When Courtney Pierre Joseph, associate professor of history and African American studies at Lake Forest College, was researching the history of Haitians in Chicago for her dissertation, she found little research or archived documents on the topic. However, Joseph quickly learned that Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable — the first permanent non-Indigenous settler of what later.
Bibli, the namesake of a baby peregrine falcon, a chick hatched on an encased ledge at the Evanston Public Library, was banded on June 9 by ornithologists and scientists with the Field Museum’s Chicago Peregrine Program.
The authors of “Encountering Evanston History” — a book featuring 75 stories of Evanston locations, residents and experiences— gathered at Evanston Public Library on Wednesday evening for a panel to discuss the text’s historical highlights. The book, which 18 authors contributed to, compiles yearslong reporting from three local historians and former Evanston RoundTable journalists. In.
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