Homewood police will be out of their squad cars and into the restaurant business for the ButterBurgers & Badges fundraiser for Special Olympics Illinois. As part of the Change for Champions program, police will be at the Culver’s Restaurant, 850 W. 183rd St. in Homewood, serving customers in the restaurant and in the[Read More…]

71 calls: Traffic Stop (33), Suspicious Circumstances (5), Disabled Vehicle (3), Criminal Damage to Property (2), Suspicious Auto (3), Suspicious Subject (2), Disturbance (1), Burglar Alarm (3), Traffic Accident with Damage (2), Check Well Being (1), Assist Fire Dept. (7), Stray Animal (2), Hit & Run (1), Abandoned Vehicle (1),[Read More…]

Homewood Public Library’s 3D printer works at makinga toy dragon. (Photo by Marilyn Thomas/HF Chronicle) Drop the idea that a printer only prints. A 3D printer creates. The TAZ 4, the latest piece of equipment in the Digital Media Lab at the Homewood Public Library, shows how revolutionary changes in computer[Read More…]

And now, for some H-F Chronicle sloganeering. “Read the Chronicle. Tell your friends.” “Get in the H-F Chronicle habit.” “Don’t miss a day of the H-F Chronicle.” “Say, ‘I saw it in the Chronicle.’” Breathtaking, right? We are sure that you are already texting your friends, “Read the Chronicle.” Or[Read More…]

Three journalists make up the leadership team of the Homewood-Flossmoor Chronicle. Each has a passion for local news, a wealth of experience and a desire to serve the community.  The HF Chronicle is your newspaper. We thought you might like to know more about who’s at the helm. Eric’s story[Read More…]

Beautiful mammatus clouds over Homewood. These photos were taken between 8:14 and 8:20 p.m. Wednesday.  

When I started at the H-F Chronicle last fall, I met with school and village officials with whom I’d be working. Tom Houlihan “You can do lots of things that I can’t do,” I told them. “But you can’t do journalism. I can do journalism.” I think they understood what[Read More…]

Once a reporter, always a reporter? Maybe so.  Marilyn Thomas For me, working on the Chronicle is coming full circle.  My first job was at a newspaper. I was a high school file clerk/typist and in short order a writer at my neighborhood paper, The Daily Calumet. Its moniker was “America’s Oldest[Read More…]

I founded my first newspaper when I was 10.   Eric Crump It folded after one issue, but in that edition, my best friend and I got the word out about what was important in our world: What my brother got for his birthday, what TV shows were on, that sort[Read More…]

28 calls: Traffic Stop (6), Juvenile Problem (1), Assist Fire Dept. (4), Domestic Disturbance (1), Traffic Accident with Damage (1), Medical Alert Alarm (1), Suspicious Circumstances (2), Burglar Alarm (2), Traffic Control (1), Lockout (2), Request to Speak to Officer (1), Retail Theft (1), Found Property (1), Assist Other Agency[Read More…]