Evanston Public Library names Yolande Wilbern as its new executive director The Evanston Public Library Board of Trustees announced today that they have named Yolande Wilburn as the Library’s new executive director, capping a more than 15-month search to a…
By Bob Seidenberg rseiden914@gmail.com Evanston has made good use of renewable energy certificates in the past, purchasing them to buy a stake in renewable energy projects elsewhere, even though the sources of that renewable energy may be some far-off wind…
By Bob Seidenberg Rule 5.2 of the Rules and Organization of the City Council states that a board or commission appointee may be reappointed only once. It’s a rule rarely if ever noticed and frequently not followed, but it became…
By Bob Seidenberg City and development officials highlighted the affordable housing features of a five-story, 60-unit, mixed-income apartment building planned for the city’s far south end at a well-attended Third Ward meeting Aug. 31. The Housing Authority of Cook County…
By Bob Seidenberg Some neighbors of Canal Shores Golf Course, upset to see three old trees on the course get chopped down, on Thursday charged the trees had been felled without necessary permits. But Evanston Council Member Eleanor Revelle (7th…
By Bob Seidenberg Two senior City Council members took strong issue with the head of a group that markets the city as a destination place, suggesting her past remarks advocating for Northwestern University’s $800 million stadium project “crossed the line”…
By Bob Seidenberg Northwest Evanston resident Nina Paleologos said she has barely used her yard or pool – which sit on the other side of a garage and hedges from her neighbor’s beehives – during the second half of summer.…
Close to $240,000 in attorney’s fees spent on the case By Bob SeidenbergA Cook County Circuit Court judge granted the city’s request Thursday to dismiss its nearly $6 million lawsuit brought against a contractor, alleging faulty workmanship on the downtown…
By Bob Seidenberg The city’s Human Services Committee backed a City Council member’s request of $1.75 million from the General Fund to bring together a number of services to address homelessness, with special emphasis on the encampments that have arisen around Howard Street…
By Bob Seidenberg Former Eighth Ward Council Member Ann Rainey and her campaign team found a novel – and very green – way to resolve what to do with leftover campaign funds after 34 years in office. In an Aug.…
