Evanston Community Foundation held its first in-person Public Service Challenge since before the COVID-19 pandemic at the Joseph E. Hill Early Childhood Center Saturday. Established in 2000, the Public Service Challenge seeks to help Evanston residents navigate the intricacies of running a city office or school board campaign through nonpartisan training, according to Senior Director.
Before the 1960s, when Northwestern did not allow Black students to live on campus, the Emerson Street YMCA provided them with beds. When Evanston Township High School did not permit Black students to use their pool, the YMCA offered them a place to swim. And when Black political scientist and civil rights activist Ralph Bunche.