Evanston Wyoming: Boom—Bust—Politics, is a story about an old Union Pacific railroad tent city, once called “Hell on Wheels,” that eventually grew to become an amazing community in southwestern Wyoming, and about one man’s experience as a city official. Evanston survived and thrived through many boom and bust cycles by having a good strong base of loving, committed citizens.Told through the eyes of a city official who served Evanston as a three-term city council member and...

Shaz Bostwick's personal views and business ethics collide when Camilla Gibson walks into his office, seeking his help.The treatment her daughter needs is available in Chicago, but Camilla is almost out of time and has several issues working against her. Raised as an immigrant, Shaz knows the heartache of family separation firsthand.In a race against the clock and the authorities, he calls in favors but receives a disturbing offer. Let baby Ayanna slip thro...

The nation's first government-backed reparations initiative was green litthis week in Evanston, Illinois, a Chicago suburb where about 16 percent ofits 75,000 residents are Black. The city council has promised $10 millionover 10 years. John Yang discusses how the program could serve as a modelfor the rest of the country with Ron Daniels of the National AfricanAmerican Reparations Commission.

In the early 20th century, one of the most integral members of the criminal underworld was Arnold Rothstein, the archetype of the old school mobster. He was intelligent, charming, well-spoken, grotesquely wealthy, and a sharp dresser, often pictured with a patterned bowtie and a flat-top fedora snugly fit over his receding hairline. And yet, he was nothing like the stereotypical mobster; Arnold was not a drinker or smoker, and he was not one to be tempted by illicit substances. He was a no...

Evanston Wyoming: Boom—Bust—Politics, is a story about an old Union Pacific railroad tent city, once called “Hell on Wheels,” that eventually grew to become an amazing community in southwestern Wyoming, and about one man’s experience as a city official. Evanston survived and thrived through many boom and bust cycles by having a good strong base of loving, committed citizens.Told through the eyes of a city official who served Evanston as a three-term city council member and...

Evanston Wyoming: Boom—Bust—Politics, is a story about an old Union Pacific railroad tent city, once called “Hell on Wheels,” that eventually grew to become an amazing community in southwestern Wyoming, and about one man’s experience as a city official. Evanston survived and thrived through many boom and bust cycles by having a good strong base of loving, committed citizens.Told through the eyes of a city official who served Evanston as a three-term city council member and...

Evanston Wyoming: Boom—Bust—Politics, is a story about an old Union Pacific railroad tent city, once called “Hell on Wheels,” that eventually grew to become an amazing community in southwestern Wyoming, and about one man’s experience as a city official. Evanston survived and thrived through many boom and bust cycles by having a good strong base of loving, committed citizens.Told through the eyes of a city official who served Evanston as a three-term city council member and...

Some people think about how they would look if only they could choose their body. Most simply live with what they are born with. A few have cosmetic surgery. All kinds of procedures are available, even for men. What if there were a device that allowed someone to trade bodies picked from a catalog with thousands of choices, or if news of such a device spread through neighborhoods and whole cities?

Two plays that explore communities of outsiders who strive to help one another persevere in the face of despair.In this two-play volume, acclaimed playwright Will Arbery explores the dynamics within tight-knit communities of outsiders working together to persevere against despair, whether intimate or cosmic. From wildly different angles, Corsicana and Evanston Salt Costs Climbing both examine the shape-shifting specters of grief, the pull of desir...

At first glance, one is curiously drawn into its dramatic claim- "From the pen of a Pirate seeking living treasure".Once inside, it's clearly unique literature. "Looking for Love" is playful and sexy, creatively amusing, thoughtfully intriguing, deeply stimulating, and yet idealistically serious, all at the same time.An old Pirate's questionable habits, keen pobservations, dreams and desires, and his painful past are all laid bare upon the tropical white sand beach for all ...

You do not need to know Evanston.You need to recognize power.Unsafe Black Voice is not a memoir.It is not a grievance.It is a documented confrontation with how systems behave when challenged by someone they cannot control.Set inside Evanston, Illinois...a city nationally praised for progressive leadership and reparations...this book records what happens when questions stop being polite, when urgency refuses to ...

In the 1960s and 1970s, no actor personified cool, calm and collected like Steve McQueen, whose suave anti-hero protagonists made men jealous and women swoon. As actor Donald Logue puts it in The Tao of Steve, “Steve is the prototypical cool American male. He's the guy on his horse, the guy alone. He has his own code of honor, his own code of ethics, his own rules of living. He never, ever tries to impress the women, but he always gets the girl." And indeed, that was the case not only in m...