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  • The man who would be mayor: Longtime leader Donald Borah dies at 85

    2 days ago2 days ago
  • ‘Reconciliation’ needed after Executive Library Director’s early departure from the position, suggests one member

    4 days ago4 days ago
  • Short-term rental overhaul passes on third try at City Council

    6 days ago
  • A strong advocate of shared costs with the city, Executive Library Director Yolande Wilburn to step down

    3 weeks ago3 weeks ago
  • Late-arriving property taxes lower city budget deficit estimate

    1 month ago1 month ago
  • Ninth Congressional race draws full turnout at Evanston candidates forum

    1 month ago1 month ago
  • One that got away — Barnes and Noble experiencing comeback in other places

    1 month ago1 month ago
  • Evanston’s panhandling ordinance moves a step closer to being repealed

    1 month ago
  • Last call for Peet’s, a coffee shop which became a ‘third place’ for many downtown

    1 month ago1 month ago
  • Evanston not quite ready to reopen the door for ‘vacation rentals’

    1 month ago

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Nathan M. Norman, the city’s Workforce Development Coordinator.
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Evanston would team up with Mather to create a workforce pipeline for city youth

Bob3 years ago3 years ago05 mins

By Bob Seidenberg As one of the city’s oldest and largest employers, Mather has as its mission, helping people age…

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Low vacancy rate doesn’t pass eye test with one EDC member

Bob3 years ago07 mins

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

Bob3 years ago3 years ago05 mins

By Bob Seidenberg Some longtime residents living east of Ridge Avenue in Evanston’s Fifth Ward brought concerns about that area’s…

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Harley Clarke mansion lease ‘built on quicksand’

Bob3 years ago013 mins

By Bob Seidenberg After a tumultuous city Administration and Public Works Committee meeting earlier this month, the board members of…

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Mitchell Museum exhibit turns light on violence against Native women

Bob3 years ago03 mins

By Bob Seidenberg Native women face murder rates more than 10 times the national average, yet often their perpetrators are…

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Step by step, new ward boundaries taking shape in Evanston

Bob3 years ago3 years ago04 mins

By Bob Seidenberg Members of the city’s Redistricting Committee are inching toward mapping the city’s first new political boundaries in…

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City housing committee supports $4 million gap money to developer partnering with church on 44-unit affordable housing project

Bob3 years ago05 mins

By Bob Seidenberg The city’s Housing & Community Development Committee recommended in favor of providing $4 million in gap financing…

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Evanston Public Library, Main Branch
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No exception to library firearms ban, director says

Bob3 years ago3 years ago06 mins

By Bob Seidenberg In an apparent rebuke to the off-duty officer who drew his gun on a homeless man in…

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A new life for the Masonic Temple building

Bob3 years ago3 years ago03 mins

By Bob Seidenberg Evanston’s Masonic Temple, a local landmark that has sat vacant in recent years, will see new life…

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Jong Ho Yun, owner of Clothes Pin Laundromat at 729-39 Howard St.
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City banking on $950k laundromat purchase to bring more affordable housing to Howard Street area

Bob3 years ago3 years ago04 mins

By Bob Seidenberg Evanston will invest a good chunk of change – $950,000 worth – in a Howard Street laundromat…

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