Miscellaneous References and Mentions
While our initial data about Forest Park came from various goverment sources (GNIS, US Census, FIPS), we also found mention of Forest Park in various books, maps and other sources. When we find a mention, a fact or snippet, we add that information to our Gazetter.
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Forest Park. We hope that they will be useful to you.
Forest Park is contained in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>
From that list:
The Forest Park post office opened in 1922.
We found Forest Park in these Censuses: 2010-1990. See our Census Page for Forest Park for more information.
Both the GNIS and FIPS databases contain entries for Forest Park. See our Misc Page for Forest Park for more information.
Off-the-Road Links ...
The official website for Forest Park: www.forestpark.net/
The official website for Cook County: www.co.cook.il.us/
The official website for State of Illinois: https://illinois.gov
Footnotes ...
| <1> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |