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The available oral history transcripts are now housed at the 1950s Park Forest House Museum. Online transcripts are on, "Park Forest: An Illinois Planned Community," on Illinois Digital Archives, and are free- text searchable.  The transcripts are kept in file cabinets in the museum. 
The Archive Office, St. Mary's Catholic Church, 227 Monee Road, has non-circulating copies of the transcripts. 

Several have been retyped in Word and saved to PDF-A and will be added to the Digital project.

 Jane Nicoll is the Archivist email her for availability.

OH! Park Forest Oral History Transcripts List

Several transcripts are not Bound, and are available in manila envelopes, as copies with editing marks. 9-2019

Narrator Status Narrator Status
Amster, Barbara Folb   Marzuki, James E. Bound
Baker, Ivan   McLeod, J. Ron Online
Barthoff, Ellen   Meltzer, Jack N/A
Barthoff, Julius Bound & Online Moore, Stanley  
Bennett, Richard Bound & Online Mundt, Philip  
Berger, David   Myrow, Beverly N/A
Billig, Etel Bound Osterling, Blaine (Bud) Bound
Brenne, Lynn G. Bound Park Forest Aqua Center  
Brown, Harold Online Online Patterson, James  
Building the Townhouses Bound & Online Priest, Char  
Carroll, Linus Online Racher, Alice Bound
Clark, Larry W. Online Rashkin, Jack  
Coogan, Elmer Bound Raygor, Georgiana Bound
Cribbs, Maureen Bound Retzlaff, Joan L.  
Cunningham, Bernard G. 6 vols. Bound & Online
Ringering, Leona Bound
DeLue, Leona Bound & Online Robinson, Yvonne Online
DeLue, Ross Bound & Online Sainsbury, Edward P.  
Dettbarn, Robert   Saul, James D. Online
Dietch, Henry X. Bound & Online Scariano, Anthony, Sr. Online

Dinerstein, Robert A. 5 vols.[hung up 7-2007]

Bound & Online
Schlenker, Jacob  
Early Park Forest, 1949-1950   Schumacher, Florence McCoy Online
Engelmann, Gerson Bound & Online
Schumacher, Roy C.  
Flaherty, John J.   Shaw, Connor B.  
Fuller, H. Laurance   Showalter, Betty  
Garretson, Elaine Online Simpson, William Online
Garretson, James L. Bound Singerman, Mayer  
Garretson, Peter N/A Sloane, Eleanor  
Glassner, Adele & Alvin   Sonduck, Lucille (Sue)  
Gross, Harriet Marcus   Star, Jack  
Hamby, William   Sweet, Carroll F, Jr Bound & Online
Helmick, Dewey Bound Sylvester, Clarissa Stanis (in Early Park Forest, 1949-1950)  
Hill, Doris Bound Turnbull, Priscilla (being retyped)  
Hodes, Art   Tweedell, Robert (see Building the Townhouses) Online
Kaage, Harriet   Waterman, Edward L. Online
Klein, Minard Online Wheeler, Shirlee  
Klutznick, Philip M. Bound & Online
Yost, Harold (see Building the Townhouses)  
Knight, Jerry Bound    
Kunde, Alberta      
Leweling, Anna      
Leweling, Henry F.      
McDade, Thomas      
Maeyama, Josephine A.