Suburban Correspondent: Oak Lawn
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August 27, 2008
Bit of school starts history! A one-room school! Shortly after the formation of Worth Township in 1850, the area was divided into school districts....
August 20, 2008 Summer is wrapping up this week with so many students headed back to school and events winding down. And a definite chill was in the air the last...
July 30, 2008 By 1930, Oak Lawn and more than 2,000 residents. This population growth was only slightly slowed by the Depression and a decade later the population...
July 23, 2008 The Classic Car Show and the Walk-Ins kept the Village Green hopping the weekend of July 13. And don’t miss the opportunity to enjoy what the...
July 16, 2008 9:32 a.m. EDT. On schedule to within less than a second, Apollo 11 blasts off from Launch Pad 39A at Cape Kennedy, Fla., to start what is looked upon...
July 9, 2008 “Round-Up Days began as a National Safety Week parade.
“Clarence Watson, a local resident and head of the Oak Lawn Safety Council,...
July 2, 2008 On this day in 1776 the Declaration of Independence was approved by the Continental Congress, setting the 13 colonies on the road to freedom as a...
June 25, 2008 Events that had a huge impact on us all and echo even today… The Korean War began on June 25 in 1950 with U.S. ground forces arriving a few...
June 18, 2008 It is hard to believe that we have already celebrated Flag Day (June 14), Father’s Day (June 15) and we are coming upon the first day of summer...
June 11, 2008 Did you ever wonder why so many weddings took place in June? Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May and still...
June 4, 2008 “Elevation” kicked off the Oak Lawn Concert Series on Sunday evening in the Oak Lawn Village Green. The weather cooperated and all seemed...
May 28, 2008 Frederick Schultz, one of Oak Lawn’s oldest settlers, was born in Germany and came to Oak Lawn in 1876.
Among the first things that he did...