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...

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...

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...

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...

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...