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The Hometown Police Department serves the people of Hometown, Illinois, a community of approximately 4,200 people in the south suburbs of the City of Chicago. The Hometown Police Department is responsible for law enforcement duties in Cook County and is comprised of 33 part time employees and 5 full time employees, divided into Patrol, Investigations, Administration and other special assignments.

Social Media Comment Policy

Posts/comments on a Hometown Police Department (HPD) managed social media web site containing any of the following inappropriate forms of content are not to be permitted and are subject to removal by the Chief of Police or his/her designees:

a. Personal identifying information of any person, except as allowed under the Freedom of Information Act;
d. Defamatory or personal attacks;
e. Threats to any person or organization;
f. Posts/comments in support of, or in opposition to, any political campaigns or ballot measures;
g. Solicitation of commerce, including but not limited to advertising of any business or product for sale;
h. Conduct in violation of any federal, state or local law;
i. Encouragement of illegal activity;
j. Information that may tend to compromise the safety or security of the public or public systems; or
k. Content that violates a legal ownership interest, such as a copyright or trademark, of any party. Repeated or egregious violations of this policy may result in being “banned”, or disabled from the ability to post further comments. Additionally, we ask that friends/family of HPD personnel do not “tag” personnel (linking those police employees to any personal social media accounts they may have) in posts/comments on Hometown Police Department managed social media sites, both to protect police personnel privacy and for safety concerns. The Hometown Police Department (HPD) use of social media is provided as a public service to increase communication with the community. This page is not constantly monitored, and should never be used to report crimes or requests for police service. The HPD disclaims liability for ads, links, videos, promoted content or comments accessible from any external content or comments does not imply endorsement by the HPD. The HPD cannot edit any posts made on its social media sites, however the HPD reserves the right to remove or hide comments that do not adhere to our post/comment policy.

Found dog No chip and No collar near Duffy Ave and Corcoran Rd. Please contact the Hometown PD if you know who she belon...
08/31/2026

Found dog No chip and No collar near Duffy Ave and Corcoran Rd. Please contact the Hometown PD if you know who she belongs to!

08/21/2026

🚨🚨The City’s emergency alert siren will be testing throughout the morning.

08/19/2026

🎶 Save the date, Hometown!

Join us for a summer concert at Mayor’s Park featuring The Timeline Band.
📅 Thursday, August 20
⏰ 6:30 p.m.
📍 Mayor’s Park

Pack a cooler, grab your lawn chairs and enjoy an evening of live music with friends and neighbors. We’ll see you at the park! 🎸

Join us on National Seat Check Saturday 9/19/2026!Complete the pre-registration form using the QR code below or by click...
08/19/2026

Join us on National Seat Check Saturday 9/19/2026!

Complete the pre-registration form using the QR code below or by clicking https://forms.cloud.microsoft/r/T1GcwKPsxf

This is a free event for the community! Whether you are an experienced parent/care giver or a brand new parent/care giver it can never hurt to have an expert ensure your car seat is installed correctly!

Appointments are recommended, but walk ins are always welcome!

Can't make it on September 19th? HPD offers this service everyday, call 708-422-2188 to schedule a time to come in.

If you or someone you know are in need of assistance obtaining a car seat for your child, we can help! Call today!

08/19/2026

Mayor’s Park will be closed today 8/19 and tomorrow 8/20 for repairs!

Tomorrow, August 19th is the first day of school. Please slow down and be aware of your surroundings while driving. Let’...
08/18/2026

Tomorrow, August 19th is the first day of school. Please slow down and be aware of your surroundings while driving. Let’s keep our kids safe.

Mother Nature strikes again. Unfortunately the rescheduled Illinois Law Enforcement Torch Run for Special Olympics 5-0 R...
08/13/2026

Mother Nature strikes again. Unfortunately the rescheduled Illinois Law Enforcement Torch Run for Special Olympics 5-0 Race benefiting Special Olympics Illinois has been postponed again, til October 10th.

Good news is that the driver lineups will be set tomorrow night at 7pm. If you click the link below you will see that Hometown is in FIRST PLACE by a slim margin right now!

