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…]
Author: Nick Ulanowski
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…]
Green Drinks meeting features local environmental activist
Liz Varmecky, the founder of the Greener Homewood Party and South Suburbs for Greenspace, spoke about community activism at the Chicago Southland Green Drinks meeting on Monday, Feb. 23. About 50 people attended, including Homewood and Flossmoor residents, environmentalists throughout the South Suburbs and activists from Indiana, Kankakee and the[Read More…]
Chefs serve a variety of soups to help support mission of food equity
“Soup’s On!” That call started the third annual Soup’s On for Equity fundraiser (formerly Soup for the Soul) on Monday, Feb. 16, as about 140 soup-tasting community members, Center for Food Equity in Medicine (CFFEIM) volunteers and chefs from around Chicagoland gathered at the Flossmoor Community Church Community House. The CFFEIM collaborated[Read More…]
South Suburban PADS moves to Homewood to better serve its clients
South Suburban Public Action to Deliver Shelter (SSPADS), a local nonprofit that provides aid and shelter to those facing homelessness or housing insecurity, recently moved its offices from Chicago Heights to Homewood to better serve clients and expand staffing capabilities. SSPADS occupies the entire office building at 950 175th Street, a space[Read More…]
Black History Month Book Fair featured local authors, artists and entrepreneurs
Local Black authors, comic creators, the co-owner of a Black-owned bookstore and Western Avenue Elementary students, parents and teachers attended a Black History Month Book Fair on Thursday and Friday, Feb. 12-13. The fair was held in a classroom at the school in Flossmoor. Students and parents bought books and comics, and[Read More…]
More than a thousand H-F students walk out, protesting ICE
More than 1,000 Homewood-Flossmoor High School students walked out of their classrooms on Friday, Feb. 13, to protest the actions of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Students walked alongside Kedzie Avenue and Flossmoor Road, carrying signs with slogans such as “It shouldn’t have to happen to you to matter to[Read More…]
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