Veteran 'RoundTable' contributor and longtime Evanston resident, Charles Wilkinson passed away peacefully on July 31 in the hospice unit of Evanston Hospital. He was 90. Details on a memorial service have not yet been finalized. 
 

I met Charlie, as everyone called him, when I started working at the RoundTable around 2010. For a number of years, we sat at adjacent desks in the newsroom at 1124 Florence Ave. Charlie and I were there to work on our columns and do some copy editing. As such, we’d trade tidbits and tips about the craft of journalism. There was a mutual regard for each other’s writing, as well as mutual admiration for Mary and Larry Gavin, the paper’s founders and guiding lights. We’d also commiserate about the Cubs’ failures and celebrate their successes.
 

​With so much in common, we decided to start meeting for coffee at Leonidas Café on Central Street every second or third Saturday morning over a succession of months in 2016. It was there that I learned about Charlie’s amazing life as a priest, teacher, counselor, husband, father and writer.

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