Shorefront to publish free coloring book featuring Black Evanstonians

The Evanston Arts Council recently granted $1,000 to the Shorefront Legacy Center to help pay artist fees for a 20-page coloring book. Titled Colorful Legacies: Evanston’s Local Black Historical Figures, the book will feature pictures of Black people who made a difference in Evanston’s history. Laurice Bell, the executive director at Shorefront who replaced founder Dino Robinson last February, applied for this funding through the city’s Special Project Grant Program, a rolling initiative that can award funds at any time of year. Colorful Legacies is intended to serve as a creative and educational outlet for children.…

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Library’s branches: Celebrating 150 years of EPL, Part 3

Editor’s note: This is the third installment of a series from Betsy Bird honoring the Evanston Public Library’s 150th anniversary. You can read Part 1 and Part 2 in the RoundTable as well. In 2015, when I first moved to Evanston Public Library from my previous job at New York Public Library, I found to my surprise that the Evanston Public Library had two branches of its own: the North Branch (located on Central…

The Bookmobile: Celebrating 150 Years of the Evanston Public Library, Part II

(CLICK HERE TO READ PART I OF THE SERIES: NOT JUST BOOKS) It was one of the first things I learned when I moved to Evanston, Illinois. Practically the moment my foot stepped inside the library I was presented with this fact: “Did you know that Evanston had the first intercity bookmobile in the nation?” Or, put another way, it was the first mobile unit in an urban setting. This is the kind of…

History Center digs into the business of expressing, storing and moving

Question from an Evanston RoundTable reader: Thank you for the great series of “Ask the Historians” articles in the Evanston RoundTable! I recently discovered it and have been delighted to finally learn about the background of Evanston’s history that still peek through like the Chandler and Maher building plaques that I had been passing by for the past 10-plus years. I am writing to inquire about a building that has similarly piqued my interest…

More Q&A at Reparations Committee meeting

Reparations Committee members took feedback and answered questions from community members for over 90 minutes at Thursday morning’s listening session. Residents attended in person at the Morton Civic Center and virtually via Zoom. The committee announced it has been in contact with Northwestern’s Buffett Institute for Global Affairs as part of a reparations project. The institute focuses on international affairs and how to solve global issues and gives scholarships and grants to international students.…

William ‘Bill’ Logan Jr. Way: Honorary street ceremony salutes one of Evanston’s finest

The portion of McDaniel Avenue between Nathaniel Place and Greenleaf Street was officially designated William ‘Bill’ Logan Jr. Way at a recognition ceremony on June 24. Community leaders, elected officials, colleagues, friends and family members gathered at 1 p.m. Saturday for the unveiling of the street sign honoring Bill Logan, a nationally recognized trailblazer with a lifelong commitment to service. The ceremony and celebration that followed were held just days after Logan’s 91st birthday,…

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