A golfer approaches a green at Ravisloe Country Club earlier this month. (Photo by Eric Crump/HF Chronicle) Last year, Ravisloe Country Club in Homewood was named the fifth best public course in the state. Now, the course is getting national recognition. Golf Advisor, an online golf course rating publication, listed Ravisloe[Read More…]

59 calls: Traffic Stop (33), Assist Other Agency (2), Assist Fire Dept. (3), Burglar Alarm (5), Check Well Being (1), Suspicious Subject (4), Parking Problem (1), Unwanted Subject (1), Lockout (1), Hit & Run (1), Traffic Hazard (1), Traffic Accident with Damage (1), Juvenile Problem (2), Fireworks Complaint (1), Domestic[Read More…]

44 calls: Traffic Stop (23), Suspicious Circumstances (1), Check Well Being (1), Traffic Accident with Damage (3), Assist Fire Dept. (6), Lockout (2), Lost Property (1), Juvenile Problem (1), Domestic Disturbance (1), Fireworks Complaint (1), Hit & Run (1), Psych Evaluation (1), Parking Problem (1), Noise Complaint (1) Traffic Stop[Read More…]

The new fieldhouse addition at the Homewood-Flossmoor High School North Building has earned a LEED gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council. LEED, or Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design, is a green building certification program that recognizes best-in-class building strategies and practices that consider design, construction, operations and maintenance of resource-efficient,[Read More…]

Flossmoor will resurface nine streets – a total of 1.34 miles — in the village this year. Village board members last week approved a $265,097 contract with Gallagher Asphalt Corp., of Thornton, which submitted the low bid for the resurfacing work. At Monday’s board meeting, Assistant Public Works Director Tony[Read More…]

Participants in the most recent Flossmoor Citizen Police Academy are recognized during the village board of trustees meeting on Monday. (Photo by Tom Houlihan/HF Chronicle) You’re a police officer and you’ve just been called to a disturbance in your community. When you arrive, all sorts of bad things have already hit the fan.[Read More…]

True story. I am in the car, running errands and a couple of blocks from my house. It is mid-afternoon and I have just pulled up to a stop sign. I look to the right for any oncoming vehicles and there he is. The coolest dude in Flossmoor. He walks[Read More…]

Women are invited to be part of a special Red Tent experience on July 31 when filmmaker Isadora Leidenfrost presents a screening of her documentary “Things We Don’t Talk About,” and leads a discussion afterward. The documentary tells the stories of women reclaiming their truth and their voice as changers in the world.[Read More…]

“The Ghost Network”: a novel by Catie Disabato (Melville House Books, 2015). “The Ghost Network,” a first novel by Flossmoor native Catie Disabato, is a wild ride mashup of fantasy, mystery, pop culture send-up and social commentary. The primary mystery concerns the disappearance of an international celebrity, but there is much more[Read More…]

Flossmoor native Catie Disabato hit it big with her debut novel “The Ghost Network.”  Catie Disabato (Provided photo) Disabato, a 2004 graduate of Homewood-Flossmoor High School, talked to the H-F Chronicle about the teacher who inspired her, scenes she set in Flossmoor and what it’s like to write your first book — and find[Read More…]