Talk:Oak Park, Illinois

message: So this Winslow House.. is it in Oak Park as this article states, or is it in River Forest as its own article states?
River Forest is correct, I'll remove it Kmusser 17:42, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I would suggest that, although it is subjective, the criterion should be more along the lines of it being plausible that a valid wikipedia page for the person could be created. Just a thought. SamBC 01:03, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Me? I would eliminate the section altogether, its a vandal magnet. Follow the structure of the article Detroit, then combine the notable people with the appropriate section. Say under the culture heading for Oak Park you could have subheads like art, architecture, music, film, where appropriate people could be mentioned. I did that with Springfield, Illinois and there hasn't been a non-notable person addition in months and months, I even weeded out a hoax article during the elimination of the "notable people" section that had persisted for years, it was deleted at AfD in a few days. This would be my recommendation if you are trying to improve things in this important article. IvoShandor 13:23, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I have directed Mr. Kryn (see below) to Wikipedia's Conflict of Interest guideline (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:COI) regarding self-promotion and hope he will act accordingly. IvoShandor's advice is very much appreciated.  In any case it makes sense to group these folks together based on field rather than whether they were born, once lived, or currently live in OP.WikiMrsP 21:26, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Stuff

message: I added  in the references section. The two citations are far from adequate for this article. IvoShandor 14:27, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Refs

message: Reading the assessment scale, I'm pretty happy that this article is B-class. It's certainly well beyond start-class. SamBC 12:40, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Definitely! How can we get it to an even higher class? I would love it if this article could be featured one day. GlassCobra 18:30, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Have a look at the assessment scale links in the wikiproject boxes at the top of this talk page. Really important things are being completely free of intellectual property issues, being well illustrated (it's pretty well illustrated now), written to a high standard (some sections are in need of structuring/copyediting), being really well referenced, and including everything notable or interesting (really interesting) about the subject. I'm no expert, but those are bits I've picked up from the assessment scale page. SamBC 19:09, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

text: I saw three citations but the majority is unreferenced. To go up to GA class it would need more references and anything likely to be challenged would need an inline citation. I will see what I can do if I get time. Copy editing will also help which I am also OK at so I'll give it a look on that too. IvoShandor 21:55, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

text: It is a C class article now. I did some work on the History section to focus on the importance of railroads and street car lines in the population growth, and updated so many dead links, as sites reorganize themselves -- the information is there but the link was wrong. The only one I could not test was the one supposed to be at Chicago Public Library, a timeline of a railroad's development, I think. Used at start of History section. If anyone can test it, that would be good. Otherwise it might get deleted, as it cannot be verified. The architecture section depends wholly on FLW, when part of the charm of the town is the variety of architecture. I thought I could find a chart of population every Census year, but did not find that. I think 1930 is the peak year, but that high population may have lasted a few decades before families got smaller and lots of one person households. Hope this can be improved. --Prairieplant (talk) 03:52, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Upgraded to B

message: It seems someone from the River Forest Historical society has taken it upon themselves to do some creative editing. Can someone eliminate the bulk of the paragraph about the photographer. While interesting, I hardly find it relevant or significant enough to the article to justify its size and prominence.--71.196.221.191 (talk) 01:19, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Philander Barclay? 

message: I think it would be helpful if somebody added a section about Oak Park's hand gun law.
Wiki3655 (talk) 22:22, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hand gun law 

message: Halas is not from Oak Park nor is ever considered being from Oak Park.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.203.136.247 (talk) 18:30, 8 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Halas is not from Oak Park 

message: Much damage has been done to this article in the past few months by  confirmed sockpuppets of Les Golden. Please be advised that edits made by DianeSteele, Drlesmgolden , and RexKingsley were in fact all made by Les Golden, and many of them seem clear violations of WP:COI and WP:NPOV policies.  Part of me thinks we should just scrap EVERY SINGLE THING that isn't fact with a clear, verifiable, reliable source, and just start over. WikiMrsP (talk) 20:13, 2 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sockpuppet cleanup 

message: Oak Park is not the closest suburb to downtown Chicago.  That honor goes to Cicero, as the northeast corner of Cicero (at Roosevelt Rd and Cicero Ave) is closer to downtown Chicago than anywhere on the east end of Oak Park (on Austin Blvd).  Even portions of Cermak Rd in Cicero are closer to the Loop than the edge of Oak Park.
Chicago Loop (State & Madison) to Oak Park (Austin & Madison) - 7.6 miles (http://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=State+St+and+Madison+St,+Chicago,+IL&daddr=Austin+Blvd+and+Madison+St,+Oak+Park,+IL&hl=en&sll=41.875824,-87.700939&sspn=0.069789,0.154324&geocode=FecRfwId6efG-ilNDaHFpCwOiDFtv6VwLXIiyg%3BFWQKfwIdRarE-imzWCC7XzMOiDGfIx0eS4Cd0w&vpsrc=0&dirflg=h&mra=ps&t=m&z=13&layer=t)
Chicago Loop (State & Congress) to Cicero (Cicero & Roosevelt) - 6.6 miles (http://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=State+St+and+Congress+Pkwy,+Chicago,+IL&daddr=Illinois+Route+50+and+Roosevelt+Rd,+Cicero,+IL&hl=en&sll=41.867484,-87.730722&sspn=0.017449,0.038581&geocode=FQv5fgIdrOjG-ik_7rCmoiwOiDFrgVvc03mlPA%3BFcfSfgIdDh_F-ilPFMwEBTMOiDHU5Sb4YJsNpQ&vpsrc=0&mra=ls&t=m&z=13) JasonMath (talk) 23:24, 18 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Location relative to Chicago 

message: This article is getting better, with a longer history section, and more on architecture than Frank Lloyd Wright. There is no section on the economy of the Village. Tourism is one focus, but there are businesses here, and Madison St, now being reviewed, was once "auto row". Is there a report from the Village itself, or other sources? Plus, the new construction in Oak Park before and now after the Great Recession of the oughts in the 21st century changes the place, especially the higher density building now under construction on Lake St in downtown, and the other development proposed, still being discussed, along Harlem Ave at Lake St, down to North Blvd.  --Prairieplant (talk) 05:19, 17 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Economy section needed 

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