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Responding to a regional call for migrant housing, City Council signaled it would support opening a home for asylum-seekers in Evanston — but also appeared hesitant toward renovating a vacant downtown office building into a temporary shelter. City staff revealed a proposal last week to use the two-story building at 1020 Church St. as a...
The Evanston Reparations Committee is looking to move its reparations fund to a Black-owned financial establishment. The fund currently is managed by Byline Bank, according to Clayton Black, the city’s budget manager. During the Nov. 2 Reparations Committee meeting, Black said the city would be “totally open” to moving the fund, but stated there are a few financial policy requirements the ...
Evanston resident Cheryl Henry attended Thursday’s Reparations Committee meeting to understand how she could receive payments from the city. “This is the first time I’ve actually come in and I want to really understand what’s going on,” Henry said. Henry was one of about 20 attendees gathered at the Lorraine H. Morton Civic Center to...
City council voted 6-2 Monday night to approve a proposed affordable housing development on Church Street. The two council votes were the final hurdle in the controversial development’s more than two-year-long approval process. The planned four-story mixed-use building is set to have ground-floor retail space, on-site parking and 33 units of affordable housing units. While...
City Council voted 6-1 Monday night to introduce an ordinance to sell city-owned land to the Housing Opportunity Development Corporation. The ordinance will be up for action at the City Council meeting on June 26. The move sets the foundation for a 33-unit affordable housing complex in the 5th Ward. City Council originally paved the...