Low vacancy rate doesn’t pass eye test with one EDC member
By Bob Seidenberg The economic development climate in Evanston is expected to start warming up next month, when a report on…
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Some residents, left out of the new 5th Ward school lines, wonder about their place in a remapped ward
By Bob Seidenberg Some longtime residents living east of Ridge Avenue in Evanston’s Fifth Ward brought concerns about that area’s…
Step by step, new ward boundaries taking shape in Evanston
By Bob Seidenberg Members of the city’s Redistricting Committee are inching toward mapping the city’s first new political boundaries in…
City housing committee supports $4 million gap money to developer partnering with church on 44-unit affordable housing project
By Bob Seidenberg The city’s Housing & Community Development Committee recommended in favor of providing $4 million in gap financing…
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No exception to library firearms ban, director says
By Bob Seidenberg In an apparent rebuke to the off-duty officer who drew his gun on a homeless man in…
A new life for the Masonic Temple building
By Bob Seidenberg Evanston’s Masonic Temple, a local landmark that has sat vacant in recent years, will see new life…
Council members to receive executive assistant help for their work in 2023
By Bob Seidenberg Evanston City Council members, whose jobs are part time under the city’s Council/Manager form of government, have…
Council approves fee hike for group which manages city’s growing affordable housing waitlist
By Bob Seidenberg Evanston City Council approved an increase in the fee a Libertyville-based firm receives to manage the city’s…
Evanston TIFs will likely see increased activity in 2023
By Bob Seidenberg How are Evanston’s Tax Increment Financing Districts faring? There was no definitive answer yet as Evanston officials said…
Residents play an important role in Evanston’s new direction on rat control
By Bob Seidenberg Many may associate rats with mid-summer or even deep winter, spotting one hot-trotting across an alley after…