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‘A renaissance:' Golf Mill Mall to see massive, $450M redevelopment with luxury apartments, stores and more
Golf Mill Town Center Mall, in Niles, is the latest suburban Chicago mall to ramp up major redevelopment efforts. Earlier this week, the village held public open houses and unveiled renderings of what the project is expected to look like, which includes completely rebuilt stores, restaurants, luxury apartments --- and even a new water mill.
Saturday parade, fest to celebrate Juneteenth
The City of Evanston and Evanston Present and Future, an organization committed to educating and empowering Black residents, is commemorating its Fifth Annual Juneteenth Parade and Celebrations from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. Juneteenth, also known as Juneteenth National Independence Day, is a federal holiday celebrated every year on...
Illinois Square and Round Dance Convention returns to Rosemont
For the first time since the pandemic, a gathering of square dance enthusiasts will return to Rosemont for the Illinois Square and Round Dance Convention. The convention will take place at the Sheraton Suites Chicago O’Hare on July 19 – 20.
Reparations have become the latest target for conservative activists. Advocates say they are prepared to fight back.
A conservative group’s lawsuit against a reparations program in Evanston, Illinois, that provides some Black residents with cash payments and housing assistance, has left advocates for reparations worried this could be the first of many attacks on their efforts to redress the harms of slavery, segregation and systemic racism in the United States.
Panel to recommend sizable pay raises for city’s elected officials
The city’s Compensation Committee reached broad agreement Wednesday on recommending a pay raise of more than 25% for each of the city’s elected officials next term, and it plans to nail down final details by the end of the month. The five-person panel has worked since March to...
Guest essay: Mulford’s Ditch, the Big Ditch and the North Shore Channel
By Richard Lanyon, former executive director of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago. It’s no big deal. Only a curious few will care. But the North Shore Channel didn’t follow the route of the Big Ditch north of Oakton Street. A few authors, this one included, believed it did. An article in the Evanston RoundTable on Mother’s Day aroused my curiosity about Mulford’s Ditch and crossing the Rubicon. Seeking answers, the Big Ditch showed up, surprisingly in a different location, but for good reasons.
Week in review: Your Sunday digest of the news
Newsletter images missing? Read this newsletter on the web instead. Good Sunday morning and happy Father’s Day, Evanston. Above, Evanston Township High School students march in Saturday’s Juneteenth Parade, which ended with a festival in Ingraham Park. View more parade and fest photos from Joerg Metzner and other photographers, and read coverage from the RoundTable’s Andrew Katz.
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