Category: City News

City Manager Julia Carroll tendered her resignation on April 28 in an executive session after the regular City Council meeting. In a letter to Council members she cited health reasons […]

In what may be a reversal of intention for at least some of the nine aldermen on the Civic Center Committee, the members voted on April 23 to investigate the […]

On April 23 the Civic Center Committee plans to decide the fate of 2100 Ridge Ave. and the former Catholic girls’ school that has housed the City government offices since […]

City Council is poised to forward to the state legislature a resolution calling for two measures aldermen hope will aid them in addressing the pension-funding crisis. Over the past 13 […]

Members of the Human Services Committee on April 7 expressed their disapproval over the management of the Township Assessor’s office and discussed making additional cuts to assessor Sharon Eckersall’s budget […]

On April 8, the developers of 708 Church St. presented their new proposal for the site: a tower that is 11 stories and about 100 feet shorter than was originally […]

The Township of Evanston has a “handsome” cash balance, Township Clerk Mary Morris announced at the annual meeting of the Township of Evanston, held on April 8. Sitting as trustees […]

The City’s accumulated unfunded liability in the police and firefighters’ pension funds has been a thorn in the tax side of Evanston for nearly a year – since the City […]

Less of a tower and more of a box is expected from developers Tim Anderson and James Klutznick and architect Lawrence Booth when they present a new proposal to Council […]

In an evening filled with procedural twists and turns, aldermen at the March 10 City Council meeting overrode Mayor Lorraine Morton’s veto of the budget the Council approved on Feb. […]