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Mayoral, City Council candidates sound off on public transit issues
There is broad agreement along most candidates running for mayor and City Council that Evanston public transit and biking and pedestrian infrastructure leaves something to be desired.In February,...
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Metra to change name of Union Pacific North Line, consider systemwide changes
The inbound Union Pacific North Line train at the Davis Street Metra station in 2024. Credit: Igor StudenkovThirty years after the Metra line that serves the City of Evanston became known as Union...
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Chicago area agencies will delve into transit cuts on Thursday
This Thursday morning, CTA, Metra and Pace will share doomsday scenarios for what kind of service cuts they would have to make if the state doesn’t come through with more funding, as well as more...
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Doomsday funding scenario could decimate public-transit access in Evanston
Evanston may lose all but one CTA bus route, evening and weekend service on all Pace bus routes, and some Union Pacific North Metra Line service if the state doesn’t come through with the funding to...
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Prime Healthcare completes Saint Francis Hospital acquisition
Prime Healthcare, which officially took ownership of Saint Francis Hospital on March 1, is still trying to determine what kind of improvements and investments it will make — but promises the hospital...
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Environment Board, CARP Implementation Task Force finalize Envision Evanston...
Members of the Environment Board and one of its subcommittees, the Evanston’s Climate Action and Resilience Plan (CARP) Implementation Task Force, spent two hours Wednesday reviewing their suggestions...
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City to expand Divvy bike-sharing network
The Environment Board got an update on the city’s plans to expand the local Divvy bike-sharing network next year.At the board’s Thursday, April 10 meeting at the Evanston Public Library, Sarah FioRito,...
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Transit agencies say regional one-day pass coming ‘very soon’
Ten months after CTA, Metra, Pace and RTA signed an intergovernmental agreement paving the way for the first one-day transit pass that would work on most Chicago area trains and buses there is no clear...
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Get local, Climate Action advocate urges, as a tactic to meet federal funding...
Jack Jordan, executive director at Climate Action Evanston, said that, with the second Trump administration at the levers of the federal government, any efforts to reduce carbon emissions, pollution...
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Officials: Federal policy changes may threaten future of Healthy Buildings...
The fate of $10.4 million U.S. Department of Energy grant meant to help Evanston implement the Healthy Buildings Ordinance is still up in the air.During the May 8 meeting of the Environment Board,...
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