Four years ago, Stacey Moragne Sr., an outreach worker for the Evanston Youth and Young Adult Division, helped Evanston Township High School senior Damarion Timberlake join the Mayor’s Summer Youth Employment...
Evanston just opened registration for the Mayor’s Summer Youth Employment Program, which connects local teens with workforce opportunities to help them explore career fields and become familiar with...
iKandi hair salon owner Kandi Corbbins learned how to style hair from a young age.
As a child, she was the neighborhood hair braider. Now, Corbbins’ salon is one of the only Black-owned businesses...
Verzell James has brought 100 boxes of Awe-Sauce, his hand-crafted hot sauce, to various shops and restaurants around the city. His goal? To expand, to succeed and to show others they too can grow a business...
The motto of Hecky’s Barbecue may be “It’s the Sauce,” but for owner Hecky Powell the restaurant's mission is about more than just finding the perfect flavor.
Formerly the executive director...
