Pros:
Coummunity Park in Palos Heights is a short (albeit with long transitions between holes) 9 hole course in an area with few DG courses. The terrain is a mix of flat, grassy, city park and overgrown scrub forest. The course is in a multiuse park and is split up between a few different areas of the park. It feels shoehorned in around the other park facilities.
There is a decent distance variety for a course aimed at beginners. 5 holes <200, 2 holes between two and three hundred and 2 holes >300.
Nice Discatcher baskets with flags on top and next tee arrows hanging from the tray.
Hole 9's basket is on top of a good sized, man-made hill. To get there you have to negotiate a low ceiling.
Cons:
The park style holes offer little challenge to experienced players.
The holes in the woods (4,5,6) are completely overgrown. There is knee high underbrush covering the entire fairways and greens. They are borderline unplayable. For the one disc noobs that this course was designed for, these holes represent the real chance of losing their only disc.
Navigation is counter-intuitive at times with quite a few long walks between holes that wind around other park facilities.
Natural tees that are grass for the time being.
Other Thoughts:
The wooded holes are borderline unplayable due to the underbrush covering everything except for a narrow game trail. Accordingly, I'm rating the course a 1. If this maintenance issue is corrected, this course has 1.5 disc potential.
The separated areas of the park, that the course makes use of, do not lead to good course flow. Even with the limitation of the property, the design is weak.