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Less than a year before the 2025 municipal election, Mayor Daniel Biss has yet to declare whether he’ll seek reelection, but he received a vote of approval from county Democrats last week. On April 22, the Cook County Democrats’ central committee ratified Biss’ appointment to lead the Evanston Democratic party, he confirmed to The Daily....
Sierra Ferrell, Patty Griffin and Hiss Golden Messenger are among the +30 artists on the inaugural Evanston Folk Festival lineup.
A Cook County judge Friday dismissed three of the four counts in a lawsuit filed against the city of Evanston over a City Council vote to allow use of the rebuilt Ryan Field as a concert venue by Northwestern University. Cook County Circuit Judge Pamela McLean Meyerson ruled on two motions for dismissal of the three counts, one by Evanston and the other by Northwestern. Neither party sought to ...
Evanston’s unbalanced response to the Israeli-Gazan violence shows that our government (rightly) cares about Israeli lives and Jewish voices but does not care about Palestinian lives or Muslim voices. Our government must not continue to ignore the killing and starvation of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians even after it issued an official proclamation condemning the...
Responding to a regional call for migrant housing, City Council signaled it would support opening a home for asylum-seekers in Evanston — but also appeared hesitant toward renovating a vacant downtown office building into a temporary shelter. City staff revealed a proposal last week to use the two-story building at 1020 Church St. as a...