Column: Bird wars comes to a Park Forest backyard May 5, 2025 at 10:46 a.m. Jerry and Penny Shnay hang a gourd in their backyard for a wren to build a nest, but this year a house sparrow took residence first.
Column: South Sububan Land Bank rehabs Park Forest house in pilot project April 21, 2025 at 11:43 a.m. The South Suburban Land Bank spent $130,000 to fix-up a two-story Park Forest now on the market for $179,999.
Column: Park Forest to induct seven residents into its hall of fame April 7, 2025 at 9:26 a.m. George Egofske, Aaron and Rose Greenberg, Karen Blackful, Julie Townsend, Ruth Smith and Susan Blatchford will be inducted Sunday.
Column: Water leaks and costly repairs mean changes at Park Forest Aqua Center March 24, 2025 at 8:04 p.m. Park Forest Recreation Director Kevin Adams recommends repairing significant leaks and turning the West Pool into a splash pad.
Column: Is Park Forest’s history of nonpartisan elections fading? March 10, 2025 at 11:29 a.m. In Park Forest's first decade, a Non-Partisan Committee was created so elections with candidates as a team were not tolerated.
Park Forest-Chicago Heights District 163 Board names associate as new superintendent February 25, 2025 at 3:27 p.m. The Park Forest-Chicago Heights Elementary District 163 Board voted Monday to hire Ericka Patterson as the next superintendent.
Column: ‘I was devastated’: Park Forest residents react to news St. Mary Catholic Church will close February 24, 2025 at 1:46 p.m. Bishop Ronald Hicks wrote St. Mary in Park Forest and St. Boniface in Monee will merge into St. Liborius Catholic Church in Steger.
Column: Erin Mathias, who revivied Park Forest PTO, appointed to District 163 Board February 10, 2025 at 10:14 a.m. Angela Watts and Erin Mathias created a fully functioning Parent-Teacher Organization at Mohawk Primary Center in Park Forest.
Column: Park Forest Board mentions mayoral confrontation, takes no action January 27, 2025 at 11:59 a.m. Park Forest Trustee Randall White said he was “saddened and disgusted” by dispute of Mayor Joe Woods and Antiwone and Shalonda Hardy.
Park Forest Mayor Joe Woods, businessman won’t seek criminal charges for August confrontation January 27, 2025 at 10:45 a.m. Both Park Forest Mayor Joe Woods and businessman Antiwone Hardy agreed not to seek charges against each each for a confrontation.