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…]

Hello Park Forest! Like me, you probably just received your Village of Park Forest "Resident Handbook". Do the Park Forest Historical Society and yourselves a favor.  Turn to Page 11 in your handbook, and ink in the 1950s Park Forest House Museum at 141 Forest Blvd, open 1-3 on Saturdays.[Read More…]

Inter Press Service By Ali al-Fadhily and Dahr Jamail* FALLUJAH, Jul 21 (IPS) – U.S. and Iraqi forces are preparing another siege of Fallujah under the pretext of combating "terror", residents and officials say. Located 69 km west of Baghdad, the city that suffered two devastating U.S. attacks in 2004[Read More…]

The interior of the new ambulance. (Photo: Wendy Heise) Park Forest, IL–(ENEWSPF)– Fire Chief Rober Wilcox and members of the Park Forest Fire Department showcased the Village’s new fire engine and ambulance prior to the July 14 board meeting. The engine holds 400 gallons of water, enough to put out[Read More…]

Park Forest, IL–(ENEWSPF)– Police discovered drugs and cash when executing a search warrant on Lester Street one day last week just before dawn. Two men were arrested. On Thursday, July 17, 2008, at approximately 5:21 a.m., members of the South Suburban Emergency Response Team (SSERT) executed a search warrant at[Read More…]

Park Forest, IL–(ENEWSPF)– Police stopped a fight near the intersection of Wildwood and Westgate streets last week. Two men were found with knives and arrested, one telling police he was "willing to die fighting." Police were dispatched to the area of Wildwood and Westgate on Tuesday, July 15 in reference[Read More…]

Park Forest, IL–(ENEWSPF)– Police were dispatched to the 100 block of Peach St. on July 15 just before 10:30 a.m. to investigate a report of a 12-year-old child who had barricaded himself in a bathroom. He told dispatchers his 19-year-old cousin was allegedly threatening to shoot him with a gun.[Read More…]

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 2008 Nissan Rogue. (Photo: Nissan.com) A Review "Car Talk" with Jonathan Pitman When you think of rough, maybe you think of something that has been put to the test numerous occasions without failure. Or maybe you think of a vehicle that is both rough and ready, that lasts and[Read More…]

Some of Nissan’s newest technology, the CVT transmission, which is a shiftless transmission that reduces shift shock and jerking motions that are associated with standard automatic transmissions, and the Intelligent key.  Both technologies make up a small part of what makes Nissan a Nissan.  But once you investigate further, you[Read More…]