When coach David Braun heard his son Andrew wanted to be graduate student running back Cam Porter for Halloween, he knew it extended far beyond Porter’s presence on the gridiron. “Andrew didn’t do that just because Cam’s a really good football player,” Braun said. “He sees things in...
City Council passed Evanston’s budget and tax levy for fiscal year 2025 at its Monday evening meeting, with property taxes set to remain flat for another year. The revised budget presented at the meeting totaled about $395.6 million for expenditures and operating transfers out — a decrease of about $3.3 million from the original proposal. The plan incorporates a menu of options to generate about $1.5 million in revenue, reducing the amount of money extracted from the city’s General Fund from about $12.6 million to $11.1 million. Additionally, the new budget fixes an accounting error tied to Northwestern’s Good Neighbor Fund and integrates the revised cost of the city’s Capital Improvement...
