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W E D N E S D A Y
December 3, 2025 Vol. 46, No. 23
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In emotional memorial, Oak Park remembers Det. Reddins Snowy service in village hall courtyard By DAN HALEY Interim Editor
On a snowy and cold Saturday morning in the courtyard of Oak Park’s village hall, a crowd gathered to attempt to find joy in the grief brought by the oneyear anniversary of the murder of Oak Park Police Detective Allan Reddins. A year ago, on the morning after Thanksgiving Reddins was shot and killed on Lake Street as he and other officers tried to stop a man who had been reported brandishing a gun near a bank in Downtown Oak Park. All of Oak Park’s police administration, dozens of sworn Oak Park officers, a large contingent of Oak Park firefightSee REDDINS on page 12
Snow at last! Page 9
Lights at RF Tennis Club stirs upset and support
Second meeting this week on proposal to add lights to courts By GREGG VOSS Contributing Reporter
TODD BANNOR
Police Honor Guard during the ceremony at Oak Park Village Hall in memory of Detective Allan Reddins, who was killed in the line of duty one year ago, on Nov. 29.
Controversy over a plan to add lighting at the River Forest Tennis Club will spark again this week as the facility’s application for lights comes back before the village’s Development Review Board. Jason Jeunette is a lighting designer by trade, so he knows about industry terms like foot candles and light spill. So when it comes to an application to amend See LIGHTS on page 14