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New Community Enterprises Park Forest South, 60466 312-568-1500 Will I be able to go to the church or for all worshipers following the 10:30 a.m. A village manager, a village president, temple of my choice in Park Forest South? services. and six trustees, many citizen commissions, Yes. A complete schedule of services is the Police and Fire Departments form the core of Park Forest South's government. The First Baptist Church of Park Forest available from the Inter Faith Council More than 75% of the registered voters can South is at Blackhawk and Exchange which is housed in the Library on Western be expected to vote in local elections. Avenue. In nearby Park Forest, St. Mary's Avenue and Hickok Avenue. Roman Catholic Church, the South Suburban Beth Israel Synagogue What medical facilities are planned for Does it look as though industry will invest (Conservative), Congregation Beth Sholom Park Forest South? in Park Forest South? (Reformed) and the Village Bible Church, Yes, that is one of the brightest aspects all conduct regular services. The Park Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical of the New Town's situation. Center South, a 186 bed hospital, is Forest Christian Church meets in Crete. Governors Gateway Industrial Park, a 1,200 In addition, Park Forest South has an Inter planning construction in early 1975. The land for the hospital is being contributed acre tract, is zoned for light to medium Faith Council. It is an open and creative industry. Johnson and Johnson recently ministry of the residents in an effort to meet by the developer. In keeping with the progressive thinking governing all planning bought 75 acres for construction of a their own and their neighbor's needs 400,000 square foot plant employing 300 as they occur. in Park Forest South, a comprehensive health care delivery system will be people. Wilson Pharmaceutical, a subsidiary One of the group's initial efforts has been available for all residents. of American Can Company, as well as to schedule separate services each Monsanto, have opened plants. Many Sunday for three congregations: An Medical offices have been established in other firms have either bought and Ecumenical Protestant, an Episcopal, and Park Forest South by physicians on the developed, or have optioned land in St. Boniface Roman Catholic, at common faculty of Rush Medical College and the park. The significance of Governors times in the Hickory School in Park Forest Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Gateway Industrial Park is that it insures a South. A common Nursery facility is Center. more favorable tax-rate for residential provided and operated by young people property owners and employment How is the town government of from the three Congregations which possibilities for Park Forest South residents. worship at Hickory School each Sunday Park Forest South structured? morning and a common coffee hour is held The town has become an incorporated village with an elected local government. We're nature lovers. Will Park Forest Is Governors State University in Park meet the needs of Governors Gateway South retain much of the natural beauty Forest South? Industrial Park. These facilities, too, it now has? Yes, it is. far exceed the requirements of the It will retain the greater part. Planning will Situated on 750 acres, 200 of which were Environmental Protection Agency, State see to that. In cooperation with the New contributed by the developer, this new of Illinois. Communities Division of the Department of institution is the first state supported Currently, a plan is in proposal to the Housing and Urban Development, the State degree granting higher educational facility Federal government by Governors State of Illinois, the Northeastern Illinois in the entire south suburban area. GSU University, Park Forest South Utilities Planning Commission, the Will County offers junior and senior year programs as Company, and the Village for a water government, the villages of Park Forest well as a Master's degree. Its innovative re-cycling program. South and Park Forest are working with the curriculum is oriented toward community developer—New Community Enterprises— activity and service which, as the Will I be able to shop in Park Forest to acquire and maintain approximately University grows to its projected 10,000 South? 1,000 wooded acres in Thorn Creek Woods. student enrollment, will have a significant Construction has begun for the first phase of Seventy percent of the funds needed for impact on Park Forest South. Thornwood Mall Shopping Center off that project will be provided by the Exchange Avenue in Park Forest South. Federal Government as a result of PFS's What is the status of sewer and water When completed this new enclosed mall of designation as a "new community." service? 125,000 square feet will become the major Park Forest South Utilities Company shopping center for Park Forest South. Does that include Pine Lake? provides water and sanitary sewage Plans include approximately 25 stores: It definitely does. This startlingly beautiful treatment facilities in the Village. The water fashion and clothing facilities, service lake will remain a focal point of recreational is chlorinated and fluoridated and meets all shops, and a restaurant. The Mall's major activities such as boating, fishing, water quality standards of the Environmental tenant will be Jewel Food Stores, with picnicking, and plain, old-fashioned Protection Agency of the State of Illinois. many unique services and facilities lake-gazing. The lake has boats, a pier, The tertiary (three stage) sewage treatment including an Osco Drug Store. and a pavilion, all of which will be given to facilities are the most modern in the state In addition, Park Forest Plaza, on Western the village by the developer for the use and are designed to be expanded to serve Avenue, with such stores as Marshall Field of all residents. a community of 100,000 persons as well as & Company, Roebuck & Company, The trip from Richton Park to 's special programs and projects such as: and Goldblatt's is a nine minute automobile Loop is presently about 50 minutes via air Thorn Creek Woods, highway improvement, ride from Park Forest South. , conditioned electric commuter trains. and hospital construction. on Cicero Avenue, a few minutes from About a dozen trains operate during the Park Forest South, has such stores as: morning rush hour and as many as 16 make Who are the Developers of Park Forest Carson Pirie Scott & Company, Montgomery the run in late afternoon and evening. South? Ward & Company, Wieboldt's, and J.C. Com-S-Tran, the local bus company, The new town of Park Forest South is being Penney. provides commuter service to the developed by New Community Enterprises, Richton Park terminal as well an organization of three well recognized What is the status of mass transportation as to Lincoln Mall, Park Forest Plaza, groups each with experience in in Park Forest South? Governors State University, and construction, financing, and development. In an age of growing energy shortages, Governors Gateway Industrial Park. They are: the developers of Park Forest South have integrated mass transportation systems What does Park Forest South's The Manilow Organization, Inc., headed by into the community's planning as much as endorsement by the Federal government's Lewis Manilow, who was active for many possible. Several important steps have Housing and Urban Development years with his late father, Nathan, been initiated. (HUD) Department mean to me? co-founder of one of the nation's earliest First, the Illinois Central Gulf Railroad has Park Forest South is one of the nation's open space totally planned communities, been persuaded to extend its commuter largest federally endorsed new communities. Park Forest, Illinois. Under Title VIII of the Housing and Urban line from nearby Richton Park to Park Mid-America Improvement Corporation, a Forest South where a new terminal will be Development Act of 1970 the developer wholly-owned subsidiary of Illinois received a federal guarantee of $30,000,000 constructed adjacent to the University and Central Industries, Inc. Governors Gateway Industrial Park. In an making it possible to obtain long-term era of commuter cutbacks and service financing for land acquisition and reductions this unprecedented plan, development. In terms of future growth, United States Gypsum Urban Development projected for 1975, is a great asset HUD has shown a willingness to help fund Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of United States Gypsum Company. for the community. through supplemental grants a number of