Marc Malnati, owner of the popular pizza chain, is delighted to reopen the business’s doors in Flossmoor and provided the following history for the H-F Chronicle. We have been about the business of opening a few stores every year, as we seek to spread the gospel of deep-dish pizza. But[Read More…]

Craft beer enthusiasts seemed to ignore the squishy turfat Irwin Park on Saturday as they lined up to taste craft beers from about 25 area brewers. (Photos by Eric Crump/H-F Chronicle) The ground was soggy in places during Homewood Hop Fest on Saturday afternoon at Irwin Park. The beer-tasting festival attracted craft[Read More…]

A group of dedicated volunteers has raised more than $155,000 the past seven years for the benefit of students and faculty at Homewood-Flossmoor High School.  Since 1982, the Homewood-Flossmoor High School Foundation has been finding ways to raise funds. Over the past 34 years, the foundation has worked to fill[Read More…]

Homewood-Flossmoor High School Information Services office will provide information on how to navigate computer security and protect personal and professional identities at a Thursday, Aug. 4, computer security workshop. The program, open to the public, will begin at 6 p.m. in the high school’s technology lab in South Building. Participants[Read More…]

They came, they saw, they devoured.  Dozens of local children participated in the Homewood-Flossmoor Park District’s annual watermelon-eating contest on Tuesday, July 26.

If there’s a beer heaven, it might be located at Irwin Park in Homewood on Saturday.  Homewood Hop Fest, sponsored by the Southland Chamber of Commerce, will bring 27 craft brewers to the park and community center at 18120 Highland Ave. from 3 to 6:30 p.m. Included will be award-winning[Read More…]

A dramatic 43 percent decline in property assessments over the past five years has resulted in a nearly 15 percent drop in tax revenues for the Homewood-Flossmoor Park District. Park board commissioners say the red ink is startling, and they are grateful to staff for helping meet the challenges faced[Read More…]

Two years ago, outstanding Homewood-Flossmoor High School alumni Excell Hardy Jr. and Brian Nussbaum decided they’d use their talents at what they did best – team sports. Today their program, Vikings United, is their dream come true. These two alumni served as co-captains of H-F’s 2004 state champion runner-up basketball[Read More…]

(Photo by Marilyn Thomas/H-F Chronicle) Homewood Schools District 153 Superintendent Dale Mitchell, left, accepts a $5,000 check from Marvin Comerford of the Homewood Rotary Foundation on July 13. The gift will be used to reduce the $348,000 cost of the new STEM/CMA lab at Hart School. The lab is considered[Read More…]