When Susan Garcia Trieschmann first opened Curt’s Café in Evanston in 2012, she and her husband had to fund the entire operation out of pocket. Six years and two cafe locations later, an entire community...
Murals, paintings, sculptures and poems created by young women from Curt’s Café lined the walls and counters of the restaurant Friday during the exhibition’s opening night.
About 20 people milled...
In 1992, Deon Patrick was convicted in a double murder that he did not commit. Two decades later, he walked free.
Patrick said because he was shot around the age of 17, he grew up with a false sense...
When Evanston artist Kathy Pilat saw an art show featuring people’s experiences with racism, she said she realized the importance of understanding these stories.
Building on that knowledge, she began...
In high school, teachers told Susan Trieschmann that she wasn’t smart enough to go to college.
“I spent 48 years of my life thinking something that wasn’t true, that my teachers in high school...
