Runners cool down after the 2022 Hidden Gem Half Marathon race in Flossmoor. The race was selected as the Chicago Area Runners Association race of the year. (Eric Crump/H-F Chronicle)
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Hidden Gem named CARA race of the year

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Runners love Flossmoor’s Hidden Gem Half Marathon. 

So many of them love the race that the Chicago Area Runners Association named the Gem the race of the year for 2022. 

The plaque presented to Hidden Gem Half Marathon
officials Saturday, Feb. 25, at the Chicago Area Runners
Association awards banquet. The Gem was named
Race of the Year for 2022. (Provided photo)

The honor is the latest achievement in the Gem’s rapid rise as a…

Eric Crump started his first newspaper with his best friend when he was 9. It was four pages and folded after one issue. Possibly as many as two or three people read it. In 2014, about 46 years later, he started another paper, the H-F Chronicle, which is still going and has a few more readers.

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