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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 presently forbids "peddling food" — or anything else — within 100 feet of public parks without t...

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 movement and the pandemic highlighted the needs of the Black community. Says the TIF can bring a new focus...

Evanston Now Recap: 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. 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 Burns (5th) chairs. Also present in person Ald. Clare Kelly (1st) and Ald. Jonathan Nieuwsma (4th)....

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 a resolution passed implementing three free beach days — a program that the city estimated would ...

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