Evanston News

Evanston Alderman Melissa A. Wynne, 3rd Ward, has scheduled a ward meeting for 7:30 p.m. Thursday, May 31, to discuss the Trader Joe's grocery store plans for 1211 Chicago Ave.

At the Dempster Street beach Friday, Carl Caneva, the city's environmental health division manager, is leading assistant Ryan Kolnick through the questions, marking Kolnick's responses on a two-page form pinned to his metal clipboard.

Eddie Lakin is an old-school hamburger evangelist with a modern sensibility. He's chosen to close Edzo's , his popular burger joint in downtown Evanston, each day at 4 p.m. in order to spend more time with his children.

When Deerfield's Merilee Papale was asked to define the main ingredient behind her business success she had a one word answer.

It felt like being back in high school -- "Can you come pick me up?" That was the opening line of a phone call home to my wife earlier this week, when I bizarrely ended up stranded in the wilds of downtown Evanston, Illinois.

What it is: "What's for dinner?" is a question most of us ask every day in hopes of having the answer by nightfall.

From elegant and stately mansions to modern, environmentally-friendly abodes, The North Shore is chock-full of one-of-a-kind homes.

Evanston police issued seven alcohol-related tickets, two for public urination, and also made several arrests of individuals fighting in connection with Northwestern University student Dillo Day festivities Saturday.

What she saw while standing in a little park between some high rises was the brightness from the lights inside building windows and the unnatural haze created by all the lights of the city above the buildings.

In Chicagoland, on many Chicago Park District golf courses , Forest Preserve golf courses , municipal golf courses and private golf courses are many, challenging putting greens.

Numerous agencies serving children, teens and young adults on the affluent North Shore will soon enter their second year of little or no funding from United Way, due to changes in how the recipient agencies are chosen.

A traveling museum on freedom will be open to the public at the Evanston Public Library as part of the Allowance for Good's inaugural Global Philanthropy Summit.

Last week: Kenilworth Police Blotter: Attempted Burglary, Possession of Cannabis Possession of cannabis Three juveniles were issued village citations for possession of cannabis, tobacco and alcohol on May 25 following a minor traffic offence in the 300 block of Kenilworth Avenue.

Following the death of Carter Vo , Skokie residents have again taken up a petition to make crosswalks around Middleton School safer.

The Northwestern University Naval ROTC Color Guard starts off the Memorial Day ceremony at Fountain Square in downtown Evanston on Monday, May 28, 2012.

WINNETKA, Ill. - Life jackets may have saved the lives of two 14-year-old girls when they were thrown from a jet ski and spent more than an hour floating in Lake Michigan Monday near north suburban Winnetka.

Northwestern University Dance Marathon 2013 co-chairs Weinberg juniors Matt Larsen and Katie Amys speak Thursday at an awards ceremony for the Evanston Community Foundation.

Here's a recipe:A Mix one part "World's Tallest Chef" and one part Big Ten Sorority House and what do you get? Potential litigation.A "World's Tallest Chef" and Homewood native Jeff Goldfarb is currently pursuing a complaint with the Illinois Department of Human Rights against Northwestern University's Delta Delta Delta Sorority House for what he ... (more)

Two UU congregations plan to start radio stations Programming will be mostly secular but will include some UU content.

Washington, May 27: In a new study, scientists have tried to find what effect shift work, all-nighters and other sleep disruptions might have on humans trying to conceive.