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1 week ago | 
evanstonroundtable.com | Margo Milanowski |Richard Cahan |Duncan Agnew
A little more than two weeks after Pope Francis died, the College of Cardinals on Thursday in Vatican City announced their selection of the first American pope: Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, who was born in Chicago in 1955. Prevost took the name Pope Leo XIV, the first to choose Leo since Leo XIII, an Italian pope who died in 1903. Leo XIII was known for being outspoken in support of working people’s right to a living wage.
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1 month ago | 
evanstonroundtable.com | Alex Harrison |Margo Milanowski |Nadia Hernandez
Daniel Biss has declared victory in his campaign for a second term as mayor Tuesday after challenger Jeff Boarini called him to concede the race. With all precincts reporting as of 10 p.m., Tuesday, Biss had 10,350 votes representing over 62% of the vote share against Boarini’s 6,321 (38%). These are unofficial results, and will change as remaining mail-in ballots are counted over the next two weeks.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
evanstonroundtable.com | Margo Milanowski
The number of students taking and passing college credit courses rose during the 2023-2024 school year, according to the post-high school report presented by ETHS staff at the Monday District 202 Board of Education meeting. However, the percentages of students who actually enrolled in college from ETHS dropped for the second year in a row, and only around half of those who enrolled graduated in six years or less, according to the report.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
evanstonroundtable.com | Margo Milanowski
Evanston Township High School financial staff are initiating the process to issue $15 million in bonds this year, a plan that would help the district address violations cited on the school’s health life safety survey from 2023. The total cost of cited violations is more than $60 million, and the $15 million would go toward addressing HVAC deficiencies in the school’s gym wing.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
evanstonroundtable.com | Margo Milanowski
In just two short weeks, there has been no shortage of local business news for the new year. Affordable grocery chain Aldi is considering a move that comes with parking complications, two new businesses plan to open at the Aux in the spring, and another few unique stores have closed their doors. Check out all the business changes the RoundTable has spotted these last few weeks.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
evanstonroundtable.com | Margo Milanowski
The Evanston Township High School Board of Education on Monday voted unanimously to approve a $7 million gift from Leonard Schaeffer, the founding chairman and CEO of WellPoint Insurance (now Elevance Health), to the ETHS Foundation. The money will go toward remodeling the school’s auditorium. The upgraded auditorium, contingent on payout of the gift, will be named the Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for the Performing Arts.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
evanstonroundtable.com | Margo Milanowski
Evanston/Skokie School District 65 announced Friday morning that it, along with 18,000 other districts nationwide, was hit by a data breach of the education tech company PowerSchool, a platform that stores student demographic and academic information. PowerSchool notified District 65 of the breach on Tuesday, Jan. 7, according to a Friday statement sent to families from Assistant Superintendent of Performance Management and Accountability Stacy Beardsley.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
evanstonroundtable.com | Margo Milanowski
City staff will introduce a draft Healthy Buildings Ordinance to the City Council at its next meeting Monday, Jan. 13, with the council voting to approve the ordinance at a later date. If it passes, Evanston will be the first city in Illinois to adopt such a measure, according to city officials. The ordinance would require buildings of at least 20,000 square feet to eliminate on-site greenhouse gas emissions and run entirely on renewable energy by 2050.
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Jan 5, 2025 | 
evanstonroundtable.com | Alex Harrison |Margo Milanowski
With the calendar’s turn to 2025, a number of new laws and changes have taken effect, both across Illinois from state legislation and in Evanston specifically from city ordinances. Locally, a slate of amendments to the city’s Residential Landlord Tenant Ordinance now apply, creating new tenant protections and strengthening others while also bringing the city into more alignment with Cook County’s own ordinance.
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Jan 3, 2025 | 
evanstonroundtable.com | Margo Milanowski
A fire broke out on the garden level of a three-story multi-family building at 620 Barton Ave. around 8:30 a.m. Monday, Dec. 30, according to the Evanston Fire Department. Residents safely left the building, with no injuries reported. The department announced in a press release that first responders arrived to smoke and fire coming from the lower level.
