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When Karen Singer started working as YWCA Evanston/North Shore’s interim executive director in August...
Local area swimmers took to Lake Michigan on Sunday morning for the third annual edition of the Great Lake Plunge, an open water swim of various distances held to raise funds for Evanston Swims!.
The...
Returning for its second year, the Great Lake Plunge, benefitting the nonprofit Evanston Swims!, will welcome hundreds of swimmers to participate in the city’s only open water swim July 24.
The event...
A program to teach Evanston second graders to swim has more than doubled in size and moved out of its pilot phase, the Evanston Community Foundation said Monday.
Evanston Swims!, which provides free...
In 1963, when Evanston turned 100 years old, the city celebrated with a massive lakefront party. When a steering committee began plans in 2009 for Evanston’s 150th birthday, they had bigger ideas.
“We...
