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Come Saturday, Oct. 18, a new bookstore called Beyond the Book, A Literary Experience, will be open in downtown Homewood with a focus on cultivating a literary community. The grand opening is at 2 p.m. The store is at 18063 Dixie Highway. Resident and bookstore owner Tenia Davis said it[Read More…]
OAKtoberfest was in full swing for its second year Saturday, Oct. 4, at Flossmoor Park as people enjoyed being outdoors. Festivities from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. for the first half of the Oaktoberfest program consisted of celebrating and spreading information about Flossmoor’s local nature and trees, along with booths[Read More…]
Manga Club for Teens. Homewood Public Library, 17917 Dixie Highway, will host a meeting from 6 to 7:30 p.m. in the FORT for teens who love manga. James Madison at HPL. Terry Lynch will portray founding father James Madison at the Homewood Historical Society meeting. Business meeting will start at 6 p.m.[Read More…]
Homewood Fire Department (HFD) hosted its annual open house for National Fire Safety Month at the Homewood Fire Station on Saturday, Oct. 4. Community members toured the facility and learned about fire safety from fire department staff and vendors at the event. Like every year, the event concluded with a demonstration[Read More…]
Words matter, and even accurate terms, if they conjure the wrong connotations, are not the best fit. Take “road diet,” for example. I’ve been advocating for Homewood to prioritize its plan to convert 183rd Street east of Dixie Highway from four lanes to three (two travel lanes, a turn lane[Read More…]
Chicago Southland Green Drinks topic for the Oct. 15 meeting is sustainable approaches for transforming your home landscape. The session, from 6 to 8 p.m. at Soundgrowler Brewery, 8201 183rd St., Tinley Park, will be led by Katie Martin Peck, a city planner and registered landscape architect with two decades[Read More…]
Homewood-Flossmoor District 233 Board of Education Finance Committee will meet at 7:45 a.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 7, in The Viking Room, South Building, 999 Kedzie Ave. The agenda is available here. Homewood-Flossmoor Park District Board of Commissioners will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 7, at the Goldberg Administration Center, 3301 Flossmoor Road.[Read More…]
Hoekstra Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC), a family-owned business in Homewood, installed a free furnace and air conditioning unit inside Homewood resident Jessica Gadomski’s house on Friday, Oct. 3, as part of Lennox’s nationwide Feel the Love campaign. Lennox, a heating and air conditioning brand, started the Feel the Love initiative[Read More…]
The Flossmoor Police Department is a recipient of the 2025 Powering Safe Communities Grant Program through ComEd and the Metropolitan Mayors Caucus. The grant will finance five additional intersections flashing pedestrian beacons in the village. The program is in its 11th year, and $165,000 was awarded throughout 23 local municipalities. [Read More…]
When Washington Park Racetrack opened in Homewood in 1926, it was a premiere venue for thoroughbred racing in the Midwest and a popular destination for the region’s sports and social scene.Horseracing was hot, and Washington Park was just one of 15 large racetracks (including Arlington Park) built in that decade.[Read More…]
