5+ day, 11+ hour ago   (490+ words) An attorney for the Illinois Department of Public Health said Tuesday that “additional enforcement” against Albany Care, the mental health rehabilitation facility on Maple Avenue, is possible, as both the state and the facility look to schedule hearing dates in…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (388+ words) Evanston’s City Council voted Monday night to have consulting firm Code Studio lead the city’s zoning code overhaul. Alders had postponed the decision last month after concerns of the proposed cost, as well as the fact that only two bidders…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (551+ words) The Illinois Department of Public Health says it is “evaluating the court’s decision” on Albany Care after a Cook County Circuit Court judge let the mental health rehabilitation facility accept new patients while the state seeks to shut it down....

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (378+ words) A Cook County Circuit Court judge granted Albany Care’s request for an injunction to let it accept new patients while the Illinois Department of Public Health attempts to shut it down. Associate Judge Myron F. Mackoff said “IDPH does not…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago   (238+ words) Over a year after the property was condemned and ordered vacated by the city, demolition of the dilapidated storefront building at 801-809 Main St. began this week. Crews were working Tuesday to demolish the building, which previously contained the Bib’n’Tucker laundromat…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (148+ words) Roycemore School’s board of trustees announced Friday that the school will remain open for the coming school year. The board, in an email message to Roycemore families, said the school has made “incredible progress” in fundraising and strategic planning and…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (653+ words) Summertime in Evanston is here, and with it, there is no shortage of things to hear, do and see across the North Shore. Evanston was chosen as Illinois’ best host city for the nationally organized walk, Opal’s Walk for Freedom,…...

3+ mon, 3+ day ago   (329+ words) Evanston’s Preservation Commission provided some consultation as Northwestern University plans to do some work on the John Evans Center located at 1800 Sheridan Road. Andy Tinucci of Woodhouse Tinucci Architects presented preliminary plans Tuesday night to construct a three-story fire stair…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (661+ words) Ask someone who is not from Evanston to define this place and there’s a good chance they’ll say “Northwestern University.” But as more than 70 people during the first-ever meeting of the Downtown Evanston Residents Association (DERA) pondered that question, NU…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (452+ words) Evanston’s Human Services Committee Monday night rejected a proposal plan pushed by Ald. Bobby Burns (5th) to spend American Rescue Plan Act funds to expand a program aimed at researching and addressing hypertension among Evanstonians. The plan, which stemmed from the…...