By Bob Seidenberg Evanston Library Board trustees moved forward Oct. 19 to back a 3.9% property tax increase estimate for their fiscal year 2023 budget – the first increase sought by the body after three years of going with…
By Bob Seidenberg In a virtual meeting with stadium neighbors Wednesday, Oct. 12, Northwestern University officials heavily played up the neighborhood benefits of their plan to replace 97-year-old Ryan Field with a smaller stadium that includes a state-of-the-art sound-containing canopy.…
By Bob Seidenberg rseiden914@gmail.com Evanston City Council members appeared open to a system that would rotate membership on the committee that helps set public discussion items. Two of the city’s Black Council members raised equity concerns about the process. At…
By Bob Seidenberg Twenty years ago Joy Grizzard moved to Evanston,hoping to get a better education for her kids. She succeeded on that front, “but I left because it was expensive — is expensive,” she said at a meeting on…
By Bob Seidenberg Evanston City Council members have registered an objection to a Wilmette landowner’s latest attempt to seek an easement over a part of the Canal Shores Golf Course to allow access to his landlocked space. At the Sept. 12 meeting City Council…
By Bob Seidenberg Kevin Brown, the city’s popular Community Services Manager whose termination on November 15, 2019, sparked a wide community protest, filed a complaint in federal court on Sept. 13 against the City of Evanston. The complaint alleges that…
By Bob Seidenberg Evanston City Council members approved Sept. 12 an allocation of $508,000 in federal Covid recovery funds to a Brooklyn-based company to provide elevated cleaning and maintenance to the city’s downtown and other business areas. Council members balked,…
By Bob Seidenberg Kristian “Krissie” Harris’s long resume of community involvement will now add “Alderperson” to her accomplishments, with Evanston City Council members voting Monday, Sept. 12, to appoint her to fill the 2nd Ward Council seat until a special…
By Bob Seidenberg Migdalia Bulnes currently serves as a Deputy Chief for the Chicago Police Department, and has logged 24 years of continuous service with CPD. Offering advice to other officers, she’ll tell them when it comes to de-escalating a…
By Bob Seidenberg Public safety and addressing understaffing in the Police Department were identified as top concerns by a number of candidates for a vacant Second Ward City Council seat who spoke at a lively Sept. 6 forum. Mayor Daniel…
