Homewood trustees will consider a business incentive fund request and a sign variance at their regular meeting Tuesday. Vivek Pinto has applied for funding to help with the installation of a fire alarm system at 18673-18681 Dixie Highway in the Southgate shopping area. The request for $4,935 would cover half[Read More…]

The Homewood-Flossmoor Park District Board of Commissioners agreed to switch its accounting work to Lauterbach & Amen LLP. The move will save the district $50,000 over the next five years.  The board’s decision at its January meeting was unanimous. The firm BKD, originally Wolf and Company, had been the auditor[Read More…]

The Homewood-Flossmoor Park District’s Coyote Run Golf Course in Flossmoor had its longest season on record — 310 days.  Dave Ward, superintendent of golf, reported to the park board that the unseasonably mild winter allowed the park district to open the course Feb. 17, 2017, the earliest opening day in[Read More…]

  Keith Janowski plans to build a new garage for  his Chevrolet Colorado pickup truck.  (Provided photo)  Keith Janowski doesn’t beat around the bush when offering his opinion about Flossmoor’s restrictions on pickup truck parking restrictions.  “It is the dumbest restriction I’ve ever heard of,” Janowski said. “You can own a truck,[Read More…]

Flossmoor School District 161 has signed on to a home rule intergovernmental agreement sought by the Village of Homewood with various local governmental boards. The approval came in the passage of two resolutions concerning Homewood upcoming home rule referendum. The board voted during a special board meeting on Jan. 22.[Read More…]

  Some of the area’s finest jazz musicians will be on   hand to teach at Prairie State College’s annual jazz   festival. (Provided photos)  Prairie State College will present its 30th Annual Jazz Fest on Feb. 16 featuring top jazz artists.  The program opens at 7:30 p.m. in the Barnes & Noble College Auditorium[Read More…]

Michael Case said he feels like tragedy opened a new chapter in his life. And turning that page gave him some perspective on social values.    Michael Case The Homewood resident and Amtrak conductor was shot in the abdomen by a passenger last May at a Naperville Metra station. Edward[Read More…]

Ashley Williams Kirkwood believes her passion for justice combined with skills learned at Homewood-Flossmoor High School helped her team win a pro bono case for a Wisconsin inmate.    Ashley Kirkwood Kirkwood, of Flossmoor, said she has “a personal drive for civil rights work” and she believed her client’s argument[Read More…]

  Flossmoor Police Chief Michael Pulec tells residents  about actions the department has taken to curb  traffic incidents downtown. (Photo by Carole  Sharwarko/H-F Chronicle)  The small area in downtown Flossmoor where Sterling Avenue, Park Drive and Central Drive converge around a teardrop-shaped landscape island contains the following:  ●     Seven crosswalks. ●     One[Read More…]

  Timothy Rosenberg, third from left, and   Thomas Rodeghier, third from right, with  their families, display their new badges   after taking the oath of office as police   officers. (Photos by Quincy Crump/H-F   Chronicle)  Homewood trustees welcomed three new full-time employees to the village at the board meeting Tuesday. Melanie Hamilton took the oath[Read More…]