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Good morning Wednesday, Evanston.
Pictured above, Evanston residents wearing their National Senior Games medals pose with Mayor Daniel Biss (10th from the left) at the start of Monday’s City Council meeting. Neil Milbert, 85, holds a teddy bear clad in the medals. (Photo by Richard Kahan)
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The Evanston City Council voted 5-3 on Monday to postpone a roughly $800,000 plan to build a winding wheelchair path to the city’s dog beach to allow time to consider a more direct access ramp instead. The two-week delay means minimum bids to build the path will expire, potentially driving up costs for a plan that has already come under criticism. Councilman Bobby Barnes (Ward 5) said he proposed the delay after receiving complaints from beachgoers with disabilities that the proposed path was too long.
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Council members also voted 5-3 on Monday to expand an exception to the city’s ban on gasoline-powered blowers. A previous ordinance allowed the city to use gasoline-powered blowers at municipal baseball fields, but that exception will now be expanded to include landscapers who maintain “all athletic fields and artificial turf fields” as well as city property. The new language makes it clear that private residences are not included in the exception.
Further Council coverage:
• The city will apply for $2 million in federal funding to help renovate the Hilda’s Place homeless shelter, located in the basement of Lake Street Church.
• Mayor Luke Stow announced two new deputy mayors.
• Council Bytes: RoundTable’s Alex Harrison rounds up noteworthy items.
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Benard McKinley (pictured above, second from left) earned his bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University’s Pritzker School of Law. “It’ll finally sink in when I’m carrying a backpack with 20 to 30 pounds of books and heading to class,” McKinley says. He hopes to one day open a nonprofit legal aid center that serves people of color from marginalized communities.
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Climate Action Evanston and Evanston Township High School are teaming up to win a major grant from the EPA. The organization and ETHS are applying for $10 million to $20 million for a program that aims to reduce greenhouse gases and toxic pollutants while promoting community and economic development.
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Wellbeing: In Carrie Jackson’s latest column, she speaks with Pamiya Opoku (above, third from the right), founder of The Walking Hour, which helps women prioritize their physical and mental health by making exercise accessible.
Photo courtesy of Elaine Ades Saknoff’s family
Obituary: Psychodramatist Elaine Ades Saknoff died on June 11 at age 92. “The world has lost a lovely, eccentric and talented woman,” her family wrote. A memorial service will be held Saturday at the Levy Senior Center.
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Furry friends dressed in patriotic attire walked down the “runway” (aka Central Street) for the city’s Independence Day Parade. See some of their outfits and stories in this photo series taken by high school senior Emerson Swift.
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The NU Medical Orchestra will hold its summer concert on July 12. Medical students from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine will perform at 7 p.m. Friday at Thorne Auditorium, 375 E. Chicago Avenue in Chicago.
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On the web
Officials said no migrant buses have arrived in Wilmette since May and none in Chicagoland since June 14. The number of buses carrying migrants from Texas has dropped sharply in the area, and bus service recently stopped altogether. [The Record North Shore]
Kroger announced it will sell 35 Chicago-area Mariano’s and Jewel-Osco stores in its merger with Albertsons Inc. Mariano’s in Skokie is among the stores set to be sold to the parent company of Piggly Wiggly. [CBS Chicago]
The remnants of Hurricane Beryl will batter parts of the Chicago area Tuesday night into Wednesday. The area could see heavy rain as the remnants of Hurricane Beryl move through the Great Lakes region. [WGN-TV]
Evanston is finally getting a Jewish deli: Jack DeMar, Eric Kogan and Kiki Eliopoulos, who grew up together in Wilmette, opened Mensch’s last year as a pop-up of DeMar’s carry-out and delivery salad place, Picnic. [Eater Chicago]
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Margo Milanowski is a reporter for Roundtable. She graduated from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism in 2022 with a degree in journalism and a minor in environmental issues… More articles by Margo Milanowski