Central Street Neighbors Association

Since I bike a lot, a year or so ago I noticed, on the northbound side of Green Bay, just after you cross the canal, this pipe or section of old rail jutting out from the fence. It was usually partly hidden by the foliage. I mentioned it to a few folks and it seemed to disappear. I figured it had been removed or sawed off. Recently it reappeared.

In the last 5 weeks, twice we have experienced no streets lights in our neighborhood, north of Central Street to Isabella and east of Green Bay to Eastwood. Another weekend evening at 10:00 pm, there weren’t any street lights illuminated on Central Street from Lincolnwood east to Green Bay Road. 

The Evanston Police Department will hold an auction of unclaimed bicycles Saturday, May 30, 2009, starting at 10 a.m., at 1454 Elmwood Ave. & Lake St., in the NE corner of the building. Bikes may be previewed from 9 to 10 a.m. The Department says that they have a "vast array of bikes," including a couple Cannondales, a Gary Fisher, an expensive racing bike, an adult tricycle, and a couple baby tricycle-strollers with long handles.

Eb Moran passed on the photo here and the following bulletin: Wanted Bulletin 09-308 2: In summary: On 01/05/09 at approx 1205 hrs, the offenders depicted above entered the Harris Bank located at 2821 Central st. One offender stood back from the counter and displayed a black handgun, while the other offender approached the Teller window. This offender was given approximately $5,900.00 which he placed into a black bag. Both offenders fled the scene on foot and employees in the bank stated they fled e/b on Central and s/b on Ewing. WEAPON was displayed, USE CAUTION, ARMED AND DANGEROUS. Anyone with further information please contact the Evanston Police Department Investigative Services Division (Detective Niziolek 171 or Detective Williams 230) 847/866-5040

According to Evanston police officers, the Harris Bank branch at 2821 Central St. was robbed in broad daylight today. I came home about 1:30 to find the neighborhood speckled with squadrols and unmarked cars. Purportedly the perpetrators were two males, one in a brown sweatsuit and carrying a large gym bag.

It's that time of year. October and November last year saw the advent of a spate of burglaries of homes and vehicles in North Evanston. The EPD has just issued an update of burglary prevention stretegies based on lessons learned from that experience. Here below is the bulletin. Use the 'Read more' link to see all the stragtegies:

CRIME ALERT BULLETIN
Evanston Police Department
Richard Eddington, Chief of Police
1454 Elmwood Avenue, Evanston, IL. 60201
(847) 866-5000

Residential Burglary Prevention

The City of Evanston’s Detective Division arrested 3 subjects for residential burglary. During interviews, it was learned that the North end of Evanston is easy prey for vehicle and residential burglaries. In other words… they indicated that residents leave their doors and windows open to their vehicles and homes. Please take notice to the Burglary Prevention Tips below.

Gun control arouses passions. But the Evanston City Council made the smart move in voting to modify its handgun ban. The U.S. Supreme Court ruling likely rendered Evanston's ordinance unconstitutional.

Some have argued that, because the Supreme Court case only dealt with Washington, D.C.'s ordinance, and the District of Columbia is not a state, that the reach of the decision is limited, and that the Second Amendment does not apply to the states. That's a risky position to take.

The crosswalk in front of Foodstuffs has finally been painted! Ed. note: See before & after pix at right. I wrote and called many people, it looks like someone finally listened.

Since then, I've watched the traffic to see if drivers are stopping. It is a little better, but