On Tuesday morning, July 26, Homewood and Chicago Heights officials met at the intersection of Indiana Avenue and 183rd Street just south of Thornton to mark the opening of the valve sending Chicago Heights water down a new main to Homewood. The mission for the first day was to flush[Read More…]
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7.26.22 | What You Need to Know Today
HOMEWOOD BOARD MEETING – Homewood Village Board meets tonight with a full agenda to consider a number of items: a feasibility study for the relocation of Homewood Police Department and ECOM communication center to the same facility, an ordinance to allow a veterinary clinic to open in the village, and[Read More…]
Virtual information session Tuesday on new behavioral health unit, changes to maternal health services at South Suburban Hospital
The public is invited to join a virtual session on Tuesday, July 26, to hear leaders of Advocate Aurora Health discuss pending changes at South Suburban Hospital, 17800 Kedzie Ave., Hazel Crest, including construction of a new state-of-the-art inpatient behavioral health unit and the dissolution of its labor and delivery[Read More…]
District 153 construction work underway
Homewood schools staff and outside contractors have been working on the first half of the $9.4 million in improvements to Willow, Churchill and James Hart Schools in Homewood. The school board approved a number of improvements to update the aging buildings, dating to the 1950s and 1960s. The board sold[Read More…]
Homewood to explore possibility of moving police headquarters, ECOM
The Homewood Police Department and ECOM emergency dispatch center could relocate under one roof, depending on the results of a feasibility study under consideration by the Board of Trustees. At the Tuesday, July 26, village board meeting, trustees will consider hiring a consultant to assess the feasibility of relocating the[Read More…]
Healthy Homewood Fest offers wellness with a beat
At a quick glance, the gathering on Martin Avenue in Homewood looked like a typical summer festival in the village. There was food, music, activities for kids and 30 vendors for adults to peruse. But the second Healthy Homewood Fest was not your typical festival. For one thing, all the[Read More…]
After scoring a hit with the first Chamber Night in Flossmoor, local organizations stage encore
When an event is as well-received by the community as Chamber Night with the Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra was in 2021, there is only one thing to do: an encore. “It went fantastically last year,” said Christina Salerno, executive director of the IPO. “This year we tried to change it up[Read More…]
Blue Pearl Candles is fundraising for Anew: Building Beyond Violence and Abuse
Blue Pearl Candles will be selling candles with purple ribbons in a fundraiser for Anew: Building Beyond Violence and Abuse, formerly known as South Suburban Family Shelter. A table will be set up by Blue Pearl Candles in front of Anew’s administrative building on Thursday, July 28 and Friday, July[Read More…]
Local 150 strike causes the slowing of local school construction, public works projects
The Local 150 branch of the International Union of Operating Engineers has been on strike against Lehigh Hanson, Lafarge Holcim and Vulcan Materials since June 7. No asphalt is being moved in Illinois, causing multiple construction and public works projects in the Homewood-Flossmoor area to be delayed. Lehigh Hanson and[Read More…]
7.22.22 | What You Need to Know This Weekend
STEM SATURDAYS BACK – Homewood Science Center hosts a Grand Reopening of its STEAM Studio, with new exhibits donated by SciTech Museum, from 3 to 7 p.m. today. Also, STEM Saturdays are back in action beginning this Saturday with special extended hours from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. CUSTOMERS APPRECIATED[Read More…]
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