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293 <div class="fw-page-builder-content"><section class="fw-main-row " style="" > 294 295 296 <div class="fw-container"> 297 <div class="inside-container " style=""> 298 <div class="fw-row"> 299 <div class="fw-col-xs-12"> 300 301<div class="top-padding" style="padding-top: 60px;"> 302 <h2 class="hide">Top Padding</h2> 303</div> 304</div> 305</div> 306 307<div class="fw-row"> 308 <div class="fw-col-xs-12"> 309 310<div class="seline-default-heading"> 311 312 313 <h2 style="" class="subtitle text-center">About the Heritage Sites Program</h2> 314 315 316 317 <h3 style="" class="describe-more text-center">Celebrating the vibrancy of Evanston</h3> 318 319 320</div><!-- .seline-default-heading --> 321</div> 322</div> 323 324<div class="fw-row"> 325 <div class="fw-col-xs-12"> 326 327<div class="bottom-margin" style="margin-bottom: 30px;"> 328 <h2 class="hide">Bottom Margin</h2> 329</div></div> 330</div> 331 332<div class="fw-row"> 333 <div class="fw-col-xs-12 fw-col-sm-6"> 334 335<div class="top-padding" style="padding-top: 14px;"> 336 <h2 class="hide">Top Padding</h2> 337</div> 338 339 340 <img decoding="async" class="wow fadeInLeft " src="//evanstonheritagesites.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/marker-image-scaled.jpg" style="padding-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; border-width: 1px; border-style: solid; border-color: #f5f5f5; " data-wow-duration=.5s alt="The African American Heritage"> 341 342 343 344 345 346</div> 347<div class="fw-col-xs-12 fw-col-sm-6"> 348 <div style="margin-top: 16px; font-size: 120%; line-height: 200%;"><p style="margin-bottom: 22px;">Passed by consent agenda, the Evanston City Council Resolution 54-R-20 on June 22, 2020, establishing the African American Heritage Sites program facilitated through Shorefront. The resolution previously passed the City of Evanstonâs Planning and Development committee on the same date, the Evanston Preservation Commission on June 9, 2020, and at the regular Shorefront Board meeting on June 5, 2020. The resolution recognized the first eight sites selected by Shorefront to begin the program.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 22px;">Shorefront led in developing the Heritage Sites program, guided by and honoring previous work completed in the late 1990s by members of PITCH, who produced a comprehensive surveyed, primarily in Evanstonâs fifth ward, along with a published report in support of a new concept âheritage districtâ recognizing a specific area guided by cultural history over architecture.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 22px;">Through an online and downloadable application form, future sites can be nominated by community members on an annual basis. Final determination is made by a rotating ad-hoc committee made up of community members and facilitated through Shorefront.</p></div><div style="margin-top: 16px; font-size: 100%; line-height: 180%;"><p style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><strong>This project owes a special Thank You to the following:</strong></p><p style="margin-bottom: 24px;">Former Alderman Robin Rue Simmons during her tenure to see this project through, the Evanston Preservation Commission for their guidance and support, Mary McWiliams and Anne O. Earle for their survey work under the auspices of PITCH, and the ad-hoc committee consisting of Constance Brasher, Carlis Sutton, Ben Blount (who also designed the Heritage Sites logo) and Shorefront founder Dino Robinson for the development of the application and guidelines process, and finally, Tisha Littlejohn of TLJ Creative Marketing for the web design.</p></div> 349<div class="top-padding" style="padding-top: 2px;"> 350 <h2 class="hide">Top Padding</h2> 351</div> 352<a href="http://evanstonheritagesites.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Resolution_54R20_AfricanAmericanHerita.pdf" target="_self" class="fw-btn fw-btn-1 fw-btn-blue"> 353 <span>Download Resolution (pdf)</span> 354</a> 355<div class="top-padding" style="padding-top: 10px;"> 356 <h2 class="hide">Top Padding</h2> 357</div> 358 359<div class="bottom-padding" style="padding-bottom: 4px;"> 360 <h2 class="hide">Bottom Padding</h2> 361</div> 362<a href="http://evanstonheritagesites.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/about%20video.mp4" target="_blank" class="fw-btn fw-btn-1 "> 363 <span>Video Presentation</span> 364</a> 365<div class="bottom-padding" style="padding-bottom: 20px;"> 366 <h2 class="hide">Bottom Padding</h2> 367</div> 368</div> 369</div> 370 371 </div> 372 </div> 373</section> 374<section class="fw-main-row " style="" > 375 376 377 <div class="fw-container"> 378 <div class="inside-container " style=""> 379 <div class="fw-row"> 380 <div class="fw-col-xs-12"> 381 <div class="video-wrapper shortcode-container"> 382 </div> 383</div> 384</div> 385 386 </div> 387 </div> 388</section> 389</div> 390 </div><!-- /.template-content --> 391 392 </div><!-- #post-## --> 393 </div><!-- /.row --> 394 395<a href="#" id="top" class="top"><i class="icon icon-up-open-big"></i></a> 396
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