Throughout Evanston resident JoAnn Cromer’s childhood, her mother, Idell Williams, routinely invited her girlfriends over to chit-chat and play card games. The group eventually expanded, and Williams and her friends became the first members of the Foster Senior Club in 1957. Cromer followed her mother’s legacy, joining the club in 2011, and now serves as.
As Hector Hernandez entered the Fleetwood-Jourdain Community Center Saturday evening, he encountered a pancake dinner, games, face painting and an airbrush tattoo station. Hernandez and his family were among almost 200 people who attended Books & Breakfast’s 10 Year Celebration. The program, housed in eight Evanston/Skokie School District 65 schools, pairs volunteer tutors with students.
Evanston and Skokie residents voiced their concerns on housing affordability Saturday at Homing in on Housing, a housing forum hosted by Community Alliance for Better Government and Skokie Neighbors for Housing Justice. Held at the Fleetwood-Jourdain Community Center, the event brought together speakers to share about their housing struggles and successes and invited attendees to.
Evanston Residents Have Until May 13 To Vacate Unsafe Apartments - Evanston, IL - An affordable housing nonprofit that owns the buildings let them decay so much they became too dangerous for occupancy, city officials said.
Evanston resident William Carter moved to the 2014 Wesley Ave. apartment building in the 5th Ward three and a half years ago. There, he found a “self-made” community of tenants who look out for each other, he said. “If one of the tenants who has a hard time going up and down stairs has groceries.