Category: City News

Mayor Lorraine Morton and Interim City Manager Rolanda Russell accepted the 2008 Irwin A. Bock Award for Excellence in Public Administration-Community Environmental Stewardship Award for the City of Evanston at […]

At the Sept. 24 meeting of the Economic Development Committee, members unanimously approved $132,000 in funds for Evmark, the downtown marketing association. A special taxing district in downtown Evanston allows […]

The Evanston Environmental Association (EEA) and the City of Evanston will be sponsoring the Second Annual Green Living Festival from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Oct. 4 at the […]

After an argument between two young men early in the evening on Sept. 15, one of the men showed up on the doorstep of the other in the 1900 block […]

More than 60 residents turned out on Sept. 25 at a meeting at the Robert Crown Center on Main Street sponsored by an ad hoc citizen group “Stop the Box,” […]

At the Sept. 22 City Council meeting, aldermen approved raises for the members of the next City Council (the nine aldermen and the mayor), the City clerk, the Township supervisor […]

The big shoes to fill are, at some times, dancing shoes. With Mayor Lorraine Morton’s retirement from public office at the end of her current term, the field of mayoral […]

In the late weeks of summer, Evanstonians may have noticed the unique, small mounds of dirt along some of the spaces between the sidewalks and lawns throughout the City. They […]

Evanston firefighters and policemen attended an early morning ceremony on Sept. 11 at Fire Station #1, 1332 Emerson St., to remember the first responders and other victims who lost their […]

Mayor Lorraine Morton signed a disaster declaration on Monday, proclaiming a state of emergency in the City of Evanston after heavy rainfall produced flooding conditions over the weekend. The declaration […]