The Evanston City Council has scheduled a special closed-door meeting Monday evening at which the aldermen are expected to discuss a response to the lawsuit filed by the National Rifle Association last week challenging the city's ordinance banning the possession of handguns.

Evanston police say 42 percent of the 19 bars and stores checked last week flunked a test of their procedures for keeping alcohol out of the hands of minors.

Evanston police say a 51-year-old woman was sexually assaulted by a man who invaded her Florence Avenue home Saturday morning.

The Fountain Square Arts Festival reopened on schedule for its second day this morning, despite disruption caused by high winds and rain late Saturday afternoon that left seven people injured.

A sudden storm ripped through the Fountain Square Arts Festival late this afternoon demolishing exhibits and leaving at least four people injured.

The Evanston Police Department is pleased to announce the recent graduation of Sergeant Angela Hearts-Glass from the School of Police Staff and Command at Northwestern University.

A United States Supreme Court ruling today that threw out a District of Columbia gun ban as unconstitutional may also affect Evanston's gun control ordinance.

For the second time in just over a week an ice cream vendor has been robbed on an Evanston street.

Blue ribbon pension committee chairman Mark Metz says Evanston should cut spending rather than raise taxes to fix its public safety pension funding shortfall.

It's got to be every burglar's nightmare. The residents of the place walk in while you're trying to walk off with their stuff.