Amtrak representatives met with the Village of Homewood on Monday, Dec. 5, to announce that the Homewood Amtrak station was back to pre-pandemic levels service. These returning services include routes to Carbondale and New Orleans and ticket agents who are now available inside the station seven days a week from[Read More…]
Author: Nick Ulanowski
Thomas’ Photographic Services is moving across the street
Thomas’ Photographic Services, a photography studio and shop specializing in portraits and photo restoration, has been in Homewood for more than a decade at 18705 Dixie Highway in the Southgate shopping district. Early next year, the business is moving to a new location–across the street. The studio’s lease expires in March and[Read More…]
Construction of Homewood Brewing Company has begun
Homewood Brewing Company owners broke the ground on Dixie Highway on Friday, Dec. 2. Homewood Brewing will be a craft brewery and restaurant owned by the family of Juice Wrld, the H-F grad and rap star who died of a drug overdose in 2019; it will be dedicated to his[Read More…]
Stores and restaurants will have deals on Small Business Saturday
Small businesses in Homewood and Flossmoor will celebrate the annual national event of Small Business Saturday on Nov. 26. Small Business Saturday follows the Thanksgiving holiday and Black Friday, the official opening of the holiday shopping season noted for discounted and special pricing. Small Business Saturday’s participating businesses may have[Read More…]
Trail Mix concert to feature Nashville singer-songwriter Tommy Womack
The Wexler Group’s Trail Mix Concert Series will be returning to Izaak Walton Nature Preserve on Friday, Nov. 4, with a show featuring a performance from Nashville based acoustic singer-songwriter Tommy Womack. “It is part of a new concert series we’re doing quarterly. Two outdoors and two indoors – that’s[Read More…]
Bank Financial of Flossmoor completes construction of the teller area
Two ribbons were cut at the grand opening celebration of the new Bank Financial location in downtown Flossmoor on the afternoon of Thursday, Oct. 27. While the bank had been open since July, the ribbon-cutting marked the completion of the space inside. Previously, if a customer wanted to make a[Read More…]
Senior citizens treated to breakfast, live music and a tour of H-F High School
Senior citizens were treated to free breakfast, live music and a tour of Homewood-Flossmoor High School on Thursday, Oct. 27, in an event that was an annual even prior to the pandemic. The breakfast was prepared by H-F culinary students. The tour guides and the two performing musical acts, Six[Read More…]
Workers at Windy City Cannabis in Homewood vote to unionize
Windy City Cannabis workers at the Homewood location voted to join the Local 881 of the United Food and Commercial Workers union on Thursday, Oct. 13. Teresa Ramirez-Gonzalez, recorder and organizing director of Local 881, said that 17 workers voted in favor of unionization and three voted “no.” The vote was taken[Read More…]
Community members donated electronics, clothes, household items at Recyclepalooza
A steady stream of cars pulled in and out of the Parker Junior High parking lot from 9 a.m. until noon on Saturday, Oct. 7. They were dropping off electronics and other household items that couldn’t be recycled curbside. It was the annual Recyclepalooza event organized by the Flossmoor Green[Read More…]
Ridgewood Tap closes as the owner retires
Ridgewood Tap, a local bar across the street from the Homewood Metra station, was filled with patrons on Sunday, Oct. 9. It was the last night the bar was operated by owner James A. Riggs, who retired after working there for about 50 years. Riggs worked at Ridgewood Tap since[Read More…]
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