On Monday morning, more than 115 Evanston Township High School staff members donning masks and gloves hand-delivered yard signs to every graduating senior. Celebratory yard signs have become ubiquitous over the past several years. The signs are typically used to raise funds, but this year the board members of the ETHS Boosters wanted to do […]
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Local Chef Feeds Families in Need
Chef Q. Ibraheem was working on her first James Beard dinner and planning for the Fleetwood-Jourdain Theatre’s Annual Brunch when Governor J.B. Pritzker announced the state’s stay-at-home order. Like so many people across the country and around the world, the nationally renowned chef, famous for her farm-to-table underground dinners, found herself out of work. It […]
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ETHS Edible Acre Celebrates 10 Years With Community Garden Walk
Friends, families and neighbors of Evanston Township High School are invited to a Community Garden Walk on Sept. 26 to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Edible Acre, a farm-to-school garden program that procures organic produce and provides learning experiences, as well as leadership and job opportunities, for ETHS students. The event, from 5:30 to […]
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Annual Farm to Fork Dinner Celebrates Food, Community and the Children
On the evening of July 19, the parking lot of the Family Focus building, 2010 Dewey Ave., will be transformed into a farm to table community dining experience. Approximately 100 guests will gather under fairy lights at communal tables overlooking the Foster Street Garden that sits on a narrow plot at the north end of […]
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EEA’s Evanston Garden Walk Celebrates 30 Years
Morgan Simmons walks along the winding brick path of his garden sharing tales of the plants as if each one is an old friend recently returned from a long trip. “Almost everything in this garden has a story,” he says. “This one traveled all the way from Pennsylvania. The Camellia over here is from my […]
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Robotics Team Advances to Tournament in Turkey
A group of Evanston seventh-graders will be traveling to Turkey at the end of this month to compete in the First Lego League Robotics World Invitational Tournament, where they will share their award-winning research project on how to solve dysbiosis in astronauts. Dysbiosis is a term used to describe a microbial imbalance in the gut. […]
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Building a Sustainable Community Begins with Fifth Ward Children
Located behind the Family Focus building, 2010 Dewey Ave., a long and narrow plot of overgrown grasses and weeds has been transformed into a thriving urban garden thanks to the collaboration between Family Focus and Evanston Food Exchange, a non-profit organization with a mission to reduce hunger and poverty in Evanston. The Foster Street Urban […]
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Addressing Food Insecurity and Ideas That Work
The Evanston Public Library has partnered with Meals at Home, a meal delivery service that supports the homebound, the elderly, the disabled and others unable to care for their nutritional needs, to present a series of events addressing the issue of food insecurity in Evanston. In the third installment of the four-part series, speakers highlighted […]
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Tea Time with the Ladies of Stone Terrace
Five historic Evanston women stopped by the Stone Terrace, the bed-and-breakfast at 1622 Forest Place, for tea and crumpets on April 22. The “Tour and Tea” event, hosted by innkeepers Tom and Sue Zipprich, was open to the public for a ticket price of $40 per person. Guests were treated to an hour-long presentation […]
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National Vegetarian Museum Temporarily Rooted at EPL
The National Vegetarian Museum’s traveling exhibit has been making its way around the Chicagoland area and has landed at the Evanston Public Library as part of the Local Art@EPL program. “What Does it Mean to be Vegetarian?” will be on display through April 2. The exhibit consists of three large panels each showcasing an aspect […]