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The members of the Evanston City Council have signed a letter of apology to the young female lifeguards and beach staff who maintained the City failed to act on allegations of sexual harassment and misconduct they brought in a petition to officials in July 2020.
The City has engaged an outside firm to conduct an independent investigation of the charges.
Mayor Daniel Biss read a copy of the letter into the record at Monday’s City Council meeting.
Here’s a sentence you probably didn’t see coming: Mayor Daniel Biss strutted through Dawes Park last weekend in a pair of red stilettos.
Well, perhaps “stumbled” would be a better word. The Mayor, along with several other men, learned the challenges of walking in heels while participating in the “Walk a Mile in Her Shoes” event, hosted Oct. 3 by the Northwest Center Against Sexual Assault.
The event raised awareness of sexual violence, and the heels symbolized gender bias.
The Design and Plan Review Committee (DAPR) of the City Council approved a few changes to The Emerson, a mixed-income senior development at 1900 Emerson St, on Sept. 29.
“A lot of this is standard design and development changes as we go from conceptual design … into design development,” said Bill James of Camiros, Ltd., a Chicago-based planning consultancy working on the project.
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