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Wednesday Nov 4 | 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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WGN-TV Chicago

Park Forest draws crowd for housing vouchers

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.

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Wed Aug 26, 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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Mon Aug 24, 2009

Lincoln-Way Sun

Police Blotter: Possession of controlled substance

* 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.

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Thu Aug 13, 2009

Evanston Review

Police Blotter

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

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Mon Aug 03, 2009

The SouthtownStar

Tragedy shadows family

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.

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