Harley Clarke mansion lease ‘built on quicksand’
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
By Bob Seidenberg Native women face murder rates more than 10 times the national average, yet often their perpetrators are…
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…
City banking on $950k laundromat purchase to bring more affordable housing to Howard Street area
By Bob Seidenberg Evanston will invest a good chunk of change – $950,000 worth – in a Howard Street laundromat…
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…