Hello: The 1950s Park Forest House Museum will be open Saturday December 29 from 1-3 p.m. Due to bad weather on Saturdays, and a messed up Star/Southtown situation, not many visitors have seen the newly re-opened 1950s Park Forest House Museum at 141 Forest at the corner of Forest and[Read More…]

(PRWEB) December 28, 2007 — The United States Entertainment Force nonprofit corporation has launched a new interactive website that will help to not only generate donations for the support of our troops (www.theusef.org), but also has a section in the communities which will help ease troop communication to family and[Read More…]

Son of Scarface: A Memoir by the Grandson of Al Capone, a Tell-All Memoir About how the author has Uncovered his Family’s Lost Legacy Santa Ana, CA (PRWEB) December 28, 2007 — A provocative story, Son of Scarface is a young man’s search for his father’s mysterious past. The simple,[Read More…]

eNews Park Forest welcomes your letters. Please include your address and phone number for verification. Pseudonyms or anonymous letters are not published. All letters are subject to editing. We ask that letters be exclusive to eNews Park Forest. We regret that we can neither print nor acknowledge all the correspondence[Read More…]

Thanks eNewsPF My introduction to eNews Park Forest came from Officer LaTara Chaney of the Park Forest Police Department. I was added to her Police Department mailing list through my and a neighbor’s attempts at getting a Neighborhood Watch program established on my street. After reading the initial issue, I[Read More…]

Park Forest, IL—(ENEWSPF)— The League of Women Voters of the Park Forest Area will hold its second annual social event and fund raiser at Tall Grass Art Gallery, 367 Artists Walk in DownTown Park Forest, at 7:00 p.m. Thursday January 3, 2008. For $30.00 guests will receive hors d’oeuvres and[Read More…]

Commentary Inside the First Amendment By Charles C. Haynes First Amendment Center senior scholar Three hundred and fifty years ago, on Dec. 27, 1657, 30 inhabitants of Flushing, New Netherland (now New York), defied Gov. Peter Stuyvesant’s order barring townspeople from harboring Quakers. “For our part,” they protested to Stuyvesant,[Read More…]

The Park Forest Police Station. (Photo: Wendy Heise) 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[Read More…]

Park Forest, IL–(ENEWSPF)– Two juveniles were tasered by police during an attempted burglary on the morning of Dec. 17. At 10:14 a.m. Dec. 17, Park Forest Police were called to the 10-20 block of McGarity for a burglary in progress. Police made a perimeter around the house while other officers[Read More…]

Chicago Heights, IL–(ENEWSPF)– The Prairie State College Board of Trustees approved the resignation of College President Paul McCarthy Tuesday evening. After several board members expressed regret for McCarthy leaving, the board unanimously approved the resignation. “With deep regret, I move we accept your resignation from our school,” said board member[Read More…]