Evanston City Council voted Monday to fully fund the Evanston’s Dutch Elm Disease Injection Program and shorten the injection timeline. The program will inject all elm trees in Evanston with fungicides...

Maria Murray was 15 years old in 1855 when she was purchased out of slavery by a white family and brought to work as an indentured servant in their Evanston home. She was one of Evanston’s first black...

Evanston Present and Future owner and founder Kemone Hendricks dreamed of seeing Evanston residents march through the streets in the city’s first Juneteenth parade. When the pandemic hit Evanston, Hendricks...

Just over 100 participants gathered through Zoom on Thursday for a virtual town hall on Evanston’s historic reparations fund. The fund, established through a city resolution passed in November 2019,...

Evanston officials considered a program that would encourage black homeownership at a Friday reparations subcommittee meeting. Still in its initial stages of development, the program would provide $10,000...