A few years ago, she discovered the source: the Church Street waste transfer station, a garbage dump in the 5th Ward ... The map will help outline where environmental disadvantages in Evanston ...

Children played outside on Foster Field, the site of Evanston’s new 5th ward school, as community members gathered before sunset indoors on April 13 to view architectural renderings at a public ...

Kenneth Wideman has lived in Evanston his entire life, in a neighborhood bordered by a canal and elevated railroad tracks called the 5th Ward. His parents moved there from South Carolina ...

Robinson also compared the redlining maps to an annotated map of Evanston that circulated online during the 2010s in which the historically Black 5th Ward was marked with “NO” in bold lettering.

Rue Simmons grew up just north of Chicago in Evanston’s 5th Ward, where banks refused to give mortgage loans to Black families until 1969. In Evanston, Black people were restricted to a certain ...