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Time may be running out for Northwestern University's clock tower. It's not included in the school's new 50-year planning framework which envisions a new connection between the campus and downtown Evanston.

Northwestern University police early Monday stopped a car Evanston police were seeking in a burglary investigation.

Northwestern University officials today unveiled what they're calling a "framework plan" for how the Evanston campus may develop over the next half century.

Several more Evanston residents have taken out petitions seeking to run for municipal offices next spring.

Evanston Preservation Commissioners tried Wednesday to broker a compromise between angry neighbors and the homeowners who have asked to relocate a historic home near the lakefront.

The new owners of a house near the Evanston lakefront have drawn fire from neighbors over a plan to move the home and subdivide its lot.

Evanston History Center members Wednesday elected officers and trustees who said they're committed to negotiating with Northwestern University to keep the organization in its long-time home at the Dawes mansion on the lakefront.

The Evanston History Center, housed since at least 1960 in the Northwestern University-owned Charles Gates Dawes mansion on the lakefront, is faced with closing the building to the public on April 16.

Mather Lifeways officials say its likely to be Thursday before about 80 residents of the Georgian in downton Evanston are able to return to their apartments in the building.