What's it Like Living in Oak Park Illinois?! (Oak Park Illinois Video Tour)

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@AustinWeiss 2 жыл бұрын

*What else do you want to know about living in Oak Park?!*

@emme4517 Жыл бұрын

amazing video, highly informative.👏👏 how was it during 2020/21 lockdowns and etc. ? was there a strict mandate on masks and the v card?

@AustinWeiss Жыл бұрын

All of Chicago and collar suburbs were strict with masks and vaccine card.

@david_lamothe Жыл бұрын

what is the average rent like?

@ns342 5 ай бұрын

@@emme4517 unfortunately yes

@emme4517 5 ай бұрын

@@ns342 😓

@MargaretWeir-sw3er Жыл бұрын

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@jalilmuhammad8270 Жыл бұрын

Oak Park is one of the communities settled against the line of the Galena & Chicago Union Railroad (later Chicago & Northwestern and recently Union Pacific Railroad).

@trainliker100 Жыл бұрын

The Galena & Chicago Union initially went down Randolph street at street level, not where the tracks are now a couple blocks north on the embankment.

@KellyLamich 2 жыл бұрын

Loved hearing your take on oak park having lived there. Offers such a great perspective! Also the homes are so ✨dreamy✨

@AustinWeiss 2 жыл бұрын

The homes are gorgeous! I would have put more footage of homes in my video but then it would have been an hour long! HAHA

@KellyLamich 2 жыл бұрын

This is awesome!! The drone footage looks amazing too. You did a great job w this one 😍

@AustinWeiss 2 жыл бұрын

The drone shots came out great and offer a different perspective of how walkable the village is and how quick one can travel downtown Chicago.

@ConfessCilla 2 жыл бұрын

Love this video. My friend is from Oak Park and she’s always encouraging me to go check it out.

@tampatomtom1927 2 жыл бұрын

I am in florida now but loved living in Oak Park

@DeNeatraLove 6 ай бұрын

Loved this video. Thanks so much for the time on this. I moved to ATL from chicago about 2 years ago and considering a move back to IL. Since I’m married and wanting to start a family this time around, considering a suburb. Oak Park might be it. THANK YOU!

@AustinWeiss 6 ай бұрын

Grateful that you loved it! I have many more videos on the top suburbs including this one - kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y160oJJvfdx_jtk

@brucejemcek6986 Жыл бұрын

Oak Park is a classy town. It's a haven for LBGTQ though. There are nice restaurants. Luo's Chinese is great. Mancini's Italian. Khyber Pass has the best Indian food, and their buffet is great. Marion street is great.

@sarah4153 Жыл бұрын

Luo’s and Mancinis are both closed sadly

@theoriginalmnm Жыл бұрын

@@sarah4153 do you know if Luo's has plans to re-open? I tried visiting the other day and saw on google that it's "temporarily closed"

@anto5570 2 жыл бұрын

Looks so beautiful. I live in Chicago, but I have never been to OAK PARK. A good place to live, and buy properties.

@AustinWeiss 2 жыл бұрын

Oak Park is beautiful and it's a great place to live + visit. What neighborhood do you live in Chicago?

@chiraq4301 2 жыл бұрын

How is this even possible? Lmao I’m born and raised in Chicago and oak park literally sits on the border of the west side on Austin and Chicago Ave?? You can literally cross the street and be in OP. This means you’ve never been to the west side huh??

@trainliker100 Жыл бұрын

He mentioned "downtown" Oak Park. While the large business district centering around Lake and Marion is commonly known as "downtown" Oak Park today, the village has a number of business districts. Two other prominent ones are Oak Park Avenue from Pleasant to Lake St. And the South Oak Park Ave.district in south Oak Park.

@JonSamuelson Жыл бұрын

Just an FYI - As a person that grew up in Oak Park , it's REEEM pool and REEEM park with a hard E. Not like REM sleep.

@chicat0 Жыл бұрын

Great video about my home town!

@AustinWeiss Жыл бұрын

Grateful that you enjoyed! What was your favorite thing about Oak Park growing up there?

@chicat0 Жыл бұрын

@@AustinWeiss countless tennis courts and green spaces :) We definitely take advantage of those! The entire city feels pretty much like one big park.

@AustinWeiss Жыл бұрын

Agree! Great green spaces and recreation across town - what's your favorite park?

@chicat0 Жыл бұрын

@@AustinWeiss Lindberg and Rehm Parks!

@AustinWeiss Жыл бұрын

Great spots! I enjoy those areas too

@stevekelly7965 Жыл бұрын

I grew up in this village !!!!

@JR-gh8lp 2 жыл бұрын

Great content very nice summary, such a quaint special neighborhood. Unfortunately, it seems like there a very little starter houses though.

@kingcormack8004 2 ай бұрын

There are no starter house. It's an old community with large, expensive homes.

@HarmonicTauros Жыл бұрын

We nailed it

@AustinWeiss Жыл бұрын

Nice!

