MEDUCATE AT STEM SATURDAY — MedUcate will be visiting STEM Saturday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Homewood Science Center, 18022 Dixie Highway, to provide information about the immune system. There will be an activity that helps demonstrate how the immune system protects people and what to do to keep[Read More…]
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Storytellers performing May 21 for Homewood Stories
Homewood Stories invites the community to its May 21 show featuring five storytellers. Sharing true, first-person stories will be: The show will be at 7:30 p.m. at the Community House at Flossmoor Community Church, 847 Hutchison Road in Flossmoor. Guests can arrive around 6:30 p.m. and can bring in their[Read More…]
District 153 superintendent asks constituents to rally around legislation
In just a minute, residents can help change the fortunes of District 153 by giving their support to a piece of legislation that will help the schools recover money they had hoped to collect from the 2022 referendum. Homewood School District 153 Superintendent Scott McAlister posted a letter to the[Read More…]
Area to host massive youth baseball Memorial Day tournament
Flossmoor Baseball had a few down years post-pandemic, but it’ll get the chance to showcase its rebuild this Memorial Day with one of the biggest events in south suburban youth sports coming to Flossmoor Park. “It’s great for the league. It gives us a lot of exposure to show that[Read More…]
5.17.2024 | What You Need To Know Today
COP ON A ROOFTOP — Officers from the Flossmoor Police Department will be on top of the Flossmoor Dunkin at 3608 Vollmer Road from 5 a.m. to noon to generate awareness and funds for Special Olympics. Donate here. Homewood School District 153 Daily Living Skills classes will be joining Homewood police[Read More…]
UChicago Medicine adds beds, staff for behavioral health at Ingalls Memorial Hospital
To help address the growing need for more mental health services on Chicago’s South Side and the South Suburbs, the University of Chicago Medicine Ingalls Memorial Hospital has added 15 beds to its behavioral health department inpatient unit. The new space is now open. In addition to the capital investments[Read More…]
H-F High senior wins national quiz competition
Jack Piros has an incredible memory. It helped him in a team competition and five individual quiz competitions hosted by International Academic Competitions and won him the National Political Science Bee. “It’s a great weekend. I was excited for it like weeks in advance,” Piros said. “I’ve been before. I[Read More…]
Homewood celebrates World Migratory Bird Day 2024
On May 11, Homewood celebrated its second annual Migratory Bird Day at the Izaak Walton Preserve. Community members began the day with a bird-spotting tour of the preserve. Of the 24 species of birds spotted, there were the usual suspects, like robins and sparrows, but the birders also saw a[Read More…]
5.16.2024 | What You Need To Know Today
FLOSSMOOR PLAN COMMISSION — The commission will meet at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, May 16, at village hall, 2800 Flossmoor Road. Find the agenda here. The commission will consider a request for a special use permit for a sport court at 808 Argyle Ave. PSC MENTAL HEALTH CONFERENCE — Prairie State College, 202 S. Halsted[Read More…]
South Holland Master Chorale program is Sunday
The South Holland Master Chorale will perform “A Mass for Troubled Times: A Call for Peace” at 4 p.m. on Sunday, May 19, at All Souls Parish at St. Ann Church, 3010 Ridge Road in Lansing. The hour-long program will combine music from the 18th and 21st centuries, including “I[Read More…]
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