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…]

Inter Press Service By Ali al-Fadhily and Dahr Jamail* BAGHDAD, Aug 8 (IPS) – Living from one crisis to another, without electricity or freedom to move under a collapse of security, massive numbers of Iraqi students are failing their exams. "It is a natural result of what is going on[Read More…]

Commentary Park Forest’s Crime Free Housing Ordinance helped make quite an impact on one area of the village last week. While some were evicted from their residences in the Lofts of Thorn Creek because of failure to pay rent, there’s no question that a fair number of the 34 evictions[Read More…]

Commentary Inside the First Amendment By Charles C. Haynes First Amendment Center senior scholar The International Olympic Committee and the megabucks corporate sponsors of the games breathed a sigh of relief when the China Olympics got under way last week with no major boycotts or disruptions. Last spring, faced with[Read More…]

Matteson, IL–(ENEWSPF)– Matteson School District 162 will meet Tuesday, August 18 to consider a number of personnel matters and some housekeeping items as students and teachers prepare for a new school year. The meeting will be held at 7:00 p.m. in the board room at the district office. The board[Read More…]

Commentary and Humor Are you a stickler for proper grammar? Ever shrug your shoulders and sigh when encountering a particularly flummoxing phrase in your local newspaper, wondering how did that ever make it to print? eNewsPF reader Phyllis Camplin sent us some woefully hebetudinous headlines that cry out for a[Read More…]

Park Forest, IL–(ENEWSPF)– The Park Forest Historical Society will hold kickoff its 2008-2009 program season with a program on the history of the Lincoln Highway. The event will take place on Sunday, September 14, 2008 at 2:30 p.m. in the Village Board Meeting Room of the Park Forest Village Hall,[Read More…]

Members of the Rich East High School Band perform Saturday at Ash Street Cooperative’s block party. (Photo: ENEWSPF) Park Forest, IL–(ENEWSPF)– As Park Foresters weather the August heat, Rich East Band members are dreaming of a Memphis winter. The band, which performed Saturday at Ash Street Cooperative’s block party, is[Read More…]

Commentary The Chicago Sun-Times has a stirring story about a resident of Park Forest’s Victory Centre who recently received an apology from the United States Army over his wrongful conviction in connection with the 1944 death of Italian POW Guglielmo Olivotto. According to the Sun-Times report: [Roy Montgomery] was just[Read More…]

Inter Press Service By Ahmed Ali and Dahr Jamail* BAQUBA, Aug 13 (IPS) – Haider returned from Iran recently, with enough money to pay for his wedding and a new car. He was trained to join Badr, the armed wing of the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council (SIIC) led by Abdul[Read More…]