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The weeks | Oct. 23

Week -> The District 161 Board of Education will meet at 6 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 24, at Normandy Villa 41 E. Elmwood Drive, Chicago Heights. The full agenda can be viewed here. The meeting will be streamed live and can be viewed here. Highlights: Discussion about the replacement of roof top . .[Read More…]

The weeks | Oct. 9

Week -> The District 161 Board of Education will meet at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 11, at Normandy Villa 41 E. Elmwood Drive, Chicago Heights. The full agenda can be viewed here. The meeting will be streamed live and can be viewed here. Highlights:

The weeks | Oct. 2

Week -> Flossmoor Board of Trustees will meet at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 3, in village hall, 2800 Flossmoor Road.  Find the agenda here. Join the meeting remotely here.  ID 867 4878 3877, passcode 60422. Join by phone at 312-626-6799.   Highlights: Consideration of a resolution approving an . . . You’ve reached subscriber-only content[Read More…]

Two La Catrinas and a skeleton were at Fall Fest to promote Homewood's Dia de los Muertos festival on Oct. 15. (Eric Crump/H-F Chronicle)

The weeks | Sept. 25

<- Weeks -> Every day is Democracy DayTechnically, International Democracy Day was Sept. 15. Like other observances, Black History Month, for instance, Democracy Day is useful in drawing attention to something that needs attention. But one day (or one month) is not nearly enough. If we ever learn to do[Read More…]

The weeks | Sept. 4

<- Weeks -> Democracy Day all monthSept. 15 is International Democracy Day.  The Chronicle is participating in a collaborative journalism project sponsored by the Montclair State University Center for Cooperative Media. Quote of the week”Democracy is not what governments do; it’s what people do.”—

The weeks | Aug. 28

Week -> No village, school or park board meetings are scheduled this week. The next meetings will be early in September. We’ll have more details in the next issue. Flossmoor Board of Trustees, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 6. Homewood-Flossmoor Park District, 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 6. Flossmoor District 161 Board[Read More…]

The owner of the former Discount Tire store at 810 Maple Ave. in Homewood has plans to convert the building to host two retail stores, pending village board approval. (Eric Crump/H-F Chronicle)

The weeks | Aug. 14

Week → The Homewood School District 153 Board of Education will meet at 7 p.m. Monday, Aug. 15, in the the James Hart School wood floor gym, 18220 Morgan St. in Homewood.  The meeting agenda can be found here. Highlights: The meeting will begin with a presentation on the . . . You’ve[Read More…]

The Weeks | Aug. 7

Introduction This is the newsletter formerly known as “Here First.” For a few months in late 2021, early 2022, we ran the more-or-less weekly post with lists of upcoming local government meetings and events; local, region and state news briefs; and a look at the biggest stories from the previous[Read More…]

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