News you can't get anywhere else
Note: Information in candidate profiles was submitted by the candidate. Office: Homewood-Flossmoor School District 233 Board of Education Education: MSEd – School Business Management (NIU); Chief School Business Official Endorsement (IASBO); BA – Business Admin. (Gov.SU) Employment history: Marketing professional with over 15 years of experience in strategic planning, analytics,[Read More…]
Note: Information in candidate profiles was submitted by the candidate. Office: Homewood-Flossmoor School District 233 Board of Education Education: EdD, Special Ed, ISU Normal; MA, SLP, Northwestern University; BS, Speech and Hearing Science, UIUC Employment history: Assistant Professor, Governors State University, 2022-PresentFounding Executive Director, Mixed Inclusion LLC, 2021-Present; Special Education[Read More…]
Flossmoor Plan Commission will meet at 6 p.m. Thursday, March 20, in village hall, 2800 Flossmoor Road. The agenda is available here. The commission will review a proposed planned unit development for BG Park Center in the 2600 block of Flossmoor Road. The plan calls for the development of 12 townhome units and a cafe.
At Homewood-Flossmoor High School, football isn’t just a boys sport any more. At the District 233 board meeting March 18, school board members unanimously agreed to offer girls flag football starting in the fall. Athletics Director Matthew Lyke said when the Illinois High School Association adopted flag football as an[Read More…]
U.S. Rep. Robin Kelly (D-Ill.) condemned House Republicans’ $880-billion budget cut to Medicaid alongside U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), U.S. Rep. Jonathan Jackson (D-Ill.), healthcare providers and community members at Roseland Community Hospital. Cuts to Medicaid would force the hospital to consider layoffs, service line cuts and even closure. Many[Read More…]
Ayom Siengo and Chef Won Kim of On the Fly Hospitality presented concept plans for The Flossmoor Smokehouse, a barbecue restaurant, at the March 3 Flossmoor village board meeting. The two proposed using village-owned vacant property on Governors Highway that previously housed the Sunnycrest Nursery. Siengo said they plan to[Read More…]
District 233 candidate Ariana Leonard moved back to Homewood from Florida so her two children would have great schools. She is a graduate of James Hart School and Homewood-Flossmoor High School. Today she works in neighboring Bloom Township High School District 206 as the Director of Language Acquisition. She can’t[Read More…]
Note: Information in candidate profiles was submitted by the candidate. Office: Homewood-Flossmoor School District Board of Education Education: Doctorate degree in education, a master’s degree in educational leadership, and two bachelor’s degrees. Employment history: I’m the director of language acquisition for Bloom Township High School District 206. Prior, I was[Read More…]
Kelly Town Hall. Congresswoman Robin Kelly, who represents Homewood and Flossmoor, is hosting a call-in town hall from 7 to 8 p.m. Constituents can RSVP here and submit questions in advance. Homewood-Flossmoor School District 233 Board of Education Planning Committee will meet at 8:45 a.m. Wednesday, March 19, in the Viking Room, South Building,[Read More…]
Hundreds of community members marched through the Flossmoor Park neighborhood in a Saint Patrick’s Day parade that began and ended at the Flossmoor Community House on the afternoon of Saturday, March 15. The annual parade was launched 18 years ago as a small neighborhood event that Flossmoor Park residents informally organized.[Read More…]
