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.
By adding electric vehicles to its municipal fleet and expanding the number of public charging stations, Oak Park is bolstering its reputation as a green community known for its commitment to environmental sustainability.
Charging stations
Two public charging stations recently installed in the Village Hall parking lot at 123 Madison St. serve four dedicated spaces for electric vehicles, bringing to 18 the total number of spaces reserved for electric vehicles in Village-owned lots.
Six electric vehicle-charging spaces also are available at the Holley Court Garage downtown, and four each at the Avenue Garage, 720 North Blvd., and the public garage near Lake Street and Forest Avenue.
Electric fleet
In addition to offering public charging stations, the Village also recently added five new all-electric sedans to its fleet of vehicles used by employees who must drive around Oak Park on official duty as part of the normal work day.
These new electric vehicles are the latest green additions to the municipal fleet, which has embraced alternative fuel options since compressed natural gas was first used in a Village sedan nearly 20 years ago.
The Village also employs 18 other hybrid vehicles, and most of its heavy-duty equipment such as fire trucks and snow plows run on B20 fuel, a lower-emission diesel fuel made in part from agriculture waste products.
The Village even owns a hybrid truck that uses a battery-powered bucket lift rather than the vehicle’s main engine to reduce emissions at a job site.
Other tools
Oak Park’s green fleet is just one of many sustainability tools adopted to help reduce the carbon footprint and emissions of the wide range of specialized vehicles required to deliver public services.
The Village also expanded its use of telematics, which uses data collected by on-board vehicle computers to teach fleet drivers to reduce the use of fossil fuels by decreasing idling time and reducing speed and excessive acceleration.
Wider recognition
All of these efforts by the Village to improve air quality have not gone unnoticed.
The Village’s municipal fleet operations earned Oak Park recognition as the best performing municipality for 2019 by Chicago Area Clean Cities, a nonprofit coalition of public and private organizations working to promote the use of clean fuels and clean fuel vehicles throughout the Chicago metropolitan area.
Heavy Duty Trucking magazine also named the Village one of its 2019 Top Green Fleets.
For more information about the Village’s municipal fleet, visit www.oak-park.us/publicworks.
Village joins solar purchasing pool
Oak Park is among the first nine communities to jump into the purchasing pool for the first community solar project in Illinois. When the state’s first community solar project came online in October in Elgin, Oak Park joined Deerfield, Glencoe, Glenview, Highland Park, Lake Bluff, Park Forest and Elgin as subscribers. The program allows participating communities to purchase a portion of the electricity produced by a solar installation and then receive credits on their electric bills. Oak Park’s credit for a portion of the output from the solar project in Elgin should mean lower electric bills for municipal facilities. For more information about environmental initiatives in Oak Park, visit www.oak-park.us/sustainability.
