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DO YOU, YOUR PARENTS, OR GRANDPARENTS HAVE ANY OF THESE ITEMS FROM YOUR LIVES IN PARK FOREST?

THE LOCAL HISTORY COLLECTION NEEDS THEM!

PHOTOGRAPHS:
PEOPLE: Village Officials, Club Officers, Famous Visitors, Teachers, Clergy.
EVENTS, CIVIC ORGANIZATIONS, BUILDINGS (Especially of construction.)
EARLY YEARS IN THE RENTAL UNITS AND HOMES
YOUR HOME IF YOU WERE A "PIONEER" (Show us your version of "The Mudville Look")

WE ALSO NEED PHOTOS OF HOMES AND PEOPLE IN ALL OF THE DECADES.

SOMETIMES THE BACKGROUND OF YOUR PHOTOS MAY SHOW BUILDINGS OR WHAT AN AREA LOOKED LIKE BEFORE BUILDINGS EXISTED.

WE FREQUENTLY GET REQUESTS FOR PERIOD CARS OR PEOPLE IN PERIOD DRESS IN FRONT OF HOMES.

NEWSPAPERS OR CLIPPINGS ON PARK FOREST
(We have The Park Forest Star 1976+, and the Park Forest Reporter, 1949-1976, on microfilm.)

MAGAZINE ARTICLES OR WHOLE ISSUES ON PARK FOREST.

SCRAPBOOKS OF PARK FOREST ORGANIZATIONS

TELEPHONE DIRECTORIES

WE HAVE DIRECTORIES FROM ABOUT 1977 ON.

IF YOU HAVE ANY EARLY DIRECTORIES FOR PARK FOREST, WE NEED THEM!

DIARIES, JOURNALS, OR MEMOIRS

MEMORABILIA

PLEASE TALK TO THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY IF YOU HAVE MATERIALS YOU THINK MIGHT BELONG IN THE LOCAL HISTORY COLLECTION AND ARCHIVE. SOME MATERIALS WE WOULD LIKE NOW, SOME WE MAY ASK THAT YOU DONATE AT A LATER TIME.

WHEN IN DOUBT, DON'T THROW OUT!
THE LOCAL HISTORY COLLECTION NEEDS YOUR GOODIES
(AND MAYBE EVEN YOUR TRASH!) PARK FOREST HISTORICAL SOCIETY Email Us!
400 LAKEWOOD BLVD.
PARK FOREST, IL 60466 WE HAVE NO PHONE OF OUR OWN AT THIS TIME. THE LIBRARY REFERENCE STAFF AT 708-748-3731 CAN REFER YOU TO HISTORICAL SOCIETY BOARD MEMBERS. RETURN TO ARCHIVES