| Show A DREAM COMES TRUE Unique Village Is Constructed On Plains South of Chicago A dream Is coming true for two men of vision on a little more than three years was nothing but acres of corn fields and grasslands 27 miles south of Their dream is taking shape in the form of one of America's most unusual communities which already has a population of The community now an Incorporated village is the first ever built in America in all the from a master plan which situates and Integrates not only houses and but also shopping recreation areas and industrial It is called Park It is expected to have about the majority of them children for it Is a place where children are wanted in two to three more years when the building program Is One of the most remarkable advances In the building industry and In community Park For-I est was basically the idea of Philip M. an Omaha attorney who was commissioner of public housing during World War and Nathan the biggest private builder of homes In the Chicago These with other associates who joined them in the idea formed American Community for the purpose of putting up a super-modern American city which would serve the needs of young families In the middle-income range and which would fill not only their housing but also their spiritual and recreational Backed by money put up by three Insurance Klutznick and Manilow have gone far beyond the usual conception of building which normally provides only for housing and lets the other necessities of living and community integration take care of Park Forest today contains rental apartments in groups of six and eight residences per Each apartment has its own private lawn and community in the These are now fully occupied by most of the village OVER AND ABOVE the rental units are the first of what will be to largely two- and three-bedroom ranch each on a lot of at least 60 feet of These houses are selling for from to less than comparable houses anywhere In the Chicago metropolitan area because of cost reductions made possible by mass purchase and construction of There are now 25 stores and shops in the shopping center of the and there Is room for 75 The situated around a grassy has wide sidewalks shielded by all-weather canopies to protect the shopper from the The first of eight schools and eight churches are now nearing and a hospital and a segregated industrial area are next to be Heated exclusively by natural the village is Even the industrial area will use Curvilinear a water-softening complete sewerage and drainage and huge public recreational areas ore among the other attributes of the new Most of the heads-of-family are employed in from which Park Forest is situated 45 minutes by commuter Average age of the adult population is strikingly low a mere Family Income averages a Perhaps the progressive spirit of the community can best be typified in two of its buildings the motion picture theater and the The theater seats and not only shows but also features art afternoon free coffee and snacks and a soundproof for discontented small The supermarket is one of the world's It has a high speed telephonic check-out system and conveyor belts which whisk the patron's groceries from check-out counter to the point where they are assembled for sacking or The customer is out of the store in an average of about 50 seconds from the time she wheels her grocery-laden cart to the checkout As might be who is and of have already been asked to undertake the building of similar communities in several other areas in the To do so would require a gargantuan outlay of energy and capital but they're thinking about it |
