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After weeks of seemingly endless growth, the field for IL-9's open Congressional seat just shrunk by one, as Miracle Jenkins has dropped out and endorsed @bushraamiwala.bsky.social.

both proud and kinda surprised to say that it survived the AM copy edit lmao, read more here: evanstonroundtable.com/2025/09/16/e...

tonight's envision evanston meeting can be summarized in this text i sent to an editor a bit ago

New, w/ @mulchy.bsky.social & @djbyrnes1.bsky.social: ICE shot & killed an immigrant in the Chicago suburbs yesterday. Then they immediately gave a misleading account of events. Chicago erupted in chaos and a father who lived here for decades is dead. This is what really happened:

Update from outside Broadview ICE facility in Chicagoland— Even after feds killed a man a few towns away today, a small group remain to finish their 7am-7pm protest. SRT takes the dwindling numbers as an opportunity to unleash less lethals on a protester with a mobility aid sitting on the ground.

Update: EPD confirmed that DHS arrested a person this morning in the same area for a "criminal matter," few other details available (and no, the city did not give the feds parking tickets). Our story's been updated with everything new that we have: evanstonroundtable.com/2025/09/10/e...

my only contribution to anything today is that it's incredibly weird to write about "normal" news items when something like this is hanging over everything

From my colleague @hopemperry.bsky.social: ICE HSI agents were in Evanston this morning, not far from Evanston Township HS. The city's been on high alert for federal immigration actions since Monday. Story here: evanstonroundtable.com/2025/09/10/e...

From my colleague @hopemperry.bsky.social: ICE HSI agents were in Evanston this morning, not far from Evanston Township HS. The city's been on high alert for federal immigration actions since Monday. Story here: evanstonroundtable.com/2025/09/10/e...

41-40 is scorigami, congrats everybody

Coarse and strong and cunning.

Missing Northwestern professor found alive in Evanston - Evanston RoundTable evanstonroundtable.com/2025/09/02/m...

Evanston PD just confirmed Prof. Nina Kraus has been found alive in Evanston, and has been "transported to a local hospital for treatment."

For those following Evanston's Popeyes-gate: we have a hearing date. Per today's weekly report from the City Manager's Office, the Popeyes special use application will go before the city's Land Use Commission on Wednesday, Sept. 24. I'm expecting a standing room only crowd.

my version of "take a photo every day" is that there are hundreds of high-angle views of the back of my head logged in recorded meetings of evanston's city council/other committees

Update: See below for the full letters btwn Evanston and Flock. I'll note that the city directly invoked a Flock T&C section requiring compliance with all laws and ordinances with reference to the ILSOS audit findings, which seems like "clear identification of the alleged breach" to me.

Flock is apparently Not Happy™️ about Evanston trying to terminate its ALPR contract early, and sent a letter from its chief legal ofc. that a) "denies categorically" they broke any laws or contract terms and b) argues the city failed to let them "fulfill our obligations" to cure an alleged breach.

Full story here. From Mayor Daniel Biss: "This vendor has failed to follow state and local data protection laws. With constant attacks from the federal government and other far-right actors, we will not sit idly by while our people’s data is shared inappropriately."

EVANSTON DEFLOCKS: City just issued a news release announcing that all 19 license plate cameras have been deactivated, and the contract will be fully terminated effective Sept. 26. Story TK.

Interesting news in Evanston tonight on the grocery tax (and the IL-9 race?): 5/9 councilmembers indicated support for a local replacement tax in discussion tonight, but Mayor Daniel Biss confirmed later he would veto the tax if it fell short of the six votes (2/3) needed to overturn it.

great vibes in the evanston subreddit right now

What a dreadful media landscape.

Heads up Envision Evanston ppl: tonight's special Council meeting has been canceled on a couple hours' notice, as some councilmembers who initially wanted the meeting backed out in light of Councilmember Parielle Davis being on medical leave following a story I reported last night. Story TK shortly

New from 404 Media: ICE added a random person to group chat, exposed highly sensitive details about an active manhunt in real-time. The person says they were added weeks ago, thought they were scam texts until start seeing data lookups etc. Incredible security failure www.404media.co/ice-adds-ran...

normalize being a good person

ending my vacation with the fun realization that the adderall shortage is clearly back in full action because oh boy, i've made five calls and nooooobody has my rx

FOIA exemptions.

Not sure if it's just this restaurant or the food court in general, but someone at SeaTac has The Beths playing on aux and I hope they're doing okay

New from me today: tenants in three vintage apt bldgs in SE Evanston have formed a tenants union to negotiate with their private equity landlord, who they say has jacked up the rent/fees while letting the buildings deteriorate: evanstonroundtable.com/2025/07/30/q...

it done, did take another 1,000 words, time to pack 🫡

lol, lmao even (i prolly have another 1,000 words to go)

the duality of this man: writing up a story i've been working on for months that's due tonight, and googling bars in the area i'm flying to tomorrow for vacation/seeing family

my honest reaction to most of tonight's envision evanston meeting

anyway, someone's applying to bring a popeyes chicken with table service to evanston: evanstonroundtable.com/2025/07/20/p...

The temporary Bryn Mawr and Argyle stations will close. Please use the new, rebuilt Bryn Mawr, Berwyn and Argyle stations, located one block or less away.

Just heard an accidental early "Berwyn is next" PA on the red line... SOON

belated yippee for nascar not coming back next year, which i somehow missed yesterday

covering evanston zoning is sometimes like: imagine, if you will, a popeyes chicken with table service

For anyone following along with Envision Evanston, especially those who might be attending Monday's special City Council meeting: Councilmembers Suffredin and Rodgers both said in a joint Zoom tonight that they don't expect to reach a final adoption vote on the new comprehensive plan. On to August!

First IL-9 candidate to file their Q2 financials is Bruce Leon, who created his committee on June 30, the last day of the reporting period. How much money did he record for that one day? $610,000 — all from a single self-loan.

Anyone seen/heard of people from the Illinois Policy Institute pulling up to suburban meetings to push against adopting a local grocery tax? One of their editors apparently showed up to Evanston's Finance + Budget Cmte last night and spoke during public comment 🤔

Another IL-9 candidate! Never enough candidates!! We've blown past a football/soccer team and reached a full Democrat dozen!!! Phil Andrew, former special agent for the FBI and survivor of the 1988 Winnetka school shooting, is throwing his hat onto the pile that's formed atop the proverbial ring.

Forgot to post earlier, but here's that story: Three Evanston councilmembers are sponsoring a proposal to cap ALPR data retention at 24 hours, down drastically from the current 30 day policy evanstonroundtable.com/2025/07/03/d...

lol so the count is actually 10 because bruce leon, 50th ward committeeman and runner-up in last year's race for CPS board district 2, *also* filed paperwork with the FEC on monday

In non-reconciliation House of Reps news, Illinois State Rep. Hoan Huynh has officially jumped into the race to replace Jan Schakowsky. By my count, he's Democrat #9 to have declared their candidacy — folks, we've got ourselves a baseball team. Story TK later tonight.

today's one of those Too Much Is Happening™️ kinds of days

65 people signed up for public comment on evanston's draft comprehensive plan