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Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

Ald. Ann Rainey (8th) likened Northwestern’s unpaid $650,000 worth of fire services to “murder.” “The line has to be drawn,” she said.

Looking to cut costs for 2021 budget, Aldermen consider charging Northwestern for fire services

November 17, 2020

Aldermen discussed ways to reduce the 4.9 percent property tax increase proposed in Evanston’s 2021 budget in a Monday night special City Council meeting, given the increased financial burden of the...

Ald. Donald Wilson (4th). Wilson said he believes a proposed local eviction moratorium will do more harm than good to Evanston tenants.

Council tables local eviction moratorium in conflict with CDC, state directives

September 15, 2020

City Council voted Monday to table a resolution that would have created a temporary moratorium on tenant eviction notices due to COVID-19.  The proposed moratorium, similar to a directive currently...

Evanston City Council, made up of nine aldermen and the mayor.

A guide to Evanston politics

August 16, 2020

Evanston is divided into nine wards, but make no mistake — all wards are not the same. Residents in each ward have vastly different backgrounds and interests. Much of Northwestern sits in the 7th Ward,...

City Clerk Devon Reid. City Council discussed the hiring of an intern.

City Council votes to stop payments to intern

August 10, 2020

City Council voted Monday to stop payments to a college intern that City Clerk Devon Reid employed during a hiring freeze. At a July 27 City Council meeting, the council voted to pay the intern for...

City Clerk Devon Reid. Reid’s decision to hire a long-time summer intern despite a hiring freeze led to complaints from aldermen at Monday’s council meeting.

At City Council, questions raised over city clerk’s hiring of college intern despite freeze

July 28, 2020

The decision to employ a college student at the city clerk’s office despite a hiring freeze was the center of an argument at Monday’s City Council meeting. The controversy concerned scheduled payments...

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