Photo by Caroline Zeng / Medill-Northwestern Journalism Institute As the marching band faded and the floats disappeared, a new sound took over: the steady hum of engines from the cleanup crew. Central ...

Banks’ sign onto her carriage-like parade vehicle before the 2025 Evanston Fourth of July parade. Photo by Stella Bleiweis / North by Northwestern A father beckoned to his two young children, both ...

A man hangs Grand Marshal Jill Wine-Banks’ sign onto her carriage-like parade vehicle before the 2025 Evanston Fourth of July parade. Photo by Stella Bleiweis / North by Northwestern A father beckoned ...

Gus Kohl arrived two hours early for Evanston’s Fourth of July parade. The 13-year-old set up his freezer and chair at a nearly empty Independence Park on Central Street, and he ...

Substitute teacher Gabriel Garcia sports gray “Mexicans Ain’t Going Anywhere” shirt at parade to protest ongoing discrimination and represent cultural heritage. Photo by Juliana Agudelo Ariza / North ...

Juliana Agudelo Ariza is a student in the summer 2025 Medill-Northwestern Journalism Institute.

Candidates campaigned for Illinois’ legislature and the United States House of Representatives ahead of the General Primary Election March 17, 2026. Evanston native Miracle Jenkins smiles at Fourth of ...

Evelyn Kraber is a student in the summer 2025 Medill-Northwestern Journalism Institute.

Gabriel Garcia, 59, a substitute teacher at Mary Lyon Elementary, grew up in a predominantly white South Side neighborhood. As a first-generation Mexican American, he learned to assimilate and adapt ...