Happy New Year. We always hope for better things with the dawn of a new year, but after being and taking part in nearly 90 similar events through the decades, we can only hope that the goodness of the new […]
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Soon, next year we are told, the heretofore hidden history of Illinois’ Underground Railroad will begin to be assembled, documented, recorded and made public. And it only took 200 years. Soon, we are told, the stories of those who traveled
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On Feb. 1, 1949, pioneer residents decided to write the history of Park Forest for the next century. By a vote of 90-2, these forward-looking settlers living in new apartment houses built on the remnants of a golf course and
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