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Porschia Davis (left), who helps run the Mayor's Summer Youth
Employment Program for the city, presented Alliyah Rumbolt-Lemond with a certificate earlier this week at a special ceremony at the Lorraine H. Morton Civic Center, 2100 Ridge Ave.

Mayor sets sights on 1,000 youth jobs next year

May 12, 2019 at 9:46 p.m.

The Mayor's Summer Youth Employment Program should produce 600 jobs for youths by summer's end, but the mayor hopes to increase that number next year. Porschia Davis, the city's Youth...

Henrietta Berning, retired physical education teacher, hopes to squeeze in one more sand workout before the city's beaches close.

Residents take advantage of waning beach season

May 12, 2019 at 9:46 p.m.

Katie Frugauff and her two children, Theo, 4, and Milo, 7, initially went to the city's Greenwood Street Beach on Monday. Finding that beach closed, they packed up their oversized...

Workers grill food during the Evanston Cultural Center opening on August 18, 2016.

Plumlee, pie, sweeten city’s Cultural Center Open House

June 10, 2018 at 8:59 a.m.

Alliyah Rumbolt-Lemond was nervous about approaching NBA player Mason Plumlee as he signed autographs at an open house for the city's Gibbs-Morrison Cultural Center on Aug. 18. "I was very...

Library Board members look on as retiring board member Leora Siegel opens a gift presented her at the Aug. 17 Library Board meeting.

Siegel steps down from Library Board

May 12, 2019 at 9:46 p.m.

Leora Siegel, an Evanston Public Library Board member praised for her quiet charisma and informed comments during the library's transition to independent status, is stepping down from the board. Siegel,...

Harand Camp co-founder Sulie Harand Friedman greets a supporter at the camp's Blue and White Bash back in March 2010. Close to 400 people attended funeral services for Friedman in Skokie on Thursday, Aug. 11.

Evanston’s Harand Camp co-founder Sulie Harand Friedman honored at memorial service

May 12, 2019 at 9:45 p.m.

An estimated 400 people, many of them proud "Haranders" – the affectionate name adopted by alumni of the Harand Camp of the Theatre Arts in Evanston – turned out at...

Evanston officials say they are making progress on fundraising for a new or renovated Robert Crown Community
Center.

Evanston’s Robert Crown Community Center project seeing progress

May 12, 2019 at 9:45 p.m.

Evanston officials are reporting progress on their fundraising front for a new Robert Crown Community Center or a reconstructed one, and moving forward on design services for the project too....

Inaugural Evanston festival to celebrate Fifth Ward, address gun violence

May 12, 2019 at 9:45 p.m.

In historic north suburban Evanston, the city's Fifth Ward on its west side has its own unique history, as an area where African-American families have made their homes since the...

Evanston's Brummel Park will be included in a project to assess the condition of the city's parks.

Evanston undertakes project to rate city’s parks

May 12, 2019 at 9:45 p.m.

At the urging of several Evanston City Council members, officials will include all the city's parks in an ambitious project to assess their condition. City officials had initially recommended the...

Shout Out: Marie Tarallo has news for you

May 12, 2019 at 9:45 p.m.

Streetwise vendor Marie Tarallo was on top of the news this week, selling papers with a cover photo of Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt in the Rio Olympics. The week before,...

Fire investigators looking into Evanston structure fire

May 12, 2019 at 9:45 p.m.

Evanston Fire Department investigators are investigating the cause of a structure fire last week that broke out in a two-story multi-family house in the 1700 block of Lyons Street and...

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