The latest news from Forest Park Review http://www.forestparkreview.com Thu, 20 Jun 2013 11:45:46 UTC http://www.forestparkreview.com http://media1.forestparkreview.com/Images/5/3/3/41/1/5_3_3_41_1_144x144.png http://www.forestparkreview.com/9_12_7447/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS

The Village of Forest Park launched a new website for the Comprehensive Plan June 13. In addition, the village's consultants, Images, Inc., have conducted "key person" interviews with 16 prominent Forest Parkers in various walks of life to help develop an overview of the town's history and future needs, said Village Administrator Tim Gillian. Read More...


]]> http://www.forestparkreview.com/9_12_7447/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:00:00 UTC http://www.forestparkreview.com/9_12_7446/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS Forest Park will celebrate its fifth annual Juneteenth celebration Saturday, June 22 at the Forest Park Aquatic Center. Juneteenth is the holiday, officially celebrated in 42 states, that began as a way to commemorate the end of slavery in the state of Texas in 1865. Read More...


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Local Independence Day festivities have been given an overhaul this year in the western suburbs as local park districts and villages confront financial constraints and crowd control. Here's what's happening in Forest Park, Oak Park, Riverside, Brookfield and North Riverside. Read More...


]]> http://www.forestparkreview.com/9_12_7445/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:00:00 UTC http://www.forestparkreview.com/9_12_7444/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS Last week the Forest Park Elementary District 91 school board authorized spending slightly more than half a million dollars on technology as part of a massive upgrade of the district's technological capacity as the district tries to move into 21st Century learning. Read More...


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Common Roots Initiative, a not-for-profit group of Proviso East High School alumni, gathered June 7 to award their second round of scholarships: one to a PEHS teacher and one to a student. Read More...


]]> http://www.forestparkreview.com/9_12_7442/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:00:00 UTC http://www.forestparkreview.com/9_12_7441/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS A Kmart security guard summoned police the morning of June 11 after stopping two women observed allegedly concealing clothing and jewelry in their purses and attempting to leave without paying. Read More...


]]> http://www.forestparkreview.com/9_12_7441/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:00:00 UTC http://www.forestparkreview.com/9_12_7440/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS I was watching baseball on a barstool in Forest Park, because it's more fun than watching sports in my basement. I asked the guy to my left if he was a Sox or Cubs fan. With refreshing candor, he admitted to being a "bandwagon fan." He supports whatever team is winning. Read More...


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Howard Beggs Holcombe, 84, of Cedar Falls, Ia., formerly of Forest Park and West Chicago, died December 1, 2012. He was born June 9, 1928 in Oak Park to parents Warner St. Clair Holcombe and Erma Eleanor Beggs Holcombe. Howard graduated from Beloit College in 1950 with a degree in history and education. Read More...


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Lorrayne Wick, a former resident of Forest Park and other western suburbs for more than forty years, passed away peacefully in her Hayward, Wisconsin retirement home on August 12. She was 91 years old. Read More...


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Virginia Catherine Hoover (nee Schoenbaum), 71, died quietly on June 11 surrounded by her family. Born on May 31, 1942, her dream as a child was to become a Mom and that was her primary role. Her five children were central to everything in her life. Read More...


]]> http://www.forestparkreview.com/9_12_7437/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:00:00 UTC http://www.forestparkreview.com/9_12_7436/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS Forest Park's elementary schools continue to make smart moves. Last week the district's board voted to invest more than $500,000 in new technology focused on the classrooms. Read More...


]]> http://www.forestparkreview.com/9_12_7436/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:00:00 UTC http://www.forestparkreview.com/9_12_7435/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS For a village as racially diverse as Forest Park, you don't see a lot of signs of pride and joy in our African-American heritage. So we take pride and on Saturday evening we will take joy in the fifth annual Forest Park Juneteenth celebration. An old, mainly southern, celebration, Juneteenth marks the end of slavery in Texas in 1865. Read More...


]]> http://www.forestparkreview.com/9_12_7435/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:00:00 UTC http://www.forestparkreview.com/9_12_7434/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS I've rewritten the first few sentences of this column a billion times. I have a simple thing to say that's also very hard ... Goodbye. At the beginning of July, my husband and I are moving to Seattle, Washington, to follow a dream. Long story short, in 2004, I went to Seattle with some girlfriends on vacation. Read More...


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Pat Braniff keeps the beauty of Forest Park up to date. Here he is bidding farewell to the early spring pansies as a more heat and sun loving variety of flower takes their place. He gets plenty of advice from Rick Watts and Jim Payette, Rick took this photo. Read More...


]]> http://www.forestparkreview.com/9_12_7433/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:00:00 UTC http://www.forestparkreview.com/9_12_7432/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS The Forest Park Review's choices of headlines of this story [Fight at Proviso East involves 300, online June 6, 2013] are misleading, speculative, and pandering to emotionalism and numerous social and political fears. Read More...


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The Forest Park Review won five first-place awards including general excellence at the annual Illinois Press Association convention in Springfield June 14. The Review competed against many other small-town Illinois newspapers ranked by ranges in circulation. Read More...


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The Novak family has long been associated with the Park but on June 13th, it got ridiculous. Nic Novak coached the Minor Reds against Pat Braniff's Red Sox. Nic's squad included his two sons, Matt and Nick. Umpire Dan Novak made the calls, while former Park Director Dave Novak and his wife, Carol, looked on with pride.  Read More...


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A Berwyn man is seeking a July clemency hearing from Gov. Pat Quinn and the Illinois Prison Review Board to pardon his 1997 convictions for aggravated criminal sexual abuse. Read More...


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