By Bob Seidenberg Evanston officials moved forward this week on a proposal that would recognize the special character of longstanding businesses and fashion a program to help ensure they remain in the city. Members of the city’s Economic Development…
By Bob Seidenberg An Evanston Public Library branch at the Family Focus building would be an “ideal” fit, complimenting the other services the agency intends to house in the building once a renovation project is completed, the head of the…
By Bob Seidenberg Evanston City Council members approved the appointment of Ann Arbor assistant city administrator John Fournier as the city’s next city manager at their May 23 City Council meeting, in the third attempt to fill the city’s top…
By Bob Seidenberg Six Evanston residents will be hired as part of the City’s effort to replace leaking or broken lead service lines under a Work Force Development program approved by the Evanston City Council May 9. Evanston City Council…
By Bob Seidenberg Central Street where it crosses Crawford Avenue and, almost immediately, Gross Point Road at the far northwest end of Evanston poses plenty of traffic issues on its own – and no need for additional ones. “Central, Gross…
By Bob Seidenberg Northwestern University officials are still early in their Ryan Field stadium project and, understandably, did not have a lot of detail to provide residents at a Seventh Ward meeting March 23. But a University official at that…
Evanston City Council members took steps at a recent meeting to approve developers’ requests for properties that once housed businesses embedded in the city’s history. At their March 14 meeting, council members considered zoning requests for the former sites of…
By Bob Seidenberg rseiden914@gmail.com One of Evanston’s major grassroots activist groups has backed Baltimore administrator Daniel Ramos to become Evanston’s next City Manager. Ramos is Deputy Chief of Staff/Deputy City Manager for the City of Baltimore. In its endorsement, Jan.…
Interim City Manager Kelley A. Gandurski is pleased to announce the appointment of former Evanston Police Chief Richard Eddington to serve as the City’s interim police chief. Eddington, who served as Evanston police chief from 2007 through 2018, has more…
Over the past week, Evanston has experienced a dramatic increase in the number of daily confirmed COVID-19 cases, prompting new mitigation recommendations from the City’s Health & Human Services Department to slow the spread of the disease. On Friday, Evanston…
