An effort to suspend Body Mass Index (BMI) testing for a year in the physical education program in the Evanston/Skokie District 65 middle schools was narrowly defeated Monday night by the school board on an issue that positioned the administration and the board leadership on opposite sides.
Someone threw a padlock Sunday night at a 2013 Hyundai at a gas station in the 1900 block of Green Bay Road, damaging the hood of the car. This story and others in the weekend roundup of crime from Evanston police.
Northwestern University’s SiNode Systems, a clean-tech startup that develops lithium-ion battery anodes that significantly increase energy capacity and charging speed, has won the second annual U.S. Department of Energy National Clean Energy Business Plan Competition.
Ask a little kid what he wants to be when he grows up, there’s a good chance he’ll reply that he wants to be a fireman. Evanston’s Fire & Life Safety Services is ready to make that happen.
The Evanston North Shore YWCA has more funds for its programs after more than 5,000 people turned out for Sunday's "Race Against Hate" along the Evanston lakefront.
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In what apparently is the first concrete result of the evanstARTs report, Evanston aldermen tonight will be asked to add another arts position to the city staff at a net cost of as much as $75,000 a year.
Evanston's 42nd annual Custer Fair got off to a very damp start Saturday morning, but the forecast promises near-perfect festival weather today with mostly sunny skies and a high around 82 degr
Sunday is Father's Day and there are other local events like the "Race Against Hate" and the Custer Fair -- but there still are a bunch of open houses to take a look at. Here'
Shorefront Legacy Center will screen the documentary "Alice's Ordinary People" that profiles the life of Evanston native and civil rights activist Alice Tregay at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, June 19.
A rush-hour crowd gathered in front of Frances Willard’s Evanston home at 1730 Chicago Avenue Friday afternoon to celebrate the 100th anniversary of womens suffrage in Illinois.
A bicycle was stolen from the front yard of a home in the 1500 block of Greenwood Street. This and other stories in today's daily crime bulletin from Evanston police.
Judging from comments posted on Evanston Now this week, there’s been a lot of community outrage about the daylight gun battle Tuesday across from Evanston Township High School.
