Annual Fund Appeal 2023

Annual Fund Appeal Letter 2023.

Annual Fund Appeal 2022

Read our Annual Fund Appeal for 2022

and please help us meet our 11th Matching Challenge Grant

from Village of Park Forest.

PFHS Corporate Members

Corporate Members

Park Forest Historical Society thanks the members of the business community who have joined as corporate members.  There are different levels of corporate membership.  For more information, contact Mike Gans, Business Manager, PFHS, via email

Park Forest Historical Society has the following corporate members:

We ask that you please patronize our corporate members.  Thank you to all of them for helping us save Park Forest history! 

 

Corporate Sponsors

Historical Society Corporate Sponsorship Program

$5000
Village of Park Forest
350 Victory Drive
Challenge Match Grant

 

 

$150 Corporate Members

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ZenBusiness.com
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Benefactors

Freedom Hall
410 Lakewood, Park Forest

Park Forest Public Library
400 Lakewood, Park Forest

Village of Park Forest
350 Victory Drive, Park Forest

Superior Cabinet and Window
Frank Klauck, Al Jones,
Tom Grant, installer.
27 North Street, Park Forest.
Phone: 708-747-6969
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Donated platform for and installation of museum kitchen.

Thank you to St. Mary's Catholic Church for daily courtesies extended.

 

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Subcategories

Archive

 

Park Forest Local History Collection and Archive

Memories of the past, memories in the making.

Park Forest's fascinating and unusual history is preserved in the Park Forest Historical Society's irreplaceable Local History Collection and Archive.  It is of interest to the community, former residents, scholars, school children, city planners, sociologists and historians throughout the world.

The collection contains vital information about Park Forest, from birth to the present, as well as extensive documentation of both personal lives of citizens and the municipal life of the community through the years.  Photos and videos of such things as the annual Fourth of July parade, The Plaza shopping center (one of the first two in the country), Pancake Day, and other memorable Park Forest people, places, and events are included.

Valuable, irreplaceable, and endangered

In recent years, the archival collection was moved from its former location in the library to a storage area there.  In January 2007, the collection was endangered when the library storage area flooded.  The Archive Collection is now in St. Mary's Catholic Church, 227 Monee Road, Park Forest, Illinois, in a space we call The Archive Office. the Local History Files are in the 1950s Park Forest House Museum, also at 227 Monee Road. 

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Areas of Special Consideration

Local History: The Park Forest Historical Society through its local history collection will preserve written or recorded materials, photographs, and other items which document the history of Park Forest and provide a record of current and past happenings in the community.

Acquisition Policy Excerpts.

The Park Forest Local History Collection and Archive was established in 1980-1981 by the Reference Staff of the Park Forest Public Library.  The purpose of the collection is to gather and preserve any and all written, audio, visual, and electronically-stored information, or other items-current and historical-which document the history of Park Forest, Illinois and the area surrounding Park Forest, Illinois which affects its residents and its history. The collection will also include information on the history of suburbia in general and on the history of city planning which helps students and researchers to better understand the place that Park Forest, Illinois holds in the history of suburbia and of city planning.

The greatest majority of items acquired by gift or purchase should relate to this village, the geographic area immediately surrounding it, its residents, physical structures, sites, activities, historical events, politics, geography, and social life.  In these categories the collection includes all primary and secondary sources related to Park Forest, Illinois, including, but not limited to directories, personal papers, correspondence, yearbooks, manuscripts, unpublished histories, photographs, films, recordings, organization records of clubs, businesses and agencies, etc.

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