• North Evanston Neighbors

    In the 1960s my father was an active member of North Evanston Neighbors (NEN), a group of residents encouraging open housing. We have a box of his papers from the group, letters and minutes, proposed ordinances. At the January meeting in 1964, a “Statement of Purpose, prepared by Dave Calhoun, was read and unanimously adopted”. There is so much of him in the words that it reads to me in his voice. The North Evanston Neighbors is an association actively concerned with overcoming the practice of housing discrimination in the 6th and 7th wards. Our members hold varying views of the problem. Some are acutely distressed that our community, in…