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Oak Park is one of the communities settled against the line of the Galena & Chicago Union Railroad (later Chicago & Northwestern and recently Union Pacific Railroad).
Loved this video. Thanks so much for the time on this. I moved to ATL from chicago about 2 years ago and considering a move back to IL. Since I’m married and wanting to start a family this time around, considering a suburb. Oak Park might be it. THANK YOU!
Grateful that you loved it! I have many more videos on the top suburbs including this one - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE---Qo_9HwLXw.html
He mentioned "downtown" Oak Park. While the large business district centering around Lake and Marion is commonly known as "downtown" Oak Park today, the village has a number of business districts. Two other prominent ones are Oak Park Avenue from Pleasant to Lake St. And the South Oak Park Ave.district in south Oak Park.
Oak Park is a classy town. It's a haven for LBGTQ though. There are nice restaurants. Luo's Chinese is great. Mancini's Italian. Khyber Pass has the best Indian food, and their buffet is great. Marion street is great.
How is this even possible? Lmao I’m born and raised in Chicago and oak park literally sits on the border of the west side on Austin and Chicago Ave?? You can literally cross the street and be in OP. This means you’ve never been to the west side huh??
Oak Park has a very interesting history regarding race relations. When I was growing up there (40's, 50's, 60's) I believe there was only one black family (although not the very first historically).. This was Dr. Percy Julian and his son was in high school with my older brother. Most Oak Parkers were welcoming but as you can imagine some were not and he was harassed to the point of even having his house firebombed. He even stood on his front lawn once with a shotgun to communicate that he wasn't going to stand for it. He was a scientist who developed many medications from plants and has been featured on a U.S. postage stamp. Well, that was a time of "redlining" (lending institutions refusing to loan to Blacks) and "White flight" (fear that an influx of Black population would drop property values) and all the other things leading to the racial turmoil of the 1960's. A certain minister, aided by a certain attorney, helped a Black family make a straw purchase of a home in Oak Park. When the minister was asked later why he "broke the law", he said there was a greater good. The attorney was James McClure who was my Boy Scout scoutmaster. Oak Park passed a "Fair Housing" ordinance in 1968. Jim McClure also became Village President from 1973 to 1981 where he led many programs to advance racial diversity AND preserve the quality of Oak Park at the same time. Jim was a very strong advocate of integration which was not particularly popular (or people just weren't ready for it) during his time. Today, Oak Park is 18.2% Black and Illinois overall is 16.19%. Politically, Oak Park has shifted from substantially conservative prior to the 1960's to substantially liberal today.
Very nice description except you can't talk about Oak Park without talking about residential PARKING. One of the three story old brick "condo" buildings was shown but these were originally "three story walkup" apartment buildings with NO parking provided. Also, at one time, Oak Park had no overnight street parking. Oak Park loosened that up to allow overnight parking if you have a permit. Newer apartment or condo buildings started to have parking either on the ground level and usually open air, or a small open air parking lot. So, depending on what housing you find, you may have a parking problem where you have to get a permit to park on the street, pay to park at garage facility, or pay to park in a private garage such as one of those facing the many alleys. In fact, some homeowners built larger garages, or even multiple garages, just to have spaces to rent to others. Some newer housing, especially townhouse designs, do have a conventional closed garage on the main floor.
The current library wasn't renovated in 2003, but original construction completed in that year. (If that is the library you are referring to.) It is the third Oak Park main library building. The second was at 834 Lake St and a modern looking affair. Before that was the original building opened as the Oak Park public library in 1902 which had previously been the "Scoville Institute". This handsome stone building was just east of the First Congregational Church on Lake Street.
