(or Evanston SPACE) is a small concert hall and venue for music performance and live recording, and a podcast production facility, as well as serves similarly for the visual arts and literary events located at 1245 Chicago Avenue in Evanston, Illinois, adjacent to Chicago, in close proximity to the CTA Purple Line mass transit elevated train station Dempster, just south of Dempster Avenue.

The SPACE has over the years played host to the most renowned folk music artists in the Western World; for example, only in 2014-2015 winter timeframe to Suzanne Vega, Leo Kottke, Justin Townes Earle and Robyn Hitchcock, among many tens of events.

As of 2024, Bruce Finkelman and Craig Golden, through their firm 16” on Center, own, co-own, operate, and/or co-operate several music venues, including The Empty Bottle, The Promontory, Evanston S.P.A.C.E., Sonotheque (which closed in 2009), Thalia Hall, and The Salt Shed, all in and near Chicago.

Finkeleman and Golde are similarly affiliated with several other restaurants and bars, both at those music venues and free-standing, including Bite Cafe, Dusek's, and Longman & Eagle.

Past years' artists include Brandi Carlile, Aaron Neville, Graham Parker, Nick Lowe, George Winston, Alabama Shakes, Marshall Crenshaw, David Lindley, The Weepies, Liz Phair, Herb Alpert and Lani Hall, Five For Fighting, Billy Bragg, Leon Russell, Terrence Blanchard, Dr. John, Zoë Keating, The English Beat, The Lone Bellow, Martin Sexton, Lucinda Williams and The Lumineers.