By Bob Seidenberg A new study of Evanston’s parking system recommends that officials consider raising their $2 per hour off-street parking rate downtown and hike rates in other areas of the system too, generating revenue to bolster aging infrastructure. The study also addressed parking around Northwestern University’s Ryan Field during special events and football games…
By Bob Seidenberg Twenty years ago Joy Grizzard moved to Evanston,hoping to get a better education for her kids. She succeeded on that front, “but I left because it was expensive — is expensive,” she said at a meeting on affordable housing last week. She lived on Chicago’s South Side, caring for her sister until…
By Bob Seidenberg Evanston City Council members have registered an objection to a Wilmette landowner’s latest attempt to seek an easement over a part of the Canal Shores Golf Course to allow access to his landlocked space. At the Sept. 12 meeting City Council meeting, members voted 8-0 in favor of a resolution officially registering the city’s objection to a roadway easement request…
By Bob Seidenberg Kevin Brown, the city’s popular Community Services Manager whose termination on November 15, 2019, sparked a wide community protest, filed a complaint in federal court on Sept. 13 against the City of Evanston. The complaint alleges that he was terminated on the basis of race and that he was terminated in retaliation…
By Bob Seidenberg Evanston City Council members approved Sept. 12 an allocation of $508,000 in federal Covid recovery funds to a Brooklyn-based company to provide elevated cleaning and maintenance to the city’s downtown and other business areas. Council members balked, however, at a move by several of their colleagues to add a social service component…
By Bob Seidenberg Kristian “Krissie” Harris’s long resume of community involvement will now add “Alderperson” to her accomplishments, with Evanston City Council members voting Monday, Sept. 12, to appoint her to fill the 2nd Ward Council seat until a special election next year. Receiving applause from her supporters, Evanston City Council members voted 8-0 to…
By Bob Seidenberg Migdalia Bulnes currently serves as a Deputy Chief for the Chicago Police Department, and has logged 24 years of continuous service with CPD. Offering advice to other officers, she’ll tell them when it comes to de-escalating a tense situation, the biggest tool is not their gun. Rather, it’s their voice. “If used…
By Bob Seidenberg Public safety and addressing understaffing in the Police Department were identified as top concerns by a number of candidates for a vacant Second Ward City Council seat who spoke at a lively Sept. 6 forum. Mayor Daniel Biss posed a question about public safety at the forum at the Morton Civic Center…
By Bob Seidenberg Lightning strikes are not infrequent along Evanston’s lakefront. Something about the confluence of sail boats with metal poles and masts on them, flag poles on shore, swimmers standing in water, seems to be conducive for attracting them, said Tim Carter, the city’s Lakefront Director. He estimated staff members have to clear beaches…
As part of the search for Evanston’s next chief of police, community members are invited to get to know the candidates selected as finalists for the position during a virtual candidate forum held via Zoom on Thursday, September 8 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Meet the finalists: Migdalia Bulnes: Deputy Chief of Police for…
