The Park Forest Local History Collection and Archive is out of remote storage, after five years. The Archive Collection was in storage since January of 2007.
The Park Forest Historical Society (PFHS) and Park Forest Public Library (PFPL) are working together to lease a space for the archive and the PFHS office and Digital Lab from St. Mary Church in a former classroom of the shuttered St. Mary School, located at 227 Monee Road on the southern edge of Park Forest, Illinois.[1] The Village of Park Forest has contributed through a grant to the PFHS.
Part of the collection, including 270 subject files, catalogued books on Park Forest, and reports by the Village of Park Forest are housed at the PFPL at 400 Lakewood Boulevard. PFHS Archivist Jane Nicoll states, “As the collection in St. Mary's gets better situated, more materials may be transferred from the PFPL. The PFHS is still storing some materials in another nearby church, as well.”
To access the collection, it is best to contact PFHS Archivist Jane Nicoll. She can best direct one to information. The PFHS archivist and PFHS president can be contacted by e-mail through the website at www.parkforesthistory.org.
[1]Children who would have attended St. Mary’s School now attend Mother Teresa Catholic Academy, a PK-8 school supported by the parishes of St. Liborius in Steger and St. Mary in Park Forest in the Diocese of Joliet.
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