Category: City News

A City ordinance that would require all new buildings over a certain size in the City to meet green building standards moved forward in the Dec. 1 meeting of the […]

Continuing a 25-year tradition, members of the Evanston Police Department distributed holiday food baskets to about 200 Evanston families on a snowy Dec. 19. Undeterred by the weather (the Illinios […]

At the Dec. 1 Rules Committee meeting, members of the Blue Ribbon Committee (BRC) on pension funding presented their report and answered questions about the implications of their findings – […]

Evanston’s tax-increment financing (TIF) districts were created to attract development to areas of the City that were underused, undeveloped or in need of refurbishing. Two are located in the downtown […]

At the Dec. 4 meeting of the Planning and Development Committee, residents weighed in on the long and the short of the proposed downtown plan. They expressed concerns about the […]

Four persons have turned in their petitions to be candidates for the next mayor of Evanston: Barnaby Dinges, Jeanne Lindwall, Stuart Opdycke and Elizabeth Tisdahl. Two others, Matt Gleason and […]

With already a $2.8 million shortfall in the upcoming fiscal year’s tentative budget, a $146 million liability in police and firefighters pension funds and a persistent and pervasive economic slump, […]

An anonymous donor has committed $1 million to the Evanston Community Foundation (ECF), citing difficult times in Evanston and urging those who can to rise to the challenges presented by […]

Evanston’s lights are shining more brightly now than at almost any other time in the last decade, thanks to the diligence and persistence of the City’s Energy Commission. A March […]

As the nation’s economy rolls into another month of decline, City staff members are preparing a stripped-down, bite-the-bullet budget, one that may have something to disappoint nearly everyone: reduced capital […]