Danny Wojslaw and Sebastian Fortson, armed with a large display pancake, announce at the March 10Homewood Board of Trustees meeting the 61stannual Boy Scout Pancake Breakfast. (Photo byQuinn Crump/The Chronicle)   Boy Scout Troop 342 and Cub Scout Pack 304 will begin their seventh decade of annual pancake breakfast fundraisers with the 61st[Read More…]

56 calls: Traffic Stop (35), Burglar Alarm (3), Check Well Being (2), Assist Fire Dept. (8), Suspicious Circumstances (1), Found Property (1), Assist Other Agency (1), Traffic Accident with Damage (2), Disabled Vehicle (1), Juvenile Problem (1), Citizen Assist (1) Traffic Stop (35) 12:24 a.m., Kedzie Ave. & Olive Rd.[Read More…]

71 calls: Traffic Stop (42), Assist Fire Dept. (6),  Burglar Alarm (5), Domestic Disturbance (2), Abandoned Vehicle (3), Lockout (4), Disabled Vehicle (2), Stray Animal (1), Traffic Hazard (1), Hit & Run (1), Citizen Assist (1), Suspicious Subject (2), Barking Dog (1) Traffic Stop (42) 12:00 a.m., I-80/I-294 & Halsted[Read More…]

75 calls: Traffic Stop (56), Abandoned Vehicle (1), Burglar Alarm (3), Traffic Accident with Damage (1), Assist Fire Dept. (6), Lockout (1), Suspicious Circumstances (1), Minibike Complaint (1), Parking Problem (1), Domestic Disturbance (1), Noise Complaint (1), Check Well Being (1), Disturbance (1) Traffic Stop (56) 12:03 a.m., 18300 Highland[Read More…]

55 calls: Traffic Stop (32), Assist Fire Dept. (6), Lockout (2), Notification (1), Burglar Alarm (4), Parking Problem (2), Check Well Being (1), Domestic Disturbance (1), Assist Other Agency (1), Juvenile Problem (1), Traffic Accident with Damage (2), Unwanted Subject (1), Lost Property (1) Traffic Stop (32) 12:14 a.m., 18400[Read More…]

49 calls: Traffic Stop (34), Abandoned Vehicle (1), Assist Fire Dept. (2), Suspicious Subject (2), Burglar Alarm (5), Found Property (1), Assist Other Agency (1), Check Well Being (1), Suspicious Circumstances (1), Disturbance (1) Traffic Stop (34) 12:18 a.m., 175th St. & Butternut Rd. 12:35 a.m., 18024 Halsted St. 1:10[Read More…]

The Homewood District 153 School Board held a moment of reflection upon the announcement that its former superintendent, Jim Mahan, had died Monday, March 16. He was a Flossmoor resident. Mahan served as superintendent from 1984 to 1999.  It was a time of major growth in the district, said Board President Shelly Marks.[Read More…]

54 calls: Traffic Stop (29), Assist Fire Dept. (6), Burglar Alarm (3), Stray Animal (6), Customer/Management Dispute (1), Suspicious Subject (2), Disabled Vehicle (2), Suspicious Circumstances (2), Retail Theft (1), Unwanted Subject (1), Warrant Service (1) Traffic Stop (29) 12:05 a.m., Dixie Hwy. & Hawthorne Rd. 12:17 a.m., Halsted St.[Read More…]

A second court-appointed psychiatrist has found Pol Danilov not fit for trial following last October’s attack on an elderly woman in a Homewood grocery store.  Pol Danilov During Danilov’s latest appearance at the Markham courthouse on Monday, Cook County Associate Judge Michelle Pitman ordered a transfer of the case to[Read More…]

Sherah, stolen when she was a puppy, was returned to her Homewood family more than five years later. (Photoby Marilyn Thomas/TheChronicle) Sherah, a tan and black German Shepherd eight-month-old pup, loved to play in the family’s back yard with Gerald and Jennifer Smith’s first and second graders. But then someone hopped their home’s six foot privacy[Read More…]