The Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR) and Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul issued a warning last week regarding a new scam that looks to use fake bank websites to target consumers’ personal information. Scammers create the websites to make them look like a legitimate bank website to[Read More…]
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8.9.22 | What You Need to Know Today
SUMMER BREEZE CONCERT – Let your hair blow in the Summer Breeze Concert, presented by the Prairie State College Jazz Pioneers. The free, family-friendly show is from 7 to 8 p.m. at the Barnes & Noble College Auditorium. HOMEWOOD VILLAGE BOARD – Homewood Village Board of Trustees meets tonight at[Read More…]
Second helicopter adds to fun of Homewood’s National Night Out
The visit by the University of Chicago Medicine Aeromedical Network (UCAN) helicopter is one of the most popular parts of the Homewood National Night Out festivities each year, drawing long lines of kids and parents waiting to peek inside. This year, the National Night Out crowd at Irwin Park on[Read More…]
8.8.22 | What You Need to Know Today
LIVING WITH ALBINISM – Learn what it’s like for one young boy Living with Albinism during an online program at 7 p.m. Monday. The online event is presented by Homewood Library. Register online. ART COMMISSION MEETING – The Flossmoor Public Art Commission meets at 7 p.m. today at village hall.[Read More…]
The Weeks | Aug. 7
Introduction This is the newsletter formerly known as “Here First.” For a few months in late 2021, early 2022, we ran the more-or-less weekly post with lists of upcoming local government meetings and events; local, region and state news briefs; and a look at the biggest stories from the previous[Read More…]
Conservation coalition backs Forest Preserves referendum on Nov. 8 ballot
A coalition of groups organized as Vote Yes for Clean Air, Clean Water and Wildlife in Cook County is supporting a Nov. 8 referendum to increase funding for the Forest Preserves of Cook County. The ballot question asks voters to support a 0.025% tax increase that will increase a homeowner’s[Read More…]
Applications being accepted to fill PSC board vacancy
Residents of Prairie State College District 515 are invited to apply to fill a vacancy on the board following the resignation of Christopher Baikauskas. The person chosen for the position will serve out the rest of Baikauskas’ term until the next school board election on April 4, 2023. Candidates will[Read More…]
Homewood police make two arrests for firearm violations in recent weeks
Traffic stops for speeding on July 11 and Aug. 3 each resulted in arrests for alleged illegal firearm possession, according to posts on the Homewood Police Department Facebook page. On July 11, an officer stopped a vehicle near the intersection of Ridge Road and Dixie Highway for traveling 30 mph[Read More…]
Public continues to criticize Flossmoor police response that led to death of Madeline Miller
For the second straight Flossmoor Village Board meeting, public comment was dominated by criticism of the village’s police department and demands for administrators to do more in the wake of Madeline Miller’s death. Miller was killed July 10 by police responding to a report of a domestic disturbance at 1437 Joyce[Read More…]
Family of Madeline Miller ‘devastated’ by her death in police shooting
A group of protesters filled the sidewalk outside Flossmoor Village Hall for a second time before the board meeting Monday, Aug. 1, calling for police accountability in the shooting death of Madeline Miller. Some of Miller’s 10 siblings also attended the protest that later continued into the Flossmoor Board of[Read More…]
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