It’s Ladies Night Out on Thursday in downtown Homewood when shopping will benefit the Homewood-Flossmoor High School Master Singers as they raise money for their trip to Italy in spring 2019. LouLouBelle, Art4Soul, Bottle & Bottega, UpsaDaisy, The Villager Gift Shop and Suzie’s Hallmark will donate 20 percent of the[Read More…]
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Parker Junior High moving on to baseball sectionals
Parker Junior High of Flossmoor walked away with the regional title in the Illinois Elementary School Association’s baseball tournament, defeating Homewood’s James Hart School 15-4 on Monday. Hart went into the game at Lions Field undefeated. In the semi-match Saturday it scored 14-4 against its opponent. Monday the tables were turned.
International organization names Flossmoor recipient of diversity award
The Village of Flossmoor’s commitment to diversity and inclusion has been recognized on an international level. Flossmoor is receiving the 2018 Community Diversity and Inclusion Program Excellence Award from the International City and County Managers Association (ICMA). This year’s award is being given to just three municipalities out of the organization’s 11,000[Read More…]
Renowned astrophysicist talks NASA solar probe with Homewood Historical Society
One month after NASA launched the Parker Solar Probe to soar closer to the sun than any spacecraft in history, the probe’s namesake, Eugene Parker, stopped by the Homewood Public Library to speak about the study of Earth’s nearest star. Parker, 91, shared knowledge, notes and hand-drawn diagrams explaining solar wind[Read More…]
Discussion on immigration is Friday
The community is invited to an informative program on immigration led by Claudia Marchan, executive director of Northern Illinois Justice for Our Neighbors. The organization is a United Methodist immigration ministry that advocates for just, humane and righteous immigration laws. The 7 p.m. session on Friday, Sept. 21, will be[Read More…]
H-F theater students present ‘Akeelah & the Bee’ Sept. 27, 28, 29
Homewood-Flossmoor High School’s theater program will present “Akeelah & the Bee” at 7 p.m. on Thursday and Friday, Sept. 27 and 28, and at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 29, at the school’s Mall Auditorium, 999 Kedzie Ave. in Flossmoor. H-F’s Morgan Barber will portray Akeelah Anderson, a young Chicagoan[Read More…]
Hart, Parker to face off in playoff game Monday
It will be Flossmoor facing Homewood when Parker Junior High comes up against undefeated James Hart School. The baseball teams will each try to win a game Monday to advance to the Illinois Elementary School Association’s state championship. The game will be played at 4 p.m. at Lions Field, 1041 Ridge[Read More…]
Franciscan Health marks new beginning with completion of transition to Olympia Fields campus
Franciscan Health is taking the next step in its 106-year commitment to building healthier communities in the Chicago South Suburbs. As of Friday, Sept. 7, all emergency, inpatient and labor and delivery services at the Chicago Heights campus have been consolidated into the campus in Olympia Fields. Those services, along[Read More…]
Fright Fest discount tickets available
South Suburban Mayors & Managers Association has discount tickets available for Six Flags Fright Fest. Tickets are $39.95 and include admission to six haunted houses at Six Flags in Gurnee for Sept. 15 and 16, or Oct. 5, 6, 7 and 8. Tickets are available through sixflags.com/GreatAmerica and enter the[Read More…]
History: Viaduct born of death
Five Lives Snuffed out at “Death Angle” Crossing, Heights Residents, on way to Chicago, Victims of Revolting Accident at the Homewood I.C. Crossing, Automobile is Hit by Two Fast Trains, Four of Party Die Instantly, One Lives but for a Few Hours, Heavy Fog Obscures View of Crossing where there[Read More…]
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