By Bob Seidenberg An Evanston City Council member testified Feb. 8 that she attempted to bring in the city’s Preservation Committee to review changes made “on the fly” to an affordable housing project planned on a parcel next to a…
By Bob Seidenberg The book titled The God of Good Looks, a romance novel set in Trinidad and featuring a makeup artist, would seem to have all the attributes to move fast off the shelves of the Evanston Public Library.…
By Bob Seidenberg Maximizing public access to Lighthouse Beach and the surrounding areas, adherence to the lakefront master plan, some commercialization in the area – but with limits. These were some of the issues council members took away from the…
Local memorial service set for May 4 at Evanston Golf Course Funeral services will be held March 2 in Naples, Florida, for Donald Joseph Wirth, 86, a former Evanston parks/forestry and recreation director who guided the department for nearly a quarter…
Two Evanston buildings with long histories and passionate followings are scheduled to return to the spotlight on Monday, when Evanston City Council members are slated to discuss the next steps for the Civic Center and the Harley Clarke mansion, sites…
By Bob Seidenberg Yolande Wilburn, the new executive director of the Evanston Public Library system, has spent much her career managing library systems up and down the state of California. But her path to Evanston’s top job started much closer…
By Bob Seidenberg Evanston officials are exploring moving city offices from the Morton Civic Center to a downtown site while they consider their next options for the building. Officials confirmed this week that they have engaged the commercial real estate…
By Bob Seidenberg Independence Park is located a few blocks west of Green Bay Road, in the heart of the Central Street neighborhood. It is perhaps the city’s only park that runs right up to the edge of a major…
Update: After the RoundTable posted the story below about a beaver sighting at Northwestern University’s lagoon on Nov. 12, another resident reported in an email that he had seen a beaver at the lagoon earlier, on April 10. Kyle Campbell,…
By Bob Seidenberg Evanston City Council members have applied the brakes for now on a proposal that would require large non-property-tax-paying owners – most notably Northwestern University – to pay a fire service/utility fee for the service they now receive…