Evanston News

This Oct. 26, 2009, photo Northwestern University professor David Protess, founder of the Medill Innocence Project, talks with journalism students at a reporting strategy session in Evanston, Ill.

Evanston police are looking for a person who removed a Denver boot from a vehicle Wednesday.

Jackie Colquitt of Evanston-Skokie School District 65 was selected as a contestant in the 2009 Miss Pre-Teen Chicago pageant competition and finished as first runner-up. The Miss Pre-Teen Chicago winner is the representative of Chicago and surrounding communities at the Cities of America National Competition that will take place in December in ...

Second Ward Alderman Lionel Jean-Baptiste is flying the coop -- as chairman of the city's Human Services Committee -- just as the group is about to begin holding hearings on some residents' push for the city to legalize raising chickens in their back yards.

Evanston veterans, community leaders and others are expected to gather for a Veterans Day ceremony starting at 10:30 a.m., Nov.

Gus Paschalis' mind never stops working. "My goal is to create gimmicks -- is that the right word? -- to draw attention to the restaurant," he said, referring to the Wiener and Still Champion, a tiny fast-food operation in the shadow of Evanston's Dempster Street el.

Using the locations of moderate-sized quakes to estimate where "The Big One" will eventually strike may not work for all regions, a new study reveals.

Evanston police -- in consultation with the North Regional Major Crimes Task Force's crash-assistance team -- don't plan to charge the driver of a vehicle in an accident Oct.

People who live in Western culture may get depressed more than those from East Asian culture because Westerners don't have the cultural support that can protect them from a genetic vulnerability to depression, suggests a new study from Northwestern University, in Evanston, Illinois.

Instead of feeling crisp and refreshed, Jesse Wu wakes up sluggish after 12 hours of sleep.

Clarke College has received its largest donation ever, a $10 million bequest to its endowment fund from a 1942 graduate.

Researchers say those who genetically tend to depression do better in collectivist East Asian cultures compared to individualistic Western cultures.

Willard Elementary School ranks seventh among Illinois elementary schools, according to a Sun-Times Media analysis of student performance on the Illinois Standards Achievement Test.

A handful of homes in north suburban Evanston were broken into and burglarized Tuesday, all apparently in the same manner.

Some residents will strut their stuff Friday at "Evanston Idol," the city's own version of the popular reality television show.

An alert citizen aided Evanston police in the arrest of a 17-year-old Evanston man charged Sunday with the auto burglary of a car parked on the 1100 block of Church Street.

A 71-year-old woman was struck by a car on a busy stretch of Sheridan Road in north suburban Evanston on Tuesday evening.

EVANSTON, Ill. a * A rash of students out sick with flulike symptoms has shut down a Roman Catholic elementary school in Evanston.

The sale of the parent company of the Chicago Sun-Times was completed today, as a local group of investors led by investment banker James Tyree became the newspaper's new owners.

The historical Second Baptist Church, under the leadership of Rev. Mark A. Dennis Jr., senior pastor, located at 1717 Benson Ave.