The Park Forest Police Station. (Photo: Wendy Heise) Park Forest, IL—(ENEWSPF)— Editor’s Note: We continue our reporting on news from police reports. Besides covering the many stories from around Park Forest that otherwise might go unnoticed, we want to bring more complete coverage of police reports than is reported by[Read More…]

Updated March 3 at 9:45 a.m.  Park Forest, IL—(ENEWSPF)— The Park Forest Historical Society is proud to announce the 2008 Park Forest Hall of Fame Inductees: Jean Bernstein, Suzie Brown, Kenneth W. Kramer, Barbara J. Moore, Valerie L. Nicholson, Elmer L. Washington,and Michael J. Wheeler. The society congratulates the inductees[Read More…]

On March 1, we had a visit from Trish and her husband, who drove from Lake Geneva to see the museum.  Trish was a former Park Forester from 1949, who although she was very young when she lived in the rentals, had some vivid memories.  She was one of the people[Read More…]

Inter Press Service By Ahmed Ali and Dahr Jamail* BAQUBA, Feb 29 (IPS) – U.S. backed Sahwa forces threaten to destabilise U.S.-backed Iraqi government forces in Iraq’s volatile Diyala province. The ‘Awakening Councils’, known locally as the Sahwa, have left their centres in cities and districts around the capital of[Read More…]

Inter Press Service By Ahmed Ali and Dahr Jamail* BAQUBA, Feb 29 (IPS) – New plant diseases, attacks by occupation forces and escalating fuel prices are strangling farmers in Diyala province. Prior to the U.S.-led invasion of March 2003, farmers in Baquba, the capital city of Diyala province 40 km[Read More…]