By Bob Seidenberg The 13-year-old girl critically injured in a shooting on the 1300 block of Fowler Avenue July 25 was attending a party in the backyard of a residence with other juveniles when an unknown gunman rained down at least 10 rounds over a fence before fleeing, Evanston police said at a press conference…
Mail By Bob Seidenberg Evanston zoning codes sometimes mandate land use that is economically inefficient, requiring excessive lot standards and setbacks — standards that can have “an inherently exclusionary or segregationist effect on housing.” That observation was found in a report on Evanston’s zoning code last fall. Evanston-based Connections for the Homeless, a leading group…
By Bob Seidenberg The Evanston Public Library received high marks on a community survey conducted earlier this year designed to gauge how well the system was meeting needs. But some concerns were voiced about parking and the loss of neighborhood branches, catching the attention of some Library trustees at their July 20 meeting. A consulting…
By Bob Seidenberg rseiden914@gmail.com As far as one Evanston group is concerned, the city’s search for a city manager isn’t over with officials announcement today, July 20, that they are down to a single candidate. The city announced in a release today that a City Manager Candidate Town Hall will be held 7 pm, Thursday, July…
By Bob Seidenberg Whatever happened to the City’s Ethics Board? Evanston’s newly-constituted Board of Ethics surfaced May 11 after an 18-month layoff and quickly went into hibernation again, with no future meeting marked on its city webpage. The board, composed of residents appointed by the mayor, was established by the current Council, with the role…
An Evanston “mock drowning” drill became all too real for a visitor to one of the city’s beaches July 11.
By Bob Seidenberg Members of the city’s Redistricting Committee previously agreed not to make any changes to the city’s current ward maps before a special election is held next April to fill two open Council seats. Elections for the city’s south Ninth Ward and now centrally-located Second Ward seats are expected to be held at…
Former Fifth Ward Alderman Robin Rue Simmons also honored for her reparations work By Bob Seidenberg rseiden914@gmail.com Evanston City Council members paid tribute to retiring Second Ward Alderperson Peter Braithwaite, as well as to interim City Manager Kelley Gandurski, who was pressed into the city’s top role during a tumultuous period, in an series of…
By Bob Seidenberg Evanston residents will be given the opportunity in November to say whether they favor moving to a ranked-choice voting system to elect the Mayor, the City Clerk and members of the City Council, under a proposal that received backing Monday, July 11. Council members voted 7-0 at their meeting to approve a resolution that…
By Bob Seidenberg rseiden914@gmail.com Activist Darlene Cannon ran a strong race in the 2021 municipal election, losing by 71 votes to the incumbent, 2nd Ward Council member Peter Braithwaite. With Braithwaite announcing June 27 that he plans to step down from his seat after the July 11 City Council meeting, Cannon is the first person…
