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ForestParkReview.com Vol. 109, No. 20

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F O R E S T PA R K

REVIEW

May 20, 2026

Special section INSIDE

MAY 20, 2026

17 complaints against police Lt. Daniel Miller during tenure

Forest Park Emporium moves old items to new location

Longtime local antique store now at 7215 Madison St. By JESSICA MORDACQ

Past complaints for police officer on administrative leave revealed after April incident

Staff Reporter

There’s a new emporium in town! After 25 years in the middle of Madison Street, Forest Park Emporium antique store closed its doors for a few days at the end of April and, this month, started selling antiques two blocks east at 7215 Madison St. “I didn’t want to leave the market. I love Madison,” Marlene Tap, owner of Forest Park Emporium for the last 15 years, told the Review the week after the store’s May 9 grand reopening. She said she’d been looking for about 5 years for a new location, since the old “building needed a lot of work, the kind where we’d need to vacate.” When the store’s lease was up, she moved down the street. The new location is slightly larger than the last, though walls are still lined with booths where individual dealers sell antique jewelry, glassware, furniture

By JESSICA MORDACQ Staff Reporter

Lt. Daniel Miller of the Forest Park Police Department has had 17 complaints filed against him since 2008, according to village documents provided to the Review under a Freedom of Information Act request. While many of the complaints were determined to have been unfounded, meaning law enforcement authorities investigated the incidents and found them to be false or baseless, others have resulted in oneday suspensions or a letter of reprimand. The most-recent complaint against Miller was in April, when someone filed a complaint that an off-duty officer pulled a gun on them, JESSICA MORDACQ

See EMPORIUM on page 11

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See LT. MILLER on page 13

Pez dispensers on parade at Forest Park Emporium

IN Crime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 THIS ISSUE Opinion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Classified . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

A look back in time:

Tom Holmes:

The spirit of ‘76

Hybrid religion

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