Blair Kamin, Chicago Tribune
THE PEOPLE SPEAK IN EVANSTON:
Kudos to the tireless Evanston activists who spearheaded an election campaign that sent a strong message to the city’s leaders: Save the Harley Clarke mansion, a graceful, city-owned Tudor Revival lakefront home. The leaders listened.
In an advisory referendum, about 80 percent of voters opted in favor of preserving the vacant 1927 mansion at 2603 Sheridan Road. The outcome put pressure on Evanston’s City Council to chart an alternative course to the one advocated by a group of residents who offered the city more than $400,000 to tear down the structure and replace it with parkland. On Monday, the Council effectively reversed itself and halted the demolition plan.
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