Navajo Hills in Palos Heights IL

02/03/2026

Check out the new Navajo Hills Instagram account

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12/03/2025

11/04/2025

Dear Trinity Community,

We write today to share that Trinity Christian College will close at the end of the 2025-2026 academic year.

With deep sadness and heavy hearts, our Board of Trustees voted on Monday, November 3, to close our beloved institution. Trinity will celebrate the commencement of its final graduating class on May 8, 2026, after which Trinity will cease academic operations. We encourage you to watch this brief video to hear more about the Board’s decision and next steps for our community.

Trinity has faced many challenges over the last several years, including the COVID-19 pandemic and shutdown, steadily increasing operational costs, and enrollment downturns across higher education. After many months of deliberation, exploration of multiple paths forward, and prayerful discernment, the Board determined there was no sustainable path forward for the college.

Our priority is the well-being of our community, and we are intently focused on how to make this transition as smooth as possible for students and their families.

As someone who has been such an important member of this community, we are deeply grateful for your contributions to our mission through the years. We know that your commitment will be important to ending this year well, and we look forward to welcoming you to campus to celebrate Trinity’s legacy in the weeks to come.

More information is available here and will be updated regularly. You may send additional questions to [email protected].
For more than six decades, Trinity has lived its mission to educate the whole person. We are proud to have graduated thousands of students, expanded access to Christian higher education across Chicagoland, and worked to support student well-being and decrease student loan debt through community partnerships.

The Trinity story is enduring, and its legacy is deep and eternal. It lives in the alumni, faculty, staff, students, and all those who have been formed by the faithful service of this community. It touches every workplace, classroom, church, and neighborhood to which our community belongs and in which this mission continues forward.

As we celebrate the impact of Trinity and grieve the end of its physical presence, we trust in God to guide us through this transition and thank our Lord for helping Trinity shape so many lives on this earth— lives whose impact will live on for generations.

In Christ,
Kenneth S. Dryfhout, '03
Board of Trustees Chair

Jeanine M. Mozie
Acting President

10/26/2025

Palos Heights has an Annual Holiday Tree Decorating Contest.

The trees are provided by the City. And will be on display in
the Community Park near the gazebo across from City Hall.

Applications are due by Friday, November 7th

Decorating takes place from November 26th to December 4th

Are you interested in participating? And getting a group involved
in the decorating of a Tree to Represent Navajo HOA?

Attached is the Decorating Contest Information.

Email [email protected] if you want to get a group involved and represent the Navajo Hills HOA.

10/22/2025

Wear your costume and head to the Palos Heights pool for Touch A Truck and Treat, Thursday, Oct. 23. Sensory-friendly zone available.

10/08/2025

09/27/2025

Interesting history of the Navajo Hills subdivision

Posts about Navajo Fields Golf Course written by Ken Zurski, author

09/27/2025

NAVAJO FIELDS GOLF COURSE - until 1959

- map provided by Barabara Pasquinelli, one of the orginators of the Navajo Hills Homeowners Association that officially began in 1973.

09/26/2025

Someone was asking about a map of what Navajo Hills looked like before 1960 when it was redeveloped from a golf course into the Trinity College campus and residential subdivision. We found this with a Google search. There are three pictures (scroll arrow on right side of the photo). The third picture is relatively new and zooms out to include the Cal-Sag Channel and further north across the channel is the Village of Worth's Water's Edge Municipal Golf Course that opened in 1999.

(in case the original instagram post is ever deleted:
Navajo Fields (CLOSED) - Palos Heights, IL Built in 1928 and open for play until 1959 when it was sold to developers. The old clubhouse now serves as the admissions building for Trinity Christian College and the pro shop became the schools music building. To the north of the property now sits Water’s Edge Golf Course, a Rick Robbins and Gary Koch designed course opened for play in 1999. The original Navajo Fields was semi-private and considered a great test during its time. The course was laid out by Harry J. Collis who was the professional/superintendent . Collis is credited with design work thought out the US and remodeling at courses including Flossmoor, Medinah No. 3, and Denver CC to name a few.

https://www.instagram.com/p/B_2SB9NFDFf/?hl=en&img_index=1

07/07/2025

Interesting perspective on our subdivisions namesake.

Good explanation about why the Navajo Codetalkers succeeded in having unbroken code in WWII.

Why couldn't the Japanese break the Navajo code?
Japan ran into hard problems -- The first was the language itself, Navajo is not like other languages. It is tonal; the meaning of a word changes with the pitch of the voice. Its grammar is a complex machine of verbs. With a structure completely alien to Japan or Europe - It was also an unwritten language. There were no books for the Japanese to study - An enemy cannot decipher a language he cannot first learn.

The second problem was that the code was more than just the language, it was a two-part system. The code talkers had a memorized dictionary. Using Navajo words for military concepts; an “iron fish” for a submarine. For everything else, they used a substitution alphabet, with Navajo words for English letters. A man would have to learn the unwritten, complex language first, then guess the second layer of code - It was not possible.

05/28/2025

More pictures of the Navajo HOA landscape areas history:

* May 2012 127th & Navajo Dr
* May 2012 Navajo Dr split
* September 2018 Menominee triangle before 2021 reconstruction
* September 2021 Triangle cobblestone rework by John Garcia
* September 2021 127th St & Navajo Dr
* September 2021 Navajo Dr center parkway looking north (after City of PH took over 90% of the parkway that had become severely neglected during the 2020-21 Covid era period)
* September 2021 Navajo Dr center parkway looking south
* September 2021 Navajo Dr split prior to reconstruction including a new cobblestone border.