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…]
Author: Nick Ulanowski
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…]
The Chicago Knockouts moving from Homewood to Chicago
Corrections: The player originally identified by the pseudonym Marley Poe actually goes by Marley Quinn. Also, the organization has not yet purchased a building in Chicago but is working toward that goal. The Chicago Knockouts, a roller derby organization, has practiced and competed at the Homewood Auditorium for four years,[Read More…]
Gobble Doggs owner leads kids in an entrepreneurship program
Homewood restaurant Gobble Doggs partnered with educators at Neal Armstrong Elementary School in Richton Park to teach 10 students entrepreneurship skills. After selling their products, the students raised $157.50 for South Suburban PADS (SSPADS). The fourth and fifth-grade students from Neal Armstrong met during lunch in the school’s Science Lab[Read More…]
Poets share works about life and society at Flossmoor Art Council event
Poets recited their works about life, love, struggle and society at Conservatory Vintage & Vinyl in Flossmoor on Friday evening, March 20. The event was organized by the Flossmoor Art Council and hosted by Atlanta-based poet Theresa tha S.o.n.g.b.i.r.d. This was the second part of a two-night event, Floss-Flow. Homewood-Flossmoor[Read More…]
Residents, officials and performers march in Flossmoor’s Saint Patrick’s Day Parade
Flossmoor hosted its own St. Patrick’s Day celebration with a parade through the Flossmoor Park neighborhood. The gathering of dozens of residents and friends started and ended at the Flossmoor Community House on the afternoon of Saturday, March 14. The annual parade was first organized in 2007 by Flossmoor Park[Read More…]
Churchill Black History event features live music, art, vendors and student projects
Hundreds of community members, about a dozen local Black-owned businesses and student musicians from Homewood and Flossmoor schools gathered at Winston Churchill Elementary School for the annual Black History Museum Night on Thursday, Feb. 26. The halls were lined with student-made posters celebrating Black historical and contemporary figures. The event[Read More…]
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