Hundreds of community members watched Homewood’s annual Fourth of July parade on the morning of July 4. The parade included local businesses, youth, nonprofit and religious organizations, village officials and other politicians. The village-organized parade lasted about an hour. It kicked off at St. John Neumann Parish on Dixie Highway, turned onto[Read More…]
Author: Nick Ulanowski
Community members enjoy food, live music and camaraderie at Pride Fest
Hundreds of community members, nonprofit representatives, food vendors and Flossmoor Mayor Michelle Nelson attended Homewood-Flossmoor Pride Fest at Flossmoor Park in Flossmoor on the evening of Friday, June 12. Pride Fest, an annual event celebrating and supporting LGBTQ+ members of the community, previously has been held at Irwin Park in[Read More…]
Battle of the Chefs to raise money for the CFFEIM and iCan Dream Center
Battle of the Chefs, a cooking team competition in downtown Flossmoor, is set to return on the evening of Saturday, July 11. The event will raise funds for the iCan Dream Center in Tinley Park and the Center for Food Equity in Medicine (CFFEIM) in Flossmoor. The first Battle of the[Read More…]
Homewood Art & Garden Fair features live music, food and artisans
Hundreds of community members watched live music, enjoyed food and supported dozens of artisan vendors at the annual Homewood Art & Garden Fair on June 5 and 6. The village of Homewood organized the fest with sponsorship from UChicago Medicine. The event drew more than 20 food and drink vendors[Read More…]
Hundreds attend Old Fashion Donuts & Café grand opening celebration
Hundreds of community members lined up in front of Old Fashion Donuts & Café and Hibbing’s Hot Dogs to receive free donuts and hot dogs for the grand opening celebration of both restaurants on Monday, June 1. Burritt L. Bullock, known as “Mr. B.,” the owner of the original Old[Read More…]
You Matter 2 hosts fundraiser and shows community members its offerings
Community members learned about the offerings of You Matter 2 (YM2), a nonprofit that educates South Suburban youth, and raised funds for the organization at the Flossmoor Community Church (FCC) and Flossmoor Community House on Friday evening, May 22. STEM students demonstrated how to operate mini robotic trains. Alumni explained[Read More…]
Community members enjoy festivities at Homewood Public Works open house
Community members enjoyed festivities, explored the building and maintenance yard and viewed the department’s trucks, tractors, cranes and equipment at the Homewood Public Works Department open house on Saturday, May 16. “We do anything you see going down the street – the streetlights, the roads, the sidewalks, the parkways, the[Read More…]
Residents discuss restoring LGBTQ+ Pride flags with Homewood officials
About a dozen community members gathered inside Homewood’s Village Hall on Saturday, May 9, to discuss why the village hasn’t flown LGBTQ+ Pride flags in June, Pride Month, since 2019. Homewood resident Quincy Crump gathered more than 380 signatures in a petition, requesting that the village fly Pride flags again this[Read More…]
75 years of baseball: Homewood opens new season
Players, coaches and team parents from the Homewood Baseball and Softball League (HBSL), a youth baseball and softball organization, marched in a parade down Ridge Road in Homewood on Saturday, April 25, to launch its 75th anniversary season. All HBSL teams participated in the parade and the ceremony, but only[Read More…]
National leader hosts biking info session at GoodSpeed Cycles
National Interscholastic Cycling Association (NICA) league director Micah Ariel-Roher hosted an information session about the youth mountain biking organization at GoodSpeed Cycles in Homewood on Friday, April 17. NICA offers organized and competitive mountain biking for 5th through 12th graders. NICA recently started an Illinois league and is having its[Read More…]
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