For those you not familiar with my hometown Oak Park, we have quite the sordid history in housing and zoning. In the late 1940s, the village tried to ban ALL multi-family housing construction until the IL Supreme Court put a kibosh on it. www.oakpark.com/2026/04/28/p...
We are here at a packed house in Oak Park for the first information session over Shape Oak Park, a “strategic update of the zoning code to create more opportunities for Missing Middle Housing”.