Oak Park, Illinois

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Oak Park, Illinois

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Coordinates: 41°53′18″N 87°47′22″W﻿ / ﻿41.88833°N 87.78944°W﻿ / 41.88833; -87.78944
Country| United States
State| Illinois
County| Cook
Township| Oak Park
Settled| 1835
Incorporated (village)| 1902
Government

• Type| Oak Park Board of Trustees
Area

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• Total

| 4.70 sq mi (12.17 km2)
• Land| 4.70 sq mi (12.17 km2)
• Water| 0.00 sq mi (0.00 km2)
Elevation

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| 620 ft (190 m)
Population

(2020)

• Total

| 51,282[1]
• Density| 11,613.40/sq mi (4,484.14/km2)
Demonym| Oak Parker
Time zone| UTC−6 (CST)
• Summer (DST)| UTC−5 (CDT)
ZIP code(s)|

60301 to 60304

Area code| 708
FIPS code| 17-54885
Website| www.oak-park.us

Oak Park is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States, adjacent to Chicago. It is the 26th-most populous municipality in Illinois, with a population of 54,318 as of the 2020 census.[4][5] Oak Park was first settled in 1835 and later incorporated in 1902, when it separated from Cicero.[6] It is closely tied to the smaller town of River Forest sharing a chamber of commerce and a high school, Oak Park and River Forest High School.

Architect Frank Lloyd Wright and his wife settled in Oak Park in 1889, and his work heavily influenced local architecture and design, including the Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio.[7] Over the years, rapid development was spurred by railroads and streetcars connecting the village to jobs in nearby Chicago. In 1968, Oak Park passed the Open Housing Ordinance, which helped devise strategies to integrate the village rather than resegregate.[8]

Today, Oak Park remains ethnically diverse and socially liberal, with 80% or higher voter turnout in every presidential election since 2000.[9] Oak Park has several public transportation links to Chicago with Chicago Transit Authority access via the Green Line and Blue Line "L" train lines, as well as the Metra Union Pacific West Line Oak Park station downtown.

## History

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In 1835, Joseph and Betty Kettlestrings, immigrants from Yorkshire, England, staked out a farm and built a house near Lake Street and Harlem Avenue, west of Chicago. Once their children were born, they moved to Chicago for the schools in 1843, and moved back again in 1855 to build a more substantial home a bit east on their quarter section of land. More farmers and settlers had entered the area. Their land was called by several names locally, including Oak Ridge, Harlem, and Kettlestrings Grove. When the first post office was set up, it could not use the name Oak Ridge, as another post office was using that name in Illinois, so the post office chose Oak Park, and that name became the name for the settlement as it grew, and for the town when it incorporated in 1902.[10]

By 1850, the Galena and Chicago Union Railroad (after that, the Chicago & Northwestern and now Union Pacific) was constructed as far as Elgin, Illinois, and passed through the settlement area.[11] In the 1850s the land on which Oak Park sits was part of the new Chicago suburb, the town of Cicero. The population of the area boomed during the 1870s, with Chicago residents resettling in Cicero following the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 and the expansion of railroads and streetcars to the area. "In 1872, when Oak Park received its own railroad depot on the Chicago and Northwestern Railway, its rapid emergence as a residential suburb of Chicago began. In 1877, the railroad was running thirty-nine trains daily between Oak Park and Chicago; in the subsequent year, more railroads and streetcar lines, with increased service, came to link Oak Park and Chicago. As Chicago grew from a regional center to a national metropolis Oak Park expanded – from 500 residents in 1872 to 1,812 in 1890, to 9,353 in 1900, to 20,911 in 1910, to 39,585 in 1920. Oak Park thus emerged as a leading Chicago suburb."[12]

A review of Oak Park's history by Wiss, Janny, Elstner Associates in 2006 further explains the importance of railroads and streetcars in the development of Oak Park:

> As suburban residential development continued in the 1880s and 1890s, streetcars and elevated trains supplemented the original main line steam railroads to connect Oak Park commuters to jobs in downtown Chicago. One of the first streetcar lines was the Chicago, Harlem, & Batavia "dummy" line, which ran approximately along the present-day route of the Eisenhower Expressway. The "dummy" trains used a miniature steam locomotive with a false cladding designed to conceal most of the moving parts and avoid startling horses. This line first began operation in 1881, but did not provide direct commuter service to downtown Chicago until June 1888. A more extensive streetcar network throughout Oak Park was opened in 1890. In the future village of Oak Park, this system ran east-west on Madison Street and Lake Street, with a north-south connection on Harlem Avenue. Streetcar service was discontinued in 1947, to be replaced by buses. The Lake Street Elevated Railroad (today's CTA Green Line) was extended into Oak Park in 1899–1901, although the trains ran at ground level until the 1960s. The Metropolitan West Side Elevated Railroad (today's CTA Blue Line) was extended into Oak Park in 1905, providing local service over tracks originally placed by the Chicago Aurora & Elgin electric interurban train. The "Met" line moved onto new tracks along the Congress (Eisenhower) Expressway in 1958.[13]

The Village of Oak Park was formally established in 1902, disengaging from Cicero following a referendum. According to the local historical society, "The period 1892–1950 saw the construction of almost all of the housing stock in Oak Park, and most of the village's current buildings."[10] The village population grew quickly, and "by 1930, the village had a population of 64,000, even larger than the current population,"[10] while cherishing a reputation as the "World's Largest Village".[10] Chicago grew rapidly in the 19th century, recording 4,470 residents in the 1840 census, reaching 1,099,850 in 1890, and 1,698,575 in 1900. Chicago surpassed Philadelphia to be the second-largest US city, and in that year, the fifth-largest in the world. Chicago's location on the shores of Lake Michigan was good for transport; after the fire of 1871, Chicago rebuilt its center. Oak Park grew along with its neighbor to the east, having location and railroad and streetcar connections in its favor.

