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Park Forest is a village located south of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, with a small southern part in Will County, Illinois, United States. The village was originally designed as a planned community for veterans returning from World War II. As of the 2020 census, the village had a population of 21,687. Park Forest has complex public and private schools. In addition to the arts and culture scene including Tall Grass Arts Association and the Illinois Theatre Center, residents afterward have admission to a myriad of recreational opportunities for both kids and adults such as the Park Forest Aqua Center. Notable people from Park Forest enhance the former artistic director of the Illinois Theatre Center, Etel Billig. Park Forest is bordered by Olympia Fields to the north, Chicago Heights to the east, University Park to the south, and Richton Park and Matteson to the west.

Developers Nathan Manilow, Carroll F. Sweet and Philip M. Klutznick held a press conference in the Palmer House in Chicago upon October 28, 1946, to decide the planned momentum of a new self-governing community in Chicago’s south suburbs. This project, soon to be referred to as Park Forest, was to be developed by American Community Builders (ACB). The village of Park Forest was partly expected by town planner Elbert Peets in the tradition of planned communities on the nation to have the funds for housing for veterans returning from World War II.

Studs Terkel, in his oral archives of World War II, The Good War, says Park Forest and further such middle-class suburbs grew out of the other prosperity after the war. First he quotes an dull GI, “The accomplishment changed our summative idea of how we wanted to live next we came back. We set our sights lovely high. . . . I am now what you’d call middle class.” Terkel goes on: “The suburb, until [about 1946], had been the exclusive domain of the ‘upper class.’ It was where the wealthy lived. The in flames of us were neighborhood folk. At war’s end, a new kind of suburb came into being. . . . Thanks to the GI bill, two additional names were extra to American folksay: Levittown and Park Forest.