John Kim’s newest Evanston business brings a local connection that many Evanston residents should recognize. On June 12, Mr. Kim along with Chicago chef and Evanston native Brian Huston, opened Boltwood, a restaurant that serves farm-to-table, eclectic American cuisine. Named for Henry Boltwood, the first principal of Evanston Township High School, the restaurant opened in […]

North Shore Retirement Hotel has been an Evanston fixture since the 1920s, but the iconic building on the corner of Davis Street and Chicago Avenue recently opened with a new name, The Merion, after a massive renovation. Jeff Michael, along with father Daniel, bought the building in the fall of 2012.  The Michaels, who own […]

The Evanston Public Library’s main branch continued its tradition of hosting representatives from the Field Museum to band the peregrine falcons hatched there. A pair of Peregrine Falcons has nested at Evanston Public Library for the past 11 years. For the last nine, Nona, the mother, and Squawker, the father, have nested together. On June […]

Twenty-six eighth-grade students from Evanston’s Nichols Middle School visited Presence Saint Francis Hospital on May 28. The trip was a reward for raising money for the hospital’s Patient-and-Family-Centered Care Initiatives as part of the Nichols Has Heart Walk-a-thon, a yearly event in memory of Nichols teacher Sandy McDermott, who died of a heart attack in […]