Ernest Hemingway in Oak Park, 1919

After World War II, Oak Park was affected by larger developmental trends in the Chicago Metropolitan area. The construction of the Eisenhower Expressway cut through the southern portion of the Village in the mid-1950s. Starting in the 1960s and 1970s, Oak Park has made a conscious effort to accommodate changing demographics and social pressures while maintaining the suburban character that has long made the Village a desirable residential location.[13] Beginning in the 1960s, Oak Park faced the issue of racial integration with effective programs to maintain the character and stability of the Village, while encouraging integration on racial basis. This included passage of The Open Housing Ordinance in 1968 which has helped maintain the ethnically diverse population seen in the village still today.[14]

Oak Park has a history of alcohol prohibition. When the village was incorporated, no alcohol was allowed to be sold within its village limits. This law was relaxed in 1973, when restaurants and hotels were allowed to serve alcohol with meals, and was further loosened in 2002, when select grocery stores received governmental permission to sell packaged liquor. Today, alcohol, such as beer and wine, is easily accessible, with many bars and cocktail lounges around the village.[15]

The business entrance of Frank Lloyd Wright's Home and Studio in Oak Park

In 1889, Frank Lloyd Wright and his wife settled in Oak Park. He built many homes and the Unity Temple, his own church, in the village, before he left in 1911 to settle in Wisconsin. Oak Park attracts architecture buffs and others to view the many Wright-designed homes found in the village, alongside homes reflecting other architectural styles. The largest collection of Wright-designed residential properties in the world is in Oak Park.[16] A distinct focus on historic preservation of important architectural styles began in the 1970s and continues, with many buildings marked as historically significant, and so far, three historic districts defined. Other attractions include Ernest Hemingway's birthplace home and his boyhood home, the Ernest Hemingway Museum, the three Oak Park homes of writer and Tarzan creator Edgar Rice Burroughs, Wright's Unity Temple, Pleasant Home, and the Oak Park-River Forest Historical Society.

## Geography

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Oak Park is located immediately west of the city of Chicago.[17] The boundary between the two municipalities is Austin Boulevard on the east side of Oak Park and North Avenue/Illinois Route 64 on the village's north side. Oak Park borders Cicero along its southern border, Roosevelt Road/Illinois Route 38, from Austin to Lombard; and Berwyn from Lombard to Harlem Avenue. Harlem/Illinois Route 43 serves as its western border, where between Roosevelt and South Boulevard, it borders Forest Park and between North Boulevard and North Avenue to the west it borders River Forest.

The entire village of Oak Park lies on the shore of ancient Lake Chicago, which covered most of the city of Chicago during the last Ice Age, and was the forerunner to today's Lake Michigan. Ridgeland Avenue in eastern Oak Park marks the shoreline of the lake, and was once an actual ridge. As with the geographical setup of the Chicago River, which connects to the present day Lake Michigan just north of the city's Loop, the ancient Des Plaines river once emptied into glacial Lake Chicago, making prehistoric Oak Park a "Plains river Delta" system. One of North America's four continental divides runs through Oak Park. This divide, a slight rise running north–south through the village, separates the Saint Lawrence River watershed from the Mississippi River watershed, and is marked by one plaque on Lake Street at Forest Avenue and another in the northwest corner of Taylor Park.

According to the 2010 census, Oak Park has a total area of 4.7 sq mi (12.17 km2), all land.[18]

### Points of interest

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* Birthplace of Ernest Hemingway
* Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio
* Unity Temple, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright
* Frank Lloyd Wright–Prairie School of Architecture Historic District
* Ridgeland–Oak Park Historic District
* Edgar Rice Burroughs homes
* Oak Park Conservatory

### Architecture and historic districts

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Frank Lloyd Wright's 1902 Arthur Heurtley House on Forest Avenue

Frank Lloyd Wright spent the first 20 years of his 70-year career in Oak Park, building numerous homes in the community, including his own and the Walter Gale House. He lived and worked in the area between 1889 and 1909. One can find Wright's earliest work here, such as the Winslow House in neighboring River Forest, Illinois. Also, examples of the first prairie-style houses are in Oak Park. He also designed Unity Temple, a Unitarian-Universalist church, which was built between 1905 and 1908. Several well-known architects and artists worked in Wright's Oak Park Studio, including Richard Bock, William Eugene Drummond, Marion Mahony Griffin, and Walter Burley Griffin.

Many buildings in Oak Park were built by other Prairie School architects, such as George W. Maher, John Van Bergen, and E.E. Roberts.[19]

Oak Park's housing stock reflects the decades of its rapid growth while it was part of the town of Cicero, and since 1902, when it became a village. Historic preservation has been a priority since an ordinance passed in 1972 and since revised.[20][21] There are 2,400 historic sites in Oak Park, the majority of which are homes built in the Queen Anne, Prairie School and Craftsman styles of architecture.[22] The Village of Oak Park displays these online on an interactive website.[23] Three historic districts recognize the variety of styles often standing next door to each other. The three districts are Frank Lloyd Wright, Ridgeland-Oak Park, and Seward Gunderson,[24] outlined on a map from the village.[25] A fourth district is under consideration as of 2015, of 176 homes built by Thomas Henry Hulbert.[22][26]

Ernest Hemingway spent the first six years of his life at 339 N. Oak Park Ave. The house was returned to its original 1890s Victorian heritage after restoration in 1992 and is open to the public for tours through The Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park.[27]

The Art Deco-style main post office on Lake Street was designed by White and Weber in 1933. It is part of the Ridgeland-Oak Park Historic District.[28]

## Demographics

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Historical population Census| Pop.| Note| %±

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1910| 19,444| | —
1920| 39,858| | 105.0%
1930| 63,982| | 60.5%
1940| 66,015| | 3.2%
1950| 63,529| | −3.8%
1960| 61,093| | −3.8%
1970| 62,511| | 2.3%
1980| 54,887| | −12.2%
1990| 53,648| | −2.3%
2000| 52,524| | −2.1%
2010| 51,878| | −1.2%
2020| 54,583| | 5.2%
U.S. Decennial Census[29]
2010[30] 2020[31]

As of the 2020 census[32] there were 54,583 people, 21,701 households, and 12,774 families residing in the village. The population density was 11,613.40 inhabitants per square mile (4,483.96/km2). There were 25,953 housing units at an average density of 5,521.91 per square mile (2,132.02/km2). The racial makeup of the village was 60.18% White, 18.69% African American, 0.05% Native American, 5.39% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 0.52% from other races, and 5.84% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 9.31% of the population.

