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Park Forest Veterans Commission member Mark Kellogg glances at a text message while greeting shopper Peggy Johnson of South Holland in December 2019 at the Park Forest the Veterans Closet & Resource Center.

Column: Moving Memorial Day to July 3 would remind us of sacrifices for freedom

May 24, 2021 at 10:30 a.m.

Two events worth noting this coming week are Park Forest's annual Memorial Day observance Monday, May 31, and the reopening of the Veterans Closet the following day. These occasions are...

Column: Former Park Forest Mayor Pat Kelly remembered as teacher, reader and friend

May 10, 2021 at 4:40 p.m.

I do not think anyone ever had a short conversation with Pat Kelly. From art history to the history of houses along the Chicago River, or from good grammar to...

Workers exit the Park Forest Village Hall in April 2020.

Column: Women now hold five of six seats on Park Forest Village Board

April 26, 2021 at 1:03 p.m.

Some personal take-aways from the recent election. Park Forest has a long history of women getting things done. When the village was a babe in the suburban woods and, when...

Column: Park Forest granted authority to demolish ‘house on the hill’ built for Philip Klutznick, one of town’s founders

April 19, 2021 at 4:47 p.m.

Soon, sometime this year, when all the dotted lines have signatures, the house on the hill on Monee Road will become a memory. It will be then that the loud...

Column: Park Forest tradition of independent candidates blurred in April election; Non-Partisan Committee reaffirms rules

April 12, 2021 at 10:51 a.m.

Two venerable pieces of the Park Forest puzzle — the Non-Partisan Committee and the historical society — captured our attention this past week; the former for trying to preserve the...

Column: Park Forest elections wind down without traditional grunts, snorts and hoots from forum audiences

March 29, 2021 at 3:14 p.m.

We lost a lot during the last 13 months of pandemic. Some lost contact with friends and family members through COVID-19 and fear of contagion from the virus. Others lost...

Park Forest Public Library in April 2019.

Column: Park Forest library reopens to a ‘different normal’

March 15, 2021 at 5:19 p.m.

Last Monday, a mere two days short of the complete pandemic year, the revised edition of the Park Forest Library opened its automatic doors to the public. Gone are hundreds...

Column: Friends continue to ask for answers in 1984 Park Forest homicide case of 15-year-old Kristina Hickey

March 1, 2021 at 4:33 p.m.

The search goes on. On Oct. 3, 1984, 15-year-old Kristina Hickey took part in a choral concert at Rich East High School. Afterward, the sophomore called her boyfriend, David Batchelor,...

Residents in 2018 opposed the proposed closing of Talala elementary school in Park Forest.

Column: Crete-Monee schools ask voter support for $62.25 million bond issue, change in state law

February 15, 2021 at 6:00 a.m.

If at first you don't succeed . . . Crete-Monee School District 201-U will ask residents April 6 to approve a $62.25 million bond issue to build a new elementary...

A worker uses a snowblower in the 3300 block of West 26th Street in Chicago during the morning snowfall Jan. 26.

Column: My hate-hate relationship with snowblowers; candidate forums commence in Park Forest

February 1, 2021 at 12:05 p.m.

Through the years, I have had a long-standing hate-hate relationship with snowblowers. I despise spending what amounts to one month's payment on a Tesla sedan for a contraption which needs...

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