Tag: "Oak Park"

A beaded creation from Summer Art Camp

The Arts Come Alive at Summer Art Camp

August 22, 2010 | Comments (2)

Arts and crafts has long been a summer camp staple, but imagine a camp where kids paint, draw, dance, and create with professional artists in real studios and galleries. That is precisely the experience that the Oak Park Arts District Summer Art Camp offers. The Oak Park Arts District is an organization of the myriad business located along nine [...]

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Suburban Crime Wave

Suburban Crime Wave

July 27, 2010 | Comments (7)

12:30 p.m., Wednesday afternoon: I have just finished explaining to my babysitter, Amanda, who will be staying home with my three year old son while I go out to a meeting, that I can’t seem to find our extra key. So, I suggest that she simply leave the back door unlocked if she decides to take J.R. to the park. Speaking of [...]

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A budget-friendly birthday party in Berwyn

A budget-friendly birthday party in Berwyn

July 23, 2010 | Comments (3)

Ice cream parlor birthday parties are pretty commonplace among families in our Oak Park community, but not one of the 5 families we invited to A’s 3rd birthday party had ever heard of–much less been to–Over the Rainbow. Located 2 blocks west of Oak Park Avenue along the train tracks in Berwyn, Oak Park’s blue-collar [...]

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