Storefronts, employers, openings, closings and the economy of Evanston and the North Shore.
Census figures show 12.3 percent of Evanston’s 9,259 businesses were Black-owned in 2012 and 24 percent of its employer firms woman-owned in 2017. What they mean.
Alpha Phi was founded at Syracuse in 1872 and kept its executive office in Evanston for decades before selling the building in 2022 and moving to Denver.
The City of Evanston describes nine commercial districts, its retail plan covers eight and a promotion site says ten. Here is how each district compares.
Evanston Made, a membership nonprofit founded in 2014, runs a Maker’s Market, First Saturday events and member mixers for the city’s artists and makers.
The City of Evanston’s Evanston Thrives plan, adopted in 2023 with $3 million in federal relief funds, sets five areas of action for local business districts.
How the North Shore Line interurban ran between Chicago and Milwaukee through Evanston, why it shut in 1963 and what survives, including the Skokie Swift.
A look at Evanston’s largest employers in a 2015 list, led by Northwestern University, and how tax-exempt institutions shape the city’s property tax debates.
The Kellogg School of Management anchors Northwestern’s Evanston lakefront with the Global Hub, executive education and a $600 million building campaign.
Clayton Mark and Company made steel pipe, tubing and conduit in Evanston after 1900 and became the city’s largest employer, before the family built Marktown.
How Legacy.com, the obituary platform once based in Evanston, works with newspapers, earns money from paid death notices and runs a huge guestbook operation.
ZS Associates, the management consulting firm started by two Northwestern Kellogg academics in 1983, lists Evanston as its headquarters. Here is its story.
A look at shared office space in Evanston, from Creative Coworking on Davis Street to Regus at Orrington Plaza and the 2018 arrival of Industrious.