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Evanston Now Seeks to find the best structure for delivering public safety services. Daniel Biss. Mayor Daniel Biss says a new Evanston police chief might end up supervising workers with responsibilities beyond what’s now seen as the role of police. Speaking to the second meeting of his Reimagining Public Safety Committee Tuesday afternoon, a day after Police Chief Demitrous Cook announced his retirement, Biss said the city needs to decide what infrastructure it sho...

Graduation Issue 2021 January 11, 2018 — Provost informs Faculty Senate of budget deficit When then-Provost Jonathan Holloway first informed faculty members that the University was operating on a budget deficit, he classified the problem as “an annoyance.” But the University’s budget woes continued for quarters, leading to the layoffs of 80 staff members in...

Evanston Pride, the startup LGBT organization for one of Chicagos largest suburbs, is inspiring Evanstonians to decorate the front of their homes and local businesses to celebrate Pride month in June.The tenderfoot nonprofit would like participants to sign up, so they know who to credit ahead of th

U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth met Saturday in Des Plaines with members of the Northwest Municipal Conference to discuss the importance of federal funding to help municipal governments recover from the economic impacts of COVID-19.

(Cesar Calderon/BGA) Perhaps you’ve heard the buzz about something called ranked choice voting. Instead of marking their ballots for just one candidate, voters are asked to rank two or three or more, with the winner determined through multiple rounds of counting if needed.  San Francisco does it. Minneapolis does it. In November, Maine became the first state to use ranked choice voting in a presidential election. There’s been some early talk of adopting ranked choice voting, or RCV, for mu...

City Council approves creation of Reimagining Public Safety Committee City Council approved the creation of the Reimagining Public Safety Committee, an ad-hoc committee tasked with analyzing Evanston Police Department’s relationship with the city and presenting “community-informed” recommendations for the 2022 budget process, on Monday. In one of his first acts as mayor, Mayor Daniel Biss announced the formation of the committee at the first meeting of the 81st City Council. According to ...

Evanston Now City starts ‘reimagining’ public safety Mayor says he wants solutions developed by this fall, in time to implement them in the citys 2022 budget. Mayor Daniel Biss, chairing this mornings committee meeting. Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss outlined a set of nine possible topics for the new Reimagining Public Safety Committee to address as the group met for the first time this morning. The meeting came just a day after the one-year anniversary of the murder ...

UpdatedTue, May 25, 2021 at 8:11 pm CT Replies(22) Advocates of abandoning Evanstons policy of charging for beach access describe it as racist and exclusionary. (Jonah Meadows/Patch) EVANSTON, IL — The Evanston City Council voted Monday to phase out the citys policy of charging its residents for access to public beaches. Starting this week, Evanston residents will no longer need a pass or a token on Saturdays, Sundays or Mondays to visit one of the six public swimming beaches operated by the...

Residents will have free access to Evanston beaches on Saturdays, Sundays and Mondays starting this summer.  City Council was initially set to vote Monday on a resolution proposed by Ald. Devon Reid (8th) discontinuing the sale of beach tokens and refunding tokens already sold, which would have made Evanston beaches free seven days a week. Alderpeople unanimously voted for an amended resolution after a contentious debate that lasted multiple hours and included a suspension of procedural rules....