WENDI KROMASH

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The Animal Welfare Board convened Wednesday evening at the Evanston Animal Shelter. The group focused primarily on two topics. First, members discussed an ordinance (15-O-25) seeking to reduce the amount of time the animal shelter holds stray feral cats so the cats could return more quickly to the wild.

2 weeks ago | evanstonroundtable.com | WENDI KROMASH

Louise Susswell turned 101 on Friday, April 4. She lives at Dobson Plaza, 120 Dodge Ave., where her daughter, Delores Susswell Shelton, and friend Gerri Sizemore celebrated her birthday with a dozen yellow roses. A larger family party was planned for Saturday. Susswell was born 10 minutes after midnight on April 4, 1924, in Inverness, Mississippi. She was delivered at home by a licensed midwife. There she joined her parents and her older sister, Elise, age 4, and her brother, Melvin, age 2.

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The Illinois Association of Chiefs of Police (ILACP) selected Evanston Police Department Chief Schenita Stewart as the 2025 ILACP Police Chief of the Year. She’s the first woman to receive this honor. Stewart shifted the focus to others when asked to comment about her award. “I’m honored and humbled,” she said. “I’m very fortunate to have a great city manager, Luke Stowe. I think it’s easy to work in partnership with his vision and what his goals are for what we do.

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Leilani Garrett lives in southeast Evanston and retired from a career in technology sales. She also found time to write a novel, After The Burn, which was published in August 2024. Garrett grew up in a middle class Black neighborhood in Omaha, Nebraska. Her mother worked independently cleaning homes and her father worked at a meat packing plant in town. She knew from about the age of eight years old she was adopted. Her younger brother was also adopted.

2 weeks ago | evanstonroundtable.com | WENDI KROMASH

Henry Godinez is the Carlos Montezuma professor and chair of Theatre at Northwestern University, the Sabl Resident Director at Goodman Theatre and the curator of the biennial Latino Theatre Festival. He’s directing a re-imagined version of the musical Man of La Mancha with a new setting: a detention center on border of the U.S. and Mexico. The show opens April 25 at the Ethel M. Barber Theater, 30 Arts Circle Drive on Northwestern’s Evanston campus.