Oak Park’s bitter race

Oak Park’s bitter race

In candid interviews with the Journal late last week both Vicki Scaman and Ravi Parakkat, the candidates for Oak Park village president in next week’s election, acknowledged that this campaign has been bruising and that the tensions in the race trace back to distrust and rifts that developed over the past four years as they have served together on the village board. There is a level of personal animus at work in the campaign that does feel diffe…