Evanston Beacon

02/15/2026

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11/05/2025

https://evanstonroundtable.com/2025/11/04/evanston-federal-agents-use-force-lawsuit/

Lawsuit against Chicago-area immigration operations alleges agents used excessive force in Evanston, in violation of court restraining order.

11/05/2025

Keep filming and posting real Live ICE activity, and it will get picked up nationally.

Rachel Maddow salutes the bravery and resourcefulness of people of Evanston, Illinois, who have not only activated to help protect their neighbors against the abuses of Donald Trump's ICE agents, but have rallied to collect food to help struggling neighbors as Trump's Republicans try leverage food a...

07/12/2022

If your water is not running clear, at first, simply run the faucets on cold for a few minutes.

The Evanston Fire Department has begun flushing fire hydrants throughout the city and will continue through October. Each fire hydrant takes about one hour to flush. Once the hydrants in your area have completed their flushing, please run the faucet on cold for a few minutes until the water turns clear.

Update: Due to the inconsistency of the fire department’s schedule based on calls that come in last minute, an accurate schedule cannot be provided. If you notice your water running brown, please make sure to run your water for 3-5 minutes until it runs clear.

06/18/2022

Greenwood beach closed, indefinitely.

Out of an over abundance of caution and to ensure proper coverage on our more heavily populated beaches, the City has closed Greenwood Street Beach to swimming until further notice.

05/27/2022

TODAY: Friday, May 27th, from 5-8pm meet Artists Book House founder and Board President Audrey Niffenegger, and Evanston Made founder and Executive Director Lisa Degliantoni, at the 1100 Florence gallery.

At 6 pm, featured artist Jamie Lou Thome will host an discussion to generally get to know more in depth what these two non-profits do.

Limited to 35 people, tickets to this special event will be snatched up quickly, so RSVP as soon as possible. Suggested donation $25 at the door, and masks are encouraged.

Memorial Day Monday, Evanston Made at 1100 Florence will have all kinds of art supplies out to make and take your own creations (12-5 pm, all ages).

BUY MORE ART! At the current “everything must go!” exhibition at 1100 Florence, folks can purchase artwork removing it immediately off of the walls, revealing a poetic installation that will change as the weekend moves forward (and people buy the art). Proceeds from all sales benefit ABH and EM.

If you can't make it, but still would like to donate, please click on the links below:

https://artistsbookhouse.org/donate

https://evanstonmade.org/donate/

03/18/2022

This week the Evanston/Skokie School District 65 board voted unanimously to return a school to the 5th ward.

Full story found here:
https://dailynorthwestern.com/2022/03/15/city/community-members-pack-historic-district-65-school-board-meeting-to-establish-5th-ward-school/

Visit Stem-School Evanston to learn more. https://stemschoolevanston.net/

01/11/2022

Northwestern is being sued for alleged antitrust violations in collusion with 15 other U.S. universities to illegally reduce student financial aid. The universities allegedly engaged in price-fixing designed to reduce or eliminate financial aid and artificially inflate the net price of attendance fo...

11/20/2021

Livability included Evanston on its list of the "Top 100 Best Places to Live In America!" Evanston is #28 on the list, and the top city in Illinois.

Located along the shores of Lake Michigan north of Chicago, Evanston, IL is a vibrant college town with a great downtown, beautiful green spaces and

10/12/2021

Chancellor Rebecca Blank will leave the University of Wisconsin–Madison at the end of the 2021-22 academic year to assume the presidency of Northwestern University.

Chancellor Rebecca Blank will leave the University of Wisconsin-Madison at the end of the 2021-22 academic year to assume the presidency of Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill.