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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

Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern


Customers showed up to Evanston Games and Cafe’s grand opening at its new location Tuesday.

Moving one block could prove a game changer for Evanston Games and Cafe

February 20, 2024

For Evanston Games and Cafe, moving one block meant moving mountains. Long located on a quiet block of Maple Avenue just behind the Davis Street Metra station, the store — simultaneously a retailer,...

Evanston Games & Cafe’s storefront with a paper tree in the display window and a tree in front of the store outside.

Evanston Games & Cafe powers through the pandemic with community support

May 12, 2022

In an attempt to keep sales going during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Evanston Games & Cafe Owner Eli Klein started shipping board games internationally. But this proved to be a disaster when...

A Dungeon and Dragons player in a black sweatshirt raises his hand at a brown table during a game.

Evanston residents explore storytelling through Dungeons and Dragons

May 10, 2022

On Tuesdays, Library Assistant Morgan Patten leaves the real world for a few hours to become Chime, a charismatic kenku warlock. Chime is her character in Dungeons & Dragons, a fantasy role-playing...

Kids sit around a table. A mat with an illustration of a tree is in front of each, and they’re holding cards. Six illustrated square cards sit in the middle of the table, and one player is reaching towards them.

Evanston resident Kate Hunt develops children’s board game

February 21, 2022

Evanston resident Kate Hunt said her kids often asked her why they couldn’t build a treehouse outside their apartment. In 2019, she started working on a different way to build treehouses: through a board...

Eli Klein, owner of Evanston Games and Cafe, orders food to prepare to open the store. Evanston Games and Cafe serves the community by offering a variety of board games and weekly tournaments in a casual setting.

Evanston Games and Cafe offers opportunity to develop community over board games

July 23, 2019

On her morning walk home from the Evanston Farmers’ Market in April 2015, avid gamer Jessica Gamba wondered why dice and board games were strewn among deconstructed furniture in an empty storefront....

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