City council stopped short of greenlighting a planned housing complex on Church Street Monday night, holding a sale of land but granting loans to the Housing Opportunity Development Corporation. The...

Evanston community members can now register to vote in the city’s participatory budgeting pilot program. In 2021, the city allocated $3 million from American Rescue Plan Act funds to the participatory...

For many environmental activists in Evanston, their greatest priority involves meeting the goals set out in the Climate Action and Resilience Plan first approved by the city in 2018.   The plan calls...

City Council voted unanimously Monday to allocate $3 million of Evanston’s American Rescue Plan Act funding toward recommendations presented in an Evanston Thrives report. The report aims to help local...

Sarah Flax was appointed Evanston’s community development director after serving as the interim director since August 2022, the city announced in a March news release.  Flax has worked for Evanston...