@Savlumar 2 жыл бұрын

Where you where standing in the first part is where we had my dads ritual🙃

@KellyLamich 2 жыл бұрын

The blooper at the end 😂

@bgibson5517 Жыл бұрын

(the scoville library was renovated about 2003)

@AustinWeiss Жыл бұрын

One of my favorite libraries in Chicagoland!

@sherryturco9444 Жыл бұрын

Austin, Rehm park is pronounced Reem not Rem 😊. Otherwise, great video!!

@AustinWeiss Жыл бұрын

Thank you for the attention to detail when watching my video!

@trainliker100 Жыл бұрын

The current library wasn't renovated in 2003, but original construction completed in that year. (If that is the library you are referring to.) It is the third Oak Park main library building. The second was at 834 Lake St and a modern looking affair. Before that was the original building opened as the Oak Park public library in 1902 which had previously been the "Scoville Institute". This handsome stone building was just east of the First Congregational Church on Lake Street.

@trainliker100 Жыл бұрын

Oak Park has a very interesting history regarding race relations. When I was growing up there (40's, 50's, 60's) I believe there was only one black family (although not the very first historically).. This was Dr. Percy Julian and his son was in high school with my older brother. Most Oak Parkers were welcoming but as you can imagine some were not and he was harassed to the point of even having his house firebombed. He even stood on his front lawn once with a shotgun to communicate that he wasn't going to stand for it. He was a scientist who developed many medications from plants and has been featured on a U.S. postage stamp. Well, that was a time of "redlining" (lending institutions refusing to loan to Blacks) and "White flight" (fear that an influx of Black population would drop property values) and all the other things leading to the racial turmoil of the 1960's. A certain minister, aided by a certain attorney, helped a Black family make a straw purchase of a home in Oak Park. When the minister was asked later why he "broke the law", he said there was a greater good. The attorney was James McClure who was my Boy Scout scoutmaster. Oak Park passed a "Fair Housing" ordinance in 1968. Jim McClure also became Village President from 1973 to 1981 where he led many programs to advance racial diversity AND preserve the quality of Oak Park at the same time. Jim was a very strong advocate of integration which was not particularly popular (or people just weren't ready for it) during his time. Today, Oak Park is 18.2% Black and Illinois overall is 16.19%. Politically, Oak Park has shifted from substantially conservative prior to the 1960's to substantially liberal today.

@ns342 5 ай бұрын

Woke progressive is a more accurate description

@trainliker100 5 ай бұрын

@@ns342 Well, I didn't want to use those terms. But I don't disagree.

@ns342 5 ай бұрын

@@trainliker100 and all the diversity has been a mixed bag too.

@trainliker100 Жыл бұрын

About those tall buildings... Oak Park must have changed their regulations because I'm quite sure those were not allowed originally. Back in the 1960's, the "tall" buildings I remember were very few. The tallest by far was the medical building at 715 Lake Street at 10 stories. The Oak Park Arms Hotel at Washington and Oak Park Avenue (now senior housing) was 5 stories. As were The Fair Store and Marshall Field's Oak Park locations at the 1100 Lake Street block in their Oak Park branch location. There might have been more. But except for a large number of "three story walk up" apartment buildings lining Washington Blvd and at many other locations, I can't think of any. It has changed dramatically in the last 50 years. But interestingly, the population was highest long ago at about 64K in 1930, 61K in 1960, and 54K today. I find this curious since so many single-family homes had been converted into 2 flats and even 3 flats (but sometimes they get converted back) and many single-family homes have been razed with small apartment buildings replacing them. And of course, all those "high rise" condos built since. They even built condos in what had been some open parking areas. One example is what had been a large open parking lot in the middle of the block surrounded by Washington, Randolph, Wisconsin, and Home. They even made new streets Cedar, Walnut, Pennsylvania, and Chestnut to define a square inside the larger square around the 22 new townhouses. All of that parking that had been used by denizens of nearby apartment buildings evaporated. Perhaps there are fewer kids, but the number in the high school sounds about the same as it was when I was there over 50 years ago.

@kingcormack8004 2 ай бұрын

FYI, the site of the second Lowell school on Lake St was the first to go with a high rise in the early 70s. The senior citizen center Mills Tower in Mills Park was also built at that time. The Oak Park Arms is now a senior housing facility. So it's been over 50 years.

@trainliker100 2 ай бұрын

@@kingcormack8004 I actually went to Lowell school for a period when they were doing some remodeling of Emerson about 1960. We still showed up at Emerson and they bussed us to and from Lowell. I know about the Arms as my mother went there from the apartment building at the northeast corner of Washington and Kenilworth. When they changed it to condos, they needed a name and used hers as she was the tenant in residence the longest (over 60 years) and it is now "Kinzer Court." Although in her 80's and very active with volunteer jobs at the Frank Lloyd Wright Visitor Center and Episcopal church, she wanted to be around people more and had dreamed of moving down the street into the Arms. Once there, she wasn't as happy as she expected. She said, "I don't like being around old people."

