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Sunday Dec 6 | Herald News

Mokena, Park Forest get RTA development boost

Plenty of Southland towns have big plans for development around their Metra stations, but two in particular are taking the next step with help from the Regional Transit Authority.

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Wed Dec 02, 2009

MyFoxChicago

Woman Dies After Hit By Car

A 43-year-old woman died Sunday after she was hit by a car while investigating a minor accident Wednesday at 209th Street and Western Avenue in Chicago Heights.

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Mon Nov 30, 2009

Chicago Sun-Times

Pedestrian dead after wreck in Olympia Fields

A Park Forest woman died Sunday night after she was struck by a vehicle in south suburban Olympia Fields, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office.

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Thu Nov 26, 2009

The SouthtownStar

Park Forest officials announce goals for the village

Park Forest village leaders are looking toward the future as they map out five different strategic planning goals for the next fiscal year, including improving relations with Park Forest-Chicago Heights School District 163.

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Sun Nov 15, 2009

Chicago Sun-Times

2 shot -- one fatally -- on South Side

Two men were shot -- one fatally -- on the South Side early Sunday. The shooting happened shortly before 2 a.m. on the 8300 block of South Vincennes Avenue, according to police.

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Wed Nov 04, 2009

Education Week

Low-Performing Ill. Students Not Tested

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.

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Mon Nov 02, 2009

Lincoln-Way Sun

Preparing for disaster

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.

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Sat Oct 31, 2009

Fort Mill Times

EXCHANGE: Low-performing Ill. students not tested

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.

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Tue Oct 27, 2009

1340 WJOL

Lincoln Highway Project Begins

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.

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Sun Oct 25, 2009

Chicago Sun-Times

Mechanic lodged in street sweeper dies in Back of the Yards

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.

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Fri Oct 23, 2009

Chicago Journal

Petitions being passed for Fioretti in the 7th

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

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Wed Oct 21, 2009

WGNTV Chicago

Man Dies in Street Sweeper Accident

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

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Thu Oct 15, 2009

Chicago Journal

Unintended

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

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Wed Sep 30, 2009

GloucesterTimes.com, Gloucester, MA

From Thacher Island to France

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

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Fri Sep 25, 2009

Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers a...

CN reaches voluntary mitigation agreement with Village of Park Forest, Ill.

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 .

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Thu Sep 10, 2009

The SouthtownStar

No injuries in Univ. Park fire

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

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Mon Sep 07, 2009

Cbs2chicago.com

Man Says Airline Grounded Him For His Girth

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

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Sat Aug 29, 2009

NBC 5

Lining Up For a New Apartment

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

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Thu Aug 27, 2009

Cbs2chicago.com

Hundreds Camp Out For Housing In Park Forest

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

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Cbs2chicago.com

Hundreds Camp Out For Housing In Park Forest

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

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