Save The Evanston Civic Center AGAIN

07/16/2026

Evanston Friends of the Civic Center (@ 2100 Ridge Ave.)
WE'VE FALLEN INTO SECOND PLACE - PLEASE VOTE TODAY!
Your support is so important. Please login or register today to vote for the Complete Civic Campus at 2100 Ridge proposal.

A small number of additional votes and thoughtful comments could put this public-use proposal back in the lead. You can vote here:

Community engagement platform for sharing ideas and shaping the future of Severance Town Center

07/11/2026

Now this is a plan the entire community can be proud of!

EAC’s vision for a renewed 2100 Ridge Civic Campus: restore Marywood Academy, modernize public safety, and protect Ingraham Park.

07/09/2026

Evanston Friends of the Civic Center (@2100 Ridge)... Please VOTE TODAY for this plan to STAY and re-imagine 2100 Ridge Ave as the People's House to conduct civic business, in a park-like setting with ample parking and meeting space... (clearly 909 Davis is a failure in these regards!)

Community engagement platform for sharing ideas and shaping the future of Severance Town Center

06/23/2026

Friends of the Civic Center... We need your support to contact your Alders and tell them to honor the Referendum... that is to STAY (or return) and Renovate this beautiful People's building and park like campus.... The alternative is MORE DENSITY - @ 10,000 per sq/mi... it's getting too crowded! Perpetual entities should NOT be selling fixed assets!

05/28/2026

Friend's of the Civic Center (@2100 Ridge that is)... Perpetual entities (like the City of Evanston) should NEVER sell fixed assets. Please tell your council member that you DO NOT want them to sell 2100 Ridge to developers, we want them to honor the years ago referendum (+80% said STAY!) And you wish to see a return to that beautiful 6+ acre campus with more than 200 free parking spaces to manage and conduct the People's business. Thank you!

05/13/2026

Dear Friends of the Civic Center... Putting Assets to Work is offering tours of the Civic Center on May 27th Please attend if you can and please forward this to others... There is also a meeting that night @ the Prieto Center @ Oakton & Asbury 6 - 8 PM.

Please see below for registration and tour times. Please Note... if the link is not active you may need to cut & paste in this URL to get to the Google Doc for registration - Thanks.

The PAW team, in coordination with the City of Evanston and the project engineering team, is hosting guided community tours of the vacant Civic Center building on May 27, 2026. These tours are intended to help community members better understand the building’s current conditions, opportunities, an...

04/28/2026

This is a compelling reason why this City should not sell fixed assets... We would NOT be the winners!
My thanks to - Alan May
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Did you know the City of Chicago sold one of its highways and won’t get it back until the year 2104?
Chicago took a one time payment of 1.8 billion dollars for the Chicago Skyway. That sounds like a huge windfall, until you look at what happened next. The private company that bought it, Cintra Macquarie, made all of their money back from tolls. Then they turned around and sold the Skyway lease to another private investor for 2.8 billion dollars. They walked away with a full billion dollar profit.
And that new investor will be collecting tolls from Chicagoans and visitors until 2104. Long after everyone involved in the original deal is gone.
It’s a pretty good example of why selling off city assets for quick cash usually ends up being a long term bad idea. Oy!