About 30 parents and students protested outside the Dr. Bessie Rhodes School of Global Studies on Thursday morning, demanding the district reverse its plans to close the school’s seventh and eighth grade...
Delores Holmes, former 5th Ward councilmember and co-founder of parent support organization Family Focus, died Tuesday, the city announced in a news release.
Holmes spent 27 years serving as the director...
The City-School Liaison Committee discussed the Guaranteed Income Program, the November general election and grant opportunities Tuesday night at the Lorraine H. Morton Civic Center.
The committee facilitates...
City Council approved funding for field lights and an athletic track at the upcoming Foster School following a 7-2 vote at Monday’s meeting.
With a planned August 2026 opening, the space will be the...
In 2005, Evanston native Jerome Summers started his fight to reopen a 5th Ward neighborhood school, Foster School, which he had attended through the fifth grade in the ‘60s. That is until he began getting...
