52 calls: Traffic Stop (18), Traffic Accident with Damage (2), Warrant Service (1), Burglar Alarm (2), Sign/Signal Out (2), Assist Fire Dept. (4), Check Well Being (4), Attempt to Locate (1), Vicious Dog (1), Lockout (5), Suspicious Subject (1), Noise Complaint (2), Domestic Disturbance (1), Found Property (1), Parking Problem[Read More…]
Author: HF Chronicle Staff
Exceptional reader’s essay wins recognition for St. Joseph student
Visitors to Homewood’s Art & Garden Fair this weekend will have an opportunity to help the Cancer Support Center by shopping at the Village Door Flea Market. The flea market will be located in the parking lot at the rear of the shop at 2019 Ridge Road and will be[Read More…]
Drama Group preview: Novelist’s visit home unleashes holiday angst in ‘Other Desert Cities’
48 calls: Traffic Stop (24), Lockout (4), Loud Party (1), Domestic Battery (1), Assist Fire Dept. (7), Disabled Vehicle (1), Disturbance (1), Citizen Assist (1), Traffic Accident with Damage (1), Theft (1), Burglar Alarm (2), Check Well Being (1), Customer/Management Dispute (1), Domestic Disturbance (1), Suspicious Circumstances (1) Traffic Stop[Read More…]
La Banque prepares for business with Saturday soft opening
The new Homewood welcome sign at the village’s south entrance on Dixie Highway. (Photo by Eric Crump/HF Chronicle) New Homewood welcome signs were installed about in mid-May, and public works officials say the new versions should be long-lasting and easier to maintain. The new signs include the village’s slogan, “You’re in the Right[Read More…]
District 161 parents look for answers but school board withholds comment
Editor’s note: This is the fourth in a series of stories reflecting on the Homewood-Flossmoor Chronicle’s first year of publishing. Every publication starts from zero. The Chicago Tribune had to sell its first newspaper before it could sell its millionth. The Homewood-Flossmoor Chronicle started from zero, too, but we’re encouraged by[Read More…]
Police Reports: June 4, 2015
London Hatch (Photo by Marilyn Thomas/HF Chronicle) An essay by London Hatch of St. Joseph School written to author Anne Frank has won special recognition through the “Letters About Literature” essay contest sponsored by the Illinois Secretary of State and the Illinois Center for the Book. The contest asked students to write a letter to[Read More…]
Police Reports: June 2, 2015
Novelist Brooke Wyeth (Jeannie Markionni) talks with her father,Lyman, during a family reunion in “Other Desert Cities,” at theDrama Group in Chicago Heights.(Photo provided by the Drama Group) Joyful anticipation often fades quickly when family members gather for the holidays, expecting past conflicts to have evaporated with the passage of time.[Read More…]
Portillo’s opens hiring office for 200 positions
After more than three years in development, the conversion of the former Great Lakes Bank building into La Banque, an upscale boutique hotel in downtown Homewood is done, and the staff has gotten its first test run. Renovations and preparations came right down to the wire, with workers completing finishing[Read More…]
Global Fusion to close its doors, open new options
Editor’s note: This is the third in a week-long series of stories focusing on who and what the HF Chronicle is. After publishing for a year, we thought it was about time we explain what we’re up to. Greetings Chronicle readers! Marilyn Thomas We’ve been meeting you at the[Read More…]
Police Reports: June 1, 2015
62 calls: Traffic Stop (43), Domestic Disturbance (1), Burglar Alarm (3), Suspicious Circumstances (1), Assist Fire Dept. (5), Assist Other Agency (1), Medical Alert Alarm (2), Parking Problem (1), Citizen Assist (1), Dispute (1), Suspicious Subject (1), Traffic Accident with Damage (1), Lockout (1) Traffic Stop (43) 12:06 a.m., 187th[Read More…]


