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The Trapeze

The official student newspaper of Oak Park and River Forest High School

The Trapeze

The official student newspaper of Oak Park and River Forest High School

The Trapeze

OPRF Rising Scholar recipients
Breaking barriers with language
Graham Shea, Staffer • May 19, 2026

High schoolers face a dizzying array of challenges every day. However, some students juggle another challenge that doesn’t cross other students’...

STUCO advisor with new officers
STUCO elects new officers
Sara Holzer, Editor-in-Chief • May 19, 2026

Lined up outside Room 2397, eight of the candidates for Student Council waited in anticipation to find out who would represent the Oak Park and...

Students fill the second floor snack cabinets May 12
Student activists install free snack cabinets
Gigi Stevens, Staffer • May 15, 2026

For some at Oak Park and River Forest High School, getting through the day without enough to eat is a reality that goes unnoticed. Students...

Best Buddies wins Illinois chapter of the year
Best Buddies wins Illinois chapter of the year
Megan Dauphinee, Staffer • May 18, 2026

Best Buddies was recently awarded Illinois Best Buddies Chapter of the Year for the second time. Winning it first during the 2020-2021 school...

Photo courtesy of Tyrone Garland
OPRF inaugurates Jewish Professionals Day
Noah George, Contributor • May 18, 2026

Oak Park and River Forest High School hosted the first Jewish Professionals Day in the school’s history April 28. Organized by the student...

Students fill the second floor snack cabinets May 12
Student activists install free snack cabinets
Gigi Stevens, Staffer • May 15, 2026

For some at Oak Park and River Forest High School, getting through the day without enough to eat is a reality that goes unnoticed. Students...

The girls water polo team. Photo courtesy of @opwopo on Instagram.
Girls water polo wraps 12-16 season
Theo Bazer, Contributor • May 20, 2026

The Oak Park and River Forest High School girls’ water polo team wrapped up their season with a 12-16 record, falling just short of the sectional...

Huskie varsity baseball beat Proviso West on senior night May 14.
Huskie baseball beats Proviso West 11-1 on senior night
Jack Passariello, Staffer • May 19, 2026

The Oak Park and River Forest High School varsity baseball team won their senior night matchup May 14, beating Proviso West 11-1.  The Huskies...

Photo courtesy of VIP photos
Synchro swim goes to “Old Hollywood”
Zoe Schwartz, Editor-in-Chief • May 18, 2026

As the lights dimmed, anticipation fell over the buzzing crowd. A spotlight illuminated the still pool water, tinting the surface with multicolored...

Seniors celebrate new beginnings
Seniors celebrate new beginnings
Peter Bondartsov May 19, 2026

Seniors gathered on the backfield before school May 13 to brandish their new colors, take photos and celebrate Decision Day, the deadline for...

OPRF Rising Scholar recipients
Breaking barriers with language
Graham Shea, Staffer • May 19, 2026

High schoolers face a dizzying array of challenges every day. However, some students juggle another challenge that doesn’t cross other students’...

STUCO advisor with new officers
STUCO elects new officers
Sara Holzer, Editor-in-Chief • May 19, 2026

Lined up outside Room 2397, eight of the candidates for Student Council waited in anticipation to find out who would represent the Oak Park and...

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OPRF Shakespeare Slam Team members on stage
OPRF Shakespeare team slams first place
Georgia Sullivan, Staffer • May 19, 2026

The Shakespeare Slam Team took first place April 27 in the finals of the Chicago Shakespeare Teen Slam, defeating six competing schools. In addition...

"Curious Incident" actors on stage
“Curious Incident” explores neurodivergence, family dynamics
Ian Castro, Arts & Entertainment Editor • May 18, 2026

  When the audience entered the Little Theater for “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime,” they were greeted by an abstract...

The poster for "I & You," opening May 22 at Madison Street Theater.
“I & You” to open at Madison Street Theater
Trapeze Staff May 17, 2026

An unlikely connection develops between a popular athletic boy and a girl homebound by illness in the play "I & You," to run from May 22...

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Senior editors-in-chief say goodbye to Trapeze
Clara Lau and Madeline Walski May 19, 2026

I thought my last piece for Trapeze would begin with certainty. Instead, I've been deleting the same characters for days, circling back to a...

The two-flat’s hold on Oak Park
The two-flat’s hold on Oak Park
Nikhil Sholar, Staffer • May 1, 2026

Before the skyscrapers, before the bungalows, before the postwar ranch houses and the Naperville McMansions, there was the two-flat. You’ve...

We’re better than Hemingway’s Oak Park
We’re better than Hemingway’s Oak Park
Nolan Eggert, Staffer • May 1, 2026

Every few years, Oak Park does what Oak Park does best: polish the bronze plaques, update the museum and remind the world that Ernest Hemingway...

The classroom library in Room 3137
Are students still reading books?
Clara Lau, Editor-in-Chief • April 30, 2026

Recently, “Book of the Month,” a monthly book subscription service, has been advertising in Los Angeles and New York posters that say “Nobody...