Forest Park News

Forest Park Review covered Emanuel "Chris" Welch's counter suit against Burt Odelson and Mark Sterk .

The Original Pancake House closed its Oak Park location for the final time Sunday, announcing a move to 7255 W. Madison St.

Chicago's sales tax jumps Tuesday to 10.25 percent, due in large part to Cook County's 1 percent tax increase.

A compromise between a developer and residents of the 500 block of Elgin Avenue in Forest Park cleared the way for the Village Council to approve nine new town homes this week.

Oh, the embarrassment! Imagine showing up to a summer party only to find someone else wearing your exact same outfit.

At Waldheim Cemetery in Forest Park, a sacred Jewish burial ground, there is a section near the Des Plaines River where the tombstones are sinking.

It's hay fever season. Especially at Circle Theatre, which is staging Noel Coward's "Hay Fever," a play as relevant and funny today, says director Jim Schneider, as it was when it debuted in London in 1925.

Many theater directors are former actors. Some come from the other side of the business, from the backstage world of set building and lighting design.

Every day, Robert Arnold visits the River Grove grave of his daughter Brooke, who was killed two years ago at age 19 by a drunken driver.

Hay Fever: Forget the runny nose, itchy eyes, and general sense of fatigue brought on by seasonal allergies.

Farmers Market vendors and organizers are pleased with the early opening of this year's market, though it's too soon to know whether it will continue next year.

A Forest Park man was injured Thursday when his bicycle was struck by a vehicle at the intersection of Harlem Avenue and Ontario Street.

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Nestled in a quiet, unassuming cemetery in Forest Park is an unusual site: Five elephant statues that mark the mass grave of 56 circus workers skilled in a train wreck in 1918.

You can stay cool on Wednesday mornings this summer, while giving your budget a break.

By PATRICK BUTLER pbutler@pioneerlocal.com With gas prices topping $4 a gallon, residents aren't just griping, but many have developed their own ways of minimizing the pain.

Mental illness following The Exorcist: Horror movie The Exorcist remains one of cinema's darkest and most frightening classics.

Yesterday I attended a home inspection for my buyers in North Riverside . North Riverside is a small western suburb west of Berwyn , south of Forest Park , east of LaGrange Park , and north of, you guessed it - ...

A 39-year-old man was scheduled to appear in bond court Tuesday after he allegedly fled the scene after driving over a woman lying in an west suburban alley, killing her, over the weekend.

A Saturday autopsy determined Lydia Salmanis, found dead in an alley Friday in Forest Park, was struck by a van.