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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


Edzo’s Burger Shop stands empty this month after shuttering its doors on Dec. 21, 2024. The shop served customers for 15 years as one of the few dedicated burger joints in Evanston.

‘Money pit’ shutters Edzo’s, leaves Evanston’s burger scene barren

January 9, 2025

Edzo’s Burger Shop, one of Evanston’s only dedicated burger joints, sold its final round of glistening cheeseburgers in December — leaving the city’s burger scene even more barren. Born from...

A salad with tofu and lettuce on a metal tray, and a burger in the background.

Open Tab: elephant + vine won’t be on my grapevine

February 5, 2023

Elephant + vine is one of Evanston’s most popular vegan restaurants, and we took a look at what it had to offer.  The restaurant opened in March 2022 as a sister establishment to Spirit Elephant,...

An illustration of houses on a bridge over water.

Moving to Evanston for the first time? Here’s what you need to know

August 12, 2022

When people who aren’t familiar with Northwestern ask me where I go to school, I often find myself telling them my university is in “a suburb just outside of Chicago.”  Once you’re here, though,...

Sweetgreen’s exterior at its Evanston location.

‘Serving salads in style’: Sweetgreen joins other plant-forward restaurants in Evanston

July 18, 2022

In a compostable, hexagonal bowl, a colorful salad of leafy greens, cherry-red tomatoes, blackened chicken and more await. Sweetgreen opened its doors last month at 1601 Sherman Ave., serving fresh...

Four restaurants with a fish above two and a loaf of bread above the other two.

Evanston businesses expand through co-ownership, collaboration

April 25, 2022

When restaurant owner CD Young (Kellogg ’96) opened elephant + vine in Evanston this spring, she reflected on her two ‘sister restaurants’ as support systems for each other. “It’s a sisterhood,...

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