Don’t forget to come to Village Hall on Sunday February 8 at 2:30 p.m. to hear Local Historian, Cynthia Ogorek talk about her new Arcadia book, The Lincoln Highway Around Chicago. It is the Park Forest Historical Society’s tribute to the 200th Birthday of Abraham Lincoln.  The meeting of the[Read More…]

The 1950s Park Forest House Museum reopens for the year on Saturday February 7 from 1-3 p.m.  The Forest Boulevard School classroom is decorated for a 1950s Valentines Day party, and vintage Valentines are on display throughout the house. I have been installling a very special exhibit on Dolls of[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)– Media Matters for America previously identified numerous myths and falsehoods advanced by the media in their coverage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. As debate on the bill continues in Congress, other myths and falsehoods advanced by the media about the recovery package have risen to prominence.[Read More…]

On the February 4 edition of CNN’s Lou Dobbs Tonight, host Lou Dobbs declared that, in recent comments about the state of the economy, President Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) have been “fear-mongering” and “blatantly using the politics of fear to push for even more so-called stimulus measures.”[Read More…]

Park Forest, IL–(ENEWSPF)– This Saturday, February 7th, two talented painters, Aaron and Alan Hicks, will host a free workshop. Alan and Aaron Hicks are identical twin brothers from Chicago, Illinois. Not only do they share the same facial features, but the same unique talent as well. Since the age of[Read More…]

CHICAGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The Illinois Technology Foundation, a Chicago-based non-profit organization dedicated to fueling the technology talent and human capital pipeline through facilitated collaboration between academia and industry, has begun accepting nominations for 50 for the Future, an event honoring Illinois’ most promising technology students. The event, now in its third year,[Read More…]

(PRWEB) February 4, 2009 — President Obama’s economic bailout plan, labeled the Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP), offers extensive relief to school districts and higher education programs throughout the U.S. According to Sheila Danzig, founder of Degree.com, an information hub on accredited online degree programs (www.degree.com), it’s critical that the[Read More…]

Chicago, IL–(ENEWSPF)– The FBI, in cooperation with the Illinois State Police and several local police departments, is conducting a complete review of all evidence developed in connection with the 1982 Tylenol murders. This review was prompted, in part, by the recent 25th anniversary of this crime and the resulting publicity.[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)– During the February 4 edition of MSNBC’s Morning Joe, host Joe Scarborough and co-host Mika Brzezinski did not challenge Sen. John Thune’s (R-SD) claim that the creation of “government jobs” doesn’t stimulate the economy. Thune claimed that the legislation before Congress “creates a lot of government jobs,” adding,[Read More…]

Asserting that Obama’s “stimulus plan has lost its luster,” CNN contributor Carol Costello repeated without challenge a claim she called “effective Republican spin” — that spending in the pending Democratic economic recovery bills is not stimulus. She did not point out in rebutting the “effective Republican spin” what numerous economists[Read More…]