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Three former members of the Homewood-Flossmoor High School marching band spent New Year’s Day performing in the Rose Bowl parade as members of the North Carolina A&T University’s Blue & Gold Marching Machine. Clarinet player Zahra Harmon-Cohran and trumpeter Antonio Bonds II, both of Homewood, and trumpeter Cameron Barton of[Read More…]
The Flossmoor Community Church will host a classical music concert on Sunday, Jan. 14. This event, part of the Village of Flossmoor’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service, is a blend of cultural enrichment and community support aiming to aid a charity called Open Access. Open Access works[Read More…]
The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) has delivered the final versions of the State Health Improvement Plan (SHIP) and the State Health Assessment (SHA) to the Illinois General Assembly. The documents were delivered ahead of the statutory Dec. 31 deadline. Together they form the basis of Healthy Illinois 2028, a[Read More…]
Our complex property tax system confuses many taxpayers. Many have a tough time understanding assessments, exemptions, tax levies and other terms we use to describe parts of the system. Paying taxes can be even more difficult for people who primarily speak a language other than English. There are a lot[Read More…]
Susan and Tandean Rustandy have donated $20 million to the University of Chicago Medicine to support development of Illinois’ only freestanding facility dedicated to cancer care and research. The $815-million project to build the 575,000-square-foot cancer pavilion advances the University of Chicago’s and UChicago Medicine’s goals for cancer prevention, health[Read More…]
SNOW — The National Weather Service is predicting as much as 1 to 2 inches of slow overnight with the possibility of another half inch before noon today. STEM SATURDAY — The program from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Homewood Science Center, 18022 Dixie Highway, will focus on animals of the[Read More…]
Metra is making a variety of changes to its fare structure, prices, and purchase channels effective Feb. 1. Here are the highlights, with details about all the changes below. New Fare Structure The changes in fare products and the new prices that take effect Feb. 1 are part of a[Read More…]
It’s not too late to be a part of the annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service Jan. 15 hosted by the Village of Flossmoor. As Flossmoor approaches its 100th birthday in 2024, the Flossmoor Community Relations Commission would like to challenge individuals and non-profit organizations to make[Read More…]
Prairie State College is hosting “Memory: A Juried Exhibition” through Jan. 25. The exhibit features 22 works of art by various Illinois artists working in a wide range of media from photography, painting, and sculpture to mixed media. The exhibit is in the Christopher Art Gallery on the main PSC[Read More…]
On Jan. 21, 2014, Homewood dentist Karen O’Donnell raised the curtain on a local storytelling tradition for an audience of 45 hardy souls who had to fight their way through a polar vortex just to hear strangers share pieces of their personal experiences from a stage at Grady’s Grill. Ten[Read More…]
