Eric Crump

Nobody would’ve expected Ali Kelly to be a coach, not even her. Homewood-Flossmoor girls soccer’s skipper was a self-described “hot head” as a player who was quick to pick up a card. The 2012 Vikings grad was able to get by on her talent without doing a lot of thinking.[Read More...]

If the athletes Tywon Green coached at the start of his career could see him at a Homewood-Flossmoor girls track practice now, he thinks they’d probably call him “soft.” After college, Green spent 16 years in the Army, working first as a chemical engineer and then with military police. At[Read More...]

Crews began work to relocate a gas line along Park Avenue in Homewood, a prerequisite to the Dixie Highway viaduct drainage improvement project.

Homewood’s biggest public infrastructure project in history is about to get under way. The village has been doing preliminary work on the federally mandated lead service line replacement project for several years. The project is expected to cost at least $70 million over the next 10 years as the village[Read More...]

Homewood and Flossmoor residents and public works crews continued clean up on Tuesday, July 28, following a storm Monday that the National Weather Service in Chicago determined was a tornado. The tornado was the second to strike the village in two years. In July 2024, Homewood and Flossmoor were in[Read More...]

Eric Crump offers updates and notices about cleanup efforts, village aid and re-openings after July 29's storms and continued power outages.

Shortly after 3:30 p.m. on July 30, Homewood village staff members cheered as power was restored to village hall.

Late Friday night, July 31, there remained small pockets of homes without power in Homewood, including more than 200 in the Governors Park neighborhood west of Dixie Highway and a few in the Cedar Road area of Old Homewood. With a few exceptions, the remaining outages were along the path[Read More...]

In a social media post, meteorologist Max Velocity dubbed it the “drunknado” because of its unusual looping path. The tornado that began east of Interstate 57 shortly before 1 p.m. on Monday, July 27, might also be compared to a roller coaster because on the downside of the loop, it[Read More...]

After last week’s tornado with its myriad associated problems, Homewood and Flossmoor got a change of pace on Saturday, Aug. 1. Flooding. The forecast called for rain all day, and it was accurate. Alternating rain and drizzle gave way in mid-afternoon to steady heavy rain that quick overwhelmed drainage systems.[Read More...]