The Homewood Public Library board of trustees reviewed COVID-19 protocols currently in place and the possibility of requiring all employees to be vaccinated. “I don’t know. It’s a slippery slope,” Colleen Waltman, library director, told trustees at the Aug. 18 meeting. Board members expressed concern about implementing a vaccine requirement[Read More…]
Author: Nick Ulanowski
Annual fund run will raise money for Foundation 153
HF Soccer Club will open its recreational season the weekend of Sept. 11
Christmas in July: Homewood landscaper gifted with souped-up lawnmower
The FORT teen space at Homewood library has reopened
At its July 21 meeting, the Homewood Public Library board agreed to reopen the FORT, a special spot in the library for teens. The space has been closed since the beginning of the pandemic. The FORT (Friends of Remarkable Teens) is an area on the second floor designated for 7th-12th[Read More…]
Homewood art teacher engages students with the right canvas: sneakers
When Ben Salus was looking for a new canvas for his art students’ design work, he only had to look down. Salus, 41, of Homewood, teaches art at Jesse White Learning Academy in Hazel Crest with a social-justice-through-art mission. Recently, Salus challenged his second to seventh grade students to custom[Read More…]
Video store space being used for charitable poker games
Jerry Hartman, treasurer of American Legion’s Blue Island post, left, and Ermon Davis, trustee of American Legion’s Richton Park post, represent charities that are active participants in Windy City Poker Championship’s charitable events in Homewood. (Nick Ulanowski/H-F Chronicle) If you’ve recently driven past the previous location of Homewood’s Family Video store at Dixie[Read More…]
With owners in crisis, Homewood family provides temporary home to dog, part of new SSHS program
Kerri Bradley is a Homewood resident who loves dogs. In April, she began fostering a dog named Brie as a part of South Suburban Human Society’s new Pets are Family program. Bradley and her family took care of Brie for about a month before she was reunited with her owners.[Read More…]
‘Grab a book and grab a tomato;’ Little Free Library in Flossmoor adds a community garden
Trail Mix Music Fest will return to Izaak Walton as a 3-day concert series
What was formerly known as Trail Mix Music Fest is returning to Izaak Walton Nature Preserve on June 18, the first event in what is now the Trail Mix Acoustic Concert Series.
Newsletter
