Jerry Shnay – Page 16

Column: How to enjoy a good scare while contributing to Rich, Monee township food pantries

October 25, 2021 at 10:47 a.m.

There will not be a haunted house in downtown Park Forest this year. For more than a decade, and as part of a national Haunts Against Hunger campaign, donations of...

Column: Documentary ‘Revisiting Utopia’ seeks to document efforts to integrate Park Forest

October 11, 2021 at 1:58 p.m.

On Christmas morning 1959, the day after DePaul University assistant professor of economics Charles Wilson and his family moved into Park Forest, they were welcomed by Ethel Klutznick, the wife...

A broad-billed hummingbird that usually doesn't go beyond Mexico and southern Arizona and New Mexico was spotted May 5, 2021 at LaBagh Woods in Chicago.

Column: Animals and plants, and some merchants, herald the change of seasons

September 27, 2021 at 10:58 a.m.

The other morning our furnace clicked on. The same day, as we were picking the last large crop of tomatoes in our garden, we observed a flight of nearly 100...

A "coming soon" sign continues to hang outside the proposed location of Jet Foods in Park Forest.

Jerry Shnay/for Daily Southtown, December 2020, Park Forest, Illinois

Column: Saga of Park Forest’s latest grocery store hope reflected in sour endings for other regional Jet Foods

September 13, 2021 at 4:06 p.m.

There was a time in the common life of Park Forest when the village actively sought a grocery store for its residents; a retailer who could help feed the community...

Column: Park Forest politics takes on new look with early fundraising

August 30, 2021 at 11:20 a.m.

As of Sept. 4, the next mayoral election in Park Forest will be 19 months or some 579 days away, but politics being what it is these days, the election campaign...

Vehicles drive the Interstate 80 bridge over the Mississippi River between Iowa and Illinois in April 2021.

Column: Road trip shows return to human interaction and highway repairs

August 16, 2021 at 7:00 a.m.

It has been 27 months since we took our last road trip to visit our daughter and her family in Colorado and our two-day journey was, pardon the contradiction, both...

Steven Rice, 6, and Cindy Jane Miller, 6, were picked as the March of Dimes children for the Cook County campaign Dec. 12, 1960. General campaign chairman Henry Bartholomay, left, greets the children. Both Rice and Miller are polio victims.

Column: Success of polio vaccine rollout shows we learn nothing from history

August 4, 2021 at 11:02 a.m.

A history teacher once told me that the only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history. In the summer of 1952, this nation's last great...

Mike Hayes points to a photo of him on the 1970-71 Oak Lawn basketball team during the 50th team reunion at the Oak Lawn VFW Hall.

Column: Oak Lawn 1971 basketball team reunites to remember their ‘almost’ championship

July 27, 2021 at 5:00 a.m.

It takes a long time to turn bitter wounds of defeat into treasured memories. Saturday night, the 1971 Oak Lawn High School basketball team and its storied coach gathered to...

Column: Demolition ends saga of Park Forest’s ‘house on the hill’

July 19, 2021 at 12:15 p.m.

The large house atop a low rise on Monee Road in Park Forest was finally demolished last week. All that remains of the once majestic home are heaps of broken...

Column: Future president campaigned in Park Forest in marathon Fourth of July

July 5, 2021 at 8:00 a.m.

The morning of July 4, 2003, an Illinois state senator with an unusual name who was running for the U.S. Senate began a personal marathon of Independence Day parades throughout...

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