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Nathan M. Norman, the city’s Workforce Development Coordinator.
Evanston would team up with Mather to create a workforce pipeline for city youth
By Bob Seidenberg As one of the city’s oldest and largest employers, Mather has as its mission, helping people age well. That takes a lot of work — and a lot of employees. Speaking at the city’s Economic Development Committee…
Low vacancy rate doesn’t pass eye test with one EDC member
By Bob Seidenberg The economic development climate in Evanston is expected to start warming up next month, when a report on Evanston business districts is due. At the city’s Economic Development Committee meeting Wednesday, Jan. 25, Paul Zalmezak, Evanston’s economic development manager,…
Some residents, left out of the new 5th Ward school lines, wonder about their place in a remapped ward
By Bob Seidenberg Some longtime residents living east of Ridge Avenue in Evanston’s Fifth Ward brought concerns about that area’s exclusion from the attendance boundaries of School District 65’s new school into a discussion of new political boundaries for the…
Harley Clarke mansion lease ‘built on quicksand’
By Bob Seidenberg After a tumultuous city Administration and Public Works Committee meeting earlier this month, the board members of the Artists Book House “looked at each other and said, ‘We need a board meeting,’ ” explained Audrey Niffenegger, the group’s…
Mitchell Museum exhibit turns light on violence against Native women
By Bob Seidenberg Native women face murder rates more than 10 times the national average, yet often their perpetrators are not caught and their cases receive scant or no media attention. Twenty-five new original art works are at the Mitchell…
Step by step, new ward boundaries taking shape in Evanston
By Bob Seidenberg Members of the city’s Redistricting Committee are inching toward mapping the city’s first new political boundaries in 20 years. Committee members have now conducted ward-to-ward analyses in eight of the city’s nine wards, with a meeting on…
City housing committee supports $4 million gap money to developer partnering with church on 44-unit affordable housing project
By Bob Seidenberg The city’s Housing & Community Development Committee recommended in favor of providing $4 million in gap financing Jan. 17 to a non-profit developer partnering with a local church to create 44 affordable housing units just east of…
Evanston Public Library, Main Branch
No exception to library firearms ban, director says
By Bob Seidenberg In an apparent rebuke to the off-duty officer who drew his gun on a homeless man in the Evanston Public Library earlier this month, the top library official said there’s no exception to the prohibition against firearms…
A new life for the Masonic Temple building
By Bob Seidenberg Evanston’s Masonic Temple, a local landmark that has sat vacant in recent years, will see new life as a residential apartment building after backing from the Evanston City Council on Jan. 9. Council members approved as part of…
City banking on $950k laundromat purchase to bring more affordable housing to Howard Street area
By Bob Seidenberg Evanston will invest a good chunk of change – $950,000 worth – in a Howard Street laundromat – in a move designed to bring greater affordable housing to the area. City Council members voted 8-1 in support…