Franciscan Health Olympia Fields is offering prediabetic patients the opportunity to help prevent or delay type 2 diabetes with its year-long Diabetes Prevention Program. Franciscan Health’s 12-month Diabetes Prevention Program follows guidelines recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that have been proven to prevent or delay type[Read More…]
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Homewood police offer free steering locks to help prevent theft of Kia, Hyundai vehicles
Note: This story was updated with new contact information on March 9. The Homewood Police Department has partnered with Kia and Hyundai Corporations to help combat motor vehicle thefts of older models. Kia and Hyundai models manufactured between 2011 and 2021 have been targeted across the country following a TikTok[Read More…]
GSU Dance Company will ‘Rise Up’ to social injustice through dance
The Governors State University (GSU) Dance Company will promote social justice in their upcoming production, “RISE UP! Truth to Power,” running March 10 and 11 at the Center for Performing Arts (CPA). The show includes original choreography by GSU faculty, students and alumni. The performance draws from a variety of dance[Read More…]
PSC will host ‘Americans and the Holocaust’ exhibit
The library at Prairie State College will be hosting “Americans and the Holocaust,” a traveling exhibition from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, that will open Wednesday, March 22, and continue through April 27. The exhibit examines the motives, pressures and fears that shaped Americans’ responses to Nazism, war and genocide[Read More…]
Cook County Partners with Rebuilding Together to Launch Veteran Home Repair Program
Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle announced Wednesday, March 1, the call for applications for the County’s Department of Veterans Affairs home repair program. In partnership with Rebuilding Together Metro Chicago, Cook County has allocated $1.25 million to complete indoor and outdoor repairs to at least 15 veteran-owned homes each[Read More…]
US Bank in Homewood robbed Monday afternoon
Homewood police report the US Bank at 18300 Dixie Highway was robbed Monday afternoon. Officers responded at about 1:20 p.m. to the bank. Witnesses told police that a Black male wearing a dark hooded sweatshirt, black shoes, a dark mask and sunglasses and armed with a handgun demanded money from[Read More…]
Chicago Southland International Film Festival announces spring 2024 dates, year-round programming
The Chicago Southland International Film Festival (CSIFF) presented by Governors State University announced it is shifting the schedule for main events until next spring. After a successful festival in October 2022, which saw record attendance, the sixth annual festival will be held in April 2024. “It was great to see[Read More…]
2nd phase of Homewood train station renovation to start soon; tunnel to close March 13
Metra will be closing access to the tunnel on the east side of Homewood Station on March 13 as work begins on the rehabilitation of the entire station. Metra Electric Line and Amtrak riders at Homewood will need to park and board from the west side of the station throughout[Read More…]
District 153 sets kindergarten orientation
Homewood District 153 is looking for its future kindergarten students who will attend Willow School for its kindergarten orientation program March 15. The session from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. at Willow School, 1804 Willow Rd., will offer information about the kindergarten program and offers a chance to meet the kindergarten[Read More…]
H-F’s New Faces Theatre presents ‘Scapin’ this weekend
Homewood-Flossmoor High School students in New Faces Theatre will perform the comedy “Scapin” at 7 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Feb. 23, 24 and 25, at the high school’s Performing Arts Center in the South Building, 999 Kedzie Ave. This updated version of Moliere’s famous play has Scapin and Sylvestre,[Read More…]
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