If you haven’t voted early, keep reading to find out where to fill out a ballot on Nov. 3. And turn to the Forest Park Review that evening ...

Betsy Ross and Garfield elementary schools earned Approaching Exemplary status from the Illinois State Board of Education on its annual 2025-26 Illinois Report Card released Friday morning.

Forest Park police and public works, plus the Cook County Sheriff’s Office, cleaned encampments under the viaduct on Des Plaines in late October. Credit Google Maps The viaduct on Des Plaines, between ...

The newly formed Northern Illinois Transit Agency, NITA, hosted an open house at Union Station Oct. 14, both to answer questions and to gather public input. The event, one of several planned by NITA ...

Isaac Rosenfeld is often remembered as a friend and contemporary of Saul Bellow. He was expected to have a stellar writing ...

On June 22, BABS Comedy Club temporarily closed for the summer so its owners could upgrade from two bodega coolers filled with canned cocktails, wine and beer to a full-service bar with hand-mixed ...

Dolly Parton died on Aug. 25, and Gloria Steinem died on Sept. 2. I asked five successful Forest Park women to reflect on what Parton and Steinem meant to them as individuals and to American society ...

The Forest Park Review’s casket was not among the fastest in this year’s annual casket races. But we did win Frighteningly Funniest for our mailbox casket and newsboy costumes! The Forest Park ...

On Oct. 13, Maria Maxham posted on Facebook that she was resigning as Forest Park’s commissioner of accounts and finance with six months left in her four-year term. That evening, she did not attend ...