Homewood police investigating a call of shots fired found shell casings in the 1300 block of Olive Road on Monday, July 21. Police officers responding to a report of shots fired around 5:45 p.m. reported locating several spent shell casings near the location. Police reported the offender or offenders fled[Read More…]
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Marian Catholic’s new basketball coach was star player
Marian Catholic High School has named John Oliver as its new men’s basketball head coach. A 2014 Marian Catholic alumnus, Oliver takes over after two seasons as a varsity assistant under coach Rick Romeli. Together they led the Marian Spartans to a 48-19 record and back-to-back IHSA regional titles. Oliver[Read More…]
Franciscan Health Olympia Fields adds cardiovascular disease fellowship
The Franciscan Health Olympia Fields Graduate Medical Education (GME) program is now home to a three-year cardiovascular disease fellowship. Three fellows are members of the inaugural class, which began July 1. The first fellows are all graduates of Franciscan Health Olympia Fields’ internal medicine residency program. “We retained some of[Read More…]
Prairie State College selects new VP of student affairs
Anita Moore-Bohannon is the new vice president of student affairs at Prairie State College. She was selected after a highly competitive search. Moore-Bohannon brings more than 25 years of experience in education, including two decades in higher education leadership. An Alabama native, she is a first-generation college graduate. A spokesman[Read More…]
PSC student, alumni art works to be exhibited at Wind Creek
On Tuesday, July 22, Prairie State College and Wind Creek Chicago Southland are launching a new art exhibition featuring works by local talented artists at the casino at 17300 Halsted St. in East Hazel Crest. The Prairie State College Art Showcase at Wind Creek will be a rotating art exhibition[Read More…]
School supplies drive is Aug. 2 at St. John Neumann
A back-to-school supplies drive will be held from 9 to 11 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 2, at St. John Neumann Church, 17951 Dixie Highway in Homewood. Donations can be placed in bags or boxes of a car trunk for the drive-thru collection. Requested supplies include: clear backpacks, 24-pack crayons, colored markers,[Read More…]
Flossmoor Police Department announces traffic enforcement results
The Flossmoor Police Department announced Monday, July 14, that officers issued 115 citations during enhanced traffic enforcement efforts conducted between June 20 and July 7. The program, part of the Federal Fiscal Year 2025 Sustained Traffic Enforcement Program (STEP). was aimed at reducing traffic crashes and saving lives. During the[Read More…]
Flossmoor Police Department steps up enforcement of speed limits
The Flossmoor Police Department is partnering with the Illinois Department of Transportation, the Illinois State Police and more than 200 local law enforcement agencies this month to step up traffic-safety efforts across the state to reduce speeding. Throughout July, motorists can expect to see increased patrols looking for speeding, as[Read More…]
Work to impact Metra Electric service on two weekends in July
Sunday schedules will be in effect on the Metra Electric Line July 19-20 and July 26-27, and the line will partially shut down for the second weekend, due to extensive construction work associated with the South Shore Line’s expansion plans. On both weekends, Sunday schedules will be in effect on both Saturday[Read More…]
State Treasurer Michael Frerichs will return a record number of checks to Illinoisans
This summer will bring $45 million in cash to a record-breaking 600,000 people who will receive checks they didn’t even know they had coming from the state’s missing money program, according to Illinois State Treasurer Michael Frerichs. The checks are part of the latest round of the Enhanced Money Match[Read More…]
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