Illinois had a good year for tourism in 2025, with over 115 million visitors spending over $50 billion — breaking past ...

The vacant retail building at 1830 Dempster St., that's the proposed site of a Popeyes restaurant. Credit: Jeff Hirsh / Evanston Now Heartwood Center announced Thursday that it plans to use the ...

The National Weather Service has issued an extreme heat warning in effect until 7 p.m. Thursday. Dangerously hot conditions with heat index values of up to 105 degrees are expected in Evanston, ...

Evanston’s Finance and Budget Committee unanimously voted against recommending the city implement an early retirement incentive program or a voluntary separation program for city workers as a way to ...

Opening date for downtown’s first community fridge is still to be determined. The three other Evanston community fridges are CNE, at 1335 Dodge Ave.; Sunrise, at Reba Place Church, 620 Madison St., ...

Illinois hospitals stand to lose billions of dollars in revenue over the next several years due to changes in Medicaid rules brought on the One Big Beautiful Bill passed last year by Republicans in ...

While nurses at Prime Healthcare’s Saint Francis prepare to vote on whether to unionize, a hospital manager passed out fliers Tuesday telling nurses, “Don’t vote for false promises. Know the facts.” ...

Several residents, most from the 5th Ward, weighted in Tuesday night on potential housing options at two vacant city-owned lots near Emerson Street and Jackson Avenue. Consultants from Aggregate ...

The block party has been held annually for fifteen years, and is a joint effort of Northwestern University, School Districts 65 and 202 and the City of Evanston. Northwestern has a sizable imprint on ...

The Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office has identified the man found dead south of Lee Street Beach in Evanston Friday morning as 44-year-old James Blaylock.

On Monday, police received two reports of burglaries at local businesses in which several valuable power tools were stolen from work vans and trucks. The Evanston incidents are a local example of an ...

But the organization in charge of Metra, PACE, and the CTA is now the Northern Illinois Transit Authority (NITA), which came into existence today, Sept. 1. Ironically, NITA was created under similar ...