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Volunteers with the Lights & Ladders Brigade are back in action for the third annual Christmas season decorating homes with holiday joy for families dealing with a sick child with cancer. Flossmoor Fire Department Captain Dan Bracken and his friends are bringing joy to others. The group has decorated 13[Read More…]
As the season of giving got under way, the parish of St. John Neumann in Homewood, created from three neighboring parishes, has not missed a beat when it comes to charity projects, in spite of the transition period to the new parish. On Nov. 4, St. John Neumann PADS organization[Read More…]
THE WEEK > Meetings Homewood Public School District 153 Board of Education will meet at 7 p.m. Monday, Dec. 11, at the James Hart School media center, 18220 Morgan St. Homewood Board of Trustees will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 12, in village hall, 2020 Chestnut Road. Flossmoor Public Library Board[Read More…]
All the Smoke, a shop selling cigars, CBD products, Delta-8 THC products, vapes, pipe tobacco, chewing tobacco, rolling papers, glass pipes, water pipes, other smoking accessories and kratom, is one of the newest businesses in Flossmoor Commons. “That was the goal – to make it as nice, as urban, as[Read More…]
At its Nov. 20 meeting, the Flossmoor Board of Trustees voted to apply to Cook County’s No Cash Bid program in an effort to help return a business condominium to full use. The two buildings in the Flossmoor Office Center at 1835 Dixie Highway currently have five tenants who are not[Read More…]
NANNY NIKKI — Flossmoor Public Library, 1000 Sterling Ave., will host a holiday musical performance by Nanny Nikki today at 11 a.m. HF SUZUKI STRING — Musicians will perform holiday music in the atrium of Flossmoor Public Library, 1000 Sterling Ave., from 2 to 3 p.m. today entertaining with a selection[Read More…]
The math department at Homewood-Flossmoor High School is putting its finishing touches on the new Integrated Math curriculum and working on how best to inform parents of what the change will mean for students. The incoming freshman class will be the first to use the new curriculum. H-F will no[Read More…]
The redevelopment of the long vacant Brunswick Zone building and the recently vacated Big Lots next door appears to be getting closer to fruition. Homewood trustees approved a measure Tuesday, Nov. 28, that is intended to sustain the effort to redevelop 3043-3055 W. 183rd St., and the developer provided an[Read More…]
CUSTOMER APPRECIATION PARTY— The Conservatory Vintage & Vinyl, 1042 Sterling Ave., will host its fourth annual customer appreciation party from 5 to 8 p.m. tonight. There will be a stepping class led by Royce Banks from 6 to 7:30 p.m. MENORAH LIGHTING — Flossmoor will host a menorah lighting ceremony at 5[Read More…]
Homewood Public Library’s Taylor Swift Karaoke event had the crowd ready to share all the music and fun that makes them Swifties. The event Dec. 2 was open to all Swifties, devoted fans of Taylor Swift, for an enchanted evening of making friendship bracelets, deciding which favorite T-Swift song to[Read More…]
