A small crowd of community members, city staff and cafe employees gathered for a ribbon cutting ceremony on Tuesday afternoon outside Windfree Solar’s new cafe at 517 Dempster St., just a couple doors down from the Dempster and Chicago Avenue intersection. Mayor Daniel Biss, Windfree Solar CEO Eric Heineman and Millenium Solar Electric Training CEO […] Windfree Solar opens cafe on Dempster is from Evanston RoundTable, Evanston's most trusted source for unbiased, in-depth journalism.| Evanston RoundTable
U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Evanston), a leading voice among Capitol Hill progressives since the late 1990s, announced Monday she will not seek a 15th term as representative for Illinois’ 9th District, drawing the curtain on a congressional tenure that has spanned over a quarter century. The announcement came at the tail end of her annual...| The Daily Northwestern