Evanston RoundTable

2 days ago | evanstonroundtable.com | Hope Perry

About 75 community members gathered at meetings Tuesday and Wednesday to discuss the Evanston/Skokie School District 65 school closure criteria that were presented to the school board Monday night. Kingsley Elementary School hosted Tuesday night and the Dr. Jorge and Luz Maria Prieto Community Center hosted a session Wednesday morning. Each session was about 90 minutes long and was led by Assistant Superintendent Stacy Beardsley, who is also a D65 parent.

3 days ago | evanstonroundtable.com | Hope Perry

Evanston/Skokie District 65’s Structural Deficit Reduction Plan (SDRP) subcommittees (in programs, finance and facilities) revealed their preferred criteria — which heavily favored geography and equity — for assessing potential school closures at Monday night’s board meeting.

5 days ago | evanstonroundtable.com | Joerg Metzner

As temperatures hovered in the mid 90s on Sunday afternoon, everyone did their best to stay in the shade at the 35th annual Evanston Garden Walk, which featured seven private gardens of varying sizes and an urban farm. Six of the gardens and the farm are shown below. All proceeds from the Garden Walk go toward scholarships for summer camps at the Evanston Ecology Center, home of the Evanston Environmental Association. Click on any of the images below to see them enlarged.

6 days ago | evanstonroundtable.com | Joerg Metzner

The weather gods smiled upon the 2025 Evanston Summer Solstice Jam at the Arrington Lagoon on Friday, where the Chicago Full Moon Jam fired up the crowd around the lagoon. On this longest day of the year Climate Action Evanston and the city of Evanston brought its community an evening of fire performances and music. The event was free, but donations were suggested in support of Climate Action Evanston’s new Youth Climate Leadership Fund.

1 week ago | evanstonroundtable.com | Alex Harrison

A cyclist was injured Friday afternoon in a traffic crash with a car on Sheridan Road, according to the Evanston Police Department. The crash happened at 4:40 p.m. at the street’s intersection with Keeney Street and Sheridan Square. In a post on X (formerly Twitter), EPD wrote that the cyclist was “alert and conscious” when they were taken to an area hospital, and that the car’s driver remained on the scene.