56 calls: Traffic Stop (29), Assist Other Agency (1), Check Well Being (5), Abandoned Vehicle (2), Burglar Alarm (2), Lockout (3), Parking Problem (1), Assist Fire Dept. (4), Traffic Accident with Damage (3), Disturbance (2), Solicitor Complaint (2), Customer/Management Dispute (1), Aggravated Battery (1) Traffic Stop (29) 12:01 a.m., 183rd[Read More…]

Priscilla Cordero, director of the GSU Small Business Development Center, center, talks with Rachael Shores, a Homewood businesswoman, at the 2014 SBDC Veterans Boot Camp. The day-long event helps veterans and others learn about entrepreneurship.(HF Chronicle file photo by Eric Crump) Military veterans with an interest in business are invited to explore the rewards[Read More…]

Homewood Bat Company owner Todd Pals shows village trustees the new company’s logo while holding a bat once used by slugger Prince Fielder.(Photo by Quincy Crump/HF Chronicle) Famous baseball bat maker Louisville Slugger might not be looking over its shoulder — yet — but there’s a new baseball bat company gearing up[Read More…]

Yin Ding is in her first year teaching Chinese at H-F High School. The new program also reaches District 153 and 161 eighth graders. (Provided photo) Yin Ding is helping bridge the cultural divide of East and West as the new Chinese language teacher at Homewood-Flossmoor High School. District 233 agreed to expand[Read More…]

52 calls: Traffic Stop (26), Citizen Assist (1), Domestic Disturbance (1), Suspicious Subject (4), Retail Theft (2), Assist Fire Dept. (8), Burglar Alarm (3), Stray Animal (1), Lockout (2), Traffic Accident with Damage (3), Check Well Being (1) Traffic Stop (26) 12:37 a.m., 183rd St. & Halsted St. 1:46 a.m.,[Read More…]

South Suburban Family Shelter announced this week its new holiday greeting card design. Sales of the card help the shelter services to victims of domestic violence.  The card features an original photo image by Lenore Holt-Darcy, taken along Chicago’s lakeshore.  The message inside reads “May the peace and joy of[Read More…]

“Holiday Lights in Homewood” from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, Dec. 4, will offer the community an opportunity to celebrate the season with an evening of lights, shopping, family activities and a poetic window display. Tivoli lights, a feature of the newly constructed Martin Square streetscape, are expected to be[Read More…]

Douglas Chien, advocacy director of Friends of the Forest Preserves and co-steward of the Powderhorn Marsh and Prairie, will be the speakerat Homewood Science Pub at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 27. Douglas Chien His talk is titled, “Ecological restoration is not rocket science — it’s harder.” Chien has a undergraduate and[Read More…]

Click on the image to get a PDF version of the flyer. Eating pizza can help send H-F High School singers to Europe over spring break. Aurelio’s Pizza at 18162 Harwood Ave. in Homewood will host a “cook’s night out” fundraiser from 11:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 27.  Twenty[Read More…]

This week students at St. Joseph School in Homewood are wearing red ribbons, a symbol encouraging them not to do drugs. The theme for the week at the school is “I (heart) My Drug Free Selfie.” The students took an anti-drug, smoking and drinking pledge. The week’s events are sponsored by the school’s[Read More…]