The Homewood Police Department will host an open house from 2 to 4 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 6, to demonstrate new training equipment at the Brian Carey Training Center 1023 191st St. in Homewood. New equipment includes two simulators designed to assist in training law enforcement personnel: A decision-making simulator[Read More…]
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Ingalls Hospital merger with UChicago Medicine is announced
After more than 10 months of negotiations, Ingalls Memorial Hospital has become part of the UChicago Medicine brand with its merger with the University of Chicago Medicine. The hospital, based in Harvey, has five outpatient centers, including its Family Care Center in Flossmoor. The merger was announced Tuesday, Oct. 4.[Read More…]
Ecological work at Coyote Run Golf Course wins award for H-F Park District
The Homewood-Flossmoor Park District will be honored Friday, Oct. 7, with the 2016 Sustainable Landscaping and Bio-solids Beneficial Re-use Award from the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (MWRD). Dave Ward, superintendent of golf, will be accepting the award for work done at the park district’s Coyote Run Golf[Read More…]
Bill Frank – Travel Brokers-1 Oct2016
Nina Harris gives the storefront windows of the Triumph Building in downtown Homewood a festive look on Saturday. (Photos by Eric Crump/H-F Chronicle) When people congregate on Martin Avenue in Homewood for the Holiday Lights Festival on Friday, the storefront windows will help set the mood, thanks to the weekend[Read More…]
Oct. 8 public art fundraiser features auction of unique works of art: chairs
Art lovers who “Pull Up a Chair” next month will help support Flossmoor’s Sculpture Garden and other public art. But they may also walk away with a work of art that’s a unique piece of furniture.
Bill Frank – Insurance Oct2016
Karen Smith shows postcards she brought back from a recent trip to Cuba. (Photo by Eric Crump/H-F Chronicle) Relatively few Americans have been able to travel to Cuba for the past six decades, after the coup led by the late Fidel Castro in 1959 drove a political wedge between the two countries. The[Read More…]
Bill Frank October2016
From Thanksgiving to New Year’s Eve, the Homewood-Flossmoor community comes together in dozens of ways to celebrate the holiday season. Let the Chronicle’s calendar be your guide! This calendar first appeared in the Chronicle Holiday Guide pull-out section in the November print edition. Note: Taizé Mass at Infant Jesus of Prague Church[Read More…]
Walkers make the ‘front page’ of the Chronicle
Luc and Ava Loudon receive coupons from Mayor Richard Hofeld just before noon Saturday, Nov. 26, at Village Hall for identifying the anomalous decorative snowflake in downtown Homewood. Their brother, Quinn, also received a coupon, though he was unavailable for the presentation. Hofeld annually gives a coupon for an egg[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…]
Walk of Hope raises nearly $80,000 for The Cancer Support Center
The field was soggy from rain the past several days, but spirits were high and dry as the Walk of Hope walkers congregated at Irwin Park in Homewood on Sunday morning. Cancer Support Center Executive Director Sue Armato said 630 walkers raised more than $78,000 to support the center’s mission[Read More…]
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