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Oak Park-River Forest

Best HS Gyms: Back To Where It Started
20 Jan 2023

Best HS Gyms: Back To Where It Started

by Vincent D. Johnson | posted in: Illinois H.S. Hardwood & Hoops | 0

Oak Park inspired Frank Lloyd Wright, Ernest Hemingway, and now me. On the afternoon of January 7th of 2012, I was getting ready to photograph a varsity girls basketball game for the Oak Leaves newspaper, in what would be my … Continued

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