As a Flossmoor house burned Saturday, firefighters safely removed a victim through a window to a waiting ambulance. Three search-and-rescue firefighters inside the house transferred the victim, a 90-year-old woman, to another three-member firefighting team outside the team, Flossmoor Assistant Fire Chief Keith Damm said Monday. The victim was discovered[Read More…]

A Flossmoor woman has been charged with aggravated arson and attempted first degree murder following Saturday’s fire at her home in the 2000 block of Hagen Lane. Denise Tropp Denise M. Tropp. 64, of the Hagen address, was charged after admitting to police that she started the fire following an[Read More…]

Scaffolding is placed in the stairwell leading to the Metra platform at the Homewood train station to allow workers to repair ceiling tiles and windows. The stairwell repairs are among the last in a maintenance project implemented by Metra at the request of Homewood officials. (Photo by Eric Crump/HF Chronicle) Metra didn’t quite make its goal[Read More…]

Volunteers manage a controlled burn Sunday in Izaak Walton Preserve prairie land. From left, Jay Eagle, Sam Casella, Josiah Brown, Craig Johnson and Joseph Cole keep the fire headed in the right direction. In the wild, unfettered fire helps keep prairies healthy. In the suburbs, some judicious fettering is a good thing.  Sunday was[Read More…]

Prairie State College is hosting “Action/Reaction,” an art exhibit running through Dec. 3 of works by a collective of artists with military service. The show is in the Christopher Art Gallery on the main campus, 202 S. Halsted St., Chicago Heights. A reception for the artists is scheduled from 4:30 to 7[Read More…]

Tobias Cichon describes his vision for Rabid Brewing. He plans to brew craft beers and open a taproom at 17759 Bretz Drive in Homewood. (Photo by Eric Crump/HF Chronicle) The space at 17759 Bretz Drive in Homewood is something of a blank canvas — four bare walls, a restroom and in an expanse of[Read More…]

Flossmoor firefighters responded to a house fire in the 2000 block of Hagen Lane in Flossmoor after receiving the call at 7:50 p.m. Saturday night. Assistant Fire Chief Keith Damm said crews found heavy fire conditions on arrival at 7:53 p.m. During a search of the home one resident was found[Read More…]

The village of Homewood will not be coordinating and marketing pop-up shops this holiday season. The decision might disappoint some local shoppers, but permanent store owners likely will not miss the program. Some of them were not pleased with the village’s sponsorship of the pop-up shops. The village of Homewood[Read More…]

The word is out. Charles Amenta Patients from as far away as New York and Pennsylvania, as well as neighboring states of Wisconsin, Michigan and Iowa, are coming to Dr. Charles Amenta, an ear, nose and throat specialist. The Homewood doctor is one of a handful of doctors who uses[Read More…]

A view of the fitness mezzanine from the H-F High School field house floor. S.G. Krauss Co. was recognized recently for the framing design that allowed the mezzanine to extend over part of the field house without resorting to columns. (HF Chronicle file photo, October 2014) The work of S.G. Krauss Co. on the Homewood-Flossmoor[Read More…]