Park Forest News

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 .

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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.