There were 21,701 households, out of which 30.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 45.56% were married couples living together, 9.89% had a female householder with no husband present, and 41.14% were non-families. 35.33% of all households were made up of individuals, and 13.35% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.14 and the average family size was 2.38.

The village's age distribution consisted of 23.8% under the age of 18, 6.1% from 18 to 24, 27% from 25 to 44, 27.5% from 45 to 64, and 15.7% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 40.6 years. For every 100 females, there were 87.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 83.5 males.

The median income for a household in the village was $96,945, and the median income for a family was $142,785. Males had a median income of $79,284 versus $54,639 for females. The per capita income for the village was $58,262. About 3.3% of families and 7.0% of the population were below the poverty line, including 3.7% of those under age 18 and 8.7% of those age 65 or over.

Oak Park village, Illinois – Racial and ethnic composition
Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos may be of any race. Race / Ethnicity (NH = Non-Hispanic) | Pop 2000[33] | Pop 2010[30] | Pop 2020[31] | % 2000  | % 2010  | % 2020

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White alone (NH)  | 34,767  | 33,076  | 32,846  | 66.19%  | 63.76%  | 60.18%
Black or African American alone (NH)  | 11,685  | 11,023  | 10,200  | 22.25%  | 21.25%  | 18.69%
Native American or Alaska Native alone (NH)  | 61  | 65  | 29  | 0.12%  | 0.13%  | 0.05%
Asian alone (NH)  | 2,171  | 2,474  | 2,944  | 4.13%  | 4.77%  | 5.39%
Pacific Islander alone (NH)  | 16  | 15  | 12  | 0.03%  | 0.03%  | 0.02%
Other race alone (NH)  | 185  | 178  | 285  | 0.35%  | 0.34%  | 0.52%
Mixed race or Multiracial (NH)  | 1,265  | 1,526  | 3,187  | 2.41%  | 2.94%  | 5.84%
Hispanic or Latino (any race)  | 2,374  | 3,521  | 5,080  | 4.52%  | 6.79%  | 9.31%
Total | 52,524 | 51,878 | 54,583 | 100.00% | 100.00% | 100.00%
Unity Temple, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1905 and finished in 1908, is part of The 20th-Century Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright, a World Heritage Site.

In the 1960s, Oak Park residents began a concerted effort to avoid the destructive racial housing practices occurring in nearby communities. Racial steering and block-by-block panic peddling caused rapid racial change on Chicago's west side, including the Austin Community Area adjacent to Oak Park. Whites left west-side neighborhoods based on concerns of property value losses and crime increases, and some businesses left, as well. The Village of Oak Park passed a fair housing ordinance in 1968 (in the same year as the federal Fair Housing Act) to ensure equal access to housing in the community. In 1972, the Oak Park Housing Center was founded by Roberta "Bobbie" Raymond to promote integration in the community, by ensuring equal access and discouraging white flight.[34][35] Part of this effort included banning "for sale" signs on houses. Although this law became unconstitutional with the decision in Linmark Associates, Inc. v. Township of Willingboro, use of the signs is still strongly discouraged by local realtors.[36]

An evaluation of the policy in Oak Park to promote integration, written in the early years of the 21st century, noted the gradual increase in the share of village population that is Black, at 22% in 2000, and further observed:

> As late as 2000, there were no resegregated census tracts, with tracts ranging from 7% black to 36% black ... this was not because the pattern of rapid westward resegregation had run its course, because events in neighboring suburbs showed that segregation trends were still operating. Instead, the pattern in a sense leaped over Oak Park to other suburbs farther west, including Bellwood and Maywood, which resegregated in a relatively short time.[37]

## Arts and culture

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See also: Bellissima Opera

Oak Park has an active arts community, resulting in part from its favorable location adjacent to Chicago (7 miles (11 km) west of the "Loop") as well as the village's connections to international figures in the visual, literary, and performing arts such as Ernest Hemingway, Frank Lloyd Wright, Betty White, and Tymoteusz Karpowicz. This tradition continues into the present, as Oak Park is home to numerous theater, music, dance, and fine-arts professionals. The arts district on Harrison Street, bounded by Austin Avenue to the east and Ridgeland Avenue to the west, features boutique galleries, shops, and restaurants.

Oak Park is home to several professional dance and theatre companies, including Circle Theatre, Oak Park Festival Theatre, Laurel Theater, and Momenta resident dance company of The Academy of Movement and Music. Oak Park, with neighboring River Forest, also plays host to the Symphony of Oak Park and River Forest, which celebrated its 75th anniversary in 2009.

Oak Park is also home to WEUR, broadcasting from the former Oak Park Arms Hotel at 1490 AM since 1950. Formerly WPNA and run by the Polish National Alliance, the station's programming serves the diverse linguistic and cultural communities in the Chicago metropolitan area (in the late-1960s, WPNA had the only "underground" disc jockey in Chicago, Scorpio). The Oak Park Art League (OPAL), a nonprofit visual arts center founded after World War I (renamed in 1970), provides classes, workshops, lectures, demonstrations, and exhibitions.[38] Since 1921, OPAL has been providing opportunities for arts engagement and cultural enrichment. Over 4,500 artists participate in OPAL's events each year.

Oak Park has been home to numerous festivals and holiday observances. The July 4 celebration featuring fireworks draws thousands to the Oak Park-River Forest High School football stadium. A Day in Our Village, held in June, allows local groups to set up tables to seek members.

