In August, Homewood trustees pulled the plug on a tax increment financing district that was “under water.” Tuesday, they will consider moving forward to replace it with a new TIF district in about the same location. The view looking east along 175th Street east of Loomis Avenue. Village officials are proposing a new[Read More…]

Decisions are hard to make — especially when you’re a teenager. At Homewood-Flossmoor High School, the Guidance Office staff works to provide the best advice for students starting in junior high, said Jim Schmidt, guidance department chairman. It’s all about keeping students keenly aware of the academic excellence of H-F[Read More…]

La Voute Bistro is still taking shape, but in a little less than a month, the whine of power saws will be replaced: The sound will be of music and the wine will be by the glass. The bistro is a key feature of the long-awaited La Banque boutique hotel[Read More…]

Debbie Berman A reconstituted Homewood-Flossmoor High School board elected Richard T. Lites its president for another term on May 4. David Mayer was elected vice president/secretary. Richard Lites Lites thanked his fellow board members for the vote of confidence and extended “a heartfelt thanks” to voters who got to the polls to re-elect[Read More…]

Fratello’s Deli staff serve food samples to Homewood officials Friday during a reception marking the opening Monday, May 11, of the shop at 18201 Dixie Highway. (Photo by Eric Crump/HF Chronicle) It is traditional for businesses to mark a store opening with a ribbon-cutting ceremony.  But if the new shop is an Italian[Read More…]

Homewood resident Meghan Muldoon, a nursing student at Prairie State College (PSC), has been awarded an American Association of University Women (AAUW) Career Development Grant for 2015-2016. Meghan Muldoon The AAUW grants are highly competitive and the organization is one of the largest sources of funding for graduate women.  The grant will help pay[Read More…]

Local residents who have stories or photos that capture some of the history of the former Great Lakes Bank and its predecessors could win two tickets to the grand opening and ribbon cutting of La Banque, the boutique hotel being developed in the old bank building. Homewood State Bank, far right,[Read More…]

An international celebration no one could have imagined earlier this year will come together Saturday morning, May 9, in Olympia Fields. Rabbi Gershom Sizumu Rabbi Gershom Sizumu, a dynamic force in sub-Saharan education and health, as well as spiritual leader of the Abayadaya Jews in Uganda, will conduct the 10 a.m. Sabbath[Read More…]

Tom Houlihan You look out the window and there is a flash of orange. The reddest of reds and the yellowest of yellows. LBJs – that’s shorthand for ‘little brown jobs” – by the boatload. And so many songs. It is time for the spring migration at our bird feeder.[Read More…]

Homewood District 153’s newest school board member Ashanti Bethea was sworn in at Monday’s special board meeting. Ashanti Bethea Bethea joined other re-elected board members Steve Anderson, Jim Schmidt and Alex Bosch in pledging to do their best for the district. Bethea has children attending Willow and Millennium Schools. She has been[Read More…]