On May 3, 2025, the Village of Homewood will celebrate International World Migratory Bird Day at the Izaak Walton Preserve. Please come by and enjoy your pick of free activities. You are welcome to bring a picnic and explore the grounds.

Join a bird watching tour led by Thorn Creek Audubon. Enjoy a program about how birds share our urban neighborhoods and learn how simple adjustments to your yard will attract and protect them. See spectacular slides of South Suburban birds in yards and natural spaces by a local bird photographer. Bring the kids for games and crafts.

Programs:

❖ 8:00 am – 9:15 am Bird Watching Tour
Thorn Creek Audubon

❖ 9:30 am – 10:00 am WMBD Shared Spaces
Carolyn Bury, Homewood Tree Committee

❖ 10:00 am – 11:00 am Close Encounters of the Bird Kind
Liz Schissler, E J Schiss Photography
(free drawing for mounted bird photo at end of program)

❖ 9:30 am – 11:00 am - Kids’ Games and Crafts
Thorn Creek Audubon

❖ Ongoing Local Bird Photography Exhibit

This event is sponsored by the Homewood Tree Committee in partnership with the Homewood Izaak Walton Preserve, and Thorn Creek Audubon.

We are pleased once again to host the HAC for a very special musical evening as they welcome Phil Angotti (Material Issue), Dolph Chaney, Rick Rizzo (Eleventh Dream Day, Candy Golde), and Sam Vicari (The Feeders) to Senior Hall for a special celebration of Pete Townshend's 80th birthday. Each musician will perform a mini set of selected Townshend tunes spanning his solo and Who catalogs.

• Doors open at 6:00pm. Event starts at 7:00pm.

• Advanced tickets are $20.00.

• Day-of-tickets at the door are $25.00. This is a 21+ show.

• Soft drinks and pizza slices will be available for purchase (Cash/Card accepted).

• Beer, wine and mixed cocktails provided by Family Wine & Liquors of Homewood, IL.

• Follow https://www.facebook.com/newhomewoodartscouncil/ for updates.

Phil Angotti, currently lead singer in Material Issue, has been writing and performing music since the 1980s and is a native of the southeast side of Chicago. His 2022 release, Once Around Again, is his 14th album of original material.

Dolph Chaney is an acclaimed recording artist whose latest album, MUG (Big Stir Records), was released in 2023. The album--featuring the latest single, "Californiagain"-- received rave reviews, multiple "Best of the Year" mentions, and local/international airplay. Both solo and with his backing band The Phins, Chaney has been performing regularly throughout Chicagoland the past few years, but, as a Homewood resident and longtime Townshend fan, this show carries special meaning for him.

Rick Rizzo is a founding member of the well-respected Chicago-based band Eleventh Dream Day. Rizzo, a native of Northbrook, IL, has been creating music for over forty years and shows no signs of slowing down. Eleventh Dream Day's 14th album, released in 2021, Since Grazed (Comedy Minus One), as well as the band’s powerful on-stage performances are a testament to their internal drive for connection through the music.

Sam Vicari hails from Northwest Indiana and now calls Chicago home. As lead singer and guitarist of the band, The Feeders, Vicari's headphone influences come across with each note he plays. Weezer, Superdrag, Superchunk are delightfully stirred together by Vicari with regional tastes like Cheap Trick, Off Broadway and Material Issue. The latest self-titled EP by The Feeders was just released in August 2024.

How Differences in Urban Environments Affect Your Experience of Climate Change Ongoing Study

Climate scientists tend to focus on the big picture such as the accelerating rise of global temperatures, melting glaciers and increases in severe drought worldwide. Closer to home, a study of “microclimate” conditions like temperature within city and suburban neighborhoods can report stark differences depending on features such as the amount of tree canopy cover, pavement, and building surfaces. How you are affected by heat waves, extreme weather and flooding can vary starkly, based on where you live within a city and its green and hard infrastructure characteristics.

Dr. Max Berkelhammer will talk about how a collaboration of Chicago area researchers are studying the current and future microclimates of Chicago area neighborhoods. The work is being completed using unique datasets – such as CTA bus speeds and 311 calls – and an emerging network of observations being made across the city. The observations and measurements will be used to make modeling tools to inform choices about how to shape and improve neighborhoods to reduce risks associated with flooding and heat extremes.

Dr. Berkelhammer is an Associate Professor at the University of Illinois Chicago where he teaches Earth Science. His research work in Chicago, and around the globe, includes the effects of climate change to agriculture, forest and urban systems, the Ice Sheet in Greenland, and the tropical water cycle in the Indian Ocean.