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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


 MWRD commissioner Debra Shore speaks. The board granted an easement to the Cook County Department of Transportation and Highways to construct a road at the 10th hole of the Canal Shores Golf Course.

Metropolitan Water Reclamation District grants easement at Canal Shores Golf Course

November 15, 2018

The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago on Thursday approved a plan that will allow the Cook County Department of Transportation and Highways to pave over part of a golf course and...

Mayor Steve Hagerty at a City Council meeting. Aldermen narrowly approved Hagerty’s appointments to a new affordable housing committee.

Council approves appointments to new affordable housing committee

November 12, 2018

Aldermen have narrowly approved appointments to a new affordable housing committee that will oversee the development of the city’s affordable housing plan. The appointments — made by Mayor Steve...

Ald. Eleanor Revelle (7th) speaks at a rally protesting a proposed easement at the Canal Shores Golf Course. The easement would harm the area’s ecology and “effectively destroy” the freeway.

Protestors organize against golf course easement proposal

November 11, 2018

Golfers, dog walkers and local residents rallied on the 10th hole of the Canal Shores Golf Course just north of Evanston to protest plans to pave a road in a section of the course. The Dick Keefe Development...

Ald. Eleanor Revelle (7th) speaks at a city meeting while Ald. Tom Suffredin (6th) looks on. City Council meetings in Evanston often go long into the night, and aldermen say the long hours don’t help discussion and decision-making.

City Council meetings in Evanston are long. That’s a problem.

November 8, 2018

Mondays tend to be a late night for Evanston’s aldermen and city officials. It’s not Monday Night Football or an impending dread of the rest of the work week that keeps them awake, but council...

The Harley Clarke Mansion. Voters will weigh in on the future of the building in an advisory referendum Tuesday.

Months of tense debate over Harley Clarke to be clarified with public referendum Tuesday

November 4, 2018

Residents will have the option to weigh in on the future of the Harley Clarke Mansion, a decades-old brick behemoth on Sheridan Road north of campus, in a referendum vote this Tuesday. The referendum...

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