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By Bob Seidenberg The book titled The God of Good Looks, a romance novel set in Trinidad and featuring a makeup artist, would seem to have all the attributes to move fast off the shelves of the Evanston Public Library. EPL Collection Development and Materials Manager Betsy Bird listed some of its credentials on a…
By Bob Seidenberg Maximizing public access to Lighthouse Beach and the surrounding areas, adherence to the lakefront master plan, some commercialization in the area – but with limits. These were some of the issues council members took away from the responses to a Request for Expressions of Interest (REI) proposal the city received from groups interested…
Evanston Fire Department News Release: On Monday, January 22, at approximately 9:45 a.m., Evanston Firefighters responded to reports of a basement fire in a single-family residence at 1143 Florence Ave. First-arriving companies reached the scene within minutes, encountering billowing black smoke and heavy fire conditions at the rear of the structure. The response was quickly…
By Bob Seidenberg Yolande Wilburn, the new executive director of the Evanston Public Library system, has spent much her career managing library systems up and down the state of California. But her path to Evanston’s top job started much closer to home. “At the Chicago Public Library, when it was in [what is now] the…
By Bob Seidenberg Evanston officials are exploring moving city offices from the Morton Civic Center to a downtown site while they consider their next options for the building. Officials confirmed this week that they have engaged the commercial real estate firm Jones Lang LaSalle to facilitate lease negotiations for office space in downtown Evanston. Officials…
By Bob Seidenberg/rseiden914@gmail.com Northwest Evanston resident Mary Nisi need not remove her beehives, but they should be set farther back on her property – and farther away from the pool of her neighbor, who charged that the bees have dive-bombed her property, stinging guests. In a 4-0 vote Tuesday, members of Evanston’s Human Services Committee…
News Release Residents of Evanston and Wilmette join the Most Livable City Association in lawsuit against the City of Evanston’s commercial rezoning of Northwestern’s new football stadium. Evanston, Ill. – The Most Livable City Association (MLCA), a non-profit focused on quality of life for all communities in and aroundEvanston and advocating for accountability in…
By Bob Seidenberg Property tax increases are never popular, but past City Council decisions to keep the taxes flat or exceptionally low, failing to keep pace with inflation, may not be in the city’s best interest in the long run. At Tuesday’s Finance and Budget Committee meeting, committee members took a deep dive into Evanston’s…
By Bob Seidenberg City of Evanston officials’ plan for a 7.8% increase in the city’s property tax levy as a key revenue generator for their proposed 2024 budget ran into critical reactions Tuesday night, particularly since some residents had already received tax bill notices in the mail from Cook County informing them of double-digit percentage…
By Bob Seidenberg Red balloons, their strings tied to shoes and alongside pictures of victims, fluttered across Evanston’s Fountain Square in a dramatic representation Sunday in a solidarity rally calling for the release of the hostages taken captive by Hamas. Former State Senator Jeffrey Schoenberg, an Evanston resident, was one of the speakers at the…
