Content warning: This story contains mentions of gun violence and death. A father of two children was shot Thursday evening on the 2100 block of McCormick Boulevard near the North Shore Canal. The Evanston Police Department identified the victim Friday as Servando Hamros, a 29-year-old male Evanston resident. NBC Chicago reported Hamros was about to.
Evanston released plans Friday to fill the open 2nd Ward City Council seat. Mayor Daniel Biss will appoint former councilmember Peter Braithwaite’s successor following an application process. Candidate applications are due August 12, a public engagement is scheduled tentatively for August 31, and City Council will confirm Biss’ appointment September 12. This process will be.
Evanston might start rolling its reparations payments out faster after a motion introduced at Wednesday’s Reparations Committee meeting. Instead of releasing the payments in intervals, the committee hopes to provide them to the next reparations recipients as soon as it gets enough money from tax revenue to do so. Committee member and former Ald. Robin.
Mayor Daniel Biss addressed Evanston’s city staffing shortages and responded to resident concerns of a lack of transparency and diversity in the 14-month long city manager search in a Tuesday town hall meeting. Evanston RoundTable reporter Bob Seidenberg moderated the event, and around 50 residents filled the seats at the Lorraine H. Morton Civic Center.
City Council intends to appoint Luke Stowe as interim city manager after Kelley Gandurski steps down from the role, the city announced Friday. Stowe has worked in Evanston for 10 years and brings nearly 25 years of local government experience. He currently works as Evanston’s Chief Information Officer and as the interim deputy city manager..