FLOSSMOOR VIADUCT DRAINAGE PROJECT — Flossmoor Public Works Department will host an open house from 6 to 8 p.m. tonight so residents can ask questions and learn about the Flossmoor Road Viaduct Drainage Improvement Project, set to begin this summer with a new storm sewer line from the viaduct to near[Read More…]
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Park board begins planning process for updates to Irwin Park play area
Homewood-Flossmoor Park District commissioners have three plans to review as they begin the process of updating the play area at Irwin Park. The busiest park in the park district is just east of downtown Homewood along Ridge Road between Gottschalk and Highland Avenues in Homewood. What the board can accomplish[Read More…]
The Weeks | Jan. 21: Pursuing the Dream, ‘Caste’ becomes a movie, engineering with toothpicks, Flossmoor public works projects
THE WEEKS > Meetings Flossmoor School District 161 Board of Education will meet at 6 p.m. Monday, Jan. 22, in Normandy Villa, 41 E. Elmwood Drive, Chicago Heights. Flossmoor Community Relations Commission will meet at 7 p.m. Monday, Jan. 22, in village hall, 2800 Flossmoor Road. Homewood Board of Trustees will meet at[Read More…]
Soup-tasting event will raise money for the Center for Food Equity in Medicine
Soup for the Soul, a soup-tasting event featuring about 20 chefs for a fundraiser for the Center for Food Equity in Medicine (CFFEIM), will be held at the Flossmoor Community House in Flossmoor on Monday, Feb. 19, from 5 to 9 p.m. CFFEIM is a nonprofit organization that provides nutritional[Read More…]
Trail Mix concert featuring the Tray Wellington Band moves to Thornton Distilling Co.
Trail Mix Acoustic Concert Series, a year-round music festival, will feature a performance from the Tray Wellington Band, a bluegrass group from Raleigh, North Carolina, and local one-man band M.G. Bailey, at Thornton Distilling Co. in Thornton on Saturday, Feb. 10. This will be the first Trail Mix that isn’t[Read More…]
MLK Day 2024: H-F female wrestlers show how it’s done
Young girls took to the wrestling mat at Homewood-Flossmoor High School as girls wrestling team members gently flipped them, trained with them and became their buddies. The demonstration was part of the Martin Luther King Day of Service events Jan. 15. The program opened with the visitors meeting up with[Read More…]
H-F Park District to host Youth Hockey Day at ice arena
Youth hockey fans have an opportunity for a “puck-tacular day of Youth Hockey fun,” according to an H-F Park District promo, starting at 2:15 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 21, at the H-F Ice Arena, 777 Kedzie Ave. The event will include raffle baskets, a poster-making station, a food truck and shoot-the-puck[Read More…]
Art gallery Oxford Art Exchange opens in Shops on Sterling
Oxford Art Exchange, a shop that specializes in framed, original artwork at an affordable price, celebrated its grand opening in the Shops on Sterling building in downtown Flossmoor on Thursday, Jan. 11. The artwork at Oxford Art Exchange is less expensive than most artwork of its kind because the owner,[Read More…]
1.19.2024 | What You Need To Know This Weekend
JUST ENOUGH TO GET BY: CLASSICAL MUSIC — Professional opera singer Rosemary Joyce will lead a session for adults from 1 to 2 p.m. Saturday at Homewood Public Library, 17917 Dixie Highway, on how to connect with classical music without feeling intimidated, overwhelmed or undereducated. STEM SATURDAY — Science learning and fun[Read More…]
New state task force aims to promote state’s Underground Railroad history
The Illinois Underground Railroad Task Force met for the first time Tuesday to begin devising a strategy for sharing, growing and celebrating the history of the Underground Railroad in Illinois. The task force was created last year under a bill sponsored by Sen. David Koehler, D-Peoria, and Rep. Debbie Meyers-Martin, D-Olympia Fields,[Read More…]
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