Jeff Hirsh
Reporter at Evanston Now
I carry the world's emotional and intellectual baggage. 2nd bag fee, 25 bucks. Just like the airlines. Reporter, WKRC-TV
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6 days ago |
evanstonnow.com | Jeff Hirsh
When Dana and Toni Dogterom’s was destroyed by fire in January, daughter Alexa Caldicott said everything her parents had, except for a few pieces of memorabilia, was destroyed. “The house they lived in for 39 years,” Caldicott said … “to have nothing …,” Caldicott added, her voice trailing off. But on Saturday afternoon, the 2300 block of Hartzell Avenue was filled with the sounds of children having fun, tossing water balloons, going down a slide and eating snacks.
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1 week ago |
evanstonnow.com | Jeff Hirsh
School District 65 expects to save $50,000 to $70,000 on furniture for the new Foster School by buying “classroom, cafeteria, library and specialty room” chairs, tables and desks immediately, rather than waiting until closer to the school’s August 2026 opening.
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1 week ago |
evanstonnow.com | Jeff Hirsh
If you do a 360 at the intersection of Dempster and Dodge, your eyes will take in a Burger King, a McDonald’s, a Starbucks, a Dunkin, a Subway, and you’ll circle back to what used to be a Turkish grocery store (Zeymart). The grocery didn’t last long, and its owner’s plans for a companion cafe never materialized. Now, as first reported by Evanston Now last month, a franchisee with Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen wants to buy the empty grocery building, and put in a restaurant.
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1 week ago |
evanstonnow.com | Jeff Hirsh
Out of “an abundance of caution,” City Manager Luke Stowe says an “independent, outside review” will be done of the June 5 shooting in the emergency room at Evanston Hospital. A security guard was wounded when, police say, a patient became agitated, grabbed a weapon from his backpack, and fired at least three times, hitting the guard.
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1 week ago |
evanstonnow.com | Jeff Hirsh
Melanie Quire looks directly out at you. Melanie’s self-portrait is one of 13 artworks from students at Roycemore School that are now on the windows of the former Affordable Portables furniture store on Davis Street at Maple Avenue. The idea, says Andy Vick, executive director of the Downtown Evanston marketing group, is to “make a really important corner downtown as attractive as possible” while the site is “in transition” to whatever/whenever something fills the spot.
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