The Latest Breaking News from Evanston

A staff member at Nichols Middle School found the messages in a bathroom. It is the second time in recent weeks that racist messages have been found on school grounds in the district.

Host and designer Alison Victoria helps a couple expecting their first child build their Evanston home from the ground up.

The high school is reviewing its graduation guidelines after Nimkii Curley was told he couldn’t walk across the stage with sacred Indigenous adornments.

“We need transparency now,” Tyrone Muhammad, executive director of Ex-Cons for Community and Social Change, said during a news conference Monday. “ ... How can children learn in an environment where they feel like their lives are in danger?”

The surfer was seen by a firefighter going underwater but not resurfacing, according to a statement from the Lake Michigan Sector of the United States Coast Guard.

The Evanston-based service organizations, whose 37,000 chapters worldwide include Rotaries in both Ukraine and Russia, is uniquely situated to help in the crisis.

Karen Aphour, 30, was found with several stab wounds Saturday evening in a home on Callan Avenue, authorities said.

CHICAGO — For more than two years, whenever I’ve driven past the Cinemark 18 in Evanston, Illinois, arguably the go-to multiplex for the Far North Side, I have wondered what it looks like inside right now. How quiet it must be. Is the concession stand sticky? Are the seats dusty?…

Willie Wilson have away about $1 million worth of gas Thursday through nearly 50 stations in Chicago and suburbs.

Friends of Elise Malary gathered for a vigil in Andersonville to honor her and call for better protections for Black trans women.

CHICAGO — Family and friends of Elise Malary, 31, sought answers on the Evanston activist’s whereabouts when she stopped responding to them on March 9.