Park Forest News

Rich East High School has seen state test scores for its 11th-graders improve by a stunning 37 percent during the last two years a ' a gain so impressive that regional education officials asked the Park Forest school to host a seminar to help others emulate its success.

Will County Historical and the Park Forest societies received grants of $500 to assist in presenting a workshop, "How to Prepare for and Respond to Disaster." Gayle Crompton of Will County Historical Society and Jane Nicoll, archivist for the Park Forest Historical Society, were co-presenters of the workshop.

Rich East High School has seen state test scores for its 11th-graders improve by a stunning 37 percent during the last two years - a gain so impressive that regional education officials asked the Park Forest school to host a seminar to help others emulate its success.

It will be starting Monday October 26th that drivers should be prepared to allow extra time, and to use alternate routes, when traveling along a three-and-a-half mile stretch of Lincoln Highway, U S Route 30, from Cicero Avenue in Matteson to a quarter-mile east of Western Avenue in Chicago Heights.

A south suburban Park Forest man was found dead, trapped in the compressor of a street sweeping truck in the Back of the Yards neighborhood on the South Side Tuesday night.

Ald. Robert Fioretti, a freshman alderman, might jump into the 7th District race.

A 37-year-old man died in a street sweeper accident in the Back of the Yards neighborhood.

In the quintessential baby boom town of Park Forest, Illinois, there was almost one child for every adult in the early 1960s.

Volunteer lighthouse keeper Ann Hernandez celebrated her 56th birthday in October 2003 the same way she had the prior dozen years.

CHICAGO - CN announced today a voluntary mitigation agreement with the Village of Park Forest, Ill., located approximately 30 miles south of downtown Chicago, addressing the municipality's environmental issues with CN's acquisition of the principal lines of the former Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway Company .

Matteson :: Park Forest :: University Park :: Richton Park :: :: Fire damages townhouse in Univ.

Share + Sep 7, 2009 10:41 pm US/Central Reporting Mike Puccinelli PARK FOREST, Ill.

Throngs of low-income residents camped out in the rain last night for a chance to put a roof over their heads.

Share + Aug 26, 2009 11:04 am US/Central Reporting Susan Carlson PARK FOREST, Ill.

Share + Aug 26, 2009 11:04 am US/Central Reporting Susan Carlson PARK FOREST, Ill.

PARK FOREST, Ill. - Drawn by the prospect of a better life for themselves and their children, Mickie White of Kankakee and Kristina Leonard of Riverdale waited patiently among a growing crowd in south suburban Park Forest for a chance to get a subsidized-housing voucher.

Share + Aug 26, 2009 11:04 am US/Central Reporting Susan Carlson PARK FOREST, Ill.

* Christopher D. Lamb, 48, of 3302 Ninth St. in Rockford, was arrested by Will County police and booked into the county jail Friday on a charge of theft.

The following incidents were listed among the official reports of the Evanston Police Department.

Now Reeves is wondering whether her 13-year-old son will make it to adulthood - so many other loved ones didn't. Reeves doesn't want to add teenage Javon Evans to the list of family members she mourns.