Park Forest in numbers
- Coordinates
- 41.4914, -87.6745
- Elevation
- 217 m above sea level
- Population
- 21 954
- Region
- Illinois
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 948 km away
- Same name
- 6 more places in the world share this name
This page shows the time as it is now in Park Forest, Illinois, United States, in the America/Chicago time zone (−6).
Park Forest, United States
Thursday, 5 November 2026
UTC−6 · America/Chicago
Local time in Park Forest
UTC−6 · no daylight saving time
Local time in Park Forest, Illinois.
Sunrise 6:28 AM Solar noon 11:35 AM Sunset 4:43 PM Daylight 10 h 14 min Night 13 h 46 min Civil twilight 5:59 AM – 5:12 PM
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Postal codes come from the free GeoNames dataset. Where a code is listed with a distance, it belongs to a nearby settlement — GeoNames spells that name differently from ours.
The sun breaks the horizon at Park Forest at 6:28 AM and leaves it at 4:43 PM. Daylight comes to 10 h 14 min.
Both Olympia Fields and Indian Hill are near Park Forest and keep its time.
Postal service in Park Forest uses 1 codes.
Park Forest carries the America/Chicago zone, offset UTC−6. Whether daylight saving time is applied: No.