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Article: Oak Park has designs on progress
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- March 6, 1988
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Oak Park is well known for its strong community spirit and
historic architecture. Thousands of visitors annually take walking
tours among the 22 Oak Park homes designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
Convenient transportation and a fine school system help attract
home buyers to the near west suburb.
Author Ernest Hemingway, born and reared in Oak Park, once wrote
of the village that it was a community of broad lawns and narrow
minds. Today many consider it one of the area's most progressive
communities.
In 1974, an integration policy was initiated. "Property values
have soared and the quality of life is better," said Sherlynn Reid,
Oak Park's director of community relations. "It's been the ...