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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


Current Evanston housing and education inequities result from decades of city policy

November 3, 2019

Redlining and zoning practices segregated Evanston over a century ago. The wealth and opportunity gaps it created are still facing the city’s black residents. Additional cinematography by Lucy Waterhouse...

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...

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...

In Focus: Fifth Ward residents advocate for neighborhood school in historical building

In Focus: Fifth Ward residents advocate for neighborhood school in historical building

June 1, 2018

In the 1960s, Jerome Summers was among the first group of students bussed from the only neighborhood school in the historically black 5th Ward to a majority-white school outside of the ward — an effort...

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