Evy Lewis

Evy Lewis is a reporter for the Daily Southtown. In 2024, she graduated from Missouri, where she worked at the Columbia Missourian as a reporter and editor for two years. She previously interned at St. Louis Public Radio, where she covered the Missouri state government for radio, and at Investigate Midwest, where she wrote about agriculture.

Gary Van Sipma is the fourth generation of Van Sipmas to run the family-owned jewlery store in Homewood. (Gary Middendorf/for the Daily Southtown)

‘Big shoes to fill’: Fifth generation helps celebrate Homewood’s Van Sipma Jewelers 125th year

October 8, 2025 at 1:22 p.m.

Van Sipma's, a Homewood family-owned jewelry and watchmaking business founded in Roseland, celebates the start of its 125th year.

Hazel Crest Police Department (Daily Southtown file photo)

Police seek answers in fatal Hazel Crest hit and run

October 6, 2025 at 2:47 p.m.

The Hazel Crest Police Department is investigating an Oct. 2 hit and run that killed 47-year-old resident Russell Bouie.

The Rev. Gary Graf kneels to receive a blessing outside Pope Leo XIV's childhood home, Dolton, Oct. 6, 2025. (Evy Lewis/Daily Southtown)

Chicago Heights priest begins walk for immigrant children from Pope Leo’s childhood home in Dolton

October 6, 2025 at 2:05 p.m.

Gary Graf, a Chicago Heights Catholic priest, began a 50-day justice walk from Pope Leo's boyhood home in Dolton to New York.

Andrea Nelson tidies up a table in her home, the Frederick Nichols House, Oct. 1, 2025, in Flossmoor. (Evy Lewis/Daily Southtown)

Flossmoor Frank Lloyd Wright house will open to public for the first time

October 3, 2025 at 12:27 p.m.

A Frank Lloyd Wright house will open to the public to raise money for The Foundation for the Preservation of Flossmoor History.

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