Evanston, IL
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More than 2,400 nurses at Endeavor Health's Evanston, Skokie, Highland Park and Glenbrook hospitals filed NLRB paperwork to hold a union election with Teamsters Local 743, alleging retaliatory firings and intimidation by hospital management.
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Endeavor Health, headquartered in Evanston, announced plans to merge with Rush University System for Health in a deal that would create one of Illinois's largest health systems, drop the Endeavor brand and commit $1 billion from Endeavor's endowment to community health, research and care.
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Space to Place, a city-funded retail incubator at 1712 Sherman Ave. in Bookman's Alley, holds its public opening weekend Oct. 3-4 with 13 local small businesses selling goods through December in a shared downtown storefront backed by $100,000 in city funds.
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Evanston's unemployment rate rose to 5.4% in August, erasing a brief July dip and matching the two-year high set in June, even as Illinois' statewide rate continued to fall.
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Planters outside Patisserie Coralie in downtown Evanston were vandalized over the weekend, prompting the shop to say on Facebook that doing business downtown feels "increasingly like a liability," less than three weeks after smash-and-grab burglaries hit three nearby businesses.
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The Addled Bunny, a new gastropub owned by Fifth Ward resident Jeremy Adler, opened Aug. 19 at 1010 Church St. in downtown Evanston, bringing cocktails, New American cuisine and about 30 jobs to a storefront vacant for six years.
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TIME magazine ranked Northwestern University's The Garage as the nation's No. 1 university incubator and No. 5 overall on its inaugural America's Best Incubators & Accelerators list, recognizing the Evanston program's 1,500-plus startups, $1.6 billion raised and equity-free model.
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A federal judge denied Northwestern University's motion to dismiss a class action lawsuit alleging the school conspired with 31 other elite universities to inflate tuition through early decision admissions, allowing the case to move to discovery.
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Evanston landlord Quadrel Realty Group is challenging $185,500 in city fines for failing to provide required affordable units at its 91-unit Hampton Parkway building, testing the city's ability to enforce its Inclusionary Housing Ordinance.
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NorthShore University Health System agreed to pay $105,000 to settle a federal finding that a high-risk patient waited more than nine hours in the Evanston Hospital ER without reassessment before suffering cardiac arrest in February 2025.
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Endeavor Health NorthShore Hospitals, anchored by the Ridge Avenue campus in Evanston, tied for fourth in Illinois and fourth in the Chicagoland region in the 2026-2027 U.S. News & World Report Best Hospitals rankings, earning national recognition in three specialties.
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Guitar Works, the 47-year-old music shop at 709 Main St. in Evanston, will permanently close Sept. 1 after owner Terry Straker cited post-COVID unprofitability, rising property taxes, and import tariffs.