## Government

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### Village

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Since 1951, Oak Park has been organized under the council-manager form of municipal government. The village government includes an elected president and an elected village board, which hires a village manager to conduct the day-to-day affairs of the administration. Oak Park also has five additional governments which levy real estate taxes. These include the Oak Park Township, the high school district (which also levies from adjacent River Forest), the elementary school district, the library district, and the Oak Park Park District.

The United States Postal Service operates the main Oak Park Post Office at 901 Lake Street and the Oak Park South Post Office at 1116 Garfield Street.

### Elections

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Oak Park's village board, village president, and other elected officials are elected through a two-stage election process. A primary election is used to nominate party candidates, and a general election is used to elect government officials. Oak Park's election turnout varies greatly depending on whether it is a municipal or national election. In the 2012 presidential election, Oak Park had the highest voter turnout in suburban Cook County; 79.8% of registered voters cast a ballot.[39] Municipal elections for the board of trustees and village clerk generally have much lower voter turnout, averaging around 20% and are held in spring, consistent with state law. The municipal elections are considered nonpartisan, as the national political parties do not put up the candidates. Candidates step forward, or are found by a citizens group that works to find people to have new candidates for each election cycle, encourage participation in local issues.

### Schools

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Oak Park Public Library

The public primary schools (Lincoln, Mann, Longfellow, Beye, Irving, Holmes, Whittier, and Hatch) and the middle schools, Percy Julian Middle School (formerly Nathaniel Hawthorne) and Gwendolyn Brooks Middle School (formerly Ralph Waldo Emerson) are operated by Oak Park Elementary School District 97.[40] These ten schools serve the entire city limits.[41] There are also multiple private schools.

Performance ratings for schools in Oak Park (as evaluated by standardized statewide tests) are released periodically, known as the school report cards.[42]

The renaming of the junior high schools, now middle schools, after prominent African-Americans rather than famous American literary figures was done in part to motivate minority students in their educational pursuits. A gap in school performance, referred to as "this intolerable and persistent inequity,"[43] remains, as of the date of the report.[44]

Oak Park is the home of two high schools: Oak Park and River Forest High School, the sole school in educational District 200, which also serves the entire city,[41] and Fenwick High School. Oak Park and River Forest High School is a public school with its district including both Oak Park and neighboring River Forest, and Fenwick High School is a Catholic college preparatory school run by the Dominicans, affiliated with the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago. Both high schools have a long history of high academic standards. Oak Park and River Forest High School bestows the Tradition of Excellence Award to distinguished alumni, including Ernest Hemingway, Ray Kroc, Dan Castellaneta, football Hall-of-Famer George Trafton, actress Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, astronomer Chad Trujillo, geochemist Wally Broecker, and environmental leader Phil Radford. Oak Park and River Forest High School is one of seven secondary educational institutions in Illinois with the ability to induct students into the Cum Laude Society.

### Park District

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The Park District of Oak Park was first organized in 1912 as the Recreation Department of the Village of Oak Park. Under the direction of Josephine Blackstock and her successor, Lilly Ruth Hanson, it embarked on a vigorous program of recreation for villagers. The playgrounds were named by Blackstock after famous children's writers.

In the late 1980s, the Recreation Department was dissolved, and the Park District of Oak Park was created as a separate tax-levying body. It comprises thirteen parks scattered throughout the village, for a total of 80 acres (320,000 m2) of parkland, a historic house available for functions with payment of fees, the Oak Park Conservatory, and two outdoor pools. The Park District also provides dog exercise areas where dog owners may bring their pets with payment of fees. A second outdoor pool, an official-sized ice rink, a green roof and synthetic-turfed playing fields are at Ridgeland Common at the corner of Lake Street and Ridgeland Avenue, originally built in 1962. It was completely renovated from March 2013 to June 14, 2014.[45][46]

### Public library

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Founded as a public library in 1903, after electing its first board of trustees, the Oak Park Public Library has a rich and celebrated history. The library has a main campus overlooking Scoville Park at the corner of Oak Park Avenue and Lake Street, and two branches, the Dole Branch Library (at Dole Community Center) and the Maze Branch Library.[47] As a member of the SWAN library consortium, the Oak Park Public Library offers its cardholders access to nearly 8 million items.

### Public Safety

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#### Fire

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Providing fire protection and emergency medical services, the Oak Park Fire Department currently operates from three fire stations, located throughout the village, Fire Station #1 (headquarters), Fire Station #2 (north), and Fire Station #3 (south) under the command of a battalion chief per shift. The Oak Park Fire Department operates three ALS engines, one ALS truck, three ALS ambulances, one ALS paramedic squad, one command unit, and several specialized MABAS divisional apparatus.[48]

Fire station locations and apparatus

Engine company  | Truck company  | Ambulance  | Special unit  | Command unit  | Address

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| Truck 631 | Ambulances 612–614 | 618 (pick-up truck), Squad 611, the MABAS Division 11 T.R.T. Unit and MABAS Division 11 Hazmat Unit 1100 | Command Unit 620 (battalion chief) | 100 N. Euclid Ave.
Engine 602 |  |  |  |  | 212 Augusta St.
Engines 603 and 604 |  |  | MABAS Division 11 Air Support Unit |  | 900 S. East Ave.

#### Police and Crime

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The village is protected by the Oak Park Police Department employing roughly 118 officers, with 23 sworn officers per 10,000 residents.[49]

In 2019, Oak Park's reported violent crime rate per 100,000 residents was 298, 28% lower than that of Illinois as a whole. The reported property crime rate, at 3,047, was 50% higher.[50][51] In 2020 the village experienced a ten percent increase in reported crimes, including more thefts, robberies, and aggravated assaults/batteries, but fewer burglaries, compared to 2019.[52]

## Transportation

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Harlem/Lake station on the Chicago 'L' Green Line

### Public transit

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Oak Park is accessible from Chicago by service on the Green Line and the Blue Line at five CTA stations in Oak Park. Oak Park also has a station for Metra's Union Pacific West Line. Bus transit service within Oak Park and to other suburbs is also provided by the CTA and Pace.

