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Every holiday season, Rikk Dunlap would walk by a makeshift Christmas tree lot. He loved it so much, that he wrote a novel about it. And the folks at the Hallmark Channel loved the story so much that it’s been made into a Christmas special movie airing Nov. 16. [Note:[Read More…]
“When I grew up …” Dr. David Gottlieb can tell you the changes he’s seen in the world of kids and teenagers the past 34 years of his practice as a child psychologist in Homewood. He will be closing his practice in December. You may remember a simpler[Read More…]
Homewood police officers responded to a report of a robbery at Chase Bank at the corner of 183rd Street and Dixie Highway around 12:06 p.m.
The Park Forest Art Fair, sponsored by Tall Grass Arts Association will celebrate its 64th year during the Sept. 21 and 22 event from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day in downtown Park Forest.
The Homewood Village Board approved the purchase of a wireless speaker system for the downtown area at its Sept. 10 meeting. The system will be used for public events and festivals and to share public announcements. It will allow the amplification of live music and speaking at festivals and other[Read More…]
The League of American Orchestras has awarded a grant to the Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra (IPO) to strengthen its understanding of equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) and to help transform organizational culture. The grant was given to 28 orchestras nationwide. The one-year grant is the second round of The Catalyst Fund,[Read More…]
Water is a friend that can very easily become a foe. Homewood and Flossmoor have no large bodies of water to cause the kind of dramatic flooding that makes the evening news. Instead, the area has chronic problems with stormwater drainage that nevertheless are a serious matter for local property[Read More…]
Cook County 6th District Commissioner Donna Miller invites “anyone who loves football” to join her for the 22nd annual Chicago Football Classic, Howard University versus Hampton University, at Solider Field on Saturday, Sept. 14. It is part of a weekend event that will feature a college fair and battle[Read More…]
A children’s play with a message about bullying will be presented by a professional theatre company during an Oct. 5 visit at the Homewood Public Library. “Little Red and the Big Bully Wolf” will be presented at 2 p.m. in the public meeting room of the library, 17919 Dixie Highway. [Read More…]
Flossmoor currently has 176 vacant, foreclosed and pre-foreclosed properties out of about 4,000 houses in the community. The numbers may seem small, but officials say tracking down the owners of these properties has been time consuming and at times overwhelming for village staff. The Flossmoor Village Board, on Sept. 3,[Read More…]
