On Tuesday, Rob Johnson picked up a piece of driftwood from Clark Street Beach. Visiting the area from Owensboro, Kentucky, for a business meeting, he said the souvenir showed signs of having washed up...

On Tuesday, about 25 Evanston residents attended a public workshop at the Robert Crown Center to provide feedback on Evanston's Parks and Green Space Strategic Plan — a city project that aims to inform...

Quentin Herzig started skating when he was 8-years-old, but later stopped because there was no skate park in Evanston, and he didn’t know many other skaters. During the pandemic, Herzig returned to...

Construction of a skate park at the east end of Twiggs Park will begin in July, the city announced Thursday, overseen by the Capital Planning and Engineering Bureau. The 10,000 square foot custom facility...

When Jeff Green was growing up in Chicago’s Rogers Park neighborhood, he’d spend his summers and winters on Howard Beach — sunbathing one season, sledding another. “I recently drove by there,...