Diners enjoy French cuisine at La Voute Bistro + Bar during the restaurant’s opening in 2015.(Chronicle file photo) La Banque Hotel in Homewood will begin its one-year anniversary celebration on July 14, a month after the actual opening date in 2015. The timing is not off. That’s Bastille Day, the French[Read More…]
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Rep. Kelly joins National Speak Out on Guns July 14
Flossmoor village officials approved a measure to ban parking on a section of Vardon Lane to address traffic congestion issues near Western Avenue School.(Photo by Tom Houlihan/H-F Chronicle) Parking will be not be allowed on a street near Western Avenue School that has turned into a traffic bottleneck, especially during student drop-off[Read More…]
Artists Walk Fantasticks July2016
The Homewood-Flossmoor Park District has canceled its Fore & Pour event set for Saturday, Sept. 10. Although staff worked hard to put everything in place, the decision was made Tuesday to cancel. “We just didn’t get the response we needed,” Debbie Kopas, parks executive director, told commissioners at the Committee[Read More…]
Bakewell July2016
Flossmoor Fest returns Sept. 10 with a full day of activities for all ages. This year’s festival — located on Sterling Avenue in downtown Flossmoor and at Flossmoor Park — again features food, music, games for the kids and a great chance for friends and neighbors to get together. The festival is[Read More…]
Wellness Integrative July2016
A number of hands go up after speaker Barry Aprison asks how many teachers are attending the launch of the Homewood Science Center’s STEM Network on Tuesday, Aug. 30. (Photos by Eric Crump/H-F Chronicle) The Homewood Science Center (HSC) might technically be located in the historic Gold home at 18022 Dixie Highway, but[Read More…]
Accusations unfounded: H-F High School Board
What’s it like to own a car that’s nearly 100 years old? You’ll get your chance to see the venerable Ford Model A and ask questions of the owners when members of the Calumet Region of the Model A Restorers Club put their Model As on display from 10 a.m.[Read More…]
Getting along — we’re ahead of the game but can’t take it for granted
For use with the sculpture story if any will work, or we can keep on hand for file photos.
Homewood baker brings home more blue ribbons from the state fair
Homewood’s “Pie Lady” had another good year at the Illinois State Fair. Paige Dague won two blue ribbons for her champion pies, Brown Sugar Sweetie Pie in the C & H Brown Sugar contest and Must-Have Mango Pie in the Dole Canned Fruit contest. She won a red ribbon for[Read More…]
Rose Farley retires following*23 years at St. Joseph School
On Sept. 9, Fresh Starts Restaurant will celebrate 30 years of making dishes like the popular NNO (New New Orleans) Pasta. Read about the anniversary and watch as Chef Concepcion Medrano shows the H-F Chronicle how it’s done.
New math curriculum being implemented in coming school year in District 153
A federal jury has convicted the head of a Homewood telemarketing company of pocketing illegal kickbacks in exchange for referring patients to home health care agencies, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s office in Chicago. Sundae Williams, 47, of South Holland, owner of Serenity Marketing Inc., used[Read More…]
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