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 other[Read More…]

The Pittsburgh Channel is reporting that Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch, 47, has lost his battle with pancreatic cancer. Mr. Pausch gave the talk above for his three young children when he found out his cancer was terminal. If you have not seen it yet, please spend time and watch,[Read More…]

Commentary Inside the First Amendment By Charles C. Haynes First Amendment Center Suddenly this summer, the reality of same-sex couples lining up to get married in California has led some religious leaders to rethink their government role. In a letter last month, Bishop Marc Handley Andrus of the Episcopal Diocese[Read More…]

Inter Press Service By Ali al-Fadhily and Dahr Jamail* BAGHDAD, Jul 23 (IPS) – Welcomed at first after the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, most NGOs have run into scepticism and mistrust. Few remain to help. Hundreds of local and foreign NGOs became active in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion in[Read More…]

Tall Grass Arts Association presents this good earth beginning Friday. (Collage: ENEWSPF) Park Forest, IL–(ENEWSPF)– Tall Grass Arts Association will present this good earth, an exhibit of landscape images, from August 8 through September 27, 2008. The exhibit, curated by Claudia Craemer and Richard Schmidt, will include nine artists who[Read More…]

Photo Gallery: Cold Blooded Creatures and Alan Gresik Swing Shift Orchestra Park Forest, IL–(ENEWSPF)– The entertainment continues this evening on Main Street in Park Forest with Kpani Addy & Kolomashi and Waterhouse. Kpani Addy is a third generation master drummer. He is accompanied by his American dance troupe. Waterhouse Experience[Read More…]

We got so much conversation going on deer, I thought I would put out a mention of coyote activity.   The past few nights we have noticed the coyotes lliving near the EJ & E tracks off Wildwood in Park Forest have really been howlling and barking at night.  Maybe they[Read More…]

LOS ANGELES–(BUSINESS WIRE)–UCLA Anderson School of Management will join a select group of business schools around the nation to offer the Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities (EBV), an innovative program designed to provide specialized entrepreneurship training for post-9/11 military personnel injured in the line of duty. The nine-day bootcamp,[Read More…]

The 1950s Park Forest House Museum once again is covered in a great news story.  Alan Petrillo of Cotton & Quail Antiques Gazette has a July 3 story running on the Antique Trader website.  It includes some really great photos of the new museum.  If you have not visited since[Read More…]