Donate before tomorrow night to help us stay there!

https://support.soill.org/fundraiser/7025560

Any amount helps us stay in front! Come together and show all the other Departments that we are !!!!

After waiting as long as we possibly could for the forecast to change, we've once again made the difficult decision to cancel/postpone this weekends racing programs. We talked with everyone involved on the racing side of things and between the significant rainfall we've received this week and the additional rain expected we have no other choice but to cancel. With so many people in the area still dealing with flooding, storm damage and some still without power we wanted to make the decision as early as possible. Plus factoring in that a majority of the Midwest Truck Series and Mid-Am Racing Series teams come from out of state, we didn't want to delay a decision that was pretty much inevitable.

The Cheryl Hryn Back to School backpack giveaway will still be taking place at the track Friday from 5pm to 7:30pm in the commercial building. Kids (Pre-K - High School) must be present to get a backpack and it's first come, first serve until they run out.

The Five-O Racing Benefiting Special Olympics event will now take place on Saturday October 10th. Also on the 10th will be the Figure 8 Trailer Race of Destruction along with special non point events for the Pure Stocks, Crown Vics & one other class. Stay tuned for more info.

The Midwest Truck Series and Mid-Am Racing Series were not able to reschedule, so both races will be canceled. We hope to have the Midwest Truck Series back in 2027. The Mid-Am Racing Series has a 2nd scheduled race here and will be in action during the Bettenhausen Memorial weekend on September 19th.

Below are the make up dates for the August 14th program.
PS #1 - VRS moving to 8/21 as part of double feature program
PS #2 - Moving to 9/4 as part of double feature program
SS - Moving to 8/28 as part of double feature program
CV - Moving to 9/18 as part of double feature program
SC - Moving to 8/21 as part of double feature program

In the next 48 hours, people who got tickets through the Ticket Hoss app should see their tickets transferred to the new date. If you can't make that date, you can request a refund through the app.

So many people to thank for our National Night Out. Thank you all! More pictures to follow.
08/05/2026

So many people to thank for our National Night Out. Thank you all! More pictures to follow.

It’s time! Final prep work underway. Please stop by and say hi. PARKING RESTRICTIONS ARE IN PLACE. No parking on Main St...
08/04/2026

It’s time! Final prep work underway. Please stop by and say hi.

PARKING RESTRICTIONS ARE IN PLACE.

No parking on Main St. from Komensky to Pulaski. No parking on the hydrant side on Komensky from Main to Ryan.

LIMITED PARKING AT PATTERSON PARK

Handicapped Parking and some regular parking along Pulaski in the Patterson Park parking lot.

See you soon!

Thank you all for your hard work putting this year’s NNO together. Great event, and great guest that stopped in to visit.

Getting Close!
08/02/2026

Getting Close!

Join us for National Night Out

📅 August 4th
⏰ 4pm-8pm
🏠Patterson Park

What to expect!?

-Dunk Tank
Dunk a Cop MoM or DaD if they are up to it.

-Bouncy house for the kids.

-Meet our SWAT Operators and Medic. See their equipment and ask them about their duties.

-Hometown squad car. Come see the technology that goes into each patrol car.

-Check out the Hometown race car piloted by Cmdr. Nate. Nate brought home the win at the five-O Special Olympics race last year making Hometown and the PD proud! We raised over $21,000.00 for Special Olympics last year. Cmdr. Nate will have Special Olympics gear for sale to help us surpass that amount that will go to the Special Olympics Athletes.

-Our Cook County Dispatching partners will have one of their operators to hand out swag and talk about what they do.

-Meet “Figo” our Police Dog,
and see him demonstrate his work.

-Charlie 1, Cook County Sheriffs/CPD Helicopter will come by and do a fly by for us. (Mission dependent and yes, would of been cool if they could land and stay for a while.)

-The concession stand will be open with hot dogs chips and drinks.

Everyone is invited for a night of fun, food and community engagement! Looking forward to seeing everyone.

Address

4331 Southwest Highway
Hometown, IL
60456

Telephone

+17084222188

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