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Good Tuesday morning, Evanston.
On Monday afternoon, student organizers and Northwestern reached an agreement to dismantle the Gaza solidarity encampment, and demonstrators began taking down the tents in Deering Meadow. (Photo by Richard Cahan.)
University leaders wrote that students, faculty and administrators worked together “to help ensure that the violence and escalation we have seen elsewhere does not happen here at Northwestern.” (Photo by Sofia Sorochinskaia.)
The agreement falls short of protesters’ original demands that the university divest from Israel, but NU will reestablish an Advisory Committee on Investment Responsibility. The university also will fund two visiting Palestinian professors and five Palestinian undergrads, create a Middle East North African/Muslim community house and take other steps. In turn, protesters agreed to remove all but one aid tent; stop using loudspeakers; limit participants to NU students, faculty and staff; and end the demonstration by June 1.
City Engineer Lara Biggs on Monday briefed the City Council on a Noyes Cultural Arts Center study that recommends improvements and updates to the former school at 927 Noyes St. Several council members expressed their support for the building and its role in the community, but the $22.8 million project price tag gave some pause. Council Member Jonathan Nieuwsma (4th Ward) asked whether the center “could get by for another year or two with Band-Aids.”
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Delta Discount owners Sima (above left) and Aswin Patel fear for the future of their longtime Main Street convenience store. “The last three or five years, we have been suffering,” Aswin Patel said. Now the city has banned the sale of flavored tobacco products, which Patel estimates accounted for 15% of his business.
Evanston resident Mike Moyer has dedicated 30 hours a week in the last nine months to fixing over 150 bikes, mostly right from his garage. He donates these refurbished bikes to community members in need, and said most go to young adults that need transportation to work.
After a 2021 tornado devastated Mayfield, Kentucky, Evanstonian John Herron collected more than 200 works from friends and fellow artists to donate to the Mayfield community. The watercolorist and teacher also created a Tornado Series of paintings, featured at the Graves County Public Library in Mayfield.
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Letter to the editor: Dan MacAvoy calls new ETHS cellphone restrictions “a positive step to restore school as a place of focused learning, safety and exploration without intrusion from the outside world, addictive apps and social media.”
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Illinois, Oregon, DC attorneys general visit ETHS to discuss impact of social media on students. Attorneys General Ellen Rosenblum of Oregon, Brian Schwalb of Washington, D.C. and Kwame Raoul of Illinois visited Evanston Township High School for a discussion on the influence of social media on mental health and wellbeing.
Meals on Wheels gala on May 3 aims to celebrate volunteers. The gala will be held on Friday at Double Clutch Brewery and will celebrate the nearly 800 volunteers who work to coordinate, pack and deliver the meals.
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Gary Eckstein photographed the third annual Traditional Spring Pow Wow at Northwestern University, which drew a crowd of more than 1,000 people. Send us your photos for a chance to be included in this newsletter.
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Confirmed as Evanston party leader, Biss still quiet on reelection. Mayor Daniel Biss has amassed a $128,000 campaign fund but has yet to declare whether he’ll run for reelection.
See inside one of Evanston’s most historic estates, now listed for $2.85 million. The main house at 1233 Crain St. has nine bedrooms, five full bathrooms and two half-bathrooms. The 1.04-acre property also features a three-car garage and a coach house.
CTA, Metra and Pace could be merged into one transit agency under bill proposed in Springfield. The legislation would provide $1.5 billion for public transit and create a single agency to oversee them all.
Whoops! Rare crane rescued in Wilmette, returned to Wisconsin. Residents spotted the lost whooping crane in a suburban yard. The bird was captured and returned to the Horicon National Wildlife Refuge in Mayville, Wisconsin.
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