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The Evanston City Council chambers sat empty Monday evening as the outgoing mayor and City Council met online for about two hours before the new council arrived in person to be sworn into office. (Jonah Meadows/Patch)
EVANSTON, IL In its final action before farewells and final remarks from the outgoing 80th Evanston City Council Monday, an ordinance to eliminate the Evanston Ethics Board and replace it with a special counsel failed by a single vote.
Under the proposal, complaints would be investigated and prosecuted by a single appointed attorney, with hearings held before an administrative hearing officer instead of an appointed tribunal of residents.
With new Evanston City Council members sworn in, alderman proposes mandating $6 per hour in hazard pay for some essential retail workers
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Community members, aldermen named to Evanston Reparations Committee
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Takes money for hockey club s Crown Center use, rejects test of professional events at Welch-Ryan.
The Crown Center. (Barbara Freeman photo)
Evanston aldermen this week voted to accept $1 million from Northwestern University to let the school’s ice hockey club use the new Robert Crown Center for the next five years.
But they also effectively revoked an agreement to let the school test generating additional revenue by hosting professional athletic events at its Welch Ryan Arena.
During discussion of the Crown Center deal Ald. Tom Suffredin, 6th Ward, complained that a letter sent to the university by the Friends of the Robert Crown Center when the school made the first one-third payment toward the agreement described the money as a donation rather than a payment for services.