Thirteen teams of predator robots captured soup-can sized victims in the 22nd annual Undergraduate Design Competition Saturday afternoon at the Evanston campus of Northwestern University.

There are lots of open houses to check out this Sunday as temperatures hit the mid-80's. Here's a sampling of some of those that will be available to tour.

Vandals dented the roofs of five cars parked on the street in the 2500 block of Asbury Avenue. These and other stories are in today's daily crime bulletin from Evanston police.

Evanston Police Chief Richard Eddington says officers will step up stop-and-frisk activities in response to a recent wave of shooting incidents.

Even though Groupon founder Andrew Mason is preparing a move to San Francisco this summer, he says he’s not planning to sell his lakefront home in northeast Evanston and expects “to visit often.”

Downtown merchants got a briefing from city officials this afternoon on plans for new parking meters and repaving Davis Street.

Evanston police say traffic accidents in the city have declined since the city imposed a ban on hand-held phone use while driving.