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It wasn’t hard to read a million pages when the more than 2,300 students in District 161 joined forces. The district’s students started a goal for the month of May as the Million Reading Challenge Partnership and kept on reading through the end of the school year on June 7.
People serving in the military still need legal services, and one Homewood attorney was there for them for 27 years. Homewood Village Attorney Chris Cummings retired in December 2017 as a colonel from the Judge Advocate General Corps of the United States Army Reserve.
District 153 reading specialist Maureen Daley is taking her love of books to Africa this summer. Daley will be one of 25 people traveling to Ghana for 10 days through Literacy Empowerment Action Program (LEAP) for Ghana.
This story was updated at 4:46 p.m. to reflect additional details, including the closure of H-F High School on Thursday. Two cold students board a bus headed for Homewood- Flossmoor High School on Tuesday morning. The temperature at the time was about 4 degrees. (Eric Crump/ H-F Chronicle) Schools in Homewood District 153 and Flossmoor District[Read More…]
Due to the extreme cold weather forecast for the Chicago region this week, Metra will operate a modified schedule on Wednesday, Jan. 30. Modified schedules for each Metra line can be found here. The schedules are designed to provide adequate service for the predicted ridership. The schedules will also reduce the use[Read More…]
The two-year-old SMART lab at James Hart School in Homewood has given District 153 teachers Katie Nigro and Cheri Pesina an opportunity to show off the lab to teachers from across the United States.
Raven Davis, a June graduate of Homewood-Flossmoor High School, won a $25,000 scholarship from Taco Bell Foundation. She will be attending DePaul University and will be majoring in film. Davis, of Flossmoor, is one of 16 students to win the scholarship and one of 11 winners in the Chicago area.[Read More…]
Every Sunday night, October through April, PADS volunteer Margaret Epperson provides shelter to 30 homeless men in the basement of Flossmoor Community Church. On Flossmoor’s MLK Day of Service on Jan. 21, the church basement was filled with familiar faces. “I’ve been coming a couple years now,” PADS client Brian[Read More…]
Raymond Camp of Homewood, a nurse with Franciscan Health Olympia Fields, receives a DAISY Award for excellent patient care. (Provided photo) Raymond Camp, a registered nurse who has been with Franciscan Health Olympia Fields for more than three years, is the hospital’s first DAISY Award winner. DAISY is an acronym for Diseases[Read More…]
Some people know them as promotional kiosks. Others refer to them as sweepstakes machines. Whatever their name, they are now illegal in Flossmoor.
