By Bob Seidenberg A City Council member’s proposal to expand the size of the city’s Referrals Committee, giving the group greater representation deciding items of public discussion,failed to move forward at the city Rules Committee Dec. 5. Council member Bobby Burns, 5th, made the proposal to expand the three-member Referrals Committee. The Referrals Committee was…
By Bob Seidenberg rseiden914@gmail.com One is a popular ice cream store and small grocery on the corner across from Evanston Township High School. The owners, currently tenants, would like to purchase the property and make it a “Mecca” to surrounding businesses. Another is 27,000 square feet of vacant space that sits next to the Autobarn…
By Bob Seidenberg Many may associate rats with mid-summer or even deep winter, spotting one hot-trotting across an alley after lunching on food scraps from an overflowing dumpster. But in fact the fall season is one of the times when rats are most out and about, Greg Olsen, the city’s Public Health Director, told a…
By Bob Seidenberg Evanston’s special election to fill City Council seats in the city’s 2nd and 9th Wards will take place next April with contested races in both wards. Barring petition challenges, Darlene Cannon, Krissie Harris, and Patricia Gregory, will face off in the 2nd Ward to fill the remaining two years of Peter Braithwaite’s…
Fire Pension Board member Jack Mortell’s research shines light on tax supposed to go for pensions By Bob Seidenberg Evanston City Council members may consider a small property tax increase to firm up the plan to fund police and fire pensions at 100% the actuarial required amount. Officials have estimated the cost would be approximately…
By Bob Seidenberg Wards 8 and 9 sit next to each other on the southern edge of the city. Ward 8, with 8,845 people, according to the 2020 Census, weighs in at just above the average population for Evanston’s nine wards. Ward 9, on the other hand, with a population of 7,920 people, is the…
By Bob Seidenberg rseiden914@gmail.com Four candidates filed petition signatures today, declaring their interest to run in a rare special election in 2023 to fill the remaining terms of City Council seats in Evanston’s 2nd and 9th Wards. Darlene Cannon, in the city’s 2nd Ward, and Kathy Hayes, in the 9th, filed petitions in the Evanston…
Evanston Public Library statement acknowledges land’s indigenous history Statements should be a start for further work with the Indigenous community: Mitchell Museum director By Bob Seidenberg Evanston Public Library officials led off their regular Board meeting at the main library Nov. 16 with a reading of a Land Acknowledgment statement, recognizing that Evanston and the…
By Bob Seidenberg Advised to quit “policing parts of the body,” members of the city’s Human Services Committee moved forward Nov. 7 on changes to the city’s Public Nudity ordinance, removing references to female breasts and making the ordinance gender-neutral. Backed by a strongly worded opinion from the city’s Equity and Empowerment Commission (EEC), the…
The long wait for Evanston’s downtown movie theaters to open is over. AMC Theatres announced in an email yesterday that AMC Evanston 12 was to open today, Wednesday, Nov. 9, just in time for the holiday season. Here is the theater’s press release: Leawood, Kan. (November 8, 2022) – AMC Theatres® (NYSE:AMC), the largest theatrical…
