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George Pehrson Bradshaw, born September 16, 1946 died on January 26, 2024, of natural causes. As a young man, George often traveled with his engineer father to foreign countries including

For nearly two decades, Downtown Oak Park has offered the Shopper’s Reward Program to encourage people to shop local, driving sales to area businesses during Christmas and through the start of the new year.Shoppers who spent $500 from Nov. 1 through Christmas – and paid at least $25 at seven or more of 86 participating downtown businesses – can redeem their receipts for local coupons. Through March 15, when shoppers turn in their receipts to the Downtown Oak Park Office at 1010 Lake Stree...

Children visiting the Oak Park River Forest Infant Welfare Society’s Children’s Clinic leave with gifts more valuable and long-lasting than the typical stickers or suckers. Each child has the opportunity to take home and keep one to two new or gently used books from the society’s warm and cheery library. And with a recent donation of 500 books from Dominican University’s Rebecca Crown Library, they will have a lot more books to choose from. “One of the things that those of us who are ...

Scott Needham is one of the founders of the local business SmartScout.

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“The store has grown and changed in ways we never expected, but in good ways,” said co-owner Rachel Weaver. “It’s been a great 20 years.” Weaver co-owns the store with her husband, Jason Smith, whom she married two years before they opened the Book Table. The two met while working at an independent bookstore, both having previously worked at other independent bookstores, so it felt natural that they would open one of their own. They first attempted to set up shop in Chicago but were u...

For Independent Booksellers Day, The Tribune talks to five booksellers about how they provide not just reading material but a sense of community.

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Continuing our series on Read Alouds That Rock, we asked five expert book club facilitators to share some of the ways they run their clubs and spread book love with young readers.

Having explored Utah’s rural communities and the wilderness surrounding for years, Margaret Pettis aims to guide readers to some of Utah’s more underappreciated features in her new book “Back Roads