Publications sold by the Society.
Publications can be bought at the 1950s Park Forest House Museum at 141 Forest Blvd.
Contact us about mail orders. We will update our mailing information after the postal rates change.
 Park Forest Dreams and Challenges by Jerry Shnay.
Published by Arcadia Publishing in the Images of America series.
$20. Shipping and handling are an additional charge if mail ordered. Sales of this book directly benefit the Park Forest Historical Society.
Jerry Shnay donates all royalties to further our mission. This wonderful book tells the history of Park Forest with photographs and narrative.
 50th Anniversary Calendar. Produced in 1998-1999.
The calendar contains 18 photographs from our collection.
Sells for $2 in the Museum. Shipping and handling charges apply if mail ordered.
Dates of when organizations began and when Park Forest's historic events happened are recorded on the calendar pages.
The calendar covered August 2008-December 2009, the time we spent celebrating the 50th Anniversary with special programs and events.
The names and dates of those events are listed, in most cases.
Park Forest: The Early Years, 1946-1956
Written by Carroll F. Sweet, Jr., as part of his autobiography. Carroll was the son of the man by the same name who had the idea to build Park Forest
as a GI Town. When he got out of the U.S. Navy after World War II, Carroll came to work for American Community Builders as an assistant to the president, Philip Klutznick. He helped come up with the "temporary" name, "Park Forest" for the FHA loan application in 1946.
When the town was under construction, Carroll established the first ACB office in Park Forest. He delivered the mail, which was delivered to Chicago Heights, delivered water bottles until the water was deemed safe to drink, and was instrumental in setting up the interface between ACB and its tenants.
Carroll named many streets in Park Forest, including the Medal of Honor Streets and all of Lincolnwood, which was named after people and places in the life of Abraham Lincoln. This is a fascinating look "behind the scenes" from someone who was there at the beginnning.
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Postcards
Price: .25 for individual cards. $2.00 for a package of all 8. Postage and handling charges are extra.
The postcards are made from photographs in our collection. For copies of some of the postcards, click here.
Birth of a City shows the famous sign from the tent meeting of November 27, 1948, with part of the crowd sitting beneath it.
All America City Awards shows several movers and shakers holding the 1954 All America Banner.
Tots on Trikes shows a view of a street in the early rentals with kids on late 1940s trikes and riding toys.
Park Forest Plaza is an aerial from June 1956.
Clock Tower Construction, July 1950 shows two men building the framework of one of our Clocktowers in the Plaza.
Muddy Kids is our iconic image of kids in the early rental courts, covered in mud, taken near 2868 Western in Spring 1949.
Mudville shows Court F-6 in March 1949, with duckboards.
Aerial View April 1949 shows the construction of the rental units looking from the Forest Preserve, west.
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