<- Week -> Democracy Day all monthSept. 15 is International Democracy Day. The Chronicle is participating in a collaborative journalism project sponsored by the Montclair State University Center for Cooperative Media. Quote of the week“If you have a plan, we want to hear it. Tell your community leaders, your local officials, your governor,[Read More…]
Opinion
Celebrate Democracy Day: Attend a meeting
Democracy, in my experience, tends to consist of long periods of quiet routine punctuated by much noise and occasional voting. It’s like watching CSPAN for months then sometimes switching to All-Star Wrestling just to wake up and get the blood racing. That’s the general pattern I’ve seen in the six[Read More…]
The Weeks | Aug. 21
This week: Two board meetings, a business opening on Halsted and a an acoustic punk concert. Last week: Continued controversy over the police shooting of Madeline Miller. Public works projects are rolling after delays earlier this summer from a quarry strike.
H-F nestled in Chicago’s green playground
When was the last time you were completely lost in the woods? Enveloped by trees and the sounds of birds? The amazing thing is how easy it is to do in Cook County, the seat of the world’s next MegaCity –you guessed it, Chicago, the next global metropolitan area to[Read More…]
Page 2: H-F saw losses, trauma in July
The community lost several people who made their mark on H-F, three during their lives and one in her death. On July 10, Madeline Miller, 64, was shot and killed by Flossmoor police officers who were responding to a report of a domestic disturbance. The nation has been paying increasing[Read More…]
Pride Party the latest event in a month of celebration
One thing was made clear in June. Despite being under pandemic quarantine measures for much of the past two years, the Homewood-Flossmoor community did not forget how to celebrate. This is the first summer since 2019 with virtually no pandemic limitations in place, and people have flocked to a series[Read More…]
Page 2: Information helps combat carjacking trend
In February, an armed juvenile jumped into a car in the 17500 block of Dixie Highway, ordered the occupant to exit the vehicle, then he and an accomplice drove away. On May 16, a similar scenario played out across town in the 17900 block of Halsted St.In both cases, the[Read More…]
Page 2: Community unites to oppose redevelopment project
The process of considering rezoning requests for the Calumet Country Club redevelopment project was one for the history books. Homewood Mayor Richard Hofeld, who has been involved in village government since the mid-1970s, said the community response to the proposed redevelopment of the country club in February and March was[Read More…]
Getting outside with the high-flyers, and nature, during a difficult year
The sandhill cranes are flying over our houses, heading south. On these cold, clear, late-fall days, their presence is unmistakable. They fly high in the sky and it’s sometimes hard to see the V-shaped flocks of birds that have chosen our towns for the route of their autumn migration. But[Read More…]
When it’s time to go, and a chance to fix Flossmoor’s lunar landscape
My first paying newspaper job was in the summer of 1970, when I was a reporter intern at the twice-weekly Southtown Economist. We worked on manual typewriters, writing stories on thin newsprint paper and correcting them with Black Beauty pencils. I reported to John Dienhart, who’d been in newspapers since[Read More…]
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