With large crowds expected to converge on Southern Illinois in the days ahead to experience the total solar eclipse on April 8, the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) is offering suggestions on how to view the eclipse safely.
Homewood and Flossmoor viewers will not see a full eclipse, but it will be close. The sun will be most obscured here at 2:07 p.m.
“A total solar eclipse is a rare and remarkable event,”…


