Jerry Shnay – Page 11

Wren chicks in the gourd outside the Shnay home in Park Forest.

Column: Snicker at Richton Park’s stadium bid for the Chicago Bears, but the economic need is real

July 31, 2023 at 10:46 a.m.

Our smarter-than-smart friends from Chicago must have giggled at the thought of little Richton Park, with a population of about 13,000, trying to get the big-city Chicago Bears to locate...

Donations in a basement room at Park Forest Village Hall for people displaced by June 16 condominium fire on Indianwood Boulevard.

Column: Victory Christian church steps up to assist those displaced in Park Forest condominium fire

July 17, 2023 at 11:14 a.m.

We need to pay it forward. One day in June, we walked across the street to meet our new neighbors. We do this because once we were strangers on the...

Park Forest Village Trustee Randall White holds his phone May 31, 2023, to make a video of the District 163 Board vote to remove Superintendent Caletha White, seated to his left.

Column: Park Forest District 163 agrees on salary for former, now interim, superintendent

July 3, 2023 at 10:48 a.m.

The base pay of the president is $400,000, so if your yearly retirement payments are almost as much as what Joe Biden makes, another $120,000 deposited in your bank account...

Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle speaks at a news conference June 6, 2023, in Park Forest, announcing $15 million in funding for Cook County and the United Way of Metro Chicago to expand its Neighborhood Network Initiative into more south suburbs.

Column: Investment in communities follows political visits to south suburbs

June 19, 2023 at 10:02 a.m.

In a time not so long ago, in a land that we know, the political heavyweights from Richard Nixon to Barack Obama came to Park Forest to be heard (Nixon)...

Members of Park Forest American Legion Color Guard at the annual Memorial Day observance.

Column: Routine of Memorial Day and long weekend belie the tragedy of war

June 5, 2023 at 5:44 p.m.

There was a Memorial Day service held on the Village Green in Park Forest last week. You were not alone if you missed it. Almost all the residents of the...

Park Forest Village Trustee Randall White holds his phone Wednesday to make a video of the District 163 Board vote to remove Superintendent Caletha White, to his left.

Park Forest District 163 ousts Superintendent Caletha White during four-hour, chaotic meeting

June 1, 2023 at 1:20 p.m.

In a chaotic and often disruptive four-hour meeting Wednesday night, the new Park Forest-Chicago Heights Elementary District 163 Board voted 4-3 to replace Superintendent Caletha White with her predecessor, Joyce...

South Suburban mayors Joe Woods, from left, of Park Forest, Sheila Chalmers-Currin of Matteson and Rick Reinbold of Richton Park gather in Springfield for a lobby day.

Column: Park Forest Mayor Joe Woods goes to Springfield; the education of a mayor

May 22, 2023 at 10:19 a.m.

It's the story of a newly elected mayor of a south suburban community. Let's call him Joe Woods and let's say the name of the town is Park Forest. The...

Column: Spring brings change, including a farewell to a longtime organizer of Park Forest cultural offerings

May 8, 2023 at 11:12 a.m.

Spring came to our house the other day in the form of three dazzling orange orioles, each taking turns at our bird jelly feeder. Their radiant plumage glistening in the...

Column: Incoming Park Forest mayor pledges return to community-based meetings

April 24, 2023 at 9:02 a.m.

Shortly after he moved to Park Forest in 2000, and after his computer stopped working, Joe Woods began using one in the Park Forest Public Library. "The library became a...

Column: Park Forest village and school elections results defy traditional politics

April 10, 2023 at 10:15 a.m.

Old political habits die hard. Pressing the flesh — the shaking of hands with potential voters — has been a constant part of politics as long as there have been...

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