Editing Forest Park, Illinois (section)

==Government==
[[File:White Fawn (mural study for Forest Park, Illinois Post Office) SAAM-1974.28.316 1.jpg|thumb|Miriam McKinnie's mural study for the Forest Park post office (1939)]]
The village of Forest Park runs under a village commission form of government led by a mayor and four commissioners elected every four years.

Forest Park lies within [[Illinois's 7th congressional district]].

The [[United States Postal Service]] operates the Forest Park Post Office at 417 Des Plaines Avenue.<ref>"[https://archive.today/20120728002521/http://usps.whitepages.com/service/post_office/51699?p=4&s=IL&service_name=post_office&z=Forest+Park Post Office Location - FOREST PARK]." ''[[United States Postal Service]]''. Retrieved on April 17, 2009.</ref> The post office contains a mural, ''The White Fawn'', painted in 1940 by [[Miriam McKinnie]]. Murals were produced from 1934 to 1943 in the United States through the [[Section of Painting and Sculpture]], later called the [[Section of Fine Arts]], of the [[United States Department of the Treasury|Treasury Department]].

In August of 2024, Forest Park Chief of Police Ken Gross announced a nearly full staff consisting of 34 sworn officers with only 4 vacancies open.<ref> https://www.forestparkreview.com/2024/08/08/police-department-expects-to-be-fully-staffed-by-2025/</ref>