Two years ago, outstanding Homewood-Flossmoor High School alumni Excell Hardy Jr. and Brian Nussbaum decided they’d use their talents at what they did best – team sports. Today their program, Vikings United, is their dream come true. These two alumni served as co-captains of H-F’s 2004 state champion runner-up basketball[Read More…]

(Photo by Marilyn Thomas/H-F Chronicle) Homewood Schools District 153 Superintendent Dale Mitchell, left, accepts a $5,000 check from Marvin Comerford of the Homewood Rotary Foundation on July 13. The gift will be used to reduce the $348,000 cost of the new STEM/CMA lab at Hart School. The lab is considered[Read More…]

Lou Malnati’s Pizzeria is returning to Flossmoor. Village board members Monday unanimously approved a special use permit allowing Malnati’s, one of the Chicago area’s best-known purveyors of deep dish pizza, to open a carryout/delivery restaurant in the Flossmoor Commons shopping center. Sasha Milosavlyevich, Malnati’s director of facilities and real estate,[Read More…]

Flossmoor officials are working to attract developersto land near the new Meijer superstore that they believe has potential for more retail development. (Photo by Tom Houlihan/H-F Chronicle) Flossmoor’s Meijer superstore is sparking interest in further commercial development in the village’s southwest corner. The village is taking steps to bring in developers who[Read More…]

The Homewood Police Department will be holding a training exercise from 7 to 11 a.m. Thursday at James Hart School, 18205 Aberdeen St. Deputy Chief Denise McGrath said the exercise would not have much impact on traffic, though sections of Aberdeen and Morgan streets near the school might be closed[Read More…]

(Photo by Eric Crump/H-F Chronicle) Janet Kataras, formerly of Homewood, receives flowers delivered by her great-grandson, Alexander Hemp, 6, while her daughter, Jane Kataras, looks on. Kataras celebrated her 90th birthday with a party Saturday, July 23, at Salem Lutheran Church in Homewood. Kataras and her family operated restaurants in[Read More…]

Homewood Disposal founder Wendell Yonker, center left,and Homewood Mayor Richard Hofeld, center right,cut the ribbon to mark the opening of Homewood Disposal’s new compressed natural gas fueling facility. With them, from left, are Chad Yonkerand, behind him, Chad Harris of Service Sanitation,Richton Park Village President RickReinbold and Kyle Yonker of Homewood Disposal.(Photo by Peter[Read More…]

(Photo by Eric Crump/H-F Chronicle) Audrey and Eli Goldsmith of Hazel Crest prepare a snowcone for a customer Saturday, July 23, at the Homewood Farmers Market. They said the hot, sticky weather helped their sales. The two were at the market with their mother, Toya Goldsmith. The proceeds from snowcone[Read More…]

Lou Malnati’s Pizzeria this week moved a step closer to opening a restaurant in Flossmoor. The village’s plan commission Thursday unanimously recommended that an amendment to a special use permit be granted allowing Malnati’s to operate a carryout/delivery-only restaurant at 3315 Vollmer Road in Flossmoor Commons. The recommendation will go[Read More…]

A voter registration table will be set up at the Homewood Farmer’s Market from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, July 23. The League of Women Voters Homewood-Flossmoor Area will host the registration drive for Illinois residents who will be new voters in November, or who have moved and[Read More…]