Tinley Park Roller Rink provided music, skates, and energy for community teens to enjoy while voicing and exercising their power to vote at a Skate to the Polls young voters registration drive. As of Jan. 1, Illinois allows 16-year-olds to pre-register to vote in future elections. When they are 18,[Read More…]
THE WEEK > Meetings Rich Township Board of Trustees will meet at 5 p.m. Monday, March 18, in the Leonard Robinson Administration Building, 22013 Governors Highway. Find the agenda here. Flossmoor School District 161 Board of Education will meet at 6 p.m. Monday, March 18, in Normandy Villa, 41 E. Elmwood Drive, Chicago[Read More…]
Dozens of community members raised about $8,500 for the Flossmoor Veterans Memorial (FVM) at the third annual trivia night at the Flossmoor Community House on Friday evening, March 15, according to FVM officials. The FVM will be a Wall of Honor listing all Flossmoor residents who have served in the United States military. While[Read More…]
The traffic lanes on Dixie Highway north of the viaduct could be restructured as part of a project to repair a collapsed storm sewer that contributes to chronic flooding of the viaduct. At the request of the Illinois Department of Transportation, Homewood trustees approved a letter of support for changing[Read More…]
Note: Michelle Duster, great-granddaughter of famed journalist and suffragist Ida B. Wells-Barnett, was the keynote speaker at Homewood-Flossmoor High School’s Pursuing the Dream event, an annual tribute to the work of Martin Luther King Jr. She spoke with the Chronicle on Jan. 23, the day before the event. Among Wells-Barnett’s[Read More…]