Oak Leaves
Oak Leaves is a long-standing weekly newspaper serving Oak Park, Illinois. Founded in the late nineteenth century, it provides hyper-local coverage of community news, local government, schools, and high school sports. Now part of the Pioneer Press group, it is published under the Chicago Tribune umbrella.
MEDIA LANDSCAPE IN OAK PARK
The local journalism landscape is defined by a strong tradition of weekly community reporting, divided primarily between a historic regional publishing network and a prominent nonprofit media group. The historic Oak Leaves, part of the Pioneer Press chain, has covered the village since the early twentieth century. Operating as the flagship publication of Growing Community Media, the Oak Park Wednesday Journal anchors a localized nonprofit network that also produces neighboring weeklies like the Forest Park Review. Paperboy lists 6 newspapers in Oak Park.
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