The kids come out to rally for an Oak Park icon Oak Park parents are proudly and unfailingly supportive of their kids. You'll find them crowding around the sidelines at youth soccer games, leading the cheers at Little League games, and, as is the case today, encouraging their second grader to hoist that anti-village hall protest sign just a little higher, so the nice people from the nightly news can get a good shot for the 10pm broadcast.
Every person is a philosopher, but it seems no one wants to be the first to admit it.