The holiday season will kick off in the village of Flossmoor on Saturday, Nov. 29, with Small Business Saturday throughout the village’s shopping districts and in downtown Flossmoor. The village will also celebrate the completion of the new downtown streetscape.
The village will host a grand reopening ribbon-cutting ceremony of the downtown district at 2 p.m. at Sterling Avenue and Flossmoor Road. The streetscape renovation started in July and concluded at the end of October.
The project included repaving and reshaping streets and sidewalks downtown to improve safety and aesthetics.
Shoppers can look for specials and great deals all day long for shopping and dining in Flossmoor’s downtown retail area, as well as at Flossmoor Commons on Vollmer Road between Governors Highway and Kedzie Avenue.
The downtown will look festive with luminaries displayed by the Flossmoor Service League. Donations are being accepted at www.flossmoorserviceleague.org.
The village will also offer free activities that afternoon for all ages in Flossmoor Park at Brassie Avenue and Flossmoor Road.
The fun will start at 3 p.m. when Santa arrives with a lift from the Flossmoor Fire Department for photos and visits with kids.
Hot chocolate and s’mores will be served as a fundraiser by the Flossmoor Firebirds, one of the village’s traveling baseball teams, and there will be a firepit to enjoy them by.
The Homewood-Flossmoor Park District will offer free holiday kids’ crafts inside the Park Place building from 3 to 5 p.m.
At 5 p.m., members of the Homewood-Flossmoor High School Viking Choir will lead the community in carols as everyone waits for Mayor Michelle Nelson to light the community holiday tree with help from Santa at 5:30 p.m.
New this year: The Flossmoor Community Relations Commission will be collecting non-perishable food items to help fill area food pantries. For more information, visit www.Flossmoor.org, email [email protected] or call 708-798-2300.
