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<- Weeks -> Democracy Day all monthSept. 15 is International Democracy Day. The Chronicle is participating in a collaborative journalism project sponsored by the Montclair State University Center for Cooperative Media. Quote of the week“Democracy is not what governments do; it’s what people do.”— Eric Liu In my Page 2 column for September,[Read More…]
A special grant benefitting seniors is helping the Homewood Public Library take a dozen seniors on a Chicago architecture tour by boat this month, and a second trip to the Chicago History Museum on Oct. 13. The library received a $10,000 grant from AgeOptions, a nonprofit organization that is part[Read More…]
Many avid readers in the Homewood-Flossmoor area were in mourning Saturday, Sept. 3, as the learned their beloved local bookstore, Bookie’s, would close at the end of the month. Owner Keith Lewis posted the announcement on the Homewood shop’s Facebook page late Friday night, citing a 20% rent increase as[Read More…]
Chicagoland audience members will have the chance to be the first to experience “Red Summer,” a new musical about the 1919 race riot in Chicago, premiering on the Governors State University Center for Performing Art stage. The show opens Friday, Sept. 16, and is being presented over two weekends. The[Read More…]
Provided News The Governors State University Foundation is hosting “Sculpture, Wine & Dine,” a fundraiser for the Nathan Manilow Sculpture Park, on Saturday, Sept. 10, featuring a farm-to-table dinner. The sculpture park is a collection of 32 master works of large-scale sculpture on 100 acres of prairie landscape that make[Read More…]
Chronicle staff A 67-year-old man was killed Saturday morning when the motorcycle he was riding collided with a green Kia at the intersection of Ridge Road and Halsted Street in Homewood, according to Homewood police. The identity of the driver has not been released pending notification of family members. The[Read More…]
Sue Bertram, a former member of the Homewood-Flossmoor Park Board, died Aug. 25 after a long battle with cancer. She was 71. Mrs. Bertram had served on the board for 23 years, the longest tenure of any park commissioner. She stepped down from the board in 2016. During her tenure, the[Read More…]
Could the proposed science wing for Homewood-Flossmoor High School be a green building? District 233 school board members serving on the Finance Committee gave an enthusiastic thumbs up to the idea proposed by architect Ed Wright of DLA Architects at the committee’s Aug. 9 meeting. “If we can be a[Read More…]
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker announced on Tuesday, Aug. 30, opportunities for organizations to apply for an additional $100 million in grants to fund gun violence prevention programs in municipalities across Illinois. The funding is part of the Reimagine Public Safety Act (RPSA) and will support nonprofit community-based organizations and local[Read More…]
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month and Anew: Building Beyond Violence and Abuse will kick off the month by celebrating more than four decades of providing services to families impacted by domestic violence. The annual Keeping Dreams Alive event will be held on Friday, Oct. 7, at 5:30 p.m.[Read More…]
