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UpdatedWed, Jul 14, 2021 at 6:50 pm CT Reply The Evanston City Council voted 6-2 to grant preliminary approval to a change to City Code that would allow the city manager to authorize licensed "pushcart peddlers" and "pack peddlers" to operate at the lakefront. (Jonah Meadows/Patch) EVANSTON, IL — The City Council moved closer toward loosening its ban on lakefront food vendors Monday as alderpeople granted preliminary approval to a proposal to permit pushcarts at the beach. Evanston City Code ...

Evanston Now The meeting is scheduled to start at 6:15 p.m. A packet with information on tonight’s agenda items is available online. Meeting called to order at 6:22 p.m. Eight members present. Ald. Peter Braithwaite (2nd) is absent. Mayor Daniel Biss chairs the meeting. Public Hearing on Five Fifths TIF Robert Rychlicki, of the city’s TIF consultants, Kane McKenna, introduces the presentation. Paul Zalmezak, the city’s economic development manager, says last summer’s civil rights moveme...

Evanston Now Recap: Administration and Public Works Committee Heres a recap of our live coverage of this afternoons meeting of the Evanston City Council Administration and Public Works Committee. Here’s a recap of our live coverage of this afternoon’s meeting of the Evanston City Council Administration and Public Works Committee. The meeting is scheduled to start at 4:30 p.m. A packet with information on the agenda items is available online. Meeting called to order at 4:43 p.m. Ald. Bobby B...

City Council voted to introduce a pilot program that would implement lakefront parking charges for non-residents Monday, moving forward with a proposal that would reverse the area’s longstanding free parking status. The introductory vote initially tied 4-4, with Ald. Peter Braithwaite (2nd) absent. Mayor Daniel Biss cast the tie-breaking vote, deciding to move the proposal forward for final action at City Council’s July 12 meeting.  The proposal was introduced to Council just a month after...

The June 3 meeting of the Joint Review Board to consider a recommendation on the Five-Fifths tax-increment financing (TIF) district attracted nearly twice

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 Theater project is one of three seeking to benefit from the latest federal pandemic recovery program. A rendering of the proposed Northlight Theatre building on Church Street. Evanston’s Economic Development Committee discussed three proposals Wednesday night for use of federal American Rescue Plan Act funding — including a $2 million request from Northlight Theatre. Northlight Executive Director Tim Evans told the committee the theater has raised mor...

Alderpeople instead referred the proposed U2 zoning district amendment to the Rules Committee for further review.   The previous council voted 5-4 to approve a two-year pilot program in November 2019, which would have allowed the University to host six single-day events and one multi-day event each year, with crowds of up to 3,000 people outdoors and 7,000 indoors. The program was met with widespread opposition at the time, particularly from 7th Ward residents who lived in the vicinity of Wel...

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....

City Council members moved forward on a proposal that would mandate big box employers to provide a substantive payout to frontline employees during the pandemic. The ordinance, requested by Ald. Devon Reid (8th), would require retailers with over 500 employees nationwide to retroactively pay essential Evanston workers an additional $6 for every hour worked during Phases 1 through 3 of the state’s Restore Illinois program, and $3.50 for every hour worked through Phase 4.  The proposal was bro...