Forest Park News

Recently retired Chicago Cubs pitcher Kerry Wood signs his new children's book, "All You Can Be: Learning and Growing Through Sports," Tuesday, May 29, at Barnes and Noble - Old Orchard.

Children will enjoy standing along the route of River Forest's 87th Annual Memorial Day Parade to hear four bands, see floats and sample candy handed out by marchers.

From 1959 to 2039, four generations of a family cope with acts of the past that prove devastating to each succeeding generation.

Farley's & Sathers Candy Co., the maker of Trolli Classic Bears candy, is merging with Ferrara Pan Candy Co., a Chicago-area company best known for its Lemonheads and Atomic Fireballs candies.

A For the second time in recent history, the city of Lake Forest will partner with a special community board to create another gem worthy of civic pride after the City Council unanimously approved the Forest Park Master Plan Monday night.

Editor's Note: The following is a release from Adventist Bolingbrook Hospital. In preparing for childbirth, Jean Howard had read about the importance of skin-to-skin contact.

A When Lake Forest planner Almerin Hotchkiss set aside Forest Park in his 1873 Master Plan for the city, the significance of his decision reverberated nearly 140 years later at Wednesday night's Historic Preservation Commission meeting.

Every day for the next 18 years or so, about 10,000 baby boomers - including me - will turn 65.

Local residents helped kick off Seniors Week in Oak Park and River Forest, which is part of National Seniors Month, with dinner and drinks at 19th Century Women's Club in Oak Park, Thursday, May 10, 2012.

Shawn Cassell, 24, of Forest Park and Jonathan Morales, 23, of Cicero were charged Sunday with attempted murder, according to a news release from the Berwyn Police Department.

Parking and the installation of a walking and biking path proved to be the most contentious components of the Forest Park Project master plan at Thursday night's joint meeting of the Historic Preservation Commission and the Parks and Recreation Board.

In May 1912, the Lake Forest Garden Club was one of the four founding clubs of Garden Club of America .

A Rather than pave the way to compromise, the Lake Forest Parks and Recreation Board and the Historic Preservation Commission made their different stances on what should be done with Forest Park seem nearly irreconcilable at Thursday night's three and a half hour long special joint meeting.

A steady stream of cars came down Strieby Drive to gain access to Costco's parking lot to shop Monday morning, avoiding the main intersection.

Editor's Note: This report was first published in 2010. We've pulled it up from our archives to provide historical background on the annual commemoration.

Chicago - Police in west suburban Forest Park are asking for the public's help in finding two people wanted in connection with a shooting.