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Northwestern students can now hit the ice for free at the new Robert Crown Community Center. Completed in 2020, the center is home to two new skating rinks, an art room, track, outdoor turf field, library, dance studio and state-licensed child care. The facility saw expansions from the old community center, which had one skating...

Residents voiced concerns about the amounts allocated in the city’s proposed 2022 budget for key public buildings and residential facilities Monday during the first of two public hearings. Many resident questions centered on funding priorities, saying the city was putting nonessential expenditures over health and safety needs like affordable housing and climate action. City staff...

Department heads from Evanston’s city government made their cases to use federal relief funding for new employee positions in the 2022 budget at a special City Council meeting Monday. The city published its proposed 2022 budget online last Monday, which includes requests for new employees in four departments. These positions would be budgeted through the...

新版本的《蝙蝠侠》已经杀青四月有余，不过关于该片各个角色的戏份情况，外界还是一无所知。日前，在做客一档访谈节目时，企鹅人的扮演者科林·法瑞尔向外界透露，自己的戏份很少，“只有五六个场景”。 对于此，科林·法瑞尔表示：“我等不及要看这部电影了。对于我来说，9分钟的戏份，就是一个巨大的赠品。而我很想知道导演是怎么处理影片的其他情节的”。据�...

The CJCC, which was founded in 2019 by Sheriff John Idleburg, is a collaborative partnership between law enforcement and legal community stakeholders designed to keep low-risk offenders out of jail, reduce recidivism and work toward reducing ethnic disparities in the criminal justice system.

Evanston Now Evanstons new City Council was sworn in this evening. The ceremonial session is scheduled to start at 7:30 p.m. The meeting agenda is available online. The meeting is reconvened at 7:42 p.m. Outgoing Mayor Steve Hagerty hands off the gavel to incoming Mayor Danial Biss, who’s sworn in by Judge Lionel Jean-Baptiste. Mayor, clerk and aldermen take the Athenian Oath of Citizenship. Invocation from Pastor Monte Dillard. Alderman Peter Braithwaite, 2nd Ward, taking the oath of office....

Northwestern to pay $1 million to city for use of Robert Crown Northwestern will pay $1 million in exchange for the University’s use of the Robert Crown Community Center, an agreement City Council voted to approve Monday. The agreement, which will last until 2026, allows NU to use Robert Crown’s ice rink for the University’s Men’s Club Hockey team and Synchronized Skating team. Northwestern will also rent out classroom space for Northwestern programs. Northwestern announced plans to con...

Evanston Now Recap: Administration and Public Works Committee Heres a recap of our live coverage of this afternoons Evanston City Council Administration and Public Works Committee meeting. The meeting is scheduled to start at 4 p.m. A packet with information on the agenda items is available online. Meeting called to order at 4:03 p.m. Alderman Tom Suffredin, 6th Ward, is chairing the meeting. Aldermen Ann Rainey, 8th Ward, and Cicely Fleming, 9th Ward, are also present. No speakers present for ...

A 6th Ward resident said he was removed from a virtual Tuesday 1st Ward meeting after attempting to ask Ald. Judy Fiske (1st) a question about a Council vote regarding the Robert Crown Community Center. At the start of the meeting, Fiske said, “There is a political campaign going on, so we’re not going to talk politics tonight.” When 6th Ward resident Mike Vasilko asked about Robert Crown’s contractor not paying a penalty for failing to meet a local employment threshold based on a vote ...

none The single most pressing issue facing the Evanstons city government is _______, and this is what I intend to do about it. Transparency, because it is necessary for addressing nearly any other answer that could put here. My foremost priority will be to restore independent Freedom of Information Officer Act disclosure duties to the City Clerks Office, and in the meantime, I will be auditing the Citys FOIA and Open Meetings Act compliance and addressing those issues with the City Council, st...