Oak Park and River Forest are villages rich in community spirit, with many volunteer organizations, clubs and charitable causes. Listed at left are the non-profit organizations on the web in our villages. Now for your convenience, we also provide a listing of all membership forms and volunteer information and listing of all online calendars for these groups.
Oak Park is the hometown of a number of famous and exceptionally accomplished people .
Today, our village remains home to a highly educated, activist group of citizens from all aspects of professional life. You can sample the interests of our cybercitizens via their homepages on the web . Oak Park has a long history of being an activist community - the Historical Society of OPRF has wonderful records of our growth as a community, and the History of Oak Park discusses our communty's beginnings and growth.