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Vote on city budget priorities
Oct 2 2010 - 10:29am  |  Bill Smith

The City of Evanston is conducting an online poll this weekend seeking residents' priorities for city services, suggestions for program cuts and ideas for generating new revenue.

Without cuts homeowners face huge tax hike
Oct 1 2010 - 2:13pm  |  Bill Smith

Unless Evanston officials find a way to close the city's $3.5 million general fund budget gap, homeowners will face a city property tax increase of nearly 13 percent next year.

Arts month kickoff tonight
Oct 1 2010 - 2:00pm  |  City of Evanston

Again this year, Evanston joins the Illinois Arts Council in recognizing October as Arts & Humanities Month, a statewide celebration encouraging all residents to establish, deepen, and expand our relationships with the arts and humanities.

The month will focus attention Evanston's cultural resources and increase public awareness of the arts.

NU names new alumni relations chief
Oct 1 2010 - 12:01pm  |  Northwestern News

Bob McQuinn, associate vice president for development at the California Institute of Technology, has been named Northwestern University vice president for alumni relations and development.

McQuinn, 54, is a veteran development leader with nearly 20 years of experience covering six comprehensive campaigns.

Since 2003, he has been associate vice president for development at Caltech. McQuinn also served as Caltech’s acting vice president for development and alumni relations in 2008 and 2009, overseeing the 70-member development and alumni relations team and supporting three trustee committees.

Power transformer explodes at Lake and Dodge
Oct 1 2010 - 10:50am  |  Bill Smith

Evanston fire units have now left the scene of  an explosion in an electrical transformer vault that happened about 10:40 this morning near the intersection of Lake Street and Dodge Avenue.

Traffic was detoured around the scene for about 90 minutes, but both streets have now been reopened and CTA buses are running their normal routes through the area again.

Man shot to death on Dodge Avenue
Oct 1 2010 - 8:37am  |  Bill Smith

Evanston police say a young man was shot to death in the 1400 block of Dodge Avenue about 10 p.m. Thursday.

Youth Job Center hosts job fair Wednesday
Sep 30 2010 - 5:34pm  |  YouthJobCenter

he Youth Job Center of Evanston will host its Fall Job Fair  from 1 to 4 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct 6 at the Evanston Public Library.

The job fair will offer local job seekers ages 16 and above the opportunity to meet with currently hiring employers.

Girl charged in school bomb threat
Sep 30 2010 - 5:21pm  |  Bill Smith

Evanston police say a 13-year-old student at King Lab school has been charged in connection with a bomb threat at the school last week.

Housing grant draws protest plans
Sep 30 2010 - 4:32pm  |  Bill Smith

No contracts for rehab work have been awarded yet under Evanston's $18.5 million federal grant designed to restore 100 units of foreclosed housing, but some minority contractors have already scheduled a protect at which they plan to claim they're not getting a fair share of the work.

What do you want from local news?
Sep 30 2010 - 2:59pm  |  Bill Smith

A group of Northwestern University graduate students are conducting a survey of Evanston residents as part of their work on an innovative local news project.

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