Hidden Gem Guitars, a shop selling guitars and guitar accessories in the Brown Building in downtown Flossmoor, celebrated its two-year anniversary on Saturday, April 5. Everything in the store was 15% off. Hidden Gem offered a free pack of guitar strings to any customer who wanted one. Community members brought in old[Read More…]
Author: Nick Ulanowski
Trail Mix Productions to Host Nathan Graham Concert at Thornton Distilling Co.
Trail Mix Concert Series, a yearlong series of acoustic concerts organized by the Homewood-based nonprofit organization Trail Mix Productions, is returning to Cooper’s Hall at Thornton Distilling Co. on Saturday, April 4 at 7 p.m. The event will feature live performances from Nathan Graham, a nationally renowned blues musician from[Read More…]
Hundreds march in Flossmoor’s 18th annual Saint Patrick’s Day parade
Hundreds of community members marched through the Flossmoor Park neighborhood in a Saint Patrick’s Day parade that began and ended at the Flossmoor Community House on the afternoon of Saturday, March 15. The annual parade was launched 18 years ago as a small neighborhood event that Flossmoor Park residents informally organized.[Read More…]
Primo’s Café & Deli celebrates grand opening in downtown Homewood
Primo’s Café & Deli, a café and diner, celebrated its grand opening at 2057 Ridge Road in downtown Homewood on Friday, March 7. Primo’s owner Scott Donkel cut the blue ribbon with Homewood Mayor Rich Hofeld, other Homewood village officials and the cafe’s communication manager, Amy Donkel-Rohne, Donkel’s daughter. The diner[Read More…]
Hundreds enjoy food and live music at UChicago Ingalls foundation fundraiser
About 200 people gathered at UChicago Medicine Ingalls Memorial Family Care Center in Flossmoor on Friday, Feb. 28 for Heart & Soul, an Ingalls fundraising event. The participants included community members, local chefs, vendors and restaurant employees, Ingalls Development Foundation members, UChicago Ingalls Hospital officials, the South Suburban band ReTurn2Soul and[Read More…]
The Flossmoor Community House was packed full of Soup for the Soul attendees
The Flossmoor Community House Community was jam-packed with community members, Center for Food Equity in Medicine (CFFEIM) volunteers and local chefs for the second annual Soup for the Soul fundraising event on the evening of Monday, Feb. 17. About 20 chefs from the South Suburbs, other Chicago suburbs and Chicago served soup[Read More…]
Culinary and live music event to raise money for Ingalls Foundation
At least seven chefs, a wide range of South Suburban businesses, the band Return2Soul, and singer Keya Trammell are set to star in Heart & Soul at the UChicago Medicine Ingalls Memorial Flossmoor Family Care Center in Flossmoor on Friday, Feb. 28, from 7 to 10 p.m. The event will raise money[Read More…]
Trail Mix Concert Series to host four local acts at Izaak Walton
Trail Mix Concert Series, a yearlong series of concerts organized by the Homewood-based nonprofit organization Trail Mix Productions, is returning to Senior Hall at Izaak Walton Preserve in Homewood on Saturday, March 8 at 7 p.m. The event will feature live performances from four local acts; Salus & Ploum, Ben[Read More…]
Second annual Soup for the Soul event to raise funds for the Center for Food Equity in Medicine
More than two dozen chefs are set to attend the second annual Soup for the Soul, a soup-tasting event and fundraiser for the Center for Food Equity in Medicine (CFFEIM), at the Flossmoor Community House on Monday, Feb. 17, from 5 until 8 p.m. Community members attending Soup for the Soul will[Read More…]
Dave’s Hot Chicken employees’ friends and family treated to free meals
Dave’s Hot Chicken gave supporters a taste of things to come when it hosted an open house with free meals for employees, their friends and family on Wednesday, Jan. 29. “Everyone’s eating good and feeling good,” Dave’s Hot Chicken Manager Alyssa Simmons said, describing the event. “It’s a great vibe[Read More…]