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Homewood-Flossmoor School District 233 Board of Education Finance Committee will meet at 7:45 a.m. in the Viking Room, South Building, 999 Kedzie Ave. The agenda is available here. Homewood Board of Trustees will meet at 7 p.m. in village hall, 2020 Chestnut Road. The agenda is available here. The livestream of the meeting[Read More…]
This year, the Fourth of July celebration marks the 250th anniversary of the nation’s founding. There is much to celebrate, but for me, it’s time to reconsider what to celebrate. Tradition calls for celebrating independence and freedom from tyranny. For those who follow the news, or who study U.S. history,[Read More…]
Teaching young learners, Lisa Rost understood her job was to make learning fun. She’s done that in Homewood District 153 for 25 years. She will retire in June. Rost has created hundreds of ways to get her young charges to remember facts and figures. “I need them to be active[Read More…]
Homewood police and a South Suburban Emergency Response Team unit discovered a deceased person in a home in the 17600 block of Dixie Highway on Monday evening, June 8, while serving a search warrant. HPD officers and members of the South Suburban Major Crimes Task Force obtained the warrant as[Read More…]
The Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office reported on Sunday the identity of a woman found dead in a Homewood residence on Saturday, June 6. Bianca C. Davis, 51, died from a gunshot wound, according to the report from the ME’s office. Her death was ruled a homicide. Homewood police reported[Read More…]
Few details were available Saturday evening, June 6, about the death of a woman who apparently had been shot, according to Homewood police. Officers responded to a residence in the 2400 block of 175th Street at 1:43 p.m. June 6 and discovered the body of the woman. “Investigators believe this[Read More…]
The Flossmoor Village Board approved an ordinance Monday, June 1, authorizing a license agreement and memorandum of understanding with Meijer to allow the installation of a surveillance camera system on the retailer’s property at 3740 Vollmer Road. The camera installation is part of the village’s participation in an Illinois Attorney[Read More…]
Homewood Farmers Market. The market will be open from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Martin Square between Chestnut and Ridge roads in downtown Homewood. Barb & Dan’s Road Ride. A 25-mile fitness bike ride. Everyone stays together. Leaves GoodSpeed Cycles, 2125 W. 183rd St., every Saturday (weather permitting) at 8[Read More…]
Homewood announced Friday, June 5, that the closure of Dixie Highway viaduct, originally scheduled for June 8, has been pushed back to Thursday, June 11, as the contractor’s crews continue to work on utility location in the area. On June 2 village officials released a detour map that shows two[Read More…]
At the May 18 honors program at Homewood-Flossmoor High School, new members were recognized for the National Honor Society, the Spanish National Honor Society, French National Honor Society and Mu Alpha Theta math honors society. New members of the National Honor Society are: Manuella Ahouissoussi, Xavier Carter, Catherine Cece, Joshua[Read More…]
