Council wrestles with homelessness, including Howard St. encampment

By Bob Seidenberg Evanston City Council members have delayed until May consideration of a plan to aid the city’s unhoused population, including addressing an encampment at the Howard Street viaduct on the city’s far south side. After concerns from colleagues, Council Member Devon Reid (8th Ward) on Monday ultimately moved that his $500,000 request be…

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Evanston firefighters union pays tribute to historic 1974 walkout ‘Their story will not be forgotten’

By Bob Seidenberg One by one, the fire companies at Evanston’s five stations took turns notifying radio dispatch they were signing out of service. Locked in a monthslong impasse with the city, 89 Evanston firefighters walked off the job for 53 hours from 6 a.m. on Thursday, Feb. 28, 1974, until 11 a.m., Saturday, March…

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Council rejects temporary halt to gas leaf blower ban

By Bob Seidenberg Evanston City Council members voted against suspending enforcement of a ban on gas-powered leaf blowers Monday, a pause some landscapers had sought to allow more time for the transition to electric devices. Council members were sympathetic to concerns raised from mostly Hispanic members of the local landscaping community to temporarily suspend enforcement…

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Committee backs tax deal to keep VW dealer in Evanston for 10 years

City’s economic development manager challenges Skokie assertion that it wasn’t trying to recruit the business By Bob Seidenberg rseiden914@gmail.com Members of the city’s Economic Development Committee Wednesday night backed a modified sales-tax sharing deal with the owner of a local car business – this one substantially lower and shorter in duration than the one he originally placed on the…

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