The summer event season will get into full swing on Friday and Saturday, June 3 and June 4, with the Homewood Artisan Street Fair, and on Saturday, June 4, with Flossmoor’s once-in-a-lifetime Zip Code Party. The Zip Code Party refers to the convergence of the date and Flossmoor’s zip code, 60422; to[Read More…]
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Larger-than-life smiles on display in Homewood and Flossmoor
You can now drive down Harwood Avenue in Homewood or Flossmoor Road in Flossmoor and see more than 100 smiling faces of residents who are part of the “Smiles Are Contagious” project. Homewood’s display is on the west wall of Ridgewood Tap at the corner of Ridge Road and Harwood[Read More…]
Free Wheeling offers entry into world of roller skating
Make it free. It’s the obvious thing to do if you love roller skating and want to make it more accessible to everyone. Ash Mateja did just that. She started Free Wheeling, an organization devoted to not just spreading the skating word but helping people get started. Or restarted. Free Wheeling[Read More…]
Fun activities planned for libraries’ summer reading programs
Schools are winding down, and that’s when reading for fun and enjoyment takes over at Homewood and Flossmoor Public Libraries. But it’s not just the kids who have a reading club. Homewood’s library also has one for adults. In addition to the reading club activities and giveaways, the libraries are[Read More…]
Two dads find H-F a welcoming home for biracial family
Not many years ago, their family would not only have been frowned upon, it would have been illegal in most states. J.R. and Brandon Willard-Rose of Homewood are gay, married and have an adopted Black son. Times — and the law — have changed, and society’s attitudes are in the[Read More…]
Make the world a better place: Share your books
The idea behind Little Free Libraries is simple and ancient: sharing. LFLs are designed to be places where people can share books. The organization’s motto is “Take a book. Return a book.” The number of LFLs has increased in the past couple of years. The Chronicle asked LFL stewards and[Read More…]
Sculpture park: Great art is front and center, available to all in Flossmoor
Editor’s note: This story originally was published as the cover story in the September 2016 print edition of the Chronicle. The young girl, frozen in time, looks skyward. She may be gazing at stars, or watching a sparrow in the trees. She is filled with hope and innocence but also[Read More…]
Villagomez retiring from H-F parks after 26 years
The next time you sit under a tree at Ballantrae Park, swing a bat on an Apollo Park diamond or admire the landscaping around the Irwin Center, think of Adolfo Villagomez. This Homewood-Flossmoor Park District employee leaves April 29 after 26 years of mowing, landscaping, planting trees, plowing snow and[Read More…]
Spellbinding storyteller Beth Horner returns to Homewood Stories Sept. 15
[Editor’s Note: Host Karen O’Donnell announced Tuesday, Sept. 8, that the room is full and no additional reservations can be accepted for the Sept. 15 show.] Master storytellers are spellbinding. There. I’ve stated the obvious. Even though that’s common knowledge, it is still sometimes surprising to be caught in the[Read More…]
Baldness is in at H-F Honor Society fundraiser
Science teacher Matt Knoepke grew a beard for one good cause and sacrificed it for another. Knoepke was the second “shavee” at the sixth annual St. Baldrick’s Day event, held Saturday, March 7, in the south building cafeteria at Homewood-Flossmoor High School. The event is sponsored by the H-F National[Read More…]