The Aux

10/25/2025

📣 Calling All Small Business Owners!

The AUX is proud to host a Small Business Saturday Vendor Fair — a day to celebrate, connect, and support local entrepreneurs right here in our community! 🙌🏾

🛍️ If you’re a small business owner, this is your chance to showcase your products, meet new customers, and join a community that believes in shopping small and celebrating local hustle.

📅 Date: Saturday, November 29, 2025
🕙 Time: 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM
📍 Location: 2223 Washington Street, Evanston, IL 60202
💰 Vendor Fee: $75 per table
🗓️ Registration Deadline: Saturday, November 22, 2025

✨ Space is limited — don’t wait! Vendors must register to be considered. (check comments)

📧 For more info, contact: operations@theauxevanston.com

📲 Do us a favor — share this post with any small business owners you know! Let’s make this Small Business Saturday one to remember. 💙

10/23/2025

🌟 We’re Grateful! 🌟

A huge thank you to Fox 32 Chicago's Good Day Chicago for featuring The AUX yesterday morning! 🙌🏾

We’re beyond proud to share the heart of our community and the amazing businesses that make The AUX what it is.

Special shoutout to Tosha Wilson-Jones and Neticia Blunt-Waldron for representing and highlighting the incredible work happening under our roof. 💛

✨ Proudly home to:
🧺 The Laundry Cafe-Evanston
🍗 Chicky's Kitchen Creations
💆🏾‍♀️ The Aux Wellness Collective
🌿 Better Me 2 Wellness
🎙️ Studio 8 Podcast
📚 Zora’s Place Bookstore
👑 Embrace Your Crown Beauty Bar
🤝 Together + Through, PLLCh
🌸 Whole Woman Fitness
🪶 Sokana Collective

…and so many more changemakers and community builders!

📍We’re honored to keep shining a light on Black entrepreneurship, wellness, and creativity right here in Evanston.

10/23/2025

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10/18/2025

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🌞 The AUX will be on Good Day Chicago! 🌆

Big news, AUX Family — FOX 32 will be visiting The Aux and featuring us on Good Day Chicago on Wednesday, October 22nd between 7:30AM–10:00AM! 🎥✨

Come out and show your support for the amazing small businesses that make up our AUX community 🙌

- Stop by, grab a coffee, or wach a load at The Laundry Cafe-Evanston

- Check out The Aux Wellness Collective where you can do many things like
break a sweat with a free fitness class at Whole Woman Fitness
grab a book from Zora’s Place
or speak with a mental health professional Together + Through, PLLC

- Maybe you'll want to enjoy a rejuvenating IV hydration at Better Me 2 Wellness

- Or learn about the direct services and Doula training academy with Sokana Collective

- You can see the explore the possibilities of podcasting Studio 8

- Speak with a representative of Wintrust about the many offerings and banking services available

**takes a breath**

- Then there's Sunshine Enterprises, the small business academy beaking down barriers to entrepreneurship

- How about you give yourself to the royal treatment at Embrace Your Crown Beauty Bar

- Take adventage of the meal prep delivery services provided by Myo Meals Chicago Meal Prep Service

- or have a bite to remember at Chicky's Kitchen Creations

— from wellness and beauty to food, retail, and creativity. Let’s show Chicago what community, collaboration, and entrepreneurship look like in action! 💪🏾

📍 The AUX Evanston
2223 Washington St., Evanston, IL

10/15/2025

📊 Small Business Owners — Want to make smarter moves with your data?

Join us for Lead Smarter with Data, a FREE workshop designed to help you learn practical ways to collect and analyze business data to boost your operations, customer management, and decision-making.

🗓 Wednesday, October 29 | 5–7 PM
📍 The AUX – Evanston | 2223 Washington St., Evanston, IL
🎙 Presented by Selvin Quire, Founder of Quire Analytics & Sunshine Enterprises

Let’s turn your business insights into action — space is limited, so don’t wait to register!

💡 Registration link here👇

Please click the link to complete this form.

10/14/2025

💡 Empower the next generation with financial confidence!

Join us for a FREE Youth Financial Literacy Workshop on Saturday, November 15 at 1:30 PM at The AUX — presented by Evanston Community Bank & Trust, a branch of Wintrust Bank.

Register TODAY! Space is limited
https://forms.gle/3qqz2aKf5VeUS3DQ9

This interactive session will cover:
💰 Banking Basics
📊 Budgeting
💸 Saving & Investing
🖥️ Digital Safety

It’s a great opportunity for students and parents to learn together and build healthy money habits for the future!

