ForestParkReview.com Vol. 109, No. 22
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Juneteenth flag-raising ceremony PAGE 3
JUNE 3, 2026
Trash pickup moves to Wednesdays on June 10
Forest Theatre Company adds executive director
Lisa Green will help with administration, fundraising and growing the organization in its upcoming season
New day for garbage and recycling collection after Forest Park switches waste haulers
By JESSICA MORDACQ
By JESSICA MORDACQ
Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
As Forest Theatre Company wraps up this season in August with free outdoor Shakespeare at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Nathan G. Moore House in Oak Park, next season the theater group is expanding by adding Executive Director Lisa Green. Formerly managing director at Oak Park’s Madison Street Theater, Green will help Forest Theatre Company with its bookkeeping, administration, fundraising and local partnerships, “really trying to build our presence in this community,” Green said. Green decided to take the part-time executive director role since she’s nearing retirement but still
Forest Park got a new waste hauler in April, and the village is now changing the day that residents will get their trash and recycling picked up. Starting June 10, SBC Waste Solutions will pick up garbage from all Forest Park residents on Wednesdays. Before SBC Waste Solutions took over waste hauling from Republic Services, residents north of Madison got their garbage picked up on Fridays and those who live south of Madison saw trash trucks on Thursdays. PHOTO PROVIDED
See LISA GREEN on page 8
See TRASH PICKUP on page 7
Lisa Green
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