About those tall buildings... Oak Park must have changed their regulations because I'm quite sure those were not allowed originally. Back in the 1960's, the "tall" buildings I remember were very few. The tallest by far was the medical building at 715 Lake Street at 10 stories. The Oak Park Arms Hotel at Washington and Oak Park Avenue (now senior housing) was 5 stories. As were The Fair Store and Marshall Field's Oak Park locations at the 1100 Lake Street block in their Oak Park branch location. There might have been more. But except for a large number of "three story walk up" apartment buildings lining Washington Blvd and at many other locations, I can't think of any. It has changed dramatically in the last 50 years. But interestingly, the population was highest long ago at about 64K in 1930, 61K in 1960, and 54K today. I find this curious since so many single-family homes had been converted into 2 flats and even 3 flats (but sometimes they get converted back) and many single-family homes have been razed with small apartment buildings replacing them. And of course, all those "high rise" condos built since. They even built condos in what had been some open parking areas. One example is what had been a large open parking lot in the middle of the block surrounded by Washington, Randolph, Wisconsin, and Home. They even made new streets Cedar, Walnut, Pennsylvania, and Chestnut to define a square inside the larger square around the 22 new townhouses. All of that parking that had been used by denizens of nearby apartment buildings evaporated. Perhaps there are fewer kids, but the number in the high school sounds about the same as it was when I was there over 50 years ago.
FYI, the site of the second Lowell school on Lake St was the first to go with a high rise in the early 70s. The senior citizen center Mills Tower in Mills Park was also built at that time. The Oak Park Arms is now a senior housing facility. So it's been over 50 years.
@@kingcormack8004 I actually went to Lowell school for a period when they were doing some remodeling of Emerson about 1960. We still showed up at Emerson and they bussed us to and from Lowell. I know about the Arms as my mother went there from the apartment building at the northeast corner of Washington and Kenilworth. When they changed it to condos, they needed a name and used hers as she was the tenant in residence the longest (over 60 years) and it is now "Kinzer Court." Although in her 80's and very active with volunteer jobs at the Frank Lloyd Wright Visitor Center and Episcopal church, she wanted to be around people more and had dreamed of moving down the street into the Arms. Once there, she wasn't as happy as she expected. She said, "I don't like being around old people."
Perspective. I think you may want to interview some residents and different nationalities please. Overall, Ive had a positive experience however the first day I moved in I had the police called on me. I’m very quiet and very conscientious of others, honestly No reason to call the police on me in my opinion of course. I unfortunately became a property owner in Oak Park from a death in my family and I mean you would have thought I was John Dillinger on Holley Ct. but nope just a black dude trying to movie in his dead moms condo. So there is still some work to do. My original plan before my mom died was to buy a house in Carol Stream or In Elmhurst kinda tired of Cook County, but alas life did what it does.
Check your racial resentment at the door, pal. Oak Park is an an integrated community. That your skeevy appearance resulted in cops being called is on you.
About $1400/mo for a 1 bed and $1900/mo for a 2 bed - you could find places for more & less depending on location and amenitities. Look into Forest Park as well!
Sorry, but I hated every minute living there. That was 1961-62, we didn't get to go around, lived across the street from the Emerson elementary school.
I lived there for 3 years and liked it at first but after about a few months I couldn't wait to get out. It is a beautiful village but that's just a facade. The property crime there is pretty bad, the people living there are sitting ducks for the gangbangers that live just across the street in Austin. A parent was recently carjacked while in line to pickup their child from school. Thus, the residents seem very unfriendly and withdrawn.(I never made a single friend there) Also, the food scene is pretty bad in Oak Park, they don't even have a decent pizza place. The food in OP is mediocre at best but they charge like it's a 5 star restaurant. Thankfully there are good food options in the surrounding towns. Public transit there is really good tho! To end my rant, living in Oak Park red-pilled me, I think it's good for some people but not me! Peace out Oak Park , thanks for nothing!
This is one of the biggest piles of bullshit to appear on RU-vid. Don't listen to anything this racist hater says. "I never made a single friend there" Loser is why.
Loved this video. Thanks so much for the time on this. I moved to ATL from chicago about 2 years ago and considering a move back to IL. Since I’m married and wanting to start a family this time around, considering a suburb. Oak Park might be it. THANK YOU!