### Streets, addresses, and expressways

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The Eisenhower Expressway is the primary expressway between Chicago and Oak Park. The highway also provides connections to O'Hare International Airport. Major east–west streets in Oak Park continue east into Chicago.

The streets are laid out in a grid pattern, occasionally with local streets ending in a cul-de-sac to maintain local character. Oak Park has its own street-numbering system that begins, for east–west streets, at Austin Boulevard (no east or west designation), and for north–south streets, at the elevated train tracks located just south of Lake Street, which divides the numbers, getting larger going north or south from there, and requiring north or south designation on addresses. The border streets do not follow the Oak Park numbering system; rather, they match the address system with the cities sharing those border streets. For example, addresses on Austin Boulevard match the Chicago system, with the zero line at Madison Street, and along North Avenue, addresses match the Chicago system, with Austin Boulevard at 6000 W and Harlem at 7200 W. Additionally, Elizabeth Court, located within the Frank Lloyd Wright Historic District, maintains its original numbering. The houses on that cul-de-sac start at 1 and go up to 12.

931 Lake Street looking eastward. Calvary Memorial Church is featured on the right.

### Bicycles

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Augusta Boulevard through the village is part of the Grand Illinois Trail; the trailhead of the Illinois Prairie Path is less than 1-mile (1.6 km) from Oak Park. With several cycle clubs and groups, Oak Park is considered a bicycle-friendly community, and the tree-lined streets of the community, as well as its proximity to trails in nearby communities, attract cyclists to Oak Park, easily accessed by the Green Line, Blue Line, or Metra. Bicycle lanes are marked on many streets throughout Oak Park, although not many segregated cycle facilities have been put in place.

Divvy bike sharing, which serves the city of Chicago, came to Oak Park in 2016.[53] Oak Park's Village Board cancelled the Divvy program in 2017, after the program was determined not to be cost-effective.[54]

## Notable people

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Main article: List of people from Oak Park, Illinois

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## External links

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Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Oak Park.

* Village of Oak Park official website
* Visit Oak Park – Official Tourism Site for Oak Park and Western Cook County Illinois
* Oak Park – River Forest Chamber of Commerce
* Oak Park Public Library

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Oak Park, Illinois

Education|

* Oak Park Public Library
* Oak Park Elementary School District
* Oak Park and River Forest High School
* Fenwick High School

Attractions|

* Frank Lloyd Wright–Prairie School of Architecture Historic District
* Oscar B. Balch House
* Peter A. Beachy House
* Edwin H. Cheney House
* William H. Copeland House
* George Furbeck House
* Thomas H. Gale House
* Laura Gale House
* Edward R. Hills House
* Nathan G. Moore House
* Robert P. Parker House
* Charles E. Roberts Stable
* Rollin Furbeck House
* Francis J. Woolley House
* Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio
* Harrison P. Young House
* Unity Temple
* Birthplace of Ernest Hemingway
* Edgar Rice Burroughs homes
* Medical Arts Building
* Oak Park Conservatory
* Pleasant Home
* George W. Smith House
* Scoville Square
* Seward Gunderson Historic District
* Horse Show Fountain
* Oak Park Arms
* Suburban Trust and Savings Bank Building
* Walter Gale House
* Arthur Heurtley House

Transportation|

* Oak Park Metra station
* Green Line (CTA)
* Blue Line (CTA)
* Pace

Media|

* Oak Park Journal
* Oak Leaves
* Wednesday Journal
* WEUR

Culture and society|

* Oak Park Festival Theatre
* Prominent people from Oak Park

Township|

* Oak Park Township

* v
* t
* e

Frank Lloyd Wright

List of works

Personal homes|

* Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio
* Taliesin
* Taliesin West

Private houses|

* Adams, M.
* Adams, W. and J.
* Adelman
* Affleck
* Allen–Lambe
* Alsop
* Arnold
* Bach
* Bachman–Wilson
* Baird
* Baker
* Balch
* Baldwin
* Barton
* Bazett
* Beachy
* Becker
* Blair
* Blossom
* Bogk
* Boulter
* Boynton
* Bradley
* Brandes
* Broad Margin
* Brown, C. A.
* Brown, E. and M. A.
* Buehler
* Bulbulian
* Charnley–Norwood
* Charnley–Persky
* Cheney
* Christie
* Cooke
* Coonley
* Copeland
* Crimson Beech
* Dana–Thomas
* Davidson
* Davis
* DeRhodes
* Dobkins
* Ennis
* Fabyan
* Fallingwater
* Fawcett
* Foster
* Fountainhead
* Freeman
* Fredrick
* Fricke
* Friedman
* Fukuhara
* G. Furbeck
* R. Furbeck
* Gale, L.
* Gale, T.
* Gale, W.
* Gerts
* Gilmore
* Gillin
* Glasner
* Goetsch–Winckler
* Gordon
* Grant
* Graycliff
* Gridley
* Hanna–Honeycomb
* Hardy
* Haynes
* Heath
* Heller
* Henderson
* Heurtley
* Hickox
* Hills
* Hoffman
* Hollyhock
* Jacobs I
* Jacobs II
* Johnson
* Jones
* Kalil
* Keland
* Kentuck Knob
* Keys
* Kinney
* Kraus
* Lamberson
* Lamp
* Laurent
* Levin
* Lewis, G.
* Lewis, L.
* Lykes
* Manson
* Marden
* Martin, D. D.
* Martin, W. E.
* May
* McBean
* McCarthy
* Millard, A.
* Millard, G.
* Miller
* Moore
* Mosher
* Mossberg
* Murphy
* Neils
* Olfelt
* Palmer
* Pappas
* Parker
* Pauson
* Penfield
* Peterson Cottage
* Pew
* Pope–Leighey
* Rayward
* Rebhuhn
* Reisley
* Richardson
* Roberts
* Robie
* Roloson
* Rosenbaum
* Ross (Forest)
* Rudin
* Samara
* Sander
* Schaberg
* Schwartz
* Serlin
* Shavin
* Smith, G. W.
* Smith, M.
* Smith, R.
* Sondem
* Spencer
* Staley
* Stockman
* Storer
* Stromquist
* Sturges
* Sullivan
* Sunday
* Sutton
* Sweeton
* Tan-Y-Deri
* Thaxton
* Thomas
* Tomek
* Tonkens
* Tracy
* Trier
* Turkel
* Wall
* Walker
* Walser
* Walter
* Westcott
* Westhope
* Weltzheimer
* Willey
* Williams
* Willits
* Wingspread
* Winslow
* Woolley
* Wright, D. and G.
* Wright, D. and J.
* Wright, R.
* Wynant
* Yamamura
* Young
* Zeigler
* Zimmerman

