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05.19.2026 | What You Need To Know Today

Flossmoor School District 161 Board of Education will at 3:45 p.m. at Normandy Villa, 41 E. Elmwood Drive. The agenda can be viewed here. The livestream will be available here. The board plans to move into closed session to discuss personnel matters.

Flossmoor Green Commission will meet at 6:30 p.m. in village hall, 2800 Flossmoor Road. The agenda is available here.

Homewood-Flossmoor Park District Board of Commissioners will meet at 7 p.m. in the Goldberg Administration Center, 3301 Flossmoor Road. The agenda is available here.

Highlight:

  • Hold a public hearing on and consider adopting the 2026-27 budget.

Homewood-Flossmoor School District 233 Board of Education will meet at 7 p.m. in the Viking Room, South Building, 999 Kedzie Ave. The agenda is available here.

Senior Bagels & Bingo. There will be small prizes for each game winner, bagels for all (or until supplies run out), and conversation with neighbors from 10 to 11:30 a.m. in the Helen Wilson Meeting Room at Flossmoor Public Library, 1000 Sterling Ave. The program is sponsored by an AgeOptions Senior grant and participation is limited to seniors only. Contact Jamie Paicely at [email protected] for more info.

Art in the Park. Youngsters can create art from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. in Goldberg Park, 3301 Flossmoor Road.

Makerspace Days. Flossmoor Public Library, 1000 Sterling Ave., invites teens to visit The Attic from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. to make earrings, sew a squishy or create something completely new in the Makerspace. There will be a focused activity for anyone looking for a little inspiration, but you can come up with your own project, too.

Crafts in a Jar. Visit the meeting room at Homewood Public Library, 17917 Dixie Highway, from 5 to 6 p.m. to turn tiny jars into miniature masterpieces. Design habitats and snow globes inside small glass jars using a variety of craft supplies. Register here

Books Without Borders: Don’t Go. Co-author Maria Krysan will join the community book club to talk about “Don’t Go: Stories of Segregation and How to Disrupt It,” which she wrote with Tonika Lewis Johnson. The meeting will be at Flossmoor Public Library, 1000 Sterling Ave., from 6:45 to 8 p.m.

Evening Book Discussion: A Place For Us. Flossmoor Public Library, 1000 Sterling Ave., will host in the Conference Room from 7 to 8 p.m. a discussion of “A Place for Us” by Fatima Farheen Mirza. Everyone is welcome.

Lassen’s Tuesday Trivia. Test your knowledge from 8 to 10 p.m. at 2131 W. 183rd St. Doors open at 7 p.m.

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