3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (452+ words) On Aug. 31, it poured during morning dropoff near King Arts School. No crossing guard was there. Cars and parents sorted out the crossing themselves, in the rain, everyone rushing to get somewhere on time. It was scary to watch, and…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (179+ words) After more than five years as president and chief operating officer of the Evanston Community Foundation (ECF), Sol Anderson has stepped down. His departure, which took place Sept. 4, was confirmed by the foundation. ECF, a tax-exempt nonsectarian charitable organization, plays…...

6+ day, 7+ hour ago   (626+ words) I was having an ordinary conversation with my husband in our kitchen a few weeks ago when I used the words “movie star” to describe someone famous. (I don’t remember who I was talking about.) “Oh my God,” I said,…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (807+ words) The Evanston Public Library will only need to increase its property tax levy by 2.5% to reach a balanced budget next year, according to a staff presentation to the library’s Board of Trustees on Wednesday — though budgeted costs could end up…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (897+ words) According to city records, 133 of the 559 buildings in Evanston that are more than 20,000 square feet did not fully comply with the city’s benchmarking ordinance this year, including several Northwestern University buildings, the Whole Foods on Green Bay Road and Orrington…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (350+ words) The book is an “essential work,” says New York Times best-selling author Dr. Andrew Weil in a blurb for the book. One that “carries forward the essential work of redefining health care for our times. Through her vast clinical experience…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (250+ words) But I’m happy to report that I bravely retracted my name from the list of parents volunteering to feed the kids’ football team dinner. It’s very minor, but when the boundaries are so few and far between, they must be…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (52+ words) Evanston RoundTable Neighbors on Madison Street between Florence and Wesley avenues celebrated the last days of summer Aug. 29 with help from the Evanston Fire Department at their block party. Hot temperatures had kids jumping for joy into the cooling spray…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (622+ words) Five years ago, Mrs. Patricia Hornbuckle, my childhood bus driver, passed away. To most people, that sentence would not seem particularly remarkable. She didn’t expand human knowledge. She didn’t discover a cure. She wasn’t a celebrity. She drove a school…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (667+ words) The Americans with Disabilities Act became law 36 years ago. The landmark Brown v. Board of Education case was decided 72 years ago. The right of citizens to access the public places they pay for and the moral question of segregated public spaces…...