~ Initiatives + Partnerships ~

The people of Evanston have been historically marginalized both geographically and demographically. The neighborhood lives with the consequences of urban renewal in the 1970s, which destroyed the business district, numerous single family homes, split the neighborhood in two, and has led to decades of disinvestment. As an extremely underrepresented community, their history is in danger of being lost. It is by working with the Evanston Employment Resource Center (EERC) to establish the "Celebrating Evanston" initiative that we will begin to remove the systematic barriers to creating and maintaining a publicly accessible community archive in Evanston.