Community Alliance for Better Government

01/31/2025

From our student community at Northwestern:

12/23/2024

Meleika Gardner shares a few thoughts about the Envision Evanston 2025 proposal. Worth a read, worth contacting your councilmember!

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12/04/2024

***Come to the Land Use Commission Meeting
TONIGHT @ 6:00 p.m. at the Civic Center*******

CABG believes unequivocally that a healthy Evanston is a fully diverse and inclusive Evanston by race and class. Everyone should have an opportunity to make or to preserve their home in every neighborhood. Over the past 35 years, Evanston has been bleeding its low- and moderate-income residents. This has spilled over into significant population declines among people of color, especially Black residents, hit with on all sides with the loss of low-cost rentals and homes through condo conversions and tear downs in the '90s, and the foreclosure crisis in the 2000s. Combined with aggressive downtown high-rise development, Evanston has skewed wealthy and out of reach to middle and low income families.

To that end, the City should not approve new codes without first knowing that policies adopted will not have an unintended negative impact on low-income renters and homeowners, people of color, people with disabilities, and families with children. Experience has shown that a rising tide of development does not lift all boats. It only lifts the yachts of the wealthy.

Oh, and by the way, the City is patting themselves on the back for hearing from 3% of the people about major changes - please share your voice!

More details in the post below.👇

11/21/2024

Evanston Civic Center, Police and Fire Virtual Listening Session
Tonight 11/21 at 6:00 p.m.
Link below👇

11/13/2024

Share your feedback with the City regarding the future of the Civic Center, and Police and Fire Headquarters. See below👇

11/13/2024

What are your ideas regarding the Civic Center and Police/Fire buildings?
City of Evanston needs to hear from you. See below👇

11/07/2024

Join us for our Saturday CABG Meeting!
Nov. 9th at 10:00 a.m.
Link and agenda in post below👇

10/21/2024

There's a lot of work to do around transparency on Evanston Boards & Commissions.
Former Equity and Empowerment Commission Chair, and CABG board member shares more here:

"I urge you to consider the importance of the Commission as an independent body that represents the true diversity of our city."

10/11/2024

JOIN US FOR CABG Member Meeting TOMORROW - SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12TH @ 10:00AM
Link & Agenda Below👇

10/05/2024

Join the conversation tomorrow, Sunday October 6th @ 6:00 p.m.!

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10/02/2024

This is what happens when procedures are not followed.
Thank you for bringing attention to this Councilmember Clare Kelly, Evanston's First Ward

Eight months after Evanston authorized a 15-year lease on a temporary civic center at 909 Davis St., the city has not moved operations to the new location since March, when it was found in violation of the Illinois Open Meetings Act in March by the state attorney general’s office. The violation co...