Guests explore the new Dolphin Lake Clubhouse during the facility’s open house in October 2015. (HF Chronicle file photo) The numbers speak for themselves. Interest in The Clubhouse at Dolphin Lake has been phenomenal: It’s January and already 108 parties in 2016 are booked. The Homewood-Flossmoor Park District Board followed staff’s recommendation[Read More…]

Aerial view of the project area. Click to open a PDF version. (Provided image) Flossmoor Village Board members Tuesday gave the green light to a flood control project along Cherry Creek at Homewood-Flossmoor High School and north along Governors Highway. Board members unanimously approved an intergovernmental agreement between the village, H-F School[Read More…]

Don’t miss a single issue!  Guaranteed delivery every month of the Chronicle! The H-F Chronicle is mailed monthly to every house in Homewood and Flossmoor at no cost. But if our third-class postage isn’t getting the paper to you regularly or if you live outside either village, subscribe!   Our annual[Read More…]

Members of the H-F Robotics Club Tech Ninja Teamshow the robot they used to competed Dec. 19 in the Highland Park FIRST Tech Challenge qualifier.(Provided photos) Students from Parker Junior High School recently successfully competed in a robotic competition, placing eleventh out of 27 teams, most of them made up of[Read More…]

Enjoying the HF Park District’s Explore the Pour event are,from left, these are Janine Mlynarcik of Flossmoor,and Brian Knetl and Amy Knetl, of Homewood.(Photos by Tom Houlihan/HF Chronicle) If there’s one thing craft beer fans love almost as much as good beer, it’s talking to the brewer and hearing how it’s[Read More…]

An artists’ rendering of the proposed homes for people with developmental disabilities in Flossmoor. (Provided image) Plans are underway in Flossmoor for the state’s first permanent supportive apartments for persons with developmental disabilities. New Hope Center, a south suburban not-for-profit agency providing services to persons with intellectual and age-related disabilities, is seeking[Read More…]

Ingalls Same Day Surgery in Tinley Park has announced it now offers two spine procedures — microdiscectomy and laminectomy — as an outpatient service.  The first procedures were performed in December following the recent addition of renowned spine surgeons Anthony Rinella, M.D., and Kris Siemionow, M.D., to the Ingalls Same Day[Read More…]

Supporters of District 153 schools are meeting on Wednesday, Jan. 27 to organize for a six-week informational campaign that will bring the message of Homewood schools and the March 15 tax referendum to their neighbors. Terry Keigher, chair of Citizens for Homewood Schools, invites anyone interested in helping spread the[Read More…]

Cherry Creek at Chayes ParkDrive, the dividing line betweenHomewood and Flossmoor. (Photo by Tom Houlihan/HF Chronicle) Renovations to Cherry Creek adjacent to Homewood-Flossmoor High School are expected to bring relief from flooding to more than a dozen homeowners. Under the project, spearheaded by the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago[Read More…]

Jason Benetti, a 2001 graduate of Homewood-Flossmoor High School, announced a lot of baseball games as a student broadcaster for WHFH-FM radio. It turns out it was good practice for his new role as TV announcer for the Chicago White Sox. Jason Benetti “It’s awesome, really awesome,” Benetti said Wednesday[Read More…]