Park Forest, IL-(ENEWSPF)- A vehicle slammed into a house on Monee Road on Wednesday, August 31. Firefighter/paramedics found “a male patient in distress,” according to a statement on the Park Forest Fire Department‘s Facebook page. The fire department responded to the home in the 100 block of Monee Road after[Read More…]
Day: September 20, 2016
Fire On Homan Avenue “Quickly Extinguished”
Park Forest, IL-(ENEWSPF)- Members of the Park Forest Fire Department battled a structure fire in the 500 block of Homan Avenue beginning just before midnight on Tuesday, August 30. According to a statement on the PFFD’s Facebook page, on that date, “just before midnight, the Park Forest Fire Department was[Read More…]
Park Forest Observes National Hispanic Heritage Month
Park Forest-(ENEWSPF)- During a particularly caustic, xenophobic political season, it was particularly gratifying to watch as Park Forest, by resolution, observed National Hispanic Heritage Month. According to the agenda memo on this proclamation from Village Manager Tom Mick, “the 2010 US Census results showed the Hispanic heritage population to be[Read More…]
Park Forest Honors Stephen Lloyd for 35 Years Service on Police and Fire Commission
Park Forest, IL-(ENEWSPF)- Retiring after 35 years service on the Board of Fire and Police Commissioners, the Village Board passed a resolution Monday honoring Stephen Lloyd. Mayor John Ostenburg remarked that Mr. Lloyd had been on the commission so long, that each and every officer and fire official currently employed in[Read More…]
HRC and ENC Release Statements on HB2
Washington, D.C.-(ENEWSPF)- Keeping up pressure on North Carolina since passage of the infamous HB2, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) civil rights organization, and Equality NC (ENC), the statewide organization working to secure equal rights and justice for LGBTQ North Carolinians, rejected calls for[Read More…]
Park Forest Police Blotter Reports September 19, 2016
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 other local media. An arrest does not mean that[Read More…]
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