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Hip Evanston

August 25, 2014
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By Lori Osborne. Lori is the Director of Archives & Outreach at the Evanston History Center. You may have seen the headline in the past month or so in Crain’s Chicago Business – When Did Evanston Get Hip? The article highlighted Evanston’s new “foodie” culture where suddenly you can get farm fresh produce, fresh baked bread…

New portrait on display at the Dawes House

July 12, 2014
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Erin FH Hughes is the Curator of Collections. She spends a lot of her time making sure the collection is properly cared for while using artifacts to educate the public. During the dreary winter months we received an e-mail from the Clearing House Association, L.L.C. asking if the EHC would be interested in a portrait of…

Every Nook and Cranny: Engineering a Partnership of 19th and 21st Century Technologies

June 6, 2014
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Kris Hartzell is the Director of Facilities and Visitor Services, as well as our resident architectural historian. Many Evanstonians who passed by the Evanston History Center during the past year noticed an increased level of activity surrounding the Dawes House, from fencing and scaffolding to trucks and heavy digging equipment. The concern expressed by the…

National Collaborative for Women’s History Sites

April 7, 2014
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Lori Osborne is the Archivist at the Evanston History Center and Director of the Evanston Women’s History Project. This post was originally written on the Evanston Women’s History Project website . The Evanston Women’s History Project, located in the Evanston History Center, is pleased to announce a new partnership with the National Collaborative for Women’s History…

Our new heating (and cooling) system is live!

February 11, 2014
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Eden Juron Pearlman is the Executive Director of the Evanston History Center. In her spare time she traverses small mountains of snow on her walk to work, shovels snow and drives her kids to school because it is too cold to walk. Isn’t this just the craziest winter? I have lived in the Chicago area…

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