(Photo by Tom Houlihan/H-F Chronicle) With just two weeks left before its grand opening, Flossmoor’s Meijer superstore is swarming with activity as workers get ready for customers at the complex, located at Crawford Avenue and Vollmer Road. Joe Hirschmugl, Meijer’s public relations manager, said about 280 employees are preparing for[Read More…]

Saturday’s first-ever Fun Fest, sponsored by Flossmoor Baseball and Softball, aims to introduce a longtime sports organization to young families in the community. The free event includes mini-clinics for future ballplayers, two bounce houses, food and drink, a DJ and live music, raffle drawings and discounted registration for the 2017[Read More…]

  Alice Nguyen (left) and  Angela Latham sit in an  old school desk. (Photos by   Marilyn Thomas/  H-F Chronicle)  Willow School second graders can tell you about James Hart and the Homewood Brick Yard, the Gottschalk House and when Homewood became a village. It’s all part of the social studies[Read More…]

(Photo by Tom Houlihan/H-F Chronicle) It’s a legend in Flossmoor’s Heather Hill neighborhood. For years, longtime residents have talked about the day that Muhammad Ali came to Heather Hill School. The stories differ. There may have been an assembly. He may have put on a boxing exhibition, or helped conduct[Read More…]

Youngsters watch as Nancy Bank’s team of artists creates a street chalk version of Georges Seurat’s “A Sunday Afternoon on theIsland of La Grande Jatte” on Martin Avenue in Homewood, part of the 2015 Art & Garden Fair’s Chalk of the Town activity.(Chronicle file photos) For a few hours during last year’s Homewood Art &[Read More…]

Homewood artist Ben Salus works Sunday, June 5, to create the latest mural at the entrance to Homewood Public Library. Salus said the mural might be finished Sunday, so patrons Monday will have a new work of art to welcome them to the library. This mural is the second in[Read More…]

Homewood police apprehended a Bellwood man Friday, June 3, after he allegedly presented a fraudulent check to a teller at a bank on Dixie Highway. Brandon Byrd, 30, has been charged with felony forgery, deceptive practices, resisting a peace officer and unlawful possession of cannabis, according to a Homewood police[Read More…]

Churchill School fourth-graders get a look from theroof of the SWAT vehicle before the members of the South Suburban Emergency Response Team delivered them to school.(Photos by Marilyn Thomas/H-F Chronicle) Seven fourth graders arrived in style at Churchill School in Homewood on Friday. Owen Harrison and six friends got to ride to school[Read More…]

Homewood Farmers Market opened its summer season May 28 at its new home at Martin Square.(Photos by Eric Crump/H-F Chronicle) The opening of Homewood’s Outdoor Farmers Market on Memorial Day weekend brought many vendors and shoppers to its new location on Martin Square. The market featured fresh produce, live music and[Read More…]

Franciscan St. James Health broke ground last month on a new patient pavilion and emergency department expansion at its Olympia Fields campus. The new construction, which will be completed in 2018, is part of a $137 million investment that will enable Franciscan St. James to reduce the total cost of[Read More…]