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A former chili champ reclaimed his title as Homewood’s Top Chef and a family won second place in honor of a late competitor. Judges at the annual Fall Fest Chili Cook-off awarded the top prize to Terrence Boone, a Metra police captain who also won the event several years ago.[Read More…]
Members of the Board of Directors for Flossmoor School District 161 began discussion on the 2019 tax levy that will go toward funding the 2020-21 school year. During a Sept. 23 meeting, District 161 Finance Director Frances LaBella overviewed this year’s Consumer Price Index (CPI), which determines the amount of new[Read More…]
Homewood has just launched another creative marketing campaign aimed at city dwellers considering a move to the suburbs. The “Home Sweet Homewood” podcast and “And Now for Something Completely Homewood” video series are the next step in the village’s marketing strategy aimed at young families and millennials considering a move from[Read More…]
When the stay-at-home order came down from the governor’s office, Steve Buchtel, of GoodSpeed Cycles in Homewood, expected business to idle. Instead, bike shops in Illinois were deemed essential businesses, a move Buchtel said made sense. Many people rely on bicycles for transportation, and GoodSpeed also serves customers who use[Read More…]
What will school look like in the fall? No one has the answer. It is unlikely that this coming school year will resemble school before the COVID-19 pandemic. Administrators are planning different scenarios: continue remote learning or a blended schedule for remote learning with a limited return to the classrooms. [Read More…]
Calling themselves Youth Against Inequality, a group of young local activists staged a candlelight vigil on Saturday, June 13, to honor African-Americans who were killed by police violence. About 100 people gathered in the plaza at Irwin Park, some in the low-key crowd holding signs featuring refrains of the Black[Read More…]
In October, Homewood-Flossmoor High School will be represented at the Special Olympics North America Unified Champions Schools meeting in Washington, D.C., by H-F junior Donzell Marshall and Maggie McNellis, a 2019 graduate now attending Eastern Illinois University.
Homewood approved an intergovernmental agreement to apply for changes to the boundaries of the Cal Sag enterprise zone at its Sept. 24 village board meeting. Enterprise zones are intended to encourage private investment in economically depressed areas. Businesses located inside those areas and meeting certain criteria can be exempt from some[Read More…]
Flossmoor has adopted a 3-cent per gallon tax on gasoline that will go toward funding the village’s annual street maintenance projects. A law that went into effect July 1 under Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s “Rebuild Illinois” program allowed non-home rule towns in Cook County to impose a local motor fuel tax[Read More…]
A series of thunderstorms pounding the area Friday night turned downtown Flossmoor into a temporary lake, stranding vehicles and damaging several businesses. According to the National Weather Service, the storms dumped 2.65 inches of rain in the three hours from 6:55 to 9:55 p.m., and that was only the most intense[Read More…]
