By Bob Seidenberg rseiden914@gmail.com Evanston City Council members at their November 1 meeting deferred acting on a request for $1 million in federal American Recovery Plan Act funds from local entrepreneurs to create The Aux, a commercial hub for Black business…
By Bob Seidenberg rseiden914@gmail.com For the past 20 years or so, the City of Evanston has been picking up the full cost for crossing guard services for District 65 schools as well as for some of the private schools. But…
By Bob Seidenberg PopularMMOs Presents A Hole New World” may not strike an immediate chord of recognition. But the stars of the children’s book, Pat and Jen, who do battle against zombies, have a huge fandom. The book, published by…
By Bob Seidenberg Evanston police have made an arrest in one of the carjacking incidents which have been part of a recent crime surge in southeast Evanston, officials announced at a special Third Ward meeting Oct. 19. Third Ward Council…
By Bob Seidenberg Members of the Evanston City Council’s Rules Committee were deadlocked Oct. 18 on whether to lower the number of votes needed to remove a future City Manager from the position, increasing the likelihood that requiring seven votes…
The City of Evanston just announced that it will implement a mandatory COVID vaccination policy for City staff effective November 15. The policy, which applies to all City staff, including seasonal and part-time workers, contractors, volunteers, and interns, requires staff…
By Bob Seidenberg Evanston City Council members were split in their first real discussion of the votes needed to remove a City Manager, with some maintaining a change in the rule could hurt the City’s chances of attracting candidates…
By Bob Seidenberg Evanston’s Cradle to Career, an agency created to address inequity in the community by pulling together resources from partner organizations throughout the City, listed a long list of highlights in its request for an annual payment from…
Two recent carjackings and an armed robbery in southeast Evanston have prompted the Evanston Police Department to issue an alert to the public. On October 10, 2021, at 12:54 p.m., a 50-year-old male Evanston resident was sitting in his 2018…
Rebecca M. Blank, chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wisconsin’s flagship campus, has been named the next president of Northwestern University, Northwestern’s Board of Trustees announced today. She will become the University’s 17th president, effective in the summer of 2022.…
