More than 100 Evanston residents lined Ridge Avenue on Thursday morning for the YWCA Evanston/North Shore’s annual “Unite Against Racism” campaign. For 20 minutes, attendees waved signs with anti-racist and racial justice messages like “No Hate No Fear” and “Justice for All.” They chanted slogans like “Black lives matter” and “End racism” to passing drivers,.
Private schools, in some form, existed long before the concept of free public education in America. Students were often educated through church-sponsored programs, private tutoring, and boarding schools. Public schools on a large scale were proposed by Horace Mann in the 1830s. The concept gained momentum, and by 1870, nearly 80% of kids aged 5 […]
Construction of the Margarita Club's new clubhouse was completed in the fall of 1927. Before the club officially opened, the public was invited to a reception at the new building.
Evanston/Skokie School District 65 Board of Education member Donna Wang Su started working at Northwestern in 2006. So when her mentee through Evanston Scholars — a nonprofit supporting underserved Evanston students in the college application process — expressed interest in attending NU, Su asked if she had ever explored the campus. When her mentee said.