Evanston resident Anne Beall started a consulting firm in 2003. Within five years, the firm had an office space in downtown Chicago, and it “was more successful than (she) ever imagined.” Then, the...

Author Maaza Mengiste spoke about the impetus behind her book, “Beneath the Lion’s Gaze,” and the challenges of writing historical fiction at a Thursday night lecture hosted by the Center for the...

Young adult author Tamara Ireland Stone discussed and read excerpts from her Evanston-based novels Thursday night. Stone spoke to a group of teens in The Loft, a center for students in sixth to 12th...

As the 113th United States Congress prepares to tackle government spending, taxes, education and immigration, only 14 percent of Americans approve of the job Congress is doing, according to a recent Gallup...