Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

Connections for the Homeless transformed the former hotel, the Margarita Inn, into a permanent shelter.

Connections for the Homeless celebrates purchase of Margarita Inn in open house

February 13, 2024

Community members, residents and staff celebrated Connections for the Homeless’ recent purchase of the Margarita Inn with an open house at the facility on Tuesday.  Connections has operated the former...

Everything Evanston: City Council Rapid Recap talks Harley Clarke and funding plans

Everything Evanston: City Council Rapid Recap talks Harley Clarke and funding plans

February 19, 2023

This week, Everything Evanston’s Rapid Recap of City Council covers their discussion of Harley Clarke Mansion as well as other proposed amendments and ordinances. Angeli Mittal also spotlights a story...

Evanston fire house number five on an overcast day

Evanston Fire Departments chaplains provide all-around support

November 10, 2022

The Evanston Fire Department doesn’t just have one chaplain, but two. Monté Dillard and Heath Howe, Evanston Fire Department’s chaplains, started their positions in the summer of 2020. Fire...

In Focus: As Connections for the Homeless looks to purchase the Margarita Inn, residents remain divided on the building’s future

In Focus: As Connections for the Homeless looks to purchase the Margarita Inn, residents remain divided on the building’s future

May 23, 2022

More than 200 people packed St. Mark’s Episcopal Church on March 13 for a special 4th Ward meeting. They were all prepared to discuss the same topic: the future of the Margarita Inn.  The building,...

A drawing of a Black person’s hand holding a scale, with a house on one side and cash on the other. Text at the top says The Fight For Reparations.

In Focus: With the eyes of a nation on Evanston, the first step of the historic reparations program faces pushback

March 12, 2021

On a December day in 2019, hundreds of Evanston residents sang, cheered and cried together in the pews of the First Church of God in celebration of the first funded Black reparations program in the city...

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