Looking to the future, City officials and unnamed Northwestern University policy makers met privately to explore the feasibility of a subway replacing the elevated tracks between Howard Street and Linden Avenue.   The meeting came to light when an Evanston alderman let slip the idea at an April 1 fundraiser for the development of Evanston […]

Following up on revelations one year ago that the City of Evanston was considering developing the Harley Clarke Mansion into a fast-food emporium, the RoundTable has learned that City Council, meeting secretly, April 1, has decided to go ahead with the plan and invite bids from fast-food franchises to locate at the soon-to-be-vacant Harley Clarke […]

Not content with banning bicycles and skateboards on sidewalks in business districts, Council members are pondering a new ordinance that would restrict sidewalk use to mostly unencumbered walkers. “I’m tired of dodging SUV strollers,” said Alderman-at-Large Kir Mudgon, “And getting poked in the eye by golf umbrellas,” the alderman added. “Let’s set the fines really […]