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...bust is especially hard on the brash boomtowns that flourished in the early 1980s, when energy prices were peaking. Six years ago, Evanston, Wyo., a dusty town (pop. 1,250) on the Utah border, was dubbed "Oil City, U.S.A." because of its strategic location atop the Overthrust Belt, then a choice location for petroleum exploration. Oil-rig workers earned upwards of $1,000 a week. Recalls Jerry Cazin, 77, who has owned the Cazin & Houtz hardware store in Evanston for 51 years: "People thought they were going to be in clover all their lives." Today the area's wells have...
...Evanston police had a warrant out for Mabwa's arrest for three days until a jogger found his body floating on Lake Michigan near the Northwestern University grounds...
Barbara Foley, an assistant professor at the Evanston, Ill., school will be disciplined by an administrative committee for leading a protest against a Nicaraguan contra leader at the university last April...
...body of Eileen Mabwa, 40, was found in the couple's Evanston, Ill. home at about 6 p.m. on October 30 by a neighbor who did not wish to be identified. The neighbor said she was responding to a call from Mabwa, who told her he had killed his wife and left her in the basement...
...distance specialist, Simon headed her high school cross country team. She claimed a silver in the two miles and a bronze in the mile at the illinois State Championships and was awarded best senior athlete/scholar at her high school in Evanston...