On this Election Day, close to two dozen families in unincorporated Will County, Illinois, woke up to an outcome they didn’t choose.
About 100 people who had been residents of unincorporated Will County woke up Tuesday as residents of Park Forest. This came after the village voted to annex their neighborhood on Monday night.
The Village of Park Forest — which lies mostly in Cook County with only a small portion in Will — said it has been paying for decades for roads, water lines, and other infrastructure costs for decades that serve not only the residents of Park Forest, but the residents of the section of unincorporated Will County that was up to be annexed…