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H-F Juneteenth celebration honors freedom with parade, block party

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The annual H-F Juneteenth parade heads north on Douglas Avenue in Flossmoor on June 19. The parade followed Park Drive around Leavitt Park then headed south on Sterling Avenue through downtown before ending at the south commuter parking lot, where the Juneteenth block party was held. (Eric Crump/H-F Chronicle)

The Homewood-Flossmoor Juneteenth celebration used a new parade route and new location for the festival, but the spirit and purpose of the event remained the same,…

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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