Dozens of community members raised about $8,500 for the Flossmoor Veterans Memorial (FVM) at the third annual trivia night at the Flossmoor Community House on Friday evening, March 15, according to FVM officials. The FVM will be a Wall of Honor listing all Flossmoor residents who have served in the United States military. While[Read More…]
Author: Nick Ulanowski
Dairy Queen in Homewood re-opens, offered free ice cream cones
Dairy Queen on Ridge Road in Homewood offered free ice cream cones on Thursday, March 14. This annual deal has become a tradition offered on the first day of the new season the Homewood Dairy Queen is open. A small scoop of vanilla ice cream on a cone was available[Read More…]
Bistro on Sterling celebrates its re-opening with a ribbon cutting
Chef Yvette Zavala, the new owner of Bistro on Sterling, a bar and restaurant specializing in American food in downtown Flossmoor, cut the green ribbon at the grand opening celebration on Friday, March 8. Bistro on Sterling was closed for months as it changed hands but it’s officially open again. Zavala was[Read More…]
Nearly 200 community members attend Soup for the Soul
The Flossmoor Community House was jam-packed with a dinner-time crowd for Soup for the Soul on Monday, Feb. 19. All proceeds raised at the event were donated to the Center for Food Equity in Medicine (CFFEIM), a nonprofit organization that provides nutritional support to families dealing with cancer and other[Read More…]
Flossmoor Station welcomes its new head chef
Chris Ball has been Flossmoor Station Restaurant & Brewery’s head chef since early January. He’s gone from working what he described as an unfulfilling job as a juvenile prosecuting attorney in New York City to making biweekly specials at Flossmoor Station and hoping to make changes to the menu. The[Read More…]
Executive chef takes ownership of Bistro on Sterling
Bistro on Sterling, a bar and restaurant specializing in American food in downtown Flossmoor, has changed hands. Tracy and Rich Cairo, who owned Bistro on Sterling since 2017, sold it to their executive chef, Yvette Zavala. Zavala will remain executive chef in her new ownership position. She’ll be adding new items to[Read More…]
Family Wine & Liquor expands its space and adds coolers
Family Wine & Liquor, a liquor store in the Southgate Shopping Center in Homewood, has almost doubled its space. This has allowed for more room for customers to walk while browsing, less product that has to be temporarily stored in the back and new, walk-in coolers for beer and hard[Read More…]
Ace Hardware re-opens in new Cherry Creek location
Ebel’s Ace Hardware at the Cherry Creek Shopping Center in Homewood celebrated the grand opening of its new store location on Monday, Jan. 22. It moved from 18410 Governors Highway to 18320 Governors Highway, a few units away. While the space is smaller, management said this new store is an[Read More…]
Soup-tasting event will raise money for the Center for Food Equity in Medicine
Soup for the Soul, a soup-tasting event featuring about 20 chefs for a fundraiser for the Center for Food Equity in Medicine (CFFEIM), will be held at the Flossmoor Community House in Flossmoor on Monday, Feb. 19, from 5 to 9 p.m. CFFEIM is a nonprofit organization that provides nutritional[Read More…]
Trail Mix concert featuring the Tray Wellington Band moves to Thornton Distilling Co.
Trail Mix Acoustic Concert Series, a year-round music festival, will feature a performance from the Tray Wellington Band, a bluegrass group from Raleigh, North Carolina, and local one-man band M.G. Bailey, at Thornton Distilling Co. in Thornton on Saturday, Feb. 10. This will be the first Trail Mix that isn’t[Read More…]