Bright and early every Saturday morning from mid-May to the end of October local farmers begin setting up their wares at the Pilgrim Church parking lot on Lake Street and Elmwood Avenue before 7am to meet the produce demands of those who flock to Oak Park’s 41 year old farmers market. Farmers from Illinois, Wisconsin, […]
Month: May 2016
Weekends Start On Thursday When You Live In Oak Park!
TNO started this past Thursday, May 19th, as part of the DTOP business association’s mission to promote Oak Park businesses through a variety of fun and cultural events. This is how the event works: Purchase $16 ticket booklets which contain 4 “dine-around” tickets at the Downtown Oak Park kiosk at Lake and Marion from 5 pm […]
Perk Up Your Porches!
Oak Park is getting some brief glimpses of spring. Now is the time to spruce up your back porch to make it that great outdoor space to help you enjoy the good weather (once it gets here!) Many of Oak Park’s vintage apartments come with back porches. Those back porches are covered nooks that, with […]
Apartment Gardening – 101
Oak Park Apartments is feeling spring in the air. The warm temperatures and budding trees are giving us the gardening itch. Yes, we know that this is the midwest and next week could bring back a cold northernly chill but the weather we are experiencing has us a bit more optimistic that warm weather will be […]
Outdoor Living
Winters are long here in the midwest. Sometimes our springs feel more like winters too! That’s why, when the weather finally blesses us with warm temps and gentle breezes, you want to be able to spend those days enjoying the outdoors. So, if you live in apartment that has a back porch, now is the […]