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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


Homes line the block of Dodge Avenue between Church Street and Lyons Street in Evanston’s 5th Ward. Residents identified access to affordable housing as an issue in both the ward and the city at large.

5th Ward residents say negative perceptions overshadow progress in neighborhood

February 9, 2016

Colette Allen acknowledges the 5th Ward has problems. Other residents and community leaders agree — safety and economic inequality have been issues in the 5th Ward for decades. Those problems, however,...

5th Ward meeting highlights anti-crime efforts

5th Ward meeting highlights anti-crime efforts

October 18, 2013

Evanston police Thursday night updated 5th Ward residents on crime in their community, highlighting their Problem Solving Team's efforts to curb violence. At a meeting hosted by Ald. Delores Holmes...

Eric Melberg, who works at Evanston ReBuilding Warehouse, looks at a recently donated kitchen Saturday afternoon. The warehouse, 2101 Dempster St., may use the set in a new low-income home being built by Evanston Township High School students.

ETHS students to build low-income home

September 29, 2013

Evanston Township High School students are trading pencil cases for toolboxes this fall as they delve into Geometry in Construction, a new class in which they build a fully functional home for a low-income...

Off-campus revelry brings headaches to aldermen, residents

September 24, 2013

Every year, Evanston aldermen face the all-too-familiar ritual of handling dozens of residents' complaints about rambunctious Northwestern students swarming off-campus neighborhoods during Wildcat Welcome. Except...

Cardereon Preister, 21, poses with his baby daughter. A funeral service for Preister was held Friday morning at Christ Temple Missionary Baptist Church, 1711 Simpson St.

Family members, friends mourn ‘loving, funny’ Cardereon Preister

September 22, 2013

Hundreds of family members and friends filled a west Evanston church Friday morning to remember Cardereon Preister, recalling his upbeat attitude and contagious smile. "Cardereon gave a little bit of...

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