Note: This story is the fourth in a series from our annual Health & Wellness special section, first published in the April 1 print edition and sponsored by Franciscan Health. It may seem routine, but a visit with your doctor might have more benefits than you realize. Patients who regularly[Read More…]
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Taking Care: A young life affected by dementia, then Alzheimer’s
Note: This story is the third in a series from our annual Health & Wellness special section, first published in the April 1 print edition. For 25 years, Al Fidanza was a stationary engineer at a high rise building in Chicago. Then his boss started noticing he’d fail to complete[Read More…]
Taking Care: Tips for parents to balance screen time
Note: This story is the second in a series from our annual Health & Wellness special section, first published in the April 1 print edition and sponsored by Franciscan Health. Carole Sharwarko of the H-F Chronicle talked with Dr. Ira Kumar, board certified pediatrician with Franciscan Health, to learn about[Read More…]
Taking Care: Franciscan’s Outpatient Center offers multitude of therapies
Note: This story is the first in a series from our annual Health & Wellness special section, first published in the April 1 print edition and sponsored by Franciscan Health. ”Anytime people or patients have questions, they can always come in; there is an open-door policy in seeking more information,[Read More…]
State of Faith: First Presbyterian Church pastor: ‘Worry less and live more’
(This story is part of the Chronicle’s State of Faith series exploring spiritual life in the Homewood and Flossmoor area. The Chronicle spoke with the newly appointed pastor at a mainline church to find out how he will approach his position. The project is funded by a grant from the[Read More…]
Parks Pastries moving to former location of Pearson’s Bakery
Parks Pastries Bakery & Café is moving from Homewood’s downtown business district to the Southgate Shopping Area in Homewood, according to the company website. Both the new and old locations are currently not open to the public, but the company is still taking orders by phone and on its website.[Read More…]
Construction of House of Goshen, an in-patient hospice, has begun
The ground was broken on Friday, March 24, for House of Goshen, a 14-bed in-patient hospice in Flossmoor. Wearing hard hats, House of Goshen’s owners, Sade Bello and Hakeem Bello, stuck shovels into the ground, marking the beginning of the facility to be built on Governors Highway. House of Goshen,[Read More…]
Flossmoor entertainment executive shares experience of working with J. Ivy, winning Grammy
Sitting at the Grammy Awards show in February, the suspense was building for Flossmoor’s Juan Woodbury. “I’ve had the benefit in the past of winning awards, and you kind of know when you’re going to win,” Woodbury said. “But at the Grammys, you really don’t know.” He had heard the[Read More…]
Flossmoor competes for title of North America’s ‘Strongest Town’
It’s March Madness for towns. Flossmoor is facing off with South Bend, Indiana, in the first round bracket of the Strongest Town Contest, with voters from across the continent deciding which will advance to the Elite Eight round of the tournament. The deadline for voting in the Sweet Sixteen round is[Read More…]
Flossmoor woman authors children’s book about skin difference
Leanne Stuckey of Flossmoor grew up with a facial birthmark that caused her years of insecurity and self-consciousness. It took well into adulthood before she was able to push those feelings aside and realize that rather than viewing it as abnormal, it could be something recognized as “uniquely beautiful.” She’s[Read More…]
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