Housing systems|

* American System-Built Homes
* Erdman Prefab Houses
* Fireproof House for $5000
* Galesburg Country Homes
* Parkwyn Village
* Ravine Bluffs Development
* Suntop Homes
* Usonia Homes
* Textile block house

Other|

* Anderton Court Shops
* Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church
* Arizona Biltmore Hotel
* Auldbrass Plantation
* Banff National Park Pavilion
* Beth Sholom Synagogue
* Child of the Sun at Florida Southern College
* Community Christian Church
* Como Orchard Summer Colony
* Coonley School Playhouse
* E-Z Polish Factory
* Eddie's House
* Fasbender Medical Clinic
* German Warehouse
* Guggenheim Museum
* Hillside Home School I
* Hillside Home School II
* Hoffman Auto Showroom
* Horse Show Fountain
* Humphreys Theater
* Imperial Hotel
* Jiyu Gakuen Girls' School
* Johnson Wax Headquarters
* Kundert Medical Clinic
* Lake Mendota Boathouse
* Lamp Cottage
* Larkin Administration Building
* Lawrence Memorial Library (Springfield, Illinois)
* Lindholm Service Station
* Lockridge Medical Clinic
* Marin County Civic Center
* Midway Barn
* Midway Gardens
* Riverview Terrace Restaurant
* Roberts Stable
* Rookery Building
* Romeo and Juliet Windmill
* Park Inn Hotel
* Pettit Chapel
* Pilgrim Congregational Church
* Price Tower
* Frank L. Smith Bank
* Teater Studio
* Unitarian Society Meeting House
* Unity Chapel
* Unity Temple
* V. C. Morris Gift Shop
* Waller Apartments
* Wyoming Valley School

Posthumous|

* Blue Sky Mausoleum
* Gammage Memorial Auditorium
* King Kamehameha Golf Course Clubhouse
* Massaro House
* Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center
* Sharp Family Tourism and Education Center

Unbuilt|

* Broadacre City
* Crystal Heights
* Gordon Strong Automobile Objective
* The Illinois
* Plan for Greater Baghdad
* Point Park Civic Center

Related|

* Taliesin Associated Architects
* Wasmuth Portfolio
* Prairie School
* Wright Building Conservancy
* Wright–Prairie School of Architecture Historic District
* UNESCO World Heritage Site
* Usonia

People|

* Olgivanna Lloyd Wright (3rd wife)
* Lloyd Wright (son)
* John Lloyd Wright (son)
* Anne Baxter (granddaughter)
* Eric Lloyd Wright (grandson)
* Maginel Wright Enright (sister)
* Richard Bock (associate)
* Mamah Borthwick (client and lover)
* Marion Griffin (associate)
* Walter Burley Griffin (associate)
* George Mann Niedecken
* Jaroslav Josef Polívka (associate)

Popular culture|

* The Last Wright: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Park Inn Hotel
* Shining Brow
* Loving Frank
* "So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright"
* Work Song: Three Views of Frank Lloyd Wright
* The Women
* The Wright 3

* Commons
* Wikinews
* Wikiquote

* v
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* e

Ernest Hemingway

Bibliography

Novels|

* The Torrents of Spring (1926)
* The Sun Also Rises (1926)
* A Farewell to Arms (1929)
* To Have and Have Not (1937)
* For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)
* Across the River and into the Trees (1950)
* The Old Man and the Sea (1952)

Nonfiction|

* Death in the Afternoon (1932)
* Green Hills of Africa (1935)

Posthumous|

* A Moveable Feast (1964)
* Islands in the Stream (1970)
* The Dangerous Summer (1985)
* The Garden of Eden (1986)
* True at First Light (1999)
* Under Kilimanjaro (2005)

Short stories|

* "Up In Michigan" (1921)
* "Indian Camp" (1924)
* "The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife" (1925)
* "The End of Something" (1925)
* "The Three-Day Blow" (1925)
* "The Battler" (1925)
* "A Very Short Story" (1925)
* "Soldier's Home" (1925)
* "The Revolutionist" (1925)
* "Mr. and Mrs. Elliot" (1925)
* "Cat in the Rain" (1925)
* "Out of Season" (1925)
* "Cross Country Snow" (1925)
* "My Old Man" (1925)
* "Big Two-Hearted River" (1925)
* "Banal Story" (1926)
* "Today is Friday" (1926)
* "A Canary for One" (1927)
* "Fifty Grand" (1927)
* "Hills Like White Elephants" (1927)
* "The Killers" (1927)
* "The Undefeated" (1927)
* "Che Ti Dice La Patria?" (1927)
* "In Another Country" (1927)
* "Now I Lay Me" (1927)
* "A Simple Enquiry" (1927)
* "Ten Indians" (1927)
* "An Alpine Idyll" (1927)
* "A Pursuit Race" (1927)
* "On the Quai at Smyrna" (1930)
* "Fathers and Sons" (1932)
* "A Natural History of the Dead" (1932)
* "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" (1933)
* "A Day's Wait" (1933)
* "The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio" (1933)
* "A Way You'll Never Be" (1933)
* "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" (1936)
* "The Capital of the World" (1936)
* "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" (1936)
* "Old Man at the Bridge" (1938)

