The parking lot on the north side of Oak Park Apartments 618 South Austin building is special. “How can a parking lot be special?”, you ask. Simply by having a large lot where you can easily park your car right next to your apartment building can qualify as something rare, and some may say special, […]
Category: Announcements & News
Bicycle Racks: A Millennial Amenity
Oak Park is a bicycle friendly village. The Village has worked hard over the years to create a community wide bike plan, register bikes with the police department, add bike paths and bike racks to encourage pedaling and promote guidelines for bikers and motorist to peacefully co-exist. The Village’s pro-biking efforts have even earned them […]
Little Free Libraries Come To OPA
We’ve all seen them – the little structures popping up on people’s front lawns all over Oak Park. They started showing up about five years ago, many people wondering at first if they were fancy bird houses, until word got out and knowledge of the Little Free Library movement started to spread. The idea took […]
Encourage Change
The Oak Park Area Arts Council’s Off The Wall Project has completed its’ second mural! Located under the Austin Blvd viaduct, adjacent to the Green Line “L” station this year’s second project completes the east side of the underpass and is titled, “Encourage Change”. This mural is the sister piece to the mural installed on […]
Tenant FYI – Oak Park Vehicle Sticker Renewal Deadline July 14th
Vehicle sticker renewal time is upon us Oak Parkers and here are some answers to your most pressing sticker questions: Why does the Village require residents to have vehicle stickers? It is a way for the Village to track and verify ownership of its’ residents vehicles. What do you need to do? If you are […]
Oak Park’s Got Divvy
Oak Park’s got Divvy. 130 Divvy bikes distributed at 13 Oak Park Divvy stations as of now. Oak Park and Evanston are the first suburban sites added to Divvy’s bike sharing services. How does Divvy work? You need a bike. You sign up for a Divvy yearly membership online ($9.95 per month or $99 for […]
Stay Summer Cool, Oak Parkers!
Summer is finally here and after spending months trying to figure out how to stay warm we midwesterners are now tasked with trying to figure out how to cool off. Well, Oak Park’s Park District has several great ways to help beat this summers heat. You can head on over to Rehm or Ridgeland pools, cool […]
Sign Up For Oak Park’s Safety Notification System
Oak Park Apartments would like to encourage tenants (and all Oak Parkers) to sign up for the Village of Oak Park’s public safety notification system, Reverse 911. This system will allow the village to directly communicate with residents when and if a public safety emergency were to arise by delivering important information directly to your phone, email […]
Memorial Weekend Parking Restrictions Lifted, Oak Parkers!
Just a quick fyi to OakParkApartments.com tenants – this holiday weekend parking restrictions are lifted!!! For those of you wondering why all the parking fuss anyway? Well, Oak Park’s parking rules and regulations actually date back to the late 1920’s where, even back then, vehicle stickers were required. As the Village finished its’ planning in […]
Join The Contest: Photos For Oak Park Non-Profits
Oak Park charities are always looking for good pictures of all things Oak Park. Part of the problem they have faced is a lack of material that is usable for there marketing and promotional materials. So what better way to beef up their photo library then to get local shutter bugs to snap some Oak […]
