A man was playing Pokémon Go with his 6-year-old daughter in an Evanston park Thursday evening when he was shot and killed, his family said, adding that the.
Left with 1,000 pounds of fresh produce from the Fleetwood-Jourdain Community Center gardens at the start of the pandemic, long-time gardener Jean Fies decided to distribute the leftovers to District 65 families picking up lunches. The experience made Fies realize the potential Evanston gardens have to combat food insecurity. She reached out to like-minded organizations.
When the pandemic started, Evanston Public Library’s Communications and Marketing Director Jenette Sturges found herself struggling to digitize the library’s large catalog of in-person resources with very little notice. Now, she said she and her colleagues at EPL are able to offer more programming than was previously possible. As COVID-19 restrictions gradually lift in Evanston.