The state will enter the fourth stage of its coronavirus reopening plan Friday.  Phase 4 permits bars, fitness centers, museums, zoos, performance venues and theatres to reopen with limited capacity,...

Local politicians, community activists, poets, dancers and musicians joined together Friday to celebrate Juneteenth. The virtual event was streamed by over 3,000 people.  Kemone Hendricks planned...

Evanston residents gathered Friday afternoon to call for Mayor Steve Hagerty to defund the Evanston Police Department. A crowd that began at 3 p.m. as two dozen high school students gathered on the...

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...

Aldermen unanimously voted to extend the city’s state of emergency to June 8 on Monday. The state of emergency went into place on March 15 due to COVID-19, and has now been extended for a third time....