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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


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....

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...

City earmarks federal funds for west Evanston affordable housing

May 30, 2013

The Evanston City Council voted Tuesday to approve using federal funds to construct two affordable rental units in the 2nd Ward. The nonprofit Community Partners for Affordable Housing acquired $277,685...

A portrait of former mayor Lorraine H. Morton was unveiled during Monday’s city council meeting. Morton, 94, was present for the ceremony.

City Council approves mental health services funding, loan for affordable housing

February 26, 2013

City Council unanimously approved a measure Monday night to give additional funding to mental health management services to address the city's mental illness problems. Evanston Health Department Director...

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