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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


FlowersFlowers, a 2023 grant recipient, used Sustain Evanston to fund composting services for a year.

A year after receiving Sustain Evanston grants, local businesses reflect on sustainability efforts

February 15, 2024

For over 10 years, Evanston floral studio FlowersFlowers owner Joanne Leiman had been looking to compost the store’s plant waste. However, the cost had always made her hesitate, she said. So last...

Co-owner Eric Kogan and fellow Mensch’s employees assemble customers’ open-faced bagel sandwich orders. The pop-up currently shares its space with Picnic on weekend mornings.

Trio of owners announce Mensch’s Deli to open brick and mortar location this spring

October 11, 2023

Over ten years ago, Wilmette natives Kiki Eliopoulos, Jack DeMar and Eric Kogan walked the halls of New Trier Township High School with big dreams of opening a restaurant together.  After years of...

Arougheti: Five ways to say “I love you” on the city desk

Arougheti: Five ways to say “I love you” on the city desk

June 5, 2023

In many ways, everyone who’s written for the Daily Northwestern in the last hundred years or so has the same story — the epic highs of laughing on the couches between rewrites, the crushing lows of...

A photograph of the bagel with avocado, tomato and seasoning.

Mensch’s pop-up deli opens in Evanston

April 23, 2023

As kids in Wilmette, Jack DeMar, Eric Kogan and Kiki Eliopoulos always dreamed of collaborating on a business.  Mensch’s, a Jewish-style pop-up deli in Evanston, is that dream come true.  “We...

Sweetgreen’s exterior at its Evanston location.

‘Serving salads in style’: Sweetgreen joins other plant-forward restaurants in Evanston

July 18, 2022

In a compostable, hexagonal bowl, a colorful salad of leafy greens, cherry-red tomatoes, blackened chicken and more await. Sweetgreen opened its doors last month at 1601 Sherman Ave., serving fresh...

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