Congratulations to Park Forester Bernie Jablonski, whose inaugural article on eNews Park Forest, Review: The Last Exorcism, quickly leap-frogged to the number one spot within hours of posting. Bernie teaches in the Fine Arts department at Marian Catholic High School and has appeared in many, many performances with The Drama[Read More…]

eNews Park Forest is pleased to carry a link in our main menu to the Metra Electric Line. Pace and Metra are side by side on our main menu, and we encourage our readers to use public transportation whenever possible.

“Every time I saw him, he was Alex.” So said Joe Stith, a Chicago Heights police officer for 17 1/2 years, remembering his former high school buddy Alex Lopez, on the untimely death of the 44-year-old mayor. The quote is from an excellent article at the Southtown Star. Rest In[Read More…]

eNews Park Forest is one of the most trafficked news sites in the South Suburbs of Chicago, with more than 90,000 visitors a month and more than 400,000 page views. In addition to our already low advertising rates, eNews Park Forest is now pleased to offer one free Web page[Read More…]

From the Village of Park Forest’s Facebook page: UPDATE: Village Hall remains closed as ComEd crews continue to work to resolve the power outage. Park Forest Officials hope to open now at 2 p.m. Original message: Village Hall will open at noon today due to a power outage. ComEd is[Read More…]

Commentary Alan Edrinn returns to eNews Park Forest with a degree in Journalism from Northern Illinois University, and we at ENEWSPF couldn’t be happier. Alan will report on local news and events in Park Forest and surrounding areas. We look forward to his contributions. An archived listing of Alan’s past[Read More…]

We always knew Newton Gingrich was a piece of work, but, wow. What. A. Piece. Of. Work. he really is. Here’s a must-read from his second wife, Marianne Gingrich, reported in Esquire: "He believes that what he says in public and how he lives don’t have to be connected," she[Read More…]

Commentary I was concerned yesterday when two business owners in our DownTown reported that they had tried to have AT&T cable installed, but were told by an AT&T representative that “the Mayor” had not given permission for the cable company to offer cable in DownTown Park Forest. This struck me[Read More…]

I had the opportunity to see a preview of 9500 Liberty about a year ago. Met Eric Byler and Annabel Parker. Liked them both. Roger Ebert just published a review of the film, not yet released in Chicago, although it should be, soon. Here’s the question to ask yourself: What[Read More…]

It seems especially reassuring that one of our most popular articles on ENEWSPF as of right now is the Declaration of Independence. We publish the Declaration every July 4, and some years the proclamation hardly gets any notice at all. This year was different.  I’ll leave the possible reasons this[Read More…]