Chicago, IL-(ENEWSPF)- The owner of a transportation company that bused Chicago public school students spent corporate money to purchase and renovate a $500,000 home in the city’s Oakland neighborhood and illegally deducted the funds in U.S. tax filings, according to a federal indictment unsealed today. JEWEL LOCKHART, the owner and[Read More…]
Author: Gary Kopycinski
Is Somebunny Missing A Wascally Wabbit?
Park Forest, IL-(ENEWSPF)- Park Forest police posted a notice on the department’s Facebook page regarding a “wascally wabbit,” a bunny rabbit that apparently hopped away. The officer who wrote the notice had some fun: If somebunny is missing their pet rabbit, found on the 100 block of Forest Blvd., Bugs[Read More…]
Muzicnet Band at the Park Forest Farmers’ Market Saturday
Park Forest, IL-(ENEWSPF)- The Muzicnet Band will be at the Park Forest Farmers’ Market on Saturday, September 24, 2016 from 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. There will be line dancing and an Open Mic. All are welcome and encouraged to attend. Looking for music lessons? This story was supplied by[Read More…]
Cook County Receives Distinguished Budget Presentation Award
Chicago, IL-(ENEWSPF)- The Government Finance Officers Association of the United States and Canada (GFOA) recently awarded the Cook County Department of Budget and Management Services its Distinguished Budget Presentation Award in recognition of the County’s determined efforts to exercise budgeting best practices, according to a press release from Cook County Board[Read More…]
Car Slams Into House On Monee Road
Park Forest, IL-(ENEWSPF)- A vehicle slammed into a house on Monee Road on Wednesday, August 31. Firefighter/paramedics found “a male patient in distress,” according to a statement on the Park Forest Fire Department‘s Facebook page. The fire department responded to the home in the 100 block of Monee Road after[Read More…]
Fire On Homan Avenue “Quickly Extinguished”
Park Forest, IL-(ENEWSPF)- Members of the Park Forest Fire Department battled a structure fire in the 500 block of Homan Avenue beginning just before midnight on Tuesday, August 30. According to a statement on the PFFD’s Facebook page, on that date, “just before midnight, the Park Forest Fire Department was[Read More…]
Park Forest Observes National Hispanic Heritage Month
Park Forest-(ENEWSPF)- During a particularly caustic, xenophobic political season, it was particularly gratifying to watch as Park Forest, by resolution, observed National Hispanic Heritage Month. According to the agenda memo on this proclamation from Village Manager Tom Mick, “the 2010 US Census results showed the Hispanic heritage population to be[Read More…]
Park Forest Honors Stephen Lloyd for 35 Years Service on Police and Fire Commission
Park Forest, IL-(ENEWSPF)- Retiring after 35 years service on the Board of Fire and Police Commissioners, the Village Board passed a resolution Monday honoring Stephen Lloyd. Mayor John Ostenburg remarked that Mr. Lloyd had been on the commission so long, that each and every officer and fire official currently employed in[Read More…]
Construction Updates For Waverly, Mohawk, Suwanee, And Other Streets
Park Forest, IL-(ENEWSPF)- The Village of Park Forest reports on its Web site that Austin Tyler began water main installation along Waverly Street last Wednesday. Mohawk Street, Suwanee Street, Minocqua Street (from Blackhawk to Marquette) will have water main installed in the near future, officials say. “Residents will experience a short[Read More…]
61st Park Forest Art Fair Running Strong
Park Forest, IL-(ENEWSPF)- Comparing each and every Park Forest Art Fair to the art fair from last year or years before is like comparing water in the same river. It’s never the same. You can’t step in the same river twice. Thus spake Heraclitus (“δὶς ἐς τὸν αὐτὸν ποταμὸν οὐκ[Read More…]
