Evanston News

The winners of the fifth annual Faces of Evanston photo contest, sponsored by the Kiwanis Club of Evanston, were announced at a benefit evening Sept.

The Mitchell Museum of the American Indian hosts a lecture by Daryl Baldwin, a member of the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma, at 1 p.m. Nov.

An allegedly drunken motorist is in police custody at an Evanston hospital after reportedly stealing a station wagon and plowing into a tree so hard it uprooted and came to rest 12 feet away early Wednesday on the Northwest Side, police said.

Oak Park-River Forest converted 13-of-17 free throws in the fourth quarter, including a 7-of-8 performance in the final 1:09, and defeated Evanston 48-42 Tuesday night in the girls basketball opener for both teams at Beardsley Gym.

Chuck Carra says he caught the fever from John Fogel. No, there's no H1N1 virus circulating in the halls of Evanston these days.

Evanston officials head into the third citizen budget workshop Tuesday with a lot of ideas in hand and will now start applying them to the main issue -- an estimated $8 million budget deficit in year 2010-11. Officials are expected to get down to work on the matter from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Tuesday at the Fleetwood-Jourdain Community Center, 1655 ...

Armed with a new, lower requirement to override a veto, Cook County Board members will try again this week to roll back the 1 percentage-point increase in the sales tax imposed last year.

The Evanston Police Department has been selected by the Illinois Department of Transportation to conduct a series of traffic enforcement campaigns, beginning today.

A large construction lift being transported down Foster Street toppled off its flatbed Friday morning at the CTA underpass, raising the question, "What part of '14' 2" ' didn't you understand?" The downed equipment, resembling a dead dinosaur, bore a tag saying "Think Safety." I do not know for sure that the accident was the result of too-tall ...

The Mather culinary team of executive chef Chip Fegert and sous chef Chivo Montero has only been on the job for a short time, but their food preparation expertise is already gaining wider recognition.

About 35 Cub Scouts from most of Evanston's Cub Scout Packs gathered Oct. 14 to meet Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl and discuss citizenship topics at the Evanston Civic Center, 2100 Ridge Ave.

Evanston coach Kevin Auger, in the past, has dealt with an excess of talent in a given event like the 100-yard breaststroke.

Share + Nov 10, 2009 5:02 am US/Central EVANSTON, Ill. There's danger on the campus of Northwestern University, as police search for a man who sexually abused a student inside a campus building.

Some Preservation Commission members are raising concern about a city plan to replace existing slate shingles at the historic Lorraine H. Morton Civic Center with asphalt ones.

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.