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Ruben Rosa Medina, 86

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Ruben Rosa Medina, 86

Ruben Rosa Medina, age 86, of Forest Park, Illinois passed away on Monday, June 30, 2025. Beloved husband of Dora Rosa, who preceded him in death; loving father to Rafael (Colleen) Rosa, Ana Lucy Chowdhury, Maria Elena Schillinger and Christina…Read Article

Yes on a grocery tax - Forest Park Review

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Yes on a grocery tax - Forest Park Review

We’d call it a no-brainer, but we’re still happy to give the Forest Park Village Council full credit for passing a new 1% tax on groceries sold locally. The back story here is that Gov. JB Pritzker, in a show of political theater, made a splash last year when he killed the same tax on a state level but allowed individual burgs across the state to implement a local grocery tax. Local communities were already paying the state grocery tax. So wi…See the Story

Print edition: June 25, 2025 - Forest Park Review

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Print edition: June 25, 2025 - Forest Park Review

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Proviso West grad lands 1st in state high jump as a rookie - Forest Park Review

Machi Nelson, Proviso West graduate, won first place at the ISHA 3A Boys State Track and Field Championship in the high jump event. | Provided Proviso West’s Machi Nelson finished off his high school career with a huge win, landing himself a state championship in the high jump in this year’s ISHA 3A Boys State Track and Field Championship. The 17-year-old competed in the event at the end of May and cleared 2.05m, which converts to 6 feet 8.75 i…Forest Park, Illinois · Forest Park Read Article

A cutting board at a time - Forest Park Review

Forest Park is where the arts percolate and then manifest themselves in some cross between progressive ideals and entrepreneurialism. Just formed is the Forest Park Makers Collective. These are three already active villagers who know their way around wood, power tools and doing good. KC Mutchler, Geoff Binns-Calvey and Alec Bloyd-Peshkin were already friends bound together by a desire to build things. They took that energy and decided they’d c…Forest Park, Illinois · Forest Park Read Article

Cook County Board of Review Commissioner George Cardenas: We Don’t Need a Grocery Tax. We Need a Smarter City Hall. – Chicago Tribune*

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"The grocery tax debate is a microcosm of City Hall’s deeper dysfunction: reflexively turning to taxpayers to fill budget gaps, instead of confronting inefficiencies. "Forest Park, Illinois · Forest Park See the Story

Zoning failure - Forest Park Review

We are genuinely puzzled that a year-long effort to update Forest Park’s residential zoning code has effectively failed. At a village council meeting in late May, two commissioners voted to approve the changes, the mayor and another commissioner voted no and the fifth person, Commissioner Michelle Melin-Rogovin oddly chose to abstain from voting at all. The outcome then was to defeat the proposal which had been well vetted by the planning and z…Forest Park, Illinois · Forest Park Read Article

Contract for D91 youth interventionist not renewed - Forest Park Review

The Forest Park elementary school board voted 4-1 not to renew the contract of the middle school’s interventionist coach, Joy Kibir, for the 2025-2026 school year. The vote occurred during the board meeting on June 12. Monique Cotton-Yancy was the sole vote to renew Kibir’s contract. Dr. Robert Hubbird, District 91’s assistant superintendent of finance and operations, said he could not comment on personnel matters, but affirmed the ongoing impo…Forest Park, Illinois · Forest Park Read Article

New District 91 school board member works with at-risk people locally and afar - Forest Park Review

Good Loud Media | Provided A newly-elected member of Forest Park’s District 91’s school board, Jeb Brewer doesn’t have children in the district but he has a long background in helping others. In addition to his new role, he is dedicated to meeting the needs of at-risk people throughout the country and the world as the founder of Good Loud Media, a nonprofit that uses music as a tool for public health communication. “We work in communities tha…Forest Park, Illinois · Forest Park Read Article

Happy Chef employee beaten with carving fork - Forest Park Review

On June 13, Forest Park police were dispatched to Happy Chef on Harlem Avenue for reports of someone wielding a hammer. They found an employee had locked himself in the restaurant and had a 6-inch-long, bleeding laceration on top of his head, according to the police report. He also reportedly had contusions on his body and scratches on his neck. The employee told police that a man came in to pick up his order, left, then returned a short while l…Forest Park, Illinois · Forest Park Read Article

Forest Theatre Company, Madison Street Theater partner on year-round plays

If you haven’t already, dust off your picnic blankets and lawn chairs in preparation for the upcoming fifth annual Shakespeare in the Park, which will mark the end of Forest Theatre Company’s 2024-2025 run. After this Shakespeare in the Park, Forest Theatre Company will launch its first year-round season – and its first in collaboration with Madison Street Theater in Oak Park – bringing together the only two year-round nonprofit theater organiz…Forest Park, Illinois · Forest Park Read Article

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