Kristin Lems

The Reba Early Learning Center playlot got a makeover late last summer and it's ready to go for spring weather. It’s spring at last and happy children and

Meet Tony Mateos, the junior who wrote a book featuring stories from Chicago StreetWise vendors, all profits go to StreetWise magazine.

The Sher-Main Grill at the corner of Sherman Avenue and Main Street is a no frills, cash only diner. If you don't carry cash, you may not have had the

“It’s hard to believe it’s been 15 years,” reflected Robert Reece, the first Black board chair of Evanston’s McGaw YMCA and one of the motivators behind

In a historic speech at Riverside Church in 1967, the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., identified materialism as one of the three evils. In the speech, he

The small but mighty CCC Newsette warmed hearts and heated up mailboxes across Evanston’s sizable Black community and beyond from 1971 to 1985.

I woke up a couple of weeks ago and said to myself “Dang, it’s time that the RoundTable interviewed my favorite author, Evanston resident Louise W. Evanstonian Louise Knight has written two books about Jane Addams, founder of Hull House.

The Unitarian Church of Evanston has recently adopted a Native land and Black labor acknowledgment that is read before each Sunday service. If you visit

Photos by Suzanne Seed are featured in the exhibit Wonder Window at the Noyes Cultural Arts Center. Like many of us, Suzanne Seed was confined to her