[Update Dec. 30: Police announce arrests in the case.] On Christmas night, at least two people spray-painted graffiti on a home, utility boxes and multiple businesses in Homewood along Morris Avenue, Martin Avenue, Ridge Road and 183rd Street, according to Homewood police. Sometime after 10 p.m. on Dec. 25, the[Read More…]
Author: Carole Sharwarko
Homewood girl collects 300 pairs of pajamas for Lurie patients
Ten-year-old Dannen Rose helped collect more than 300 pairs of pajamas to donate to patients at Lurie Children’s Hospital. The Homewood girl got help from her mom, Danielle Bowens, as well as some neighbors who rallied around to help the cause.
Bond set at $200k for home invasion suspect who abducted girlfriend
A 19-year-old man was apprehended and remains in the custody of the Cook County Sheriff after a Dec. 5 incident when he forcibly entered his girlfriend’s Homewood home and forced her to go with him. Curtis J. Berg, of Phoenix, Ill., was found the same day in Chicago and[Read More…]
Homewood domestic violence agency surprised by Ingalls contract termination
After nearly 20 years of providing domestic violence advocacy services to patients, South Suburban Family Shelter found out in early November that UChicago Medicine Ingalls Memorial Hospital is ending its contract. According to SSFS executive director Jennifer Gabrenya, the agency received a short letter via email from Ingalls in[Read More…]
Best Buy, three other Homewood businesses burglarized
Four businesses in Homewood were burglarized in the late night and early morning hours of Nov. 26 and 27, according to Homewood Police Department. The incidents may be connected. They occured in the span of about two-and-a-half hours, with the last three occurring within 10 minutes of each other. [Read More…]
Homewood police quadruple beard-based fundraising goal
Homewood Police Department officers have raised more than $25,000 for Cancer Support Center while growing beards during a No Shave November fundraiser. For the fundraiser, police officers could “buy in” for a $50 donation, giving them the privilege of growing a beard and asking them to raise money for Cancer Support[Read More…]
Amtrak conductor thankful for Homewood’s ‘massive love’ after being shot
In May 2017 Amtrak conductor Michael Case was shot at a Naperville train station. A Homewood resident, Case was shot in the abdomen and has endured a months-long rehabilitation. He wrote to the H-F Chronicle to express his gratitude for the neighbors who are helping him recover.
Baby’s warm milk on a backyard burner
Once a few years ago when the power was out in Flossmoor, Gregg and Kristen Beglau didn’t have any way to warm milk for their baby, Anabella. Their neighbors, Ed and Trish Ladner, offered up their propane grill. “He had a burner on the grill, so we would heat up[Read More…]
Mowing the lawn meant so much
The late Scott Gummerson was an architect. When he died from acute myeloid leukemia in 2015, his neighbors tied orange ribbons in his honor on trees in front of the Flossmoor houses he designed or helped add on to.The outpouring of support during the two years Scott was sick didn’t[Read More…]
Visiting the neighbor’s yard for parties, piñatas and puppies
Editor’s note: Of all the factors that go into making a great community—businesses, schools, infrastructure and events—one of the most important doesn’t show up in the numbers, and that’s the neighbors we cherish. As Thanksgiving nears, we asked H-F residents to tell us stories about the neighbors who support them in ways large and small. These are two[Read More…]
