Category: Art & Life

Cottonwoods are dioecious, meaning their flowers grow on separate male and female trees. Their tiny flowers hang from branches in long, thin clusters called catkins. In very early spring, usually […]

Medill School of Journalism students were mostly in high school when National Public Radio (NPR) correspondent Anne Garrels endured the “shock and awe” bombing of Iraq and wrote the memoir […]

Evanston Northwestern Healthcare Corporation (ENH) has entered into an agreement to acquire Rush North Shore Medical Center, a 265-bed hospital located at 9600 Gross Point Road in Skokie. ENH currently […]

Starting June 14, the tired, cracked asphalt of the parking lot at Church and Dodge will be home to one of the freshest places in town, as the West End […]

The six neighborhood groups near the Evanston Plaza shopping center at Dempster Street and Dodge Avenue won approval last week from the City’s Economic Development Committee to spend slightly more […]

No one knows whether Mathias Hoffmann liked turnips and radishes. They do know that at the beginning of the 20th Century, Mathias was supporting a family with those vegetables — […]

On April 13 the Jewish Reconstructionist Congregation (JRC) dedicated an environmentally friendly synagogue, constructed on the site of their old building, 303 Dodge Ave. The new building is expected to […]

A business called Simple Gourmet should be as straightforward as its food, gourmet-to-go dishes intended to be fresh but not fancied-up. Owner Debbie Karhanek likes her food pure, not fussy. […]

Father Robert Oldershaw, Assistant City Manager Judith Aiello, and publisher Mary Helt Gavin were recognized at the annual Chamber of Commerce meeting and gala on April 17 at the Woman’s […]

Interfaith Housing Center of the Northern Suburbs has been certified by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) as a Housing Counseling Agency, which places Interfaith on HUD’s […]