Luke Stowe, longtime stalwart on the city’s information technology side, elevated to city’s top position By Bob Seidenberg Evanston City Council members voted 9-0 at a special meeting today to appoint longtime city administrator Luke Stowe as the tenth city manager in Evanston history, ending a nearly two-year search for a chief executive. Voting in…
With little chance for the public to weigh in, Evanston City Council members are moving ahead with the appointment of a longtime city administrator who has distinguished himself on the technology side as Evanston’s next city manager. Officials announced their intent to appoint Interim City Manager Luke Stowe as Evanston’s next City Manager, in a…
Evanston to wage fights own fight for reproductive rights at the local level By Bob Seidenberg Evanston will respond in its own fashion to the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision striking down Roe vs. Wade, with city departments directed to explore ways to support and protect individuals seeking reproductive health care. Evanston City Council members…
By Bob Seidenberg Evanston police scrambled to fill 12-hour shifts, making 47 hire backs of officers last month, leading up to an Aug. 4 announcement that the Department’s Community Policing Unit (CPU) would be shifted to patrol in order to address a severe staff shortage. The Department announced in the release that five members, four officers…
By Bob Seidenberg Evanston elected officials could be subject to official misconduct charges for inappropriate behavior under a recommendation from the City Council’s Rules Committee Aug. 1 that will be moved to the full Council for action. Former Second Ward Alderperson Peter Braithwaite made the referral in March, proposing amendments to the City’s Code of…
By Bob Seidenberg The city isn’t moving forward with City of Urbana administrator Carol Mitten, the lone finalist in Evanston’s city manager search, in a mutual decision that she was “not the right fit,” officials said Aug. 3. The city said in a release that Mitten had withdrawn her name from consideration in mutual decision…
By Bob Seidenberg Evanston City Council members are next up, deciding where they stand on city of Urbana administrator Carol Mitten as the city’s next City Manager, in a process that has already resulted in two failed searches. Council members had shown the requisite amount of support for Mitten as their lone finalist in order…
By Bob Seidenberg A lot had been said about City of Urbana administrator Carol Mitten since the City Council announced earlier this month she was their lone finalist to become Evanston’s next city manager. In her first meeting with the Evanston public July 28, Mitten had the chance to talk about her record herself. ‘Consider…
By Bob Seidenberg Evanston’s Service Center, which holds the Public Works, Fleet Management, Parking Management and other city departments, is regarded as the heart of city operations. But it is showing wear and tear and in need of a major plan to modernize its operations, officials said in a presentation at the July 25 City…
Community Development Director Johanna Nyden will resign from her position effective August 16 for a new opportunity with the Village of Skokie, the City announced today in a release. Nyden has served the City of Evanston since 2010 in several key roles, including economic development manager and, most recently, community development director, a position she has…
