Bob Seidenberg

Evanston’s City Council has been able to tame sizable budget deficits by drawing on excess reserves and tapping one-time revenues in recent years. But that’s unlikely to be the case in the upcoming budget season, the city’s budget director told the city’s Finance and Budget Committee Wednesday night. The General Fund’s reserves, also known as a “rainy day fund” set aside for financial emergencies, stood at a sunny $57.7 million as recently as 2022.

The late Carlos L. Mitchem Sr., who spent 37 years as an Evanston Police Department officer. Several hundred people filled a Niles banquet hall on Friday, June 26 to celebrate the life of retired Evanston Police Department investigator Carlos L. Mitchem Sr., who with his partner Michael Gresham played a key role stemming the spread of street gangs in the city during the early 1980s. Mitchem died on Jan. 28. He was 83.

Members of the city’s Economic Development Committee took steps Wednesday night to address an issue that has been a high source of “meter anxiety” in Evanston for decades — parking tickets issued just after time expires. While not taking a formal vote, committee members directed Deputy City Manager Carina Sánchez to report at their next meeting on whether adjustments can be made to the city’s ParkEvanston app, creating a five-minute administrative grace period before issuing tickets.