Signature Smile Arts celebrated its grand opening in a ribbon-cutting celebration on Thursday, Nov. 16. Dr. Alex Shore showed off the renovations he’s made since taking over the practice following the retirement of Dr. David Mayer. The renovations included new equipment and a new surgical area. The waiting area has been[Read More…]
Business
Small Business Saturday will feature sales, extended hours, games and prizes at local stores
Small Business Saturday is every year the day after Black Friday and falls on Nov. 25 this year. Community members walk around Homewood and Flossmoor’s shopping districts, taking advantage of extended store hours, free snacks and discounts at participating local businesses. “When you shop local, it stays local. It goes[Read More…]
Homewood board inks deal with national apparel firm
A long vacant village-owned lot on 175th Street in Homewood will be the site of a new development next year as Apparel Redefined has agreed to move its headquarters and operations from Crestwood to Homewood. The company produces custom silk screening and embroidery products for local schools, small businesses and[Read More…]
Poppin Corks Bistro serves up official opening
Flossmoor Commons’ latest addition, Poppin Corks Bistro, celebrated its official grand opening with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Friday, Oct. 27. Having been open since Oct. 6 at 3311 Vollmer Road in Flossmoor (as a soft opening to the public), first-time restaurant owners Randall Smith and Toya Smith, community members, family,[Read More…]
Ink-N-Um Tattoos & Body Piercing will open in the Southgate Shopping Center
Bob Garrity, a tattoo artist and Class of 1991 Homewood-Flossmoor High School graduate, is relocating his tattoo parlor, Ink-N-Um Tattoos & Body Piercing from Calumet City to the Southgate Shopping Center in Homewood. The move comes after Ink-N-Um has been in Calumet City for 26 years. “I always wanted to be in[Read More…]
Meet Your Merchant: Blue Pearl Candles
Blue Pearl Candles offers unique products and opportunities to learn, according to co-owner Kim Rowe. At the Sept. 26 Homewood Board of Trustees meeting, Rowe and her co-owner and daughter Terri Rowe, introduced the business during the Meet Your Merchant part of the agenda. Terri is a junior at Homewood-Flossmoor[Read More…]
Homewood board approves permit for 2nd tattoo studio, Ink-N-Um
On Tuesday, Sept. 26, Homewood trustees approved the village’s second tattoo and piercing studio. Lifelong Homewood resident Robert Garrity received a special use permit to own and operate his tattoo studio, Ink-N-Um, at 18661 Dixie Highway. The property was formerly zoned as the B-2 district, which did not allow tattoo[Read More…]
Crab Bagz gets OK to expand liquor sales despite trustees’ misgivings over gaming
Crab Bagz, a seafood restaurant at 18681 Dixie Highway in Homewood, will soon be able to served mixed drinks after village trustees approved a transition from its current beer-and-wine liquor license to one that allows serving other types of alcohol. Owner Paris Walker told the board that her restaurant, which[Read More…]
You Matter 2 founder named Chamber 57 Entrepreneur of the Year
Nine years ago, Destiny Watson was a high school student starting a service club. On Sept. 14, she was recognized as the Entrepreneur of the Year by Chamber 57 for building that club into a thriving nonprofit youth leadership organization, You Matter 2. She received a standing ovation as she[Read More…]
Wright bequest to benefit Homewood re-forestration
Homewood has received a second bequest from the late Jim Wright, who died in March. The first was the donation of his vintage fire chief’s car in July, and at the Board of Trustees meeting Sept. 12, Mayor Rich Hofeld announced a second gift. Hofeld said he had received a letter that afternoon[Read More…]