Bill Smith's blog

Evanston city staff will ask aldermen Monday to approve spending nearly $200,000 over the next three years for Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office computer software.

Tower talk in Evanston has died down recently, with the Fountain Square project tabled until the Plan Commission acts on the larger downtown plan.

The president of the Central Street Neighbors Association tried to stir up the fears of his density-phobic neighbors last week by setting up a straw-man list of high population-density communities he figured they wouldn't like.

Evanston Plan Commissioners say they want to streamline the review of new development projects.

Evanstonians today face a debate between two radically different views of our world.

Evanston aldermen are scheduled to vote this evening on a resolution asking the state legislature to do something about police and fire pensions.

The debate over tall buildings in downtown Evanston is back in high gear.

Evanston's aldermen and the city manager deserve praise for finally adopting a budget this week that faces up to the city's pension obligation to its firefighters and police officers.

South Evanston resident Kristin Doll made an impassioned argument for the rental licensing ordinance at Monday's City Council meeting that unintentionally revealed one of the biggest problems with the measure.

The voters of Evanston sent the city's aldermen a message Tuesday in rejecting for a second time a 20 percent hike in the real estate transfer tax.