January 2007 - Evanston Now

Business

Big red ring closing in on Sherman Plaza

Artist Takashi Soga's 15-foot-tall red-metal sculpture has moved closer to being installed at Sherman Avenue and Davis Street in front of the Sherman Plaza complex with approval of the project

By Bill Smith on January 30, 2007 - 7:43 pm

Government

Committee OKs car noise crackdown

The Evanston Human Services Committee Monday approved an ordinance that would increase fines 500 percentÂ for people who have overly loud car stereo systems.The change would raise the minimum fine for

By Bill Smith on January 30, 2007 - 5:35 pm

Business

Critics target west side plan

Efforts to plan an orderly transition to residential and commercial uses for the fading industrial corridor along Evanston's west side came in for sharp criticism but also some praiseÂ Monday night.

By Bill Smith on January 30, 2007 - 3:08 pm

Government

Civic Center petitions submitted

The Friends of the Civic Center organization turned in its petition signatures this morning seeking an advisory referendum this spring on the building's fate.Group organizer John Kennedy says they submitted

By Bill Smith on January 29, 2007 - 5:16 pm

Government

Big property tax hike still looms

With the budget review season almost half over, Evanston aldermen haveÂ tentatively adoptedÂ changes that at best might trim about 1 percentage point from the city manager's proposed 5.5 percent increase in

By Bill Smith on January 29, 2007 - 2:19 am

Government

Three branches or none, now!

OPINION: A sorry spectacle unfolded at Saturday's Evanston City Council budget workshop.Adults brought out their children to testify in favor of perpetuating a long-standing injustice in our community.The children, being

By Bill Smith on January 28, 2007 - 1:16 pm

Business

Leaders OK with development process

Despite complaints from residents that it gives too much away to developers, Evanston aldermen and plan commissioners say they're generally happy with the city's mandatory planned development process for large

By Bill Smith on January 26, 2007 - 6:28 pm

Government

Eddington named city’s new top cop

City Manager Julia A. Carroll has named Mt. Prospect Police Chief Richard Eddington as Evanston's new Chief of Police.Chief Eddington has headed the Mt. Prospect department since 2001. Mt. Prospect

By Bill Smith on January 23, 2007 - 7:20 pm

Business

Legal snafu delays Evmark tax hearing

Efforts to double the funding for Evanston's downtown marketing organization, EvMark, suffered a setback Monday when aldermen postponed a public hearing on the plan.The hearing was delayed because of what

By Bill Smith on January 23, 2007 - 1:54 pm

Business

Mayor vetoes inclusionary ordinance

Evanston Mayor Lorraine Morton this evening vetoed the inclusionary housing ordinance approved on a 5-4 vote by the City Council earlier this month.The mayor said the ordinance would be "unmanageable

By Bill Smith on January 23, 2007 - 3:30 am

Business

Aldermen advance theater condos plan

Evanston aldermen this evening voted 6-3 to introduce an ordinance that would approve plans for a four-story retail and condominium complex on the Central Street site of the shuttered Evanston

By Bill Smith on January 23, 2007 - 3:03 am

Business

City may get new video service

The phone company AT&T is seeking to bring a new video service to Evanston and other communities across the state.Alderman Ann Rainey, 8th Ward, said at tonight's Administration and Public

By Bill Smith on January 23, 2007 - 12:51 am

Government

Refuse fee memo opens can of worms

A staff budget memo designed to justify the proposed increase in Evanston's sanitation fee has opened up the question of how much more Evanstonians pay for trash hauling than residents

By Bill Smith on January 22, 2007 - 1:43 pm

Business

City workforce 49% bigger than average

Even after layoffs proposed in the city manager's new budget, Evanston will still haveÂ nearly half again as many city workers per capitaÂ as the average for suburban Cook County.A study prepared

By Bill Smith on January 22, 2007 - 3:04 am

Business

Single-family homes show price gain

The median selling price of an existing home in Evanston rose 3 percent last year, but some housing types faired much better than others.Prices for detached single family homes rose

By Anna Renee Ross on January 21, 2007 - 9:50 pm

Government

Civic Center petitions collected

Members of the Friends of the Civic Center group gathered this afternoon to count petitions signatures they've collected so far in their drive to place a non-binding referendum on the

By Bill Smith on January 21, 2007 - 8:44 pm

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