In a letter submitted to the city council Monday, the Evanston Baseball and Softball Association says it can’t afford to pay market rates to lease the vacant city property, as some aldermen have requested.
The Evanston Baseball and Softball Association announced Monday that it would withdraw its proposal to build an indoor sports facility at the former site of Evanston Recycling Center. In a letter to the Evanston city council, members of the Evanston Baseball and Softball Association (EBSA) board of directors wrote that they did not believe they could afford to pay market rates to lease the site, as some city council members had suggested at a meeting earlier this summer. “We started this out on a community partnership basis,” said Greg Clarke, a spokesperson for the group. “They have made it very clear they want it to be a moneymaker.” Related: Why Evanston Needs An Indoor Sports Facility Along with other local sports groups, EBSA first…
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Evanston and Chicago police have responded to a total of 78 calls at Howard-Hoyne Foods in 2012. Community members met with the City of Chicago last week to call for sanctions to the business.
At first glance, Howard-Hoyne Foods looks like your typical small convenience store, with signs advertising energy drinks, cigarettes and lottery tickets covering its windows. But the black metal grates covering every single window and the 25-plus arrests police have made outside the store since January tell a different story. Neighbors say the shop at 2059 W. Howard St. is a hotspot for gang and drug activity in the area, and Evanston and Chicago police report that they responded to more than 70 incidents and made dozens of arrests at the store this year. After Evanston and Chicago residents met with the city of Chicago’s Department of Business Affairs and Consumer Protection for a hearing with the owner last week, Howard-Hoyne Foods will…
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Alderman Ann Rainey and Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl held a press conference to announce Best Buy's donation of $10,000 in appliances. "Watch out, Rogers Park, Howard Street in Evanston is on the rise,” Rainey said.
With the help of a donation from Best Buy, the owners of a new small plates bar on Howard Street are moving closer to their dream of opening the business they'll live above. On Wednesday, eighth ward Alderman Ann Rainey and Evanston Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl held a press conference outside the Best Buy at 2301 Howard Street to announce the store’s $10,000 donation, to be used in the affordable housing apartments above the new business, called Ward Eight. Owners Anne Carlson and Cody Modeer, who met at Andersonville’s upscale liquor store In Fine Spirits, plan to open the restaurant/bar in August or September, when construction is complete. They are leasing the building, at 629 West Howard, from the city of Evanston, along with an apartment …
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Sim Elwood
1:50 pm on Monday, October 22, 2012
The group would maintain it and it could be used as a teen center but the council shot it down and wants a salt dome. We all lose. more ›