📍 Location: The AUX, 2223 Washington St., Evanston, IL
🕐 Date & Time: November 15 • 1:30 PM

📸 Check out the flyer below for details!

10/10/2025

Big AUX love to Chef Nicole Henry of Chicky's Kitchen Creations for being featured on WGN News! 🍽️✨

Chef Nicole is part of our AUX Family—building flavor, community, and opportunity right here at 2223 Washington Street.

Watch the segment 👉

Chicky's Kitchen Creations prides itself on cultivating fresh, delicious and innovative cuisine. From catering to cooking classes and even personal chef offe...

10/09/2025

🎀💪🏽🌸 October is for the Heroes Among Us! 🌸💪🏽🎀

This month we celebrate strength, courage, and community — it’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month, National Women’s Small Business Month, and today is National Hero Day.

At The AUX, our heroes are the vanguard — the women who lead with passion, purpose, and power:

💗 The Laundry Cafe-Evanston – Tosha Wilson-Jones & Jacqui White
💗 The Aux Wellness Collective – Tiffini Holmes
💗 Better Me 2 Wellness – Desiree Cunningham & Kiarra Dacres
💗 Studio 8 – Tracy Fulce-Gentle
💗 Sokana Collective – Nancy Cowan & Sonia Collins
💗 Embrace Your Crown Beauty Bar – Tiffany Wilson
💗 Chicky's Kitchen Creations – Chef Nicole Henry
💗 Zora’s Place – L’Oreal Payton
💗 Whole Woman Fitness – Waldron-Blunt
💗 Together + Through, PLLC – Daviree Velasquez Phillip

Here’s to the vanguard of women who build, heal, create, and inspire. You are the heartbeat of The AUX. 💞

10/02/2025

🎀 Many of us associate October with being Breast Cancer Awareness Month but did you know it's also National Women’s Small Business Month!

At The Aux, we’re proud to celebrate the incredible women who power our community. Out of the 13 businesses that call The Aux home, 10 ARE WOMEN-OWNED 🙌🏾. This month, we uplift their vision, resilience, and brilliance.

✨ Meet the amazing women leading the way:

The Laundry Cafe – Tosha Wilson-Jones & Jacqui White

The Aux Wellness Collective – Tiffini Holmes

Better Me 2 Wellness – Desiree Cunningham & Kiarra Dacres

Studio 8 Podcast – Tracy Fulce-Gentile & Dr. Esther Wallen

Sokana Collective – Nancy Cowan & Sonia Collins

Embrace Your Crown – Tiffany Wilson

Chicky's Kitchen Creations – Chef Nicole Henry

Zora's Place Bookstore – L'Oreal Payton

Whole Woman Fitness – Neticia Blunt

Together and Through – Daviree Velasquez Phillip

💡 When you support women-owned businesses, you’re investing in stronger families, thriving neighborhoods, and empowered communities.

Let’s take a moment to celebrate, support, and shop small with these phenomenal women this month and beyond. 💪🏾✨

09/20/2025

It’s a great day to have a book store grand opening!

Stop by The Aux….visit Zora’s Place and meet the owner L’Oréal. 📚❤️

09/17/2025

We are having a BIG weekend at The Aux — three amazing events, one community! Come early this Saturday, September 20th and literally stay all day!

🎉 Grand Opening of
11 AM–5 PM
Ribbon-cutting • Live Music & Poetry • Wine Tasting

📚 Birth and… Monologues with
1–3 PM
Stories of fertility, pregnancy, birth & postpartum.

🎶 Lyrics & Laundry at
Doors 6 PM, Show 7 PM
Dinner • Live Music • Poetry — a night you won’t forget.

📍 2223 Washington St, Evanston, IL
Come for the stories, stay for the vibes, and celebrate the power of community at The Aux! 💫

09/13/2025

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Only 7 days away...don't miss it!

🚨 Only 12 tickets left 🚨

Lyrics & Laundry is almost SOLD OUT! 🧺🎶✨
Join us for an unforgettable night of live R&B, soul, and poetry at The Laundry Cafe @ The AUX.

📅 Saturday, Seprember 20th
🎤 Vibes. Voices. Community.
Poetry + Music + Dope Energy 🧺🎶✨

Don’t wait—secure your spot before it’s gone! 🎟️
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