Under Evanston: Tracing the city’s indigenous past - Evanston RoundTable

Under Evanston: Tracing the city’s indigenous past - Evanston RoundTable

What’s under Evanston? This summer, the RoundTable hosted four budding journalists from Evanston Township High School: Ryder Bingaman, Hannah Cervantes, Anya Gill and Will Klearman. While writing about current events in Evanston, they wrote this series about past or unnoticed Evanston.  Before there was the Evanston of today — the gridded streets, the El train, the gothic towers of Northwestern and the crazy local politics — this land was a vita…