Chicago, IL–(ENEWSPF)– Robert D. Grant, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Chicago office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) announced today that the FBI was joining local authorities in the search for a Cary, Illinois woman charged with abducting her two children. SONIA DEL CARMEN LEON DE CAROL, age 43, is[Read More…]
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Remarks by Secretary of State Clinton With Canadian Prime Minister Harper At Friends of Haiti Meeting
Montreal, Canada–(ENEWSPF)–January 25, 2010. PRIME MINISTER HARPER: Well, first of all, Secretary Clinton, welcome to Montreal. We’re delighted to have you in Canada representing the Administration and I should just say as well delighted with the work you’ve been doing with us and delighted – very pleased at the fact[Read More…]
Final Days For January College Illinois! 529 Prepaid Tuition Prices
SPRINGFIELD, Ill.–(ENEWSPF)–January 25, 2010. Sunday, January 31, is the final day to make good on New Year’s resolutions to start saving for college by locking in January’s discount prices with the College Illinois! 529 Prepaid Tuition Program. Prices will increase Monday, February 1, according to the Illinois Student Assistance Commission[Read More…]
Step Back into a 1950s Valentines Day
In February, the 1950s Park Forest House Museum has a Valentines Day theme. The classroom is decorated for a 1950s Valentines Day party with vintage valentines and crepe paper candy baskets, and construction paper heart-shaped valentine “mailboxes” on each desk. Red honeycomb, puffy hearts are hung around the room. Vintage[Read More…]
PFHS Archivist’s Column February 2010
<!– /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:””; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:”Times New Roman”; mso-fareast-font-family:”Times New Roman”;} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} –> In My Own Little Corner. Jane Nicoll excerpted from February 2010 Park Forest Historical Society Newsletter. A[Read More…]
Chicago FBI: Two Charged in Murder-for-Hire Plot
Hammond, IN–(ENEWSPF)– The United States Attorney’s Office announced that two DuPage County, Illinois men were arrested last week after being charged by complaint in a murder-for-hire plot targeting an Assistant United States Attorney and a Drug Enforcement Administration agent assigned to Chicago. Frank Caira, 39, of Downers Grove, Illinois, and[Read More…]
When You Sign A Petition, Should Your Name Be Secret?
Commentary Inside the First Amendment By Gene Policinski First Amendment Center vice president/executive director “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.” In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, that phrase set out a central theme of the star-crossed lovers’ tragedy: Real[Read More…]
Police Officers Sworn In at PSC
(PHOTO SUPPLIED) Chicago Heights, IL–(ENEWSPF)– Ben Gilbert and Steve Winding were sworn in as police offices joining the Prairie State College police force. Shown here from left to right: J.R. Dempsey, vice president of finance and administration; Norman Martin, director, campus and public safety/chief of police; police officers Ben Gilbert[Read More…]
New Class of Sculpture Park Docents Begins at GSU
The 2009 docent class enjoys their orientation tour of the park in May. (l-r: Jacqueline Lewis, Flossmoor; Jane Castle, Crete; Peggy Brown, Matteson; Dennis Condon, Park Forest; Leona Calvin, Flossmoor; Susan Calabrese, Homewood; Colleen Newquist, Park Forest. (Not Pictured: Joyce Horath, Beecher; Pat Muehring, Crete) University Park, IL–(ENEWSPF)– Volunteer docents[Read More…]
Marian Catholic Announces 2010 Hall of Fame
Award Dinner and Ceremony set for February 18, 2010 at Olympia Fields Country Club Chicago Heights, IL–(ENEWSPF)– The high standards and rich tradition of Marian Catholic High School will be unmistakable at the 2010 Hall of Fame Dinner as four torchbearers of the school’s motto, “Teaching Scholars with a Soul,”[Read More…]
