A group of residents in 5th Ward Evanston are fighting plans for an affordable ... this by adopting a new comprehensive plan and zoning map that allows for more density. “It’s going to take ...

EVANSTON, IL — A groundbreaking ceremony was held Monday afternoon at Foster Field in Evanston to mark the start of construction on a long-awaited new 5th Ward neighborhood school. At a special ...

“I thought it was necessary to rethink the map so we preserve the black majority in the ward.” Under Newman’s proposal, the city’s 2nd and 5th Wards in west-central Evanston would see ...

Residents can expect Evanston’s ward map to look a little different next ... The 3rd Ward holds about 9,600 residents, while the 5th and 9th wards both have just under 8,000.

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 ...

Unlike in her neighborhood, the 5th Ward, with its aluminum ... Owners’ Loan Corporation issued a map for real estate agents that assigned grades to Evanston’s various neighborhoods ...

Evanston, then, took up the practice of marking areas with a large Black population in red ink on a map, according to the ... what would become known as the 5th Ward, segregating them from the ...

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 ...

Irene and Winfield Garnett could afford to build a home in north suburban Evanston, but discriminatory ... meant living in the city's segregated 5th Ward. They had no choice.

The Chicago suburb of Evanston has approved the first phase ... On Monday evening, 5th Ward Ald. Robin Rue Simmons approved a measure to create a $400,000 housing grant program that will award ...