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  • Two-hour free parking proposal would severely impact city revenues: Staff memo

    13 hours ago13 hours ago
  • Library trustees begin to set course for a new director

    6 days ago6 days ago
  • Library Board President Fulce proposes trustees skip a search for an interim director, preserving resources for the permanent post

    1 week ago1 week ago
  • City Council sets 90-day window for an agreement with the Library to resolve differences

    4 weeks ago
  • Library officials have a firm in mind  to conduct a search for an interim Executive Director

    1 month ago1 month ago
  • With Kat making a strong run, Biss appears to be the unofficial winner of the 9th District Congressional District Democratic primary

    1 month ago1 month ago
  • Applications now open for Sustain Evanston program

    1 month ago1 month ago
  • Hotly-contested 9th Congressional District Democratic primary heads to voters

    1 month ago
  • Community members invited to vote on new dog park

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

    1 month ago1 month ago

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Council holds off on Aux proposal, seeking fuller funding picture

Bob4 years ago06 mins

By Bob Seidenberg rseiden914@gmail.com Evanston City Council members at their November 1 meeting deferred acting on a request for $1 million…

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City may halt crossing guard funding

Bob4 years ago4 years ago06 mins

By Bob Seidenberg rseiden914@gmail.com For the past 20 years or so, the City of Evanston has been picking up the…

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Book prompts library to look at shelving policy

Bob4 years ago4 years ago07 mins

By Bob Seidenberg PopularMMOs Presents A Hole New World” may not strike an immediate chord of recognition. But the stars…

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Southeast Evanston residents on alert after recent carjackings

Bob5 years ago5 years ago09 mins

By Bob Seidenberg Evanston police have made an arrest in one of the carjacking incidents which have been part of…

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Council may stick with 7 as number of votes to remove a city manager

Bob5 years ago5 years ago05 mins

By Bob Seidenberg Members of the Evanston City Council’s Rules Committee were deadlocked Oct. 18 on whether to lower the…

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City announces mandatory COVID testing policy

Bob5 years ago5 years ago02 mins

The City of Evanston just announced that it will implement a mandatory COVID vaccination policy for City staff effective November…

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Votes needed for City Manager removal may stay at 7

Bob5 years ago4 years ago06 mins

  By Bob Seidenberg Evanston City Council members were split in their first real discussion of the votes needed to…

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Mission Drift: Council members seek clearer picture of Cradle to Career’s main mission

Bob5 years ago5 years ago06 mins

By Bob Seidenberg Evanston’s Cradle to Career, an agency created to address inequity in the community by pulling together resources…

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Police issue community alert over recent carjackings

Bob5 years ago03 mins

Two recent carjackings and an armed robbery in southeast Evanston have prompted the Evanston Police Department to issue an alert…

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Northwestern names new president

Bob5 years ago5 years ago01 mins

Rebecca M. Blank, chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wisconsin’s flagship campus, has been named the next president of Northwestern…

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Evanston has conducted more than 100 bike tallies at 33 locations and gathered community input to revise the city’s 2014 Bike Plan.
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Reported by @BethkeTia https://t.co/sEpQSMKIe2

— The Daily Northwestern (@thedailynu) April 10, 2026

Park lighting is getting an upgrade! Over the next few months, LED fixtures will replace older lights at lakefront parks (Lee-Greenwood) plus Lovelace, Eggleston, Perry, Mason & Smith Parks. Parks & paths remain open. Learn more: https://t.co/TCwWPw3UtV. pic.twitter.com/4ILYyLQkqk

— City of Evanston (@CityofEvanston) March 23, 2026