The owner of a $425,000 home, the median-priced residence in Evanston, will likely pay about $450 more in property taxes in 2023 than they did in 2022, representing an increase […]
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Fifth Ward School/Community Center survey results
Editor’s note: The RoundTable has more Evanston City Council Jan. 9 coverage on city seeking to renegotiate the District 65 MOU, slow down District 65 campus decisions, the Artists Book […]
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City urges council to slow down, gather more opinion on Fifth Ward Foster Park Campus
City staff recommended to the city council Monday night that the city sever ties with District 65’s fast-paced schedule on the Fifth Ward Foster Park Campus, asking officials to circle back and collect more feedback from the community before moving forward.
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City to renegotiate construction deal with D65 for Fifth Ward campus
More than a month after a tense community meeting about development plans for a new Fifth Ward school and a renovated or relocated Fleetwood-Jourdain Community Center, many of the public’s key questions about the project remain unanswered.
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A glimpse inside Rice: Evanston’s own residential school
A few blocks down Main Street from the Robert Crown Community Center and Washington Elementary School lies a building you may not know much about – the Daniel F. and […]
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Letter to the Editor: Property tax justice for E-Town
I am asking for property tax justice for Evanston as a “sayer,” and not a “nay-sayer.” I feel compelled to point out the growing and yawning capital disparity between Northwestern […]
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Union vote set for NU graduate workers
With the new year on the horizon, graduate workers at Northwestern University are gearing up for an election in the winter quarter that will answer one question: whether they want […]
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D65 joins middle school debate league
District 65 is joining a debate league for middle schoolers to participate in throughout the upcoming winter and spring, Superintendent Devon Horton said in an email to district families on […]
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At NAACP forum, Northwestern touts ‘vast economic impact’ of Ryan Field project
More than 100 people set aside holiday preparations to gather Dec. 19 at Second Baptist Church for a forum about Northwestern University’s plans to build a new Ryan Field. At […]
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Lease certificates 101: A primer on funding the Fifth Ward school
Evanston/Skokie District 65 is paying for the new neighborhood, kindergarten through eighth grade school in the Fifth Ward by selling lease certificates. But what exactly are lease certificates? Through an […]