The Village of Oak Park | 123 Madison St. Oak Park, IL 60302 | village@oak-park.us
Oak Park offers a variety of services that can be accessed online from a computer, tablet or smart phone. Some of the services are managed directly by the Village, while others are third-party vendors authorized by the Village to conduct transactions.
The Village of Oak Park provides a wide range of services, from public safety programs like fire and police protection to support for housing, historic preservation and neighborhood relations. Don't see what you are looking for? Use the search feature at the top of the page.
Oak Park operates under the village manager form of government. A part-time, elected legislative body of a president and six trustees hires a professional manager to oversee the day-to-day administration of government programs and services.
Oak Park boasts excellent schools, world class architecture, shopping, dining and an extensive public transportation network. But Oak Park is more than a place – it also is a way of life. Use the links in this menu to learn more about our community and the many services available to residents and visitors alike.
Oak Park offers a variety of services that can be accessed online from a computer, tablet or smart phone. Some of the services are managed directly by the Village, while others are third-party vendors authorized by the Village to conduct transactions.
The Village of Oak Park provides a wide range of services, from public safety programs like fire and police protection to support for housing, historic preservation and neighborhood relations. Don't see what you are looking for? Use the search feature at the top of the page.
Oak Park operates under the village manager form of government. A part-time, elected legislative body of a president and six trustees hires a professional manager to oversee the day-to-day administration of government programs and services.
Oak Park boasts excellent schools, world class architecture, shopping, dining and an extensive public transportation network. But Oak Park is more than a place – it also is a way of life. Use the links in this menu to learn more about our community and the many services available to residents and visitors alike.
Here are links to some of the most popular items on the Village web site.
Here are links to some of the most popular items on the Village web site.
As the world grapples with the scope of how lifestyle choices affect the environment, Oak Park is encouraging residents to make the low-impact option of bicycling a key part of their everyday lives.
A two-part study currently underway through the Active Transportation Alliance is investigating the feasibility of bike sharing and ways to make bicycling, rather than motoring, the priority on selected low-speed, low-traffic residential streets.
The study will add to Oak Park’s first major effort to increase bicycle use and to make the Village more bicycle friendly. That far-reaching plan, developed in 2008, called for making sure bicyclists’ needs were considered in the planning, design, construction and maintenance of all Village streets.
Bicycle Sharing
With an eye toward extending Chicago’s Divvy bike-share system into the Village, the new study will help define realistic goals, identify key cycling routes, catalog cycling destinations and find potential docking locations for bike share programs that may one day be an integral part of the community.
Among the factors to be assessed will be access to job centers, transit hubs, shopping and tourism. These are important steps in identifying destinations that should be included in strategies that make it easier for residents and visitors to make bicycling play a bigger transportation role in their lives.
Bike Boulevards
The 2008 plan also called for creating a network that would place every Oak Park resident and destination within two blocks of an east-west and a north-south bikeway. The network would include bike boulevards that use infrastructure to calm and reduce vehicle traffic on neighborhood streets and improve safety at busy intersections.
This part of the new study will assess where and how to implement a variety of solutions as well as include a list of engineering strategies to implement along roadways and at intersections.
How to Get Involved
Oak Park residents are invited to get involved in the study through an online survey — just visit www.oak-park.us/bicycling for a link. Both the Transportation and Plan commissions also are reviewing findings and gathering citizen input at public meetings. Meeting dates and times are posted at www.oak-park.us/calendar.
