Evanston Mayor Steve Hagerty reportedly has asked Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart to investigate who leaked a confidential report to the City Council regarding alleged misconduct by City Clerk Devon Reid.
Thirteen years after Evanston aldermen bowed to neighbors' objections and killed plans for subsidized housing on a vacant 5th Ward corner, the possibility of another subsidized development at the site emerged at a community meeting Monday night.
Plans from the YWCA Evanston North Shore to demolish two homes on its Ridge Avenue property and construct a new shelter and office addition go before another city panel this week.
Fans of Evanston's former dog beach have recently advocated converting a people beach for dog use -- but that move would be hard to justify economically.
Evanston City Manager Wally Bobkiewicz was one of two finalists for the position of city administrator in Issaquah, Washington, who met with residents there at a informal public forum Thursday evening.
The City of Evanston plans to try again this fall to figure out how to use a variable pricing model to maximize parking income from out-of-town sports fans attending Northwestern University football games.
The executive director of the Evanston Chamber of Commerce says the chamber's board isn't opposed to a city scheme to require an estimated 2,500 home-based businesses in town pay an annual $25 registration fee to the city.
Evanston City Manager Wally Bobkiewicz is scheduled to be in Issaquah, Washington, Thursday for public interviews as one of two finalists to become that town's new city administrator.
After a City Council vote this week Evanston will start putting up additional street-cleaning signs on blocks where the most tickets have been issued for violating the street cleaning parking ban.
A zoning change that would have opened seven additional downtown sites to potential office development went down to defeat at the Evanston City Council's Planning and Development Committee meeting Monday night.
