Chicago artist Barbara Rossi’s “Eye Deal” from 1974 is part of “Poor Traits,” an exhibition opening at the DePaul Art Museum May 12. This work is acrylic on Plexiglas panel and frame. (Image courtesy of the artist and the Bill McClain Collection of Chicago Imagism, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art)[Read More…]
Park Forest
Sitting Down With Rich East High School’s Golden Apple Recipient Debra Thomas (Story & Video)
Park Forest, IL-(ENEWSPF)- Fighting for the rights of her students. That’s just one of the goals that drives Mrs. Debra Thomas, a Special Education teacher at Rich East High School who was recently named a Golden Apple recipient. In a statement, Golden Apple refers to Mrs. Thomas as “… an[Read More…]
Earth Day Movie and Discussion at the Unitarian Universalist Community Church on April 23
The Izaak Walton Preserve. Source: http://www.homewoodizaakwalton.com/ Park Forest, IL—(ENEWSPF)—April 19, 2016. The Unitarian Universalist Community Church (UUCC), 70 Sycamore Drive, Park Forest, will host the screening of a movie about the History of Homewood’s Izaak Walton Preserve on Saturday, April 23 at 7 p.m. A discussion will follow the screening.[Read More…]
Fall 2016 Registration Open at Prairie State College
CHICAGO HEIGHTS–(ENEWSPF)–April 18, 2016. Registration for fall 2016 is open at Prairie State College (PSC). Priority registration for current students began Monday, April 18. Open registration for all students begins Monday, April 25. Credit courses begin Monday, Aug. 22. Non-credit courses include a variety of single-day and multiple-session offerings that[Read More…]
IL House Speaker Madigan: Constitutional Amendment will Help Strengthen State Support for Education
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. –(ENEWSPF)–April 18, 2016. Speaker of the Illinois House Michael J. Madigan on Monday issued the following statement regarding a constitutional amendment to strengthen education throughout Illinois: “Every student in Illinois deserves an excellent education. By helping our schools deliver a world-class education to our children, we are helping[Read More…]
More Than 500 Young Adults Attend Rep. Kelly’s Youth Job and Resource Expo
MATTESON–(ENEWSPF)–April 18, 2016. More than 500 young people from the South Suburbs and Chicago attended Congresswoman Robin Kelly’s annual Youth Job and Resource Expo on Saturday at Thornwood Township High School in Harvey. “The job fair brought out hundreds of enthusiastic young people who were eager to find summer work,”[Read More…]
Higher Education Coalition to Make Funding Push with Springfield Rally on April 20
Group Unites to Urge Lawmakers, Governor to Solve Months-Long Funding Stalemate SPRINGFIELD –(ENEWSPF)—April 18, 2016. Legislators and the governor need to recognize the serious consequences 10 months without state funding is causing for Illinois colleges and universities and end the stalemate now, a higher ed coalition will call for at[Read More…]
Award-winning Author for Immigrants’ Fights to Give Freeman Lecture on April 25 at Roosevelt University
CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–April 15, 2016. Margaret Regan, an award-winning journalist and author whose life’s work has been to raise awareness and make change to draconian U.S. immigration practices, will deliver a lecture on the horrors that growing numbers of immigrants and their families face at 12:30 p.m. Monday, April 25 in Roosevelt’s[Read More…]
Roosevelt University’s Mansfield Institute to be Player in Cook County’s First Restorative Justice Court
CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–April 15, 2016. Roosevelt University’s Mansfield Institute for Social Justice and Transformation is celebrating a decision by the Cook County Circuit Court to create the county’s first Restorative Justice Community Court in Chicago. An advocate for community solutions, justice reform and a leader in moving restorative justice forward in the[Read More…]
Park Forest Police Blotter Reports April 14, 2016
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 local media. An arrest does not mean that[Read More…]
