Column: Grant will help bring clean energy training facility to Park Forest
OAI of Park Forest will develop a clean energy demonstration site with a $100,000 check from Northern Illinois Community Initiatives.
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Column: Park Forest loses two women who contributed to the fabric of life
Suzie Brown and Jane Steinmetz both worked together on various projects through the decades to improve life in Park Forest.
Column: Park Forest to continue 75th anniversary events with mid-August gala
The big bash is planned as a concert by the Better Together jazz ensemble, along with a reception and/or dinner in Freedom Hall.
Column: Departures of Park Forest manager, library director leave voids
Tom Mick is preparing to retire as Park Forest village manager, and Library Director Barbara Osuch also is leaving.
Park Forest village manager Tom Mick to step down
Park Forest village manager Tom Mick announced he will step down from his job next year, terminating a nearly 26-year association with the community.
Column: Post Father’s Day remembrance of a difficult life
Fellow prisoners conducted classes where he learned archeology, biology and even more history. He learned English through the novels of Charles Dickens.
Column: There are lessons to be learned from the common house wren
At times, this flitting between gourd and ground devolves into a determined struggle as the small male bird tries to place a branch bigger than itself into the gourd. This...
Column: Park Forest plaques, street names and annual observance remember fallen soldiers
Park Forest developers named 18 streets for Illinoisans who were awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor, posthumously, in World War II.
Column: Park Forest homes get needed upgrades through Cook County program
Homes of lower-income residents in Park Forest and Englewood received free upgrades in one day through Cook County’s Rebuilding Together Metro Chicago, a program designed to meet the sometimes challenges...
Column: It took a village, and Habitat for Humanity, to rehab Park Forest home
Flora Coleman toured her new three-bedroom house accompanied by her 3-year-old daughter, Kennedy, and a houseful of well-wishers, including those who were part of the Habitat for Humanity core of...