Poc the Pig living high on the hog in Park Forest
Bill and Susan Brazzale are like most pet owners. They insist that at times their animal Poc has all too human characteristics. "Sometimes she is moody and stubborn and ignores...
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Why Park Forest is called home
Heading back from our annual family venture to Colorado, passing the aftermath of a month of storms -- dry irrigation ditches turned into flowing streams, placid streams swolen into small...
Don’t count out Park Forest’s Pankatron
Talk about comebacks! A little more than three years ago, we bid farewell to the Pankatron, the 60-year-old mechanical marvel of a griddle that cooked and served up flapjacks at...
Village powerless to clear overgrowth at vacant homes in Park Forest
In 2013, Illinois received its share of a $25 billion national settlement with the country's five largest bank mortgage servicers — Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Citibank and...
Pause for a moment on Memorial Day to say, ‘Thanks, pal’
Memorial Day is May 25. It says so on the calendar. The mattress sale ads in the paper confirm it is a national holiday. Throughout the land, groups of people...
A “house museum” is not a house in Park Forest
Why is it so hard for a historic town like Park Forest to save its history? That's the question posed by Jane Nicoll, archivist for the Park Forest Historical Society,...
Renovation plans are stuck in park
It's not going to happen this year or next, and it may not ever take place. But on a table in the office of Rob Gunther, Park Forest's recreation and...
Historical society chooses Hall of Famers
No matter where we choose to live – big city, suburb or small town – we soon become part of the public fabric with itsunbreakable threads that bind us to...
One last pre-election verbal tussle in Park Forest
The final candidate forum sponsored by the Non-Partisan Committee of Park Forest began last Sunday with a slap on the wrists of two contenders for office for what were deemed...
Vaccines, a coaching legend and opera
Last Sunday's baiduhai carried a story by Ron Grossman, who wrote about polio in Chicago in the 1950s; how the illness caused hundreds of deaths each year, creating widespread...