Sounds of the cicadas
June 2007: Wednesday Journal’s Director of Operations, Andy Johnston, went on a hunt to photograph and record the cicadas
Framing the fashionistas
April 2007: Slideshow of pictures from Dominican University’s annual student fashion show
Top Tens of 2006
December 2006: Wednesday Journal shows you the most memorable photos from 2006
Ascending to renovate
December 2006: Michelangelo didn’t have a photographer on hand, but Ascension’s painters did. How often do you get a chance to go face-to-face with Jesus and his apostles?
December 2006: Views of the season from Austin Gardens, Oak Park and River Forest High School, the Animal Care League and Harrison Street.
November 2006: Percy Julian Middle School hosted an event that gave kids who might not normally interact with each other a chance to make new friends.
Peace triumphant: A war remembered
November 2006: What do you know about that big thingamajig in Scoville Park? It’s more than a magnet for skateboarders, of course, or a hangout for teens smoking whatever, or a place to sit and read, or a climbing structure for tots, or an excuse to plant lovely flowers in front.
Hallowed scene
October 2006: There was plenty of Halloween spirit in evidence locally, leading up to Tuesday’s annual costume extravaganza.
Coming home
October 2006: After 35 years, Tyra Manning will finally bury her husband. “This was something I always prayed would happen,” said Tyra Manning, who retired in 2004 after a dozen years as superintendent of River Forest’s District 90 elementary schools. “It was always a hope and something I never gave up on. Ever.”
October 2006: The Redmoon Theater-sponsored in-the-park spectacle titled “Twilight Orchard” invites audiences of all ages to explore “an evening of spectacle poetry, massive pageantry, and interactive performances as the natural environment unfolds into a mysterious and arresting garden of the imagination.”
Homecoming regalia
October 2006: Everyone from cheerleaders and students to alumni and the 1969 football team came out for OPRF’s Homecoming festivities.
October 2006: About 1500 runners flew past the Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio and through the main streets of Oak Park during Sunday morning’s Frank Lloyd Wright run.
The making of Love, Blood, Kryptonite
September 2006: Most high school students work or relax during the summer, but this summer a group made up largely of OPRF students and grads took the summer to film a feature length movie.
Skaters on board
August 2005: What’s it like to be a ‘boarder in Oak Park or River Forest? “We have time to go anyplace, and anywhere we go there will be something we can skate. There’s no such thing as a bad spot,” says Abe Zverow, a skateboarder.