City Council approved a nearly $100,000 contract award with Living Habitats, a Chicago-based architectural firm, for the engagement, design and implementation of the Downtown Evanston “Civic Plaza” plan Monday night. The plan is part of the Evanston Thrives Retail District Action Plant. Other contracts were amended for the City’s Sidewalk and Streetlight Improvement Project. The.
Evanston City Council approved the sale of the city-owned empty lot at the corner of Church Street and Darrow Avenue to Housing Opportunities Development Corporation, effectively moving forward the nonprofit organization’s proposed 33-unit affordable housing project. Housing Opportunities Development Corporation has partnered with Mt. Pisgah Ministry, a small church in the city’s 5th Ward, to .
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Evanston’s City Council has several notable votes on the agenda for its Monday evening meeting, including resources for two developments in West Evanston,
As Evanston aims to redevelop the Mayfair Cutoff, an abandoned railroad embankment running southwest through the city, experts and residents say the rail line has historically contributed to segregation. The railroad, built by the Junction Railroad Company in 1889 as a bypass between the Chicago & North Western main line and Chicago’s Mayfair Junction, aimed.