City exploring temporary move from Civic Center offices to downtown
By Bob Seidenberg Evanston officials are exploring moving city offices from the Morton Civic Center to a downtown site while…
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Beekeeper’s beehives can stay but farther away from neighbor’s pool: Report
By Bob Seidenberg/rseiden914@gmail.com Northwest Evanston resident Mary Nisi need not remove her beehives, but they should be set farther back…
Neighbors group files lawsuit, alleging ‘backroom deal’ in city‘s approval of Ryan Field rezoning
News Release Residents of Evanston and Wilmette join the Most Livable City Association in lawsuit against the City of Evanston’s…
Less-than-inflation property tax increases could work against the city: Finance chair
By Bob Seidenberg Property tax increases are never popular, but past City Council decisions to keep the taxes flat or…
City’s proposed tax hike comes as homeowners have already taken a ‘hit’
By Bob Seidenberg City of Evanston officials’ plan for a 7.8% increase in the city’s property tax levy as a…
An estimated 200 to 250 people at Evanston’s Fountain Square Sunday in solidarity rally for release of the hostages
By Bob Seidenberg Red balloons, their strings tied to shoes and alongside pictures of victims, fluttered across Evanston’s Fountain Square…
Council supports extending ban to all flavored tobacco products
Flavored cigars popularity with young people helped ignite Council member Eleanor Revelle’s call for a ban on all flavored tobacco…
Evanston Chabad rabbi says released hostage Judith Raanan had hope going for her in her release
By Bob Seidenberg Evanston’s Tannenbaum Chabad Rabbi Dov Hillel KIein recalled saying two weeks ago if any of the hostages…
‘It’s hard to replace 100-year-old trees’: Golf Course neighbors upset at chopping down of trees
By Bob Seidenberg Some neighbors of Canal Shores Golf Course, upset to see three old trees on the course get…
A neighbor’s bees are bugging an Evanston resident, so city seeks insect expert opinion
By Bob Seidenberg Northwest Evanston resident Nina Paleologos said she has barely used her yard or pool – which sit…