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Evanston shoppers can park free for up to two hours daily starting Nov. 25 using the Park Evanston app, and a new Illinois law taking effect Jan. 1, 2027, sets age minimums and licensing tiers for e-bikes, e-scooters and e-motos.
Local Government
Evanston police charged two men after a school employee reported seeing someone with what appeared to be a gun near Park School on Nov. 4. One suspect faces weapons charges; the other faces a felony sex-offender registration charge.
Local Government
Harmeet Dhillon, the DOJ civil rights chief who led the federal challenge to Evanston's reparations program, resigned Thursday. The Flinn v. City of Evanston lawsuit remains active, with no indication the government plans to change course.
Sports
Top-seeded Northwestern takes on No. 5 Indiana in the Big Ten Tournament semifinal Friday in Columbus, Ohio, as the defending champion Wildcats look to bounce back from a regular-season-ending loss to Penn State.
Sports
The No. 5-seeded Wildkits take a 16-6 record and an eight-game winning streak into a 5 p.m. semifinal against defending state champion New Trier, which shut out ETHS twice during the regular season.
Community
Red Clay Dance Company's "Freedom Square: The Black Girlhood Altar," a dance-theater work honoring missing and murdered Black women and girls, opens its world premiere run Oct. 1–3 at Northwestern's Wirtz Center, with artistic director Vershawn Sanders-Ward citing Evanston's reparations program as one reason she chose the city.
Community
Evanston's fifth annual Recycling Truck Design Competition will award two winners instead of one, thanks to a new partnership with SWANCC and an EPA-funded regional recycling campaign. Student designs are due Oct. 16.
Community
Evanston Community Fridges opened its fifth and first downtown location on Sept. 22 at the Woman's Club of Evanston, bringing a free food pantry to the alleyway near the Evanston Public Library off Church Street.
Community
Evanston's Crisis Responder Team started operations Sept. 14, building on the CARE program that has handled more than 3,500 calls since 2024, with full deployment expected by Nov. 2.
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