Evanston City Staff Defend Street Cleaning Signs, Increased Fines

EVANSTON, IL — “The city does not look at ticket revenue as a source of revenue,” Evanston assistant city manager Erika Storlie said, in response to recent complaints about raising parking ticket fines.

CBS 2 Investigator Dorothy Tucker dove into Evanston’s 253-page budget to discover what’s going on with smaller street cleaning signs, higher fines, and the city’s finances.

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