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Most Evanston Police and Firefighters Don’t Want to Live in the Community
Only 23 percent of police and 35 percent of firefighters who responded to the survey said they would live in the City of Evanston.
The majority of Evanston firefighters and police surveyed say they don’t want to live in the community, citing housing costs and high taxes as barriers, Evanston Now reported.
About half of the 224 police and 69 percent of the 110 firefighters that the City of Evanston employees responded to the survey and only 23.3 percent of police and 35.5 percent of firefighters who responded to the survey say that they would live in Evanston if they could—the survey didn’t distinguish between employees who live in the city and those who don’t, Evanston Now reported.
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