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…
By Bob Seidenberg Lightning strikes are not infrequent along Evanston’s lakefront. Something about the confluence of sail boats with metal poles and masts on them, flag poles on shore, swimmers standing in water, seems to be conducive for attracting them,…
By Bob Seidenberg rseiden914@gmail.com Nine candidates will participate in a forum next month in which they’ll have the chance to showcase their credentials to fill a vacancy in the 2nd Ward City Council member slot. The city announced today that…
By Bob Seidenberg Evanston Library Board trustees are moving deliberately in their selection of the city’s next Library chief, establishing a clear picture of what they’d like to see in the ideal candidate before going out for interviews. In a brief report at the Aug. 17…
By Bob Seidenberg A 17-year-old Sauk Village juvenile has been charged as an adult in the shooting of a 13-year-old Evanston girl July 25 as she was attending a backyard party with other teens in the 1300 block of Fowler…
Luke Stowe, longtime stalwart on the city’s information technology side, elevated to city’s top position By Bob Seidenberg Evanston City Council members voted 9-0 at a special meeting today to appoint longtime city administrator Luke Stowe as the tenth city…
With little chance for the public to weigh in, Evanston City Council members are moving ahead with the appointment of a longtime city administrator who has distinguished himself on the technology side as Evanston’s next city manager. Officials announced their…
Evanston to wage fights own fight for reproductive rights at the local level By Bob Seidenberg Evanston will respond in its own fashion to the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision striking down Roe vs. Wade, with city departments directed to…
By Bob Seidenberg Evanston police scrambled to fill 12-hour shifts, making 47 hire backs of officers last month, leading up to an Aug. 4 announcement that the Department’s Community Policing Unit (CPU) would be shifted to patrol in order to address…
