Jerry Shnay

Once there was a high school in Park Forest for which more than 99% of the town's residents voted to tax themselves so their children could attend a nearby school...

Four of the five contenders for a seat on the Park Forest Village Board were on hand Sunday at the second village candidate forum, answering written questions from a large...

When Alicia Rodman McCray was selected to the Park Forest Hall of Fame in 2013, she was lauded as "the embodiment of the term public citizen." Truer words were never...

Question: What do you do when candidates for political office do not show up for discussions with the voters? Answer: You keep on going. What was originally billed Sunday as...

In the midst of a sunless winter day, the bleak season was brightened with the arrival of a seed and plant catalog; its colorful pages glowing with wordless promises of...

Village elections are as much about personality as politics and often become more combative than convivial. These odd-year choices by the people manage to stir voters and, in recent years,...

One chilly day last week, I tried to start our 12-year-old car which has survived an encounter with a deer, a big hole in a construction zone, a tree, a...

During the last week, much of the online conversation in Park Forest was focused on police Chief Paul Winfrey's Facebook message about "the real-world impacts" of the controversial provisions of...