Imagine walking out the front door one summer day and strolling down the street to an Olympic event. If the 2016 Olympic games are awarded to Chicago, many Evanston residents […]
Category: City News
Dawes House Reopens on Limited Basis
Closed since April, the Dawes House is once again open to the public. Yesterday, the Evanston History Center (EHC) welcomed visitors to its research room for the first time in […]
Easing the Taxpayers’ Burden City Proposes No Property Tax Increase
By making some strategic interfund transfers, reducing the estimated increase in employee salaries, postponing a bond issue, using one-time revenues from the sale of City property and revising some projections, […]
Finishing Touches: Planning and Development Committee Approves Remainder of the Downtown Plan
At the Jan. 24 Planning and Development Committee meeting, aldermen folded a discussion of the location of a new civic center into their approval of parks and amenities, the final […]
City Manager Hiring to Fall to Next Council
Although the present City Council has hired a search firm to help find a new City Manager, the actual hiring will be up to the Council to be elected in […]
Barnaby Dinges: ‘Economic Development Mayor Who Serves the People’
The RoundTable recently interviewed the four candidates for mayor, asking them each the same questions: How long have you lived in Evanston? What is your experience in City government? How […]
City Manager Hiring to Fall to Next Council
Although the present City Council has hired a search firm to help find a new City Manager, the actual hiring will be up to the Council to be elected in […]
City Proposes No Property Tax Increase
By making some strategic interfund transfers, reducing the estimated increase in employee salaries, postponing a bond issue, using one-time revenues from the sale of City property and revising some projections, […]
Elizabeth Tisdahl: The Mayor for All of Evanston
The RoundTablerecently interviewed the four candidates for mayor, asking them each the same questions: How long have you lived in Evanston? What is your experience in City government? How do […]
Finishing Touches: Planning and Development Committee Approves Remainder of the Downtown Plan
At the Jan. 24 Planning and Development Committee meeting, aldermen folded a discussion of the location of a new civic center into their approval of parks and amenities, the final […]