EVANSTON ROUNDTABLE
by Alex Harrison
September 25, 2023
Northlight Theatre’s return to Evanston will take a few more years, Executive Director Tim Evans told the RoundTable, as construction on the new theatre is expected to finish in the third quarter of 2026.
The new venue at 1012-16 Church St. has been in the works since 2019, when Northlight received more than $900,000 from the state government and City Council unanimously approved the planned development.
The project was delayed in 2020 when fundraising was paused at the start of the pandemic, but after the City Council gave the project $2 million in American Rescue Plan Act funds, Northlight purchased the project site in July 2021 and demolished the existing buildings in the summer of 2022.