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On June 29 the Evanston Fire Department held an open ceremony honoring Sanders Hicks, Evanston’s first black firefighter and Evanston’s first black fire chief. Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl, City Manager Wally Bobkiewicz, City Clerk Rodney Greene, Police Chief Richard Eddington, former Police Chief William Logan, Mr. Hicks’s friends and families, and more than 20 firefighters attended […]
