City Council approved the creation of a $50,000 Refugee Resettlement Fund to assist refugee families settling in Evanston on Monday. The fund will provide families who have fled violence and persecution with services such as housing, food, clothing and transportation, according to a memo from Health and Human Services Director Ike Ogbo. City Council also.
The Evanston Health and Human Services Department announced the first reported probable case of monkeypox in an Evanston resident Tuesday. The case is pending confirmatory testing at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and HHS reported the case is isolated and only one close contact has been identified. “The risk to Evanston residents remains.