Category: City News

Whatever route Assistant City Manager Judith Aiello chooses to take for her trip home on this, her last day of official work for the City of Evanston, it will likely […]

The Blue Ribbon Committee that has been appointed to review and make recommendations about the police and firemen pension funds to City Council selected Mark Metz to act as chairman […]

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 […]