homes, Frank Lloyd Wright architecture and array of shops and restaurants generate billions in property wealth, funneling a bounty of tax dollars to its elementary school district. That kind of local affluence usually means fewer...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Illinois Governor, Aurora, Justice System, Politics
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Oak Park composting program goes village-wide
One Oak Park resident reported not knowing how much food the family threw away until joining the village's pilot food-waste and soiled-paper collection that started last April. One woman said her family now throws out only one bag of garbage each month....Tags: Waste, Environmental Issues, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Waste Management Incorporated, Environmental Politics
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1 dead, 8 wounded in shootings across city
Tribune reportersA 36-year-old man was killed early Sunday morning and eight others wounded since Saturday afternoon in shootings from the Northwest Side to the Southeast Side. The man killed was shot about 6:05 a.m. in the 2500 block of West Division Street in the...Tags: Cynthia Soto, Humboldt Park, Shootings, Chicago Fire Department, Prosecution
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From Death March to Hell Ships
In 1991, Jan Thompson attended a reunion of World War II veterans who were prisoners of war in the Philippines. She accompanied her father, one of those veterans. "I was just dumbfounded at what I heard," she said. "I walked out saying, 'Why doesn't...
Tags: Maywood (Cook, Illinois), Movies, Kathleen Turner, Recipes, Philippines
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