Evanston News

Share + Feb 9, 2010 12:27 pm US/Central EVANSTON, Ill. A morbid past didn't stop new owners from buying a house a few blocks from the lake shore in Evanston.

Share + Feb 8, 2010 1:23 pm US/Central EVANSTON, Ill. A juvenile was charged with aggravated battery after turning himself into police in connection with the shooting of an 18-year-old man Friday night on the campus of a north suburban high school.

A man was fatally struck by a CTA Red Line early Saturday on the Far North Side.

For some weeks now, 10-year-old Elijah Griffin has been slipping in to a new identity.

A former student suffered an apparent graze wound in a shooting outside Evanston Township High School Friday night.

An alderman obtained an apparent reprieve Wednesday night to allow the city's branch libraries to stay open another six months while supporters look for a more-permanent funding solution.

Images of the washed-out Haitian hillside where their children's relatives lived have led Peter and Paula Fitzgibbons to fear that their adopted son and daughter have no biological family left.

State House candidate Robyn Gabel received strong support in south Evanston and along the city's lakefront, and then maintained that consistency citywide and into New Trier Township, according to unofficial precinct-by-precinct results released today.

Following are suggestions for things to do in Evanston, with comment from staffer Judy Brinkworth.

South Evanston resident Mike Jencevice said he's one of those people who almost always votes.

Fourth Ward Alderman Donald Wilson lives near Washington School and one of his children attends Nichols Middle School.

Evanston took another step Monday night toward adopting a hands-free cell phone law, introducing the ordinance.

Think of it as an newly fashioned revival with tunes to shake the house down, when Saturday night's Strength through Unity Benefit Concert, now to be held at New Hope Haitian Community Church, 729 W. Howard St., Evanston, IL 60202 , convenes.

Northwestern University says the number of freshman applications for this fall has increased 9 percent over last year.

The family of a fifth-grader found hanging in the bathroom of his north suburban elementary school a year ago filed a wrongful death lawsuit Friday against the school district.

Evanston Parking Committee members took a step forward Wednesday, then balked at launching a discount program for people willing to park on the roof of the 1,200-space Sherman Avenue Parking Garage.

A 20-year-old Evanston man has been sentenced to 35 years in prison for firing a sawed-off shotgun at a police officer in the near north suburb in the summer of 2008.

COMMENT ON THIS STORY EVANSTON, Ill. -- Cat owners are being warned to keep their pets indoors as animal control officers capture and euthanize a large feral cat colony found on the property of a deceased woman in north suburban Evanston.

Seriously. My girlfriend and I have eaten at the Pine Yard, together and separately, every few months for over twenty-five years.

Evanston crept back over the .500 mark Sunday afternoon by running past Chicago Corliss 65-42 Sunday night at the Chops Billinger Memorial Shootout at North Park University.