Marilyn Thomas

The real ER: After 500 hours of grueling training, David Greenberg and Michael Campnell came out on top in emergency medical training, receiving gold and silver Stethoscope Awards in recent...

Residents whose homes surround the Evangelical Baptist Church, 5300 W. 151st St., left this week's City Council meeting with few answers to their concerns about changes to the church's property....

Phil Simon has been hired as the city's new community development coordinator on a one-year, $49,900 consultant's contract. Simon, who has worked on Oak Forest's new comprehensive plan and is...

It's academic: When the Acorn Library in Oak Forest recently thinned its holdings, it sent thousands of paperback and hardcover books to the University of Buea in the Republic of...

Lynn Hilger, forced from a November ballot position, vows to be ready for the April 1999 election of the first taxpayer advocate in Illinois. Hilger, one of two candidates for...

The Cook County Highway Department is planning a major overhaul of Central Avenue between 155th Street and Margie Lane, which is south of 159th Street. Central Avenue is one of...

With an Oct. 30 deadline approaching for tax appeals in Bremen Township, resident Lynn Hilger has volunteered to offer three informational sessions to help others learn how to file a...

Oak Forest City Administrator Peter Strutynski was given another reprieve when the City Council agreed he should continue as a city employee through the fiscal year, which ends April 30....

With Oak Forest Mayor Patrick Gordon saying his decision to replace Fire Chief James Berger "was not political," aldermen voted 4-3 recently to approve paramedic Lindsay Laycoax as the new...

The southern area of Oak Forest, served by septic tanks, soon may get relief from flooding after representatives of three governmental bodies agreed to work together to solve the problems...