Photo: PSC Chicago Heights , IL–(ENEWSPF)– In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, Prairie State College recently crowned Nicole Trujillo (second right), of Chicago Heights , Miss Latina Internacional de Excelencia. Throughout the year, all four women will represent the college at various events including a service project in collaboration with[Read More…]

Detective James Varga a ceremony for the Park Forest Police Department last December. (Photo: VOPF) Park Forest, IL–(ENEWSPF)– Park Forest Police Detective James Varga was one of a select number of officers honored last week at the annual Cook County Sheriff’s Law Enforcement Award Ceremony in Chicago . Varga, a[Read More…]

Park Forest, IL–(ENEWSPF)– An unidentified subject stole a purse from a woman returning to her home shortly after 10 p.m. one night last week. A resident told police she was returning to her home in the first block in of Dogwood last Monday, October 20, when she was attacked from[Read More…]

The Park Forest Police Station. (Photo: Wendy Heise) Park Forest, IL—(ENEWSPF)— Editor’s Note: We continue our reporting on news from police reports. Besides covering the many stories from around Park Forest that otherwise might go unnoticed, we want to bring more complete coverage of police reports than is reported by other[Read More…]

    Jennifer Hudson’s publicist Lisa Kasteler has issued the following statement: "Jennifer Hudson and her family are offering a reward of $100,000 for the safe return of her nephew  who has been missing since Friday, October 24th. We ask that all inquiries be directed to the Chicago Police Department,[Read More…]

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UPDATE FROM THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE:  Hudson’s nephew, Julian King, was found shot to death in the back of an SUV on Chicago’s West Side on Monday. Julian and his mother, Julia Hudson, shared a home with Hudson’s mother, 57-year-old Darnell Donerson, and brother, 29-year-old Jason Hudson, who also died of[Read More…]

Updated October 28, 2008 at 3:55 p.m. with corrected information regarding number of Library Trustee seats open. Park Forest, IL–(ENEWSPF)– According to a press release issued by the Village of Park Forest Friday, Park Forest Clerk Sheila McGann announced that petition packets are available for residents interested in running for[Read More…]

(Photo: ENEWSPF) As if it was possible for anyone to be less popular than President Bush, a new Chicago Tribune poll puts Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s popularity at 13%. The ratings are the lowest ever recorded for an elected politician in almost three decades of Tribune polls. Blagojevich has a different[Read More…]

Even Knappenberger, Iraq war veteran: "We are murderers of over one million Iraqis." (Photo: Mike Hastie) Inter Press Service By Dahr Jamail PORTLAND, Oregon – (IPS) – Veterans from the U.S. occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan, along with Iraqis, Afghanis, Vietnam veterans, and family members of U.S. military personnel converged[Read More…]