Article: Out in Oak Park How a conservative suburb evolved into one of the top 10 places in the nation for gays and lesbians to call home.(Suburban Living)

Article: Boy Scouts dump seven Oak Park packs ...
Courier-News (Elgin, IL);  January 27, 2001 ;     514 words ... ... THE ASSOCIATED PRESS body: OAK PARK -- The Boy Scouts of America this week rejected ... groups. "Many people move to Oak Park because of its diversity ... can't change our lives for Boy Scouts." Oak Park in 1968 was the first municipality ...

Article: GAY STANCE OUSTS SCOUTS OAK PARK TROOPS DENIED ...
Chicago Sun-Times;  January 26, 2001 ;     343 words ... ... Seven Boy Scout groups in Oak Park are among the first to ... and Cub Scout packs in Oak Park found out this week they ... Teacher Organizations in Oak Park school District 97 have ... new applications to the Boy Scouts of America, accepting ...

Article: Boy Scouts remain active in Oak Park
Oak Leaves (Oak Park, IL);  June 6, 2001 ;     557 words ... ... Plaines Valley Council of Boy Scouts and the Oak Park PTO Council officially ... kids coming in from Boy Scouts," she said. "We ... t been involved in Boy Scouts." Donny Davis, program director at the Oak Park YMCA, said he received ...

Article: Boy Scouts Dump Ill. Packs, Troops
AP Online;  January 26, 2001 ;     451 words ...AP Online 01-26-2001 Boy Scouts Dump Ill. Packs, Troops OAK PARK, Ill. (AP) -- The Boy Scouts of America rejected the charters ... We can't change our lives for Boy Scouts.'' Oak Park in 1968 was the first municipality ...

Transcript: Aftermath of Boy Scouts Supreme Court Victory ...
60 Minutes (CBS);  April 2, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... been a Cub Scout in Oak Park, Illinois, for ... stunned that the Boy Scouts had such a policy ... have to live here in Oak Park? Who are these people ... sponsors of eight Oak Park troops and packs wrote the Boy Scouts to say that if a ...

Article: Scouts dump seven packs in Oak Park
Chicago Sun-Times;  January 26, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... among seven in Oak Park dumped by the Boy Scouts of America this ... Organizations in Oak Park District 97 schools ... November. The Boy Scouts of America requires ... our lives for Boy Scouts." Ray Johnson ... chairman of the Oak Park Area Lesbian ...

Article: Oak Park Scouts may defect to Camp Fire
Chicago Sun-Times;  January 30, 2001 ;     550 words ... ... was among seven in Oak Park dumped by the Boy Scouts of America last week ... children. "But the Boy Scouts of America stance ... their charters. One Oak Park Scout troop that had ... much smaller than the Boy Scouts, Lachowicz said ...