H-F High students competing in the National ACT-SO eventinclude (from left): Naj’ee Chatman, Aundria LaNier,Janelle Butler, Leah Moss, Nacyla Mitchelland Ashlie Glasper. (Provided photo) Homewood-Flossmoor High School will be well represented at the national Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics (ACT-SO) competition July 14 through 17. The program hosted by[Read More…]
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Kluger Furs May 2016
While doing interviews for the Chronicle’s story on our LGBTQ neighbors, there was one moment at which my heart literally jumped. Rainbow in our midst — Our LGBTQ neighbors in the Homewood-Flossmoor community Andrea Denney — she and her wife Beth Reich are the parents of three adopted children — told me about an email she[Read More…]
Ann Floyd
Our apologies! Friday afternoon and evening the Chronicle website was inaccessible and was displaying a message that some readers found confusing. We had a problem during a routine software update, and the message was a default alert from the program. We’re working now to restore several stories that were not[Read More…]
Nancy Wilson
Drivin’ the Dixie participants parks at St. Paul Church during the 2015 event. This year they will congregate at the St. Joseph School parking lot, 17951 Dixie Highway.(Chronicle file photo) “Heads swivel when an antique car passes,” said Elaine Egdorf, chairwoman of the Homewood Heritage Committee. “When dozens of vintage and classic cars[Read More…]
Linda Cheney
As the school year wound down, staff at Churchill School planned a day of outdoor activities June 3 for the third and fourth graders. The sun was out, the temperature was perfect and the students had a day of fun – third graders in the morning and fourth graders in[Read More…]
Jill Sehlke
Published Thursday, June 16, 2016.
Patricia Fears
Flossmoor is getting ready to test applicants to the village’s police department. The department needs to update its eligibility list for prospective officers every two years, Police Chief Michael Pulec said. The current list expires in September. Pulec announced the latest round of testing last week. Application packets will be[Read More…]
Kathy Tisoncik
A voter registration table will be set up at the Homewood Farmer’s Market from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, June 18. The League of Women Voters Homewood-Flossmoor Area will host the registration drive for Illinois residents who will be new voters in November, or who have moved and[Read More…]
Community gives Chronicle a hand in delivering 25,000 papers
(Photo by Eric Crump/H-F Chronicle) Lions Pool reopened Saturday just as temperatures in the area soared in the summer’s first heat wave. The pool was closed last weekend when a crack was discovered in the bottom of the pool. Homewood-Flossmoor Park District quickly addressed the problem, and the pool reopened[Read More…]
Flossmoor gives final OK to New Hope apartment complex
(Photo by Tom Houlihan/H-F Chronicle) Flossmoor officials this week got a look at proposed village hall renovations designed to add more space to the existing municipal complex, which first opened in the 1970s. No decision is expected before the start of budget discussions early next year. Village board members are[Read More…]