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Evanston to wage fights own fight for reproductive rights at the local level By Bob Seidenberg Evanston will respond in its own fashion to the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision striking down Roe vs. Wade, with city departments directed to explore ways to support and protect individuals seeking reproductive health care. Evanston City Council members…
By Bob Seidenberg City budget revenues were looking “pretty stable, pretty strong,” at the mid-year mark, including some areas that were previously down because of COVID, the city’s top financial officer told Council members in a presentation at the Aug. 8 City Council meeting. Revenues tied to economic activity, such as sales tax revenues, are on track…
By Bob Seidenberg Evanston police scrambled to fill 12-hour shifts, making 47 hire backs of officers last month, leading up to an Aug. 4 announcement that the Department’s Community Policing Unit (CPU) would be shifted to patrol in order to address a severe staff shortage. The Department announced in the release that five members, four officers…
By Bob Seidenberg Evanston elected officials could be subject to official misconduct charges for inappropriate behavior under a recommendation from the City Council’s Rules Committee Aug. 1 that will be moved to the full Council for action. Former Second Ward Alderperson Peter Braithwaite made the referral in March, proposing amendments to the City’s Code of…
By Bob Seidenberg The city isn’t moving forward with City of Urbana administrator Carol Mitten, the lone finalist in Evanston’s city manager search, in a mutual decision that she was “not the right fit,” officials said Aug. 3. The city said in a release that Mitten had withdrawn her name from consideration in mutual decision…
By Bob Seidenberg Evanston City Council members are next up, deciding where they stand on city of Urbana administrator Carol Mitten as the city’s next City Manager, in a process that has already resulted in two failed searches. Council members had shown the requisite amount of support for Mitten as their lone finalist in order…
By Bob Seidenberg A lot had been said about City of Urbana administrator Carol Mitten since the City Council announced earlier this month she was their lone finalist to become Evanston’s next city manager. In her first meeting with the Evanston public July 28, Mitten had the chance to talk about her record herself. ‘Consider…
I’m shaken by two terrible events that happened in Evanston in the last few weeks. On the evening of July 14, a young man who was walking with his daughter near McCormick Boulevard was shot and killed. Then, this past Monday evening, a teenage girl was shot while attending a backyard party. She is currently in the…
By Bob Seidenberg Evanston’s Service Center, which holds the Public Works, Fleet Management, Parking Management and other city departments, is regarded as the heart of city operations. But it is showing wear and tear and in need of a major plan to modernize its operations, officials said in a presentation at the July 25 City…