With this year’s opening of the Meijer superstore, Flossmoor School District 161 is getting a needed boost in property tax revenue. According to the estimated 2016 tax levy, approved Monday by the board of education, District 161 will take in an additional $909,090 in property taxes, mostly as a result[Read More…]

The owners of Raj’s Food & Liquor will return to the Homewood Board of Trustees at its Tuesday, Dec. 13, meeting to seek support for a liquor license request.  The Kaur family, which operates a liquor store in Glenwood, hopes to open a liquor store with a sandwich shop where[Read More…]

The Homewood-Flossmoor Park District got the highest audit rating for its 2015-16 fiscal year that ended April 30, 2016. Scott Termine, of BKD CPAs and Advisors, told park commissioners that at the completion of the audit, the park district was given a  “clean or unmodified opinion. It’s the best you[Read More…]

Buona Beef, a leading purveyor of one of Chicago’s most iconic sandwiches, is planning to build a restaurant adjacent to Flossmoor’s Meijer store. A representative of the restaurant chain will appear before Flossmoor’s plan commission at its Dec. 15 meeting. Scott Bugner, the village’s inspectional services administrator, said Thursday that[Read More…]

  Drama Group cast members, from left, Jamie  Boulstridge, Lillian Mitchell, Jeff Peterson and Andy  Leahy rehearse a scene from “Alabama Story” being  staged Dec. 9, 10, 11, 15, 16, 17 and 18. (Provided   photo)   The Drama Group will bring a true story of race, censorship and politics to the stage when it presents[Read More…]

Connie Fritsche of Flossmoor got excited when a friend in Evanston told her about a special “Hate Has No Home Here” sign campaign begun after the contentious presidential election. “I wanted a sign badly but I didn’t want to drive to Evanston, so I floated an idea to local community[Read More…]

  Homewood Mayor Richard Hofeld accepts   a plaque presented by Brad Phimister and flowers   presented by Manual Gonzalez on behalf of the   Theatre Arts Leadership Kouncil. The teen organization   honored Hofeld for his contributions during its five-year   history. (Photo by Quincy Crump/H-F Chronicle)   Homewood village board meetings are conducted according to a planned agenda, but the[Read More…]

The Homewood Police Department will host an open house from 2 to 4 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 6, to demonstrate new training equipment at the Brian Carey Training Center 1023 191st St. in Homewood. New equipment includes two simulators designed to assist in training law enforcement personnel: A decision-making simulator[Read More…]

  Nina Harris gives the storefront windows of the Triumph   Building in downtown Homewood a festive look on   Saturday. (Photos by Eric Crump/H-F Chronicle) When people congregate on Martin Avenue in Homewood for the Holiday Lights Festival on Friday, the storefront windows will help set the mood, thanks to the weekend[Read More…]

  Karen Smith shows postcards   she brought back from a   recent trip to Cuba. (Photo   by Eric Crump/H-F   Chronicle) Relatively few Americans have been able to travel to Cuba for the past six decades, after the coup led by the late Fidel Castro in 1959 drove a political wedge between the two countries. The[Read More…]