January 2010 - Page 3 of 8 - Evanston Now

Youth Job Center gets software upgrade grant

The Youth Job Center of Evanston has received a $25,000 grant from the Hewitt Associates Foundation to fund its new client management system. The grant, titled “Workforce Development through Training

By YouthJobCenter on January 23, 2010 - 10:44 pm

Media center reported flush with cash

Federal tax documents show the Evanston Community Media Center recently had cash reserves totalling more than 86 percent of its annual budget. The group's leaders had claimed at a budget

By Bill Smith on January 23, 2010 - 10:27 pm

NU students ‘stand with Haiti’

Port-au-Prince is 1,850 miles from Evanston but it is close to the hearts of Northwestern students planning more than a week of fundraisers to aid in earthquake relief. In an

By Northwestern News on January 23, 2010 - 7:04 pm

Recap: City budget workshop

Here's a recap of our live coverage of this morning's City Council budget workshop. City Budget Workshop

By Bill Smith on January 23, 2010 - 2:36 pm

Some branch backers want a divorce

Some backers of Evanston's branch libraries argue the city's library department should divorce itself from city government. They contend the city's library system would be better off if -- like

By Bill Smith on January 23, 2010 - 12:35 pm

Old decisions limit fire budget options

Fire Chief Alan Berkowsky says Evanston officials have considered and rejected reducing the number of fire stations in town in the past. Berkowsky says that some years ago the City

By Bill Smith on January 22, 2010 - 4:54 pm

Mayor in D.C. to back gun control

Evanston's Elizabeth Tisdahl was in Washington Thursday joining mayors from much larger cities at a news conference at which Chicago Mayor Richard Daley urged the Supreme Court not to overturn

By Bill Smith on January 22, 2010 - 3:53 pm

New mid-campus stoplight eyed for Sheridan Road

Evanston city staff plan to ask the City Council to approve a new stop light at the entrance to a Northwestern University parking lot south of Garrett Place. The location

By Daily Northwestern on January 22, 2010 - 2:19 pm

NU robot expert goes Hollywood

Northwestern University professor Malcolm MacIver has taken his robotics expertise to Hollywood. He is a technical script consultant for the new show “Caprica,” which premiers Friday on the Syfy channel.

By Northwestern News on January 21, 2010 - 7:15 pm

Northwestern’s endowment is recovering

Northwestern University's endowment has recovered nearly half the losses it suffered during the recent market downturn. The Daily Northwestern quotes University President Morton Schapiro as saying the endowment's value now

By Daily Northwestern on January 21, 2010 - 4:42 pm

Keenan-Devlin leads in fundraising

Patrick Keenan-Devlin has pulled into the fundraising lead in the 18th District state house contest, thanks to unusually large contributions from a major public employees union. 5244

By Bill Smith on January 21, 2010 - 3:38 pm

Would a branch library tax hit you?

One option Evanston officials are considering to fund the city's branch libraries is creating special service area taxing districts to support the branches. There's been no determination yet of exactly

By Bill Smith on January 21, 2010 - 11:00 am

Special event permit deadline is Feb. 1

Organizations that wish to hold special events in Evanston that use city facilities need to obtain a special event permit and policy instructions packet. A non-refundable $100 application fee must

By City of Evanston on January 21, 2010 - 1:52 am

Evanston Kiwanis members help Haiti

The Kiwanis Foundation of Evanston has contributed $2,500 to relief efforts in Haiti. Foundation President Richard Fitzgerald presented the check for the contribution to Major Alberto Rapley of the Salvation

By Marian Kurz on January 20, 2010 - 5:46 pm

State grant to upgrade Chicago Avenue sidewalks

Evanston officials say they plan to use a $800,000 state grant to continue work on the city's Chicago Avenue Streetscape Improvement Project. This year's work will focus on the west

By Bill Smith on January 20, 2010 - 2:40 pm

No decision on dining hall dispute

Evanston's Zoning Board of Appeals spent four hours hearing testimony Tuesday night in a challenge by neighbors to Northwestern University's use of the Great Room, a dining hall in a

By Bill Smith on January 20, 2010 - 2:19 pm

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