The Homewood-Flossmoor Chronicle provides a unique opportunity to advertisers. Published online daily and in print monthly, it’s the only publication that targets Homewood and Flossmoor, the most affluent, diverse and best-educated community in the Chicago area. These South Suburbs also boast award-winning schools and commercially successful real estate, including several national chain[Read More…]

Featured on the 2016 Flossmoor Service League HouseWalk will be, clockwise from top left, La Banque Hotel in Homewood, 1950s ranch inFlossmoor Park, a home on Vanderwalker Lanein Homewood and a home in the FlossmoorEstates neighborhood. (Provided photos) Three distinctive homes and La Banque Hotel will be on display during the 2016 HouseWalk, presented[Read More…]

HF Soccer Club co-ed league teams compete during an opening day match on April 23.(Photos by Eric Crump/H-F Chronicle) The Netherlands was giving France a tough time during the opening day soccer match Saturday, April 23, at Apollo Park in Homewood.   It wasn’t THE Netherlands team versus THE France team, of[Read More…]

Hundreds of players and coaches line the outfield at Ormsby Field on Saturday, April 16, for Homewood Baseball & Softball opening day ceremonies.(Photos by Eric Crump/H-F Chronicle) “Play ball!” For 65 years, coaches and umpires have been calling players to the fields at Izaak Walton Preserve to play baseball through Homewood’s organized leagues. [Read More…]

Substantial advertising support from local business has enabled the Homewood-Flossmoor Chronicle, launched as an all-volunteer newspaper, to hire its first employee.   Patty Houlihan Patty Houlihan officially joined the Chronicle March 1 as public outreach manager, responsible for advertising sales, marketing and bookkeeping. The wife of Chronicle partner and editor[Read More…]

  H-F baseball players Bryce  Gray, left, and Percy Walters.   (Photo by Marilyn Thomas/  H-F Chronicle) Baseball skills finessed through the Chicago White Sox ACE Program helped two Homewood-Flossmoor High School baseball players earn college scholarships. Bryce Gray of Flossmoor will be a catcher for the Notre Dame University baseball[Read More…]

Homewood-Flossmoor High School students perform a scene from “The Laramie Project.” The play is showing at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday in the Mall Auditorium, south building, 999 Kedzie Ave., Flossmoor.(Provided photo) One by one the student actors file across a darkened, desolate stage. The find their places and tell the story of how[Read More…]

Homewood-Flossmoor High School officials Thursday determined that there was no credibility to a reported threat that someone was going to “shoot up the school.” Principal Ryan Pitcock sent a phone message to parents at 4:50 p.m. Thursday assuring them that there was no danger in sending their children to H-F[Read More…]

From left, Flossmoor Mayor Paul Braun, Capt.Matt Berk and Firefighter Zach Jebens following the presentation of Valor Awards fromthe 100 Club of Chicago to Berk and Jebens for their actions at the Hagen Lane fire last year. (Provided photo) Two Flossmoor firefighters were honored this week for their heroic actions during last November’s fatal[Read More…]

Representatives of the Copper Still Entertainment Group appeared before Homewood trustees Tuesday, April 26, to request a liquor license for a martini bar and speakeasy they plan to develop at Dixie Highway and Ridge Road. David and Dana McDermott of Flossmoor and Christina D’Ambrosio of Oak Forest described plans for[Read More…]