The Homewood-Flossmoor Park District will hold a neighborhood meeting at 5 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 28, on the potential sale of Tower Park, Pierce Avenue and Evergreen Road in Homewood. The meeting will be at the Goldberg Administration Center, 3301 Flossmoor Road in Flossmoor. The Village of Homewood and park district[Read More…]
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05.14.2025 | What You Need To Know Today
H-F Park District Community Input Meeting. The park district will host a community forum from 4:30 to 6 p.m. in the Goldberg Administration Center, 3301 Flossmoor Road, to get input from residents about plans to update Scandia, Goldberg and Pheasant Trails parks. Martyr to Radio. Homewood Historical Society will meet at 6[Read More…]
05.03.2025 | What You Need To Know Today
Park Pride. Volunteers will converge on H-F Park District parks from 9 a.m. to noon to help get everything ready for the summer season. Park Pride is a great opportunity for kids, scout groups, churches and other service organizations to give back to the community. Email [email protected] or call 708-957-0300 for more information.[Read More…]
Love of trees brings students out for Arbor Day planting
The Homewood-Flossmoor Park District invited second grade students from Willow School, and a third grade class at Churchill School, to come to Indian Trails Park in Homewood on Thursday to plant trees as part of its Arbor Day celebration. Blue skies and balmy temperatures made the walk of several blocks[Read More…]
H-F Parks to host meeting April 23 on preliminary master plan
The Homewood-Flossmoor Park District is in the final stages of developing an updated comprehensive master plan and invites the community to attend a meeting on Wednesday, April 23, to share its findings. Representatives from Upland Design, a landscape architecture and park planning firm working with the park district, will conduct[Read More…]
Parks commissioners get first look at proposed 2025-26 budget
The Homewood-Flossmoor Park District commissioners got their first look on Tuesday, March 4, at the proposed 2025-26 budget that shows $15.8 million in revenues and $15.75 million in expenses. The new fiscal year starts May 1. The board expects to pass the final budget at its April 15 meeting. The[Read More…]
Election 2025: Introducing Patrick McAneney
Note: This is the seventh in a 10-part series of stories introducing candidates who are on the ballot for the first time in Homewood and Flossmoor village board races. There is more competition for trustee seats than usual in Homewood. In 2023, five candidates ran for four seats. This year,[Read More…]
12.31.2024 | What You Need To Know Today
Homewood Disposal. Service will be on a normal schedule today. No service on New Years Day, Jan. 1. Wednesday pickup will be on Thursday, Jan. 2; Thursday pickup will be on Friday, Jan. 3; and Friday pickup will be on Saturday, Jan. 4. Metra. Metra trains will be operating on a reduced[Read More…]
Park board hires firm for Irwin Park improvement project
The Homewood-Flossmoor Park District is moving ahead with plans to improve the park and the playground area at Irwin Park, the busiest park in the park district just east of downtown Homewood in the 1800 block of Ridge Road. At the board’s March 19 meeting, park commissioners agreed to hire[Read More…]
H-F park board will reconsider Rover’s Run decision
The Homewood-Flossmoor Park Board agreed to take a second look at its earlier decision to make Rover’s Run a free amenity. “Nothing is ever set in stone,” Brent Bachus, president of the board, told about a dozen dog park users at the Tuesday, Feb. 6, meeting. He admitted the park[Read More…]
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