Oral History Transcripts
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 |
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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. |