6 posts since
Aug 23, 2006
35.
Mar 17, 2007 6:56 PM
in response to:
ginchy
About Park Forest,
What I have seen is a once great town slowly just falling apart. The mall is the least of the troubles. Park Forest use to be a great intergrated middle class community. In the 1950's a book titled Orginization Man" was wrote about how the town was the realization of the post war U.S integrated mixed income etc. Sadly the town now has little to no economic base. Most middle class people are leaving. Sadly the whole town is becoming slowly like what Harvey was Robbins etc. Meaning no tax base from business, I sadly think racial divide is creeping in as well. There is a slow diteration of what it was. I drive through on occasion past my old house and no one lives there any more the houses are ill kept, dead or un mowed lawns. Add to that the infrastructure going south as well. I learned of all those problems working summers at public works. It is just sad to see a town that had great festivals and events at one time fall apart. The Scenic 10 was probably the last major even left and now well nothing. I am a little criticle of the town since I grew up there and got a BA in sociology studying what a great experiment it was, and to now look at what it is.
Sorry for the lengthy reply that has little to do with running
