Thursday, September 13, 2012
A 400-pound steel beam from the World Trade Center, which was destroyed Sept. 11, 2001, is now part of Oak Forest. The beam will be displayed during the I Am An American parade and then placed at City Hall, until officials can decide on a permanent spot.
A piece of American history found a new home in Oak Forest and will be displayed during the I Am An American parade on Saturday, Sept. 15. The piece, a metal beam from the World Trade Center that was attacked by terrorists on Sept. 11, 2001, will ride in a red, white, and blue painted public works truck during the parade. The steel beam was secured for the city with the help of U.S. Senator Dick Durbin, Illinois Senator Maggie Crotty, and Grane Trucking Company, Maher said. The beam weighs approximately 400 pounds and is mangled and twisted from the attacks, according to a press release from the city. Acquiring the beam was no small feat, said Chrissy Maher, Oak Forest's Public Relations Coordinator, and it was Mayor Hank Kuspa who …
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
At least half a dozen men who lived in the south suburbs were caught up in the federal government's intensified scrutiny after 9/11. Ten years later, here's a look at the results.
The aftermath of 9/11 was felt in profound ways in the Chicago Southland, and among them was the federal government's intense effort to root out terrorism and terrorist sympathizers wherever they may hide. Several times, that attention focused on the south suburbs. Today, Orland Park Patch has an exclusive interview with a former Orland Park man who was deemed, without explanation, a "security risk" by the federal government in 2003. Sabri Samirah was prevented from returning home after traveling to Jordan to visit his sick mother. Samirah, who was never accused of a crime and never labeled a terrorist, kept pressing his case against the U.S. government, and in December 2010 he prevailed. A judge told the federal government that it had no …
Monday, September 12, 2011
The students of Lee R. Foster School donned red, white and blue—and created an American flag almost the size of their playground Friday, Sept. 9.
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Monday, September 12, 2011
The students and staff of Lee R. Foster School completed its commemoration of the anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001 by unveiling their all-school American Flag. The students, faculty and staff recited The Pledge of Allegiance after the flag was unveiled.
Oak Forest commemorated the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 with a dignified ceremony outside City Hall Sunday, Sept. 11. Check out Patch's video from the ceremony.
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Monday, September 12, 2011
More than 100 members of the Oak Forest community lined the lawn outside City Hall Sunday, Sept. 11 to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. The ceremony included readings from the police and fire departments, in addition to the Emergency Management Agency. Each read their own tributes to those who lost their lives that day and in the years since. The speeches were followed by wreath dedications and a rifle salute, as well as the ceremonial ringing of the bell, to honor firefighters killed in the line of action. A moment of silence held at noon coincided with a national moment of silence. Check out our photo gallery: Oak Forest Remembers 9/11
Sunday, September 11, 2011
Local perspective on the day that changed our nation in ways large and small.
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Sunday, September 11, 2011
Video: Orland Park ceremony; Photo Gallery: Tinley Park Patriot Day; Video: Oak Forest ceremony; Photo Gallery: Oak Forest remembers; Video: Palos ceremony: Photo Gallery: Frankfort 9/11 Concert; Video: New Lenox ceremony; Photo Gallery: Oak Lawn Patriot Day; Photo Gallery: Homewood's Patriots Park Ceremony Also: Pastor Leads Emotional 9/11 Prayer Vigil 10 Years After 9/11, Patrick Murphy's Life Continues to Be Celebrated The memory of the Marian Catholic High School grad who died in the attack on the Pentagon is kept alive by his family, friends and alma mater. 'We Live it Every Day': Mothers of Soldiers Find Solace in Other Families with Deployed Loved Ones Two Orland Park mothers saw all of their children sent overseas to fight at …
From across the country, this Patch site and hundreds of others captured 911 faces, keepsakes, memorials, ceremonies, flags, fund-raisers, deployments and the still-raw emotions that followed the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Taken together they create a pow
Saturday, September 10, 2011
In service to country, community, family and God, residents of the Southland reflect in a special Patch photo montage on the changes in their lives wrought by 9/11.
These portraits are part of 9/11: The Decade After, a special Patch.com report. Would you like to read more about these local people? Visit our 9/11 10th Anniversary Guide to view a menu of news and features. You can view more Patch photos from around the nation on the Action America Facebook page.
In Tinley Park, Oak Lawn, Frankfort, Palos Hills and hundreds of other communities, chunks of steel from the Twin Towers beget memories of a day to mourn and prayers for a future of peace.
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Saturday, September 10, 2011
Shards of a symbol, hunks of steel. Bolt-studded, fire-scarred beams that until 9/11 supported the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers in New York now lie scattered across American towns — reminders of the morning over which there remains mourning. In hundreds of American communities, each piece recalls a day to remember, a hope for the future, a prayer for one peace. From historic Savannah, GA, to glitzy Beverly Hills, CA, 9/11 isn’t one moment or a decade’s acknowledgement but a constant commemoration. In the Southland, the steel also connects us to the memory. World Trade Center steel has been delivered to Oak Lawn, Tinley Park, Frankfort and Palos Hills. During the past three years, the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey, which owns …
Friday, September 9, 2011
A donation of food from a Frankfort mosque and a Tinley church's outreach of compassion after 9/11 created the SouthWest Interfaith Team that strives to build bridges between religious communities.
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Friday, September 9, 2011
The SouthWest Interfaith Team is a nonprofit group in the south suburbs of Chicago that was born through an act of giving. Rev. Jim Young, then of the Tinley Park United Methodist Church, met with Khalid Mozaffar and Tariq Khan, of Frankfort's American Islamic Association, in November 2002 after the AIA donated to the church a large collection from a food drive. Young, who’d worked at Ground Zero, said he was looking to do something more with Christian-Muslim relations and this meeting with Mozaffar and Khan planted the seeds for that. Around the same time, the Rev. Terrence Baeder of Zion Lutheran Church in Tinley Park reached out to the AIA in a show of support after hearing about threats against area Muslims in the wake of 9/11. This …
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Thursday, September 8, 2011
Muslim leaders recall differing community reaction to the approval and building of two Southland mosques in Frankfort and Orland Park post 9/11.
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Thursday, September 8, 2011
The year was 1978. Bob Marley convinced warring Jamaican factions to shake hands. China lifted a ban on the works of Shakespeare. Pete Rose logged his 3,000th major league hit. And in the sparsely populated town of Frankfort a small group of Sunni Muslims founded a Sunday school to preserve their cultural heritage and religious doctrine that would later become known as the American Islamic Association. After four years of renting local classrooms and offices, enough money was raised to purchase property from a Frankfort crop duster at 8860 W. Saint Francis Rd. The farmhouse would eventually become the school. The airplane hangar would become the prayer hall. “It was nothing but pure farm land,” AIA co-founder and vice chairman Tariq Khan …
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John Groskopf
3:43 pm on Thursday, September 13, 2012
perhaps it would be fitting to have some citizens involved also. it would really round out the representation and what it stands for. over 3000 ordinary people lke us lost their lives also more ›