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Skokie residents got a chance to provide feedback on a proposed election district map at the Skokie Public Library on Tuesday. A month ago, an outside consultant hired by the village presented three maps and took feedback from them to propose the new map. In an election last November, voters approved three election-related referendums, including one to divide the village into four voting ...

As the village of Skokie continues its process to divide the village into four voting districts so that one village board member can be elected from each, a consultant showed residents the proposed map options at a Sept. 11 meeting. The move comes after voters approved electoral reforms in a referendum in last November’s election. Among the measures that voters approved are a provision that, ...

Three members of Evanston’s Streetplus Clean Team have been fired and an additional worker in the program has been suspended without pay by Streetplus, a New York based urban cleaning company which has a contract with the city, after a fight broke out last month when the workers confronted a man urinating in Fountain Square, officials said.

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N.J. lawmakers have put forth bills ending the practice of ticketing drivers with frames on their N.J. plates that cover, in part, Garden State or N.J.

A law firm’s investigators, hired by the suburb, found that officials badly mishandled young, female lifeguards’ complaints of abuse and harassment by supervisors.

Content warning: This story contains mentions of lynching. When resident and Evanston Live TV founder Meleika Gardner saw the Halloween display in person, her back clenched in pain.  Gardner, a community journalist, received a photo tip from a source earlier that day: at least two blow-up bodies wrapped in black plastic were hanging by chains...

Today, Mahesh Bhagia for Mayor sent a follow up letter to the US Attorney’s Office, seeking an Election Monitor in the June 8th, 2021 Democratic Primary. He said he made the request after the Middlesex County Clerk still did not show receipt of over 100 people Vote By Mail applications submitted weeks ago. Minorities, including[...]

Evanston Now Lawsuit claims excessive force in arrest An amended lawsuit filed by an Evanston man alleges excessive use of force, false arrest, and inadequate medical care by city police who arrested him nearly three years ago. A still from body cam video showing officers attempting to handcuff Ronald Louden. An amended lawsuit filed by an Evanston man alleges excessive use of force, false arrest, and inadequate medical care by two city police officers in the June 201...

Evanston RoundTable Open Search Print In his final State of the City address, Mayor Stephen Hagerty said the community will pull together to rebound from the ravages of COVID-19. (Screenshot by Heidi Randhava) Getting your Evanston news from Facebook? Try the Evanston RoundTable’s free daily and weekend email newsletters – sign up now! Maybe later, thanks. On April 9, Mayor Stephen Hagerty delivered his 2021 State of the City Address at the Evanston Chamber of Commerce’s State of th...