Short story
collections|

* Three Stories and Ten Poems (1923)
* In Our Time (1925)
* Men Without Women (1927)
* Winner Take Nothing (1933)
* The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories (1938)
* The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1961)
* The Fifth Column and Four Stories of the Spanish Civil War (1969)
* The Nick Adams Stories (1972)
* The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway (1987)
* Ernest Hemingway: The Collected Stories (1995)

Story fragments|

* "On Writing"

Poetry|

* 88 Poems (1979)
* Complete Poems

Plays|

* Today is Friday (1926)
* The Fifth Column (1938)

Screenplays|

* The Spanish Earth (1937 film)

Letters and
journalism|

* By-Line: Ernest Hemingway (1967)
* Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters, 1917–1961 (1981)
* Dateline: Toronto (1985)
* The Cambridge Edition of the Letters of Ernest Hemingway (2011)

Adaptations|

| The Sun Also Rises|

* 1957 film
* 1984 film
* Opera
* The Select (The Sun Also Rises)
* Ballet

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"The Killers"|

* 1946 film
* 1956 film
* 1964 film
* Bukowski short story

A Farewell to Arms|

* 1932 film
* 1957 film
* 1966 TV series

To Have and Have Not|

* 1944 film
* The Breaking Point (1950)
* The Gun Runners (1958)
* Captain Khorshid (1987)

For Whom the Bell Tolls|

* 1943 film
* 1959 TV play
* 1965 TV series
* 1984 song

The Old Man and the Sea|

* 1958 film
* 1990 film
* 1999 animated film

Other film adaptations|

* The Macomber Affair (1947)
* Under My Skin (1950)
* The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952)
* Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man (1962)
* Islands in the Stream (1977)
* Soldier's Home (1977)
* My Old Man (1979)
* After the Storm (2001)
* The Garden of Eden (2008)
* Across the River and into the Trees (2022)

Homes|

* Birthplace and boyhood home
* Michigan cottage
* Hemingway-Pfeiffer House
* Key West home
* Hotel Ambos Mundos, Havana home
* Finca Vigía, Cuba home
* Idaho home

Depictions|

* Bacall to Arms (1946 cartoon)
* Hemingway: On the Edge (1987 play)
* In Love and War (1996 film)
* Midnight in Paris (2011 film)
* Hemingway & Gellhorn (2012 film)
* Cooper & Hemingway: The True Gen (2013 documentary)
* Papa: Hemingway in Cuba (2015 film)
* Genius (2016 film)
* Hemingway (2021 documentary series)
* Frankie Drake Mysteries (Season 1)

Related|

* Nick Adams
* Floridita
* Pilar (boat)
* Iceberg theory
* Ernest Hemingway International Billfishing Tournament
* International Imitation Hemingway Competition
* Maxwell Perkins
* Adriana Ivancich
* Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award
* Premio Hemingway
* Hello Hemingway (1990 film)
* Hemingway: A Portrait (1999 documentary)
* Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure (1999 documentary)
* Hemingway crater
* Kennedy Library Hemingway collection
* Hemingwaya

Family|

* Elizabeth Hadley Richardson (first wife)
* Jack Hemingway (son)
* Pauline Pfeiffer (second wife)
* Patrick Hemingway (son)
* Gloria Hemingway (daughter)
* Martha Gellhorn (third wife)
* Mary Welsh Hemingway (fourth wife)
* Lorian Hemingway (granddaughter)
* Margaux Hemingway (granddaughter)
* John Hemingway (grandson)
* Mariel Hemingway (granddaughter)
* Grace Hall Hemingway (mother)
* Leicester Hemingway (brother)

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Edgar Rice Burroughs (works)

Tarzan novels|

* Tarzan of the Apes (1912)
* The Return of Tarzan (1913)
* The Beasts of Tarzan (1914)
* The Son of Tarzan (1915)
* Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar (1916)
* Tarzan the Terrible (1921)
* Tarzan and the Golden Lion (1922/23)
* Tarzan and the Ant Men (1924)
* Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle (1927/28)
* Tarzan and the Lost Empire (1928/29)
* Tarzan at the Earth's Core (1929/30)
* Tarzan the Invincible (1930/31)
* Tarzan Triumphant (1931/32)
* Tarzan and the City of Gold (1932)
* Tarzan and the Lion Man (1933/34)
* Tarzan and the Leopard Men (1932/33)
* Tarzan's Quest (1935/36)
* Tarzan and the Forbidden City (1938)
* Tarzan and the Foreign Legion (1947)
* Tarzan and the Madman (1964)
* Tarzan: The Lost Adventure (1995)

Tarzan collections|

* Jungle Tales of Tarzan (1919)
* Tarzan the Untamed (1920)
* Tarzan the Magnificent (1939)
* Tarzan and the Tarzan Twins (1963)
* Tarzan and the Castaways (1965)

Tarzan
short stories|

* Tarzan's First Love (1916)
* The Capture of Tarzan (1916)
* The Fight for the Balu (1916)
* The God of Tarzan (1916)
* Tarzan and the Black Boy (1917)
* The Witch-Doctor Seeks Vengeance (1917)
* The End of Bukawai (1917)
* The Lion (1917)
* The Nightmare (1917)
* The Battle for Teeka (1917)
* A Jungle Joke (1917)
* Tarzan Rescues the Moon (1917)
* Tarzan the Untamed (1919)
* Tarzan and the Valley of Luna (1920)
* The Tarzan Twins (1927)
* Tarzan and the Tarzan Twins with Jad-Bal-Ja the Golden Lion (1936)
* Tarzan and the Magic Men (1936)
* Tarzan and the Elephant Men (1937/38)
* Tarzan and the Champion (1940)
* Tarzan and the Jungle Murders (1940)
* Tarzan and the Castaways (1941)

Other jungle
adventures|

* The Man-Eater (1915)
* The Cave Girl (1925)
* The Eternal Lover (1925)
* Jungle Girl (1932)
* The Lad and the Lion (1938)

