Ancient Rome The origins of apartment living trace back to Rome. In ancient Rome owning a home was for the wealthy few, leaving a majority of people in need of affordable housing. It was out of necessity that apartments became a typical part of Roman life. Early Roman apartments filled whole city blocks, were up to […]
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People & Pets – Occupancy Rules Apply
Both the Village of Oak Park and Oak Park Apartments have specific occupancy rules that regulate how many people can legally live in studio, 1, 2 and 3 bedroom apartments. Oak Park Apartments occupancy rules include: Only the individuals listed on your lease may live in your apartment. Only members of your household, as identified on […]
Fire Prevention Tips for Your Apartment
October 9th, 2016 begins Fire Prevention Week here in Illinois. Increasing awareness surrounding how to prevent fires and how to survive a fire happens in October because of the tragedy of the Great Chicago Fire that began on October 8, 1871. Legend has it that a fire broke out after a cow – belonging to […]
Green Line “L” History
Like all things Chicago the history of the Green Line is colorful and “connected”. The origins of the “L” begin with the privately owned Lake Street Elevated Train Company in 1888 when they received a 25 year franchise contract to construct elevated monorail railroads throughout Chicago. At the time Michael Cassius McDonald, otherwise known as […]
Tips To Help You Stick With Your New Year’s Resolutions
What many people seem to have in common about New Year’s resolutions is not keeping their New Year’s resolutions! OakParkApartments.com realizes that people have good intentions about this yearly resolution ritual but as folks get back into the post-holiday hustle and bustle of daily life those resolutions tend to get put on a back burner, […]
Oak Park Eases Parking Restrictions Over Thanksgiving Holiday
OakParkApartments.com wants to give our tenants a quick parking heads up as we head into the Thanksgiving holiday. You will not get a ticket if you or your Thanksgiving guests need to park overnight on Oak Park’s residential streets (hurray!). The restrictions have been eased for the entire Thanksgiving weekend, starting at 2:30 a.m., Thursday, […]
Tenant Surveys Help OPA Strive For Tenant Satisfaction
As property managers OakParkApartments is always looking for ways to improve the quality of life for our tenants. With over 1,000 properties and many more tenants it is hard to know every tenant as personally as we’d like but by regularly surveying our tenants we are able to gain the valuable feedback and insights into […]
Are You A Good Tenant?
Today’s rental market is a competitive one. With more and more young professionals staying renters for the sake of job mobility the rental market has become much more landlord friendly. So how do you show the landlord/management company that you will be a good tenant and secure the apartment of your dreams? Make sure you […]
Goats In Oak Park… Not Quite!
Did you know that simply 4 blocks East of Oak Park’s Austin Boulevard at Lake Street and Waller there lies what looks like a goat farm? After some quick googling OakParkApartments.com learned that these goats, 6 in all, are pets! It seems that the city of Chicago has no ordinances on the books prohibiting goats […]
Tips On How To Open Your Window Screens
OakParkApartments.com understands that many first time renters do not have experience with some of the “how to’s” of apartment living. If you have never had to open a triple track screen and storm window system then you may be unsure of how the system works. So here are a few tips to help let in […]
