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Evanston Now Beaches to be free three days a week for residents Evanston's City Council voted Monday night to make access to all beaches free for residents on Saturdays, Sundays and Mondays this summer. Devon Reid displays a chart he said children had made for him to illustrate what he said would be the minimal budget impact of making beach access free. After a raft of claims that charging for beach access is racist, Evanston’s City Council voted Monday night to make access to all beaches free for residents on Saturdays, Sundays and Mondays this summer. Ald. Devon...

Evanston Now Vaccinations are the solution, the company says. The Food 4 Less store on Main Street in Evanston. (Google Maps) In a letter to Evanston aldermen, a spokesman for the Food 4 Less grocery chain says vaccination, not the hazard pay proposed by Ald. Devon Reid (8th), is the way to assure the health of supermarket workers. And, Vanessa Rosales, director of corporate affairs for Food 4 Less, says the chain is offering a $100 payment to workers who get vaccinated. As of last Monday, the city reported that 56% of Evanston residents 12-64 were fully vaccinated ...

Evanston Now But alderman says it's racist to charge for beach access. Lawrence Hemingway. Evanston’s Parks Director says an alderman’s plan to provide free access to city beaches would punch a $1.2 million hole in this year’s city budget. Newly elected Ald. Devon Reid (8th) has demanded an immediate end to what he calls “the racist policy of charging for beach access” and has placed the issue on Monday’s City Council agenda. Devon Reid. City budget officials in the past have estimated that it would require roughly a 3% increase in property taxes to gene...

This story contains mentions of gun violence and domestic violence. After nationwide firearm deaths reached a 20-year high in 2020, Evanston- and Illinois-based  advocates are pushing for further implementation of gun-violence prevention policies. Although gun violence increased nationally in 2020, some advocates say the issue doesn’t receive enough attention within the Evanston community, especially when it happens in Black and lower-income neighborhoods. Black men are eight times more likely to die by firearm homicide than the general population, according to a 2019 Centers for Disease C...

(AP Photo/Eric Gay, File) It’s a real conundrum for many on the Left; how to reconcile their desire for more gun control laws with their demand for less policing. After all, there’s not much point in putting more restrictions on gun ownership in place if the new laws aren’t going to be enforced, but if you believe that we’re already over-policed, then are more gun laws really the best way to address “gun violence”? Democrats in Evanston, Illinois are wrestling with this dilemma, with some local politicians vowing to adopt an “intersectional approach” to the issue.