Wednesday Journal of Oak Park and River Forest

Rev. Donald Wheat, 92

Rev. Don Wheat, 92, died on March 5, 2026. Born in Dayton, Ohio on Halloween 1933, Donald Hoover Wheat was the rare working-class, Great-Depression baby named for President Hoover. Parents William and ...
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Emmett Rice

Florida native Emmett Rice was born and raised in Jacksonville. He’s been interested in the weather for as long as he can remember. After experiencing the destruction of Hurricanes Matthew and Irma ...

Thanks to a million-dollar grant, Mother Bethel AME may soon have air-conditioning in its sanctuary and other much-needed repairs

Within the Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church’s 162-year-old brick walls is a venerable American history collection. It includes A.M.E. church founder Richard Allen’s Bible, the pulpit ...