@trainliker100 Жыл бұрын

Very nice description except you can't talk about Oak Park without talking about residential PARKING. One of the three story old brick "condo" buildings was shown but these were originally "three story walkup" apartment buildings with NO parking provided. Also, at one time, Oak Park had no overnight street parking. Oak Park loosened that up to allow overnight parking if you have a permit. Newer apartment or condo buildings started to have parking either on the ground level and usually open air, or a small open air parking lot. So, depending on what housing you find, you may have a parking problem where you have to get a permit to park on the street, pay to park at garage facility, or pay to park in a private garage such as one of those facing the many alleys. In fact, some homeowners built larger garages, or even multiple garages, just to have spaces to rent to others. Some newer housing, especially townhouse designs, do have a conventional closed garage on the main floor.

@dennisdonoghue894 Жыл бұрын

Is it safe to live on the borders of oak park?

@shayd1984triton 8 ай бұрын

Do you have a video on forest Park?

@AustinWeiss 8 ай бұрын

Not currently but could certainly do one this summer. Is that something you would want to see?

@kingcormack8004 2 ай бұрын

Forest Park is a town of cemeteries with a population of only 6,000 and a small downtown. Cheaper than Oak Park, though.

@shayd1984triton 2 ай бұрын

@@AustinWeiss yes

@LARDGBS0521 5 ай бұрын

As I group up here my entire life, I believe it’s pronounced reem park not rem

@AustinWeiss 5 ай бұрын

Thanks for pointing that out!

@OFM1209 Жыл бұрын

Perspective. I think you may want to interview some residents and different nationalities please. Overall, Ive had a positive experience however the first day I moved in I had the police called on me. I’m very quiet and very conscientious of others, honestly No reason to call the police on me in my opinion of course. I unfortunately became a property owner in Oak Park from a death in my family and I mean you would have thought I was John Dillinger on Holley Ct. but nope just a black dude trying to movie in his dead moms condo. So there is still some work to do. My original plan before my mom died was to buy a house in Carol Stream or In Elmhurst kinda tired of Cook County, but alas life did what it does.

@kingcormack8004 2 ай бұрын

Check your racial resentment at the door, pal. Oak Park is an an integrated community. That your skeevy appearance resulted in cops being called is on you.

@brandiwilliams007 2 жыл бұрын

Loved seeing this video, having lived here my whole life pretty much. But you failed to mention Iman Shumpert as distinguished alumni!

@AustinWeiss 2 жыл бұрын

Glad you loved it! I'll make sure to include Shumpert in a future video 😎

@ginnamercado7522 Жыл бұрын

Qué tal es la seguridad en oak park?

@AustinWeiss Жыл бұрын

Much better than the surrounding communities - I never had a problem when I lived there.

@ginnamercado7522 Жыл бұрын

@@AustinWeiss cuál es el precio promedio de alquiler de apartamento de 1 o 2 habitaciones

@AustinWeiss Жыл бұрын

About $1400/mo for a 1 bed and $1900/mo for a 2 bed - you could find places for more & less depending on location and amenitities. Look into Forest Park as well!

@paulsoxl7739 Жыл бұрын

I lived there from 85 till 95, I had to pay to park by my apartment building what a scam

@jaxsonhugh9334 Жыл бұрын

The average home price is over 500K…….😳😳😳

@outtatune Жыл бұрын

This dude is a broker. Lives in Naperville of all places lmao

@drsssssssss 11 ай бұрын

What's crime like? I see on crime maps there are many thefts and robberies.

@iheard6888 Жыл бұрын

Sorry, but I hated every minute living there. That was 1961-62, we didn't get to go around, lived across the street from the Emerson elementary school.

@chikiyaroja Жыл бұрын

Isn’t Emerson Elementary in Maywood?

@InnovativeViber 7 ай бұрын

@@chikiyarojatwo things! its now Gwendolyn Brooks and also is a Middle school

@kingcormack8004 2 ай бұрын

@@chikiyaroja There are Emerson schools all over the US. The one he means is on Washington Blvd which is now named after Gwendolyn Brooks.

@Rat_depression Жыл бұрын

Find me

@Franciskev2 Жыл бұрын

Dork

@robotnielsen5434 2 ай бұрын

I lived there for 3 years and liked it at first but after about a few months I couldn't wait to get out. It is a beautiful village but that's just a facade. The property crime there is pretty bad, the people living there are sitting ducks for the gangbangers that live just across the street in Austin. A parent was recently carjacked while in line to pickup their child from school. Thus, the residents seem very unfriendly and withdrawn.(I never made a single friend there) Also, the food scene is pretty bad in Oak Park, they don't even have a decent pizza place. The food in OP is mediocre at best but they charge like it's a 5 star restaurant. Thankfully there are good food options in the surrounding towns. Public transit there is really good tho! To end my rant, living in Oak Park red-pilled me, I think it's good for some people but not me! Peace out Oak Park , thanks for nothing!

@kingcormack8004 2 ай бұрын

This is one of the biggest piles of bullshit to appear on KZbin. Don't listen to anything this racist hater says. "I never made a single friend there" Loser is why.