Hecky’s Barbecue, an Evanston institution for nearly 40 years, won the Chicago Tribune’s Readers’ Choice Award for the best Chicago-style BBQ in April. The award is the first the restaurant has received since its founder, Hecky Powell, died in 2020, according to Cheryl Judice, Powell’s wife and the current president and owner of Hecky’s. Judice.
No. 18 Northwestern will look to end its season on a high note as the team wraps up regular season play against Rutgers (31-22, 8-12 Big Ten) this weekend. With last weekend’s three-game sweep of Nebraska, (32-17, 12-8 Big Ten) the Cats (33-10, 18-2 Big Ten) clinched a share of the Big Ten title. But.
The Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity announced in March it will invest an additional $175 million in funding for the Back to Business grant program, which provides pandemic relief funding for businesses in the hardest-hit industries. B2B was first established in August 2021 by DCEO and originally leveraged $250 million in funding from.
In high school, Darrell King always wanted to win a state championship. As a football player and track runner in North Chicago, he never lived out his dream. But King, now chief of Evanston’s Water Production Bureau, finally won his long-awaited state championship in March, after four judges declared Evanston’s tap water the best tasting.
Evanston’s Housing and Community Development Committee voted to move forward with three new housing ordinances that will raise the demolition tax, maintain unit counts in future permits for certain buildings and push back on predatory real estate practices on March 21. An October 2022 survey asking residents about equity issues in the city found more.