Forest Park welcomes home first local troops from Iraq
By Katie Drews
9/2/2010 | Web Extra!
On Thursday afternoon, Forest Park welcomed home the first group of soldiers from Iraq to return to the Chicago area since President Obama declared an end to U.S. combat in Iraq last week. After traveling through eight airports from Baghdad to Chicago, the 318th Public Affairs Operation Army Reserve Unit - based in Forest Park - arrived at O'Hare around 1 p.m., where they walked through the airport to a standing ovation and cheers from nearly all the onlookers. |
| News
Historical Society of Forest Park may get home, but who runs group?
By Katie Drews
8/31/2010 | | If all goes according to plan and the Deutsche Bank donates the torched apartment building at 512 Desplaines Ave. to the village, Mayor Anthony Calderone said last week that he envisioned offering the space to the currently homeless Historical Society of Forest Park. |  | Circle Theatre members are ready to bid farewell
By Katie Drews
8/31/2010 | | It's only a matter of days before the curtain closes at Circle Theatre's location in Forest Park, and members of the award-winning company seem more than ready to say goodbye. Goodbye to the leaking ceilings. Goodbye to the unisex bathrooms. Goodbye to the techno music booming from the apartment upstairs. | | Children learn Japanese by immersion at Forest Park school
By Tom Holmes
8/31/2010 | Web Extra! Slideshow
On most week days, 6-year-old Minami Yasuda waves goodbye to her father as she walks in the door at the Montessori Language Academy at 314 Circle Ave., right across from St. John Lutheran Church. | | Film crew takes over Forest Park car wash
By Katie Drews
8/31/2010 | Web Extra! Slideshow
First reported 8/27/2010 9:10 a.m.
A little dose of Hollywood hit the village Thursday at the Harlem and Randolph Car Wash for the filming of a new, big-budget Chevy commercial. As part of an 8-day shoot at several places around Chicago, a Los Angeles production company filled the area surrounding the Forest Park car wash with all kinds of film equipment and wardrobe gear. | | Man offers to 'get car back' for friend
8/31/2010 | | On the night of Aug. 28, Eric Perry, of Chicago, supposedly told a friend who had been arrested by the Berwyn Police Department and subsequently had his car impounded, that Perry could "get the car out." In doing so, he allegedly stole the car from a police impound lot. | |
|
|
|
|
|
 | On Thursday afternoon, Forest Park welcomed home the first group of soldiers from Iraq to return to the Chicago area since President Obama declared an end to U.S. combat in Iraq last week.
Click here to read more ... |
| Hometown
BBQ goes to Dwyer at CUinFP party
8/31/2010 | | Sept. 8 will be Literacy Day at local libraries. Come and learn how easy and rewarding it is to tutor adults who have not learned to read English. Whole Foods Market will host a community support day in honor of the occasion by donating 5 percent of customers' grocery bills to the organization. | | A life cut short, but a spirit that remains
8/31/2010 | 40 years ago
Karen Good Kolzow, or Karen Good, as she was known most of her short life. A human being, a person barely 19 and hardly into the ways of the world. Karen was born in Forest Park July 24, 1951, graduated Proviso East High School in June, 1969 and met her death Aug. 10, 1970. | |
| Opinion
Coping with Forest Park changes
Tom Holmes
8/31/2010 | | It's not like I'm losing my best friend, but I do feel sad that Blockbuster is in hospice care right now and that the end is near. I've known Blockbuster for, what, 20 years? For awhile when my kids were still at Grant-White, we'd go over to Blockbuster frequently to get a video that the entire family could watch. | | Who owns Forest Park's remarkable history?
Editorial
8/31/2010 | | It's fine to offer a gift. But there has to be someone to receive it. So we honor the impulse of Mayor Anthony Calderone to potentially donate a piece of property to the Forest Park Historical Society as a permanent home. But we ask this question sincerely: What exactly is the Forest Park Historical Society these days? | |
|
|
