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Paks Sushi is the latest addition at Tech Express. Its sushi, poke, burritos and Asian snacks have been on a roll since the beginning of the school year. Paks Sushi is a part of Wisepak Foods, a company that has been serving sushi to Chicago area retailers and food service companies since 1998. Tech Express...

Over ten years ago, Wilmette natives Kiki Eliopoulos, Jack DeMar and Eric Kogan walked the halls of New Trier Township High School with big dreams of opening a restaurant together.  After years of DeMar harboring a “big crush” on Eliopoulos, she said the pair dated fleetingly at the end of their senior year before splitting...

Content warning: This article contains mentions of gun violence and death. At about 8:10 p.m. on Wednesday, Evanston Police Department first responded to reports of shots on Clark Street Beach.  The department posted periodic updates on their Twitter account as police responded and secured the scene. But the city didn’t send texts or emails to...

Restaurant owner Jack DeMar said he’s seen a demand for “good mood food” in Evanston.  “Evanston has a student community and a more holistic neighborhood community and business community that could use more healthy, affordable, quick options,” he said. “It’s certainly how I like to eat, and I think it’s how more and more people...

When restaurant owner CD Young (Kellogg ’96) opened elephant + vine in Evanston this spring, she reflected on her two ‘sister restaurants’ as support systems for each other. “It’s a sisterhood, not a brotherhood, and that language speaks volumes,” she said. “To me, it does go back to the historically female way of looking after...