Day: January 25, 2010

Final Days For January College Illinois! 529 Prepaid Tuition Prices

SPRINGFIELD, Ill.–(ENEWSPF)–January 25, 2010.  Sunday, January 31, is the final day to make good on New Year’s resolutions to start saving for college by locking in January’s discount prices with the College Illinois! 529 Prepaid Tuition Program. Prices will increase Monday, February 1, according to the Illinois Student Assistance Commission[Read More…]

Step Back into a 1950s Valentines Day

In February, the 1950s Park Forest House Museum has a Valentines Day theme.  The classroom is decorated for a 1950s Valentines Day party with vintage valentines and crepe paper candy baskets, and construction paper heart-shaped valentine “mailboxes” on each desk.  Red honeycomb, puffy hearts are hung around the room.  Vintage[Read More…]

PFHS Archivist’s Column February 2010

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Chicago FBI: Two Charged in Murder-for-Hire Plot

Hammond, IN–(ENEWSPF)– The United States Attorney’s Office announced that two DuPage County, Illinois men were arrested last week after being charged by complaint in a murder-for-hire plot targeting an Assistant United States Attorney and a Drug Enforcement Administration agent assigned to Chicago. Frank Caira, 39, of Downers Grove, Illinois, and[Read More…]

When You Sign A Petition, Should Your Name Be Secret?

Commentary Inside the First Amendment By Gene Policinski First Amendment Center vice president/executive director “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.” In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, that phrase set out a central theme of the star-crossed lovers’ tragedy: Real[Read More…]

Police Officers Sworn In at PSC

(PHOTO SUPPLIED) Chicago Heights, IL–(ENEWSPF)– Ben Gilbert and Steve Winding were sworn in as police offices joining the Prairie State College police force. Shown here from left to right: J.R. Dempsey, vice president of finance and administration; Norman Martin, director, campus and public safety/chief of police; police officers Ben Gilbert[Read More…]

New Class of Sculpture Park Docents Begins at GSU

The 2009 docent class enjoys their orientation tour of the park in May. (l-r: Jacqueline Lewis, Flossmoor; Jane Castle, Crete; Peggy Brown, Matteson; Dennis Condon, Park Forest; Leona Calvin, Flossmoor; Susan Calabrese, Homewood; Colleen Newquist, Park Forest. (Not Pictured: Joyce Horath, Beecher; Pat Muehring, Crete) University Park, IL–(ENEWSPF)– Volunteer docents[Read More…]

Marian Catholic Announces 2010 Hall of Fame

Award Dinner and Ceremony set for February 18, 2010 at Olympia Fields Country Club Chicago Heights, IL–(ENEWSPF)– The high standards and rich tradition of Marian Catholic High School will be unmistakable at the 2010 Hall of Fame Dinner as four torchbearers of the school’s motto, “Teaching Scholars with a Soul,”[Read More…]

Marian Catholic Announces Second Quarter Honor Roll for 2009-2010 School Year

Chicago Heights, IL–(ENEWSPF)– Marian Catholic High School has announced its Honor Roll for the Second Quarter of the 2009-2010 school year. Along with a full complement of co-curricular activities in athletics and fine arts, the school says rigorous college-prep academics remain the focus as the following “Scholars with a Soul” are recognized[Read More…]

Honorary Degree Recipient Doug Glanville to Speak at GSU

LeRoy Sims (left) and chess Grandmaster Len Weber match wits Saturday at Dining on the Green. (Photo: Gary Kopycinski) University Park, IL–(ENEWSPF)– Doug Glanville, former outfielder for the Chicago Cubs and the Philadelphia Phillies, will play a double header at Governors State University on February 5 and 6. GSU will[Read More…]

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