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A Homewood Baseball All-Star and the New Murals: The Week in Review

A look back on some of last week's top articles on H-F Patch.

In the eyes of his parents, right-hander John Ely remains the little boy standing in the middle of the baseball diamond, ready to deliver his next pitch...

The Dixie Diner and the Dixie Service Garage are the latest additions to Homewood’s Southgate area.

No, they are not new businesses. They are giant murals painted on the brick walls on the east and west sides of Dixie Highway at 187th Street...

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The Italians call it a frittata and the Spanish refer to it as a tortilla, but most of us are much quicker to recognize this fluffy egg creation by its French moniker: the omelette...

A small group gathered at  in Homewood last Friday to celebrate the long and extraordinary life of Marion Brown.

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Brown, who died Aug. 1 at the age of 95, was fondly remembered as an avid League of Women Voters (LWV) member, a church deacon and "the Mother of PADS"...

A Flossmoor woman told police that a chance meeting with a Hazel Crest man has led to telephone and text harassment. After meeting the man two months ago at a Hazel Crest hair salon, the woman entered the man's number into her phone and later dialed it accidentally, according to the report...


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