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Everything Evanston: Reflecting on gun violence in the 8th Ward

Everything Evanston: Reflecting on gun violence in the 8th Ward

November 3, 2019

KALEN LUCIANO: From The Daily Northwestern, I’m Kalen Luciano. Welcome to another episode of Everything Evanston. This week we spoke with Daily Digital Managing Editor Christopher Vazquez about his reporting...

Toppling the Trigger: Following 8th Ward shootings, victims’ loved ones search for hope

October 25, 2019

There were no murders in Evanston’s 8th Ward in the five years leading up to 2016. In the last three years, the ward and its surrounding areas have seen three gun homicides. In our latest episode of...

The Evanston Police Department outpost at 745 Howard St. City manager Wally Bobkiewicz said the city considered its budget constraints and weighed the utility of the outpost before deciding to vacate it.

EPD vacates Howard Street outpost as confidence in safety increases

November 21, 2017

The Evanston Police Department vacated its outpost on Howard Street on Monday, marking a newfound confidence in the safety of an area that has faced crime-related problems. Evanston police Cmdr. Joseph...

Ald. Ann Rainey (8th) (left). Candidate for 8th Ward alderman Rob Bady (right).

Bady, Rainey focus on affordable housing, economic development in 8th Ward

March 31, 2017

Leading up to Evanston’s municipal election next week, the two aldermanic candidates competing for the 8th Ward have centered their campaigns on economic development and affordable housing. Rob Bady,...

Brandon Hinton

Hazel Crest, Ill., man convicted in fatal attack on Evanston man

September 19, 2013

A Hazel Crest, Ill., man was convicted Thursday of killing an Evanston man two years ago near the Chicago border. A Cook County jury found Brandon Hinton, 28, guilty of first-degree murder for...

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