Park Forest, IL–(ENEWSPF)– will meet Monday, April 6, at The Board of Education of Park Forest-Chicago Heights School District 163 will meet as a Finance Committee, Monday, April 6, 2009 at the District Office, 242 South Orchard Drive, Park Forest. The meeting will be held in the Board Room and[Read More…]

Park Forest, IL–(ENEWSPF)– Want to find out why it’s taken so long for the auto industry to seriously develop hybrid and electric cars? On Thursday April 30 the League of Women Voters of the Park Forest Area will sponsor a public viewing of the film Who Killed the Electric Car?[Read More…]

Park Forest, IL–(ENEWSPF)– The Park Forest Nurses Club will meet Thursday, April 16, at 7:30 p.m. at Calvary United Protestant Church, Lincoln Highway and Orchard Drive. Dr. Kathleen Mykytiuk, Respiratory Therapist, will discuss “ECMO.” Registered Nurses, active or inactive, are invited to attend. For further information call (708) 481-8387.

Early Voting ends April 2; About 20,000 voters have cast ballots Cook County, IL–(ENEWSPF)– Forty-three people have completed the necessary steps to become official write-in candidates for the April 7election, Cook County Clerk David Orr said Wednesday. The candidates are seeking 33 different offices from mayor to township assessor, village[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)– Given current market conditions, there has been no shortage of Ponzi investment schemes, perpetrators, and victims. These schemes are varied in their methods, but usually lure investors with the false promise of high financial returns or dividends not available through traditional investments. This type of fraud is named[Read More…]

Customers of a telecommunications firm received an e-mail recently explaining a problem with their latest order. They were asked to go to the company website, via a link in the e-mail, to provide personal information—like their birthdates and Social Security numbers. But both the e-mail and the website were bogus.[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)– “The FBI is aware of the potential threat posed by the Conficker worm. We are working closely with a broad range of partners, including DHS and other agencies in the U.S. government, as well as throughout the private sector, to fully identify and mitigate the threat. “The public[Read More…]

University Park, IL–(ENEWSPF)–March 30, 2009.  The Southland Area Theatre Ensemble (SLATE) at Governors State University announced that it will hold auditions for its production of “Into the Woods.” Open auditions for adults will be held on June 1 and 2, from 5:30 to 10 p.m., in Engbretson Hall, at Governors[Read More…]

Chicago, IL–(ENEWSPF)– The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), a partnership between the FBI and the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C), today released the 2008 Annual Report on the number of Internet crime complaints received. A total of 275,284 complaints were received in 2008—up from 206,884 (33 percent) over 2007.[Read More…]

Mayor Ostenburg accepts the budget awards from Beverly Sterrett. (PHOTO VOPF) Thirteeth Year in a row for Distinguished Budget Presentation Award Park Forest, IL–(ENEWSPF)– Two more nails will go into the wall of the Village Hall Board Room this week to accommodate a pair of recent awards: the Distinguished Budget[Read More…]