Evanston’s “My City, Your City, Our City” youth program has started its second run this summer, aiming to encourage community youth to avoid violence and engage in recreational activities “My City, Your City,” part of the city’s “Safe Summer” initiative, provides learning opportunities, drop-in hours at community centers and free programming ranging from block parties.
Evanston might start rolling its reparations payments out faster after a motion introduced at Wednesday’s Reparations Committee meeting. Instead of releasing the payments in intervals, the committee hopes to provide them to the next reparations recipients as soon as it gets enough money from tax revenue to do so. Committee member and former Ald. Robin.
Content Warning: This story contains mentions of gun violence and death. Evanston kicked off its 100th Fourth of July celebration at 9 a.m. Monday morning with sack races and the egg toss. Shortly after, Jamie Black, the celebration manager of Evanston Fourth of July Association, got a call from the Evanston Police Department. Black received.