Martian series|

* A Princess of Mars (1917)
* The Gods of Mars (1918)
* The Warlord of Mars (1919)
* Thuvia, Maid of Mars (1920)
* The Chessmen of Mars (1922)
* The Master Mind of Mars (1928)
* A Fighting Man of Mars (1931)
* Swords of Mars (1936)
* Synthetic Men of Mars (1940)
* Llana of Gathol (1948)
* John Carter of Mars (1964)

Pellucidar series|

* At the Earth's Core (1914)
* Pellucidar (1915)
* Tanar of Pellucidar (1929)
* Tarzan at the Earth's Core (1929)
* Back to the Stone Age (1937)
* Land of Terror (1944)
* Savage Pellucidar (1963)

Venus series|

* Pirates of Venus (1934)
* Lost on Venus (1935)
* Carson of Venus (1939)
* Escape on Venus (1946)
* The Wizard of Venus (1964)

Caspak series|

* The Land That Time Forgot (1918)
* The People That Time Forgot (1918)
* Out of Time's Abyss (1918)

Other
speculative fiction|

* Beyond Thirty (1915)
* The Moon Maid (1926)
* The Monster Men (1929)
* "The Resurrection of Jimber-Jaw" (1937)
* Beyond the Farthest Star (1941)
* Tales of Three Planets (1964)

Westerns|

* The Bandit of Hell's Bend (1926)
* The War Chief (1927)
* Apache Devil (1933)
* The Deputy Sheriff of Comanche County (1940)

Historical novels|

* The Outlaw of Torn (1914/1927)
* I Am a Barbarian (1967)

Ruritanian romances|

* The Rider (1918)
* The Mad King (1926)

Contemporary
novels|

* The Mucker (1914/16)
* The Girl from Farris's (1916)
* The Oakdale Affair (1918)
* The Efficiency Expert (1921)
* The Girl from Hollywood (1923)
* Pirate Blood (1970)
* Marcia of the Doorstep (1999)

Other works|

* The Oakdale Affair and The Rider (1937)
* Beyond Thirty and The Man-Eater (1957)
* Minidoka: 937th Earl of One Mile Series M (1998)
* You Lucky Girl! (1999)
* Forgotten Tales of Love and Murder (2001)
* Brother Men (2005)

Related|

* Florence Gilbert (second wife)
* John Coleman Burroughs (son)
* Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.
* Tarzana, Los Angeles
* Tarzan, Texas
* Burroughs (Martian crater)

* v
* t
* e

Municipalities and communities of Cook County, Illinois, United States

County seat: Chicago

Cities|

* Berwyn
* Blue Island
* Burbank
* Calumet City
* Chicago‡
* Chicago Heights
* Country Club Hills
* Countryside
* Des Plaines
* Elgin‡
* Elmhurst‡
* Evanston
* Harvey
* Hickory Hills
* Hometown
* Markham
* Northlake
* Oak Forest
* Palos Heights
* Palos Hills
* Park Ridge
* Prospect Heights
* Rolling Meadows

Map of Illinois highlighting Cook County

Towns|

* Cicero

Villages|

* Alsip
* Arlington Heights‡
* Barrington‡
* Barrington Hills‡
* Bartlett‡
* Bedford Park
* Bellwood
* Bensenville‡
* Berkeley
* Bridgeview
* Broadview
* Brookfield
* Buffalo Grove‡
* Burnham
* Burr Ridge‡
* Calumet Park
* Chicago Ridge
* Crestwood
* Deer Park‡
* Deerfield‡
* Dixmoor
* Dolton
* East Dundee‡
* East Hazel Crest
* Elk Grove Village‡
* Elmwood Park
* Evergreen Park
* Flossmoor
* Ford Heights
* Forest Park
* Forest View
* Frankfort‡
* Franklin Park
* Glencoe
* Glenview
* Glenwood
* Golf
* Hanover Park‡
* Harwood Heights
* Hazel Crest
* Hillside
* Hinsdale‡
* Hodgkins
* Hoffman Estates
* Homer Glen‡
* Homewood
* Indian Head Park
* Inverness
* Justice
* Kenilworth
* La Grange
* La Grange Park
* Lansing
* Lemont‡
* Lincolnwood
* Lynwood
* Lyons
* Matteson
* Maywood
* McCook
* Melrose Park
* Merrionette Park
* Midlothian
* Morton Grove
* Mount Prospect
* Niles
* Norridge
* North Riverside
* Northbrook
* Northfield
* Oak Brook‡
* Oak Lawn
* Oak Park
* Olympia Fields
* Orland Hills
* Orland Park‡
* Palatine‡
* Palos Park
* Park Forest‡
* Phoenix
* Posen
* Richton Park
* River Forest
* River Grove
* Riverdale
* Riverside
* Robbins
* Roselle‡
* Rosemont
* Sauk Village
* Schaumburg‡
* Schiller Park
* Skokie
* South Barrington
* South Chicago Heights
* South Holland
* Steger‡
* Stickney
* Stone Park
* Streamwood
* Summit
* Thornton
* Tinley Park‡
* University Park‡
* Westchester
* Western Springs
* Wheeling‡
* Willow Springs‡
* Wilmette
* Winnetka
* Woodridge‡
* Worth

Townships|

* Barrington
* Berwyn
* Bloom
* Bremen
* Calumet
* Cicero
* Elk Grove
* Hanover
* Lemont
* Leyden
* Lyons
* Maine
* New Trier
* Niles
* Northfield
* Norwood Park
* Oak Park
* Orland
* Palatine
* Palos
* Proviso
* Rich
* River Forest
* Riverside
* Schaumburg
* Stickney
* Thornton
* Wheeling
* Worth

Former: Evanston • Hyde Park • Jefferson • Lake • Lake View • North Chicago • Rogers Park • South Chicago • West Chicago

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* Nottingham Park
* Sag Bridge
* Sutton

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* Techny

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Places adjacent to Oak Park, Illinois

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Oak Park

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