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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

Monique Brunson Jones, CEO of Evanston Community Foundation, speaks at the kick-off of Dance Marathon on Friday night. ECF has been DMs secondary beneficiary for 19 years.

New Dance Marathon committee focuses on relationship with second beneficiary Evanston Community Foundation

March 5, 2016

In its 19th year of partnership with the Evanston Community Foundation, Dance Marathon’s inaugural community engagement committee worked to emphasize DM’s relationship with its secondary beneficiary. The...

Campaign raises $10K for Evanston family facing eviction

January 5, 2015

A woman has raised more than $10,000 through an online campaign for an Evanston family facing eviction in the near future. Joanna Broder has raised money for the Watson family via the website FundRazr. The...

Community Partners for Affordable Housing staff, contractors, residents and city officials gather Wednesday for an open house at 1409 Darrow Ave. CPAH recently completed renovation on the house so it could be rented to a low- to moderate-income family.

Nonprofit renovates affordable housing unit

November 12, 2014

A local nonprofit completed the rehabilitation of an affordable housing unit in the 2nd Ward and held an open house Wednesday to mark the occasion. The house, at 1409 Darrow Ave., is the first in a...

Evanston Township High School students have started to construct a two-story house in the school’s parking lot. The project is part of a class in which students learn geometry through hands-on experience and build affordable housing for a family with low income.

ETHS construction class hopes to build on last year’s results

October 19, 2014

Evanston Township High School is offering a class for a second year in which students work to build an affordable house for a low-income family. The course, called Geometry in Construction, teaches...

Volunteers with CPAH demolish the backyard of a foreclosed and vacant house on Hartrey Avenue.

Community Partners for Affordable Housing works to rehabilitate third Evanston house

May 11, 2014

Eighteen months ago, a 31-year-old Lake Forest resident and her husband bought a house from the Community Partners for Affordable Housing that otherwise would have been too expensive for them to buy....

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