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A great community deserves a great newspaper. The HF Chronicle was created in June 2014 as an online publication. In December 2015 we began monthly print publication, too. Our mission is to chronicle the life of our community — news by, for, and about the people of Homewood and Flossmoor, Illinois.
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Flossmoor, IL 60422
H-F Chronicle editor Eric Crump reflects on the 30-year career of a Flossmoor Police Officer Stan Robinson.
Tranquility got some bad news in mid-August when Terre Robertson announced she is planning to retire and has put Civilitea Gardens up for sale. She expects to close up shop by the end of November. In the meantime, Liz Martin opened a new studio for her business, Serendipity Yoga.
Apparently, penning a popular column in your hometown disqualifies you from grocery shopping in pajamas. Indeed, returning home to work in the H-F community after graduating from the University of Illinois has layered an adult lens over so much of what I observed uncritically in my adolescence.
In August, I wrote a story that summarized the law enforcement investigation of the Ridge Road crash in which Demarques Heard lost his life. Some know it as the “Dairy Queen crash,” because the fatal incident also demolished half of the Dairy Queen location when Mr. Heard’s car hit it. Reaction swelled swiftly when my story posted to the Chronicle’s Facebook page with some voicing distaste, annoyance and anger about us having produced the story.
Penny Greep, 9, ace bibliophile of Homewood, forms a book club, the first for Bookie's Homewood store. ComEd moves power lines on Park Avenue, a prerequisite to the renovation work on the west side of the Homewood train station, and John Beele gets more signatures on his Iwo Jima veterans flag.