After running downtown Evanston restaurant Farmhouse for nearly 10 years, co-owners TJ Callahan and Ferdia Doherty decided to close the restaurant and start from scratch. They opened a new restaurant, Thomas & Dutch, in April. It’s in the same location on Church Street as Farmhouse, providing diners with “elevated and craveable comfort food,” according.
The Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity announced in March it will invest an additional $175 million in funding for the Back to Business grant program, which provides pandemic relief funding for businesses in the hardest-hit industries. B2B was first established in August 2021 by DCEO and originally leveraged $250 million in funding from.
The Evanston Land Use Commission answered questions regarding parking availability, traffic congestion and new green spaces for the proposed 5th Ward K-8 school at Wednesday’s public hearing meeting. The Evanston/Skokie School District 65 Board of Education voted unanimously last March to build a new school in the 5th Ward. It will be built next to.
Joshua Snedden, co-owner of Fox at the Fork Farm in Monee, Illinois, says there’s a lot of faults in Illinois’s local food infrastructure. Snedden says without a food processing facility nearby to turn his harvested vegetables into canned goods for the slow season, tomatoes that could be sold at grocery stores end up in compost.