After months of negotiations, University officials declined a proposal that would have significantly increased the number of on-campus Divvy stations, including at Ryan Field, emails obtained by The Daily show. The details come as city officials begin installing 17 new Divvy stations in Evanston,...
Live drums, horns and singing could be heard blocks away as the Trabuco Salsa Band kicked off the first concert of Downtown Evanston’s Downtown Summer Sounds series Thursday evening. A crowd flocked to the stage at Evanston’s Fountain Square for a free salsa lesson 30 minutes before the concert, shimmying their shoulders and stepping in unison to a repeated, “one, two, three and five, six, seven.” Once the band began performing at 6 p.m., community members showed off their moves, swaying and spinning in front of the stage and along the street. Rising second-year biomedical engineering graduate student Dara Detwongya said she came for the salsa — both the dance and the music. “When...
