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By Bob Seidenberg Former City Council Member Ann Rainey was originally scheduled to go out to dinner to celebrate her birthday on June 29. Instead, she was rerouted to the Palmhouse, a banquet hall at 619 Howard St., in her beloved Eighth Ward, where waiting supporters serenaded her as she entered. Rainey served 34 years…

By Bob Seidenberg Evanston has turned to Christopher B. Burke Engineering Limited to oversee a number of major public works projects, but a City Council member wants to hear more about what went wrong with one of them as the city again engages the group. During the June 12 meeting of the Administration & Public…

By Bob Seidenberg As Evanston moves closer to rolling out a first-time civilian response program for lower-priority 911 calls, Rachel Williams has been serving as a roving ambassador for the new system, dropping in at different ward meetings to explain how it will work. On Thursday, June 15, Williams, the city’s reimagining public safety administrator,…

By Bob Seidenberg Janet Alexander Davis, an early civil rights activist whose service and grounded advice has been treasured by generations of Evanston leaders at multiple organizations, was honored with a street segment designated in her name at the June 12 City Council meeting. Evanston City Council members voted unanimously at Monday’s meeting to designate…