Four local women, Candance Chow, Tracy Quattrocki, Joan Sherman and Melanie Wright, founded NextGroup LLC to provide support, resources and employment connections to women who are re-entering the workforce.

Two of Fay’s four eggs hatched this year, and the eyasses – the peregrine falcon chicks – that came out of their shells on a third-floor ledge of the Evanston Public Library were banded and named on June 6.

Since 2010, the nonprofit Evanston Rebuilding Warehouse has been tucked into a modest space in the 2100 block of Dempster Street, between a sprawling U-Haul Rental business and a storefront church.  The materials re-use warehouse is not only a 13,500-square-foot retail store of salvaged building materials, it is also the home base for an ambitious...