City Planner Cade Sterling tells Evanston Now that if D65 sells a landmarked school which is closed, or leases it out ...

EVANSTON, Ill. (WGN) – There was no shortage of patriotism at one of the largest Fourth of July parades around. Thousands of ...

Evanston will turn 150 years old at the end of 2013. In preparation for the city’s birthday in December, the Evanston History Center organized Evanston History 101, a tour that will guide ...

The Evanston History Center is highlighting those innovators and their creations with its latest exhibit, “It’s All Fun and Games: Historic Toys of Evanston,” through Jan. 5, at its Charles ...

Evanston Police Chief Demitrous Cook remembers stopping by the home of then-Mayor Lorraine Morton a couple of times a week when he was a beat cop in the 1980s to catch up on neighborhood policing ...

Instead of enjoying brunch at home, some Evanston residents spent their Mother’s Day wandering around strangers’ houses. For the 38th year, the Evanston History Center hosted the annual Mother ...

Evanston takes a small but historic step forward on America’s road to reparations The nation’s first reparations payment to Black citizens seeks to address harm caused by the town’s racist ...

The historic plan by Evanston, Illinois, to make reparations to its Black residents — including housing grants for a fraction of the city’s families — has prompted questions about whether ...

EVANSTON, Ill. (WLS) -- An Evanston group wants to suspend history lessons in schools until the lessons focus more on the contributions of minorities, and women. The group met Sunday at the Robert ...

EVANSTON, Ill. (STMW) --The Charles Gates Dawes House, home to the Evanston History Center, no doubt played host to some festive times when Charles Gates Dawes, the 30th vice president of the ...