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Bolingbrook’s Joseph Yesufu and Tyler Cochran tallied up 37 points to help carry the Raiders to a 65-60 win Friday night. After this loss, H-F will need to win their game against Sandburg on Feb. 19 and Bolingbrook has to lose against Lincoln-Way East if the Vikings hope to win[Read More…]
Homewood police are investigating a report of shots fired at White Castle, 18250 S. Halsted St. early Saturday. Police said the incident occurred shortly after 5:45 a.m. During an incident in the restaurant’s drive-thru lane, a man exited a vehicle and fired a gun. No injuries were reported. The man[Read More…]
Charges are pending against a man after he attempted to elude a Flossmoor police officer in the vicinity of Heather Hill School on Friday morning. The incident triggered a Code Yellow lockdown at the school for less than a half hour, Flossmoor police said in an email community alert. At[Read More…]
For the first time in its history, Metra will offer free rides for an entire weekend, Feb. 16 and 17, in an effort to boost weekend ridership and give its riders and area residents a pat on the back for coping with last week’s extreme cold.
The Homewood village board approved emergency funding for improvements to failures in stormwater infrastructure improvements at its Feb. 12 meeting. Workers recently found two critical failures in the stormwater system, which public works officials said in village documents could result in “severe flooding” if not repaired.
Barbara Dawkins doesn’t know anything about baseball. She loves Homewood, though, so she signed up to volunteer as B-league president of Homewood Baseball for the 2019 season. Dawkins’ true specialty is law, and after 20 years of litigation, she is now a supervisor of the Juvenile Justice Division of the Cook[Read More…]
Seniors Issac Stanback and Trace Williams pressure Chargers guard Roy Huddleston in the third quarter. (Donald Crocker/H-F Chronicle) Homewood-Flossmoor’s Vikings overpowered Stagg 60-37 to win the 10th out of their past 11 games. H-F faced a couple of hard fouls by Stagg, but H-F led the Chargers 27-19 after a chippy first half. Stagg, which[Read More…]
The Homewood Village Board approved a Class 8 tax designation Tuesday for a Shell gas station and strip mall at the intersection of Ridge Road and Halsted Street after delaying the move last month. The incentive was on the agenda at the board’s Jan. 22 meeting. Trustee Jay Heiferman raised the[Read More…]
Nearly five years after founding You Matter 2, a service organization at Homewood-Flossmoor High School, Destiny Watson is still passionate about helping to improve the lives of others. Watson, now a junior at the University of Dayton, recently traveled to the Central American nation of El Salvador as part of[Read More…]
The National Fire Protection Association has a list of suggestions to review to help keep your loved ones safe and protect from home accidents this holiday season. Holiday Decorating/Entertaining Be careful with your holiday candles. NFPA says more than one-third of home decoration fires are started by candles. Keep[Read More…]
