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…]
Author: Nick Ulanowski
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.
Izaak Walton Preserve forms Conservation Committee to better maintain the preserve
One task for the recently formed Conservation Committee will be to help the preserve heal the ‘path of destruction’ caused by the installation of a new water line to serve the village. This view of the path was from April 13 tooking west from Ridge Road. (Eric Crump/H-F Chronicle) Izaak[Read More…]
Village of Flossmoor pledges to preserve the monarch butterfly; Green Commission makes educational video
The Flossmoor Green Commission is working to help reinvigorate the Monarch butterfly population in Illinois with preparations for milkweed gardens, and an informational video for the public showing the stages of a butterfly that was prepared by a Homewood-Flossmoor High School student. In February, at the suggestion of the Green[Read More…]
Flossmoor baseball season will start May 15, but the Chaneyville Flossmoor Baseball Academy has already has begun tournaments
Homewood will replace Artisan Street Fair with smaller ‘Street Market’
Homewood youth baseball season to begin with safety protocols for COVID in place
A runner heads for first base in a game during the 2020 Homewood Baseball and Softball season. (Chronicle file photo) The 2021 season of Homewood Baseball and Softball starts on Saturday, April 17. Homewood Baseball and Softball (HBS) is a youth baseball, softball and t-ball organization with approximately 20 different[Read More…]


