Local Local Group Forms to Support Bernie Sanders for President by Gary Kopycinski on June 27, 2015 Gary Kopycinski Author More in Local: Park Forest’s Sandra Zoellner Retires After 21 Years of Service June 17, 2026 Save the date for The Prairie Party at theNate June 17, 2026 Governors State Has New Soccer Complex and New Men’s Coach June 17, 2026 Park Forest, IL—(ENEWSPF)—June 27, 2015. Chicago Southland for Bernie Sanders has launched a group to campaign for the popular senator from Vermont, who has been climbing up in the polls and playing to huge crowds across the country recently.