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December 30, 2024 at 9:44 a.m.

A 15-year-old hiking bridge spanning the uneven banks of Thorn Creek was deemed “unsafe” because horizontal beams are splintering.

December 2, 2024 at 12:22 p.m.

Columnist Jerry Shnay asks for a grocery store, home for historical society and updated recreation center in Park Forest.

November 21, 2024 at 5:29 p.m.

A taskforce of state legislators and historians will ask the General Assembly to create the Illinois Freedom Trails Commission.

November 4, 2024 at 12:06 p.m.

Park Forest celebrates veterans and its 75th anniversary on Saturday with film on village history: “America’s original G.I. Town”

April 3, 2025 at 1:24 p.m.

While Halloween begins a season of feast holidays, and Black Friday, Cyber Monday and Super Saturday, many will go to bed hungry.

October 7, 2024 at 10:54 a.m.

Plans call for 44 apartments in five buildings, designed to mirror Park Forest rentals, co-ops and condominiums.

September 23, 2024 at 3:27 p.m.

Jerry Shnay looks back at a summer of blooms, decades in Park Forest, and an old friendship forged at newspapers.

September 9, 2024 at 11:05 a.m.

Park Forest police Chief Brian Rzyski thinks COVID-19 may have changed some driving habits early on said police stops have risen.

August 26, 2024 at 12:48 p.m.

Park Forest will host a 3-kilometer event on Labor Day commemorating the old Park Forest Scenic Ten race that drew national attention.

August 20, 2024 at 1:29 p.m.

Park Forest Mayor Joe Woods wrote he was the victim of a violent crime in which one of the assailants had a large knife in his hands.

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