Evanston RoundTable8h
Green Homes Pilot celebrates Evanston’s first all-electric home retrofit
As it stands, buildings emit 80% of Evanston’s greenhouse gases. But the city just took a significant step in addressing that ...
Evanston Now3d
Green homes pilot finally getting started
After nearly three years, Evanston’s Green Homes Pilot program is finally getting off the ground, with the first of 50 homes ...
Evanston Now1d
Brown Avenue home goes all-electric
Blough’s home on Brown Avenue received several upgrades, including an new 200 Amp electric service to help power a new ...
Evanston RoundTable3h
What’s at stake: Fourth Ward wrap-up
Margaret “Meg” Welch, Fourth Ward write-in candidate. Jonathan Nieuwsma, Fourth Ward incumbent. The Fourth Ward covers the ...
The Daily Northwestern6d
Critics say Evanston’s new Healthy Buildings Ordinance will increase rent, diminish property value
It took four tries, but Evanston’s contentious Healthy Buildings Ordinance finally prevailed on March 10. City Council’s 7-1 ...
Evanston OKs Illinois’ first ordinance requiring larger buildings to run on renewable energy
Evanston OK’d the Healthy Buildings Ordinance. Buildings over 20,000 square feet must be powered by renewable electricity by ...
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House repairs, a car, grandkids: Where Evanston’s reparations payments are going
Ron Butler, 78: ‘A lot of neighbors didn’t want us’ Ron Butler grew up in the 5th Ward, but in 1976 he and his wife, Cheryl, decided to move to south Evanston, to a modest two-story house in ...