I’m walking through Evanston on a Friday afternoon. A yellow light, dappled with green, butters the maple trees that line the road. I tread around the tall cylinders of their trunks, thinking wistfully...

From picnics at Centennial Park to swims at one of Evanston’s six beaches to walks along the shoreline with your four-legged friends, there are plenty of family activities to be had on the picturesque...

Sound travels farther on cold days. The sound waves that would normally dissipate into the air instead bounce against layers of warmer air that blanket the surface, and so fall back to the ground. That’s...

Evanston and northern Cook County will remain under a wind chill warning until noon Monday after temperatures plunged this weekend in the wake of a snowstorm, according to the National Weather Service. The...

On Tuesday, Rob Johnson picked up a piece of driftwood from Clark Street Beach. Visiting the area from Owensboro, Kentucky, for a business meeting, he said the souvenir showed signs of having washed up...