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Content warning: This story contains mentions of gun violence. The past year in Evanston has been a busy one. Evanston is more than just Northwestern’s lakeside campus. It’s a suburb that is home to 78,000 people and plenty of issues that make statewide and national headlines. Since the beginning of last academic year, the city...
The Wilmette Village Board will vote next month on a resolution to object to zoning changes in Evanston that would benefit the rebuild of Northwestern University’s Ryan Field. Wilmette Village President Senta Plunkett announced to a packed room at the July 25 Village Board meeting that the board has plans to vote on the resolution at its Aug. 8 meeting. Residents, many of whom live immediately ...
By Stacy M. Brown | NNPA (NNPA) - Reparations have finally arrived for some Black Americans. The city of Evanston, Illinois, began its historic
A city in Illinois is expected to pay 140 mostly elderly black residents $25,000 each in reparations by the end of the year in what they're calling a 'test run for the whole country.'
A group of tenured Northwestern University professors has joined Evanston residents in calling on the school to "halt" the new stadium's progress until "the crisis is satisfactorily resolved."