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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

Artwork on walls of the Evanston Family Focus Center, 2010 Dewey Ave. The center opened in Evanston in 1976 to provide community and encourage childhood development.

Evanston Organizes: Family Focus provides long-standing sense of community in 5th Ward

April 25, 2019

This story is part of a series of profiles of activist and community groups across Evanston. On any given day after school, children shuffle from program to program at Evanston Family Focus. Located...

Evanston Family Focus, 2010 Dewey Ave. The center’s building is for sale, but Family Focus President and CEO Merri Ex said the programming will not leave Evanston.

Up for sale, Family Focus commits to maintaining presence in Evanston

April 17, 2019

The Family Focus Evanston building, is up for sale, but Merri Ex — the president and CEO of Family Focus, Inc. — said Family Focus in Evanston is “not closing.” “We are not leaving Evanston,”...

A panel discusses a documentary about fatherhood. Family Focus hosted an event about empowering fathers in community spaces.

Documentary screening prompts discussion on engaging fathers in parenthood

February 22, 2019

Evanston community members envisioned spaces to empower fathers at a documentary screening and panel discussion Thursday. The conversation, which took place at Family Focus, focused on the importance...

Former 5th Ward alderman Delores Holmes speaks at City Council. Holmes and other 5th Ward residents urged aldermen to preserve a historic building in the ward.

Residents urge aldermen to preserve historic Family Focus building

October 10, 2018

Residents urged aldermen to preserve the historic building at 2010 Dewey Ave. during a Monday Planning and Development Committee meeting. Family Focus — an organization that provides community services...

Family Focus, 2010 Dewey Ave. The Evanston Preservation Commission voted Tuesday to designate the Family Focus building, which previously housed the Foster School, as an Evanston landmark.

Evanston Preservation Commission votes to make former Foster School building historic landmark

July 16, 2018

The Evanston Preservation Commission passed a motion to support the designation of the former Foster School building as an Evanston landmark during a meeting last week. The Foster School building, located...

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